Gifts/Talents

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hi guys, and the welcome back. This is Cassandra Valentine
and my topic is going to be talking about your
gifts and your talents. I had someone to ask me
how many talents do I have? And I like to

(00:22):
say that there are my gifts, you know, not just
a talent, but they are my gift and you, guys,
I have been fortunate to be blessed to play for instruments,
read music, write music, sing in three different keys, photographer.

(00:49):
I can now paint. Couldn't draw for nothing, but now
I can actually paint, and I write books. I also
am pretty good with numbers. But you cannot have too
many talents or gifts. You can't.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
You can't have too many.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Whatever is for you is for you, is what God
gave you, and I cannot help that. I feel like
He loaded me up and my mind does not stop.
When I'm writing one book, I stop and write down
the title of the next book, and I write out

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exactly how this book is going to go, and then
I go back to the book that I was writing,
and that's how I write. I can write a poetry
book in a day. Once I begin to write, I
cannot put down my pen or once I'm typing, I

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can't stop typing until the book is done. And the words,
you guys, they just flow naturally. They just flow. It's
not like I'm sitting there and I'm hesitating.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Now.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
The words just flow, and when I'm done, I jump
to the next one, and i jump to the next one.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
But a lot of people have amazing gifts.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
And they waste their talents and they waste I'm just
gonna say, their gifts, not not their talents. They waste
their gifts. And a lot of times we waste our
gifts by being in the wrong relationship because the person
you're with may not have that gift or may not

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have a gift, and he's jealous or she's jealous, and
they don't want you to actually proceed, and they don't
want you to what's the word I'm looking for. They

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don't want you to be able to succeed with the
gift you have because a lot of them feel like
if you succeed, you're going to leave them. But if
they look deep down within themselves, they would realize that
they too have a gift, but they're just not utilizing

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their gift.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
They're wasting it.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
But I would tell anyone that if you have a gift,
don't let someone cause you to lose your gift. Because
there are a lot of people out here today that
have gifts and they just fell short in the wrong

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person's hand, or they may have went left instead of
going right, but they still have that gift. They just
need someone to bring it out of them. But we
all have gifts, we really do. That's why you should

(04:22):
never judge a book by its cover, because you don't
know what that next person can do. You really don't
know unless you sit down and you talk to them
and you begin to find out everything about them. People
judge people too much. That's I see it. So many times.

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They look at you and they feel like, oh yeah,
but not knowing that you're more than your adder appearance.
But they judge you on your adder appearance. But you
can let that stop you. Whatever gift you have, I

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encourage you to pursue your gift, pursue it. I I
didn't think I was going to become a writer. My
teacher when I was in the twelfth grade. My English
teacher told me, she said, one day, you're going to
be a great writer. And I said, nope, I'm going

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to be a photographer, and she said, okay, but I
really think you should become a writer. And that was
only because I wrote a poem and it got published.
They snapped behind my back and they sent it in
and it got published. So I had wrote my first

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play at fourteen years old, and I had continued to
write and continue to write, but I just took it
everything away, and then you know, you get into relationships here,
and then the relationships take a toll on you and

(06:10):
you're not able to pursue what you really want to do,
and you start drifting away from your gifts and so
which is what kind of happened with me. I kind
of drifted away from my guests, my photography. But when
I got into my writings, all I wanted to do

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was write and write and write and write. I would
write up until about two o'clock in the morning, then
I would go to bed, wake back up about six
o'clock in the morning and continue writing and then possibly
wake up with the title to write about. And I

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began to write so much, you guys, that I ended
up with all the books that I have and what
turned out to be, Oh, I'm just going to write
twenty books turn into fifty books, then fifty to one
hundred books, and then one hundred books to one fifty,

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two hundred, three hundred.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
And more and more and more, and then people begin
to treat you a little different. They don't.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
Like to say you know, or congratulations or anything. They
will probably talk about you, say all kinds of things
about you, but to actually give you the recognition and
support you, they don't do that. You know, and you're
not even at celebrity, and they treat you like a

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complete hater, which is what they are at this point.
They become haters because they don't want you to succeed
at your craft.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
So what I do is I don't worry about people.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
You know, I love writing urban legends, you guys, and
you do know that people die in urban legends.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
So I write urban legends.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
And when I get tired of all the crap, I'm
going to walk away, and then I'm going to put
you in one of my books and I'm going to
kill you simple as that you're dead, which means now
you're just dead to me.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
Once I kill you off in the book, you're dead
to me. I could care less if I hear from
you again.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
Ever rest in peace in the urban legend world, and
that's how I look at it.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
But to think that you're going to stop me.

Speaker 1 (08:58):
From doing what I do and what I actually love
to do, that's not going to happen because it fuels
me to want.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
To do more and more.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
And if I can make it through a thousand books
or even fifteen hundred books, I am happy. I am satisfied,
and I believe that my purpose here on this earth
will be serviced. The one thing I will not that
I would really really dislike myself if whatever purpose God

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brought me here, that I did not fulfill my purpose,
my mission was not fulfilled, I would really be that
would really hurt me more than anything. And if my
purpose is to write books, because I always tell people
I'm immortal, and they all alive and say, you know what, Cassandra,

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We're gonna call it every eye on you. But when
I say I am immortal, it doesn't mean in the flesh.
It means that when I leave this place, my words
are still here. You'll know I walk this earth. You
have my books. So when I write a lot of

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things I write about you, guys, A lot of them
are actual things that happen, and I just let that
person figure out after they read the book. But a
lot some of the things that I wrote about are actual,
they're true. They're actually true events. The erotic books or

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true events, and some of the paranormal books are true events.
So they're like they're real. And it's like me opening
myself and giving myself, giving you a part of me,
and letting you get to know me. See, people always

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say they know me, but they don't know me. They
may speak to me, speaking to me and actually holding
conversation with me. It's two different things. You speak to me,
you don't know me. So I write my books so

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people can know me get to know me. Because they
always judge the book by its cover. They don't ever
read and get into it. And I feel like a
book that they judge. But until you open me and
you read me, then you'll come to know. I'm one

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of the coolest people you'll probably ever come across. I
am cool, I'm down to earth, and I don't take junk.
Though I do, I can't take no junk. I'm a fighter,
I've been a fighter. I'm a toumbboy to my heart.
You know that's how my dad raised me. You know,

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I'm a tomboy. My mom, she was a cook in
the baker the same stress and all of that. My
father was the mechanic and he was also a farmer,
So you know, I learned how to work on cars
with my father at the age of about eight, and
I was in the kitchen with my mom at the
age of seven. So if I could have my way,

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I would have wanted to be outside every day, every day.
And when I did get out there, I would get
out there and get so dirty, and my mom would
get so mad because I would have dirt in my hair.
So you know, you can't judge me and say, oh,
she's just a girlly girl. I'm not a gully girl

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at all, no, sir, I'm sorry. I like to play space,
I like to play dominoes. I like to shoot pool.
I like to watch sports.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
You know. I just like to do a lot of things.
I even like to game.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
But when it's all over at the end of the day,
I love writing and I wouldn't give that up for anything.
I would not give up my writing for anything. I
love it. It's a way to express myself. It's a
way to get all of what I feel on the inside,
putting it into words because somebody else may be going

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through what I'm going through and a way to express it.
So that's why I write so many books. And I
just thank God for all my talents, my gifts, and
just like I have gifts, you all have gifts.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
You all have a purpose here.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
Figuring out that purpose you have to go to God
and pray and find out what your purpose is.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
But as long as you have a gift, use your gift.
Don't let your gift.

Speaker 1 (14:10):
Die, especially for a relationship, use your gift. So until
next time, goodbye guys.