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Speaker 1 (00:15):
Please, and gentlemen, may I have your attention please? The
show starts in life eight seven, six, five, four three
(00:40):
two one.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Well, well, well, welcome, welcome to up close and personal
with in July on behalf of Aspiring Actors magazine and
The Crew podcast. I tell you, I am excited to
be right here where I am able to share these
amaze and authors, y'all. I'm excited. I'm excited. I'm excited
(01:07):
something like being able to share individuals that are making
an impact. And these individuals are making an impact in
the literary world and their own right because we all
have stories, we all have journeys, we all have something
that somebody can take a naked from, somebody can draw from,
someone could benefit from. So I'm excited about these amazing
(01:32):
authors joining the one hundred author movement. I'm excited to
be able to connect with them virtually and in person, y'all,
because we're going to be coming from these social media
sites and we're going to be meeting up with some
of these amazing authors. So y'all, I'm gonna move on
the way and allow mister Zachary to come on up
(01:54):
and share about his self, introduce hisself to you guys,
and share just a little bit about his brand and
what we can expect from him in twenty twenty five,
because he is one of the amazing authors to watch
for twenty twenty five. So let me bring him on
(02:15):
in the building or welcome. How are you doing? I
am doing side you. I can't complain because guess what,
I'm gonna tell you what my mama used to tell
me when I was little. So you used to tell me,
don't nobody feel that but you. It's just like using
a restroom on your self.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Girl.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
So when when I learned that, I started to think
about things and think about if I'm walking around with attitude,
I'm walking around mad at somebody. Guess what them people
going on with their lives. They live their lives, They happy,
and I'm over here caring grudges, ain't it? And you
better stop pissing on yourself and go on. You better
(02:58):
be happy. This word that's his living. You want to
get one life to live, That's it. That's it. So
I am truly truly honored to have you here today
and to be able to share you with the world.
So what inspired you to become an author? Oh? That's
(03:19):
a great cusser. What aspired to be coming here to
be the author? I think for me, I think growing
up me having a voice and wanted to be heard
and have a platform to spread my knowledge, my words
to my friends and family and anybody who helps along
(03:39):
the word. So that's aspired me to be an author.
And she said, my story so they can relate Inso
how and how to come back? You know, from depression, betrayal, heartbreaks.
You know, ain't lesson in the world. How they'll come back?
So that's why inspired me to be author. Wow, So
(04:01):
what was your actual what was your actual first piece
of literary work did you do?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
So for me, I'm an inspirational writer. So for me,
my first piece was a short It was just a
short section in an anthology where I shared my journey
of losing my mom twelve days after my sixteenth Oh.
So that's what started my journey as an author. Because
(04:39):
I'm little old country girl from a place called Leveland,
South Carolina that nobody never heard of one way in
and one way, never thought about being an author. That's
something that never crossed my mind. So when the opportunity
came up, young lady out of Texas gave me the
(05:00):
opportunity to share in the Anathology. Since then, I have
garnered over one hundred and twenty one pieces of literary work,
whether it's been an anathology, a book by itself, a journal,
or a planner. I've just allowed the creator to create
(05:22):
through me and to allow that journey life to be
able to share. I'm a poet as well.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
I have.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Three I think I have three maybe four poetry series
where we have three books. We have three books that
make up a series. So we have the last one
that we just created was it's called the Legacy Chronicle
A Time and Eternity. The first one was called Seeds
(05:57):
of Immortality, the second one was called Footprints in the
Sands of Time, and then the last one was called
Eternal Echoes. So speaking of that, right, So I am
in my first volume one book of poetry. And the
(06:19):
reason why I wants to call it because well, the
book is called the series, I'm called Didu and in
volume one is called most of the Journey. So you
go through loneliness, heartbreaks just throughout life, you know, personal struggles,
(06:39):
and I think for me, how to started off, I
think I just was like angry, and I didn't know
how to express myself. And one of the things I
remember this teacher and I would never forget her name
is King, and she came up to me. She's like,
why are you so angry at this? Sound like why
(07:00):
are you upset the world? Because I didn't have a voice.
I didn't at that moment. I didn't find nobody who
looks like me or who I can relate to. So
she said, why don't you write your own pathway? I
was like, so, what do you mean by that? You like,
(07:21):
I need some tools. What do you mean by that?
She said, well, I just start writing whatever you feel
at that moment, right you don't have to correct it,
you don't have to do anything. Just write. And I
think from that point on, me writing a lot, me
expressing myself, me getting to use my voice throughout my words,
(07:48):
and having a platform as a poet in not being
a author, it has been phenomenally to be honest, what
you has been phenomenally and right now ask me. Writing
my book called thed You series, and the first book
(08:08):
called Journey of Emotions is out of the world and
I think I put everything, my feelings, my depression, my anxiety,
my love, my betrayal, my backstabbing friends, my relationship, my
family abuse. I just put all that in this first
(08:32):
book and I want people to relate to it. And
with this book is a little bit different because before
you read the poem, it's questions, they're gonna ask you
about yourself. Then after you read that section, they're gonna
(08:54):
ask you some questions after it. Because I really want
people to understand when you are reading this book, I
want you to think about your personal journey throughout life. Right,
And I got a lot of people back to me.
I'm like, I can't even finish it. I can't finish it.
(09:16):
So okay, So what ways do you hope that your
book would contribute to the impact of conversations that individuals
will have in society about your book? How do you
want your book to impact the conversation that we're having
in our brown community. I would say that I want
(09:38):
to shed a light on don't let nobody stop you
for tying, and to have that conversation and push it,
especially as black people. I want it to create something that, hey,
(09:58):
this might help you or what you want to say
to somebody, or this might help you guide your way
throughout anything that you are going to because I know
I like from me growing up, so I'm a country boy.
For me, I'm a country boy. I love hunt and
(10:18):
I love the country I think for me and my family,
I didn't have, Like I said, I didn't have a voice.
I didn't. I was told to hush up and stay
in a child's place. So when I didn't have that,
and as you look for now, you see people who
(10:41):
look like me, who's on my age or lower. They
don't know how to communicate. So I want this book
to have an impact or pushing the conversation, like, hey,
you got a voice, use it, you feel this way,
use it, think about what you want to do, and
(11:03):
we're going to push it in the team, pushing the
envelope because I don't want this conversation that's just stopped
from that person who's readden it. I want them continue
to character conversation on to the next person and start
having a conversation between your friends and family. So that's
(11:23):
why I want this book two bring in this world
and hopefully it does. So how how has I hear
you referencing your childhood different things? How has that truly
(11:47):
influenced I don't know if I want to say influence
what you have written or want to pin versus. No,
let me let me rephrase that it ain't it ain't.
(12:12):
It ain't coming out the way I wanted it to hear.
I really want to understand how has all of the
things that I hear you experience and it molded you
to where you are now. And it sounds to me
that you want to be able to share that with
(12:36):
the generation coming up so that they will have a voice,
so that they don't have to wait until they get
to this place to realize that they have a voice,
but they can develop that voice alone that process. Because
see what has happened to a lot of us. We
lost that voice because we started listening to what everybody
(12:59):
else wanted us to do. We started wanting to because
I remember when I was little, I wanted to do
a lot of different stuff. But then I started hearing
what you should do this, you should do that, you
should do this. Then it came nursing came up, and
a lot of other stuff. And then when I started
going into all those things that everybody wanted me to do,
I didn't like those things because it's telling you it's
(13:21):
telling people like always. So the thing I learned growing
up and me is looking at it now. People want,
especially your family. Your family went the best for you
at the end of the day. I think the difference
is you have to know what you want in life
and not have your family or friends dictate you, dictate
(13:43):
you didn't want to see you because it's what happens
with some of them, and this is what they do.
They pushed the stuff that they wanted to do, that
they didn't, that they messed up, or whatever the situation was.
But they want to live it through you. They want
to push those things. They won't because they couldn't be
(14:03):
no doctor. And that's not and that's not right because
number one, I need ask to be here. That's that's
number one. Now I'm here. Now you have to raise
me the right wrong, give me the tools to be there.
A doubt. Yeah, And I feel like some parents, and
(14:24):
I call it cultivate you. You you have to cultivate
me so that you got to put something in me.
You got to water it, you got to plan it,
you got to water it. And then you've got to
go in and you've got to pick out the weeds.
You got to when they call it what you got
to do all that, and then once you do all that,
(14:46):
then you can reap the benefits of your fruit, because
then I can get out there and I can do.
But if you don't allow me to be, then I
can get stagnated. I can have double roots, I can grow,
I can be growing down instead of growing up, and
then I can do and then I can produce bad fruit.
(15:07):
And I think, and I think from that, you have
to learn how to navigate on breaking the cycle. And
I think some people I'm not seeing an all film this.
I think that's an all generation in all different kinds
of ethnic groups. When you are in that situation, when
(15:30):
your parents are living through you, you have to learn
how to break that cycle. You gotta be like, I'm
sorry that this happened to you, but this is not
my responsibility, right. My responsibility is to be a child,
grow up, go with everything, do in life and do
(15:51):
the same thing that you opposed to do. I'll be
better than you as a parent. And from from me
just writing this book, because the first the first the
first piece in the book and kind of girl run
is self defiction, personal struggle, and the first piece you
(16:14):
get is I'm gay, And that right there impacts the
story because you are getting to know the author through
the book. Now you find out he's gay, you find
out he's a black author, You find that he went
(16:35):
through a lot of problems, he didn't know himself. Now
he's navigating throughout life trying to figure out who he
is as a person. Then as you think about it,
now you're thinking about your your past trauma, your past
(16:56):
struggles and how it how's it affect you? And I
feel like for that I did my job as a poet,
as author and as this book because now having you
to think about you and what makes you tick, what
(17:17):
makes you cry, what makes you happy, it makes you
think about everything and going inside deeper that you ever
thought about yourself and be honest with yourself. And in
that moment, I done did this job of this book
and it's just a piece of it. Wow. So I
(17:42):
definitely can hear that you have found your individual voice
and your writing style and the message that you want
to give off to your listener. So you definitely have
an audience that you want to read. So in doing that,
(18:02):
what have been some of your struggles? Because you are
a self published authors. Right, So, as a self published author,
what has been some of your struggles as a self
published author. I think I talked about this recently. I
think writer's block is one thing. And when you have
(18:24):
writer's block, it's meaning you are stuck. That means you
can't go forward, and that I was. I struggled with
that a lot, and it's like, oh snap, like I
do not know how to finish. And that's the worst
thing I completed about myself. I wanted to finish something
(18:47):
that I started. And on top of that is my emotions.
When you are writing a piece that is person know
to you and you have to live do that story
or that experience, it's hard mm hmm. And in this
(19:12):
part right here, in this book, I has been very
emotional because each piece I got in here, it has
been trials and tribulation of the past, how people mishandled
me as a child and not giving me the tools
(19:38):
to proper through life. And I have to struggle in
this world being like I'm alone, so as a self poliger.
And on top of that, you gotta do what you
gotta do. Promot, you gotta promote your book, and I
think that that is even hard I thank god I
(19:59):
have a place platform, publishing more of my books and
just having a lot of people are tuned in. And
also I have a broadcast as well called Just to
Us Broadcasts, and we talk about certain things. And just
having our platform and talk about my stories and talk
about other people's stories. It gets the people interesting, like, oh,
(20:20):
I want to buy this book. Oh that's the way
he's talking about a little bit deeper. So just about
back on the question, like the struggle of the emotions,
the writer's block and promoting is definitely what's the hardest
thing to be at this moment, during that time when
(20:42):
I was publishing this book. But even with even with
some of those struggles and with that struggle, what would
you say to that person that may want to self
published or want to get their their feet wet, what
would you say to them about publishing? Don't give up
(21:07):
number one number that's number one. Number two. Research, do
your research. There's a lot of third parties or family
members who've done publishing. I think for me being a
self publisher, I think for me doing my research and
know what platform that you want to use and how
(21:28):
how do you want to get paid? How much they
are taking from you. So definitely do your research, a
lot of research, and and and and one advice I
always give people, you can utilize these platforms to put
your book up there just so they can get out
(21:50):
there for show. But you always keep you a website
and you always keep you some books on hand, because
that's how you make your real money. That that's how
you make your real money. You know a lot of
people say, well, I have a website. It's great to
have a website. It's great to have that, But you
still need Barns and Noble. You still need books a million,
You still need Amazon because they can kick out those
(22:11):
books for you, and they can get them to those
people overseas because that's where you want me at. I'm
telling you, every time I look at my royalty page
and they have one of them, the other symbols outside
of the US dollar, I feel like I've done something that, hey,
I was supposed to do. I've reached somebody out of
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my home land. You know the word say we not
gonna have no honor in our own land, You're gonna
have it in a foreign land. So that when I
see I tell you, when I see them other them
pounds and the other symbols on that page. That's when
(22:53):
I get excited because then then I'm reaching somebody out
of the I'm touching somebody on the other side. So yeah,
that's why these other platforms are so amazing because they
can see your They may not come across your website
(23:13):
and if you go website might not be all up
in then it may not be up in the feeds
where you know they can just you know, you ain't
in the search, so they don't know to go to
your website. But if they if they know, they can
go find you on Amazon, Bards and Noble Books a
million and then if I can just use my library
(23:35):
card to go find you on hoop Lie and a
lot of these other farms. Now a lot of people
don't know, like some of your books could be in
a local library that you live in. Yes, and now
you got to do. You got to do is google
yourself and if you use certain platforms, if you use
certain platforms, there's a possibility that your book is in libraries.
(23:58):
Because if anybody that have a library card and they
go on the those different platforms that they can use
to check out books from the library. In the privacy
of their own home and not even have to leave
and go to the library. But if they can get
it with the with their library card as an e book,
(24:19):
they can actually go inside of the same library and
request that in a book on the ship. But people
don't know that. But I tell everybody. I'm telling everybody,
and you are a part of the one hundred athor movement.
And I was showing people these different sites, like there's
a company, are you familiar with Barker and Taylor. I
(24:44):
heard of it. They are a distribution book distribution company
out of Charlotte, North Carolina that's been in circulation for
over one hundred and thirty years, and they circulate to
most academic college libraries as well as most libraries. Just
(25:07):
about all my books are published and distributed through them. Huh.
I gotta tack that. I showed somebody. I showed someone
the other day how they can do the same thing.
It took me five minutes. Tell you say for for
for for that purpose right there, I just learned something
and I'm gonna hop all that because that's free information
(25:29):
that you're given me. Yes, and then there's when we
get out of here, I'm gonna give you some more
information because that same information, that same site, you go
to this one particular site and you uploaded, and it
goes to all those I don't know if you see
that that that thing that I posted the other day
is a street and it says publishing, and then it
says published, and then it had a list of Yeah,
(25:53):
you published to that one site, and it goes to
all of those hoop lie Cloud Library. That's a lot.
That's a lot. That's a lot. After Global Screwer, it's
a lot of them, yes, tele uh and a lot
of these places are they are overseas. It's for overseas
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distribution to get your books in the UK and to
get your books in these different platforms. So that's what
we're doing here at the one hundred movement. We're gonna
be sharing those resources. I don't know if you've been
tapping into the resources that I've been dripping. Listen, I agree.
I know you're gonna hear a lot of people say
(26:39):
that I'm not offering my services for free and free
and well, value is what you put on it. If
if if free can value nine hundred and ninety nine dollars,
then free it is, and it's worth nine ninety nine
because I'm I'm value and if I want to put
nine ninety nine on free, then oh well let me yeah,
(27:01):
because you're not gonna tell me free can't be just
as much as you over there charging one thousand dollars
and what you charging one thousand dollars look worse than
the free exactly because somebody just talk about that. Some
might just talk about that because I think this person
paid over two thousand dollars just for the publisher, and
I was like, how about you pay two thousand dollars
(27:24):
this lady charged him. I was like, you know, you
can do this over here for free, and that's what
we're doing. And I think, I think stand up between
me and him. He was too lazy to do it.
And that's it. A lot of people don't want to
put in the work. They'd rather go pay somebody else
for them to make money out of you. When you
(27:46):
can just you can take that extra time and put
that extra time, and you could save two three four
hundred because I know me, I'm gonna save me a
cop a hundred, cop a thousands. Say I'm telling you
can save it. I'm telling you you can save all
of that, But a lot of people have learned how
to monetize people's downfall. They've learned how to monetize everything
(28:11):
when people are trying to come out. You know, the
word tells me that we're supposed to be helpmates to
one another. And if I'm trying to help you, there's
no way I'm fin to charge you one thousand dollars
for you to be in my anthology. There's the way
I'm fin to charge you three hundred and ninety nine
dollars for you to be in my anthology. To charge
you ninety nine dollars to be in anthology. The most
(28:32):
I've ever charged to be in the anthology. I think
it's thirty five dollars and you get the s yes, yes,
and that's out. I'm not charging I'm not charging the
arm in the leake for what not? When I'm needing,
when I want thirty and forty people to share their voice,
why would I do that? Why would I charge one
hundred dollars? And I'm looking for three hundred and sixty
(28:53):
five people doing that, And I'm trying to help people
share their voice. I'm not trying to to to send
somebody to over here. To be begging from from Peter
to pay Paul just so they they can make a name,
just so that they can make No, we're fin to
put in the work. We fin to do this. It's
(29:16):
time to tap it. That's it. You know, there's things
that you may be strong in that you can to
the group, that you can help individuals with. Like Treda.
Treda is good with She's good with publishing. She's good
with helping individuals that have any kind of any kind
of mind by blogging stuff. Because why, she deals with
(29:39):
a disability that has caused her to have neurological disabilities.
So she has learned how to adapt and she's taking
those skills and she share them in her writing there.
But you know where on top of that, and it's
it's not all people. It's some people I have seen.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Like they don't want the help, you know what, Like
you cause you have those people that they have these
mentalities where if if they can't be the person that
you're going to and they can't be the person they
control and they can't, they don't want to be.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
A part of it. See me, when when when stuff
get dropped in my spirit most of the time it
don't even be for me. It be for somebody else,
and a lot of us will hold on to it
and try to do it. Nah, I got it. I
got to get it away from me so that I
can I can prosper. Because kind of thing is when
(30:36):
you feel that M tell you you never know what's
gonna happen in the long running. And I think that
people don't understand that, Like, the more you help people,
it's gonna pay off. It's going to pay off. I'm
I'm a true believer of it. I have seen it.
It happened to me. But the moment you get out
(30:59):
your mindset don't want to help people and you want
to be selfish, as don't It's understand you want to
be selfish sometimes cool, that's that's I accept that. But
there's other moments that you got to be like, nah,
you gotta help tell you you want you want to grow,
you want this in your pocket. But if you don't
(31:20):
want this, like it's I don't know what to see,
Like help me, help me. You. You have to be
mind for those seeds that you sew because all those seeds,
everything that we sow, will come back. So I'm trying
to sew more good seeds than bad sea seeds. I
want my good seeds to be overflowing and running over.
(31:43):
Then we go because I want I want my cup
to run over. I wanted to and running over because
I have I asked people like even this is just
a snippet part like that, when you say overflow, my
cuts will run overflow as my as my cup running overflow,
you'll come and run over floor because me, I put
(32:04):
the point in myself to as my flow going to
other people. That's it. That's it, and that's that's the
mindset that we all should have. You know, my overflow
should be going to the next person to help fill
up their cup so that they can overflow and they
overflow can go to the next floor. It's just like
a ripple of flat when you throw that when you
throw that rock out there in that in that water
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and you see them ripples going, it just keep going
and going and going. That's how I want the things
that I do in life. I want what to be
able to be passed on for years and years and
years and years and years to come. So what inspired
you to join the one hundred Actors movement? Oh? I
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think just to like like the whole conversation we had
like to help people. And I think just for me
having that more platforms, I can reach more people. Oh,
it's only up from here, because like I said, I
am here to help you get through your trauma and
(33:08):
get through anything else you need to do and verse
back to It's gonna be a blessed back to me regardless.
And I think for me having and to be joining this,
it's it's amazing and it's not gonna start from here.
And I appreciate every step of the way and being
(33:31):
recognized on the hard work that I have done in
the past and what I am today and moving forward.
So that's why I join. Well, definitely, I see that
you do have a unique voice and a unique perspective.
(33:54):
What would you like to leave with this? With this movement?
Those that are coming behind you, what would you like for.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
Them to see you contribute to this movement and say
oh that that did that as part of the one
hundred and wander out the movement.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
What is the one thing that you would like to
leave behind You have a voice and don't let anybody
dim your life and just having that moment, and I
want people to always think of that that simple phrase,
don't you have a voice, don't let nobody dim your life,
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and that speak value on everything that you touch, think about,
do in your life. And that's how I want to
leave that moment. You have a voice and that nobody
(35:01):
dim your light. So that author out there that is
contemplating about if this may be something that it's beneficial
or this may be something that they could you know,
grow from. What would you say to them about joining
something like this? Do it, don't second guess it. Don't
(35:26):
ask your friends, don't ask your family because they're gonna
give you plenty of your opinions, but you know the
answer at the end of the day. Do it. Don't
second guess, Just do it because I feel like when
you do it, even though you don't know the outcome
of it, but you tell yourself that you are going
(35:47):
to be okay, You're gonna put your big boy pants on.
Like my parents have to say, do it. And I think,
for like this year on and going forward, just do it.
See what's going to happen. It might feel it, might
not do it. So we are exactly eight days into
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the new year. What has your experience been like being
a part of the one. Oh amazing. So like I
think I got more people like actually pay attention to me,
and and it has been amazing because now even the
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girl you actually said earlier when I had that old
writing flock, and I'm writing my fictional book, and like
hopefully it'll be finished before April. That's that's hopefully it
be finished before April.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
That's so.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
As she said that, it kept me going like just right,
just just right, just right, just right, this right, and
that's ever since then, I just start writing, never stop. Well,
I'm I'm gonna have to put you on the spotlight
and I'm gonna have to put you on front street.
Because the young lady that you're talking about, she's actually
a group leader. So now that you said that you
(37:20):
want that book out by April, if she hear this,
when you better believe that book out by April. You
if you don't want, if you don't want to to
have it out by April, stay far away from her book. Listen.
(37:41):
This is my first fictional book, and it's it's amazing.
It's by us for us, mystery, drama, excitement, it's it's
all a little bit of me, a little bit of
me in it right, the fact that you said that,
and I hope she hid this. Yes, I hope she
(38:04):
heard this. It will be out before April. I'm telling
you what. Matter of fact, she's headed into the studio. Next,
she'd be the next person coming into the studio, so
that may be part of our conversation. Next lere we go,
(38:26):
and then now only that she's my guest for tonight,
I have a podcast on another network, so I'm gonna
be over the other network. You should call in tonight
and chat with us. We come on at nine thirty tonight.
It's on the wbn N. We do it through Talk
Shoot Radio. It airs to over thirty million homes. The
(38:50):
network has been in existence since I think twenty twelve.
This is going to be my fifth year on the network.
Last year I was inductor into the International Internet Radio
Hall of Fame for broadcasting through that network, and I
was also awarded the Host of the Year award for
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twenty twenty three. So, yeah, you have to sit after this.
You have to sit there, and I know y'all will
have a conversation at her interview. I don't want you
to have this conversation because it helps me keeps on
writing and it helps my mind keeps on going right.
(39:34):
So the way how you said that it is and
you have I'm telling you you have it in your group,
and I'm just gonna flip through my paper. You have
some amazing individuals. The young lady that I was that
we were talking about earlier with the testimony with the tumors,
she's actually in your group. Look at God, Look at God.
(40:02):
She speaks Spanish and she writes Spanish. I can't see standards.
I'm willing to learn. So yes, she she's a great
resource as well. So you have a great support system
(40:23):
in the individual smaller group, but then you have you're
gonna have nine other groups too, because it's gonna be
a total of ten groups. It's gonna be ten people
in each group. So as we work individually intimately individually,
we also have different other groups that we can pour
her from too. But I just wanted to I wanted
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to break it down so that we could feel that
we were getting the things that we needed. And I
wanted to make sure that we had a group leader
that could attend to and make sure that if there
were questions that individuals had, that these questions just could
be answered. They can be asked and answered, and then
we can make sure that we're doing things, staying active,
(41:08):
I think, getting resources out. I think for like her
being definitely leader, Uh, definitely, definitely she she's earning her
flowers now and can continue her earning her flowers and
just having her. Oh we're gonna have a good time
this year. We're gonna we're gonna have a good time.
(41:30):
And and and and from me here and her story
and her helping me out. Oh we go. Just she's
gonna earn her flower for me a lot. I'm telling you,
you have an amazing support her. You have an amazing
group leader. I call her my little sister. She's my
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she is my many me. I call her half pained. Yeah,
that's that's her name. I called her half because she
if we stand up beside each other, she's actually look
she looks like half the size of me. Okay, she's
(42:14):
a little, she's a little she's a little shorty. But
her voice, you you would think she was my height.
And then and the knowledge and the wisdom and the
things that she dropped, you would you would think we
were twins. Because she sometimes when she get to talking
and she get the you know, to her gift and
(42:34):
her talent. Sometimes I'd be like, is that me? But yes,
you you have an amazing and I won't stop talking
about her. You have an amazing group leader. All other
group leaders are amazing. They're amazing in their own rights,
but I just haven't have worked with her. I've met
(42:56):
her in person. We are she's my listen. Like people
don't understand, like when you have a support system, especially
at this platform like stay tubed, telling you watch individually
and stay tube I'm telling you definitely the watch how
each in those you lead and certain group are in
(43:19):
all this? How do you watch? Telling you watch? So,
what would you like to leave with those that are
tuned in, those that will hear on this replay, what
is one thing that you would like to leave with
them as they watch the hundred offors to watch? What
(43:41):
will I leave? I appreciate y'all. I say that, I
appreciate y'all. Love yourself, be who you are. You have
a voice, like I said, and that nobody I don't care.
Your grandma, your auntie, the sister, brother, the dog, the baby,
dem you're like. Don't let nobody dem you're like. And
(44:06):
that's all I'm saying. That's it. And if y'all want
to get in contact and follow, how can we follow
and contact you one more time? You can find me
on Instagram, snatchat Facebook. It is zach Attack ninety six
with one T and zach Attack ninety six with one
(44:27):
T and DTA in it, and you can reach me
out there. You can reach me at my email, William
Zachary at six at gbail dot com and I do
reply back quickly I can. I believe in communication and
connecting with other people, so that's where it can find me.
Get the book. This is not the book lot, get
(44:49):
the buck warts yourself. Get the buck. Get this book
right here. It will help you well. I definitely want
to thank you for stop and by and thank you,
and I look forward to working with you and sharing
you around the various platforms that we are attached to.
(45:09):
Cannot wait to see what you're twenty twenty five we'll
have in store we leave, I have to give you
your flowers by, so that's what we do over here.
(45:30):
I got to make sure everybody heard that, so I
got to give it one more time. Thank you. I
appreciate it. I appreciate it. I'm blessed. Thank you for
coming on and sharing. Thank you. Enjoyed sharing with you
(45:51):
on today. Thank you. I appreciate it. Thank you, thank you.
You have a great rest of your afternoon. You too,
And I want to thank all of you guys for
stopping by and sharing. I hope that something that was
shared during this broadcast was beneficial for you, that you
would share it with someone else, that maybe you would
(46:12):
go out and get the book or tune into his
broadcast again. He Zachary is one of the one hundred
authors to watch for twenty twenty five, so be on
the lookout. I want to thank you guys for tuning in.
We'll be back at five. That's about thirteen minutes, y'all.
We'll be back at five with an interview with Trevida Harris.
(46:35):
She is one of the hosts right here on the
Core podcast, so you're going to get an opportunity to
get up close and personal with her as an author.
Y'all seen her all through season one in two as
a host, but now you're going to get to see
her operating now as an author and a publisher in
the literary world. So come on back, y'all, Come on back,
(46:55):
Come on back, come on back and be blessed. All right,
don come dounre
Please, and gentlemen, may I have your attention please? The
show starts in life eight seven, six, five, four three
(00:40):
two one.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Well, well, well, welcome, welcome to up close and personal
with in July on behalf of Aspiring Actors magazine and
The Crew podcast. I tell you, I am excited to
be right here where I am able to share these
amaze and authors, y'all. I'm excited. I'm excited. I'm excited
(01:07):
something like being able to share individuals that are making
an impact. And these individuals are making an impact in
the literary world and their own right because we all
have stories, we all have journeys, we all have something
that somebody can take a naked from, somebody can draw from,
someone could benefit from. So I'm excited about these amazing
(01:32):
authors joining the one hundred author movement. I'm excited to
be able to connect with them virtually and in person, y'all,
because we're going to be coming from these social media
sites and we're going to be meeting up with some
of these amazing authors. So y'all, I'm gonna move on
the way and allow mister Zachary to come on up
(01:54):
and share about his self, introduce hisself to you guys,
and share just a little bit about his brand and
what we can expect from him in twenty twenty five,
because he is one of the amazing authors to watch
for twenty twenty five. So let me bring him on
(02:15):
in the building or welcome. How are you doing? I
am doing side you. I can't complain because guess what,
I'm gonna tell you what my mama used to tell
me when I was little. So you used to tell me,
don't nobody feel that but you. It's just like using
a restroom on your self.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Girl.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
So when when I learned that, I started to think
about things and think about if I'm walking around with attitude,
I'm walking around mad at somebody. Guess what them people
going on with their lives. They live their lives, They happy,
and I'm over here caring grudges, ain't it? And you
better stop pissing on yourself and go on. You better
(02:58):
be happy. This word that's his living. You want to
get one life to live, That's it. That's it. So
I am truly truly honored to have you here today
and to be able to share you with the world.
So what inspired you to become an author? Oh? That's
(03:19):
a great cusser. What aspired to be coming here to
be the author? I think for me, I think growing
up me having a voice and wanted to be heard
and have a platform to spread my knowledge, my words
to my friends and family and anybody who helps along
(03:39):
the word. So that's aspired me to be an author.
And she said, my story so they can relate Inso
how and how to come back? You know, from depression, betrayal, heartbreaks.
You know, ain't lesson in the world. How they'll come back?
So that's why inspired me to be author. Wow, So
(04:01):
what was your actual what was your actual first piece
of literary work did you do?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
So for me, I'm an inspirational writer. So for me,
my first piece was a short It was just a
short section in an anthology where I shared my journey
of losing my mom twelve days after my sixteenth Oh.
So that's what started my journey as an author. Because
(04:39):
I'm little old country girl from a place called Leveland,
South Carolina that nobody never heard of one way in
and one way, never thought about being an author. That's
something that never crossed my mind. So when the opportunity
came up, young lady out of Texas gave me the
(05:00):
opportunity to share in the Anathology. Since then, I have
garnered over one hundred and twenty one pieces of literary work,
whether it's been an anathology, a book by itself, a journal,
or a planner. I've just allowed the creator to create
(05:22):
through me and to allow that journey life to be
able to share. I'm a poet as well.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
I have.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Three I think I have three maybe four poetry series
where we have three books. We have three books that
make up a series. So we have the last one
that we just created was it's called the Legacy Chronicle
A Time and Eternity. The first one was called Seeds
(05:57):
of Immortality, the second one was called Footprints in the
Sands of Time, and then the last one was called
Eternal Echoes. So speaking of that, right, So I am
in my first volume one book of poetry. And the
(06:19):
reason why I wants to call it because well, the
book is called the series, I'm called Didu and in
volume one is called most of the Journey. So you
go through loneliness, heartbreaks just throughout life, you know, personal struggles,
(06:39):
and I think for me, how to started off, I
think I just was like angry, and I didn't know
how to express myself. And one of the things I
remember this teacher and I would never forget her name
is King, and she came up to me. She's like,
why are you so angry at this? Sound like why
(07:00):
are you upset the world? Because I didn't have a voice.
I didn't at that moment. I didn't find nobody who
looks like me or who I can relate to. So
she said, why don't you write your own pathway? I
was like, so, what do you mean by that? You like,
(07:21):
I need some tools. What do you mean by that?
She said, well, I just start writing whatever you feel
at that moment, right you don't have to correct it,
you don't have to do anything. Just write. And I
think from that point on, me writing a lot, me
expressing myself, me getting to use my voice throughout my words,
(07:48):
and having a platform as a poet in not being
a author, it has been phenomenally to be honest, what
you has been phenomenally and right now ask me. Writing
my book called thed You series, and the first book
(08:08):
called Journey of Emotions is out of the world and
I think I put everything, my feelings, my depression, my anxiety,
my love, my betrayal, my backstabbing friends, my relationship, my
family abuse. I just put all that in this first
(08:32):
book and I want people to relate to it. And
with this book is a little bit different because before
you read the poem, it's questions, they're gonna ask you
about yourself. Then after you read that section, they're gonna
(08:54):
ask you some questions after it. Because I really want
people to understand when you are reading this book, I
want you to think about your personal journey throughout life. Right,
And I got a lot of people back to me.
I'm like, I can't even finish it. I can't finish it.
(09:16):
So okay, So what ways do you hope that your
book would contribute to the impact of conversations that individuals
will have in society about your book? How do you
want your book to impact the conversation that we're having
in our brown community. I would say that I want
(09:38):
to shed a light on don't let nobody stop you
for tying, and to have that conversation and push it,
especially as black people. I want it to create something that, hey,
(09:58):
this might help you or what you want to say
to somebody, or this might help you guide your way
throughout anything that you are going to because I know
I like from me growing up, so I'm a country boy.
For me, I'm a country boy. I love hunt and
(10:18):
I love the country I think for me and my family,
I didn't have, Like I said, I didn't have a voice.
I didn't. I was told to hush up and stay
in a child's place. So when I didn't have that,
and as you look for now, you see people who
(10:41):
look like me, who's on my age or lower. They
don't know how to communicate. So I want this book
to have an impact or pushing the conversation, like, hey,
you got a voice, use it, you feel this way,
use it, think about what you want to do, and
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we're going to push it in the team, pushing the
envelope because I don't want this conversation that's just stopped
from that person who's readden it. I want them continue
to character conversation on to the next person and start
having a conversation between your friends and family. So that's
(11:23):
why I want this book two bring in this world
and hopefully it does. So how how has I hear
you referencing your childhood different things? How has that truly
(11:47):
influenced I don't know if I want to say influence
what you have written or want to pin versus. No,
let me let me rephrase that it ain't it ain't.
(12:12):
It ain't coming out the way I wanted it to hear.
I really want to understand how has all of the
things that I hear you experience and it molded you
to where you are now. And it sounds to me
that you want to be able to share that with
(12:36):
the generation coming up so that they will have a voice,
so that they don't have to wait until they get
to this place to realize that they have a voice,
but they can develop that voice alone that process. Because
see what has happened to a lot of us. We
lost that voice because we started listening to what everybody
(12:59):
else wanted us to do. We started wanting to because
I remember when I was little, I wanted to do
a lot of different stuff. But then I started hearing
what you should do this, you should do that, you
should do this. Then it came nursing came up, and
a lot of other stuff. And then when I started
going into all those things that everybody wanted me to do,
I didn't like those things because it's telling you it's
(13:21):
telling people like always. So the thing I learned growing
up and me is looking at it now. People want,
especially your family. Your family went the best for you
at the end of the day. I think the difference
is you have to know what you want in life
and not have your family or friends dictate you, dictate
(13:43):
you didn't want to see you because it's what happens
with some of them, and this is what they do.
They pushed the stuff that they wanted to do, that
they didn't, that they messed up, or whatever the situation was.
But they want to live it through you. They want
to push those things. They won't because they couldn't be
(14:03):
no doctor. And that's not and that's not right because
number one, I need ask to be here. That's that's
number one. Now I'm here. Now you have to raise
me the right wrong, give me the tools to be there.
A doubt. Yeah, And I feel like some parents, and
(14:24):
I call it cultivate you. You you have to cultivate
me so that you got to put something in me.
You got to water it, you got to plan it,
you got to water it. And then you've got to
go in and you've got to pick out the weeds.
You got to when they call it what you got
to do all that, and then once you do all that,
(14:46):
then you can reap the benefits of your fruit, because
then I can get out there and I can do.
But if you don't allow me to be, then I
can get stagnated. I can have double roots, I can grow,
I can be growing down instead of growing up, and
then I can do and then I can produce bad fruit.
(15:07):
And I think, and I think from that, you have
to learn how to navigate on breaking the cycle. And
I think some people I'm not seeing an all film this.
I think that's an all generation in all different kinds
of ethnic groups. When you are in that situation, when
(15:30):
your parents are living through you, you have to learn
how to break that cycle. You gotta be like, I'm
sorry that this happened to you, but this is not
my responsibility, right. My responsibility is to be a child,
grow up, go with everything, do in life and do
(15:51):
the same thing that you opposed to do. I'll be
better than you as a parent. And from from me
just writing this book, because the first the first the
first piece in the book and kind of girl run
is self defiction, personal struggle, and the first piece you
(16:14):
get is I'm gay, And that right there impacts the
story because you are getting to know the author through
the book. Now you find out he's gay, you find
out he's a black author, You find that he went
(16:35):
through a lot of problems, he didn't know himself. Now
he's navigating throughout life trying to figure out who he
is as a person. Then as you think about it,
now you're thinking about your your past trauma, your past
(16:56):
struggles and how it how's it affect you? And I
feel like for that I did my job as a poet,
as author and as this book because now having you
to think about you and what makes you tick, what
(17:17):
makes you cry, what makes you happy, it makes you
think about everything and going inside deeper that you ever
thought about yourself and be honest with yourself. And in
that moment, I done did this job of this book
and it's just a piece of it. Wow. So I
(17:42):
definitely can hear that you have found your individual voice
and your writing style and the message that you want
to give off to your listener. So you definitely have
an audience that you want to read. So in doing that,
(18:02):
what have been some of your struggles? Because you are
a self published authors. Right, So, as a self published author,
what has been some of your struggles as a self
published author. I think I talked about this recently. I
think writer's block is one thing. And when you have
(18:24):
writer's block, it's meaning you are stuck. That means you
can't go forward, and that I was. I struggled with
that a lot, and it's like, oh snap, like I
do not know how to finish. And that's the worst
thing I completed about myself. I wanted to finish something
(18:47):
that I started. And on top of that is my emotions.
When you are writing a piece that is person know
to you and you have to live do that story
or that experience, it's hard mm hmm. And in this
(19:12):
part right here, in this book, I has been very
emotional because each piece I got in here, it has
been trials and tribulation of the past, how people mishandled
me as a child and not giving me the tools
(19:38):
to proper through life. And I have to struggle in
this world being like I'm alone, so as a self poliger.
And on top of that, you gotta do what you
gotta do. Promot, you gotta promote your book, and I
think that that is even hard I thank god I
(19:59):
have a place platform, publishing more of my books and
just having a lot of people are tuned in. And
also I have a broadcast as well called Just to
Us Broadcasts, and we talk about certain things. And just
having our platform and talk about my stories and talk
about other people's stories. It gets the people interesting, like, oh,
(20:20):
I want to buy this book. Oh that's the way
he's talking about a little bit deeper. So just about
back on the question, like the struggle of the emotions,
the writer's block and promoting is definitely what's the hardest
thing to be at this moment, during that time when
(20:42):
I was publishing this book. But even with even with
some of those struggles and with that struggle, what would
you say to that person that may want to self
published or want to get their their feet wet, what
would you say to them about publishing? Don't give up
(21:07):
number one number that's number one. Number two. Research, do
your research. There's a lot of third parties or family
members who've done publishing. I think for me being a
self publisher, I think for me doing my research and
know what platform that you want to use and how
(21:28):
how do you want to get paid? How much they
are taking from you. So definitely do your research, a
lot of research, and and and and one advice I
always give people, you can utilize these platforms to put
your book up there just so they can get out
(21:50):
there for show. But you always keep you a website
and you always keep you some books on hand, because
that's how you make your real money. That that's how
you make your real money. You know a lot of
people say, well, I have a website. It's great to
have a website. It's great to have that, But you
still need Barns and Noble. You still need books a million,
You still need Amazon because they can kick out those
(22:11):
books for you, and they can get them to those
people overseas because that's where you want me at. I'm
telling you, every time I look at my royalty page
and they have one of them, the other symbols outside
of the US dollar, I feel like I've done something that, hey,
I was supposed to do. I've reached somebody out of
(22:32):
my home land. You know the word say we not
gonna have no honor in our own land, You're gonna
have it in a foreign land. So that when I
see I tell you, when I see them other them
pounds and the other symbols on that page. That's when
(22:53):
I get excited because then then I'm reaching somebody out
of the I'm touching somebody on the other side. So yeah,
that's why these other platforms are so amazing because they
can see your They may not come across your website
(23:13):
and if you go website might not be all up
in then it may not be up in the feeds
where you know they can just you know, you ain't
in the search, so they don't know to go to
your website. But if they if they know, they can
go find you on Amazon, Bards and Noble Books a
million and then if I can just use my library
(23:35):
card to go find you on hoop Lie and a
lot of these other farms. Now a lot of people
don't know, like some of your books could be in
a local library that you live in. Yes, and now
you got to do. You got to do is google
yourself and if you use certain platforms, if you use
certain platforms, there's a possibility that your book is in libraries.
(23:58):
Because if anybody that have a library card and they
go on the those different platforms that they can use
to check out books from the library. In the privacy
of their own home and not even have to leave
and go to the library. But if they can get
it with the with their library card as an e book,
(24:19):
they can actually go inside of the same library and
request that in a book on the ship. But people
don't know that. But I tell everybody. I'm telling everybody,
and you are a part of the one hundred athor movement.
And I was showing people these different sites, like there's
a company, are you familiar with Barker and Taylor. I
(24:44):
heard of it. They are a distribution book distribution company
out of Charlotte, North Carolina that's been in circulation for
over one hundred and thirty years, and they circulate to
most academic college libraries as well as most libraries. Just
(25:07):
about all my books are published and distributed through them. Huh.
I gotta tack that. I showed somebody. I showed someone
the other day how they can do the same thing.
It took me five minutes. Tell you say for for
for for that purpose right there, I just learned something
and I'm gonna hop all that because that's free information
(25:29):
that you're given me. Yes, and then there's when we
get out of here, I'm gonna give you some more
information because that same information, that same site, you go
to this one particular site and you uploaded, and it
goes to all those I don't know if you see
that that that thing that I posted the other day
is a street and it says publishing, and then it
says published, and then it had a list of Yeah,
(25:53):
you published to that one site, and it goes to
all of those hoop lie Cloud Library. That's a lot.
That's a lot. That's a lot. After Global Screwer, it's
a lot of them, yes, tele uh and a lot
of these places are they are overseas. It's for overseas
(26:18):
distribution to get your books in the UK and to
get your books in these different platforms. So that's what
we're doing here at the one hundred movement. We're gonna
be sharing those resources. I don't know if you've been
tapping into the resources that I've been dripping. Listen, I agree.
I know you're gonna hear a lot of people say
(26:39):
that I'm not offering my services for free and free
and well, value is what you put on it. If
if if free can value nine hundred and ninety nine dollars,
then free it is, and it's worth nine ninety nine
because I'm I'm value and if I want to put
nine ninety nine on free, then oh well let me yeah,
(27:01):
because you're not gonna tell me free can't be just
as much as you over there charging one thousand dollars
and what you charging one thousand dollars look worse than
the free exactly because somebody just talk about that. Some
might just talk about that because I think this person
paid over two thousand dollars just for the publisher, and
I was like, how about you pay two thousand dollars
(27:24):
this lady charged him. I was like, you know, you
can do this over here for free, and that's what
we're doing. And I think, I think stand up between
me and him. He was too lazy to do it.
And that's it. A lot of people don't want to
put in the work. They'd rather go pay somebody else
for them to make money out of you. When you
(27:46):
can just you can take that extra time and put
that extra time, and you could save two three four
hundred because I know me, I'm gonna save me a
cop a hundred, cop a thousands. Say I'm telling you
can save it. I'm telling you you can save all
of that, But a lot of people have learned how
to monetize people's downfall. They've learned how to monetize everything
(28:11):
when people are trying to come out. You know, the
word tells me that we're supposed to be helpmates to
one another. And if I'm trying to help you, there's
no way I'm fin to charge you one thousand dollars
for you to be in my anthology. There's the way
I'm fin to charge you three hundred and ninety nine
dollars for you to be in my anthology. To charge
you ninety nine dollars to be in anthology. The most
(28:32):
I've ever charged to be in the anthology. I think
it's thirty five dollars and you get the s yes, yes,
and that's out. I'm not charging I'm not charging the
arm in the leake for what not? When I'm needing,
when I want thirty and forty people to share their voice,
why would I do that? Why would I charge one
hundred dollars? And I'm looking for three hundred and sixty
(28:53):
five people doing that, And I'm trying to help people
share their voice. I'm not trying to to to send
somebody to over here. To be begging from from Peter
to pay Paul just so they they can make a name,
just so that they can make No, we're fin to
put in the work. We fin to do this. It's
(29:16):
time to tap it. That's it. You know, there's things
that you may be strong in that you can to
the group, that you can help individuals with. Like Treda.
Treda is good with She's good with publishing. She's good
with helping individuals that have any kind of any kind
of mind by blogging stuff. Because why, she deals with
(29:39):
a disability that has caused her to have neurological disabilities.
So she has learned how to adapt and she's taking
those skills and she share them in her writing there.
But you know where on top of that, and it's
it's not all people. It's some people I have seen.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Like they don't want the help, you know what, Like
you cause you have those people that they have these
mentalities where if if they can't be the person that
you're going to and they can't be the person they
control and they can't, they don't want to be.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
A part of it. See me, when when when stuff
get dropped in my spirit most of the time it
don't even be for me. It be for somebody else,
and a lot of us will hold on to it
and try to do it. Nah, I got it. I
got to get it away from me so that I
can I can prosper. Because kind of thing is when
(30:36):
you feel that M tell you you never know what's
gonna happen in the long running. And I think that
people don't understand that, Like, the more you help people,
it's gonna pay off. It's going to pay off. I'm
I'm a true believer of it. I have seen it.
It happened to me. But the moment you get out
(30:59):
your mindset don't want to help people and you want
to be selfish, as don't It's understand you want to
be selfish sometimes cool, that's that's I accept that. But
there's other moments that you got to be like, nah,
you gotta help tell you you want you want to grow,
you want this in your pocket. But if you don't
(31:20):
want this, like it's I don't know what to see,
Like help me, help me. You. You have to be
mind for those seeds that you sew because all those seeds,
everything that we sow, will come back. So I'm trying
to sew more good seeds than bad sea seeds. I
want my good seeds to be overflowing and running over.
(31:43):
Then we go because I want I want my cup
to run over. I wanted to and running over because
I have I asked people like even this is just
a snippet part like that, when you say overflow, my
cuts will run overflow as my as my cup running overflow,
you'll come and run over floor because me, I put
(32:04):
the point in myself to as my flow going to
other people. That's it. That's it, and that's that's the
mindset that we all should have. You know, my overflow
should be going to the next person to help fill
up their cup so that they can overflow and they
overflow can go to the next floor. It's just like
a ripple of flat when you throw that when you
throw that rock out there in that in that water
(32:26):
and you see them ripples going, it just keep going
and going and going. That's how I want the things
that I do in life. I want what to be
able to be passed on for years and years and
years and years and years to come. So what inspired
you to join the one hundred Actors movement? Oh? I
(32:46):
think just to like like the whole conversation we had
like to help people. And I think just for me
having that more platforms, I can reach more people. Oh,
it's only up from here, because like I said, I
am here to help you get through your trauma and
(33:08):
get through anything else you need to do and verse
back to It's gonna be a blessed back to me regardless.
And I think for me having and to be joining this,
it's it's amazing and it's not gonna start from here.
And I appreciate every step of the way and being
(33:31):
recognized on the hard work that I have done in
the past and what I am today and moving forward.
So that's why I join. Well, definitely, I see that
you do have a unique voice and a unique perspective.
(33:54):
What would you like to leave with this? With this movement?
Those that are coming behind you, what would you like for.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
Them to see you contribute to this movement and say
oh that that did that as part of the one
hundred and wander out the movement.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
What is the one thing that you would like to
leave behind You have a voice and don't let anybody
dim your life and just having that moment, and I
want people to always think of that that simple phrase,
don't you have a voice, don't let nobody dim your life,
(34:40):
and that speak value on everything that you touch, think about,
do in your life. And that's how I want to
leave that moment. You have a voice and that nobody
(35:01):
dim your light. So that author out there that is
contemplating about if this may be something that it's beneficial
or this may be something that they could you know,
grow from. What would you say to them about joining
something like this? Do it, don't second guess it. Don't
(35:26):
ask your friends, don't ask your family because they're gonna
give you plenty of your opinions, but you know the
answer at the end of the day. Do it. Don't
second guess, Just do it because I feel like when
you do it, even though you don't know the outcome
of it, but you tell yourself that you are going
(35:47):
to be okay, You're gonna put your big boy pants on.
Like my parents have to say, do it. And I think,
for like this year on and going forward, just do it.
See what's going to happen. It might feel it, might
not do it. So we are exactly eight days into
(36:08):
the new year. What has your experience been like being
a part of the one. Oh amazing. So like I
think I got more people like actually pay attention to me,
and and it has been amazing because now even the
(36:32):
girl you actually said earlier when I had that old
writing flock, and I'm writing my fictional book, and like
hopefully it'll be finished before April. That's that's hopefully it
be finished before April.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
That's so.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
As she said that, it kept me going like just right,
just just right, just right, just right, this right, and
that's ever since then, I just start writing, never stop. Well,
I'm I'm gonna have to put you on the spotlight
and I'm gonna have to put you on front street.
Because the young lady that you're talking about, she's actually
a group leader. So now that you said that you
(37:20):
want that book out by April, if she hear this,
when you better believe that book out by April. You
if you don't want, if you don't want to to
have it out by April, stay far away from her book. Listen.
(37:41):
This is my first fictional book, and it's it's amazing.
It's by us for us, mystery, drama, excitement, it's it's
all a little bit of me, a little bit of
me in it right, the fact that you said that,
and I hope she hid this. Yes, I hope she
(38:04):
heard this. It will be out before April. I'm telling
you what. Matter of fact, she's headed into the studio. Next,
she'd be the next person coming into the studio, so
that may be part of our conversation. Next lere we go,
(38:26):
and then now only that she's my guest for tonight,
I have a podcast on another network, so I'm gonna
be over the other network. You should call in tonight
and chat with us. We come on at nine thirty tonight.
It's on the wbn N. We do it through Talk
Shoot Radio. It airs to over thirty million homes. The
(38:50):
network has been in existence since I think twenty twelve.
This is going to be my fifth year on the network.
Last year I was inductor into the International Internet Radio
Hall of Fame for broadcasting through that network, and I
was also awarded the Host of the Year award for
(39:13):
twenty twenty three. So, yeah, you have to sit after this.
You have to sit there, and I know y'all will
have a conversation at her interview. I don't want you
to have this conversation because it helps me keeps on
writing and it helps my mind keeps on going right.
(39:34):
So the way how you said that it is and
you have I'm telling you you have it in your group,
and I'm just gonna flip through my paper. You have
some amazing individuals. The young lady that I was that
we were talking about earlier with the testimony with the tumors,
she's actually in your group. Look at God, Look at God.
(40:02):
She speaks Spanish and she writes Spanish. I can't see standards.
I'm willing to learn. So yes, she she's a great
resource as well. So you have a great support system
(40:23):
in the individual smaller group, but then you have you're
gonna have nine other groups too, because it's gonna be
a total of ten groups. It's gonna be ten people
in each group. So as we work individually intimately individually,
we also have different other groups that we can pour
her from too. But I just wanted to I wanted
(40:46):
to break it down so that we could feel that
we were getting the things that we needed. And I
wanted to make sure that we had a group leader
that could attend to and make sure that if there
were questions that individuals had, that these questions just could
be answered. They can be asked and answered, and then
we can make sure that we're doing things, staying active,
(41:08):
I think, getting resources out. I think for like her
being definitely leader, Uh, definitely, definitely she she's earning her
flowers now and can continue her earning her flowers and
just having her. Oh we're gonna have a good time
this year. We're gonna we're gonna have a good time.
(41:30):
And and and and from me here and her story
and her helping me out. Oh we go. Just she's
gonna earn her flower for me a lot. I'm telling you,
you have an amazing support her. You have an amazing
group leader. I call her my little sister. She's my
(41:53):
she is my many me. I call her half pained. Yeah,
that's that's her name. I called her half because she
if we stand up beside each other, she's actually look
she looks like half the size of me. Okay, she's
(42:14):
a little, she's a little she's a little shorty. But
her voice, you you would think she was my height.
And then and the knowledge and the wisdom and the
things that she dropped, you would you would think we
were twins. Because she sometimes when she get to talking
and she get the you know, to her gift and
(42:34):
her talent. Sometimes I'd be like, is that me? But yes,
you you have an amazing and I won't stop talking
about her. You have an amazing group leader. All other
group leaders are amazing. They're amazing in their own rights,
but I just haven't have worked with her. I've met
(42:56):
her in person. We are she's my listen. Like people
don't understand, like when you have a support system, especially
at this platform like stay tubed, telling you watch individually
and stay tube I'm telling you definitely the watch how
each in those you lead and certain group are in
(43:19):
all this? How do you watch? Telling you watch? So,
what would you like to leave with those that are
tuned in, those that will hear on this replay, what
is one thing that you would like to leave with
them as they watch the hundred offors to watch? What
(43:41):
will I leave? I appreciate y'all. I say that, I
appreciate y'all. Love yourself, be who you are. You have
a voice, like I said, and that nobody I don't care.
Your grandma, your auntie, the sister, brother, the dog, the baby,
dem you're like. Don't let nobody dem you're like. And
(44:06):
that's all I'm saying. That's it. And if y'all want
to get in contact and follow, how can we follow
and contact you one more time? You can find me
on Instagram, snatchat Facebook. It is zach Attack ninety six
with one T and zach Attack ninety six with one
(44:27):
T and DTA in it, and you can reach me
out there. You can reach me at my email, William
Zachary at six at gbail dot com and I do
reply back quickly I can. I believe in communication and
connecting with other people, so that's where it can find me.
Get the book. This is not the book lot, get
(44:49):
the buck warts yourself. Get the buck. Get this book
right here. It will help you well. I definitely want
to thank you for stop and by and thank you,
and I look forward to working with you and sharing
you around the various platforms that we are attached to.
(45:09):
Cannot wait to see what you're twenty twenty five we'll
have in store we leave, I have to give you
your flowers by, so that's what we do over here.
(45:30):
I got to make sure everybody heard that, so I
got to give it one more time. Thank you. I
appreciate it. I appreciate it. I'm blessed. Thank you for
coming on and sharing. Thank you. Enjoyed sharing with you
(45:51):
on today. Thank you. I appreciate it. Thank you, thank you.
You have a great rest of your afternoon. You too,
And I want to thank all of you guys for
stopping by and sharing. I hope that something that was
shared during this broadcast was beneficial for you, that you
would share it with someone else, that maybe you would
(46:12):
go out and get the book or tune into his
broadcast again. He Zachary is one of the one hundred
authors to watch for twenty twenty five, so be on
the lookout. I want to thank you guys for tuning in.
We'll be back at five. That's about thirteen minutes, y'all.
We'll be back at five with an interview with Trevida Harris.
(46:35):
She is one of the hosts right here on the
Core podcast, so you're going to get an opportunity to
get up close and personal with her as an author.
Y'all seen her all through season one in two as
a host, but now you're going to get to see
her operating now as an author and a publisher in
the literary world. So come on back, y'all, Come on back,
(46:55):
Come on back, come on back and be blessed. All right,
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