MEET KISHA JOHNSON MCRAE

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
K ladies and gentleman, May I have your attention please.

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The show starts in tell eight seven six Hi all
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Speaker 2 (02:30):
Oh well, well, well, welcome, welcome, welcome. I want to
welcome you guys too, another episode of Upcoast and Personal
with Angela on behalf of Aspiring Off This magazine and
The Crew Podcast. I want to thank you guys for
joining us on today.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
I hear so it going.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
I don't know what that is. I never heard that before,
but y'all know technology, and y'all know what we did
with on a daily basis. For those that do support
us know what we deal with. So I want to
encourage you guys, So go ahead and share this with
someone in your circle of influence and hopefully even they

(03:14):
would get this together because they are really doing a number.
I'm telling you. I don't know if you guys can
hear this, but it's a lot of static in the background.
But we're gonna try to move forward. We're gonna try
to move forward, y'all know me. I'd like to make
sure that I'm representing my guests the best that I can.

(03:36):
So I want to make sure that you guys, So
those that are listening if you would please let me
know if it's clear to you, because I don't want
to bring my guests on and y'all can't hear her,
So can y'all hear me? Okay, just say put yes
in the comment if you can hear me. Let me

(03:56):
get on my other device really quick, because I want
to make sure clear when I bring my guests up,
I want to make sure we are loud and clear.
So y'all give me a second. Y'all know, I'm gonna
work this out. Let me see what's going on here. Okay,

(04:33):
it's clear, so I'm gonna bring her own up, y'all.
I had to check, so I had to get on
my other device, and I had to make sure. So
I'm gonna bring my special guests up tonight. We have
another amazing author. Not only is she a woman that's
representing international women's history one, but she is also an author, y'all,

(05:00):
So we're gonna she's a part of the one hundred
Our Movements. So tonight we really gonna get a chance
to dive in and find out about miss Keisha Johnson
mick Ray. So I'm gonna bring her up and allow
her the opportunity to introduce herself. So let me bring
her up, get her in the studio. All right, all right,

(05:26):
all right. I don't know what's going on with this
technology tonight, but you know what, we don't stop. We
don't stop.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
Hey, how are you?

Speaker 2 (05:38):
It was like I didn't want you to come in
the studio.

Speaker 3 (05:41):
Was a liar. We ain't claiming him tonight, not at all,
not at all.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
He was just being a little messed. But they know,
we don't stop. We keep pressing, and we keep pressing.
That's what we do. So hello, how are you?

Speaker 3 (05:56):
I am also a wonderful thank you so much for
this opportunity of sharing this time with you. I really
really appreciate you, appreciate you actually in all that you do.
I just want to say to you from my heart
to yours that I am so I am very very
grateful to First of go to the Lord, my Lord
Jesus Christ above for the opportunities that you you you

(06:18):
persevere and give others right and give up yourself. But
I want to I also thank him for you singing
yes and obeying right, being obedient to the call that's
on your life. Because Queen Angela, you definitely have a calling.
You had you on my mind today and I was
just saying to myself and I actually I was talking
to my mother about you today and I said, I

(06:39):
don't know how she do what she do. I said, Ma,
if you follow her, how does she do all these
things by herself? And I had to realize that ain't
nothing but God. So that is definitely your gift. This
is definitely your calling that you're operating in. You know
what I'm saying. So you definitely you're definitely on the
throne right there there, right there with God. You know,
He's definitely pushing you and give you the strength to

(07:01):
do everything that you do. And I from my heart,
like I said to yours, I appreciate you for that.
I really do.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
Amen. Amen, Amen, And I thank you for that because
it is nothing but God. And I often tell people,
you know, I do not work unto man. I work
unto the Lord. So therefore I have no expectations from
man because I know that it comes from above. So

(07:30):
that's why I do what I do. And that's how
I'm able to do what I do because I know
it's not by my strength because who am I? You know,
I have no power I couldn't do this, so I
know that it is He that operates within me. So yeah,

(07:50):
I'm grateful, and I'm grateful that He allowed me to
be in the midst of great people that make it
so easy, that make it seem so easy.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
So it's all Him, it is, it is and I
And I also want to say to you that you know,
like the word tellers, you know many a call, but
few are chosen. And I'm gonna tell you may be
operating your calling, but you was chosen for this. So
that's why you do what you do. And that's why
you're able to do what you do by his unchanging hands,

(08:21):
you know, because he's holding order you. I tell you
because like I said, I look at what you do
woo And I said Lord, And I said, b she
doesn't have anybody operating this with her but the Lord himself.
She don't have a bunch of assistants and workers and
this and this and that. She may get some help
here and there, but I do know you do this
with your own hands, you know, you know, so you're

(08:44):
definitely operating in the Lord's calling and being chosen to
do what you need to do on this earth. And
walking in your purpose. I mean, that's that's all I
can say.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
Man, that's how I want to get them. And I
wanted to be an outlet so that others can, you know,
share his goodness. You know. It's it's with me. It's
all about him, you know. And when I first started
doing all of this, I used to tell people. When
I first started a LAC and people used to come

(09:17):
online on whatever I was doing, and they would say,
ask me questions or whatever. It was always it's more
than books. It's not about books. And God just begin
to show me that because when I started going live
and started doing live, it just like I would have
an outline of questions that I was gonna ask people,

(09:38):
and He would just change everything. So that's why I
stopped with the questions. I stopped with having to sending
people questions because they'll have their mindset to answer these questions.
And then God's gonna take me a whole nother direction.

Speaker 3 (09:54):
Like he it's like, just.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
Listen to them, He tell me, just listen to them.
Here they have to say, and I'm gonna give you
what to stay back so you don't have to have
the questions. He said, It's about relationship. It's about having conversations.
So it's about us having a conversation. We get to
know each other and we have those conversations. So I
want to make people comfortable. I want people to feel like,

(10:18):
you know, they they're at home with a friend, a sister,
somebody that they can relate to. So that that's how
I got here. And I thank you for that because
sometimes we need we we we need that confirmation, right,
and that was just confirmation on today. You know, God

(10:40):
just he'll send you a reminder, He'll he'll send you
someone to remind you of that that you already know
that He's placed in you. But sometimes we allow all
flesh to rise up and then sometimes we just need
you know that that that that spirit man to come
in and say, hey, connect with Joe, spirit man and

(11:01):
connect with you, and then it goes down because sometimes
you know, you wonder if what you're doing, if it's
making a difference it, do it really matter? Do do
people really care? You know, it is not funny that
you say that, because even on the end of last week,
I was even I was having second thoughts about the

(11:23):
one hundred out the movement. I was really wondering you know, God,
is this really what you want me to do? Because
it's not. It's like the more I try to pour,
it's like nobody is. Nobody is grabbing what I'm giving,
just like it's valuable stuff, stuff that can help you,
stuff that you know, and and it's free. I'm not

(11:44):
charging you for it. And it's just like people just
looking at it and it's just being looked at and
nobody is utilizing it, right, and it just hurts my
It's sad. I'm not going to say it hurts my heart.
It saddens my heart that you present this right there
in front of them and they won't take advantage of.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
It like you have it.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
It's right here, Just step out and do it. Like
I'm not gonna tell you something that I haven't done, right,
Like I'm trying to give you things that work for
some of us that we know work, you know. Right now,
I'm using stuff that I just learned this class. I

(12:27):
just got my NBA, So I'm trying to utilize some
of these things that I've learned over these last two
years of trying to get this this degree. So I
feel like if they say on paper that I know
what I'm doing. Then let me help you.

Speaker 3 (12:45):
Right, that's right, let me help you.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
I graduated soon.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
Cool?

Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah again, but enough about me, that's all right. You
So you are someone I think we've been knowing each
other about a year, yes, maybe a little over a year,
and you are someone that need to be writing. I'm like,

(13:18):
she needs to be writing, she needs to be getting
that stuff out. But you have, you have, you have
written in some of my collaboration projects. So you have
been getting it out. But it's time.

Speaker 3 (13:32):
Yeah, you're right, You're right. And God, I've gotten those confirmations,
even from my bishop. You know, he didn't know exactly
what was going on, but it was He told me
it was time to move forward. You know, people tell
me it's God is telling me move move for it.
And you know sometime we we Christmas. What does that mean?

(13:52):
It's simple, I know what's going on in my life.
I know what I need to be doing, and it's
just God needs to be pushing for it. Because God
is not going to give me and give me these gifts.
He's not gonna put me through the trials and tribulations
and have me overcome them to a degree to where
I can't help nobody else and me feel like I'm
less than or that I can't help that person. When

(14:14):
I had to realize that, you know, me being chosen
to do what I do is because God saw it
in me. You know. God wouldn't have put it in me.
God wouldn't have chosen me if he didn't think that
I can handle it. He's not gonna have me go
out there and put things out there or speak or share,
you know, my testimonies and look like a fool, you

(14:36):
know what I mean. I had to, you know, but
this is sometimes how the enemy, you know, works, And
I had to, you know, and I'm still fighting. I
could be authentic. I'm still fighting through that because I
do feel that it is a true calling all my life,
that saying does not want to come the past, and

(14:59):
just having these opportunities, I had to realize, like, these
opportunities are opportunities for you to help somebody else. You
cannot do for other people, and you cannot share by
holding it in. It's not for me. That's what I
had to realize, that what I do, and even what
you do, it's not for us.

Speaker 2 (15:21):
We wasn't put on.

Speaker 3 (15:21):
Here for the purpose to serve for us we was
put on there. You know, I do nobody no service.
I do them with disservice by not sharing my life,
sharing my testimony, sharing my brand, sharing what I do
with other people when I know that they can practically
and perhaps save somebody's life. I'm actually I feel that
I'm I had to keep this in my mind, that

(15:43):
I'm helping someone else commit emotional and spiritually suicide by
not sharing what God has given me, because what I
have could save some what I say tonight, or what
I have said, or what somebody has read. If I
don't put it out there, how they're gonna read it
in order to have their life changed and experienced transformation

(16:07):
exactly exactly.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
And I remember us having a conversation and you was
telling me how you suffer with lupus and how when
you went to the doctor, they there was no evidence,
like they if the doctor said, if he did not
know you had lucas, he would not have believed that
you suffered from lucas, you know. And I'm just like,
I'm just I'm like, you know, people need to hear that.

(16:33):
People need to hear that, because I know plenty of
people that suffer with lupis matter. In fact, my niece
suffered with lucas. And I know people that suffer with lupus,
and some of them they they have doubts. They they
they they listen to all the things that the doctor saying.

(16:53):
They as different things. Like my niece, she she just
she and she won't try. And and and I me
and my me and my sister, we get so aggravated
sometimes because like I want her to get up. My
kniece has gained so much weight and weight go up
and down, all the different medications or whatever. And I

(17:15):
to me, every time I see her, I just I
feel like she's just in so much pain. And it
just hurts me because she's hurting and I see her hurt,
and whenever I talk to her, it's her her son
with he he said, Mama's not feeling good today. She's
laying down. It's always she's laying down, you know. And

(17:38):
she's like, I'm trying to help take care of mama today,
you know. And I'm like, wow, that's not uh me
a child should have to live. I'm definitely waiting for
that book to come out, because you're gonna bless a
lot of people when you share about you know, when
you share about your condition, when you share about you know,

(18:00):
how you're living with lupas and how you're still able
to get out and do all of the stuff that
you're doing. And you know, and I tell people, and
it's a lot of us that we don't look like
what we go through. We don't look like what we've
been through. We don't look like none of that stuff.
But I tell people all the time, you know, it
took all of that to make us look like what
we look like though.

Speaker 3 (18:20):
That's right, that's right. The struggle, the pain, you know,
and a lot of times, you know, I was diagnosed.
I'm fifty four now. I was diagnosed with lupus a
year after my daughter was born. So just imagine that
year after my daughter born. Here it is, I'm told
I have lupus. And first of all, when I was
told and diagnosed, you know, a whole year after I

(18:42):
suffered the way I did with the pain, because I
was like a walking they just couldn't understand what was
wrong with me. You know, I would blow up in
the face. Mine would happen more in the face, and
it was more physical with the chronic pain. They just
could not understand what was wrong with me, and I
was diagnosed with through a rash they call the butterfly rash.

(19:04):
It was a rash that would happen around the nose
and it was in the shape of a like a butterfly,
and they took a piece of it. My grandmother, maternal grandmother,
is diagnosed with it, and also my aunt. You know,
neither one of them is with us at this time,
but I'm the one standing with it right now. And
the fact that I could, you know, I like to

(19:27):
show people. I like to show my family that loopis
is not me. I don't have to I have to diagnosis,
but it doesn't define who I am. But at the beginning,
it wasn't always like that, and me feeling and me
knowing that at the beginning when I was diagnosed, I
was a hot mess.

Speaker 2 (19:43):
I was.

Speaker 3 (19:44):
I was emotionally destroyed, overwhelmed because I had a one
year old to raise, and the fact that the doctor
at that time, nineteen ninety nineteen ninety one, they didn't
know pretty much how to deal with loops, what to
do to smack us with some print the zone and
that was it. You know, That's probably why maybe your
niece is blowing up, you know, and gaining the weight

(20:08):
on and off, because that's what happened with me. When
I get on it, I would blow up. Then when
I get off, I'm losing, you know. So it was
an emotional trauma when my body with life me raising mentally,
you know, I've been off. I was on fourteen medications
at one time, between LOOPIS and mental health. And I

(20:29):
believe all this had to do with me thinking that
LOOPIS was going to be the rest of my life
and I had to live my life through LOOPIS. So
the pain I felt every day, I had to look
forward to that pain. That's how I was living. And
just imagine having a doctor come in the room to
tell you the diagnosis and he said to me that, yeah,
you have LOOPIS. He told that to me like he

(20:50):
was telling me that, you know, maybe I had a cold.
He said, yeah, you diagnosed with lupis. And I just
want to let you know that the Loopis lifespan is
ten years. So I had to I had to internalize that,
and I had to realize why so many years I

(21:11):
felt that I was gonna die, I was gonna be
taken from this earth from LOOPIS. At age forty. I
didn't realize that until maybe a few years ago, of
what was internalized the way he told me what he
told me, you had no reason to say to me,
You had no reason to even give me that information, period.

(21:31):
And I internalized that, and I lived a lot of
my life thinking I was gonna die at forty. So
just just imagine, just imagine. And I had a one
year old to raise. My daughter was one year old,
you know when I diagnosed. And at seven, you know,
my daughter was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. At the time,
they call it juvenile rheumatory arthritis. So now here I

(21:56):
am battling loopis. But at the same time I had
to suppressed put that on the backbone burner, because I
had to raise a child that I had to watch
go through adult medication and chronic pain that I could
do nothing about. I always had my my spirituality, but
I was operating in the lawd like that at that age.

(22:17):
I just took from my mother's and you know, the
people in my family that were you know, saved, and
you know I had I went on with. I went
on them, I went on with they perceived God to
be So that kept me you know, strengthened, and I
know I was prayed over, so I was able to

(22:38):
kind of overcome those challenges. But just imagine, this is
why I think I'm so passionate about the caregivers, the parents,
you know who who are sick themselves to chronic illness,
going through the chronic illness, and also at the same
time raising another child with chronic illness all meant to challenges.

(23:01):
You know, my daughter was a miracle baby. I always
call it that she was a miracle baby because I
said that I have day by men and doctors, I
shouldn't have had no baby while I was suffering with lupis,
but I wasn't diagnosed until after I had her. So
what happened was I already had the loopis was operating
in my body, but once I had her, the struggle

(23:22):
of that and the different things that I went through
and my body changing. Actually you know, it showed up,
you know as the loopist and then it and then
ten years later the same thing with my son. I
had to suppress the loopis again. And mind you, I'm
still on all these medications. I'm still going through the pain.
I'm still going through. I had to raise my son

(23:44):
who was diagnosed when he was seven. I said, I
don't know what it is. Lord, God, you have me
with the Sevens, with ADHD. You know, later to find
out that I suffered for the simples you know as well.

Speaker 2 (23:55):
So this is why you.

Speaker 3 (23:56):
Know I find in my lifetime. I had to sit
back and say, well, okay, Lord, what am I to
do with all of this? You know, what did you
do for me? I had to sit back and say,
the Lord saved me from a lot of emotional distress.
You know, he healed me a lot emotionally, you know,
because I could. I felt like I was going to

(24:18):
lose my mind, but I did not, you know, suicidal idiation.
You know, I can look back on all of that.
You know. I'm also I guess you would call it
a sexual assault survivor. You know, I experienced that for
somebody I trusted. So all of this and here I

(24:39):
am today and a lot of it, Like you said, Angela,
people don't know. And it's like, God, is why you're
not telling this story? You know why you're not telling
these stories? Right? These are all a part of you
that people could use. Because I allow people to tell
me that it's too much. It's a lot. You can't

(25:02):
talk about all that. You got to stick to one thing.
So I got stuck in that. I think that's what
it was too. It's like, Okay, what do I talk about?
I talk about all of that?

Speaker 2 (25:13):
Yeah, you talk about all of that because all of
that is you like, you know, people wonder why I
never wrote a memoir because it's so much. If in
these one hundred I tell people, if you want a memoir,
go pick up some of these one hundred and thirty

(25:33):
one pieces of work I got out here. You can
find out a little bit about me and every piece
of it because it's a piece of me and all
of them. So you learn bits and pieces here and there.
But along the way, you get a story of who
I am. So it's never too much. You can put
it all over the place, you can put it in.
It's so many different formats, so many different ways. But

(25:57):
you have a journey that so many people need and
want to hear. We often have that. Don't nobody want
to hear that? That that made them EMPs wanted, Yeah,
that be them. Imps wanted to tap into what they know.
God is already placed on the inside of it. But
They can't stop that because he's gonna continue to place you.

(26:21):
He gonna bring you if you if you want to
to to to deny it. He gonna put you in
the presence of people that's gonna pull it about you,
and you're gonna be forced. Like my friend, my my,
my prayer best Snaria in her for five years, we're
gonna do that book. We're gonna do that book. So

(26:41):
she designed that she was gonna do the book in January.
We had a release party last weekend.

Speaker 3 (26:49):
Okay, okay, yeah, I think I saw it on social media.
That was beautiful.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
Yes, So it took it took him innute, but it
took her five years. But when when God spoke to
her and told her now it's time, did she move?

Speaker 3 (27:05):
She moved Yep. She moved yep.

Speaker 2 (27:07):
And it didn't take long. It didn't take long.

Speaker 3 (27:10):
Once you get that fire back, Once the Lord you
realizing that he really you get that fireback, it's no
stopping because you know, to tell everybody the truth here.
I had wrote a book in twenty it was twenty fourteen.
I wrote a book called Life After Diagnosis. And when

(27:32):
I wrote that book, I was still struggling a lot,
but I knew I overcame a lot when it came
to loopis with some things that I could tell people
how to cope. At that time, I was more into, like,
let me help people cope while they have lupers. Let
me let me give them that hope in that way,
because there's a lot of people with lupis and with
these mental challenges they just don't know how to cope.

(27:54):
They just think they have to just stay in, you know,
the rim of the disease or the mental challenge, and
that's all they know. So I said, let me write
what actually helped me cope so I could live, so
I could take care of my kids, so I could
do what Keisha wants to do. And what happened was
being at I was at the time. I was struggling

(28:16):
a lot with the ADHD, so I had no direction
at all. I was I wasn't following the way to
do it, the way the Lord was telling me to
do it, and I just wrote. I did write. Everything
was for me. I wrote everything, but I had I
had someone publish it for me. And I think like

(28:38):
at that time, you know you want to be Sometimes
some people want to do multiple things and that's fine,
but you really, we really need to find that somebody
that's perfected in these certain areas in order for things
to be a success. And the book just didn't work
out well at all when it was uploaded on It
was uploaded on Amazon and everything, and the Lord said
to me, Keisha, once I got one kind of ify review,

(29:03):
the Lord said, Keisha, download your book. I said, you know,
it's a good idea. Let me go. Let me go
it audio. What is it? Audio? Audio, audible? Let me
download my book from Amazon, girl, I download that book.
And you know how a book that has a message,
even if there's grammical errors, people could just overlook that

(29:24):
because the message is so strong. There was no way
those grammical errors and different things was going to be overlooked.
Because I didn't know what soft editing was. I didn't
edit it. I didn't write like that. So someone did
a soft edit it wasn't really a full edit of
my book, and I let them, you know, put it up.
So I kind of got stuck from there. I was devastated.

(29:50):
I was worried about I was doomed before anybody even
know who knew who I was because of the book.
The book is not a you know, and I just
read visited it a couple of weeks ago. I said,
I still have this book. And I said to myself,
I said, okay, Lord, I'm ADHD emotional wellness. I'm loopis.

Speaker 2 (30:09):
Where do you want?

Speaker 3 (30:10):
What do you want? What do you need? What do
I need to share?

Speaker 2 (30:13):
You know?

Speaker 3 (30:14):
And and he let me know. You know, you operated
where I need I'm operating and where I need to
operate in. But I do need you to let people
know how you overcame what you came and your loopis journey.
Because every group Angela did I get in It's depressing.
It's no hope in these groups because everyone has loopis

(30:37):
and that's what they focus on because some people are
going through so much but they don't have anyone pouring
into them on a positive note. So I said, that's me,
that's that's that's me. God, you're telling me that's me.
So I can't let twenty fourteen, you know what he
saved me from in twenty fourteen keep me from what

(31:00):
he needs me to do now?

Speaker 2 (31:03):
Right, Wow, that's hard and and and and and that's
often the case when you go in these groups, especially
when you go in groups where everybody have similar or
the same conditions, you know, instead of us trying to
pour into each other to lift each other up, it's

(31:24):
just like we're trying to get a pity party, Like
we just trying to have that. We just want everybody
feeling sorry for I don't want nobody feels absolutely because
I tell you, people don't know. They don't know the
struggles of sciatica, they don't know the struggles of PTSD,
they don't knows of and everybody have it in their
own different ways. But you see me on here, You

(31:48):
see me. I have all kinds of things that I
use when I'm not online. I got a massage, I
got two different heating pads. I got a super large
one that fits across my big old pillow, and then
I got a little small one that sometimes I just

(32:10):
need to just be able to slide it up under
my be able to put it in the back in
my back, up under my shirt sometime. So you know,
people don't know what we go through, but yet we
we show up and we try to be intentional about
those things because being intentional. And I did a lesson
this morning about the power of being intentional and understanding

(32:32):
that when you are intentional about that thing, God would
open up those doors. When I was on my bed
of affliction, I was like, Okay, Lord, I don't want
to do this. There's something I got to be. That's
gotta be something. That's got to be something. So when
he raised me up off my bed of affliction, I

(32:53):
begin I came back to Facebook and I started just
going live. And I didn't know what I was doing.
I was just going to live every day, just talking
to people. And I said, well, you know what, start
interviewing people. So I just started interviewing people. Didn't didn't
know nothing about nothing, just started interview on people. And

(33:15):
then guy saw me. I went on another person's podcasts
and I went on on that Friday. That Monday, they
was calling me asking me if I want to do
me a host? Wow, ha, been over there five years.
I celebrate five years. Next next month, I celebrate five years.

(33:39):
It's something about them fives too. Yeah, it's something about
them fives too, because I'm gonna be fifty.

Speaker 3 (33:47):
Yeah, okay, okay.

Speaker 2 (33:50):
And then I celebrate my five years over there on
over there on one network, and then we celebrate. We
celebrated five years for the prayer the prayer line in Parawe,
I still I can hear you.

Speaker 3 (34:09):
Can you hear me? Because I don't know if something happened.

Speaker 4 (34:15):
Uh well, we could see you see how the enemy
be working. See she was helping some folks y'all with
this with her testimony. She was helping some people, some

(34:37):
people that was going through and the enemy we still
can hear you, but we can't see you. And it
had to come in and mess with her phone. But
she'll be back on. She'll be back on. When she
come back on, we will breathe.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
Can you hear me? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (35:00):
I can hear okay, uh okay.

Speaker 2 (35:06):
So yes, I tell enemy be busy. But sister Cheryl's
sister Cheryl is one of our prayer warriors that's in
the on the prayer line mornings. She also has Sloopers.
She's a loopers. She's she's had cancer. She's a two

(35:29):
years in remission from cancer. And then they diagnosed her
with forty percent of her heart. Use of her heart.
We're going on with her heart, but we don't claim
none of that. And the last time she went to
the doctors, the the the loopers doctor, they told her

(35:49):
the people told her that they don't. They don't did
all that they can do for her. I said, you
know what, when when she told me that, I wanted
to tell her maybe that was a good thing. But
because they can't do nothing for you, no way, because
it's God gonna do it for you, just like he did.
I'm believing you know when you told me, when you
told me what happened to you? And I wan't I

(36:11):
tell you. I said, I know a lady, and I said,
I need you to tell her your story.

Speaker 3 (36:15):
I see that's her, Yes.

Speaker 2 (36:18):
That's her. She's listening, and it's her because I want
her to know that forget what them doctor said. You
know what them doctors got. You know what them doctors are.
Those doctors are licensed to practice. That they they got
a license to practice. I mean they'reticing on you. They
don't know for sure, and don't nobody to know for sure,

(36:40):
but him up there, he don't know because he created
all of us. And guess what, he can change anything
at the blank of an eye.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
That's right and over there.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
In Proverbs twenty one, one of them proverbs. Over there,
he's saying, and that the the rivers of water flows
and the King's saying he turn other where he wanted
to flow. The power lies in the king's answer. He
could turn the rivers.

Speaker 3 (37:03):
Of water whichever way he can, So.

Speaker 2 (37:05):
That mean he could turn anything around. And doctors can
give us all the diagnosis. They won't. They'll tell you
whatever they want. I'm telling you ain't that to nobody.
And I'm telling you I'm watching the lady right now
to find everything that the doctors done told her. If
she had to listen to the doctors, she wouldn't have
gone two years ago. If she had to listen to

(37:28):
them doctors, she would have been gone.

Speaker 3 (37:30):
Jesus, M that's right.

Speaker 2 (37:34):
That's like my prayer is that God would show people
how to naturally go to that word, to that word
and find that healing because it can be done as
a chiropractor. There's a guy in Texas. He's a chiropractor
and he he was going to school to be a

(37:55):
medical doctor. That's what he was going to school for.
And then midway he said, the Lord spoke to him
and was talking about natural stuff, and you changed with
the chiropracticed route. And he wrote a book he Fast
and Pray. He talked about fast and trying baby Chile

(38:18):
practice a doctor, he said, he shows you how you
can fast and pray and how you can put the
plate down and turns. I say one good thing I
can say and I can apply to all those people
that think I just really don't like Trump and I
hate Trump. Let me tell you I love what he
doing with this these pharmaceuticals. How he taking all that

(38:38):
these as something's gonna be able to run all of
them ass and stuff. Now Trump, I applied you for
that hats out so they can't flunt all their drugs
around here and they camera now do some more stuff,
do some more good stuff like that, and I got
I'm with you, But as long as you're doing that
foolish stuff, I can't. But I'm with him on that.
That that that is something that I ever. They are

(39:01):
the devil. It's nothing but pushing who can who can
push this? And who can push that? And and all
they doing is generic and this and this and and
getting all our money. When you go over to these
other places, you go all to these other places China,
all these people, these people they ain't sick and in
the hospital like that, and they got they get free

(39:24):
health care. Yeah, absolutely, you can give people free half care,
because why they don't be sick like that? Yes, yeah,
Why why we over here get sick? Why because they're
killing us? They with the springing in the air, all

(39:44):
the stuff they spread in the air. I watch them
every Day's first stuff in the air here. I watch
them every day, just the spree and the air. And
then when it rained, it just it don't even look
like rain. Like when it's snowing. We had a mac
that was on our port. When it's snow, I can
go out there right now and still see the residue
from when it snowed.

Speaker 3 (40:05):
Back back then.

Speaker 2 (40:06):
Y'all it's like plastics stuck in the in the in
the what's the names? It ain't snow. And then you
had people around here flaming up snow. How can you
flame up snow?

Speaker 3 (40:18):
Right? So you can tell it's stuff chemicals?

Speaker 2 (40:23):
And then you gotta think about and then if they said, oh,
people naturally growing stuff, they really not naturally growing stuff,
because if y'all putting chemicals in the air, then guess
what those chemicals gotta gotta go. It's like just like
all those aircraft that they them shove, them satellites that
they keep sitting up there. We're gonna hear soon that

(40:45):
there there's a whole bunch of falling stars. Stars falling
them ain't gonna be on following star. They're gonna be them.
They're gonna beat them. Satellites falling from that sky that
you don't put up there. It ain't winning got them.
And you put them up there, and you think they're
supposed to just stay there there forever. They got to
come back down and where they're gonna come, pull them

(41:05):
right on back down here.

Speaker 3 (41:08):
I tell you, Lord, Lord help us. I tell you
that's why we have to be educated, and we definitely
have to know things for ourselves and stop depending on
what we're being told. We have to stop looking into
these things, reading and you know, so like you said,
you know, being in our word and and just knowing

(41:28):
more because otherwise we we we're not gonna make it.
A lot of us is not even gonna be here
next year if we continue not knowing. You know, we
gotta understand, especially with our bodies. And I you know,
I fall in short. You know of the glory too,
because you know I'm putting things in my body and
I knowing don't belong in there, but you know, you

(41:49):
live and you learn, and at the same time, I
have to understand that this is not my body. This
is God's temple and the way I operate in it.
You know, what I'm saying is what's gonna keep me
here longer and what's going to keep my body healthy.
So I'm more cognizant now, especially with loops and even
with different with the adhd our our meals play a

(42:11):
big part in all of it that we put in
our body, you know, And you know with loop is
it's it's just it's still a disease. That's it's it's
more understood now, but not you know, it's it's still
hard to in some ways diagnosed. But they used to

(42:32):
know a lot more than they did, like when I
was diagnosed, because my grandmother was diagnosed, Oh my god,
you know, years and years and years ago, when they
didn't even have a cure, they didn't have nothing. So
for me, my grandmother looked like she was burnt because
my grandmother had the loopers of the skin as well,
so it showed she had an outer showing, you know,

(42:56):
on her skin. So that's all I saw because that's
all I knew. So when I was diagnosed. What's the
first thing that devastated me. I'm going to look like
my grandmother, right. I didn't know anything about lupas. The
first time I ever heard of loopers was when I
saw my grandmother had it and she said, I have loopis.
Never knew what that was, you know, I was young,
you know, nineteen years old. I didn't dig in to

(43:16):
scene what that meant, or when I was younger watching
people look at her and frown their faces up at her.
She was a strong woman because that didn't phaze her,
you know, but at the same time it did me
because as a little kid and then grow up to
hear that I have that, I'm going to look like
my grandmother. But then come to realize she had the

(43:37):
loopis of the skin, you know, the loopers that I
was diagnosed with. It's called systemic loopis and that's more
internal that you know, it's the possibility that things more
internally go on and where the disease could hit my heart.
You know, your friend would notice to your heartshik organs

(43:58):
and different things like that. Because because it's the body
fighting itself, it's an autoimmune disease. That's what it's a
autoimmune disease, just like five of my alga. Auto immune.
Your body fighting itself, your body fighting your good stuff,
your good bacteria, your good tissues. It sells, you know,
and all of it is. All that the steroid is

(44:18):
doing is just calming down your immune system, which can
be a good thing, a blessing and a curse, because
what happens is when your immune system called down, it
causes you to be viable to catch everything else and
your body is not fighting it anymore. So what happens,
you know, you get these other diagnoses or other things

(44:39):
going on with you, and it hits you like fire,
you know. So you know, like you saying the story
about when I went to the doctor, Lord ha Mercy.
When I went to that doctor, he kept saying, men,
how long have you been coming to me? You know?
And God, since I was like nineteen something years old,
he said, how long are you be coming? He said,
he was diagnosed, He said, but you've been coming recently

(45:01):
and everything my ana, my blood work, things that should
be positive has been negative. And when he said that
to me, all I could do is praise God. And
I said, my mother said to me, the woman of
God she said, I ain't never believe you had it
in the first place, so that believe in her head,
you know, it stuck like she don't have it.

Speaker 2 (45:20):
She just they just and I'm telling you, they tried
to give it to me, baby, They trying to give
it to me back. And whenever I refused to accept that,
you know, my mom passed away. My mom passed away
with complications from lupis in nineteen ninety one.

Speaker 3 (45:34):
You see what I'm saying. And that's why it is yep.

Speaker 2 (45:37):
And two thousand, two thousand and nine, I want to
say it was two thousand and nine. I had a
bad swelling in my foot. I couldn't even put my
foot on the ground. I couldnt walk, and it was
so it was so sore. And when I went to

(45:58):
the doctor, they asked me, here I twisted, had I sprung?
And had I done any thing like that? I told
him no, And they ran tests. They ran test and
they ran tests, and the doctor told me, he said,
the only thing that he could see is that my
immune system was fighting itself. That's the only thing.

Speaker 3 (46:15):
Yeah, So that was that.

Speaker 2 (46:19):
I don't even know what he did. I don't remember
what he did or what he did, but I know
I was okay, and they never nothing else. I know
I was not fina. I wasn't even thinking about asking
him to run no tests for lupis because I wasn't
gonna take that right because I knew that I knew

(46:40):
my mom had had with that. So I was like,
I know, I don't have nothing. You know, I've always
I was an athlete in my younger days, so I
played sports and stuff, so I've never been sick. I
never had my My blood pressure had always been one
twenty one eighteen with Haiti and all it was always

(47:02):
around the normal. Nothing was got out normal and had
that episode. And then now it seemed like when I
got shot, when I was in domestic violence and I
got shot, it seemed like that's when everything that it
wanted to start acting up. Nye Attica, I started having problems.

(47:24):
But I refuse to accept any of that stuff. I say,
you know what I say, When when it's warm out,
I get out there and I walk and I try
to keep active. I try to make sure I'm eating right.
A lot of stuff like we don't process food. It's
a lot you really should not be dairy products. We

(47:45):
should not be assuming dairy products. Their products are not
good for us. Their products will help. We'll call excess
fluid all of that. You know, my body is supposed
to have some, but it's not supposed to excess. When
we drank out that milk and that their product, then

(48:06):
your body begin to have excess more than it's supposed
to have. And then that is what causes a lot
of our disasement, which, like they have labeled diseases, they're
right there, disasements because it's causing you. It's causing you
to be in a place of being not at rest.

(48:31):
You're stress. So you just ease. So I keep telling people,
get you, get you a natural remedy. Yes, it's okay,
it's okay to to to come off. Come off. I said,
when summertime here again, I'm going on a I'm gonna
try to get back on my vegan watch because I

(48:51):
had I was doing good.

Speaker 3 (48:53):
Yes, yes, I do good.

Speaker 2 (48:55):
I I'll be doing good. But I sometimes I want
me a little chicken way. But I said, with seeing
all this stuff that I've been seeing here lately, honey,
he's I can I think I can do with that?
You give me a good salad honey, you put you
some mushrooms up in there, crewed up in there, Honey,

(49:16):
you get the chewing on that stuff. It tastes like
the mushrooms. Mushrooms. I'm telling you that that's the alternative
to a lot of the meat that you be wanting.
You can see them, and depending on what kind of
mushrooms you get to because you can get them big
old thick mushrooms, and you can cut them things like steaks,
and you can cut them right, all kind of stuff,
and you can see them little bucks to make.

Speaker 3 (49:38):
I like to I like to consume natural things with
must because I don't eat mushrooms. But I can assume
the coffee. I can assume things with the mushrooms in
it because the mushroom, you know, certain mushroom has very
a huge amount of health properties, you know, and healing
properties in them. So you're right when you say much.

Speaker 2 (50:00):
I used to not like them, but I learned to. Yes,
I learned to cut them up in my salad. And
that's I mean, well, I'm gonna try it. And I
never tried that, and I see, yeah, season, season everything else.
Yet my mushrooms be my meat. And then I have

(50:24):
I like to get me some I like cranberries or
either or either, and then I get like I like
sunflower seeds. And sometimes I may get some almonds or
either some walnuts. I like walnuts too, But I just
like different kind of dried fruits and stuff that I

(50:46):
can just stop in the salad. You know. Even I
even take some oranges every now and then and just
make me up. Yeah, just put me pillow orange and
just and just put me some and and that's my salad.
And it ain't got to be no. And that'll feel
me up. You give me some time I'm talking about.
You get me some some spinach and some that that

(51:11):
spring mix and spinach. Yes, and then I love I've
started eating broccoli raw. I'm not too fraid of it cooked.
If you lightly cook it where it still got a
crunch to it, I can eat that. But when it's south,
I don't like it when it's out.

Speaker 3 (51:30):
And actually that's me because I eat the it gotta
be soft like a baby. But I gotta realize, we
gotta realize the more that's soft it is, it's not
doing anything for your body because you're taking ye.

Speaker 2 (51:46):
So I've learned to eat that raw. I'm going to
eat coliflower wrong and I just put it a good salad,
cut it up in a salad salad and you can
eat it wrong. But if you can't eat it wrong,
I get the califlying rice. Use that sometimes the substitute
for regular.

Speaker 3 (52:06):
Rice, okay, because that that.

Speaker 2 (52:11):
White rice is not good for us.

Speaker 3 (52:13):
No, it's not brown rice or black rice.

Speaker 2 (52:16):
And it's hard to find black rice. Yes, I ain't
had a good time finding it, so brown rice. But yeah,
but I'm telling you, I'm gonna be looking forward to
hearing your journey and getting it out and sharing because,
like I said, people people don't want to hear it. Yeah,

(52:39):
And oftentimes we think that nobody wants to hear it,
and people will tell you, don't nobody want to hear that.
Don't number one day they ain't saying it because they
probably got something that they want to share and scared
to share. I don't know how to do it and
don't want you to yet that's normally what it is.
Because you you have you will have family members saying
why are you gonna about all that? Why are you

(53:00):
putting all that out there? Because somebody need to know,
because somebody needs to come out of what they're going
through because somebody somebody going through this too, because guess what,
everything that we go through we don't go through because
we're supposed to go through it for us, We're going
through it for somebody else. That's right, right, But we
got to know how to get through it so that
we're through it the people coming behind us. And he

(53:22):
know who can handle what? You know, who can handle it?

Speaker 3 (53:25):
You do? He do? Yeah? You know. And the and
the blessing for me is, you know, I do have
a great support system. I do have, you know a
lot of cheerleaders, family members and close friends or who friends,
sisters that are like you know, as if my mother

(53:46):
birth them themselves. So my family is very supportive. You know,
it's always be like those outsiders who you hear them,
you know, people saying this and that. And you know,
I'm glad I am at a at a point in
my life where that doesn't matter to me. You know,
I think I'm my biggest critic, I'm my biggest fight,
I'm my biggest you don't set back, so it's me

(54:09):
versus me, me fighting myself, and I just have to
leave with what the Lord tells me. And then I
know I'll be I'll be okay, I'll be fine, and.

Speaker 2 (54:20):
We just don't have to We're gonna have to get
in that mirror and we're gonna have to talk to herself.
That what I had to be done because I had
to get in that mirror and I had to tell himself, Hey, Angela,
you need to snap out of there. You need you
need to do this, you need to do that. And
I literally I had to get in that mirror and
look at myself, and that's myself. People may think I

(54:42):
was crazy for doing I had to do it. I
had to do it. And every day I would stick
post and it worked all my thing. I would have
posted all around my room and I'm talking about every
time I would just just say something, Okay, Angela, you
got to do this, you got to do that back
and I look at I think I still have my
vision more from when I first started doing a lot

(55:06):
of this stuff. And just to be able to look
and see the things that you have accomplished, like when
when when when you say right division and make it plain,
right division and make it plain because you write it.
When when you write it and make it plain, then
you can see you can see what, knowing that when
you write it it becomes it's like it get in

(55:30):
the atmosphere when you start writing it down with your emotions, emotions,
it's like it does that vibration does something. So then
just the fact that you put it down on that
that you got it out and you put.

Speaker 3 (55:46):
It on paper.

Speaker 2 (55:48):
Now somebody can see it. Somebody may run across and
somebody may see it and say ooh, and then you
might read it and it may resonate something else in you.
That's right, I'm telling you.

Speaker 3 (56:01):
I think Angela'm gonna have to get with you on
there helping me, you know, because I know you you
help people you know, write their books and we'll published
the books. So I'm definitely we're definitely gonna get together
with me on that. So I'm definitely looking forward to that.

Speaker 2 (56:20):
Yeah, we definitely. And and and not only that you
you you are part of the one movement. And there
are so many other individuals that that they got the
same gifts I got. They noticed ta I'm gonna tell
you who they are. You can't get me, you got.

(56:40):
Trida does publish and she's also a whole on the network. Okay,
she's a publisher. She she published and she's a coach,
so she you coach and then if you if you
need an editor, she do edits to you can do
it front. So I told her, I said, any time

(57:00):
I need it is I'm sending them over that to you,
because I'm right right, I don't do that. I'm sending
them to you. Once I send them to you, they yours.
It's in a whole nother story. That's a whole podcast.
That's a whole nother podcast, that's a whole I want

(57:21):
to hear from you because you are part of this
one hundred author movement. What are you expecting to gain
from the one hundred author movement?

Speaker 3 (57:30):
Well, community, collaboration, connection, you know, those are those are
huge for me and and and and within myself, you know,
helping me to be more committed to the things that

(57:50):
I need to be doing. So I know within the
graps of all of these other authors, you know, I
can't there's no way for me to fail because the
support is there, The network is there, right, you know,
the people I need to know are there, you know,
and what I love about them because even though I'm

(58:12):
in the chat, I'm going to you know, make it
my business be more active in there because you know,
all of our words and all of our whatever we need,
whatever we have to add matters, you know. You always
say that, you know, So I know for a fact
that the people in there, we cheer, They cheer each

(58:34):
other on. You know, they throwing in opportunities, they're they're
they're showing up and giving people some things that they
can get involved in. And I'm saying to myself, wow,
like like look at this, Like I couldn't be and
the Lord can not have equip me to be with
a better bunch of people. And not only that, a

(58:54):
lot of them you know, of believers. So you know,
because I I you know, I I love to surround
myself around believer it because when I talk and when
I speak, I'm always gonna mention the Lord. So I
want people to be able to relate to that. But
wherever they are in life, I can see that they
are very cheerful, cheerleaders. So I cannot want anything more.

(59:17):
But you already have, We already have the respect for
each other, because I couldnot want anything more but the
collaboration connection, you know, with these people. So I look
forward to that because I know with that alone where
it's gonna lead every single one of us if if
we tap in the way that we should.

Speaker 2 (59:38):
Amen, Amen, Amen, But we have to we have to
do the work. To do the work, You have to
do the work. He is provided, He's gonna provide us
the outlet and the resources, but we have to do
the work to them.

Speaker 3 (59:53):
You know, faith with that work is dead dead, Yes
it is.

Speaker 2 (59:56):
We can believe all day your day. Yeah, don't do
the work. It does not matter. It doesn't matter because
I'm telling you, just like I'm reminding people of my faith.

Speaker 3 (01:00:10):
I heard.

Speaker 2 (01:00:11):
I think it was one Needa Bottom. She gave this
scenario about a chair and being in a carry out.
She said, when when you were young, she said, your
mom put you in a carry out. She used to
seat you on the floor and rock you. He said,
when you got a little older, she moved you up
to the little the little red chair. You got to

(01:00:32):
sit in the little red chair. And then when you
got a little older, you you you got to move
on up to the high chair. You got to move
up and sit in the higher chair. Not quite at
the table yet, but you got And then when you
got old enough, you didn't need your mama to help
you no more. But you got able. You got up
and he was able to walk to the chair. Now,

(01:00:54):
did you question that chair to see if that chair
was gonna hold you know, you sat down because you
believed it was gonna hold youse. Every chair that your
mama had put you in.

Speaker 3 (01:01:02):
That's right that it helped you.

Speaker 2 (01:01:04):
So when you got when you got up and went
to that chair until it failed you, you was gonna
have faith in that chair. And see a lot of
us we don't have that faith.

Speaker 3 (01:01:14):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:01:14):
We'll have faith in these bridges that we go across
every day. We have say that that that bridge gonna
hold us when we go out there and go across it.
We don't second gainst that bridge. We just get in
that car and we just go on. We just we
get on these airplanes. We don't have second thoughts about
getting on these airplanes, these trains, these buses. We get

(01:01:37):
on them and we believe that they're gonna do what
they're supposed to do. That's what they're supposed to do.
So we have enough belief believe in that. But we
don't have enough belief to believe in that. That's in us.

Speaker 3 (01:01:51):
It's in us, the same man that exactly created this everything.

Speaker 2 (01:02:03):
So if and you remember open Genesis to A seven,
he said he breathed that breath of.

Speaker 3 (01:02:08):
Life and life like yes, yeah, so I keep telling people,
if he breed that birth of life into you, guess what, huh,
everything you needed is in you else, he.

Speaker 2 (01:02:19):
Already depositing you. So while you out here searching for something,
just tap in.

Speaker 3 (01:02:25):
That's it. The treasure is already within us. That's right,
always there, so already there. Yeah, you're right, yeap, my
bishop to talk about that all the time. We already
have what we need. You know, it's in us. It's
in us, you know. It's it's just about activating it
and using what we have and stop worrying about and

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searching for other things. And we have what we have
already right in front of us, in us. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:02:56):
Well, I want you before you leave, I want you
to tell tell individuals how they can support you and
how they can connect with you. And we want to
know what you're working on, what you got coming up,
what you got going on.

Speaker 3 (01:03:16):
Okay, Well, for those of you who don't know, I'm
also a you know, I am also a certified life
coach and I'm also a loopist and ADHD and emotional
wellness advocate, right, so I operate in those realms, but
I focus this so people will know so when you

(01:03:38):
do join me and my inventions and different things, that
you'll understand what I'm actually doing. I mainly empower women
Christian women believers who are going through a crisis within
their illness disease like diagnosed with lupus, and at the
same time they're raising a child with a chronic illness

(01:04:00):
and navigate through those complexities, or a child with mental
illness or mental challenges. I like to empower them because
they're the moms, they are the caregivers. Because this is
where I was at so and overcame it, so I
know God had put me there, But I feel that
they suffer a lot. We're not understanding that the importance
of prioritizing their emotional wellness. We talk a lot about

(01:04:24):
mental health and this self doubt. It all runs together,
but your emotional healing, your emotions and stability is what
keeps your state of mind right. You know, we know
God is our mind regulator, right, but what are those
things you're supposed to be doing to prioritize you know,
many times I've suppressed my feelings. I suppressed my emotions

(01:04:45):
which also made me sick. These are things that the women,
especially in the black community, because we try to be
so strong. So I just want to empower women to
do better and to let them know the benefits of
emotional intelligence and how does this how this is a
part of who we need to be in order to
operate in the realm of our purpose and gain the

(01:05:06):
hope and the joy of life again. So I have
a YouTube channel. You can my YouTube channel, you can
you can find me at Keisha Johnson McCrae. That's mc
r ae. So Keisha's k I s a h Keisha
Johnson McCrae. Just put that in YouTube and I'll come
up in YouTube and you'll see it'll say Lupus and

(01:05:29):
ADHD healing, emotional healing, God's Way. So you're seeing you'll
know that's me. So you can help support me by
subscribing and looking at the videos that are upload there. Also,
you can find me on Facebook. I do have Emotional
Empowerment group on Facebook. You can also look me up

(01:05:50):
at Keisha Johnson McCrae on Facebook. I'm sure we'll I
have it somewhere for you to find me. And if
you're if you're that woman that I'm talking to and
that I'm able to help and I'm able to support emotionally,
you'll be able to tap into my group. And right
now I'm right now, I'm focused a lot focused on

(01:06:12):
my YouTube channel because I want to start a podcast
there Queen Peaks Queen Speaking Life. That's Kate w E
and Queen Speaker Likes, which stands for Kingdom Women Embracing
Emotional Wellness. That's emotional newness. I'm sorry, that's a that's
a word k w E and the Lord gave me

(01:06:32):
maybe about ten years ago and I'm just now kind
of bringing it into fruition. So that's something I'm working
on now, that podcast. Now you when you're join my channel,
you'll also see that that podcast is starting on there.
That's that's that's the start of it. That's the start
of it. And I'm just trying to just pursue what

(01:06:56):
God brings to my mind to do right but operating
in my in my lane at the same time. But
you could just google Keisha Johnson mccrad at because I
googled myself, so you could Google, and I'll come up
and you can follow me, follow me wherever you see fit.
You know, I am on Google, so I mean that's
that's pretty much where you can follow me at. But

(01:07:18):
I am also, like I said, when I work on
my book, you all have really give me inspiration to
do that. So I want to definitely be working on
my book at this time. So just look out for
Keisha Johnson mccraid. That's all I could say to you
guys right now, and just thank you again Quein Angela
for having me.

Speaker 2 (01:07:38):
Well, we definitely gonna be looking out and we're definitely
gonna be sharing. Whatever you do, We're definitely gonna be sharing, y'all.
I'm done. I'm done with school, so just what, I
got plenty of time on my hands, So y'all see
a lot going on with everything that I got my
hands in. I'm about to get really really active. I'm

(01:08:00):
about to revamp some things. I'm about to do some things.
Were about to get out and visit some places. Our
first stop here for the AA L A C is
gonna be here in East Point, Georgia. On April the fifth,
we headed out to California. You're gonna stop in Texas.
We're gonna we're gonna get around. We're gonna make our
rounds to many states and cities that we can to

(01:08:22):
be a blessing to be able to share some all
these authors. So I'm telling everybody, if you are a
group leader, you you are, you are now on notice.
We're now on notice because live events. I definitely think
that we we should be having a live event for
all of us to come together at least every two months.

(01:08:47):
It's enough of us. It's forty seven of us inside
of the group right now. We we got no forty three.
I'm sorry, it's forty three of us inside of the
group right now, not include me, forty four including me, right,
But there's enough of us to be hosting virtual and
live events on a constant basis. And then it should

(01:09:10):
be no lack because it's too many of us. And
then it's we we got too many in the same area,
like we have, we have some we have it's about
four or five of y'all, six for y'all in New York,
in New York. Okay, yes you got Charlotte, you got LaToya, Okay,

(01:09:37):
you got Cherise Rolanda's nis I think. And then you
got who else is up there? I want to say six.

Speaker 3 (01:09:52):
Of y'all, Well, I need to put that in the group.
We we definitely need to we definitely need to connect. Then, yeah, definitely, Okay,
I know New York you, Charlotte, Suri's Taya, and it's
somebody else.

Speaker 2 (01:10:12):
I don't know who that six person is, but it's
six A, y'all it is. It's got to be six
A y I'm trying to see.

Speaker 3 (01:10:24):
And also everybody. You can also reach me on on Facebook.
I also have an author page that I created author KEITHA.
Johnson McCrae, so you also can reach me there there.
My plans with that page is to have you experience
my poetry and how I write a lot of my poetry.
I had stopped writing that one time because I felt

(01:10:45):
my poet poems were too long. But the Lord let
me know. But that's the way he created me to write.
My poems tell a story. So more or less, when
I write, I'm telling a story. So you'll get to
experience a lot of my world there as well. So
my planning is definitely to do more on that page
as well.

Speaker 2 (01:11:05):
And there is six I told you her name, Yes,
her name is so So Sophia Shepherd. Okay, I may
be saying her name wrong. She's in your group. You her.
It's three of y'all in your in your group. That's
from New York. Oh, with Charlotte, You, Charlotte and so Fauna.

(01:11:30):
I think her name is Sophony.

Speaker 3 (01:11:32):
Okay, she does.

Speaker 2 (01:11:35):
She's a social worker, she does elderly, she does elderly,
and she's an author. I think she's yeah, but she's
in She's in New York. Yeah, we in New York,
and I think all of y'all may be in the
same area.

Speaker 3 (01:11:51):
Okay, Okaylyn Brooklyn, she said, Brooklyn. I'm in the Bronx
when Brooklyn is not far.

Speaker 2 (01:11:58):
I think.

Speaker 3 (01:12:00):
Me too.

Speaker 2 (01:12:01):
I think I think Rolanda and what's the name? I
think they stay in Brooklyn if I'm.

Speaker 3 (01:12:11):
Not okay, Okay, still close.

Speaker 2 (01:12:16):
I don't know about the I don't I don't know
nothing about the Borrows. I just know it's close. I
just know. Look, I just know. I know it's five
of them. I don't know. And I'm ready to come
to New York as an adult. I've never been to
New York as an adult. I've been when I was younger.

(01:12:39):
I actually have a family that lived up in and
do they live out of the state.

Speaker 3 (01:12:47):
Probably, yeah, upstate New York.

Speaker 2 (01:12:50):
But because that's where my my other my dad's family,
that's where he was from.

Speaker 3 (01:12:56):
They were okay, okay.

Speaker 2 (01:13:00):
But yeah. But I thank you for stopping by and
sharing with us. I truly have enjoyed it. I thank you,
I truly do. Anytime you want to come by and
share any updates, anything you got going on, make sure
to let me know.

Speaker 3 (01:13:20):
We got legacies to create here. You're helping us create legacies.
I got a grand baby, grand babies that I need
long before I'm when I'm gone, I need them to
see what Grammy has done.

Speaker 2 (01:13:34):
And that's what we're supposed to do because we should
do greater works. They won't see those greater works if
we don't leave the evidence of those greater works. So
that's what we're here to do. Lead the evidence so
that people can have those blueprints so that they read work.
See people been saying our ancestor a lot of people
have been getting upset because they say they be getting

(01:13:55):
offended because people have been saying they not like their ancestors.
I'm not like my ancestors. You can get mad with
me if you want to, because my ancestors wanted they
wanted me to be better. They wanted me to be better,
and I want I want the next group to be better.
So they paid the way so that I can do
the things that I do. I don't discredit nothing that
they've done, don't downplay nothing that they've done, because they

(01:14:17):
had to do what they did in order for me
to be able to do what I'm doing. So now
I have to do what I'm doing so that they
can do what they.

Speaker 3 (01:14:24):
Need to do.

Speaker 2 (01:14:25):
Right, So I got to I gotta leave them something
I got. I got greater than those that came for me.
So we're breaking those generational cursing our newness. So thank you,
thank you, thank you tonight and sharing with us.

Speaker 3 (01:14:44):
Thank you so much for having me.

Speaker 2 (01:14:46):
Yes, ma'am. But I want to thank everybody for stopping
by and sharing before we leave. I want to give
this queen around of applage. Y'all know how we'd like
to show our.

Speaker 3 (01:15:06):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:15:07):
Thank you, thank you, thank you, and I hope you
have a great rest of your evening. Thank you for
the past, thank you for coming and sharing. Thank you
I hope you guys have been blessed by what you
have heard on tonight. I tell you I have truly, truly,
truly been blessed. Y'all. Please go over support the things
that she has going on. Stay connected to the one

(01:15:28):
hundred Author movement, because I guarantee you you will see
that book drop in twenty twenty five. So be on
the lookout because it's coming. Be my witness. I'm telling
you live in direct three twenty four, twenty five, it's
coming in twenty twenty five. Be on the lookout. Keisha Johnson,

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Mick Ray. Good night, y'all. Y'all be blessed.