April 30, 2024 • 60 mins
Waiting for true love requires the patience of a saint and the faith of a mountain mover. As I share my own prayers for a partnership rooted in shared dreams and compatibility, I invite you to join me and the brilliant Shaday Void, an esteemed author, in a conversation that's as revealing as it is enriching. Our anthology, "Listen, Linda Presents the Women of the Waiting Room Surgery for your Soul," began as the collective whispers of seven remarkable women, each with a story that befits the number's symbolism of perfection.
Balancing the scales of family, work, and artistic passion is no easy feat, yet it's in this delicate dance that the seeds of creativity are sown. My journey from beauty salon owner to author was not charted on any map I knew, but it's one that has led to the discovery of new horizons in the written word during the global pandemic. The anthology project blossomed into a vibrant tapestry of voices, sharing the pains, joys, and revelations of life, enabled by the liberating power of writing.
As we close, it's with gratitude that I look forward to the promising futures of the women involved in this endeavor. The upcoming episodes promise to be just as heartening, with Melanie Johnson, Allaina Maria, and Laquita Parks slated to share their own sources of inspiration. And as Tasha Cobbs's music plays us out, we're reminded of the eternal hope we hold as children of God, forever embraced and unfettered by fear. Join us on this journey of faith, patience, and self-discovery.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We require certain things, and that's what I pray
for.
So that's what I wait for, DearGod, can we?
(00:20):
Waitin' on a man that I prayedfor, not rushin' with no man.
That wasn't made for me.
See, this love, we have gottabe tailored.
Ain't wishing with no man.
That ain't no fit for me.
Do you pray, cause I pray?
You want kids.
I want names.
Are you faithful?
Oh yeah, tell me, can you standand reign you a king?
(00:43):
I'm a queen.
We require certain things, andthat's what I pray for.
So that's what I wait for.
Dear God, come when you'resinning.
I'm gon' be ready.
Dear God, you do this for me.
I won't forget it.
My heart, I've been through somuch and I just wanna feel your
love for once.
(01:03):
And, dear God, I hope he'shappy already here, but if it's
in me, I know he is, I know hewill.
Dear God, that's what I prayfor.
So that's what I wait for, andI vow to be everything you need,
share my life with you, on theright, with you, and I promise
(01:29):
to support all your dreams, butI gotta know that you were made
for me.
Do you pray, cause I pray?
You want kids, I want eight.
Are you faithful?
Oh wait, tell me, can you standand reign you a king?
I'm a queen.
We require certain things, andthat's what I pray for, so
that's what I wait for.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
That's what I pray for.
That's what I wait for.
Dear God, I'm your sinner.
That's what I pray for.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
That's what I wait for, dear God.
You're missing me.
I won't regret it.
Dear God, you do this for me.
I won't forget it.
My heart brings you so much andI just wanna feel your love for
once.
Feel your love for once and,dear God, I hope he's happy
Already here with you.
I know he is.
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I know he's happy already here.
I know he is, I know he will.
Dear God, dear God, that's whatI pray for.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
So that's what I wait for yes, that was miss ashby,
(03:00):
with pray, for today, I amactually going to be the one
being interviewed by one of myfavorite authors.
Her name is Sade Boyd.
How are you, sade?
I am great.
How are you?
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Beautiful lady?
I'm good.
I'm good.
I'm a little nervous.
I'm a little nervous because Idon't like being questioned.
I feel like I'm beinginterrogated, you know, and I
ain't been in that situationvery long time.
However, I am super excited.
If you guys do not know, sade isone of the co-authors for my
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newest anthology project.
She's actually in thedevotional of that project and
it's called Listen.
Linda Presents the Women of theWaiting Room Surgery for your
Soul Devotional, and I have beenblessed with over 30 amazing
women to be a part of thisdevotional, as well as a
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separate well, actually, themother of the whole project,
which is Women of the WaitingRoom Serving for your Soul
Anthology, which I have my Fab 7in, and we all just came
together and this project isamazing and I'm so, so grateful
to have Sade back on.
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If you guys do not remember,she was one of the featured
authors on the birthday bashthat we had here.
So how are you today?
Speaker 4 (04:39):
I'm great, I'm great.
Another beautiful'm great.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Another beautiful day , all right, so you ready for
these to question me?
Sure, sure, let's get right toit, but before we do, I want you
to lead in prayer, because youknow how I do.
So I want you to lead in prayer, and then you can get right to
it.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
All right.
Dear Heavenly Father, I thankyou for this moment for us to
fellowship and speak aboutpositivity.
Father, I thank you for givingus another day to do over and do
better than what we've doneyesterday.
Father, I'm thankful for thissister right here, a beautiful
wife, a mother, a successfulentrepreneur and wonderful
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author.
I am thankful to be a part ofthis journey with her, with my
sister.
Heavenly Father, anythingthat's not of you, I ask you to
remove it in the name of Jesus.
But anything that is of you,father, help me to gain the
wisdom and knowledge to speak onwhat we are doing here today In
Jesus' mighty name.
Amen.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Amen, amen.
So let's get right to thequestions, girl so the question
for I have for you is what madeyou start know um dealing with a
lot of women can be challengeddealing with a lot of people can
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be challenging, especially fora creative um like myself, who's
also an introvert, right, likeI love people, I love speaking
with people, I love dealing withpeople, but I like to do it,
you know, one at a time.
So this has been something thatI wanted to do, but I really
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didn't want to take on thatchallenge.
But you know, when we can'tgrow, if the the place that
we're trying to grow is not iscomfortable, right.
So we have to step outside ourboundaries a lot, and I first,
um, like I said, I came up withthe idea for the anthology, but
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God gave me the vision to do theanthology and I had my seven,
you, my fab seven, and we wasgoing with it and I was like,
okay, cool.
But then I actually got a callfrom Dr Velma, like you should
do a devotional, and you know Ihad already had a plethora of
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women who wanted to be a part ofthis project, but I shut the
door at seven because I was like, okay, seven is the number of
completion, right.
And God put it on my spirit tojust use those seven women.
However, it was just tugging atmy heart because it was like,
okay, a lot of these people wantthese women, want their voices
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heard as well, and they all haveamazing stories.
But a lot of people may not beable financially, you know, to
be able to afford to be in thethe magnitude of what the
anthology entail.
So I decided I'll just sow aseed and do 10 percent of what
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what the other women pay for theanthology and give everybody a
chance.
You know just a small excerptthat maybe they can do when they
can tell their story, they canuplift others and they can join
in on the experience for afraction of the cost.
Now, of course, they're notgoing to get everything like the
anthology, but I still wantedto grant people who may have
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never written before, who wantedto start their writing journey,
or people who just really wantto touch lives and uplift people
and just give inspiration.
I feel like everybody deservesthat opportunity, no matter
their financial status, and sothat was my reason.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Amen, that's what's up.
That's what's up.
I really love it and you'redoing an amazing job.
That's pretty awesome For youto juggle being a wife and a
mother.
What makes this challenging foryou?
Do all the aspects and all theprojects that you got going on.
What is the most challengingfor you?
Speaker 3 (09:10):
to get everything completed by a certain deadline
well, the deadline is not anissue because I have dominion.
So when you have dominion overstuff and you, you, you, you, so
to speak, you know, god put youin position to say you know
what, I could push this day backif I want to.
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So I don't think it's more soof the deadline, but I will say
it's challenging in the aspectof being a wife and a mother.
Um, because it's only so manyhours in a day.
I wish, wish I could double thetime in a day, but I just
cannot.
So I try my best to set aschedule and be firm in that
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schedule and be firm in my worktime.
So, as much as I really trulyadore every single woman in this
project I have a personalconnection with every single
person in this project I stillhave to know my boundaries, set
my boundaries and be firm in myboundaries, because if I don't,
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that takes away time for mychildren, it takes away time for
my husband and my family and,like you said, other projects
that are going along with this.
So I have other things that Icannot speak about at this
moment, but big, huge thingsthat I'm working on, and all of
it, you know, goes under thewomen of the waiting room
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umbrella.
So you know, if I got somebodythat needs to speak with me, if
it's dealing with anything withthe anthology, they have to wait
until the next day.
So I try to be as fair as Ipossibly can, while still
maintaining my boundaries, butstill be empathetic to people in
the process in the process.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Amen, amen.
That's beautiful.
That's beautiful.
What?
What really truly inspire youto even become an author and a
creator?
And all the aspects that yougot going on, like what really
truly inspire you to get to thispoint you know what Shade God
gives us oil, right?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
he gives us a certain amount of talent and gifts and
blessings and I've always been acreative.
Since I came out the womb, I'vealways been drawing, I've
always been writing, I've alwaysbeen doing poetry, I've always
been just a creative singing,dancing, all of those things
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modeling I just have designing,interior design, fashion.
I've always been evolved andkind of engulfed in creativity
and art and that started, youknow, like I said, coming out of
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the womb.
So starting the Arthur journeyactually happened, I want to say
almost a year ago.
A little over a year ago, Meand my husband were, um, it was,
it was during covid and we hadjust shut down my, my shop.
I had a, um, a boutique where Idid mink lashes and I did cryo
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skin services and nails and, uh,it was one of the top ranked um
, uh, beauty salons in Oswego,illinois.
You can Google it ClassyDefined LLC.
C-l-a-s-s-e-d-e-f-i-n-e-d-l-l-c.
If you Google that, you willsee that I was one of the
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top-ranked businesses in Oswego.
I've won multiple grants fromnot just Oswego but Aurora and
Montgomery as well.
I've always just, you know hadthat aspect.
But anyway, covid got shut down,me and my husband were having
some alone time on the couch, hewas playing his video game.
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I was on my phone, but we werekind of like kicking it, you
know like Netflix and chill typeof thing.
And I was scrolling throughFacebook and I saw an ad from
Bookly for a 21 day poetrychallenge.
Well, I write.
My husband is an exquisitewriter and poet and we've always
had that in common and it wasactually one of our goals.
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That was on our.
Our vision board was, you know,to publish a book.
And I was like, oh look, theygot this thing, this 21-day
challenge.
We pay $50 for 21 days, wewrite poetry and they'll publish
it, you know, just for the $50.
And so we got involved withthat From that birth, it Can't
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Always Be Night, which isavailable on Amazon and all
platforms e-book, paper book,available everywhere.
It Can't Always Be Night PoeticMemoirs of a Grown Girl and I
took the poetry that I'vewritten from fifth grade all the
way up to like right aftercollege, and I merged it all
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into that book and it just itwent viral.
It was just like crazy.
I ended up on all type ofpodcasts, all type of platforms
and, um, I I credit some of thatum, I was in magazines and I
credit credit that to God first.
To God be all the glory.
But God introduced me toLaquita Parks and Laquita Parks
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introduced me to the Book Slamand another group that was on
Facebook.
But the Book Slam is where I metall of the women in the waiting
room.
It's where I met you know meand Laquita.
We connected through the BookSlam Me and Melanie me and
Carolyn me.
And know me and Laquita, weconnected through the book slam
Me and Melanie me and Carolyn meand Audrey me and Teresa.
We all connected, dr Velma, weall connected through the book
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slam.
And the book slam on Clubhousewas actually co-hosted by
Laquita Parks and Indy Brennan,and they had this group on there
, this clubhouse, so to speak,where authors would come on and
they would read excerpts fromtheir work, and that just
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created a firestorm in me andjust made me want to write even
more, and so that's how I gotstarted with that.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Amen.
That's what's up.
That's pretty, that's prettydope.
I dig it, I dig it, I dig it.
So this is a two-parter.
What makes faith hard for youin the things that you have
going on?
Does it make it hard for you oror not?
And what Bible character do yourelate to the most that fits
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you in this reality now, eventhough you know your faith is
strong and you have your beliefin God and things like that,
what is those two things thatyou can put in place and relate
to from the biblical aspect?
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Faith is never hard for me, because, because, um,
through everything that I gothrough, I may panic sometimes,
but I never lose my faith.
Um, my faith has always beenwith me and that's what's got me
to where I am now.
Um, and as far as, uh, biblicalcharacters, I actually relate
to quite a few, but my favoriteone that I always say that I
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relate to is Ruth, and thereason why I say Ruth is because
my husband is my Boaz.
I, you know, lost love.
I, you know, lost love.
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I, you know, am one of thosewomen that's always been a
working woman, ready to get iton my own, do what I feel I need
to do in order to not justsurvive, but just, you know, do
my mother-in-law.
I'm in tune with family, withpurpose, with just integrity in
general, and I always want to bebetter than I was yesterday.
So Ruth, to me, embodied that,and she was never afraid to get
her hands dirty.
So when my husband found me sowhen my husband found me, I was
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working.
I was working three jobs.
I was a single mom.
I was actually single for fouryears before we got married,
before we got serious enough toget married.
I was single for four years Iwas a single mom.
I was working three jobs withno car, in the wintertime in
Chicago and I had to walk towork.
I had to get on the bus to theother two jobs and I was really
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just working jobs to pay for ababysitter for my son, to work a
job.
But I did what I had to do inorder to survive.
But everything that I did, Idid with integrity, with
morality, and I stayed focusedon the goal at hand, which at
that time was taking care of myson.
So when he met me, I wasworking.
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When we got married, I wasworking and today I'm still
working.
That's what really gave himlike I just want her to be a
woman, you know, like not takeon so much.
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Of course he doesn't mind meworking, you know.
I don't think that.
You know, because you have somemen who my wife can't work,
he's not like that, and even ifhe is, I'm one of them.
People like who said I can'twork, he's not like that, and
even if he is, I'm one of them.
People like who said I can'tI'm one of those, but I'm just
like a strong, independent womanand that's why I feel Ruth was
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Another character in the Biblethat I feel I may relate to is
Esther, because Esther was neverafraid.
She knew that she had to saveher people, and she knew the
only way she was going to beable to do that was to go
through those doors and talk tothe king and get up in his face
and tell him what needed to bedone.
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And I'm one of those people.
I'm not scared, I walk in mytruth, I walk in faith, and I'm
not going to walk up in nobody'splace with no shambled clothes
on.
I'm going to put on my bestevery time I step out my royal
robe, just like Esther.
And so those are the two that Ifeel I relate to.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Amen, amen.
That's what's up.
That's what's up, I dig it, Idig it, I dig it.
What is one song that speaks toyour heart, that gets you
motivated and gets your creativejuices flowing, for you to get
the thoughts down from pen topaper.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Oh, that was a good question, because you know I
love music.
Um, it just depends on the moodI'm in.
Um, it depends on what I'mwriting about.
It depends on where my mindsetis at.
Um, if I'm writing poetry, um,I will listen to nikki giovanni,
uh, which I know is poetry, butstill it's in the musical
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aspect.
So I'll Google some NikkiGiovanni or some Maya Angelou or
you know, I'll play some ofthose things.
If I'm in like a love, likewriting about love, or something
like that, I'll play what Ijust played, which is Ashby
Prayed For.
I'll play Soft R&B, neo SoulI'll play.
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If I'm trying to be upliftedand encouraged, I will play
Tasha Cobbs.
Or I will play Marvin Sapp, oneof my favorites.
I will play Hezekiah Walker.
I will play Zachary, I willplay someone who's in my married
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side of my family I can't thinkof his name right now and then
I also play Travis Green.
So I have a few people.
Girl, I like music.
Girl, check my resume A lot.
I can't even.
It's so many different type ofpeople.
I'm just a music lover ingeneral.
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So I'll play anything.
Basically that it depends onwhat emotions.
If I'm in the knock, if youbuck mode, I'll play Nicki Minaj
or Three 6 Mafia or Project Pat, it just depends it depends on
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the mood.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
I'll play, p play.
Uh, it don't matter, it justdepends on the mood, I guess.
Oh, that's funny, gee, I lovemusic too.
That's funny, that's true.
Music saved my life.
So, um, who then?
Who back then and now inspireyou to be the better person you
are today?
Who truly inspired you and whodid you truly look up to?
Or staff in the school?
Speaker 3 (23:18):
So I would have to say I had a second grade teacher
, miss Barbara Keller.
Third grade teacher, who is myfriend on Facebook right now,
robbie McLaurin.
Fourth grade teacher, lawandaMiles.
Fifth grade teacher, nonethiZell Joyner, who actually
inspired me to become a writer.
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She was actually the reason Iwrote my first poem, because I
was mad at her and it was a hatepoem, but still she told me it
was good and that I should writeum.
Sixth grade teacher, um, whoended up taking me in as a
foster child, and um was my momuntil the day she passed and a
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grandmother to my child when Ididn't have one.
Sharon Sharon Moore.
Seventh grade, ms Beverly Love,rest in peace.
Eighth grade, ms Goodloe.
I can go on and on.
All the women my principal at myhigh school, barbara Hall, emma
Norris, dean Davis, miss Smith,who was the disciplinarian.
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It was just so many differentpeople who inspired me to just
be a better person back thenwhile I was in foster care.
Angela Jones was a caseworker,angela Jones was a caseworker,
aisha Davis was a caseworker,malia Arnett, who was the queen
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of parks, audrey and carolyncoleman is a very, very good
friend of mine.
Um, theresa dorsey, melaniejohnson, just all my people.
My people will always be mypeople.
Um, once you, you know, I builda bond with somebody, those are
my people.
My mother-in-law, patricia Cox,my cousin in marriage, yvette
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she's a really, reallyinspirational person.
My sister, my blood sister, mybloodline, darcelle Didi I talk
to her every day.
My oldest sister, I look up toher so much.
She does not have children, butI'm her child, you know, and
she raised me through fostercare, through going from group
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home to group home.
She's always still been therefor me.
It's not a time that I can callher and she won't come.
So those are the people, just astrong foundation of black
women, who have always beeninstrumental in my life.
Now that I go back and I thinkabout it.
My mom, who is still fightingthe demons, know, fighting that
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monkey off her back, but shestill never loses her faith in
god, no matter what obstacleshe's going through in her
addiction and in her fight tobecome who god wants her to be.
Um, she, she always speak veryhighly of god and she keeps them
rooted and I I think that's whyshe, I know, that's why she's
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still covered today.
Her name is Chyna, mygrandmother.
Now that I think about it.
She's born in 1923, fannie Bellrest in peace.
She's born in 1923.
So she was only had a secondgrade education.
So you know she was dealt thecard.
She was dealt with.
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She suffered from some mentaland physical and emotional abuse
that may have caused her to actin certain ways and have
certain characteristics that Ididn't think were right growing
up, in the way that she treatedus as children I didn't think
were right growing up and theway that she treated us as
children.
But I've learned that you knowyou cannot fault people for
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generational cycles and hamsterwheels that they are on.
We have to learn to meet peoplewhere they are, be empathetic
to the surroundings and the waythat they grew up, because that
may be all they know.
Every person who is an adulthad to grow up, had to become a
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child first, and the behaviorthat they exhibit as adults is
learned behavior.
So they had to learn it fromsomewhere.
So I try to use that as areason and a way to forgive.
But even through everything, shehad 14 boys, one girl.
She was raped, she was beat,she was abused, but she still
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raised all 14 boys and one girland she did it without
complaining and she loved allher kids and she loved them
equally and no matter what theydid, wrong or right, she was
down for her kids.
She may pull them to the sideand tell them they wrong, but in
front of everybody else, youknow she, she was behind her
kids, whatever decision theymade, and that's what I think I
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get my loyalty from.
She was just an all aroundgenuine good hearted person.
She fed people on the street.
She, she wasn't a snitch whenit came to the gangbangers.
She was cool with everybody andeverybody loved her and they
and I think I get that spiritfrom her.
So, yeah, fanny bell,definitely, definitely the og
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and and that's probably mynumber one, amen, amen.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
That's a powerful, powerful testimony and that's
pretty awesome to have a strongsupport system.
We definitely need that, youknow, and many challenges that
we have.
Um, also, when did your lifechange for the better and why?
What pulled you to thedirection to be the gifted
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person?
I know you've been gifted allyour life, but what made it turn
for the better?
Speaker 3 (29:42):
when I had my son Jaden.
Jaden saved my life.
Without going into full detailabout my story in the anthology,
I was at a very, very low pointin my life in the year 2010 and
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I was going through, uh, abusein my relationship and all the
relationships that I've had, um,but specifically this one and I
was on a downward spiralmentally and, um, I wanted to
give up and I acted out on thatand found out I was pregnant.
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And well, I knew I was pregnantwhen I acted out on it, but it
slipped my mind because I wasgoing through so much mentally
and emotionally in that toxicenvironment and in that toxic
relationship.
But once I realized the depthof what I was doing and I
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realized like, oh, no, girl,you're pregnant.
It just it.
God woke me up.
God woke me up when I should.
What I did to myself, what Idid to myself, I should not have
waken up.
And God woke me up and thatchanged my perspective on a lot
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of the decisions that I made,every decision that I made from
2010 up until today.
I make, for I think about mychildren and my husband now in
every single thing that I do andif it's not going to benefit
them in any way, then it's notsomething that I'm willing to
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partake on.
And when I say benefit them, itdoesn't have to be material or
money or those type of things,but if I'm not sane I can't be
there for them.
So if it's going to be materialor money or those type of
things, but if I'm not sane Ican't be there for them.
So if it's going to be anythingthat's going to cause me stress
, anxiety, depression, it has toget out of my spirit and that's
something that only God cangive me is peace.
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But God also gives us dominionto make those decisions for
ourselves.
So if we choose peace, then weknow that God gives us dominion
over our lives.
So if we, if we are having anytype of chaos or confusion or
any type of drama in our lives,that's because we allow that
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door to be open.
We cannot open Pandora's boxand, in the words of the famous
Nene Lee, the door is closed.
For that in my life and I giveall glory to God for that
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changed my life and I found mypurpose.
Just within this year, doingmotivational speakings, you know
, going on different podcasts orTV shows and just seeing the
reaction of the people who areinboxing me or just being on
social media, just, you know,writing encouraging words to not
lift other, just uplift otherpeople.
But a lot of times those areaffirmations that I'm giving to
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myself.
That is something that I'm nothearing from somebody, that I
may need to hear from myself, orsome things that I may want God
to speak to me that I'm nothearing anywhere else.
So if I know, if I'm having abad day, I'll put something out
in the world that's positive, soit can come back to me a
hundredfold.
And those are the things thatopen the segue into my mind to
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start embracing my worth,embracing my talent and using
those things as the oil that Godgave me in order to walk into
my purpose.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
Amen, hallelujah, that's what I'm talking about.
Beautiful, beautiful.
What is a comfort item you haveas a child and as an adult
right now?
Speaker 3 (34:06):
I wouldn't necessarily say that I have a
comfort item.
I don't have a comfort item.
I have a comfort food.
The comfort food that I had asa child would probably, to be
honest with you, rice pudding,rice pudding.
My grandmother used to make thebest rice puddings.
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I would probably say ricepudding as a child, um, and to
this day I love rice or anythingstarch.
Um, today I will probably saymy comfort item right now will
be my heated blanket, and itwill also be a good book.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
Yeah, so my Heated Blanket and a good book, that's
pretty good.
Oh my God, that brought backsome memories.
Describe your favorite quietspiritual place and tell me why
it's your favorite place for youto get to a point where you
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will separate yourself fromfamily, to kind of collect
yourself.
If that's something you do, ifyou do have a quiet, favorite
spiritual place in your home um.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
I'd rather not, but I will say that within that quiet
space I am able to reflect onGod's word.
You know, my family gives methat time and space alone and
I'm able to either write, create, read, talk on the phone.
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Just give me my little Zen area.
But my war room is between meand God, respectfully.
It's just certain things youdon't let the enemy know, and
you never know who's going tolisten to this, or you know
who's listening now and youdon't want to.
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You never, and I'm going totell you that as well, and
anybody who's listening neverlet nobody know where your war
room is in your house.
Your war room is yours andyours alone, because you do not
want demonic forces.
Even though you covered injesus name, you still don't open
that door and let people knowwhere your war room is located.
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So I will take it to the grave,honey on that one respect,
respect.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
That's very true and understandable, very, very true,
um, for if you ever was nervous, or if you were nervous at any
point, what do you do as anicebreaker to kind of get you
back on balance so you arecomfortable to speak to people?
What is the icebreaker?
Speaker 3 (37:07):
I never.
You know, nervous is not reallyin my forte.
If I do start off nervous, Ialways start off with a joke or
a prayer.
So, like on this platform, Ican never be nervous because my
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icebreaker is always the walk-inmusic.
So I come in with good vibes,positive vibes, good music.
We always start off with prayer.
So prayer is always, always,always going to be an icebreaker
for me, or an upliftingscripture be an icebreaker for
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me, or an uplifting scripture,something to calm the room, ease
the room, or something to pumpit up and get it motivated,
depending on your audience.
You have to know your audience.
So if I go into a church, Ican't play um, nervous, you know
not give you book, am I 14?
Or um, uh, pretty, with nomakeup or something to get the
party jumping right.
But if I go into a room ofgirls between the ages, of 12
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and 20, then I can play thatmusic.
But if I go into a church it'slike you have to know your
audience and it's not likeyou're good.
A lot of people say, oh, that'straveling, positive vibes, good
music.
I think you have to meet peoplewhere they're at.
We always start off with prayer.
Speaker 4 (38:33):
And this is just my personal belief.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
You have to meet people where they're at, show
them that you connect with them.
Calm the room and then youbring them, you know, or
something to pump it up and getit motivated.
See, little by little, you haveto bring them to Christ.
If I go into a church, I can'tplay.
If I go to church, myicebreaker would be a spiritual
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song or a Bible verse or wordsof encouragement.
If I'm speaking at a school,it's going to be some music that
they would listen to, Of courseno explicit music, but you give
what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
If it's a row, to be the music that they would listen
to between the ages of 12 and20.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
If it's a rowdy crowd like a women's prison or
something, or if I'm going toplay something that's
motivational but still upbeatgorgeous.
I'm going to come in.
I think you have to meet peoplewhere they're at, and this is
just my own personal belief.
You have to meet people wherethey're at set the tone of how
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you want the rest of yourspeaking engagement to go.
So if you start, out rowdy,you've got to stay rowdy all the
way to the end.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
If you start out smooth, you've got to stay
smooth, and that's just my modeand depending on what message
you're trying to send.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
So icebreakers are.
If I go to church, myicebreaker would be a church
song or a Bible verse or wordsof encouragement, if you can
have an endless supply ofanything in the world that God
will bless you with.
What would you do with theendless supply and how would you
?
contribute and give back prisonor something I'm gonna play,
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something that's um motivationalbut still applies, just um
immediately reading up every day, and I'm trying to learn more
and more every day.
I'm going there, going thebible, you're speaking
engagement or I'm on my phone,so if you start, out around you.
Gotta stay rowdy all the way tothe kind of make it through my
start off smooth.
So I feel like if I had anendless supply of the knowledge
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and depending on what messageyou're trying to see of that and
just give it to people.
Take a little piece of thatlife.
Amen, I believe that that'strue.
Speaker 4 (40:41):
That's what I would pray for if for endless
knowledge of the word supply ofanything in the world that god
will bless you, what would youdo?
And how would you contributeand give back?
Speaker 3 (40:56):
oh my god, one one thing if I had an endless reply
that what is your mostcontribute to the world?
Speaker 4 (41:03):
it would definitely be knowledge of the word, and
you're so consistent on everyday.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
I'm trying to learn more and more.
Every day I go in there, go inthe Bible and I'm reading or I'm
on my phone and I'm looking upeverybody that I come across
with.
So I feel like if I had anendless supply of the knowledge
and I could just take a piece ofthat and just give it to people
for anybody that.
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I meet.
That's what I would pray for.
Even though a lot of people maynot want to see me win the same
way I want to see them, I thinkthat's one of my most positive
actions.
That I have is my consistentloyalty.
That I have is my one thing isloyalty.
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And what is your most positive,unique habit that you have in
yourself?
I have a habit of beingempathetic and caring and
nurturing to everybody that Icome across with, and empathetic
and um, if an opportunity waspresented to you based on your
true, wonderful and amazingtestimony.
Speaker 4 (42:13):
What would the title of your movie be, if that ever?
Speaker 3 (42:17):
came to play or came to pass.
For anybody that I meet, I wantto see everybody.
I've already written that book.
Even though a lot of people maynot want to see me, I want to
see them 64 days.
I think that's one of them as abestseller on.
Amazon.
Mountains can't rise withoutearth is my memoirs of a grown
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girl.
Um, it has already been uh Ithink that that that pretty much
sums it up.
Speaker 4 (42:54):
Okay, okay, that's what's up.
That's what's up, and if that'san opportunity for you to look
like as a celebrity, to playyour part.
Wonderful and amazing testimony.
What would the title of yourmovie be if that ever?
Speaker 3 (43:09):
came to play, or came to, don't we?
Kravitz will have to play mehands down, and it's not that.
Um, I think that I've alreadyread that book, best-selling
memoir, that uh 200, and well, Iknow 64 days today and um on
amazon and you know as abestseller on Amazon Mountain
Camp.
I have been through it In mymemoirs of a grown girl.
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It has already been, thetrailer has already been
televised and I am in works tomaking that a movie, okay okay,
that's what's up.
Speaker 4 (43:43):
That's what's up, okay.
Okay, that's what's up.
That's what's up.
And if that did happen, you hadto do something.
You look like as a celebrity toplay your part to go to help
give and to share the knowledge,to people, don't be crabby.
Speaker 3 (44:02):
What has to play me?
That we have hands down, andit's not that I think that she
looks like me.
I would go to, but I just thinkthat, um, my heart, really, why
no haiti from her story?
Speaker 4 (44:14):
for a number of reasons you know.
Speaker 3 (44:15):
Watch the interviews um that she's been.
I will go to haiti that I havebeen.
Um, a lot of people are in mylife and I think that you know a
lot of people go to dubai.
They go to these differentplaces and I would definitely
choose, but I would go to Haiti,okay okay, that's what's up.
Speaker 4 (44:38):
If there was a time that you had to understand, what
part of the world would you beable to go to?
Thank you for sharing as welland to share the knowledge to
people that can't get the accessthat we have.
Speaker 3 (44:55):
You better wrap this show up.
I will go to.
Speaker 4 (44:59):
Haiti.
Speaker 3 (45:00):
Thank you, guys, for coming on tonight.
Speaker 4 (45:03):
My heart really aches for Haiti.
Thank you.
For a number of reasons, I'msorry.
Thank you, guys, for coming andvisiting with us tonight.
Speaker 3 (45:11):
And thank you, my sister, for sharing wonderful
people testimony.
Speaker 4 (45:15):
You're a beautiful person inside and out.
Speaker 3 (45:17):
I thank you for this opportunity to be your guest
host tonight and I appreciateeverything that you're doing
with all the sisters that are apart of the projects that are
going on.
Speaker 4 (45:28):
that's going to happen this year.
Thank you so much for thisopportunity tonight.
All right, my sister, I'm doneasking you some beautiful
questions.
Thank you for answering.
Thank you for sharing as well.
Speaker 3 (45:39):
Thank you for interviewing the queen of
questions.
You had some great questions.
That's not how you're going towrap up this show.
You better wrap this show up.
You are an amazing talent.
You have so much potential.
I see you doing so many greatthings.
Speaker 4 (45:55):
And I'm super proud of Everything that you have
already accomplished and I lookforward to.
Speaker 3 (46:00):
Seeing what you have going on in the future.
Speaker 4 (46:04):
I want you to.
Leave us out of prayer and thentell me what's on.
We're playing out and Iappreciate everything that
you're doing with all thesisters that are a part of the
project.
Speaker 3 (46:18):
We can do toxic.
Speaker 4 (46:21):
So thank you so much for this opportunity tonight.
Speaker 3 (46:26):
All right and I want to thank you as well for coming.
Thank you for this moment,thank you for this interview
tonight I thank you for all thepeople that bring in to listen.
Speaker 4 (46:35):
Um, thank you, thank you for your wonderful testimony
, your beautiful spirit, amazingperson every father, um, I
thank you for her so muchpotential and I'm so grateful to
have you doing so many greatthings today and I'm so proud of
everything that you havealready accomplished.
Speaker 3 (46:52):
And I look forward to seeing what you have going on
in the future.
I want you to lead us out inprayer and then tell me what
song we're playing out.
Speaker 4 (47:04):
And then lead us out in prayer.
Land out and then lead us outin prayer, the gift that you
instored in me to create andwrite and give back and be
gifted, and I'm so thankful.
Speaker 2 (47:12):
Lord for this moment.
Speaker 4 (47:14):
I'm thankful for this time that you gave us mercy and
grace to do it better than whatwe did yesterday.
Speaker 2 (47:21):
Today, we have to focus on the now because, just
like with Jesse, we can'tcontrol anything that is out of
our hands right now.
Listen, Thank you, Jackie, foryour wonderful testimony and our
beautiful spirit a beautifulperson.
Speaker 4 (47:34):
And Father I thank you for her hand and her mind,
that you anointed her with thegift to create and write and to
push us down from the hurt thatshe left us in our life, and
that you blessed our home andcomforted us throughout the
night.
And every aspect and every areaof the life home and comforted
us throughout the night.
Speaker 3 (47:52):
And every aspect and every area of the life and what
we will be doing today, fatheryou are the Alpha, you are the
Omega, you are the beginning.
Speaker 4 (47:58):
You are the King of Kings and you are the Lord of
Lords.
You are the author of our lives.
Speaker 3 (48:03):
We would not take the pen out of my hand Because you
are still writing for this time,that you not take the pen out
of my hand because you are stillwriting for this time You're
still writing my mercy and grace.
Speaker 4 (48:10):
You do it better than what we did.
Jesus' mighty name, amen.
Today we have to focus on thenow, because yesterday was
yesterday.
We can't control anything thatis out of our hands right now,
father, and I am so thankful forthis moment and this
opportunity and all thewonderful people that are on the
line tonight.
Speaker 3 (48:27):
I ask you to cover us with joy peace, Linda.
Linda, we have covered up.
On May 1st we have MelanieJohnson.
Speaker 4 (48:36):
On May 2nd we have Elena Maria.
And on May 7th we have MissLizzie Park.
Speaker 3 (48:41):
All coming in to take over.
Speaker 4 (48:44):
And that's the queen of questions.
And guess what?
I'm ready, you guys.
This has been a great great,great evening a great interview.
And I just want to tell Ms Sadeagain, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (49:01):
I appreciate you, god bless you and we're going to
head out with Tasha Cobbs.
And on that note, I want to saythank you all for tuning in to
this edition of the Women of theWaiting Room.
Take over, listen, linda.
We have coming up on May 1st,we have Melanie Johnson, on May
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2nd we have Elena Maria and onMay 7th we have Ms Laquita Parks
all coming in to take over andask the queen of questions some
questions and guess what?
I'm ready.
You guys, this has been a great, great, great evening, a great
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interview, and I just want totell Ms Sade again thank you so
much, I appreciate you, godbless you and we're going to
head out with Tasha Cobbs.
Have a great evening, guys.
Speaker 1 (50:02):
You surround me with a song.
Speaker 2 (50:11):
Of the enemy, of my enemy.
I'm no longer a slave to fear.
I'm no longer a slave to fear.
I'm no longer a slave to fear.
(50:36):
I am a child.
The little girl is calling myname.
I've been born again.
I'm in your family.
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I'm no longer a stranger Frommy mother's womb.
I'm a child.
Let's declare it together yourblood, your blood flows through
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my veins.
I'm no longer a slave to fear.
I am a child of the Father'shand.
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I'm no longer a slave to fear.
I am a child of God.
(52:33):
You're my family.
I've been wanting you.
You're my family.
You're my family.
You blow my face.
I know I'm saying it's a tearto the heart, but I feel like
(52:54):
I'm missing some child.
I know you're saying it's atear to the heart, but I feel
(53:21):
like I'm missing some child.
Thank you, I can fall.
I can fall.
My fears are drowned indarkness.
You rescued me.
You rescued me so I can stand.
Don't you have the seeds so Ican fall?
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You saved the seeds.
I feel the sea so high.
I feel the sea so high.
I feel the sea so high.
I feel the sea so high.
I feel the sea so high.
(54:08):
You rescued me so I can stayand I'm safe.
You rescued me.
You split the sea so I can goand I'm safe.
My dreams are dreaming.
I'm safe.
You rescued me so I can stay.
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And I'm here to help you.
You rescued me so I can stay.
I'm here to help you.
You rescued me so I can stay.
I'm here to help you.
You rescued me so I can stay.
I'm here to help you.
You rescued me so I can stay.
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I'm trying to find my love.
I know who I am.
I know who I am.
I know who I am.
I know who I am.
I know who I am.
I know who I am.
I am a love.
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I am a love.
I am a love.
I'm trying to find my love.
I'm trying to find my love.
I'm trying to find my love.
I am a child of God.
If you know who you are, justlift your voices in this room
and scream a praise to Jesus.
I am a child of God.
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I am, I'm shown, I'm gone.
I am.
I know who I am.
I know who I am.
I know who I am.
Hey, I am, I'm shown, I'm gone.
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I am a child again.
Oh my God, no-transcript.
We require certain things, and that's what I pray
for.
So that's what I wait for, DearGod, can we?
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Waitin' on a man that I prayedfor, not rushin' with no man.
That wasn't made for me.
See, this love, we have gottabe tailored.
Ain't wishing with no man.
That ain't no fit for me.
Do you pray, cause I pray?
You want kids.
I want names.
Are you faithful?
Oh yeah, tell me, can you standand reign you a king?
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I'm a queen.
We require certain things, andthat's what I pray for.
So that's what I wait for.
Dear God, come when you'resinning.
I'm gon' be ready.
Dear God, you do this for me.
I won't forget it.
My heart, I've been through somuch and I just wanna feel your
love for once.
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And, dear God, I hope he'shappy already here, but if it's
in me, I know he is, I know hewill.
Dear God, that's what I prayfor.
So that's what I wait for, andI vow to be everything you need,
share my life with you, on theright, with you, and I promise
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to support all your dreams, butI gotta know that you were made
for me.
Do you pray, cause I pray?
You want kids, I want eight.
Are you faithful?
Oh wait, tell me, can you standand reign you a king?
I'm a queen.
We require certain things, andthat's what I pray for, so
that's what I wait for.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
That's what I pray for.
That's what I wait for.
Dear God, I'm your sinner.
That's what I pray for.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
That's what I wait for, dear God.
You're missing me.
I won't regret it.
Dear God, you do this for me.
I won't forget it.
My heart brings you so much andI just wanna feel your love for
once.
Feel your love for once and,dear God, I hope he's happy
Already here with you.
I know he is.
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I know he's happy already here.
I know he is, I know he will.
Dear God, dear God, that's whatI pray for.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
So that's what I wait for yes, that was miss ashby,
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with pray, for today, I amactually going to be the one
being interviewed by one of myfavorite authors.
Her name is Sade Boyd.
How are you, sade?
I am great.
How are you?
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Beautiful lady?
I'm good.
I'm good.
I'm a little nervous.
I'm a little nervous because Idon't like being questioned.
I feel like I'm beinginterrogated, you know, and I
ain't been in that situationvery long time.
However, I am super excited.
If you guys do not know, sade isone of the co-authors for my
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newest anthology project.
She's actually in thedevotional of that project and
it's called Listen.
Linda Presents the Women of theWaiting Room Surgery for your
Soul Devotional, and I have beenblessed with over 30 amazing
women to be a part of thisdevotional, as well as a
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separate well, actually, themother of the whole project,
which is Women of the WaitingRoom Serving for your Soul
Anthology, which I have my Fab 7in, and we all just came
together and this project isamazing and I'm so, so grateful
to have Sade back on.
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If you guys do not remember,she was one of the featured
authors on the birthday bashthat we had here.
So how are you today?
Speaker 4 (04:39):
I'm great, I'm great.
Another beautiful'm great.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Another beautiful day , all right, so you ready for
these to question me?
Sure, sure, let's get right toit, but before we do, I want you
to lead in prayer, because youknow how I do.
So I want you to lead in prayer, and then you can get right to
it.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
All right.
Dear Heavenly Father, I thankyou for this moment for us to
fellowship and speak aboutpositivity.
Father, I thank you for givingus another day to do over and do
better than what we've doneyesterday.
Father, I'm thankful for thissister right here, a beautiful
wife, a mother, a successfulentrepreneur and wonderful
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author.
I am thankful to be a part ofthis journey with her, with my
sister.
Heavenly Father, anythingthat's not of you, I ask you to
remove it in the name of Jesus.
But anything that is of you,father, help me to gain the
wisdom and knowledge to speak onwhat we are doing here today In
Jesus' mighty name.
Amen.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Amen, amen.
So let's get right to thequestions, girl so the question
for I have for you is what madeyou start know um dealing with a
lot of women can be challengeddealing with a lot of people can
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be challenging, especially fora creative um like myself, who's
also an introvert, right, likeI love people, I love speaking
with people, I love dealing withpeople, but I like to do it,
you know, one at a time.
So this has been something thatI wanted to do, but I really
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didn't want to take on thatchallenge.
But you know, when we can'tgrow, if the the place that
we're trying to grow is not iscomfortable, right.
So we have to step outside ourboundaries a lot, and I first,
um, like I said, I came up withthe idea for the anthology, but
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God gave me the vision to do theanthology and I had my seven,
you, my fab seven, and we wasgoing with it and I was like,
okay, cool.
But then I actually got a callfrom Dr Velma, like you should
do a devotional, and you know Ihad already had a plethora of
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women who wanted to be a part ofthis project, but I shut the
door at seven because I was like, okay, seven is the number of
completion, right.
And God put it on my spirit tojust use those seven women.
However, it was just tugging atmy heart because it was like,
okay, a lot of these people wantthese women, want their voices
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heard as well, and they all haveamazing stories.
But a lot of people may not beable financially, you know, to
be able to afford to be in thethe magnitude of what the
anthology entail.
So I decided I'll just sow aseed and do 10 percent of what
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what the other women pay for theanthology and give everybody a
chance.
You know just a small excerptthat maybe they can do when they
can tell their story, they canuplift others and they can join
in on the experience for afraction of the cost.
Now, of course, they're notgoing to get everything like the
anthology, but I still wantedto grant people who may have
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never written before, who wantedto start their writing journey,
or people who just really wantto touch lives and uplift people
and just give inspiration.
I feel like everybody deservesthat opportunity, no matter
their financial status, and sothat was my reason.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Amen, that's what's up.
That's what's up.
I really love it and you'redoing an amazing job.
That's pretty awesome For youto juggle being a wife and a
mother.
What makes this challenging foryou?
Do all the aspects and all theprojects that you got going on.
What is the most challengingfor you?
Speaker 3 (09:10):
to get everything completed by a certain deadline
well, the deadline is not anissue because I have dominion.
So when you have dominion overstuff and you, you, you, you, so
to speak, you know, god put youin position to say you know
what, I could push this day backif I want to.
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So I don't think it's more soof the deadline, but I will say
it's challenging in the aspectof being a wife and a mother.
Um, because it's only so manyhours in a day.
I wish, wish I could double thetime in a day, but I just
cannot.
So I try my best to set aschedule and be firm in that
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schedule and be firm in my worktime.
So, as much as I really trulyadore every single woman in this
project I have a personalconnection with every single
person in this project I stillhave to know my boundaries, set
my boundaries and be firm in myboundaries, because if I don't,
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that takes away time for mychildren, it takes away time for
my husband and my family and,like you said, other projects
that are going along with this.
So I have other things that Icannot speak about at this
moment, but big, huge thingsthat I'm working on, and all of
it, you know, goes under thewomen of the waiting room
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umbrella.
So you know, if I got somebodythat needs to speak with me, if
it's dealing with anything withthe anthology, they have to wait
until the next day.
So I try to be as fair as Ipossibly can, while still
maintaining my boundaries, butstill be empathetic to people in
the process in the process.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Amen, amen.
That's beautiful.
That's beautiful.
What?
What really truly inspire youto even become an author and a
creator?
And all the aspects that yougot going on, like what really
truly inspire you to get to thispoint you know what Shade God
gives us oil, right?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
he gives us a certain amount of talent and gifts and
blessings and I've always been acreative.
Since I came out the womb, I'vealways been drawing, I've
always been writing, I've alwaysbeen doing poetry, I've always
been just a creative singing,dancing, all of those things
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modeling I just have designing,interior design, fashion.
I've always been evolved andkind of engulfed in creativity
and art and that started, youknow, like I said, coming out of
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the womb.
So starting the Arthur journeyactually happened, I want to say
almost a year ago.
A little over a year ago, Meand my husband were, um, it was,
it was during covid and we hadjust shut down my, my shop.
I had a, um, a boutique where Idid mink lashes and I did cryo
(12:39):
skin services and nails and, uh,it was one of the top ranked um
, uh, beauty salons in Oswego,illinois.
You can Google it ClassyDefined LLC.
C-l-a-s-s-e-d-e-f-i-n-e-d-l-l-c.
If you Google that, you willsee that I was one of the
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top-ranked businesses in Oswego.
I've won multiple grants fromnot just Oswego but Aurora and
Montgomery as well.
I've always just, you know hadthat aspect.
But anyway, covid got shut down,me and my husband were having
some alone time on the couch, hewas playing his video game.
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I was on my phone, but we werekind of like kicking it, you
know like Netflix and chill typeof thing.
And I was scrolling throughFacebook and I saw an ad from
Bookly for a 21 day poetrychallenge.
Well, I write.
My husband is an exquisitewriter and poet and we've always
had that in common and it wasactually one of our goals.
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That was on our.
Our vision board was, you know,to publish a book.
And I was like, oh look, theygot this thing, this 21-day
challenge.
We pay $50 for 21 days, wewrite poetry and they'll publish
it, you know, just for the $50.
And so we got involved withthat From that birth, it Can't
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Always Be Night, which isavailable on Amazon and all
platforms e-book, paper book,available everywhere.
It Can't Always Be Night PoeticMemoirs of a Grown Girl and I
took the poetry that I'vewritten from fifth grade all the
way up to like right aftercollege, and I merged it all
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into that book and it just itwent viral.
It was just like crazy.
I ended up on all type ofpodcasts, all type of platforms
and, um, I I credit some of thatum, I was in magazines and I
credit credit that to God first.
To God be all the glory.
But God introduced me toLaquita Parks and Laquita Parks
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introduced me to the Book Slamand another group that was on
Facebook.
But the Book Slam is where I metall of the women in the waiting
room.
It's where I met you know meand Laquita.
We connected through the BookSlam Me and Melanie me and
Carolyn me.
And know me and Laquita, weconnected through the book slam
Me and Melanie me and Carolyn meand Audrey me and Teresa.
We all connected, dr Velma, weall connected through the book
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slam.
And the book slam on Clubhousewas actually co-hosted by
Laquita Parks and Indy Brennan,and they had this group on there
, this clubhouse, so to speak,where authors would come on and
they would read excerpts fromtheir work, and that just
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created a firestorm in me andjust made me want to write even
more, and so that's how I gotstarted with that.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Amen.
That's what's up.
That's pretty, that's prettydope.
I dig it, I dig it, I dig it.
So this is a two-parter.
What makes faith hard for youin the things that you have
going on?
Does it make it hard for you oror not?
And what Bible character do yourelate to the most that fits
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you in this reality now, eventhough you know your faith is
strong and you have your beliefin God and things like that,
what is those two things thatyou can put in place and relate
to from the biblical aspect?
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Faith is never hard for me, because, because, um,
through everything that I gothrough, I may panic sometimes,
but I never lose my faith.
Um, my faith has always beenwith me and that's what's got me
to where I am now.
Um, and as far as, uh, biblicalcharacters, I actually relate
to quite a few, but my favoriteone that I always say that I
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relate to is Ruth, and thereason why I say Ruth is because
my husband is my Boaz.
I, you know, lost love.
I, you know, lost love.
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I, you know, am one of thosewomen that's always been a
working woman, ready to get iton my own, do what I feel I need
to do in order to not justsurvive, but just, you know, do
my mother-in-law.
I'm in tune with family, withpurpose, with just integrity in
general, and I always want to bebetter than I was yesterday.
So Ruth, to me, embodied that,and she was never afraid to get
her hands dirty.
So when my husband found me sowhen my husband found me, I was
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working.
I was working three jobs.
I was a single mom.
I was actually single for fouryears before we got married,
before we got serious enough toget married.
I was single for four years Iwas a single mom.
I was working three jobs withno car, in the wintertime in
Chicago and I had to walk towork.
I had to get on the bus to theother two jobs and I was really
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just working jobs to pay for ababysitter for my son, to work a
job.
But I did what I had to do inorder to survive.
But everything that I did, Idid with integrity, with
morality, and I stayed focusedon the goal at hand, which at
that time was taking care of myson.
So when he met me, I wasworking.
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When we got married, I wasworking and today I'm still
working.
That's what really gave himlike I just want her to be a
woman, you know, like not takeon so much.
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Of course he doesn't mind meworking, you know.
I don't think that.
You know, because you have somemen who my wife can't work,
he's not like that, and even ifhe is, I'm one of them.
People like who said I can'twork, he's not like that, and
even if he is, I'm one of them.
People like who said I can'tI'm one of those, but I'm just
like a strong, independent womanand that's why I feel Ruth was
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Another character in the Biblethat I feel I may relate to is
Esther, because Esther was neverafraid.
She knew that she had to saveher people, and she knew the
only way she was going to beable to do that was to go
through those doors and talk tothe king and get up in his face
and tell him what needed to bedone.
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And I'm one of those people.
I'm not scared, I walk in mytruth, I walk in faith, and I'm
not going to walk up in nobody'splace with no shambled clothes
on.
I'm going to put on my bestevery time I step out my royal
robe, just like Esther.
And so those are the two that Ifeel I relate to.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Amen, amen.
That's what's up.
That's what's up, I dig it, Idig it, I dig it.
What is one song that speaks toyour heart, that gets you
motivated and gets your creativejuices flowing, for you to get
the thoughts down from pen topaper.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
Oh, that was a good question, because you know I
love music.
Um, it just depends on the moodI'm in.
Um, it depends on what I'mwriting about.
It depends on where my mindsetis at.
Um, if I'm writing poetry, um,I will listen to nikki giovanni,
uh, which I know is poetry, butstill it's in the musical
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aspect.
So I'll Google some NikkiGiovanni or some Maya Angelou or
you know, I'll play some ofthose things.
If I'm in like a love, likewriting about love, or something
like that, I'll play what Ijust played, which is Ashby
Prayed For.
I'll play Soft R&B, neo SoulI'll play.
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If I'm trying to be upliftedand encouraged, I will play
Tasha Cobbs.
Or I will play Marvin Sapp, oneof my favorites.
I will play Hezekiah Walker.
I will play Zachary, I willplay someone who's in my married
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side of my family I can't thinkof his name right now and then
I also play Travis Green.
So I have a few people.
Girl, I like music.
Girl, check my resume A lot.
I can't even.
It's so many different type ofpeople.
I'm just a music lover ingeneral.
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So I'll play anything.
Basically that it depends onwhat emotions.
If I'm in the knock, if youbuck mode, I'll play Nicki Minaj
or Three 6 Mafia or Project Pat, it just depends it depends on
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the mood.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
I'll play, p play.
Uh, it don't matter, it justdepends on the mood, I guess.
Oh, that's funny, gee, I lovemusic too.
That's funny, that's true.
Music saved my life.
So, um, who then?
Who back then and now inspireyou to be the better person you
are today?
Who truly inspired you and whodid you truly look up to?
Or staff in the school?
Speaker 3 (23:18):
So I would have to say I had a second grade teacher
, miss Barbara Keller.
Third grade teacher, who is myfriend on Facebook right now,
robbie McLaurin.
Fourth grade teacher, lawandaMiles.
Fifth grade teacher, nonethiZell Joyner, who actually
inspired me to become a writer.
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She was actually the reason Iwrote my first poem, because I
was mad at her and it was a hatepoem, but still she told me it
was good and that I should writeum.
Sixth grade teacher, um, whoended up taking me in as a
foster child, and um was my momuntil the day she passed and a
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grandmother to my child when Ididn't have one.
Sharon Sharon Moore.
Seventh grade, ms Beverly Love,rest in peace.
Eighth grade, ms Goodloe.
I can go on and on.
All the women my principal at myhigh school, barbara Hall, emma
Norris, dean Davis, miss Smith,who was the disciplinarian.
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It was just so many differentpeople who inspired me to just
be a better person back thenwhile I was in foster care.
Angela Jones was a caseworker,angela Jones was a caseworker,
aisha Davis was a caseworker,malia Arnett, who was the queen
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of parks, audrey and carolyncoleman is a very, very good
friend of mine.
Um, theresa dorsey, melaniejohnson, just all my people.
My people will always be mypeople.
Um, once you, you know, I builda bond with somebody, those are
my people.
My mother-in-law, patricia Cox,my cousin in marriage, yvette
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she's a really, reallyinspirational person.
My sister, my blood sister, mybloodline, darcelle Didi I talk
to her every day.
My oldest sister, I look up toher so much.
She does not have children, butI'm her child, you know, and
she raised me through fostercare, through going from group
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home to group home.
She's always still been therefor me.
It's not a time that I can callher and she won't come.
So those are the people, just astrong foundation of black
women, who have always beeninstrumental in my life.
Now that I go back and I thinkabout it.
My mom, who is still fightingthe demons, know, fighting that
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monkey off her back, but shestill never loses her faith in
god, no matter what obstacleshe's going through in her
addiction and in her fight tobecome who god wants her to be.
Um, she, she always speak veryhighly of god and she keeps them
rooted and I I think that's whyshe, I know, that's why she's
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still covered today.
Her name is Chyna, mygrandmother.
Now that I think about it.
She's born in 1923, fannie Bellrest in peace.
She's born in 1923.
So she was only had a secondgrade education.
So you know she was dealt thecard.
She was dealt with.
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She suffered from some mentaland physical and emotional abuse
that may have caused her to actin certain ways and have
certain characteristics that Ididn't think were right growing
up, in the way that she treatedus as children I didn't think
were right growing up and theway that she treated us as
children.
But I've learned that you knowyou cannot fault people for
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generational cycles and hamsterwheels that they are on.
We have to learn to meet peoplewhere they are, be empathetic
to the surroundings and the waythat they grew up, because that
may be all they know.
Every person who is an adulthad to grow up, had to become a
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child first, and the behaviorthat they exhibit as adults is
learned behavior.
So they had to learn it fromsomewhere.
So I try to use that as areason and a way to forgive.
But even through everything, shehad 14 boys, one girl.
She was raped, she was beat,she was abused, but she still
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raised all 14 boys and one girland she did it without
complaining and she loved allher kids and she loved them
equally and no matter what theydid, wrong or right, she was
down for her kids.
She may pull them to the sideand tell them they wrong, but in
front of everybody else, youknow she, she was behind her
kids, whatever decision theymade, and that's what I think I
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get my loyalty from.
She was just an all aroundgenuine good hearted person.
She fed people on the street.
She, she wasn't a snitch whenit came to the gangbangers.
She was cool with everybody andeverybody loved her and they
and I think I get that spiritfrom her.
So, yeah, fanny bell,definitely, definitely the og
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and and that's probably mynumber one, amen, amen.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
That's a powerful, powerful testimony and that's
pretty awesome to have a strongsupport system.
We definitely need that, youknow, and many challenges that
we have.
Um, also, when did your lifechange for the better and why?
What pulled you to thedirection to be the gifted
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person?
I know you've been gifted allyour life, but what made it turn
for the better?
Speaker 3 (29:42):
when I had my son Jaden.
Jaden saved my life.
Without going into full detailabout my story in the anthology,
I was at a very, very low pointin my life in the year 2010 and
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I was going through, uh, abusein my relationship and all the
relationships that I've had, um,but specifically this one and I
was on a downward spiralmentally and, um, I wanted to
give up and I acted out on thatand found out I was pregnant.
(30:31):
And well, I knew I was pregnantwhen I acted out on it, but it
slipped my mind because I wasgoing through so much mentally
and emotionally in that toxicenvironment and in that toxic
relationship.
But once I realized the depthof what I was doing and I
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realized like, oh, no, girl,you're pregnant.
It just it.
God woke me up.
God woke me up when I should.
What I did to myself, what Idid to myself, I should not have
waken up.
And God woke me up and thatchanged my perspective on a lot
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of the decisions that I made,every decision that I made from
2010 up until today.
I make, for I think about mychildren and my husband now in
every single thing that I do andif it's not going to benefit
them in any way, then it's notsomething that I'm willing to
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partake on.
And when I say benefit them, itdoesn't have to be material or
money or those type of things,but if I'm not sane I can't be
there for them.
So if it's going to be materialor money or those type of
things, but if I'm not sane Ican't be there for them.
So if it's going to be anythingthat's going to cause me stress
, anxiety, depression, it has toget out of my spirit and that's
something that only God cangive me is peace.
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But God also gives us dominionto make those decisions for
ourselves.
So if we choose peace, then weknow that God gives us dominion
over our lives.
So if we, if we are having anytype of chaos or confusion or
any type of drama in our lives,that's because we allow that
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door to be open.
We cannot open Pandora's boxand, in the words of the famous
Nene Lee, the door is closed.
For that in my life and I giveall glory to God for that
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changed my life and I found mypurpose.
Just within this year, doingmotivational speakings, you know
, going on different podcasts orTV shows and just seeing the
reaction of the people who areinboxing me or just being on
social media, just, you know,writing encouraging words to not
lift other, just uplift otherpeople.
But a lot of times those areaffirmations that I'm giving to
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myself.
That is something that I'm nothearing from somebody, that I
may need to hear from myself, orsome things that I may want God
to speak to me that I'm nothearing anywhere else.
So if I know, if I'm having abad day, I'll put something out
in the world that's positive, soit can come back to me a
hundredfold.
And those are the things thatopen the segue into my mind to
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start embracing my worth,embracing my talent and using
those things as the oil that Godgave me in order to walk into
my purpose.
Speaker 4 (33:52):
Amen, hallelujah, that's what I'm talking about.
Beautiful, beautiful.
What is a comfort item you haveas a child and as an adult
right now?
Speaker 3 (34:06):
I wouldn't necessarily say that I have a
comfort item.
I don't have a comfort item.
I have a comfort food.
The comfort food that I had asa child would probably, to be
honest with you, rice pudding,rice pudding.
My grandmother used to make thebest rice puddings.
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I would probably say ricepudding as a child, um, and to
this day I love rice or anythingstarch.
Um, today I will probably saymy comfort item right now will
be my heated blanket, and itwill also be a good book.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
Yeah, so my Heated Blanket and a good book, that's
pretty good.
Oh my God, that brought backsome memories.
Describe your favorite quietspiritual place and tell me why
it's your favorite place for youto get to a point where you
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will separate yourself fromfamily, to kind of collect
yourself.
If that's something you do, ifyou do have a quiet, favorite
spiritual place in your home um.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
I'd rather not, but I will say that within that quiet
space I am able to reflect onGod's word.
You know, my family gives methat time and space alone and
I'm able to either write, create, read, talk on the phone.
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Just give me my little Zen area.
But my war room is between meand God, respectfully.
It's just certain things youdon't let the enemy know, and
you never know who's going tolisten to this, or you know
who's listening now and youdon't want to.
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You never, and I'm going totell you that as well, and
anybody who's listening neverlet nobody know where your war
room is in your house.
Your war room is yours andyours alone, because you do not
want demonic forces.
Even though you covered injesus name, you still don't open
that door and let people knowwhere your war room is located.
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So I will take it to the grave,honey on that one respect,
respect.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
That's very true and understandable, very, very true,
um, for if you ever was nervous, or if you were nervous at any
point, what do you do as anicebreaker to kind of get you
back on balance so you arecomfortable to speak to people?
What is the icebreaker?
Speaker 3 (37:07):
I never.
You know, nervous is not reallyin my forte.
If I do start off nervous, Ialways start off with a joke or
a prayer.
So, like on this platform, Ican never be nervous because my
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icebreaker is always the walk-inmusic.
So I come in with good vibes,positive vibes, good music.
We always start off with prayer.
So prayer is always, always,always going to be an icebreaker
for me, or an upliftingscripture be an icebreaker for
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me, or an uplifting scripture,something to calm the room, ease
the room, or something to pumpit up and get it motivated,
depending on your audience.
You have to know your audience.
So if I go into a church, Ican't play um, nervous, you know
not give you book, am I 14?
Or um, uh, pretty, with nomakeup or something to get the
party jumping right.
But if I go into a room ofgirls between the ages, of 12
(38:17):
and 20, then I can play thatmusic.
But if I go into a church it'slike you have to know your
audience and it's not likeyou're good.
A lot of people say, oh, that'straveling, positive vibes, good
music.
I think you have to meet peoplewhere they're at.
We always start off with prayer.
Speaker 4 (38:33):
And this is just my personal belief.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
You have to meet people where they're at, show
them that you connect with them.
Calm the room and then youbring them, you know, or
something to pump it up and getit motivated.
See, little by little, you haveto bring them to Christ.
If I go into a church, I can'tplay.
If I go to church, myicebreaker would be a spiritual
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song or a Bible verse or wordsof encouragement.
If I'm speaking at a school,it's going to be some music that
they would listen to, Of courseno explicit music, but you give
what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
If it's a row, to be the music that they would listen
to between the ages of 12 and20.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
If it's a rowdy crowd like a women's prison or
something, or if I'm going toplay something that's
motivational but still upbeatgorgeous.
I'm going to come in.
I think you have to meet peoplewhere they're at, and this is
just my own personal belief.
You have to meet people wherethey're at set the tone of how
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you want the rest of yourspeaking engagement to go.
So if you start, out rowdy,you've got to stay rowdy all the
way to the end.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
If you start out smooth, you've got to stay
smooth, and that's just my modeand depending on what message
you're trying to send.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
So icebreakers are.
If I go to church, myicebreaker would be a church
song or a Bible verse or wordsof encouragement, if you can
have an endless supply ofanything in the world that God
will bless you with.
What would you do with theendless supply and how would you
?
contribute and give back prisonor something I'm gonna play,
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something that's um motivationalbut still applies, just um
immediately reading up every day, and I'm trying to learn more
and more every day.
I'm going there, going thebible, you're speaking
engagement or I'm on my phone,so if you start, out around you.
Gotta stay rowdy all the way tothe kind of make it through my
start off smooth.
So I feel like if I had anendless supply of the knowledge
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and depending on what messageyou're trying to see of that and
just give it to people.
Take a little piece of thatlife.
Amen, I believe that that'strue.
Speaker 4 (40:41):
That's what I would pray for if for endless
knowledge of the word supply ofanything in the world that god
will bless you, what would youdo?
And how would you contributeand give back?
Speaker 3 (40:56):
oh my god, one one thing if I had an endless reply
that what is your mostcontribute to the world?
Speaker 4 (41:03):
it would definitely be knowledge of the word, and
you're so consistent on everyday.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
I'm trying to learn more and more.
Every day I go in there, go inthe Bible and I'm reading or I'm
on my phone and I'm looking upeverybody that I come across
with.
So I feel like if I had anendless supply of the knowledge
and I could just take a piece ofthat and just give it to people
for anybody that.
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I meet.
That's what I would pray for.
Even though a lot of people maynot want to see me win the same
way I want to see them, I thinkthat's one of my most positive
actions.
That I have is my consistentloyalty.
That I have is my one thing isloyalty.
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And what is your most positive,unique habit that you have in
yourself?
I have a habit of beingempathetic and caring and
nurturing to everybody that Icome across with, and empathetic
and um, if an opportunity waspresented to you based on your
true, wonderful and amazingtestimony.
Speaker 4 (42:13):
What would the title of your movie be, if that ever?
Speaker 3 (42:17):
came to play or came to pass.
For anybody that I meet, I wantto see everybody.
I've already written that book.
Even though a lot of people maynot want to see me, I want to
see them 64 days.
I think that's one of them as abestseller on.
Amazon.
Mountains can't rise withoutearth is my memoirs of a grown
(42:40):
girl.
Um, it has already been uh Ithink that that that pretty much
sums it up.
Speaker 4 (42:54):
Okay, okay, that's what's up.
That's what's up, and if that'san opportunity for you to look
like as a celebrity, to playyour part.
Wonderful and amazing testimony.
What would the title of yourmovie be if that ever?
Speaker 3 (43:09):
came to play, or came to, don't we?
Kravitz will have to play mehands down, and it's not that.
Um, I think that I've alreadyread that book, best-selling
memoir, that uh 200, and well, Iknow 64 days today and um on
amazon and you know as abestseller on Amazon Mountain
Camp.
I have been through it In mymemoirs of a grown girl.
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It has already been, thetrailer has already been
televised and I am in works tomaking that a movie, okay okay,
that's what's up.
Speaker 4 (43:43):
That's what's up, okay.
Okay, that's what's up.
That's what's up.
And if that did happen, you hadto do something.
You look like as a celebrity toplay your part to go to help
give and to share the knowledge,to people, don't be crabby.
Speaker 3 (44:02):
What has to play me?
That we have hands down, andit's not that I think that she
looks like me.
I would go to, but I just thinkthat, um, my heart, really, why
no haiti from her story?
Speaker 4 (44:14):
for a number of reasons you know.
Speaker 3 (44:15):
Watch the interviews um that she's been.
I will go to haiti that I havebeen.
Um, a lot of people are in mylife and I think that you know a
lot of people go to dubai.
They go to these differentplaces and I would definitely
choose, but I would go to Haiti,okay okay, that's what's up.
Speaker 4 (44:38):
If there was a time that you had to understand, what
part of the world would you beable to go to?
Thank you for sharing as welland to share the knowledge to
people that can't get the accessthat we have.
Speaker 3 (44:55):
You better wrap this show up.
I will go to.
Speaker 4 (44:59):
Haiti.
Speaker 3 (45:00):
Thank you, guys, for coming on tonight.
Speaker 4 (45:03):
My heart really aches for Haiti.
Thank you.
For a number of reasons, I'msorry.
Thank you, guys, for coming andvisiting with us tonight.
Speaker 3 (45:11):
And thank you, my sister, for sharing wonderful
people testimony.
Speaker 4 (45:15):
You're a beautiful person inside and out.
Speaker 3 (45:17):
I thank you for this opportunity to be your guest
host tonight and I appreciateeverything that you're doing
with all the sisters that are apart of the projects that are
going on.
Speaker 4 (45:28):
that's going to happen this year.
Thank you so much for thisopportunity tonight.
All right, my sister, I'm doneasking you some beautiful
questions.
Thank you for answering.
Thank you for sharing as well.
Speaker 3 (45:39):
Thank you for interviewing the queen of
questions.
You had some great questions.
That's not how you're going towrap up this show.
You better wrap this show up.
You are an amazing talent.
You have so much potential.
I see you doing so many greatthings.
Speaker 4 (45:55):
And I'm super proud of Everything that you have
already accomplished and I lookforward to.
Speaker 3 (46:00):
Seeing what you have going on in the future.
Speaker 4 (46:04):
I want you to.
Leave us out of prayer and thentell me what's on.
We're playing out and Iappreciate everything that
you're doing with all thesisters that are a part of the
project.
Speaker 3 (46:18):
We can do toxic.
Speaker 4 (46:21):
So thank you so much for this opportunity tonight.
Speaker 3 (46:26):
All right and I want to thank you as well for coming.
Thank you for this moment,thank you for this interview
tonight I thank you for all thepeople that bring in to listen.
Speaker 4 (46:35):
Um, thank you, thank you for your wonderful testimony
, your beautiful spirit, amazingperson every father, um, I
thank you for her so muchpotential and I'm so grateful to
have you doing so many greatthings today and I'm so proud of
everything that you havealready accomplished.
Speaker 3 (46:52):
And I look forward to seeing what you have going on
in the future.
I want you to lead us out inprayer and then tell me what
song we're playing out.
Speaker 4 (47:04):
And then lead us out in prayer.
Land out and then lead us outin prayer, the gift that you
instored in me to create andwrite and give back and be
gifted, and I'm so thankful.
Speaker 2 (47:12):
Lord for this moment.
Speaker 4 (47:14):
I'm thankful for this time that you gave us mercy and
grace to do it better than whatwe did yesterday.
Speaker 2 (47:21):
Today, we have to focus on the now because, just
like with Jesse, we can'tcontrol anything that is out of
our hands right now.
Listen, Thank you, Jackie, foryour wonderful testimony and our
beautiful spirit a beautifulperson.
Speaker 4 (47:34):
And Father I thank you for her hand and her mind,
that you anointed her with thegift to create and write and to
push us down from the hurt thatshe left us in our life, and
that you blessed our home andcomforted us throughout the
night.
And every aspect and every areaof the life home and comforted
us throughout the night.
Speaker 3 (47:52):
And every aspect and every area of the life and what
we will be doing today, fatheryou are the Alpha, you are the
Omega, you are the beginning.
Speaker 4 (47:58):
You are the King of Kings and you are the Lord of
Lords.
You are the author of our lives.
Speaker 3 (48:03):
We would not take the pen out of my hand Because you
are still writing for this time,that you not take the pen out
of my hand because you are stillwriting for this time You're
still writing my mercy and grace.
Speaker 4 (48:10):
You do it better than what we did.
Jesus' mighty name, amen.
Today we have to focus on thenow, because yesterday was
yesterday.
We can't control anything thatis out of our hands right now,
father, and I am so thankful forthis moment and this
opportunity and all thewonderful people that are on the
line tonight.
Speaker 3 (48:27):
I ask you to cover us with joy peace, Linda.
Linda, we have covered up.
On May 1st we have MelanieJohnson.
Speaker 4 (48:36):
On May 2nd we have Elena Maria.
And on May 7th we have MissLizzie Park.
Speaker 3 (48:41):
All coming in to take over.
Speaker 4 (48:44):
And that's the queen of questions.
And guess what?
I'm ready, you guys.
This has been a great great,great evening a great interview.
And I just want to tell Ms Sadeagain, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (49:01):
I appreciate you, god bless you and we're going to
head out with Tasha Cobbs.
And on that note, I want to saythank you all for tuning in to
this edition of the Women of theWaiting Room.
Take over, listen, linda.
We have coming up on May 1st,we have Melanie Johnson, on May
(49:24):
2nd we have Elena Maria and onMay 7th we have Ms Laquita Parks
all coming in to take over andask the queen of questions some
questions and guess what?
I'm ready.
You guys, this has been a great, great, great evening, a great
(49:47):
interview, and I just want totell Ms Sade again thank you so
much, I appreciate you, godbless you and we're going to
head out with Tasha Cobbs.
Have a great evening, guys.
Speaker 1 (50:02):
You surround me with a song.
Speaker 2 (50:11):
Of the enemy, of my enemy.
I'm no longer a slave to fear.
I'm no longer a slave to fear.
I'm no longer a slave to fear.
(50:36):
I am a child.
The little girl is calling myname.
I've been born again.
I'm in your family.
(51:15):
I'm no longer a stranger Frommy mother's womb.
I'm a child.
Let's declare it together yourblood, your blood flows through
(51:36):
my veins.
I'm no longer a slave to fear.
I am a child of the Father'shand.
(52:04):
I'm no longer a slave to fear.
I am a child of God.
(52:33):
You're my family.
I've been wanting you.
You're my family.
You're my family.
You blow my face.
I know I'm saying it's a tearto the heart, but I feel like
(52:54):
I'm missing some child.
I know you're saying it's atear to the heart, but I feel
(53:21):
like I'm missing some child.
Thank you, I can fall.
I can fall.
My fears are drowned indarkness.
You rescued me.
You rescued me so I can stand.
Don't you have the seeds so Ican fall?
(53:47):
You saved the seeds.
I feel the sea so high.
I feel the sea so high.
I feel the sea so high.
I feel the sea so high.
I feel the sea so high.
(54:08):
You rescued me so I can stayand I'm safe.
You rescued me.
You split the sea so I can goand I'm safe.
My dreams are dreaming.
I'm safe.
You rescued me so I can stay.
(54:30):
And I'm here to help you.
You rescued me so I can stay.
I'm here to help you.
You rescued me so I can stay.
I'm here to help you.
You rescued me so I can stay.
I'm here to help you.
You rescued me so I can stay.
(54:58):
I'm trying to find my love.
I know who I am.
I know who I am.
I know who I am.
I know who I am.
I know who I am.
I know who I am.
I am a love.
(55:19):
I am a love.
I am a love.
I'm trying to find my love.
I'm trying to find my love.
I'm trying to find my love.
I am a child of God.
If you know who you are, justlift your voices in this room
and scream a praise to Jesus.
I am a child of God.
(55:46):
I am, I'm shown, I'm gone.
I am.
I know who I am.
I know who I am.
I know who I am.
Hey, I am, I'm shown, I'm gone.
(56:09):
I am a child again.
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