August 8, 2025 • 56 mins
What happens when a woman decides she's done negotiating her worth with people who can't afford her? LeShawn Fernandez's story isn't just about survival—it's about becoming a warrior who conquers everything sent to defeat her.
With raw authenticity, LeShawn takes us through her journey from childhood sexual abuse to finding her voice as an author, podcast host, and champion for healing. The breaking point came in 2021 when she finally said "enough" to the toxicity and dysfunction she had normalized throughout her life. "I truly was that caterpillar that went in a cocoon and turned into this beautiful butterfly," she reveals, describing the painful but necessary transformation that led to genuine healing.
The centerpiece of our conversation revolves around Miracle—LeShawn's daughter who wasn't supposed to exist according to doctors, and certainly wasn't expected to survive when born four months premature at just one pound nine ounces. With paper-thin skin and countless medical challenges, every prediction was that she wouldn't make it. Yet today, Miracle is not only thriving but testing as gifted academically. This testimony becomes a powerful metaphor for LeShawn's approach to life's obstacles: "If Miracle can go through it and get through it, I definitely can."
LeShawn's wisdom shines brightest when discussing self-worth and boundaries. "Until you love yourself, you can't love anybody else. You can't even love God the way He deserves to be loved," she explains, challenging listeners to examine where they might be compromising their value. Her perspective on faith is equally compelling—"We walk by faith, not by sight" isn't just a catchphrase but a lived reality that everything must happen in the spiritual realm before manifesting physically.
As the host of the Wounded Warrior podcast and author of "Story of a Warrior" and her chapter "Look at God" in the bestselling anthology "Through the Rain," LeShawn now uses her healed heart to guide others through their storms. Her parting message resonates with anyone facing seemingly impossible circumstances: "Don't give up. The blessing is right on the other side."
Ready to start your own healing journey? Connect with LeShawn through her website or social media channels and discover how your wounds can become the source of your greatest strength.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hey there, I'm Jacqueline Cox, but you might
know me as ListenLinda.
Um, where do I even begin?
I guess you could say I wearmany hats Podcast host,
entrepreneur, Mrs Illinois, usa,and so much more but it all
started with a simple passion totell stories and empower others
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Building a platform wasn't easy.
There were days when I wonderedif anyone was even listening.
But then something amazinghappened.
I realized the power of myvoice.
Suddenly, my words werereaching people, touching lives,
making a difference.
Now I see my mission clearly tocreate spaces where every voice
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echo far and wide.
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Speaker 2 (01:12):
Woo Jack, welcome, welcome, welcome to the Listen
Linda Book Club Live, where thebooks are powerful, the
testimonies are raw and theauthors baby, they do not come
to play.
Okay.
I am your host, dr JacquelineCox, founder of Listen Linda
(01:33):
Publishing, media mogul, mama,wife and bold truth teller for
the kingdom chat, and todaywe're about to tap into a
testimony that will leave yousaying look at god.
Okay, this queen right here isone of our 25 awesome authors of
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2025 and she wears that crownwith purpose.
She is the host of the woundedwarrior podcast, survivor, a
storyteller and the author ofthe Story of a Warrior Witch,
listen.
If you haven't read it, baby,you are behind, okay.
(02:16):
She's also a feature voice inthe newest anthology, newest
bestseller, through the Rain,and and trust me, she did not
just walk through the storm, shebrought her umbrella, boots and
a word chat, okay.
So, family, help me.
Welcome the one and onlyLashawn Fernandez.
(02:37):
Yes, honey.
So for those who that don'tknow, you with Lashon, tell them
a little bit about yourself allright, hey y'all.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Hey.
Thank you, jacqueline, forallowing me to be host.
Uh, talking on today on ListenLinda Book Club.
But just a little bit about me,guys.
I'm Lashon Fernandez, alsoknown as here's the insurance
lady in the insurance industry.
So I'm a motherwn Fernandez,also known as here's the
Insurance Lady in the insuranceindustry.
So I'm a mother of three girls.
(03:08):
They're all grown.
One is just 35, and the lasttwo are about to be 20, 21.
Yes, I did that a big jump.
I actually love helping people.
That's my passion, that's myheart.
I love serving helping people.
That's my passion, that's myheart.
I love serving the people.
So when it comes to me, I'm justalways on the go, finding where
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I can help and give service to,because I'm one of those people
.
How can I give back?
How can I help?
Sometimes God has to remind methat sometimes I got to be the
receiver too.
That's kind of hard to do, butI'm getting there.
But I do believe in self-carenow making sure I'm good,
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because I'm no good for anybodyif I don't take time out for me.
So it took some years oflearning that, and I mean years.
But God is good.
But that's a little bit about me.
I'm definitely new to being anauthor.
God has been landed on my heartfor years and years and years.
I'm telling on myself, butfinally I was obedient last year
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, the latter part of the year,and just decided to push myself,
to push myself.
Just do it.
Let go of the fear because,just like myself, healing helped
me.
It can help so many others.
So just bless my soul to seethat people that respond back,
that have purchased the ebook.
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It makes me feel good becauseit's not about me.
At the end of the day, it'sabout kingdom building.
And you know, when someone lookat me and seeing some of the
things I went through becauseone book can't tell all, I
promise you but if they see, ifGod can do it for me, he can do
it for them as well.
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So that's just a little bitabout me.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yes, and so, before we get into the books and the
accolades, I really want to getdeep into the woman, the woman
behind the warrior.
Ok, now you share boldly aboutyour journey through mental
anguish.
Was there a breaking point or adefining moment where you said
enough is enough.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
I'm choosing to heal point, or defining moment where
you said enough is enough, I'mchoosing to heal.
Yes, I have to be very honest.
It came in um 2021.
Oh, lord jesus, that was theworst year ever for me.
Um, you know, it was at thatpoint that everything that you
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can imagine can happen, happen.
That was where my battle, itwas hell right here on earth for
me moment, and even my marriagehad reached its limits.
It was at boiling point and itwas at that moment I remember
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telling God it's got to bebetter Something out here.
I just can't believe.
This is my life for the rest ofmy life.
So it was at that time I kindof sat down to start healing,
but it wasn't until the latterpart of 2021, I made up my mind.
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There were some people,including my ex-husband, that
God wasn't going to allow tocome with me in 2022, because I
knew at that time I was ready toheal.
All I knew was toxicity anddysfunction.
I was brought up in homes withnothing but chaos, so that was
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normal for me.
So it was scary, going into ahealing journey to even witness
the miracle that God couldperform in my life.
I truly was that caterpillarthat went in a cocoon and turned
into this beautiful butterflyby allowing God to take control,
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no longer doing it Sean's way,but doing it God's will.
So that's where the kind of forme, the kind of for me, that
pain was just too much pain Iwanted to endure any longer.
So it's like you get sick andtired of being sick and tired
and you finally say, all right,enough is enough, let me get off
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this now and do what needs tobe done to have this healing
journey, and the rest is historynow absolutely I.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
And I just want to commend you, honey, because you
know I read every book you wrote, honey.
I done read the Story of aWarrior, I done read your
chapter in Women of the WaitingRoom and this one, and so I'm
just, I'm floored, I'm floored.
We have so much in common, butit's some things that you have
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went through that I have notexperienced and I just commend
you.
I do, I look, I look at you andI'd be like, oh, this is my
twin flame right here.
She just opened up in Atlantaand I'm over here.
But I think that you are a superwoman for real.
I see you and I just I seeGod's glory on your life.
(08:30):
So I'm blessed to know you andI'm blessed that you even even
give, give, give, give somebodylike me to time a day chat,
cause you got so much going on.
But you know what you, you havea spirit and it's been a lot of
times and I know you'd be likeI don't know this girl from a
can of paint, y'all, but I'd becalling LaShawn and I'd be like
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LaShawn, I need you to talk tome, I need you to talk to me
about this lid, and I will callher and she will give me, you
know, just really good ChristianKingdom advice on how to handle
certain situations.
I just I thank you for that.
Now we're going to get backinto the Wounded Warrior podcast
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, because that title alonespeaks volumes, volumes.
What inspired you to start it?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
And what does being a Wounded warrior mean to you?
Well, a podcast is something Ireally wanted to do for a few
years, but I don't do anythingwithout knowing how to do it.
And when you had that course onpodcast, I was like, well, this
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is my opportunity here toliterally take this to the level
I've been wanting to take itand also got guidance.
So the Wounded Warrior was, ofcourse, not my idea.
God gave me that title and whatit means is no different from,
and what it means is nodifferent from our military, our
vets.
They go to battle, you know,and they go to battle for
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perfect strangers.
They don't know all of us, youknow, they know their family,
but they're putting their lifeon the line for little us.
And although I don't see myselfcould ever serve in the
military because of you know, my, as far as I, was always one of
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those people oh no, you're notgoing to tell me what to do, you
know type of person.
So I wouldn't have been verygood because I was not where I
took discipline very well.
So when it came to that side,and as I started healing because
I used to say, you know, Inever looked at myself as a
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victim.
I always said I was a survivor.
Okay, but God had to show me Iwasn't a survivor.
I was a warrior because Iconquered everything that was
sent to defeat me, even the endof my marriage.
When my ex-husband said aboutthe divorce, you know the enemy
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could have took me out, but godsaid not today, you're kept one
and you go rise from the ashesjust like the phoenix.
So I I look at myself as awarrior that once was wounded
but in spite of being wounded,she bandaged up those wounds and
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just kept fighting, keptfighting.
And there's so many scriptures,god, I look back, you know, as
David and Goliath, I just keptgoing.
I refused to let defeat be theend.
I just knew that I had to gothrough it in order to get
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through it.
And I tell everyone if I canget through it.
Anybody can get through it,because I'm one of those
stubborn, stubborn, bull childs.
God says, and God was patientwith me, loved me unconditional.
But I tell people it wasn'teasy for me and I know God
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looked many times like that's mydaughter, but good, god, look
at her and you know I'm justspeaking and I'm telling you the
truth, because it was not aneasy journey for me.
Not to sit down, not to heal,not to just operate in my
masculinity because, you know,I've been on my own since I was
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15.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
So you know, that was my survival technique.
That's how I live.
Just knowing nobody was goingto do it for me, I had to do it
for myself.
I didn't have the guidance andencouragement that was needed,
so I had to figure out a lotalong the way yeah, I, I can
relate to that a lot.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
And, um, as I was reading very about to make me
cry right here on this thing,girl, I was reading, um, the
story of a warrior last night,just trying to go over it, you
know a little bit and because Ihave it on my Kindle, and, girl,
they had me shouting one minuteand crying the next.
It was a lot but it was.
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It reminded me Of, of, of, like, the tornado that I call my
life.
Like I said, we had a lot incommon.
Why did you feel this book hadto be written and what was the
hardest chapter for you to livethrough and being right about
that?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
One.
The book had to be writtenbecause God called me to write
the book, to share my story, andit was something that was hard
for me because I don't likebeing vulnerable.
You would see, you know theword I give and how God used me
to share my story to a multitudeof people on the platforms.
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But I tried and I couldn'tresist God any longer, cause I
was like God, I could do itbehind the the, the poop, I
could do it in the church I justdon't want to be out there on
social media.
But it was bigger than me.
I couldn't be disobedientbecause God brought me through
so much.
But why it was so hard to sharemy story?
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But why it was so hard to sharemy story?
Me getting over the sexualabuse was the hardest and for so
many years I suppressed thatand didn't want to deal with it,
didn't want to face that.
But when it came to writing thebook, I would say that was the
hardest hurdle I had to jump.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Because you had to unpack.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
I had to unpack and face the anger I had, because in
my mind five years old is ababy, so you're a grown man, and
then there's five boys,teenagers, with little old me.
I mean, I couldn't fathom.
What was it about me that wasattractive to almost grown men
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and a grown man that you talkingabout and healing for me to
conquer?
It really was.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Now, one quote that stood out to me from the book
was I had to stop negotiating mywork with people who couldn't
even afford yeah, let's talkabout that, let's talk about
that.
My work with people whocouldn't even afford me yeah,
let's talk about that, let'stalk about that.
All I got to say is yes.
(16:14):
What was that like when youcame to that realization right
there that was the hardest.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Um, because I always put myself on the back burner
because I didn't think I wasworthy, I didn't feel good
enough.
Um, I always thought of myselfas less than and I believe a lot
of it triggered from the littlegirl that was hurt so young and
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continued on throughout herlife.
So I would just settle, I wouldjust deal with people.
That wasn't even worth my time.
And I used to say, when I firststarted healing, joining was
helping others.
When I launched from TikTok,when God had me start there, I
used to always say you know, Iput myself on a clearance in
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your local store that wasn't upthere like your Macy's and
Bloomingdale's.
It wasn't until I startedputting me first, because until
you put you first, you'resettling.
You don't know who you are.
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So therefore, people go takeyou for granted.
I didn't even have boundaries.
I didn't even know whatboundaries was until healing,
sitting with self.
But it wasn't until I startedloving myself that I tell people
all the time.
(17:53):
People like I would have neverknew that because you were so
confident in your business.
Well, confidence in businessand confidence within oneself is
not the same.
You can be confident in yourbusiness because you know your
products, you know your benefitsbecause you study it.
But did you study yourself?
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Did you get to know yourself?
That's what I didn't know and Ididn't understand it, because I
had so much craziness going on.
And when the mind is confusing,it's foggy, and the person
that's taking advantage of youbecause you don't know yourself,
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you're allowing them to becauseyou care less about yourself
too.
So they're not going to caremuch about you neither.
And then, once you're no longerbeneficial to them because they
see they can't run the samegames they've always, they try
to bring the old you back out.
But where I'm at in life now,the old me is gone.
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God created in me a newcreature.
All things are new.
So this side of me don't acceptnothing, and I tell people all
the time that's when they'llcome with the scripture, where
you turn the cheek just likeJesus did.
That's not what that passagemeans, because Jesus, as we see,
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he went in the synagogue andwas just knocking everything
down that was disrespectful tohim and to the house that we
call the house of God.
So at the end of the day, youknow, people interpret things
the way they want to, but thatwasn't a pushover like people
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try to make us be in a sea.
He wants you to have somestandards and be grounded as
well, because until you loveyourself, you can't love nobody
else.
You can't even love God the wayhe deserves to be loved.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Because you got to find it within you first,
Absolutely, Absolutely.
We talked about that before,about how people say turn the
other cheek.
I remember he was talking aboutthat and we said that is not
what that means.
God doesn't just.
Oh, they punched you on the oh.
Talk about how to give a missto him.
That's not what he say.
He say love him, but leave him,honey, you don't have to around
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that you know.
So yes, yes, yes.
Audrey Ann says I understand Ineed to use that line with some
of the people I know.
And good afternoon to you too,mama Myra.
We see you, girl, we see yougirl.
So I want to ask you how hasthe response been so far, for
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other than you know all thestuff I've been saying about it,
because you know I'm going totalk about the story of the
warrior until I can't no morechat.
But what has the response beenso far?
Like, what are some of thereaders share with you about the
book and how has it impactedthem?
Speaker 3 (21:04):
I have been getting a lot of positive feedback.
A lot of it helped.
Other people have been goingthrough the same thing, you know
.
And it's not just women, youknow.
At one time I thought it wasjust the females go through.
You know the sexual abuse, butabsolutely not that's been the
biggest one for most peoplebecause not just me, I'm
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thinking it was just a me thing.
It's been so many people thatsuppress the sexual abuse
because nobody want to talkabout they were molested.
That is not something you justwant to talk about, because at
the end of the day, everybodyknow you should be protected.
A child should be.
This is the reason God, allowus to be the parents or the
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guardians of that child, toprotect that child.
Because you're innocent, you'repure, so I think that's been
the hardest for most people.
You're innocent, you're pure,so I think that's been the
hardest for most people.
Yet along so many people tell meI can't even imagine if I had
to be on my own at 15 and makeit in this society.
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Was it easy?
Absolutely not.
And and even at the time Ididn't understand God was with
me.
Then, you know, at the time Ididn't understand, god was with
me, then you know, even though Ididn't have a relationship with
him like I should have anddidn't know, I knew of him but I
didn't know him.
That's a big difference,because so many of us know of
him, but do we really know him?
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Knowing him is being intimatewith him.
Knowing him is moving out theway and allowing him to dwell in
his temple.
His temple is this body.
We walking around this greenearth.
That's his.
He just loaned it to us.
That's why when we exit and wetransition on, that body goes
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right back to ashes, it goesright back to dust.
So that's been a lot of theresponse, the feedback, and
people been coming back to God,drawing back to God and
understanding that man, justdoing the best they can, they
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just repeating what they weretaught.
A lot of it is detoxing ourmind and detoxing our soul and
healing the soul and allowingGod to step in and exude through
us, through the love that hegives us, which is unconditional
love.
It's not a transactional loveLike we're so used to seeing
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today.
What's in it for me?
That's not our God and weshouldn't have that mindset
either.
We should have the mindset Godlove us unconditionally.
That don't mean, oh, you justgo and let people walk over.
You take advantage of you canpray from.
Pray for them and love themfrom a distance.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Yep, exactly, exactly .
I 100% agree with you with that.
A lot of times people think,just because you know their
family or somebody's family orsomebody, or you've got history
with this person for a long time, that oh, it's okay, but that's
family though, you got to stickto them.
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They should have knew that theywas family when they did what
they did to me.
Where is this preaching at forthem?
Because at this point you haveto protect your peace at all
costs.
It don't matter if it's familyor whatever.
If you want to live a long,happy life that God wants you to
live, you have to learn how tolet those anchors go, because
people, whether it's your mama,your mom-in-law, your sister,
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your cousin, your cousin-in-law,whoever it is, they bank on the
fact that, because they havethose titles, that they are
entitled.
And you are not entitledbecause of your title.
If you're not treating me rightand and especially if you ain't
treating my kids right, but ifyou ain't right, you're not
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going to treat my kids right.
If you ain't treating me right,you're not going to treat my
husband right.
You ain't treating your husbandright.
You ain't treating me rightbecause we are one.
And if you don't have thoserespect.
If you can't respect ourboundaries, then I don't want
you around me.
You can love, bomb me, you cando whatever it is you think you
have to do, but I've already sawthat side of you.
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I've already saw who you are.
You already revealed yourself.
So you trying to put the maskback on, you can't mind yourself
no more.
I see you, I hear you, I hearyour spirit.
I see that you ain't no good.
And what people, um and I thinkwe talked about this too with
shapeshifters.
I don't know if it was you, ifit was somebody else, but we
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talked about shapeshifters whenI was on the phone with what it
was.
I think it was you.
What people um, the devil wouldtry to come into people and
then he will try to see what youlike.
Right, that's right, that'sright.
Your attention.
So if you are a woman of God,then they going to act like
they're a woman of God or a manof God or you know they going to
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play the role.
You know what I'm saying.
If you went to this music, thenthey into this music.
They trying to get into goodgraces so they can, Because I
truly believe in witchcraft, Ireally do.
Oh, it's real, it's real.
And they try to get close toyou by trying to think You're
bad to you.
Whatever you doing, trying tolove bomb you?
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You know, I see you for who youare already.
You already show I'm looking inthe camera.
I want y'all to see me becauseI know you monitoring spirits.
I see you for who you arealready.
Okay, I peeped your game longago.
You can't fool me.
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You ain't going to win.
So stop trying, so stop trying,so stop trying.
And I'm saying all this becauseI'm getting to this next part
of this interview, because youdropped some gems in this
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through the rain, baby.
That chapter was a whole altarcall in itself.
If y'all don't know about herchapter in through the rain,
it's called look at god.
We are going to play her realand we're going to come back so
she can tell us the story behindit, okay, but yeah, yeah, it
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definitely.
It definitely bugged somespirits.
Okay, it bugged some spirits,but this, this was awesome,
awesome, awesome chapter.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Have you ever prayed so hard?
Your throat burned, but heavenstayed quiet.
She wasn't supposed to getpregnant again, not after the
doctors told her her body wastoo broken, not after the pain,
the scar tissue, the surgeries.
But God had other plans.
And her name was Miracle.
One pound nine ounces, that'sall she weighed.
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Paper-thin skin, a heart thatkept stopping, lungs that forgot
how to breathe, a mother toldto say goodbye before she ever
said hello.
I can do all things throughChrist who strengthens me.
No feeding tube check, nomonitor gone, hole in her heart,
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closed jaundice brain, bleeds,cerebral palsy, silent nights.
She survived it all.
When Miracle first spoke, shedidn't say mama.
She said mama Ra-Ra wants ajuice cup, mama Ra-Ra wants a
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juice cup.
A sentence, a whole sentenceAfter years of silence after
doctors said she'd never speak.
Whole sentence After years ofsilence after doctors said she'd
never speak.
They said she wouldn't walk.
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She ran.
They said she wouldn't talk.
She testified.
They said she wouldn't learn.
She excelled.
She didn't just beat the odds,she embarrassed them.
And right there in aconsignment shop, a little girl
remembered the angel Godassigned to keep her alive.
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This isn't a story.
This is a spiritual autopsy.
It will break you, wreck you,heal you and make you weep with
worship Through every storm,every tear and every moment of
hope.
This journey has shown us thepower of faith and the beauty of
miracles.
Even when the rain fallshardest, love and belief can
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carry us through.
As the clouds part, we rememberEvery trial is a step toward
the light.
The sun always rises and withit new beginnings and endless
possibilities.
May this story remind us tolook for the miracles in our own
lives and to never stopbelieving.
Pre-order from LaShawnFernandez.
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As she debuts, her chapter Lookat God is one of many chapters
in the upcoming anthologythrough the rain, let her take
you through her storm and comeout to the sunshine.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
All right.
So we are back with LaShawnwith her story in the number one
no, it's not the number one torelease, but number three
bestseller on Amazon right now.
Through the Rain, the anthology.
Tell us the story behind Lookat God.
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What were you walking throughduring that time?
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Oh, it was a rough time then.
I remember I was told, beforeMiracle even became a seed, I
remember being told by thedoctors, due to some damage to
my body from an injury just afew years before that, that I
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wouldn't be able to have anymore kids.
Plus I had PCOS, um, so I knowmy body.
So where I worked there wastimes we had to do restraints.
Now I had my right before Itook one of the kids.
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Of course I didn't get hurt ornothing like that.
That particular time I justdidn't feel right.
My breathing, everything wasoff whack.
So I remember calling thepregnancy center in Cobb County
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because I stayed on the northside at that time and they did a
test and it was so positive.
And I'm saying to myself nowhow did that happen?
Speaker 2 (33:07):
She said it was so positive.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
And they told me I needed to go to find a doctor
because I didn't have, of courseI didn't have OB nor GYN at
that time.
So I found a doctor and it wasnothing but God, because it was
a high risk pregnancy.
It was so much going on with mybody at that time so I was high
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risk, although I was 30, youknow, I was still at a safe age,
but just my body had so muchgoing on.
They said, well, you look likeyour sugar is up, pressure's up.
So, with that being said, I washigh risk.
I was in and out the hospital,so much with Miracle.
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I remember that Friday they letme go before I had that Monday,
which was the 11th, and Fridaythey let me go before I had her.
That Monday, which was the 11th, and the doctor didn't kind of
take my health as serious as Iwanted her to Because she let me
go home.
I felt bad Sunday, myex-husband and I at the time I
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literally was in church as I washurt so bad.
Little did I know I was goingthrough early labor.
It wasn't until Monday becauseI knew I was going back to the
high risk portion of NorthsideHospital.
Sure enough, my water broke,didn't know what was going on.
I'm thinking because I took abath.
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I did so it was crazy.
So I got there.
They told me oh, we got to goahead and admit you give miracle
because her name wasn't miracleat the time.
We have to give you potassiumbecause she's trying to come.
What caused the miracle to havewhere she was coming out breach
was I was exposed to pneumoniaat work.
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However, I didn't get pneumonia, but it got exposed to the
wound somehow.
So they kind of wait.
We had a little time.
But they said if her dad at thetime didn't get up there at a
certain time, they would justhave to go ahead and take it.
So she didn't get enoughpotassium, but because we didn't
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know, I think if we would havestill been in the hospital we'd
have been good.
Well, they took her Owlet, got asecond to see her because they
had to rush her in the NICU toput her on the ventilator
because she couldn't breathe onher own.
They had to also put her in anincubator because you know, of
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course she was cold, to keep herwarm, but I couldn't touch her,
or not, because her skin waspaper thin.
But I remember that night Iwent to sleep.
God speaks to me a lot indreams, so it was a dream.
There are times I have visions,but mostly dreams.
And he came to me that nightand he said the child shall be
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called Miracle.
Well, I knew what Miracle meant, but I looked it up anyway and
I remember the whole time.
It was a challenge.
They kept telling me it didn'tlook good, but I knew that, that
god didn't give me the namemiracle just because, uh, my
past at the time came up prayfor me.
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I had some friends came and Ihad friends telling other
friends.
Y'all need to tell her, youknow, because she's gone crazy.
She think that baby gonna live.
There's no way that baby gonnalive.
Miracle Miracle had jaundice,she had a retina, she had heart
issues, you name it.
She had it.
They say she was going to haveto come home on the monitor,
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which she did.
She was going to eat from atube for the rest of her life.
Well, none of that Miraclecaught her.
Every day she defeated everyeye that they gave against her.
They said she was going to beseverely MR because she had
brain bleeds, but God saidotherwise.
It wasn't.
Until we came on the south sideof town.
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They said she'd been testedgifted.
I said no.
So they tested her.
She had advanced classes wherewe was.
But they tested her on thesouth side and they said she's
gifted.
So they put her in some giftedclass.
They said she wouldn't walk.
She started walking when hersister started walking at nine
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months.
I guess America said oh no,she's not going to out top me.
So she started walking a littlebit, took a minute to get it
down because the coordinationwasn't there.
She then started talking tothree and all her PT OT.
Everybody was there.
They witnessed this miracleBecause, see, I'm handicapped.
You know, I had days where Ican walk a little bit, days I
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couldn't, and I remember goingin there to help and they figure
out what, what, mariah, youwanted?
We pointing to everything.
Miracle came out of the, thesession.
Normally she don't do that.
She walked in there and shepulled on me and she said mom,
rara want a juice cup.
That was her words, beentalking ever since she.
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She went into a completesentence no, dad, dad, no, mama,
mama, rah, rah want a juice cup.
Lord be whole.
This is what her sister wantedthe whole time.
We could not figure.
We choosing everything else butthe juice cup.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
And you're like duh, you know what Y'all going to
make me talk now?
Because y'all said y'all didn'tget it.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
And everybody was in a maze.
But what?
What was the most amazing thing?
One of the therapists didn'tbelieve in god at all, but it
was at that moment.
She was like, well, maybemiracles do exist, because to
see and witness with your owneyes not just have me to say it
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or Miracle, godmother andfull-time nanny at the time,
just witnesses and telling it toeverybody was there and
witnessing, seeing it forthemselves.
So it was just like, wow, youknow, it was at that moment we
were seeing what god was doingin her life, without seeing the
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full picture, and we wound upgoing to a consignment shop that
, uh, I used to just to get outto breathe.
Um, that was my therapy at thetime when I could maneuver.
And, um, we went to theconsignment shop and they were
taught not to touch anything,especially glass.
And Miracle was very good atlistening.
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She definitely was my childthat listened.
She didn't like to be introuble, so she kept saying Mom,
that's the lady that helped meat the hospital.
I'm looking because I wanted tothank the lady, so I'm looking
all over.
She said, right there, mommy,right there.
She kept saying I'm looking, Idon't see no lady.
So I'm looking all over.
She said, right there, mommy,right there.
She kept saying I'm looking, Idon't, I don't see no lady.
So I'm like Miracle West.
And then finally, I guessMiracle said I'm just tired, it
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keeps saying there's the lady.
So she went over there and shepointed at the angel and it was
porcelain angels they hadsitting on the rack, and it
brought tears to my eyes becauseshe identified her angel was
her guidance the whole time shewas in that hospital and she was
in the hospital from October tothe latter part of January,
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which that was actually her duedate.
So it was just a miracle initself.
We got home she went to see hereye doctor.
They said the retina wasn'tthere.
Maybe she uh, it affects herlater on in life and they didn't
lie because when it comes toeyes, her vision has, um,
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changed.
That changed changed this yearwhen I took a really big time,
but all through school frombirth it was like nothing there.
Then, once she came home, shewas not on the breathing.
The breathing machine went out.
It kaput.
So I went to a pediatric andthey ordered well, for two weeks
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, miracle, didn't have abreathing machine and the doctor
said well, she's been doing itwithout the breathing machine.
We're good, we don't even worryabout it, no more.
And she didn't come home on afeeding tube.
She had actually got to twocc's Not much she was drinking,
but the whole point was shedidn't need a feeding tube.
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But the whole point was shedidn't need a feeding tube.
And her heart doctor at thetime said I've never seen this
before, but she won't have tosee me unless something happened
later on in life.
It was like once they closed thehole up in her heart,
everything that they thought wasgoing to occur didn't occur.
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That was the power of God.
So miracle her life in itselfit's a miracle.
So when I was going throughwhat I was going through with my
disability, I kept going backand reclaiming my mind.
Disability.
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I kept going back andreclaiming my mind.
If Miracle came almost one weekshy of being four months early
and she was one pound nineounces, and if she can go
through it and get through it, Idefinitely can go through it
and get through it with thedisability that I was going
through and just praying andtrusting God.
So her story in itselfresonated miracle for me and for
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others, because people that wasaround me, my neighbors and
everything else, everybody justwitnessed a miracle.
Because you miracle when I saycouldn't walk, couldn't talk,
and if you see it today, you,you wouldn't believe it unless
you witness it at that point andshe is amazing y'all.
Speaker 2 (43:14):
That's my friend in my head.
She don't know it yet.
She'd be, she'd be looking out,she, she'd be, she'd definitely
be looking out.
So I, I adore her.
I think she is a phenomenalyoung lady.
And for those you know, anybodywho's watching, who's in their
own storm right now, who may bestuck silent, ashamed or just
(43:35):
ready to give up because I knowyou good at these, because if
y'all watch the Wounded Warriorpodcast, she gonna always drop
them gems, okay.
So if y'all watch the WoundedWarrior podcast, she gonna
always drop them gems, okay.
So if y'all, if, for anybodywho may be ashamed or ready to
give up, what would you say tothem right now, from your own
healed heart?
Speaker 3 (43:52):
I would say don't give up the the you got to go
through the breakthrough.
The blessing is right on theother side.
You have to.
This is my thing, this is mymodel.
Now I truly, truly understandwhat it means.
Now we walk by faith and not bysight.
What that means is we might bedown here on this earth and we
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live in having an earthlyexperience.
It's a spiritual experience,but if we keep the faith, we
trust in God.
He said, if you only have thefaith enough of a mustard seed
if you've never seen a mustardseed, you barely can see it
Because God knows as he performsmiracles your faith will
increase.
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It's going to start out thissmall, but it it's gonna keep
building like an avalanche.
So always remember we walk byfaith and not by sight, meaning
everything happened in thespiritual yes, not in the
physical.
It has to happen in thespiritual before it comes to the
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physical world.
So trust in God and know he gotyou and understand.
If you allow him to be your God, move over and allow him in to
dwell and exude through you,everything will be all right.
Trouble can't last always.
Weeping may endure for a night,but but joy gotta come just
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like a storm, a tornado come andit might cause all that
disruption.
But what happened?
The governor put out the FEMAmoney and they rebuilt it and
sometimes it's better than whatthe original structure was Even
like.
For me, the new version of me,the new structure, the master
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put the masterpiece better thanit was in its original
architecture.
So the foundation is muchbetter.
So don't give up, beloved.
Just hold on to God'sunchanging hand and trust him.
Lean on his understanding andnot our own.
How can we fix what theoriginal creator, he, said I'm
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the beginning, I'm the end, I'mAlpha and Omega.
So why are we trying to figureout?
If he made us in his image andhis likeness, he'd know what's
best for us.
We just need to be still andknow he's God.
Don't give up, because when yougive up, you're giving up on
God.
You got to let him be themaster, because he will make you
(46:31):
, as his masterpiece, the bestvirgin you could ever imagine.
And the peace and joy have notsurpassed all understandings,
even for me.
But I lean on God 100%,wholeheartedly.
Now I moved out the way andwhen I tell you life get better,
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no longer I'm walking on faith.
Speaker 2 (46:59):
No, longer holding that burden.
You're giving it to God and youjust keep moving and keep
moving.
Speaker 3 (47:06):
And keep moving, and then life becomes totally
different from me.
Yes, totally different.
Speaker 2 (47:14):
Oh man so let's give up.
Speaker 3 (47:15):
Y'all, please don't give up.
I love that.
Keep pushing Pray untilsomething's happened.
God knows what we need and whatwe want.
He's just waiting for you totalk to him and a prayer don't
take a whole lot, it's just aconversation like we having
right here.
I'm talking to God and allowinghim to work miracles in your
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life, and then you'll say oneday look at God.
Speaker 2 (47:40):
Yes, yes you will, yes you will.
Girl, look, when I be doing herpodcast, I be watching her
podcast y'all.
When I say I be in the backwith my mic on mute, I be
screaming, I be hallelujah, myhand be going up.
This lady, I'm telling you, hervoice is a word in itself.
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I adore you.
Oh man, you're motivational.
Speaker 3 (48:08):
To God be the glory.
Speaker 2 (48:10):
God be all the glory.
So I want to ask I know thatyou got something coming up on
the 22nd.
Yes, tell us more about that,what you got coming up, come on,
drop the tea, drop the tea,drop the tea.
Speaker 3 (48:24):
So on the 22nd of this month I will be doing my
booth signing.
So I actually have a venue inFayetteville, georgia.
So from six to nine I will,literally it's going to be fun.
I don't do nothing where it'sjust boring door.
No, I believe, and you know,just living, you know, and
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having a good timefellowshipping with one another.
But, more than anything, I'vehad a lot of people say I need
an autograph copy.
So just, you know, come out ifyou're in the Fayetteville area
it's, it's posted the addressand everything is posted on my
Facebook page, but just toactually meet and greet and see
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the face behind the screen.
You know, because I'm reallyone of those people that love to
be among people.
You know, that's even what Godwants us to do.
Fellowship, you know, be withyour brother and sister, you
know, not so isolated where noone knows you, but that's the
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beauty of it.
But, yes, so if you're in theAtlanta area, fayetteville,
georgia is right outside ofAtlanta and I will have some
refreshments and, like I said,we'll have a good time
fellowshipping and talking andyou can ask me all the questions
you want to ask, because mylife could not go in one book
y'all.
Speaker 2 (49:48):
I promise you couldn't no, and she is always
fun to be around.
I know that for a fact, um,just a good time.
So right now, um is the segmentcalled lightning round.
Okay, so everybody to come onthe show.
We do the lightning round.
I asked you a question.
You got to give it to me in 30seconds, okay.
Speaker 3 (50:09):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (50:10):
What's your go-to scripture on a hard day?
Speaker 3 (50:14):
On a hard day is always going to be John 3 16,
but I fight between that one andRomans 8 and 28.
But I have to remind myselfwith John 3, 16.
But God so loved the world thathe gave his only begotten son
that whoever believe in himshall not perish but have
everlasting life.
Everlasting.
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So that's my go-to, because itjust picks my spirit up when my
spirit's down, because, nomatter what I believe in, it so
everlasting life.
Okay, sweet tea or coffee oh,that one's hard both, but if I,
I have to have my coffee everyday when I get up in the morning
(50:56):
okay, what song gets you inwarrior mode?
I would have to say JacquelineCarr, with that Jehovah Jireh
song.
Speaker 2 (51:08):
Oh man, yes, that's a good one.
That's a good one.
That's a good one.
If you could tell your13-year-old LaShawn one thing,
what would it be?
Speaker 3 (51:18):
I'm here to protect you, girl, I got you.
So that's what I would tellmyself I'm here to protect you,
girl, I got you.
We're going to be all right.
Speaker 2 (51:31):
That's awesome.
That's awesome.
Oh, man, that's a good one.
That's a good one.
So, lashawn, thank you.
Thank you so much for yourhonesty, your heart and your
healing, because you remind usevery day that today, being a
warrior doesn't mean that wedon't cry.
It means that we keep showingup with tears in our eyes and
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purpose in our hands.
Y'all, please go get the storyof a warrior.
I'm going to put it right hereon the screen.
Story of a warrior.
I'm going to put it right hereon the screen.
If you need an author copy, asigned copy from the author,
wwwarthurlashawncom, go check itout.
Her chapter in Through the Rain.
You can also pre-order thatthrough her.
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Follow her podcast, the WoundedWarrior podcast, on all
stations worldwide iHeart,spotify, apple Podcasts anywhere
they play podcasts, amazonMusic, audible she's everywhere.
Y'all Share her story.
If you feel like the chains inyour life are too heavy,
remember this woman right herewas once where you are.
(52:38):
Look at what God did.
Look at what he did.
Lashawn, can you pray us out,baby?
Speaker 3 (52:44):
Absolutely Everybody, bow your heads, dear Heavenly
and Most Gracious Father.
We come to you today, lord,saying thank you.
Thank you for giving us afellowship with one another.
Thank you for allowing me toshare, lord, just to pour out,
be vulnerable, to show othersyour glory and to show others
what healing can do for one soul.
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Thank you, lord, for everyonetoday and meet them at their
needs.
Lord, whatever they need in thatbrother or sister that want to
give up, lord, just give them alittle bit more hope, letting
them know that everything willbe all right.
All they got to do is hold onto your unchanging hand.
All they got to do is walk byfaith and not by sight.
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If they understand, let go andlet you God, not let it go and
pull it back from you, but togive it to you and truly leave
it alone.
Leave it alone, but, more thananything, if they understand
that you are the Father, the Sonand the Holy Spirit and you
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dwell in us.
You never left us, you neverforsake us and you never will.
Although we may leave you,you're like the prodigal son,
father, and you welcome us backhome.
You love us unconditionally.
Let them know that the bloodwill never lose its power.
There's nothing too bad thatyou won't be there for them.
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So thank you, lord, for thisday, and every day we see a new
day.
We give you all the praise, allthe glory, all the honor.
It all belongs to you.
We can't take no credit.
In Jesus' name we pray Amen.
Speaker 2 (54:27):
Amen, amen, amen.
Now you can tell people wherethey can reach you at.
Speaker 3 (54:33):
Y'all can reach me on Facebook LaShawn Fernandez,
tiktok, lashawn Fernandez.
Linkedin, and on YouTube it'sLaShawnFernandez1255.
And that's pretty much it.
I think I gave every ohInstagram my name as well, and
my website is wwwArthurLaShawnL-E instead of L-A-S-H-A-W-Ncom.
Speaker 2 (55:01):
And next time have a good one.
Speaker 1 (55:03):
This is my friend.
Speaker 2 (55:05):
On the Liz and Linda book club.
Do not forget to like, shareand tag somebody who needed this
.
Right here.
I'm your host, dr JacquelineCox, and I will see y'all next
time.
Speaker 3 (55:32):
We'll be right back Smile.
Hey there, I'm Jacqueline Cox, but you might
know me as ListenLinda.
Um, where do I even begin?
I guess you could say I wearmany hats Podcast host,
entrepreneur, Mrs Illinois, usa,and so much more but it all
started with a simple passion totell stories and empower others
(00:26):
.
Building a platform wasn't easy.
There were days when I wonderedif anyone was even listening.
But then something amazinghappened.
I realized the power of myvoice.
Suddenly, my words werereaching people, touching lives,
making a difference.
Now I see my mission clearly tocreate spaces where every voice
(00:59):
can be heard, thank you, andtogether we can make our voices
echo far and wide.
To be a guest on Listen Linda.
Contact Jacqueline Cox onFacebook Messenger.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Woo Jack, welcome, welcome, welcome to the Listen
Linda Book Club Live, where thebooks are powerful, the
testimonies are raw and theauthors baby, they do not come
to play.
Okay.
I am your host, dr JacquelineCox, founder of Listen Linda
(01:33):
Publishing, media mogul, mama,wife and bold truth teller for
the kingdom chat, and todaywe're about to tap into a
testimony that will leave yousaying look at god.
Okay, this queen right here isone of our 25 awesome authors of
(01:54):
2025 and she wears that crownwith purpose.
She is the host of the woundedwarrior podcast, survivor, a
storyteller and the author ofthe Story of a Warrior Witch,
listen.
If you haven't read it, baby,you are behind, okay.
(02:16):
She's also a feature voice inthe newest anthology, newest
bestseller, through the Rain,and and trust me, she did not
just walk through the storm, shebrought her umbrella, boots and
a word chat, okay.
So, family, help me.
Welcome the one and onlyLashawn Fernandez.
(02:37):
Yes, honey.
So for those who that don'tknow, you with Lashon, tell them
a little bit about yourself allright, hey y'all.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Hey.
Thank you, jacqueline, forallowing me to be host.
Uh, talking on today on ListenLinda Book Club.
But just a little bit about me,guys.
I'm Lashon Fernandez, alsoknown as here's the insurance
lady in the insurance industry.
So I'm a motherwn Fernandez,also known as here's the
Insurance Lady in the insuranceindustry.
So I'm a mother of three girls.
(03:08):
They're all grown.
One is just 35, and the lasttwo are about to be 20, 21.
Yes, I did that a big jump.
I actually love helping people.
That's my passion, that's myheart.
I love serving helping people.
That's my passion, that's myheart.
I love serving the people.
So when it comes to me, I'm justalways on the go, finding where
(03:32):
I can help and give service to,because I'm one of those people
.
How can I give back?
How can I help?
Sometimes God has to remind methat sometimes I got to be the
receiver too.
That's kind of hard to do, butI'm getting there.
But I do believe in self-carenow making sure I'm good,
(03:53):
because I'm no good for anybodyif I don't take time out for me.
So it took some years oflearning that, and I mean years.
But God is good.
But that's a little bit about me.
I'm definitely new to being anauthor.
God has been landed on my heartfor years and years and years.
I'm telling on myself, butfinally I was obedient last year
(04:17):
, the latter part of the year,and just decided to push myself,
to push myself.
Just do it.
Let go of the fear because,just like myself, healing helped
me.
It can help so many others.
So just bless my soul to seethat people that respond back,
that have purchased the ebook.
(04:39):
It makes me feel good becauseit's not about me.
At the end of the day, it'sabout kingdom building.
And you know, when someone lookat me and seeing some of the
things I went through becauseone book can't tell all, I
promise you but if they see, ifGod can do it for me, he can do
it for them as well.
(05:00):
So that's just a little bitabout me.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Yes, and so, before we get into the books and the
accolades, I really want to getdeep into the woman, the woman
behind the warrior.
Ok, now you share boldly aboutyour journey through mental
anguish.
Was there a breaking point or adefining moment where you said
enough is enough.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
I'm choosing to heal point, or defining moment where
you said enough is enough, I'mchoosing to heal.
Yes, I have to be very honest.
It came in um 2021.
Oh, lord jesus, that was theworst year ever for me.
Um, you know, it was at thatpoint that everything that you
(05:45):
can imagine can happen, happen.
That was where my battle, itwas hell right here on earth for
me moment, and even my marriagehad reached its limits.
It was at boiling point and itwas at that moment I remember
(06:06):
telling God it's got to bebetter Something out here.
I just can't believe.
This is my life for the rest ofmy life.
So it was at that time I kindof sat down to start healing,
but it wasn't until the latterpart of 2021, I made up my mind.
(06:29):
There were some people,including my ex-husband, that
God wasn't going to allow tocome with me in 2022, because I
knew at that time I was ready toheal.
All I knew was toxicity anddysfunction.
I was brought up in homes withnothing but chaos, so that was
(06:50):
normal for me.
So it was scary, going into ahealing journey to even witness
the miracle that God couldperform in my life.
I truly was that caterpillarthat went in a cocoon and turned
into this beautiful butterflyby allowing God to take control,
(07:13):
no longer doing it Sean's way,but doing it God's will.
So that's where the kind of forme, the kind of for me, that
pain was just too much pain Iwanted to endure any longer.
So it's like you get sick andtired of being sick and tired
and you finally say, all right,enough is enough, let me get off
(07:34):
this now and do what needs tobe done to have this healing
journey, and the rest is historynow absolutely I.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
And I just want to commend you, honey, because you
know I read every book you wrote, honey.
I done read the Story of aWarrior, I done read your
chapter in Women of the WaitingRoom and this one, and so I'm
just, I'm floored, I'm floored.
We have so much in common, butit's some things that you have
(08:08):
went through that I have notexperienced and I just commend
you.
I do, I look, I look at you andI'd be like, oh, this is my
twin flame right here.
She just opened up in Atlantaand I'm over here.
But I think that you are a superwoman for real.
I see you and I just I seeGod's glory on your life.
(08:30):
So I'm blessed to know you andI'm blessed that you even even
give, give, give, give somebodylike me to time a day chat,
cause you got so much going on.
But you know what you, you havea spirit and it's been a lot of
times and I know you'd be likeI don't know this girl from a
can of paint, y'all, but I'd becalling LaShawn and I'd be like
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LaShawn, I need you to talk tome, I need you to talk to me
about this lid, and I will callher and she will give me, you
know, just really good ChristianKingdom advice on how to handle
certain situations.
I just I thank you for that.
Now we're going to get backinto the Wounded Warrior podcast
(09:18):
, because that title alonespeaks volumes, volumes.
What inspired you to start it?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
And what does being a Wounded warrior mean to you?
Well, a podcast is something Ireally wanted to do for a few
years, but I don't do anythingwithout knowing how to do it.
And when you had that course onpodcast, I was like, well, this
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is my opportunity here toliterally take this to the level
I've been wanting to take itand also got guidance.
So the Wounded Warrior was, ofcourse, not my idea.
God gave me that title and whatit means is no different from,
and what it means is nodifferent from our military, our
vets.
They go to battle, you know,and they go to battle for
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perfect strangers.
They don't know all of us, youknow, they know their family,
but they're putting their lifeon the line for little us.
And although I don't see myselfcould ever serve in the
military because of you know, my, as far as I, was always one of
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those people oh no, you're notgoing to tell me what to do, you
know type of person.
So I wouldn't have been verygood because I was not where I
took discipline very well.
So when it came to that side,and as I started healing because
I used to say, you know, Inever looked at myself as a
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victim.
I always said I was a survivor.
Okay, but God had to show me Iwasn't a survivor.
I was a warrior because Iconquered everything that was
sent to defeat me, even the endof my marriage.
When my ex-husband said aboutthe divorce, you know the enemy
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could have took me out, but godsaid not today, you're kept one
and you go rise from the ashesjust like the phoenix.
So I I look at myself as awarrior that once was wounded
but in spite of being wounded,she bandaged up those wounds and
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just kept fighting, keptfighting.
And there's so many scriptures,god, I look back, you know, as
David and Goliath, I just keptgoing.
I refused to let defeat be theend.
I just knew that I had to gothrough it in order to get
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through it.
And I tell everyone if I canget through it.
Anybody can get through it,because I'm one of those
stubborn, stubborn, bull childs.
God says, and God was patientwith me, loved me unconditional.
But I tell people it wasn'teasy for me and I know God
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looked many times like that's mydaughter, but good, god, look
at her and you know I'm justspeaking and I'm telling you the
truth, because it was not aneasy journey for me.
Not to sit down, not to heal,not to just operate in my
masculinity because, you know,I've been on my own since I was
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15.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
So you know, that was my survival technique.
That's how I live.
Just knowing nobody was goingto do it for me, I had to do it
for myself.
I didn't have the guidance andencouragement that was needed,
so I had to figure out a lotalong the way yeah, I, I can
relate to that a lot.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
And, um, as I was reading very about to make me
cry right here on this thing,girl, I was reading, um, the
story of a warrior last night,just trying to go over it, you
know a little bit and because Ihave it on my Kindle, and, girl,
they had me shouting one minuteand crying the next.
It was a lot but it was.
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It reminded me Of, of, of, like, the tornado that I call my
life.
Like I said, we had a lot incommon.
Why did you feel this book hadto be written and what was the
hardest chapter for you to livethrough and being right about
that?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
One.
The book had to be writtenbecause God called me to write
the book, to share my story, andit was something that was hard
for me because I don't likebeing vulnerable.
You would see, you know theword I give and how God used me
to share my story to a multitudeof people on the platforms.
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But I tried and I couldn'tresist God any longer, cause I
was like God, I could do itbehind the the, the poop, I
could do it in the church I justdon't want to be out there on
social media.
But it was bigger than me.
I couldn't be disobedientbecause God brought me through
so much.
But why it was so hard to sharemy story?
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But why it was so hard to sharemy story?
Me getting over the sexualabuse was the hardest and for so
many years I suppressed thatand didn't want to deal with it,
didn't want to face that.
But when it came to writing thebook, I would say that was the
hardest hurdle I had to jump.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Because you had to unpack.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
I had to unpack and face the anger I had, because in
my mind five years old is ababy, so you're a grown man, and
then there's five boys,teenagers, with little old me.
I mean, I couldn't fathom.
What was it about me that wasattractive to almost grown men
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and a grown man that you talkingabout and healing for me to
conquer?
It really was.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Now, one quote that stood out to me from the book
was I had to stop negotiating mywork with people who couldn't
even afford yeah, let's talkabout that, let's talk about
that.
My work with people whocouldn't even afford me yeah,
let's talk about that, let'stalk about that.
All I got to say is yes.
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What was that like when youcame to that realization right
there that was the hardest.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Um, because I always put myself on the back burner
because I didn't think I wasworthy, I didn't feel good
enough.
Um, I always thought of myselfas less than and I believe a lot
of it triggered from the littlegirl that was hurt so young and
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continued on throughout herlife.
So I would just settle, I wouldjust deal with people.
That wasn't even worth my time.
And I used to say, when I firststarted healing, joining was
helping others.
When I launched from TikTok,when God had me start there, I
used to always say you know, Iput myself on a clearance in
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your local store that wasn't upthere like your Macy's and
Bloomingdale's.
It wasn't until I startedputting me first, because until
you put you first, you'resettling.
You don't know who you are.
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So therefore, people go takeyou for granted.
I didn't even have boundaries.
I didn't even know whatboundaries was until healing,
sitting with self.
But it wasn't until I startedloving myself that I tell people
all the time.
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People like I would have neverknew that because you were so
confident in your business.
Well, confidence in businessand confidence within oneself is
not the same.
You can be confident in yourbusiness because you know your
products, you know your benefitsbecause you study it.
But did you study yourself?
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Did you get to know yourself?
That's what I didn't know and Ididn't understand it, because I
had so much craziness going on.
And when the mind is confusing,it's foggy, and the person
that's taking advantage of youbecause you don't know yourself,
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you're allowing them to becauseyou care less about yourself
too.
So they're not going to caremuch about you neither.
And then, once you're no longerbeneficial to them because they
see they can't run the samegames they've always, they try
to bring the old you back out.
But where I'm at in life now,the old me is gone.
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God created in me a newcreature.
All things are new.
So this side of me don't acceptnothing, and I tell people all
the time that's when they'llcome with the scripture, where
you turn the cheek just likeJesus did.
That's not what that passagemeans, because Jesus, as we see,
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he went in the synagogue andwas just knocking everything
down that was disrespectful tohim and to the house that we
call the house of God.
So at the end of the day, youknow, people interpret things
the way they want to, but thatwasn't a pushover like people
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try to make us be in a sea.
He wants you to have somestandards and be grounded as
well, because until you loveyourself, you can't love nobody
else.
You can't even love God the wayhe deserves to be loved.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Because you got to find it within you first,
Absolutely, Absolutely.
We talked about that before,about how people say turn the
other cheek.
I remember he was talking aboutthat and we said that is not
what that means.
God doesn't just.
Oh, they punched you on the oh.
Talk about how to give a missto him.
That's not what he say.
He say love him, but leave him,honey, you don't have to around
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that you know.
So yes, yes, yes.
Audrey Ann says I understand Ineed to use that line with some
of the people I know.
And good afternoon to you too,mama Myra.
We see you, girl, we see yougirl.
So I want to ask you how hasthe response been so far, for
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other than you know all thestuff I've been saying about it,
because you know I'm going totalk about the story of the
warrior until I can't no morechat.
But what has the response beenso far?
Like, what are some of thereaders share with you about the
book and how has it impactedthem?
Speaker 3 (21:04):
I have been getting a lot of positive feedback.
A lot of it helped.
Other people have been goingthrough the same thing, you know
.
And it's not just women, youknow.
At one time I thought it wasjust the females go through.
You know the sexual abuse, butabsolutely not that's been the
biggest one for most peoplebecause not just me, I'm
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thinking it was just a me thing.
It's been so many people thatsuppress the sexual abuse
because nobody want to talkabout they were molested.
That is not something you justwant to talk about, because at
the end of the day, everybodyknow you should be protected.
A child should be.
This is the reason God, allowus to be the parents or the
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guardians of that child, toprotect that child.
Because you're innocent, you'repure, so I think that's been
the hardest for most people.
You're innocent, you're pure,so I think that's been the
hardest for most people.
Yet along so many people tell meI can't even imagine if I had
to be on my own at 15 and makeit in this society.
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Was it easy?
Absolutely not.
And and even at the time Ididn't understand God was with
me.
Then, you know, at the time Ididn't understand, god was with
me, then you know, even though Ididn't have a relationship with
him like I should have anddidn't know, I knew of him but I
didn't know him.
That's a big difference,because so many of us know of
him, but do we really know him?
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Knowing him is being intimatewith him.
Knowing him is moving out theway and allowing him to dwell in
his temple.
His temple is this body.
We walking around this greenearth.
That's his.
He just loaned it to us.
That's why when we exit and wetransition on, that body goes
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right back to ashes, it goesright back to dust.
So that's been a lot of theresponse, the feedback, and
people been coming back to God,drawing back to God and
understanding that man, justdoing the best they can, they
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just repeating what they weretaught.
A lot of it is detoxing ourmind and detoxing our soul and
healing the soul and allowingGod to step in and exude through
us, through the love that hegives us, which is unconditional
love.
It's not a transactional loveLike we're so used to seeing
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today.
What's in it for me?
That's not our God and weshouldn't have that mindset
either.
We should have the mindset Godlove us unconditionally.
That don't mean, oh, you justgo and let people walk over.
You take advantage of you canpray from.
Pray for them and love themfrom a distance.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Yep, exactly, exactly .
I 100% agree with you with that.
A lot of times people think,just because you know their
family or somebody's family orsomebody, or you've got history
with this person for a long time, that oh, it's okay, but that's
family though, you got to stickto them.
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They should have knew that theywas family when they did what
they did to me.
Where is this preaching at forthem?
Because at this point you haveto protect your peace at all
costs.
It don't matter if it's familyor whatever.
If you want to live a long,happy life that God wants you to
live, you have to learn how tolet those anchors go, because
people, whether it's your mama,your mom-in-law, your sister,
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your cousin, your cousin-in-law,whoever it is, they bank on the
fact that, because they havethose titles, that they are
entitled.
And you are not entitledbecause of your title.
If you're not treating me rightand and especially if you ain't
treating my kids right, but ifyou ain't right, you're not
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going to treat my kids right.
If you ain't treating me right,you're not going to treat my
husband right.
You ain't treating your husbandright.
You ain't treating me rightbecause we are one.
And if you don't have thoserespect.
If you can't respect ourboundaries, then I don't want
you around me.
You can love, bomb me, you cando whatever it is you think you
have to do, but I've already sawthat side of you.
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I've already saw who you are.
You already revealed yourself.
So you trying to put the maskback on, you can't mind yourself
no more.
I see you, I hear you, I hearyour spirit.
I see that you ain't no good.
And what people, um and I thinkwe talked about this too with
shapeshifters.
I don't know if it was you, ifit was somebody else, but we
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talked about shapeshifters whenI was on the phone with what it
was.
I think it was you.
What people um, the devil wouldtry to come into people and
then he will try to see what youlike.
Right, that's right, that'sright.
Your attention.
So if you are a woman of God,then they going to act like
they're a woman of God or a manof God or you know they going to
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play the role.
You know what I'm saying.
If you went to this music, thenthey into this music.
They trying to get into goodgraces so they can, Because I
truly believe in witchcraft, Ireally do.
Oh, it's real, it's real.
And they try to get close toyou by trying to think You're
bad to you.
Whatever you doing, trying tolove bomb you?
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You know, I see you for who youare already.
You already show I'm looking inthe camera.
I want y'all to see me becauseI know you monitoring spirits.
I see you for who you arealready.
Okay, I peeped your game longago.
You can't fool me.
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You ain't going to win.
So stop trying, so stop trying,so stop trying.
And I'm saying all this becauseI'm getting to this next part
of this interview, because youdropped some gems in this
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through the rain, baby.
That chapter was a whole altarcall in itself.
If y'all don't know about herchapter in through the rain,
it's called look at god.
We are going to play her realand we're going to come back so
she can tell us the story behindit, okay, but yeah, yeah, it
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definitely.
It definitely bugged somespirits.
Okay, it bugged some spirits,but this, this was awesome,
awesome, awesome chapter.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Have you ever prayed so hard?
Your throat burned, but heavenstayed quiet.
She wasn't supposed to getpregnant again, not after the
doctors told her her body wastoo broken, not after the pain,
the scar tissue, the surgeries.
But God had other plans.
And her name was Miracle.
One pound nine ounces, that'sall she weighed.
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Paper-thin skin, a heart thatkept stopping, lungs that forgot
how to breathe, a mother toldto say goodbye before she ever
said hello.
I can do all things throughChrist who strengthens me.
No feeding tube check, nomonitor gone, hole in her heart,
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closed jaundice brain, bleeds,cerebral palsy, silent nights.
She survived it all.
When Miracle first spoke, shedidn't say mama.
She said mama Ra-Ra wants ajuice cup, mama Ra-Ra wants a
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juice cup.
A sentence, a whole sentenceAfter years of silence after
doctors said she'd never speak.
Whole sentence After years ofsilence after doctors said she'd
never speak.
They said she wouldn't walk.
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She ran.
They said she wouldn't talk.
She testified.
They said she wouldn't learn.
She excelled.
She didn't just beat the odds,she embarrassed them.
And right there in aconsignment shop, a little girl
remembered the angel Godassigned to keep her alive.
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This isn't a story.
This is a spiritual autopsy.
It will break you, wreck you,heal you and make you weep with
worship Through every storm,every tear and every moment of
hope.
This journey has shown us thepower of faith and the beauty of
miracles.
Even when the rain fallshardest, love and belief can
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carry us through.
As the clouds part, we rememberEvery trial is a step toward
the light.
The sun always rises and withit new beginnings and endless
possibilities.
May this story remind us tolook for the miracles in our own
lives and to never stopbelieving.
Pre-order from LaShawnFernandez.
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As she debuts, her chapter Lookat God is one of many chapters
in the upcoming anthologythrough the rain, let her take
you through her storm and comeout to the sunshine.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
All right.
So we are back with LaShawnwith her story in the number one
no, it's not the number one torelease, but number three
bestseller on Amazon right now.
Through the Rain, the anthology.
Tell us the story behind Lookat God.
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What were you walking throughduring that time?
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Oh, it was a rough time then.
I remember I was told, beforeMiracle even became a seed, I
remember being told by thedoctors, due to some damage to
my body from an injury just afew years before that, that I
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wouldn't be able to have anymore kids.
Plus I had PCOS, um, so I knowmy body.
So where I worked there wastimes we had to do restraints.
Now I had my right before Itook one of the kids.
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Of course I didn't get hurt ornothing like that.
That particular time I justdidn't feel right.
My breathing, everything wasoff whack.
So I remember calling thepregnancy center in Cobb County
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because I stayed on the northside at that time and they did a
test and it was so positive.
And I'm saying to myself nowhow did that happen?
Speaker 2 (33:07):
She said it was so positive.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
And they told me I needed to go to find a doctor
because I didn't have, of courseI didn't have OB nor GYN at
that time.
So I found a doctor and it wasnothing but God, because it was
a high risk pregnancy.
It was so much going on with mybody at that time so I was high
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risk, although I was 30, youknow, I was still at a safe age,
but just my body had so muchgoing on.
They said, well, you look likeyour sugar is up, pressure's up.
So, with that being said, I washigh risk.
I was in and out the hospital,so much with Miracle.
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I remember that Friday they letme go before I had that Monday,
which was the 11th, and Fridaythey let me go before I had her.
That Monday, which was the 11th, and the doctor didn't kind of
take my health as serious as Iwanted her to Because she let me
go home.
I felt bad Sunday, myex-husband and I at the time I
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literally was in church as I washurt so bad.
Little did I know I was goingthrough early labor.
It wasn't until Monday becauseI knew I was going back to the
high risk portion of NorthsideHospital.
Sure enough, my water broke,didn't know what was going on.
I'm thinking because I took abath.
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I did so it was crazy.
So I got there.
They told me oh, we got to goahead and admit you give miracle
because her name wasn't miracleat the time.
We have to give you potassiumbecause she's trying to come.
What caused the miracle to havewhere she was coming out breach
was I was exposed to pneumoniaat work.
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However, I didn't get pneumonia, but it got exposed to the
wound somehow.
So they kind of wait.
We had a little time.
But they said if her dad at thetime didn't get up there at a
certain time, they would justhave to go ahead and take it.
So she didn't get enoughpotassium, but because we didn't
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know, I think if we would havestill been in the hospital we'd
have been good.
Well, they took her Owlet, got asecond to see her because they
had to rush her in the NICU toput her on the ventilator
because she couldn't breathe onher own.
They had to also put her in anincubator because you know, of
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course she was cold, to keep herwarm, but I couldn't touch her,
or not, because her skin waspaper thin.
But I remember that night Iwent to sleep.
God speaks to me a lot indreams, so it was a dream.
There are times I have visions,but mostly dreams.
And he came to me that nightand he said the child shall be
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called Miracle.
Well, I knew what Miracle meant, but I looked it up anyway and
I remember the whole time.
It was a challenge.
They kept telling me it didn'tlook good, but I knew that, that
god didn't give me the namemiracle just because, uh, my
past at the time came up prayfor me.
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I had some friends came and Ihad friends telling other
friends.
Y'all need to tell her, youknow, because she's gone crazy.
She think that baby gonna live.
There's no way that baby gonnalive.
Miracle Miracle had jaundice,she had a retina, she had heart
issues, you name it.
She had it.
They say she was going to haveto come home on the monitor,
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which she did.
She was going to eat from atube for the rest of her life.
Well, none of that Miraclecaught her.
Every day she defeated everyeye that they gave against her.
They said she was going to beseverely MR because she had
brain bleeds, but God saidotherwise.
It wasn't.
Until we came on the south sideof town.
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They said she'd been testedgifted.
I said no.
So they tested her.
She had advanced classes wherewe was.
But they tested her on thesouth side and they said she's
gifted.
So they put her in some giftedclass.
They said she wouldn't walk.
She started walking when hersister started walking at nine
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months.
I guess America said oh no,she's not going to out top me.
So she started walking a littlebit, took a minute to get it
down because the coordinationwasn't there.
She then started talking tothree and all her PT OT.
Everybody was there.
They witnessed this miracleBecause, see, I'm handicapped.
You know, I had days where Ican walk a little bit, days I
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couldn't, and I remember goingin there to help and they figure
out what, what, mariah, youwanted?
We pointing to everything.
Miracle came out of the, thesession.
Normally she don't do that.
She walked in there and shepulled on me and she said mom,
rara want a juice cup.
That was her words, beentalking ever since she.
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She went into a completesentence no, dad, dad, no, mama,
mama, rah, rah want a juice cup.
Lord be whole.
This is what her sister wantedthe whole time.
We could not figure.
We choosing everything else butthe juice cup.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
And you're like duh, you know what Y'all going to
make me talk now?
Because y'all said y'all didn'tget it.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
And everybody was in a maze.
But what?
What was the most amazing thing?
One of the therapists didn'tbelieve in god at all, but it
was at that moment.
She was like, well, maybemiracles do exist, because to
see and witness with your owneyes not just have me to say it
(39:04):
or Miracle, godmother andfull-time nanny at the time,
just witnesses and telling it toeverybody was there and
witnessing, seeing it forthemselves.
So it was just like, wow, youknow, it was at that moment we
were seeing what god was doingin her life, without seeing the
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full picture, and we wound upgoing to a consignment shop that
, uh, I used to just to get outto breathe.
Um, that was my therapy at thetime when I could maneuver.
And, um, we went to theconsignment shop and they were
taught not to touch anything,especially glass.
And Miracle was very good atlistening.
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She definitely was my childthat listened.
She didn't like to be introuble, so she kept saying Mom,
that's the lady that helped meat the hospital.
I'm looking because I wanted tothank the lady, so I'm looking
all over.
She said, right there, mommy,right there.
She kept saying I'm looking, Idon't see no lady.
So I'm looking all over.
She said, right there, mommy,right there.
She kept saying I'm looking, Idon't, I don't see no lady.
So I'm like Miracle West.
And then finally, I guessMiracle said I'm just tired, it
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keeps saying there's the lady.
So she went over there and shepointed at the angel and it was
porcelain angels they hadsitting on the rack, and it
brought tears to my eyes becauseshe identified her angel was
her guidance the whole time shewas in that hospital and she was
in the hospital from October tothe latter part of January,
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which that was actually her duedate.
So it was just a miracle initself.
We got home she went to see hereye doctor.
They said the retina wasn'tthere.
Maybe she uh, it affects herlater on in life and they didn't
lie because when it comes toeyes, her vision has, um,
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changed.
That changed changed this yearwhen I took a really big time,
but all through school frombirth it was like nothing there.
Then, once she came home, shewas not on the breathing.
The breathing machine went out.
It kaput.
So I went to a pediatric andthey ordered well, for two weeks
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, miracle, didn't have abreathing machine and the doctor
said well, she's been doing itwithout the breathing machine.
We're good, we don't even worryabout it, no more.
And she didn't come home on afeeding tube.
She had actually got to twocc's Not much she was drinking,
but the whole point was shedidn't need a feeding tube.
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But the whole point was shedidn't need a feeding tube.
And her heart doctor at thetime said I've never seen this
before, but she won't have tosee me unless something happened
later on in life.
It was like once they closed thehole up in her heart,
everything that they thought wasgoing to occur didn't occur.
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That was the power of God.
So miracle her life in itselfit's a miracle.
So when I was going throughwhat I was going through with my
disability, I kept going backand reclaiming my mind.
Disability.
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I kept going back andreclaiming my mind.
If Miracle came almost one weekshy of being four months early
and she was one pound nineounces, and if she can go
through it and get through it, Idefinitely can go through it
and get through it with thedisability that I was going
through and just praying andtrusting God.
So her story in itselfresonated miracle for me and for
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others, because people that wasaround me, my neighbors and
everything else, everybody justwitnessed a miracle.
Because you miracle when I saycouldn't walk, couldn't talk,
and if you see it today, you,you wouldn't believe it unless
you witness it at that point andshe is amazing y'all.
Speaker 2 (43:14):
That's my friend in my head.
She don't know it yet.
She'd be, she'd be looking out,she, she'd be, she'd definitely
be looking out.
So I, I adore her.
I think she is a phenomenalyoung lady.
And for those you know, anybodywho's watching, who's in their
own storm right now, who may bestuck silent, ashamed or just
(43:35):
ready to give up because I knowyou good at these, because if
y'all watch the Wounded Warriorpodcast, she gonna always drop
them gems, okay.
So if y'all watch the WoundedWarrior podcast, she gonna
always drop them gems, okay.
So if y'all, if, for anybodywho may be ashamed or ready to
give up, what would you say tothem right now, from your own
healed heart?
Speaker 3 (43:52):
I would say don't give up the the you got to go
through the breakthrough.
The blessing is right on theother side.
You have to.
This is my thing, this is mymodel.
Now I truly, truly understandwhat it means.
Now we walk by faith and not bysight.
What that means is we might bedown here on this earth and we
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live in having an earthlyexperience.
It's a spiritual experience,but if we keep the faith, we
trust in God.
He said, if you only have thefaith enough of a mustard seed
if you've never seen a mustardseed, you barely can see it
Because God knows as he performsmiracles your faith will
increase.
(44:39):
It's going to start out thissmall, but it it's gonna keep
building like an avalanche.
So always remember we walk byfaith and not by sight, meaning
everything happened in thespiritual yes, not in the
physical.
It has to happen in thespiritual before it comes to the
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physical world.
So trust in God and know he gotyou and understand.
If you allow him to be your God, move over and allow him in to
dwell and exude through you,everything will be all right.
Trouble can't last always.
Weeping may endure for a night,but but joy gotta come just
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like a storm, a tornado come andit might cause all that
disruption.
But what happened?
The governor put out the FEMAmoney and they rebuilt it and
sometimes it's better than whatthe original structure was Even
like.
For me, the new version of me,the new structure, the master
(45:47):
put the masterpiece better thanit was in its original
architecture.
So the foundation is muchbetter.
So don't give up, beloved.
Just hold on to God'sunchanging hand and trust him.
Lean on his understanding andnot our own.
How can we fix what theoriginal creator, he, said I'm
(46:10):
the beginning, I'm the end, I'mAlpha and Omega.
So why are we trying to figureout?
If he made us in his image andhis likeness, he'd know what's
best for us.
We just need to be still andknow he's God.
Don't give up, because when yougive up, you're giving up on
God.
You got to let him be themaster, because he will make you
(46:31):
, as his masterpiece, the bestvirgin you could ever imagine.
And the peace and joy have notsurpassed all understandings,
even for me.
But I lean on God 100%,wholeheartedly.
Now I moved out the way andwhen I tell you life get better,
(46:55):
no longer I'm walking on faith.
Speaker 2 (46:59):
No, longer holding that burden.
You're giving it to God and youjust keep moving and keep
moving.
Speaker 3 (47:06):
And keep moving, and then life becomes totally
different from me.
Yes, totally different.
Speaker 2 (47:14):
Oh man so let's give up.
Speaker 3 (47:15):
Y'all, please don't give up.
I love that.
Keep pushing Pray untilsomething's happened.
God knows what we need and whatwe want.
He's just waiting for you totalk to him and a prayer don't
take a whole lot, it's just aconversation like we having
right here.
I'm talking to God and allowinghim to work miracles in your
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life, and then you'll say oneday look at God.
Speaker 2 (47:40):
Yes, yes you will, yes you will.
Girl, look, when I be doing herpodcast, I be watching her
podcast y'all.
When I say I be in the backwith my mic on mute, I be
screaming, I be hallelujah, myhand be going up.
This lady, I'm telling you, hervoice is a word in itself.
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I adore you.
Oh man, you're motivational.
Speaker 3 (48:08):
To God be the glory.
Speaker 2 (48:10):
God be all the glory.
So I want to ask I know thatyou got something coming up on
the 22nd.
Yes, tell us more about that,what you got coming up, come on,
drop the tea, drop the tea,drop the tea.
Speaker 3 (48:24):
So on the 22nd of this month I will be doing my
booth signing.
So I actually have a venue inFayetteville, georgia.
So from six to nine I will,literally it's going to be fun.
I don't do nothing where it'sjust boring door.
No, I believe, and you know,just living, you know, and
(48:46):
having a good timefellowshipping with one another.
But, more than anything, I'vehad a lot of people say I need
an autograph copy.
So just, you know, come out ifyou're in the Fayetteville area
it's, it's posted the addressand everything is posted on my
Facebook page, but just toactually meet and greet and see
(49:08):
the face behind the screen.
You know, because I'm reallyone of those people that love to
be among people.
You know, that's even what Godwants us to do.
Fellowship, you know, be withyour brother and sister, you
know, not so isolated where noone knows you, but that's the
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beauty of it.
But, yes, so if you're in theAtlanta area, fayetteville,
georgia is right outside ofAtlanta and I will have some
refreshments and, like I said,we'll have a good time
fellowshipping and talking andyou can ask me all the questions
you want to ask, because mylife could not go in one book
y'all.
Speaker 2 (49:48):
I promise you couldn't no, and she is always
fun to be around.
I know that for a fact, um,just a good time.
So right now, um is the segmentcalled lightning round.
Okay, so everybody to come onthe show.
We do the lightning round.
I asked you a question.
You got to give it to me in 30seconds, okay.
Speaker 3 (50:09):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (50:10):
What's your go-to scripture on a hard day?
Speaker 3 (50:14):
On a hard day is always going to be John 3 16,
but I fight between that one andRomans 8 and 28.
But I have to remind myselfwith John 3, 16.
But God so loved the world thathe gave his only begotten son
that whoever believe in himshall not perish but have
everlasting life.
Everlasting.
(50:35):
So that's my go-to, because itjust picks my spirit up when my
spirit's down, because, nomatter what I believe in, it so
everlasting life.
Okay, sweet tea or coffee oh,that one's hard both, but if I,
I have to have my coffee everyday when I get up in the morning
(50:56):
okay, what song gets you inwarrior mode?
I would have to say JacquelineCarr, with that Jehovah Jireh
song.
Speaker 2 (51:08):
Oh man, yes, that's a good one.
That's a good one.
That's a good one.
If you could tell your13-year-old LaShawn one thing,
what would it be?
Speaker 3 (51:18):
I'm here to protect you, girl, I got you.
So that's what I would tellmyself I'm here to protect you,
girl, I got you.
We're going to be all right.
Speaker 2 (51:31):
That's awesome.
That's awesome.
Oh, man, that's a good one.
That's a good one.
So, lashawn, thank you.
Thank you so much for yourhonesty, your heart and your
healing, because you remind usevery day that today, being a
warrior doesn't mean that wedon't cry.
It means that we keep showingup with tears in our eyes and
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purpose in our hands.
Y'all, please go get the storyof a warrior.
I'm going to put it right hereon the screen.
Story of a warrior.
I'm going to put it right hereon the screen.
If you need an author copy, asigned copy from the author,
wwwarthurlashawncom, go check itout.
Her chapter in Through the Rain.
You can also pre-order thatthrough her.
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Follow her podcast, the WoundedWarrior podcast, on all
stations worldwide iHeart,spotify, apple Podcasts anywhere
they play podcasts, amazonMusic, audible she's everywhere.
Y'all Share her story.
If you feel like the chains inyour life are too heavy,
remember this woman right herewas once where you are.
(52:38):
Look at what God did.
Look at what he did.
Lashawn, can you pray us out,baby?
Speaker 3 (52:44):
Absolutely Everybody, bow your heads, dear Heavenly
and Most Gracious Father.
We come to you today, lord,saying thank you.
Thank you for giving us afellowship with one another.
Thank you for allowing me toshare, lord, just to pour out,
be vulnerable, to show othersyour glory and to show others
what healing can do for one soul.
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Thank you, lord, for everyonetoday and meet them at their
needs.
Lord, whatever they need in thatbrother or sister that want to
give up, lord, just give them alittle bit more hope, letting
them know that everything willbe all right.
All they got to do is hold onto your unchanging hand.
All they got to do is walk byfaith and not by sight.
(53:29):
If they understand, let go andlet you God, not let it go and
pull it back from you, but togive it to you and truly leave
it alone.
Leave it alone, but, more thananything, if they understand
that you are the Father, the Sonand the Holy Spirit and you
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dwell in us.
You never left us, you neverforsake us and you never will.
Although we may leave you,you're like the prodigal son,
father, and you welcome us backhome.
You love us unconditionally.
Let them know that the bloodwill never lose its power.
There's nothing too bad thatyou won't be there for them.
(54:13):
So thank you, lord, for thisday, and every day we see a new
day.
We give you all the praise, allthe glory, all the honor.
It all belongs to you.
We can't take no credit.
In Jesus' name we pray Amen.
Speaker 2 (54:27):
Amen, amen, amen.
Now you can tell people wherethey can reach you at.
Speaker 3 (54:33):
Y'all can reach me on Facebook LaShawn Fernandez,
tiktok, lashawn Fernandez.
Linkedin, and on YouTube it'sLaShawnFernandez1255.
And that's pretty much it.
I think I gave every ohInstagram my name as well, and
my website is wwwArthurLaShawnL-E instead of L-A-S-H-A-W-Ncom.
Speaker 2 (55:01):
And next time have a good one.
Speaker 1 (55:03):
This is my friend.
Speaker 2 (55:05):
On the Liz and Linda book club.
Do not forget to like, shareand tag somebody who needed this
.
Right here.
I'm your host, dr JacquelineCox, and I will see y'all next
time.
Speaker 3 (55:32):
We'll be right back Smile.
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