April 19, 2024 • 73 mins
Have you ever stood at the crossroads of ambition and divine intervention? That's precisely where I found myself when a spiritual nudge and a supportive network propelled me into the creation of "The Women of the Waiting Room" anthology, despite my prior avowals to never touch anthologies again. Join us as we traverse the emotional landscapes crafted by the riveting tales of faith and patience from the "Listen Linda" podcast, where listeners' stories have woven a tapestry of inspiration and solace for many.
Witness as we explore the intricate dance of emotions and connections within human relationships, particularly between men and women, fathers and daughters. With my guest host Carolyn Gentry Coleman , we dissect the profound influence of literature on personal growth and discuss the metaphorical 'waiting room' of life, encouraging a trust in the unseen. This anthology is more than a collection of stories; it's a journey alongside individuals who have faced the trials of physical pain and domestic violence and emerged with messages of hope and healing.
Finally, step behind the scenes of our creative process as we discuss the transformative power of book trailers, using my memoir "Mountains Can't Rise Without Earthquakes" as a case study for this pioneering marketing approach. We examine the raw honesty required to own one's narrative – an authenticity that resonates deeply with readers and empowers personal growth. This episode is an invitation to embrace your true self, to grow from your past, and to boldly declare, "Take me as I am," in the eternal pursuit of self-fulfillment.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
I thought I was immune.
Looking around this room Can'thelp but see the traces of you.
This moment is surreal.
I can't put into words how Ifeel alone, twin, where have you
(00:28):
been?
Nobody knows me like you do.
Nobody gonna love me like youcan Even deny it.
Every time I try it.
When I get my eye, you know I'mlying, body to body, skin to
skin.
I'm never gonna lie again,again.
(00:49):
You were made for me, just forme, that you were made for me,
only for me.
I think you were made for me,for you.
You were made for me, you weremade for me.
It ain't everyday that I get inmy feelings this way.
(01:17):
I know it was rare, causebefore you I never did care.
Don't know what I would do If Ihad to go on without you.
Twin, where have you been?
(01:40):
Nobody knows me like you do.
Nobody gonna love me like youcan Even denying every time I
try One.
Look in my eyes.
You know I'm lying, lying thisagain.
You were made for me, just forme.
(02:08):
You were made for me, only forme.
You were made for me.
Oh yeah, you were made for me,made for me, made for me, made
for me, made for me, just for me.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Good morning, good morning Gentry, are you there?
Yes, I am, I am, I, I am.
I apologize, I kept saying myconnection was being interrupted
, so I am here.
How are you doing?
This morning?
(03:16):
I am blessed by the best I'm.
I'm getting, I'm getting.
I'm nervous.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I don't understand where that's coming from, but
I'll take it.
Okay, let's start withsomething inspirational.
It's really short, but I thinkit is appropriate.
Hey, hello to your audience,hello to your listening audience
.
When you have a dream, you'vegot to grab it and never let go.
(03:53):
Now that's by Carol Burnett.
I think that was veryappropriate for what we're doing
here today.
I think that's very appropriatefor what we have going on and I
do appreciate being a part ofthe takeover.
We can take over people.
We're taking over, we're takingover.
We're going to be talking aboutthis new anthology, where you
(04:24):
are the vessel of the anthologyand, um, I want the audience to
know where did that come from?
You know what?
(04:44):
I participated in a few projectsbefore pursuing this anthology
and I was asked you know, hey,you know you want to come on
board for another anthology andI said not in this lifetime.
But I decided that I was notgoing to do any more anthologies
(05:05):
, that I was just totally done.
I was just going to focus on myindividual projects.
You know, my kids have projectscoming out, my husband has
projects coming out as far as inthe literary world and then, of
course, you know, I got theListen Linda podcast.
Now, I love my listeners and myyou know, and my people and my
supporters of Listen Linda, so Isaid I was going to give all of
(05:26):
that attention to this.
Well, I kept you know, gettingyou know this tugging at my
spirit, say you need to, youknow, check your analytics,
check your analytics, check youranalytics, check the analytics.
I was like wow, and then Istarted putting people up who
(05:47):
had the, you know, the mostviews or the most downloads,
like every week, and I wasstarting to see, like who was
bringing in the most impact.
And, um, one day god said, youknow, now people be like, god
ain't told you how.
You know, god told me y'allthat I needed to come out with a
project and that I needed to doan anthology.
(06:11):
And I had already been askedthis question by people because
I was, you know, helping, youknow, with the promotions and,
you know, bringing people onboard with the recruiting of the
last anthology that I was in.
(06:31):
And I had a situation where Isay you know what I had people
inboxing me.
Oh, you know, I thought that.
I thought this was youranthology.
You know, I didn't know it wassomebody else's.
If you do one, then I do it andI'm just like what do you mean?
Like that's not.
(06:53):
No, I'm not doing the anthologyfor myself, I'm doing one for
you know, I'm helping somebodyelse.
Well, when you do yours call me, that's all I can hear.
When you do yours call me, whenyou do yours call me, that's
all I kept hearing.
Well, you do yours call me, youdo yours call me, so get my
marinara.
So I say you know what?
(07:15):
I said God?
I said this ain't my thing, youknow, this ain't for me.
And so God said yes, it is.
So I said okay.
So I called the publisher, msLaquita Parks.
I said look, some know myspirit telling me I need to do
this.
She said say no more.
What do you need help with?
And I'll help you with it.
And then I called you, know youand a few other people, and
(07:41):
everybody I called it was ano-brainer, you know, even
though I heard you guys sayy'all not doing orthology for a
while.
So I had to be, I had to humblemyself child and say you know
what?
I'm just gonna call them andsee what they say.
And everybody I reached out toit was a no-brainer.
It was absolutely whateveryou're doing, we're gonna
support you in it and I just youknow.
So that's where that came from.
But the waiting room actuallycame from the segment that I do
(08:03):
here and that's you know.
Basically, women come on andthey're telling their stories
and they're telling, you know,how God used them or how God
helped them, or how Goddelivered them from their
waiting room, or they might bein their waiting season right
now, or what does that feel like?
So, um, yeah, so that's howthat became about.
(08:28):
You know, when you spoke of whatpeople tell you, god didn't say
to you and it's not just to you, my statement it's.
I haven't heard that and I knowsomebody was.
They weren't saying it directlyto me, but they said it in my
presence and I was like, well, Iwould be very careful with that
(08:50):
statement if I was you and Iwasn't being ugly.
I said, because you don't knowwhat private conversations God
has with another individual and,uh, I just wouldn't get in
God's business like that.
I just personally would not getin that because it was not a
(09:10):
conference call, because if Isay God told me to do something,
I really mean it.
So it's really not up for youto input your negativity, so to
speak, or your prophecy in this,so to speak, because that makes
you a false prophet, becauseyou honestly don't know what God
puts in another individual.
(09:32):
God may tell some people well,it's time for you to go, it's
time for you to go, you know,it's time for you to drop a few
people.
No, you don't have to announceit to the world, but what you
have to do is follow God's lead.
If he gave it to you, gives youthat unction, then that is your
unction.
It is not for everybody and youcan be standing toe to toe with
people, I mean elbow to elbow,shoulder to shoulder.
(09:55):
But what he has for you, he'sgoing to whisper it in your
heart.
So I I totally get that.
I totally get it.
But I think a lot of peopledon't, and that's fine, that's
on them.
And then some people wrestlewith well, I know god told me, I
know god told me and I'm likewell, where is your?
(10:16):
Why are you doubting?
Well, because so and so said.
That wasn't what god meant.
I was like how?
they know how they know.
And then you're thrown offbecause you're listening to man,
and then you're listening toGod, and then you're conflicted
and you're confused and youdon't know what to do.
So you have to go to God andsay you know Lord, I believe you
(10:39):
, I know, I heard you, I know, Iheard what you said, but you're
not going to always have peoplewho support what you say and
for whatever reason.
For whatever reason, we justneed to.
You know, we walk by faith, notby sight, correct, because
everybody's not going to walkwith you, everybody's not going
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to roll with you.
But we walk by faith and not bysight.
And when it comes to fruition,whatever it is I'm not speaking
just about the waiting room, butwhatever it is you know it
really is you and God.
Sometimes you just have to getinto your secret place in your
prayer room, in your corner Icall it my war room, and that's
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true In your war room, and justtalk to God and you know he will
verify.
Well, god does, you know.
If he doesn't bring you to.
You know, when he brings you tosomething, he brings you to it,
you know.
So we have to.
You know, shake off thenaysayer, shake.
So we have to, you know, shakeoff the naysayer, shake off the
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naysayer.
And I was kind of of theideology as you.
Getting back to the waitingroom, I was like, ok, I'm kind
of tired.
I'm kind of tired now.
I've enjoyed the anthologiesthat I have been a part of, but
I'm a little tired, I need totake a break, I need to do
something different.
I'm a little tired, I need totake a break, I need to do
something different.
And so when you came with youridea, I'm like I'm in.
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I didn't think twice, but I waslike I'm in, you know, and here
we go again with this cycle.
But obedience is better thansacrifice.
It really really is.
You know, some other projectsare along the way, but we're not
here to talk about I mean,we're here to talk about your
waiting room.
And what is your vision, what isyour purpose?
(12:33):
What do you want the waitingroom to do for women?
You know what it's called theWomen of the Waiting Room and I
got the idea, like I said, fromthe the show, my show, my
podcast, but I also got it fromthe women of Bruce's place,
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because in that movie that younggirl came and moved into that
building and the elder women inthat building just took that
young girl in and they spookedher under their wing and they
gave her tough love.
But they also gave hercompassion, they gave her
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empathy, they gave her graceeverything that she was not
getting from home, gave hergrace everything that she was
not getting from home.
And so when I think about that,I don't just think about it
from a woman's perspective, Ithink it from a human's
perspective, male or female,right.
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I want this book to not justempower women or girls or older
women, but people, right,because everybody has a story
and everybody goes throughemotions, everybody goes through
life challenges, whether theyare good, whether they're better
and different.
And I feel like, even thoughI'm only bringing women on, men
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can get a purpose, you know, orthey can get a healing or just
somebody that they can relate tofrom the book too.
Whether it's you know, they canfigure out by reading this book
why their mom treated them acertain way, or why their sister
is how she is, if she's, youknow, um, too fast, too soon, or
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, you know, dating the wrongguys, or why they, why they wife
act the way she act, why theyyou know, they sibling, act the
way they act, or how they may be, or why, why?
Why they were raised the waythat they were raised, if they
were raised by a single parentor may have had a single
grandmother, so on and so forth.
So I think by reading thewomen's stories and the women's
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testimonies in this book, itwill just give the world a more
in-depth insight to human nature.
Because women are nurturers andwe procreate and we are the
reason.
Um, god uses us as vessels tobirth the world.
So the world can relate to thisbook, because women birth the
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world period.
Oh, that's good.
Um, and getting back to me, Inever thought about it from that
angle.
But you are correct, men thinkthey understand women and this
is just Carolyn's opinion, thisis Gentry's opinion but they
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don't.
They don't.
Our emotions are different, theway we perceive things are
different.
Sometimes we can see what otherpeople can't see because, like
you said, we're nurturers.
So you know, we want to makesure that everybody is together,
everybody's good, things areworking out and we go two steps
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ahead to figure things out.
You know, like, if you're onchildren being there, you know
kids.
If you're on children, you knowkids, teenagers, young adults,
you know, trying to navigate.
We can say, oh, I've been there, done that, this is how you
really need to handle that.
And then you can see them relaxbecause they're like, whew,
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somebody understands me.
Now, men, I suck it up.
You can't suck everything off.
You can't suck everything off,you know.
But there are truly somedaddy's girls out there.
They give you plain language tounderstand on how to navigate,
how to navigate the world, howto navigate relationship, and
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they put it in um, I mean, Imean.
So, yes, I, I, men who don'tunderstand how to connect with
daughters or how to connect withwomen, or, oh, she'll be all
right.
No, it's not always that she'sgoing to be all right.
She just might need you.
I remember one day quote unquotebeing in a waiting room and I
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heard this guy.
He showed up and you know, thelady was glad to see him and he
said you don't need me to stay,do you Now?
To me that meant I don't wantto stay.
That to me and I had nothing todo with that, that's just my
nose in somebody else's businessthat meant to me he didn't want
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to stay.
Of course she wanted you tostay.
She called you.
He was like, well, call me ifyou need me.
And he was out and I was like,wow, wow.
So this book may help men to seethat sometimes you really need
to be present for some things.
You have to walk with your ladythrough something, you have to
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walk with your daughters throughsomething in order for them to
feel comfortable, protected,that they have a safe space,
they have a shoulder to lean on.
Does that make sense?
You know, I'm glad you saidthat and that's the reason why
I'm so, so glad that we have oneof the contributing authors
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that are joining in on thisanthology, dr Velma Bagby,
because her CAT series speaks alot on that.
So, and I'll tell you why, meand my husband we're married,
we're very happily married.
I love him, he loves me, welove each other.
And definitely catch that,catch that poetry, catch that.
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Oh, my God, am I?
Oh, what, okay, do I need toget?
Speaker 1 (18:46):
a style concept.
Now, you know, I got a lot ofgifts.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
You know, look, I got a lot of gifts.
These are not skills or talentsthat I had to practice on baby,
it just come naturally.
That's what you call a gift.
That's what you call anointing.
No, but it's not anything.
Nothing that I gotta pretend tohave, that don't have I just do
have them, uh, but uh, no, uh.
But seriously, uh, just readingthe catch series, reading, um,
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the first book, the catch, noone wants um.
Reading the um, the the wrongcatch.
You know me and my husband wasreading those books and he said
there's some fish in here that Ikind of relate to, that kind of
deal with me and maybe I needto work on that.
Babe, what you think I was like, look, I wasn't going to say
nothing to you, old trophy fish,but the shoe fit must have quit
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.
But I feel like in thatinstance.
And then I read A Shield TearDown the the house and it was
quite a few of them up in therethat I can relate to and I said,
man, I am a little bit likethat, hyena, I am a little bit
like this or like that, and I'mjust like you know what.
Maybe I need to work on thesethings because I feel like if we
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can look and we can holdourselves accountable for the
thing, because we don't want to,you know, read this and be like
that, ain't me, yes, it is,your stuff could be going good,
but it's always something thatyou can work on within yourself
to make yourself a better personand I'm so glad that she's
joining in and, like you said,when you're able to read
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something like what we're comingout with the waiting room and
it's not just about, you know,looking at things from a
female's perspective butrealizing that, no matter what,
god is always in the midst.
So for people who feel like Godain't here, god ain't with me,
where's God when I need him?
Oh, he's right there.
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God ain't with me.
Where's God when I need him?
Oh, he's right there.
He's just like that doctorthat's in the back and you hurt
yourself and you have to go tothe emergency room, or you have
to go to the doctor.
Of course you're in pain, ofcourse you need stitches, of
course these things are going on, but it's other people that are
in the world, it's other peoplethat are in that emergency room
too.
So what you do is you grab yournumber, you sit and you be
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patient and, just like you couldwait on that doctor, just like
you could trust that pilot orthat train operator or that bus
driver or that Uber driver withyour life, trust God the same
way.
And that's what the synopsisand the meaning behind the
waiting room is Everybody got aturn.
And the meaning behind thewaiting room is Everybody got a
turn, everybody got a waitingseason.
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Sweetheart, you are not alone.
You are not alone in thatwaiting season.
But just know, when your numbercome up, god gonna do what he
gotta do.
He gonna show up and show outevery time.
And that is what this book isabout the success stories, the
success stories of everybody intheir waiting room, in their
waiting season, in their waitingseason, in their journey.
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I ain't gonna say journey, ohno.
And they and they path throughlife.
Okay, yes, because, well, youknow you, I hear you on the
journey.
But it, like I often tell mypatients, you know some of their
procedures are real, you knowcut and dry.
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But I ask how are you feeling?
Were there any problems?
Are there any problems?
No, no, I think it's going okay.
I think it's going okay.
Okay, as long as you feel likeit's going okay.
But on some of them I have tosay recognize, this is a
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marathon, it's not a sprint,this is going to take you some
time to get over.
And one of my patients told meCarolyn, I'm so thankful that I
had you to guide me through this.
You kept telling me it wasn't amarathon.
I mean that it was a marathonand not a sprint and it truly
has been that.
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And you to encourage me on mybad days and to get me through
those bad days, you know thatjust did a lot for me, because a
lot of people I know that I'mlooking for that pat on the back
.
But some people need you morethan others at certain times in
their lives, and that's just notin nursing, but that's in life.
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So you can walk a friendthrough their situation, through
their heartache, through theirbreak, through their miscarriage
, through whatever they're goingthrough, through a sickness of
a loved one.
Be there and do that, show upfor them, because they are in
the waiting room and when youare visiting or calling or
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offering you know, your help,your support, you're in that
waiting room with them.
You may not be as connected,but you're connected to that
source for a reason, and it'snot just for show.
Like the guy said well, call meif you need me.
I'm like you drove way overhere for that.
Well, that means he reallydidn't want to be bothered.
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He's not ready for the waitingroom?
Okay, but what could she do?
Okay, then I will, you know.
But you can see thedisappointment on her face.
At that point in time you needto be alone.
You'd rather be alone becauseif someone does not want to sit
with you and support you throughsomething, you really don't
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need them at that point in time,you just don't need them.
So the waiting room can be alonely place, you know it can be
full of support and at the sametime it can be a lonely place.
You know it can be full ofsupport and at the same time it
can be a lonesome place.
So men do need to read andunderstand some of the emotions
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that women go through.
But you know what A lot oftimes when you are alone, that's
the best time for you tobasically fast and wait on God
and use your discernment andpray and just shut down and open
up and let God in.
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You know there's been plenty oftimes I've had to go to the
doctor and nobody was there myhusband, of course.
If he didn't have the kids hewas there or if he wasn't at
work he was there.
But it's been plenty of times Ihad to put those big girl
panties on and get up and go.
I remember having my firstsurgery and nobody showed up
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except my husband.
He wasn't even my husband or myboyfriend at the time.
He was just a really goodfriend.
None of my sisters and brotherscame, none of my family, none
of my.
The time he was just a reallygood friend.
None of my sisters and brotherscame, none of my family, none
of my close friends, nobody wasthere.
When I opened my eyes, he wasthe only person that was there.
And then, of course, you know,he had to go home and so I'm
laying there plenty of times onthe surgery table on that
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hospital, dealing with thyroidcancer, dealing with them
cutting my neck open, taking mythyroid out, dealing with you
know, a plethora of things.
I've had kidney stones and hadto be hospitalized, and I was in
college A lot of things thatI'm in there by myself and that
was just time for me to talkwith just me and God, and I
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agree with that.
And when you're in that waitingroom and we speak on that in the
book as well, um, it's a coupleof chapters that speak on just
them, and it's just them and God, and and that's when you really
find out that God is real,because you are there and he
speaks to you.
He speaks to you in a way thatonly you can recognize it, and
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so he might speak to you in away that only you can recognize
it, and so he might speak to youthrough somebody.
He might use a nurse like youto be a vessel.
He may use the doctor, he mayuse the janitor that comes in
and cleans up the room, orwhoever the person that makes up
the bed, or the person thatbrings you your food or whatever
.
And if he don't speak throughthat, he'll speak through
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something that you're watchingon TV.
He'll speak through a song or alyric that you may be listening
to.
So all I'm saying is that, withthis project, we are not doing
this to become bestsellers,because everybody that is in
this anthology is amulti-best-selling author.
So that's not what this missionis about.
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This is not a money grab,because it will not be an
expensive book.
This is not something for me tosay that I'm the visionary on,
because I am not.
I am the vessel, but God is thevisionary.
God gave me this idea.
I didn't think of it myself,and this is not a money grab for
me because I only brought inseven people.
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Usually, when you seeanthologies, they got to have
over 20, 30, 300, 3,000 people,you know, charging all this
crazy amount of money.
I got my people and the doorwas closed because God said nope
, this is all you need.
Seven is the number ofcompletion it is, and God gave
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me my seven and they just sohappen to be very good friends
of mine.
But you can go on, listen,linda, go to Buzzsprout, check
my analytics.
Their numbers reflect thereason why they are in this
anthology.
That's great.
That's great.
So the goal is to reach as manypeople as possible, to enlighten
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them on life and lifecircumstances, how we affect one
another or what an individualis going through, to bring some
clarity, absolutely To teachsome people some things.
It's not always about you andyour up season, okay, and your
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season of light.
It's about being in your seasonof darkness.
Trouble don't last always, itjust doesn't.
It may feel like it.
It's not always a 24-hour thing.
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Sometimes it can be weeks ormonths, but one thing for sure
you will come out the better onthe end.
So that's what I think also isthe purpose of the waiting room.
Sometimes you have to wait onsomething, and another thing
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that I really like about thewaiting room is that we're not
trying to take every story andblend them together, like you
see in most anthologies, whereall of them kind of blend
together.
Everybody is telling theirstory about what they feel the
waiting room means to them.
So, just like I told what thewaiting room means to me, then
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you told what the waiting roommeans to you, and your stories
reflect just that.
This is more so of a chickensoup for your soul Reader's
Digest type of thing that we'redoing, but we're doing it and
we're we're basically showingpeople that God is real and God
is going to always be there forthem, and I feel like that this
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even though, um, the enemy hasbeen trying to attack no weapons
for him will prosper, and Iknow that the enemy don't attack
nothing that is not of God.
And so I'm just excited.
I'm truly, truly excited aboutthe lives that could be saved
and will be saved, and thepeople that will go back to God
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or go to God or have turned awayfrom God and think he's not
there.
Pick up this book, read thisbook.
But this book will also beavailable for audio book as well
.
So this will be an ebook, apaperback and an audio book for
for people who just are notreaders, who would just rather
listen to the story.
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This book will be available.
Uh, in in that, um, that aspectas well.
Oh, that sounds good.
I know a lot of people who liketo listen as they drive.
They like to listen toaudiobooks as they drive, and
that's a good thing.
At least it will be portable.
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It will be available.
It's accessible in more thanone form.
Be available is accessible inmore than one form.
Now, the seven people that youhave all come from various
backgrounds.
Like you say, everyone isaccustomed to being a number one
bestseller.
They have done that before.
(31:43):
Can you tell us a little bitabout just just a snippet about
the other individuals?
And then I know you mentionedthe catch and dr v.
Okay, well, we also have misscarolyn gentry cole, who is an
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international bestselling author.
More than a couple of timesover.
She's a global podcaster,streaming live on Stationhead
and StreamYard, and her podcastis called Gentry's Journey.
She is a nurse.
(32:35):
She is a decorated nurse atthat.
She's a pleather of things.
She's a member of the Blackcommunity and she does a lot.
She's a plethora of things.
She's a member of the fourthblack community and she does a
lot.
She's speaking in a waitingroom.
Her chapter is called Healingand if you go to my Facebook
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page, jacqueline Cox, you'll beable to see what her story
consists of, because the traileris available.
Story consists of because thetrailer is available.
Also, we have melanie the voicejohnson, ex-pastor's wife,
ex-first lady um, poetess,award-winning poet, uh,
(33:19):
international best-sellingauthor, educator, um, and just
all around, just beautifulperson.
You have Teresa Reese Dorsey,who is a government official in
Louisiana, who also is abest-selling author.
You can check her out on ReeseWrites Books on Facebook.
(33:44):
She is just a phenomenal writer, a phenomenal person.
She's a philanthropist, shejust does a lot for her
community and for the state ofLouisiana.
So I'm so, so glad for her tobe able to come in and share her
story.
You have Dr Audrey Ann Moses,who is a retired Navy veteran.
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She's a Christian life coach.
She's a multi bestseller authorand award winning author as
well, and she's the wife of aveteran as well Both her and her
husband are veterans of theNavy and she's also a
psychiatrist as well and atherapist.
So I'm so, so glad to have herstory as well as her perspective
(34:35):
and a Christian life coach'sperspective.
And then, of course we have MsLaquita Paprovi-Parks, who is
not just the publisher of thisanthology but also a co-author.
She is a serial entrepreneur,she has multiple nonprofit
(35:00):
organizations, she is a mentor.
She is a mentor, she is amother, she is um also someone
who suffered a medical childhoodtrauma at the age of four years
old and has, uh, been, um, youknow, dealing with pain for over
(35:20):
50 years of her life, every day.
She doesn't know a day withoutpain, and it was all at the
hands of a nurse at Grady'shospital.
So say her name, laquita Parksyou could google Laquita Parks,
all that will come up.
And she is telling her story,but not just the story that she
always tells about her medicalchildhood trauma, but she's also
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telling other stories of thingsthat have happened in her life
as well, and with Melanie, youcan also check out her trailer
as well, and her trailer iscalled Healing Deferred and she
speaks on, you know, the abuse,the domestic violence, the
mental and physical andemotional abuse that she endured
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at the hands of her husband,who was actually a pastor.
And so there's so manydifferent stories in this book
that everyone can relate to, notjust women, but all women, all
cultures, all backgrounds, allmen the same, and this is going
to be a game changer.
I truly believe that thisanthology is going to be a game
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changer.
I truly believe that thisanthology is going to be a game
changer and I believe you and Iam with you on that.
Now, when you spoke of thetrailers, let's speak about that
for a minute.
Where did that idea come from?
Because I've seen two of thetrailers and I'm just blown away
by them, the inspiration andthe idea.
(36:52):
Where did that come from?
You know what?
It came from the Lord.
Look, I've been doing booktrailers for a while now.
For a lot of people.
I've been Millie Van of people.
I've been merely vanillied.
I've been doing a lot of thingsbehind the scenes for different
(37:14):
authors and different projectsthat I have not taken credit for
.
But I'm a visual person and alot of people I know are visual
people.
So I feel like, in order to sellmy books, starting with
mountains and starting with itCan't Always Be Night what
better way to sell a book thanto make it out of a movie?
(37:35):
Right, a lot of people say Ididn't read the book, but I
watched the movie.
Yes, oh, I watched the movieand it made me want to read the
book.
True, oh, I watched the movieand it made me want to read the
book.
True, because, let's be trueand let's be truthful, in 2024
nobody really wants to buy abook, let alone pick it up and
(37:56):
read it.
Okay, so what better way to getpeople to say, you know what,
I'm gonna go buy that bookbecause that book like it's
gonna be good, than to make a aphenomenal book trailer in the
form of a movie trailer, justlike when you go to the movies
to watch a movie and you see thepreviews come up, you're like,
oh, that look good, I'm gonna gowatch, I'm gonna come back and
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get people to come back, and soit's the same thing.
Um, I came out with mountainsand of course I I had rave
reviews on mountains.
But mountains is my book, thatmy memoir about my life.
For people who don't know, it'scalled Mountains Can't Rise
Without Earthquakes.
But people who are my peoplecall it Mountains because you
know we just cut it Mountainsfor short, but it's called
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Mountains Can't Rise WithoutEarthquakes a memoir of a grown
girl, and I came out with it andI was going through through it,
doing excerpts on book slamsand different things that were
on Clubhouse.
Back when a guy named IndyBrennan came out with a book
slam on Clubhouse and that's howI met all the ladies that are
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in this anthology and I wasreading from my memoir and of
course I got pre-orders there,but my pre-orders did not rise
and my sales did not rise withmountains until I did my book
trailer.
When I did my book trailer and Itook those pages and I made
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them visual, that's when peoplesay you know what I want that
book and that's when I startedto see my sales increase.
So when I joined another project, I brought that to the table.
Hey, what about if we dotrailers?
What about if we do trailers?
Well, of course we had a lot ofpeople, so that was not going
(39:44):
to happen because then we wouldhave had to do a whole bunch of
trailers for a whole bunch ofpeople.
But I took my people and myfriends and I said, hey, I'm
going to do you a trailer and Iwould do other people's trailers
.
And they would come back to meand say, hey, you know, my sales
rose because of that.
Once you put a visual to a book, you will gain sales from that.
(40:05):
And also when I put it on Hulu,my sales skyrocketed.
So I'm day 218 today.
I'm still on the Amazonbestseller top 100 list today.
96 days at number one, 217 daysand I'm still in the top 100.
(40:25):
I think I'm 54 now on the bestsellers list, but for 96 days I
was number one in all threecategories.
Congratulations.
And that was because of thetrailers.
That was because of taking thattrailer and putting it on Hulu
and turning it into a commercial, and that not only brought me
that, but it brought me moviedeals and movie offers and
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script offers to turn my bookinto plays and all these
different things.
But basically what I'm sayingis that if you have a story, you
really want it out there, abook trailer is the way to go to
get your sales to go up.
And that's coming from aprofessional, certified brand
strategist.
(41:08):
I'm not a self-proclaimed brandstrategist.
Certified brand strategist,graduated business degree cum
laude, so I know a littlesomething.
It's not self-proclaimed.
Okay, let me just put this outhere.
I'm not your average Joe orJane.
(41:30):
Come on with it.
Now.
I come with the receipt, comeon with it now.
I come with the receipt.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
You know how I love my receipt.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
You love your receipt , you love your receipt.
And now let's piggyback tomountains.
Let's just open it up just alittle bit.
We don't have to, becausemountains is really a show in
and of itself.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
What made you decide?
Speaker 2 (41:57):
to write about mountains Because I know a lot
had to go into that.
I had the honor of being a betareader, so I love mountains.
You know what, when you'retrying to do something better
with your life and you're tryingto become a better person,
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especially when you give yourlife back over to God and you
say you know what You're goingto live the way you're supposed
to live and live righteously soyou can go to heaven, the devil
comes in any way, shape and formRight.
He tried to come and attack you, and what better way to do that
than to try to bring up yourpast, to bring up the mistakes
(42:43):
you made in the past and thethings that you did and the
things that you had to overcome.
Oh, I remember when you washomeless.
I remember when your uncleraped you.
I remember when they left youout in the street.
I remember when you used tostay with me.
I remember when you used tosleep on a park bench or used to
(43:05):
stay in shelters.
I remember when your baby daddywasn't claiming your baby to
stay in shelters.
I remember when your baby daddywasn't claiming your baby.
I remember this.
I remember that that was comingup a lot for me in my life.
When I got married to my husband, people were coming out for
what.
We're trying to break us up,trying to dig up things from the
past that I had done or that Iwent through.
(43:25):
And I told my husband.
I said, you know what?
I think I'm going to write abook Because I've never been one
to be ashamed of anything thatI did or that I went through.
Okay, because I was out of thisfish grease?
Yes, I was.
And guess what?
I had the time of my life beingthat, okay, I enjoyed it.
Okay, I enjoyed my youngeryears.
I enjoyed it.
(43:46):
Okay, I enjoyed my youngeryears.
I enjoyed them, even though I'mstill young.
I know you're like yo, youngeryears girl, you're only 35.
But what I'm saying is that Igrew up fast and, yes, I did,
but everything made me who I amtoday.
So if people don't know thebackground of somebody's story,
then they should not judge thembased on what somebody said,
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that they did and they passed,or what they're doing today in
their present or what they coulddo in the future, because
everything comes from a cycle,it comes from the hamster wheel,
right?
So I'm one of those people thatyou.
It's nothing that you can askme that I won't answer
truthfully because I'm notashamed.
And so mountains came about.
(44:27):
Basically, I decided I'm goingto write my story and tell my
story the only way that I knowhow to tell it a whole truth.
So that way, if anybody want toknow anything about me and my
kids want to know somethingabout me when they get older
they'll hear from the horsemouth no ghost writers, no ai
(44:54):
writer, no computer going backand writing something for me,
not me listening to your story.
Gentry say, oh, that soundsgood.
Let me say that that happenedto me.
No, this is not mountains, isis my story period period.
It's your story and you told it.
You told your truth and I'veoften said to people once you
(45:20):
have told your truth, no one canembarrass you about that
anymore, because when you don'tsay it, they feel as though
you're trying to hide or theythink I don't pick out.
No, no, no, it is here, it isin black and white, it is here.
I had that revelation years agowhen I was teaching and when I
(45:45):
first started teaching LPNstudents and the young man came
in here's my excuse, missCarlton I was like OK, cool, I'm
thinking it's child support,because most of the people who
we would grant them, we wouldgrace them a day if they were in
court.
And so I was reading his excuse, I was like, oh, I thought you
(46:09):
went for child.
Oh no, ma'am, I don't have anykids.
Somebody lied on me and had myname up against some capital
murder charge.
Well, capital murder, capitalmurder.
I said capital murder, yeah, Igo.
Should I be in the fire?
What did you do?
Right, you went with a killer.
(46:29):
He was like, no, no, that wasn'tme, I didn't do it.
I didn't do it.
I did not do it.
He said I'll be honest with you, ms Gold, I was macking on.
I had all the women.
I was like, oh, oh, so you're aplayer.
He said, yeah, and that's whatgot me One of my ex-girlfriends,
you know, called in on atip-lap.
(46:50):
I said are you kidding me?
You know, because I'm just, I'mstunned.
And so he told me his truth.
And I had heard other peoplekind of whispering.
But I didn't know.
You know, because I was gettingthe student's affair.
You know, y'all stay on thatside, let me stay on the side.
And so I told him.
I said but when you tell yourtruth.
(47:12):
No one can embarrass you aboutyour truth.
He said you know, I mean Ithink I'm going to be found
innocent because they have noevidence.
I said, well, I'm not trying toget in your business, but
you're not still fooling withthis woman who's out on your
life.
No, with this woman who's noton your life, no, no, I never
want to see her.
No more, I'm not going toapproach her, I'm not going to
say anything to her, I'm justgoing to keep walking.
(47:33):
And I was like that's good, butmy father has been so
supportive of me, my father haswalked me through this process.
Again, I say, once you have toldyour truth, no one can
embarrass you about that,because it is what it is.
Yeah, I told it.
You weren't in the room when Imentioned that, you know.
(47:54):
Then they get embarrassedbecause they think they finna
light it up.
No, you're not lightinganything up, I'm finna.
Put that fire out right here,right now.
And I don't know why peoplefeel as though they need to try
to hold you back because, guesswhat?
We all have a past.
We've all done something.
We may not have done what BobbyDown the Street has done or
(48:16):
what JoJo, you know up thecorner has done, but we've all
done something.
But I know people will usethings against you.
You can be like elementaryschool, junior high, like you
said.
I didn't graduate college.
What did you say?
You were cum laude.
Okay, I graduated college cumlaude.
(48:38):
I graduated cum laude.
Put some respect on my name.
Speaker 1 (48:41):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (48:42):
You know, talk to me nice.
You know I moved on what youdoing now.
You know what you doing now.
What do you mean?
What I'm doing?
I want to know what you'redoing, what you're doing with
your life.
Still on that hamster wheel Onthe hamster wheel, just talking
about what I'm going to do.
What I'm going to do.
Going nowhere fast Goingnowhere.
Ain't never been that fast.
Speaker 1 (49:03):
Going nowhere fast.
Speaker 2 (49:05):
So that's why, sometimes, yes, we're bad, you
know.
So that's why sometimes, yes,we have to tell our story
because you know it's just bestto.
Speaker 1 (49:14):
But if you don't, it'll anchor you down People
will try to anchor you down.
Speaker 2 (49:18):
It will hold you back , and I'm a firm believer, I'm
an open book, I'm verytransparent because I'm not
ashamed, absolutely, and no oneneeds to have that much power
over you.
Come on, go somewhere and sitdown, and not just you, but you
know any of us.
Somebody said something to meone day and they were like when
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was the last time you saw us?
And I said that's when I was,when I was 16 years old.
What you mean?
When I was 16 years old, youwant me to reach back in history
and get that.
(50:03):
You know me, you know well, youdon't know me, but anyway, you
want me to reach back in history, history, get that.
Oh, I have moved on so manytimes when I have I can't
remember.
I said I know the story, but doyou really want me to repeat
the story?
Because guess what I'm going on.
I've made more stories sincethen.
How about that?
Well, you ain't got to be funny.
(50:24):
Well, no, I'm bringing that upanymore because I have some
things on you.
I'm just too much of a lady torepeat them.
So that was the end of that one, okay?
So sometimes you have to justmeet people where they are and
leave them there, becausethey're not worth you bringing
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them into your present anddefinitely not into your future,
because you got nothing.
You got nothing and if youthink you're going to hold me
back, you know you are so farfrom the truth, just like when
President Obama wrote his beforehe ran for president.
(51:05):
He put it all out there so noone else could bring this up.
He sure did.
He did.
I got a white mama, I got awhite mama.
I got white grandparents.
I sure did.
My daddy ain't one no good, hehad a baby out of wedlock?
He sure did.
He put it out there, babymarijuana.
(51:27):
He put it all out there so noone could bring up his text.
He wrote it, he told it and youknow, you know, but the devil's
in the details.
So people had nothing to bringup, they had nothing to bring.
It wasn't like a firestorm, itwasn't like oh, this is just so
horrible.
None of that happened.
(51:47):
None of that happened, and I'mthat happened and none of that
happened.
He was trying to say he wasn'tborn in America.
You know, we know who said allthat, but anyway.
So you want to cut off onestate that is not in the
continental US, but it's still aUnited States.
It's a state in the UnitedStates of America.
(52:07):
I'm a Schwarzenegger over there, Come on boo so it's just.
It is best to tell your story,but I don't think you need to go
down the street and tell it toeveryone.
You put it in a book.
It's on page 45.
Okay, it's on page 45 they'regoing to go grab it and read it,
(52:29):
because they can't.
They can't read it.
They can't read it.
You sent a video about IkeTurner.
Oh lord, I think it was acouple of days ago and I finally
opened it oh yeah that's a lot.
(52:49):
I'm going to tell you something.
Look, unpopular opinionunpopular opinion, I believe I.
I believe every word I said.
I had so much passion in thatvideo when he was saying they
was lying and that she whoopedthat girl because she was.
(53:10):
Look, I believe every word hesaid.
I said I can't lie, I can look.
I know that this movie is a lie,but you know, when they put
things in movies, they switchstuff up all the time to make it
more dramatic.
But he said uh-uh, they lied,that is a lie.
This is what really happened.
And look, I went in there whenthe baby was born.
(53:33):
Look, this reason why I haverespect for some people like
that like okay, we know that you, you know you worked on that
and you was wrong.
For that.
I don't respect you in thataspect, but I respect people who
own their truth.
He said, yeah, I slapped her, Idid this, I did that, but they
(53:56):
lying on this part, they lyingon that part, and she whooped
somebody because this person wasgoing around saying she had her
name and she was doing so shewasn't supposed to be doing.
And then that's a lie over here, because this was what really
went down.
And I believed every word hesaid I was just, that's how
(54:18):
dramatic he was.
I said look that's what I saidto you.
I said now look this one, youknow somebody telling the truth,
because he, he was verypassionate, very passionate,
that's the word I was lookingfor.
He was so very passionate andI'm sitting over here, granted,
like please, let's take thecamera off this dude.
Speaker 1 (54:38):
No, keep the camera on.
Speaker 2 (54:41):
I I thoroughly was entertained by ike turner until
he passed.
Anytime he got on tv he was tvgold.
Now if he was living today hegot on TV, he was TV gold.
Now, if he was living today, hewould be one of the people who
would have a TV show.
You think so?
Oh, absolutely.
He is like an older version ofBoosie.
(55:01):
He's going to tell it like thisit's like no taste.
You know that cousin that comesup and disrupts everything.
Everybody just kind of putstheir head down and try to
ignore them, hoping they'lldisappear but that's how I was
(55:23):
feeling about Ike and the.
I mean, that's just me.
I loved it.
You had your pom pom out.
Speaker 1 (55:27):
Ike and the Trave.
I mean, that's just me.
That's just me, I loved it.
I loved it.
You had your pom-pom out, comeon he remind me of Eric Mays.
Speaker 2 (55:35):
Just TV gold, tv gold .
See, people miss the mark withEric Mays.
They should have gave him hisown show, his own podcast.
Rest his soul.
I call him granddaddy Ericicmays.
They missed the mark.
I'm telling you people like him.
(55:56):
It's a man in chicago namedraymond jackson, um boosie.
Those people need showsseriously because even though,
you know, yeah, we can laugh andgrin at them, but they are
people that you know are gonnatell the truth about what they
feel and they're not gonna lieand they're not gonna hold back,
(56:19):
and we just need more that.
We need more of thosegranddaddy vibes.
You know that eric mays bad,because a lot of the men today
are not men like in a masculineway, like it used to be, you
know, and I think that that'swhat the world is missing and
that's the reason why they'rerunning away from it, because
(56:40):
when we had that, it was morestructure and that's why I said
that this book, the waiting room, brings back that structure.
Hopefully man will will getthis book.
The Waiting Room brings backthat structure.
(57:00):
Hopefully men will get thisbook and they will see the
pressure and the weight that andtheir girlfriends and their
sisters and do what they need todo to get that masculinity back
within themselves, to be ableto help and be consistent
helpmates and providers in thesewomen's lives.
(57:23):
Seriously, I agree with that.
I mean, I am 100 percent andthat's what I was speaking to
earlier.
You'll know who, what, when,where and how to treat that
individual when they're goingthrough.
Everybody's not strong.
Sometimes we need someone tolean on.
You know you're not strong ateach and every time, each and
(57:45):
every situation, but when aperson stands by you when you
are going through, you got togive them props.
You have got to give them propsfor that.
So I think anything else youwant to talk with about
mountains or we going to leavethat for another show we can
leave that for mountains.
(58:06):
We going to table that until wetalk about that on Gentry's
Journey.
Okay, okay, okay.
And the waiting room anythingelse that you would like to end
with on the waiting room?
Are there some additions?
Are you thinking about a secondseries of the waiting room?
I mean, what do you haveplanned for her?
(58:27):
What do you have planned forthe waiting room of the waiting
room?
I mean, what do you haveplanned for her?
What do you have planned forthe waiting room?
Well, I'm already doing adevotional where I'm bringing on
other people, other women, whowould like to come on and give
their testimonies or maybe wordsof encouragement or positive
affirmations and be able to gettheir message out to help other
(58:49):
people.
So you can find me on Facebook,jacqueline Cox, or you can,
even if you're listening on onstation here, send me a message
on station here.
Let me know.
It's something that you want tobe a part of.
There is a small fee to join,but you will get a chance of
(59:12):
becoming a best-selling author.
You will get to be a part ofsomething that's absolutely
amazing and become a publishedauthor.
So I think that if you want tobe a part of something as
magnificent as the waiting room.
I'm telling you it's going tochange lives.
(59:32):
So if you want to be a part ofthe movement, shoot me a message
on Facebook.
My name is Jacqueline Cox.
If you want to search for me,just do at listenlinda23 on
Facebook my page Jacqueline Coxwill pop up.
Add me as a friend, send me amessage.
Or if you would like to join,just Jacqueline Cox will pop up.
(59:52):
Add me as a friend, send me amessage.
Or if you would like to join,you can also email me at class
C-L-A-S-S.
The letter E, the letter D,e-f-i-n-e-d.
That's classedefined atgmailcom.
Well, jackie, thank you so much,and the value for the anthology
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will be coming right after thedevotional.
So we're doing a devotional andthen we're going to follow that
up with the value to the womenof the waiting room.
And with that one I'll belooking at my next set of women
who have made a positive impacton the Listen Linda show.
(01:00:33):
So if you would like to beinterviewed on Listen Linda and
promote your book, brand orbusiness, you guys know where to
reach me already.
I just gave that information.
Just hit me up and say, hey, Ineed help promoting or marketing
my book, business or brand andI will get with you and consult
(01:00:53):
with you on how we can do that.
Okay, so we have the waitingroom, surgery for the soul, we
have the devotional, and thenwe're going to have volume two
too.
So those are greatopportunities for the listeners
who want to be a part of thewaiting room.
(01:01:15):
The opportunities seem, at thispoint in time, to be endless.
So get in touch with our listenlender, mrs Jacqueline Cox, via
Facebook, and you all can starta conversation to see if this
project will fit for you.
Amen, alright, thank you somuch for allowing me to do this.
(01:01:38):
I do appreciate it.
It has been great.
The various scenarios that comeout of the waiting room and the
various personalities also thatcome out of the waiting room
and the various personalitiesalso that come out of the
waiting room, no problem, and?
Um, we are gearing up for ournext interview this thursday, um
(01:02:02):
, dr audrey m moses will be theguest host and she will have
questions for the queen ofquestions.
Oh lord, that's gonna be goodinterviewing me.
Dr audrey and moses will beinterviewing me on thursday.
Um, this thursday, which is the21st, I believe um, and we going
(01:02:27):
to be here on station here at 5pm Central Standard Time.
Get ready.
It's some questions for thequeen of questions, y'all and
I'm going to end this not withprayer today, but we're going to
end with Mary J Blatch.
Take Me as I Am.
You guys have a great night ora great day.
(01:02:49):
Thank you again.
And the 21st of March isThursday, this coming Thursday,
people, that's right At 5 pmCentral Standard Time.
So have a great day.
Thank you you as well, andthank you again for having me.
Thank you, all right, all right.
Speaker 1 (01:03:23):
All right.
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oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
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oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
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But they held her down in YC.
She has no regrets.
She accepts the past, all thesethings they helped to make she.
She's been lost and found andshe's still around.
There's a reason for everything.
You know I've been holding on,tried to make me weak, but I
still stay strong.
Put my life all up in thesesongs, just so you can feel me,
(01:04:10):
so you can feel the love.
So take me as I am, or havenothing At all At all.
(01:04:34):
Yes, she's older now.
Yes, she's wiser now.
Get disguised now.
She don't need no one tellingher what to do and say, no one
telling her who to be.
She's on solid ground.
She's been lost in time.
She answers to GOD and she'sconfident.
(01:04:59):
She's on solid ground.
Put my life on the very face,just so you can feel me.
So take me as I am, or havenothing at all, Just take me as
(01:05:25):
I am, or have nothing at all asI am.
I'm nothing, baby't.
You know, I can only be me, Ican only be me.
Yeah, take me in as I am.
I have no, no, no, no, no, no,no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
(01:05:49):
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,no, no, no, no, no.
Take me as I am, said someonenothing at all.
(01:06:16):
Said someone nothing at all.
Take me as I am, as I am, fornothing, baby.
(01:06:39):
This is me, this is me.
Take me as I am, take me as Iam.
No-transcript.
I thought I was immune.
Looking around this room Can'thelp but see the traces of you.
This moment is surreal.
I can't put into words how Ifeel alone, twin, where have you
(00:28):
been?
Nobody knows me like you do.
Nobody gonna love me like youcan Even deny it.
Every time I try it.
When I get my eye, you know I'mlying, body to body, skin to
skin.
I'm never gonna lie again,again.
(00:49):
You were made for me, just forme, that you were made for me,
only for me.
I think you were made for me,for you.
You were made for me, you weremade for me.
It ain't everyday that I get inmy feelings this way.
(01:17):
I know it was rare, causebefore you I never did care.
Don't know what I would do If Ihad to go on without you.
Twin, where have you been?
(01:40):
Nobody knows me like you do.
Nobody gonna love me like youcan Even denying every time I
try One.
Look in my eyes.
You know I'm lying, lying thisagain.
You were made for me, just forme.
(02:08):
You were made for me, only forme.
You were made for me.
Oh yeah, you were made for me,made for me, made for me, made
for me, made for me, just for me.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Good morning, good morning Gentry, are you there?
Yes, I am, I am, I, I am.
I apologize, I kept saying myconnection was being interrupted
, so I am here.
How are you doing?
This morning?
(03:16):
I am blessed by the best I'm.
I'm getting, I'm getting.
I'm nervous.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I don't understand where that's coming from, but
I'll take it.
Okay, let's start withsomething inspirational.
It's really short, but I thinkit is appropriate.
Hey, hello to your audience,hello to your listening audience
.
When you have a dream, you'vegot to grab it and never let go.
(03:53):
Now that's by Carol Burnett.
I think that was veryappropriate for what we're doing
here today.
I think that's very appropriatefor what we have going on and I
do appreciate being a part ofthe takeover.
We can take over people.
We're taking over, we're takingover.
We're going to be talking aboutthis new anthology, where you
(04:24):
are the vessel of the anthologyand, um, I want the audience to
know where did that come from?
You know what?
(04:44):
I participated in a few projectsbefore pursuing this anthology
and I was asked you know, hey,you know you want to come on
board for another anthology andI said not in this lifetime.
But I decided that I was notgoing to do any more anthologies
(05:05):
, that I was just totally done.
I was just going to focus on myindividual projects.
You know, my kids have projectscoming out, my husband has
projects coming out as far as inthe literary world and then, of
course, you know, I got theListen Linda podcast.
Now, I love my listeners and myyou know, and my people and my
supporters of Listen Linda, so Isaid I was going to give all of
(05:26):
that attention to this.
Well, I kept you know, gettingyou know this tugging at my
spirit, say you need to, youknow, check your analytics,
check your analytics, check youranalytics, check the analytics.
I was like wow, and then Istarted putting people up who
(05:47):
had the, you know, the mostviews or the most downloads,
like every week, and I wasstarting to see, like who was
bringing in the most impact.
And, um, one day god said, youknow, now people be like, god
ain't told you how.
You know, god told me y'allthat I needed to come out with a
project and that I needed to doan anthology.
(06:11):
And I had already been askedthis question by people because
I was, you know, helping, youknow, with the promotions and,
you know, bringing people onboard with the recruiting of the
last anthology that I was in.
(06:31):
And I had a situation where Isay you know what I had people
inboxing me.
Oh, you know, I thought that.
I thought this was youranthology.
You know, I didn't know it wassomebody else's.
If you do one, then I do it andI'm just like what do you mean?
Like that's not.
(06:53):
No, I'm not doing the anthologyfor myself, I'm doing one for
you know, I'm helping somebodyelse.
Well, when you do yours call me, that's all I can hear.
When you do yours call me, whenyou do yours call me, that's
all I kept hearing.
Well, you do yours call me, youdo yours call me, so get my
marinara.
So I say you know what?
(07:15):
I said God?
I said this ain't my thing, youknow, this ain't for me.
And so God said yes, it is.
So I said okay.
So I called the publisher, msLaquita Parks.
I said look, some know myspirit telling me I need to do
this.
She said say no more.
What do you need help with?
And I'll help you with it.
And then I called you, know youand a few other people, and
(07:41):
everybody I called it was ano-brainer, you know, even
though I heard you guys sayy'all not doing orthology for a
while.
So I had to be, I had to humblemyself child and say you know
what?
I'm just gonna call them andsee what they say.
And everybody I reached out toit was a no-brainer.
It was absolutely whateveryou're doing, we're gonna
support you in it and I just youknow.
So that's where that came from.
But the waiting room actuallycame from the segment that I do
(08:03):
here and that's you know.
Basically, women come on andthey're telling their stories
and they're telling, you know,how God used them or how God
helped them, or how Goddelivered them from their
waiting room, or they might bein their waiting season right
now, or what does that feel like?
So, um, yeah, so that's howthat became about.
(08:28):
You know, when you spoke of whatpeople tell you, god didn't say
to you and it's not just to you, my statement it's.
I haven't heard that and I knowsomebody was.
They weren't saying it directlyto me, but they said it in my
presence and I was like, well, Iwould be very careful with that
(08:50):
statement if I was you and Iwasn't being ugly.
I said, because you don't knowwhat private conversations God
has with another individual and,uh, I just wouldn't get in
God's business like that.
I just personally would not getin that because it was not a
(09:10):
conference call, because if Isay God told me to do something,
I really mean it.
So it's really not up for youto input your negativity, so to
speak, or your prophecy in this,so to speak, because that makes
you a false prophet, becauseyou honestly don't know what God
puts in another individual.
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God may tell some people well,it's time for you to go, it's
time for you to go, you know,it's time for you to drop a few
people.
No, you don't have to announceit to the world, but what you
have to do is follow God's lead.
If he gave it to you, gives youthat unction, then that is your
unction.
It is not for everybody and youcan be standing toe to toe with
people, I mean elbow to elbow,shoulder to shoulder.
(09:55):
But what he has for you, he'sgoing to whisper it in your
heart.
So I I totally get that.
I totally get it.
But I think a lot of peopledon't, and that's fine, that's
on them.
And then some people wrestlewith well, I know god told me, I
know god told me and I'm likewell, where is your?
(10:16):
Why are you doubting?
Well, because so and so said.
That wasn't what god meant.
I was like how?
they know how they know.
And then you're thrown offbecause you're listening to man,
and then you're listening toGod, and then you're conflicted
and you're confused and youdon't know what to do.
So you have to go to God andsay you know Lord, I believe you
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, I know, I heard you, I know, Iheard what you said, but you're
not going to always have peoplewho support what you say and
for whatever reason.
For whatever reason, we justneed to.
You know, we walk by faith, notby sight, correct, because
everybody's not going to walkwith you, everybody's not going
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to roll with you.
But we walk by faith and not bysight.
And when it comes to fruition,whatever it is I'm not speaking
just about the waiting room, butwhatever it is you know it
really is you and God.
Sometimes you just have to getinto your secret place in your
prayer room, in your corner Icall it my war room, and that's
(11:26):
true In your war room, and justtalk to God and you know he will
verify.
Well, god does, you know.
If he doesn't bring you to.
You know, when he brings you tosomething, he brings you to it,
you know.
So we have to.
You know, shake off thenaysayer, shake.
So we have to, you know, shakeoff the naysayer, shake off the
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naysayer.
And I was kind of of theideology as you.
Getting back to the waitingroom, I was like, ok, I'm kind
of tired.
I'm kind of tired now.
I've enjoyed the anthologiesthat I have been a part of, but
I'm a little tired, I need totake a break, I need to do
something different.
I'm a little tired, I need totake a break, I need to do
something different.
And so when you came with youridea, I'm like I'm in.
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I didn't think twice, but I waslike I'm in, you know, and here
we go again with this cycle.
But obedience is better thansacrifice.
It really really is.
You know, some other projectsare along the way, but we're not
here to talk about I mean,we're here to talk about your
waiting room.
And what is your vision, what isyour purpose?
(12:33):
What do you want the waitingroom to do for women?
You know what it's called theWomen of the Waiting Room and I
got the idea, like I said, fromthe the show, my show, my
podcast, but I also got it fromthe women of Bruce's place,
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because in that movie that younggirl came and moved into that
building and the elder women inthat building just took that
young girl in and they spookedher under their wing and they
gave her tough love.
But they also gave hercompassion, they gave her
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empathy, they gave her graceeverything that she was not
getting from home, gave hergrace everything that she was
not getting from home.
And so when I think about that,I don't just think about it
from a woman's perspective, Ithink it from a human's
perspective, male or female,right.
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I want this book to not justempower women or girls or older
women, but people, right,because everybody has a story
and everybody goes throughemotions, everybody goes through
life challenges, whether theyare good, whether they're better
and different.
And I feel like, even thoughI'm only bringing women on, men
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can get a purpose, you know, orthey can get a healing or just
somebody that they can relate tofrom the book too.
Whether it's you know, they canfigure out by reading this book
why their mom treated them acertain way, or why their sister
is how she is, if she's, youknow, um, too fast, too soon, or
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, you know, dating the wrongguys, or why they, why they wife
act the way she act, why theyyou know, they sibling, act the
way they act, or how they may be, or why, why?
Why they were raised the waythat they were raised, if they
were raised by a single parentor may have had a single
grandmother, so on and so forth.
So I think by reading thewomen's stories and the women's
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testimonies in this book, itwill just give the world a more
in-depth insight to human nature.
Because women are nurturers andwe procreate and we are the
reason.
Um, god uses us as vessels tobirth the world.
So the world can relate to thisbook, because women birth the
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world period.
Oh, that's good.
Um, and getting back to me, Inever thought about it from that
angle.
But you are correct, men thinkthey understand women and this
is just Carolyn's opinion, thisis Gentry's opinion but they
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don't.
They don't.
Our emotions are different, theway we perceive things are
different.
Sometimes we can see what otherpeople can't see because, like
you said, we're nurturers.
So you know, we want to makesure that everybody is together,
everybody's good, things areworking out and we go two steps
(15:57):
ahead to figure things out.
You know, like, if you're onchildren being there, you know
kids.
If you're on children, you knowkids, teenagers, young adults,
you know, trying to navigate.
We can say, oh, I've been there, done that, this is how you
really need to handle that.
And then you can see them relaxbecause they're like, whew,
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somebody understands me.
Now, men, I suck it up.
You can't suck everything off.
You can't suck everything off,you know.
But there are truly somedaddy's girls out there.
They give you plain language tounderstand on how to navigate,
how to navigate the world, howto navigate relationship, and
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they put it in um, I mean, Imean.
So, yes, I, I, men who don'tunderstand how to connect with
daughters or how to connect withwomen, or, oh, she'll be all
right.
No, it's not always that she'sgoing to be all right.
She just might need you.
I remember one day quote unquotebeing in a waiting room and I
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heard this guy.
He showed up and you know, thelady was glad to see him and he
said you don't need me to stay,do you Now?
To me that meant I don't wantto stay.
That to me and I had nothing todo with that, that's just my
nose in somebody else's businessthat meant to me he didn't want
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to stay.
Of course she wanted you tostay.
She called you.
He was like, well, call me ifyou need me.
And he was out and I was like,wow, wow.
So this book may help men to seethat sometimes you really need
to be present for some things.
You have to walk with your ladythrough something, you have to
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walk with your daughters throughsomething in order for them to
feel comfortable, protected,that they have a safe space,
they have a shoulder to lean on.
Does that make sense?
You know, I'm glad you saidthat and that's the reason why
I'm so, so glad that we have oneof the contributing authors
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that are joining in on thisanthology, dr Velma Bagby,
because her CAT series speaks alot on that.
So, and I'll tell you why, meand my husband we're married,
we're very happily married.
I love him, he loves me, welove each other.
And definitely catch that,catch that poetry, catch that.
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Oh, my God, am I?
Oh, what, okay, do I need toget?
Speaker 1 (18:46):
a style concept.
Now, you know, I got a lot ofgifts.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
You know, look, I got a lot of gifts.
These are not skills or talentsthat I had to practice on baby,
it just come naturally.
That's what you call a gift.
That's what you call anointing.
No, but it's not anything.
Nothing that I gotta pretend tohave, that don't have I just do
have them, uh, but uh, no, uh.
But seriously, uh, just readingthe catch series, reading, um,
(19:13):
the first book, the catch, noone wants um.
Reading the um, the the wrongcatch.
You know me and my husband wasreading those books and he said
there's some fish in here that Ikind of relate to, that kind of
deal with me and maybe I needto work on that.
Babe, what you think I was like, look, I wasn't going to say
nothing to you, old trophy fish,but the shoe fit must have quit
(19:37):
.
But I feel like in thatinstance.
And then I read A Shield TearDown the the house and it was
quite a few of them up in therethat I can relate to and I said,
man, I am a little bit likethat, hyena, I am a little bit
like this or like that, and I'mjust like you know what.
Maybe I need to work on thesethings because I feel like if we
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can look and we can holdourselves accountable for the
thing, because we don't want to,you know, read this and be like
that, ain't me, yes, it is,your stuff could be going good,
but it's always something thatyou can work on within yourself
to make yourself a better personand I'm so glad that she's
joining in and, like you said,when you're able to read
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something like what we're comingout with the waiting room and
it's not just about, you know,looking at things from a
female's perspective butrealizing that, no matter what,
god is always in the midst.
So for people who feel like Godain't here, god ain't with me,
where's God when I need him?
Oh, he's right there.
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God ain't with me.
Where's God when I need him?
Oh, he's right there.
He's just like that doctorthat's in the back and you hurt
yourself and you have to go tothe emergency room, or you have
to go to the doctor.
Of course you're in pain, ofcourse you need stitches, of
course these things are going on, but it's other people that are
in the world, it's other peoplethat are in that emergency room
too.
So what you do is you grab yournumber, you sit and you be
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patient and, just like you couldwait on that doctor, just like
you could trust that pilot orthat train operator or that bus
driver or that Uber driver withyour life, trust God the same
way.
And that's what the synopsisand the meaning behind the
waiting room is Everybody got aturn.
And the meaning behind thewaiting room is Everybody got a
turn, everybody got a waitingseason.
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Sweetheart, you are not alone.
You are not alone in thatwaiting season.
But just know, when your numbercome up, god gonna do what he
gotta do.
He gonna show up and show outevery time.
And that is what this book isabout the success stories, the
success stories of everybody intheir waiting room, in their
waiting season, in their waitingseason, in their journey.
(21:46):
I ain't gonna say journey, ohno.
And they and they path throughlife.
Okay, yes, because, well, youknow you, I hear you on the
journey.
But it, like I often tell mypatients, you know some of their
procedures are real, you knowcut and dry.
(22:08):
But I ask how are you feeling?
Were there any problems?
Are there any problems?
No, no, I think it's going okay.
I think it's going okay.
Okay, as long as you feel likeit's going okay.
But on some of them I have tosay recognize, this is a
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marathon, it's not a sprint,this is going to take you some
time to get over.
And one of my patients told meCarolyn, I'm so thankful that I
had you to guide me through this.
You kept telling me it wasn't amarathon.
I mean that it was a marathonand not a sprint and it truly
has been that.
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And you to encourage me on mybad days and to get me through
those bad days, you know thatjust did a lot for me, because a
lot of people I know that I'mlooking for that pat on the back
.
But some people need you morethan others at certain times in
their lives, and that's just notin nursing, but that's in life.
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So you can walk a friendthrough their situation, through
their heartache, through theirbreak, through their miscarriage
, through whatever they're goingthrough, through a sickness of
a loved one.
Be there and do that, show upfor them, because they are in
the waiting room and when youare visiting or calling or
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offering you know, your help,your support, you're in that
waiting room with them.
You may not be as connected,but you're connected to that
source for a reason, and it'snot just for show.
Like the guy said well, call meif you need me.
I'm like you drove way overhere for that.
Well, that means he reallydidn't want to be bothered.
(23:54):
He's not ready for the waitingroom?
Okay, but what could she do?
Okay, then I will, you know.
But you can see thedisappointment on her face.
At that point in time you needto be alone.
You'd rather be alone becauseif someone does not want to sit
with you and support you throughsomething, you really don't
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need them at that point in time,you just don't need them.
So the waiting room can be alonely place, you know it can be
full of support and at the sametime it can be a lonely place.
You know it can be full ofsupport and at the same time it
can be a lonesome place.
So men do need to read andunderstand some of the emotions
(24:35):
that women go through.
But you know what A lot oftimes when you are alone, that's
the best time for you tobasically fast and wait on God
and use your discernment andpray and just shut down and open
up and let God in.
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You know there's been plenty oftimes I've had to go to the
doctor and nobody was there myhusband, of course.
If he didn't have the kids hewas there or if he wasn't at
work he was there.
But it's been plenty of times Ihad to put those big girl
panties on and get up and go.
I remember having my firstsurgery and nobody showed up
(25:21):
except my husband.
He wasn't even my husband or myboyfriend at the time.
He was just a really goodfriend.
None of my sisters and brotherscame, none of my family, none
of my.
The time he was just a reallygood friend.
None of my sisters and brotherscame, none of my family, none
of my close friends, nobody wasthere.
When I opened my eyes, he wasthe only person that was there.
And then, of course, you know,he had to go home and so I'm
laying there plenty of times onthe surgery table on that
(25:43):
hospital, dealing with thyroidcancer, dealing with them
cutting my neck open, taking mythyroid out, dealing with you
know, a plethora of things.
I've had kidney stones and hadto be hospitalized, and I was in
college A lot of things thatI'm in there by myself and that
was just time for me to talkwith just me and God, and I
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agree with that.
And when you're in that waitingroom and we speak on that in the
book as well, um, it's a coupleof chapters that speak on just
them, and it's just them and God, and and that's when you really
find out that God is real,because you are there and he
speaks to you.
He speaks to you in a way thatonly you can recognize it, and
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so he might speak to you in away that only you can recognize
it, and so he might speak to youthrough somebody.
He might use a nurse like youto be a vessel.
He may use the doctor, he mayuse the janitor that comes in
and cleans up the room, orwhoever the person that makes up
the bed, or the person thatbrings you your food or whatever
.
And if he don't speak throughthat, he'll speak through
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something that you're watchingon TV.
He'll speak through a song or alyric that you may be listening
to.
So all I'm saying is that, withthis project, we are not doing
this to become bestsellers,because everybody that is in
this anthology is amulti-best-selling author.
So that's not what this missionis about.
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This is not a money grab,because it will not be an
expensive book.
This is not something for me tosay that I'm the visionary on,
because I am not.
I am the vessel, but God is thevisionary.
God gave me this idea.
I didn't think of it myself,and this is not a money grab for
me because I only brought inseven people.
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Usually, when you seeanthologies, they got to have
over 20, 30, 300, 3,000 people,you know, charging all this
crazy amount of money.
I got my people and the doorwas closed because God said nope
, this is all you need.
Seven is the number ofcompletion it is, and God gave
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me my seven and they just sohappen to be very good friends
of mine.
But you can go on, listen,linda, go to Buzzsprout, check
my analytics.
Their numbers reflect thereason why they are in this
anthology.
That's great.
That's great.
So the goal is to reach as manypeople as possible, to enlighten
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them on life and lifecircumstances, how we affect one
another or what an individualis going through, to bring some
clarity, absolutely To teachsome people some things.
It's not always about you andyour up season, okay, and your
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season of light.
It's about being in your seasonof darkness.
Trouble don't last always, itjust doesn't.
It may feel like it.
It's not always a 24-hour thing.
(29:02):
Sometimes it can be weeks ormonths, but one thing for sure
you will come out the better onthe end.
So that's what I think also isthe purpose of the waiting room.
Sometimes you have to wait onsomething, and another thing
(29:28):
that I really like about thewaiting room is that we're not
trying to take every story andblend them together, like you
see in most anthologies, whereall of them kind of blend
together.
Everybody is telling theirstory about what they feel the
waiting room means to them.
So, just like I told what thewaiting room means to me, then
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you told what the waiting roommeans to you, and your stories
reflect just that.
This is more so of a chickensoup for your soul Reader's
Digest type of thing that we'redoing, but we're doing it and
we're we're basically showingpeople that God is real and God
is going to always be there forthem, and I feel like that this
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even though, um, the enemy hasbeen trying to attack no weapons
for him will prosper, and Iknow that the enemy don't attack
nothing that is not of God.
And so I'm just excited.
I'm truly, truly excited aboutthe lives that could be saved
and will be saved, and thepeople that will go back to God
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or go to God or have turned awayfrom God and think he's not
there.
Pick up this book, read thisbook.
But this book will also beavailable for audio book as well
.
So this will be an ebook, apaperback and an audio book for
for people who just are notreaders, who would just rather
listen to the story.
(31:02):
This book will be available.
Uh, in in that, um, that aspectas well.
Oh, that sounds good.
I know a lot of people who liketo listen as they drive.
They like to listen toaudiobooks as they drive, and
that's a good thing.
At least it will be portable.
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It will be available.
It's accessible in more thanone form.
Be available is accessible inmore than one form.
Now, the seven people that youhave all come from various
backgrounds.
Like you say, everyone isaccustomed to being a number one
bestseller.
They have done that before.
(31:43):
Can you tell us a little bitabout just just a snippet about
the other individuals?
And then I know you mentionedthe catch and dr v.
Okay, well, we also have misscarolyn gentry cole, who is an
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international bestselling author.
More than a couple of timesover.
She's a global podcaster,streaming live on Stationhead
and StreamYard, and her podcastis called Gentry's Journey.
She is a nurse.
(32:35):
She is a decorated nurse atthat.
She's a pleather of things.
She's a member of the Blackcommunity and she does a lot.
She's a plethora of things.
She's a member of the fourthblack community and she does a
lot.
She's speaking in a waitingroom.
Her chapter is called Healingand if you go to my Facebook
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page, jacqueline Cox, you'll beable to see what her story
consists of, because the traileris available.
Story consists of because thetrailer is available.
Also, we have melanie the voicejohnson, ex-pastor's wife,
ex-first lady um, poetess,award-winning poet, uh,
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international best-sellingauthor, educator, um, and just
all around, just beautifulperson.
You have Teresa Reese Dorsey,who is a government official in
Louisiana, who also is abest-selling author.
You can check her out on ReeseWrites Books on Facebook.
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She is just a phenomenal writer, a phenomenal person.
She's a philanthropist, shejust does a lot for her
community and for the state ofLouisiana.
So I'm so, so glad for her tobe able to come in and share her
story.
You have Dr Audrey Ann Moses,who is a retired Navy veteran.
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She's a Christian life coach.
She's a multi bestseller authorand award winning author as
well, and she's the wife of aveteran as well Both her and her
husband are veterans of theNavy and she's also a
psychiatrist as well and atherapist.
So I'm so, so glad to have herstory as well as her perspective
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and a Christian life coach'sperspective.
And then, of course we have MsLaquita Paprovi-Parks, who is
not just the publisher of thisanthology but also a co-author.
She is a serial entrepreneur,she has multiple nonprofit
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organizations, she is a mentor.
She is a mentor, she is amother, she is um also someone
who suffered a medical childhoodtrauma at the age of four years
old and has, uh, been, um, youknow, dealing with pain for over
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50 years of her life, every day.
She doesn't know a day withoutpain, and it was all at the
hands of a nurse at Grady'shospital.
So say her name, laquita Parksyou could google Laquita Parks,
all that will come up.
And she is telling her story,but not just the story that she
always tells about her medicalchildhood trauma, but she's also
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telling other stories of thingsthat have happened in her life
as well, and with Melanie, youcan also check out her trailer
as well, and her trailer iscalled Healing Deferred and she
speaks on, you know, the abuse,the domestic violence, the
mental and physical andemotional abuse that she endured
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at the hands of her husband,who was actually a pastor.
And so there's so manydifferent stories in this book
that everyone can relate to, notjust women, but all women, all
cultures, all backgrounds, allmen the same, and this is going
to be a game changer.
I truly believe that thisanthology is going to be a game
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changer.
I truly believe that thisanthology is going to be a game
changer and I believe you and Iam with you on that.
Now, when you spoke of thetrailers, let's speak about that
for a minute.
Where did that idea come from?
Because I've seen two of thetrailers and I'm just blown away
by them, the inspiration andthe idea.
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Where did that come from?
You know what?
It came from the Lord.
Look, I've been doing booktrailers for a while now.
For a lot of people.
I've been Millie Van of people.
I've been merely vanillied.
I've been doing a lot of thingsbehind the scenes for different
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authors and different projectsthat I have not taken credit for
.
But I'm a visual person and alot of people I know are visual
people.
So I feel like, in order to sellmy books, starting with
mountains and starting with itCan't Always Be Night what
better way to sell a book thanto make it out of a movie?
(37:35):
Right, a lot of people say Ididn't read the book, but I
watched the movie.
Yes, oh, I watched the movieand it made me want to read the
book.
True, oh, I watched the movieand it made me want to read the
book.
True, because, let's be trueand let's be truthful, in 2024
nobody really wants to buy abook, let alone pick it up and
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read it.
Okay, so what better way to getpeople to say, you know what,
I'm gonna go buy that bookbecause that book like it's
gonna be good, than to make a aphenomenal book trailer in the
form of a movie trailer, justlike when you go to the movies
to watch a movie and you see thepreviews come up, you're like,
oh, that look good, I'm gonna gowatch, I'm gonna come back and
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get people to come back, and soit's the same thing.
Um, I came out with mountainsand of course I I had rave
reviews on mountains.
But mountains is my book, thatmy memoir about my life.
For people who don't know, it'scalled Mountains Can't Rise
Without Earthquakes.
But people who are my peoplecall it Mountains because you
know we just cut it Mountainsfor short, but it's called
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Mountains Can't Rise WithoutEarthquakes a memoir of a grown
girl, and I came out with it andI was going through through it,
doing excerpts on book slamsand different things that were
on Clubhouse.
Back when a guy named IndyBrennan came out with a book
slam on Clubhouse and that's howI met all the ladies that are
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in this anthology and I wasreading from my memoir and of
course I got pre-orders there,but my pre-orders did not rise
and my sales did not rise withmountains until I did my book
trailer.
When I did my book trailer and Itook those pages and I made
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them visual, that's when peoplesay you know what I want that
book and that's when I startedto see my sales increase.
So when I joined another project, I brought that to the table.
Hey, what about if we dotrailers?
What about if we do trailers?
Well, of course we had a lot ofpeople, so that was not going
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to happen because then we wouldhave had to do a whole bunch of
trailers for a whole bunch ofpeople.
But I took my people and myfriends and I said, hey, I'm
going to do you a trailer and Iwould do other people's trailers
.
And they would come back to meand say, hey, you know, my sales
rose because of that.
Once you put a visual to a book, you will gain sales from that.
(40:05):
And also when I put it on Hulu,my sales skyrocketed.
So I'm day 218 today.
I'm still on the Amazonbestseller top 100 list today.
96 days at number one, 217 daysand I'm still in the top 100.
(40:25):
I think I'm 54 now on the bestsellers list, but for 96 days I
was number one in all threecategories.
Congratulations.
And that was because of thetrailers.
That was because of taking thattrailer and putting it on Hulu
and turning it into a commercial, and that not only brought me
that, but it brought me moviedeals and movie offers and
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script offers to turn my bookinto plays and all these
different things.
But basically what I'm sayingis that if you have a story, you
really want it out there, abook trailer is the way to go to
get your sales to go up.
And that's coming from aprofessional, certified brand
strategist.
(41:08):
I'm not a self-proclaimed brandstrategist.
Certified brand strategist,graduated business degree cum
laude, so I know a littlesomething.
It's not self-proclaimed.
Okay, let me just put this outhere.
I'm not your average Joe orJane.
(41:30):
Come on with it.
Now.
I come with the receipt, comeon with it now.
I come with the receipt.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
You know how I love my receipt.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
You love your receipt , you love your receipt.
And now let's piggyback tomountains.
Let's just open it up just alittle bit.
We don't have to, becausemountains is really a show in
and of itself.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
What made you decide?
Speaker 2 (41:57):
to write about mountains Because I know a lot
had to go into that.
I had the honor of being a betareader, so I love mountains.
You know what, when you'retrying to do something better
with your life and you're tryingto become a better person,
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especially when you give yourlife back over to God and you
say you know what You're goingto live the way you're supposed
to live and live righteously soyou can go to heaven, the devil
comes in any way, shape and formRight.
He tried to come and attack you, and what better way to do that
than to try to bring up yourpast, to bring up the mistakes
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you made in the past and thethings that you did and the
things that you had to overcome.
Oh, I remember when you washomeless.
I remember when your uncleraped you.
I remember when they left youout in the street.
I remember when you used tostay with me.
I remember when you used tosleep on a park bench or used to
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stay in shelters.
I remember when your baby daddywasn't claiming your baby to
stay in shelters.
I remember when your baby daddywasn't claiming your baby.
I remember this.
I remember that that was comingup a lot for me in my life.
When I got married to my husband, people were coming out for
what.
We're trying to break us up,trying to dig up things from the
past that I had done or that Iwent through.
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And I told my husband.
I said, you know what?
I think I'm going to write abook Because I've never been one
to be ashamed of anything thatI did or that I went through.
Okay, because I was out of thisfish grease?
Yes, I was.
And guess what?
I had the time of my life beingthat, okay, I enjoyed it.
Okay, I enjoyed my youngeryears.
I enjoyed it.
(43:46):
Okay, I enjoyed my youngeryears.
I enjoyed them, even though I'mstill young.
I know you're like yo, youngeryears girl, you're only 35.
But what I'm saying is that Igrew up fast and, yes, I did,
but everything made me who I amtoday.
So if people don't know thebackground of somebody's story,
then they should not judge thembased on what somebody said,
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that they did and they passed,or what they're doing today in
their present or what they coulddo in the future, because
everything comes from a cycle,it comes from the hamster wheel,
right?
So I'm one of those people thatyou.
It's nothing that you can askme that I won't answer
truthfully because I'm notashamed.
And so mountains came about.
(44:27):
Basically, I decided I'm goingto write my story and tell my
story the only way that I knowhow to tell it a whole truth.
So that way, if anybody want toknow anything about me and my
kids want to know somethingabout me when they get older
they'll hear from the horsemouth no ghost writers, no ai
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writer, no computer going backand writing something for me,
not me listening to your story.
Gentry say, oh, that soundsgood.
Let me say that that happenedto me.
No, this is not mountains, isis my story period period.
It's your story and you told it.
You told your truth and I'veoften said to people once you
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have told your truth, no one canembarrass you about that
anymore, because when you don'tsay it, they feel as though
you're trying to hide or theythink I don't pick out.
No, no, no, it is here, it isin black and white, it is here.
I had that revelation years agowhen I was teaching and when I
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first started teaching LPNstudents and the young man came
in here's my excuse, missCarlton I was like OK, cool, I'm
thinking it's child support,because most of the people who
we would grant them, we wouldgrace them a day if they were in
court.
And so I was reading his excuse, I was like, oh, I thought you
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went for child.
Oh no, ma'am, I don't have anykids.
Somebody lied on me and had myname up against some capital
murder charge.
Well, capital murder, capitalmurder.
I said capital murder, yeah, Igo.
Should I be in the fire?
What did you do?
Right, you went with a killer.
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He was like, no, no, that wasn'tme, I didn't do it.
I didn't do it.
I did not do it.
He said I'll be honest with you, ms Gold, I was macking on.
I had all the women.
I was like, oh, oh, so you're aplayer.
He said, yeah, and that's whatgot me One of my ex-girlfriends,
you know, called in on atip-lap.
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I said are you kidding me?
You know, because I'm just, I'mstunned.
And so he told me his truth.
And I had heard other peoplekind of whispering.
But I didn't know.
You know, because I was gettingthe student's affair.
You know, y'all stay on thatside, let me stay on the side.
And so I told him.
I said but when you tell yourtruth.
(47:12):
No one can embarrass you aboutyour truth.
He said you know, I mean Ithink I'm going to be found
innocent because they have noevidence.
I said, well, I'm not trying toget in your business, but
you're not still fooling withthis woman who's out on your
life.
No, with this woman who's noton your life, no, no, I never
want to see her.
No more, I'm not going toapproach her, I'm not going to
say anything to her, I'm justgoing to keep walking.
(47:33):
And I was like that's good, butmy father has been so
supportive of me, my father haswalked me through this process.
Again, I say, once you have toldyour truth, no one can
embarrass you about that,because it is what it is.
Yeah, I told it.
You weren't in the room when Imentioned that, you know.
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Then they get embarrassedbecause they think they finna
light it up.
No, you're not lightinganything up, I'm finna.
Put that fire out right here,right now.
And I don't know why peoplefeel as though they need to try
to hold you back because, guesswhat?
We all have a past.
We've all done something.
We may not have done what BobbyDown the Street has done or
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what JoJo, you know up thecorner has done, but we've all
done something.
But I know people will usethings against you.
You can be like elementaryschool, junior high, like you
said.
I didn't graduate college.
What did you say?
You were cum laude.
Okay, I graduated college cumlaude.
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I graduated cum laude.
Put some respect on my name.
Speaker 1 (48:41):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (48:42):
You know, talk to me nice.
You know I moved on what youdoing now.
You know what you doing now.
What do you mean?
What I'm doing?
I want to know what you'redoing, what you're doing with
your life.
Still on that hamster wheel Onthe hamster wheel, just talking
about what I'm going to do.
What I'm going to do.
Going nowhere fast Goingnowhere.
Ain't never been that fast.
Speaker 1 (49:03):
Going nowhere fast.
Speaker 2 (49:05):
So that's why, sometimes, yes, we're bad, you
know.
So that's why sometimes, yes,we have to tell our story
because you know it's just bestto.
Speaker 1 (49:14):
But if you don't, it'll anchor you down People
will try to anchor you down.
Speaker 2 (49:18):
It will hold you back , and I'm a firm believer, I'm
an open book, I'm verytransparent because I'm not
ashamed, absolutely, and no oneneeds to have that much power
over you.
Come on, go somewhere and sitdown, and not just you, but you
know any of us.
Somebody said something to meone day and they were like when
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was the last time you saw us?
And I said that's when I was,when I was 16 years old.
What you mean?
When I was 16 years old, youwant me to reach back in history
and get that.
(50:03):
You know me, you know well, youdon't know me, but anyway, you
want me to reach back in history, history, get that.
Oh, I have moved on so manytimes when I have I can't
remember.
I said I know the story, but doyou really want me to repeat
the story?
Because guess what I'm going on.
I've made more stories sincethen.
How about that?
Well, you ain't got to be funny.
(50:24):
Well, no, I'm bringing that upanymore because I have some
things on you.
I'm just too much of a lady torepeat them.
So that was the end of that one, okay?
So sometimes you have to justmeet people where they are and
leave them there, becausethey're not worth you bringing
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them into your present anddefinitely not into your future,
because you got nothing.
You got nothing and if youthink you're going to hold me
back, you know you are so farfrom the truth, just like when
President Obama wrote his beforehe ran for president.
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He put it all out there so noone else could bring this up.
He sure did.
He did.
I got a white mama, I got awhite mama.
I got white grandparents.
I sure did.
My daddy ain't one no good, hehad a baby out of wedlock?
He sure did.
He put it out there, babymarijuana.
(51:27):
He put it all out there so noone could bring up his text.
He wrote it, he told it and youknow, you know, but the devil's
in the details.
So people had nothing to bringup, they had nothing to bring.
It wasn't like a firestorm, itwasn't like oh, this is just so
horrible.
None of that happened.
(51:47):
None of that happened, and I'mthat happened and none of that
happened.
He was trying to say he wasn'tborn in America.
You know, we know who said allthat, but anyway.
So you want to cut off onestate that is not in the
continental US, but it's still aUnited States.
It's a state in the UnitedStates of America.
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I'm a Schwarzenegger over there, Come on boo so it's just.
It is best to tell your story,but I don't think you need to go
down the street and tell it toeveryone.
You put it in a book.
It's on page 45.
Okay, it's on page 45 they'regoing to go grab it and read it,
(52:29):
because they can't.
They can't read it.
They can't read it.
You sent a video about IkeTurner.
Oh lord, I think it was acouple of days ago and I finally
opened it oh yeah that's a lot.
(52:49):
I'm going to tell you something.
Look, unpopular opinionunpopular opinion, I believe I.
I believe every word I said.
I had so much passion in thatvideo when he was saying they
was lying and that she whoopedthat girl because she was.
(53:10):
Look, I believe every word hesaid.
I said I can't lie, I can look.
I know that this movie is a lie,but you know, when they put
things in movies, they switchstuff up all the time to make it
more dramatic.
But he said uh-uh, they lied,that is a lie.
This is what really happened.
And look, I went in there whenthe baby was born.
(53:33):
Look, this reason why I haverespect for some people like
that like okay, we know that you, you know you worked on that
and you was wrong.
For that.
I don't respect you in thataspect, but I respect people who
own their truth.
He said, yeah, I slapped her, Idid this, I did that, but they
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lying on this part, they lyingon that part, and she whooped
somebody because this person wasgoing around saying she had her
name and she was doing so shewasn't supposed to be doing.
And then that's a lie over here, because this was what really
went down.
And I believed every word hesaid I was just, that's how
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dramatic he was.
I said look that's what I saidto you.
I said now look this one, youknow somebody telling the truth,
because he, he was verypassionate, very passionate,
that's the word I was lookingfor.
He was so very passionate andI'm sitting over here, granted,
like please, let's take thecamera off this dude.
Speaker 1 (54:38):
No, keep the camera on.
Speaker 2 (54:41):
I I thoroughly was entertained by ike turner until
he passed.
Anytime he got on tv he was tvgold.
Now if he was living today hegot on TV, he was TV gold.
Now, if he was living today, hewould be one of the people who
would have a TV show.
You think so?
Oh, absolutely.
He is like an older version ofBoosie.
(55:01):
He's going to tell it like thisit's like no taste.
You know that cousin that comesup and disrupts everything.
Everybody just kind of putstheir head down and try to
ignore them, hoping they'lldisappear but that's how I was
(55:23):
feeling about Ike and the.
I mean, that's just me.
I loved it.
You had your pom pom out.
Speaker 1 (55:27):
Ike and the Trave.
I mean, that's just me.
That's just me, I loved it.
I loved it.
You had your pom-pom out, comeon he remind me of Eric Mays.
Speaker 2 (55:35):
Just TV gold, tv gold .
See, people miss the mark withEric Mays.
They should have gave him hisown show, his own podcast.
Rest his soul.
I call him granddaddy Ericicmays.
They missed the mark.
I'm telling you people like him.
(55:56):
It's a man in chicago namedraymond jackson, um boosie.
Those people need showsseriously because even though,
you know, yeah, we can laugh andgrin at them, but they are
people that you know are gonnatell the truth about what they
feel and they're not gonna lieand they're not gonna hold back,
(56:19):
and we just need more that.
We need more of thosegranddaddy vibes.
You know that eric mays bad,because a lot of the men today
are not men like in a masculineway, like it used to be, you
know, and I think that that'swhat the world is missing and
that's the reason why they'rerunning away from it, because
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when we had that, it was morestructure and that's why I said
that this book, the waiting room, brings back that structure.
Hopefully man will will getthis book.
The Waiting Room brings backthat structure.
(57:00):
Hopefully men will get thisbook and they will see the
pressure and the weight that andtheir girlfriends and their
sisters and do what they need todo to get that masculinity back
within themselves, to be ableto help and be consistent
helpmates and providers in thesewomen's lives.
(57:23):
Seriously, I agree with that.
I mean, I am 100 percent andthat's what I was speaking to
earlier.
You'll know who, what, when,where and how to treat that
individual when they're goingthrough.
Everybody's not strong.
Sometimes we need someone tolean on.
You know you're not strong ateach and every time, each and
(57:45):
every situation, but when aperson stands by you when you
are going through, you got togive them props.
You have got to give them propsfor that.
So I think anything else youwant to talk with about
mountains or we going to leavethat for another show we can
leave that for mountains.
(58:06):
We going to table that until wetalk about that on Gentry's
Journey.
Okay, okay, okay.
And the waiting room anythingelse that you would like to end
with on the waiting room?
Are there some additions?
Are you thinking about a secondseries of the waiting room?
I mean, what do you haveplanned for her?
(58:27):
What do you have planned forthe waiting room of the waiting
room?
I mean, what do you haveplanned for her?
What do you have planned forthe waiting room?
Well, I'm already doing adevotional where I'm bringing on
other people, other women, whowould like to come on and give
their testimonies or maybe wordsof encouragement or positive
affirmations and be able to gettheir message out to help other
(58:49):
people.
So you can find me on Facebook,jacqueline Cox, or you can,
even if you're listening on onstation here, send me a message
on station here.
Let me know.
It's something that you want tobe a part of.
There is a small fee to join,but you will get a chance of
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becoming a best-selling author.
You will get to be a part ofsomething that's absolutely
amazing and become a publishedauthor.
So I think that if you want tobe a part of something as
magnificent as the waiting room.
I'm telling you it's going tochange lives.
(59:32):
So if you want to be a part ofthe movement, shoot me a message
on Facebook.
My name is Jacqueline Cox.
If you want to search for me,just do at listenlinda23 on
Facebook my page Jacqueline Coxwill pop up.
Add me as a friend, send me amessage.
Or if you would like to join,just Jacqueline Cox will pop up.
(59:52):
Add me as a friend, send me amessage.
Or if you would like to join,you can also email me at class
C-L-A-S-S.
The letter E, the letter D,e-f-i-n-e-d.
That's classedefined atgmailcom.
Well, jackie, thank you so much,and the value for the anthology
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will be coming right after thedevotional.
So we're doing a devotional andthen we're going to follow that
up with the value to the womenof the waiting room.
And with that one I'll belooking at my next set of women
who have made a positive impacton the Listen Linda show.
(01:00:33):
So if you would like to beinterviewed on Listen Linda and
promote your book, brand orbusiness, you guys know where to
reach me already.
I just gave that information.
Just hit me up and say, hey, Ineed help promoting or marketing
my book, business or brand andI will get with you and consult
(01:00:53):
with you on how we can do that.
Okay, so we have the waitingroom, surgery for the soul, we
have the devotional, and thenwe're going to have volume two
too.
So those are greatopportunities for the listeners
who want to be a part of thewaiting room.
(01:01:15):
The opportunities seem, at thispoint in time, to be endless.
So get in touch with our listenlender, mrs Jacqueline Cox, via
Facebook, and you all can starta conversation to see if this
project will fit for you.
Amen, alright, thank you somuch for allowing me to do this.
(01:01:38):
I do appreciate it.
It has been great.
The various scenarios that comeout of the waiting room and the
various personalities also thatcome out of the waiting room
and the various personalitiesalso that come out of the
waiting room, no problem, and?
Um, we are gearing up for ournext interview this thursday, um
(01:02:02):
, dr audrey m moses will be theguest host and she will have
questions for the queen ofquestions.
Oh lord, that's gonna be goodinterviewing me.
Dr audrey and moses will beinterviewing me on thursday.
Um, this thursday, which is the21st, I believe um, and we going
(01:02:27):
to be here on station here at 5pm Central Standard Time.
Get ready.
It's some questions for thequeen of questions, y'all and
I'm going to end this not withprayer today, but we're going to
end with Mary J Blatch.
Take Me as I Am.
You guys have a great night ora great day.
(01:02:49):
Thank you again.
And the 21st of March isThursday, this coming Thursday,
people, that's right At 5 pmCentral Standard Time.
So have a great day.
Thank you you as well, andthank you again for having me.
Thank you, all right, all right.
Speaker 1 (01:03:23):
All right.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
(01:03:45):
But they held her down in YC.
She has no regrets.
She accepts the past, all thesethings they helped to make she.
She's been lost and found andshe's still around.
There's a reason for everything.
You know I've been holding on,tried to make me weak, but I
still stay strong.
Put my life all up in thesesongs, just so you can feel me,
(01:04:10):
so you can feel the love.
So take me as I am, or havenothing At all At all.
(01:04:34):
Yes, she's older now.
Yes, she's wiser now.
Get disguised now.
She don't need no one tellingher what to do and say, no one
telling her who to be.
She's on solid ground.
She's been lost in time.
She answers to GOD and she'sconfident.
(01:04:59):
She's on solid ground.
Put my life on the very face,just so you can feel me.
So take me as I am, or havenothing at all, Just take me as
(01:05:25):
I am, or have nothing at all asI am.
I'm nothing, baby't.
You know, I can only be me, Ican only be me.
Yeah, take me in as I am.
I have no, no, no, no, no, no,no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
(01:05:49):
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,no, no, no, no, no.
Take me as I am, said someonenothing at all.
(01:06:16):
Said someone nothing at all.
Take me as I am, as I am, fornothing, baby.
(01:06:39):
This is me, this is me.
Take me as I am, take me as Iam.
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