August 9, 2025 • 65 mins
What happens when nine extraordinary women decide to bare their souls and share the storms that nearly destroyed them? "Through the Rain" isn't just another anthology—it's a spiritual lifeline for anyone drowning in their own downpour.
From the moment you open this labor of love curated by Jacquiline Cox (ListenLinda), you're invited into sacred spaces where vulnerability becomes strength. Each contributor brings a unique testimony that will leave you breathless: Dr. Katrina Fuller reveals what happens when the support person everyone leans on finally breaks; LeShawn Fernandez chronicles her daughter Miracle's journey from a one-pound preemie given no chance to a child who didn't just survive but thrived beyond all medical predictions; and Dr. Velma Bagby—a relationship coach married for over 50 years—courageously shares how her own marriage nearly ended before God intervened to "burn off what He couldn't use."
The stories continue with Denise Walker explaining why "The Rain Is Necessary" for growth, Dr. LeAnn Hendrick demonstrating what "Mustard Seed Faith" truly looks like when facing impossible medical diagnoses, and ListenLinda herself revealing how she "Prayed for Rain and Got Mud" but found purpose in that very mud. Each testimony flows beautifully into the next, creating a powerful narrative arc from darkness to deliverance.
What sets this anthology apart isn't just the raw honesty of each story, but the intentional care taken in its creation—from the custom graphics and AI photography for each chapter to the inclusion of helpline resources for readers triggered by similar experiences. These aren't just stories; they're invitations to healing, proving that your darkest moments might become your most powerful ministry.
Ready to find hope in your own storm? Contact any contributing author directly for a signed copy that means more than just a book—it's evidence that survival is not only possible but can become your greatest testimony.
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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
(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
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can be heard, because when welisten to each other's stories,
we grow, we connect, we becomestronger.
Every voice matters, everystory has power.
So what's your story?
I'm here to listen and togetherwe can make our voices echo far
and wide.
To be a guest on Listen Linda.
Contact Jacqueline Cox onFacebook Messenger.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
What's up, what's up, what's up.
How is everyone doing today?
I am just dropping in becausethat's what I do.
I am super excited.
Okay, so I just got a package inthe mail and today has not been
one of my best.
(01:36):
I've been in a lupus flare thismorning, so you got to excuse
my appearance, but what you seeis what you get today, uh, but I
am coming on not just formyself, um, but really also for
um, the women, um, whoparticipated in the through the
rain um anthology, andstraightening out my camera,
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y'all, um.
But yes, so I just just got thecopy and I don't usually order
the pre-order copies because Ialready know how it looks,
because I have the PDF, I havethe e-plug, but I decided to go
ahead and order the copy of theThrough the Rain anthology, the
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copy of the Through the Rainanthology, and I just want to
say I'm so grateful for thewomen who participated in this
anthology.
This is probably one of thehardest labors of love that I
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have ever had to do, but this isalso my first time actually
publishing an anthology.
I published some self-carebooks for myself, some self-help
books or devotionals, but thisis my first time publishing.
I usually have my I like tocall Mama Queda from PayPal,
(03:07):
payprov publishing to publishthe anthologies.
But I've decided to go ahead andtake a leap of faith and and do
it myself say that I am so, soproud of this work.
But I'm also so, so grateful forLaquita Parks, because this was
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definitely a labor of love forme to do, not more so because of
the authors in the book, butjust the work and the machine
that goes behind it.
I'm used to doing mediamanagement, content and media
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and graphic creation, but toactually go into actually
editing, formatting, making sureeach chapter aligns with the
next as far as storytelling, andcreating the storyline from
beginning to end, based on eachperson's chapter, to make sure
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that it sounds right, going fromthis chapter to the next and it
flows nicely, that all takes alot of skill and hard work and
I'm super proud of this project.
It came out so beautifully.
Before we get and I actuallylet you guys see the book, I
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want to run over some of thevideos again to some of the
chapters in the book.
Ok, so let's, let's just do aquick recap of some of the some
of the stories that are in thebook.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
She was always the one people leaned on, until life
knocked her off her feet.
She poured into others, butwhen she needed someone, no one
showed up.
Katrina wasn't just tired, shewas spiritually drowning and no
one even knew.
God, if you're still with me, Ineed you now.
And in that moment heavenresponded, not with thunder, but
with stillness.
Her rescue didn't look likefireworks.
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She survived the downpour.
Now she walks in purpose theworst in me.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Can I tell y'all one more time?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
one more time I said he saw the best in me when
everyone else around me couldonly see the worst in me.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Yes, so that was Dr Katrina Fuller with her chapter
in the book called when the SkyClears when the Sky Clears one
of my favorite chapters in thebook.
I think for me that's top three.
Not saying that all of them arebeing rated, but for me, just
knowing Katrina and havingconversations with her prior to
reading her story, I would havenever guessed some of the things
that she overcame in her life,because she doesn't really talk
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about it and she, she doesn'treally hold it as a crutch as a
crutch.
And for her to be so vulnerablein this book and just tell her
truth.
The video really doesn't do itjustice at all.
(06:37):
It is absolutely the women inthis.
And through the rain, jeez,louise.
Let's get to the next one therain, jeez, louise.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Oh, let's get to the next one.
Have you ever prayed so hard?
Your throat burned, but heavenstayed quiet.
She wasn't supposed to getpregnant again.
Not after the doctors told herher body was too broken.
Not after the pain, the scartissue, the surgeries.
But God had other plans and hername 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 sentence.
After years of silence, afterdoctors said she'd never speak,
they said she wouldn't walk.
She ran, she ran.
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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.
Wreck you, heal you and makeyou weep with worship.
Through every storm, every tearand 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.
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Pre-order from LaShawnFernandez as she debuts.
Her chapter Look at God is oneof many chapters in the upcoming
anthology Through the Rain, lether take you through her storm.
Let her take you through herstorm and come out to the
sunshine.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Yes, now, that was um best-selling author, um, she
has her own insurance company.
Here is the insurance lady.
She is the host of the globalpodcast, I mean the
international podcast woundedwarrior podcast, and that is
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streaming everywhere, everywhereon Spotify, on iHeartRadio, you
name it.
She is there.
Miss LaShawn Fernandez wouldlook at God and tells a story
about how her baby, just youknow, fought to survive and beat
the odds.
Miracle, who is my girl, I loveMiracle, vibe and beat the odds
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.
Miracle, who is my girl, I loveMiracle.
And I actually met LaShawnthrough, again a really, really
great friend of mine andspiritual mom and leader and
philanthropist and just anall-around beautiful spirit.
Ms Dr Laquita Parks.
And again I just I want to sayof Parks, and again I just I
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want to say I have to say DrParks has published every book
of mine and my family, from itCan't Always Be Night, all the
way up to the Women of theWaiting Room, volume 2.
When she did Volume 2, she didthe devotional, she signed on
for the devotional and for theanthology and I kind of threw
her into the poetic ministry oneand she never said a mumbling
word, she just went ahead onwith it and I am so, so grateful
(11:55):
to have her because shementored me and she taught me so
much about this business and Itaught her.
You know some things aboutgraphics and about you know just
the, the, the actual marketingaspect.
But as far as like publishingand getting my name out there
and my podcast, um, of course,uh, to glory, to God, be all the
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glory, but I, I, just I.
It don't sit well in my spiritto not give people their flowers
where it's due.
So, dr Laquita Parks, also,somebody who played a very
intricate role in me starting mypublishing company with Dr
Velma Bagby, because I wasafraid to start.
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I was afraid of what peoplewould think was afraid to start,
I was afraid of what peoplewould think I was afraid of
letting you know some peopledown or feeling like you know,
if I did this, you know howwould other people feel about it
.
And she just told me to, if I'mgood at something, follow my
truth and do it.
And I did it and I'm so, sograteful for just my community
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of people.
Carolyn Coleman, dr Audrey andMoses Lakeisha Williams'
contract with four projects.
It was the Let it Go journal,the Let it Go 30-day devotional,
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the paperback, the e-book andthe Leadership Unlimited
magazine.
And when I say I craftedeverything and started
everything and we finished byher birthday.
So we published on her birthdayfour projects and they all hit
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number one that day, that dayand we did it in 11 days.
We did it in 11 days.
Talking about pressure,everything that I do, every
opportunity that I try to giveindie authors and also
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traditional authors, but mainlyindie authors is a chance for
quality exposure.
I want you guys to be able toget your message, your business,
your book, your brand out thereglobally.
And a lot of times I don't tootmy own horn because people feel
like it would be bragging, butI am.
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I did win the top 100 stellarbusiness award of 2024.
I have been published in CBS,in Fox News, in ABC.
I have done those things.
I have received the Vanguard ofExcellence Award for my brand
and marketing.
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I am a part of the NYC Journaltop 40 under 40 influencers.
Like I do have these accolades,I do have a presidential
lifetime achievement award formy literary works and my
volunteer career work.
You know I do have these things.
You know also the honorarydoctorate for my literary works
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and my volunteer work in mycommunity, that I did have the
mayor of the former mayor ofAurora write my letter of
recommendation.
All of these things are trueand I cannot receive these
things and have these things ifI do not have the experience to
back these things up.
So when I say I am a top tierbrand and marketing firm, that
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is just what I strive to be andanybody who has worked with me
can attest to.
I will do every single thing Ican to make sure your message
get out, your testimony gets out, your book, your business, your
brand gets out.
So, without further ado, I'mgoing to go to the next chapter
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in the book and let's see whatthis one is.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Some storms shake your home, others shake your
soul, but the ones God allows.
Some storms shake your home,others shake your soul, but the
ones God allows, they'redesigned to break chains.
She's a pastor, a wife, a mama,a woman of faith with decades
invested in love and now staringdown the storm of her life.
He's God's servant too, apreacher of the word, a man who
stood at the altar and said I do, with every intention of
keeping it, God, what do I dowith this?
(16:51):
They have the titles, the faith, the calling, but even covenant
can get caught in the crossfireof generational curses.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Baby, what you gonna do with all you done invested in
that man.
Just hand it over to the nextwoman.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
That was the moment God stepped in, not to end it,
but to refine it.
He wasn't trying to break themapart.
He was burning off what hecouldn't use.
This isn't just a marriage.
It's a ministry, a movement, amiracle in motion.
Some couples survive storms.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Others rise from them with purpose in their bones and
fire in their testimony.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Read the story, break the cycle and remember what God
joins together no storm cantear apart.
Pre-order Through the Rainanthology and read all about Dr
Velma's journey of love and warand love again, destroying the
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Curse of Divorce Coming thisfall.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Contact Dr Velma Bagby, speaking of uh with her
chapter, which, I must say, I'mgetting emotional, which, I must
say, um, I am so grateful.
Again, happy belated birthdayto Dr Velma Bagney.
She has just turned 71.
71.
God bless you, mama B.
I'm so, so grateful for thischapter because a lot of people
know Dr Velma.
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She has been married for over 50years.
She's a dating and marriagerelationship certified dating
and relationship coach.
She's an ordained minister.
She's a publisher herself, sheis a multi-award winning
bestselling author and she alsois a motivational speaker.
She goes out, she does speakingengagements, speaking on her
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catch series book and it reallyhelps a lot of people who are
singles but also who are datingwith intent, or why you should
date with intent to marry.
But she also helps marriedcouples, such as myself.
I've been on her three years now, me and my whole family, and
she has became family to us.
Her husband, pastor Bagby, theycounsel me and my husband
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sometimes I mean just just agreat human being, and I had
never heard about her, her andher husband's battle with, you
know, on the edge of beingdivorced, and I had.
I would never had guessed thatbased on just some of the things
that she has written about andthat she has spoken about over
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time.
But she, she, she decided to tokind of break those walls down
with this anthology and I was,you know, blessed to have been
the first person that that shetrusted with this story to me in
this anthology, and I'm so, sograteful for her and just all
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that she does.
She's a god, grandma to my kidsand just a beautiful person all
the way around and I'm just so,so lucky to have her.
I want to get into this nextone.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Um, this one is special and I want to make sure
that when I play it, um, I'mjust going to go ahead and she
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was just a little girl when theworld told her she wasn't worthy
of love, told her she'd neverbe enough, and for a while she
believed it.
Then God gave her a glimpse ofreal love Through the heart of a
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father who never stoppedshowing up.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
And just like that the light faded, her protector
gone and the world got heavyagain.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
They told her she'd never carry life, that love
wouldn't grow inside her, thatmotherhood was a dream she might
have to bury.
But they forgot one thing Herstory didn't belong to the
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doctors, it belonged to thedeliverer.
He took her pain and made itpurpose, gave her a platform, a
voice and a mission to helpothers rise from the rain too,
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because the rain was never meantto ruin her.
It was sent to water the seedsof her calling this ain't just a
book, it's a lifeline.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
read it and let it water your soul yes, yes, yes,
that was miss denise m walker,who who, just I see, is the
recipient of the Women of ImpactAward.
So congratulations, deniseWalker.
Just such a beautiful, anotherbeautiful woman of God.
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I actually I've been knowingDenise, knowing of Denise, but I
met her through the ListenLinda Book Club.
Actually, she, her book, wasone of the books of the month
and a powerful, powerfultestimony, and I am so grateful
to know her.
The book is called so that youMay Live and it's part of the
redemption series and herchapter in the book is the Rain
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Is Necessary.
Now, take what you may fromthat title, but for me, and from
what I read from her chapter,she was basically, you know,
saying that you know, she wasjust, you know, everything
around her was just howling herwith dirt and sometimes it takes
those storms and it takes thatrain for you to wash those
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things away.
Awesome, awesome chapter.
I mean I truly feel like itdoes not get any realer than
what she posted there.
But let's see what else we gothere let's talk about.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
She was already broken.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
She's crowning.
She's only five months.
Leanne, she's alive, but shehas no prognosis.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
No cerebellum, one lung, damaged eyes, no voice, no
future.
They said Our father who art inheaven, in a moment of agony,
she didn't scream for man's help, she made an exchange with God.
She wasn't supposed to survive,but miracles don't need
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permission.
She lost more than just sleep.
She lost her mother, her peace,almost her mind.
But she lost her mother, herpeace, almost her mind, but she
never lost her faith.
Cerise would defy everydiagnosis, crawl, feed herself,
volunteer, compete, inspire.
But then, after 17 years and 9months, Lord, it's me again and
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I still believe.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Yes, yes, so that was Leanne Cerise Hendrick.
Dr Leanne Cerise Hendrick, oneof my sponsors, the listening to
sponsors.
Her organization is calledBeyond the Calling, beyond the
call um, and she does so.
So much for the community.
It is.
It is insane.
Um, she feeds the homeless, sheclothes the clothes the people
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in the shelters and peoplewithout.
She gives um sanitation, umthings to women who are homeless
.
She just goes all out withsupplies for the kids that's
going back to school, you nameit.
If she don't do it, she will doit, and I am also lucky to have
her, just her support.
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I met her when we both actuallywere receiving the Presidential
Lifetime Achievement Award thispast I think it was September
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this past September, if I'm notmistaken in Atlanta her and know
her and to have her trust.
Listen, linda, brand andmarketing.
With her brand and marketingneeds, I'm super excited.
She's also one of the studentsin my Arthur Bootcamp, the 21
day Arthur Bootcamp.
She won the raffle and so weare here now and I just cannot
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wait to help her take her brandto the next level.
So, yeah, I think I've held youguys long enough.
The rest of the chapters you canfind in the anthology.
I am doing a let's play my callto action for the Through the
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Rain devotional.
So if you like this book, ifyou like the quality of the book
, if you like the chapters inthis book and you feel like you
have a story inbox me, see me.
I'm looking for not necessarilyexperienced writers although
everyone is welcome but reallyjust some people who want to get
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it off their chest, some peoplewho feel like they have a
testimony and they want to helppeople who may have experienced
the same thing that they did,but God brought them through
their storms.
I'm looking for you.
I'm looking for you.
I need you to help make adifference, you to help make a
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difference.
It's one thing to have atestimony and go to church and
tell them.
It's another thing to put itout there in the world and let
somebody from a differentcountry from India, from Japan,
from China, from the UK hearyour story and know that, just
because I'm going through this,I'm not alone.
This person went through that,even though they are in America,
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they went through this and Godbrought them through it.
Or somebody don't believe inGod.
Well, I don't believe in Godbecause I'm going through all of
this and I don't see my way out.
And then they see that you wentthrough those same things and
it's such impossible things thatyou went through in your life
right, and nobody could havebrought you out but God.
So when you have those thingsand you have those testimonies,
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my advice to you is write it out, let it out, write it out
through paper and leave it onthe paper and it lifts you.
I come out with writings all thetime because that is my way of
letting go and release and itreally has brought me a long way
personally, business-wise, I'mnot the same person that I was
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three years ago.
I'm not the same person I wastwo years ago.
I'm not the same person I waslast month, because writing
heals I know it does for me.
I can't speak for everybody,but I know that when I unpack
and I lay it on those pages,it's like me laying my letter
out to God for the things that Ineed him to help me overcome.
And when I leave it there, it'slike I'm leaving it at the
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altar.
But I'm not only doing that forme, but when other people read
my testimony and other peopleread my books and my stories and
they can relate and they saythat this piece helped me get
through this time.
That's what it's about for me.
So I'm going to run the promoso you can, guys, kind of get a
little more feel about theThrough the Rain devotional, and
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then I will be right back withthe Through the Rain anthology
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reveal all women who face uniquechallenges and triumphs.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
This is about what we went through and how god pulled
us through.
This ain't just another book.
This is real talk, real healingand real ministry for all women
who've been through it andstill got the strength to speak.
Your tears, your triumphs, yourtestimony, they all matter.
You don't have to be a writer,sis.
I got you From ghostwriting toone-on-one consults.
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I'll help you get your storyout the way it's meant to be
told with grace and power.
Your story has power.
Let it do the ministry.
Come join us through the rain.
We're waiting on you, sis.
Spots are limited.
Payment plans are available.
Dm me today and let's walk thisjourney together.
It's time to turn your paininto purpose, your struggle into
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strength.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
That's right and, just like the video shows, it's
not just specifically aimed atone culture.
I started my platform for womenof color, started, um, my
platform for women of color, um,because we are, we are at, it
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seems, like the least caredabout, the least protected and
the least um, it's like almostlike we're at the end of the
totem pole on everybody's list.
But the end of that totem polehas so much weight and we keep
it lifted.
We're lifting everybody upwhile everybody is trying to
press us down.
So my main focus starting tolisten Linda brand, not just a
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podcast or the magazine or thepublishing for the brand and
marketing firm, what is, andalways will be, number one for
women of color.
But just because you're not aperson of color does not mean
that you don't deserve exposure,because in my growth in this
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business, I have learned thateverybody is dealing with
something, everybody has pain,and I don't want to exclude
people from telling their story.
I don't want to exclude peoplefrom releasing their pain.
So within this past year, Ihave opened my platform to women
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of all cultures, of allnationalities, of all races.
While I respect men, I humblyask that you respect the fact
that this platform is awoman-based platform.
I can absolutely refer you tosome wonderful brand and
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marketing people who do workwith men, but I just prefer to
help women.
That is my goal.
That has always been my goal inlife.
So it's nothing against me andI just, in my own professional
capacity, prefer to help women.
I feel like that's what Godtold me to do, and men were not
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mentioned when I had thatconversation with the Lord.
Okay, not saying that I cannothelp you, not saying that I
cannot refer you to some of myamazing, amazing network of
people who do the same thingthat I do, because I collaborate
with some amazing people whoalso do brand and marketing, who
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do work with men to help youget your stories out, to help
you expand your book, businessor brand.
But me, I work with women, butI have opened that gate to not
just women of color, and I knowy'all looking like.
Well, she came on.
She was wearing a Louis Vuittonshirt.
Like what happened?
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It's lunchtime for me, so I gotmy pizza box.
Sorry, and I feel something onmy shirt right here too, where
y'all can see it, so I had tochange during the commercial
break.
I apologize, but let's get toit, let's get to it.
Okay, now it's time for thereveal, um, and I'm going to
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actually change my visualeffects, my background, uh,
because I want you guys toreally see.
So, um, if you, looking at thebackground and you you kind of
see some things back there, havegrace with me.
It's still a work in progress,okay, it's still.
I don't want y'all to be seeingmy shoes and all that stuff, so
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I do kind of still kind of gotit blurry back there, but it's a
host of shoes back there that Igot to try to figure out how to
get on that side of the officeand just put everything else
back here, like my awards andyou, you know all my published
books, um, okay, so right nowwe're gonna get to it.
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Here is the through the rainanthology all graphics, all
covers, covers and everythingdone by yours truly on the
inside.
Oh, it's so beautiful.
We have our chapter covers.
The first one is I might haveto take the blur.
(36:55):
I'm going to take the blur out,but you guys excuse my
background, okay, just excuse myoffice, but I really need to
show you guys this, okay, sohere we go.
Dr Norma, do the rain towardstomorrow.
(37:15):
Then we have her beautifulphotograph there as well.
Everything is all color on theinside gloss, running back
absolutely adorable in thisvideo on doing no justice either
(37:39):
, but it came out so beautiful,so detailed.
Look at that.
And on each of my anthologies Ialways want to make sure that
and all of my people are listedas contributing authors on
Amazon, so they do get thatauthor credit.
(38:10):
Okay, here we go again.
Dr Gwendolyn Bradley, new levels, new devils, and I know y'all,
like all of them, get in bluejean outfits with umbrellas and
hunter boots, because your girlalso does AI photography.
Okay, so everyone iscoordinated.
(38:34):
Clock it okay.
And here is the professionalphoto for Dr Gwendolyn Bradley.
Okay, absolutely phenomenal.
This one was one of my favoriteones to do.
(38:54):
It was Dr Velma's Destroyingthe Curse, because, of course,
you cannot find a graphic forDestroying the Curse, so I
literally had to piece togethercurves and it came out
absolutely beautiful.
So I was able to add God'shands here.
(39:14):
Of course, her umbrella isgolden.
Her umbrella is golden.
A marriage taped back together.
A marriage certificate here, asyou can see, is taped back
together with the rings, kind oftossed with the heart broken.
(39:34):
And then I added the rain inthe background, absolutely.
And yes, yes, as you can see,hunter boots, honey, hunter
boots.
Hunter boots, honey, hunterboots.
But I kept it in true Dr Velmaform with her dream by design by
Melissa Banks.
Pearls, honey, yes, you bettercome through, dr Velma with her
(39:55):
red um with her red nails, yes.
So I try to make sure that whenI do my AI photography it looks
exactly like the person, andI've been getting some good
reviews on that.
I've been getting some goodreviews on that.
Why spend thousands of dollarsgetting your hair makeup
wardrobe photographer then youcan't eat until after you finish
(40:19):
shooting, and shooting takesthree to four hours.
You got to put on all thismakeup.
I know because I did freelancemodeling for over 14 years.
I've been featured in jc pennysears, I've done runway shows,
I've done um a lot of print workwith guests and um wilson's
(40:40):
leather and a few other ads thatI've been fortunate enough in
my earlier years to haveparticipated in.
So I do know that photographyis quite expensive.
So you can just bypass all ofthat.
Contact Liz and Linda Brand,brandon marketing, and I will do
(41:02):
your photo shoot, uh, betweenthe ranges of one 99 and four 99
.
Amen, and that that's just forhair and makeup.
Okay, so if you can do hair andmakeup for a regular photo
shoot, then you can hit me upfor one, 99 to four, 99 and get
a full, and you can do as manyoutfits, many scenes you could
(41:24):
be in Paris or whatever.
Okay, here's Dr Velma's photo,absolutely beautiful.
Here we go with Dr LeanneHendrick with Mustard Seed,
faith.
She's another one I had to kindof piece together, okay, but it
(41:47):
came out absolutely beautiful,full color, and even, like with
this live, the screen is kind ofgiving it a shade there, as you
can see, but it's very, veryclear in person there, as you
can see, but it's very, veryclear in person.
Absolutely beautiful,absolutely beautiful.
And here is her, that's my girl.
(42:18):
And, yes, honey, I got yourname right this time, baby.
Yes, absolutely beautiful.
Here we is with my girl, denise,another one that I pieced
together.
Actually, now that I thinkabout it, I pieced together
(42:38):
every single thing, from the sunto the flower, to the dirt, um,
to the rain.
Everything was pieced together,um, as far as their, their
chapter covers.
So nothing is a template.
My love.
Not hating on the want to do,I'm just saying me personally, I
really like to to put my owntouch on stuff so often imitated
(43:05):
, never duplicated.
But yes, honey, yes, denise,absolutely hands down was
(43:26):
Rochelle Relaford.
Rochelle Relaford is a reallygood friend of mine and just so
super supportive.
Oh, I love this lady to life.
You guys may know her by adifferent name, but her pen name
is Rochelle Relaford and doingher purse.
I had to literally findsomething that shows the meaning
(43:49):
of a deeper reflection and Ifigured, why not a woman looking
at her reflection in the puddle?
And guess what?
I found it.
And she's almost like she'salmost falling in the puddle.
And of course, you know, Iadded the rain.
And of course she has herhunter boots, honey, okay, with
(44:12):
her blue jean and her goldenumbrella absolutely beautiful,
beautiful, beautiful, um.
And her story kind of talksabout, you know, her going
through life and some troublesthat she had before her storm
and then meeting her, her ex,who was an adulterer.
(44:41):
So then she decided to justreally just be with herself for
a moment and have a deeperreflection, because what was it
about her that was attractingthose type of people?
Met her at the PresidentialLifetime Achievement Awards
(45:01):
banquet as well, and of coursewe got our girl friend of the
show.
I like to call her my twinflame, lashawn Fernandez.
Bestselling author, founder ofhere is the Insurance Lady.
So if you need anythinginsurance wise or health care
(45:31):
wise, give her a call or contacther at here is the insurance
lady dot com.
And her chapter of course youguys saw in the video was look
at God.
So you can kind of see achild's hand touching God's hand
through the rain, because hertalked about miracles.
So I thought that that wasdefinitely a good concept to
have for her chapter.
And here is her absolutelybeautiful.
(46:02):
I love this book so much.
This one is a great concept aswell.
But before I get into it I wantto play a video.
So, because I think I forgot toplay mine.
So here's mine.
Speaker 1 (46:29):
They told me to pray for rain.
So I did, but nobody tells youthat rain can drown you, that it
can steal your innocence in onebreathless moment.
My granddaddy gone and no onecared.
(46:50):
I thought the father of myfirst child cared about me.
I was carrying life his unbornchild and he beat it out of me.
(47:15):
Death didn't knock.
It broke in over and over again.
January 20th, my oldest livingchild's birthday and the
anniversary of my grandfather'sdeath and the day my grandmother
passed away.
My son's birthday, mygrandfather and my grandmother's
(47:38):
grave four years apart, griefand joy, sharing a bed.
My estranged mama and I barelyargued, but this day was
different because we did.
Then she died not even twoweeks later and they didn't find
(48:00):
her for two days.
Ministry didn't heal me.
It exposed every wound I everwrapped in scripture.
(48:21):
The women in ministry used mefor my talent but judged me
constantly and left my name offall the credits for the work I
did behind the scenes.
(48:41):
They clapped on Sunday butcrucified me by Monday.
Kik said not, yet Jaden savedmy life.
(49:13):
I buried them all, all theloved ones I held close, and
still I had to breathe.
I didn't write books.
(49:48):
I wrote through blood, throughbetrayal, through breathlessness
.
This is the mud, this is theministry, this is the message
(50:21):
Through.
The Rain is more than ananthology.
It's a lifeline for all womenwho feel alone in their storm.
I prayed for rain and I got mud, but baby in that mud.
Speaker 2 (50:43):
God made me rise.
Yes, yes, yes, I prayed forrain and got mud Now with mine.
I really kind of focused andhoned in on just a lot of the
loss that I've had within thesepast few years.
Within these past few years,I've lost, you know, my mom, my
(51:07):
dad, my grandma, my favoritefoster parent, slash mom, my
foster sister, slash sister, mybest friend, who died of kidney
failure, and we were friendssince the second grade, probably
about a total of 15 people thatwere very, very close to me.
Um, I've lost within the pastmaybe five or six years and, um,
(51:32):
that's a lot for anybody.
Um, but I think losing my momin January really, really did
something to me as far asspiritually, because you think
you've got forever to patch itup with people, you think you've
got forever to make thingsright and you don't always have
(51:57):
that.
I thank God every day that Iget up that.
The last conversation I had withmy mom started off very rough
because, you know, me and my momwere estranged, but I was never
disrespectful.
I love my mom.
She's my queen.
(52:17):
She always have been.
I'm not the type of person toever be disrespectful to an
elder being.
I'm not the type of person toever be disrespectful to an
elder.
Even if I find myself gettingout of line, I'm always the one
who will call and say you know,I apologize, my delivery was
whack, you know, because itwasn't that I was raised to do
better, but God.
(52:38):
I feel like God raised me to dobetter because that was just
something that was always justlike second nature to me to
never disrespect anyone.
So, even though I'm alwaysfirst to apologize, I've learned
to stop apologizing for theaction but apologize for the
delivery, because some peoplewill feel like oh, you, just you
(52:59):
called, you apologized, so youwere wrong.
So I want you guys to know thatI'm not giving you advice to
apologize if you're right, butjust check your tone, you know.
Check your delivery, especiallywhen you're speaking to your
parents or your adults, becausea lot of times you can be right,
right, but it's all about howyou present yourself in that
(53:22):
moment and how you address anelder.
That makes all of thedifference, okay.
So, um, yeah, I wrote a lotabout that and uh, and I wrote a
lot about um, some things thatI went through, um, just coming
up to um, my mental breakingpoint, and um, and how God
(53:43):
delivered me from that and I amalways, always, glory to God,
grateful for everything andeverything that he has brought
me through.
So in the beginning I showed youguys the trailer for Katrina
Fuller for her chapter in theanthology and it was called when
(54:03):
the Sky Clears, and I wanted, Iwas very intentional about
making her cover because Iwanted her to shine.
So you don't really see a lotof background graphics in this
and only because it's when thesky clears.
You won't see rain back there,you won't see anything else
that's distracting you from theperson at hand, which is Dr
(54:27):
Katrina Fuller with through therain when the sky clears.
I just wanted her to kind ofshine there.
Like I said, my camera is notdoing it justice.
Like I said, my camera is notdoing it justice.
I really need to upgrade mycamera to a 1080 HP because it
(54:50):
is absolutely beautiful, eventhe details.
When you get the book, you willactually see here where it does
say Hunter.
There, like you will see,everything is absolutely,
absolutely beautiful.
Okay, Absolutely beautiful,okay, and here is her headshot,
(55:26):
or her chapter Absolutelybeautiful, absolutely beautiful.
Go ahead, kk, girl, you bettergo ahead, girl, that's my girl
right there.
So, absolutely, dr KatrinaFuller, and next I have my mama
Queda.
Ok, her chapter is looking fora rainbow in the clouds and here
I was always so veryintentional, like I said, I
wanted the chapter covers toreflect the book, so, and, and
their stories and their titles.
(55:47):
So, as you can see, you have theeye here that's looking for the
rainbow and of course it seesthe rainbow and you see the
rainbow reflecting in the eye.
But you also see the details ofthe rain the puddle, her hunter
boots, honey, get to it.
The rain, the puddle, herHunter Boots, honey, get to it.
And her umbrella being clear,because of course she wants to
(56:08):
see the rainbow in the clouds.
Okay, absolutely beautiful.
Dr Laquita Parks, and next wehave Dr Laquita Parks' headshot.
See, everything is full color,no black and white.
Here.
Formatting is beautifully done,okay.
(56:32):
And last but not least, we havemine.
I prayed for rain and got mudtoo and, as you can see, you see
where the earthquake kind ofcracked the ground.
You see the mud, you see thepuddles in the mud, you see the
(56:55):
rain, okay.
So, everything, okay.
So everything is like it'smaybe about seven or eight
photos in this photo alone, okay, so every, every book, cover
(57:27):
everything that I do, um, I Ioriginally do.
Okay, it's pieced together byme, even the do you see that?
How you see the footprint inthe mud?
Okay, very, very detailed, very, very detailed, okay, and of
course, we have my headshot and,of course, some of the chapters
(57:53):
I know my chapter, as well asDr Gwendolyn Bradley and a
couple others have poetry insideof the chapters, okay, okay, so
it's very beautiful book, um,and of course, I have a call to
action at the back on how youcan find me.
But, um, I also have two thingsin this book that I want to
point out.
(58:13):
Um, and one would be thetrigger warning in the beginning
.
Okay, it's the lip, because, um, a lot of people are going
through things, so write, assoon as you open the page,
you'll see here, you'll see atrigger warning just to let you
know.
Hey, in this book is sensitivecontent sexual assault and human
(58:34):
trafficking, suicidal andsuicidal ideation, substance
abuse and recovery from alcoholand narcotics, teen homelessness
, medical trauma and chronicillnesses okay, and also there's
a privacy statement hereletting you guys know that, for
(58:58):
privacy and safety ofcontributors and individuals
mentioned certain names,locations and some details have
been changed.
Okay, but this is the mostimportant one to me that I felt,
and I always feel, if you readany of my anthologies, that we
have a resource and helplinepage in here.
(59:19):
So for anybody who may be goingthrough domestic violence, the
National Domestic ViolenceHotline and website is here in
text.
Also, the Child Health,national Child Abuse Helpline,
the Human Trafficking Hotline,suicide on Crisis Hotline, call
(59:42):
for the Runaway Safe Line orYouth Homelessness hotline is
there.
Alcohol Anonymous OK, andNarcotics Anonymous, and I found
that that that was definitelyneeded for people who this may
trigger or someone that you knowis going through those things,
that you guys have the resourcesthat you need to get better.
(01:00:05):
Because, yeah, you know, I seea lot of people on here and they
say, hey, pray, do this, dothat, but God gives us tools to
use right here on earth.
He is helping us in that way.
So a lot of people say, hey, Idon't need therapy, I'll just.
But God gave you that resourceof therapy to help you get
through those things.
Ok, so when you fall short ofhim, he can work through those
(01:00:28):
people to help you, ok, so,absolutely phenomenal book, ok,
if you don't have it, please gopick it up.
And one thing although it'savailable on Amazon and I know
some people, they want to bequick to run and grab it my
suggestion, as the visionary andthe curator and the compiler of
(01:00:50):
this anthology, is that youpurchase it from the
contributing writers.
It's the same amount it might.
Actually, if you think about it, it's cheaper if you get it
from a contributing writerbecause the shipping is included
, ok, as well, as you get asigned copy from them.
(01:01:11):
So if you get it off Amazon,you'll be paying more for the
book, but you'll also you won'thave it signed.
You won't have it signed.
It won't be as intimate andpersonal as you would if you
would get it from someone whoactually wrote their story.
Okay, so my advice to anybodywho's watching this, anybody who
(01:01:33):
purchases the book, the actualpaperback copy of the book
please get it from one of thecontributing writers.
They put everything into thisbook to help someone and I feel
like us supporting them ascontributing writers would mean
way more than you going onAmazon and purchasing the book.
Now, I understand you have thebook If you already have it from
(01:01:57):
the bestseller campaign for 99cents.
That's great, but it's nothinglike actually holding this book
and being able to say, hey, Iknow somebody who could benefit
from this book.
I'll let them borrow it.
Okay, because they can't borrowit from your Kindle.
So just to have it in your handand have a signed copy of it,
(01:02:17):
um, it, it, it.
It benefits more than you canactually realize.
Ok, so I want to thank everyonefor tuning in to this impromptu
session, right, and before wego, of course, you know, I have
to definitely once again thankall the contributing writers for
(01:02:38):
being a part of it, but I alsowant to play one last video and
then, um, we're gonna eat, okay,so let's see what I got cooking
.
Speaker 3 (01:02:47):
Good looking what do I got cooking good looking,
(01:03:37):
thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:03:40):
Yes, so I am back and this will conclude the
impromptu session that I had toshow you guys through the rain.
Okay, and until next time,let's see it one more time.
I just love it.
I love it so much.
(01:04:00):
It is so beautiful, right,absolutely beautiful Formatting,
impeccable.
Everything is beautiful,beautifully, beautifully done.
Thank you, ladies, thank thesewonderful, wonderful, beautiful
(01:04:20):
ladies for contributing to thisanthology through the rain
anthology.
Um, I'm so proud of it.
Peace.
Speaker 3 (01:04:38):
Thank you.
Outro Music
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
(00:47):
can be heard, because when welisten to each other's stories,
we grow, we connect, we becomestronger.
Every voice matters, everystory has power.
So what's your story?
I'm here to listen and togetherwe can make our voices echo far
and wide.
To be a guest on Listen Linda.
Contact Jacqueline Cox onFacebook Messenger.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
What's up, what's up, what's up.
How is everyone doing today?
I am just dropping in becausethat's what I do.
I am super excited.
Okay, so I just got a package inthe mail and today has not been
one of my best.
(01:36):
I've been in a lupus flare thismorning, so you got to excuse
my appearance, but what you seeis what you get today, uh, but I
am coming on not just formyself, um, but really also for
um, the women, um, whoparticipated in the through the
rain um anthology, andstraightening out my camera,
(01:57):
y'all, um.
But yes, so I just just got thecopy and I don't usually order
the pre-order copies because Ialready know how it looks,
because I have the PDF, I havethe e-plug, but I decided to go
ahead and order the copy of theThrough the Rain anthology, the
(02:21):
copy of the Through the Rainanthology, and I just want to
say I'm so grateful for thewomen who participated in this
anthology.
This is probably one of thehardest labors of love that I
(02:44):
have ever had to do, but this isalso my first time actually
publishing an anthology.
I published some self-carebooks for myself, some self-help
books or devotionals, but thisis my first time publishing.
I usually have my I like tocall Mama Queda from PayPal,
(03:07):
payprov publishing to publishthe anthologies.
But I've decided to go ahead andtake a leap of faith and and do
it myself say that I am so, soproud of this work.
But I'm also so, so grateful forLaquita Parks, because this was
(03:29):
definitely a labor of love forme to do, not more so because of
the authors in the book, butjust the work and the machine
that goes behind it.
I'm used to doing mediamanagement, content and media
(03:50):
and graphic creation, but toactually go into actually
editing, formatting, making sureeach chapter aligns with the
next as far as storytelling, andcreating the storyline from
beginning to end, based on eachperson's chapter, to make sure
(04:10):
that it sounds right, going fromthis chapter to the next and it
flows nicely, that all takes alot of skill and hard work and
I'm super proud of this project.
It came out so beautifully.
Before we get and I actuallylet you guys see the book, I
(04:32):
want to run over some of thevideos again to some of the
chapters in the book.
Ok, so let's, let's just do aquick recap of some of the some
of the stories that are in thebook.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
She was always the one people leaned on, until life
knocked her off her feet.
She poured into others, butwhen she needed someone, no one
showed up.
Katrina wasn't just tired, shewas spiritually drowning and no
one even knew.
God, if you're still with me, Ineed you now.
And in that moment heavenresponded, not with thunder, but
with stillness.
Her rescue didn't look likefireworks.
(05:13):
She survived the downpour.
Now she walks in purpose theworst in me.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Can I tell y'all one more time?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
one more time I said he saw the best in me when
everyone else around me couldonly see the worst in me.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Yes, so that was Dr Katrina Fuller with her chapter
in the book called when the SkyClears when the Sky Clears one
of my favorite chapters in thebook.
I think for me that's top three.
Not saying that all of them arebeing rated, but for me, just
knowing Katrina and havingconversations with her prior to
reading her story, I would havenever guessed some of the things
that she overcame in her life,because she doesn't really talk
(06:16):
about it and she, she doesn'treally hold it as a crutch as a
crutch.
And for her to be so vulnerablein this book and just tell her
truth.
The video really doesn't do itjustice at all.
(06:37):
It is absolutely the women inthis.
And through the rain, jeez,louise.
Let's get to the next one therain, jeez, louise.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Oh, let's get to the next one.
Have you ever prayed so hard?
Your throat burned, but heavenstayed quiet.
She wasn't supposed to getpregnant again.
Not after the doctors told herher body was too broken.
Not after the pain, the scartissue, the surgeries.
But God had other plans and hername was Miracle.
One pound nine ounces, that'sall she weighed.
(07:09):
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
(07:29):
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
(07:49):
juice cup.
A sentence, a whole sentence.
After years of silence, afterdoctors said she'd never speak,
they said she wouldn't walk.
She ran, she ran.
(08:14):
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.
(08:56):
This isn't a story.
This is a spiritual autopsy.
It will break you, wreck you,heal you and make you weep with
worship.
Wreck you, heal you and makeyou weep with worship.
Through every storm, every tearand 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
(09:16):
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.
(09:50):
Pre-order from LaShawnFernandez as she debuts.
Her chapter Look at God is oneof many chapters in the upcoming
anthology Through the Rain, lether take you through her storm.
Let her take you through herstorm and come out to the
sunshine.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Yes, now, that was um best-selling author, um, she
has her own insurance company.
Here is the insurance lady.
She is the host of the globalpodcast, I mean the
international podcast woundedwarrior podcast, and that is
(10:42):
streaming everywhere, everywhereon Spotify, on iHeartRadio, you
name it.
She is there.
Miss LaShawn Fernandez wouldlook at God and tells a story
about how her baby, just youknow, fought to survive and beat
the odds.
Miracle, who is my girl, I loveMiracle, vibe and beat the odds
(11:03):
.
Miracle, who is my girl, I loveMiracle.
And I actually met LaShawnthrough, again a really, really
great friend of mine andspiritual mom and leader and
philanthropist and just anall-around beautiful spirit.
Ms Dr Laquita Parks.
And again I just I want to sayof Parks, and again I just I
(11:31):
want to say I have to say DrParks has published every book
of mine and my family, from itCan't Always Be Night, all the
way up to the Women of theWaiting Room, volume 2.
When she did Volume 2, she didthe devotional, she signed on
for the devotional and for theanthology and I kind of threw
her into the poetic ministry oneand she never said a mumbling
word, she just went ahead onwith it and I am so, so grateful
(11:55):
to have her because shementored me and she taught me so
much about this business and Itaught her.
You know some things aboutgraphics and about you know just
the, the, the actual marketingaspect.
But as far as like publishingand getting my name out there
and my podcast, um, of course,uh, to glory, to God, be all the
(12:19):
glory, but I, I, just I.
It don't sit well in my spiritto not give people their flowers
where it's due.
So, dr Laquita Parks, also,somebody who played a very
intricate role in me starting mypublishing company with Dr
Velma Bagby, because I wasafraid to start.
(12:41):
I was afraid of what peoplewould think was afraid to start,
I was afraid of what peoplewould think I was afraid of
letting you know some peopledown or feeling like you know,
if I did this, you know howwould other people feel about it
.
And she just told me to, if I'mgood at something, follow my
truth and do it.
And I did it and I'm so, sograteful for just my community
(13:03):
of people.
Carolyn Coleman, dr Audrey andMoses Lakeisha Williams'
contract with four projects.
It was the Let it Go journal,the Let it Go 30-day devotional,
(13:36):
the paperback, the e-book andthe Leadership Unlimited
magazine.
And when I say I craftedeverything and started
everything and we finished byher birthday.
So we published on her birthdayfour projects and they all hit
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number one that day, that dayand we did it in 11 days.
We did it in 11 days.
Talking about pressure,everything that I do, every
opportunity that I try to giveindie authors and also
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traditional authors, but mainlyindie authors is a chance for
quality exposure.
I want you guys to be able toget your message, your business,
your book, your brand out thereglobally.
And a lot of times I don't tootmy own horn because people feel
like it would be bragging, butI am.
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I did win the top 100 stellarbusiness award of 2024.
I have been published in CBS,in Fox News, in ABC.
I have done those things.
I have received the Vanguard ofExcellence Award for my brand
and marketing.
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I am a part of the NYC Journaltop 40 under 40 influencers.
Like I do have these accolades,I do have a presidential
lifetime achievement award formy literary works and my
volunteer career work.
You know I do have these things.
You know also the honorarydoctorate for my literary works
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and my volunteer work in mycommunity, that I did have the
mayor of the former mayor ofAurora write my letter of
recommendation.
All of these things are trueand I cannot receive these
things and have these things ifI do not have the experience to
back these things up.
So when I say I am a top tierbrand and marketing firm, that
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is just what I strive to be andanybody who has worked with me
can attest to.
I will do every single thing Ican to make sure your message
get out, your testimony gets out, your book, your business, your
brand gets out.
So, without further ado, I'mgoing to go to the next chapter
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in the book and let's see whatthis one is.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Some storms shake your home, others shake your
soul, but the ones God allows.
Some storms shake your home,others shake your soul, but the
ones God allows, they'redesigned to break chains.
She's a pastor, a wife, a mama,a woman of faith with decades
invested in love and now staringdown the storm of her life.
He's God's servant too, apreacher of the word, a man who
stood at the altar and said I do, with every intention of
keeping it, God, what do I dowith this?
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They have the titles, the faith, the calling, but even covenant
can get caught in the crossfireof generational curses.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Baby, what you gonna do with all you done invested in
that man.
Just hand it over to the nextwoman.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
That was the moment God stepped in, not to end it,
but to refine it.
He wasn't trying to break themapart.
He was burning off what hecouldn't use.
This isn't just a marriage.
It's a ministry, a movement, amiracle in motion.
Some couples survive storms.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Others rise from them with purpose in their bones and
fire in their testimony.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Read the story, break the cycle and remember what God
joins together no storm cantear apart.
Pre-order Through the Rainanthology and read all about Dr
Velma's journey of love and warand love again, destroying the
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Curse of Divorce Coming thisfall.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Contact Dr Velma Bagby, speaking of uh with her
chapter, which, I must say, I'mgetting emotional, which, I must
say, um, I am so grateful.
Again, happy belated birthdayto Dr Velma Bagney.
She has just turned 71.
71.
God bless you, mama B.
I'm so, so grateful for thischapter because a lot of people
know Dr Velma.
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She has been married for over 50years.
She's a dating and marriagerelationship certified dating
and relationship coach.
She's an ordained minister.
She's a publisher herself, sheis a multi-award winning
bestselling author and she alsois a motivational speaker.
She goes out, she does speakingengagements, speaking on her
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catch series book and it reallyhelps a lot of people who are
singles but also who are datingwith intent, or why you should
date with intent to marry.
But she also helps marriedcouples, such as myself.
I've been on her three years now, me and my whole family, and
she has became family to us.
Her husband, pastor Bagby, theycounsel me and my husband
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sometimes I mean just just agreat human being, and I had
never heard about her, her andher husband's battle with, you
know, on the edge of beingdivorced, and I had.
I would never had guessed thatbased on just some of the things
that she has written about andthat she has spoken about over
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time.
But she, she, she decided to tokind of break those walls down
with this anthology and I was,you know, blessed to have been
the first person that that shetrusted with this story to me in
this anthology, and I'm so, sograteful for her and just all
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that she does.
She's a god, grandma to my kidsand just a beautiful person all
the way around and I'm just so,so lucky to have her.
I want to get into this nextone.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Um, this one is special and I want to make sure
that when I play it, um, I'mjust going to go ahead and she
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was just a little girl when theworld told her she wasn't worthy
of love, told her she'd neverbe enough, and for a while she
believed it.
Then God gave her a glimpse ofreal love Through the heart of a
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father who never stoppedshowing up.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
And just like that the light faded, her protector
gone and the world got heavyagain.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
They told her she'd never carry life, that love
wouldn't grow inside her, thatmotherhood was a dream she might
have to bury.
But they forgot one thing Herstory didn't belong to the
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doctors, it belonged to thedeliverer.
He took her pain and made itpurpose, gave her a platform, a
voice and a mission to helpothers rise from the rain too,
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because the rain was never meantto ruin her.
It was sent to water the seedsof her calling this ain't just a
book, it's a lifeline.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
read it and let it water your soul yes, yes, yes,
that was miss denise m walker,who who, just I see, is the
recipient of the Women of ImpactAward.
So congratulations, deniseWalker.
Just such a beautiful, anotherbeautiful woman of God.
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I actually I've been knowingDenise, knowing of Denise, but I
met her through the ListenLinda Book Club.
Actually, she, her book, wasone of the books of the month
and a powerful, powerfultestimony, and I am so grateful
to know her.
The book is called so that youMay Live and it's part of the
redemption series and herchapter in the book is the Rain
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Is Necessary.
Now, take what you may fromthat title, but for me, and from
what I read from her chapter,she was basically, you know,
saying that you know, she wasjust, you know, everything
around her was just howling herwith dirt and sometimes it takes
those storms and it takes thatrain for you to wash those
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things away.
Awesome, awesome chapter.
I mean I truly feel like itdoes not get any realer than
what she posted there.
But let's see what else we gothere let's talk about.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
She was already broken.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
She's crowning.
She's only five months.
Leanne, she's alive, but shehas no prognosis.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
No cerebellum, one lung, damaged eyes, no voice, no
future.
They said Our father who art inheaven, in a moment of agony,
she didn't scream for man's help, she made an exchange with God.
She wasn't supposed to survive,but miracles don't need
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permission.
She lost more than just sleep.
She lost her mother, her peace,almost her mind.
But she lost her mother, herpeace, almost her mind, but she
never lost her faith.
Cerise would defy everydiagnosis, crawl, feed herself,
volunteer, compete, inspire.
But then, after 17 years and 9months, Lord, it's me again and
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I still believe.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Yes, yes, so that was Leanne Cerise Hendrick.
Dr Leanne Cerise Hendrick, oneof my sponsors, the listening to
sponsors.
Her organization is calledBeyond the Calling, beyond the
call um, and she does so.
So much for the community.
It is.
It is insane.
Um, she feeds the homeless, sheclothes the clothes the people
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in the shelters and peoplewithout.
She gives um sanitation, umthings to women who are homeless
.
She just goes all out withsupplies for the kids that's
going back to school, you nameit.
If she don't do it, she will doit, and I am also lucky to have
her, just her support.
(27:37):
I met her when we both actuallywere receiving the Presidential
Lifetime Achievement Award thispast I think it was September
(27:58):
this past September, if I'm notmistaken in Atlanta her and know
her and to have her trust.
Listen, linda, brand andmarketing.
With her brand and marketingneeds, I'm super excited.
She's also one of the studentsin my Arthur Bootcamp, the 21
day Arthur Bootcamp.
She won the raffle and so weare here now and I just cannot
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wait to help her take her brandto the next level.
So, yeah, I think I've held youguys long enough.
The rest of the chapters you canfind in the anthology.
I am doing a let's play my callto action for the Through the
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Rain devotional.
So if you like this book, ifyou like the quality of the book
, if you like the chapters inthis book and you feel like you
have a story inbox me, see me.
I'm looking for not necessarilyexperienced writers although
everyone is welcome but reallyjust some people who want to get
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it off their chest, some peoplewho feel like they have a
testimony and they want to helppeople who may have experienced
the same thing that they did,but God brought them through
their storms.
I'm looking for you.
I'm looking for you.
I need you to help make adifference, you to help make a
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difference.
It's one thing to have atestimony and go to church and
tell them.
It's another thing to put itout there in the world and let
somebody from a differentcountry from India, from Japan,
from China, from the UK hearyour story and know that, just
because I'm going through this,I'm not alone.
This person went through that,even though they are in America,
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they went through this and Godbrought them through it.
Or somebody don't believe inGod.
Well, I don't believe in Godbecause I'm going through all of
this and I don't see my way out.
And then they see that you wentthrough those same things and
it's such impossible things thatyou went through in your life
right, and nobody could havebrought you out but God.
So when you have those thingsand you have those testimonies,
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my advice to you is write it out, let it out, write it out
through paper and leave it onthe paper and it lifts you.
I come out with writings all thetime because that is my way of
letting go and release and itreally has brought me a long way
personally, business-wise, I'mnot the same person that I was
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three years ago.
I'm not the same person I wastwo years ago.
I'm not the same person I waslast month, because writing
heals I know it does for me.
I can't speak for everybody,but I know that when I unpack
and I lay it on those pages,it's like me laying my letter
out to God for the things that Ineed him to help me overcome.
And when I leave it there, it'slike I'm leaving it at the
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altar.
But I'm not only doing that forme, but when other people read
my testimony and other peopleread my books and my stories and
they can relate and they saythat this piece helped me get
through this time.
That's what it's about for me.
So I'm going to run the promoso you can, guys, kind of get a
little more feel about theThrough the Rain devotional, and
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then I will be right back withthe Through the Rain anthology
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reveal all women who face uniquechallenges and triumphs.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
This is about what we went through and how god pulled
us through.
This ain't just another book.
This is real talk, real healingand real ministry for all women
who've been through it andstill got the strength to speak.
Your tears, your triumphs, yourtestimony, they all matter.
You don't have to be a writer,sis.
I got you From ghostwriting toone-on-one consults.
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I'll help you get your storyout the way it's meant to be
told with grace and power.
Your story has power.
Let it do the ministry.
Come join us through the rain.
We're waiting on you, sis.
Spots are limited.
Payment plans are available.
Dm me today and let's walk thisjourney together.
It's time to turn your paininto purpose, your struggle into
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strength.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
That's right and, just like the video shows, it's
not just specifically aimed atone culture.
I started my platform for womenof color, started, um, my
platform for women of color, um,because we are, we are at, it
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seems, like the least caredabout, the least protected and
the least um, it's like almostlike we're at the end of the
totem pole on everybody's list.
But the end of that totem polehas so much weight and we keep
it lifted.
We're lifting everybody upwhile everybody is trying to
press us down.
So my main focus starting tolisten Linda brand, not just a
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podcast or the magazine or thepublishing for the brand and
marketing firm, what is, andalways will be, number one for
women of color.
But just because you're not aperson of color does not mean
that you don't deserve exposure,because in my growth in this
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business, I have learned thateverybody is dealing with
something, everybody has pain,and I don't want to exclude
people from telling their story.
I don't want to exclude peoplefrom releasing their pain.
So within this past year, Ihave opened my platform to women
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of all cultures, of allnationalities, of all races.
While I respect men, I humblyask that you respect the fact
that this platform is awoman-based platform.
I can absolutely refer you tosome wonderful brand and
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marketing people who do workwith men, but I just prefer to
help women.
That is my goal.
That has always been my goal inlife.
So it's nothing against me andI just, in my own professional
capacity, prefer to help women.
I feel like that's what Godtold me to do, and men were not
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mentioned when I had thatconversation with the Lord.
Okay, not saying that I cannothelp you, not saying that I
cannot refer you to some of myamazing, amazing network of
people who do the same thingthat I do, because I collaborate
with some amazing people whoalso do brand and marketing, who
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do work with men to help youget your stories out, to help
you expand your book, businessor brand.
But me, I work with women, butI have opened that gate to not
just women of color, and I knowy'all looking like.
Well, she came on.
She was wearing a Louis Vuittonshirt.
Like what happened?
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It's lunchtime for me, so I gotmy pizza box.
Sorry, and I feel something onmy shirt right here too, where
y'all can see it, so I had tochange during the commercial
break.
I apologize, but let's get toit, let's get to it.
Okay, now it's time for thereveal, um, and I'm going to
(35:48):
actually change my visualeffects, my background, uh,
because I want you guys toreally see.
So, um, if you, looking at thebackground and you you kind of
see some things back there, havegrace with me.
It's still a work in progress,okay, it's still.
I don't want y'all to be seeingmy shoes and all that stuff, so
(36:08):
I do kind of still kind of gotit blurry back there, but it's a
host of shoes back there that Igot to try to figure out how to
get on that side of the officeand just put everything else
back here, like my awards andyou, you know all my published
books, um, okay, so right nowwe're gonna get to it.
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Here is the through the rainanthology all graphics, all
covers, covers and everythingdone by yours truly on the
inside.
Oh, it's so beautiful.
We have our chapter covers.
The first one is I might haveto take the blur.
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I'm going to take the blur out,but you guys excuse my
background, okay, just excuse myoffice, but I really need to
show you guys this, okay, sohere we go.
Dr Norma, do the rain towardstomorrow.
(37:15):
Then we have her beautifulphotograph there as well.
Everything is all color on theinside gloss, running back
absolutely adorable in thisvideo on doing no justice either
(37:39):
, but it came out so beautiful,so detailed.
Look at that.
And on each of my anthologies Ialways want to make sure that
and all of my people are listedas contributing authors on
Amazon, so they do get thatauthor credit.
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Okay, here we go again.
Dr Gwendolyn Bradley, new levels, new devils, and I know y'all,
like all of them, get in bluejean outfits with umbrellas and
hunter boots, because your girlalso does AI photography.
Okay, so everyone iscoordinated.
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Clock it okay.
And here is the professionalphoto for Dr Gwendolyn Bradley.
Okay, absolutely phenomenal.
This one was one of my favoriteones to do.
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It was Dr Velma's Destroyingthe Curse, because, of course,
you cannot find a graphic forDestroying the Curse, so I
literally had to piece togethercurves and it came out
absolutely beautiful.
So I was able to add God'shands here.
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Of course, her umbrella isgolden.
Her umbrella is golden.
A marriage taped back together.
A marriage certificate here, asyou can see, is taped back
together with the rings, kind oftossed with the heart broken.
(39:34):
And then I added the rain inthe background, absolutely.
And yes, yes, as you can see,hunter boots, honey, hunter
boots.
Hunter boots, honey, hunterboots.
But I kept it in true Dr Velmaform with her dream by design by
Melissa Banks.
Pearls, honey, yes, you bettercome through, dr Velma with her
(39:55):
red um with her red nails, yes.
So I try to make sure that whenI do my AI photography it looks
exactly like the person, andI've been getting some good
reviews on that.
I've been getting some goodreviews on that.
Why spend thousands of dollarsgetting your hair makeup
wardrobe photographer then youcan't eat until after you finish
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shooting, and shooting takesthree to four hours.
You got to put on all thismakeup.
I know because I did freelancemodeling for over 14 years.
I've been featured in jc pennysears, I've done runway shows,
I've done um a lot of print workwith guests and um wilson's
(40:40):
leather and a few other ads thatI've been fortunate enough in
my earlier years to haveparticipated in.
So I do know that photographyis quite expensive.
So you can just bypass all ofthat.
Contact Liz and Linda Brand,brandon marketing, and I will do
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your photo shoot, uh, betweenthe ranges of one 99 and four 99
.
Amen, and that that's just forhair and makeup.
Okay, so if you can do hair andmakeup for a regular photo
shoot, then you can hit me upfor one, 99 to four, 99 and get
a full, and you can do as manyoutfits, many scenes you could
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be in Paris or whatever.
Okay, here's Dr Velma's photo,absolutely beautiful.
Here we go with Dr LeanneHendrick with Mustard Seed,
faith.
She's another one I had to kindof piece together, okay, but it
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came out absolutely beautiful,full color, and even, like with
this live, the screen is kind ofgiving it a shade there, as you
can see, but it's very, veryclear in person there, as you
can see, but it's very, veryclear in person.
Absolutely beautiful,absolutely beautiful.
And here is her, that's my girl.
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And, yes, honey, I got yourname right this time, baby.
Yes, absolutely beautiful.
Here we is with my girl, denise,another one that I pieced
together.
Actually, now that I thinkabout it, I pieced together
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every single thing, from the sunto the flower, to the dirt, um,
to the rain.
Everything was pieced together,um, as far as their, their
chapter covers.
So nothing is a template.
My love.
Not hating on the want to do,I'm just saying me personally, I
really like to to put my owntouch on stuff so often imitated
(43:05):
, never duplicated.
But yes, honey, yes, denise,absolutely hands down was
(43:26):
Rochelle Relaford.
Rochelle Relaford is a reallygood friend of mine and just so
super supportive.
Oh, I love this lady to life.
You guys may know her by adifferent name, but her pen name
is Rochelle Relaford and doingher purse.
I had to literally findsomething that shows the meaning
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of a deeper reflection and Ifigured, why not a woman looking
at her reflection in the puddle?
And guess what?
I found it.
And she's almost like she'salmost falling in the puddle.
And of course, you know, Iadded the rain.
And of course she has herhunter boots, honey, okay, with
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her blue jean and her goldenumbrella absolutely beautiful,
beautiful, beautiful, um.
And her story kind of talksabout, you know, her going
through life and some troublesthat she had before her storm
and then meeting her, her ex,who was an adulterer.
(44:41):
So then she decided to justreally just be with herself for
a moment and have a deeperreflection, because what was it
about her that was attractingthose type of people?
Met her at the PresidentialLifetime Achievement Awards
(45:01):
banquet as well, and of coursewe got our girl friend of the
show.
I like to call her my twinflame, lashawn Fernandez.
Bestselling author, founder ofhere is the Insurance Lady.
So if you need anythinginsurance wise or health care
(45:31):
wise, give her a call or contacther at here is the insurance
lady dot com.
And her chapter of course youguys saw in the video was look
at God.
So you can kind of see achild's hand touching God's hand
through the rain, because hertalked about miracles.
So I thought that that wasdefinitely a good concept to
have for her chapter.
And here is her absolutelybeautiful.
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I love this book so much.
This one is a great concept aswell.
But before I get into it I wantto play a video.
So, because I think I forgot toplay mine.
So here's mine.
Speaker 1 (46:29):
They told me to pray for rain.
So I did, but nobody tells youthat rain can drown you, that it
can steal your innocence in onebreathless moment.
My granddaddy gone and no onecared.
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I thought the father of myfirst child cared about me.
I was carrying life his unbornchild and he beat it out of me.
(47:15):
Death didn't knock.
It broke in over and over again.
January 20th, my oldest livingchild's birthday and the
anniversary of my grandfather'sdeath and the day my grandmother
passed away.
My son's birthday, mygrandfather and my grandmother's
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grave four years apart, griefand joy, sharing a bed.
My estranged mama and I barelyargued, but this day was
different because we did.
Then she died not even twoweeks later and they didn't find
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her for two days.
Ministry didn't heal me.
It exposed every wound I everwrapped in scripture.
(48:21):
The women in ministry used mefor my talent but judged me
constantly and left my name offall the credits for the work I
did behind the scenes.
(48:41):
They clapped on Sunday butcrucified me by Monday.
Kik said not, yet Jaden savedmy life.
(49:13):
I buried them all, all theloved ones I held close, and
still I had to breathe.
I didn't write books.
(49:48):
I wrote through blood, throughbetrayal, through breathlessness
.
This is the mud, this is theministry, this is the message
(50:21):
Through.
The Rain is more than ananthology.
It's a lifeline for all womenwho feel alone in their storm.
I prayed for rain and I got mud, but baby in that mud.
Speaker 2 (50:43):
God made me rise.
Yes, yes, yes, I prayed forrain and got mud Now with mine.
I really kind of focused andhoned in on just a lot of the
loss that I've had within thesepast few years.
Within these past few years,I've lost, you know, my mom, my
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dad, my grandma, my favoritefoster parent, slash mom, my
foster sister, slash sister, mybest friend, who died of kidney
failure, and we were friendssince the second grade, probably
about a total of 15 people thatwere very, very close to me.
Um, I've lost within the pastmaybe five or six years and, um,
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that's a lot for anybody.
Um, but I think losing my momin January really, really did
something to me as far asspiritually, because you think
you've got forever to patch itup with people, you think you've
got forever to make thingsright and you don't always have
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that.
I thank God every day that Iget up that.
The last conversation I had withmy mom started off very rough
because, you know, me and my momwere estranged, but I was never
disrespectful.
I love my mom.
She's my queen.
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She always have been.
I'm not the type of person toever be disrespectful to an
elder being.
I'm not the type of person toever be disrespectful to an
elder.
Even if I find myself gettingout of line, I'm always the one
who will call and say you know,I apologize, my delivery was
whack, you know, because itwasn't that I was raised to do
better, but God.
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I feel like God raised me to dobetter because that was just
something that was always justlike second nature to me to
never disrespect anyone.
So, even though I'm alwaysfirst to apologize, I've learned
to stop apologizing for theaction but apologize for the
delivery, because some peoplewill feel like oh, you, just you
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called, you apologized, so youwere wrong.
So I want you guys to know thatI'm not giving you advice to
apologize if you're right, butjust check your tone, you know.
Check your delivery, especiallywhen you're speaking to your
parents or your adults, becausea lot of times you can be right,
right, but it's all about howyou present yourself in that
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moment and how you address anelder.
That makes all of thedifference, okay.
So, um, yeah, I wrote a lotabout that and uh, and I wrote a
lot about um, some things thatI went through, um, just coming
up to um, my mental breakingpoint, and um, and how God
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delivered me from that and I amalways, always, glory to God,
grateful for everything andeverything that he has brought
me through.
So in the beginning I showed youguys the trailer for Katrina
Fuller for her chapter in theanthology and it was called when
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the Sky Clears, and I wanted, Iwas very intentional about
making her cover because Iwanted her to shine.
So you don't really see a lotof background graphics in this
and only because it's when thesky clears.
You won't see rain back there,you won't see anything else
that's distracting you from theperson at hand, which is Dr
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Katrina Fuller with through therain when the sky clears.
I just wanted her to kind ofshine there.
Like I said, my camera is notdoing it justice.
Like I said, my camera is notdoing it justice.
I really need to upgrade mycamera to a 1080 HP because it
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is absolutely beautiful, eventhe details.
When you get the book, you willactually see here where it does
say Hunter.
There, like you will see,everything is absolutely,
absolutely beautiful.
Okay, Absolutely beautiful,okay, and here is her headshot,
(55:26):
or her chapter Absolutelybeautiful, absolutely beautiful.
Go ahead, kk, girl, you bettergo ahead, girl, that's my girl
right there.
So, absolutely, dr KatrinaFuller, and next I have my mama
Queda.
Ok, her chapter is looking fora rainbow in the clouds and here
I was always so veryintentional, like I said, I
wanted the chapter covers toreflect the book, so, and, and
their stories and their titles.
(55:47):
So, as you can see, you have theeye here that's looking for the
rainbow and of course it seesthe rainbow and you see the
rainbow reflecting in the eye.
But you also see the details ofthe rain the puddle, her hunter
boots, honey, get to it.
The rain, the puddle, herHunter Boots, honey, get to it.
And her umbrella being clear,because of course she wants to
(56:08):
see the rainbow in the clouds.
Okay, absolutely beautiful.
Dr Laquita Parks, and next wehave Dr Laquita Parks' headshot.
See, everything is full color,no black and white.
Here.
Formatting is beautifully done,okay.
(56:32):
And last but not least, we havemine.
I prayed for rain and got mudtoo and, as you can see, you see
where the earthquake kind ofcracked the ground.
You see the mud, you see thepuddles in the mud, you see the
(56:55):
rain, okay.
So, everything, okay.
So everything is like it'smaybe about seven or eight
photos in this photo alone, okay, so every, every book, cover
(57:27):
everything that I do, um, I Ioriginally do.
Okay, it's pieced together byme, even the do you see that?
How you see the footprint inthe mud?
Okay, very, very detailed, very, very detailed, okay, and of
course, we have my headshot and,of course, some of the chapters
(57:53):
I know my chapter, as well asDr Gwendolyn Bradley and a
couple others have poetry insideof the chapters, okay, okay, so
it's very beautiful book, um,and of course, I have a call to
action at the back on how youcan find me.
But, um, I also have two thingsin this book that I want to
point out.
(58:13):
Um, and one would be thetrigger warning in the beginning
.
Okay, it's the lip, because, um, a lot of people are going
through things, so write, assoon as you open the page,
you'll see here, you'll see atrigger warning just to let you
know.
Hey, in this book is sensitivecontent sexual assault and human
(58:34):
trafficking, suicidal andsuicidal ideation, substance
abuse and recovery from alcoholand narcotics, teen homelessness
, medical trauma and chronicillnesses okay, and also there's
a privacy statement hereletting you guys know that, for
(58:58):
privacy and safety ofcontributors and individuals
mentioned certain names,locations and some details have
been changed.
Okay, but this is the mostimportant one to me that I felt,
and I always feel, if you readany of my anthologies, that we
have a resource and helplinepage in here.
(59:19):
So for anybody who may be goingthrough domestic violence, the
National Domestic ViolenceHotline and website is here in
text.
Also, the Child Health,national Child Abuse Helpline,
the Human Trafficking Hotline,suicide on Crisis Hotline, call
(59:42):
for the Runaway Safe Line orYouth Homelessness hotline is
there.
Alcohol Anonymous OK, andNarcotics Anonymous, and I found
that that that was definitelyneeded for people who this may
trigger or someone that you knowis going through those things,
that you guys have the resourcesthat you need to get better.
(01:00:05):
Because, yeah, you know, I seea lot of people on here and they
say, hey, pray, do this, dothat, but God gives us tools to
use right here on earth.
He is helping us in that way.
So a lot of people say, hey, Idon't need therapy, I'll just.
But God gave you that resourceof therapy to help you get
through those things.
Ok, so when you fall short ofhim, he can work through those
(01:00:28):
people to help you, ok, so,absolutely phenomenal book, ok,
if you don't have it, please gopick it up.
And one thing although it'savailable on Amazon and I know
some people, they want to bequick to run and grab it my
suggestion, as the visionary andthe curator and the compiler of
(01:00:50):
this anthology, is that youpurchase it from the
contributing writers.
It's the same amount it might.
Actually, if you think about it, it's cheaper if you get it
from a contributing writerbecause the shipping is included
, ok, as well, as you get asigned copy from them.
(01:01:11):
So if you get it off Amazon,you'll be paying more for the
book, but you'll also you won'thave it signed.
You won't have it signed.
It won't be as intimate andpersonal as you would if you
would get it from someone whoactually wrote their story.
Okay, so my advice to anybodywho's watching this, anybody who
(01:01:33):
purchases the book, the actualpaperback copy of the book
please get it from one of thecontributing writers.
They put everything into thisbook to help someone and I feel
like us supporting them ascontributing writers would mean
way more than you going onAmazon and purchasing the book.
Now, I understand you have thebook If you already have it from
(01:01:57):
the bestseller campaign for 99cents.
That's great, but it's nothinglike actually holding this book
and being able to say, hey, Iknow somebody who could benefit
from this book.
I'll let them borrow it.
Okay, because they can't borrowit from your Kindle.
So just to have it in your handand have a signed copy of it,
(01:02:17):
um, it, it, it.
It benefits more than you canactually realize.
Ok, so I want to thank everyonefor tuning in to this impromptu
session, right, and before wego, of course, you know, I have
to definitely once again thankall the contributing writers for
(01:02:38):
being a part of it, but I alsowant to play one last video and
then, um, we're gonna eat, okay,so let's see what I got cooking
.
Speaker 3 (01:02:47):
Good looking what do I got cooking good looking,
(01:03:37):
thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:03:40):
Yes, so I am back and this will conclude the
impromptu session that I had toshow you guys through the rain.
Okay, and until next time,let's see it one more time.
I just love it.
I love it so much.
(01:04:00):
It is so beautiful, right,absolutely beautiful Formatting,
impeccable.
Everything is beautiful,beautifully, beautifully done.
Thank you, ladies, thank thesewonderful, wonderful, beautiful
(01:04:20):
ladies for contributing to thisanthology through the rain
anthology.
Um, I'm so proud of it.
Peace.
Speaker 3 (01:04:38):
Thank you.
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