July 26, 2024 • 72 mins
What happens when deep faith, and resilience combine? Join us as we welcome Carla Burrows from Genesis Real Estate Title who shares her remarkable journey of overcoming generational curses and revealing the unexpected gifts life can offer.
To work with Genesis Real Estate Title, give them a call at 854-454-8000.
If you are looking for a Realtor, don't forget to call The Landes Team to help you buy and sell!
Yvonnca Landes
Realty Executives Associates
865.660.1186 or 588.3232
www.YvonncaSellsRealEstate.com
Adrienne Landes
Realty Executives Associates
865.659-6860 or 588.3232
Click here: https://linktr.ee/talkintnwithyvonnca
Turning Knox Rental (Event Rental Services): www.turningknoxrental.com
Landes Home Collection Online Store: www.landeshomecollection.com
For promotion inquires please contact Yvonnca Landes. 865-660-1186
All Copy Rights are owned Yvonnca Landes and the Landes Brand ©. To gain legal access contact David Landes 865.660.6860 or theappraisalfirm@charter.net
Produced and engineered by: Adrienne Landes
Thank you for listening! Follow us on social media! https://linktr.ee/talkintnwithyvonnca
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Check us out to hear the latest on life in the
volunteer state.
Yvonca and her guests discusseverything from life, love and
business with a Tennessee flair.
It's a Tennessee thing, alwaysrelatable, always relevant and
always a good time.
This is Talkin' Tennessee, andnow your host, yvonca.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
This episode is brought to you by the Landis
team, your go-to real estatefamily in East Tennessee.
If you are looking to buy orsell, we are the ones you should
call.
Give us a call at 865-660-1186or check out our website at
YvoncaSellsRealEstatecom.
That's Yvonca Y-V-O-N-N-C-Asalesrealestatecom.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Welcome back to Talking Tennessee with Yvonca.
I am your host and I am here, Ihave to say it, my sissy, my
sissy's, in the building, carlaBurrows, from Genesis Title, is
here to inspire you.
From Genesis Title is here toinspire you.
Welcome, sissy.
Thank you, sister.
I want y'all to know you couldnot have a closer relationship
(01:16):
with a family member than thisrelationship right here.
Me and her have grown uptogether.
We have had children together,got married, built businesses.
So this one, I will tell you,means more to me than any
podcast that I've ever done, andyou'll understand why.
(01:40):
Carla, welcome to Talkin'Tennessee.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Thank you, I love you .
Speaker 3 (01:45):
I love you.
I love you.
So who is Carla Burrows?
Speaker 4 (01:53):
That's steep.
Okay, that's steep.
So first of all, I guess Iwould say that I'm a woman who
fears the Lord and fears theLord as in.
I respect him, I run after himand I'm a wife.
High school sweethearts and 27years now yes, I'm a mother of
(02:21):
four, with a 13-year gap inbetween.
What was our youngest?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
So Cameron is 24.
Bebe is 17 now and the boystwin boys are four.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Let me just say this the day that she called me to
tell me she was pregnant with mynephews, I guess she forgot who
her sister is, and so I guessshe thought she was going to
call and I was going to say someprofane thing just to get her
through, and all I did was laugh.
(02:57):
No sympathy, none, I laughed.
But I truly believe that Godmakes no mistakes.
He makes no mistakes and heknew what you needed.
You know, honestly, carla, shehas the career, she has the
businesses, she has the family,she has the husband, she has the
(03:20):
children, but I think your boysreally brought a different side
of you out.
They did.
You know, girls bring a sideout of us as well, but I think
your boys came at the time thatyou really needed to challenge
yourself in other ways, and Ithink that God used the boys to
(03:42):
bring out more of Carla to theworld.
Yes, do you agree with that?
I do, and so, viewers, I wantyou to know, you have to be sure
to follow her on her socialmedia pages and Genesis, and
we'll get all into that, but youjust have to follow her journey
and just see that God is alwaysin the midst of things, follow
(04:05):
her journey and just see thatGod is always in the midst of
things and things.
When you think your life is setand you think, okay, you know
I'm going to be the wife, themother and the businesswoman and
you know it's all set and I'mgoing near 40.
God will always shake it up,always, amen.
How was you when you gotpregnant?
Speaker 4 (04:23):
With Cameron.
Yeah, I had her one month afterI turned 20.
And then I got pregnant withthe boys when I was 39.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
39, y'all 39 years old and Carla wasn't looking to
have more kids, but if you seeher with her boys, you would
have thought that it was planned.
You know I dropped off my nephew.
For the ones that don't know,carla blessed me with my son,
(04:54):
jaden Landis, who you hear metalk about so much.
You know Carla really wantedher nephew to be raised by a
family that is going to love himand instill great values in him
and just be there for him, andso I thank God that you chose me
and David to bless us with that.
You know a lot of people don'tknow that at that time when she
(05:17):
blessed us, I had had sixmiscarriages and I had given up
on having a child, and I hadgiven up on having a child.
But God had a different plan,and God had a plan that he
wanted to bless a child.
It really wasn't about us.
No, he used me and Carla, butit really wasn't about us.
It was about blessing a childand making sure a child had a
(05:40):
blessed life, and so I thinkthat really shows a lot of
strength and we're going to getinto that of Carla's strength.
But let's start about Carla asa child.
What was your upbringing, carla?
Speaker 4 (06:00):
I mean, it was what I would say is difficult.
But also now that you know I'vehealed and I've been delivered
from generational curses andstrongholds, you know I can look
back where I was angry, yes,and unforgiving.
Okay, I agree, you know my momhad me when she was 15.
(06:22):
I agree, you know my mom had mewhen she was 15.
And there were things thathappened in my life because she
was a young mother that I had toforgive.
But then I look back and Ithink she didn't know any better
.
Right.
She was doing the best that shecould, yes, given her
circumstances, given hercircumstances, and so I just so
(06:48):
there were things that happenedthat ultimately I can say today
that the enemy knew, yeah, theanointing that was on my life
and he was coming after it, hard, strong Even, and it started at
Well, I mean even at birth, tobe, to be a baby of a teenage
mother.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
And then things happened as young as four, abuse
, yes, and moving.
I went to eight differentschools in Knox County, so never
was there a firm foundation.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Yeah, foundation.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
There was a firm foundation that I was always
loved and I was always protectedby God.
I know that in my heart 100%.
You know I was saved at eight.
I always I longed for churchand you know the elderly women
in the church would always comeget me or I would walk to church
(07:43):
.
But because of generationalcurses, even though I love the
Lord, I still went off thatnarrow path and but God still
had me.
He did the whole time.
He did, and his the glory ofthe Lord on my life, the grace
(08:11):
and the mercy Jesus.
So I Let God use you, carla.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Let God use you, yes, and so there's that spirit
coming on and I'll start crying,but I'm not going to and it's
okay, you know.
Just.
You know, the day I turned 18,well, I quit high school.
I quit school, and, jesus, Idid not.
(08:41):
School just wasn't for me.
I would go in the back door orcome in the front and go out the
back, and so truancy was anissue and it was easier for all
involved, meaning my mom and theschool officials.
It was easier for me just tosign out when I turned 17.
(09:01):
And I did out when I turned 17.
And I did the day I turned 18,I moved out and in with Jason,
my husband now, and then I hadCameron one month after I turned
20.
Are y'all?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
hearing this.
Let's go back one thing.
She said she quit school at 17years old thing.
Okay, she said she quit schoolat 17 years old.
There was generational cursesthat were there and I can name a
story that you told me.
Do you remember you telling mea story about a neighbor?
(09:39):
I think you can correct me thatyou were sent to school.
You can correct me that youwere sent to school and some way
you got lice in your hair.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Oh, I always had lice .
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Kept it Okay.
She had lice in her hair andshe literally, was it a neighbor
that cut your hair?
She?
Speaker 4 (10:00):
treated my hair.
Please tell that story.
So we lived in a concretebuilding that was split up into
six different apartments and wewere on the top floor.
She was on the bottom and I wasoutside playing and she called
me.
She was like hey, come here.
And I went down there and shetreated my hair for loss and I
(10:22):
remember having the treatment onmy hair and my mom was calling
for me or whatever, and um, soof course my mom got upset that
this woman was treating my hair.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
But you know that was you know as a kid, you you know
you want your parents toprotect you, you want your
parents to be your security.
But what I'm hearing?
You didn't have security, youdidn't have protection.
You didn't have the earthlyprotection, you had the godly
(10:54):
protection.
God allowed you to go throughsome things and experience some
things that were very, verytraumatizing, that were very,
very traumatizing.
I mean, you know, living in ahouse with your parents and
constantly having lice and goingto school and not having a lot
of money and clothing and thosedifferent things that can do
(11:16):
something to a child.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Oh yeah, oh for sure, and you so like in school back
then.
You know the nurse would comein there with her pencil and she
would be checking everybody'shands and I knew I was going
home.
You know the nurse would comein there with her pencil and she
would be checking everybody'shands and I knew I was going
home.
You know every time, and I knowit was embarrassing, oh gosh,
yeah.
But thankfully I switchedschools at different times.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
So that did help a little bit.
What did that with the eightschools switching from school to
school, what did that do to you?
Did that?
Was it a new beginning to youfeeling?
Or was it more of not beingaccepted somewhere and not
having friends?
(11:59):
And you know, like constantfriends you had to constantly
keep making new friendsAbsolutely and honestly.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
I can't remember the feelings then, but now I think
of that as a blessing, because Ican walk into a room with
confidence and I can talk to thepresident, and I'm not.
I look at people and I'm likethey put their pants on, the
same way I do every morning sowhy would?
(12:28):
I.
Why would I think that they'rebetter than me or more powerful
than me, or anything like that?
so I think it gave me aconfidence yes um, and I lean on
Joshua 1 9 to be strong andcourageous, to be strong and
brave in every situation I walkinto, because I know that the
(12:48):
Lord already has my stepsordered already and I walk into
it with bravery and strength.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
And so you had the curses there.
You had the shackles on yourfeet, strongholds like no other,
yeah.
And so it was like, first ofall, you got saved, and you got
saved by God, yeah, okay.
But then you got saved in anearthly way by God, again in the
(13:18):
public eye, okay, but you hadto go through some things.
So at 18 years old, she movedout of her mom's house, she
moved in her he's her husbandnow but she moved in with her
boyfriend, okay, she moved inwith her boyfriend and she went
down the road of.
You know, she didn't know whoshe was.
(13:40):
I mean, there was no way youknew who you were and where you
are now.
You don't look like what you'vebeen through.
I mean, there was no way youknew who you were and where you
are now.
You don't look like what you'vebeen through.
I mean nothing like what you'vebeen through.
And so what did what was that?
Like you know, going from yourmom and dad's house or your mom
and stepfather's house to movingin with your boyfriend.
(14:01):
Did it feel like more securityor did it feel like?
This is just what I have to do?
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Both, both, I think, with the abandonment and because
my dad, my mom being 15, my dadwas 17.
And even though he lived inKnoxville, there was never a
relationship.
So there was that abandonmentas well, and abandonment is real
.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
It is so real, especially in our communities.
There are so many people thatneed to deal with their
abandonment issues and don'trealize a lot of the decisions
they make in their adult lifehas to do with the abandonment
issues.
Please speak on it.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Yes, so I believe that that caused me to put a
wall up and bury that root, soto speak, trauma, and I replaced
it with grinding yeah, workinghard.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
And you turned trauma into purpose.
Yes, you turned trauma intoovercoming.
Yes.
You didn't accept what you'vebeen through.
You didn't wear it with a badgeof armor.
You wear you, you let it, youreflect it back to where you
didn't want to go back to.
So you, you went to grind it.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
I went to grind it.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
When did you go to Chuck Farhat's office?
Shout out to Chuck Farhat ohChuck.
Yes, Chuck Farhat is our oldemployer that brought me and
Carla together and we dedicatethis episode to him because if
it wasn't for Chuck, you knowthere's a lot of things he
taught us that was so hard atthe time and we felt like why
(15:56):
are you so hard on us?
Why are you doing this?
And we can literally tell youstories of times that we were
just so angry.
But I thank God that Chuck sawsomething in us that we didn't
see in ourself because we didn'tknow who we were at that time.
When did you start working forChuck Farhat?
I was 18.
(16:16):
18 years old, 1998.
1998.
She started working for amortgage company as a
telemarketer.
As a telemarketer, and I comein and I get an ad about a loan
officer In the newspaper.
In the newspaper the littlesmall ad that Chuck Farhat had
(16:37):
out there, and that's how me andCarla met in Chuck Farhat's
office and we embarked on.
And I'm going to tell you thereason why we came together
Cause I was in one office when Ifirst started and I was sitting
with a girl I am not going toeven say her name because I
don't want it to be, uh, thatI'm bashing someone, okay, but
(17:01):
she wasn't the person I neededto be sitting with, okay, and
she was supposed to be trainingme.
Well, she didn't train meanything.
All she talked about the wholeday is her dating the boss's son
, okay, and so I'm sitting theretrying to figure out.
At the time I was going througha divorce, just just so much
(17:24):
going well, no, no, no, no.
Before that, when I firststarted, we wasn't separated at
the time and we were going downthat road, okay, and all I knew
is I was going to be a singlemom taking care of this kid that
I don't know how I'm going tofeed her, and I'm sitting with
this processor.
(17:45):
That wasn't teaching meanything.
Well, three days into that Idon't know if you remember this,
three days into me, starting iswhen you, chuck, made you a
processor came out of the backroom.
Yeah, he took her out of theback room of the telemarketing
room and he made her a processor.
But in the midst of that it wasokay, I'm going to have you sit
(18:09):
over here with this processor,you know, because he knew I
wasn't learning from the otherone, not knowing that Carla at
that time, you know she waslearning being a processor.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Lord, I didn't even know the definition of a
mortgage.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Yeah, she didn't, we did not, we were that.
I don't want to say dumb, butI'm like we were dumb to the
situation we were in.
Let me just say that because Ijust keep it real.
Anyway, and I'll never forget,suzanne, shout out to Suzanne
Thompson because she supports usas well.
Is that, suzanne?
(18:43):
You remember Suzanne's file?
I was about to say that file,color coding.
It goes down in history of thebest Organization File.
And, meg, I'll never forgetCarla, suzanne, teaching me how
to do this file, and I'll neverforget you coming one day and
(19:05):
I'm over to do this file.
And I'll never forget youcoming one day and I'm over here
stacking this file, trying toget it all nice, and Carla comes
pulling out the like the paper.
Don't do it that way, you don'tneed all of that.
I'll never forget.
But it taught us structure.
It really did you know?
So, suzanne, listen, we had tolean back to that many times.
(19:28):
I want you to know that.
But Carla pulled out theirpapers and I was, and that's how
our friendship started.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
I think it was Chuck that pulled the papers out, was
it?
I just remembered.
I think it was.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Chuck.
Okay, well, let me refrain andsay it was Chuck that pulled all
those papers out.
And, oh my gosh, and we'resitting here like we don't know
if it's right or wrong, becauseI mean who are we?
We only been in it three days,but I just think that God had
his hand all over us, carla.
(20:01):
I mean, I was in a marriagethat was not good for me, not
saying the person is a badperson.
Rest in peace because he haspassed away.
He was a good person because hegave me my doctor, you know,
but he wasn't.
We wasn't good for each other,and you know a lot of things.
(20:23):
I think that my ex-husband feltlike I think he believed in me.
He really did believe in me,but it was for his gain.
You know, he wanted to push meto places where God wasn't ready
for us to go.
I think that even with you,carla, that was, you were so
(20:45):
traumatized by your childhoodthat, you know, if we wouldn't
have had a Chuck, I don't knowwhere we would have been.
God used him and please share.
You know what was yourbeginnings, starting in
mortgages.
Yeah, what was it like.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Wow.
Well, it was not efficientbecause we had dial-up internet,
right, correct.
And it was very hard because Ididn't know what a mortgage was.
You know, because generations,the generations that I knew, you
know my mom, my mom didn't knowmy paternal side, so I didn't
(21:23):
know what a mortgage was Correct.
But the Lord put me in a placewhere I could pull wisdom and
was given wisdom which allowedme to.
I processed for four years.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
And then got a job opportunity as a title agent and
I went over to title andstarted processing and closing
transactions purchases and refisand you know, keep in mind, she
didn't know how to do any ofthis.
She's traumatized.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
She doesn't have family support.
No, her mom and dad was not inher life in a positive way.
Okay, I want people to reallyunderstand.
You had nothing but God and youand Jason embarked on.
You know what the life wasgoing to be, but neither one of
(22:25):
y'all knew.
Y'all didn't have a clue.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
We had no clue and we had no support.
So like if we had to pay autility bill and we didn't have
the money, we couldn't go to ourparents and ask for money,
correct?
I mean, I remember pumping gasthis was before prepaid, but it
was a gas station out in DeepFarragut, it was that Wibles on
the left.
(22:49):
So I had pumped the gas and wentin and the bank card had
declined and I remember countingpennies, gathering all the
change called Jason, and I'mlike you're going to have to
bring me some change orsomething.
I've put my gas and I don'thave the money, and so I
remember counting specificallypennies to pay for my gas, and
(23:12):
it was nothing like what you'vebeen through.
You know, thank the Lord, I'dbe looking pretty rough.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Yeah, because if you really think about it is even in
those times.
You know, even once David gotin my life and everything you
know.
That's why I thank God thatDavid does.
You know he will always say hewill always relate back to God
and he'll say look how God hasbrought us through.
You know that type of thing.
(23:41):
He doesn't try to take creditfor you know my success and I
don't try to take credit for youknow my success and I don't try
to take care of credit for his,because our beginnings we did
not have.
You know, I'm saying we werejust trying to figure it out but
we were just making it day byday.
You know, I'm saying you knowyou calling Jason, dylan, jason,
(24:02):
to bring you some change orwhatever, but he didn't have no
more than you had.
You know what I'm saying.
So the only person that couldmake us is God.
You know, that's the only thingthat you know.
David said to me the other day,Carla, he said I look at you
now and he said I knew you wasgoing to be you know something
(24:27):
great.
But he said, yvonca, I look atyou now and he goes.
I would have never been able toimagine this and I was like
well, you couldn't imagine, Icouldn't imagine you know what
I'm saying because we haveaccomplished things, but it
wasn't easy.
You know what I'm saying Becausewe have accomplished things,
but it wasn't easy.
You know what I'm saying.
You had a baby at 20.
(24:48):
It wasn't given.
It wasn't, it wasn't given andyou had to go in and go to that
job every day Nobody went therefor you?
No, nobody, no, okay, ourfamilies didn't go, our husbands
didn't go, nobody went andworking in a mortgage company
with a lot of men working inthere and women were not on the
(25:13):
same level.
Okay, it could have broke us,but it strengthened us.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
Yes, when you got to title, tell them what that was
like that was hard, you know,because at that point I would
have had Cameron, would havebeen like two, okay, and then we
Was you scared to switch frommortgages to title?
Speaker 3 (25:37):
or was it the money I wasn't?
Speaker 4 (25:39):
scared.
The money had me hyped becauseI went from you know know what
$6 an hour at the mortgagecompany.
Plus I would get bonuses onevery file that I processed.
That closed but even with thathoney it was a struggle too but
I was counting pennies, yeah,and so then, when title came and
(26:02):
they offered me a salary, I waslike salary, you thought you
was rich, moving on up right.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
We call that gal rich .
You thought you was rich baby.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
Yes, yes.
So I was excited, but thatsalary probably evened out to
about $6 an hour as much as Iworked, because back then we
didn't have mobile notaries.
So now we can call a mobilenotary that is self-employed and
we say, hey, this loan's got toclose at seven o'clock in
(26:34):
Kingston.
We're going to contract you togo close it for us.
But it wasn't like that.
Back then we had there was nocontract notaries.
Back then Rare, it was veryrare and so I would come to work
at nine, and most of the timenine o'clock at night.
Yeah, there were nights that Iwas in Cocke County at midnight
(26:59):
yes, I remember looking at thepeople's clock and it was
midnight doing their closing andbecause that's what you had to
do to keep the business you hadto if you told a loan officer.
No, you went to go do theirclosing.
They're gone.
They're gone and for real so,yeah, you, you are.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
No, it was serious.
Yeah, and that could have beenthe money that you made to feed
your kids or kid or whatever.
Because I know, literally withme I would go to Chuck's from 9
to 4.30 and clock in servicemerchandise by 5.15.
(27:40):
And I would not get home.
When I first started I wouldnot get home to 9.30, 10 o'clock
at night.
You know what I'm saying.
And even with when I got rid ofthat job and I just had one job
, I mean, think about it I hadto call leads.
So when you come home it's notlike I got to cut off or
(28:01):
whatever.
And there was many times when meand David first started dating
and I finally did allow David tobe around.
Adrian David was my babysitter.
He was, you know, but the bestpart about that is it helped
David to build a relationshipwith Adrian that is so strong
now.
You know he appreciates thattime.
(28:25):
Know, but I would.
I couldn't have paid for childcare.
Think about what child care wasback then.
You know it's high now, butwhat I'm saying is you had a
salary, but look at me, I wishyou had work.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
I did and Jason, you know he was a brick and block
Mason.
Yeah, so he would you knowweather, battle the weather, hot
, cold, you know, and then justthe physical.
But then he would come home andhave to take care of a baby.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
And then and that's not easy either.
No, and you know.
Then Bailey, I had Bailey in2006 and still going strong for
a minute, and then the marketcrashed Right and so when the
market crashed.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
It crashed in 08 and it crashed hard.
Yes, we had built up.
Just imagine this, guys.
She's saying she's a highschool dropout.
She's telling you she wastraumatized in her childhood.
She had lice in her hair on aregular, okay, regular, okay.
(29:38):
She got her head shavedregularly because she didn't
have medicine, the money to gobuy the medicine.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Well, it didn't work.
No more, right yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
They were like this ain't Exactly, yeah, you know.
And then she didn't have a momand dad that were in her life.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
As a positive.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
As a positive.
Let's talk about it.
What was it like not having momand dad?
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Well, I had my mamaw.
You did my sweet mamaw.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Yes, she was your everything.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Yes, and my mom was too.
I don't want to take from herbecause she didn't know better.
Yes, so I can't bash her forwhat she don't know.
When you offer up the abilityfor the Lord to come in and heal
(30:37):
you and deliver you, you seethings in a different light, you
, you, you see things in adifferent light.
You do.
I see things in a spirituallight.
Now, I know the dark side and Iknow the strongholds that can
take over in the dark side.
So I can't, in my heart ofhearts, I can't bash her hearts.
(31:06):
I can't bash her.
Did it affect me?
Yes, right, um, but I am who Iam today because of the struggle
, and I'm on the other side.
Let God use you.
I'm on the other side because Iallowed the Lord, I had faith,
I believed.
Did I mess up?
Absolutely.
Did I step off that narrow pathMany a times?
(31:32):
But I got back up.
Yes, you did, and I stay up.
But if I fall, I don't use itas an excuse.
I don't play victim.
I don't.
I don't feed off of poor, poor,pitiful me.
(31:53):
That's not, that's not thestrength that the Lord has given
me and you don't use your.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
That's not the strength that the Lord has given
me, and you don't use your.
She doesn't use her trauma toweaponize and make excuses of
why she didn't do this or whyshe didn't do that is what I see
.
I will say this.
I will say this Every familygoes through things and there
(32:22):
can be a lot of demons in it.
It can be abuse, it can be druguse, it can be a lot of
different things and Carla'sfamily had it all and Carla's
(32:43):
childhood she saw it all, to theabuse, to you know, the drug
use, all those different things.
The one thing that stuck out tome is when you got pregnant
with Cameron.
I never forget you saying to meyou may were like three, four
months pregnant.
Then you were like it's goingto be different if I'll go what
(33:08):
I endured in my childhood.
I'm not going to allow my kidsto take that in their childhood.
And does that mean okay?
Carla, you know, never makes amistake.
I'm not saying she doesn't, shehadn't made mistakes.
But the one thing I can say isis that your heart was always
(33:31):
right.
You wanted more for your kids.
You wanted to make sure thatyou broke the curses and you
went to the church.
I'll never forget inviting youto Bishop Wright's church.
That's another person that didso much for me and Carla at such
a young age of just talking tous and just knowing praying for
(33:56):
us unbelievable, knowing,praying for us, unbelievable and
just truly believing in us andseeing something that we
couldn't see in ourselves.
Bishop, I'll never forget you.
Coming to the church the firstday, he said there's something
in that girl right there.
He said it's something in thereand God's going to bring it out
(34:18):
of her.
I'll never forget that.
Him said it to me and he saidit's something in there and
God's going to bring it out ofher.
I'll never forget that.
Him said it to me and he saidthere's something in her, and
now the world's getting to seewhat's in her and getting to see
God.
It was all in his plan.
So let's go to the next chapter.
Good stuff, and that's going tothe.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
Let's go to the next the good stuff, and that's going
to be that do you want to say?
Start with.
Genesis start with Genesis, soGenesis.
So I guess I started claimingthat I was going to have a title
company, probably like 05-062005-2006.
(35:00):
However, have a title companyprobably like 0506 2005 2006.
However, even though I wasspeaking it, jesus, the trauma
on the inside was like who areyou to speak such a word?
you can't do that oh I mean, Ihad like a 400 credit score and
if you remember, Chuck used totell us for a 400 credit score
(35:22):
you get that name.
For your name you get that foryour name and address.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Yes, oh, he would dog out a 400 score, I mean
literally.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
You know I had collections.
She was a judge.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
Yeah, total debt.
Yes, collections judgmentsJudgment yeah, total debt, yes,
inflations judgments we wereliterally doing mortgages for
people.
I think that really is whathumbled us, because even though
we were doing mortgages andthat's why I always tell people,
just because we're doing themortgages or whatever, and that
is our craft and that is ourcareer it's not like we haven't
(36:02):
been there.
But you know, I'm saying andand I always, carla, can tell
you we always gravitated topeople that had bad credit.
We always did.
But I think it was because weknew we had been there.
We knew we were there at sometimes.
We were doing mortgages, we hadjudgments and collections
(36:22):
ourselves, and I think a lot ofprofessionals forget, they
forget when they were there andthey forget.
You know, I've been in creditcard debt a couple times.
You know what I'm saying and Ithink that's what sets us apart
is because we never forgot.
You know what I'm saying.
And so she wanted Genesis andshe wanted to talk to her.
(36:44):
She told me, flat, I want atitle, coming to Ivanka, and I
was like, and I believed thatshe was going to get one.
You're going to have it.
Did I know how?
No, I didn't, or whatever.
And then let's talk aboutBishop Henry.
Speaker 4 (36:56):
But I remember David saying what about Bishop Henry?
But I remember David sayingwhat did David?
Say that I needed to.
This is David right, so Ineeded to poop or get off the
pot, and I will never forgetthat because I talked about it.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
So much.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
He didn't say that word, but he said another word.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
But you know, how David is.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
Yes, and that's what he kept telling me.
Y'all know, on my Facebook liveI be telling him a cuss word to
come at us about.
I say it's a family show.
You can't do that.
Yeah, so he didn't say poop, no, he didn't let your imagination
go.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
Yeah, so, um, I, I remember that to this day well.
So I went to Kingdom Life thatweekend, me and my girls, and I
think it was like a revival week.
Or maybe we were celebratingBishop.
One or the other we might havebeen celebrating.
I think it was both.
I think it was.
He did a revival.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
And the last day, because Bishop never liked those
multiple days of just talkingabout him, multiple days of just
talking about him.
I think the very last day, thatSunday was the day that we were
celebrating Bishop and BishopHenry out of Florida was coming
to close out his revival.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
Yes, yes, go ahead, tell us more.
So me and the girls are in thecongregation.
Congregation and Bishop Henry'sup there.
Give it a word.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
Go back a little bit.
This white girl, only whitegirl.
Only white girl in the thing,with two white kids coming to
predominantly black Well justsay a black church, because
there was no other whites inthis church.
She's sitting in the middle ofthis, middle to the back of yeah
, on the left side.
(38:42):
I remember this in the back.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
Go ahead okay and he stops and I'm so.
I've had no experience withprophets, prophetic messages,
nothing like that.
So he stops and I'm like.
He's like okay, I need, I needyou to come up here to the front
and you know I'm looking around, like okay, so is this like
halftime show or something youknow?
(39:07):
look, she ain't never been to noblack church so I'm looking,
I'm watching, and then he callsme out by dress color, right?
So I'm like oh no, I know, Iknow I can't worship in sound
beat, right, I know you don'thave to call me out.
This is what's going through myhead.
(39:28):
I'm like lord jesus.
So my little white self goes upthere and I'm standing in the
pulpit and bishop's like what'sthe name of your business?
Speaker 3 (39:44):
and I was like jesus, let me just tell you y'all know
, adrian's my producer of thisshow and adrian does all the
things.
Adrian is over and dying rightnow.
Speaker 4 (39:54):
Y'all go ahead oh it's real though it's real and I
told you.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
I didn't prepare for this interview.
She didn't prepare for thisbecause I wanted to be open to
wrong.
Speaker 4 (40:04):
Go ahead, it's all love it is so I go up there and
Bishop's little white girl, theblack church.
Yes, go up there.
And Bishop says what's the nameof your business?
And I was like what?
I was like I don't have abusiness.
And I turned to my right and Iseen Ivanka and she was crying
(40:25):
and I was like something'shappening why is she?
crying.
And I turned back to him and,um, I remember my ears started
ringing and I could hardly hearwhat he was saying.
But I got bits and pieces and Imust have looked even wider
(40:45):
than I was because he saidsomebody probably need to get
her a chair, because she might,yes.
And so he said your knees wereknocking.
Yeah, the spirit came on me.
Yeah knocking like, yeah, thespirit came on me, yeah, and he
(41:07):
said the lord said for you toopen the business that he will
provide to you as a david atsaul's table, jesus, and it took
10 years for me to know whatthat message meant.
That message meant that I Ihave been a David to these
business owners all the yearsprior Jesus, and I have been a
David to those Saul's in my life.
(41:29):
I have ran their business, Ihave taken care of their
business Just like it was my own.
Just like David served Saul.
It was my own, just like Davidserved Saul.
And Bishop said the Lord hasprepared a table for you.
And that fired me up like noother.
(41:50):
So, of course, now the enemycomes in right and he's like
okay, so you're a high schooldropout, you have a 400 credit
score, you have no money in thebank, you have judgment.
How are you going to open atitle company?
And this was in 2010.
Speaker 3 (42:07):
Are y'all hearing this.
Speaker 4 (42:09):
So I was like okay, so first thing I need to do is I
got to get my GED, because nounderwriter title insurance
underwriter is going to sign meif I don't have a diploma.
And so I went and I got my GED.
Then I went and got my titleagent test.
I failed it the first time.
Speaker 3 (42:29):
I had to go back up here.
But we're going to go back forone second.
Here's the connection In thatsame prophetic word he told her
to link.
He said he used my last name.
He said land.
He said wait a minute, wait aminute.
(42:50):
He said I see y'all doingsomething together.
And do you remember him sayingthat part?
Because she was so in thespirit y'all, it was so powerful
and he broke down my last nameand that's why a lot of people
don't understand, why you knowpeople are like well, why do you
(43:11):
?
You know, I know your last nameis Landis, you know da-da-da.
That's why I go back to thatname, because Bishop Henry told
me respect my name and torespect, you know, what God had
given me.
And when he broke down my nameto Carla, it gave me value
(43:35):
through you, and I don't thinkI've ever told you that Through
you, and I don't think I've evertold you that is, that it did
not register to me what yourname.
My grandmother told me thatyour name should be more
(43:56):
important to you than anything,more than any title, position or
whatever.
But when he used your story andwhen he was talking to you
about letting he broke down mylast name to you, you gave me
value.
You gave me you, you gave mevision through the prophetic
word that he gave to you.
So I thank you for that you'rewelcome I thank you.
Now go ahead.
Land is, land is.
That's what it was.
That's exactly what he saidland is yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (44:21):
so this was 2010, so the ged title agent test had to
take it twice, and then I usedum back when I used to get a
huge tax return.
Speaker 1 (44:38):
Yes, Don't get no earned income credit.
Speaker 4 (44:41):
Thank you, lord, I mean, but it is what it is.
So that chunk of money I usedto pay off collections and
credit card debt and in theJanuary 2nd 2012, okay, um,
(45:05):
genesis real estate title openednow keep in mind she had worked
for a mortgage company.
Speaker 3 (45:16):
She had worked for three, three title companies, so
that's four total companiesshe's talking about.
She had helped build thosebusinesses.
Okay, those businesses were atits height when she was there.
(45:36):
Okay, some of them are not inbusiness anymore.
I think only one is.
They recently sold out, though.
Speaker 4 (45:46):
Okay so never mind.
Speaker 3 (45:48):
So none of them are open, and so she.
So Bishop Henry tells her hereyou go, god wants you to open
this business.
But the trauma told her shedidn't do it.
The the trauma told her shedidn't do it.
The abandonment told her shecouldn't do it.
Her credit score told her shecouldn't do it.
But the accountability she hadto take, her trauma from her
(46:15):
childhood, didn't get her theGED.
That trauma did't get her theGED.
That trauma did not get her thecredit score she can't blame.
Yes, she didn't learn creditwhen she was a kid, but the
choices that she made is why shehad a 400 credit score.
And the reason why I'm sayingthat is because I need people to
(46:36):
understand is is that, eventhough you done went through
trauma you can't use, you can't,like she says, be the victim or
victimize things.
Oh, this is why.
No, she didn't pay her bills.
Speaker 4 (46:51):
Hey, they were giving me credit cards.
Okay, she didn't pay her bills.
You see what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (46:56):
She was living off of them and all that kind of stuff
, and so she had to acceptaccountability and she had to go
back to school.
Speaker 4 (47:04):
I did and so there were people put in my life that
that allowed me to open Genesis,and so that allowed me to open
Genesis, and so 2012,.
(47:29):
Open Genesis and the name is tome is the beginning of breaking
the curse of never stepping outin faith.
Speaker 3 (47:40):
Jesus.
Speaker 4 (47:44):
I didn't have the faith until the Lord sent a man
to tell me, because the Lordprobably got tired of he was
probably saying the same thingDavid did, but just in a cleaner
version, right.
Speaker 3 (47:53):
Just do it, do it.
Speaker 4 (47:55):
Go, get off the pot, go, get off the pot, go, and For
such a time as this.
So I started out in a smalloffice, got all my furniture off
of like Craigslist.
My closing table was a diningroom table that.
(48:19):
I bought off Craigslist andstayed in that office for a
couple of years One employee Ihad it was myself and one other
employee for five years and thenwe moved to a larger office
where I got to decorate andpaint on my own brand new
furniture.
Speaker 3 (48:38):
And let me tell you, I'll never forget you buying
your dining room table Glass.
But let me tell you somethingit was hers, okay, she claimed
that and she was so proud ofthat and she's like sissy, I got
this and you gotta come overhere, keep going so then we
(49:01):
stayed um.
Speaker 4 (49:02):
then I hired another person, so we went, went from
myself in one to myself in two,and so that was probably year
six and we just started year 11.
Then I opened a second locationin Clinton, which is my.
Speaker 3 (49:26):
Are y'all hearing?
She started Genesis.
She did sweat equity.
She worked For a long time.
It was just her in her office.
Then it was she got employees.
She had her office five years,just sweat equity.
Speaker 4 (49:49):
Oh, let me tell you that first year, though, I
knocked it out the park, rightRight, but because I still had
those habits, those financialhabits, not having that wisdom,
I didn't even know if I wasgoing to be able to pay my rent.
I drained the bank account,basically, see, because I went
from a salary to being a personwho was self-employed, and it's
(50:14):
different.
Speaker 3 (50:16):
It's very different and see, a lot of people don't
realize that is that everybodywants to be an entrepreneur.
But if you don't have abusiness mind, I don't care,
It'll go fast, it'll go Realfast.
Speaker 4 (50:26):
And you won't even know it's gone until you look up
.
And I didn't even know if Icould pay the rent and did I
quit.
No, I just kept going.
And today, go ahead.
Genesis is debt free.
Speaker 3 (50:44):
Debt free.
She owns two title companies.
She owns one off of North Shoreand she owns another one in
Clinton, and so the best part ofGenesis is just knowing.
You had to believe in yourself.
You had to figure out a way tobelieve that, no matter what I
(51:05):
went through, it doesn't defineyou.
And you had to realize that youhad to break some habits, you
had to break some curses, youhad to say no to yourself.
There's a lot of things you hadto do, and you had all these
babies looking at you like whatare we going?
Speaker 4 (51:25):
to do.
I had to get it together, Getit all in together okay.
Speaker 3 (51:29):
Yeah, you know.
And so she's got two titlecompanies that are thriving Even
in a market like it is.
They're thriving, yeah, youknow.
And she's been through a hardmarket before.
08 was the hardest we've everbeen through, but she didn't
give up was the hardest we'veever been through, but she
(51:50):
didn't give up.
She didn't give up and sheshares her story in such a way
that is inspiring.
You know that, no matter what,you had twins at 39, that would
have been an easy way to give up.
You just got to keep working atit and know, you know, when I
got a family, I've gotbusinesses and I've worked to be
(52:10):
here.
You've worked to be here.
In your personal life, in yourbusiness life, in your spiritual
life, you've worked to be here.
So what?
What's next?
Or what did come next?
Speaker 4 (52:25):
There's already a next.
So we had an opportunity thatcame and I bought a commercial
building in Clinton and we movedthe Clinton location to that
building.
Half of it is Genesis and theother half was vacant.
Speaker 3 (52:46):
And let me just say this the day that you called me
and told me you bought abuilding, no, no, you told me
you were buying a building.
Speaker 4 (52:54):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (52:56):
You know how you get that feeling of when one of your
family members does something.
Well, you should get thisfeeling.
It's just like they doing it.
That was my proud moment.
I was so proud, as your bigsister, that my little sister
bought a freaking building.
Okay, and knowing I know yourstory, now tell them about your
(53:22):
building.
Speaker 4 (53:23):
Half is Genesis, and then the other half set vacant
for about a year and um, so Ihad the vision of ice cream.
First it was like daycare orrun a daycare, because there was
a shortage in clinton ofdaycares, but just the liability
of that.
And um, ice cream, I was, I waslike Lord, all I know is how to
(53:48):
eat ice cream.
Yes, but the logistics of arestaurant business, it's a lot.
I had no clue.
I mean title is my niche.
I mean real estate, that's mything and that's my baby and
that's my passion.
Yes, but the community I wantedsomething for the community.
(54:11):
Um, so it just started piece bypiece.
The first thing that went upwas a pergola that has seven
porch swings around it.
You know, because we werecoming out of a time of, you
know, covid, where nobody wantedto be around each other.
You know, nobody was shakinghands anymore.
We were just losing thatpersonal touch and that in that
(54:32):
community.
And um, so I built the, had thepergola custom built and um,
then we started on the build outof the ice cream shop and the
Lord again just put people in mylife with wisdom, and one man
was from out in California thathelped me with all the equipment
and the layout and you know Ihired the subcontractors and had
(54:56):
the ice cream spot built.
Speaker 3 (54:59):
Are y'all understanding?
This is not something that sheknew, and so the biggest thing I
would like viewers to realizeis follow your dreams and create
dreams.
Some people don't take time outlong enough to stop to jot down
things that they like or theywould like to do.
(55:23):
That's where dreams come from,is when you figure out what you
like to do, what you'repassionate about or whatever.
She's a toddler girl All day,every day.
Okay, but she wanted to do more.
I mean, she had these two boys.
She wanted to do more.
And to the people that's outhere that think you can't do
(55:45):
more than one thing, we'reshowing you you can and you can
do it efficiently and you can doit without dropping the ball.
And both businesses thrive.
And you've done it.
Carla, I did.
I'm one of her agents.
She has not fell short on oneof my closings.
(56:07):
Anytime I call and I need aquestion answered, questions get
answered by her or heremployees and she has put the
right of employees in place thatshe can go build more wealth
and build for her community.
You know I commend you on thatBecause the girl that didn't
(56:33):
come from a lot could have hadthose abandonment issues to reap
its head on Burfield and itwouldn't have never been.
All the thing I can remember yousaying is I said well, why do
you want an ice cream shop?
And you said well, because thecommunity needs it.
You didn't say my family neededit.
She didn't say that.
(56:53):
She said well, because thecommunity needs it.
She's like I just see a needClinton does not have, you know,
like a full-service ice creamshop.
Speaker 4 (57:11):
And we don't have indoor seating, because the
vision was community and I seeworship nights and tent revivals
.
Speaker 3 (57:17):
Tell them about your 4th of July, what she just did
on 4th of July.
I mean, how many ice creamshops?
Speaker 4 (57:24):
do this?
Tell them.
Well, we sointon has a fourthof july party down on lakefront
and they'll have a firework showand um so um, we uh, rented
from turn and knocks the movieexperience.
Speaker 3 (57:42):
Thank you, and see how family helps each other.
Speaker 4 (57:45):
Yes, and we me and one of my workers.
Her teenage brother helped meget all that set up.
Speaker 1 (57:57):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (57:58):
And then people were able to see the fireworks from
our yard and also watch a movieand it was not planned, but it
ended perfectly.
We watched Shrek, okay.
So when the firework finale washappening, shrek's ending was
happening, and it was that wherethey were having the American
Idol scene yes.
(58:19):
I believe, yes, and so that was.
It was a perfect time.
And it wasn't stage dreaming,it just happened.
And I believe and you broughtcommunity that it was a perfect
time and it wasn't stagedreaming, it just happened, and
I believe.
And you brought community thatit was a perfect time and they
had a good time.
Speaker 3 (58:33):
Y'all have to go and look on Burville's page of the
videos that were shot At thisice cream shop.
They had a movie experience andjust to see how the community
came together and just had theirmoment.
I highly recommend you goingout and trying out Burrville,
(58:55):
you know, and make a date night.
Go to Burrville, you know,drive to Clinton, even if you're
in Nassau.
Drive to Clinton and have adate night.
Do something different.
Let it not be all you know.
Yes, we support local, okay,but they're local too.
Clinton is local, you know.
Speaker 4 (59:17):
You can sit on the swing and the sunsets are just
beautiful where that swing wasperfectly placed and I don't
know, it's just title has alwaysbeen my passion, but I love
deep.
Speaker 3 (59:35):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (59:36):
And I love Clinton, love my community.
Speaker 3 (59:39):
She does.
Speaker 4 (59:40):
And I love Knoxville too.
I was born and raised inKnoxville, but in that town, you
know, I know that my kids cango somewhere and it's.
I'm always telling my kids Alleyes on you All our eyes.
Speaker 3 (59:57):
yes, and I know, in a heartbeat.
Speaker 4 (59:59):
Yeah, thank the Lord, I do have good kids.
Speaker 3 (01:00:02):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (01:00:05):
Now the boys may give me a run for my money they
might be doing something crazynot criminal.
Speaker 3 (01:00:11):
Yes, but yes, but boys are boys.
I've got a son and y'all hearme talk about my 15 year old
yeah yeah, that's another thing.
Yeah, your nephew wants to.
Now he said he wants to getbuffed.
Okay, so now he's going to workout.
So, yes, I'm like, work yourenergy off into a good way.
That's a good thing.
Speaker 4 (01:00:29):
Better get some protein honey.
Speaker 3 (01:00:31):
So how we're going to end this?
She did not know this.
Okay, how we're going to endthis podcast.
I need Carla, I'm not going tosay one word.
I need you to speak to myviewers and I need you to tell
them, give them advice on givingup, not giving up, getting up
(01:01:04):
and getting past trauma In yourwords, not mine.
I need your words.
Okay, not giving up, get up andgetting past trauma.
Now go, okay.
Speaker 4 (01:01:27):
Well, I Take your time, the not giving up.
I think that is a mindset Ithink you have to have a mindset
of I'm not going to quit, I'mgoing to grind every day, no
matter whether or not I feellike it, because you're, you're
(01:01:54):
sowing in those moments and thetrauma.
I'll tell you.
I'm just now dealing with thetrauma I mean honestly, and
that's through a deeperrelationship with Jesus.
You know, I went to amainstream church and I wasn't
(01:02:20):
taught a different, a deeperrelationship with Jesus.
And now I'm at a differentchurch and I'm learning a deeper
relationship with Jesus.
And now I'm at a differentchurch and I'm learning a deeper
relationship with Jesus.
And when you go deep, there'ssome things that have to be
delivered from your life.
There's roots, set up, traumaand the deliverance, the
(01:02:46):
spiritual side of it.
I'm a firm believer today.
To be a breaker, a generationalcurse breaker, to be a breaker,
you're going to be the weirdone ultimately.
Speaker 3 (01:03:02):
Yes, you are and you're going to get judged,
you're going to get judged.
Speaker 4 (01:03:06):
Yes, you are and you're going to get judged.
You're going to get judged.
But the only one that I worryabout judging me is the man
upstairs, as my mama used to say.
And in deliverance it doesn'thappen like that.
There's healing, there's roots,there's forgiveness, and I have
(01:03:26):
a great counselor that iswalking me through that.
But I lean more on Jesus and Iseek the Lord.
I seek him in the word, I seekhim in my heart.
I have my quiet time.
I even fast now, which I'm notvery good at, but I will be one
(01:03:48):
day.
But it's baby steps to go fromglory to glory to glory and I
pray that each and every one ofyou that hear this and are
looking for that strength thatyou will find it, you ask God to
(01:04:15):
renew your mind and soften yourheart so that he can use you.
Speaker 3 (01:04:24):
Forgiveness is key.
Speaker 4 (01:04:25):
Forgiveness is key.
Speaker 3 (01:04:26):
You can't go through deliverance without forgiveness
and the last one is getting up,getting up just do it.
Speaker 4 (01:04:41):
I, I don't.
There's not a recipe, it's not,there's not.
Speaker 3 (01:04:46):
People ask me all the time Yvonne, how do you do so
much?
Because I don't think about it,I just do.
I just do and I just pray toGod that he gives me the
strength to do.
Yes, but you know, and somepeople are like, well, I don't
have the strength that you have,but when you get in the word,
when you get into God, he'llgive you that strength.
You got to pick up that Bible,dust that Bible off and you have
(01:05:17):
to say you know what?
Let me say this Before I knewhow to search in the Bible, I
would pick up the Bible and Iwould open up the Bible, let it
fall open and wherever it fellopen, that's why, excuse me,
that's what I would read,because I didn't know it either.
So don't think that me andCarla we had this secret way of
reading the Bible or the secretway of praying.
Speaker 4 (01:05:37):
We had to learn intimately Just in the last year
.
Speaker 3 (01:05:41):
I've just been seeking, so don't even use that
as an excuse, like the way I seegod now it it transforms weekly
daily.
I mean, you know, I don't seekhim always the same way.
Speaker 4 (01:05:56):
No, and I wake up praising god.
Speaker 3 (01:05:58):
Thank you, lord and I'll and let me say this I'm
gonna touch on when she wassaying that you know you get
judged or whatever.
When you start seeking God,you'll have family, friends,
strangers that will tell youthat you know you're being weird
(01:06:22):
or you're being this orwhatever.
You know you're crazy, I gotyou're crazy, I, whatever.
You know you're crazy, I gotyou're crazy.
I don't know if you got that Igot.
Many times people told me I wascrazy and I was not relatable
anymore.
I had one guy that I've beenfriends with a long time, that
he literally went on a Facebookpost and said and it really hurt
(01:06:46):
me.
He went on on there.
He said you know what?
The person I used to likeyou've changed.
You're not the person that wascool Literally says this it
really hurt me because I waslike but what God showed me was
when you with me, you willchange.
That's not a a good, that's nota bad thing, ivanka, that's a
(01:07:09):
good thing because that's whatyou're supposed to do is change.
So people will weaponize you andmake you feel like you're crazy
, or make you feel like that youum are the problem or the
trouble, or you're, or whatever.
The more they do that, that'swhen you know you're on the
right path, because, people,when you're on the right path,
(01:07:35):
the devil's coming in to stealyour joy.
So you have to realize you gotto get up and, like she said,
you just got to do it.
You know what I'm saying?
Carla, what's next?
What's next for Carla?
I promise y'all bring her back,because she's great for this
(01:07:55):
podcast.
Y'all.
Speaker 4 (01:07:56):
What's next?
I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:08:04):
Just waiting on God to tell you.
Speaker 4 (01:08:06):
Absolutely.
I don't make a move without him.
She says she don't make a movewithout her, without God, and
that's key, and just remember, aday to him could be a thousand
to us, correct, oh yes.
So patience is key, yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:08:27):
And realize it doesn't, like she said, doesn't
happen overnight.
No, thank you for coming.
Speaker 4 (01:08:36):
You're welcome.
I love you.
Speaker 3 (01:08:38):
I love you and I'm proud of you and I want you to
know that you inspire me, thankyou.
You pull things out of me thatyou don't realize.
You pull out of your big sister.
And for title Genesis title Ihighly recommend they're the
best in the business.
Okay, the best in business.
I'm not saying it's because ofmy sister, because she can tell
(01:09:01):
you if I didn't believe that, Iwould not do business with her.
She knows this.
Okay, they are the best in thebusiness.
They are very detailed, theyalways make sure your closings
are a smooth, joyful experienceand for you to get closure in
the right way to protect yourinvestment.
(01:09:21):
So I highly recommend you tolook out for Genesis and please
tell how they can get in touchwith you.
Speaker 4 (01:09:31):
So it's Genesis Real Estate Title and the phone
number is 865-454-8000.
And you can find us on socials.
Our website isGenesisRealEstateTitlecom.
And Burrville and Burrville andBurrville Sweet Treats.
You can find us on socials,facebook, instagram.
(01:09:53):
We're located at 195 EdgewoodAvenue in Clinton, so if you
come to the four-way of Highway25 and 62, there's a Walgreens
there on the corner with aBurger King beside it, and our
building is directly behindWalgreens.
Speaker 3 (01:10:13):
Very easy to find oh yes, very easy, and it's.
Speaker 4 (01:10:16):
The yard is has a black fence around it so that
the littles don't run out in theroad as they're running around
and eating their ice cream.
So it's Burrville, burrows andColds.
Burrows is our last name andthen also Clinton, the history
of Clinton.
It used to be called Burrville,so it has three different ties
(01:10:39):
into the name, but it'sBurrville, sweet Treats and
Clinton.
Speaker 3 (01:10:43):
There you go.
So I highly recommend you to goout, have a date night, have a
family night.
Go to Burrville, sit on theswings and swing with your
family and be present with yourfamily and for the events.
We will make sure that we willbe posting all the different
events that's coming in thefuture so you'll know what all
(01:11:04):
Burrville is doing, all thatCarla is doing in the future.
So you'll know what allBurrville is doing, all that
Carla's doing, and make surethat you support her, support
local, and know you are worthy.
You are worthy to have ablessed life and Carla just
shared hers and you know what?
One day you'll share yours.
Yes, tune in every Friday toYvonca's Talking with Tennessee,
(01:11:27):
with Yvonca podcast, because weare here to inspire you.
Speaker 1 (01:11:41):
Bye, guys of real estate, and check us out on the
web wwwyavoncasalesrealestatecom.
See our videos on yavonca'syoutube channel or find us on
facebook under yavonca landisand twitter at yavonca landis,
and don't forget to tell afriend about us.
Until next time.
Yavonca signing off.
Check us out to hear the latest on life in the
volunteer state.
Yvonca and her guests discusseverything from life, love and
business with a Tennessee flair.
It's a Tennessee thing, alwaysrelatable, always relevant and
always a good time.
This is Talkin' Tennessee, andnow your host, yvonca.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
This episode is brought to you by the Landis
team, your go-to real estatefamily in East Tennessee.
If you are looking to buy orsell, we are the ones you should
call.
Give us a call at 865-660-1186or check out our website at
YvoncaSellsRealEstatecom.
That's Yvonca Y-V-O-N-N-C-Asalesrealestatecom.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Welcome back to Talking Tennessee with Yvonca.
I am your host and I am here, Ihave to say it, my sissy, my
sissy's, in the building, carlaBurrows, from Genesis Title, is
here to inspire you.
From Genesis Title is here toinspire you.
Welcome, sissy.
Thank you, sister.
I want y'all to know you couldnot have a closer relationship
(01:16):
with a family member than thisrelationship right here.
Me and her have grown uptogether.
We have had children together,got married, built businesses.
So this one, I will tell you,means more to me than any
podcast that I've ever done, andyou'll understand why.
(01:40):
Carla, welcome to Talkin'Tennessee.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Thank you, I love you .
Speaker 3 (01:45):
I love you.
I love you.
So who is Carla Burrows?
Speaker 4 (01:53):
That's steep.
Okay, that's steep.
So first of all, I guess Iwould say that I'm a woman who
fears the Lord and fears theLord as in.
I respect him, I run after himand I'm a wife.
High school sweethearts and 27years now yes, I'm a mother of
(02:21):
four, with a 13-year gap inbetween.
What was our youngest?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
So Cameron is 24.
Bebe is 17 now and the boystwin boys are four.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Let me just say this the day that she called me to
tell me she was pregnant with mynephews, I guess she forgot who
her sister is, and so I guessshe thought she was going to
call and I was going to say someprofane thing just to get her
through, and all I did was laugh.
(02:57):
No sympathy, none, I laughed.
But I truly believe that Godmakes no mistakes.
He makes no mistakes and heknew what you needed.
You know, honestly, carla, shehas the career, she has the
businesses, she has the family,she has the husband, she has the
(03:20):
children, but I think your boysreally brought a different side
of you out.
They did.
You know, girls bring a sideout of us as well, but I think
your boys came at the time thatyou really needed to challenge
yourself in other ways, and Ithink that God used the boys to
(03:42):
bring out more of Carla to theworld.
Yes, do you agree with that?
I do, and so, viewers, I wantyou to know, you have to be sure
to follow her on her socialmedia pages and Genesis, and
we'll get all into that, but youjust have to follow her journey
and just see that God is alwaysin the midst of things, follow
(04:05):
her journey and just see thatGod is always in the midst of
things and things.
When you think your life is setand you think, okay, you know
I'm going to be the wife, themother and the businesswoman and
you know it's all set and I'mgoing near 40.
God will always shake it up,always, amen.
How was you when you gotpregnant?
Speaker 4 (04:23):
With Cameron.
Yeah, I had her one month afterI turned 20.
And then I got pregnant withthe boys when I was 39.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
39, y'all 39 years old and Carla wasn't looking to
have more kids, but if you seeher with her boys, you would
have thought that it was planned.
You know I dropped off my nephew.
For the ones that don't know,carla blessed me with my son,
(04:54):
jaden Landis, who you hear metalk about so much.
You know Carla really wantedher nephew to be raised by a
family that is going to love himand instill great values in him
and just be there for him, andso I thank God that you chose me
and David to bless us with that.
You know a lot of people don'tknow that at that time when she
(05:17):
blessed us, I had had sixmiscarriages and I had given up
on having a child, and I hadgiven up on having a child.
But God had a different plan,and God had a plan that he
wanted to bless a child.
It really wasn't about us.
No, he used me and Carla, butit really wasn't about us.
It was about blessing a childand making sure a child had a
(05:40):
blessed life, and so I thinkthat really shows a lot of
strength and we're going to getinto that of Carla's strength.
But let's start about Carla asa child.
What was your upbringing, carla?
Speaker 4 (06:00):
I mean, it was what I would say is difficult.
But also now that you know I'vehealed and I've been delivered
from generational curses andstrongholds, you know I can look
back where I was angry, yes,and unforgiving.
Okay, I agree, you know my momhad me when she was 15.
(06:22):
I agree, you know my mom had mewhen she was 15.
And there were things thathappened in my life because she
was a young mother that I had toforgive.
But then I look back and Ithink she didn't know any better
.
Right.
She was doing the best that shecould, yes, given her
circumstances, given hercircumstances, and so I just so
(06:48):
there were things that happenedthat ultimately I can say today
that the enemy knew, yeah, theanointing that was on my life
and he was coming after it, hard, strong Even, and it started at
Well, I mean even at birth, tobe, to be a baby of a teenage
mother.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
And then things happened as young as four, abuse
, yes, and moving.
I went to eight differentschools in Knox County, so never
was there a firm foundation.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Yeah, foundation.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
There was a firm foundation that I was always
loved and I was always protectedby God.
I know that in my heart 100%.
You know I was saved at eight.
I always I longed for churchand you know the elderly women
in the church would always comeget me or I would walk to church
(07:43):
.
But because of generationalcurses, even though I love the
Lord, I still went off thatnarrow path and but God still
had me.
He did the whole time.
He did, and his the glory ofthe Lord on my life, the grace
(08:11):
and the mercy Jesus.
So I Let God use you, carla.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Let God use you, yes, and so there's that spirit
coming on and I'll start crying,but I'm not going to and it's
okay, you know.
Just.
You know, the day I turned 18,well, I quit high school.
I quit school, and, jesus, Idid not.
(08:41):
School just wasn't for me.
I would go in the back door orcome in the front and go out the
back, and so truancy was anissue and it was easier for all
involved, meaning my mom and theschool officials.
It was easier for me just tosign out when I turned 17.
(09:01):
And I did out when I turned 17.
And I did the day I turned 18,I moved out and in with Jason,
my husband now, and then I hadCameron one month after I turned
20.
Are y'all?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
hearing this.
Let's go back one thing.
She said she quit school at 17years old thing.
Okay, she said she quit schoolat 17 years old.
There was generational cursesthat were there and I can name a
story that you told me.
Do you remember you telling mea story about a neighbor?
(09:39):
I think you can correct me thatyou were sent to school.
You can correct me that youwere sent to school and some way
you got lice in your hair.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Oh, I always had lice .
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Kept it Okay.
She had lice in her hair andshe literally, was it a neighbor
that cut your hair?
She?
Speaker 4 (10:00):
treated my hair.
Please tell that story.
So we lived in a concretebuilding that was split up into
six different apartments and wewere on the top floor.
She was on the bottom and I wasoutside playing and she called
me.
She was like hey, come here.
And I went down there and shetreated my hair for loss and I
(10:22):
remember having the treatment onmy hair and my mom was calling
for me or whatever, and um, soof course my mom got upset that
this woman was treating my hair.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
But you know that was you know as a kid, you you know
you want your parents toprotect you, you want your
parents to be your security.
But what I'm hearing?
You didn't have security, youdidn't have protection.
You didn't have the earthlyprotection, you had the godly
(10:54):
protection.
God allowed you to go throughsome things and experience some
things that were very, verytraumatizing, that were very,
very traumatizing.
I mean, you know, living in ahouse with your parents and
constantly having lice and goingto school and not having a lot
of money and clothing and thosedifferent things that can do
(11:16):
something to a child.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Oh yeah, oh for sure, and you so like in school back
then.
You know the nurse would comein there with her pencil and she
would be checking everybody'shands and I knew I was going
home.
You know the nurse would comein there with her pencil and she
would be checking everybody'shands and I knew I was going
home.
You know every time, and I knowit was embarrassing, oh gosh,
yeah.
But thankfully I switchedschools at different times.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
So that did help a little bit.
What did that with the eightschools switching from school to
school, what did that do to you?
Did that?
Was it a new beginning to youfeeling?
Or was it more of not beingaccepted somewhere and not
having friends?
(11:59):
And you know, like constantfriends you had to constantly
keep making new friendsAbsolutely and honestly.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
I can't remember the feelings then, but now I think
of that as a blessing, because Ican walk into a room with
confidence and I can talk to thepresident, and I'm not.
I look at people and I'm likethey put their pants on, the
same way I do every morning sowhy would?
(12:28):
I.
Why would I think that they'rebetter than me or more powerful
than me, or anything like that?
so I think it gave me aconfidence yes um, and I lean on
Joshua 1 9 to be strong andcourageous, to be strong and
brave in every situation I walkinto, because I know that the
(12:48):
Lord already has my stepsordered already and I walk into
it with bravery and strength.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
And so you had the curses there.
You had the shackles on yourfeet, strongholds like no other,
yeah.
And so it was like, first ofall, you got saved, and you got
saved by God, yeah, okay.
But then you got saved in anearthly way by God, again in the
(13:18):
public eye, okay, but you hadto go through some things.
So at 18 years old, she movedout of her mom's house, she
moved in her he's her husbandnow but she moved in with her
boyfriend, okay, she moved inwith her boyfriend and she went
down the road of.
You know, she didn't know whoshe was.
(13:40):
I mean, there was no way youknew who you were and where you
are now.
You don't look like what you'vebeen through.
I mean, there was no way youknew who you were and where you
are now.
You don't look like what you'vebeen through.
I mean nothing like what you'vebeen through.
And so what did what was that?
Like you know, going from yourmom and dad's house or your mom
and stepfather's house to movingin with your boyfriend.
(14:01):
Did it feel like more securityor did it feel like?
This is just what I have to do?
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Both, both, I think, with the abandonment and because
my dad, my mom being 15, my dadwas 17.
And even though he lived inKnoxville, there was never a
relationship.
So there was that abandonmentas well, and abandonment is real
.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
It is so real, especially in our communities.
There are so many people thatneed to deal with their
abandonment issues and don'trealize a lot of the decisions
they make in their adult lifehas to do with the abandonment
issues.
Please speak on it.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Yes, so I believe that that caused me to put a
wall up and bury that root, soto speak, trauma, and I replaced
it with grinding yeah, workinghard.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
And you turned trauma into purpose.
Yes, you turned trauma intoovercoming.
Yes.
You didn't accept what you'vebeen through.
You didn't wear it with a badgeof armor.
You wear you, you let it, youreflect it back to where you
didn't want to go back to.
So you, you went to grind it.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
I went to grind it.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
When did you go to Chuck Farhat's office?
Shout out to Chuck Farhat ohChuck.
Yes, Chuck Farhat is our oldemployer that brought me and
Carla together and we dedicatethis episode to him because if
it wasn't for Chuck, you knowthere's a lot of things he
taught us that was so hard atthe time and we felt like why
(15:56):
are you so hard on us?
Why are you doing this?
And we can literally tell youstories of times that we were
just so angry.
But I thank God that Chuck sawsomething in us that we didn't
see in ourself because we didn'tknow who we were at that time.
When did you start working forChuck Farhat?
I was 18.
(16:16):
18 years old, 1998.
1998.
She started working for amortgage company as a
telemarketer.
As a telemarketer, and I comein and I get an ad about a loan
officer In the newspaper.
In the newspaper the littlesmall ad that Chuck Farhat had
(16:37):
out there, and that's how me andCarla met in Chuck Farhat's
office and we embarked on.
And I'm going to tell you thereason why we came together
Cause I was in one office when Ifirst started and I was sitting
with a girl I am not going toeven say her name because I
don't want it to be, uh, thatI'm bashing someone, okay, but
(17:01):
she wasn't the person I neededto be sitting with, okay, and
she was supposed to be trainingme.
Well, she didn't train meanything.
All she talked about the wholeday is her dating the boss's son
, okay, and so I'm sitting theretrying to figure out.
At the time I was going througha divorce, just just so much
(17:24):
going well, no, no, no, no.
Before that, when I firststarted, we wasn't separated at
the time and we were going downthat road, okay, and all I knew
is I was going to be a singlemom taking care of this kid that
I don't know how I'm going tofeed her, and I'm sitting with
this processor.
(17:45):
That wasn't teaching meanything.
Well, three days into that Idon't know if you remember this,
three days into me, starting iswhen you, chuck, made you a
processor came out of the backroom.
Yeah, he took her out of theback room of the telemarketing
room and he made her a processor.
But in the midst of that it wasokay, I'm going to have you sit
(18:09):
over here with this processor,you know, because he knew I
wasn't learning from the otherone, not knowing that Carla at
that time, you know she waslearning being a processor.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Lord, I didn't even know the definition of a
mortgage.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Yeah, she didn't, we did not, we were that.
I don't want to say dumb, butI'm like we were dumb to the
situation we were in.
Let me just say that because Ijust keep it real.
Anyway, and I'll never forget,suzanne, shout out to Suzanne
Thompson because she supports usas well.
Is that, suzanne?
(18:43):
You remember Suzanne's file?
I was about to say that file,color coding.
It goes down in history of thebest Organization File.
And, meg, I'll never forgetCarla, suzanne, teaching me how
to do this file, and I'll neverforget you coming one day and
(19:05):
I'm over to do this file.
And I'll never forget youcoming one day and I'm over here
stacking this file, trying toget it all nice, and Carla comes
pulling out the like the paper.
Don't do it that way, you don'tneed all of that.
I'll never forget.
But it taught us structure.
It really did you know?
So, suzanne, listen, we had tolean back to that many times.
(19:28):
I want you to know that.
But Carla pulled out theirpapers and I was, and that's how
our friendship started.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
I think it was Chuck that pulled the papers out, was
it?
I just remembered.
I think it was.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Chuck.
Okay, well, let me refrain andsay it was Chuck that pulled all
those papers out.
And, oh my gosh, and we'resitting here like we don't know
if it's right or wrong, becauseI mean who are we?
We only been in it three days,but I just think that God had
his hand all over us, carla.
(20:01):
I mean, I was in a marriagethat was not good for me, not
saying the person is a badperson.
Rest in peace because he haspassed away.
He was a good person because hegave me my doctor, you know,
but he wasn't.
We wasn't good for each other,and you know a lot of things.
(20:23):
I think that my ex-husband feltlike I think he believed in me.
He really did believe in me,but it was for his gain.
You know, he wanted to push meto places where God wasn't ready
for us to go.
I think that even with you,carla, that was, you were so
(20:45):
traumatized by your childhoodthat, you know, if we wouldn't
have had a Chuck, I don't knowwhere we would have been.
God used him and please share.
You know what was yourbeginnings, starting in
mortgages.
Yeah, what was it like.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Wow.
Well, it was not efficientbecause we had dial-up internet,
right, correct.
And it was very hard because Ididn't know what a mortgage was.
You know, because generations,the generations that I knew, you
know my mom, my mom didn't knowmy paternal side, so I didn't
(21:23):
know what a mortgage was Correct.
But the Lord put me in a placewhere I could pull wisdom and
was given wisdom which allowedme to.
I processed for four years.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
And then got a job opportunity as a title agent and
I went over to title andstarted processing and closing
transactions purchases and refisand you know, keep in mind, she
didn't know how to do any ofthis.
She's traumatized.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
She doesn't have family support.
No, her mom and dad was not inher life in a positive way.
Okay, I want people to reallyunderstand.
You had nothing but God and youand Jason embarked on.
You know what the life wasgoing to be, but neither one of
(22:25):
y'all knew.
Y'all didn't have a clue.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
We had no clue and we had no support.
So like if we had to pay autility bill and we didn't have
the money, we couldn't go to ourparents and ask for money,
correct?
I mean, I remember pumping gasthis was before prepaid, but it
was a gas station out in DeepFarragut, it was that Wibles on
the left.
(22:49):
So I had pumped the gas and wentin and the bank card had
declined and I remember countingpennies, gathering all the
change called Jason, and I'mlike you're going to have to
bring me some change orsomething.
I've put my gas and I don'thave the money, and so I
remember counting specificallypennies to pay for my gas, and
(23:12):
it was nothing like what you'vebeen through.
You know, thank the Lord, I'dbe looking pretty rough.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Yeah, because if you really think about it is even in
those times.
You know, even once David gotin my life and everything you
know.
That's why I thank God thatDavid does.
You know he will always say hewill always relate back to God
and he'll say look how God hasbrought us through.
You know that type of thing.
(23:41):
He doesn't try to take creditfor you know my success and I
don't try to take credit for youknow my success and I don't try
to take care of credit for his,because our beginnings we did
not have.
You know, I'm saying we werejust trying to figure it out but
we were just making it day byday.
You know, I'm saying you knowyou calling Jason, dylan, jason,
(24:02):
to bring you some change orwhatever, but he didn't have no
more than you had.
You know what I'm saying.
So the only person that couldmake us is God.
You know, that's the only thingthat you know.
David said to me the other day,Carla, he said I look at you
now and he said I knew you wasgoing to be you know something
(24:27):
great.
But he said, yvonca, I look atyou now and he goes.
I would have never been able toimagine this and I was like
well, you couldn't imagine, Icouldn't imagine you know what
I'm saying because we haveaccomplished things, but it
wasn't easy.
You know what I'm saying Becausewe have accomplished things,
but it wasn't easy.
You know what I'm saying.
You had a baby at 20.
(24:48):
It wasn't given.
It wasn't, it wasn't given andyou had to go in and go to that
job every day Nobody went therefor you?
No, nobody, no, okay, ourfamilies didn't go, our husbands
didn't go, nobody went andworking in a mortgage company
with a lot of men working inthere and women were not on the
(25:13):
same level.
Okay, it could have broke us,but it strengthened us.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
Yes, when you got to title, tell them what that was
like that was hard, you know,because at that point I would
have had Cameron, would havebeen like two, okay, and then we
Was you scared to switch frommortgages to title?
Speaker 3 (25:37):
or was it the money I wasn't?
Speaker 4 (25:39):
scared.
The money had me hyped becauseI went from you know know what
$6 an hour at the mortgagecompany.
Plus I would get bonuses onevery file that I processed.
That closed but even with thathoney it was a struggle too but
I was counting pennies, yeah,and so then, when title came and
(26:02):
they offered me a salary, I waslike salary, you thought you
was rich, moving on up right.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
We call that gal rich .
You thought you was rich baby.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
Yes, yes.
So I was excited, but thatsalary probably evened out to
about $6 an hour as much as Iworked, because back then we
didn't have mobile notaries.
So now we can call a mobilenotary that is self-employed and
we say, hey, this loan's got toclose at seven o'clock in
(26:34):
Kingston.
We're going to contract you togo close it for us.
But it wasn't like that.
Back then we had there was nocontract notaries.
Back then Rare, it was veryrare and so I would come to work
at nine, and most of the timenine o'clock at night.
Yeah, there were nights that Iwas in Cocke County at midnight
(26:59):
yes, I remember looking at thepeople's clock and it was
midnight doing their closing andbecause that's what you had to
do to keep the business you hadto if you told a loan officer.
No, you went to go do theirclosing.
They're gone.
They're gone and for real so,yeah, you, you are.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
No, it was serious.
Yeah, and that could have beenthe money that you made to feed
your kids or kid or whatever.
Because I know, literally withme I would go to Chuck's from 9
to 4.30 and clock in servicemerchandise by 5.15.
(27:40):
And I would not get home.
When I first started I wouldnot get home to 9.30, 10 o'clock
at night.
You know what I'm saying.
And even with when I got rid ofthat job and I just had one job
, I mean, think about it I hadto call leads.
So when you come home it's notlike I got to cut off or
(28:01):
whatever.
And there was many times when meand David first started dating
and I finally did allow David tobe around.
Adrian David was my babysitter.
He was, you know, but the bestpart about that is it helped
David to build a relationshipwith Adrian that is so strong
now.
You know he appreciates thattime.
(28:25):
Know, but I would.
I couldn't have paid for childcare.
Think about what child care wasback then.
You know it's high now, butwhat I'm saying is you had a
salary, but look at me, I wishyou had work.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
I did and Jason, you know he was a brick and block
Mason.
Yeah, so he would you knowweather, battle the weather, hot
, cold, you know, and then justthe physical.
But then he would come home andhave to take care of a baby.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
And then and that's not easy either.
No, and you know.
Then Bailey, I had Bailey in2006 and still going strong for
a minute, and then the marketcrashed Right and so when the
market crashed.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
It crashed in 08 and it crashed hard.
Yes, we had built up.
Just imagine this, guys.
She's saying she's a highschool dropout.
She's telling you she wastraumatized in her childhood.
She had lice in her hair on aregular, okay, regular, okay.
(29:38):
She got her head shavedregularly because she didn't
have medicine, the money to gobuy the medicine.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Well, it didn't work.
No more, right yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
They were like this ain't Exactly, yeah, you know.
And then she didn't have a momand dad that were in her life.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
As a positive.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
As a positive.
Let's talk about it.
What was it like not having momand dad?
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Well, I had my mamaw.
You did my sweet mamaw.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Yes, she was your everything.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Yes, and my mom was too.
I don't want to take from herbecause she didn't know better.
Yes, so I can't bash her forwhat she don't know.
When you offer up the abilityfor the Lord to come in and heal
(30:37):
you and deliver you, you seethings in a different light, you
, you, you see things in adifferent light.
You do.
I see things in a spirituallight.
Now, I know the dark side and Iknow the strongholds that can
take over in the dark side.
So I can't, in my heart ofhearts, I can't bash her hearts.
(31:06):
I can't bash her.
Did it affect me?
Yes, right, um, but I am who Iam today because of the struggle
, and I'm on the other side.
Let God use you.
I'm on the other side because Iallowed the Lord, I had faith,
I believed.
Did I mess up?
Absolutely.
Did I step off that narrow pathMany a times?
(31:32):
But I got back up.
Yes, you did, and I stay up.
But if I fall, I don't use itas an excuse.
I don't play victim.
I don't.
I don't feed off of poor, poor,pitiful me.
(31:53):
That's not, that's not thestrength that the Lord has given
me and you don't use your.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
That's not the strength that the Lord has given
me, and you don't use your.
She doesn't use her trauma toweaponize and make excuses of
why she didn't do this or whyshe didn't do that is what I see
.
I will say this.
I will say this Every familygoes through things and there
(32:22):
can be a lot of demons in it.
It can be abuse, it can be druguse, it can be a lot of
different things and Carla'sfamily had it all and Carla's
(32:43):
childhood she saw it all, to theabuse, to you know, the drug
use, all those different things.
The one thing that stuck out tome is when you got pregnant
with Cameron.
I never forget you saying to meyou may were like three, four
months pregnant.
Then you were like it's goingto be different if I'll go what
(33:08):
I endured in my childhood.
I'm not going to allow my kidsto take that in their childhood.
And does that mean okay?
Carla, you know, never makes amistake.
I'm not saying she doesn't, shehadn't made mistakes.
But the one thing I can say isis that your heart was always
(33:31):
right.
You wanted more for your kids.
You wanted to make sure thatyou broke the curses and you
went to the church.
I'll never forget inviting youto Bishop Wright's church.
That's another person that didso much for me and Carla at such
a young age of just talking tous and just knowing praying for
(33:56):
us unbelievable, knowing,praying for us, unbelievable and
just truly believing in us andseeing something that we
couldn't see in ourselves.
Bishop, I'll never forget you.
Coming to the church the firstday, he said there's something
in that girl right there.
He said it's something in thereand God's going to bring it out
(34:18):
of her.
I'll never forget that.
Him said it to me and he saidit's something in there and
God's going to bring it out ofher.
I'll never forget that.
Him said it to me and he saidthere's something in her, and
now the world's getting to seewhat's in her and getting to see
God.
It was all in his plan.
So let's go to the next chapter.
Good stuff, and that's going tothe.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
Let's go to the next the good stuff, and that's going
to be that do you want to say?
Start with.
Genesis start with Genesis, soGenesis.
So I guess I started claimingthat I was going to have a title
company, probably like 05-062005-2006.
(35:00):
However, have a title companyprobably like 0506 2005 2006.
However, even though I wasspeaking it, jesus, the trauma
on the inside was like who areyou to speak such a word?
you can't do that oh I mean, Ihad like a 400 credit score and
if you remember, Chuck used totell us for a 400 credit score
(35:22):
you get that name.
For your name you get that foryour name and address.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Yes, oh, he would dog out a 400 score, I mean
literally.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
You know I had collections.
She was a judge.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
Yeah, total debt.
Yes, collections judgmentsJudgment yeah, total debt, yes,
inflations judgments we wereliterally doing mortgages for
people.
I think that really is whathumbled us, because even though
we were doing mortgages andthat's why I always tell people,
just because we're doing themortgages or whatever, and that
is our craft and that is ourcareer it's not like we haven't
(36:02):
been there.
But you know, I'm saying andand I always, carla, can tell
you we always gravitated topeople that had bad credit.
We always did.
But I think it was because weknew we had been there.
We knew we were there at sometimes.
We were doing mortgages, we hadjudgments and collections
(36:22):
ourselves, and I think a lot ofprofessionals forget, they
forget when they were there andthey forget.
You know, I've been in creditcard debt a couple times.
You know what I'm saying and Ithink that's what sets us apart
is because we never forgot.
You know what I'm saying.
And so she wanted Genesis andshe wanted to talk to her.
(36:44):
She told me, flat, I want atitle, coming to Ivanka, and I
was like, and I believed thatshe was going to get one.
You're going to have it.
Did I know how?
No, I didn't, or whatever.
And then let's talk aboutBishop Henry.
Speaker 4 (36:56):
But I remember David saying what about Bishop Henry?
But I remember David sayingwhat did David?
Say that I needed to.
This is David right, so Ineeded to poop or get off the
pot, and I will never forgetthat because I talked about it.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
So much.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
He didn't say that word, but he said another word.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
But you know, how David is.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
Yes, and that's what he kept telling me.
Y'all know, on my Facebook liveI be telling him a cuss word to
come at us about.
I say it's a family show.
You can't do that.
Yeah, so he didn't say poop, no, he didn't let your imagination
go.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
Yeah, so, um, I, I remember that to this day well.
So I went to Kingdom Life thatweekend, me and my girls, and I
think it was like a revival week.
Or maybe we were celebratingBishop.
One or the other we might havebeen celebrating.
I think it was both.
I think it was.
He did a revival.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
And the last day, because Bishop never liked those
multiple days of just talkingabout him, multiple days of just
talking about him.
I think the very last day, thatSunday was the day that we were
celebrating Bishop and BishopHenry out of Florida was coming
to close out his revival.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
Yes, yes, go ahead, tell us more.
So me and the girls are in thecongregation.
Congregation and Bishop Henry'sup there.
Give it a word.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
Go back a little bit.
This white girl, only whitegirl.
Only white girl in the thing,with two white kids coming to
predominantly black Well justsay a black church, because
there was no other whites inthis church.
She's sitting in the middle ofthis, middle to the back of yeah
, on the left side.
(38:42):
I remember this in the back.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
Go ahead okay and he stops and I'm so.
I've had no experience withprophets, prophetic messages,
nothing like that.
So he stops and I'm like.
He's like okay, I need, I needyou to come up here to the front
and you know I'm looking around, like okay, so is this like
halftime show or something youknow?
(39:07):
look, she ain't never been to noblack church so I'm looking,
I'm watching, and then he callsme out by dress color, right?
So I'm like oh no, I know, Iknow I can't worship in sound
beat, right, I know you don'thave to call me out.
This is what's going through myhead.
(39:28):
I'm like lord jesus.
So my little white self goes upthere and I'm standing in the
pulpit and bishop's like what'sthe name of your business?
Speaker 3 (39:44):
and I was like jesus, let me just tell you y'all know
, adrian's my producer of thisshow and adrian does all the
things.
Adrian is over and dying rightnow.
Speaker 4 (39:54):
Y'all go ahead oh it's real though it's real and I
told you.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
I didn't prepare for this interview.
She didn't prepare for thisbecause I wanted to be open to
wrong.
Speaker 4 (40:04):
Go ahead, it's all love it is so I go up there and
Bishop's little white girl, theblack church.
Yes, go up there.
And Bishop says what's the nameof your business?
And I was like what?
I was like I don't have abusiness.
And I turned to my right and Iseen Ivanka and she was crying
(40:25):
and I was like something'shappening why is she?
crying.
And I turned back to him and,um, I remember my ears started
ringing and I could hardly hearwhat he was saying.
But I got bits and pieces and Imust have looked even wider
(40:45):
than I was because he saidsomebody probably need to get
her a chair, because she might,yes.
And so he said your knees wereknocking.
Yeah, the spirit came on me.
Yeah knocking like, yeah, thespirit came on me, yeah, and he
(41:07):
said the lord said for you toopen the business that he will
provide to you as a david atsaul's table, jesus, and it took
10 years for me to know whatthat message meant.
That message meant that I Ihave been a David to these
business owners all the yearsprior Jesus, and I have been a
David to those Saul's in my life.
(41:29):
I have ran their business, Ihave taken care of their
business Just like it was my own.
Just like David served Saul.
It was my own, just like Davidserved Saul.
And Bishop said the Lord hasprepared a table for you.
And that fired me up like noother.
(41:50):
So, of course, now the enemycomes in right and he's like
okay, so you're a high schooldropout, you have a 400 credit
score, you have no money in thebank, you have judgment.
How are you going to open atitle company?
And this was in 2010.
Speaker 3 (42:07):
Are y'all hearing this.
Speaker 4 (42:09):
So I was like okay, so first thing I need to do is I
got to get my GED, because nounderwriter title insurance
underwriter is going to sign meif I don't have a diploma.
And so I went and I got my GED.
Then I went and got my titleagent test.
I failed it the first time.
Speaker 3 (42:29):
I had to go back up here.
But we're going to go back forone second.
Here's the connection In thatsame prophetic word he told her
to link.
He said he used my last name.
He said land.
He said wait a minute, wait aminute.
(42:50):
He said I see y'all doingsomething together.
And do you remember him sayingthat part?
Because she was so in thespirit y'all, it was so powerful
and he broke down my last nameand that's why a lot of people
don't understand, why you knowpeople are like well, why do you
(43:11):
?
You know, I know your last nameis Landis, you know da-da-da.
That's why I go back to thatname, because Bishop Henry told
me respect my name and torespect, you know, what God had
given me.
And when he broke down my nameto Carla, it gave me value
(43:35):
through you, and I don't thinkI've ever told you that Through
you, and I don't think I've evertold you that is, that it did
not register to me what yourname.
My grandmother told me thatyour name should be more
(43:56):
important to you than anything,more than any title, position or
whatever.
But when he used your story andwhen he was talking to you
about letting he broke down mylast name to you, you gave me
value.
You gave me you, you gave mevision through the prophetic
word that he gave to you.
So I thank you for that you'rewelcome I thank you.
Now go ahead.
Land is, land is.
That's what it was.
That's exactly what he saidland is yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (44:21):
so this was 2010, so the ged title agent test had to
take it twice, and then I usedum back when I used to get a
huge tax return.
Speaker 1 (44:38):
Yes, Don't get no earned income credit.
Speaker 4 (44:41):
Thank you, lord, I mean, but it is what it is.
So that chunk of money I usedto pay off collections and
credit card debt and in theJanuary 2nd 2012, okay, um,
(45:05):
genesis real estate title openednow keep in mind she had worked
for a mortgage company.
Speaker 3 (45:16):
She had worked for three, three title companies, so
that's four total companiesshe's talking about.
She had helped build thosebusinesses.
Okay, those businesses were atits height when she was there.
(45:36):
Okay, some of them are not inbusiness anymore.
I think only one is.
They recently sold out, though.
Speaker 4 (45:46):
Okay so never mind.
Speaker 3 (45:48):
So none of them are open, and so she.
So Bishop Henry tells her hereyou go, god wants you to open
this business.
But the trauma told her shedidn't do it.
The the trauma told her shedidn't do it.
The abandonment told her shecouldn't do it.
Her credit score told her shecouldn't do it.
But the accountability she hadto take, her trauma from her
(46:15):
childhood, didn't get her theGED.
That trauma did't get her theGED.
That trauma did not get her thecredit score she can't blame.
Yes, she didn't learn creditwhen she was a kid, but the
choices that she made is why shehad a 400 credit score.
And the reason why I'm sayingthat is because I need people to
(46:36):
understand is is that, eventhough you done went through
trauma you can't use, you can't,like she says, be the victim or
victimize things.
Oh, this is why.
No, she didn't pay her bills.
Speaker 4 (46:51):
Hey, they were giving me credit cards.
Okay, she didn't pay her bills.
You see what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (46:56):
She was living off of them and all that kind of stuff
, and so she had to acceptaccountability and she had to go
back to school.
Speaker 4 (47:04):
I did and so there were people put in my life that
that allowed me to open Genesis,and so that allowed me to open
Genesis, and so 2012,.
(47:29):
Open Genesis and the name is tome is the beginning of breaking
the curse of never stepping outin faith.
Speaker 3 (47:40):
Jesus.
Speaker 4 (47:44):
I didn't have the faith until the Lord sent a man
to tell me, because the Lordprobably got tired of he was
probably saying the same thingDavid did, but just in a cleaner
version, right.
Speaker 3 (47:53):
Just do it, do it.
Speaker 4 (47:55):
Go, get off the pot, go, get off the pot, go, and For
such a time as this.
So I started out in a smalloffice, got all my furniture off
of like Craigslist.
My closing table was a diningroom table that.
(48:19):
I bought off Craigslist andstayed in that office for a
couple of years One employee Ihad it was myself and one other
employee for five years and thenwe moved to a larger office
where I got to decorate andpaint on my own brand new
furniture.
Speaker 3 (48:38):
And let me tell you, I'll never forget you buying
your dining room table Glass.
But let me tell you somethingit was hers, okay, she claimed
that and she was so proud ofthat and she's like sissy, I got
this and you gotta come overhere, keep going so then we
(49:01):
stayed um.
Speaker 4 (49:02):
then I hired another person, so we went, went from
myself in one to myself in two,and so that was probably year
six and we just started year 11.
Then I opened a second locationin Clinton, which is my.
Speaker 3 (49:26):
Are y'all hearing?
She started Genesis.
She did sweat equity.
She worked For a long time.
It was just her in her office.
Then it was she got employees.
She had her office five years,just sweat equity.
Speaker 4 (49:49):
Oh, let me tell you that first year, though, I
knocked it out the park, rightRight, but because I still had
those habits, those financialhabits, not having that wisdom,
I didn't even know if I wasgoing to be able to pay my rent.
I drained the bank account,basically, see, because I went
from a salary to being a personwho was self-employed, and it's
(50:14):
different.
Speaker 3 (50:16):
It's very different and see, a lot of people don't
realize that is that everybodywants to be an entrepreneur.
But if you don't have abusiness mind, I don't care,
It'll go fast, it'll go Realfast.
Speaker 4 (50:26):
And you won't even know it's gone until you look up
.
And I didn't even know if Icould pay the rent and did I
quit.
No, I just kept going.
And today, go ahead.
Genesis is debt free.
Speaker 3 (50:44):
Debt free.
She owns two title companies.
She owns one off of North Shoreand she owns another one in
Clinton, and so the best part ofGenesis is just knowing.
You had to believe in yourself.
You had to figure out a way tobelieve that, no matter what I
(51:05):
went through, it doesn't defineyou.
And you had to realize that youhad to break some habits, you
had to break some curses, youhad to say no to yourself.
There's a lot of things you hadto do, and you had all these
babies looking at you like whatare we going?
Speaker 4 (51:25):
to do.
I had to get it together, Getit all in together okay.
Speaker 3 (51:29):
Yeah, you know.
And so she's got two titlecompanies that are thriving Even
in a market like it is.
They're thriving, yeah, youknow.
And she's been through a hardmarket before.
08 was the hardest we've everbeen through, but she didn't
give up was the hardest we'veever been through, but she
(51:50):
didn't give up.
She didn't give up and sheshares her story in such a way
that is inspiring.
You know that, no matter what,you had twins at 39, that would
have been an easy way to give up.
You just got to keep working atit and know, you know, when I
got a family, I've gotbusinesses and I've worked to be
(52:10):
here.
You've worked to be here.
In your personal life, in yourbusiness life, in your spiritual
life, you've worked to be here.
So what?
What's next?
Or what did come next?
Speaker 4 (52:25):
There's already a next.
So we had an opportunity thatcame and I bought a commercial
building in Clinton and we movedthe Clinton location to that
building.
Half of it is Genesis and theother half was vacant.
Speaker 3 (52:46):
And let me just say this the day that you called me
and told me you bought abuilding, no, no, you told me
you were buying a building.
Speaker 4 (52:54):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (52:56):
You know how you get that feeling of when one of your
family members does something.
Well, you should get thisfeeling.
It's just like they doing it.
That was my proud moment.
I was so proud, as your bigsister, that my little sister
bought a freaking building.
Okay, and knowing I know yourstory, now tell them about your
(53:22):
building.
Speaker 4 (53:23):
Half is Genesis, and then the other half set vacant
for about a year and um, so Ihad the vision of ice cream.
First it was like daycare orrun a daycare, because there was
a shortage in clinton ofdaycares, but just the liability
of that.
And um, ice cream, I was, I waslike Lord, all I know is how to
(53:48):
eat ice cream.
Yes, but the logistics of arestaurant business, it's a lot.
I had no clue.
I mean title is my niche.
I mean real estate, that's mything and that's my baby and
that's my passion.
Yes, but the community I wantedsomething for the community.
(54:11):
Um, so it just started piece bypiece.
The first thing that went upwas a pergola that has seven
porch swings around it.
You know, because we werecoming out of a time of, you
know, covid, where nobody wantedto be around each other.
You know, nobody was shakinghands anymore.
We were just losing thatpersonal touch and that in that
(54:32):
community.
And um, so I built the, had thepergola custom built and um,
then we started on the build outof the ice cream shop and the
Lord again just put people in mylife with wisdom, and one man
was from out in California thathelped me with all the equipment
and the layout and you know Ihired the subcontractors and had
(54:56):
the ice cream spot built.
Speaker 3 (54:59):
Are y'all understanding?
This is not something that sheknew, and so the biggest thing I
would like viewers to realizeis follow your dreams and create
dreams.
Some people don't take time outlong enough to stop to jot down
things that they like or theywould like to do.
(55:23):
That's where dreams come from,is when you figure out what you
like to do, what you'repassionate about or whatever.
She's a toddler girl All day,every day.
Okay, but she wanted to do more.
I mean, she had these two boys.
She wanted to do more.
And to the people that's outhere that think you can't do
(55:45):
more than one thing, we'reshowing you you can and you can
do it efficiently and you can doit without dropping the ball.
And both businesses thrive.
And you've done it.
Carla, I did.
I'm one of her agents.
She has not fell short on oneof my closings.
(56:07):
Anytime I call and I need aquestion answered, questions get
answered by her or heremployees and she has put the
right of employees in place thatshe can go build more wealth
and build for her community.
You know I commend you on thatBecause the girl that didn't
(56:33):
come from a lot could have hadthose abandonment issues to reap
its head on Burfield and itwouldn't have never been.
All the thing I can remember yousaying is I said well, why do
you want an ice cream shop?
And you said well, because thecommunity needs it.
You didn't say my family neededit.
She didn't say that.
(56:53):
She said well, because thecommunity needs it.
She's like I just see a needClinton does not have, you know,
like a full-service ice creamshop.
Speaker 4 (57:11):
And we don't have indoor seating, because the
vision was community and I seeworship nights and tent revivals
.
Speaker 3 (57:17):
Tell them about your 4th of July, what she just did
on 4th of July.
I mean, how many ice creamshops?
Speaker 4 (57:24):
do this?
Tell them.
Well, we sointon has a fourthof july party down on lakefront
and they'll have a firework showand um so um, we uh, rented
from turn and knocks the movieexperience.
Speaker 3 (57:42):
Thank you, and see how family helps each other.
Speaker 4 (57:45):
Yes, and we me and one of my workers.
Her teenage brother helped meget all that set up.
Speaker 1 (57:57):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (57:58):
And then people were able to see the fireworks from
our yard and also watch a movieand it was not planned, but it
ended perfectly.
We watched Shrek, okay.
So when the firework finale washappening, shrek's ending was
happening, and it was that wherethey were having the American
Idol scene yes.
(58:19):
I believe, yes, and so that was.
It was a perfect time.
And it wasn't stage dreaming,it just happened.
And I believe and you broughtcommunity that it was a perfect
time and it wasn't stagedreaming, it just happened, and
I believe.
And you brought community thatit was a perfect time and they
had a good time.
Speaker 3 (58:33):
Y'all have to go and look on Burville's page of the
videos that were shot At thisice cream shop.
They had a movie experience andjust to see how the community
came together and just had theirmoment.
I highly recommend you goingout and trying out Burrville,
(58:55):
you know, and make a date night.
Go to Burrville, you know,drive to Clinton, even if you're
in Nassau.
Drive to Clinton and have adate night.
Do something different.
Let it not be all you know.
Yes, we support local, okay,but they're local too.
Clinton is local, you know.
Speaker 4 (59:17):
You can sit on the swing and the sunsets are just
beautiful where that swing wasperfectly placed and I don't
know, it's just title has alwaysbeen my passion, but I love
deep.
Speaker 3 (59:35):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (59:36):
And I love Clinton, love my community.
Speaker 3 (59:39):
She does.
Speaker 4 (59:40):
And I love Knoxville too.
I was born and raised inKnoxville, but in that town, you
know, I know that my kids cango somewhere and it's.
I'm always telling my kids Alleyes on you All our eyes.
Speaker 3 (59:57):
yes, and I know, in a heartbeat.
Speaker 4 (59:59):
Yeah, thank the Lord, I do have good kids.
Speaker 3 (01:00:02):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (01:00:05):
Now the boys may give me a run for my money they
might be doing something crazynot criminal.
Speaker 3 (01:00:11):
Yes, but yes, but boys are boys.
I've got a son and y'all hearme talk about my 15 year old
yeah yeah, that's another thing.
Yeah, your nephew wants to.
Now he said he wants to getbuffed.
Okay, so now he's going to workout.
So, yes, I'm like, work yourenergy off into a good way.
That's a good thing.
Speaker 4 (01:00:29):
Better get some protein honey.
Speaker 3 (01:00:31):
So how we're going to end this?
She did not know this.
Okay, how we're going to endthis podcast.
I need Carla, I'm not going tosay one word.
I need you to speak to myviewers and I need you to tell
them, give them advice on givingup, not giving up, getting up
(01:01:04):
and getting past trauma In yourwords, not mine.
I need your words.
Okay, not giving up, get up andgetting past trauma.
Now go, okay.
Speaker 4 (01:01:27):
Well, I Take your time, the not giving up.
I think that is a mindset Ithink you have to have a mindset
of I'm not going to quit, I'mgoing to grind every day, no
matter whether or not I feellike it, because you're, you're
(01:01:54):
sowing in those moments and thetrauma.
I'll tell you.
I'm just now dealing with thetrauma I mean honestly, and
that's through a deeperrelationship with Jesus.
You know, I went to amainstream church and I wasn't
(01:02:20):
taught a different, a deeperrelationship with Jesus.
And now I'm at a differentchurch and I'm learning a deeper
relationship with Jesus.
And now I'm at a differentchurch and I'm learning a deeper
relationship with Jesus.
And when you go deep, there'ssome things that have to be
delivered from your life.
There's roots, set up, traumaand the deliverance, the
(01:02:46):
spiritual side of it.
I'm a firm believer today.
To be a breaker, a generationalcurse breaker, to be a breaker,
you're going to be the weirdone ultimately.
Speaker 3 (01:03:02):
Yes, you are and you're going to get judged,
you're going to get judged.
Speaker 4 (01:03:06):
Yes, you are and you're going to get judged.
You're going to get judged.
But the only one that I worryabout judging me is the man
upstairs, as my mama used to say.
And in deliverance it doesn'thappen like that.
There's healing, there's roots,there's forgiveness, and I have
(01:03:26):
a great counselor that iswalking me through that.
But I lean more on Jesus and Iseek the Lord.
I seek him in the word, I seekhim in my heart.
I have my quiet time.
I even fast now, which I'm notvery good at, but I will be one
(01:03:48):
day.
But it's baby steps to go fromglory to glory to glory and I
pray that each and every one ofyou that hear this and are
looking for that strength thatyou will find it, you ask God to
(01:04:15):
renew your mind and soften yourheart so that he can use you.
Speaker 3 (01:04:24):
Forgiveness is key.
Speaker 4 (01:04:25):
Forgiveness is key.
Speaker 3 (01:04:26):
You can't go through deliverance without forgiveness
and the last one is getting up,getting up just do it.
Speaker 4 (01:04:41):
I, I don't.
There's not a recipe, it's not,there's not.
Speaker 3 (01:04:46):
People ask me all the time Yvonne, how do you do so
much?
Because I don't think about it,I just do.
I just do and I just pray toGod that he gives me the
strength to do.
Yes, but you know, and somepeople are like, well, I don't
have the strength that you have,but when you get in the word,
when you get into God, he'llgive you that strength.
You got to pick up that Bible,dust that Bible off and you have
(01:05:17):
to say you know what?
Let me say this Before I knewhow to search in the Bible, I
would pick up the Bible and Iwould open up the Bible, let it
fall open and wherever it fellopen, that's why, excuse me,
that's what I would read,because I didn't know it either.
So don't think that me andCarla we had this secret way of
reading the Bible or the secretway of praying.
Speaker 4 (01:05:37):
We had to learn intimately Just in the last year
.
Speaker 3 (01:05:41):
I've just been seeking, so don't even use that
as an excuse, like the way I seegod now it it transforms weekly
daily.
I mean, you know, I don't seekhim always the same way.
Speaker 4 (01:05:56):
No, and I wake up praising god.
Speaker 3 (01:05:58):
Thank you, lord and I'll and let me say this I'm
gonna touch on when she wassaying that you know you get
judged or whatever.
When you start seeking God,you'll have family, friends,
strangers that will tell youthat you know you're being weird
(01:06:22):
or you're being this orwhatever.
You know you're crazy, I gotyou're crazy, I, whatever.
You know you're crazy, I gotyou're crazy.
I don't know if you got that Igot.
Many times people told me I wascrazy and I was not relatable
anymore.
I had one guy that I've beenfriends with a long time, that
he literally went on a Facebookpost and said and it really hurt
(01:06:46):
me.
He went on on there.
He said you know what?
The person I used to likeyou've changed.
You're not the person that wascool Literally says this it
really hurt me because I waslike but what God showed me was
when you with me, you willchange.
That's not a a good, that's nota bad thing, ivanka, that's a
(01:07:09):
good thing because that's whatyou're supposed to do is change.
So people will weaponize you andmake you feel like you're crazy
, or make you feel like that youum are the problem or the
trouble, or you're, or whatever.
The more they do that, that'swhen you know you're on the
right path, because, people,when you're on the right path,
(01:07:35):
the devil's coming in to stealyour joy.
So you have to realize you gotto get up and, like she said,
you just got to do it.
You know what I'm saying?
Carla, what's next?
What's next for Carla?
I promise y'all bring her back,because she's great for this
(01:07:55):
podcast.
Y'all.
Speaker 4 (01:07:56):
What's next?
I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:08:04):
Just waiting on God to tell you.
Speaker 4 (01:08:06):
Absolutely.
I don't make a move without him.
She says she don't make a movewithout her, without God, and
that's key, and just remember, aday to him could be a thousand
to us, correct, oh yes.
So patience is key, yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:08:27):
And realize it doesn't, like she said, doesn't
happen overnight.
No, thank you for coming.
Speaker 4 (01:08:36):
You're welcome.
I love you.
Speaker 3 (01:08:38):
I love you and I'm proud of you and I want you to
know that you inspire me, thankyou.
You pull things out of me thatyou don't realize.
You pull out of your big sister.
And for title Genesis title Ihighly recommend they're the
best in the business.
Okay, the best in business.
I'm not saying it's because ofmy sister, because she can tell
(01:09:01):
you if I didn't believe that, Iwould not do business with her.
She knows this.
Okay, they are the best in thebusiness.
They are very detailed, theyalways make sure your closings
are a smooth, joyful experienceand for you to get closure in
the right way to protect yourinvestment.
(01:09:21):
So I highly recommend you tolook out for Genesis and please
tell how they can get in touchwith you.
Speaker 4 (01:09:31):
So it's Genesis Real Estate Title and the phone
number is 865-454-8000.
And you can find us on socials.
Our website isGenesisRealEstateTitlecom.
And Burrville and Burrville andBurrville Sweet Treats.
You can find us on socials,facebook, instagram.
(01:09:53):
We're located at 195 EdgewoodAvenue in Clinton, so if you
come to the four-way of Highway25 and 62, there's a Walgreens
there on the corner with aBurger King beside it, and our
building is directly behindWalgreens.
Speaker 3 (01:10:13):
Very easy to find oh yes, very easy, and it's.
Speaker 4 (01:10:16):
The yard is has a black fence around it so that
the littles don't run out in theroad as they're running around
and eating their ice cream.
So it's Burrville, burrows andColds.
Burrows is our last name andthen also Clinton, the history
of Clinton.
It used to be called Burrville,so it has three different ties
(01:10:39):
into the name, but it'sBurrville, sweet Treats and
Clinton.
Speaker 3 (01:10:43):
There you go.
So I highly recommend you to goout, have a date night, have a
family night.
Go to Burrville, sit on theswings and swing with your
family and be present with yourfamily and for the events.
We will make sure that we willbe posting all the different
events that's coming in thefuture so you'll know what all
(01:11:04):
Burrville is doing, all thatCarla is doing in the future.
So you'll know what allBurrville is doing, all that
Carla's doing, and make surethat you support her, support
local, and know you are worthy.
You are worthy to have ablessed life and Carla just
shared hers and you know what?
One day you'll share yours.
Yes, tune in every Friday toYvonca's Talking with Tennessee,
(01:11:27):
with Yvonca podcast, because weare here to inspire you.
Speaker 1 (01:11:41):
Bye, guys of real estate, and check us out on the
web wwwyavoncasalesrealestatecom.
See our videos on yavonca'syoutube channel or find us on
facebook under yavonca landisand twitter at yavonca landis,
and don't forget to tell afriend about us.
Until next time.
Yavonca signing off.
Popular Podcasts
Bookmarked by Reese's Book Club
Welcome to Bookmarked by Reese’s Book Club — the podcast where great stories, bold women, and irresistible conversations collide! Hosted by award-winning journalist Danielle Robay, each week new episodes balance thoughtful literary insight with the fervor of buzzy book trends, pop culture and more. Bookmarked brings together celebrities, tastemakers, influencers and authors from Reese's Book Club and beyond to share stories that transcend the page. Pull up a chair. You’re not just listening — you’re part of the conversation.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com