May 19, 2022 • 40 mins
SNT revisits “The Three Bones” with a new message of inspiration, this time around Hope. She asks how hope lives in your own life and shares how the motivating concept of hope drives your past, present and future. Here’s your chance for a nice one-on-one with “Sister” Turner; settle in and listen. #HelloSomebody
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Turn Everything Turn. Welcome to Hello Somebody, a production of
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The Black Effect Podcast Network and I Heart Media. Where
we rage against the machine, where we raise our voices
against injustice and stand up for justice. Where we embrace
hope and joy with an optimism for a bright or
more justus future. Each week I'll be dropping knowledge, whether
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it's a solo episode from me or a hearty discussion
with esteem guests doing great things in spaces and places
of politics, entertainment, social justice, and beyond. We get real, baby,
I mean really real. We get honest, We get up
close and personal for you, yes, you, because everybody is somebody.
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Before we begin, I want to give a special shout
out to my team, Thank you, Sam, Tiffany, Sam and
the team over at Good Juju Studios, Erica, England, Pepper Chambers,
the Hot One, and my social media team you know,
Hello Somebody. First of all, I gotta say that because
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everybody is somebody, and just every now and then I
get asked about the three Bones, and then there are
usually follow up questions about the three bones, what do
they mean? Where did they come from? And today I'm
going to give more love to those questions. So in
our second series, reaves of the three bones. We're gonna
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drill down just a little deeper into those and focus
on the words that inspire the three bones themselves, the
very concept of the three bones, and I'm gonna start
with the wishbone. There is a quote from Christopher Weaves
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and he said the following, once you choose hope, anything
it's possible. I believe that I'm vibing with that anything
is possible. Hope indeed is an action word. And a
lot of times when we say the word hope, some
people think it's squshy or mushy or doesn't mean anything.
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But they are so wrong about that. The whole concept
of hope itself, especially when you think about it from
a spiritual level and not just somebody said the words,
there is a vibration with hope. Hope is indeed the motivator.
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It is the very thing that keeps us as human
beings pushing forward. If we should ever lose hope, then
everything is lost because we won't go on. That is
the very reason why we push hope. There are things
attached to that family, your life, you know, the things
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you aspire to be and to do, so there are
vibrations attached to the word hope. Hope is profound, and
so I do hope that everyone is feeling good, that
you are finding something in life to enjoy, and that
you are showing yourself some love, some grace, and some forgiveness.
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If you are running with the baton, baby, I'm running
with you. You know, to run track. My favorite race
was the Full Photy Relay, Baby, the Full Voting Relay.
It was my favorite race, and I was the first
leg of that race. I'm smiling right now. Hopefully you
can feel that vibration from my speech pattern. I was
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pretty good, you know. Circumstances came up in my life,
as they often do in all of our lives, and
I could not finish that out. But I did. I
ran track. I felt awkward and out of place at times,
and a lot of that was because of the financial
situation that my family and I were in. But in
those moments where I grabbed a hold of hope, baby,
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I did my thing. I was the first leg of
the Faulk Photo Relay. Ain't nothing like going down memory lane. Uh,
sometimes for good memories, other for unpleasant memories, or just
flat out bad memories. But in this moment, I am
thinking about the moments whe I was running track that
we're really good and being the first leg was amazing.
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That means I was pretty damn fast. I was. I
was pretty damn fast. Look back to this, back to
a present time. Hopefully you can think about something that
brings you some joy, whether it's in the past, the present,
or even in the future. So yes, if you are
running with the baton, baby, I'm running with you. If
you are the one being past the baton and you
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are ready to take off, I understand. And if you
are the one who is waiting your turn, please, please,
please please don't give up on hope. Your turn is coming.
So get ready, baby, get ready. Hell, after the last
couple of years we've had and we all should be
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patting ourselves on the back and clapping our hands. We
made it, baby, snapping the fingers. If you can through
it all, we have made it. Having to endure the
past endemic for the last two years, and it is
certainly endurance has weighed heavily on us as human beings.
It has weighed heavily on the ecosystem itself. Every aspect
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of existence has had to endure this pandemic. We are
making it through, and some of us are making it
through in finer fashion than others. Let's put that in
this space. But we are, we are, we are making
it through, and that does deserve a moment of hand clap,
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of finger snap of packing your feet, baby yeah. Endurance
that matters too, you know, And as many of you know,
I've centered myself on the whole notion of the three balls.
There's something about the power of threes. And if you
are hearing this story for the very first time, if
you are new to Hello, somebody, Welcome, I'm so glad
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you're here. Hello somebody d because everybody is somebody. I
just want to remind those who know the story what
the three Bones are about, how it sprung up the
story itself. And for those who are new, I'm telling
the story to you for the very first time, I'm
introducing you to the three Bones. So growing up, my
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maternal grandmother was very good at telling story. She just
kept it real. I don't even know if someone she
was telling stories as much as she was just really
being who she was and the essence of her spirit.
I still claim that spirit to be with me to
this very moment. She is in the ancestral plane, shout
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out to black panther. She is in that ancestral plane
with so many others of my bloodline ancestors, but then
just the global ancestors in the black tradition itself. And
so my grandmother only had a third grade education and
she couldn't read write, I tell the story off them though,
but she could count her money, and she kept her
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money in the Southern Ladies Bank and trust. When I
asked my grandmother why she kept her money there, she said,
those were only two suckers she could trust. And that
makes me chuckle every single time. My grandma little about
five ft three maybe five ft four, and she conducted herself.
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She comported herself as if she was ten feet tall.
When my grandmother walked into the room, baby, you knew
that she was there. She did shake every room that
she entered. She had such a regalness about her, a
pride about her, and a hope too. So when I
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asked my grandmother what does it take to be successful
in this life, she said, my dear granddaughter, all you
need are the three moans, the wishbone, the jawbone, and
the backbone. She said, the bonus for hoping and praying,
because hope indeed is the motivator, but the dream is
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the driver. Hope is the motivator, but the dream is
the driver. That is where we are right now. This
is our episode about hope. The dream is the driver,
the hope is the motivator. Hope is about embracing a vibration,
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a notion that despite whatever circumstances you are in, that
you find yourself in, that you too, that you will,
that you can overcome. That is what hope is about.
She said. The jawbone is to give you courage to
speak truth, to power to lift your voice. Often say
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the titles are good, but purpose is better. And the backbone,
the super catch of fragilistic xp altocious bone is indeed
the backbone, because the backbone will give you curse to
standing strong, to stand tall, even if you are standing
all alone. The backbone is truly about perseverance. Those are
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the three bones. And this story is universal, and it
doesn't matter what audiences I tell the story in the
age the identity, none of the markers matter. This story
is like a good song. It reminds you that you
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can keep all keeping on. It is universal in its
application Oh, I'm feeling it right now. I'm feeling the
spirit and the essence of my maternal grandmother. And so
I've centered myself on these three principles that were passed
down by her. Oh, and I have so eternally blessed
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that she passed them down to me and my six siblings,
seven of us. I think that I have been the
one to embrace them more closely, more intently. Those three bones,
the wishbone, the jawbone, the backbone are my foundation. They
really are my motivation. The bones keep me going. I'm
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kidding about it, I really really am. And so we
are going to focus this second series on resurrecting the
three bones, if you will. You know, I often joke
a minute of you know, I was. I was reared
in the Black Church. And there is the story about
the prophet Ezekiel the Valley of the dry Bones. God
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asks Ezekiel, Kenny, dry bones live, and Ezekiel said, and
I'm paraphrasing your Lord, only you alone know whether or
not the dry balls can live. And then God said
to Zekia, prophecy to the dry balls, hello. And so
many ways I see my grandmother's balls, her three balls
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parallel to to the story about the Valley of the
Dry Bones and the Christian biball. So we are going
to dive a little deeper. You know, when I did
the first series last year around Thanksgiving, I did introduce
or reintroduce the three bones and and how we will
take a deeper dive into those principles that helped the
Guy protect and love on all of us and the
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best of times and also in the worst of times,
in the pretty times and the ugly times. Baby, I'm
carrying those three bones with me. Hope is indeed something
I speak about frequently because without it we would be
in a constant state of I can't or nothing good
is going to happen ever at all. Hope is about
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an expect Haitian. Hope is the motivator, the dream as
the driver. So one of the questions I get often
is is hope of choice? And what choices have I
made or others have made? What choices have you made
personally that hope was the main influencer. I'm putting that
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question to my listeners. What hope have you made personally
and what influences you? Question Number two, can we overcome
tragedies and still rely on hope? Number three, what does
hope mean to you? And why is it important? And
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number four how does hope affect your daily life and decisions?
So these are questions that I want us all to
answer together. Number one is hope of choice? And what
choices have we made personally that hope was the main influencer?
Can we overcome tragedies and still rely on hope? What
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does hope mean to us and why is it important?
And number four, how does hope affect our daily lives
and decisions? So you can replace our with my or I.
We're on this journey together. So the definition of hope
a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing
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to happen. M That's what it is, and that is
why I continue to say hope is the motivated the
dream as the driver Grandma lady down, because it is
a motivator, a feeling of expectation as a desire for
a certain thing to happen. And it is within that desire, baby,
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that we continue to push forward. So here we go.
I'm gonna answer the four questions, and I want you
to answer them for yourself as you are on this
journey of discovery with me right now as we focus
on the three bones, the first bone being hope. So
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let me remind you of question number one. Is hope
a choice? And what choices have you made personally that
hope was the main influencer? All right? So yes, hope
is definitely a choice. I mean, you could choose despair,
You could choose not to be hopeful. You could choose
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to just kind of go along with whatever life throws
at you and not deliberately make a decision to push
forward for the high mark. And part of being able
to push forward is embracing hope, a feeling of expectation
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and desire for a certain thing to happen. And so,
despite what life throws at you, you do have to
deliberately choose hope. Think of hope as a dance partner.
You know that you have whole bunch of choices along
the wall right at a dance and you get opportunity
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to dance with whomever you want. Are you gonna dance
with hope? Are you gonna choose the spare are you
going to choose difficulty? Are you gonna choose sullenness? Which
partner are you gonna choose? If all of those words
were lined up along the wall as your dance partners,
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I'm gonna choose Hope. So yeah, Hope is that choice.
And we're gonna dance with Hope always. And in terms
of the choices that I've made personally, that Hope was
an influencer. God, there's so many but going to college,
I chose that there were many obstacles that jumped in
my way that could have prevented me from being able
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to really follow through on that very important goal. But
I did follow through and I did do it, and
that was about Hope. That was an expectation, that was
a desire that I had to become a first generation
college graduate, a psycho breaker, if you will, and to
overcome all of the obstacles that were in my way
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called life. Things happen to you in life. And I
did overcome, and I did become the first in my
generation to obtain college degrees. That doesn't make me the
first one worthy or the first one capable, just the
first one in that moment to have the type of
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opportunities that helped to catapult me into the position of
being the first one that was you know, spectacularly beautiful
opportunity for me, and yeah, hope was my motivator all
the way. So I had moments where I didn't think
that I was going to be able to make it through.
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My mother died when I was a sophomore at Cuyahoga
Community College, and I really did not think that I
was going to be able to press on. And it
is only by the grace of God and angels, both
divine and mortal. As my good friend Maryann Williamson reminds
me all the time, that we should call on the angels,
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both divine and mortal, to help us along the way.
That is what really got me through. I had attended
Caiho Community College. I graduated it in the mid nineties
from that institution, but that was not the first time
that I attended. I went there earlier in the early
part of the nineties and I just could not make
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it through, and I dropped out of the community college
as I did, and I still had a high school mentality.
Did not know that I was supposed to officially air
quotes well no, no air quotes is real officially withdrawal,
meaning there was a process and paperwork to be filled out.
But I was being overcome at that time with my
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life circumstances, and I just left and when I got back,
by the motivation of my mom before she passed away.
I'm glad that I did go back. But it was
just a moment that I had with my mother, somebody
who never really talked about college. Not directly, I would say,
indirectly she did. And my grandmother, my maternal grandmother who
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raised me for the most part, I would say equally
with my mom. She just one day out of the
blue said, you know, you're too smart to flip burgers,
And I embrace that. Yeah, I worked. One of my
first jobs was when I didn't flip them because I
was at Burger king. You just put them through the brawler.
But yeah, I worked at fast food restaurants and coming
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in my latter part of my teens, early teens, and
a lot of part of my teens. So I know
there's somebody out there who could relate to what I
am saying right now. I remember those days. Oh my god.
So yeah, roller duty my mom was major point and
I was a drive through cashier baby, and I got
to tell you I was the best drive through cashier.
I take great pride in telling that part of the story.
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I could do that thing. I was extraordinary. I was
back to my mom, you know, just you know, spirit
hit her and she said to me, you know you
should go back, and I did. And even though my
g p A was horrib bow horrible. How many syllables
canna put into a horror but horror bow baby, it
was horrible. I had the good fortune of meeting a
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counselor or being assigned a counselor that saw promise in me,
and she mothered me through that particular part of my
college journey, going back and trying to correct the horrible
g p A I had at the time. And she
said to me, I want you to take all of
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these classes, because some of my professors did withdraw me
it wasn't a responsibility to do it, and others just
gave me f even though I never sat for the class.
I didn't go to class because I just stopped going
and that had an impact on my g p A.
And so I had to correct that. And my counselor,
Iris Williams, I'll never forget her, said I want you
to take all of these classes over again, and your
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g p A is going to sore and you cannot
get less than a B. And I went to her.
We were on quarters at that time, every single quarter,
you know, she wrote a road map for me. I
did not think that I could make it through, but
she gave me to encourage meant and also an expectation.
She had an expectation that I was going to accomplish this,
and I couldn't have an excuse about why I could not,
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even though that was a horrible moment for me to
have to go back and face the consequences of my
actions or inactions, Even though I was ignorant to the
fact that I needed to officially withdraw, there was a
consequence to that. But I did overcome. Indeed, until that hope,
that desire, that expectation that I was going to overcome
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overtook me, and I did, and I made the Deans
list from that time to every single time on my
journey at Cuyahoga Community College, and it was something that
I strived to do. You know, once you get a
taste of that and you want to keep trying to
match it or do better. And that's exactly what I did.
And before too long, my g p A was soaring
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and to make the Deans list you have to have.
I think at that time it was either a three
point or three point five and above of and baby,
I did that thing. I did it, Yes, So just
excited about that and being able to to overcome and
to accomplish that. And I didn't do it alone. You know,
none of us on this journey accomplished great things alone. Yes,
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was I the major ingredient? Absolutely? Did I have to
choose hope and persevere and overcome? I did so that
That's my answer the question number one. What's your answer
the question number one? Feel free to share with me
some of your your answers. I would love to hear them.
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Question number two. Can we overcome tragedies and still rely
on hope? Absolutely we can. So many people go through
so much in this life, and yet we look at
them and we are in awe of the fact that
they were able to overcome. One of the major, most
serious tragedies that happen in my life so far, and
I've been through a hell of a lot, was the
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death of my mom. The untimely death. I mean maybe
in the spiritual room it was on God's time. That's
hard for me to accept, but for me as a
human being walking this earth. It was untimely. My mom
was forty two years old. She had a brain aneurysm.
She was in a coma for a small period of time,
and then, you know, the doctors said that she was
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not going to come back, that she was permanently it
was permanent damage, and that it was only the machine
that was next to her bed just keeping her alive,
and that it had to be unplugged at some point.
They couldn't keep her there in that state forever. That
to this very moment was one of the harshest, hardest
things that ever happened to me in my life. And
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I was a sophomore as I explained that Cuyaho Community College,
and I did not know whether or not I was
going to be able to go on. That was life
altering and life baby, it definitely throws the curb calls.
I was, however, able to muster the strength to keep
pressing on. And one of the main reasons why I
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kept keeping on that time was I wanted to do
something and my mama's honor, you know, for her memory,
that motivated me to keep pushing on, to keep the
desire to achieve that thing. For that thing that happened,
and that thing at that time was for me to
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graduate from Caijo Community College. And then I was surrounded
by other people who believed in me and kept pushing
me through that storm. That was a storm in my life.
And one of those persons with Dr Dorothy Salem, who
really just took me into her bosom. I'd call her
my college momb She was there to keep pushing me too.
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So when we think about angels, both mortal and divine,
certainly Dr Dorothy Salem is one of those mortal angels
who I'm so very happy continues to walk this earth.
She helped push me through. She was my professor of
African American history, and she certainly is the one that
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made the beauty, the brilliance, the pain, the sorrow, the
strength of Black history come alive for me. She is
the reason why I'm I majored in history with a
specialty in Black history, and I'm so glad that I
did so. She was one of those mortal angels along
with Ms. Iris Williams Man, So I kept pushing so
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for my mother's memory. That's why I overcame. I don't
know so much as if I could say, I overcame
that tragedy of my mom died, but this story comes
as close, you know close answer that's on my mind
right now to question number two? Can we overcome tragedies
and still rely on hope? It was hoped that pushed
me forward, you know, that vibe pushed me, and then
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there were others in my you know, that sent energy
in and around me that aided that. And I think
Mama would be proud. I know she would. So I
went on from Kayo Community College, matriculated to Cleveland State,
the Cleveland State University, and it hearns both bachelor's and
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a master's degree. I dabbled with the PhD just a
little bit, but then got distracted by politics, So I
gotta go back. That's a personal goal of I. Do
any of you have any personal goals you still want
to achieve? As long as you live every day as
an opportunity to achieve those goals. I want to throw
that out there. So I am going to get that
PhD at some point in this life of mine. I
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am indeed Question number three, what does hope mean to you?
And why is it important? I think I've been weaving
the answer to that particular question through the entirety of
our conversation today, that hope is a motivator of the
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dream is the driver. That hope is a vibe. It
is a feeling, it really is, and it is important
to keep that feeling because if we ever lose it,
we're done. Think about that. As human beings, there are
things that drive us, their vibrations that drive us. Hope
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is a operation. If we ever lose it, we're done.
It is important because of that. We can't ever lose expectations.
We're done. We are blessed as human beings to be
able to have the capacity to think in these ways,
to be hopeful, to love, to overcome, to have expectations,
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to appreciate, to show gratitude. Two dot dot dot the
lip sis. That's it. So it is important because it
is our fuel. It keeps us going. Hope it's like
a heartbeat. But um but um, but um but um.
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Hope is the heartbeat a life, baby. You gotta have
it to live. Living without hope is no life at all.
That's why I hope. It is important. Hope is the motivator.
And question number four, how does hope affect your daily life?
And decisions is everything, you know, even in when I
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plan for my future, hope is the foundation for that plan.
Many of you know, I just came through a very
crushing electoral battle, not once but twice that I walked
through hell with gasoline, clothing all, and I'm going to
continue to do so. It is even in disappointment, and
it is bigger than disappointment because some of you I've
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been following my career and certainly on the political side,
know that these last two congressional races were won by
big money group, dark money groups, big money groups, and
a corporatist power that just does not want to see
everyday people thrive, and so they keep pushing and investing
in politicians who're gonna keep the status quot. That's what
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this comes down to. You know. I went through that,
and it was Winston Churchill that said, if you're in hell,
keep going, and I get that right. If you if
you're in hell, I stop, don't stop, keep going, get
on out of there. I chuck every time because I
just love that quote. It's just something so profoundly beautiful
about that damn quote. If you're going through hell, if
you're going through if you're in hell. Keep going, and
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we keep going. And you know I wouldn't take anything.
They're just saying, I wouldn't take anything for this journey. Now, Now,
I don't know everything that God has in store. Again,
my belief in a higher power. I know that everyone
that has joined me, I may not necessarily believe in
a higher power. Boat that ever ever, you believe whatever
motivated at you that I want you to think on
those things. For me, I do believe that there is
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a higher power. I don't know that all of what
God has in store for me. I don't know why
I am going through these types of trials and tribulations.
But I do understand, even when I don't appreciate it,
that there is a higher call and a higher purpose
and that God is not through with me yet. And
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I embrace that even in this moment of feeling like
w tf, God, you know, there's so many other things
that I could have been doing, that I could do.
And then in those moments where I feel the vibration,
I do know that God is leading and guiding me,
that there is a spirit force that leads and guides me,
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and that when we do go through trials and tribulations,
that we cannot have a testimony without a test and
Lord knows, I know I'm being tested right now in
this moment, and I keep I keep pushing. I keep
pushing even in my disappointment. And I am in a
moment in my life that I feel some disappointment with
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what just had you know, what happened to me? How
would happened to me? And that there are forces out there?
And then I think, you know, one of my dear friends,
you know, we have a mente mentor relationship. Sometimes I'm
a mentor and sometimes I'm a mentee vice versa. But
she always reminds me that you know, when you're going
through something, you know, who are you to say? Why me?
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The question becomes why not you? You know, who are
you to decide that you don't have to go through
anything you do? And that people like me who are
anointed in that way, that have an anointing like a
call on their lives, that you are going to go
through a lot, but through it all, God is going
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to guide you and push you on through. And you
know what I received that even when it's hard to
receive it. So hope does affect my life every single
day and the decisions that I make, whether it's personal decisions,
professional decisions, just every day and sometimes hope is weighing
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on you more than other times, and that's okay too.
So I do have a hope, personal hope in terms
of saying healthy and you know, being there for my family,
especially my son and my two new grand babies that
are like they bring me so much joy, so much joy,
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and my son who is the apple of my eye.
You know, a lot of times when I tell the
story about more thing to persevere and make it through college.
For my mother's memory, that was for her in thinking
about the past, because she died. We operate in three,
so the past motivated me to get that degree, and
then the present being myself. It's okay to want to
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do something for you. The future, though, pulls me, and
that future revolved around my son and at that time
future grandchildren because they were not born. We operate in
those threes. So hope does affect all of our lives
and the decisions that we make. That hope, that that
feeling of expectation, that desire for a certain thing to happen.
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My mother's memory, for my life and for my son,
the past, the present and the future. Hope is all
of that. In the closing of this first episode in
the second series of The Three Bones, I want to
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remind you of how we started that wonderful quote by
Christopher Reeves. Once you choose hope, any things possible. I
want you to embrace that baby. That is a truism
and pulling on the spiritual side. And most of my followers,
you guys know, I am a woman of faith of
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the spirit. Hope and faith go hand in hand. And
I really do hope that I have inspired you and
uplifted you. My hope is to always be a light
for change baby, a fire at times for change. And
I would like to leave you with some lyrics to
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one of the most inspiring and hopeful gospel songs, the
title let the Church Say a Man. It's by Marvin
Wains and it was originally created by Andre Crouch. And
here are a few of the lyrics, and we will
put in the show notes a leak to the song.
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Here's a bit of it. Battle on through the night, Amen,
because you're going to win the fight. Amen, even in
the valley. Amen. Or standing that you're red see Amen,
continue to say Amen, because your help is on the way. Amen,
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my God has spoken, I heard him. Let the church,
so the church. Let the church say Amen, that's just
a turning puss man lives in there. An help myself.
But baby, that is it? Or how about this song? Oh,
ain't no need to worry what the night is gonna bring.
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It'll be all over in the morning. Oh. I love
that song so so much in the morning in the morning,
in the morning. That was a song by the Whinings
and and Anita Baker. It was Marvin wine Is and
Anita Baker. I just had to through that song and
that that just touched my soul too. Ain't don't need
to worry what the night is gonna bring. It'll be
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all over in the morning, in the morning, in the morning. Oh,
it'll be all over in the morning. So till each
and every one of you, no matter what you're going through,
if you're in your valley moment, I want you to
know that hope is the motivator. There is an expectation, there,
a feeling you are going to overcome. And if right
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now in the stage of your life, you're on your
mountaintop moment, God bless you linger there, embrace it. You
deserve to be in mountaintop moments most of your life.
But in order to appreciate the mountaintop, we got to
go through the valley. And we know life is like
that where you have valley moments and mountaintop moments, valley
moments and mountaintop moments. Mountaintop moments and valley moments. Don't
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stay in the valley. Although the valley gives you the
strength to appreciate the mountaintop, don't stay there. You gotta
get back to the mountaintop. And if right now in
life you feel like you've been in the valley a
little too long, I want you to aspire and hope
and use that hope to catapult you back to the mountaintop.
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Once you choose hope, anything's possible. Christopher Rees, Amen and Amen,
don't forget to tune in to the next episode of
the Three Bones series where we are going to talk
about the second bone. That's the jawbone, That is the
bone that gives us the courage to lift our voices
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and speak truth to power. Baby, you are not going
to want to miss that episode. All right, I'm sending love,
I'm sending light, I'm sending fight, I'm sending by baby.
Keep your head up, keep the faith and keep the fight. Hello,
somebody turn the work that's giving us, somebody that time
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deep times we hid. Yeah, change is coming. The pain
is nothing. Trying to shoot for the stars. If you're gonna,
ain't for something to embrace the love for your brother
and sister. You need these the mission brush, We need
the puzzle. This pictures painted up, framing it up for
the world to see. Ain't to hate you it up.
Enough is enough, It's enough, making changes enough and turner
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a voice of the truth to wise world. Inspire the
youth to keep their eyes on the roof. It's the end.
Never give up, keep conquering goals to the eye. Intelligence, silver,
wisdom is gold. Back to the end. Now is your time.
Stay firm, don't fold to the a or you need
is the three bones. That's what Rannie said. Now I'm
gonna make sure these words from Rannie Sprague for all
the hair to give it your air. She can take
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him to the promised land. I swear world pieces what
they fear from Queen's to cleveand o'hiya were here famous.
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it's a solo episode from me or a hearty discussion
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I mean really real. We get honest, We get up
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Before we begin, I want to give a special shout
out to my team, Thank you, Sam, Tiffany, Sam and
the team over at Good Juju Studios, Erica, England, Pepper Chambers,
the Hot One, and my social media team you know,
Hello Somebody. First of all, I gotta say that because
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everybody is somebody, and just every now and then I
get asked about the three Bones, and then there are
usually follow up questions about the three bones, what do
they mean? Where did they come from? And today I'm
going to give more love to those questions. So in
our second series, reaves of the three bones. We're gonna
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drill down just a little deeper into those and focus
on the words that inspire the three bones themselves, the
very concept of the three bones, and I'm gonna start
with the wishbone. There is a quote from Christopher Weaves
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and he said the following, once you choose hope, anything
it's possible. I believe that I'm vibing with that anything
is possible. Hope indeed is an action word. And a
lot of times when we say the word hope, some
people think it's squshy or mushy or doesn't mean anything.
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But they are so wrong about that. The whole concept
of hope itself, especially when you think about it from
a spiritual level and not just somebody said the words,
there is a vibration with hope. Hope is indeed the motivator.
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It is the very thing that keeps us as human
beings pushing forward. If we should ever lose hope, then
everything is lost because we won't go on. That is
the very reason why we push hope. There are things
attached to that family, your life, you know, the things
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you aspire to be and to do, so there are
vibrations attached to the word hope. Hope is profound, and
so I do hope that everyone is feeling good, that
you are finding something in life to enjoy, and that
you are showing yourself some love, some grace, and some forgiveness.
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If you are running with the baton, baby, I'm running
with you. You know, to run track. My favorite race
was the Full Photy Relay, Baby, the Full Voting Relay.
It was my favorite race, and I was the first
leg of that race. I'm smiling right now. Hopefully you
can feel that vibration from my speech pattern. I was
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pretty good, you know. Circumstances came up in my life,
as they often do in all of our lives, and
I could not finish that out. But I did. I
ran track. I felt awkward and out of place at times,
and a lot of that was because of the financial
situation that my family and I were in. But in
those moments where I grabbed a hold of hope, baby,
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I did my thing. I was the first leg of
the Faulk Photo Relay. Ain't nothing like going down memory lane. Uh,
sometimes for good memories, other for unpleasant memories, or just
flat out bad memories. But in this moment, I am
thinking about the moments whe I was running track that
we're really good and being the first leg was amazing.
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That means I was pretty damn fast. I was. I
was pretty damn fast. Look back to this, back to
a present time. Hopefully you can think about something that
brings you some joy, whether it's in the past, the present,
or even in the future. So yes, if you are
running with the baton, baby, I'm running with you. If
you are the one being past the baton and you
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are ready to take off, I understand. And if you
are the one who is waiting your turn, please, please,
please please don't give up on hope. Your turn is coming.
So get ready, baby, get ready. Hell, after the last
couple of years we've had and we all should be
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patting ourselves on the back and clapping our hands. We
made it, baby, snapping the fingers. If you can through
it all, we have made it. Having to endure the
past endemic for the last two years, and it is
certainly endurance has weighed heavily on us as human beings.
It has weighed heavily on the ecosystem itself. Every aspect
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of existence has had to endure this pandemic. We are
making it through, and some of us are making it
through in finer fashion than others. Let's put that in
this space. But we are, we are, we are making
it through, and that does deserve a moment of hand clap,
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of finger snap of packing your feet, baby yeah. Endurance
that matters too, you know, And as many of you know,
I've centered myself on the whole notion of the three balls.
There's something about the power of threes. And if you
are hearing this story for the very first time, if
you are new to Hello, somebody, Welcome, I'm so glad
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you're here. Hello somebody d because everybody is somebody. I
just want to remind those who know the story what
the three Bones are about, how it sprung up the
story itself. And for those who are new, I'm telling
the story to you for the very first time, I'm
introducing you to the three Bones. So growing up, my
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maternal grandmother was very good at telling story. She just
kept it real. I don't even know if someone she
was telling stories as much as she was just really
being who she was and the essence of her spirit.
I still claim that spirit to be with me to
this very moment. She is in the ancestral plane, shout
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out to black panther. She is in that ancestral plane
with so many others of my bloodline ancestors, but then
just the global ancestors in the black tradition itself. And
so my grandmother only had a third grade education and
she couldn't read write, I tell the story off them though,
but she could count her money, and she kept her
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money in the Southern Ladies Bank and trust. When I
asked my grandmother why she kept her money there, she said,
those were only two suckers she could trust. And that
makes me chuckle every single time. My grandma little about
five ft three maybe five ft four, and she conducted herself.
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She comported herself as if she was ten feet tall.
When my grandmother walked into the room, baby, you knew
that she was there. She did shake every room that
she entered. She had such a regalness about her, a
pride about her, and a hope too. So when I
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asked my grandmother what does it take to be successful
in this life, she said, my dear granddaughter, all you
need are the three moans, the wishbone, the jawbone, and
the backbone. She said, the bonus for hoping and praying,
because hope indeed is the motivator, but the dream is
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the driver. Hope is the motivator, but the dream is
the driver. That is where we are right now. This
is our episode about hope. The dream is the driver,
the hope is the motivator. Hope is about embracing a vibration,
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a notion that despite whatever circumstances you are in, that
you find yourself in, that you too, that you will,
that you can overcome. That is what hope is about.
She said. The jawbone is to give you courage to
speak truth, to power to lift your voice. Often say
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the titles are good, but purpose is better. And the backbone,
the super catch of fragilistic xp altocious bone is indeed
the backbone, because the backbone will give you curse to
standing strong, to stand tall, even if you are standing
all alone. The backbone is truly about perseverance. Those are
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the three bones. And this story is universal, and it
doesn't matter what audiences I tell the story in the
age the identity, none of the markers matter. This story
is like a good song. It reminds you that you
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can keep all keeping on. It is universal in its
application Oh, I'm feeling it right now. I'm feeling the
spirit and the essence of my maternal grandmother. And so
I've centered myself on these three principles that were passed
down by her. Oh, and I have so eternally blessed
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that she passed them down to me and my six siblings,
seven of us. I think that I have been the
one to embrace them more closely, more intently. Those three bones,
the wishbone, the jawbone, the backbone are my foundation. They
really are my motivation. The bones keep me going. I'm
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kidding about it, I really really am. And so we
are going to focus this second series on resurrecting the
three bones, if you will. You know, I often joke
a minute of you know, I was. I was reared
in the Black Church. And there is the story about
the prophet Ezekiel the Valley of the dry Bones. God
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asks Ezekiel, Kenny, dry bones live, and Ezekiel said, and
I'm paraphrasing your Lord, only you alone know whether or
not the dry balls can live. And then God said
to Zekia, prophecy to the dry balls, hello. And so
many ways I see my grandmother's balls, her three balls
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parallel to to the story about the Valley of the
Dry Bones and the Christian biball. So we are going
to dive a little deeper. You know, when I did
the first series last year around Thanksgiving, I did introduce
or reintroduce the three bones and and how we will
take a deeper dive into those principles that helped the
Guy protect and love on all of us and the
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best of times and also in the worst of times,
in the pretty times and the ugly times. Baby, I'm
carrying those three bones with me. Hope is indeed something
I speak about frequently because without it we would be
in a constant state of I can't or nothing good
is going to happen ever at all. Hope is about
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an expect Haitian. Hope is the motivator, the dream as
the driver. So one of the questions I get often
is is hope of choice? And what choices have I
made or others have made? What choices have you made
personally that hope was the main influencer. I'm putting that
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question to my listeners. What hope have you made personally
and what influences you? Question Number two, can we overcome
tragedies and still rely on hope? Number three, what does
hope mean to you? And why is it important? And
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number four how does hope affect your daily life and decisions?
So these are questions that I want us all to
answer together. Number one is hope of choice? And what
choices have we made personally that hope was the main influencer?
Can we overcome tragedies and still rely on hope? What
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does hope mean to us and why is it important?
And number four, how does hope affect our daily lives
and decisions? So you can replace our with my or I.
We're on this journey together. So the definition of hope
a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing
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to happen. M That's what it is, and that is
why I continue to say hope is the motivated the
dream as the driver Grandma lady down, because it is
a motivator, a feeling of expectation as a desire for
a certain thing to happen. And it is within that desire, baby,
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that we continue to push forward. So here we go.
I'm gonna answer the four questions, and I want you
to answer them for yourself as you are on this
journey of discovery with me right now as we focus
on the three bones, the first bone being hope. So
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let me remind you of question number one. Is hope
a choice? And what choices have you made personally that
hope was the main influencer? All right? So yes, hope
is definitely a choice. I mean, you could choose despair,
You could choose not to be hopeful. You could choose
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to just kind of go along with whatever life throws
at you and not deliberately make a decision to push
forward for the high mark. And part of being able
to push forward is embracing hope, a feeling of expectation
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and desire for a certain thing to happen. And so,
despite what life throws at you, you do have to
deliberately choose hope. Think of hope as a dance partner.
You know that you have whole bunch of choices along
the wall right at a dance and you get opportunity
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to dance with whomever you want. Are you gonna dance
with hope? Are you gonna choose the spare are you
going to choose difficulty? Are you gonna choose sullenness? Which
partner are you gonna choose? If all of those words
were lined up along the wall as your dance partners,
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I'm gonna choose Hope. So yeah, Hope is that choice.
And we're gonna dance with Hope always. And in terms
of the choices that I've made personally, that Hope was
an influencer. God, there's so many but going to college,
I chose that there were many obstacles that jumped in
my way that could have prevented me from being able
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to really follow through on that very important goal. But
I did follow through and I did do it, and
that was about Hope. That was an expectation, that was
a desire that I had to become a first generation
college graduate, a psycho breaker, if you will, and to
overcome all of the obstacles that were in my way
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called life. Things happen to you in life. And I
did overcome, and I did become the first in my
generation to obtain college degrees. That doesn't make me the
first one worthy or the first one capable, just the
first one in that moment to have the type of
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opportunities that helped to catapult me into the position of
being the first one that was you know, spectacularly beautiful
opportunity for me, and yeah, hope was my motivator all
the way. So I had moments where I didn't think
that I was going to be able to make it through.
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My mother died when I was a sophomore at Cuyahoga
Community College, and I really did not think that I
was going to be able to press on. And it
is only by the grace of God and angels, both
divine and mortal. As my good friend Maryann Williamson reminds
me all the time, that we should call on the angels,
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both divine and mortal, to help us along the way.
That is what really got me through. I had attended
Caiho Community College. I graduated it in the mid nineties
from that institution, but that was not the first time
that I attended. I went there earlier in the early
part of the nineties and I just could not make
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it through, and I dropped out of the community college
as I did, and I still had a high school mentality.
Did not know that I was supposed to officially air
quotes well no, no air quotes is real officially withdrawal,
meaning there was a process and paperwork to be filled out.
But I was being overcome at that time with my
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life circumstances, and I just left and when I got back,
by the motivation of my mom before she passed away.
I'm glad that I did go back. But it was
just a moment that I had with my mother, somebody
who never really talked about college. Not directly, I would say,
indirectly she did. And my grandmother, my maternal grandmother who
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raised me for the most part, I would say equally
with my mom. She just one day out of the
blue said, you know, you're too smart to flip burgers,
And I embrace that. Yeah, I worked. One of my
first jobs was when I didn't flip them because I
was at Burger king. You just put them through the brawler.
But yeah, I worked at fast food restaurants and coming
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in my latter part of my teens, early teens, and
a lot of part of my teens. So I know
there's somebody out there who could relate to what I
am saying right now. I remember those days. Oh my god.
So yeah, roller duty my mom was major point and
I was a drive through cashier baby, and I got
to tell you I was the best drive through cashier.
I take great pride in telling that part of the story.
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I could do that thing. I was extraordinary. I was
back to my mom, you know, just you know, spirit
hit her and she said to me, you know you
should go back, and I did. And even though my
g p A was horrib bow horrible. How many syllables
canna put into a horror but horror bow baby, it
was horrible. I had the good fortune of meeting a
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counselor or being assigned a counselor that saw promise in me,
and she mothered me through that particular part of my
college journey, going back and trying to correct the horrible
g p A I had at the time. And she
said to me, I want you to take all of
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these classes, because some of my professors did withdraw me
it wasn't a responsibility to do it, and others just
gave me f even though I never sat for the class.
I didn't go to class because I just stopped going
and that had an impact on my g p A.
And so I had to correct that. And my counselor,
Iris Williams, I'll never forget her, said I want you
to take all of these classes over again, and your
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g p A is going to sore and you cannot
get less than a B. And I went to her.
We were on quarters at that time, every single quarter,
you know, she wrote a road map for me. I
did not think that I could make it through, but
she gave me to encourage meant and also an expectation.
She had an expectation that I was going to accomplish this,
and I couldn't have an excuse about why I could not,
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even though that was a horrible moment for me to
have to go back and face the consequences of my
actions or inactions, Even though I was ignorant to the
fact that I needed to officially withdraw, there was a
consequence to that. But I did overcome. Indeed, until that hope,
that desire, that expectation that I was going to overcome
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overtook me, and I did, and I made the Deans
list from that time to every single time on my
journey at Cuyahoga Community College, and it was something that
I strived to do. You know, once you get a
taste of that and you want to keep trying to
match it or do better. And that's exactly what I did.
And before too long, my g p A was soaring
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and to make the Deans list you have to have.
I think at that time it was either a three
point or three point five and above of and baby,
I did that thing. I did it, Yes, So just
excited about that and being able to to overcome and
to accomplish that. And I didn't do it alone. You know,
none of us on this journey accomplished great things alone. Yes,
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was I the major ingredient? Absolutely? Did I have to
choose hope and persevere and overcome? I did so that
That's my answer the question number one. What's your answer
the question number one? Feel free to share with me
some of your your answers. I would love to hear them.
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Question number two. Can we overcome tragedies and still rely
on hope? Absolutely we can. So many people go through
so much in this life, and yet we look at
them and we are in awe of the fact that
they were able to overcome. One of the major, most
serious tragedies that happen in my life so far, and
I've been through a hell of a lot, was the
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death of my mom. The untimely death. I mean maybe
in the spiritual room it was on God's time. That's
hard for me to accept, but for me as a
human being walking this earth. It was untimely. My mom
was forty two years old. She had a brain aneurysm.
She was in a coma for a small period of time,
and then, you know, the doctors said that she was
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not going to come back, that she was permanently it
was permanent damage, and that it was only the machine
that was next to her bed just keeping her alive,
and that it had to be unplugged at some point.
They couldn't keep her there in that state forever. That
to this very moment was one of the harshest, hardest
things that ever happened to me in my life. And
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I was a sophomore as I explained that Cuyaho Community College,
and I did not know whether or not I was
going to be able to go on. That was life
altering and life baby, it definitely throws the curb calls.
I was, however, able to muster the strength to keep
pressing on. And one of the main reasons why I
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kept keeping on that time was I wanted to do
something and my mama's honor, you know, for her memory,
that motivated me to keep pushing on, to keep the
desire to achieve that thing. For that thing that happened,
and that thing at that time was for me to
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graduate from Caijo Community College. And then I was surrounded
by other people who believed in me and kept pushing
me through that storm. That was a storm in my life.
And one of those persons with Dr Dorothy Salem, who
really just took me into her bosom. I'd call her
my college momb She was there to keep pushing me too.
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So when we think about angels, both mortal and divine,
certainly Dr Dorothy Salem is one of those mortal angels
who I'm so very happy continues to walk this earth.
She helped push me through. She was my professor of
African American history, and she certainly is the one that
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made the beauty, the brilliance, the pain, the sorrow, the
strength of Black history come alive for me. She is
the reason why I'm I majored in history with a
specialty in Black history, and I'm so glad that I
did so. She was one of those mortal angels along
with Ms. Iris Williams Man, So I kept pushing so
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for my mother's memory. That's why I overcame. I don't
know so much as if I could say, I overcame
that tragedy of my mom died, but this story comes
as close, you know close answer that's on my mind
right now to question number two? Can we overcome tragedies
and still rely on hope? It was hoped that pushed
me forward, you know, that vibe pushed me, and then
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there were others in my you know, that sent energy
in and around me that aided that. And I think
Mama would be proud. I know she would. So I
went on from Kayo Community College, matriculated to Cleveland State,
the Cleveland State University, and it hearns both bachelor's and
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a master's degree. I dabbled with the PhD just a
little bit, but then got distracted by politics, So I
gotta go back. That's a personal goal of I. Do
any of you have any personal goals you still want
to achieve? As long as you live every day as
an opportunity to achieve those goals. I want to throw
that out there. So I am going to get that
PhD at some point in this life of mine. I
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am indeed Question number three, what does hope mean to you?
And why is it important? I think I've been weaving
the answer to that particular question through the entirety of
our conversation today, that hope is a motivator of the
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dream is the driver. That hope is a vibe. It
is a feeling, it really is, and it is important
to keep that feeling because if we ever lose it,
we're done. Think about that. As human beings, there are
things that drive us, their vibrations that drive us. Hope
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is a operation. If we ever lose it, we're done.
It is important because of that. We can't ever lose expectations.
We're done. We are blessed as human beings to be
able to have the capacity to think in these ways,
to be hopeful, to love, to overcome, to have expectations,
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to appreciate, to show gratitude. Two dot dot dot the
lip sis. That's it. So it is important because it
is our fuel. It keeps us going. Hope it's like
a heartbeat. But um but um, but um but um.
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Hope is the heartbeat a life, baby. You gotta have
it to live. Living without hope is no life at all.
That's why I hope. It is important. Hope is the motivator.
And question number four, how does hope affect your daily life?
And decisions is everything, you know, even in when I
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plan for my future, hope is the foundation for that plan.
Many of you know, I just came through a very
crushing electoral battle, not once but twice that I walked
through hell with gasoline, clothing all, and I'm going to
continue to do so. It is even in disappointment, and
it is bigger than disappointment because some of you I've
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been following my career and certainly on the political side,
know that these last two congressional races were won by
big money group, dark money groups, big money groups, and
a corporatist power that just does not want to see
everyday people thrive, and so they keep pushing and investing
in politicians who're gonna keep the status quot. That's what
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this comes down to. You know. I went through that,
and it was Winston Churchill that said, if you're in hell,
keep going, and I get that right. If you if
you're in hell, I stop, don't stop, keep going, get
on out of there. I chuck every time because I
just love that quote. It's just something so profoundly beautiful
about that damn quote. If you're going through hell, if
you're going through if you're in hell. Keep going, and
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we keep going. And you know I wouldn't take anything.
They're just saying, I wouldn't take anything for this journey. Now, Now,
I don't know everything that God has in store. Again,
my belief in a higher power. I know that everyone
that has joined me, I may not necessarily believe in
a higher power. Boat that ever ever, you believe whatever
motivated at you that I want you to think on
those things. For me, I do believe that there is
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a higher power. I don't know that all of what
God has in store for me. I don't know why
I am going through these types of trials and tribulations.
But I do understand, even when I don't appreciate it,
that there is a higher call and a higher purpose
and that God is not through with me yet. And
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I embrace that even in this moment of feeling like
w tf, God, you know, there's so many other things
that I could have been doing, that I could do.
And then in those moments where I feel the vibration,
I do know that God is leading and guiding me,
that there is a spirit force that leads and guides me,
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and that when we do go through trials and tribulations,
that we cannot have a testimony without a test and
Lord knows, I know I'm being tested right now in
this moment, and I keep I keep pushing. I keep
pushing even in my disappointment. And I am in a
moment in my life that I feel some disappointment with
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what just had you know, what happened to me? How
would happened to me? And that there are forces out there?
And then I think, you know, one of my dear friends,
you know, we have a mente mentor relationship. Sometimes I'm
a mentor and sometimes I'm a mentee vice versa. But
she always reminds me that you know, when you're going
through something, you know, who are you to say? Why me?
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The question becomes why not you? You know, who are
you to decide that you don't have to go through
anything you do? And that people like me who are
anointed in that way, that have an anointing like a
call on their lives, that you are going to go
through a lot, but through it all, God is going
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to guide you and push you on through. And you
know what I received that even when it's hard to
receive it. So hope does affect my life every single
day and the decisions that I make, whether it's personal decisions,
professional decisions, just every day and sometimes hope is weighing
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on you more than other times, and that's okay too.
So I do have a hope, personal hope in terms
of saying healthy and you know, being there for my family,
especially my son and my two new grand babies that
are like they bring me so much joy, so much joy,
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and my son who is the apple of my eye.
You know, a lot of times when I tell the
story about more thing to persevere and make it through college.
For my mother's memory, that was for her in thinking
about the past, because she died. We operate in three,
so the past motivated me to get that degree, and
then the present being myself. It's okay to want to
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do something for you. The future, though, pulls me, and
that future revolved around my son and at that time
future grandchildren because they were not born. We operate in
those threes. So hope does affect all of our lives
and the decisions that we make. That hope, that that
feeling of expectation, that desire for a certain thing to happen.
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My mother's memory, for my life and for my son,
the past, the present and the future. Hope is all
of that. In the closing of this first episode in
the second series of The Three Bones, I want to
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remind you of how we started that wonderful quote by
Christopher Reeves. Once you choose hope, any things possible. I
want you to embrace that baby. That is a truism
and pulling on the spiritual side. And most of my followers,
you guys know, I am a woman of faith of
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the spirit. Hope and faith go hand in hand. And
I really do hope that I have inspired you and
uplifted you. My hope is to always be a light
for change baby, a fire at times for change. And
I would like to leave you with some lyrics to
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one of the most inspiring and hopeful gospel songs, the
title let the Church Say a Man. It's by Marvin
Wains and it was originally created by Andre Crouch. And
here are a few of the lyrics, and we will
put in the show notes a leak to the song.
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Here's a bit of it. Battle on through the night, Amen,
because you're going to win the fight. Amen, even in
the valley. Amen. Or standing that you're red see Amen,
continue to say Amen, because your help is on the way. Amen,
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my God has spoken, I heard him. Let the church,
so the church. Let the church say Amen, that's just
a turning puss man lives in there. An help myself.
But baby, that is it? Or how about this song? Oh,
ain't no need to worry what the night is gonna bring.
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It'll be all over in the morning. Oh. I love
that song so so much in the morning in the morning,
in the morning. That was a song by the Whinings
and and Anita Baker. It was Marvin wine Is and
Anita Baker. I just had to through that song and
that that just touched my soul too. Ain't don't need
to worry what the night is gonna bring. It'll be
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all over in the morning, in the morning, in the morning. Oh,
it'll be all over in the morning. So till each
and every one of you, no matter what you're going through,
if you're in your valley moment, I want you to
know that hope is the motivator. There is an expectation, there,
a feeling you are going to overcome. And if right
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now in the stage of your life, you're on your
mountaintop moment, God bless you linger there, embrace it. You
deserve to be in mountaintop moments most of your life.
But in order to appreciate the mountaintop, we got to
go through the valley. And we know life is like
that where you have valley moments and mountaintop moments, valley
moments and mountaintop moments. Mountaintop moments and valley moments. Don't
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stay in the valley. Although the valley gives you the
strength to appreciate the mountaintop, don't stay there. You gotta
get back to the mountaintop. And if right now in
life you feel like you've been in the valley a
little too long, I want you to aspire and hope
and use that hope to catapult you back to the mountaintop.
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Once you choose hope, anything's possible. Christopher Rees, Amen and Amen,
don't forget to tune in to the next episode of
the Three Bones series where we are going to talk
about the second bone. That's the jawbone, That is the
bone that gives us the courage to lift our voices
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and speak truth to power. Baby, you are not going
to want to miss that episode. All right, I'm sending love,
I'm sending light, I'm sending fight, I'm sending by baby.
Keep your head up, keep the faith and keep the fight. Hello,
somebody turn the work that's giving us, somebody that time
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deep times we hid. Yeah, change is coming. The pain
is nothing. Trying to shoot for the stars. If you're gonna,
ain't for something to embrace the love for your brother
and sister. You need these the mission brush, We need
the puzzle. This pictures painted up, framing it up for
the world to see. Ain't to hate you it up.
Enough is enough, It's enough, making changes enough and turner
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a voice of the truth to wise world. Inspire the
youth to keep their eyes on the roof. It's the end.
Never give up, keep conquering goals to the eye. Intelligence, silver,
wisdom is gold. Back to the end. Now is your time.
Stay firm, don't fold to the a or you need
is the three bones. That's what Rannie said. Now I'm
gonna make sure these words from Rannie Sprague for all
the hair to give it your air. She can take
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him to the promised land. I swear world pieces what
they fear from Queen's to cleveand o'hiya were here famous.
Turning any car to tell somebody you don't need to
turn ups spanning somebody turns Hello, Somebody, even turn up
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in times points trying one of those is going on
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