Revealing Book #1: Shatter Silence — The Echoes of Becoming Series We are thrilled to unveil Book #1 of our new poetry anthology series, The Echoes of Becoming. Shatter Silence gathers powerful, soul-baring poems that speak truth to taboo, break cycles, and honor the courage it takes to name what once went unspoken. From whispered trauma to thundered testimony, these poems prove that voice is a victory. Preorders open soon. Stay tuned for the cover reveal, launch date, and featured poets.Call for Poets: Book #2 and Book #3 We are now seeking poets for the next two installments in the series: THE ECHOES OF BECOMING
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- Book #2: Gather Light — Poems of healing, joy, faith, and reclamation. Think recovery, community care, tenderness, and the everyday ways we choose life and love.
- Book #3: Rise Unbroken — Poems of resilience, resistance, and rebirth. Think endurance after loss, rebuilding, activism, ancestry, and the audacity to thrive.
- All poets are welcome, with a priority to uplift Black and Brown voices across the diaspora.
- Emerging and established writers.
- International submissions encouraged.
- One original poem per book (you may submit to both with separate emails), 200–300 words.
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- In the email body: Your 100-word bio and a one-sentence statement of the book you’re targeting and how your poem aligns with its theme.
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got mail. I got go mam, I got mail, y'all,
I got mailed, I got mailed, I got mail. I'm
gonna give some individual's opportunity to come on in. I
want to reveal this amazing, amazing book to you, guys.
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gonna share this out with a couple of people. I
want y'all to come on in, so y'all can see
this amazing book and see some of the amazing poets
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I'm excited. I'm excited, y'all. This is book number one
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inside of a three book series. This is called Shattered Silence.
Shattered Silence, y'all. It was seven of us, seven poets,
myself and six other amazing poets sharing inside of this book.
I'm gonna get ready to open up this package. I
was trying to wait on some people to come on in,
(02:22):
to come on in. But I want you guys to
get an opportunity to see this book and to find
out where you can go and check it out. And
then I'm gonna share some amazing opportunities for you to connect,
for you to share your work, for you to get
your stuff out there, because oftentimes people want to publish.
They got something that they want to share, but they
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just don't know how, just don't know where to go,
just don't know where to start. But y'all, I'm telling you,
I am here to help you along the way, here
to lead God in direct you if that is what
you desire to do. One of my things is self
publishing coach, and I love to coach those that want
to publish, those that want to share a message, that
(03:07):
want to get something out there. So y'all, come on in,
Come on in, because we get ready to open this package.
We getting ready to open this package. We getting ready
to open this package, y'all. We're getting ready to see
what we have created and we're going to give you
guys an opportunity to check it out first hand. Y'all,
(03:27):
If you do not get an opportunity to download the
free ebook, shame on you. Shame on you. But you
can go over and grab you a copy for only
three dollars and thirty three cents. It's available on Amazon,
It's available on mad cloud, and if you want a
printed copy, you can grab your printed copy from Amazon
(03:51):
mad Cloud. And I think those are the only two
places I published. I didn't publish on Blurb, so you
get an opportunity to grab it from Amazon, mad Cloud.
And then of course if you just Google Google this book,
you can find out where it's at. It may be
in your local library. Because we distribute to different platforms
(04:13):
where you published two different platforms that allow our book
to be in different places. I do know that we
are in Walmart dot com. So if you are a
Walmart shopper you like to use Walmart dot com, you
can grab a copy of this book off of Walmart
dot com. But y'all, come on in the room. Come
on in the room, Come on in the room, and
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if you would please share it out with somebody, share
it out with somebody. Invite somebody to come on this
live again. If you are someone that desires to publish,
if you're someone that has a story that has something
that you would like to get out but just don't
know where to start, I'm telling you I am here
to assist you on that journey. If you don't want
(04:57):
me personally assisting you, I have a book at Walmart
dot com that you can grab that will help you
publish start to finish, start to finish. It will help
you publish, start to finish everything you need, and it's
only eighteen dollars. Of course, that's the Walmart dot com y'all.
And all you have to do is type in my name,
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Angela Thomas Smith, and you would definitely be able to
grab you a copy of that book. Again, if you're
coming in, if you don't mind tapping that screen, tapping
that screen, if you over on TikTok, tap that screen,
tap that screen. It helps us get out in the
for you page. Because there may be somebody else out
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there that want to publish too and don't know how
to start, don't know what to do, and they may
need to tap into this live. They may need to
tap into this live, y'all. But I'm getting ready to
reveal to you guys, our amazing book number one inside
of this three book series. This is going to be
a three book series poetry. This is a collaboration of poetry. Again,
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we had six amazing poets to share inside of this
book alongside of myself, so you get an opportunity to
connect with us. So, y'all, were getting ready to open
up this package from Amazone. We getting ready to open
up this package from Amazon, y'all, This book dropped on
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September the first. Get dropped from September the first, And
if you didn't get a chance to grab you a
e copy, you still can go grab you one. It's
only three dollars and thirty on Amazon. But y'all, this
is our amazing book. This is our amazing book. This
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is our book, y'all. This is our book. Let me
get it over there so those over there on Facebook
and YouTube, Twitch and kick can see it. This is
our amazing book. This is our amazing y'all. It is
a five by eight. This is a five by eight
version of the book. It is a paperback copy, y'all,
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one hundred and forty five pages. This is front and
this is the back. This is the back cover. This
is the back cover. Just tell you a little bit
about the book. And of course that picture up there
in the corner is a picture of me. That is
(07:31):
a picture of me, y'all. So again you have an
opportunity to grab you a copy over on Amazon. It
is called Shattered Silence. It's poems of survival and hope. Y'all.
We have some amazing poets to share inside of this anthology.
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And this is book number one. Y'all. Book number one
of a three book series, the second book that we
are currently recruiting for trying to get some individuals that
want to share inside this book alongside us Gathered Light.
So if you're out there and you have a word
that you would like to share inside of this book,
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please reach out to me. Reach out to me and
see how you can secure your spot inside of this anthology. Y'all.
We believe, I truly believe in helping those that have
a voice, that think that they don't have an outlet
or a voice to speak. I help them to amplify
that with the opportunities that I provide. Again, this is
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a poetry anathology, and we are seeking nine more individuals
to join us. We're seeking nine more individuals to join us.
This book will drop on November the first, Yes, November
the first. You have into October the first, y'all. October
the first, which is like fourteen fifteen days away to
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join us, and then all of the entries will be
due by October the fifteenth. No, let me back that up.
Everything is due by October the first, So it's due
by October the first. So if you're interested in sharing,
you have fifteen more days to join us on this journey.
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You have fifteen more days to journ. To join us
on this journey. That means you can share two to
three poems. You get an opportunity to share a little
bit about yourself. So I'm gonna flip through this book
and I'm gonna share you some share with you guys,
some things so that you can kind of see what
you can expect from book number two. All three of
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the books is it is a it's gonna be a trilogy,
so all of the covers are gonna be the same.
The only thing changing is the title of each cover.
So this is what Book number two is gonna look like,
except for it's gonna say Gathered Light, and then it'll
half whatever the subtitle is up under. I forget what
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the subtitle is job because I got like four projects
going on at one time. But Book number two is
gathered like and we are looking for nine more individuals
to join us. There's a small fee. There's a small
fee of only fifty three dollars to join. If you
want to share, you can share up to two to
three poems. And I'm about to flip through the book
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so I can show you guys what it looks like.
So you have you always start out with our copyright
page and then a dedication, So there's a dedication. This
particular book is dedicated to all of those that share
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in this book. So we have a dedication, we have
an acknowledgement, and then there's a forward done by poetos Keisha.
She is doing the forward and all three of these books,
so you guys will really get an opportunity to find
out a little bit about her and what she's doing
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and find out something a little bit about her brand y'all,
let the truth be told. She is an amazing poet,
spoken word artist. When I tell you she is a
beast with what she does, she is and I am
glad that she is doing the forwards in these books.
We also have table contents, the introduction, and then I
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go into the poets. So poet number one is Chanette.
Shanetta is a host here on the podcast as well,
and then her first poem. Well, first we tell a
little bit about the authors, so all of the authors
have an opportunity to share a little bit about them.
So this particular I ask them questions and this one,
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this particular one, I asked them questions and everyone had
the same question so that they could answer these questions.
So the the section is called Beyond the Pen getting
to Know the Author. So this is opportunity for you
to get to know the author, so you can find
out a little bit about them outside of what they
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do as a poet and an author. So and then
they go into that poems. So we also what I
did in this book, which is different from some of
the other books that we have done. We have a playlist.
So each poem, each section, each author, there's a song
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that accompanies that poem that kind of relates to that poem,
that talks a little bit about the theme of that poem.
So for Seanette, her first poem is called from Shadow
to Light and the song that accompanied that is Rise
Up by Andrea Day, and it says find your strength
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and darkness. This poetic journey in anthem remind us that
hope is never lost. It waits for you to rise
up and to the dawn. So each one of these
poems have a song that accomplientes and then it tells
you the correlation between that song and that poem. And
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then after each poem, y'all there's a summary because oftentime
we read poetry, we read poems, and sometimes we may
not understand the words and what the author is trying
to portray. So after each one there's a summary of
what that poem was about, so you really get an
opportunity to really feel what that choet is sharing. Okay,
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and that is for all of the poems. Again, Cheanette
was one of the chords. And now we have a
Little Unique Parker, Yes that is her name, Little Unique Parker.
And then we have yeah, I'm trying to flick through him,
Cheryl Northern Lagreen, Rolanda Pie. And again, these authors are
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from all over. Channette is from California, Cheryl is from Nightingdale,
North Carolina. Little Unique Parker is from Dallas Fort Worth area.
I don't know if I said, Rolanda's from New York.
And now we have Charlotte Simon Ross. She is from
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New York. And then we have Micheline Missy Moss and
she is from Memphis, Tennessee. And then at the back
of the book, y'all, you have about the author section
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that really dives in and talks about the author, so
you have an opportunity to really connect with the author,
get to know the author. So it's really basically their bio.
Also include ways that you can connect with them, ways
that you can connect with them, and we have one
for each one of them. And then at the very
back of the book, y'all, I always like to leave
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a section for you to journal your thoughts, for you
to journ your thoughts of maybe what you've read or
what you have been expired to write from this book. Again,
at the very very back of the book, I always
like to provide some resources, and then I talk about
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I just share a little bit about the two books
that's attached to the series, so the two books that
you can look forward to coming as well. And then
at the very very end, y'all, I share some resources
of individuals that you can connect with their brand. So
I'm going to read the little section that I wrote
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in here. It says, shut up, Silent, proudly spotlight mission
driven businesses and organizations that equip our community with practical resources,
compassionate services, and a pasthway of healing and growth. These
partners embody the heartbeat of Echoes of Becoming movement, helping
people move from surviving to becoming explore vetted resources, learn
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from impact stories, and connect directly with providers advancing safety, justice,
wellness and opportunities. When who are we featuring Mental health
and wellness providers, crisis response, safety and legal support, economic empowerment,
workforce entrepreneurship, financial coaches, educational mentoring, youth, family and adult learning,
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faith based and community groups, arts healing, creative therapy programs, health,
housing and re entry services, coaches, authors, speakers of the
line with trauma, and form practices. So those are the
people that we highlight in the back of this book,
not just this book, but in the series. So if
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you're out there and you have one of these types
of services, businesses, organizations, and you would like to advertise
your brand, your service, your business in the upcoming books,
please reach out to me and see how you can
be featured in this book as well. So of course
we had to include our prayer line because we do
a prayer line every morning at five am. So there's
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information on how you can connect with the prayer line
and be a part of the prayer line. So that's
in the back, and we have Trevida Gris who is
one of the amazing hosts that's over on the podcast,
and she also is a speaker. She does a lot,
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so you will see a little bit about her. She's
a CEO, a author, a podcast host, a motivational speaker,
and a transformation coach. She also shares a little bit
about her speaking topics, things that she speak on, and
some of her published works, so you get to see
that inside of the book. And of course this purple one, y'all,
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that is me. That is just a little bit about
me and how you can connect with me, some of
the things that I do, how you can connect with
me on the various platforms that I'm on where you
can go and purchase some of my books. And I
also include some of my speaking topics, my contact information,
and just a little bit about me. And then this
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page here has some of my books. So these are
some of my amazing books that I have published. Of course,
those that follow and support me know that I have
over one hundred and fifty literary works out there, not
just books. I have books, journals, calendars, and of course
the magazine. And then over on the next page is
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our apostle. This is our apostle who covers our prayer
line every single morning at five a m This is
a little bit about their ministry out of Talent Hassee, Florida.
This is her and her husband. So you get an
opportunity if you're in that area, I would like to
visit them. You get the opportunity to connect with them.
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This page, these two pages here is an amazing queen
that I have had the opportunity. I had the opportunity
to meet her right here on social media. Met her
on Facebook about seven maybe about seven or eight years ago.
We actually got the opportunity to connect and meet in person.
I tell you every time I come across so she's
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definitely someone that I love to connect with. Her name
is the the Little Donna Murrie. She's out of Mississippi.
She has an amazing organization called Planting Positive Seeds, and
she also is a author, a poet, and a motivational speaker.
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She also has a podcast, so you get an opportunity
to find out a little bit about her in the
back of this book. Y'all, you get an opportunity to
really connect. And then one of the amazing ladies that
help us hold down our grief podcast. Those that followed
the platform and know that we host a grief podcast
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every fifth Sunday. So we've had five We have five
episodes this year. Our last episode is going to be
in November. But all of us have been through some
type of grief, so we host a grief podcast where
we get an opportunity to share a little bit about
our journey and how we've dealt with grief. And this
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particular lady, her name is Danielle Ross. She is out
of Texas. I think she's in the Dallas Fort Worth area.
She is a certified grief coach, a public speaker, and consultant,
and she's also a certified but grievement dueler. So you
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get the opportunity to connect with her. Tells you a
little bit about the topics that she discussed, tells you
a little bit about her and her background, her education,
and how you can connect with her. So these two
pages is dedicated to her, y'all. I tell you, I
like to fill this book up with information that helps
us beyond just reading about poetry, things that you can
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go back to and relate to again. Y'all, this poetry
book is more than just words on pages. We break
it down, we summarize the poems so that you can
really get an understanding of what the author is speaking
of what the poet is sharing, and we also compare
we pair it with a playlist, So each one of
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these sections has a playlist that accompanied the poem, so
you can listen to the music while you're you're reading
the poem and you can see how it connects to
the poem. So, y'all, this is just one of the
books in this series. Again, we are still looking for
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individuals that want to connect and want to be a
part of Book number one, I mean book number two
and Book number three. Book number two is going to
release on November the first. Book number three is going
to release on December the first, So you still have
an opportunity to join us and be a part if
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you are ready to share your word, if you have
something that you would like to help amplify around the world. Y'all.
You never know what your words and how your words
can impact. Y'all. We made number one on Amazon and
Poetry Anthology. We made number two and Women's Poetry. We
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didn't get to number one, but we made number two
and Women's Poetry. So again I give a shout out
to all of the poets that decided to allow their
voices to be amplified and their voices to be shared
around the world. Again, if you are a poet or
aspiring portant, even if you don't know that you are poet,
but you just got some words that you would like
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to share, I encourage you to join us in book
number two, Gathered Lights. It is definitely an opportunity for
you to share your thoughts. So what it's Gathered Lights about.
Let me tell y'all a little bit about what this
book is going to be about. It is book number
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two in this series. It is book number two in
this series. And hold on, I'm pulling it up, y'all
because I told y'all, like I said, I got a
lot of projects going on, so I just don't remember
everything off hand. But Gathered Lights it's the title is
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gathered like balancing vulnerability with growing strength. So this book,
I'm just gonna read you a little synopsis of what
the Gathered Light follows, the breaking of silence with the
tender everyday labor of repair. These poems linger in the
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hush after rapture, and listen for what answers back. The
first unguarded laugh, a hand steaded cup, sunlight pulling on
a kitchen floor, attuned to a small attune to small
daily victories, and beginners that almost hide inside ordinary moments.
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This collection honors how support arrives in unexpected places through neighbors,
not a late night DJ, a text at the right hour,
the soft insistence of a tree outside the window. The
voice is gentler, now luminous without denying what it has survived.
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Vulnerability becomes a form of strength, and steadiness grows from
attention as much as from courage. These poems move from
the ember to done today, tracing the slow work of
relearning trust in the body, quality, quiet thought, the making
of a room into a home, and the return of
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an appetite song and choice. Water windows and soft industries
of hands reoccur like a tide. Fireflies, lighthouses and king
tons glinked at the edge, reminding us that fractures can
whole light. Huh, y'all, I'm telling you it's going to
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be an amazing opportunity for you to share if you
are out there, if you are a poet and will
like to share, and will like to share throughout this book,
you will definitely see my signature inside of this and
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it will be a light return I'm telling you, every
single pay, every single poem that I write, it's going
to reflect on a light return. Because in this book
we talked about breaking it's pretty much shadowing the silence.
So we're coming out of trauma, whatever trauma may have been.
It may have been domestic violence, it may have been grief,
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whatever it is that we broke that silence on and
we just we just got it to share about it.
This here, we're gonna talk about how vulnerability can grow
your strength. Just because you were vulnerable does not mean
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that you are weak. Vulnerability with growing strength's gonna help you, guys.
So I'm telling you, if you're out there and you
would like to be a part of this anthology, just
reach out. Just reach out. Of course, y'all know, y'all
can reach out to me at Queen of Collaborations at
(27:35):
gmail dot com or just go over to linktre Queen
of Collaborations and find out how you can connect with me.
There are so many different ways that you can connect
with me, y'all. I'm on most all social medias. I
may not use them all every day, but I am
on most all social media platforms. I'm on Instagram, I'm
definitely here on TikTok and Facebook. I don't be on
(27:58):
them all the time. I think now I've leaned towards
being on TikTok a little more than all of the
other platforms. But I utilize a lot of platforms, especially
with the podcast and all of the things that we're
doing with the podcast, y'all. So if you're out there
and you want to connect, this is definitely an opportunity
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for you to do that, an opportunity for you to
allow your voice to speak, allow your voice to be
heard around the world. Even when you think you have
nothing to say, or you think no one is listening, y'all,
somebody out there needs to hear your voice. It is
your voice. It is that message that God has placed
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within you because He's given us all a gift and
a talent. He's given us all something something for the
building of this kingdom. Don't just think that you don't
have a voice. Know that everything that you went through,
everything that you endured, it was to make you better.
It was to break me in and mold you into
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who He has called and purposed you to be. Before
even the creation of time, he already knew everything about
us before we was even conceived in our mother's womb.
So know that if he's given you a test it
was only for a testimony, so that you can be
able to share it with somebody else, because it's your testimony.
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It is that thing that you are going through, that
thing that you have overcome, that is going to help
somebody else. The test is only for a moment, y'all,
so that you can have that testimony. So I encourage you.
I encourage you to allow your voice to speak, allow
your voice to be heard again. If you would like
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to be a part of book two and three, just
reach out as Queen of Collaborations at gmail dot com,
or you can go over to linktree Queen of Collaboration
and see how you can connect with me again. If
you would like to purchase a copy of this book,
of course, you can reach out to me, or you
can reach out to one of the amazing poets that's
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a part of this book and you can allow them
to sign it, give you an autograph, write you a
message to make it personalized, and definitely connect again. I
thank you guys for tuning in. I thank you for listening.
I thank you for sharing, and those that are on TikTok.
Thank you for the gifts. Thank you for the gifts.
I appreciate it. I thank you for supporting the platform.
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And I tell you, if there's anything that has blessed
you on today, make sure that you substride, make sure
that you are following, make sure that you're staying connected,
and if you have an opportunity, go over and check
out some of those clips that we have. You'll find
some amazing clips from these amazing hosts here on the
Crew podcast. Every show has clips from their show, so
(30:51):
you get an opportunity to connect with them, see what
they're doing, see what they're talking about on their show,
and if you want to be a part of their podcast,
can reach out to them if they're on link Tree
the Crew Podcast twenty three, or you can just reach
out to me and I definitely will put you in
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contact with them. There are some amazing queens and we
have one king that's holding it down on them, Kings
of the Airway, y'all. And we're getting ready to gear up.
We're getting ready to close out season number three and y'all,
we're going to be going into season four. So February first,
we will be kicking out season four. We do have
some available slots for those that may be interested in
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joining our podcast network. We have I think we have
three or four slots for our queens, and we have
about ten slots available for those males that want to
come on, those kings that want to come on and
share their voice, allow their message to resonate around the world. Y'all.
(31:54):
We stream live to four platforms and then it's uploaded
to it about fifty team the sixteen platforms. I think
I took the opportunity yesterday to share all of those
platforms on Facebook so that those that say, oh, how
can we catch y'all, how can we follow y'all, how
can we support you? They are floating around on Facebook.
(32:14):
So if you on Facebook, y'all, go over and see
how you can check out these amazing queens. Of course,
we have YouTube. We're on Twitch, We're on kick, we're
on Substack, we're on daj Or, we're on Amazon Music,
we're on listen Note, Spotify, our heart Pod, podcast Attic,
(32:38):
and Podchaser. I think there's a couple of more, y'all
forgotten a couple of them, but y'all, there's an array
of platforms. I'm telling you if you google the Crew podcast,
it'll tell you where you can follow and support the
things that we're doing again. I thank you, guys, and
I hope you will go over and support these amazing
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poets that share from their heart and soul. Y'all, thank
you for tuning in. I love y'all and be blessed.
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Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, y'all. I got mail, I
got mail. I got go mam, I got mail, y'all,
I got mailed, I got mailed, I got mail. I'm
gonna give some individual's opportunity to come on in. I
want to reveal this amazing, amazing book to you, guys.
(00:35):
I want to reveal this amazing book to you guys.
So come on in, come on in, come on in,
Come on in, come on in, come on in. I'm
gonna share this out with a couple of people. I
want y'all to come on in, so y'all can see
this amazing book and see some of the amazing poets
that's inside of this book. Good afternoon, good afternoon, good afternoon,
(00:59):
good morning, good even wherever you may be, come on in,
share this with somebody, if you would. I'm gonna see
if I can share this out over here on TikTok.
See if I can get some people in the screen.
See if I can get some people on the live
so I can share this amazing book with you guys.
(01:19):
So I can share this amazing book with you guys.
So come on in, come on here, come on in,
come on in, Come on in, Come on in, Come
on in, Come on, y'all. Come on in, Come on in,
come on in and share this out with somebody. Let
me tap the screen over here so I can get
some people so I can try to get some people engage.
(01:42):
Let me tap this screen over here, see if I
can get some people over here, and see if I
can get this out here to that before you page, y'all,
come on in, Come on in, Come on in, Come
on in, Come on in, Come on in, Come on in, y'all.
I'm excited. I'm excited, y'all. This is book number one
(02:02):
inside of a three book series. This is called Shattered Silence.
Shattered Silence, y'all. It was seven of us, seven poets,
myself and six other amazing poets sharing inside of this book.
I'm gonna get ready to open up this package. I
was trying to wait on some people to come on in,
(02:22):
to come on in. But I want you guys to
get an opportunity to see this book and to find
out where you can go and check it out. And
then I'm gonna share some amazing opportunities for you to connect,
for you to share your work, for you to get
your stuff out there, because oftentimes people want to publish.
They got something that they want to share, but they
(02:45):
just don't know how, just don't know where to go,
just don't know where to start. But y'all, I'm telling you,
I am here to help you along the way, here
to lead God in direct you if that is what
you desire to do. One of my things is self
publishing coach, and I love to coach those that want
to publish, those that want to share a message, that
(03:07):
want to get something out there. So y'all, come on in,
Come on in, because we get ready to open this package.
We getting ready to open this package. We getting ready
to open this package, y'all. We're getting ready to see
what we have created and we're going to give you
guys an opportunity to check it out first hand. Y'all,
(03:27):
If you do not get an opportunity to download the
free ebook, shame on you. Shame on you. But you
can go over and grab you a copy for only
three dollars and thirty three cents. It's available on Amazon,
It's available on mad cloud, and if you want a
printed copy, you can grab your printed copy from Amazon
(03:51):
mad Cloud. And I think those are the only two
places I published. I didn't publish on Blurb, so you
get an opportunity to grab it from Amazon, mad Cloud.
And then of course if you just Google Google this book,
you can find out where it's at. It may be
in your local library. Because we distribute to different platforms
(04:13):
where you published two different platforms that allow our book
to be in different places. I do know that we
are in Walmart dot com. So if you are a
Walmart shopper you like to use Walmart dot com, you
can grab a copy of this book off of Walmart
dot com. But y'all, come on in the room. Come
on in the room, Come on in the room, and
(04:33):
if you would please share it out with somebody, share
it out with somebody. Invite somebody to come on this
live again. If you are someone that desires to publish,
if you're someone that has a story that has something
that you would like to get out but just don't
know where to start, I'm telling you I am here
to assist you on that journey. If you don't want
(04:57):
me personally assisting you, I have a book at Walmart
dot com that you can grab that will help you
publish start to finish, start to finish. It will help
you publish, start to finish everything you need, and it's
only eighteen dollars. Of course, that's the Walmart dot com y'all.
And all you have to do is type in my name,
(05:17):
Angela Thomas Smith, and you would definitely be able to
grab you a copy of that book. Again, if you're
coming in, if you don't mind tapping that screen, tapping
that screen, if you over on TikTok, tap that screen,
tap that screen. It helps us get out in the
for you page. Because there may be somebody else out
(05:39):
there that want to publish too and don't know how
to start, don't know what to do, and they may
need to tap into this live. They may need to
tap into this live, y'all. But I'm getting ready to
reveal to you guys, our amazing book number one inside
of this three book series. This is going to be
a three book series poetry. This is a collaboration of poetry. Again,
(06:05):
we had six amazing poets to share inside of this
book alongside of myself, so you get an opportunity to
connect with us. So, y'all, were getting ready to open
up this package from Amazone. We getting ready to open
up this package from Amazon, y'all, This book dropped on
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September the first. Get dropped from September the first, And
if you didn't get a chance to grab you a
e copy, you still can go grab you one. It's
only three dollars and thirty on Amazon. But y'all, this
is our amazing book. This is our amazing book. This
(06:47):
is our book, y'all. This is our book. Let me
get it over there so those over there on Facebook
and YouTube, Twitch and kick can see it. This is
our amazing book. This is our amazing y'all. It is
a five by eight. This is a five by eight
version of the book. It is a paperback copy, y'all,
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one hundred and forty five pages. This is front and
this is the back. This is the back cover. This
is the back cover. Just tell you a little bit
about the book. And of course that picture up there
in the corner is a picture of me. That is
(07:31):
a picture of me, y'all. So again you have an
opportunity to grab you a copy over on Amazon. It
is called Shattered Silence. It's poems of survival and hope. Y'all.
We have some amazing poets to share inside of this anthology.
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And this is book number one. Y'all. Book number one
of a three book series, the second book that we
are currently recruiting for trying to get some individuals that
want to share inside this book alongside us Gathered Light.
So if you're out there and you have a word
that you would like to share inside of this book,
(08:12):
please reach out to me. Reach out to me and
see how you can secure your spot inside of this anthology. Y'all.
We believe, I truly believe in helping those that have
a voice, that think that they don't have an outlet
or a voice to speak. I help them to amplify
that with the opportunities that I provide. Again, this is
(08:36):
a poetry anathology, and we are seeking nine more individuals
to join us. We're seeking nine more individuals to join us.
This book will drop on November the first, Yes, November
the first. You have into October the first, y'all. October
the first, which is like fourteen fifteen days away to
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join us, and then all of the entries will be
due by October the fifteenth. No, let me back that up.
Everything is due by October the first, So it's due
by October the first. So if you're interested in sharing,
you have fifteen more days to join us on this journey.
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You have fifteen more days to journ. To join us
on this journey. That means you can share two to
three poems. You get an opportunity to share a little
bit about yourself. So I'm gonna flip through this book
and I'm gonna share you some share with you guys,
some things so that you can kind of see what
you can expect from book number two. All three of
(09:40):
the books is it is a it's gonna be a trilogy,
so all of the covers are gonna be the same.
The only thing changing is the title of each cover.
So this is what Book number two is gonna look like,
except for it's gonna say Gathered Light, and then it'll
half whatever the subtitle is up under. I forget what
(10:02):
the subtitle is job because I got like four projects
going on at one time. But Book number two is
gathered like and we are looking for nine more individuals
to join us. There's a small fee. There's a small
fee of only fifty three dollars to join. If you
want to share, you can share up to two to
three poems. And I'm about to flip through the book
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so I can show you guys what it looks like.
So you have you always start out with our copyright
page and then a dedication, So there's a dedication. This
particular book is dedicated to all of those that share
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in this book. So we have a dedication, we have
an acknowledgement, and then there's a forward done by poetos Keisha.
She is doing the forward and all three of these books,
so you guys will really get an opportunity to find
out a little bit about her and what she's doing
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and find out something a little bit about her brand y'all,
let the truth be told. She is an amazing poet,
spoken word artist. When I tell you she is a
beast with what she does, she is and I am
glad that she is doing the forwards in these books.
We also have table contents, the introduction, and then I
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go into the poets. So poet number one is Chanette.
Shanetta is a host here on the podcast as well,
and then her first poem. Well, first we tell a
little bit about the authors, so all of the authors
have an opportunity to share a little bit about them.
So this particular I ask them questions and this one,
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this particular one, I asked them questions and everyone had
the same question so that they could answer these questions.
So the the section is called Beyond the Pen getting
to Know the Author. So this is opportunity for you
to get to know the author, so you can find
out a little bit about them outside of what they
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do as a poet and an author. So and then
they go into that poems. So we also what I
did in this book, which is different from some of
the other books that we have done. We have a playlist.
So each poem, each section, each author, there's a song
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that accompanies that poem that kind of relates to that poem,
that talks a little bit about the theme of that poem.
So for Seanette, her first poem is called from Shadow
to Light and the song that accompanied that is Rise
Up by Andrea Day, and it says find your strength
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and darkness. This poetic journey in anthem remind us that
hope is never lost. It waits for you to rise
up and to the dawn. So each one of these
poems have a song that accomplientes and then it tells
you the correlation between that song and that poem. And
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then after each poem, y'all there's a summary because oftentime
we read poetry, we read poems, and sometimes we may
not understand the words and what the author is trying
to portray. So after each one there's a summary of
what that poem was about, so you really get an
opportunity to really feel what that choet is sharing. Okay,
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and that is for all of the poems. Again, Cheanette
was one of the chords. And now we have a
Little Unique Parker, Yes that is her name, Little Unique Parker.
And then we have yeah, I'm trying to flick through him,
Cheryl Northern Lagreen, Rolanda Pie. And again, these authors are
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from all over. Channette is from California, Cheryl is from Nightingdale,
North Carolina. Little Unique Parker is from Dallas Fort Worth area.
I don't know if I said, Rolanda's from New York.
And now we have Charlotte Simon Ross. She is from
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New York. And then we have Micheline Missy Moss and
she is from Memphis, Tennessee. And then at the back
of the book, y'all, you have about the author section
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that really dives in and talks about the author, so
you have an opportunity to really connect with the author,
get to know the author. So it's really basically their bio.
Also include ways that you can connect with them, ways
that you can connect with them, and we have one
for each one of them. And then at the very
back of the book, y'all, I always like to leave
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a section for you to journal your thoughts, for you
to journ your thoughts of maybe what you've read or
what you have been expired to write from this book. Again,
at the very very back of the book, I always
like to provide some resources, and then I talk about
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I just share a little bit about the two books
that's attached to the series, so the two books that
you can look forward to coming as well. And then
at the very very end, y'all, I share some resources
of individuals that you can connect with their brand. So
I'm going to read the little section that I wrote
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in here. It says, shut up, Silent, proudly spotlight mission
driven businesses and organizations that equip our community with practical resources,
compassionate services, and a pasthway of healing and growth. These
partners embody the heartbeat of Echoes of Becoming movement, helping
people move from surviving to becoming explore vetted resources, learn
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from impact stories, and connect directly with providers advancing safety, justice,
wellness and opportunities. When who are we featuring Mental health
and wellness providers, crisis response, safety and legal support, economic empowerment,
workforce entrepreneurship, financial coaches, educational mentoring, youth, family and adult learning,
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faith based and community groups, arts healing, creative therapy programs, health,
housing and re entry services, coaches, authors, speakers of the
line with trauma, and form practices. So those are the
people that we highlight in the back of this book,
not just this book, but in the series. So if
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you're out there and you have one of these types
of services, businesses, organizations, and you would like to advertise
your brand, your service, your business in the upcoming books,
please reach out to me and see how you can
be featured in this book as well. So of course
we had to include our prayer line because we do
a prayer line every morning at five am. So there's
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information on how you can connect with the prayer line
and be a part of the prayer line. So that's
in the back, and we have Trevida Gris who is
one of the amazing hosts that's over on the podcast,
and she also is a speaker. She does a lot,
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so you will see a little bit about her. She's
a CEO, a author, a podcast host, a motivational speaker,
and a transformation coach. She also shares a little bit
about her speaking topics, things that she speak on, and
some of her published works, so you get to see
that inside of the book. And of course this purple one, y'all,
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that is me. That is just a little bit about
me and how you can connect with me, some of
the things that I do, how you can connect with
me on the various platforms that I'm on where you
can go and purchase some of my books. And I
also include some of my speaking topics, my contact information,
and just a little bit about me. And then this
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page here has some of my books. So these are
some of my amazing books that I have published. Of course,
those that follow and support me know that I have
over one hundred and fifty literary works out there, not
just books. I have books, journals, calendars, and of course
the magazine. And then over on the next page is
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our apostle. This is our apostle who covers our prayer
line every single morning at five a m This is
a little bit about their ministry out of Talent Hassee, Florida.
This is her and her husband. So you get an
opportunity if you're in that area, I would like to
visit them. You get the opportunity to connect with them.
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This page, these two pages here is an amazing queen
that I have had the opportunity. I had the opportunity
to meet her right here on social media. Met her
on Facebook about seven maybe about seven or eight years ago.
We actually got the opportunity to connect and meet in person.
I tell you every time I come across so she's
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definitely someone that I love to connect with. Her name
is the the Little Donna Murrie. She's out of Mississippi.
She has an amazing organization called Planting Positive Seeds, and
she also is a author, a poet, and a motivational speaker.
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She also has a podcast, so you get an opportunity
to find out a little bit about her in the
back of this book. Y'all, you get an opportunity to
really connect. And then one of the amazing ladies that
help us hold down our grief podcast. Those that followed
the platform and know that we host a grief podcast
(20:41):
every fifth Sunday. So we've had five We have five
episodes this year. Our last episode is going to be
in November. But all of us have been through some
type of grief, so we host a grief podcast where
we get an opportunity to share a little bit about
our journey and how we've dealt with grief. And this
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particular lady, her name is Danielle Ross. She is out
of Texas. I think she's in the Dallas Fort Worth area.
She is a certified grief coach, a public speaker, and consultant,
and she's also a certified but grievement dueler. So you
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get the opportunity to connect with her. Tells you a
little bit about the topics that she discussed, tells you
a little bit about her and her background, her education,
and how you can connect with her. So these two
pages is dedicated to her, y'all. I tell you, I
like to fill this book up with information that helps
us beyond just reading about poetry, things that you can
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go back to and relate to again. Y'all, this poetry
book is more than just words on pages. We break
it down, we summarize the poems so that you can
really get an understanding of what the author is speaking
of what the poet is sharing, and we also compare
we pair it with a playlist, So each one of
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these sections has a playlist that accompanied the poem, so
you can listen to the music while you're you're reading
the poem and you can see how it connects to
the poem. So, y'all, this is just one of the
books in this series. Again, we are still looking for
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individuals that want to connect and want to be a
part of Book number one, I mean book number two
and Book number three. Book number two is going to
release on November the first. Book number three is going
to release on December the first, So you still have
an opportunity to join us and be a part if
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you are ready to share your word, if you have
something that you would like to help amplify around the world. Y'all.
You never know what your words and how your words
can impact. Y'all. We made number one on Amazon and
Poetry Anthology. We made number two and Women's Poetry. We
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didn't get to number one, but we made number two
and Women's Poetry. So again I give a shout out
to all of the poets that decided to allow their
voices to be amplified and their voices to be shared
around the world. Again, if you are a poet or
aspiring portant, even if you don't know that you are poet,
but you just got some words that you would like
(23:37):
to share, I encourage you to join us in book
number two, Gathered Lights. It is definitely an opportunity for
you to share your thoughts. So what it's Gathered Lights about.
Let me tell y'all a little bit about what this
book is going to be about. It is book number
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two in this series. It is book number two in
this series. And hold on, I'm pulling it up, y'all
because I told y'all, like I said, I got a
lot of projects going on, so I just don't remember
everything off hand. But Gathered Lights it's the title is
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gathered like balancing vulnerability with growing strength. So this book,
I'm just gonna read you a little synopsis of what
the Gathered Light follows, the breaking of silence with the
tender everyday labor of repair. These poems linger in the
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hush after rapture, and listen for what answers back. The
first unguarded laugh, a hand steaded cup, sunlight pulling on
a kitchen floor, attuned to a small attune to small
daily victories, and beginners that almost hide inside ordinary moments.
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This collection honors how support arrives in unexpected places through neighbors,
not a late night DJ, a text at the right hour,
the soft insistence of a tree outside the window. The
voice is gentler, now luminous without denying what it has survived.
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Vulnerability becomes a form of strength, and steadiness grows from
attention as much as from courage. These poems move from
the ember to done today, tracing the slow work of
relearning trust in the body, quality, quiet thought, the making
of a room into a home, and the return of
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an appetite song and choice. Water windows and soft industries
of hands reoccur like a tide. Fireflies, lighthouses and king
tons glinked at the edge, reminding us that fractures can
whole light. Huh, y'all, I'm telling you it's going to
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be an amazing opportunity for you to share if you
are out there, if you are a poet and will
like to share, and will like to share throughout this book,
you will definitely see my signature inside of this and
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it will be a light return I'm telling you, every
single pay, every single poem that I write, it's going
to reflect on a light return. Because in this book
we talked about breaking it's pretty much shadowing the silence.
So we're coming out of trauma, whatever trauma may have been.
It may have been domestic violence, it may have been grief,
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whatever it is that we broke that silence on and
we just we just got it to share about it.
This here, we're gonna talk about how vulnerability can grow
your strength. Just because you were vulnerable does not mean
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that you are weak. Vulnerability with growing strength's gonna help you, guys.
So I'm telling you, if you're out there and you
would like to be a part of this anthology, just
reach out. Just reach out. Of course, y'all know, y'all
can reach out to me at Queen of Collaborations at
(27:35):
gmail dot com or just go over to linktre Queen
of Collaborations and find out how you can connect with me.
There are so many different ways that you can connect
with me, y'all. I'm on most all social medias. I
may not use them all every day, but I am
on most all social media platforms. I'm on Instagram, I'm
definitely here on TikTok and Facebook. I don't be on
(27:58):
them all the time. I think now I've leaned towards
being on TikTok a little more than all of the
other platforms. But I utilize a lot of platforms, especially
with the podcast and all of the things that we're
doing with the podcast, y'all. So if you're out there
and you want to connect, this is definitely an opportunity
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for you to do that, an opportunity for you to
allow your voice to speak, allow your voice to be
heard around the world. Even when you think you have
nothing to say, or you think no one is listening, y'all,
somebody out there needs to hear your voice. It is
your voice. It is that message that God has placed
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within you because He's given us all a gift and
a talent. He's given us all something something for the
building of this kingdom. Don't just think that you don't
have a voice. Know that everything that you went through,
everything that you endured, it was to make you better.
It was to break me in and mold you into
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who He has called and purposed you to be. Before
even the creation of time, he already knew everything about
us before we was even conceived in our mother's womb.
So know that if he's given you a test it
was only for a testimony, so that you can be
able to share it with somebody else, because it's your testimony.
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It is that thing that you are going through, that
thing that you have overcome, that is going to help
somebody else. The test is only for a moment, y'all,
so that you can have that testimony. So I encourage you.
I encourage you to allow your voice to speak, allow
your voice to be heard again. If you would like
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to be a part of book two and three, just
reach out as Queen of Collaborations at gmail dot com,
or you can go over to linktree Queen of Collaboration
and see how you can connect with me again. If
you would like to purchase a copy of this book,
of course, you can reach out to me, or you
can reach out to one of the amazing poets that's
(30:06):
a part of this book and you can allow them
to sign it, give you an autograph, write you a
message to make it personalized, and definitely connect again. I
thank you guys for tuning in. I thank you for listening.
I thank you for sharing, and those that are on TikTok.
Thank you for the gifts. Thank you for the gifts.
I appreciate it. I thank you for supporting the platform.
(30:29):
And I tell you, if there's anything that has blessed
you on today, make sure that you substride, make sure
that you are following, make sure that you're staying connected,
and if you have an opportunity, go over and check
out some of those clips that we have. You'll find
some amazing clips from these amazing hosts here on the
Crew podcast. Every show has clips from their show, so
(30:51):
you get an opportunity to connect with them, see what
they're doing, see what they're talking about on their show,
and if you want to be a part of their podcast,
can reach out to them if they're on link Tree
the Crew Podcast twenty three, or you can just reach
out to me and I definitely will put you in
(31:11):
contact with them. There are some amazing queens and we
have one king that's holding it down on them, Kings
of the Airway, y'all. And we're getting ready to gear up.
We're getting ready to close out season number three and y'all,
we're going to be going into season four. So February first,
we will be kicking out season four. We do have
some available slots for those that may be interested in
(31:33):
joining our podcast network. We have I think we have
three or four slots for our queens, and we have
about ten slots available for those males that want to
come on, those kings that want to come on and
share their voice, allow their message to resonate around the world. Y'all.
(31:54):
We stream live to four platforms and then it's uploaded
to it about fifty team the sixteen platforms. I think
I took the opportunity yesterday to share all of those
platforms on Facebook so that those that say, oh, how
can we catch y'all, how can we follow y'all, how
can we support you? They are floating around on Facebook.
(32:14):
So if you on Facebook, y'all, go over and see
how you can check out these amazing queens. Of course,
we have YouTube. We're on Twitch, We're on kick, we're
on Substack, we're on daj Or, we're on Amazon Music,
we're on listen Note, Spotify, our heart Pod, podcast Attic,
(32:38):
and Podchaser. I think there's a couple of more, y'all
forgotten a couple of them, but y'all, there's an array
of platforms. I'm telling you if you google the Crew podcast,
it'll tell you where you can follow and support the
things that we're doing again. I thank you, guys, and
I hope you will go over and support these amazing
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poets that share from their heart and soul. Y'all, thank
you for tuning in. I love y'all and be blessed.
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