May 15, 2023 • 20 mins
It’s Mother’s Day, and Malik celebrated his wife April in style!
Malik spoke to the students at Frank D. Parent Elementary in Inglewood…and gave a book to every student there! Hear his speech to “100% of our future”!
And Malik talks to two of his kids about the need to “Step Into You”.
Plus, a special book review of A Good Mom's Guide to Making Bad Choices by Jamilah Mapp and Erica Dickerson!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Miligu Books has all the knowledge you want.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
League has all the knowledge you need.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Yet they have all the books that the whole wild
world wan up read Meligue Books. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to
Malik's Books bringing a world together with books, culture and community.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Hi, my name is Malik, your host of Malik's Bookshow.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers in the whole
wild world. Wishing you a happy Mother's Day. From Malik's
Bookshelf and Belik's Books. This is a glorious day to
celebrate the future of civilization because without mothers, there is
(00:46):
no future. So we earn a you, we cherish you, read,
love you, we respect you. May this day be a
day of celebration, jubilee and fellowship with family and friends.
We love you and we wish you a happy Mother's Day.
(01:08):
So I had to start off with that today is significant.
We honored it and celebrating the impact of women who
are mothers, who are foster mothers, who are step mothers,
who are biological mothers.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
If you a mother, give yourself the honor that you deserve.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
We celebrating mothers and we went out to the waterfront
beach resort out in Huntington Beach to April and the
kids and we went to celebrate Mother's Day and give
her honor and glory and appreciation that we had brunch
with the ocean front view. They had all these different
buffet stations from breakfast making omelets to order. We also
(01:54):
had a sushi station. We had an American buffet station.
They had a.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
A solid station.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
They had of course, a dessert stage, every type of
delicious dessert you can think of. And they also had
a you know, a meat carving station as well. And
you know, what's a buffet without having pizza, right, Okay,
so they had some pizza too, So hey, it was
a glorious brunch overlooking the ocean, the waterfront view while
(02:22):
we sat there and serenade in honor in April as
a mother. We had a wonderful experience, wonderful time. They
played music and someone also played a violin. But you know,
a lot of times when you pay for these types
of things, you know you're really paying for the ambiance.
And the food was good. Food was okay. You know,
it was a variety, so you can find something that
(02:43):
you like. But the reality is that you know you're
paying for the ambiance. You know, when you go to
a restaurant and you sit down and you pay those
kind of prices, you paying for the ambyance, the experience,
you know, having a wonderful good time. And we had
a wonderful and good time having Mothers Day brunch right
at the Waterfront Beach Resort, a Hilton right out in
(03:04):
Huntington Beach, and it was beautiful, incredible, and it was
so many wonderful mothers that came.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Out and had brunch. So Happy Mother's Day. Whoa wait,
this has been a long week now.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
You know last week we celebrated seventeen years anniversary, so
we rolled into Mother's Day this week. So just in between,
your boy is exhausted, let me tell you exhausted. It
just seemed like it's always something we involved in.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Went to a couple of schools this week.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
In the community and host of the book fair went
to a middle school out in Westchester called Canton, Yeah,
Canton Johnson Stem Academy. And we don't put out the
middle school books for the kids that were that attended
the school.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
So that was at the earlier this week.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Then by Thursday we had another book fairbull we gave
away books to every student at Frank D Parent Elementary
right out here in Inglewood. We gave away books to
every school. These books was donated by Black Infinity Group
at Pisky Media Corps book driving partnership with Malik Books.
(04:20):
So in this partnership with Black Infinity Group and Pisky
Media Corps in partnership with Elite Books, we did a
book drive and we were able to give all the
students at frank D Parent one book each.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
You should have.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Seen the excitement and the warmth and the just sheer
joy that the students had receiving these books.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
And let me tell you something.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I got an opportunity to talk with all the students
at Frank D Parent Elementary in the auditorium. So on
this podcast, you know, I got the feature that conversation
I had with one hundred percent of our future, our youth,
our children.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
It is so hey, it was electric.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
When I get an opportunity to be able to talk
with our youth, I got to inspire, I got to enlightened.
I got to drive on one thing. Reading is important
and readers are leaders. So that's going to be featured
on this podcast as well as a conversation I had
(05:28):
with my two children as I was coaching them on
the track. We were training and there were some things
I saw that really drove home a point that I
had to talk to them about. And it was called
step into You. So it's very really organic. It's right
(05:48):
on the spot. I only recorded half of it, but
it sounded so good and motivational. And then I said,
let me recall what I'm saying, you know, So I
recorded the conversation I had with Maca Anxie year in
my pursuit of trying to push them to step into you.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
So that's featured on this episode.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
So sit back and enjoy this episode coming to you now.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Fright you fight, you give it up for Tiffany Cambris.
Y'all know my miscam, give it up. I just want
you to see an example.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Oh what happens when you come together, you meet people
in your network.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Then you can leverage that.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Network into opportunities like this for me to be able
to stand here and talk with you today. So as
you journey and your I guess growing up because we
all got to grow up, right, y'all want to be
big one day?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Right?
Speaker 5 (07:00):
All right?
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Listen, we're a grateful and thankful to be here, and
we want to thank doctor Goffney, your principal, for giving
us this opportunity. We want to thank Ms Cambridge for
this opportunity to be here today because we got something
special for you today.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Now she already told you see it already left it out.
But that's what you can expect today. You can expect.
You can expect a book. Now.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
These books were donated by the Black Affinity Group and
Pisky Media Group. Black Affinity Group and Piskey Media car
donated these books to your school.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
So I need to give y'all to give them a
round of a flag for stepping over the sponsor. That's
a wonderful thank.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Because you know why it's wonderful because children are one
hundred percent of our future. Everyone right here, sitting down
is our future. Without you, there is no future, and
without teachers.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
There is no development of youth. So we need to
give around the power for all the teachers. But thank
them for their service and education because a sacifier. They
don't even know what the work, and it's the labor
of love because they love you and we love what we.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Do it because we know that you in the future
and children are one hundred percent of our future.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
So we want to make sure you love.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yourself, you believe in yourself, and you have to desire
to be anything that you want.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
To be, because you can't. Your only limitations you have
is the limitation you put on yourself.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
And you're gonna be going along in this journey of
life and you're gonna doubt yourself.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Tell you something, Anything that you want to find you
can find in a book.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Anything that you want to be you can find in
a book.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Now we here to to give you the gift of
a book.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Today, one per student, and we got a ton of books.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
What you what you don't? Point down? Point up? Now,
all right, point up. That's a good thing. It's a
beautiful thing. You know what I'm saying. People love you,
People give it to you. You know you are, You
have value, you.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Have, you matter, and we want to make sure that
you be all you can be when you grow up.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
We want you to be anything that you want to
be what you grow up. But I know one thing
readers are leaders.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Say readers, you got to read it to a chief.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
You got to read to a chief. There's no way
around it. There's no way around it.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
And they're gonna get things that are gonna you gotta
to read more complex books when you when you when.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
You get older. But right now, we got a lot
of good books. They teach you, you know about your culture.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
That makes you love yourself is the books that reflect
yourself because your matter, and you got to see yourself
as great and it glorious and worthy.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Isn't that right? Okay?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
So Elite Books is a is an independent black ghost store.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
We got two locations in Los Angeles, Fox Heals Mall.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I don't know if y'all know about the Fox Heals Mall.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Yeah, okay, your parents probably shocked there right and you
know about Paul I was Crenshaw Mall.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
So we got to the store. We also have a website,
Elite books dot com. We we share nation why. We
also have social media. Now, I don't know some of
y'all got phoned, some of y'all don't.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
But you welcome to follow us because we got great content,
show content that matters, content that's inspiring.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
And so it's Elite Books. If you got it's the Grand.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
If you got TikTok, you know, Malik Books is our tag,
So hey follow us. We appreciate that but today it's
all about you. Today, it's about giving to you because
books make readers make leaders. See what I'm saying, because
readers our leader, and books open up a whole new
(11:21):
world of life for you.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
We want you. Now, how many in here love to read?
How many raise your hands? That should be everybody? Come on, now,
raise your hand. Let me tell you something. If you
don't have your hand up, that's all right, because our
job is to make sure that one day you do
love to read. All of y'all look at the ones
that don't have their hands raised, And it's called each one,
teach one, all right, Your job responsibility to help your friend.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
To love to read, just like you. Right, You got
to help your friends. You got to inspire your friends,
all right. We gotta inspire each other to help each other.
Is that right. Let's not inspire each other to do
things against what mommy and daddy and your teachers say.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Let's inspire. Let's inspire each.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Other to do things to help each other to be better,
all right, So.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Help your friend. Each one, teach one say that. Let's
say it again. The one teacher.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
That's so with that, I just want to thank the school,
Thank the teachers, Thank the parents for this wonderful Thank
Black Infinity Group and Piskey Media Media Court for this
opportunity to be able to sponsor these books to you
in partnership with Elite Books. And so we're gonna transition
(12:44):
from here, one class at.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
A time to get your book all right.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Now, we have other books for sale for later on
when your parents give of you've got some money.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
But right now, we got some books out here for you.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
And so your teachers is going to bring you out
one by one, and we probably want have some story
time too, so we have our can we have someone
coming to read.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Some some books to you as well. We're gonna make
it fun, We're gonna make it entertaining, and we're gonna
have a good time. Right, Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 6 (13:15):
All right, I'm trying to help you to find you.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
You is in you. Let me tell you something.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Every time you step out here and you run, you're
running against yourself. Every time you go in class, you're
studying against yourself. Every time you running the track meet,
you're still running against yourself, even when other people are there.
I'm trying to you, I'm trying to get you to
discover you, and I'm trying to believe in you until.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
You believe in yourself.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
I don't expect you to have understanding like an adult,
but I do know that you can have understanding as
you get older, and right now, y'all at an age
and the way you can understand when I'm trying to
teach you out here, you got to believe in you.
You got to push you, you got to step into you.
And I don't see that. And that's what makes me
(14:23):
frustrating because I keep repeating the same thing over and over.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
You're competing against yourself. I'm not gonna give you no
time whatsoever to run.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
That I don't think is unrealistic. I'm not giving you
times unrealistic. But you gotta believe in what we're doing here.
And that's what I don't see. You ran ten seconds
off that time because you don't believe what you're laughing at.
What's the smile about. You're competing against you. There's nothing
(14:57):
funny here.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Take this serious. This is serious work.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
It's gonna hurt if you run slow. So why not
get a benefit. Why not get a benefit by pushing yourself?
Why not get a benefit by running the times. The
difference between you and animals. When they race a horse,
they beat him and he spink. He don't have no
intelligence like a human, so they run them.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
I'm not out here just to run you.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I'm out here to teach you, cultivate you, elevate you,
teach you, understand you, and you not listening because.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
I'm not interested in tactics. This is my strategy.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Did you run this sprint all out, all out, one
hundred percent? You blasted, and you try to hold on
a fight until you hit the finish line.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
That takes mental ability. When you getting when you feel
yourself getting fatigued, you got to say I can go faster.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
When you feel yourself getting slow, you gotta say I
gotta go fast. The key is just to pump your
arm fast, pump your arms, violent, pump your arms.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
That's how you pick it up as a sprinter.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
The legs go as fast as you pump your arms.
So when you get tired and you get fatigued.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Start plumping them on finally, start pumping them arms finally,
so you can at least maintain your speed because your.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Body is decelerating.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
But in the beginning it's as celebrating and we need
to pump violently so that we can get our speed up.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
And then we want to hold it. We gotta hold
it and listen.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
The march that remind you is that when you get
into the curve, hit it again.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
When you come out the curve, hit it again.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Those are reminders while you're out here, be you, step
into you.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
That's all I gotta say.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Man. My book review for this episode is a book
that I had the pleasure of reading called The Good
Mom's God to Making Bad Choices. Let me tell you
a little bit about this book written by Erica Dickinson.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
That is Eric Dickinson's daughter. She is the daughter of
the Pony Express on the La Rams.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
When she teamed up with her partner best friend, Erica
Matt and they wrote this book called The Good Mom's
Guide to Making Bad Choices. Now they have a podcast
called Good Mom's Bad Choices, and they're in the one
percent in terms of podcasts in the world. They're in
the one percentile, so they have a lot of listeners.
(17:38):
And what typically they wrote about the book is pretty
much what they talk about on the podcast. Simply, they
challenge the traditional definition of motherhood and so they wrote
a book of their experiences in trying to find the
balance of being a mother but also not neglecting themselves,
(17:59):
still in time to enjoy themselves without feeling guilty because
they want to love themselves and beat themselves and yet
still be a good mom. And so it's the definition
of a bad mom who does everything. Do the homework
with the kids, cook them the meals, read them bedtime stories,
(18:23):
tell them, I Love you, hug them, kiss them, take.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Them out on dates.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
But yet they you know, they smoke a little weed,
or they want to take retreats with girls and have
a good time, or want to be single instead of
being in a toxic relationship.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
So my two beloved sisters wrote this book as the
olive branch to other mothers out there trying to figure
it out. There are very few books out there on
the market, as they stated, that talk about when you
become a mom, the challenge is that you're gonna face
being a mom.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
You know, spirits is the best teacher.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
So when you you know, being really you get pregnant,
you have a baby, you know, then a lot of
things change drastically, And they point that out and them
trying to be you know, be a mother, be in
a relationship that you know toxic, what's the right decisions
how to deal with that, going through drama and also
(19:20):
losing themselves in the process and feeling shame, feeling guilt,
feeling not worthy, no one there to really.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Help when the man falls out.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
You know, it's just a lot of things can happen
in these relationships when really no one knows themselves.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
And the journey to self is number one.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
So they point out that, you know, get to know
yourself and love yourself. But at the same time, you
still can be a good mom, even if it's not
a traditional definition of what a good mom is. So hey,
all I'm saying, the good mom's god to making bad choices.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Good be the book mothers.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
And brothers need to read in order to have a
healthier and more positive relationship with you, with your kids,
with your community, with each other.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
So all I'm saying is, hey, they get personal, they
talk about their personal trauma, they talk about their personal
journey while being a mother. And then, like I said,
there are very few books out there like that from
a perspective from the community or.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Pick up your copy on Malik books.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
We still have signed copies with a personal message in
there for you, or you can pick up a copy
wherever books are sold. Thanks for listening to Malak's Bookshelf,
where topics on the shelf are books, culture, and community.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
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Leave me a review. Check out my Instagram at Malak Books.
See you next time.
Miligu Books has all the knowledge you want.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
League has all the knowledge you need.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Yet they have all the books that the whole wild
world wan up read Meligue Books. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to
Malik's Books bringing a world together with books, culture and community.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Hi, my name is Malik, your host of Malik's Bookshow.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers in the whole
wild world. Wishing you a happy Mother's Day. From Malik's
Bookshelf and Belik's Books. This is a glorious day to
celebrate the future of civilization because without mothers, there is
(00:46):
no future. So we earn a you, we cherish you, read,
love you, we respect you. May this day be a
day of celebration, jubilee and fellowship with family and friends.
We love you and we wish you a happy Mother's Day.
(01:08):
So I had to start off with that today is significant.
We honored it and celebrating the impact of women who
are mothers, who are foster mothers, who are step mothers,
who are biological mothers.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
If you a mother, give yourself the honor that you deserve.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
We celebrating mothers and we went out to the waterfront
beach resort out in Huntington Beach to April and the
kids and we went to celebrate Mother's Day and give
her honor and glory and appreciation that we had brunch
with the ocean front view. They had all these different
buffet stations from breakfast making omelets to order. We also
(01:54):
had a sushi station. We had an American buffet station.
They had a.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
A solid station.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
They had of course, a dessert stage, every type of
delicious dessert you can think of. And they also had
a you know, a meat carving station as well. And
you know, what's a buffet without having pizza, right, Okay,
so they had some pizza too, So hey, it was
a glorious brunch overlooking the ocean, the waterfront view while
(02:22):
we sat there and serenade in honor in April as
a mother. We had a wonderful experience, wonderful time. They
played music and someone also played a violin. But you know,
a lot of times when you pay for these types
of things, you know you're really paying for the ambiance.
And the food was good. Food was okay. You know,
it was a variety, so you can find something that
(02:43):
you like. But the reality is that you know you're
paying for the ambiance. You know, when you go to
a restaurant and you sit down and you pay those
kind of prices, you paying for the ambyance, the experience,
you know, having a wonderful good time. And we had
a wonderful and good time having Mothers Day brunch right
at the Waterfront Beach Resort, a Hilton right out in
(03:04):
Huntington Beach, and it was beautiful, incredible, and it was
so many wonderful mothers that came.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Out and had brunch. So Happy Mother's Day. Whoa wait,
this has been a long week now.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
You know last week we celebrated seventeen years anniversary, so
we rolled into Mother's Day this week. So just in between,
your boy is exhausted, let me tell you exhausted. It
just seemed like it's always something we involved in.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Went to a couple of schools this week.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
In the community and host of the book fair went
to a middle school out in Westchester called Canton, Yeah,
Canton Johnson Stem Academy. And we don't put out the
middle school books for the kids that were that attended
the school.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
So that was at the earlier this week.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Then by Thursday we had another book fairbull we gave
away books to every student at Frank D Parent Elementary
right out here in Inglewood. We gave away books to
every school. These books was donated by Black Infinity Group
at Pisky Media Corps book driving partnership with Malik Books.
(04:20):
So in this partnership with Black Infinity Group and Pisky
Media Corps in partnership with Elite Books, we did a
book drive and we were able to give all the
students at frank D Parent one book each.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
You should have.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Seen the excitement and the warmth and the just sheer
joy that the students had receiving these books.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
And let me tell you something.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I got an opportunity to talk with all the students
at Frank D Parent Elementary in the auditorium. So on
this podcast, you know, I got the feature that conversation
I had with one hundred percent of our future, our youth,
our children.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
It is so hey, it was electric.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
When I get an opportunity to be able to talk
with our youth, I got to inspire, I got to enlightened.
I got to drive on one thing. Reading is important
and readers are leaders. So that's going to be featured
on this podcast as well as a conversation I had
(05:28):
with my two children as I was coaching them on
the track. We were training and there were some things
I saw that really drove home a point that I
had to talk to them about. And it was called
step into You. So it's very really organic. It's right
(05:48):
on the spot. I only recorded half of it, but
it sounded so good and motivational. And then I said,
let me recall what I'm saying, you know, So I
recorded the conversation I had with Maca Anxie year in
my pursuit of trying to push them to step into you.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
So that's featured on this episode.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
So sit back and enjoy this episode coming to you now.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Fright you fight, you give it up for Tiffany Cambris.
Y'all know my miscam, give it up. I just want
you to see an example.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Oh what happens when you come together, you meet people
in your network.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Then you can leverage that.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Network into opportunities like this for me to be able
to stand here and talk with you today. So as
you journey and your I guess growing up because we
all got to grow up, right, y'all want to be
big one day?
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Right?
Speaker 5 (07:00):
All right?
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Listen, we're a grateful and thankful to be here, and
we want to thank doctor Goffney, your principal, for giving
us this opportunity. We want to thank Ms Cambridge for
this opportunity to be here today because we got something
special for you today.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Now she already told you see it already left it out.
But that's what you can expect today. You can expect.
You can expect a book. Now.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
These books were donated by the Black Affinity Group and
Pisky Media Group. Black Affinity Group and Piskey Media car
donated these books to your school.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
So I need to give y'all to give them a
round of a flag for stepping over the sponsor. That's
a wonderful thank.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Because you know why it's wonderful because children are one
hundred percent of our future. Everyone right here, sitting down
is our future. Without you, there is no future, and
without teachers.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
There is no development of youth. So we need to
give around the power for all the teachers. But thank
them for their service and education because a sacifier. They
don't even know what the work, and it's the labor
of love because they love you and we love what we.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Do it because we know that you in the future
and children are one hundred percent of our future.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
So we want to make sure you love.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yourself, you believe in yourself, and you have to desire
to be anything that you want.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
To be, because you can't. Your only limitations you have
is the limitation you put on yourself.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
And you're gonna be going along in this journey of
life and you're gonna doubt yourself.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Tell you something, Anything that you want to find you
can find in a book.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Anything that you want to be you can find in
a book.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Now we here to to give you the gift of
a book.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Today, one per student, and we got a ton of books.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
What you what you don't? Point down? Point up? Now,
all right, point up. That's a good thing. It's a
beautiful thing. You know what I'm saying. People love you,
People give it to you. You know you are, You
have value, you.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Have, you matter, and we want to make sure that
you be all you can be when you grow up.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
We want you to be anything that you want to
be what you grow up. But I know one thing
readers are leaders.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Say readers, you got to read it to a chief.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
You got to read to a chief. There's no way
around it. There's no way around it.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
And they're gonna get things that are gonna you gotta
to read more complex books when you when you when.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
You get older. But right now, we got a lot
of good books. They teach you, you know about your culture.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
That makes you love yourself is the books that reflect
yourself because your matter, and you got to see yourself
as great and it glorious and worthy.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Isn't that right? Okay?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
So Elite Books is a is an independent black ghost store.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
We got two locations in Los Angeles, Fox Heals Mall.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I don't know if y'all know about the Fox Heals Mall.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
Yeah, okay, your parents probably shocked there right and you
know about Paul I was Crenshaw Mall.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
So we got to the store. We also have a website,
Elite books dot com. We we share nation why. We
also have social media. Now, I don't know some of
y'all got phoned, some of y'all don't.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
But you welcome to follow us because we got great content,
show content that matters, content that's inspiring.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
And so it's Elite Books. If you got it's the Grand.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
If you got TikTok, you know, Malik Books is our tag,
So hey follow us. We appreciate that but today it's
all about you. Today, it's about giving to you because
books make readers make leaders. See what I'm saying, because
readers our leader, and books open up a whole new
(11:21):
world of life for you.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
We want you. Now, how many in here love to read?
How many raise your hands? That should be everybody? Come on, now,
raise your hand. Let me tell you something. If you
don't have your hand up, that's all right, because our
job is to make sure that one day you do
love to read. All of y'all look at the ones
that don't have their hands raised, And it's called each one,
teach one, all right, Your job responsibility to help your friend.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
To love to read, just like you. Right, You got
to help your friends. You got to inspire your friends,
all right. We gotta inspire each other to help each other.
Is that right. Let's not inspire each other to do
things against what mommy and daddy and your teachers say.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Let's inspire. Let's inspire each.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Other to do things to help each other to be better,
all right, So.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Help your friend. Each one, teach one say that. Let's
say it again. The one teacher.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
That's so with that, I just want to thank the school,
Thank the teachers, Thank the parents for this wonderful Thank
Black Infinity Group and Piskey Media Media Court for this
opportunity to be able to sponsor these books to you
in partnership with Elite Books. And so we're gonna transition
(12:44):
from here, one class at.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
A time to get your book all right.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Now, we have other books for sale for later on
when your parents give of you've got some money.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
But right now, we got some books out here for you.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
And so your teachers is going to bring you out
one by one, and we probably want have some story
time too, so we have our can we have someone
coming to read.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Some some books to you as well. We're gonna make
it fun, We're gonna make it entertaining, and we're gonna
have a good time. Right, Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 6 (13:15):
All right, I'm trying to help you to find you.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
You is in you. Let me tell you something.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Every time you step out here and you run, you're
running against yourself. Every time you go in class, you're
studying against yourself. Every time you running the track meet,
you're still running against yourself, even when other people are there.
I'm trying to you, I'm trying to get you to
discover you, and I'm trying to believe in you until.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
You believe in yourself.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
I don't expect you to have understanding like an adult,
but I do know that you can have understanding as
you get older, and right now, y'all at an age
and the way you can understand when I'm trying to
teach you out here, you got to believe in you.
You got to push you, you got to step into you.
And I don't see that. And that's what makes me
(14:23):
frustrating because I keep repeating the same thing over and over.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
You're competing against yourself. I'm not gonna give you no
time whatsoever to run.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
That I don't think is unrealistic. I'm not giving you
times unrealistic. But you gotta believe in what we're doing here.
And that's what I don't see. You ran ten seconds
off that time because you don't believe what you're laughing at.
What's the smile about. You're competing against you. There's nothing
(14:57):
funny here.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Take this serious. This is serious work.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
It's gonna hurt if you run slow. So why not
get a benefit. Why not get a benefit by pushing yourself?
Why not get a benefit by running the times. The
difference between you and animals. When they race a horse,
they beat him and he spink. He don't have no
intelligence like a human, so they run them.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
I'm not out here just to run you.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I'm out here to teach you, cultivate you, elevate you,
teach you, understand you, and you not listening because.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
I'm not interested in tactics. This is my strategy.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Did you run this sprint all out, all out, one
hundred percent? You blasted, and you try to hold on
a fight until you hit the finish line.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
That takes mental ability. When you getting when you feel
yourself getting fatigued, you got to say I can go faster.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
When you feel yourself getting slow, you gotta say I
gotta go fast. The key is just to pump your
arm fast, pump your arms, violent, pump your arms.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
That's how you pick it up as a sprinter.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
The legs go as fast as you pump your arms.
So when you get tired and you get fatigued.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Start plumping them on finally, start pumping them arms finally,
so you can at least maintain your speed because your.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Body is decelerating.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
But in the beginning it's as celebrating and we need
to pump violently so that we can get our speed up.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
And then we want to hold it. We gotta hold
it and listen.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
The march that remind you is that when you get
into the curve, hit it again.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
When you come out the curve, hit it again.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Those are reminders while you're out here, be you, step
into you.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
That's all I gotta say.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Man. My book review for this episode is a book
that I had the pleasure of reading called The Good
Mom's God to Making Bad Choices. Let me tell you
a little bit about this book written by Erica Dickinson.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
That is Eric Dickinson's daughter. She is the daughter of
the Pony Express on the La Rams.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
When she teamed up with her partner best friend, Erica
Matt and they wrote this book called The Good Mom's
Guide to Making Bad Choices. Now they have a podcast
called Good Mom's Bad Choices, and they're in the one
percent in terms of podcasts in the world. They're in
the one percentile, so they have a lot of listeners.
(17:38):
And what typically they wrote about the book is pretty
much what they talk about on the podcast. Simply, they
challenge the traditional definition of motherhood and so they wrote
a book of their experiences in trying to find the
balance of being a mother but also not neglecting themselves,
(17:59):
still in time to enjoy themselves without feeling guilty because
they want to love themselves and beat themselves and yet
still be a good mom. And so it's the definition
of a bad mom who does everything. Do the homework
with the kids, cook them the meals, read them bedtime stories,
(18:23):
tell them, I Love you, hug them, kiss them, take.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Them out on dates.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
But yet they you know, they smoke a little weed,
or they want to take retreats with girls and have
a good time, or want to be single instead of
being in a toxic relationship.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
So my two beloved sisters wrote this book as the
olive branch to other mothers out there trying to figure
it out. There are very few books out there on
the market, as they stated, that talk about when you
become a mom, the challenge is that you're gonna face
being a mom.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
You know, spirits is the best teacher.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
So when you you know, being really you get pregnant,
you have a baby, you know, then a lot of
things change drastically, And they point that out and them
trying to be you know, be a mother, be in
a relationship that you know toxic, what's the right decisions
how to deal with that, going through drama and also
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losing themselves in the process and feeling shame, feeling guilt,
feeling not worthy, no one there to really.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Help when the man falls out.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
You know, it's just a lot of things can happen
in these relationships when really no one knows themselves.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
And the journey to self is number one.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
So they point out that, you know, get to know
yourself and love yourself. But at the same time, you
still can be a good mom, even if it's not
a traditional definition of what a good mom is. So hey,
all I'm saying, the good mom's god to making bad choices.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Good be the book mothers.
Speaker 7 (19:54):
And brothers need to read in order to have a
healthier and more positive relationship with you, with your kids,
with your community, with each other.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
So all I'm saying is, hey, they get personal, they
talk about their personal trauma, they talk about their personal
journey while being a mother. And then, like I said,
there are very few books out there like that from
a perspective from the community or.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Pick up your copy on Malik books.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
We still have signed copies with a personal message in
there for you, or you can pick up a copy
wherever books are sold. Thanks for listening to Malak's Bookshelf,
where topics on the shelf are books, culture, and community.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Be sure to subscribe and.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Leave me a review. Check out my Instagram at Malak Books.
See you next time.
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