October 10, 2025 • 43 mins
The bravest moment isn’t the breakthrough; it’s the decision to stop pretending. We sit down with author and prophetess Leah M. Kelly to trace a raw arc from generational trauma and domestic violence to faith-led healing, clean boundaries, and an unshakable sense of worth. Leah’s story dismantles the “pretty face” myth with startling honesty—soaked pillows, secret wars inside a divided home, and the heavy cost of keeping up a facade. Then she shows the pivot: surrender, therapy, and the courage to say, “This is not acceptable,” even inside ministry spaces that often prioritize titles over fruit.
We dig into how discernment protects the heart when charisma and platforms can mask impure motives. Leah explains why representatives show up first, how to test for fruit over time, and how to honor God without excusing harm. Her testimony reaches beyond one family or one church; it resonates globally, with readers across cultures recognizing the same patterns of silence, shame, and spiritual confusion. The response to her memoir, A Pretty Wreck: From Trauma to Triumph, sparked unexpected reconciliation within her own family and signaled a wider need for honest, spiritually grounded conversations about abuse, recovery, and identity.
Leah also shares what’s next: Kingdom Voices TV—a platform for women in ministry, authors, and creators—to take their message to the masses with excellence, plus a monthly Zoom class designed to move women from surviving to overcoming with practical tools and faith-centered support. If you’ve ever wondered whether God can redeem your wreckage, or if you’ve questioned the gap between public titles and private truth, this conversation offers clarity, comfort, and a roadmap. Start with one step: come out of denial, name what’s real, and choose worth over silence.
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SPEAKER_01 (00:26):
Welcome, welcome, welcome to this edition of
Listen Linda Live.
I am your host, Dr.
Jacqueline Cox, and today I havea special, special, special
guest.
Um I want to tell truth andbreak chains today.
(00:49):
And we have a powerful guest whoare who is going to do just
that.
Her story is raw, it'sredemptive, and it is set to
inspire.
She is none other than LeahProphetess.
Let me prophetess, Leah M.
Kelly.
How are you doing, Leah?
(01:10):
And welcome to the book clublive.
SPEAKER_02 (01:13):
I am doing well and thank you for having me here,
Dr.
Jackal, and I really appreciateit.
SPEAKER_01 (01:19):
Oh, thank you.
Thank you.
So for those of my following whodon't know who you are, can you
introduce yourself and just tella little bit about what you do?
SPEAKER_02 (01:29):
My name is Prophetess Leah M.
Kelly.
Yes, she introduced me.
I am not only an author, but I'mthe founder of Inspire to Live
and Grow Prophetic Ministries,which was birthed out of the
office of the prophet that Iwalk in.
And God just gave me thatministry to impact, empower, and
to encourage those that are inministry.
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And also I am a life coach and amental health advocate.
unknown (01:58):
Okay.
SPEAKER_01 (01:59):
Now before we dive in, of course, y'all know I got
to do what I do when I do what Ido.
We gotta pray before we come in,okay?
So let's bow our heads.
Father God, we thank you forthis gathering of hearts.
We thank you for the voice oftruth, for healing across
trauma, and for victory sprungfrom pain, Lord God.
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We ask you now to cover ourtime, open our ears and our
hearts, speak through us inauthenticity and in love.
In Jesus' mighty name.
Amen.
Amen.
Amen.
Now, Leah, your memoir, whichI'm going to put on the screen
right now.
(02:41):
Um let's get into it.
Um, A Pretty Wreck from Traumato Triumph.
It invites readers into somevery, very, very honest places.
I have my copy here.
Um it broke me down, chat.
(03:01):
Um, because it it challenges thereaders to go into some very
honest places, generationalpain, abuse, betrayal.
Yet it delivers a message ofhope and deliverance at the end.
You've also shared publicly onFacebook that this is not a
ministry.
I mean, this is a ministry, notjust a book.
(03:24):
We all know that you arecontributing to you're
contributing a chapter toThrough the Rain with raindrops
of revelation, which people cansee to my right, to their left
here.
Um raindrops of revelation andthe upcoming devotional through
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the rain that is set for winter2025.
And and and you are gracing thecover of the Listen Linda
magazine this month for domesticviolence awareness, okay, which
they can also catch at the endof October on October 31st.
(04:08):
Um, besides all of that, yourstory, um, your story has such a
momentum behind it and a lot oftestimony to unearth.
So let's get into it, okay?
So take us back.
Uh we're going back to prettywreck, guys.
(04:29):
Take us back.
What was life like before youbegan to see yourself as a
pretty wreck?
Like, when did you first sense Ineed more than surviving?
I need a breakthrough.
SPEAKER_02 (04:46):
Well, let me see.
I want to put this in in the inthe perspective, uh visual
perspective, because it was acompilement of trauma.
It was, it was like, you knowhow you you one would say to
themself, when am I gonna get abreak?
When am I gonna be able tobreathe?
And so it was compiled traumafrom childhood to my teenage
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years into my adulthood thatspilled over into my marriages.
So it was compiled trauma, onesituation after another one.
But I was keeping up the face.
You know, I had they were like,oh, pretty face, green eyes, you
know, cute little uh build,everything like that.
You seem like you have it alltogether.
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But inside, I was a wreck.
I was living up underneath theruins of disappointment,
rejection, abandonment, andbitterness.
I just have to be real with you.
It was like me climbing fromunderneath all of that rubble.
And I had to say, enough isenough because we have to stop
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putting on appearances.
I was putting on appearances.
I was like, you know what,everything is good, everything
is cool, but my bed, my pillowwould be soaked at night, and
I'd be crying out to God, whenis it gonna stop?
When is the abuse gonna stop?
When am I gonna be able tobreathe?
Because I was suffocating upunderneath the pain of all of
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that rejection.
I just gotta put it out therelike that.
It's real.
I was dressed up looking good.
I mean, you know, and aroundministry, uh, around people in
the industry that I was hangingout with, collaborating with.
It was just the face of the fakefacade.
It goes back to the mask of meand put on that everything is
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fine.
And we gotta get to the point inour lives, like I did, when we
say everything's not fine.
I gotta go get some.
I gotta go get me some help.
Yeah, I gotta get me some help.
I gotta go not only talk to God,but I need to talk to somebody
that can help me figure thisout.
(07:05):
Because honestly, Jacqueline, Ifelt like I had a sign across my
head.
It was shining lights like that,neon lights, saying, all abusers
apply with it.
SPEAKER_01 (07:20):
Thank you for sharing that.
That hep, that's that's superheavy.
But it matters.
It matters because a lot oftimes people don't understand
because they think that becauseyou're beautiful and you you you
look like you got it alltogether.
Um, and on the on the outside,you're carrying it as if
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everything is fine, but on theinside, and when you close those
doors, they have no idea whatyou're going through or what
trauma you're enduring.
Because as women, especiallyblack women, right, we have to
put on the persona like we'retough, we got it all together,
because we build up these wallsbecause of what we see in our
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childhood, what we see at home,what we see happening in
society.
And we don't want to becomethat.
We don't want people to knowthat we're actually falling
victim to those things.
So a lot of times we hold upthis this barrier um so we so we
don't get broken by everyoneelse when on the inside, and
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sometimes inside our own homes,we're being broken every day.
So I just appreciate yourtransparency um in this book
because your book it speaks ofabuse, generational pain, and
silence.
Um, what was the deepest woundor the moment you realized that
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you could no longer keep quietabout it?
SPEAKER_02 (08:51):
It was different instances, but I wanna if I can
go back and piggyback on whatyou said in regards to what's
taking place with inside of thehome.
My mother was a teenager mother.
My mother had seven children bythe age of 21.
I am the oldest of my mother'schildren.
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So that within itself was verytraumatic because we weren't
able to receive everything fromher that she may have wanted to
give, or at the time did notpossess the tools to give.
So we fell into theresponsibility of my
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grandmother.
My mom at the time had my sisterand brother majority, and then
she was forced to give up thetwins that I talk about in my
book.
Okay, so in the interim of allof that, being told that you're
dumb, you're stupid, you'renothing, you're never gonna have
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nothing, you're never gonnaamount to anything.
That was a tape that wouldconstantly play.
Why?
Because it was resentmentagainst my mother, because my
mother wasn't able to care forus like she wanted to, and she
tried.
She did her best.
And I have to say thismotherhood was forced on her,
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okay?
She didn't want to be a mother.
She didn't want to be a mother.
She'll tell you to this day shedidn't want to have no kids.
All right?
But seven of them came out oftrauma, lies, disappointment,
and rejection from the men thatand from rape, because I'm the
product of her rape.
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So it we were born out of all ofthat confusion and chaos.
So right then that was somethingthat we had to fight through and
overcome.
And in the home, it was nostructure.
You know, it needed to be alittle bit more structure.
So with the lack of structure,you grow up.
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Jesus.
And it's like the formativetimes and what really formed, we
were formed in trauma.
If I can just truly expressthat, we were we were formed in
trauma, dysfunction, chaos,confusion.
Yes, love was there, but whatwas supposed to be established
within the boundaries of the andthe confines and the boundaries
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of that love, we lacked.
We had God.
I gotta I gotta put this outthere.
We had God, and we were raisedin a Christian home, okay?
But within that Christian homebore secrets of the even the
controversy within the Christianhome, because my grandfather was
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a Baptist preacher and a voodoopriest.
So how does that match?
And then my grandmother was a uhPentecostal preacher married to
a Baptist preacher who was avoodoo priest, and so it was so
much controversy and so muchspiritual warfare.
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Oh man, I can imagine that wasattached to the family that we
now are of the lineage of IrmaJean Kelly and Bob Kelly, the
children and the grandchildrenand the great-grandchildren were
breaking the curses because itwas a divided home.
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It was a divided home because hewould have witches come in and
do seances while my grandmotherwas pleading the blood of Jesus
and rebuking the demons.
My grandfather had them in theliving room speaking stuff over
to children.
So it was generationaldysfunction that I talk about
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that we now are breaking.
So our upbringing, ourupbringing was tumultuous at
times.
I'm just being honest.
And that's what people don'twant to talk about.
They don't want to talk aboutthe dysfunction in the
household, they don't want totalk about stuff that wasn't
orderly, they don't want to talkabout any molestations and
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rapes, they don't want to talkabout the mental, emotional, and
physical abuse that carries togenerations after that.
SPEAKER_01 (13:20):
Well, I'm I'm glad that somebody had the britches.
No, how they say the britches,they had the britches to do it.
That's you.
Um, because this book, when Itell y'all I read it from cover
to cover, this is a book.
This book right here, you couldread this book and then you can
turn around and read it again.
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I'm telling you, if you if youare emotionally healed, you can
read it again.
But I really think that goingthrough this, it took me back to
a lot of things in my childhoodtoo, that I could relate.
And um, I saw that you didn'tjust survive it, you
surrendered, and now you'rewalking in your victory.
What role did faith play inturning those broken pieces into
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your purpose for you?
SPEAKER_02 (14:07):
It played, uh, oh my god, it played a key part.
And I have to, and mygrandmother, she's in heaven
now, I know she's looking down.
Um, she taught me how to pray.
And when I found out that, andand I say this respectfully,
that man didn't have the answerfor what I needed right then.
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I had to go to the healer ofbroken hearts.
I had to surrender every brokenpiece, every wound, every
disappointment, every healing.
Let him.
I love that song.
The wants to put you backtogether again.
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I had to go and take this brokenvessel that I was to the
potter's house and say, fix me,put me back together.
Only you have the answer, onlyyou know, you know the deepness
of me.
You and I, oh my god, you knowthe deepness of my heart's cry.
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My heart was screaming, butnobody was listening.
But he tuned, hallelujah! He putan attuned ear and he said,
Daughter, I love you, daughter.
I'm concerned about you, and I'mgonna fix it.
Come ye, all thee that are heavyladen and burdened, and he will
give you rest.
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He was telling me, I want togive you rest, Leah, but what
you gotta do is give it to me.
Because I was looking for it inlove, I was looking for it in
all the wrong places, in men, inex-marriages, and toxic
relationships, for them to fillthat void and they couldn't.
But the lover of my soul, hedid, and I begin to weep at the
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feet of the master, and I beginto allow him to complete and
finish the process of myhealing.
SPEAKER_01 (16:05):
I love that.
I love that.
God shows that shows that Godjust he really does not waste
our wreckage, he makes it, hemakes it so worth it at the end.
And I truly, truly, trulyappreciate appreciate that.
Um, since the launch of a prettywreck, this a pretty wreck, I I
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keep showing y'all this bookbecause it is phenomenal.
It is truly phenomenal.
Since the launch of this book,what has surprised you about how
people respond to your story?
Has someone reached out to youother than me, right?
And said, I saw me in yourstory.
I saw me in this book.
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You know, it it's um it's aboutto make me cry.
SPEAKER_02 (16:56):
Excuse me, I didn't plan to come out here and cry,
but I'm I'm very real and I'mvery transparent.
My sister, the one that wasadopted away, Maya.
She read, excuse me, y'all.
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Me and my sister, we don't talkthat often, and we had different
views because of the whole thingof her being adopted away.
But it touched me, Dr.
Jacqueline.
It touched me so much because mysister ordered my book and she
read my book and she said, Iunderstand now.
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And she told my other sisters,get the book and y'all need to
read it together.
Because Leah brings clarity tosome questions, may not be all,
but some questions that theyhad, and healing begin to take
place in my siblings.
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And that's what touched me outoutside of your phone because I
was over I was on the borderlineof going to Mexico, I had to
make a U-turn when you calledme.
I that you had my heartscreaming.
And then when they told me thatmy sister got the book and she
read it.
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You the curebreaker in yourfamily, you the one that's
tearing down generationaldemonic altars that have warred
against your family, Leah.
You're gonna usher your familyinto victory.
And for my sister to say, sheunderstood, and she was the one
who I felt, okay, this is myperception that she was the one
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that was one of the hardest toreach out of the twins that got
adopted away.
God just confirmed to me, Leah,and your obedience, your
obedience, this book throughyour obedience is going to set
the captives free.
SPEAKER_01 (19:06):
Amen.
Amen.
Now let's look ahead for aminute.
We're gonna uh speak a littlebit about your chapter, um, your
chapter in the Through the Raindevotional, raindrops of
revelation in through the rainthat's coming out this winter.
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What key messages are you givingreaders there?
Like, how does that chapter,without giving too much away,
build on what you shared in yourmemoir?
Because I know the key points,but so other people can know,
you know what, it's more layersto Leah.
It's more layers to to thatstory that you don't really talk
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about, you hit on, but you don'treally hit on as much um in a
pretty wreck that you kind of umyou kind of layer out a little
bit more in raindrops ofrevelation.
SPEAKER_02 (20:04):
Well, and raindrops of revelation, before I even um
wrote began to write thatchapter, it was amazing because
I said, God, what am I going toshare?
What am I gonna say?
And raindrops of revelation wasbirthed out of that.
And in sharing in that chapter,it is an eye-opener.
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Because oftentimes, withoutgiving too much away, and
oftentimes we we put too muchstake into individuals at times,
and we really have to knowsomeone because if you don't
really know them, because see,it's always said that their
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representative shows up first,the representative is gonna show
up first, so wear that mask,chat.
They're gonna wear that mask,and that representative is gonna
be on their best behavior, andwe have to be careful, even in
ministry, especially inministry, in ministry, how we
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elevate people that are on thehigher echelon of the totem
pole, and we have to stopthinking that they are beyond
fault, that they are beyond uhreproach, reproach, that they
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are beyond, oh God, I'm gonna gothere, that they are beyond not
having a pure heart predicatedon the title that they
possessed.
Because when David said, createdme a clean heart and renew a
right spirit within me, see, yougot to know that you have to
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deal, not only does your hearthave to be pure, but the
individual that you are dealingwith, especially if you're
talking about having kingdomrelationships, must possess a
clean heart.
Because let me tell you, noteverybody surrendered to God,
even though they got a title.
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Not everybody walking rightbefore God, even though they got
a title, not everybody have arelationship or intimacy with
God because they have a title,and your heart will be broken if
you do not walk into thesituation in the relationship
with the discernment of the HolyGhost.
SPEAKER_01 (22:36):
A moment.
Her chapter is powerful.
I read it, and we we kind of hada little talk about that um a
couple times.
How a lot of times we we thinkthat because this this person is
a man of God or a woman of God,that they they somehow um they
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are righteous within that,right?
Like they are doing the rightthing.
And then God will open your eyesand say, uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh,
Lucifer was an angel, baby.
You better be careful, youbetter be careful.
And he was pie, yay, yay, yay,yay, from what the Bible, the
Bible didn't say pie, yeah,yeah, yeah, yeah.
But he said it was the mostbeautiful, one of the most
beautiful angels with the mostangelic voice, right?
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And he knew the word and he wasawesome, he was all these
things, but he was envious, hewas evil, and he was jealous,
and he was jealous of God, andhe he wanted to, you know, be
God.
He wanted people to surrender tohim, right?
And and and and you talk aboutthat in your chapter.
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Um, and I appreciated thatchapter, but it opens some ass
for me.
Um, not necessarilyromantically, right?
Um, but just in kingdomministry, period.
We could think, like you say,these people with these titles,
that they are this and they arethat, and what they speak is
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truth.
And a lot of times it'd beLucifer, child.
You gotta be careful.
Everybody that knows the word isnot of the word.
And and and she speaks aboutthat a lot in this chapter.
Um, it's very eye-opening.
I was I was blessed to be ableto read it first.
Um, I was blessed to be able toum just have her grace this book
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with this chapter.
It's one of the best chaptersthat I've read in all, and I
think I've published um or I'veI've been the visionary of eight
anthologies so far, and this onehas really got my heart up in a
roar.
I loved it, I loved it, I lovedit.
Now we're gonna move on to umthe October edition of the
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Listen Linda magazine, where youare gracing the cover.
Leah's got the cover, yes.
Um your story will be front andcenter out of three women.
Um, but yours will be front andcenter for the Listen Linda
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magazine for domestic violenceawareness month.
Um, what do you want survivorsand observers to take away this
month?
And what action do you hopepeople will take?
SPEAKER_02 (25:26):
What I want them to take away from this, their
takeaway, the key point isyou're worthy.
You're worthy.
You you have to see yourself asworthy, worthy of better, worthy
of more, worthy of love, worthyof love, and worthy of respect.
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Being a domestic violencesurvivor myself, I had to love
me.
It's okay to love you, it's okayto set boundaries, it's okay to
say this is not acceptable.
And I really want you to knowit's okay to walk away.
It's okay to say thisrelationship is not for me, it's
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not for me.
You are beautiful, you areloved, you are worthy, you are
cared about, you are needed, youare wanted because I know going
through domestic violence,sometimes you don't feel worthy,
sometimes you don't feel worthyof love.
The words hit like daggers.
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I've been there, but I want youto know that once you take the
courage to get up and walk awayand heal and do the work of
self-recovery and love, you'regonna find yourself and you're
gonna find the most beautifulversion of who you are.
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You gotta reclaim you, take backthe power that they think they
have over you, take it back overyourself and live and live.
SPEAKER_01 (27:19):
I wanna thank you, Jesus, for that.
I want you to speak a little bitabout um, because I I do want to
recognize that I have been onhiatus from Pathios or I want to
say since May.
And I decided to write about uhbecause I had just finished this
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book and I wrote about it onPathos.
And um I was alright, I I hadbeen gone since like May or
June, and I'm maybe five monthsout.
And um, I was still like numbertwo, you know, for women in
religion.
And for you guys who don't knowwhat Pathios is, Pathios is one
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of the biggest, if not thebiggest, religious platform for
journalists.
And I had the excuse me, I hadbeen on there for a little over
a year, and I had the number onecolumn in women in religion, but
then I was bumped down numbertwo.
Well, I wrote this about MissMiss Uh Leah, and she brought me
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back to number one child.
I told Grace Awakening, get outthe way, girl.
It's my turn again.
You go back to number two whereyou came from.
And um, so she didn't not only,not only in new visions in, you
know, in where I put thecategory, but they also placed
her in a couple more, which isrelationships and religion,
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which also hit number one.
And she had another column.
I couldn't find it because I wascoming on late.
Um, but she hit three columns.
I only put her up for one, butthey Pathios, they will see
where your story relates, andthen they will put you in that
category as well to see whereyou chart.
What Pathios has over 400million readers, so this is like
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oh, in in over 400 countries.
Okay, so this is a hugeplatform.
Um, I was blessed to write herstory, and it did numbers.
So I want to say congratulationsto you, but also thank you for
your book, Chad, because it putme right back where I need to be
at number one.
Boop, boop, boop, miss grace.
(29:33):
You're welcome.
Thank you.
I will take that spot,$4,000.
Thank you, thank you very much.
Okay, so uh when you saw that,what did that what did that do
for you?
When you was like, What?
Wait a minute now, hold on.
She did what what what's what'sgoing on here?
Because you have to know thatyour story that it it it's
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people in China who went throughwhat you're going through, it's
people.
In Honduras, it's people, youknow, in Cuba, it's people
everywhere.
People think that just becausewe're in America, that sometimes
like we're the only people thatgo through these things, but
it's other cultures that gothrough those things.
So, how did that feel for you toknow that so many people?
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Because it goes by who's readingit.
So that's where they chart youat, by how many readers are
reading it.
So, what did you think aboutthat?
SPEAKER_02 (30:26):
I was screaming, number one.
Can I just get that out?
I was screaming, and I said,Thank you, Jesus.
So, you know, but for real, thisbrought me back to a
confirmation.
So I was sitting down uh about acouple months ago with my uncle
that has a church in Virginia,and he was talking to me.
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He said, Leah, he said, I seeinternational ministry all over
you.
International ministry.
You're gonna reach internationalplatforms, right?
And so when I saw that, my heartwas just rejoicing.
I'm sitting rejoicing andgrateful to you and God, and
grateful for God for where he isallowing it to go and to reach
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the platforms where he wants itto reach in order to connect
with the people who need it.
Amen.
See, it's it's the ministry,it's the ministry that he put
inside of me through that book,even though my story is still
ministry.
Why?
Because he delivered me out ofall of it, right?
So he says, once you havestrengthened yourself, once you
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have yourself been strengthened,you go back and you strengthen
your brethren.
So this is what I'm doingthrough my memoir.
I want to strengthen my brethrenin China, in Cuba, Japan,
wherever you are.
God is a healer.
So I am excited about what Godis doing through a pretty wreck
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from trauma to triumph.
SPEAKER_01 (32:00):
Now, because you know you got a lot of things
going on, so I try to make surethat I hit everything, okay?
Um, so before we go into ourlightning round, speak more
about this.
Because I see that you got thiscoming up.
So let's take, let's take peopleinto what this will be doing.
Um, when it when it is it has italready started?
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Is it starting?
What can we expect from KingdomVoices TV?
SPEAKER_02 (32:27):
Okay, this is just starting and it's uh soon gonna
launch.
I'm excited about KingdomVoices.
I am ecstatic because KingdomVoices, which is gonna air on
VHC Media Network, is gonnaallow women in ministry uh
content creators, uh, women inministry, entrepreneurs,
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authors, a platform where theycan come on the show and share
their ministry, their business.
Uh it's so vast.
And it even gives an opportunityfor them to have their own show
on Kingdom Voices.
unknown (33:05):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (33:06):
I'm excited about that.
You know, if you ever thoughtabout having your own show, God
has given you a vision about it.
We here at Kingdom Voices canmake that happen for you.
And I coined it, taking yourministry to the masses.
Because a lot of times we haveinternational ministries, but
you know, of course, like, okay,we can't travel at this time,
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you know, and or the financesare not there.
Let's talk about it because ittakes finances to do
international travel, to flyback and forth, and to help and
to uh give and impart and to thepeople that you're ministering
to.
So you want to do that withexcellence, right?
We represent the kingdom of Godas ambassadors with excellence.
So here at Kingdom Voices TV, wehelp you reach the masses that
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you want to reach ministry-wise,right from the comfort of your
own living room.
SPEAKER_01 (33:57):
Amen.
Amen.
Now tell people where they canreach you to find more
information about that.
I'm gonna create a banner here.
SPEAKER_02 (34:05):
They can reach me at Dr DRLMK69 at gmail.com.
They can email me about theirinterest uh regards to the show
there.
SPEAKER_01 (34:20):
And there you have it right here at the bottom of
the screen, drlmk69 atgmail.com.
If you would like to be a gueston the show or even have your
own show on Kingdom Voices TV,you can contact Dr.
Prophetess Leah M.
Kelly, um, and she will help youum reach the masses.
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Congratulations on that now.
For listeners watching rightnow, maybe they are in a
wreckage, maybe they're inhealing, maybe they're helping
someone else.
What's one just one practicalstep you encourage them to take
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right now towards thattransformation?
SPEAKER_02 (35:11):
The first step of your transformation is come out
of denial.
You gotta come out of denial.
You know, there's a saying theysaid, you know, call it what it
is, call it what it is.
And so the first step to yourhealing and transformation is
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recognization, recognizing itand calling it for what it is,
and stop denying the state thatyou are in.
Amen.
Amen.
SPEAKER_01 (35:44):
Now we have um what I would like to call the
lightning round, okay?
So um, with this, I I play itwith all my people that come on,
and it's just a quick onequestion, I mean, one one word,
maybe one phrase answer.
Um, because it goes fast, okay.
So the first thing that comes tomind.
(36:04):
Okay, so we'll start.
First book you read as a child.
SPEAKER_02 (36:10):
Oh my goodness.
The cat in the caterpillar.
SPEAKER_01 (36:14):
Your go-to scripture when you felt most broken.
SPEAKER_02 (36:18):
Isaiah 54 and 17.
SPEAKER_01 (36:21):
Can you say what the scripture is?
SPEAKER_02 (36:23):
Yes, no weapon that is formed against me shall
prosper, and every tongue thatrises against me in judgment
shall be condemned.
This is the heritage of them inthe Lord.
Hey, that's right, I get excitedby that.
SPEAKER_01 (36:36):
What one song that still moves you to tears?
SPEAKER_02 (36:42):
My goodness.
Yes, that song by the ShekinahChoir, Shekinah Glory Choir.
Yes.
SPEAKER_01 (36:50):
Morning routine in 2025.
SPEAKER_02 (36:54):
Get up and pray, devotional, and then the daily
routine of getting prepared forthe day.
SPEAKER_01 (37:01):
One word that describes your 2026 vision.
Victorious.
Oh, I love that.
I love that choice.
I love that.
I love that.
I love that.
Um okay, Leah.
Thank you.
Thank you so much for comingtoday.
Your story, your transparency,your victory.
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I know there are hearts beinghealed right now just by your
voice.
And um, today, um, you guys, Iwas actually so funny.
I was supposed to be recordingthis to go live at 3 15, but I
guess God had other plansbecause I know I hit record, but
(37:47):
we are actually live.
Look at God.
Look at God.
He knows who needed to hear thistoday.
Um, Lee Ann, hello, Sunshine.
You were the one who made merealize that we are live,
actually live.
So, yes, uh, thank you all uhfor joining us, but we will be
running this back at 3 15, okay?
(38:09):
Um, for everyone um who iswatching now, um I want to let
them know that there are heartsbeing healed right now just by
your voice, okay?
And for everyone watching, ifyou have not grabbed your copy
yet, please, please, please,Leah, tell them where they can
(38:29):
grab a copy of A Pretty Rec fromTrauma to Triumph.
SPEAKER_02 (38:33):
You can grab your copy of A Pretty Rec from Trauma
to Triumph on Amazon.
But if you would like anautograph copy from me, you can
get it directly from me.
And you can email me and say, Iwould like to get the autograph
copy, and I will show you how togo about purchasing it directly
from me, and I will mail it toyou promptly uh to get the copy
(38:56):
into your hands.
And I want to thank you for allyour support.
SPEAKER_01 (38:59):
Okay, and this is where you can email her, drlmk69
at gmail.com, to get your copy.
Um, you can connect withProphetess Leah Kelly on
Facebook at um Leah, is it LeahKelly, right?
So it is Leah Kelly.
(39:20):
Okay.
Um, and also stay tuned for thedevotional through the rain,
which comes out winter 2025 withLeah's chapter um Raindrops of
Revelation, and which is righthere.
I want to make sure that Ihighlighted here.
And watch out for the OctoberDomestic Violence Awareness
(39:43):
Month issue with Leah.
We have three cover stories, butLeah's is one one of the ones
right here for the Listen Lindamagazine domestic violence
awareness month with her coverstory.
Leah, I know we talked about alot, but what's next for you?
What is next for Leah M.
(40:04):
Kelly?
Where is God taking you fromhere?
SPEAKER_02 (40:08):
God has taken me to start a once a month.
I'm gonna be starting a rightnow working on how I'm
correlating it all together, aonce a month uh class titled,
titled the same title as mybook, but it's gonna be on Zoom.
And I'm gonna be reaching out tothe women on them once a month
(40:30):
that would love to join my apretty rec from trauma to
triumph so that I can help yoube equipped with the tools to
really not only survive, but toovercome.
See, we can survive, but wegotta overcome it too.
So I've that's my next venture.
SPEAKER_01 (40:48):
Awesome, awesome, awesome.
And um, before we um exit and Ido my closeout, I always have to
ask my guests to close us out inprayer.
So can you close us out inprayer, please?
SPEAKER_02 (41:01):
Yes, I would love to.
Thank you, Father God, in thename of Jesus, I just thank you,
Father.
I thank you for being here.
I thank you, Holy Spirit, forshowing up and showing out and
for your will being done today.
God, I ask you to bless everyhearer, every person that joined
the life.
God bless them and heal them,God, deliver them, set free and
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break every chain.
God bless Dr.
Jacqueline, God, and everyventure and everything that she
puts her hands to do, Lord.
Be with us, Holy Spirit, and weforever, forever give you the
praise.
In Jesus' name we pray.
Amen.
SPEAKER_01 (41:37):
Amen.
Amen.
Again, be looking out, y'all,because we're going live again
at 3 15.
I'm running this back.
I'm running it back.
But God had other plans.
He said, nope, it's going liveright now.
We got to do it right now.
So I appreciate you guys again.
Um, listen, Linda, you've beentuned in to an unforgettable
(41:58):
conversation.
Prophetic words, real stories,healing, emotion.
But don't go anywhere.
Follow, share, and uplift.
And until next time, keep yourfaith, keep your voice, keep
your story.
Love you all like Christ lovedthe church.
Peace.
SPEAKER_00 (42:25):
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I am your host, Dr.
Jacqueline Cox, and today I havea special, special, special
guest.
Um I want to tell truth andbreak chains today.
(00:49):
And we have a powerful guest whoare who is going to do just
that.
Her story is raw, it'sredemptive, and it is set to
inspire.
She is none other than LeahProphetess.
Let me prophetess, Leah M.
Kelly.
How are you doing, Leah?
(01:10):
And welcome to the book clublive.
SPEAKER_02 (01:13):
I am doing well and thank you for having me here,
Dr.
Jackal, and I really appreciateit.
SPEAKER_01 (01:19):
Oh, thank you.
Thank you.
So for those of my following whodon't know who you are, can you
introduce yourself and just tella little bit about what you do?
SPEAKER_02 (01:29):
My name is Prophetess Leah M.
Kelly.
Yes, she introduced me.
I am not only an author, but I'mthe founder of Inspire to Live
and Grow Prophetic Ministries,which was birthed out of the
office of the prophet that Iwalk in.
And God just gave me thatministry to impact, empower, and
to encourage those that are inministry.
(01:52):
And also I am a life coach and amental health advocate.
unknown (01:58):
Okay.
SPEAKER_01 (01:59):
Now before we dive in, of course, y'all know I got
to do what I do when I do what Ido.
We gotta pray before we come in,okay?
So let's bow our heads.
Father God, we thank you forthis gathering of hearts.
We thank you for the voice oftruth, for healing across
trauma, and for victory sprungfrom pain, Lord God.
(02:20):
We ask you now to cover ourtime, open our ears and our
hearts, speak through us inauthenticity and in love.
In Jesus' mighty name.
Amen.
Amen.
Amen.
Now, Leah, your memoir, whichI'm going to put on the screen
right now.
(02:41):
Um let's get into it.
Um, A Pretty Wreck from Traumato Triumph.
It invites readers into somevery, very, very honest places.
I have my copy here.
Um it broke me down, chat.
(03:01):
Um, because it it challenges thereaders to go into some very
honest places, generationalpain, abuse, betrayal.
Yet it delivers a message ofhope and deliverance at the end.
You've also shared publicly onFacebook that this is not a
ministry.
I mean, this is a ministry, notjust a book.
(03:24):
We all know that you arecontributing to you're
contributing a chapter toThrough the Rain with raindrops
of revelation, which people cansee to my right, to their left
here.
Um raindrops of revelation andthe upcoming devotional through
(03:47):
the rain that is set for winter2025.
And and and you are gracing thecover of the Listen Linda
magazine this month for domesticviolence awareness, okay, which
they can also catch at the endof October on October 31st.
(04:08):
Um, besides all of that, yourstory, um, your story has such a
momentum behind it and a lot oftestimony to unearth.
So let's get into it, okay?
So take us back.
Uh we're going back to prettywreck, guys.
(04:29):
Take us back.
What was life like before youbegan to see yourself as a
pretty wreck?
Like, when did you first sense Ineed more than surviving?
I need a breakthrough.
SPEAKER_02 (04:46):
Well, let me see.
I want to put this in in the inthe perspective, uh visual
perspective, because it was acompilement of trauma.
It was, it was like, you knowhow you you one would say to
themself, when am I gonna get abreak?
When am I gonna be able tobreathe?
And so it was compiled traumafrom childhood to my teenage
(05:08):
years into my adulthood thatspilled over into my marriages.
So it was compiled trauma, onesituation after another one.
But I was keeping up the face.
You know, I had they were like,oh, pretty face, green eyes, you
know, cute little uh build,everything like that.
You seem like you have it alltogether.
(05:30):
But inside, I was a wreck.
I was living up underneath theruins of disappointment,
rejection, abandonment, andbitterness.
I just have to be real with you.
It was like me climbing fromunderneath all of that rubble.
And I had to say, enough isenough because we have to stop
(05:52):
putting on appearances.
I was putting on appearances.
I was like, you know what,everything is good, everything
is cool, but my bed, my pillowwould be soaked at night, and
I'd be crying out to God, whenis it gonna stop?
When is the abuse gonna stop?
When am I gonna be able tobreathe?
Because I was suffocating upunderneath the pain of all of
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that rejection.
I just gotta put it out therelike that.
It's real.
I was dressed up looking good.
I mean, you know, and aroundministry, uh, around people in
the industry that I was hangingout with, collaborating with.
It was just the face of the fakefacade.
It goes back to the mask of meand put on that everything is
(06:42):
fine.
And we gotta get to the point inour lives, like I did, when we
say everything's not fine.
I gotta go get some.
I gotta go get me some help.
Yeah, I gotta get me some help.
I gotta go not only talk to God,but I need to talk to somebody
that can help me figure thisout.
(07:05):
Because honestly, Jacqueline, Ifelt like I had a sign across my
head.
It was shining lights like that,neon lights, saying, all abusers
apply with it.
SPEAKER_01 (07:20):
Thank you for sharing that.
That hep, that's that's superheavy.
But it matters.
It matters because a lot oftimes people don't understand
because they think that becauseyou're beautiful and you you you
look like you got it alltogether.
Um, and on the on the outside,you're carrying it as if
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everything is fine, but on theinside, and when you close those
doors, they have no idea whatyou're going through or what
trauma you're enduring.
Because as women, especiallyblack women, right, we have to
put on the persona like we'retough, we got it all together,
because we build up these wallsbecause of what we see in our
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childhood, what we see at home,what we see happening in
society.
And we don't want to becomethat.
We don't want people to knowthat we're actually falling
victim to those things.
So a lot of times we hold upthis this barrier um so we so we
don't get broken by everyoneelse when on the inside, and
(08:25):
sometimes inside our own homes,we're being broken every day.
So I just appreciate yourtransparency um in this book
because your book it speaks ofabuse, generational pain, and
silence.
Um, what was the deepest woundor the moment you realized that
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you could no longer keep quietabout it?
SPEAKER_02 (08:51):
It was different instances, but I wanna if I can
go back and piggyback on whatyou said in regards to what's
taking place with inside of thehome.
My mother was a teenager mother.
My mother had seven children bythe age of 21.
I am the oldest of my mother'schildren.
(09:12):
So that within itself was verytraumatic because we weren't
able to receive everything fromher that she may have wanted to
give, or at the time did notpossess the tools to give.
So we fell into theresponsibility of my
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grandmother.
My mom at the time had my sisterand brother majority, and then
she was forced to give up thetwins that I talk about in my
book.
Okay, so in the interim of allof that, being told that you're
dumb, you're stupid, you'renothing, you're never gonna have
(09:54):
nothing, you're never gonnaamount to anything.
That was a tape that wouldconstantly play.
Why?
Because it was resentmentagainst my mother, because my
mother wasn't able to care forus like she wanted to, and she
tried.
She did her best.
And I have to say thismotherhood was forced on her,
(10:14):
okay?
She didn't want to be a mother.
She didn't want to be a mother.
She'll tell you to this day shedidn't want to have no kids.
All right?
But seven of them came out oftrauma, lies, disappointment,
and rejection from the men thatand from rape, because I'm the
product of her rape.
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So it we were born out of all ofthat confusion and chaos.
So right then that was somethingthat we had to fight through and
overcome.
And in the home, it was nostructure.
You know, it needed to be alittle bit more structure.
So with the lack of structure,you grow up.
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Jesus.
And it's like the formativetimes and what really formed, we
were formed in trauma.
If I can just truly expressthat, we were we were formed in
trauma, dysfunction, chaos,confusion.
Yes, love was there, but whatwas supposed to be established
within the boundaries of the andthe confines and the boundaries
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of that love, we lacked.
We had God.
I gotta I gotta put this outthere.
We had God, and we were raisedin a Christian home, okay?
But within that Christian homebore secrets of the even the
controversy within the Christianhome, because my grandfather was
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a Baptist preacher and a voodoopriest.
So how does that match?
And then my grandmother was a uhPentecostal preacher married to
a Baptist preacher who was avoodoo priest, and so it was so
much controversy and so muchspiritual warfare.
(12:03):
Oh man, I can imagine that wasattached to the family that we
now are of the lineage of IrmaJean Kelly and Bob Kelly, the
children and the grandchildrenand the great-grandchildren were
breaking the curses because itwas a divided home.
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It was a divided home because hewould have witches come in and
do seances while my grandmotherwas pleading the blood of Jesus
and rebuking the demons.
My grandfather had them in theliving room speaking stuff over
to children.
So it was generationaldysfunction that I talk about
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that we now are breaking.
So our upbringing, ourupbringing was tumultuous at
times.
I'm just being honest.
And that's what people don'twant to talk about.
They don't want to talk aboutthe dysfunction in the
household, they don't want totalk about stuff that wasn't
orderly, they don't want to talkabout any molestations and
(13:09):
rapes, they don't want to talkabout the mental, emotional, and
physical abuse that carries togenerations after that.
SPEAKER_01 (13:20):
Well, I'm I'm glad that somebody had the britches.
No, how they say the britches,they had the britches to do it.
That's you.
Um, because this book, when Itell y'all I read it from cover
to cover, this is a book.
This book right here, you couldread this book and then you can
turn around and read it again.
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I'm telling you, if you if youare emotionally healed, you can
read it again.
But I really think that goingthrough this, it took me back to
a lot of things in my childhoodtoo, that I could relate.
And um, I saw that you didn'tjust survive it, you
surrendered, and now you'rewalking in your victory.
What role did faith play inturning those broken pieces into
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your purpose for you?
SPEAKER_02 (14:07):
It played, uh, oh my god, it played a key part.
And I have to, and mygrandmother, she's in heaven
now, I know she's looking down.
Um, she taught me how to pray.
And when I found out that, andand I say this respectfully,
that man didn't have the answerfor what I needed right then.
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I had to go to the healer ofbroken hearts.
I had to surrender every brokenpiece, every wound, every
disappointment, every healing.
Let him.
I love that song.
The wants to put you backtogether again.
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I had to go and take this brokenvessel that I was to the
potter's house and say, fix me,put me back together.
Only you have the answer, onlyyou know, you know the deepness
of me.
You and I, oh my god, you knowthe deepness of my heart's cry.
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My heart was screaming, butnobody was listening.
But he tuned, hallelujah! He putan attuned ear and he said,
Daughter, I love you, daughter.
I'm concerned about you, and I'mgonna fix it.
Come ye, all thee that are heavyladen and burdened, and he will
give you rest.
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He was telling me, I want togive you rest, Leah, but what
you gotta do is give it to me.
Because I was looking for it inlove, I was looking for it in
all the wrong places, in men, inex-marriages, and toxic
relationships, for them to fillthat void and they couldn't.
But the lover of my soul, hedid, and I begin to weep at the
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feet of the master, and I beginto allow him to complete and
finish the process of myhealing.
SPEAKER_01 (16:05):
I love that.
I love that.
God shows that shows that Godjust he really does not waste
our wreckage, he makes it, hemakes it so worth it at the end.
And I truly, truly, trulyappreciate appreciate that.
Um, since the launch of a prettywreck, this a pretty wreck, I I
(16:29):
keep showing y'all this bookbecause it is phenomenal.
It is truly phenomenal.
Since the launch of this book,what has surprised you about how
people respond to your story?
Has someone reached out to youother than me, right?
And said, I saw me in yourstory.
I saw me in this book.
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You know, it it's um it's aboutto make me cry.
SPEAKER_02 (16:56):
Excuse me, I didn't plan to come out here and cry,
but I'm I'm very real and I'mvery transparent.
My sister, the one that wasadopted away, Maya.
She read, excuse me, y'all.
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Me and my sister, we don't talkthat often, and we had different
views because of the whole thingof her being adopted away.
But it touched me, Dr.
Jacqueline.
It touched me so much because mysister ordered my book and she
read my book and she said, Iunderstand now.
(17:38):
And she told my other sisters,get the book and y'all need to
read it together.
Because Leah brings clarity tosome questions, may not be all,
but some questions that theyhad, and healing begin to take
place in my siblings.
(17:59):
And that's what touched me outoutside of your phone because I
was over I was on the borderlineof going to Mexico, I had to
make a U-turn when you calledme.
I that you had my heartscreaming.
And then when they told me thatmy sister got the book and she
read it.
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You the curebreaker in yourfamily, you the one that's
tearing down generationaldemonic altars that have warred
against your family, Leah.
You're gonna usher your familyinto victory.
And for my sister to say, sheunderstood, and she was the one
who I felt, okay, this is myperception that she was the one
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that was one of the hardest toreach out of the twins that got
adopted away.
God just confirmed to me, Leah,and your obedience, your
obedience, this book throughyour obedience is going to set
the captives free.
SPEAKER_01 (19:06):
Amen.
Amen.
Now let's look ahead for aminute.
We're gonna uh speak a littlebit about your chapter, um, your
chapter in the Through the Raindevotional, raindrops of
revelation in through the rainthat's coming out this winter.
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What key messages are you givingreaders there?
Like, how does that chapter,without giving too much away,
build on what you shared in yourmemoir?
Because I know the key points,but so other people can know,
you know what, it's more layersto Leah.
It's more layers to to thatstory that you don't really talk
(19:50):
about, you hit on, but you don'treally hit on as much um in a
pretty wreck that you kind of umyou kind of layer out a little
bit more in raindrops ofrevelation.
SPEAKER_02 (20:04):
Well, and raindrops of revelation, before I even um
wrote began to write thatchapter, it was amazing because
I said, God, what am I going toshare?
What am I gonna say?
And raindrops of revelation wasbirthed out of that.
And in sharing in that chapter,it is an eye-opener.
(20:28):
Because oftentimes, withoutgiving too much away, and
oftentimes we we put too muchstake into individuals at times,
and we really have to knowsomeone because if you don't
really know them, because see,it's always said that their
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representative shows up first,the representative is gonna show
up first, so wear that mask,chat.
They're gonna wear that mask,and that representative is gonna
be on their best behavior, andwe have to be careful, even in
ministry, especially inministry, in ministry, how we
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elevate people that are on thehigher echelon of the totem
pole, and we have to stopthinking that they are beyond
fault, that they are beyond uhreproach, reproach, that they
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are beyond, oh God, I'm gonna gothere, that they are beyond not
having a pure heart predicatedon the title that they
possessed.
Because when David said, createdme a clean heart and renew a
right spirit within me, see, yougot to know that you have to
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deal, not only does your hearthave to be pure, but the
individual that you are dealingwith, especially if you're
talking about having kingdomrelationships, must possess a
clean heart.
Because let me tell you, noteverybody surrendered to God,
even though they got a title.
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Not everybody walking rightbefore God, even though they got
a title, not everybody have arelationship or intimacy with
God because they have a title,and your heart will be broken if
you do not walk into thesituation in the relationship
with the discernment of the HolyGhost.
SPEAKER_01 (22:36):
A moment.
Her chapter is powerful.
I read it, and we we kind of hada little talk about that um a
couple times.
How a lot of times we we thinkthat because this this person is
a man of God or a woman of God,that they they somehow um they
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are righteous within that,right?
Like they are doing the rightthing.
And then God will open your eyesand say, uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh,
Lucifer was an angel, baby.
You better be careful, youbetter be careful.
And he was pie, yay, yay, yay,yay, from what the Bible, the
Bible didn't say pie, yeah,yeah, yeah, yeah.
But he said it was the mostbeautiful, one of the most
beautiful angels with the mostangelic voice, right?
(23:21):
And he knew the word and he wasawesome, he was all these
things, but he was envious, hewas evil, and he was jealous,
and he was jealous of God, andhe he wanted to, you know, be
God.
He wanted people to surrender tohim, right?
And and and and you talk aboutthat in your chapter.
(23:42):
Um, and I appreciated thatchapter, but it opens some ass
for me.
Um, not necessarilyromantically, right?
Um, but just in kingdomministry, period.
We could think, like you say,these people with these titles,
that they are this and they arethat, and what they speak is
(24:03):
truth.
And a lot of times it'd beLucifer, child.
You gotta be careful.
Everybody that knows the word isnot of the word.
And and and she speaks aboutthat a lot in this chapter.
Um, it's very eye-opening.
I was I was blessed to be ableto read it first.
Um, I was blessed to be able toum just have her grace this book
(24:26):
with this chapter.
It's one of the best chaptersthat I've read in all, and I
think I've published um or I'veI've been the visionary of eight
anthologies so far, and this onehas really got my heart up in a
roar.
I loved it, I loved it, I lovedit.
Now we're gonna move on to umthe October edition of the
(24:51):
Listen Linda magazine, where youare gracing the cover.
Leah's got the cover, yes.
Um your story will be front andcenter out of three women.
Um, but yours will be front andcenter for the Listen Linda
(25:12):
magazine for domestic violenceawareness month.
Um, what do you want survivorsand observers to take away this
month?
And what action do you hopepeople will take?
SPEAKER_02 (25:26):
What I want them to take away from this, their
takeaway, the key point isyou're worthy.
You're worthy.
You you have to see yourself asworthy, worthy of better, worthy
of more, worthy of love, worthyof love, and worthy of respect.
(25:50):
Being a domestic violencesurvivor myself, I had to love
me.
It's okay to love you, it's okayto set boundaries, it's okay to
say this is not acceptable.
And I really want you to knowit's okay to walk away.
It's okay to say thisrelationship is not for me, it's
(26:13):
not for me.
You are beautiful, you areloved, you are worthy, you are
cared about, you are needed, youare wanted because I know going
through domestic violence,sometimes you don't feel worthy,
sometimes you don't feel worthyof love.
The words hit like daggers.
(26:36):
I've been there, but I want youto know that once you take the
courage to get up and walk awayand heal and do the work of
self-recovery and love, you'regonna find yourself and you're
gonna find the most beautifulversion of who you are.
(26:59):
You gotta reclaim you, take backthe power that they think they
have over you, take it back overyourself and live and live.
SPEAKER_01 (27:19):
I wanna thank you, Jesus, for that.
I want you to speak a little bitabout um, because I I do want to
recognize that I have been onhiatus from Pathios or I want to
say since May.
And I decided to write about uhbecause I had just finished this
(27:40):
book and I wrote about it onPathos.
And um I was alright, I I hadbeen gone since like May or
June, and I'm maybe five monthsout.
And um, I was still like numbertwo, you know, for women in
religion.
And for you guys who don't knowwhat Pathios is, Pathios is one
(28:02):
of the biggest, if not thebiggest, religious platform for
journalists.
And I had the excuse me, I hadbeen on there for a little over
a year, and I had the number onecolumn in women in religion, but
then I was bumped down numbertwo.
Well, I wrote this about MissMiss Uh Leah, and she brought me
(28:24):
back to number one child.
I told Grace Awakening, get outthe way, girl.
It's my turn again.
You go back to number two whereyou came from.
And um, so she didn't not only,not only in new visions in, you
know, in where I put thecategory, but they also placed
her in a couple more, which isrelationships and religion,
(28:48):
which also hit number one.
And she had another column.
I couldn't find it because I wascoming on late.
Um, but she hit three columns.
I only put her up for one, butthey Pathios, they will see
where your story relates, andthen they will put you in that
category as well to see whereyou chart.
What Pathios has over 400million readers, so this is like
(29:12):
oh, in in over 400 countries.
Okay, so this is a hugeplatform.
Um, I was blessed to write herstory, and it did numbers.
So I want to say congratulationsto you, but also thank you for
your book, Chad, because it putme right back where I need to be
at number one.
Boop, boop, boop, miss grace.
(29:33):
You're welcome.
Thank you.
I will take that spot,$4,000.
Thank you, thank you very much.
Okay, so uh when you saw that,what did that what did that do
for you?
When you was like, What?
Wait a minute now, hold on.
She did what what what's what'sgoing on here?
Because you have to know thatyour story that it it it's
(29:56):
people in China who went throughwhat you're going through, it's
people.
In Honduras, it's people, youknow, in Cuba, it's people
everywhere.
People think that just becausewe're in America, that sometimes
like we're the only people thatgo through these things, but
it's other cultures that gothrough those things.
So, how did that feel for you toknow that so many people?
(30:17):
Because it goes by who's readingit.
So that's where they chart youat, by how many readers are
reading it.
So, what did you think aboutthat?
SPEAKER_02 (30:26):
I was screaming, number one.
Can I just get that out?
I was screaming, and I said,Thank you, Jesus.
So, you know, but for real, thisbrought me back to a
confirmation.
So I was sitting down uh about acouple months ago with my uncle
that has a church in Virginia,and he was talking to me.
(30:49):
He said, Leah, he said, I seeinternational ministry all over
you.
International ministry.
You're gonna reach internationalplatforms, right?
And so when I saw that, my heartwas just rejoicing.
I'm sitting rejoicing andgrateful to you and God, and
grateful for God for where he isallowing it to go and to reach
(31:13):
the platforms where he wants itto reach in order to connect
with the people who need it.
Amen.
See, it's it's the ministry,it's the ministry that he put
inside of me through that book,even though my story is still
ministry.
Why?
Because he delivered me out ofall of it, right?
So he says, once you havestrengthened yourself, once you
(31:36):
have yourself been strengthened,you go back and you strengthen
your brethren.
So this is what I'm doingthrough my memoir.
I want to strengthen my brethrenin China, in Cuba, Japan,
wherever you are.
God is a healer.
So I am excited about what Godis doing through a pretty wreck
(31:58):
from trauma to triumph.
SPEAKER_01 (32:00):
Now, because you know you got a lot of things
going on, so I try to make surethat I hit everything, okay?
Um, so before we go into ourlightning round, speak more
about this.
Because I see that you got thiscoming up.
So let's take, let's take peopleinto what this will be doing.
Um, when it when it is it has italready started?
(32:22):
Is it starting?
What can we expect from KingdomVoices TV?
SPEAKER_02 (32:27):
Okay, this is just starting and it's uh soon gonna
launch.
I'm excited about KingdomVoices.
I am ecstatic because KingdomVoices, which is gonna air on
VHC Media Network, is gonnaallow women in ministry uh
content creators, uh, women inministry, entrepreneurs,
(32:48):
authors, a platform where theycan come on the show and share
their ministry, their business.
Uh it's so vast.
And it even gives an opportunityfor them to have their own show
on Kingdom Voices.
unknown (33:05):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (33:06):
I'm excited about that.
You know, if you ever thoughtabout having your own show, God
has given you a vision about it.
We here at Kingdom Voices canmake that happen for you.
And I coined it, taking yourministry to the masses.
Because a lot of times we haveinternational ministries, but
you know, of course, like, okay,we can't travel at this time,
(33:28):
you know, and or the financesare not there.
Let's talk about it because ittakes finances to do
international travel, to flyback and forth, and to help and
to uh give and impart and to thepeople that you're ministering
to.
So you want to do that withexcellence, right?
We represent the kingdom of Godas ambassadors with excellence.
So here at Kingdom Voices TV, wehelp you reach the masses that
(33:52):
you want to reach ministry-wise,right from the comfort of your
own living room.
SPEAKER_01 (33:57):
Amen.
Amen.
Now tell people where they canreach you to find more
information about that.
I'm gonna create a banner here.
SPEAKER_02 (34:05):
They can reach me at Dr DRLMK69 at gmail.com.
They can email me about theirinterest uh regards to the show
there.
SPEAKER_01 (34:20):
And there you have it right here at the bottom of
the screen, drlmk69 atgmail.com.
If you would like to be a gueston the show or even have your
own show on Kingdom Voices TV,you can contact Dr.
Prophetess Leah M.
Kelly, um, and she will help youum reach the masses.
(34:41):
Congratulations on that now.
For listeners watching rightnow, maybe they are in a
wreckage, maybe they're inhealing, maybe they're helping
someone else.
What's one just one practicalstep you encourage them to take
(35:07):
right now towards thattransformation?
SPEAKER_02 (35:11):
The first step of your transformation is come out
of denial.
You gotta come out of denial.
You know, there's a saying theysaid, you know, call it what it
is, call it what it is.
And so the first step to yourhealing and transformation is
(35:32):
recognization, recognizing itand calling it for what it is,
and stop denying the state thatyou are in.
Amen.
Amen.
SPEAKER_01 (35:44):
Now we have um what I would like to call the
lightning round, okay?
So um, with this, I I play itwith all my people that come on,
and it's just a quick onequestion, I mean, one one word,
maybe one phrase answer.
Um, because it goes fast, okay.
So the first thing that comes tomind.
(36:04):
Okay, so we'll start.
First book you read as a child.
SPEAKER_02 (36:10):
Oh my goodness.
The cat in the caterpillar.
SPEAKER_01 (36:14):
Your go-to scripture when you felt most broken.
SPEAKER_02 (36:18):
Isaiah 54 and 17.
SPEAKER_01 (36:21):
Can you say what the scripture is?
SPEAKER_02 (36:23):
Yes, no weapon that is formed against me shall
prosper, and every tongue thatrises against me in judgment
shall be condemned.
This is the heritage of them inthe Lord.
Hey, that's right, I get excitedby that.
SPEAKER_01 (36:36):
What one song that still moves you to tears?
SPEAKER_02 (36:42):
My goodness.
Yes, that song by the ShekinahChoir, Shekinah Glory Choir.
Yes.
SPEAKER_01 (36:50):
Morning routine in 2025.
SPEAKER_02 (36:54):
Get up and pray, devotional, and then the daily
routine of getting prepared forthe day.
SPEAKER_01 (37:01):
One word that describes your 2026 vision.
Victorious.
Oh, I love that.
I love that choice.
I love that.
I love that.
I love that.
Um okay, Leah.
Thank you.
Thank you so much for comingtoday.
Your story, your transparency,your victory.
(37:24):
I know there are hearts beinghealed right now just by your
voice.
And um, today, um, you guys, Iwas actually so funny.
I was supposed to be recordingthis to go live at 3 15, but I
guess God had other plansbecause I know I hit record, but
(37:47):
we are actually live.
Look at God.
Look at God.
He knows who needed to hear thistoday.
Um, Lee Ann, hello, Sunshine.
You were the one who made merealize that we are live,
actually live.
So, yes, uh, thank you all uhfor joining us, but we will be
running this back at 3 15, okay?
(38:09):
Um, for everyone um who iswatching now, um I want to let
them know that there are heartsbeing healed right now just by
your voice, okay?
And for everyone watching, ifyou have not grabbed your copy
yet, please, please, please,Leah, tell them where they can
(38:29):
grab a copy of A Pretty Rec fromTrauma to Triumph.
SPEAKER_02 (38:33):
You can grab your copy of A Pretty Rec from Trauma
to Triumph on Amazon.
But if you would like anautograph copy from me, you can
get it directly from me.
And you can email me and say, Iwould like to get the autograph
copy, and I will show you how togo about purchasing it directly
from me, and I will mail it toyou promptly uh to get the copy
(38:56):
into your hands.
And I want to thank you for allyour support.
SPEAKER_01 (38:59):
Okay, and this is where you can email her, drlmk69
at gmail.com, to get your copy.
Um, you can connect withProphetess Leah Kelly on
Facebook at um Leah, is it LeahKelly, right?
So it is Leah Kelly.
(39:20):
Okay.
Um, and also stay tuned for thedevotional through the rain,
which comes out winter 2025 withLeah's chapter um Raindrops of
Revelation, and which is righthere.
I want to make sure that Ihighlighted here.
And watch out for the OctoberDomestic Violence Awareness
(39:43):
Month issue with Leah.
We have three cover stories, butLeah's is one one of the ones
right here for the Listen Lindamagazine domestic violence
awareness month with her coverstory.
Leah, I know we talked about alot, but what's next for you?
What is next for Leah M.
(40:04):
Kelly?
Where is God taking you fromhere?
SPEAKER_02 (40:08):
God has taken me to start a once a month.
I'm gonna be starting a rightnow working on how I'm
correlating it all together, aonce a month uh class titled,
titled the same title as mybook, but it's gonna be on Zoom.
And I'm gonna be reaching out tothe women on them once a month
(40:30):
that would love to join my apretty rec from trauma to
triumph so that I can help yoube equipped with the tools to
really not only survive, but toovercome.
See, we can survive, but wegotta overcome it too.
So I've that's my next venture.
SPEAKER_01 (40:48):
Awesome, awesome, awesome.
And um, before we um exit and Ido my closeout, I always have to
ask my guests to close us out inprayer.
So can you close us out inprayer, please?
SPEAKER_02 (41:01):
Yes, I would love to.
Thank you, Father God, in thename of Jesus, I just thank you,
Father.
I thank you for being here.
I thank you, Holy Spirit, forshowing up and showing out and
for your will being done today.
God, I ask you to bless everyhearer, every person that joined
the life.
God bless them and heal them,God, deliver them, set free and
(41:22):
break every chain.
God bless Dr.
Jacqueline, God, and everyventure and everything that she
puts her hands to do, Lord.
Be with us, Holy Spirit, and weforever, forever give you the
praise.
In Jesus' name we pray.
Amen.
SPEAKER_01 (41:37):
Amen.
Amen.
Again, be looking out, y'all,because we're going live again
at 3 15.
I'm running this back.
I'm running it back.
But God had other plans.
He said, nope, it's going liveright now.
We got to do it right now.
So I appreciate you guys again.
Um, listen, Linda, you've beentuned in to an unforgettable
(41:58):
conversation.
Prophetic words, real stories,healing, emotion.
But don't go anywhere.
Follow, share, and uplift.
And until next time, keep yourfaith, keep your voice, keep
your story.
Love you all like Christ lovedthe church.
Peace.
SPEAKER_00 (42:25):
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