September 1, 2025 • 46 mins
Dr. Linda P. Chinn is a native of New London, CT who currently resides in Douglasville, GA. She fulfills her mission of uprooting and pulling down false belief systems in the lives of God's people to build them up by planting in them the incorruptible seed of the living Word through her various ministries. Dr. Chinn is an accomplished entrepreneur and the creator of Linda Chinn Ministries as well as the founder of Christian Women in Training Network.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Good afternoon, Good afternoon, Good afternoon. Welcome to another episode
of Keeping It Real with Doctor Linda Chen. I'm auderbel Kearney,
the producer of the show. Happy Labor Day to all
of you. Hope you guys are having a beautiful day.
We're in Jeygia, so it's a little overcast here, but
it's still nice, so we won't complain. Because it could
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be pouring down raining, but it's not, so we won't
complain about that. I know a lot of people are grilling.
Some people grilled yesterday, but we're happy to be here
with you today. Doctor ten has a great guest today.
He's coming on. They're gonna be talking about live until
you Die.
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So, without further ado, I'm gonna bring them to the station.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Now.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
We have had a little bit.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Of technical difficulties, so you may have we may experience something.
If we do experience something, please bear with us. We're
trying to get a fixed listen. We can't control as
much as I love tech, we can't control tech. So
we are trying our best to make sure everything is
working properly. So I'm going to bring them to the stage.
And if things are not working our properly, just bet
with us, Okay, Doc further do Doctor ten and Corey web
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her guests.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Hello, Hello, hello, hello, Hello, and Corey.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
I don't know if you can hear yes, but whatever
we need to do to get this work, and we
are praying, and so let me just give you an introduction.
Is to tell you about Corey and Corey Webb. I've
been knowing him for a long time.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Can you hear his Corey? Okay, he can't hear us.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I'm gonna pull him down, doctor Chen, and then I'm
gonna check and see if it's anything I need to
do on my end.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Please bear with us.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
You do the intro and I'll take him down.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
Okay, thank you. So let me just tell you a
little bit about my friend Corey Webb. I've known him
a little over eleven years actually, and he's a wonderful guy. Now,
there's some things you can know people forever, but there's
some things about him that I never told Corey that
have always intrigued me. So let me just tell you
a little bit about him before we get started and
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while we're working to get the sound up.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
He's a visionary entrepreneur.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Corey is he's an entertainment strategists and he's a great
community He's active in the community and his career bridges
like music marketing, live events and outdoor exploration right and
of course and media as well, but he's got more
than twenty years and experience in all of these that
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I have mentioned to you media. He is actually he
works at the Riverside Epicenter as their entertainment and Community
Engagement manager and he is doing a phenomenal job at
the Riverside et P Center. If you don't know where
that is, that's two twelve Riverside Parkway in Austel, Georgia.
But anyway, he serves, you know, he does some of
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the technical services there and some of their business development.
But Corey is an adventurous person and he does camping
and nature indoor.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
I remember he.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Sold r v's for a while and I'm like, how
in the world is he selling r v's. I never
saw that coming, but he did extremely well there. He's
got a business and it's a he's a CEO of
c W Enterprises and it is Corey Web.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Of course, the CW's Corey Web, and I love it.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
He's a multi adventure company and it includes Corey Web Travels,
it includes Adventure Vehicle Roundup and that's.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
What AVR stands for. I didn't know.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
He does some consulting and he's also part of the
Black Adventure Society, Adventurer Society. He is Maxwell Leadership Certified.
I mean, he's just he's a well rounded person and
I love Corey always have. What I didn't know and
never shared with him, actually was that I love his
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sense of event adventure, and that's why we invited him
on the show. I've been hearing this in my spirit.
Live until you die, live until you die, don't just exist,
but live. When is the last time you've done something
for the first time, right, that's a question for you.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
And so I thought about him.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
He's been involved with Deaf Jam, South Interscope, Atlanta Records,
Universal Music, and Video uh Distribution, so he's done quite
a bit.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
So I'm hoping we can get this up Corey.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
All right, doctor chin, So we're gonna bring him up.
He can hear us now, so that's great. So I'm
gonna bring him up and then I'm gonna go down.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
All right, thank you? Al How is Corey today?
Speaker 6 (05:31):
Good afternoon, everybody. How are you all doing today?
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Yay?
Speaker 6 (05:35):
Just fine?
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Yes, okay, I can hear repeat, I can hear Reburban back,
So you need to fix that.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
You've got two things on.
Speaker 6 (05:43):
Uh No, I only have the one thing going.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
All right, huh, we're gonna move go ahead, Florid.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
I want to ask you some questions so you can
work on that. But it is a little disturbing.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Mm yeah, maybe if I turn it down some here.
Let's try that, all right, So no, no, I'm sorry,
doctor Chen. I'm not.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
It's okay. Let's move forward. It's okay to overcomers, it's
really it.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Sounds okay, doctor Chen. It doesn't sound like I don't
hear a lot.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Of you bird.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
All right, excellent. I thank God for these two people
right here. I'm telling you so, Cory, I was just
giving a little bit about your background and your bio,
and I don't know if you heard part of it,
but one of the things when you and I were
talking the other day is I never shared with you
over the eleven years i've known you how much I
admire your sense of adventure. I'm like this guy like
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when you first started selling RV's, I'm.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Like, get out of here. How did he move from
this to that?
Speaker 5 (06:52):
Right?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
And so that was interesting for me.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
Then when I saw you hosting some of your photos
r ving and and and on some kind of all
terrain vehicle going through streams and stuff. I'm like, this
guy is really adventurousself. I want to ask you a
couple of questions. What does adventure mean to you personally?
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (07:15):
Wow, that's such a loaded question. But to me personally,
adventure is discovery. Is ultimately what it is, you know,
to discover ourselves, to discover God's creation, to discover one another. Right,
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that's what adventure really is to me, at least, what's
around the corner, what is the next thing? And anything,
honestly can be an adventure. You know, whether it's a
new business, you're trying to start new relationship, you're, like me,
a new parent. You know, it's all an adventure.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Okay, So he said adventure is discovery, all right, y'all.
So when you want to discover something new, and like
he said, relationships, new parents, it's really discovery.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
And I love that.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
So now I'm hearing explorer right, like this great explorer.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
And that makes me think of you too.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
But so, was there a specific activity you did that
made you realize you were wired for adventure?
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Like when did that wake up in you?
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Oh? Early on as a child. Actually, let's see, I
mean as a kid, I was in the cub Scouts
and the Boy Scouts and had my uncle was my
Scout master, he was our Scout leader. So going camping
even as a young child, or going fishing with my grandfather,
those things, it's always been there. But you know, as
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we go grow older and you know, just do things
in life, we kind of sort of get away from it, right,
and then we find our way back. And then we
and especially you know, you find your way back once
you can afford it, you know, because believe it or not,
camping is not necessarily adventuring is not an inexpensive hobby.
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And so you know, obviously you hear about kids who
go backpacking through Europe and all those kinds of things.
But even then, you know, that's the adventure in itself,
is just trying to figure it out, right, trying to
you know, stud it. What's the old phrase, make a
dollar out of fifteen cents so you could keep going, right,
That's the adventure and oftentimes that is where we find
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ourselves in life.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
I love it. I love it insight.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
So do you think that everyone, so you said as
a kid, that's when you really discovered it within you.
Do you think everyone has an adventurous side, or is
it something that you're born with.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
I think that's a little bit of both. It's a
little bit of both. I mean as simple as being
afraid or taking the leap to go get on that
roller coaster at the amusement park, that's an adventure. Or
or for those of us who are you know, who
innately in us feel a calling, phil a a longing
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or wanting to go do something, you feel like you
were called to go do more, that is also some
of it. But just I just believe it's it's a
combination of all of those things.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
So what's the most exciting and unforgettable adventure you've done
so far.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
Living my life? I mean, that's the short answer. I mean,
but if if if it's a specific place or or
activity or or having to gone to go do something,
I would say thus far. I love and enjoy going
out to the Carolinas, particularly in North Carolina. Pisca National
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Forest is one of my favorite places now. A Hala
outdoor center and camping all in that area is fun
for me. There's one particular trail out there called Hurricane
Creek is what I really love. It's just off of
Interstate forty right there where North Carolina and Tennessee come together.
It's that that particular trail can be a little harrowing
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if you're if you're not ready for it, if your
mind isn't ready for it. But that that's that was
probably to date, I would say, one of my most
greatest adventures, if you will.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
So was it hiking or was it arving? What did
you do?
Speaker 6 (11:34):
It was off It was off roading. Actually it was
taking my twenty fourteen Lexus GX four sixty and hitting
the trail. You know, a lot of people don't realize
how capable of Lexus GX actually is. I mean, underneath
it's a Toyota land Cruiser. Other places they call it
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the Prado and you put that thing in four wheel
drive and it'll go just about anywhere. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Yeah, with Lexus r v's I see somebody's wheels turning.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Carry So let me ask you, have you ever been
on an adventure?
Speaker 5 (12:16):
And I need you to be transparent where you were
scared out of your malad.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
I would say once, because you know, I'm I don't
particularly like bears. So probably about six years ago or so,
maybe I went on a hiking trip with some friends
up in North Georgia in the well North Georgia's slash
Tennessee up in the Kohutta Wilderness area, and it was
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a five mile hike in six miles out and it
was that time of year when bears are waking up
and you know, you know, when you're out there and
you're just sleeping in a tent on the ground and
you're not one hundred percent with some of those noises
are that you hear it in the dark. Yeah, that
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was a particular instance where I was probably a bit scared.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
What did you do?
Speaker 6 (13:12):
I don't Yeah, I recall probably having a bad dream
and kind of screaming a little bit, thinking that we
were about to be attacked. But that when't Really that
wasn't what it was. Because that was one of my
first times actually having to go camping the wilderness in
such a way where the guy told us you have
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to hang your food in a tree and so the
bears won't get it. And you know, because bears are
pretty smart, they know how to open car doors and
maneuver into things, you know, to get food how they
want to. I mean, think about the old cartoon Yogi
Bear and Booboo. You know, they were pretty ingenious when
it came to getting themselves a picnic basket. I just
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wanted to make sure that I wasn't a part of
his picnic basket, so, you know. But I would say
that was probably my most fearful time. But then I
had to remind myself that faith and fear don't go together.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Say that again.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
I said, faith and fear do not go together.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Faith and fear don't go together.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
That's right. So I had to remind myself, Wait a minute,
it's okay, I'm out here with a group of people.
We were all prepared. What am I worried for?
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Okay, all right, I'm not going to ask you how
you were prepared. I'm gonna leave. We can have that
concent what your brother? I know you brought something other
than that food.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
Mother, You know we had there was bear spray, you know,
you know for my two way folks, you know if
you know what that means, you know we were prepared.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Okay, amen, Sell Have you ever gotten lost?
Speaker 6 (14:50):
Oh? Plenty of times. That's part of the adventure.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Oh God help me. How did you find your way back?
What did you do?
Speaker 6 (14:57):
You know? The easiest way is knowing which way the
sun rises and sets, and you know, you figure it out, hope.
You know, sometimes you don't get so far into the
back country that you get totally lost. But then again,
we're still prepared for those situations too.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
That or not.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
You know, your iPhone now has satellite communication where you
can you know, still be reached, still be found in
the event that you get lost. But you know, we
have GPS and maps and you know, just go old
fashion intuition. You you know, we found we passed that
sign twice already two miles ago. I think we're going
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the wrong way.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Do you leave people on adventures and you take other
people as a leader.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
So I have done that before, and that, interestingly enough,
is a perfect segue to talk about my business actually,
which is what I'm beginning to get into now. So
I'm you know, getting into some certifications and things like
that so that way I can properly lead people on
some of these journeys. I do have a team of
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folks that I work with, you know, that are the
you know, have the appropriate certifications and you know for
medical and wilderness and safety and all that kind of
good stuff. But that is the pivot of Corey web
Travels which is which was my travel business. You know
where I was booking cruises and honeymoons and you know,
the guy's trip to Vegas and stuff like that. But
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now with all my adventure stuff, that is really the
thing that is I'm most passionate about is getting out
and showing people what's possible, getting out and showing folks,
you know, how to use that jeep, how to use
that range rover, how to use that g wagon, how
to get out there and go have fun and have
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an adventure. I mean, take your family. I mean, for instance,
we're planning my family and I we're planning to go
camping for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Really where part of the country.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
We're going to Alabama. Interesting, so Thanksgiving will be the
one hundred and first meeting of the Turkey Day Classic,
which is Alabama State University and Tuskegee University. And so
we're gonna go to the game, We're gonna go camping
and just make a weekend of it. Even coming up
in October, Whitney and I we're gonna go to the
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Biltmore and you know, some of that will be the
luxurious stay and some of that will be the outdoors.
You know, in our campus day.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Wow, I'm excited for you.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
Now I cannot say, well, in fact, I can say
I won't be one of those people who go on adventures.
I help you promote and all of that, but I'm not.
I'm not that adventurous. So I think the most adventures
I am is when I go to different states. There's
certain stores I go look for. I'll go adventure for
those to go shopping. But I'm not the outdoors, the height.
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But that's what I think fascinates me about you because
you are such a well rounded person. And I never
saw that coming in you, but I see it now.
So how do you prepare? What do you do to
prepare for a trip or hiking or are being.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
I mean, just like anything else, if you fail to plan,
then you should plan to fail. No different than any
other trip that you would take, No different than anything
else that you would do. How long am I going
to be gone? What are the supplies that I need?
You know, so you still got to think about food, water, shelter, right,
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No different than that luxury trip. How many days are
we going to be gone? Is it going to be
the four star, five star hotel? Do I need to
eat at the Michelin Star restaurants. You know, it's no different.
You plan it the same way. Where am I going?
What are we doing? What are the activities? What do
I want to go see? Is there some little old
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general store that we want to go shopping at, you know,
to find all of those really cool hitting gems that
handmade souvenir or whatever. You know. The case may be absolutely.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
So, Ira says, I'll go camping, but need certain comforts
like a bathroom.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
Yes, so we do. Hey, when you have to take
a woman and a baby, you have the creature comforts.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Okay, I do.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
Have a portable flushing toilet that I take along with.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Us, kep out of here.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
Yes see this is becoming more and more intriguing to me. Really,
it's becoming so interesting. So you mentioned earlier about the certifications,
and you mentioned some kind of medical training and safety
like first DAID training and safety that never occurred to me.
I never thought about that.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
Yeah, I mean, so, my daughter is coming up creeping
up on eighteen months old, right, and before we had her,
we went and took CPR training. We went learned what
to do in case if she starts choking. We went
and learned you know, so you would do that for yourselves, right,
for your friends and for your family. You need to
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do the same thing when you're out there adventuring, right.
And so as we form these groups, as we form
our relationships, we we begin. You know, I have friends
who's really good at He's a good mechanic. You know,
in case somebody breaks down, you got to know how
to change your tire. You got to know how to
you know, you would have to do that anyway, right,
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I mean, if I broke down on Interstate eighty five, yeah,
sure I could call roadside assistance, but I could probably
help myself a whole lot faster than before the tow
truck comes.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Wow Wow Wow.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
Okay, So and then Ores brings up INFANCYPR is different
than regular absolutely.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
Imagine the point I was making is learning those those
those things, those that skill set, basic first a c PR,
whether it's adult or a child, basic first aid, all
of those things are necessary when you're out here getting
lost in the wilderness. I mean, think about it. I'm
a member of a hunting club. Also, right, there's twenty
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two guys in my hunting club. And again, what happens
if something happens to somebody if he falls out of
his stand right, you know, or if somebody else is
out there he doesn't have enough of the of the
bright cololors that he should be wearing and somebody shoots him.
You know, how do you triage that triage that situation. So,
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no matter if it's in the wilderness or if I'm
walking down the street at the mall right, I should
always be prepared.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Wow, you're dropping a bunch of wisdom nuggets, and I'm
hoping people will listen because you know, there's some things
I never really thought about.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
So I want to ask you another question here is
what do you prefer solo adventures are sharing the experience
with others?
Speaker 6 (22:04):
It's I would say it's both equally. I have learned
that there are certain things I prefer to go do
alone and there are certain other things that I enjoy
sharing and going in certain places I and you know,
there's something to be said about sharing stories around the campfire,
where that's where you get a chance to hear other
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people's experiences. That's where you get a chance to tell
those stories and learn from one another. And then you know,
when I go alone, that is my time with myself.
That is my time with God. That is my time
to you know, sit and just be still and listen.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Yes, I love that. I love it.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
So then I know you said, like, you prepare for
these adventures and trips like any other thing you prepare for.
But is there something that you have to do, should
do and do do differently when you're by yourself versus
when you're with other people.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
It's mainly communication, uh, you know, having uh you know,
my GPS and making sure that because you know, when
you go places where there's no cell signal, you have
to I have to make sure that. You know, we
have devices that allow us, you know, to communicate via
satellite with loved ones. You know, I leave, I tell
everybody where I'm going. I leave those GPS coordinates and
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all that kind of stuff, so heaven forbid anything happens.
You know, Well he said he was going here, and
here's the coordinate. This is his last known position.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
So yeah, yeah, that's good that that's that's important.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
But again, you do that anyway, right, You you leave
and you tell your husband, Hey, I'm going with my
sister and we're finna go to such and so such
and soul store or we're going down the street to
X y Z.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
Yeah, but that's different out there in the wilderness with
Yogi and booble.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
So I.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
Mean again, Heaven, Heaven forbid, you're in a car crash
on the way right, that too?
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Yes, you know what? So this is this past faith?
Go ahead, I see you think it.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
So most people's car accidents happen within five miles of
their home. I've heard that, So it doesn't matter where
you're going. Anything is subject to happen. Like I said before,
faith and fear or worried don't go together, so I
don't even concern myself with it.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
Okay, So that's I'm glad you said that, because that's
what I was about to say. So I get the
whole faith in fear right, And just for those who
are listening, there's a difference between being afraid, being worried,
and being concerned. Very will tell you wisdom comes with concern.
Concern comes with wisdom. Fear is a whole other top.
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It's another thing to talk about. But I also think
coory that you are brave.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
See, not everybody is.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Doesn't mean they're fearful, but some people have a different
level of courage than that.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
Sure, right, absolutely, So you're brave.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
And this just goes to show that you can know
somebody for years and there's so much you still don't
know about them.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
So I love that.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
You know, It's like I said, it's been eleven years
since we've known each other, and these things coming out.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
I love it for you. You know, Violet's gonna have
a really adventurous life, isn't she.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
Well, uh, oh absolutely. I remember one time sitting at
your desk you had you called Sly and I into
your office one day. I don't know if you remember
this or not, and you said something that really stuck
with me, and you said, you've got to be bold.
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I don't. I don't, and I don't know if you
remember that afternoon it was. It was an afternoon where
you were I don't want to use the phrase, say,
questioning my leadership or questioning how I was running my department.
But my responses were like, well, I was really waiting
on permission, right or seeking somebody to kind of sort
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of tell me what to do, and we weren't necessarily
in that scenario. And you were expressing to me that
I needed to be bold, meaning that if it's if
it's not going to be detrimental. Go do it, take
the chance, try it, because it's probably going to yield
the result that we're looking for. And if you go,
do it and go be bold. Being bold to me
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was don't be fearful, don't be afraid. Sometimes it's okay
to ask for forgiveness rather than to ask for permission,
especially when we know we have we've been charged with
a task and a thing to do right. Yes, And
so I would say that that probably really lit the fuse.
(26:57):
You know, when you have those things rumbling in the
back of your mind, you say, I wonder what if
should I could? I would I? And you know that
was that was the spark that lit the fuse. If
if that makes sense when I say.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
That, it does.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
And I don't remember that, but you know, how we
work together for those almost five years. It was wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.
But you know, I remember a bishop friend of mine
in Connecticut. I was ministering there one day and he
said to me, he said, you're bold, but you know
a lot of the things with people, My boldness came out.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Of being bullied.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
I was bullied a lot for years, and I don't
like bullies I don't like. Yeah, And so that's where
the boldness came from. I had been afraid so many times.
I just had to get bold to the point where
you know, this is do a die and so. But
that's not the topic today. So I want to continue
(27:57):
to ask you some other things that what is what's
a risk you took that you'll never take again? Is
there something that you've done on your trips or adventures
that you will never do again?
Speaker 6 (28:11):
If so, why, I don't know if I've if I've hit,
if I've found that thing yet, And that's just being honest. Yeah, yeah,
not one hundred percent. If I've encountered or cross that
thing that I would say, no, I'm not going to
do that again. And the reason why I say that
because I mean I've been skydiving, I've been bungee jumping,
(28:33):
I've done you know some other things. Oh yes, doctor Chen,
let me tell you. And you know this guy his
name is Sidney Montgomery. Yes, Sydney took twenty one people
took twenty one of us from the church skydiving.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
Well, I would have been with the pilot.
Speaker 6 (28:55):
I say that to say there, I don't place limit.
It's on myself. I have a list that there's a
list of things that I want to go do that
I haven't done yet. Places I want to go, uh see,
do an experience that I have not yet. And so
that's why my answer is, I don't know yet because
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I don't think I've encountered it yet.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
I like that. I like it. So one thing that
says to me, really is that that speaks to your.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
Level of wisdom, you know, because well, to say, fools
running where angels dare to track. Some people just gonna
do anything because you know.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
It's a risk.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
But you know, I've been really thinking about this, so
have you What have these adventures taught you about Corey?
Speaker 6 (29:45):
That I can do anything?
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Dropping them today? Pro I mean, I.
Speaker 6 (29:53):
Mean, I mean that seriously, that I can do anything,
you know, and and I know God got me, so
I ain't worried, you know what I mean. But I'm
not foolish either, right right, But literally it means that
I can do anything. So if I say I want
to start a business, I can do that. If I
(30:16):
want to be forty eight years old running around an
eighteen month old, sure I can do that too. You know.
It's literally I can do anything. I believe I can
go be a risk car driver if I wanted to.
I already know I can't be a pilot. They didn't
told me my vision too bad.
Speaker 5 (30:35):
See that's wisdom too. I'll be trying to do something
and you know you have no business doing it. Yeah,
that's somebody's word too. But I love that you can
do anything. And I hear that. I hear see tentacles
coming off that one statement, like I can do anything
I dare to do. I can do anything that I
want to do. If I really wanted to do, I
can do it. And you've got there are so many
(30:57):
people out there who have brilliant eyes ideas and are
afraid to execute them.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
That was my fear. That's a whole other show. I
see you coming.
Speaker 5 (31:08):
I see that in my mind's eye about something that
I was afraid to do and dinn't do, and I
paid for it, and I tell you I paid for it.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
We'll talk about that another day, y'all.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
But listen, doctor Chen. God places something in all of us.
We are but here on this earth to do something
in this earth, whatever the something is, and God doesn't
take us away from this earth until we've done what
it is that he put us here to do. Right so,
But but then at the same time, think about how
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many of us have a purpose, have a thing that
we're supposed to do and give to the world that
we don't because of that fear, because of all of
those Shulgar could have wouldas because of some family member
or friend or classmate or whomever it was that told
you you can't. That says, well, why would you do that?
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Well?
Speaker 6 (32:00):
Why would I not? I mean, think about how many
books that we haven't had the chance to read, that
weren't written, how many songs that were never published, how
many you know whatever fill in the blank that people
didn't get to do because of the fear, because of
the haters, because of self doubt. Right, I mean, if
(32:23):
I know who I am and to whom I belong,
I can do it all.
Speaker 5 (32:31):
I hope somebody is really I pray that somebody's fear
is broken today because of the things that he said.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
It is my sincere hope that if.
Speaker 5 (32:42):
You're listening, watching now or later, he said, I know.
I asked him what did this teach him about himself?
And he said that I could do anything. Come on,
somebody let's go. Let's go, because I'll.
Speaker 6 (32:58):
Tell you so. When I'm out, when I'm out camping
and hiking and stuff like that, particularly when i'm backpacking,
I think about what life was like before all of
the technology, before cars, before phones, before any of these
Mardern conveniences that we have, and how people had to live.
(33:22):
We had to rely on each other, we had to
rely on God, We had to rely on this earth
that He gave us. And we take all of those
things for granted. We take for granted where our food
comes from. We take for granted that the trees give
us oxygen to breathe. We take for granted that the
water that comes out of the ground and out of
(33:43):
the sky. We take for granted of the bees that
pollinate the plants that make our food right. And so
I feel like when you reconnect with and begin to
understand what He has given to us that we sit
around and destroy every day, that we sit around and
(34:07):
take for granted, it just I don't know. It does,
it hits different, It does something different to you.
Speaker 5 (34:16):
And this can bring us to something Iris said to
This can bring us to moments that mark.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
Us for a lifetime. Like that statement you said that
I made.
Speaker 5 (34:26):
You know, we had lots of office time, in personal time.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
You know, we just had lots of time together. That
was value.
Speaker 5 (34:34):
But I love that. So it's important to create moments
that mark for a lifetime. So some of the things
that you all and I am, let's just as may
be afraid to do, we're missing out on moments that
can mark us for a lifetime, that can help us
to go places and do things that, as Corey said,
we were created to do. So what's an adventure Corey,
(34:57):
that you haven't done yet that you you dream about,
that you haven't.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
Done yet, that you dream about?
Speaker 6 (35:04):
Oh my gosh, where do I begin? I still want
to go out to Utah and go to Moab and
go see what they call the Mighty five, which are
these now no parks? Uh you know Bryce Kenya and
(35:30):
Kenya Lands National Park. Let's see here. Uh you know, yeah,
Utah is probably you know, the American Southwest basically, or
going to go do the Baja one thousand or or
the Smoky Mountains one thousand. So all of those are
(35:52):
on the list for twenty twenty six and twenty seven.
Speaker 5 (35:55):
Okay, So he's already thought about things that he wants
to do and where he wants to go in the future.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
So he's done some research.
Speaker 5 (36:01):
So that that also tells me that if you're an adventurer,
you need to really do some research. And so if
you could design the ultimate expedition, what would that look like?
What some of that that what you were just explaining
talking about, Well.
Speaker 6 (36:18):
Those are just like you know, bucket list places I
want to go. But to design the ultimate adventure is
actually something I'm working on right now, believe it or not.
I was inspired last year by a doctor, Sherry Williams.
She is a PhD from Auburn University. That is fact,
(36:41):
actually she is the first black person to receive a
PhD from Auburn in history. She runs a really fabulous
place down in Macon County, Alabama, called the Ridge. It's
an archaeological project down there in Macon County where she
hosts this thing called the Old Federal Road Store Reteling Festival.
(37:01):
I went down there last October and learned so much
about genealogy. I learned so much about archaeology. I actually
went on an archaeological dig at the Ridge Interpretive Center
to learn about Native and Black history in Macon county. Right,
so many people think of making counties just Tuskegee, and
(37:22):
we think of the Tuskegee Experiment and the syphilis and
all that stuff, right, we think of the Tuskegee Airmen,
when there's so much more down there than just that,
you know. So, and being inspired by that it has
led me to now be inspired to learn more about
Native and Black history throughout the southeastern United States. And
(37:44):
what I'm working on is planning a month long expedition
through the southeast through Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, and the Carolinas.
Speaker 5 (37:57):
Well, listen, you have inspired me to do some other things,
and you're not gonna talk real soon after this show.
Speaker 6 (38:05):
So it's a little bit of Indiana Jones meets doctor
Henry Lewis Gates is what I'm about to embark.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
Upon for Corey Webb.
Speaker 5 (38:14):
Y'all remember that name, Corey Web Travelers and Adventures, y'all
remember that Audrey.
Speaker 4 (38:19):
I know you've been inspired in the background.
Speaker 5 (38:21):
Come back up and tell us what you uh, what
Corey has inspired in you today.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
So, like you, doctor Chen, I'm not very adventurous when
it comes to traveling, but it was it was interesting
to listen to Corey talk.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
Corey.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
I have.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
First of all, let me say this, doctor Chen. You
said something really cool, so I don't know you. Did
you catch it, Corey, But she said the Ultimate Expedition.
I just found that to be very brandable. So I
had to write that down to tell you that because
that's very brand.
Speaker 6 (38:48):
Brand I've already been working on the I P for that.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Okay, good because I loved that when she said that,
that's very brandable.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
One of the things.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
Though, So I do have someplace I want to go,
but I first I wanted to talk about what you
said about the United States. There are so many places
in the United States that we just ignore because everything
is outside of the country.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
And I've lived I lived most of my life in Jersey, right.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
I was born in Georgia, but I lived the majority
of my life in Jersey. Never went to the Empire
State Building, never went to the Statue of Liberty, none
of those places. So I'm going up there next year
in April, and I have a to do list of
places I want to go, so those are on my list.
And I also want to go to Madame C. J.
Walker's house, which is on the Hudson, and I was like,
I've never done there, So talk about you know, how
(39:34):
can people find like these interesting places to visit in
the States, Like, we don't have to always leave the States,
Like there are a lot of places in the States
that we just have not gone to.
Speaker 6 (39:42):
I mean, the beauty of all of the modern technology
that we have today is the fact that we have Google.
Whatever it is you can think about or you say
you want to do, we can go Google it and
find it. I mean, just like you. When I lived
in the Bronx, I had a roommate that who had
never left the Bronx. I mean, he had never gone
(40:04):
to Manhattan.
Speaker 4 (40:07):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (40:08):
Right. And it wasn't until one of my former colleagues
took him out on tour that we went out on
the road with a particular artist, that he got a
chance to see America and see the world. And people think, well,
New York City is the center of the universe, and
you know, everybody's so well versed in so many things. No,
(40:30):
that's not the case. I don't care where you're from, right,
there are people right here in Atlanta, in Jersey, in Connecticut,
no wherever that have never left where they're from who
have desires to go see and do more, but they
have a hard time being able to go do it
because they have the doubters in one ear and their
(40:53):
own fears in the other, and they watched the news
and all the propaganda and they think, no, no, no, no,
we can't do that. Oh no, no, no, I'm not
gonna do that. You're absolutely right. So you know, when
Whitney and I first started dating, we decided to go
be tourists in the city that we live in, and
as a result, we ended up buying memberships to everything
(41:15):
to the High Museum, to the Atlanta History Center, I mean,
to the zoo, I mean all the things we went
and did, all the tourist traps of Atlanta, and you discover, man,
Atlanta's a really cool place. Even further, the neighborhood that
I grew up in as a teenager in Atlanta is
the neighborhood of Martin Luther King Junior. I graduated from
(41:36):
Grady High School in Atlanta. That's the same high school
doctor kingson his youngest kids too. It's now called Midtown High.
But I say that to say is that there's so
much around us that you don't even realize it until
you step out there and go see. But in America,
we're taught. You know that we're big bad America, we're
(41:59):
the great. It's the best, the biggest, the largest at everything.
And we don't have to do anything that's down the street.
We need to go fly and go to Spain and
Italy and Japan and all these other places, which is fine.
All those places are cool, all that stuff is great.
But there's a reason why those people came over here
from Europe. And if you look around, you will discover
(42:23):
why America is a great place to go, particularly the
southeastern United States. It is an amazing place to go
see and discover.
Speaker 2 (42:34):
During the pandemic, when we were trying to figure out
places to go, I had never been to Helen.
Speaker 3 (42:38):
So we went to Helen.
Speaker 4 (42:39):
That was beautiful.
Speaker 3 (42:43):
Oh my god, I love it. I also went to
a rant.
Speaker 2 (42:45):
Had never been on a horse in my life, had
never been to a ranch in my entire life.
Speaker 3 (42:50):
My husband and I went to a rank in Georgia and.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
I discovered that there was a waterfall literally a mile
and a half away from my house, like literally, and
I was a waterfall doctor team I'm talking about like
that I was like, literally, a I don't even know
if it was a mile and a half, it might
have been a mouth from my house.
Speaker 3 (43:07):
So we you write about that, discovering places.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
It's just so beautiful and I think that I think
that now people are starting to open up a little
bit more.
Speaker 3 (43:14):
But I will tell you, Corey, the propaganda has.
Speaker 2 (43:17):
Put a lot of fear in a lot of people's
heart because it put a lot of fear in my
heart because my nephew place for Indiana and my husband
and I were going to drive to the game this
past Saturday and I was like, yeah, I'm not driving
because I don't know which way to go because of
the propaganda. So it is it does put fear in
your heart.
Speaker 4 (43:35):
Well, you know, last word.
Speaker 6 (43:37):
I'm equally as prepared and I'm not worried about some
of those folks who like to put out the propaganda
because it's funny because I do experience those things, right.
And to back to doctor Chin's point, Audrey, that was
an adventure. You've been on an adventure. You discovered that waterfall,
(44:00):
you went, you went out to go see and do.
That's the adventure. It's the it's discovery, that's what adventure.
That's what it's all about. It is discovery. But you
want to say, doctor Chan, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (44:14):
You gave it to us. I was like, well, Corey,
give us the last word. It was your first word,
which was the last word, adventure is discovered. So thank
you for that. Thank you so much. Well, I appreciate
you more than you ever know. And we're gonna talk really,
really sooner than you think.
Speaker 6 (44:31):
Oh oh wait, wait till you wait, till we talk
and you learn what's really you know, we didn't have
enough time to talk about it here, but to really
learn what's going on. And Audrey, I appreciate you for
telling that story too, because that doctor Chin has been saying.
I hope that it encourages somebody else to go down
the street. Yeah, that's the adventure. To go down the street, yep,
(44:57):
because you don't know what you'll find.
Speaker 4 (44:59):
That was true.
Speaker 2 (45:01):
Listen, guys, I hope you enjoyed this episode of Keeping
It Real with Doctor Linda Chen. Go check out Corey's website.
You want to travel, he's your guy. He's very well versed, but.
Speaker 3 (45:10):
He's not even afraid of the bears.
Speaker 2 (45:12):
Want to say that, like I've seen some videos them bears.
I'm like, I don't know about that part, but listen.
Check out check out. Corey's website is coreyweb Travels dot
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Speaker 2 (45:39):
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Until next time, make it a great day by everybody.
Thank you Corey, Thank you Doctor Chen.
Speaker 4 (45:49):
Thank you Corey. Peace Peace.
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
Good afternoon, Good afternoon, Good afternoon. Welcome to another episode
of Keeping It Real with Doctor Linda Chen. I'm auderbel Kearney,
the producer of the show. Happy Labor Day to all
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We're in Jeygia, so it's a little overcast here, but
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(00:45):
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Some people grilled yesterday, but we're happy to be here
with you today. Doctor ten has a great guest today.
He's coming on. They're gonna be talking about live until
you Die.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
That's interesting, right, that's really interesting.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
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The amazing work and all of the great things.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
So, without further ado, I'm gonna bring them to the station.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Now.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
We have had a little bit.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Of technical difficulties, so you may have we may experience something.
If we do experience something, please bear with us. We're
trying to get a fixed listen. We can't control as
much as I love tech, we can't control tech. So
we are trying our best to make sure everything is
working properly. So I'm going to bring them to the stage.
And if things are not working our properly, just bet
with us, Okay, Doc further do Doctor ten and Corey web
(01:50):
her guests.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Hello, Hello, hello, hello, Hello, and Corey.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
I don't know if you can hear yes, but whatever
we need to do to get this work, and we
are praying, and so let me just give you an introduction.
Is to tell you about Corey and Corey Webb. I've
been knowing him for a long time.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Can you hear his Corey? Okay, he can't hear us.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I'm gonna pull him down, doctor Chen, and then I'm
gonna check and see if it's anything I need to
do on my end.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Please bear with us.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
You do the intro and I'll take him down.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
Okay, thank you. So let me just tell you a
little bit about my friend Corey Webb. I've known him
a little over eleven years actually, and he's a wonderful guy. Now,
there's some things you can know people forever, but there's
some things about him that I never told Corey that
have always intrigued me. So let me just tell you
a little bit about him before we get started and
(02:53):
while we're working to get the sound up.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
He's a visionary entrepreneur.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Corey is he's an entertainment strategists and he's a great
community He's active in the community and his career bridges
like music marketing, live events and outdoor exploration right and
of course and media as well, but he's got more
than twenty years and experience in all of these that
(03:18):
I have mentioned to you media. He is actually he
works at the Riverside Epicenter as their entertainment and Community
Engagement manager and he is doing a phenomenal job at
the Riverside et P Center. If you don't know where
that is, that's two twelve Riverside Parkway in Austel, Georgia.
But anyway, he serves, you know, he does some of
(03:40):
the technical services there and some of their business development.
But Corey is an adventurous person and he does camping
and nature indoor.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
I remember he.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Sold r v's for a while and I'm like, how
in the world is he selling r v's. I never
saw that coming, but he did extremely well there. He's
got a business and it's a he's a CEO of
c W Enterprises and it is Corey Web.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Of course, the CW's Corey Web, and I love it.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
He's a multi adventure company and it includes Corey Web Travels,
it includes Adventure Vehicle Roundup and that's.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
What AVR stands for. I didn't know.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
He does some consulting and he's also part of the
Black Adventure Society, Adventurer Society. He is Maxwell Leadership Certified.
I mean, he's just he's a well rounded person and
I love Corey always have. What I didn't know and
never shared with him, actually was that I love his
(04:44):
sense of event adventure, and that's why we invited him
on the show. I've been hearing this in my spirit.
Live until you die, live until you die, don't just exist,
but live. When is the last time you've done something
for the first time, right, that's a question for you.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
And so I thought about him.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
He's been involved with Deaf Jam, South Interscope, Atlanta Records,
Universal Music, and Video uh Distribution, so he's done quite
a bit.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
So I'm hoping we can get this up Corey.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
All right, doctor chin, So we're gonna bring him up.
He can hear us now, so that's great. So I'm
gonna bring him up and then I'm gonna go down.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
All right, thank you? Al How is Corey today?
Speaker 6 (05:31):
Good afternoon, everybody. How are you all doing today?
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Yay?
Speaker 6 (05:35):
Just fine?
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Yes, okay, I can hear repeat, I can hear Reburban back,
So you need to fix that.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
You've got two things on.
Speaker 6 (05:43):
Uh No, I only have the one thing going.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
All right, huh, we're gonna move go ahead, Florid.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
I want to ask you some questions so you can
work on that. But it is a little disturbing.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
Mm yeah, maybe if I turn it down some here.
Let's try that, all right, So no, no, I'm sorry,
doctor Chen. I'm not.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
It's okay. Let's move forward. It's okay to overcomers, it's
really it.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Sounds okay, doctor Chen. It doesn't sound like I don't
hear a lot.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Of you bird.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
All right, excellent. I thank God for these two people
right here. I'm telling you so, Cory, I was just
giving a little bit about your background and your bio,
and I don't know if you heard part of it,
but one of the things when you and I were
talking the other day is I never shared with you
over the eleven years i've known you how much I
admire your sense of adventure. I'm like this guy like
(06:45):
when you first started selling RV's, I'm.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Like, get out of here. How did he move from
this to that?
Speaker 5 (06:52):
Right?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
And so that was interesting for me.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
Then when I saw you hosting some of your photos
r ving and and and on some kind of all
terrain vehicle going through streams and stuff. I'm like, this
guy is really adventurousself. I want to ask you a
couple of questions. What does adventure mean to you personally?
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (07:15):
Wow, that's such a loaded question. But to me personally,
adventure is discovery. Is ultimately what it is, you know,
to discover ourselves, to discover God's creation, to discover one another. Right,
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that's what adventure really is to me, at least, what's
around the corner, what is the next thing? And anything,
honestly can be an adventure. You know, whether it's a
new business, you're trying to start new relationship, you're, like me,
a new parent. You know, it's all an adventure.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Okay, So he said adventure is discovery, all right, y'all.
So when you want to discover something new, and like
he said, relationships, new parents, it's really discovery.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
And I love that.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
So now I'm hearing explorer right, like this great explorer.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
And that makes me think of you too.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
But so, was there a specific activity you did that
made you realize you were wired for adventure?
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Like when did that wake up in you?
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Oh? Early on as a child. Actually, let's see, I
mean as a kid, I was in the cub Scouts
and the Boy Scouts and had my uncle was my
Scout master, he was our Scout leader. So going camping
even as a young child, or going fishing with my grandfather,
those things, it's always been there. But you know, as
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we go grow older and you know, just do things
in life, we kind of sort of get away from it, right,
and then we find our way back. And then we
and especially you know, you find your way back once
you can afford it, you know, because believe it or not,
camping is not necessarily adventuring is not an inexpensive hobby.
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And so you know, obviously you hear about kids who
go backpacking through Europe and all those kinds of things.
But even then, you know, that's the adventure in itself,
is just trying to figure it out, right, trying to
you know, stud it. What's the old phrase, make a
dollar out of fifteen cents so you could keep going, right,
That's the adventure and oftentimes that is where we find
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ourselves in life.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
I love it. I love it insight.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
So do you think that everyone, so you said as
a kid, that's when you really discovered it within you.
Do you think everyone has an adventurous side, or is
it something that you're born with.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
I think that's a little bit of both. It's a
little bit of both. I mean as simple as being
afraid or taking the leap to go get on that
roller coaster at the amusement park, that's an adventure. Or
or for those of us who are you know, who
innately in us feel a calling, phil a a longing
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or wanting to go do something, you feel like you
were called to go do more, that is also some
of it. But just I just believe it's it's a
combination of all of those things.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
So what's the most exciting and unforgettable adventure you've done
so far.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
Living my life? I mean, that's the short answer. I mean,
but if if if it's a specific place or or
activity or or having to gone to go do something,
I would say thus far. I love and enjoy going
out to the Carolinas, particularly in North Carolina. Pisca National
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Forest is one of my favorite places now. A Hala
outdoor center and camping all in that area is fun
for me. There's one particular trail out there called Hurricane
Creek is what I really love. It's just off of
Interstate forty right there where North Carolina and Tennessee come together.
It's that that particular trail can be a little harrowing
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if you're if you're not ready for it, if your
mind isn't ready for it. But that that's that was
probably to date, I would say, one of my most
greatest adventures, if you will.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
So was it hiking or was it arving? What did
you do?
Speaker 6 (11:34):
It was off It was off roading. Actually it was
taking my twenty fourteen Lexus GX four sixty and hitting
the trail. You know, a lot of people don't realize
how capable of Lexus GX actually is. I mean, underneath
it's a Toyota land Cruiser. Other places they call it
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the Prado and you put that thing in four wheel
drive and it'll go just about anywhere. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Yeah, with Lexus r v's I see somebody's wheels turning.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Carry So let me ask you, have you ever been
on an adventure?
Speaker 5 (12:16):
And I need you to be transparent where you were
scared out of your malad.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
I would say once, because you know, I'm I don't
particularly like bears. So probably about six years ago or so,
maybe I went on a hiking trip with some friends
up in North Georgia in the well North Georgia's slash
Tennessee up in the Kohutta Wilderness area, and it was
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a five mile hike in six miles out and it
was that time of year when bears are waking up
and you know, you know, when you're out there and
you're just sleeping in a tent on the ground and
you're not one hundred percent with some of those noises
are that you hear it in the dark. Yeah, that
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was a particular instance where I was probably a bit scared.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
What did you do?
Speaker 6 (13:12):
I don't Yeah, I recall probably having a bad dream
and kind of screaming a little bit, thinking that we
were about to be attacked. But that when't Really that
wasn't what it was. Because that was one of my
first times actually having to go camping the wilderness in
such a way where the guy told us you have
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to hang your food in a tree and so the
bears won't get it. And you know, because bears are
pretty smart, they know how to open car doors and
maneuver into things, you know, to get food how they
want to. I mean, think about the old cartoon Yogi
Bear and Booboo. You know, they were pretty ingenious when
it came to getting themselves a picnic basket. I just
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wanted to make sure that I wasn't a part of
his picnic basket, so, you know. But I would say
that was probably my most fearful time. But then I
had to remind myself that faith and fear don't go together.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Say that again.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
I said, faith and fear do not go together.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Faith and fear don't go together.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
That's right. So I had to remind myself, Wait a minute,
it's okay, I'm out here with a group of people.
We were all prepared. What am I worried for?
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Okay, all right, I'm not going to ask you how
you were prepared. I'm gonna leave. We can have that
concent what your brother? I know you brought something other
than that food.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
Mother, You know we had there was bear spray, you know,
you know for my two way folks, you know if
you know what that means, you know we were prepared.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Okay, amen, Sell Have you ever gotten lost?
Speaker 6 (14:50):
Oh? Plenty of times. That's part of the adventure.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Oh God help me. How did you find your way back?
What did you do?
Speaker 6 (14:57):
You know? The easiest way is knowing which way the
sun rises and sets, and you know, you figure it out, hope.
You know, sometimes you don't get so far into the
back country that you get totally lost. But then again,
we're still prepared for those situations too.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
That or not.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
You know, your iPhone now has satellite communication where you
can you know, still be reached, still be found in
the event that you get lost. But you know, we
have GPS and maps and you know, just go old
fashion intuition. You you know, we found we passed that
sign twice already two miles ago. I think we're going
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the wrong way.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Do you leave people on adventures and you take other
people as a leader.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
So I have done that before, and that, interestingly enough,
is a perfect segue to talk about my business actually,
which is what I'm beginning to get into now. So
I'm you know, getting into some certifications and things like
that so that way I can properly lead people on
some of these journeys. I do have a team of
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folks that I work with, you know, that are the
you know, have the appropriate certifications and you know for
medical and wilderness and safety and all that kind of
good stuff. But that is the pivot of Corey web
Travels which is which was my travel business. You know
where I was booking cruises and honeymoons and you know,
the guy's trip to Vegas and stuff like that. But
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now with all my adventure stuff, that is really the
thing that is I'm most passionate about is getting out
and showing people what's possible, getting out and showing folks,
you know, how to use that jeep, how to use
that range rover, how to use that g wagon, how
to get out there and go have fun and have
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an adventure. I mean, take your family. I mean, for instance,
we're planning my family and I we're planning to go
camping for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Really where part of the country.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
We're going to Alabama. Interesting, so Thanksgiving will be the
one hundred and first meeting of the Turkey Day Classic,
which is Alabama State University and Tuskegee University. And so
we're gonna go to the game, We're gonna go camping
and just make a weekend of it. Even coming up
in October, Whitney and I we're gonna go to the
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Biltmore and you know, some of that will be the
luxurious stay and some of that will be the outdoors.
You know, in our campus day.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Wow, I'm excited for you.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
Now I cannot say, well, in fact, I can say
I won't be one of those people who go on adventures.
I help you promote and all of that, but I'm not.
I'm not that adventurous. So I think the most adventures
I am is when I go to different states. There's
certain stores I go look for. I'll go adventure for
those to go shopping. But I'm not the outdoors, the height.
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But that's what I think fascinates me about you because
you are such a well rounded person. And I never
saw that coming in you, but I see it now.
So how do you prepare? What do you do to
prepare for a trip or hiking or are being.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
I mean, just like anything else, if you fail to plan,
then you should plan to fail. No different than any
other trip that you would take, No different than anything
else that you would do. How long am I going
to be gone? What are the supplies that I need?
You know, so you still got to think about food, water, shelter, right,
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No different than that luxury trip. How many days are
we going to be gone? Is it going to be
the four star, five star hotel? Do I need to
eat at the Michelin Star restaurants. You know, it's no different.
You plan it the same way. Where am I going?
What are we doing? What are the activities? What do
I want to go see? Is there some little old
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general store that we want to go shopping at, you know,
to find all of those really cool hitting gems that
handmade souvenir or whatever. You know. The case may be absolutely.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
So, Ira says, I'll go camping, but need certain comforts
like a bathroom.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
Yes, so we do. Hey, when you have to take
a woman and a baby, you have the creature comforts.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Okay, I do.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
Have a portable flushing toilet that I take along with.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Us, kep out of here.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
Yes see this is becoming more and more intriguing to me. Really,
it's becoming so interesting. So you mentioned earlier about the certifications,
and you mentioned some kind of medical training and safety
like first DAID training and safety that never occurred to me.
I never thought about that.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
Yeah, I mean, so, my daughter is coming up creeping
up on eighteen months old, right, and before we had her,
we went and took CPR training. We went learned what
to do in case if she starts choking. We went
and learned you know, so you would do that for yourselves, right,
for your friends and for your family. You need to
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do the same thing when you're out there adventuring, right.
And so as we form these groups, as we form
our relationships, we we begin. You know, I have friends
who's really good at He's a good mechanic. You know,
in case somebody breaks down, you got to know how
to change your tire. You got to know how to
you know, you would have to do that anyway, right,
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I mean, if I broke down on Interstate eighty five, yeah,
sure I could call roadside assistance, but I could probably
help myself a whole lot faster than before the tow
truck comes.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Wow Wow Wow.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
Okay, So and then Ores brings up INFANCYPR is different
than regular absolutely.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
Imagine the point I was making is learning those those
those things, those that skill set, basic first a c PR,
whether it's adult or a child, basic first aid, all
of those things are necessary when you're out here getting
lost in the wilderness. I mean, think about it. I'm
a member of a hunting club. Also, right, there's twenty
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two guys in my hunting club. And again, what happens
if something happens to somebody if he falls out of
his stand right, you know, or if somebody else is
out there he doesn't have enough of the of the
bright cololors that he should be wearing and somebody shoots him.
You know, how do you triage that triage that situation. So,
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no matter if it's in the wilderness or if I'm
walking down the street at the mall right, I should
always be prepared.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Wow, you're dropping a bunch of wisdom nuggets, and I'm
hoping people will listen because you know, there's some things
I never really thought about.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
So I want to ask you another question here is
what do you prefer solo adventures are sharing the experience
with others?
Speaker 6 (22:04):
It's I would say it's both equally. I have learned
that there are certain things I prefer to go do
alone and there are certain other things that I enjoy
sharing and going in certain places I and you know,
there's something to be said about sharing stories around the campfire,
where that's where you get a chance to hear other
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people's experiences. That's where you get a chance to tell
those stories and learn from one another. And then you know,
when I go alone, that is my time with myself.
That is my time with God. That is my time
to you know, sit and just be still and listen.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Yes, I love that. I love it.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
So then I know you said, like, you prepare for
these adventures and trips like any other thing you prepare for.
But is there something that you have to do, should
do and do do differently when you're by yourself versus
when you're with other people.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
It's mainly communication, uh, you know, having uh you know,
my GPS and making sure that because you know, when
you go places where there's no cell signal, you have
to I have to make sure that. You know, we
have devices that allow us, you know, to communicate via
satellite with loved ones. You know, I leave, I tell
everybody where I'm going. I leave those GPS coordinates and
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all that kind of stuff, so heaven forbid anything happens.
You know, Well he said he was going here, and
here's the coordinate. This is his last known position.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
So yeah, yeah, that's good that that's that's important.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
But again, you do that anyway, right, You you leave
and you tell your husband, Hey, I'm going with my
sister and we're finna go to such and so such
and soul store or we're going down the street to
X y Z.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
Yeah, but that's different out there in the wilderness with
Yogi and booble.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
So I.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
Mean again, Heaven, Heaven forbid, you're in a car crash
on the way right, that too?
Speaker 4 (24:03):
Yes, you know what? So this is this past faith?
Go ahead, I see you think it.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
So most people's car accidents happen within five miles of
their home. I've heard that, So it doesn't matter where
you're going. Anything is subject to happen. Like I said before,
faith and fear or worried don't go together, so I
don't even concern myself with it.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
Okay, So that's I'm glad you said that, because that's
what I was about to say. So I get the
whole faith in fear right, And just for those who
are listening, there's a difference between being afraid, being worried,
and being concerned. Very will tell you wisdom comes with concern.
Concern comes with wisdom. Fear is a whole other top.
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It's another thing to talk about. But I also think
coory that you are brave.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
See, not everybody is.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Doesn't mean they're fearful, but some people have a different
level of courage than that.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
Sure, right, absolutely, So you're brave.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
And this just goes to show that you can know
somebody for years and there's so much you still don't
know about them.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
So I love that.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
You know, It's like I said, it's been eleven years
since we've known each other, and these things coming out.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
I love it for you. You know, Violet's gonna have
a really adventurous life, isn't she.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
Well, uh, oh absolutely. I remember one time sitting at
your desk you had you called Sly and I into
your office one day. I don't know if you remember
this or not, and you said something that really stuck
with me, and you said, you've got to be bold.
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I don't. I don't, and I don't know if you
remember that afternoon it was. It was an afternoon where
you were I don't want to use the phrase, say,
questioning my leadership or questioning how I was running my department.
But my responses were like, well, I was really waiting
on permission, right or seeking somebody to kind of sort
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of tell me what to do, and we weren't necessarily
in that scenario. And you were expressing to me that
I needed to be bold, meaning that if it's if
it's not going to be detrimental. Go do it, take
the chance, try it, because it's probably going to yield
the result that we're looking for. And if you go,
do it and go be bold. Being bold to me
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was don't be fearful, don't be afraid. Sometimes it's okay
to ask for forgiveness rather than to ask for permission,
especially when we know we have we've been charged with
a task and a thing to do right. Yes, And
so I would say that that probably really lit the fuse.
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You know, when you have those things rumbling in the
back of your mind, you say, I wonder what if
should I could? I would I? And you know that
was that was the spark that lit the fuse. If
if that makes sense when I say.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
That, it does.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
And I don't remember that, but you know, how we
work together for those almost five years. It was wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.
But you know, I remember a bishop friend of mine
in Connecticut. I was ministering there one day and he
said to me, he said, you're bold, but you know
a lot of the things with people, My boldness came out.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Of being bullied.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
I was bullied a lot for years, and I don't
like bullies I don't like. Yeah, And so that's where
the boldness came from. I had been afraid so many times.
I just had to get bold to the point where
you know, this is do a die and so. But
that's not the topic today. So I want to continue
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to ask you some other things that what is what's
a risk you took that you'll never take again? Is
there something that you've done on your trips or adventures
that you will never do again?
Speaker 6 (28:11):
If so, why, I don't know if I've if I've hit,
if I've found that thing yet, And that's just being honest. Yeah, yeah,
not one hundred percent. If I've encountered or cross that
thing that I would say, no, I'm not going to
do that again. And the reason why I say that
because I mean I've been skydiving, I've been bungee jumping,
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I've done you know some other things. Oh yes, doctor Chen,
let me tell you. And you know this guy his
name is Sidney Montgomery. Yes, Sydney took twenty one people
took twenty one of us from the church skydiving.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
Well, I would have been with the pilot.
Speaker 6 (28:55):
I say that to say there, I don't place limit.
It's on myself. I have a list that there's a
list of things that I want to go do that
I haven't done yet. Places I want to go, uh see,
do an experience that I have not yet. And so
that's why my answer is, I don't know yet because
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I don't think I've encountered it yet.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
I like that. I like it. So one thing that
says to me, really is that that speaks to your.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
Level of wisdom, you know, because well, to say, fools
running where angels dare to track. Some people just gonna
do anything because you know.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
It's a risk.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
But you know, I've been really thinking about this, so
have you What have these adventures taught you about Corey?
Speaker 6 (29:45):
That I can do anything?
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Dropping them today? Pro I mean, I.
Speaker 6 (29:53):
Mean, I mean that seriously, that I can do anything,
you know, and and I know God got me, so
I ain't worried, you know what I mean. But I'm
not foolish either, right right, But literally it means that
I can do anything. So if I say I want
to start a business, I can do that. If I
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want to be forty eight years old running around an
eighteen month old, sure I can do that too. You know.
It's literally I can do anything. I believe I can
go be a risk car driver if I wanted to.
I already know I can't be a pilot. They didn't
told me my vision too bad.
Speaker 5 (30:35):
See that's wisdom too. I'll be trying to do something
and you know you have no business doing it. Yeah,
that's somebody's word too. But I love that you can
do anything. And I hear that. I hear see tentacles
coming off that one statement, like I can do anything
I dare to do. I can do anything that I
want to do. If I really wanted to do, I
can do it. And you've got there are so many
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people out there who have brilliant eyes ideas and are
afraid to execute them.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
That was my fear. That's a whole other show. I
see you coming.
Speaker 5 (31:08):
I see that in my mind's eye about something that
I was afraid to do and dinn't do, and I
paid for it, and I tell you I paid for it.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
We'll talk about that another day, y'all.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
But listen, doctor Chen. God places something in all of us.
We are but here on this earth to do something
in this earth, whatever the something is, and God doesn't
take us away from this earth until we've done what
it is that he put us here to do. Right so,
But but then at the same time, think about how
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many of us have a purpose, have a thing that
we're supposed to do and give to the world that
we don't because of that fear, because of all of
those Shulgar could have wouldas because of some family member
or friend or classmate or whomever it was that told
you you can't. That says, well, why would you do that?
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Well?
Speaker 6 (32:00):
Why would I not? I mean, think about how many
books that we haven't had the chance to read, that
weren't written, how many songs that were never published, how
many you know whatever fill in the blank that people
didn't get to do because of the fear, because of
the haters, because of self doubt. Right, I mean, if
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I know who I am and to whom I belong,
I can do it all.
Speaker 5 (32:31):
I hope somebody is really I pray that somebody's fear
is broken today because of the things that he said.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
It is my sincere hope that if.
Speaker 5 (32:42):
You're listening, watching now or later, he said, I know.
I asked him what did this teach him about himself?
And he said that I could do anything. Come on,
somebody let's go. Let's go, because I'll.
Speaker 6 (32:58):
Tell you so. When I'm out, when I'm out camping
and hiking and stuff like that, particularly when i'm backpacking,
I think about what life was like before all of
the technology, before cars, before phones, before any of these
Mardern conveniences that we have, and how people had to live.
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We had to rely on each other, we had to
rely on God, We had to rely on this earth
that He gave us. And we take all of those
things for granted. We take for granted where our food
comes from. We take for granted that the trees give
us oxygen to breathe. We take for granted that the
water that comes out of the ground and out of
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the sky. We take for granted of the bees that
pollinate the plants that make our food right. And so
I feel like when you reconnect with and begin to
understand what He has given to us that we sit
around and destroy every day, that we sit around and
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take for granted, it just I don't know. It does,
it hits different, It does something different to you.
Speaker 5 (34:16):
And this can bring us to something Iris said to
This can bring us to moments that mark.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
Us for a lifetime. Like that statement you said that
I made.
Speaker 5 (34:26):
You know, we had lots of office time, in personal time.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
You know, we just had lots of time together. That
was value.
Speaker 5 (34:34):
But I love that. So it's important to create moments
that mark for a lifetime. So some of the things
that you all and I am, let's just as may
be afraid to do, we're missing out on moments that
can mark us for a lifetime, that can help us
to go places and do things that, as Corey said,
we were created to do. So what's an adventure Corey,
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that you haven't done yet that you you dream about,
that you haven't.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
Done yet, that you dream about?
Speaker 6 (35:04):
Oh my gosh, where do I begin? I still want
to go out to Utah and go to Moab and
go see what they call the Mighty five, which are
these now no parks? Uh you know Bryce Kenya and
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Kenya Lands National Park. Let's see here. Uh you know, yeah,
Utah is probably you know, the American Southwest basically, or
going to go do the Baja one thousand or or
the Smoky Mountains one thousand. So all of those are
(35:52):
on the list for twenty twenty six and twenty seven.
Speaker 5 (35:55):
Okay, So he's already thought about things that he wants
to do and where he wants to go in the future.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
So he's done some research.
Speaker 5 (36:01):
So that that also tells me that if you're an adventurer,
you need to really do some research. And so if
you could design the ultimate expedition, what would that look like?
What some of that that what you were just explaining
talking about, Well.
Speaker 6 (36:18):
Those are just like you know, bucket list places I
want to go. But to design the ultimate adventure is
actually something I'm working on right now, believe it or not.
I was inspired last year by a doctor, Sherry Williams.
She is a PhD from Auburn University. That is fact,
(36:41):
actually she is the first black person to receive a
PhD from Auburn in history. She runs a really fabulous
place down in Macon County, Alabama, called the Ridge. It's
an archaeological project down there in Macon County where she
hosts this thing called the Old Federal Road Store Reteling Festival.
(37:01):
I went down there last October and learned so much
about genealogy. I learned so much about archaeology. I actually
went on an archaeological dig at the Ridge Interpretive Center
to learn about Native and Black history in Macon county. Right,
so many people think of making counties just Tuskegee, and
(37:22):
we think of the Tuskegee Experiment and the syphilis and
all that stuff, right, we think of the Tuskegee Airmen,
when there's so much more down there than just that,
you know. So, and being inspired by that it has
led me to now be inspired to learn more about
Native and Black history throughout the southeastern United States. And
(37:44):
what I'm working on is planning a month long expedition
through the southeast through Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, and the Carolinas.
Speaker 5 (37:57):
Well, listen, you have inspired me to do some other things,
and you're not gonna talk real soon after this show.
Speaker 6 (38:05):
So it's a little bit of Indiana Jones meets doctor
Henry Lewis Gates is what I'm about to embark.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
Upon for Corey Webb.
Speaker 5 (38:14):
Y'all remember that name, Corey Web Travelers and Adventures, y'all
remember that Audrey.
Speaker 4 (38:19):
I know you've been inspired in the background.
Speaker 5 (38:21):
Come back up and tell us what you uh, what
Corey has inspired in you today.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
So, like you, doctor Chen, I'm not very adventurous when
it comes to traveling, but it was it was interesting
to listen to Corey talk.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
Corey.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
I have.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
First of all, let me say this, doctor Chen. You
said something really cool, so I don't know you. Did
you catch it, Corey, But she said the Ultimate Expedition.
I just found that to be very brandable. So I
had to write that down to tell you that because
that's very brand.
Speaker 6 (38:48):
Brand I've already been working on the I P for that.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Okay, good because I loved that when she said that,
that's very brandable.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
One of the things.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
Though, So I do have someplace I want to go,
but I first I wanted to talk about what you
said about the United States. There are so many places
in the United States that we just ignore because everything
is outside of the country.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
And I've lived I lived most of my life in Jersey, right.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
I was born in Georgia, but I lived the majority
of my life in Jersey. Never went to the Empire
State Building, never went to the Statue of Liberty, none
of those places. So I'm going up there next year
in April, and I have a to do list of
places I want to go, so those are on my list.
And I also want to go to Madame C. J.
Walker's house, which is on the Hudson, and I was like,
I've never done there, So talk about you know, how
(39:34):
can people find like these interesting places to visit in
the States, Like, we don't have to always leave the States,
Like there are a lot of places in the States
that we just have not gone to.
Speaker 6 (39:42):
I mean, the beauty of all of the modern technology
that we have today is the fact that we have Google.
Whatever it is you can think about or you say
you want to do, we can go Google it and
find it. I mean, just like you. When I lived
in the Bronx, I had a roommate that who had
never left the Bronx. I mean, he had never gone
(40:04):
to Manhattan.
Speaker 4 (40:07):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (40:08):
Right. And it wasn't until one of my former colleagues
took him out on tour that we went out on
the road with a particular artist, that he got a
chance to see America and see the world. And people think, well,
New York City is the center of the universe, and
you know, everybody's so well versed in so many things. No,
(40:30):
that's not the case. I don't care where you're from, right,
there are people right here in Atlanta, in Jersey, in Connecticut,
no wherever that have never left where they're from who
have desires to go see and do more, but they
have a hard time being able to go do it
because they have the doubters in one ear and their
(40:53):
own fears in the other, and they watched the news
and all the propaganda and they think, no, no, no, no,
we can't do that. Oh no, no, no, I'm not
gonna do that. You're absolutely right. So you know, when
Whitney and I first started dating, we decided to go
be tourists in the city that we live in, and
as a result, we ended up buying memberships to everything
(41:15):
to the High Museum, to the Atlanta History Center, I mean,
to the zoo, I mean all the things we went
and did, all the tourist traps of Atlanta, and you discover, man,
Atlanta's a really cool place. Even further, the neighborhood that
I grew up in as a teenager in Atlanta is
the neighborhood of Martin Luther King Junior. I graduated from
(41:36):
Grady High School in Atlanta. That's the same high school
doctor kingson his youngest kids too. It's now called Midtown High.
But I say that to say is that there's so
much around us that you don't even realize it until
you step out there and go see. But in America,
we're taught. You know that we're big bad America, we're
(41:59):
the great. It's the best, the biggest, the largest at everything.
And we don't have to do anything that's down the street.
We need to go fly and go to Spain and
Italy and Japan and all these other places, which is fine.
All those places are cool, all that stuff is great.
But there's a reason why those people came over here
from Europe. And if you look around, you will discover
(42:23):
why America is a great place to go, particularly the
southeastern United States. It is an amazing place to go
see and discover.
Speaker 2 (42:34):
During the pandemic, when we were trying to figure out
places to go, I had never been to Helen.
Speaker 3 (42:38):
So we went to Helen.
Speaker 4 (42:39):
That was beautiful.
Speaker 3 (42:43):
Oh my god, I love it. I also went to
a rant.
Speaker 2 (42:45):
Had never been on a horse in my life, had
never been to a ranch in my entire life.
Speaker 3 (42:50):
My husband and I went to a rank in Georgia and.
Speaker 2 (42:53):
I discovered that there was a waterfall literally a mile
and a half away from my house, like literally, and
I was a waterfall doctor team I'm talking about like
that I was like, literally, a I don't even know
if it was a mile and a half, it might
have been a mouth from my house.
Speaker 3 (43:07):
So we you write about that, discovering places.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
It's just so beautiful and I think that I think
that now people are starting to open up a little
bit more.
Speaker 3 (43:14):
But I will tell you, Corey, the propaganda has.
Speaker 2 (43:17):
Put a lot of fear in a lot of people's
heart because it put a lot of fear in my
heart because my nephew place for Indiana and my husband
and I were going to drive to the game this
past Saturday and I was like, yeah, I'm not driving
because I don't know which way to go because of
the propaganda. So it is it does put fear in
your heart.
Speaker 4 (43:35):
Well, you know, last word.
Speaker 6 (43:37):
I'm equally as prepared and I'm not worried about some
of those folks who like to put out the propaganda
because it's funny because I do experience those things, right.
And to back to doctor Chin's point, Audrey, that was
an adventure. You've been on an adventure. You discovered that waterfall,
(44:00):
you went, you went out to go see and do.
That's the adventure. It's the it's discovery, that's what adventure.
That's what it's all about. It is discovery. But you
want to say, doctor Chan, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (44:14):
You gave it to us. I was like, well, Corey,
give us the last word. It was your first word,
which was the last word, adventure is discovered. So thank
you for that. Thank you so much. Well, I appreciate
you more than you ever know. And we're gonna talk really,
really sooner than you think.
Speaker 6 (44:31):
Oh oh wait, wait till you wait, till we talk
and you learn what's really you know, we didn't have
enough time to talk about it here, but to really
learn what's going on. And Audrey, I appreciate you for
telling that story too, because that doctor Chin has been saying.
I hope that it encourages somebody else to go down
the street. Yeah, that's the adventure. To go down the street, yep,
(44:57):
because you don't know what you'll find.
Speaker 4 (44:59):
That was true.
Speaker 2 (45:01):
Listen, guys, I hope you enjoyed this episode of Keeping
It Real with Doctor Linda Chen. Go check out Corey's website.
You want to travel, he's your guy. He's very well versed, but.
Speaker 3 (45:10):
He's not even afraid of the bears.
Speaker 2 (45:12):
Want to say that, like I've seen some videos them bears.
I'm like, I don't know about that part, but listen.
Check out check out. Corey's website is coreyweb Travels dot
com coreyweb Travels dot com. Check them out, and also,
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Speaker 2 (45:39):
We appreciate that as well. We'll be back in two weeks,
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Until next time, make it a great day by everybody.
Thank you Corey, Thank you Doctor Chen.
Speaker 4 (45:49):
Thank you Corey. Peace Peace.
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