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Speaker 1 (01:47):
Legs and gentlemen, may I have your attention please? The
show starts in seven like seven six three shot cool Well.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. I want to welcome you guys to
another episode of FOS and Personal with Angela on behalf
of Aspiring Authors magazine. I tell you, it's truly been
a pleasure to be able to share these amazing authors
to watch for twenty twenty five. I tell you, I
(02:39):
am truly truly excited for all that is in store
for these amazing authors. I'm so excited that they have
taken the opportunity and the chance to allow their voice
to be heard, to share their journeys, things that they
have learned, they have grown from, things that they have overcame.
(03:00):
And I tell you, I have truly truly been blessed
just being able to just sit in the midst of
some of these individuals and hear their stories, to hear
their testimonies, to hear how they've overcame. And some of
them are in the midst of a trial, but yet
they press, and yet they're willing to share. And I
(03:21):
tell you, it takes an amazing person to be able
to do that. So I just have to give flowers,
and I have to give my hats off, and I
have to give my applauses while I can, because these
individuals are definitely they're definitely paving the way for individuals
that are coming, because if you have been watching the
(03:42):
news and you've been following different things, they are definitely
trying to silence our voice. They're trying to rewrite our history,
they're trying to take things away from us, and they're
doing all types of things. So I'm so excited about
the brown individuals that are trying to to be the
change that they want to see in this world, and
(04:03):
that they are leaving examples in blueprints and leaving things
that can help the next generation to have some type
of idea, some type of nugget that can help them
get through whatever they're going through. So I'm so grateful,
and I hope you guys are following our various pages
so that you can stay connected to these amazing individuals
(04:26):
and as we continue to grow, because we're expecting some
more We're expecting some more authors. We're expecting all hundred
authors to show up wherever they are. We're expecting them
to come and find the movement and find these amazing
group of individuals that they can collaborate, network and partner with.
(04:47):
Because we're family over here. Y'all know how I am.
Once you come across my miss once you come in
my path, if you don't disconnect, I'll never disconnect because
I truly believe that if God allow you to cross
my path, there's a reason for you crossing my path,
and there's something that I'm supposed to pour into you,
(05:10):
whatever that season may be. But y'all, I'm gonna move
out the way. I was trying to give my guests
a chance to get her technology. She's having some issues
with her camera and trying to get her an opportunity
to get her camera and stuff. I think she's got it,
so I'm gonna go ahead and bring her up, and y'all,
(05:33):
we're gonna dive in this conversation. She is a new author,
and I heard in the group that she may be
releasing another book, so y'all, I'm excited for her and
I just want to hear it. So I'm about to
bring her up so we can get this conversation going.
(05:56):
Let me get her on the screen and get her
in the building. All right, Let's see Hello, Hello, welcome, welcome.
How are you?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
How are you doing miss Angela?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I'm doing great. I'm doing great. I can't complain, no
need complaining. If you would please share with those that
are tuned in and those that will hear this replay
who you are and.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Oh wow, Well my name is Naget Scott. Everybody calls
me DDI. I am originally from the Bronx, New York.
I currently live in Victoria, Virginia. I have spina bifila
and hydro syphilis. I was born with it and I
was adopted.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Wow, so how did you become an author? Well?
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Latanya little John is probably the main reason why when
she first wrote her book, she kept asking me the
right mind, because anytime I would share my story with anyone,
they would be like, that needs to be in a book.
That needs to be in a book, and I'm like, yeah, okay.
And when she wrote her first one, she was like, yeah,
come on, write your book and I'm like, no, it
(07:13):
ain't the time, it ain't the time. But last year,
last summer, she got me good, and the Lord got
me good because he got me good and straight, and
she asked me to join the anthology From Their Eyes
and I immediately say yeah. But then I immediately got
off the phone with her and said, Father, what are
we doing?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
So yeah, he said, at the time when you said yes,
what was the process to that? Yes? Uh.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
I think the Lord was already preparing me to kind
of prepare myself too, right. I just get I'm just
getting out of my marriage. I'm living on my own
for the first time in my life, and so God
has really pulled me away from a lot of things
and kind of just been working on me. And he
kind of just said, all right, it's time for you
(08:09):
to share. It's time for you to share. So I
started doing it and it was actually kind of therapeutic,
it really was, And I wanted to share it because
not a lot of adoption stories are well, you know,
the outcomes are not good, and I was truly blessed
to have a wonderful outcome from start to finish. I mean,
(08:31):
my foster mother was my nurse when I was left
at the hospital. She was my nurse and then became
my foster mother for I think like a year year
and a half, and then she couldn't keep me and
I went back into the system, and then my parents
got me and I've been with them ever since I
was two and a half years old.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Wow, yes, ma'am. So on this process of becoming an author,
what can you say was your biggest challenge to getting
this book from from inside your mind and in your
heart and just the thought to actually on that paper.
What was one of your biggest challenges to.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Just doing it? Procrastination to just actually saying, you know what,
we're going to do this right now? It would be
I mean, it would just be like the Father, like, Okay,
it's time to write, and I would just start writing.
I would just start joining in a notepad I have
on my phone, and I would just start writing it.
I almost wouldn't want to stop. But then when I
(09:35):
get to parts where I'm thinking about my mom and
my dad who have gone on home to be with
the Lord, it gets kind of hard because I missed them.
I missed them so much. I mean, my mom was
my biggest cheerleader, and my dad he was definitely a supporter.
And you're talking about a couple who took in a
child with special needs. They already had four children of
their own and they adopted three more. So man to
(10:00):
be able to accept the child that was not his
own with special needs. It's like it's his own that's
nothing but God. That's a blessing in itself. So I
wanted to write the story in honor of them. I
wanted their name to be known because they did, they
did the work they did, they did. What I am today,
(10:21):
who I am today is because of them.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
And not only that, it creates a legacy for them, Yes, ma'am,
just thinking wow about when we lose on and going
through the grief process, being able to keep their memories
alive by doing things like this. Now, the other young lady,
(10:47):
there's another young lady. She wrote a book about her
mom and her aunt that transition, and she gave them
children like characters where she could go back and reminisce
about their childhood. And for you being able to pass
us on to other individuals to see that they may
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be in the foster care or they may be going
through adoption and may not have anybody to talk to,
and they can now pick up this book and then
they can read your story or they can make one
of the other individual story. Yes, share. So that is definitely,
that is definitely leaving a legacy. We talked about you
(11:31):
talked about this being a anthology, so that means there
were other individuals that shared their story as well.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Yes, for other women.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Being in the collaboration project. What has that done to
your writing experience versus having to write a book by
yourself knowing that you had four other people writing with
you and sharing that responsibility in that loan, How is
(12:02):
that versus you thinking about doing your own single project.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
It was actually it was actually like a sisterhood. I
mean because even though we all went through different scenarios
and some were not that great, for us to come
together and support each other and encourage each other to
write what we you know, what we've been through is
going to be a blessing. I mean it's really going
to help somebody. I mean, Latanya has sold me so
(12:30):
many times that your story can be the healing for
somebody else. So it's all about healing and getting God's
getting God's word out there, getting the blessing that He's
done in your life out there. I Mean, people have
no clue that God can actually adoption story doesn't have
(12:50):
to be a bad one. It can actually be a
good one if you get to the right parents. And
God definitely set mine up to be with the right
family really because my last my maiden name is actually right,
so it was the right family.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Yeah, wow, So that that that's amazing. God God is
so funny because he would always put a spin on words.
What what what what? What the word may mean to
somebody else could be something totally different to you. And like,
(13:29):
like that word power and and and that's one of
my favorite words. Like people think that that's just about
just being no. Power means five different words position, overcomer, yes, ma'am,
willing vessel, yes, ma'am, educate, and power, encourage and resilian.
(13:50):
And I'm like, that means more than just having some authority,
thinking you got some authority, because that's what people think
that word means. It's just have an authority. But it's
more to have an authority. It's a lot that go
along with that. You got to know your position, yes,
(14:11):
you got to understand how you got there. See now
I understand why my mama always used to tell me
you treat people the same way all the time because
you never know who you're gonna pass on your way up. Yes,
she said, the same people you pass on your way up.
Maybe you're gonna way down. She said, So you better
(14:32):
be mindful of how you treating people.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Yes, so definitely, definitely I was raised the same way. Yes, sam'am. Wow,
you never.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Know, you never know, you never know. So I really
want to know. Now that you have stepped out on
faith and you've put that pin to paper and you
now have a book, you are now an author? How
does that feel to have me man those work, those
(15:06):
those letters in front of your name, and just to
hear somebody say like I'm talking about looking at and
looking in the mirror and being a little girl, that's
something that I never saw, something that never jingled in
my ears, like I never saw that. And for us
(15:27):
to be able to to tell our journey to help
somebody else, because guess what, they're taking a lot of
stuff away from us. And in this season, in this time,
we need so many more individuals like yourself. Because I
hear states saying that they're gonna start taking books and
(15:47):
things out of the school. That goes further than two
thousand and eight. Okay, we didn't just drop out the
sky in two thousand and eight, like nothing just started
in two thousand and eight. What about what about ten
oh eight? What about eighteen oh eight, what about seventeen
oh eight, all that stuff that helped us to get here. See,
(16:08):
that's what happens with a lot of people. We when
we arrive, we forget how we got there, yes ma'am.
And we forget the people that helped us along the way.
We forget the people that pushed us, We forget the
people that encouraged us. We forget all that. We just
get to that place and then we pick up new friends,
(16:30):
We pick up new we pick up those that we
think are where we want to be, not even knowing.
But and that's a whole nother story.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Now that everybody can't go with you going so and
they not, Yeah, you're definitely not gonna You're definitely gonna
have people that might drop off. And that's just that,
that's not you're getting nasty.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Your gift visits for everybody, just like your gift for everybody. Yes, right.
People wonder why they can post something on their page.
Yet we got all these followers. I forget who I
was having this conversation with, but we was having this conversation.
We got all these followers, Yet we post things on
our page. We don't get no shares we don't get
(17:12):
no lights, and then we wonder, we be wondering, and
then we start being negative, not even knowing that a
lot of people are not gonna share your stuff, a
lot of people are not gonna comment on your stuff.
But you best believe they see it. Yes, they And
you want to know how you All you got to
do is go over to your analytics and it it'll
tell you see people always watching, but they're not gonna
(17:35):
always congratulate you. They're not always gonna cheer for you.
They're not always gonna root for you. So you have
to and and being in in in the literary world,
the odd creative realm and whatever, just being in this
place where we are, you're not gonna have a lot
of people that are rooting for you, because you're gonna
(17:57):
have people that wanted to do it. You wanted to
do but they did not have the faith and did
not have the courage to step out and do it. Yes, ma'am,
But because you did, they gonna have everything to say
and it ain't gonna be good. So put on your
put on your skin, because I say, when when they
(18:20):
start calling you sis, sis, sis, sis, be blind for
that because they ain't got. But but if it's snakes
in skin and like you got, you got to put
on your you got to put on your tough skin
and then be willing to just stand and just let
them be. But I am so excited for you. I
(18:46):
really want to know now that you are in this realm,
and and and I know because with me, and I'm
just gonna be honest with me. Once I got the writing,
it's just like I can't stop. And I keep saying,
like going into twenty twenty five, I said I was
not gonna write no books in twenty twenty five. Why
(19:08):
I already don't release two see look at God, I
already don't release too. And I released them two days apart. Wow,
And I said I wasn't gonna release it no books.
I did a twenty one day journal. It's a twenty
one day devotional. And these are for youth. These are
for these are for youth. And it's an in active
(19:30):
trying to get them active, trying to get them to
really dive into the world. Like I give them, man,
I give them a scripture, I give them a lesson,
I give them an affirmation. And then you know, I
like to I like to share poetry. So I give
them a poem too, and then I give them a
place where they can write and journal, and then I
encourage them. I tell them to reflect. And then we
(19:52):
got little scriptures, and then I give them a whole
little outline of how they can read the whole Bible
in three hundred and sixty five days if they want to,
and just different stuff. Because guess what when I got
saved at eighteen and then I went off to college,
guess what two months after I got saved, I had
no backslid because I didn't have nobody there to tell
(20:15):
me how how how how to how to fight off
that stuff, yes man? And how to go in the
word and find stuff in the word. And and then't
nobody interest. I just thought, you get saved, and you
say yeah, because that what they think the picture, that's
the picture that they paint. They don't tell us that
you got to do some work and that you got
(20:36):
to do the Bible, and that you got to stay
in the prisons and you got to have that relationship
and you got to get See they don't tell us that.
And see that's how they got to start telling these babies.
So I said, you know what I said now since
since since then, of the s if the babies think
I'm young and they think I can relate to them,
I said, you know what, I'm about to get them
now since they think I can relate to them. See,
I might never even need They don't. They don't think
(20:58):
they anticket old, and they still think they're too young.
I said, I said, you can owe that how you
think almost stay young.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
So that works in your benefit because it allows you
to get them in the world because you don't because
you don't want to receive what.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
That's exactly what we've been doing. Yeah, that's all, Yes,
we I tell you. I I'm grateful that we're able
to to to use our our tests, our trials, and
our tribulations to help others. As we heal, we can
(21:43):
help others heal as well, because a lot of people,
you know, they don't understand that when when you're going
through and you experiencing this stuff. Because I with me
when I lost my mom. I lost my mom twelve
days after my sixteenth birthday. When I lost my mom,
I thought my world was over and it just took
me a whole lot to grasp and to and then
(22:08):
even still to this day. I truly don't believe I
properly agreed, like I tried to hold on to stuff
like I you know how when people go on vacations
that I just kept saying, my mom was going on
a trip. That's how I started to you know, get her.
You know, she's going on a trip. That's what I
(22:31):
kept telling myself when when I was younger, That's what
I would tell herself. I don't think I truly started
to process that my mom was really gone and was
never coming back until I got to college. Until I
was in college and I really realized that I was.
I was thereby myself, with God and myself. That was it.
(22:55):
And now I just want to tell it. I just
want to tell it. But enough about me, Enough about me.
I want to know. How can people engage with you?
They can support the things that you do. They can
purchase theo that you have. How can they get the book?
(23:20):
You can get the.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Book on Amazon. Just go to Amazon, type in from
their eyes, put Nadget or any other authors will come up,
not just Scott, and you can get the book that way.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Do you do autograph copies?
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Oh? I'm sorry?
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Do you do autograph copies.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Yeah, I can, if you if you contact me, if
you message me and let me know you want to copy, yeah,
I'll autograph and sign it and send it to you.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
That's what I like. I like to tell people to
go on over to Amazon and look at it and
then reach out to the author and so that you autograph, copy,
and then not only that, you support the authors more
when you do that, because it gives them opportunity to
(24:21):
make the money that Amazon would be making. Yeah, So
I always tell them, keep you some books on hand.
If you ain't got your website, work on getting you
a website so you can have your own stuff set
up over here to the side. But use Amazon too
for those people that can't that you can't set to
(24:43):
like all those people in Africa and those people in
the UK, because they do they do read our books. Yeah,
I mean when I go, yes, you make sure make
sure you you start telling people to get it from me,
get it from d D and DD he give her
(25:03):
some copies and start autographing them copies and start putting
the putting you some little quotes in there, personalizing it,
making people really relate to d.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
D exactly exactly want to know when when when they.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Can relate to d D. Because your your your testimony
and your journey is powerful and for all that you
and Alatanya, because you and Latania both have the same disabilities.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
That's what that was none of God for us to meet.
And that's my sister, like.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
You guys deal with and go through. Like for y'all
to be able to come on these shows and to
do the things that y'all are doing, like that is
so inspirational and that is so powerful people like there
may be somebody out there that I thought that they
couldn't make it, Like they can't, they can't do it.
(26:00):
And I'd love to see individuals pressed to have disabilities
and and and and and because the ones like us
that people don't see our disabilities and think that we're okay,
but then we be slacking. Like that's why I go
so hard, because I don't if Alma and Latanya and
(26:26):
you can come and do what y'all do and show
up and do what y'all do, then everybody else, those
people with those excuses excuse me.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Well, I was raised. I was pretty much raised that
there's nothing that I couldn't do if I put my
mind to it so exactly. I was always pretty much
raised to push myself to go out there and do
and at least try. My mom would always say, try
it once and this way you won't have any regrets.
So all, I kind of lived my life on that exactly.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
But again, like I said, there's so much that you
can do to like just build around your chapter and
to personalize it, to connect with your audience and and
and build your brand. People want to connect with you
because once you want you, there's more to you than
(27:17):
just your story about adoption. There's so much more. And
then even outside of your disability, there's so much more.
People want to know everything that they want to know,
So and.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
You and you will know everything because I'm working on
my autobiography, but I'm not sure when the release date
will be.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Meanwhile, you just build, you just build you a brand.
You just build you just build you an audience, and
you just build your brand. And how you do that,
you do, like do you some lives talk about your book,
talk about what's coming up, talk about whatever else you
want to talk about. Come up with you. Some little
slogans come up with you, some little sayings come up
with you, some little whatever that's that's how you get
(28:04):
you're an audience and and and build you a rapport
with people, because honey, I used to get on here something.
I used to get on here and just get on
here and just get the talking, and just get the talking. Well,
he would get on here, and I get on here
thinking I'm about to get on here and start talking
about books. And I get on here, Honey, I been
don have a whole sermon, and then I'll get off
(28:27):
and then I'll go back and look at that, and
I'll be like, who was that?
Speaker 3 (28:33):
But sometimes you just gotta let God use you. You know,
That's what he was.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Received.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
But that was what you want to say that that is.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
What he was doing. That's what he was doing. And
he was allowing me to think that it was books
to allow me to get out of my comfort zone
so that I could do what he will, so that
he could do what he was gonna do, because I
was I was here myself by getting over here talking
about books and thinking that it was just gonna be
(29:06):
about books, and knowing that I had already told people, oh,
you come over here on my platform, we ain't just
talking about books. It's about more than books. But I
didn't know what that more than books was was gonna be.
You know what I'm saying. I didn't. I didn't say
what that more than books was because I was I'm
the type of person I don't I don't have no
(29:28):
heaven or hell to put nobody in. So I opened
my platform to everybody, and I had certain things I
just didn't say because but now, honey, he he just
spanked me, slapped me, broke me, and say, honey, you
when when you open your mouth, just let me talk.
So now when I open my mouth, he just.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Go exactly, exactly exactly, use me, Lord. That's my prayers
always to use me. Lord. Let them not see me,
let them see you that. It's not about me. It's
not about me at all. That's about what God can
do in your life.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
That's it, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
So, And I appreciate you, Miss Angela, because you not
only gave me this platform, but you also have given
me the opportunity to be on with Latanya you know
from time to time. So I appreciate you. So I
thank you for that.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Well, I'm just being the change that I want to
see in this world. I have to give a shout
out to my big brother, doctor Ola Day and Gozie
over on the WB and N where I was last night.
Because if it was not for him, we wouldn't even
be right here. There would be no the Crew podcast,
and I wouldn't even be doing this, and everybody that's
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had the opportunity to come through here would not have
had that opportunity. So I give God, I'll praise because
he aligned that because just like y'all sitting here doing
the interview, that's how I even That's how I even
got on that network. It's because I went on an interview.
Somebody interviewed me, and then after the interview he called
(31:05):
me and asked me if I will come over and
be on a network and guess where I'm gonna be
celebrating five years God, Cotula La, So I'm talking about
you talking about a little country girl from level Land,
South Carolina. When people say level Land, people be one
a joke. They say never Land, No level Land. And
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it's in between Abbeville and Anderson, in between and Interraville
and they'd be like, what what that's it? If you
heard a Clemson, I'm not that far from there. That's
just it.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
But yes, ma'am. If people will never know what God
who got is gonna.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Use exactly, he will use anybody if he'll make if
he will, let the rocks cry out, he don't told us.
So guess what if he'll use anybody, Lord, use me
h use me, Lord, use me, Lord, use me up
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that that that that is not that is my testimony.
Use me Lord. So what advice would you leave with
someone that is aspiring to become an author? What would
you tell them today?
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Mmmm, that you have a story. Your story can help
someone else. You may not think it can, but it
actually can. You never know what your story is going
to do for somebody's life. Because God, God has us
here for awful reason. So each of our stories matter.
It matters to him, so it will matter to somebody else.
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And don't let nobody else tell you what you can't do.
You can or you can only do what you can do,
but you can't you don't tell nobody can't tell you
what you can't do. You can do all things, and
you gotta know that, and you gotta remember that, and
God will use you. You just have to be willing
to want to be used.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
So outside of the new book that you're going to
be releasing. What else can we look forward to you?
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Doing well on your show? Last night you got a
little sneak peek from Latania that I will be co
hosting on Fridays with her. Yes, ma'am, out of my
comfort zone, because that is not who I am.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
But sometimes if you will take you outside of your
comfort zone to show you exactly who he is and
that he is yet faithful to his word, Yes, ma'am said,
he will make room for your gifts. And if we
he can't make room for our gifts, if we hiding
them and we sitting down on that. So that's why
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I tell people, while you're sitting down on that gift,
I said, you ain't hurting me. You've heard the one
that as And then if you keep singing down on it,
see how long you sit on it? See how long
you sit on it? Because I wish I never stopped singing. Boy,
I wish I never stopped singing because I can't carry
I can't carry your tune. To save my life. I
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need some life, Auntie. She'd be like you open your ears,
she said, open your ears, Auntie, But.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
I do so I sing.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
She's a Sunris she sings. The girl she she tried
out for American Honor and almost made it the same
year there she used to sing when when she lived
here in Atlanta, she used to be she used to
V one on three used to have these contests and
she wants. They used to call into the radio and
they would let you sing or do whatever, and then
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if you win, they used to let you come down
there to the studio. Well, she won all the way
down to the studio and she got to go in
the studio and sing, and then they got to go.
People had to call in and vote and stuff, and
whoever won, what she didn't win, the person that won,
they got to open up at. Her name was what's
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that girl name? Fox? I forgot what her name was,
but whatever the Fox girl that was on V one
o three back in the in the nineties, on the
early twenties. That was the early twenties. It's it's been
a minute. But God would make room for your gift.
He would make room for your because every time you know,
and then only that you know, they always tell us
that we would not be honored in our own hometown,
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that we have to venture out to even receive to
receive that honor. And every day that I pick up,
every day that I go over to one of my
pages and not Sheba in green it's here in in Atlanta.
I know Sheba Sheiba Fox in Greenville, but she was
here in Atlanta. Find out who the one was on
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V one on three okay, Jazz one O seven whatever
it was because Latanya trying to find out. Yeah, I
know she that was my friend I used to do
but me and her used to do events and and
now but I'm just I'm just happy. I get excited
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just about sharing the Word of God and just being
able to you know, us being able to be examples
and to be able to leave our blueprint and to
be able to leave something for somebody else to pull
off of, and knowing that you you don't have to
be perfect. You will never be perfect, but we can
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help you in navigating if you just just just follow
some of these blueprints some of the people that have
been through this route, that have had to deal with this.
Because we're gonna go through stuff. The word already KNOWNE
told us we're not gonna be free of nothing. And
then we're gonna go through some more stuff and we're
gonna go through some more stuff. We live a little long,
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we're gonna go through some more. We're gonna forever go
through something. But it's about us learning to deal with
it and handle it.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
And you got God. You got God to help you
get get through. He's not gonna ever leave us so
for sake us.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
So yeah, that's why he left us the Holy Spirit.
He tells us that you know what thing God gonna
do for us right now is he ain't letting nobody
touch us. He he all he doing is protecting. He
just protecting all of his children.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
That's how he can be everywhere because all he doing
is watching. Now. See he said that he sent the
whole he left the Holy Spirit. See he had to
send Jesus. Yes, he had to send Jesus so that
he can bring about forgiveness and he can wipe away
all that stuff that had been done so that he
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can feel the prophecy. See that's why Jesus had to come.
Jesus had to come in that for him so he
can fulfill the prophecy. But see, he said he would
never leave us nor forsake us. So when he said
he would never leave us, not for sake, because that's
when he left the Holy Spirit. Everything that we need
comes through the Holy Spirit, and we got to learn
how to tap into the Holy Spirit and a lot
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of the Holy Spirit to leave God Director.
Speaker 3 (38:13):
Yes, ma'am, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
It's all about the Holy Spirit. But see, a lot
of us don't even want to recognize the Holy Spirit.
We don't recognize the Holy Spirit. A lot of us
don't recognize the Holy Spirit. But it's the Holy Spirit
that's gonna directly. I want to know something, you want
some wisdom you, Yes, that's the Holy Spirit. Yes, you
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want to be shown something, You want to be guided,
ask the Holy Spirit. Yes, He'll show us.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
Yes, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
I tell you, I truly have been blessed. I thank you.
I thank you, I thank you, I thank you. I
thank you for stopping by and sharing. I thank you
for being obedient to his voice and and pining that book.
I'm looking forward to your book that's going to be released.
When we close, I want to talk a little bit
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about you being a part of the one hundred author's movement.
What inspired you to be a part of it?
Speaker 3 (39:17):
Uh, just to be able to be amongst other authors
and to you know, hear other people's stories and to
support each other. I'm big on supporting people, and you know,
cheering others on. Nobody is not you know, in competition.
We're here to support each other, cheer each other on,
and just help us to all to get our story
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out there. So I am just honored to be a
part of that. That's another wild thing to me. Just
God has just been blowing my mind. It's been blowing
my mind.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
And we talked, We've talked about and all of the
the other authors that's been on, we've talked about how
we have all come together because we all have s
the things and in common as authors. But I want
everybody to share that unique perspective of voice that they
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want to bring to this movement because like with the universe,
we all have a place, we all have a purpose,
we all have something that one thing that He pacifically
aligned for us to to to to align with the universe.
So it's that one thing that aligns us to align
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with everything. So what is that that that one thing
that you would like to bring to the movement? And
when when, when, when the next movement comes, you want
them to remember what what would you like to pass
on through this movement.
Speaker 3 (40:45):
Mm hmm. Just tell your story. Just realize you have
a story, whatever it may be. You may think it's
not anything. Write it down, generally, put it, put it
to paper. You never know who will be blessed by it.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
You just never know.
Speaker 3 (41:02):
Just do it. It's scary. It's scary at first, but
once you begin to do it, God will allow you
to release so much that you didn't realize you even
had in you that you needed to release. You have
to get it out. It will make you better.
Speaker 2 (41:20):
So, now that you are a part of the movement
and you understand a little bit about what the movement
is about, what is one thing that you hope that
you can take away from this movement.
Speaker 3 (41:32):
I would like to be able to have a stronger
connection with people and also being able to just learn
because this is, like I said, this is my first
time doing it. So there are people in the group
that you know, have more books out there than I
have right now. So I'm willing to learn. I'm willing
to learn what I need to learn to better myself
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to you know, put my books out there.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
So, what is one thing that you would say to
that person that's listening today, that have a book out.
They don't know what to do, but they are contemplating
about joining the movement. Because we hear all the time
that we can't get along, we don't work good together,
that we're envious of each other, that we're just gonna
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back bite, we just we're just gonna pull each other down.
That those are the things, Those are the stereotypes that
they that they speak at us. So a lot of
people may shine away from stuff like this. But since
you've been a part of this movement, what is something
that you can share with somebody to encourage them to
be a part of this movie. Because we still have
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about we still got us.
Speaker 3 (42:48):
Come join us, Come join us, Come come come join
the Inspiring Magazine. Off this magazine on Facebook. Come join us.
There are people who will help you with the publishing
that there are people who will help you get your
book out there. All the help you need is right there.
All the help you need is right there in the
Inspiring Authors Magazine Facebook page. That group will help you
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get to where you want to go.
Speaker 2 (43:15):
Well, I thank you for being a part, I thank
you for sharing your story. I thank you for engaging
in the group. I thank you for supporting I see you.
I may not be able to come in on everything,
I may not be able to always respond to everything,
but one thing I do is I see and I watch,
and I see you showing up to these lives and
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supporting the other authors. So kudos to you. You keep
doing that and keep encouraging them to do the same.
And if you know authors that are looking for an
opportunity to expand their brand and to connect with other
like minded individuals that are not in competition, it's not
a content. Just like Trevida said last night, if you
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coming with drama, be ready to be dismissed because you
because that's not what this is for. This is a
place to connect, collaborate, inspire, and uplifts. I believe in educating,
empowering and encouraging. Yes, that's what I believe. I believe
in providing the ultimate E three experience. When God dropped
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that in my spirit, I didn't know what it was
all about. But as I go, as I grow, and
as I go through the years, I truly understand It's
about educating people, bringing people together, and empowering them to
be the best version of themselves. Teaching them not to
be in competition teaching them if they are, If they
show up the best for themselves, then they can they
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can attract other people around there. When you showing up
to the best that you can, If you showing up
all the time the best that you can, then people
will be attracted to that. People will say, she's showing up.
She's showing up when this is going on. She's showing
up when that is going on. Just keep showing them,
Just keep chowing them. But before we go, you gotta
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tell the people one positive thing, and we're gonna after
you say your positive thing, we're gonna go.
Speaker 3 (45:17):
One positive thing is just just do it. Just you can.
You can do anything you put your mind to it.
Like my mommy always said, just do it. You know,
try it. I mean, if it's not for you, at
least you won't have any regrets. But don't have any regrets.
Try it, write it, put it down, get involved. We
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we're here for you, we will support you, we will
love on you.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
Well well well, well, well, thank you, thank you, thank you,
thank you, thank you so much for joining us on today.
I tell you, I truly was blessed by Miss Dedie.
I hope you guys were blessed by her presence. If
you did not get a chance to hear where you
can get your book, you can go over to Amazon.
She is on social media. You always can reach out
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to me, and I would directly put you in contact
with her directly so that you can connect with her.
But please, y'all go back hear the replays and check
out these amazing authors. Share them in your circle. If
you know authors that are looking for opportunity to share
their brand and connect with other like minded office. It's
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not about competition. That's not about contest. It's not about
competing and all that. Then come on, send them on
over here, send them all over here to the family,
because we would love to have them a part of
the one hundred Authors to Watch for twenty twenty five. Again,
I am the Queen of Collaboration, Angela Thomas Smith. Y'all,
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we will be right back in about fifteen minutes. We
have doctor. When they fields, we'll be in the building, y'all.
That is my mental health specialist. So y'all come on back,
come on back, come on back, all right, see y'all later.
Legs and gentlemen, may I have your attention please? The
show starts in seven like seven six three shot cool Well.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. I want to welcome you guys to
another episode of FOS and Personal with Angela on behalf
of Aspiring Authors magazine. I tell you, it's truly been
a pleasure to be able to share these amazing authors
to watch for twenty twenty five. I tell you, I
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am truly truly excited for all that is in store
for these amazing authors. I'm so excited that they have
taken the opportunity and the chance to allow their voice
to be heard, to share their journeys, things that they
have learned, they have grown from, things that they have overcame.
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And I tell you, I have truly truly been blessed
just being able to just sit in the midst of
some of these individuals and hear their stories, to hear
their testimonies, to hear how they've overcame. And some of
them are in the midst of a trial, but yet
they press, and yet they're willing to share. And I
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tell you, it takes an amazing person to be able
to do that. So I just have to give flowers,
and I have to give my hats off, and I
have to give my applauses while I can, because these
individuals are definitely they're definitely paving the way for individuals
that are coming, because if you have been watching the
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news and you've been following different things, they are definitely
trying to silence our voice. They're trying to rewrite our history,
they're trying to take things away from us, and they're
doing all types of things. So I'm so excited about
the brown individuals that are trying to to be the
change that they want to see in this world, and
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that they are leaving examples in blueprints and leaving things
that can help the next generation to have some type
of idea, some type of nugget that can help them
get through whatever they're going through. So I'm so grateful,
and I hope you guys are following our various pages
so that you can stay connected to these amazing individuals
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and as we continue to grow, because we're expecting some
more We're expecting some more authors. We're expecting all hundred
authors to show up wherever they are. We're expecting them
to come and find the movement and find these amazing
group of individuals that they can collaborate, network and partner with.
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Because we're family over here. Y'all know how I am.
Once you come across my miss once you come in
my path, if you don't disconnect, I'll never disconnect because
I truly believe that if God allow you to cross
my path, there's a reason for you crossing my path,
and there's something that I'm supposed to pour into you,
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whatever that season may be. But y'all, I'm gonna move
out the way. I was trying to give my guests
a chance to get her technology. She's having some issues
with her camera and trying to get her an opportunity
to get her camera and stuff. I think she's got it,
so I'm gonna go ahead and bring her up, and y'all,
(05:33):
we're gonna dive in this conversation. She is a new author,
and I heard in the group that she may be
releasing another book, so y'all, I'm excited for her and
I just want to hear it. So I'm about to
bring her up so we can get this conversation going.
(05:56):
Let me get her on the screen and get her
in the building. All right, Let's see Hello, Hello, welcome, welcome.
How are you?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
How are you doing miss Angela?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I'm doing great. I'm doing great. I can't complain, no
need complaining. If you would please share with those that
are tuned in and those that will hear this replay
who you are and.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Oh wow, Well my name is Naget Scott. Everybody calls
me DDI. I am originally from the Bronx, New York.
I currently live in Victoria, Virginia. I have spina bifila
and hydro syphilis. I was born with it and I
was adopted.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Wow, so how did you become an author? Well?
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Latanya little John is probably the main reason why when
she first wrote her book, she kept asking me the
right mind, because anytime I would share my story with anyone,
they would be like, that needs to be in a book.
That needs to be in a book, and I'm like, yeah, okay.
And when she wrote her first one, she was like, yeah,
come on, write your book and I'm like, no, it
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ain't the time, it ain't the time. But last year,
last summer, she got me good, and the Lord got
me good because he got me good and straight, and
she asked me to join the anthology From Their Eyes
and I immediately say yeah. But then I immediately got
off the phone with her and said, Father, what are
we doing?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
So yeah, he said, at the time when you said yes,
what was the process to that? Yes? Uh.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
I think the Lord was already preparing me to kind
of prepare myself too, right. I just get I'm just
getting out of my marriage. I'm living on my own
for the first time in my life, and so God
has really pulled me away from a lot of things
and kind of just been working on me. And he
kind of just said, all right, it's time for you
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to share. It's time for you to share. So I
started doing it and it was actually kind of therapeutic,
it really was, And I wanted to share it because
not a lot of adoption stories are well, you know,
the outcomes are not good, and I was truly blessed
to have a wonderful outcome from start to finish. I mean,
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my foster mother was my nurse when I was left
at the hospital. She was my nurse and then became
my foster mother for I think like a year year
and a half, and then she couldn't keep me and
I went back into the system, and then my parents
got me and I've been with them ever since I
was two and a half years old.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Wow, yes, ma'am. So on this process of becoming an author,
what can you say was your biggest challenge to getting
this book from from inside your mind and in your
heart and just the thought to actually on that paper.
What was one of your biggest challenges to.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Just doing it? Procrastination to just actually saying, you know what,
we're going to do this right now? It would be
I mean, it would just be like the Father, like, Okay,
it's time to write, and I would just start writing.
I would just start joining in a notepad I have
on my phone, and I would just start writing it.
I almost wouldn't want to stop. But then when I
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get to parts where I'm thinking about my mom and
my dad who have gone on home to be with
the Lord, it gets kind of hard because I missed them.
I missed them so much. I mean, my mom was
my biggest cheerleader, and my dad he was definitely a supporter.
And you're talking about a couple who took in a
child with special needs. They already had four children of
their own and they adopted three more. So man to
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be able to accept the child that was not his
own with special needs. It's like it's his own that's
nothing but God. That's a blessing in itself. So I
wanted to write the story in honor of them. I
wanted their name to be known because they did, they
did the work they did, they did. What I am today,
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who I am today is because of them.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
And not only that, it creates a legacy for them, Yes, ma'am,
just thinking wow about when we lose on and going
through the grief process, being able to keep their memories
alive by doing things like this. Now, the other young lady,
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there's another young lady. She wrote a book about her
mom and her aunt that transition, and she gave them
children like characters where she could go back and reminisce
about their childhood. And for you being able to pass
us on to other individuals to see that they may
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be in the foster care or they may be going
through adoption and may not have anybody to talk to,
and they can now pick up this book and then
they can read your story or they can make one
of the other individual story. Yes, share. So that is definitely,
that is definitely leaving a legacy. We talked about you
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talked about this being a anthology, so that means there
were other individuals that shared their story as well.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Yes, for other women.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Being in the collaboration project. What has that done to
your writing experience versus having to write a book by
yourself knowing that you had four other people writing with
you and sharing that responsibility in that loan, How is
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that versus you thinking about doing your own single project.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
It was actually it was actually like a sisterhood. I
mean because even though we all went through different scenarios
and some were not that great, for us to come
together and support each other and encourage each other to
write what we you know, what we've been through is
going to be a blessing. I mean it's really going
to help somebody. I mean, Latanya has sold me so
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many times that your story can be the healing for
somebody else. So it's all about healing and getting God's
getting God's word out there, getting the blessing that He's
done in your life out there. I Mean, people have
no clue that God can actually adoption story doesn't have
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to be a bad one. It can actually be a
good one if you get to the right parents. And
God definitely set mine up to be with the right
family really because my last my maiden name is actually right,
so it was the right family.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Yeah, wow, So that that that's amazing. God God is
so funny because he would always put a spin on words.
What what what what? What the word may mean to
somebody else could be something totally different to you. And like,
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like that word power and and and that's one of
my favorite words. Like people think that that's just about
just being no. Power means five different words position, overcomer, yes, ma'am,
willing vessel, yes, ma'am, educate, and power, encourage and resilian.
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And I'm like, that means more than just having some authority,
thinking you got some authority, because that's what people think
that word means. It's just have an authority. But it's
more to have an authority. It's a lot that go
along with that. You got to know your position, yes,
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you got to understand how you got there. See now
I understand why my mama always used to tell me
you treat people the same way all the time because
you never know who you're gonna pass on your way up. Yes,
she said, the same people you pass on your way up.
Maybe you're gonna way down. She said, So you better
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be mindful of how you treating people.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Yes, so definitely, definitely I was raised the same way. Yes, sam'am. Wow,
you never.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Know, you never know, you never know. So I really
want to know. Now that you have stepped out on
faith and you've put that pin to paper and you
now have a book, you are now an author? How
does that feel to have me man those work, those
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those letters in front of your name, and just to
hear somebody say like I'm talking about looking at and
looking in the mirror and being a little girl, that's
something that I never saw, something that never jingled in
my ears, like I never saw that. And for us
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to be able to to tell our journey to help
somebody else, because guess what, they're taking a lot of
stuff away from us. And in this season, in this time,
we need so many more individuals like yourself. Because I
hear states saying that they're gonna start taking books and
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things out of the school. That goes further than two
thousand and eight. Okay, we didn't just drop out the
sky in two thousand and eight, like nothing just started
in two thousand and eight. What about what about ten
oh eight? What about eighteen oh eight, what about seventeen
oh eight, all that stuff that helped us to get here. See,
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that's what happens with a lot of people. We when
we arrive, we forget how we got there, yes ma'am.
And we forget the people that helped us along the way.
We forget the people that pushed us, We forget the
people that encouraged us. We forget all that. We just
get to that place and then we pick up new friends,
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We pick up new we pick up those that we
think are where we want to be, not even knowing.
But and that's a whole nother story.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Now that everybody can't go with you going so and
they not, Yeah, you're definitely not gonna You're definitely gonna
have people that might drop off. And that's just that,
that's not you're getting nasty.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Your gift visits for everybody, just like your gift for everybody. Yes, right.
People wonder why they can post something on their page.
Yet we got all these followers. I forget who I
was having this conversation with, but we was having this conversation.
We got all these followers, Yet we post things on
our page. We don't get no shares we don't get
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no lights, and then we wonder, we be wondering, and
then we start being negative, not even knowing that a
lot of people are not gonna share your stuff, a
lot of people are not gonna comment on your stuff.
But you best believe they see it. Yes, they And
you want to know how you All you got to
do is go over to your analytics and it it'll
tell you see people always watching, but they're not gonna
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always congratulate you. They're not always gonna cheer for you.
They're not always gonna root for you. So you have
to and and being in in in the literary world,
the odd creative realm and whatever, just being in this
place where we are, you're not gonna have a lot
of people that are rooting for you, because you're gonna
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have people that wanted to do it. You wanted to
do but they did not have the faith and did
not have the courage to step out and do it. Yes, ma'am,
But because you did, they gonna have everything to say
and it ain't gonna be good. So put on your
put on your skin, because I say, when when they
(18:20):
start calling you sis, sis, sis, sis, be blind for
that because they ain't got. But but if it's snakes
in skin and like you got, you got to put
on your you got to put on your tough skin
and then be willing to just stand and just let
them be. But I am so excited for you. I
(18:46):
really want to know now that you are in this realm,
and and and I know because with me, and I'm
just gonna be honest with me. Once I got the writing,
it's just like I can't stop. And I keep saying,
like going into twenty twenty five, I said I was
not gonna write no books in twenty twenty five. Why
(19:08):
I already don't release two see look at God, I
already don't release too. And I released them two days apart. Wow,
And I said I wasn't gonna release it no books.
I did a twenty one day journal. It's a twenty
one day devotional. And these are for youth. These are
for these are for youth. And it's an in active
(19:30):
trying to get them active, trying to get them to
really dive into the world. Like I give them, man,
I give them a scripture, I give them a lesson,
I give them an affirmation. And then you know, I
like to I like to share poetry. So I give
them a poem too, and then I give them a
place where they can write and journal, and then I
encourage them. I tell them to reflect. And then we
(19:52):
got little scriptures, and then I give them a whole
little outline of how they can read the whole Bible
in three hundred and sixty five days if they want to,
and just different stuff. Because guess what when I got
saved at eighteen and then I went off to college,
guess what two months after I got saved, I had
no backslid because I didn't have nobody there to tell
(20:15):
me how how how how to how to fight off
that stuff, yes man? And how to go in the
word and find stuff in the word. And and then't
nobody interest. I just thought, you get saved, and you
say yeah, because that what they think the picture, that's
the picture that they paint. They don't tell us that
you got to do some work and that you got
(20:36):
to do the Bible, and that you got to stay
in the prisons and you got to have that relationship
and you got to get See they don't tell us that.
And see that's how they got to start telling these babies.
So I said, you know what I said now since
since since then, of the s if the babies think
I'm young and they think I can relate to them,
I said, you know what, I'm about to get them
now since they think I can relate to them. See,
I might never even need They don't. They don't think
(20:58):
they anticket old, and they still think they're too young.
I said, I said, you can owe that how you
think almost stay young.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
So that works in your benefit because it allows you
to get them in the world because you don't because
you don't want to receive what.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
That's exactly what we've been doing. Yeah, that's all, Yes,
we I tell you. I I'm grateful that we're able
to to to use our our tests, our trials, and
our tribulations to help others. As we heal, we can
(21:43):
help others heal as well, because a lot of people,
you know, they don't understand that when when you're going
through and you experiencing this stuff. Because I with me
when I lost my mom. I lost my mom twelve
days after my sixteenth birthday. When I lost my mom,
I thought my world was over and it just took
me a whole lot to grasp and to and then
(22:08):
even still to this day. I truly don't believe I
properly agreed, like I tried to hold on to stuff
like I you know how when people go on vacations
that I just kept saying, my mom was going on
a trip. That's how I started to you know, get her.
You know, she's going on a trip. That's what I
(22:31):
kept telling myself when when I was younger, That's what
I would tell herself. I don't think I truly started
to process that my mom was really gone and was
never coming back until I got to college. Until I
was in college and I really realized that I was.
I was thereby myself, with God and myself. That was it.
(22:55):
And now I just want to tell it. I just
want to tell it. But enough about me, Enough about me.
I want to know. How can people engage with you?
They can support the things that you do. They can
purchase theo that you have. How can they get the book?
(23:20):
You can get the.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Book on Amazon. Just go to Amazon, type in from
their eyes, put Nadget or any other authors will come up,
not just Scott, and you can get the book that way.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Do you do autograph copies?
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Oh? I'm sorry?
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Do you do autograph copies.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Yeah, I can, if you if you contact me, if
you message me and let me know you want to copy, yeah,
I'll autograph and sign it and send it to you.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
That's what I like. I like to tell people to
go on over to Amazon and look at it and
then reach out to the author and so that you autograph, copy,
and then not only that, you support the authors more
when you do that, because it gives them opportunity to
(24:21):
make the money that Amazon would be making. Yeah, So
I always tell them, keep you some books on hand.
If you ain't got your website, work on getting you
a website so you can have your own stuff set
up over here to the side. But use Amazon too
for those people that can't that you can't set to
(24:43):
like all those people in Africa and those people in
the UK, because they do they do read our books. Yeah,
I mean when I go, yes, you make sure make
sure you you start telling people to get it from me,
get it from d D and DD he give her
(25:03):
some copies and start autographing them copies and start putting
the putting you some little quotes in there, personalizing it,
making people really relate to d.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
D exactly exactly want to know when when when they.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Can relate to d D. Because your your your testimony
and your journey is powerful and for all that you
and Alatanya, because you and Latania both have the same disabilities.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
That's what that was none of God for us to meet.
And that's my sister, like.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
You guys deal with and go through. Like for y'all
to be able to come on these shows and to
do the things that y'all are doing, like that is
so inspirational and that is so powerful people like there
may be somebody out there that I thought that they
couldn't make it, Like they can't, they can't do it.
(26:00):
And I'd love to see individuals pressed to have disabilities
and and and and and because the ones like us
that people don't see our disabilities and think that we're okay,
but then we be slacking. Like that's why I go
so hard, because I don't if Alma and Latanya and
(26:26):
you can come and do what y'all do and show
up and do what y'all do, then everybody else, those
people with those excuses excuse me.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Well, I was raised. I was pretty much raised that
there's nothing that I couldn't do if I put my
mind to it so exactly. I was always pretty much
raised to push myself to go out there and do
and at least try. My mom would always say, try
it once and this way you won't have any regrets.
So all, I kind of lived my life on that exactly.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
But again, like I said, there's so much that you
can do to like just build around your chapter and
to personalize it, to connect with your audience and and
and build your brand. People want to connect with you
because once you want you, there's more to you than
(27:17):
just your story about adoption. There's so much more. And
then even outside of your disability, there's so much more.
People want to know everything that they want to know,
So and.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
You and you will know everything because I'm working on
my autobiography, but I'm not sure when the release date
will be.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Meanwhile, you just build, you just build you a brand.
You just build you just build you an audience, and
you just build your brand. And how you do that,
you do, like do you some lives talk about your book,
talk about what's coming up, talk about whatever else you
want to talk about. Come up with you. Some little
slogans come up with you, some little sayings come up
with you, some little whatever that's that's how you get
(28:04):
you're an audience and and and build you a rapport
with people, because honey, I used to get on here something.
I used to get on here and just get on
here and just get the talking, and just get the talking. Well,
he would get on here, and I get on here
thinking I'm about to get on here and start talking
about books. And I get on here, Honey, I been
don have a whole sermon, and then I'll get off
(28:27):
and then I'll go back and look at that, and
I'll be like, who was that?
Speaker 3 (28:33):
But sometimes you just gotta let God use you. You know,
That's what he was.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Received.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
But that was what you want to say that that is.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
What he was doing. That's what he was doing. And
he was allowing me to think that it was books
to allow me to get out of my comfort zone
so that I could do what he will, so that
he could do what he was gonna do, because I
was I was here myself by getting over here talking
about books and thinking that it was just gonna be
(29:06):
about books, and knowing that I had already told people, oh,
you come over here on my platform, we ain't just
talking about books. It's about more than books. But I
didn't know what that more than books was was gonna be.
You know what I'm saying. I didn't. I didn't say
what that more than books was because I was I'm
the type of person I don't I don't have no
(29:28):
heaven or hell to put nobody in. So I opened
my platform to everybody, and I had certain things I
just didn't say because but now, honey, he he just
spanked me, slapped me, broke me, and say, honey, you
when when you open your mouth, just let me talk.
So now when I open my mouth, he just.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Go exactly, exactly exactly, use me, Lord. That's my prayers
always to use me. Lord. Let them not see me,
let them see you that. It's not about me. It's
not about me at all. That's about what God can
do in your life.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
That's it, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
So, And I appreciate you, Miss Angela, because you not
only gave me this platform, but you also have given
me the opportunity to be on with Latanya you know
from time to time. So I appreciate you. So I
thank you for that.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Well, I'm just being the change that I want to
see in this world. I have to give a shout
out to my big brother, doctor Ola Day and Gozie
over on the WB and N where I was last night.
Because if it was not for him, we wouldn't even
be right here. There would be no the Crew podcast,
and I wouldn't even be doing this, and everybody that's
(30:43):
had the opportunity to come through here would not have
had that opportunity. So I give God, I'll praise because
he aligned that because just like y'all sitting here doing
the interview, that's how I even That's how I even
got on that network. It's because I went on an interview.
Somebody interviewed me, and then after the interview he called
(31:05):
me and asked me if I will come over and
be on a network and guess where I'm gonna be
celebrating five years God, Cotula La, So I'm talking about
you talking about a little country girl from level Land,
South Carolina. When people say level Land, people be one
a joke. They say never Land, No level Land. And
(31:27):
it's in between Abbeville and Anderson, in between and Interraville
and they'd be like, what what that's it? If you
heard a Clemson, I'm not that far from there. That's
just it.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
But yes, ma'am. If people will never know what God
who got is gonna.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Use exactly, he will use anybody if he'll make if
he will, let the rocks cry out, he don't told us.
So guess what if he'll use anybody, Lord, use me
h use me, Lord, use me, Lord, use me up
(32:04):
that that that that is not that is my testimony.
Use me Lord. So what advice would you leave with
someone that is aspiring to become an author? What would
you tell them today?
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Mmmm, that you have a story. Your story can help
someone else. You may not think it can, but it
actually can. You never know what your story is going
to do for somebody's life. Because God, God has us
here for awful reason. So each of our stories matter.
It matters to him, so it will matter to somebody else.
(32:44):
And don't let nobody else tell you what you can't do.
You can or you can only do what you can do,
but you can't you don't tell nobody can't tell you
what you can't do. You can do all things, and
you gotta know that, and you gotta remember that, and
God will use you. You just have to be willing
to want to be used.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
So outside of the new book that you're going to
be releasing. What else can we look forward to you?
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Doing well on your show? Last night you got a
little sneak peek from Latania that I will be co
hosting on Fridays with her. Yes, ma'am, out of my
comfort zone, because that is not who I am.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
But sometimes if you will take you outside of your
comfort zone to show you exactly who he is and
that he is yet faithful to his word, Yes, ma'am said,
he will make room for your gifts. And if we
he can't make room for our gifts, if we hiding
them and we sitting down on that. So that's why
(33:57):
I tell people, while you're sitting down on that gift,
I said, you ain't hurting me. You've heard the one
that as And then if you keep singing down on it,
see how long you sit on it? See how long
you sit on it? Because I wish I never stopped singing. Boy,
I wish I never stopped singing because I can't carry
I can't carry your tune. To save my life. I
(34:18):
need some life, Auntie. She'd be like you open your ears,
she said, open your ears, Auntie, But.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
I do so I sing.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
She's a Sunris she sings. The girl she she tried
out for American Honor and almost made it the same
year there she used to sing when when she lived
here in Atlanta, she used to be she used to
V one on three used to have these contests and
she wants. They used to call into the radio and
they would let you sing or do whatever, and then
(34:53):
if you win, they used to let you come down
there to the studio. Well, she won all the way
down to the studio and she got to go in
the studio and sing, and then they got to go.
People had to call in and vote and stuff, and
whoever won, what she didn't win, the person that won,
they got to open up at. Her name was what's
(35:16):
that girl name? Fox? I forgot what her name was,
but whatever the Fox girl that was on V one
o three back in the in the nineties, on the
early twenties. That was the early twenties. It's it's been
a minute. But God would make room for your gift.
He would make room for your because every time you know,
and then only that you know, they always tell us
that we would not be honored in our own hometown,
(35:38):
that we have to venture out to even receive to
receive that honor. And every day that I pick up,
every day that I go over to one of my
pages and not Sheba in green it's here in in Atlanta.
I know Sheba Sheiba Fox in Greenville, but she was
here in Atlanta. Find out who the one was on
(35:58):
V one on three okay, Jazz one O seven whatever
it was because Latanya trying to find out. Yeah, I
know she that was my friend I used to do
but me and her used to do events and and
now but I'm just I'm just happy. I get excited
(36:18):
just about sharing the Word of God and just being
able to you know, us being able to be examples
and to be able to leave our blueprint and to
be able to leave something for somebody else to pull
off of, and knowing that you you don't have to
be perfect. You will never be perfect, but we can
(36:40):
help you in navigating if you just just just follow
some of these blueprints some of the people that have
been through this route, that have had to deal with this.
Because we're gonna go through stuff. The word already KNOWNE
told us we're not gonna be free of nothing. And
then we're gonna go through some more stuff and we're
gonna go through some more stuff. We live a little long,
(37:00):
we're gonna go through some more. We're gonna forever go
through something. But it's about us learning to deal with
it and handle it.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
And you got God. You got God to help you
get get through. He's not gonna ever leave us so
for sake us.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
So yeah, that's why he left us the Holy Spirit.
He tells us that you know what thing God gonna
do for us right now is he ain't letting nobody
touch us. He he all he doing is protecting. He
just protecting all of his children.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
That's how he can be everywhere because all he doing
is watching. Now. See he said that he sent the
whole he left the Holy Spirit. See he had to
send Jesus. Yes, he had to send Jesus so that
he can bring about forgiveness and he can wipe away
all that stuff that had been done so that he
(37:47):
can feel the prophecy. See that's why Jesus had to come.
Jesus had to come in that for him so he
can fulfill the prophecy. But see, he said he would
never leave us nor forsake us. So when he said
he would never leave us, not for sake, because that's
when he left the Holy Spirit. Everything that we need
comes through the Holy Spirit, and we got to learn
how to tap into the Holy Spirit and a lot
(38:09):
of the Holy Spirit to leave God Director.
Speaker 3 (38:13):
Yes, ma'am, Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
It's all about the Holy Spirit. But see, a lot
of us don't even want to recognize the Holy Spirit.
We don't recognize the Holy Spirit. A lot of us
don't recognize the Holy Spirit. But it's the Holy Spirit
that's gonna directly. I want to know something, you want
some wisdom you, Yes, that's the Holy Spirit. Yes, you
(38:34):
want to be shown something, You want to be guided,
ask the Holy Spirit. Yes, He'll show us.
Speaker 3 (38:42):
Yes, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
I tell you, I truly have been blessed. I thank you.
I thank you, I thank you, I thank you. I
thank you for stopping by and sharing. I thank you
for being obedient to his voice and and pining that book.
I'm looking forward to your book that's going to be released.
When we close, I want to talk a little bit
(39:06):
about you being a part of the one hundred author's movement.
What inspired you to be a part of it?
Speaker 3 (39:17):
Uh, just to be able to be amongst other authors
and to you know, hear other people's stories and to
support each other. I'm big on supporting people, and you know,
cheering others on. Nobody is not you know, in competition.
We're here to support each other, cheer each other on,
and just help us to all to get our story
(39:38):
out there. So I am just honored to be a
part of that. That's another wild thing to me. Just
God has just been blowing my mind. It's been blowing
my mind.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
And we talked, We've talked about and all of the
the other authors that's been on, we've talked about how
we have all come together because we all have s
the things and in common as authors. But I want
everybody to share that unique perspective of voice that they
(40:08):
want to bring to this movement because like with the universe,
we all have a place, we all have a purpose,
we all have something that one thing that He pacifically
aligned for us to to to to align with the universe.
So it's that one thing that aligns us to align
(40:29):
with everything. So what is that that that one thing
that you would like to bring to the movement? And
when when, when, when the next movement comes, you want
them to remember what what would you like to pass
on through this movement.
Speaker 3 (40:45):
Mm hmm. Just tell your story. Just realize you have
a story, whatever it may be. You may think it's
not anything. Write it down, generally, put it, put it
to paper. You never know who will be blessed by it.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
You just never know.
Speaker 3 (41:02):
Just do it. It's scary. It's scary at first, but
once you begin to do it, God will allow you
to release so much that you didn't realize you even
had in you that you needed to release. You have
to get it out. It will make you better.
Speaker 2 (41:20):
So, now that you are a part of the movement
and you understand a little bit about what the movement
is about, what is one thing that you hope that
you can take away from this movement.
Speaker 3 (41:32):
I would like to be able to have a stronger
connection with people and also being able to just learn
because this is, like I said, this is my first
time doing it. So there are people in the group
that you know, have more books out there than I
have right now. So I'm willing to learn. I'm willing
to learn what I need to learn to better myself
(41:55):
to you know, put my books out there.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
So, what is one thing that you would say to
that person that's listening today, that have a book out.
They don't know what to do, but they are contemplating
about joining the movement. Because we hear all the time
that we can't get along, we don't work good together,
that we're envious of each other, that we're just gonna
(42:23):
back bite, we just we're just gonna pull each other down.
That those are the things, Those are the stereotypes that
they that they speak at us. So a lot of
people may shine away from stuff like this. But since
you've been a part of this movement, what is something
that you can share with somebody to encourage them to
be a part of this movie. Because we still have
(42:45):
about we still got us.
Speaker 3 (42:48):
Come join us, Come join us, Come come come join
the Inspiring Magazine. Off this magazine on Facebook. Come join us.
There are people who will help you with the publishing
that there are people who will help you get your
book out there. All the help you need is right there.
All the help you need is right there in the
Inspiring Authors Magazine Facebook page. That group will help you
(43:12):
get to where you want to go.
Speaker 2 (43:15):
Well, I thank you for being a part, I thank
you for sharing your story. I thank you for engaging
in the group. I thank you for supporting I see you.
I may not be able to come in on everything,
I may not be able to always respond to everything,
but one thing I do is I see and I watch,
and I see you showing up to these lives and
(43:39):
supporting the other authors. So kudos to you. You keep
doing that and keep encouraging them to do the same.
And if you know authors that are looking for an
opportunity to expand their brand and to connect with other
like minded individuals that are not in competition, it's not
a content. Just like Trevida said last night, if you
(44:03):
coming with drama, be ready to be dismissed because you
because that's not what this is for. This is a
place to connect, collaborate, inspire, and uplifts. I believe in educating,
empowering and encouraging. Yes, that's what I believe. I believe
in providing the ultimate E three experience. When God dropped
(44:24):
that in my spirit, I didn't know what it was
all about. But as I go, as I grow, and
as I go through the years, I truly understand It's
about educating people, bringing people together, and empowering them to
be the best version of themselves. Teaching them not to
be in competition teaching them if they are, If they
show up the best for themselves, then they can they
(44:44):
can attract other people around there. When you showing up
to the best that you can, If you showing up
all the time the best that you can, then people
will be attracted to that. People will say, she's showing up.
She's showing up when this is going on. She's showing
up when that is going on. Just keep showing them,
Just keep chowing them. But before we go, you gotta
(45:07):
tell the people one positive thing, and we're gonna after
you say your positive thing, we're gonna go.
Speaker 3 (45:17):
One positive thing is just just do it. Just you can.
You can do anything you put your mind to it.
Like my mommy always said, just do it. You know,
try it. I mean, if it's not for you, at
least you won't have any regrets. But don't have any regrets.
Try it, write it, put it down, get involved. We
(45:41):
we're here for you, we will support you, we will
love on you.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
Well well well, well, well, thank you, thank you, thank you,
thank you, thank you so much for joining us on today.
I tell you, I truly was blessed by Miss Dedie.
I hope you guys were blessed by her presence. If
you did not get a chance to hear where you
can get your book, you can go over to Amazon.
She is on social media. You always can reach out
(46:20):
to me, and I would directly put you in contact
with her directly so that you can connect with her.
But please, y'all go back hear the replays and check
out these amazing authors. Share them in your circle. If
you know authors that are looking for opportunity to share
their brand and connect with other like minded office. It's
(46:40):
not about competition. That's not about contest. It's not about
competing and all that. Then come on, send them on
over here, send them all over here to the family,
because we would love to have them a part of
the one hundred Authors to Watch for twenty twenty five. Again,
I am the Queen of Collaboration, Angela Thomas Smith. Y'all,
(47:01):
we will be right back in about fifteen minutes. We
have doctor. When they fields, we'll be in the building, y'all.
That is my mental health specialist. So y'all come on back,
come on back, come on back, all right, see y'all later.
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