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Speaker 1 (00:34):
Ladies and gentlemen, May I have your attention fleets. The
show starts in seven eight seven, six five four three
(00:59):
fuit fun cool.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I want to welcome you guys to another episode of
Up Close and Personal Know with Angela right here on
that crew podcast.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I have my brother man with me today, My brother man.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Y'all. Last time, we was having some technical difficulty, and
I thought for a minute that we was gonna be
having some more but I was over here rebuking them
into silence. But I tell y'all, I'm truly, truly, truly
honored and happy to have doctor Wenday Feels in the
building tonight.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Y'all, y'all, let's welcome. Let's welcome my brother man.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Let's welcome my brother man that we got to give
him a warm welcome. Let's go ahead and welcome him
on tonight. Let's welcome him on tonight. So welcome, Welcome, Welcome, welcome.
I thank you for being in the building on tonight.
If you would for those that don't know who you are,
(02:11):
if you would introduce yourself.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Oh yeah, this is the brother man. When dal Field's
coming at you, oh yeah, from.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
The great State of Georgia. This brother man has gone
through some hurt. This brother man has gone through some pain.
This brother man has gone through some experiences that will
make your toes curl and make you scream in fear.
Oh yes, oh yes. But the brother Man is an overcomer.
(02:45):
The brother man is someone who has taken the punch
and now giving back some punchers. Oh, the brother Man
is here, and let me tell you, it is a
joy to be with you the vision.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Oh yeah, Angelus Smith in the house. What you got
to say about that? Wow?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
I tell you, it's always an honor and a privilege
to be able to be in your miss because you
definitely you you touch on one of those topics that's
near and dear to my heart, and that is mental health.
So anytime I can be in your miss, I'm always overjoyed.
So thank you for coming back and allowing me to
(03:30):
do this again, because I was not pleased with what
took place on the other day. So thank you for
coming back. So tonight, I just really I want to
know what you've been up to, because it's been a
while since I've had a chance to really sit down
and talk to you, and I see you've been You've
been busy. You've been at it like always, girl, what
(03:54):
you say?
Speaker 6 (03:55):
What you say? I had to sit my little.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Narrow behind down and from what I was doing so much. Girl, Oh,
let me tell you. Okay, okay, are you ready for this?
It's the audience ready for this. That's what I need
to know. I know you ready, but it's the audience
ready for this. Talk to me, girl, say yes or no.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
I think they're ready.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
They ready because because I'm dripping with all that ooie
gooey sauce today. Boy, let me tell you something. The
brother Man had to go through a time where he
had to hustle and bustle a whole whole lot. And
in that hustling and bustling, it's fulfilling what I believe
(04:42):
God has purposed for me. Now in this now. At
the beginning of last year, I had to take a test,
you all, and that test was to be a certified
alcohol and drug counselor. And in that you are the
brother Man passed by the skin of about a couple
(05:03):
of his beard airs. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And I got
a and now I am I've got to say this,
a certified alcohol and drug counselor from the state of Georgia.
And guess what it goes to all forty.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
Not two, not forty five, but all forty eight states
in this thing.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
And guess what the brother man has been doing well,
So got the certification. I've been on the Board of
Directness or NUMMY Georgia you are.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
And in that the brother Man provides.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
His perspective on how to help others understand, see and
hear the perspective of someone who has a mental health condition,
who's dealing with management, and how that the laws and
how that legislation. All that I give a voice to
(06:09):
and try to help them to get on board with trying.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
To help people with mental health conditions.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
But not only that, the brother Man is also on
the national numby pure leadership counsel, and therefore I represent
the state of Georgia too, everybody in all of the
United States, all the states, and I give a point
(06:38):
of view about hey, what's going on in Georgia to them,
and we sit down and collaborate, and we problem solve,
and we celebrate and we do all these magnificent things
in law. So those are some things. But y'all, I've.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
Been talking to construction workers.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
I've been talking on animals about mental health and subsidence use.
I've been man, it's been rocking and locking, and nobody
just don't know. But here go the final thing because
you made and you said something. You said the brother
man is doctor when dal fist, I want you to
(07:20):
know that this skinny two pounds ten ounce baby boy
has gotten an honorary doctorate for all the work that
I've been putting in. Try to help everybody, you know,
because it's what it's about for me, helping individuals with
mental health and substance use and helping them to reach
(07:44):
higher heights and deeper depths and living a life that
thrives you. Hear me, That's what it's about, sister girl,
That's what it's about.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
And I'm trying to figure out with all that that
you are doing, when have you found time to author books,
to share your perspective in books? When did you find
down to do that?
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Girl?
Speaker 5 (08:12):
You just don't know. Sometimes it's in the deepest hours
of the night, and sometimes it's in the deeper hours
of the day. But I get it done some way, somehow,
and I'm just thankful to God that he has the opportunity.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
Ooh girl, ooh, girl.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Ooh, girl, I got this project, Girl, I got this project.
I'm talking about somewhat like a memoir type of thing
of when thell feels and whooa, I broke that thing. Oh,
in folk, it's gonna be four ooh books to talk
about one thing, and that's how to overcome. And man,
(08:55):
I got some ideas.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
Ooh, sister girl, so too.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
When twenty five, I'm gonna make some things happen because
I want people to understand that though you've gone through
a traumatic experience, you don't have to let that traumatic
experience control you and dominate you. You can do something
about it. Like I said, punches was thrown at me,
(09:21):
But I'm learning how to throw punches right back.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
And hit them in the center of their eye. You
hear me. It's going good, y'all, it's going good.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
So tell us a little bit about some of those
books that you have shared in already.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
All right, all right, so the brother man got them
right by fall, you got them right. Oh yeah, this
was the book that set the world on fire. There
is no health without mental health, men, and mental health
less talk about it. Oh that thing happened you all
(10:04):
back in twenty nineteen and The Brother Man got a
The Brother Man got many works, but with this one
it was a best seller. You are on Amazon dot com?
And man, it talked about fourteen guys, how many fourteen
(10:28):
guys who got together, who collaborated, and here it is.
We talked about mental health, We talked about substance use.
We talked about a whole lot of stuff in this book,
and we talked about what helped us to overcome these
different traumas, these different tragedies, these different mindsets. And let
(10:49):
me tell you, when we got finished with that, woo.
The visionary of doctor doctor V is what I call her,
but it's Vanessa Abram and who we got together with her.
(11:11):
We made that thing happen and it became a number
one best seller on Amazon dot com on other platforms.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
You are so that was the first book? Oh yeah,
so we we we are co.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
Authors, okay o authors of this one, but all Sukisuki.
Last year at last year, at the beginning of the year,
the Brother Man got another number one best seller. Oh yeah,
the tightest two principle. Oh yeah, we reach, we teach,
(11:49):
and baby we lead up in the camp and guess
what it's about. The perspective of either a mentor or
a mentee, And so I chose the perspective of a
men t because some people might be afraid to step
out into potential. And in that we talk about it
(12:17):
in here, and I tell you it's another co authored book.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
But this bad Boy.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Made and Bazon dot com bestseller. So you know, this
brother man is trying to hit a thousand, but you
know some people are trying to throw me curveballs now
and then. But I got to learn how to adjust swing,
hit and hit that for the basis all one, two, three,
(12:47):
four of them.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, you ain't ready. You ain't ready.
You ain't ready, You ain't ready.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
So on this journey as an author, being able to
share your perspective, to be able to share your thoughts,
to be able to share your words in a way
that you want to share them. What has been one
of your proudest moments as an author?
Speaker 5 (13:11):
The proudest moment for me when it was when I
get a call and it's people from the Philippines and
they're talking about, Hey, we noticed your book, and we
want to know how to get your book because we
(13:32):
want it to be in our library. Because the subject
that you're talking about men and mental health. Oh, we
need that so much in this land and the whole world.
And you know what, that thing touched me. It surprised me.
And it's like, Wow, not only am I hitting it
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just locally, I'm hitting it internationally and I'm just like, WHOA.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
See.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
That's the power that you can bring just with your flavor.
You know, when you make chili. A bowl of chili. Now,
you can follow the regular instructions for making chili, but
yet if you read on the other side of the box,
(14:28):
you have noticed that they say you can add different
ingredients to make that thing pop. So you turn a
regular bowl of chili into a wonderful creation that not
only tastes good, but it helps people to come together.
And not only do they come together, they collaborate and
(14:51):
they solve problems because of the good tasting chili and
the warm feeling that they get. That's what writing is
all about. It's about adding your salt, your pepper, your characha,
your pink pepper, coins, the Latin flavors, the Caribbean flavors,
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and you spruce that thing up to where people want
to sit down and talk because you're providing a different
point of view of life that brings hope, that help
people grow, and that helps people to stop being stacking.
That's what authoring and writing can do. You help people
(15:38):
to go on expeditions with themselves and discovery, and you
help people.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
To imagine and that powerful.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
You can stop it. It's powerful. And then you touched
on two things.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
You have individuals that are in another country reaching out
to you. So your your work is traveling, it's it's
it's getting out there. And not only that, the different
perspectives as an anthology and and having the different men
to be able to come together. It's something that we
don't see a lot of that we need to see
(16:19):
more of. So kudos to you guys, and hats off
to you guys for that. I do want to I
want to know, in doing this book and preparing this
book afterwards, what has happened with those relationships in.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Those those those.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Those those partnerships that y'all developed doing because I know
there was something that had to be developed doing the
coming together of this book and the coming together of minds.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Okay, well let me ask this for clarity. For clarity,
could you reframe the question, So.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Are the authors still in communication or y'all still working together,
y'all still doing things together? What else has developed since
you guys done the collaboration projects?
Speaker 6 (17:22):
All right?
Speaker 5 (17:23):
So in this I'm still in contact with many of
the fellas that wrote on the first book that we did,
and in that Brian Anderson, Victor Armstrong, I have Anthony Abrams,
(17:44):
I have.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
Demitrius, and.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
I'm still in contact with Lady Vanessa. And in that
we have done a lot of panel work. We've done
a lot of where we've well, for me, I've coordinated
with them to bring about speaking engagements in front of
(18:16):
from women to men. It has happened that me and
Lady Vanessa have spoken act of all things the University of.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
Florida, do you hear me? And in that was.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Able to talk to students, you know, and help bring
about a mental health perspective that they didn't consider. So
this collaboration of men with mister Brian, he and I
spoke at a mental health and spirituality conference and it
(18:59):
really assisted people in understanding how that the spiritual connection
and the mental health connection they coincide so well, and
that how that your faith plays so much in how
you do where you go, how you even imagine your
(19:22):
life and you doing it? So I mean, and then
Victor I was able to at least speak to him
on the phone. He came down to good old Georgia
and he was only here for a day, but to
hear how he is still being a pioneer in this
mental health field for black men. It's amazing you are
(19:45):
and so I mean you all. Being an author does
open up doors for you to get out, yes, your message,
but to have people to come in and work with you.
And man, it's not nothing like holding another sister girl
(20:06):
or a brother man's hand who's making impact and you all,
y'all talking to one of them right now. But this
doing the host of this podcast, miss Angela, has been
causing people to grow and to grow out of their
(20:33):
inconvenience in them feeling uncomfortable and she's rocking at you all.
That's what it's all about, us rocking together and bringing
out the gifts, the talents, the abilities and the influence
so we can help our fellow man.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Wow? It does.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
I mean the power of collaboration, the power of connection,
the power of you know, people just being willing to
work together you know, one of the things that I
always say that when we all come together, there's a
reason why we come together, because you know, I'm a
very strong, spiritual person, and I believe that, you know,
(21:20):
He puts people together so that we can pull off
of each other's strength and we can build up each
other when we're weak. So He'll put me with somebody
that may be weak in the area, and I can
be that that they're weaken, I'm their strength, and then
where I am weak, they're my strength. And it's like,
that's that's what He had been doing in the midst
(21:41):
of you know, me on this journey. So what I
wanted to do a part of this one hundred Author's
movement was to do just that I've witnessed so much
as an author and different experiences, and I wanted to
be able to help individuals to really get their message
out there and deliver their messages and be able to
(22:03):
share and us pull on each other and uplift each
other and encourage each other. You know, when I started,
when I started the one hundred after movement, it's like,
at first I thought it was supposed to be awards,
but then the more and more God started dealing with me.
I knew it was not about awards, because when we
started talking about awards and different things like that, then
(22:24):
people started wanting to be in a competition, and then
it started being about folks, and then it started being
about all of that when we're supposed to be collaborating, connecting,
inspiring and uplifting each other. So I had to go
back and I had to I had to meditate for
a minute, and I had to listen, and I had
to revamp what he was telling me to do with this.
(22:48):
So I want to ask you a question concerning the movement.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
I want to I want to ask you a question
after your question.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
All right, okay, So what is inspired you to be
a part of this movement? Because you could have been
anywhere doing anything else. But what inspired you to say, hey,
I need to be in the midst of that.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
For me, it's all about going to places unfamiliar. Now,
when we did one thing, we did a webinar and
(23:38):
it's just you and I. But then when this came up.
Speaker 6 (23:44):
I was like, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
First of a I was like, I don't know, it's
one hundred and then you know, I thought it was like, man.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
Were finished being a competition. I don't feel like being
in a competition.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
I just want to be among good folks that can
help a brother man out with literary writings and ideas
and everything.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
And then it was like.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
I went on and I joint. And then when I
found out, now this is selfish, but it's for real.
I found out I didn't have to be a leader.
It was okay to be a follower. And then if
my leadership skills are needed, they can call upon you.
But you know what, sister girl, she laying it down,
(24:40):
she powering it up, she's scraping off it. I mean
she building up some walls, as far as good walls
that support and encourage. And that's what I'm about. I'm
an encourager. I'm someone that likes to help build up people.
And I just see that in what we're doing with
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the one hundred authors to watch. And I'm like, I'm
glad you listen to God. I'm glad that you humbled
yourself and then go off of your own pride. But
yet you said, I'm a willing vessel and if you
want to scrap it, scrap it, hey talk to me
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to do another way that will give you glory, and
that will help people to grow into their authentic self
and be able to express that. And so that's the
reason why I got on a board, because those things
really do help me not only to stretch, but grow,
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and not only grow, but reach deeper depths and higher
heights that I've never imagined that I could do. So oh, yes, ma'am,
keep on putting on the butter, crisp up the bread,
and warm it all up. Because this thing is making
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me stretch, y'all. It's making me stretch, and it's causing
me to develop even more skill and ability, and it's
okay for me to grow.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
When you've been stagnated in life.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
And you've experienced trauma, those things can overwhelm you so
much to where you're afraid to move. But yet the
author's the concepts, the ideas, the point of views that
each author has is important in building our fellow man up.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
And who wouldn't want to be a part of that.
Speaker 5 (26:58):
I'm just saying, But ok okay, okay, okay, okay, But
before we go on, I have to ask you a question.
You know what that question is? No, all right, this
is the question when God was speaking to you and
he said no, I ain't pulling you to go that way.
(27:21):
Was it hard and was it uncomfortable to being in inconvenienced?
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Well, I wasn't inconvenience because I always want to listen
to what he is telling me. So if he's telling me,
if he tell me to go left and then say no,
go right, I'm about to go, I'm about to do it,
I'm not finn to question it. I didn't question it.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
I just.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
I know that it's not about competition, and I know
that in this season he didn't want he wasn't leading
me towards competition. You know, it was more about uplifting
people and showing people that you know, it does not
matter if you don't have thousands and thousands of dollars,
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that you still can do those things that that that
you want to do.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
You still can publish. Like people think that you.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Just got to have so much money to publish and
that you just got to do this and you just
got to do that. I just want people to know
if you're willing to work, if you're willing to put
in the work, if you're willing, if you're just willing,
like it's soove an exodus somewhere. I think, if you
just open your mouth, he gonna give you what to say,
(28:45):
and if you just go, he gonna guide you where
to go. See when he when he said, he left
us the comforter. So he left us the Holy Spirit.
And see, a lot of us we don't want to
reference the Holy Spirit, and we don't listen to the
Holy Spirit like we pray, and then the Holy Spirit
(29:05):
can be menacing to us. But because a lot of
us don't reference it, we miss out on our blessing.
We miss out on him telling us. And then we
steadied praying about the same thing. When the whole Spirit
already done told us and already note instructed us. I mean,
it may come in a song, it may come in
a podcast, it may come in anything, because the Holy
(29:28):
Spirit moves. He said he left us the comforter. So
he left everything that we needed with the Holy Spirit.
So we got.
Speaker 7 (29:37):
To learn how to tune in and allow the Holy
Spirit to lead God and direct us.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
Ah, that was that sauce, y'all.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
Y'all, y'all felt that Mary, she was drifting so much
sauce today it was static. Then y'all catch what she
was said, Man, you better wake up and smell the coffee.
That's what you better do. Because you got things to do,
you got people to see, you got places to go.
(30:13):
And here it is, she's singing to you. Avail yourself.
Avail yourself to God's leading and guiding so that you
can be the best of yourself.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
And then you don't even understand. Like today, and I
just got to be transparent.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Like today, we were in the chat because we have
a group chat, so we were in the group chat,
and I was I had told one of the.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Authors to call me.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Well, I noticed that another author, she was she was
honted in on everything that I was posting, like she
was just there. She was liking you sharing and I
see she's always there. So I see that she's very attentive.
And it was like the whole spirit told me to
contact her. So I told her to call me. So
when she called me, she told me that so much
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had been going on, like I ended up before I
got off the phone with her, I ended up praying
for her. I ended up sharing some stuff with her
that she said, you just don't know. She said, I
was just thinking of stuff that I could do, and
I just like the spirit just beginning to move, and
it's just like he just dropped so much.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Stuff on me and I just gave it to it.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
It just started pouring out, and I told her, I said, baby,
I don't know where this come from. I don't know who,
I said, because this was not what I was I
was planning on doing. I said, but I can't stop.
What the Holy Spirit does?
Speaker 6 (31:42):
You know?
Speaker 2 (31:42):
And I always have to remind I always have to acknowledge,
and I always have to you know, it's nothing that
I do is by my strength because people don't know
that I suffer from South Adiica real bad. So sometime
I'm over here struggling just to get up the bed.
That's just how much pain I be in sometimes, Like
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people don't understand this cold weather.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
It really had me down.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
But yet I was still doing interviews, I was still
doing whatever it was. People don't know the things that
I go through, But I don't wear it because I.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Know what the bigger plan is.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Because Jeremiah twenty nine and eleven, you know, they always
say that He's not gonna put more on us than
we can bear. He already know what we He already
know what we're gonna go through. He already know everything
because Jeremiah twenty nine and eleven, it was done, It
was finished, it was row. It's gonna come to pass,
regardless of it, come to fast tomorrow, next week. His
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word will not return to him. Boy, he will watch
over and to his perform and perfected in our life.
He declared that he had a plan for us, and
his plan was to prosper us, not to harm us.
He said he wasn't have good health, hope in the future.
Those things have to.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Come to pass.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Even with free will and us making the choices that
we want to make, we still have to come back
and line up with his word, because the word is
not going to return to him.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
Boy.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
We can go to the left, we can go to
the right, we can veer back to the left and right,
and we can keep Chris crossing. But at the end
of the day, you're gonna go back to where he said. So,
if you want to take the long.
Speaker 6 (33:18):
Roll or you want to take the long row, I.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Mean that it is what it is.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
You can either take the long roll or you can
take the short row. The short road is the straight
and narrow role. Lining up with the word and allowing
him to leave God and direct you. But if you
want to do with Joe Way, then you know you're
gonna have to go around these curves, these cribs, these hills,
these things, and you know you're gonna have to endure
the consequences from all that you do.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
So, hey, you got a choice.
Speaker 6 (33:48):
Doctor, angel boy.
Speaker 5 (33:50):
You you spending verbs, you spending bars, you doing all
of that.
Speaker 6 (33:56):
And it is so good to hear that.
Speaker 5 (34:01):
You know, people think that you live on on at
the top of the hill, and they got understand that, Hey,
you go through, but you keep on pressing through and
you allow the Lord God to help you. And you
know what, man today, to illustrate even further what you're
(34:25):
talking about today, I went to one of our mental
health hospitals and there I did a presentation about you know,
my life and things and and in that I shared
about being molested at the age of four or five
by both men and by women, and I shared, I
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talked about the effects of it.
Speaker 6 (34:52):
I talked about how I used that.
Speaker 5 (34:54):
To to to bring hope in life to other people
and doing that, God was saying say this, don't say
that it's time for you to share hope with them
through you know, the the nine eight eight system and
(35:18):
nine eight eighty for those that don't know, it's for
mental health and substance use crisis. And after sharing and
all of that, not just one guy, not just two guys, three,
but four guys came up to me and said, you
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really did touch me with your story about malestation, and
guess what I've done that I've gotten that and it's
been done to me. And these guys didn't know who
they were as far as all of that as patients,
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but those four guys did come.
Speaker 6 (36:02):
Up to me and said, that really did help me.
Speaker 5 (36:05):
It helped me to become vulnerable and share with you today.
And with doing that, it ends up that I was
able to share more with them about the help that
I got, the supports that's out there, the resources that's
out there. And for men, you know, women, yes you
(36:27):
go through it too, but you don't hear a lot
of men talking about melestation, you know, So it really
did help those men, and that's what it's about, you know,
following the leading of the Lord and helping others and watching.
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You know, Paul talked about one plants, one waters, you know,
and in that in our writing, we bring about that
perspective and we bring about that hope for other people.
So I thank you for what you're doing and how
you're bringing people together to beat up on issues and
(37:10):
problems that the world is experiencing, and you're helping us
to grow into our authentic self to help our fellow man.
Speaker 6 (37:22):
So thank you, well, thank you.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
I want to thank you for joining the movement and
bringing your unique perspective and your voice because what you
do is definitely needed in our community because mental health
is one of those things that.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
We rush under the rug.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
We don't want we don't want to we want to
pray about it, throw some all and no, that's not it.
And that's something that you know, even a lot of
my minister friends, you know, we have learned that we
got to go lay on these couches too, and we
have to get the help that we need, you know.
(38:04):
And I'm so glad that we now see more of
us because where a lot of us have not wanted
to get the help is because we felt like we
didn't have representation, we didn't have no one that could
really truly relate to us.
Speaker 5 (38:20):
Well, let's just be honest, we would say, you know
what that's for them?
Speaker 6 (38:24):
White people. That's not for black people.
Speaker 5 (38:27):
We've always been strong, you know, not understanding that it's
been tearing our mental health, physical health, spiritual health, financial health,
all of those aspects have been messed up and jacked
up because we had quote unquote so much pride that
(38:52):
because of the issue of slavery, the issue of civil rights,
those means it has caused damage to our psyche. And
here it is now we got individuals that letting all
of the emotions go out, but yet they don't know
(39:13):
how to manage it. And then you got the Generation
X and baby boomers who kept it in so much
that impacted our health.
Speaker 6 (39:25):
You know, people either.
Speaker 5 (39:27):
Implode or they explode, which one are you?
Speaker 6 (39:32):
You know?
Speaker 5 (39:34):
And in that we have to learn how to have
that balance right. And that's what we're doing now, how
the balance right.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
So again, I'm grateful for you, and I'm grateful for
the many individuals like yourself that are doing the work
and giving back to the community.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
So thank you.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
I want to before we leave, I need everybody to
know how they can get in contact with you and
support the things that you're doing.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
So please share.
Speaker 5 (40:09):
Oh yeah, you can reach the brother man at Wyndale
Underscore Feels w E N D E L L Underscore
f I E L D s act y'allhoo dot com.
(40:31):
Or you can go to my website Whindale Feels dot
com and you can get to know the brother Man,
see what I've been up to, and then you know, hey.
Speaker 6 (40:45):
Hit me up on Facebook.
Speaker 5 (40:47):
You can hit me up on Messenger, all right, and
the brother Man will respond. So you know, it's about
helping one another out here. Now, I can't give you
money and all that.
Speaker 6 (40:58):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (40:59):
I'm sorry. I ain't that big yet. I ain't that
big yet, but I'm getting there. And when I do
all sugar, sugar, sugar, with honey, with that and with
the teeth. Oh yeah, brother man, gonna make it happen. Yes, yes, ma'am, Yes, ma'am.
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I just want to say thank you.
Speaker 3 (41:22):
Well.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
I want you to leave our listeners with something that
would inspire them to stay on this journey we call
life and to not quit, to not allow their flame
to go out.
Speaker 5 (41:41):
So to share with you, my son had a terrible
accident in which he was at the gym and he
was squatting and he went the press, you know leg
press and twat I should say, and to one hundred
and fifty pounds fell on his back and it broke
(42:05):
his lower l two and my son was paralyzed. He
could not move from his waist down and it ended
up that once he got the emergency operation, he looked
(42:27):
up at me and he said, Dad, I don't want
to live. If I got to be handicapped and everything,
I would rather just die. Well, you all, I tried
to take my life when he was three years old,
and God made it for me to continue to be alive,
(42:48):
to be in his life. So as I'm praying with him,
crying with him, trying to comfort him, he falls asleep
and I'm holding his hand, and in that he wakes
up at five o'clock in the morning getting ready for
the nurse to come in to issue out medications, and
(43:11):
guess what, I was still holding his hand, and he
looks at me and he said, Dad, thank you for
being here. If you weren't here, if you woulda died,
I think I wouldn't have made it if this was happening.
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You provide a resource and a support for someone. Please, ma'am, please, sir,
don't forget we need your characha. We need your sugar
and spice and everything's nice to help us to get
(43:55):
through our hard times. My vulnerability help those men to
be arnold bull and to be able to seek out
help for their mental health condition. You provide so much
for people, So please, ma'am, please sir, don't cave in,
(44:16):
give up or quit because you do help people that
you don't know.
Speaker 6 (44:26):
That's all I got for you.
Speaker 3 (44:28):
Well, that's how we need.
Speaker 2 (44:29):
I want to thank you for joining us tonight and
sharing with us tonight. I can't wait to see what
all is in store for twenty twenty five, So I'm
encouraging every one to stick around, stay connected to the
one hundred offors to watch for twenty twenty five. We
have some amazing individuals that you're gonna be able to
see what they're doing. You're gonna be able to tap
(44:51):
into what they're doing. You're gonna be able to stay
connected to them. So I want to thank you, miss
that doctor. When day ah feel.
Speaker 8 (45:02):
All right, all right, all right, I tell you I
have truly truly enjoyed tonight.
Speaker 2 (45:14):
If you enjoyed something that was shared on tonight, I
want you to share it with somebody. Y'all share this broadcast.
Make sure that you are connected to these amazing authors,
because we're gonna be doing some amazing things through our
twenty twenty five We're gonna be coming off these social
media sites.
Speaker 3 (45:32):
We're gonna be meeting in some of these.
Speaker 2 (45:34):
Cities, so you may see us in a city near
you soon. First stop, maybe Atlanta area. So I want
to encourage you guys to get involved, stay connected to
the one hundred authors to watch for twenty twenty five.
Who knows, we may be in your town next.
Speaker 3 (45:50):
Y'all be blessed. The Queen loves you and appreciate you
all for tuning in.
Ladies and gentlemen, May I have your attention fleets. The
show starts in seven eight seven, six five four three
(00:59):
fuit fun cool.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I want to welcome you guys to another episode of
Up Close and Personal Know with Angela right here on
that crew podcast.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I have my brother man with me today, My brother man.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Y'all. Last time, we was having some technical difficulty, and
I thought for a minute that we was gonna be
having some more but I was over here rebuking them
into silence. But I tell y'all, I'm truly, truly, truly
honored and happy to have doctor Wenday Feels in the
building tonight.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Y'all, y'all, let's welcome. Let's welcome my brother man.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Let's welcome my brother man that we got to give
him a warm welcome. Let's go ahead and welcome him
on tonight. Let's welcome him on tonight. So welcome, Welcome, Welcome, welcome.
I thank you for being in the building on tonight.
If you would for those that don't know who you are,
(02:11):
if you would introduce yourself.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Oh yeah, this is the brother man. When dal Field's
coming at you, oh yeah, from.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
The great State of Georgia. This brother man has gone
through some hurt. This brother man has gone through some pain.
This brother man has gone through some experiences that will
make your toes curl and make you scream in fear.
Oh yes, oh yes. But the brother Man is an overcomer.
(02:45):
The brother man is someone who has taken the punch
and now giving back some punchers. Oh, the brother Man
is here, and let me tell you, it is a
joy to be with you the vision.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Oh yeah, Angelus Smith in the house. What you got
to say about that? Wow?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
I tell you, it's always an honor and a privilege
to be able to be in your miss because you
definitely you you touch on one of those topics that's
near and dear to my heart, and that is mental health.
So anytime I can be in your miss, I'm always overjoyed.
So thank you for coming back and allowing me to
(03:30):
do this again, because I was not pleased with what
took place on the other day. So thank you for
coming back. So tonight, I just really I want to
know what you've been up to, because it's been a
while since I've had a chance to really sit down
and talk to you, and I see you've been You've
been busy. You've been at it like always, girl, what
(03:54):
you say?
Speaker 6 (03:55):
What you say? I had to sit my little.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Narrow behind down and from what I was doing so much. Girl, Oh,
let me tell you. Okay, okay, are you ready for this?
It's the audience ready for this. That's what I need
to know. I know you ready, but it's the audience
ready for this. Talk to me, girl, say yes or no.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
I think they're ready.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
They ready because because I'm dripping with all that ooie
gooey sauce today. Boy, let me tell you something. The
brother Man had to go through a time where he
had to hustle and bustle a whole whole lot. And
in that hustling and bustling, it's fulfilling what I believe
(04:42):
God has purposed for me. Now in this now. At
the beginning of last year, I had to take a test,
you all, and that test was to be a certified
alcohol and drug counselor. And in that you are the
brother Man passed by the skin of about a couple
(05:03):
of his beard airs. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And I got
a and now I am I've got to say this,
a certified alcohol and drug counselor from the state of Georgia.
And guess what it goes to all forty.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
Not two, not forty five, but all forty eight states
in this thing.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
And guess what the brother man has been doing well,
So got the certification. I've been on the Board of
Directness or NUMMY Georgia you are.
Speaker 6 (05:42):
And in that the brother Man provides.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
His perspective on how to help others understand, see and
hear the perspective of someone who has a mental health condition,
who's dealing with management, and how that the laws and
how that legislation. All that I give a voice to
(06:09):
and try to help them to get on board with trying.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
To help people with mental health conditions.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
But not only that, the brother Man is also on
the national numby pure leadership counsel, and therefore I represent
the state of Georgia too, everybody in all of the
United States, all the states, and I give a point
(06:38):
of view about hey, what's going on in Georgia to them,
and we sit down and collaborate, and we problem solve,
and we celebrate and we do all these magnificent things
in law. So those are some things. But y'all, I've.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
Been talking to construction workers.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
I've been talking on animals about mental health and subsidence use.
I've been man, it's been rocking and locking, and nobody
just don't know. But here go the final thing because
you made and you said something. You said the brother
man is doctor when dal fist, I want you to
(07:20):
know that this skinny two pounds ten ounce baby boy
has gotten an honorary doctorate for all the work that
I've been putting in. Try to help everybody, you know,
because it's what it's about for me, helping individuals with
mental health and substance use and helping them to reach
(07:44):
higher heights and deeper depths and living a life that
thrives you. Hear me, That's what it's about, sister girl,
That's what it's about.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
And I'm trying to figure out with all that that
you are doing, when have you found time to author books,
to share your perspective in books? When did you find
down to do that?
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Girl?
Speaker 5 (08:12):
You just don't know. Sometimes it's in the deepest hours
of the night, and sometimes it's in the deeper hours
of the day. But I get it done some way, somehow,
and I'm just thankful to God that he has the opportunity.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
Ooh girl, ooh, girl.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Ooh, girl, I got this project, Girl, I got this project.
I'm talking about somewhat like a memoir type of thing
of when thell feels and whooa, I broke that thing. Oh,
in folk, it's gonna be four ooh books to talk
about one thing, and that's how to overcome. And man,
(08:55):
I got some ideas.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
Ooh, sister girl, so too.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
When twenty five, I'm gonna make some things happen because
I want people to understand that though you've gone through
a traumatic experience, you don't have to let that traumatic
experience control you and dominate you. You can do something
about it. Like I said, punches was thrown at me,
(09:21):
But I'm learning how to throw punches right back.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
And hit them in the center of their eye. You
hear me. It's going good, y'all, it's going good.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
So tell us a little bit about some of those
books that you have shared in already.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
All right, all right, so the brother man got them
right by fall, you got them right. Oh yeah, this
was the book that set the world on fire. There
is no health without mental health, men, and mental health
less talk about it. Oh that thing happened you all
(10:04):
back in twenty nineteen and The Brother Man got a
The Brother Man got many works, but with this one
it was a best seller. You are on Amazon dot com?
And man, it talked about fourteen guys, how many fourteen
(10:28):
guys who got together, who collaborated, and here it is.
We talked about mental health, We talked about substance use.
We talked about a whole lot of stuff in this book,
and we talked about what helped us to overcome these
different traumas, these different tragedies, these different mindsets. And let
(10:49):
me tell you, when we got finished with that, woo.
The visionary of doctor doctor V is what I call her,
but it's Vanessa Abram and who we got together with her.
(11:11):
We made that thing happen and it became a number
one best seller on Amazon dot com on other platforms.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
You are so that was the first book? Oh yeah,
so we we we are co.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
Authors, okay o authors of this one, but all Sukisuki.
Last year at last year, at the beginning of the year,
the Brother Man got another number one best seller. Oh yeah,
the tightest two principle. Oh yeah, we reach, we teach,
(11:49):
and baby we lead up in the camp and guess
what it's about. The perspective of either a mentor or
a mentee, And so I chose the perspective of a
men t because some people might be afraid to step
out into potential. And in that we talk about it
(12:17):
in here, and I tell you it's another co authored book.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
But this bad Boy.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Made and Bazon dot com bestseller. So you know, this
brother man is trying to hit a thousand, but you
know some people are trying to throw me curveballs now
and then. But I got to learn how to adjust swing,
hit and hit that for the basis all one, two, three,
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four of them.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, you ain't ready. You ain't ready.
You ain't ready, You ain't ready.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
So on this journey as an author, being able to
share your perspective, to be able to share your thoughts,
to be able to share your words in a way
that you want to share them. What has been one
of your proudest moments as an author?
Speaker 5 (13:11):
The proudest moment for me when it was when I
get a call and it's people from the Philippines and
they're talking about, Hey, we noticed your book, and we
want to know how to get your book because we
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want it to be in our library. Because the subject
that you're talking about men and mental health. Oh, we
need that so much in this land and the whole world.
And you know what, that thing touched me. It surprised me.
And it's like, Wow, not only am I hitting it
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just locally, I'm hitting it internationally and I'm just like, WHOA.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
See.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
That's the power that you can bring just with your flavor.
You know, when you make chili. A bowl of chili. Now,
you can follow the regular instructions for making chili, but
yet if you read on the other side of the box,
(14:28):
you have noticed that they say you can add different
ingredients to make that thing pop. So you turn a
regular bowl of chili into a wonderful creation that not
only tastes good, but it helps people to come together.
And not only do they come together, they collaborate and
(14:51):
they solve problems because of the good tasting chili and
the warm feeling that they get. That's what writing is
all about. It's about adding your salt, your pepper, your characha,
your pink pepper, coins, the Latin flavors, the Caribbean flavors,
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and you spruce that thing up to where people want
to sit down and talk because you're providing a different
point of view of life that brings hope, that help
people grow, and that helps people to stop being stacking.
That's what authoring and writing can do. You help people
(15:38):
to go on expeditions with themselves and discovery, and you
help people.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
To imagine and that powerful.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
You can stop it. It's powerful. And then you touched
on two things.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
You have individuals that are in another country reaching out
to you. So your your work is traveling, it's it's
it's getting out there. And not only that, the different
perspectives as an anthology and and having the different men
to be able to come together. It's something that we
don't see a lot of that we need to see
(16:19):
more of. So kudos to you guys, and hats off
to you guys for that. I do want to I
want to know, in doing this book and preparing this
book afterwards, what has happened with those relationships in.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Those those those.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Those those partnerships that y'all developed doing because I know
there was something that had to be developed doing the
coming together of this book and the coming together of minds.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
Okay, well let me ask this for clarity. For clarity,
could you reframe the question, So.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Are the authors still in communication or y'all still working together,
y'all still doing things together? What else has developed since
you guys done the collaboration projects?
Speaker 6 (17:22):
All right?
Speaker 5 (17:23):
So in this I'm still in contact with many of
the fellas that wrote on the first book that we did,
and in that Brian Anderson, Victor Armstrong, I have Anthony Abrams,
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I have.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
Demitrius, and.
Speaker 5 (17:52):
I'm still in contact with Lady Vanessa. And in that
we have done a lot of panel work. We've done
a lot of where we've well, for me, I've coordinated
with them to bring about speaking engagements in front of
(18:16):
from women to men. It has happened that me and
Lady Vanessa have spoken act of all things the University of.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
Florida, do you hear me? And in that was.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Able to talk to students, you know, and help bring
about a mental health perspective that they didn't consider. So
this collaboration of men with mister Brian, he and I
spoke at a mental health and spirituality conference and it
(18:59):
really assisted people in understanding how that the spiritual connection
and the mental health connection they coincide so well, and
that how that your faith plays so much in how
you do where you go, how you even imagine your
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life and you doing it? So I mean, and then
Victor I was able to at least speak to him
on the phone. He came down to good old Georgia
and he was only here for a day, but to
hear how he is still being a pioneer in this
mental health field for black men. It's amazing you are
(19:45):
and so I mean you all. Being an author does
open up doors for you to get out, yes, your message,
but to have people to come in and work with you.
And man, it's not nothing like holding another sister girl
(20:06):
or a brother man's hand who's making impact and you all,
y'all talking to one of them right now. But this
doing the host of this podcast, miss Angela, has been
causing people to grow and to grow out of their
(20:33):
inconvenience in them feeling uncomfortable and she's rocking at you all.
That's what it's all about, us rocking together and bringing
out the gifts, the talents, the abilities and the influence
so we can help our fellow man.
Speaker 6 (20:55):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Wow? It does.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
I mean the power of collaboration, the power of connection,
the power of you know, people just being willing to
work together you know, one of the things that I
always say that when we all come together, there's a
reason why we come together, because you know, I'm a
very strong, spiritual person, and I believe that, you know,
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He puts people together so that we can pull off
of each other's strength and we can build up each
other when we're weak. So He'll put me with somebody
that may be weak in the area, and I can
be that that they're weaken, I'm their strength, and then
where I am weak, they're my strength. And it's like,
that's that's what He had been doing in the midst
(21:41):
of you know, me on this journey. So what I
wanted to do a part of this one hundred Author's
movement was to do just that I've witnessed so much
as an author and different experiences, and I wanted to
be able to help individuals to really get their message
out there and deliver their messages and be able to
(22:03):
share and us pull on each other and uplift each
other and encourage each other. You know, when I started,
when I started the one hundred after movement, it's like,
at first I thought it was supposed to be awards,
but then the more and more God started dealing with me.
I knew it was not about awards, because when we
started talking about awards and different things like that, then
(22:24):
people started wanting to be in a competition, and then
it started being about folks, and then it started being
about all of that when we're supposed to be collaborating, connecting,
inspiring and uplifting each other. So I had to go
back and I had to I had to meditate for
a minute, and I had to listen, and I had
to revamp what he was telling me to do with this.
(22:48):
So I want to ask you a question concerning the movement.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
I want to I want to ask you a question
after your question.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
All right, okay, So what is inspired you to be
a part of this movement? Because you could have been
anywhere doing anything else. But what inspired you to say, hey,
I need to be in the midst of that.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
For me, it's all about going to places unfamiliar. Now,
when we did one thing, we did a webinar and
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it's just you and I. But then when this came up.
Speaker 6 (23:44):
I was like, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
First of a I was like, I don't know, it's
one hundred and then you know, I thought it was like, man.
Speaker 6 (23:53):
Were finished being a competition. I don't feel like being
in a competition.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
I just want to be among good folks that can
help a brother man out with literary writings and ideas
and everything.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
And then it was like.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
I went on and I joint. And then when I
found out, now this is selfish, but it's for real.
I found out I didn't have to be a leader.
It was okay to be a follower. And then if
my leadership skills are needed, they can call upon you.
But you know what, sister girl, she laying it down,
(24:40):
she powering it up, she's scraping off it. I mean
she building up some walls, as far as good walls
that support and encourage. And that's what I'm about. I'm
an encourager. I'm someone that likes to help build up people.
And I just see that in what we're doing with
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the one hundred authors to watch. And I'm like, I'm
glad you listen to God. I'm glad that you humbled
yourself and then go off of your own pride. But
yet you said, I'm a willing vessel and if you
want to scrap it, scrap it, hey talk to me
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to do another way that will give you glory, and
that will help people to grow into their authentic self
and be able to express that. And so that's the
reason why I got on a board, because those things
really do help me not only to stretch, but grow,
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and not only grow, but reach deeper depths and higher
heights that I've never imagined that I could do. So oh, yes, ma'am,
keep on putting on the butter, crisp up the bread,
and warm it all up. Because this thing is making
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me stretch, y'all. It's making me stretch, and it's causing
me to develop even more skill and ability, and it's
okay for me to grow.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
When you've been stagnated in life.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
And you've experienced trauma, those things can overwhelm you so
much to where you're afraid to move. But yet the
author's the concepts, the ideas, the point of views that
each author has is important in building our fellow man up.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
And who wouldn't want to be a part of that.
Speaker 5 (26:58):
I'm just saying, But ok okay, okay, okay, okay, But
before we go on, I have to ask you a question.
You know what that question is? No, all right, this
is the question when God was speaking to you and
he said no, I ain't pulling you to go that way.
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Was it hard and was it uncomfortable to being in inconvenienced?
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Well, I wasn't inconvenience because I always want to listen
to what he is telling me. So if he's telling me,
if he tell me to go left and then say no,
go right, I'm about to go, I'm about to do it,
I'm not finn to question it. I didn't question it.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
I just.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
I know that it's not about competition, and I know
that in this season he didn't want he wasn't leading
me towards competition. You know, it was more about uplifting
people and showing people that you know, it does not
matter if you don't have thousands and thousands of dollars,
(28:17):
that you still can do those things that that that
you want to do.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
You still can publish. Like people think that you.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Just got to have so much money to publish and
that you just got to do this and you just
got to do that. I just want people to know
if you're willing to work, if you're willing to put
in the work, if you're willing, if you're just willing,
like it's soove an exodus somewhere. I think, if you
just open your mouth, he gonna give you what to say,
(28:45):
and if you just go, he gonna guide you where
to go. See when he when he said, he left
us the comforter. So he left us the Holy Spirit.
And see, a lot of us we don't want to
reference the Holy Spirit, and we don't listen to the
Holy Spirit like we pray, and then the Holy Spirit
(29:05):
can be menacing to us. But because a lot of
us don't reference it, we miss out on our blessing.
We miss out on him telling us. And then we
steadied praying about the same thing. When the whole Spirit
already done told us and already note instructed us. I mean,
it may come in a song, it may come in
a podcast, it may come in anything, because the Holy
(29:28):
Spirit moves. He said he left us the comforter. So
he left everything that we needed with the Holy Spirit.
So we got.
Speaker 7 (29:37):
To learn how to tune in and allow the Holy
Spirit to lead God and direct us.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
Ah, that was that sauce, y'all.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
Y'all, y'all felt that Mary, she was drifting so much
sauce today it was static. Then y'all catch what she
was said, Man, you better wake up and smell the coffee.
That's what you better do. Because you got things to do,
you got people to see, you got places to go.
(30:13):
And here it is, she's singing to you. Avail yourself.
Avail yourself to God's leading and guiding so that you
can be the best of yourself.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
And then you don't even understand. Like today, and I
just got to be transparent.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Like today, we were in the chat because we have
a group chat, so we were in the group chat,
and I was I had told one of the.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Authors to call me.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Well, I noticed that another author, she was she was
honted in on everything that I was posting, like she
was just there. She was liking you sharing and I
see she's always there. So I see that she's very attentive.
And it was like the whole spirit told me to
contact her. So I told her to call me. So
when she called me, she told me that so much
(31:07):
had been going on, like I ended up before I
got off the phone with her, I ended up praying
for her. I ended up sharing some stuff with her
that she said, you just don't know. She said, I
was just thinking of stuff that I could do, and
I just like the spirit just beginning to move, and
it's just like he just dropped so much.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Stuff on me and I just gave it to it.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
It just started pouring out, and I told her, I said, baby,
I don't know where this come from. I don't know who,
I said, because this was not what I was I
was planning on doing. I said, but I can't stop.
What the Holy Spirit does?
Speaker 6 (31:42):
You know?
Speaker 2 (31:42):
And I always have to remind I always have to acknowledge,
and I always have to you know, it's nothing that
I do is by my strength because people don't know
that I suffer from South Adiica real bad. So sometime
I'm over here struggling just to get up the bed.
That's just how much pain I be in sometimes, Like
(32:04):
people don't understand this cold weather.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
It really had me down.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
But yet I was still doing interviews, I was still
doing whatever it was. People don't know the things that
I go through, But I don't wear it because I.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Know what the bigger plan is.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Because Jeremiah twenty nine and eleven, you know, they always
say that He's not gonna put more on us than
we can bear. He already know what we He already
know what we're gonna go through. He already know everything
because Jeremiah twenty nine and eleven, it was done, It
was finished, it was row. It's gonna come to pass,
regardless of it, come to fast tomorrow, next week. His
(32:41):
word will not return to him. Boy, he will watch
over and to his perform and perfected in our life.
He declared that he had a plan for us, and
his plan was to prosper us, not to harm us.
He said he wasn't have good health, hope in the future.
Those things have to.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Come to pass.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Even with free will and us making the choices that
we want to make, we still have to come back
and line up with his word, because the word is
not going to return to him.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
Boy.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
We can go to the left, we can go to
the right, we can veer back to the left and right,
and we can keep Chris crossing. But at the end
of the day, you're gonna go back to where he said. So,
if you want to take the long.
Speaker 6 (33:18):
Roll or you want to take the long row, I.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Mean that it is what it is.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
You can either take the long roll or you can
take the short row. The short road is the straight
and narrow role. Lining up with the word and allowing
him to leave God and direct you. But if you
want to do with Joe Way, then you know you're
gonna have to go around these curves, these cribs, these hills,
these things, and you know you're gonna have to endure
the consequences from all that you do.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
So, hey, you got a choice.
Speaker 6 (33:48):
Doctor, angel boy.
Speaker 5 (33:50):
You you spending verbs, you spending bars, you doing all
of that.
Speaker 6 (33:56):
And it is so good to hear that.
Speaker 5 (34:01):
You know, people think that you live on on at
the top of the hill, and they got understand that, Hey,
you go through, but you keep on pressing through and
you allow the Lord God to help you. And you
know what, man today, to illustrate even further what you're
(34:25):
talking about today, I went to one of our mental
health hospitals and there I did a presentation about you know,
my life and things and and in that I shared
about being molested at the age of four or five
by both men and by women, and I shared, I
(34:50):
talked about the effects of it.
Speaker 6 (34:52):
I talked about how I used that.
Speaker 5 (34:54):
To to to bring hope in life to other people
and doing that, God was saying say this, don't say
that it's time for you to share hope with them
through you know, the the nine eight eight system and
(35:18):
nine eight eighty for those that don't know, it's for
mental health and substance use crisis. And after sharing and
all of that, not just one guy, not just two guys, three,
but four guys came up to me and said, you
(35:40):
really did touch me with your story about malestation, and
guess what I've done that I've gotten that and it's
been done to me. And these guys didn't know who
they were as far as all of that as patients,
(36:00):
but those four guys did come.
Speaker 6 (36:02):
Up to me and said, that really did help me.
Speaker 5 (36:05):
It helped me to become vulnerable and share with you today.
And with doing that, it ends up that I was
able to share more with them about the help that
I got, the supports that's out there, the resources that's
out there. And for men, you know, women, yes you
(36:27):
go through it too, but you don't hear a lot
of men talking about melestation, you know, So it really
did help those men, and that's what it's about, you know,
following the leading of the Lord and helping others and watching.
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You know, Paul talked about one plants, one waters, you know,
and in that in our writing, we bring about that
perspective and we bring about that hope for other people.
So I thank you for what you're doing and how
you're bringing people together to beat up on issues and
(37:10):
problems that the world is experiencing, and you're helping us
to grow into our authentic self to help our fellow man.
Speaker 6 (37:22):
So thank you, well, thank you.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
I want to thank you for joining the movement and
bringing your unique perspective and your voice because what you
do is definitely needed in our community because mental health
is one of those things that.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
We rush under the rug.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
We don't want we don't want to we want to
pray about it, throw some all and no, that's not it.
And that's something that you know, even a lot of
my minister friends, you know, we have learned that we
got to go lay on these couches too, and we
have to get the help that we need, you know.
(38:04):
And I'm so glad that we now see more of
us because where a lot of us have not wanted
to get the help is because we felt like we
didn't have representation, we didn't have no one that could
really truly relate to us.
Speaker 5 (38:20):
Well, let's just be honest, we would say, you know
what that's for them?
Speaker 6 (38:24):
White people. That's not for black people.
Speaker 5 (38:27):
We've always been strong, you know, not understanding that it's
been tearing our mental health, physical health, spiritual health, financial health,
all of those aspects have been messed up and jacked
up because we had quote unquote so much pride that
(38:52):
because of the issue of slavery, the issue of civil rights,
those means it has caused damage to our psyche. And
here it is now we got individuals that letting all
of the emotions go out, but yet they don't know
(39:13):
how to manage it. And then you got the Generation
X and baby boomers who kept it in so much
that impacted our health.
Speaker 6 (39:25):
You know, people either.
Speaker 5 (39:27):
Implode or they explode, which one are you?
Speaker 6 (39:32):
You know?
Speaker 5 (39:34):
And in that we have to learn how to have
that balance right. And that's what we're doing now, how
the balance right.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
So again, I'm grateful for you, and I'm grateful for
the many individuals like yourself that are doing the work
and giving back to the community.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
So thank you.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
I want to before we leave, I need everybody to
know how they can get in contact with you and
support the things that you're doing.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
So please share.
Speaker 5 (40:09):
Oh yeah, you can reach the brother man at Wyndale
Underscore Feels w E N D E L L Underscore
f I E L D s act y'allhoo dot com.
(40:31):
Or you can go to my website Whindale Feels dot
com and you can get to know the brother Man,
see what I've been up to, and then you know, hey.
Speaker 6 (40:45):
Hit me up on Facebook.
Speaker 5 (40:47):
You can hit me up on Messenger, all right, and
the brother Man will respond. So you know, it's about
helping one another out here. Now, I can't give you
money and all that.
Speaker 6 (40:58):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (40:59):
I'm sorry. I ain't that big yet. I ain't that
big yet, but I'm getting there. And when I do
all sugar, sugar, sugar, with honey, with that and with
the teeth. Oh yeah, brother man, gonna make it happen. Yes, yes, ma'am, Yes, ma'am.
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I just want to say thank you.
Speaker 3 (41:22):
Well.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
I want you to leave our listeners with something that
would inspire them to stay on this journey we call
life and to not quit, to not allow their flame
to go out.
Speaker 5 (41:41):
So to share with you, my son had a terrible
accident in which he was at the gym and he
was squatting and he went the press, you know leg
press and twat I should say, and to one hundred
and fifty pounds fell on his back and it broke
(42:05):
his lower l two and my son was paralyzed. He
could not move from his waist down and it ended
up that once he got the emergency operation, he looked
(42:27):
up at me and he said, Dad, I don't want
to live. If I got to be handicapped and everything,
I would rather just die. Well, you all, I tried
to take my life when he was three years old,
and God made it for me to continue to be alive,
(42:48):
to be in his life. So as I'm praying with him,
crying with him, trying to comfort him, he falls asleep
and I'm holding his hand, and in that he wakes
up at five o'clock in the morning getting ready for
the nurse to come in to issue out medications, and
(43:11):
guess what, I was still holding his hand, and he
looks at me and he said, Dad, thank you for
being here. If you weren't here, if you woulda died,
I think I wouldn't have made it if this was happening.
(43:33):
You provide a resource and a support for someone. Please, ma'am, please, sir,
don't forget we need your characha. We need your sugar
and spice and everything's nice to help us to get
(43:55):
through our hard times. My vulnerability help those men to
be arnold bull and to be able to seek out
help for their mental health condition. You provide so much
for people, So please, ma'am, please sir, don't cave in,
(44:16):
give up or quit because you do help people that
you don't know.
Speaker 6 (44:26):
That's all I got for you.
Speaker 3 (44:28):
Well, that's how we need.
Speaker 2 (44:29):
I want to thank you for joining us tonight and
sharing with us tonight. I can't wait to see what
all is in store for twenty twenty five, So I'm
encouraging every one to stick around, stay connected to the
one hundred offors to watch for twenty twenty five. We
have some amazing individuals that you're gonna be able to
see what they're doing. You're gonna be able to tap
(44:51):
into what they're doing. You're gonna be able to stay
connected to them. So I want to thank you, miss
that doctor. When day ah feel.
Speaker 8 (45:02):
All right, all right, all right, I tell you I
have truly truly enjoyed tonight.
Speaker 2 (45:14):
If you enjoyed something that was shared on tonight, I
want you to share it with somebody. Y'all share this broadcast.
Make sure that you are connected to these amazing authors,
because we're gonna be doing some amazing things through our
twenty twenty five We're gonna be coming off these social
media sites.
Speaker 3 (45:32):
We're gonna be meeting in some of these.
Speaker 2 (45:34):
Cities, so you may see us in a city near
you soon. First stop, maybe Atlanta area. So I want
to encourage you guys to get involved, stay connected to
the one hundred authors to watch for twenty twenty five.
Who knows, we may be in your town next.
Speaker 3 (45:50):
Y'all be blessed. The Queen loves you and appreciate you
all for tuning in.
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