From Back Row to Bestseller: Rhonda Parker Taylor’s Crossroads

For years, she was the girl at the back of the classroom, words blurring on the page, convinced she’d never belong in the world of books. In the small steel town of Noblesville, Indiana, no one—not even Rhonda Parker Taylor herself—could have predicted she’d become the author of a suspense novel praised by Mariel Hemingway’s book club. But grit runs deep in families like hers. Rhonda’s story is one of setbacks, second chances, and the kind of stubborn hope that refuses to let a dream die quietly.

In this episode, she shares how fear, self-doubt, and even a sabotaged manuscript couldn’t keep her from finding her voice—and how every character in her debut novel, "Crossroads," carries a lesson about balance, resilience, and the courage to choose your own path. What You’ll Hear: The truth about Rhonda’s early struggles with reading and how fear shaped her childhood The pivotal teachers and family moments that helped her find her voice The real-life inspiration behind "Crossroads," and what makes its characters so relatable (even the ones you’re not supposed to like) How emotions like anger, fury, and envy can shape destinies—on the page and in real life Honest talk on rejection, imposter syndrome, and the power of mentorship Rhonda’s family motto, and why “If it’s meant to be, it’s up to me” became her guiding light The one lesson she wants every reader to take away: be your unique self, no matter what the world says If Rhonda’s story moved you, there’s so much more to explore—both in her work and in the journeys we share on this show.

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Dive deeper at https://www.RhondaParkerTaylor.com.
Grab your copy of "Crossroads," and join the conversation about resilience and self-discovery.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
For years, she was the girl who sat at the
back of the classroom, struggling to make sense of words
that seemed to dance off the page. In the small
town of Noblesville, Indiana, no one imagined she'd one day
write a suspense novel that would catch the eye of
a Golden Globe nominated actress. But grit runs deep and
steel town families, and for Rohnda Parker Taylor, the road

(00:20):
from academic struggles. The published author was paid with setbacks,
second chances, and a relentless belief that every story, no
matter how unlikely, he deserves to be sold. Tonight you'll
hear how a young woman who once feared the written
word founder voice her courage and a place on bookshelves
across the country. I'm Scott Allen, and you're listening to

(00:42):
the Enlightened LFE podcast, where we explore the mysteries of
the soul's journey, healing and transformation.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Let's begin.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Thank you, welcome to the show.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Welcome, I'm so glad to hear I am so happy
to be here, and thank you for the lovely introduction.
I can't know. I'm sitting there thinking who's he talking about?

Speaker 1 (01:09):
I know I know, right, Oh right, God, that's funny.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
You know you.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Described though your early relationship with reading and writing as
a struggle. So what kept you coming back to books
and how did you end up finding your voice.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
I think maybe I've always had a love of books,
because I know, Ny never really realized how strong that
was until after I wrote The Crossroads. I was going
back looking for pictures of me when I was younger. They,
you know, the young publisher said send pictures, you know,
different ones, and all the books went, all the pictures

(01:40):
of when I was younger, had a coloring book. Another
pedia is something that I was carrying around, a music
book around and I was like, well, it was always there.
But my fear, my believing that the role of a
woman was to shrink themselves rather than to embrace themselves

(02:02):
and shine. I allowed so many things to take power
over me, including my own fear, you know, my fear
of the written word, of success. Of almost anything that
you could put your finger on it, it can be
easily translated into a story. We can all relate. You
remember having to read in front of the classroom and

(02:24):
you had to prove to the teacher that you knew
the words. And that you could read well. I would
be petrified of doing that, and so the teacher would
try to tell me to pull my hair out of
my face, do this, trying to help me, but instead
that even instilled more fear of not being successful. And
I had already in kindergarten been held back as a kindergartener,

(02:47):
them saying, you know, she's just not thriving where you
know where she'll keep up with the class, and she's
gonna you know, she should stay back. And when I
got them, when I allowed the fear to take over, well,
every time I found out that teacher was going to
have us read in front of the class, I got sick.
My nerves would take a nursu's office and I would

(03:08):
completely avoid what I was fearful of. And so what
ended up happening is then I found out that if
the thermometer at the nurse's office had a temperature, I
got sent home for the day. So then they ordered
the anxiety, the not wanting to do the fear by
sending me home. And I got to see what leave

(03:29):
it to beaver, Father's knows best everything. Yeah, and it
was like, oh, this is better than having to face
those fears. So it started at a very young age
of buying into the fact that I was not worthy
of the space. And I think everybody out there, at
some point in their lives, all you listeners out that,

(03:52):
think about how many times you had fear and that
fear prevented you from being the best version of you,
no matter what age it was back then it was
obviously elementary school. But it didn't That particular character is
didn't go away away. It followed me all the way
through publishing book. Crossroads is the debut novel. I wrote

(04:14):
five of them before I even published. It's a series,
so they're all kind of my model or what I
want to be known for as a writer, because I
still feel like I have imposture. Send them sometimes.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
God, yes I get that.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yeah, oh my goodness, I'm a wrestling author, but how
you know, how did that happen? And what I want
to be known is written words in fiction that make
you make the reader think about their own lives. And
then I have self help books. So right now we're
getting ready to release Resilience, which is a self help

(04:51):
to building, driving, and repairing your own resilience. Then there's
a life balance. But because in Crossroads, every character is
out of olence. So you have the workaholic, which is
the main character, piis Pennington. She'd rather be a work
than on that jury dude doing that jury duty, but
you can't get out of it because that's our civic duty, right.

(05:12):
And then you have a law and order guy, which
is the prosecutor, and he's dedicated to law and order
and making sure it gets justice. And he spends his
life eating out of cardboard boxes in his office at night,
and you know he's too overwhelmed with the political system

(05:32):
to really dedicate what he needs to to his own life.
Then you have Billy Knuckles, who's one of the co defendants,
and he is dedicated to his friends more than himself
or anybody else, and now he's facing murder charges. And
so you have all these characters, every one of them

(05:54):
imbalanced in some way, but seems almost perfect for them.
Of course, because we all buy in something that sometimes
is a falsehood of who we really are and what
our purpose is.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
Can you just share a moment and tell the listeners,
I mean, obviously don't give away too much, but what
is the story about?

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Okay, So the story is a bat I kind of
said with the life balance. The story is based out
of Indianapolis, so all the sight of the real the
crime is fiction, and it starts out with them and
there's no horror gore for those of you that't like
that horror gore. It's all clue based. So it starts
out with the police getting a call that there's been

(06:34):
a body found and it's the death of a fifteen
year old girl, and it follows the police officers at
first as they try to deal with this tragedy, one
being a senior officer, one being a rookie officer, and
then it follows it through the jury trial. But meanwhile
there's little tidbits of three emotions in every single character.

(06:58):
One is anger, is fury, and one is envy. All
three of them could cause a crime, so you have
to try to figure out who did it, with what
and why. But meanwhile things start happening to the jury
and you have to figure out who is doing these events.
And meanwhile you're seeing one person explode, one person get upset,

(07:20):
and you're seeing these undesirable characters, but you kind of
like them because they could be one of your friends
or your neighbors that you knew had sometimes made some
durable mistakes, and you go through and you started evaluating
your own life because you're seeing all these people loyal
to all the wrong things that have no benefit to

(07:41):
their lives. And that is one of the reasons why
Merrill Hemingway picked it up for her book club, because
we read it. My publisher, Meinster Media, delivered it to her.
She read it and she, you know, she's all about
mental health and balance and resilience. She saw that I'd
used the DSM five, which is how we diagnose mental

(08:03):
health orders to make the characters real. So because we
all have something that we're on the scale of whether
we want to admit it or not. And she loved
the fact that it made you reflect, and she said
in the end of her YouTube video, if anybody wants
to look at it, it's out there on the web.
Called Marilyn Hemingway praises Ronda Parker Taylor's crossroad. She said,

(08:25):
we all have a choice, and we all have a
moment in our lives where we reached that crossroads where
we have to decide right from wrong for us. And
even chocolate has an expiration date, and you know she's
right chocolate does.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
Yeah, yeah, it does, it does. It took you over
twenty years to publish this, so I mean, tell me,
was it not like the best feeling in the world
when you actually held that book, the physical book, for
the first time.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
Yes, because first of all, I had a publisher and
they backed out after two years. It's devastated. Imagine that
that little girl, that little child inside me that's fearful,
that was fearful, didn't want didn't do anything else with it.
After that, it sat on my desk and sat on
my desk.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
That must be why everybody's you know, they figured me out.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
Yeah, it all came out. And I went to get
a file off of a disk, that's how old it was,
and the file that I wanted to get was corrupted.
And I was telling my sister about it. I hope
I haven't lost all my books because they're all on
that disk. And then I was looking where I'd printed
them and they were sitting in the corner of my office,

(09:37):
and she says, why haven't you done anything with those things?
And you know, of course I made every excuse, you
know bits, and she said, no, that's not why you're fearful.
You're fearful of making yourself vulnerable again. She says, if
it was somebody else's project you were out there working on,
because I do consulting for people, it would already be done,

(09:58):
it would already be on the shelves, and it would
already be successful. Yeah, because it's your success. You're holding
yourself back. And you know what, I argued, And I
told her she didn't know what she was talking about.
She'd only been my big sister almost sixty years at
that point, right, Yeah, she didn't know anything about me.
She didn't know anything about what my journey was was.

(10:20):
I guess what. After I sat with it over the evening,
I knew she was right. We all are our worst enemies,
all those that negative self talk inside of us sometimes
holds us back from our God given talent. Yeah, and
holds us back from even taking the steps to be successful.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
Yeah. And you know, you know, my book came out
in January. It is it is not a fiction. It's
a it's a more of an autobiography of the you know,
the journey that I took to get where I am.
But your book, you've created each and every one of
these characters in depth. You know their emotions, you know
their thoughts, you know their feelings. I managed to a
certain degree they were almost like people, real people that

(11:03):
you know intimately. So did you ever feel as though
it was a rejection those people of your family, of
the people that you created, or are they still Are
you able to make that separation completely?

Speaker 2 (11:15):
Can make this separation? But of course we all want
don't want rejection of ourselves right family, and so defensive
when someone says, you know, that wasn't realistic enough, or
this was something that left me hanging, that didn't result
get resolved, and you know, then you eat all of
those things create a vulnerability that you're being not only

(11:38):
yourself being rejected, but your characters are being rejected. But
what I found is with each comment, each review, each
positive and negative, helps me grow as an individual because
then I'm like, oh, you know, I really could have
done that, or you know, you know that would be
great to put in the next book, or you know.

(12:00):
So it's kind of like I think that at least
academics prepared me for that peer reviewed process, because you know,
you're being basically peer reviewed. You know, we don't like her,
do you know, do we like you know, the criminals
in the book do we not like them? Do we?
And I found that most people, as they start reading it,

(12:22):
they realize there's such a fine line between justice and
injustice and there is no winner in the legal system
when they get in those doors because they're losing something.
It could be their innocence, it could be their time,
could be you know, their their work and they can't
take a vacation or whatever it might be that they're losing.
And so I think that by redefining each character through

(12:47):
what I call it a soap note, which is the
medical community's way of evaluating us, it tells them everything
from our medical history, to our family's history, to to
our psychological history, that that really brought a closeness between
me and my characters. So you're right, they're hard to
let go, and that's why I kept them, got them.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
So Paris Pennington, who's the Jerry Foreman in your book,
how much of her story is informed by your own
experiences with vulnerability and public scrutiny.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
Think that all of them, all the characters, have peace
of me because as I wrote it, you know, I
had to put myself in that space to understand them,
and so I would say that all of them, like
even Billy Nichols. No, I've never you know, stabbed anybody.
But you know, maybe I got in a car with
a friend when I shouldn't have and they've been drinking,

(13:39):
and it could have become very tragic. You know that
had something something happened in my youth, you know, and
it went a different direction. Or maybe you know Jenny,
which is the best friend at Paris Pennington, you know
she dedicated herself to family. I had that proponement of
dedicating myself to others. So I'm sure they all have

(14:00):
a piece of me. Harris, I would say is modeled
after many of the business women that I worked with
in downtown Indianapolis that just were so perfect. You saw
this young person and they they were, they were they'd
been promoted by them. They you know, they were thriving,
and they had a certain no nonsense, let's get it done,

(14:24):
but yet fairness and humanity about them that I just
really adored.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
It's nice. So in your book, you've woven lessons from proverbs,
you know about anger, fury, envy. Why did you choose
those themes? And you know, how how does that resonate
with you personally?

Speaker 2 (14:40):
Well, first of all, Proverbs is very If you read
proverbs line by line, you find that there are many
lessons and wise words that we could use. So that's
why proverbs ended up. But I'm studied emotional intelligence extensively,
and emotional instances, your ability to control your own emotions

(15:01):
and the emotions of others, and what normally causes a
crime emotions. So I wanted to pick three emotions that
we see daily in society that possibly could cause a crime,
but also diminishes every individual, no matter who you are
out there, and we've all been angry? How many times

(15:21):
could anger have gone too far? And proverb says anger
is cruel, and it is. It's almost like it takes
over you and you become a person in your try
to degrade, diminish whatever whoever's in the room with you
when you're angry. Fury Proverb says, fury is overwhelming if
anybody's ever been furious. I can remember when I was

(15:42):
getting married and my ring hadn't gotten cised. They said
the size that I went to pick it up, and
I was traveling, and I could picture myself because I
was so furious as a new bride right that they
hadn't gotten the ring to be even fake for pictures
that I could picture myself grabbing the guy, the salesperson,

(16:05):
by the tie and strangling him. Did I do it? No,
of course not. But you get that anger and that
fury and you and it's overwhelming and you want to
do all kinds of things. Well, same thing with you know,
the characters in the book when they're when they're curious.
But then it goes one step further in Proverbs and
says envy makes the bones rot. And I've had to

(16:27):
put some reflection on that, andvy makes the bones rot.
Think about what it does to both the individual that
is experiencing the envy and the one that it's towards.
It does it deteriorates the core of you, almost like
a cancer taking over. And all of a sudden, you
want their house, you want their wife, you went there,

(16:47):
you know whatever, it might be right right, and it
takes over. Proverbs tells us that we have to be
careful of these three emotions because they will destroy you.
And we see it in society every day.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
You had mentioned that your first publisher backed out after
a couple of years. What did that teach you about
the publishing industry, or even about yourself. What did you
learn during that period.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
Well, one, I was young and I was naive, and
I thought, oh, this is the easiest piece of cake.
You know, I can find another publisher no time. And
it's not that easy too. It taught me to trust
myself because by the time I came back to the
publishing aspect of things again, after I had that come
to Jesus meeting with my sister, I've realized I don't

(17:33):
have another two years to go through the process for
someone who read do I want to self publish? Oh
my goodness. That means I might have to give up
a few clients and not pay a few bills and
skip a few meals, because if I did it myself,
I'd be locked in my office trying to find out
what barcodes are. And so I ended up going in
the middle and having trust in finding a professional a

(17:55):
hybrid approach to publishing where they helped me put my
plan together. Did they go out and sell the book? Now,
that's not what they're there for. They're there to create
a brand for you, to a concept for you, and
to help you create a product that's professional and something

(18:16):
that the industry will want to read.

Speaker 1 (18:18):
Yeah. Yeah, you have credited your high school teacher, missus Donnelly,
with helping overcome academic hurdles. How important is mentorship in
your journey and do you see yourself as a mentor?

Speaker 2 (18:30):
I've been yes. I found out early, like you said,
that mentorship was what I needed. I didn't have the confidence.
I didn't have the thoughts and that were positive about
my academic ability, any social ability. I thought that was
the queen right. But for the academic my brother was

(18:50):
the smart one, I always said. I found through her
eyes that I could do it. There was other teachers too.
I had a very good math teacher that helped me,
also mister Fleetwood, and I realized the importance of those networks.
I went to a very small private school high school,
and to this day, I went there from pre kindergarten

(19:13):
to my senior year. To this day, if there is
a major life changing event, I know somewhere in the audience,
not only with the people that were my peers would
be there, but there's most likely going to be one
or two academic administrators that were there. I can't help
but think that that support has a lot to do

(19:34):
with pushing me to be the best version of myself.
Does that mean always agree with every policy? No, of
course not. But it means that I realized and it
gives me the value of people stepping behind you and
saying you can do this. So yes, it definitely has

(19:55):
shaped my attitude towards others and people that are less vulnerable,
you know, that are more vulnerable even in there are
communities than me. But it also has shown me the
importance of keeping the and protecting those those people that
have been in my life all those years, because how
many people can go to a friend's uh, you know,

(20:17):
like maybe a mother's funeral and have another friend that
you've known since pre kindergarten elbow and say you see
mister lineback out there and you're like, no, where is it?
And they said, these four, you know, for seats behind you.
And you can say for sixty years, these people have
supported me and helped me up. So you can't get

(20:37):
any better than that. So I need to pass it forward.

Speaker 1 (20:40):
I love I love that, And you know, let's play
Devil's advocate for a minute. You you know, some might
say that if you struggle with struggle with writing, then
maybe you're not supposed to be an author. You know,
what do you say to that? How do you respond
to this kind of self doubt that a lot of
us have.

Speaker 2 (20:54):
Yeah, and that could be told and could be a
bestseller if that's your desire. And then two find out
how your brain works. To this day, every time I
text a friend, especially if I don't have my glasses on,
I would never have thought that I would ever be
a person that have to wear glasses, but because I
had perfect vision my in my youth. But if I

(21:16):
don't have my glasses on, especially, I will type something
and then i'll soon and I will read and say, yeh,
that's right, send, and then there'll be three typos in it,
right right, and edit if it allowed me allows me to,
or if sometimes it won't because they may not be
on the same network or whatever. And those that know
me know that that's just the way my brain works.

(21:36):
It's like it doesn't see my eyes in my brain
don't see what's accurate. They think it's there, you know,
maybe it's an ayer I use the wrong there, but
I know the difference. But I look at it, I
don't see it. I think it's there. Literally, yeah, yeah,
And so that I have to laugh at myself say,

(21:56):
all of us somewhere has some kind of disability, some
kind of learning challenge, some kind of mental health challenge,
some kind of some point in our lives. We may
think we don't, but we're human. Our bodies don't, and
our minds don't always work perfectly every single time. So
I had to learn, just like anybody out there, that

(22:18):
to be the best version of yourself means that you
have to take time and have grace. So if I
a memo, I need to edit it. I may need
to spend more time than others. And for me, what
I do is I have my computer read to me
because sometimes I don't, like I said, I don't see it,
but then I hear it and I'm like, WHOA wait
a minute, where did that come from? You know? So

(22:40):
I'm both an auditory and a visual and a kinesthetic learner,
So that means I have to put all of them
in practice when I'm writing.

Speaker 1 (22:50):
Yeah, And you know, I can understand that too, because
when I had a fantastic editor from my book, thank God,
because I knew the story, but it was a writer
I wasn't what I had gone to school for. I
didn't you know. I just knew the story and somehow
I was able to put it on paper and she'd
look at it and just say, well, I this is great,
but I don't understand this. Right. Where did you get

(23:12):
from that to this? What happened in between?

Speaker 2 (23:15):
Right?

Speaker 1 (23:15):
Well, it's in here, right, but you got to get
it out and put it there. You had to put
it on the paper. And I think, you know, understanding
what you're able to do and what you're not able
to do is important and using other people in a
way that they help bring your vision forward. We all
need each other, I think, you know as we go,
as we go through this life.

Speaker 2 (23:35):
Anybody matter of fact, I just quoted this morning a
young lady that's working on a book for a doctor
that they worked for, and I had helped consult on
the manuscript before. But anybody needs a content editor and
a line editor. So people that are thinking about writing,

(23:59):
really you get too close manuscript aside, let somebody else
read it, but also make sure it's someone you can
trust that it's not going to run off with your manuscript.
But you know, you need what they call beta readers,
which reading for content and say, oh I got lost
to her, I didn't get this, just like you're saying.
And then you need a line editor. A line editor

(24:21):
go through and looks for the grammatical book. And there
is no such thing as a perfect document. Even after
we release The Crossroads, I've heard I'm on Rich's vision too,
whereas you know, and it was it was a valid
something something valid that a reader said. She said, you know,
I loved it. I just wish at the very beginning
of the book, I wish I knew what year it was.

(24:43):
How easy is that to fix? Right?

Speaker 1 (24:46):
You know, never gave it a thought.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
Context he was writing out his report. But the day
you know, there you go, that's it's it's an edit,
that's easy, but that's content and it and it really
helps the reader move forward in the story. So those
content people are the ones that say, okay, your brain's
working too fast here, flow down to put more detail.

(25:10):
Or they can say, like I had a section that
got completely cut out, and it was the police officer
when he got his call to go that the body
had been found. He was in the Golden Corral and
anybody there that's gone to the Golden Coral as it's
a big spread buffet and you can eat all you
can eat. And I was describing the food, and someone said,

(25:32):
nobody likes food that much. And it's because I had
described and spent so much time describing the food and
what he picked and how he felt and this and that. Okay,
they're done with the food. Now where's the body? Right? Right?

Speaker 1 (25:45):
Right? Oh my god? You know it's funny. I don't know.
I must have read it somewhere. I don't think you
said it, but it says something about your family having
two models. If it's meant to be, it's up to me,
and every day is great. And that's kind of it though, right,
I mean, you know you, it's no one's going to
do it for you. Every day. It's up to me,
and you move forward and keep pushing in that direction

(26:06):
towards your goal. I'm sure that's helped shape your approach
to set back and successful.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
I hated it every time my father would say those
two four never compare yourself. I would be furious because
I always meant the answer was known. I had to
do it myself right, right. But it does are mottos
that are important because if you don't have a family motto,
story or whatever, what you stand, what your values are,

(26:35):
how you're going to proceed. You don't move forward, and
it's meant to be, It's up to me. I went
back and I was looking. I'm big into genealogy and
ancestry and writing the story of the family. And I
was going through some documents that was left at my
dad's house and I found an old report card. I

(26:56):
think it's first grade somewhere around there, and it's at
the Bonden Rondon needs to learn to work more independently challenge.
Most people don't even realize that the teacher defined intellectual
intellectual disorder. For me, I was incapable of working on
my own. I could do it, but I wouldn't do
it by my own. I hadn't learned, you know, or

(27:19):
or gathered those important characteristics. As I wanted to do
it groups, I wanted to do it with somebody. I
wanted to do it, and so the motto if it's
meant to be, it's up to me, even into my adulthood,
was a challenge for me. I wanted to bring everybody
along with me. And number one thing for entrepreneurs, you

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can't hire family members and you can't hire friends that
don't have the same mission and the same go because
what's going to happen is you're going to be dragging
them along to get the work done, rather than if
it's meant to be it's up to you. You have
to put the team in place that's going to be successful.
I have to do the work to be successful. You

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have to define your values to be successful.

Speaker 1 (28:05):
Very very true. You said that writing Crossroads was about
telling a story with a lesson learned. What's the biggest
lesson you hope readers walk away with from your story?

Speaker 2 (28:16):
Your known unique self. Don't buy into that society tells
you who you're going to be. You know this. In
the case of the main character, her family had to
say on what she was going to do, her friends
had to say to her, mentors had something to say,
and she's sitting there wondering who am I. At the

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end of the book, as she's going she's in this
trial she has she's not dated seriously anybody in years,
and there's this opportunity in front of her and she
has to step through the change the crossroads to become
her whole, unique self. And that's what everybody has to
do in the book. They have to decide who am

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I going to be? Am I going to turn state?
Am I friend from life and not become a murderer
and get and be let out? Am I going to
stop working every night into the middle of the night
and listen to the politicians so I and never end
up with a family? Am I going to be the
real estate agent that has always got ahead by making

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others small? Or Am I going to pick it up
and do what I'm supposed to do to be successful? Again?

Speaker 1 (29:29):
Amen, good for you. Before we wrap up around, is
there any final thoughts, story or message you'd like to share,
maybe something about resilience or creativity or even what's next
for you.

Speaker 2 (29:38):
I would like to say, everybody, be self aware of
who you are. Make sure you embody your own boundaries
and your own values. And fatality is important, which means
you have to care for all aspects of yourself. So
in resilience, you need to make sure that you're following
everything that makes your mind, body, and soul resilient. For

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the next thing, I have a You know a lot
of people out there might say, you know, she sounds
like she said, just a real charm live, but really
it's been battle just like everybody else, you know, so
you have to have the self awareness, your purpose, put
mindfulness in your day to make sure you're taking care
of you, protect your relationships. Those are the good. Get

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rid of the to sequence and practice self care, you know,
and when you do that, you're going to make sure
every day is great because you're going to feel good
not only about.

Speaker 1 (30:29):
You, beautiful. Thanks so much for joining us, Ronda, and
thanks for sharing your journey along with us listeners. You
would like to learn more about Rhonda Parker tailor her
book Crossroads, or her work in business and academia, head
to Rondaparkertaylor dot comtail you find links to purchase Crossroads
on Amazon and Barnes and Noble, as well as more
about her story it As always, you could find me

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Scott Allen at Mediumscott Allen dot com to book of readings,
see upcoming live events, or catch other episodes of the
Enlighten podcast or whatever you would like to learn about
your spiritual journey. Check it out. Thanks for tuning in today,
and until next time, keep seeking, keep growing, and keep
your heart open to the journey. We'll see you next time.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
Everybody,