November 1, 2021 • 23 mins
How did Malik Muhammad go from growing up in Maryland to owning multiple book stores in Los Angeles, including the largest African-American and diversity collection of children’s books in the country.
Malik tells his story and reviews "Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom" by Tabitha Brown.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to me Leek's Bookshelf, the podcast that brings the
world together with books, culture and community. This is an
exciting time for me Leak. I've been at this for
so many years. Never have I thought that I would
be doing a podcast. Leak Bookshelf is so exciting. It's refreshing.
(00:25):
It gives me an opportunity to talk about something I
believe in that I'm passionate about. I never saw myself
doing something like this. Yes, I'm filled with joy, I'm
filled with exciting, I'm filled with passion. I am going
to take advantage of this great opportunity. I appreciate Brian Seacrest,
(00:46):
his production team, for everyone who's helping me to exist
me in this. This is in a moment that I
never dreamed of. But I am here, and it's this
month that this podcast is being law and I'm just
elated and excited. This is just a great opportunity, you know,
to do something on a bigger scale, the grander scale,
(01:08):
Malik's Bookshelf. It's refreshing. I love books. Books changed my
life and I want to help and continue to change
other people's lives with books. I'll say this, you know,
because books culture and community. Books change culture, books, change community, community,
(01:36):
it's everything. So this is just a moment of time
that I tell you, I'm just excited. I'm excited. I'm excited.
This is just a beautiful opportunity for me to talk
about something that's near and dear to me. But how
did I get here? Talk about that? How did I
get here? Let me tell you how I got here.
You know, growing up, I used to read a lot
(01:57):
of science fiction books. And let me tell you where
I grew up at. I grew up in Washington, d C.
I grew up in a place called Maryland in the
Washington mensropolitan area. They call it a d m V
zone today because it's centered around the district of Columbia, Washington,
d C, Maryland, and Virginia. So that's why I grew
(02:18):
up back and that's where my home by Native I'm
an East Coaster, but now I'm on the West coast,
so they called me by the coastal. So I was
blessed to be great in something when I was young,
and I knew that I was good at it because
I will always go to the rex in the park,
something that they don't have a lot of these days.
(02:41):
And they used to have these inner camp competitions. And
what I've done was I used to enter into running
anything to deal with running. And that's how I discovered
at an early age in life that I was really
good at sprinting, and sprinting became my love and my
pie action. And so I ran trying and junior high
(03:04):
school and I ran Trent in high school and I
became the Merlin State champion in the one hundred and
two in my junior and senior year. And USC, which
was my dream school, and I told everybody when I
was in the tenth grade, I told everybody, I said,
you know what, I Am going to USC. There was
(03:26):
a powerhouse and track and field. They was like the
top shelf. I would watch wild water Sports at that
time or some of its collegiate shows. It was s
C had the best and greatest sprinters, and I wanted
to be part of that legacy. And you know, by
the time I got the twelfth grade, guess what, as
(03:47):
C recruiter came knocking at my door, said in my house,
had a wonderful conversation with me and my parents, and
they offered me a scholarship. And that's became my journey
from Washington, D C. Area to Los Angeles where I
attended USC, my ama mater in two and that was,
(04:12):
you know, one of the greatest achievements to say to
myself and to my friend, I'm going to USC in
the tenth grade and ended up at USC and I graduated.
Also before graduate, I need to touch on this because
because because this is a milestone. There's a milestone, you know, um,
(04:32):
my father's Puerto Rican and I didn't even know this
opportunity to afforded me. But as a result of that
four I tried out for uh the Puerto Rican Olympic team,
and Los Angeles hosted the Olympics, and USC hosted right
(04:57):
on campus because we consider the Colosseum the historic Los Angeles,
we considered that, you know, part of USC, and they
hosted the Olympic track and field competition. Well guess what,
because I made the Puerto Rican national track and Field
team BAM, I was able to run in the eighty
(05:20):
four Olympic Games right here at USC in the college
sum I competed in the one and I competed in
the two hundred meters and that was a great achievement
and I made it in the semifinals in the one
hundred and two hundred meters as a sprinter, and I
almost made I was one place from making the finals
(05:42):
in the eighty four Olympic Games. I was, you know,
being a world class track and field runner, being great
at something that I love. You. Participating in the eighty
four Olympic Games was one of the greatest achievements of
my life and um, and I'm very proud of that.
I'm very proud of that. And all of these things
(06:04):
that I'm touching on is evolving me because the past
builds the present, and the present builds the future, and
all of these things are building me up to where
this opportunity to be in the book business came about
as a result of all the adversity, all the hard work,
(06:26):
all the discipline, all the sacrifice, you know, because my
dream was to be the greatest sprinter of all time.
But I suffered a lot of injury. I suffered a
lot of set backs. I suffered a lot of adversity,
and that was heard filled to mean waking up every morning,
training hard, throwing up only to get injured, only to
get sat backs. That's part of life. But how you
(06:49):
handled that how you deal with that, how you overcome that.
Those things affect people differently. There were moments of despair.
There were times when I wanted to quit. I didn't
because I believed in myself and I believed it what
(07:12):
I was doing. Um, I was destined to do. I
was destined to do, and I was good at it.
I love doing it. As time went on, you know,
I graduated from USC realizing that I, hey, hey, I'm
out here on my own. So it's either track that's
gonna make money for me or might have to work.
(07:34):
So I had the co mingo track and work, and
I could be challenged after you graduate being able to
continue to perfect your craft. And a lot of people
go through that, whether it's acting, sports, other endeavors, things
they want to do. You gotta find a way to
survive and support yourself. Why you continuually. You know, doing
(07:55):
something you love and track and feel is what I love.
So as a result, I ended up doing home loans.
I'm selling cars. But because I got a I grew
up with a background under real estate as a result
of my mom being a real estate broker. Guess what,
I ended up loving that and so I pursued that
(08:16):
while I was trying to run it well, track and
field got to a point where, after graduating, I came
into some information that I got from reading some books
that ultimately, and these are historic and conscious books, these
books here are hard to find, and stories these books
are hard to find. But in the in the eighties
(08:36):
and the late eighties, you know, I was able to
come across some of this book these books and some
of the things in there just blew me away. Why
because I had a degree from USC, but I just
didn't have the knowledge itself in history and culture about self.
So it blew me away. It it opened my heart.
(08:58):
I just didn't accept the information. I wanted to go
out and do my own research. And after you know,
you know, doing my own research, I concluded that, hey,
you know, um my culture. When I say that black
people had achieved the normous amount of accomplishments not only
(09:19):
in America but historically around the world, and that the
contributions have enhanced and embellished and uplifted the world, and
I couldn't believe how I could graduate from USC and
not know these things about historically about um my culture.
(09:43):
So as a result, I said, Wow, books can make
me feel like this, and books can change my life
like this. Then I wanted to go into you know,
a type of you know, selling books and offering what
I thought help me to help my community. I wanted
to use books to uplift my community. I wanted to
(10:04):
use books to make a change in our community. I
wanted to use books to crease self esteem in my community.
I wanted to use books to elevate my community because
books change my life. And I wanted to use books
to change other people lives. And I think that that's
important because listen, Darl Connickie said it best. He said
it in an early twenty he said, change your thoughts,
(10:26):
change your life. Books change my life, and books, I
believe can change anybody lives. And I want to bring
the world together. One book at a time can change
your life. And I want to help do that. And
that's where my passion comes from. That's what And I've
been doing this since the nineties, since I've been serving
(10:49):
the community with books in an effort to uplift my community,
to elevate my community, to empower my community. Well, I
ain't gonna sugarcoat it now, you know, Hey, I'm a
grown man with a family. So, hey, I'm going into
this to also make a living. You know, I keep
(11:09):
it one hunted. You know, I have to support myself
and I have to support my family. So I go
into it with a business to also help my family,
but are also going with the intentions of elevating and
enhancing and uplifting my my community. Because I believe that
a positive view of yourself, a positive image of yourself,
(11:34):
It's very important to elevate and believe in yourself. And
so books are third beauty. Man know thyself, Woman, know thyself.
The first thing when you look at a picture, guess
who you look at? You look for yourself. So you
have to have a positive view of yourself in the
(11:55):
In our community, we have a lot of mental health
and and a lot of communities all over this country
we have a lot of mental health issues and a
lack of self esteem. A low image of self can
be devastating and destructive and it could create mental health issues.
(12:16):
So I believe books can be a benefactor, a game changer,
a motivator, pick me up, find something to read that
you like, Find something to read that can move you.
Find something to read that can elevate you. Everybody has
(12:41):
their own interests and the most important thing is to
find books that help embellance your interests and lift your interests,
increase your interests, to help your interests. That's what's important,
is to findest subject matter and to help books to
(13:02):
help you. Books are game changes and it changed my
life and I know it can change your life. Welcome
to Malik's Bookshelf because it's our aim and our motivation
to change in your life with books. We're gonna offer
many types of books to affect change universally. Because books
(13:28):
are universal, We're gonna have a lot of subject matters.
We're gonna interview people. We're gonna talk to all types
of subject matters with the purpose of motivation, inspiration, elevation,
weak up. That's what we want. Find yourself, be yourself.
(13:55):
That's how we want to use books. And that's what
we mean when we say, you know, we're gonna try
to keep it lit on Melik's bookshelw lit for literature,
lit for what's hot. You know, it's always new books
coming out, it's always new authors popping up. Malik's Bookshelf
want to play of an important role in the next
(14:18):
generation of change. This podcast, it's gonna be refreshing, innovator.
We're gonna talk about books, we're gonna talk about culture,
and we're gonna talk about community. Something is dear and
(14:41):
near to me, which is outreach given back. And as
Malik Books has demonstrated over a long period of time,
we believe strongly that children are one of our future
and the outreach is so important we have to give
in order to receive. We've donated books over years. We've
also done book drives and we serve our underserved community
(15:04):
because we want to lift them up. And so I
have here with me today the CEEO Verizon Business, Timmy Irvin,
and she has a special announcement and we just overwhelmed
enjoy about this announcement. Leek, thank you and I couldn't
be more excited about the work that you and the
team are doing. You and your wife and Unsung Leadership Foundation.
(15:25):
We are excited on behalf of Verizon to make a
ten thous dollar donation to the Unsung Hero Leadership Foundation
so that you can take books and get them back
out into the underserved communities. The work you're doing is
making a huge difference in the communities in which you live,
work and play. And as you and I were talking
about earlier, Nelson Mandela said it, well, society should be
(15:47):
judged by how they treat their children. You're doing beautiful
things for the children. Thank you so much. You're welcome.
You're welcome. Thank you, timey, thank you for rising. Thank
you for all that you do, because we're gonna do
going together together. Thank you. One of the hottest books
(16:10):
of the fall that just came out, it is Feeding
the Soul Because It's My Business by Tabitha Brown, Finding
Our Way to Joy, Love and Freedom. This book is hot,
hot hot. The ladies of eating it up. Men are
buying it hey. Tabitha Brown offers a refreshing view of
(16:30):
uplifting the spirit as well as feeding the soul with food.
She turned her life around. She has some illments. She
became a vegetarianal vegan, I should say, turn their life around,
and then offers that insight and wisdom to a broad
spectrum of people all over the world. She became a
(16:51):
instant overnight Instagram social media success type of the Brown
won the in the a CP Image Award for Outstanding
Social Media Personality. She blew up overnight on the Instagram
and so now she offers her insight to her fans
(17:12):
all over the social media platform, and she's been a
personality on TV as well. But there's both fitting the
soul because of my business, well, it's just revolutionized the
industry how you can become an influencer and parlay that
into books and seasonings and become a hit and a success.
(17:35):
And that's what America is all about, was being successful,
being great at what you do, rising up from somewhere
and becoming a from racks of riches overnight. The book
Feeding the Stole, it has these hashtags that tyb of
the Brown came up with. There's been so resonating, like
hello there, that's your business. Have the most amazing day.
(18:01):
Don't you dare go messing up somebody else. He just
offers a these little short phrases. Offer joy, Offer defining yourself,
Offer living with intention, learning to walk in kindness. You know,
and that's important today is that you know you pay
it forward. You can pay it for in many ways,
(18:24):
sometimes just with the spirit. Just what a kind word.
One of the things I love about this book is
because time but the Brown keeps it real. One hunting.
Nothing happens overnight. You have to put in hard work.
You have to devote yourself too. You have to believe,
and you have to perseverance whatever the obstacles put in
(18:44):
your way. Well, she made no apologetic about this process.
Her success didn't happen overnight. It happened over a span
of years. But she tells you that you have to
first begin to believe even what you stand for, and
move on what you stand for. So that's why I
(19:04):
love How to Keep It Real, because hey, you know
a lot of times you hear a lot of inspiration,
a lot of people motivating you. Well you know what.
They don't walk the walk, but they do talk to
talk with Tab of the Brown, walk the walk and
Tab of the Brown talk the talk. Don't miss out
on this page, turner. Every single thing you do has
(19:25):
meaning and has purpose. And let me tell you that
if you want a good read, you need to read
Tap of the Brown's book Feeding My Soul. You will
not be disappointed. So pick up your copy of Feeding
the Soul because it's my business finding our way to joy,
love and freedom by Time of the Brown. After graduating
(20:02):
from college and feeling inspired, one of my greatest achievements
is opening my very own business. The name of that
business is Malik Books, a black owned independent bookstore that
specializes in African American books, calendars and gifts for the
cultural diversity, the total African American expression of pride, culture
and self esteem. Where we give voice to the voice list.
(20:26):
Maliek Books offers a large selection of diverse children books
because children are one of our future. We also specialized
in conscious, hard to find, hot and best sellers of
the day. Since Malik Books has served the Los Angeles
community with books and cultural gifts, Meleek Books your friendly
(20:46):
neighborhood community bookstore. Over the thirty years, Malik Books has
helped give birth to the next generation of authors, artists, inventors, dreamers, visionaries,
truth seekers and grassroot Lead is our doors at Maliek
Books have always given voice to the independent and self
publish authors. Malik Books has hosted over the years hundreds
(21:09):
of books signings and discussions, as well as organized public
debate and culture events that speak to the upliftment of
the community. Malik Books is dedicated to serving the interests
on our customers and our community. My League Books has
how the knowledge you want. My League Books has how
the knowledge you need. Miligue Books. Yeah, they have all
(21:31):
the books that the whole wild world want to read.
My League books. They carry out the rabbit's books, my
League books. You know it's hard to find needs books
and treat your intellect and free your mind and succeed
at the same time. Eligue Books is what you need.
You know, Malik got out of books you ben't see
can for you to read out the work to pick
up on the weekend. And if you need a book
(21:51):
for the kids to being survived, you know, Malik Books
is where the children's books were side. They got everything
from black poetry to history answers to your heritage just
no longer a mystery. Want to find stories about black worry.
Malague Books has all of the inventory. And you want
to find a book on how to build a black business.
I want to find a book on how to cure
financial illness? Or what about a book on how to
(22:13):
stop being a victim? Take control of your life and
make it about the system. Malik has the books to
help you with your wealth and so with you seeking
guidess books to help you find yourself and your recipes,
remedies to help you with your health in whatever you need.
Just know they got it on the shelf. Books has
all the knowledge you want. Malague Books has all the
knowledge you need. Malik books. Yeah, they have all the
(22:35):
books that the whole wild world wanna read. Malague books.
They carry out the rabbi's books. Malague books. You know
it's hard to find. Needs Malik to feat your intellect
and free your mind and succeed at the same time.
Eligue Books is what you need. Thanks for listen. Be
shure to subscribe and leave me a review. Check out
my Instagram at Melik Books. See you next time.
Welcome to me Leek's Bookshelf, the podcast that brings the
world together with books, culture and community. This is an
exciting time for me Leak. I've been at this for
so many years. Never have I thought that I would
be doing a podcast. Leak Bookshelf is so exciting. It's refreshing.
(00:25):
It gives me an opportunity to talk about something I
believe in that I'm passionate about. I never saw myself
doing something like this. Yes, I'm filled with joy, I'm
filled with exciting, I'm filled with passion. I am going
to take advantage of this great opportunity. I appreciate Brian Seacrest,
(00:46):
his production team, for everyone who's helping me to exist
me in this. This is in a moment that I
never dreamed of. But I am here, and it's this
month that this podcast is being law and I'm just
elated and excited. This is just a great opportunity, you know,
to do something on a bigger scale, the grander scale,
(01:08):
Malik's Bookshelf. It's refreshing. I love books. Books changed my
life and I want to help and continue to change
other people's lives with books. I'll say this, you know,
because books culture and community. Books change culture, books, change community, community,
(01:36):
it's everything. So this is just a moment of time
that I tell you, I'm just excited. I'm excited. I'm excited.
This is just a beautiful opportunity for me to talk
about something that's near and dear to me. But how
did I get here? Talk about that? How did I
get here? Let me tell you how I got here.
You know, growing up, I used to read a lot
(01:57):
of science fiction books. And let me tell you where
I grew up at. I grew up in Washington, d C.
I grew up in a place called Maryland in the
Washington mensropolitan area. They call it a d m V
zone today because it's centered around the district of Columbia, Washington,
d C, Maryland, and Virginia. So that's why I grew
(02:18):
up back and that's where my home by Native I'm
an East Coaster, but now I'm on the West coast,
so they called me by the coastal. So I was
blessed to be great in something when I was young,
and I knew that I was good at it because
I will always go to the rex in the park,
something that they don't have a lot of these days.
(02:41):
And they used to have these inner camp competitions. And
what I've done was I used to enter into running
anything to deal with running. And that's how I discovered
at an early age in life that I was really
good at sprinting, and sprinting became my love and my
pie action. And so I ran trying and junior high
(03:04):
school and I ran Trent in high school and I
became the Merlin State champion in the one hundred and
two in my junior and senior year. And USC, which
was my dream school, and I told everybody when I
was in the tenth grade, I told everybody, I said,
you know what, I Am going to USC. There was
(03:26):
a powerhouse and track and field. They was like the
top shelf. I would watch wild water Sports at that
time or some of its collegiate shows. It was s
C had the best and greatest sprinters, and I wanted
to be part of that legacy. And you know, by
the time I got the twelfth grade, guess what, as
(03:47):
C recruiter came knocking at my door, said in my house,
had a wonderful conversation with me and my parents, and
they offered me a scholarship. And that's became my journey
from Washington, D C. Area to Los Angeles where I
attended USC, my ama mater in two and that was,
(04:12):
you know, one of the greatest achievements to say to
myself and to my friend, I'm going to USC in
the tenth grade and ended up at USC and I graduated.
Also before graduate, I need to touch on this because
because because this is a milestone. There's a milestone, you know, um,
(04:32):
my father's Puerto Rican and I didn't even know this
opportunity to afforded me. But as a result of that
four I tried out for uh the Puerto Rican Olympic team,
and Los Angeles hosted the Olympics, and USC hosted right
(04:57):
on campus because we consider the Colosseum the historic Los Angeles,
we considered that, you know, part of USC, and they
hosted the Olympic track and field competition. Well guess what,
because I made the Puerto Rican national track and Field
team BAM, I was able to run in the eighty
(05:20):
four Olympic Games right here at USC in the college
sum I competed in the one and I competed in
the two hundred meters and that was a great achievement
and I made it in the semifinals in the one
hundred and two hundred meters as a sprinter, and I
almost made I was one place from making the finals
(05:42):
in the eighty four Olympic Games. I was, you know,
being a world class track and field runner, being great
at something that I love. You. Participating in the eighty
four Olympic Games was one of the greatest achievements of
my life and um, and I'm very proud of that.
I'm very proud of that. And all of these things
(06:04):
that I'm touching on is evolving me because the past
builds the present, and the present builds the future, and
all of these things are building me up to where
this opportunity to be in the book business came about
as a result of all the adversity, all the hard work,
(06:26):
all the discipline, all the sacrifice, you know, because my
dream was to be the greatest sprinter of all time.
But I suffered a lot of injury. I suffered a
lot of set backs. I suffered a lot of adversity,
and that was heard filled to mean waking up every morning,
training hard, throwing up only to get injured, only to
get sat backs. That's part of life. But how you
(06:49):
handled that how you deal with that, how you overcome that.
Those things affect people differently. There were moments of despair.
There were times when I wanted to quit. I didn't
because I believed in myself and I believed it what
(07:12):
I was doing. Um, I was destined to do. I
was destined to do, and I was good at it.
I love doing it. As time went on, you know,
I graduated from USC realizing that I, hey, hey, I'm
out here on my own. So it's either track that's
gonna make money for me or might have to work.
(07:34):
So I had the co mingo track and work, and
I could be challenged after you graduate being able to
continue to perfect your craft. And a lot of people
go through that, whether it's acting, sports, other endeavors, things
they want to do. You gotta find a way to
survive and support yourself. Why you continuually. You know, doing
(07:55):
something you love and track and feel is what I love.
So as a result, I ended up doing home loans.
I'm selling cars. But because I got a I grew
up with a background under real estate as a result
of my mom being a real estate broker. Guess what,
I ended up loving that and so I pursued that
(08:16):
while I was trying to run it well, track and
field got to a point where, after graduating, I came
into some information that I got from reading some books
that ultimately, and these are historic and conscious books, these
books here are hard to find, and stories these books
are hard to find. But in the in the eighties
(08:36):
and the late eighties, you know, I was able to
come across some of this book these books and some
of the things in there just blew me away. Why
because I had a degree from USC, but I just
didn't have the knowledge itself in history and culture about self.
So it blew me away. It it opened my heart.
(08:58):
I just didn't accept the information. I wanted to go
out and do my own research. And after you know,
you know, doing my own research, I concluded that, hey,
you know, um my culture. When I say that black
people had achieved the normous amount of accomplishments not only
(09:19):
in America but historically around the world, and that the
contributions have enhanced and embellished and uplifted the world, and
I couldn't believe how I could graduate from USC and
not know these things about historically about um my culture.
(09:43):
So as a result, I said, Wow, books can make
me feel like this, and books can change my life
like this. Then I wanted to go into you know,
a type of you know, selling books and offering what
I thought help me to help my community. I wanted
to use books to uplift my community. I wanted to
(10:04):
use books to make a change in our community. I
wanted to use books to crease self esteem in my community.
I wanted to use books to elevate my community because
books change my life. And I wanted to use books
to change other people lives. And I think that that's
important because listen, Darl Connickie said it best. He said
it in an early twenty he said, change your thoughts,
(10:26):
change your life. Books change my life, and books, I
believe can change anybody lives. And I want to bring
the world together. One book at a time can change
your life. And I want to help do that. And
that's where my passion comes from. That's what And I've
been doing this since the nineties, since I've been serving
(10:49):
the community with books in an effort to uplift my community,
to elevate my community, to empower my community. Well, I
ain't gonna sugarcoat it now, you know, Hey, I'm a
grown man with a family. So, hey, I'm going into
this to also make a living. You know, I keep
(11:09):
it one hunted. You know, I have to support myself
and I have to support my family. So I go
into it with a business to also help my family,
but are also going with the intentions of elevating and
enhancing and uplifting my my community. Because I believe that
a positive view of yourself, a positive image of yourself,
(11:34):
It's very important to elevate and believe in yourself. And
so books are third beauty. Man know thyself, Woman, know thyself.
The first thing when you look at a picture, guess
who you look at? You look for yourself. So you
have to have a positive view of yourself in the
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In our community, we have a lot of mental health
and and a lot of communities all over this country
we have a lot of mental health issues and a
lack of self esteem. A low image of self can
be devastating and destructive and it could create mental health issues.
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So I believe books can be a benefactor, a game changer,
a motivator, pick me up, find something to read that
you like, Find something to read that can move you.
Find something to read that can elevate you. Everybody has
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their own interests and the most important thing is to
find books that help embellance your interests and lift your interests,
increase your interests, to help your interests. That's what's important,
is to findest subject matter and to help books to
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help you. Books are game changes and it changed my
life and I know it can change your life. Welcome
to Malik's Bookshelf because it's our aim and our motivation
to change in your life with books. We're gonna offer
many types of books to affect change universally. Because books
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are universal, We're gonna have a lot of subject matters.
We're gonna interview people. We're gonna talk to all types
of subject matters with the purpose of motivation, inspiration, elevation,
weak up. That's what we want. Find yourself, be yourself.
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That's how we want to use books. And that's what
we mean when we say, you know, we're gonna try
to keep it lit on Melik's bookshelw lit for literature,
lit for what's hot. You know, it's always new books
coming out, it's always new authors popping up. Malik's Bookshelf
want to play of an important role in the next
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generation of change. This podcast, it's gonna be refreshing, innovator.
We're gonna talk about books, we're gonna talk about culture,
and we're gonna talk about community. Something is dear and
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near to me, which is outreach given back. And as
Malik Books has demonstrated over a long period of time,
we believe strongly that children are one of our future
and the outreach is so important we have to give
in order to receive. We've donated books over years. We've
also done book drives and we serve our underserved community
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because we want to lift them up. And so I
have here with me today the CEEO Verizon Business, Timmy Irvin,
and she has a special announcement and we just overwhelmed
enjoy about this announcement. Leek, thank you and I couldn't
be more excited about the work that you and the
team are doing. You and your wife and Unsung Leadership Foundation.
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We are excited on behalf of Verizon to make a
ten thous dollar donation to the Unsung Hero Leadership Foundation
so that you can take books and get them back
out into the underserved communities. The work you're doing is
making a huge difference in the communities in which you live,
work and play. And as you and I were talking
about earlier, Nelson Mandela said it, well, society should be
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judged by how they treat their children. You're doing beautiful
things for the children. Thank you so much. You're welcome.
You're welcome. Thank you, timey, thank you for rising. Thank
you for all that you do, because we're gonna do
going together together. Thank you. One of the hottest books
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of the fall that just came out, it is Feeding
the Soul Because It's My Business by Tabitha Brown, Finding
Our Way to Joy, Love and Freedom. This book is hot,
hot hot. The ladies of eating it up. Men are
buying it hey. Tabitha Brown offers a refreshing view of
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uplifting the spirit as well as feeding the soul with food.
She turned her life around. She has some illments. She
became a vegetarianal vegan, I should say, turn their life around,
and then offers that insight and wisdom to a broad
spectrum of people all over the world. She became a
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instant overnight Instagram social media success type of the Brown
won the in the a CP Image Award for Outstanding
Social Media Personality. She blew up overnight on the Instagram
and so now she offers her insight to her fans
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all over the social media platform, and she's been a
personality on TV as well. But there's both fitting the
soul because of my business, well, it's just revolutionized the
industry how you can become an influencer and parlay that
into books and seasonings and become a hit and a success.
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And that's what America is all about, was being successful,
being great at what you do, rising up from somewhere
and becoming a from racks of riches overnight. The book
Feeding the Stole, it has these hashtags that tyb of
the Brown came up with. There's been so resonating, like
hello there, that's your business. Have the most amazing day.
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Don't you dare go messing up somebody else. He just
offers a these little short phrases. Offer joy, Offer defining yourself,
Offer living with intention, learning to walk in kindness. You know,
and that's important today is that you know you pay
it forward. You can pay it for in many ways,
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sometimes just with the spirit. Just what a kind word.
One of the things I love about this book is
because time but the Brown keeps it real. One hunting.
Nothing happens overnight. You have to put in hard work.
You have to devote yourself too. You have to believe,
and you have to perseverance whatever the obstacles put in
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your way. Well, she made no apologetic about this process.
Her success didn't happen overnight. It happened over a span
of years. But she tells you that you have to
first begin to believe even what you stand for, and
move on what you stand for. So that's why I
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love How to Keep It Real, because hey, you know
a lot of times you hear a lot of inspiration,
a lot of people motivating you. Well you know what.
They don't walk the walk, but they do talk to
talk with Tab of the Brown, walk the walk and
Tab of the Brown talk the talk. Don't miss out
on this page, turner. Every single thing you do has
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meaning and has purpose. And let me tell you that
if you want a good read, you need to read
Tap of the Brown's book Feeding My Soul. You will
not be disappointed. So pick up your copy of Feeding
the Soul because it's my business finding our way to joy,
love and freedom by Time of the Brown. After graduating
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from college and feeling inspired, one of my greatest achievements
is opening my very own business. The name of that
business is Malik Books, a black owned independent bookstore that
specializes in African American books, calendars and gifts for the
cultural diversity, the total African American expression of pride, culture
and self esteem. Where we give voice to the voice list.
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Maliek Books offers a large selection of diverse children books
because children are one of our future. We also specialized
in conscious, hard to find, hot and best sellers of
the day. Since Malik Books has served the Los Angeles
community with books and cultural gifts, Meleek Books your friendly
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neighborhood community bookstore. Over the thirty years, Malik Books has
helped give birth to the next generation of authors, artists, inventors, dreamers, visionaries,
truth seekers and grassroot Lead is our doors at Maliek
Books have always given voice to the independent and self
publish authors. Malik Books has hosted over the years hundreds
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of books signings and discussions, as well as organized public
debate and culture events that speak to the upliftment of
the community. Malik Books is dedicated to serving the interests
on our customers and our community. My League Books has
how the knowledge you want. My League Books has how
the knowledge you need. Miligue Books. Yeah, they have all
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the books that the whole wild world want to read.
My League books. They carry out the rabbit's books, my
League books. You know it's hard to find needs books
and treat your intellect and free your mind and succeed
at the same time. Eligue Books is what you need.
You know, Malik got out of books you ben't see
can for you to read out the work to pick
up on the weekend. And if you need a book
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for the kids to being survived, you know, Malik Books
is where the children's books were side. They got everything
from black poetry to history answers to your heritage just
no longer a mystery. Want to find stories about black worry.
Malague Books has all of the inventory. And you want
to find a book on how to build a black business.
I want to find a book on how to cure
financial illness? Or what about a book on how to
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stop being a victim? Take control of your life and
make it about the system. Malik has the books to
help you with your wealth and so with you seeking
guidess books to help you find yourself and your recipes,
remedies to help you with your health in whatever you need.
Just know they got it on the shelf. Books has
all the knowledge you want. Malague Books has all the
knowledge you need. Malik books. Yeah, they have all the
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books that the whole wild world wanna read. Malague books.
They carry out the rabbi's books. Malague books. You know
it's hard to find. Needs Malik to feat your intellect
and free your mind and succeed at the same time.
Eligue Books is what you need. Thanks for listen. Be
shure to subscribe and leave me a review. Check out
my Instagram at Melik Books. See you next time.
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