The Rewind: Essential Conversations with Danni Washington & Dr. Dorinda Clark-Cole

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Get on up and get down.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Good Money.

Speaker 3 (00:05):
Let's get this party started, y'all.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
J Baby, I'm trying to see what you got.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
Come on.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Good morning, good money, Good morning.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
I see you were back. We back. You know what
com it is? You know what come it is? Jaywalk.
Come on, let's go jay Walk.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
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the soap, the jay Walk.

Speaker 4 (00:42):
So hey everyone, I'm doing great.

Speaker 5 (00:47):
How you doing.

Speaker 6 (00:48):
I'm blessed. Thank you for taking time out of your
busy schedule to come on the show today. It really
means a lot. And I'm so proud of everything you're doing,
all the people you're reaching for. Congrets on everything.

Speaker 4 (00:59):
Thank you, Thank you so much.

Speaker 6 (01:01):
Okay, cool. So then I gotta ask you this. Do
people ever hit you up like cousins text season? You
got me right, because I feel like your phone up
blow up every janewhere?

Speaker 4 (01:12):
You know something people do hit me up? Well, to
be honest, it's my family, like they already starting they like, listen,
I know it's something we can get in December. I
know it's a holiday long, I know something is tonguing up.
So yes, my phone has been bringing off the hook
already and it's only Octoba.

Speaker 7 (01:34):
So when you first told your friends and your family
was getting to the text business, well they support us.

Speaker 6 (01:40):
How did that go? Host the conversation life?

Speaker 4 (01:43):
So my passion is mental health. I have a master's
in psychology behavior analysis, so that will always be my passion.
So as I worked as a therapist for like what
three years, maybe you know, when I had my second child,
I just felt like, hey, I need more money. I
got two kids now, and I just went to someone.

(02:04):
They taught me the ropes and the tax industry. I
took it from one location to thirty two around the world.
So that's how I got into the text industry. And
don't get me wrong, very supportive. I have a big family.

Speaker 6 (02:17):
They need to get in I can do good. And
test industry I just got into. You say I can
do good in the test industry.

Speaker 4 (02:25):
Anybody can do good.

Speaker 6 (02:26):
And I'm not good with numbers. Numbers numbers freaked me out.
I look at those, Daddy, at they skilled of living.

Speaker 4 (02:37):
You don't have to be good with numbers to be
a good text expert. To be honest, all businesses are
run in the same long as you're got good Christmas
service skills. You know, as long as you you know
how to treat your customers, you know how to treat
your employees, your contractors, you'll be good.

Speaker 6 (02:52):
Right, right, right, right right. So let's talk about this
big news that the big news just came out of
the news to United Wealth partnership. So tell me about
this partner tell me about this partnership with United with
education and what does it mean for everyday people want
to get us out the test industry like me?

Speaker 4 (03:11):
Sure, so the partnership, it actually just stell in my
hands out of nowhere. This guy Afronixon, he reached out
to me and he asked me, did I want to
join the network marketing company? And I stated, you know,
I never did network marketing before, but you know I'm
the type of person whatever I put my hands on,
I would try to master everything. And it went from

(03:32):
that to me getting on the phone with the actual
owner and you know, present to him a text software
program that can be lucrative for the business, that can
help the agents and help the company. The company is
already a lucrative company. So a guy with the owner,
we discussed everything and it's just stail in my hands.
So the reason why I love this program so much.

(03:53):
It's a new text software is basically implementing the network
marketing strategies to the text industry. So I love that
it's given tax professionals four other ways to even you know,
create more income, resistible income. And so I just love it.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
I love it.

Speaker 6 (04:09):
Part Wow and Danny, you've been in the game since
twenty eighteen, right.

Speaker 4 (04:15):
Well, it was actually twenty seventeen, few years.

Speaker 6 (04:18):
Now, eight years now. So what made you trust?

Speaker 7 (04:24):
You're not it wealth enough to align your brand and
launch the tax truck somewhere with them?

Speaker 4 (04:31):
To be honest, I really move off. I move off
Lloyd's t You know, I'm a spiritual person. Once God
see me an answer, I just moved forward with it.
You know, it's not about trusted. It's more about, you know,
just letting God lead the way for you, just to
be honest and to be honest. I think he led
me into the right direction because I love the company,

(04:52):
I love the partnership. I love the people, you know,
I love everything. You know, they are so so patient.
They just feel like family already.

Speaker 6 (05:00):
Oh that's nice, that's nice. And most of them tell
you most people, most people think like filing taxes once
it's once a year. What you're gonna do it one
time year, but you've turned it into a year around
residual income screen breakdown for us, break breakdown for me.
How's that possible? How did you make that happen?

Speaker 4 (05:18):
So basically, according to the UWE tax Track software, because
that's what it's actually called, we partnered with tax Layer.
Tax Layer is already a popular company, one of the
largest software companies in the industry already, so we partner
with them, and basically, once they purchased this software UWE
tax Track, they will get paid a certain fee to

(05:40):
resell the software per person. On top of that, tax
Player implemented a question within the tax software to allow
them to convert their tax clients over to be credit clients.
And once they convert the tax clients over to be
credit clients, that means they joined the UWE protection point.
So once they convert those tax clients over to credit clients,

(06:03):
they are paid per person as they convert them over.
So let's stay if you have two thousand tax clients,
if you convert over all two thousand to use UWE
Protection plan, you have made an extra two hundred thousand
just by purchasing the software. On top of that, all
of those tax clients you're converting over to be credit clients,

(06:25):
you're getting paid residual income off them per month. So
that's a residual income the next three years, you know,
as long as they stay enrolled in a protection plan.
So it's so many different ways that you know you
are that they implemented that. Tax professionals and tax companies,
tax service bureaus can make more money just by purchasing

(06:45):
this software only six hundred and eighty nine dollars.

Speaker 6 (06:48):
So why let me but tell people where where we're
going to post a website. I'm on a social media pages,
but where say the website? Where can people go and
find more informations out the set?

Speaker 4 (07:07):
So the actual u w E website is my UWE dynet. Okay,
please post the link. I'm gonna send you another link
so you can post. Please post that link for me.
I'm gonna send that link to you soon as we
get off.

Speaker 6 (07:21):
Okay, sure, sure, sure, And we were talking, we were
talking before the show and your mom, you're a leader,
your behavior analyst. You know you got a degree in psychology,
a psychologists. Am I saying that right? Psychology psychology. Okay,
and now you're an investor, how do you balance? How
do you balance everything while you're doing it? Because you

(07:43):
do it so well, how do you balance?

Speaker 4 (07:45):
You know, it's pretty easy. It's easy when you're not greedy.
So the only thing you really have to do it again,
it's very easy when you're not greedy. Okay, So you
have to put the right people in place, like don't
give me wrong my real estate side, Yes, I have
two apartment complex, so I put my property manager in place,

(08:07):
who is also my realtor. I give her a percentage.
And my phone don't ring, you know, my phone on
ring according to my mental health facilities. I have ladies
in place for that that's managing each facility. I give
them a percentage my phone on ring according to you know,
the restaurant. Give them a percentage my phone on rings.

(08:30):
So when you're giving back and you're looking out for
people that's running your businesses and scaling your businesses, they
got to do the hands on work, and you're giving
them percentages other than paying them hourly. Then listen. The
only thing that I have to do every day is
wake up and just figure out what's the next business
investment that I'm going to make.

Speaker 6 (08:50):
Let me tell you this right here now, I tried that.
I tried that one time. Let's just say, his ass
is gone far away. Look, I tried that one time.
You know what I first started to show I had
this cat working for me. Oh my gud, his ass
is out of here immediately. He probably had diffic earlier,
but hey, well, you look at your journey from starting

(09:10):
in one tax office to building thirty two offices across
fifteen states. What moment made you stop and say, Wow,
I'm really doing this.

Speaker 4 (09:21):
You know something. I had fun when I went from
one office to thirty two offices. Don't get me wrong,
it was it was a long journey, but I had
fun throughout the whole process. Until, you know, I realized,
you know, as you grow older, you start to live
with everything gotta make sense. Do you hear me about
everything gotta make sense? So my bills was over fifty

(09:41):
thousand a month. So what I start doing. I start
giving those offices to my tax partners, the ones that
had you know, three four hundred clients. I'm like, hey, girl,
I have an office for you. You can take over everything.
I just want to sell you software basically. So once
I start thinking like that, I started looking with day.
You know, now last year we made thirteen million. And

(10:03):
keep in mind, I don't have no bills per month
for my tax company other than the marketing materials, you know,
other than what I do, you know, for my branding
and my marketing and my councy and things of that nature.
But everything is making sense now, you know. It took
me a while to get to that point. So now
when I see, you know, a lot of my partners,
they like, I want ten offices. Of course, I'm not

(10:24):
gonna never discourage someone from doing what they want to do,
but I just give them advice. Hey, Like, sometimes you know,
everything gotta make sense.

Speaker 3 (10:33):
You know.

Speaker 4 (10:34):
I used to go get a lot of offices. Some
of them didn't even do good. You know, I'll get
an office just because somebody else tell me, hey, you
should have put an office in this area right here,
and now I'll go get an office in that area
and the office don't even do good. So you know,
we need in a virtual world now, Like when I
started making more money online than in my offices, I

(10:54):
started look with ays.

Speaker 6 (10:56):
And it's crazy you say that we live in a
virtual world.

Speaker 7 (10:58):
Now when I I was worried for iHeart before I
went off on my own and before before I left iHeart,
you know, they were actually cutting the studios out of
the budget, Like they were sending people to work from home,
to do major shows from home, like if you weren't
like the Breakfast Club, or like even Steve Harvey, like
he's working from home. So it's crazy to say that.

(11:20):
They were like, we're moving into a different space in
this virtual world, and that it's crazy.

Speaker 6 (11:25):
That's crazy, that's crazy exactly. Wow. Wow, So let's in.

Speaker 4 (11:30):
A virtual world and were living in an AI world.

Speaker 6 (11:32):
Yeah, I love it. Let's talk about AI. Let's talk
about how is AI helped your business and affected your
affected your business?

Speaker 4 (11:43):
Oh, we have to lie because you know, we got
automations now kind of eliminated the like the assistant, the
hands on the set that we need, you know. So
that's what I love about AI. Don't get me wrong.

Speaker 6 (12:01):
I see you know, this AI drunk is scary, man.
I mean it's helpful, but it's scary because I was
I was looking at Instagram reels yesterday and I saw
some of the videos that were making using a GUI
Danny this ai drunk is scary. I mean it's helpful.
Yeah you're scary, but it is scary.

Speaker 4 (12:20):
Man, it's scary, but you know it's good. It's good
for business. And I always, you know, tell a lot
of my text partners my tax minties. I love the
cow people minties. I don't like to say partners, and
because it makes me feel like someone is under me.
And I'm the type of person I don't like to
feel like someone is under me. You even gonna stand

(12:41):
beside me, or you're going to stand in front of me.
So when I say text partners, even if I say that,
I mean my tax mentees. So I always tell them
like it's all about how you scale your business. They're
just like, I just dropped my new mentorship forty nine
dollars a month on the school platform. Just think about,
you know, when that blow up, I'm dropping a lot

(13:02):
of tax gyms, giving a lot of knowledge. I messed
around to have ten thousand people on one school platform.

Speaker 6 (13:08):
Wow, you know, so that's good, right, right? And I
want to talk about the peach cake cobbler factory. The
peach cobbler factory, I am not saying that right.

Speaker 4 (13:19):
The peach Cobbler Factory.

Speaker 6 (13:21):
Peach Cobbler Factory, let's talk about that and how you
got involved with the peach Carblo Factory.

Speaker 4 (13:27):
I actually was rolling Facebook one day and I've seen
an ad and it was like franchise now, franchise fees this.
It didn't have a fee on the ad. So I
called a number and when I called a number, actually
the owner's son answered the phone. And when he answered
the phone, he was like, he gave me all the information.

(13:47):
The next week, I flew to Florida and I was sold.
You know, I was like a new concept. The food
was actually good. The peach cobbler factory is good because
I'm from mississip Louisianellas. So everything that my mom and
grandma they took listening, it was frum scratch, okay. So

(14:08):
I was like, you know what, pretty gold concept. At
the time when I joined, I was like the forty
second franchisee. But my store was the one hundred location
that opens, So you know, it's pretty good.

Speaker 6 (14:22):
You know, we gotta work to get one in that
in Fort Worth. We gotta work to get one in Dallas.
Fort Worth, we gotta work to get one in Dallas
port work. Yes, yes, that gotta work and get one.
And you know I was in Dallas and I didn't
even see a crystals you know, you know what Christmas
is right the restaurant. Yes, I didn't even see a
crystals in Dallas. I'm like, what the world was going on?

Speaker 4 (14:45):
Why are you at Dallas?

Speaker 6 (14:47):
Because I was in that. You know, I lived in
Dallas part time. Most of most of my businesses in Dallas,
Like not my business in Dallas. So when I moved
here there in Dallas, I was riding, I was looking
for restaurants to the things of Trump. I'm like, there's
no crystals here, like what is good for Christmas? But
there was a church of Chicken though, but there was
no crystals.

Speaker 7 (15:11):
So when people think when people think wealth, they often
think about lamborghinis and private jets.

Speaker 6 (15:16):
What does true wealth mean to Danny?

Speaker 4 (15:21):
What does read? Excellent?

Speaker 6 (15:23):
Question?

Speaker 7 (15:23):
Again, when people think wealth, they often think about lamborghinis
and private jets.

Speaker 6 (15:30):
What does true wealth mean to Danny?

Speaker 4 (15:35):
True wealth mean to me? When I hear the word wealth,
I gotta add generation in front of it. Okay, right,
So I think of generational wealth, I think of longevity.
I don't think of things right then and there. Don't
get me wrong. I done probably had every foreign you
can name, really yourself the Lugatti, just to be honest,

(15:57):
but everything gott'll make sense, do you hear me? Like
everything gotta make send something about started me an anxiety.
Car rental company, you know you got to make because
you know these things they depreciate, you know, they lose value.
So it's all about value to me. When I bought
my first mansion in Houston, it's right outside of Houston.

(16:21):
I bought that mansion for one point eight seven and
now a year later, that mansion is worth two point
three million, So everything got to make sense like it
was an asset. So that means that, Okay, this is
something I can hold on to because it's adding value
every year. And to be honest, if it's not adding value,
then just don't get it. You know it looks good,

(16:43):
don't get me wrong. But at the same time, I'm
looking at all my cars now like I need to
lip with a like Cathy Farry, I don't even drive
to it. But if I had that yet, if yeah,
Taurus is good, if I had that mindset years ago,
I feel like I'll be more well out today.

Speaker 3 (17:01):
You know, That's what I tell you.

Speaker 4 (17:03):
Know, people, you know, don't just go by what you
see on the internet, because a lot of that stuff
look good, But a lot of that stuff just don't
be making sense, right, right, A lot.

Speaker 6 (17:13):
Of stuff don't make sense. Man, A lot of stuff
don't make So it's crazy. You said something about Houston.
I just got a house in Spring, Texas, not too
far from Houston.

Speaker 4 (17:22):
I'm okay, yeah, I'm fami, I'm familiar.

Speaker 6 (17:24):
With that area. Right. So ten years from now, what
do you want people to say when they have the
name Dannel Washington?

Speaker 4 (17:32):
Ten years from now, philanthrop piece, serial entrepreneur, motivational speaker,
franchising Yeah, just all all all around mentor not just
a mentor in the tax industry, not just a mentor
in the franchise industry. Like when you when you hear Danny,

(17:54):
I am like connected to the five six different industries,
you know, and I'm I'm not a gatekeeper.

Speaker 7 (18:01):
So right, that's one thing I must say about you.
I see that you're always putting people on and you
always breaking somebody else along. I know earlier this morning
I sent you a text and I was just saying, hey,
you know that little girl watching you like you at
such an inspiration for so many, so many girls, and
I'm so proud of you and everything that you're doing.

Speaker 6 (18:19):
Honestly, real talk, thank you. So let me ask you
this last question. I need you to be honest with me.
It's tax season just as gresses for you as it
is for me. Because listen, every time I cut that check,
every time, I'll be telling you something. Right here, every
time I cut that check, you don't know the pain
of sorrow. And I be talking to people and I

(18:42):
be jealous. I got a tax refund, you got a
tax refuck.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
Do you know?

Speaker 6 (18:47):
Is it aspressive for you as it is for me
when I cut that check every year?

Speaker 4 (18:51):
Actually, it's not stressful for me anymore because my text
business is it's on auto polly right now, you know,
like I kept I told you earlier. You know, their
percentage it does a lot, you know, Like yeah, I
would check in with the person that oversee my company
every day and she'll be like, hey, we got this,
we did this, we did this. And I put like

(19:13):
eight personal assistance in place. I had six last years.
So because because I have thousands of personal clients, myself
not I'm not talking about what my company do. I
have over three thousand personal clients myself, so I need
at least six people to help me fout just my
personal clients. And you know, they be in place, they
be trained, professional, right, and it's not as stressful no.

Speaker 3 (19:36):
More, you know.

Speaker 4 (19:37):
But I'm to the point now, you know, in my
thirties now, So I don't let nothing bother me like
you know what, No, no, no, no, I don't let
nothing bother me. Listen, because at the end of the day,
if it's meant to happen, we can't stop it. And
whatever it is meant for us, we're gonna get it,

(19:58):
in it, We're gonna get it, and nobody can nobody
I can can take that promise. So yeah, I'm that
type of person. That's how I live life every day.
I don't live life like man in the world. I
don't live like worrying about stuff, waking up thinking about problems.

Speaker 8 (20:13):
Man.

Speaker 4 (20:13):
I wake up happy every day.

Speaker 6 (20:15):
Yeah I do too, but I hate when that.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
Man.

Speaker 6 (20:18):
I wait till a let me tell you this. I
file a stenchy me tell you this.

Speaker 5 (20:23):
Oh my god, let me tell you.

Speaker 4 (20:25):
We don't file us an October but this is what
I want to tell you though, Like, don't get me wrong,
we all gotta pay taxes back, but you gotta be
grateful and thankful that I'm saying.

Speaker 6 (20:39):
And I didn't realize that until I was talking to
Steve Harvey one day. Steve Harber's my mentor, and I said,
I had I was grieful this when I first got
my show on ABC. They had cut me a six
hundred thousand dollars check and the accountant said, happy that
you go. I said, but what what do you mean have?

Speaker 2 (20:55):
But what?

Speaker 6 (20:56):
As Steve Harbin said, that's how you had to pay
I'm like, okay, well let me yeah, well.

Speaker 4 (21:01):
One of my businesses, one of my businesses, I pay
over three hundred and seventy thousand dollars in taxis per
there's just one business man, So you don't want to
know how much I paid my company per year. So right,
you're right, yeah, be grateful, be thankful. You know what.

Speaker 6 (21:20):
I'm very grateful and very thankful. And you know, I
give back a lot. I got the J. Walker Foundation,
I give back a lot and it's all you know,
it's all good. It's more as you get, the more
you give the more it costs back to you. So
I don't be paying that no attention.

Speaker 4 (21:33):
It's absolutely true.

Speaker 7 (21:35):
But Danny, I want to say thank you so much
for taking time. I just scheduled the day to come
on the show and promote the promote everything you have
going on. Let my people know where you can be
reached out.

Speaker 4 (21:47):
So my Instagram is Danny d A N N I
Washington Underscore. My website for my text company is www
dot rich text pro was dot next. Also I have
a personal website as.

Speaker 3 (22:04):
Well, w w w dot.

Speaker 4 (22:05):
I am Danny Washington dot com, Facebook, chest in Washington.
Oh my god. Basically all myself is like Danny Washington,
you guys.

Speaker 7 (22:18):
Okay, one last thing if I get out of here,
do you have plans on doing like in the reality
show or any uh uh any you know, podcast or
something like that, Because I think the life of Danny.

Speaker 6 (22:35):
Washington will be interesting. I'll watched that the life of
Danny would be interesting.

Speaker 4 (22:39):
You know, I thought about a podcast. It wasn't gonna
be like the life of Danny Washington. It was gonna
be more so like everything that these people be going
through in the tax industry.

Speaker 6 (22:50):
I just signed this production deal with remote TV. I
gotta I got an idea for you. I'm gonna hit you.
I gotta be glad to do a judge.

Speaker 7 (23:02):
So ladies, gospel ladies, and gmen. Doctor Renda, how you

(23:23):
doing that, Doctor co I am doing well.

Speaker 3 (23:26):
Thank you so much for having me.

Speaker 1 (23:27):
It is always a blessing and joy to be able
to be in tune with people that keep our music
hot and keep us in the know with what's going on.

Speaker 3 (23:38):
So I really really appreciate uh this time with you.

Speaker 7 (23:41):
I really thank you for taking time buy your very
business schedule from the Grace House to touring, to to
being the elected lady at the and with the conject
so coaching. I really appreciate you for taking time by
your business schedule to come and talk little.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
It really means a lot. Thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (24:00):
It's my pleasure.

Speaker 2 (24:01):
So let's talk about this new record. Determined What inspired
this new record?

Speaker 1 (24:07):
Well, of course, you know, I was really at a
hiatus for the last seven years.

Speaker 3 (24:14):
Seven years.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
Can you believe in seven years since I had record out,
And I believe somebody had a hexonole just getting it.
But it was just seven years and I was really
kind of at a place of God just redefining me
and preparing me for the next season of my life.

(24:35):
And sometimes God does that to us as people that
are artists, ministers and.

Speaker 6 (24:42):
What have us.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
And I didn't realize that God was really doing what
he was doing. But in the midst of that, I
felt like God was just rekindling the fire that he
had within me because I did always want to stay,
you know, and my writing ability and you know, made

(25:05):
I guess I want to save my singing career. You know,
I always wanted God to do something new and fresh.
I didn't want to come out with the same thing.
So this record, being in the camp for seven years.

Speaker 3 (25:19):
You know, it's just a lot of things going on.

Speaker 1 (25:21):
It seems like if I tried to get out, here
comes something else, and it was just always something. So
I just told God, I said, Lord, I said, this time,
I mean it. I'm more determined than ever to go through.
In spite of I was I'm not gonna let the.

Speaker 3 (25:36):
Enemy put me in that bag again and send me
to the river. We're not going to do that.

Speaker 1 (25:42):
And so God told me, he says, well, if this
is what you want, he said, I'm gonna make it happen.
And that's how we were able to really kind of
get this record you know, on.

Speaker 3 (25:52):
Its feet, and.

Speaker 1 (25:54):
Allowed, you know, to bring good music that people have
been wanting from Miss Durinda, and it has just been
a blessing.

Speaker 3 (26:02):
I love the music. I love what it's bringing, and
I just believe that, you know, with you all, and.

Speaker 1 (26:11):
We don't like to say fans, but our supporters, those
that support us down through the years and just been
you know with me, I just believe that it's it's
gonna bless a.

Speaker 3 (26:21):
Lot of people.

Speaker 6 (26:22):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (26:23):
So each each track on this album has a powerful message.
Can you walk me through the meaning of great and mighty?

Speaker 3 (26:29):
Great and mighty? Of course, when we think of where
God has us and all the.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
Things that we've experienced, we know that every situation brings
us into a testimony. So great and Mighty was even
through the situation with me with this record, I knew
that God brought me through this. Of course, He's always
great and he's always gonna be mighty, but he it
never ceased to amaze me what God is.

Speaker 3 (26:58):
Gonna do next?

Speaker 1 (27:00):
So almighty, knowing that he is everything that we need
him to be and everything that he says he is.

Speaker 3 (27:08):
We trust him to be that great and mighty Wow.

Speaker 7 (27:13):
So you built the brand beyond music with the with
the cometic, with the cosmetics line and the clothing line.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
What ispod you to step into the beauty and fashion industries?

Speaker 3 (27:22):
Well, the fashion industry was my my first love.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
It was something that I wanted to do. And then
of course we had a lot of people that were
reaching out to me when I had my solo project,
the first self self titled project of course, Derinda, and
of course that's where it all really kind of started.
And then people were reaching out to me saying, what

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do you think about this, what do you think about
the clothing line, what do you think about sins?

Speaker 3 (27:51):
And so my first my first.

Speaker 1 (27:55):
Thing of stepping out was basically Dna Vinci DANOVICI was
my first It's.

Speaker 5 (28:00):
Love and I.

Speaker 1 (28:02):
Started there and then I began to branch out into
other clothiers and now at Divine.

Speaker 3 (28:08):
Appair, which I have my own line. I have my
own line when I started at Downa Benchi, but my
line now is at Divine Apparel, which is the Clark
Cole A Roles collection.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
So from that I was really excited because that brought
me into the marketplace and so when you're in the marketplace,
you know, people constantly are looking at Oh, that's her,
that's her, that's her, that she does this and she
wears this.

Speaker 2 (28:35):
She know.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
So it was so much easier to get me into
cosmetics because you know, of course, we had a young
lady that really kind of really worked with me. We
partnered together to have the Duran, the Duran Beauty line,
and of course, you know, I love to.

Speaker 3 (28:57):
Make myself up, as you said I had, as you've
seen my plush all well, because.

Speaker 1 (29:06):
As a kid growing up, me and my sister Kieren
has always been like fashion fashion. You know, even when
we were starting out in our Clark sister's career, we
always was playing Dows and Barbie Dows back in the day,
you know, totally different from the day now the Barbia
dos talking.

Speaker 3 (29:26):
Now, but we did all of that.

Speaker 1 (29:30):
We dressed up Dows, you know, it's always fashion. And
then my mom she was she was a fashion sister too.
My mom would come out, she would be dressed, she
would be dressed to kill, and so we kind of
got it from her. And then from that going into
this marketplace of the Duran Beauty which is doing very

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very well, of course, I love to always make a
woman feel good about the beauty inside of her.

Speaker 3 (29:57):
So that's what we came about with Duran Beauty.

Speaker 7 (30:01):
I'm gonna just say this because you spoke about the
first a self titled project. Lately, I've been going through
some stuff health wise and you know, all over the place,
and it was just a pouring. I'm slum over it
and one song, two songs that were three songs actually
that I've I've grown to love that's on my playlist
every day, no matter what anybody who's around me can
tell you, I listen to these.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
They get tired of be talking about you.

Speaker 7 (30:23):
In the park sisters, I listened to I'm Still Here
And one that I recently found that fell in love
with all over again is you Can't.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
Hear of God?

Speaker 7 (30:32):
Oh wow, Yes, I just fell in love with that
one all over again. And I'm looking, I'm expecting, I'm
looking for a miracle with you and Clark Sisters, and
those songs have been such just such a staple in
my life and especially I'm Still Here? What what what
inspired I'm Still Here?

Speaker 3 (30:51):
Well, of course I was.

Speaker 1 (30:52):
Going through something, a situation that you know everybody has
a situation that they'd gone on through that always brings
about a song, as I'm talking about about artists now, Yes,
so that that song really came from the depths of
my heart and what I was dealing with my my

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It was just a very very depressing time in my life.
And you know, we get down to there are times
when we really get depressed. There are times when we
get really down. You know, you're sad and you're trying
to figure out how to go get through it. And
God was right there for me. But I was on
my way to the river, getting ready to comit suicide
because I had dealt with a situation that I just

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didn't never see myself coming out.

Speaker 3 (31:41):
I mean, the only way I could see myself coming
out is that God had to have come through for me.
And so a lot of people have heard.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
I was driving my car down to belt Out Bridge,
which is it's a it's a bridge that crosses you
over to a park, and so I was driving down
This is right after I had dealt with the situation,
and I was like, Lord, I don't know, if you
can't help.

Speaker 3 (32:08):
Me, then I just can't now be helped.

Speaker 1 (32:10):
And I was at that point of just ended my life.
And then God told me, said to render everything that
I put inside of you, all of your rear and
bringing up in the church, your mom, your dad, all
of them that put all of that into you.

Speaker 3 (32:26):
You can't let that go down to dream. And so
then I begin to hear God's voice.

Speaker 1 (32:33):
And when I heard his voice, that made me really
kind of stop in the position that I was in
getting ready to drive my car off the breeze.

Speaker 3 (32:42):
So that's how that song came about. I'm still here.
I love that song, Thank God.

Speaker 7 (32:49):
I love that You don't understand, seriously that song. I
listened to that song two three times a day off
the red us what I'm working. I was still here.
You can't hear re God. I just love Wait, No,
God seems so impop like, so uncomfortable.

Speaker 6 (33:06):
I just I love that song.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
You don't understand.

Speaker 3 (33:09):
But you know what, you would probably love Nobody did
this but God.

Speaker 2 (33:12):
Then really, let's go check that one out.

Speaker 1 (33:15):
You have always try to have songs that will encourage,
that will pierce your heart and knowing that you can't
do this without.

Speaker 3 (33:24):
God, but nobody. God is another song that I think
you would really like it.

Speaker 2 (33:29):
Wow, let's talk about your scatting on stage. I love it,
I love it, I love it.

Speaker 7 (33:36):
You can take a song, hey, maybe forget the work
like I go on YouTube when I look at your
live shows, I didn't caught the riffs that you're doing now.

Speaker 2 (33:44):
I don't forgot the words of the song.

Speaker 3 (33:48):
I stick myself right out right out of not knowing
the words. And are they called?

Speaker 2 (33:55):
What's your favorite song to perform with the sisters?

Speaker 3 (33:58):
My favorite song? Oh, my goodness, of course.

Speaker 6 (34:02):
What is it.

Speaker 2 (34:05):
My song? What is it? What is my song?

Speaker 3 (34:08):
My Redeemer? Yeah, my Redeemer is one of my favorite.
Another one is God, God Loves You? Who is so
many Twinkies?

Speaker 1 (34:23):
She was hitting me of a writer. She just knew
how to write songs.

Speaker 3 (34:29):
Where people are yes.

Speaker 1 (34:31):
Yeah, you hear a lot of people saying, you know,
I got out of I went through college, but the
only way I can make it through is that through
y'all songs.

Speaker 2 (34:39):
You know.

Speaker 3 (34:40):
So it's a lot of songs.

Speaker 1 (34:43):
And I just thank God for my sister Twinkie because
she was very, very inspired back in the day to
really write the songs and that them makes us who
we are today.

Speaker 3 (34:54):
Wow, stop for that.

Speaker 2 (34:56):
Speaking of my Redeemer lived then that.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
She redid it? Yes she did, she did with U
and yes, yes, I.

Speaker 7 (35:08):
Thought so wow that that was that was good. I
saw y'all during the pandemic. I think y'all did an
Avaum released party and y'all performed with her. Yeah, I'm
a true fan. I'm a truth and I don't miss
no beat. I'm a true fan. All miss beat. You
past my nose, nothing to get passed.

Speaker 5 (35:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (35:32):
So let's talk about the Grace House Senior Daycare Center,
which is which is an important initiative which is led
by you and Nikki, your daughter Nikki, to create this
space for seniors. So what led you to create this
space for seniors?

Speaker 1 (35:44):
Well, you know one thing, I do love singiors, you know,
because I'll get old.

Speaker 3 (35:50):
One day too.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
So but.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
My daughter really kind of she really kind of hitting
it off to me, said Mama, we need to do
this because I think that this would be good for you.
You know, if I retire, I do have a place
to go. Yes, then too with my daughter Nikki for
her to continue on.

Speaker 6 (36:14):
This.

Speaker 3 (36:15):
The legacy that we have.

Speaker 1 (36:17):
Grace House is one of my new babies. It's only
been existence for maybe a year. Now and we may yes,
last May, and it's doing very well. We can only
house maybe twenty five and right now I'm really looking
to get into the agencies now where the agencies bring

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the seniors to me.

Speaker 3 (36:44):
And it's basically for the caretakers to drop their loved
ones off. They have a whole day with me, Me
and Nikki.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
We actually, you know, we feed them, We have meal
preparations for them, We activities. The specialty is is the
music therapy, Yes, because music therapy somehow brings.

Speaker 3 (37:10):
Back what they used to do.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
Yes, So we'll have a session with them where I'll
just sit there and sing with them, see if they
know any church songs. Of course, we usually just have
church because most of people be coming in and church,
so we usually have church. But that is really something
that I think I'm working on Gracehouse number two right now.

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And so it's really something that we try to give
a way out for the caretakers so that they have
a break. Nobody knows about that until they have to
care for their loved ones, especially when they can't get out,
when they can't do.

Speaker 3 (37:48):
For themselves, or you know, they just need a break.
Just bring them to the Gracehouse and we're able to
care for them for nine to five.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
So yeah, Nikki is she's doing a wonderful job and
really assisting there.

Speaker 3 (38:04):
And they love her. They love her. They be like,
where's my baby, where's my baby? So that's it's doing
very very well as well.

Speaker 2 (38:12):
Thanks. Do you take donations for the Gracehouse?

Speaker 3 (38:14):
Yes, we do. We take a thank you, thank you
for asking. Yeah, we do take donations.

Speaker 1 (38:21):
We've got a donor wall that we're getting ready to
put up. Well, we've had quite a few people that
have donated when I opened this past year, and the
donor wall will basically tell what they've given and they've
really been recipients.

Speaker 3 (38:36):
Of this of the Gracehouse and donated, So.

Speaker 1 (38:39):
Yeah, we do have that.

Speaker 7 (38:41):
Well, I want to do this then, since you've been
such a joy and such a basic in my life,
I want to donate a thousand dollars of the Gracehouse.

Speaker 3 (38:49):
Oh my god, are you sick?

Speaker 2 (38:51):
I promise you. I will. I will talk to you
after this show and I will do it a thousand.

Speaker 7 (38:57):
I would appreciate that, man, you're doing such an amazing work.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
I would I would you.

Speaker 3 (39:05):
I appreciate that because that really really helps us.

Speaker 1 (39:07):
And I'm definitely gonna put you on that dough on
the wall as being a sponsor for the Grace House
because right now, Jay, I am doing private pay where
we're waiting on the agency the Triple A.

Speaker 3 (39:21):
They said it sometimes gets tired to get into it.

Speaker 1 (39:24):
But the Triple A, and if anybody knows how I
can get in, my application is already in. I'm just
waiting for them to call, and it says along with
I'm in the waiting list. So I'm really trying to
get that where they will bring Medicare and Medicaid will
send them to us. Yes, and then that way we

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can we can actually you know, keep it moving like
that and uh that Medicare and Medicaid will pay for that.

Speaker 2 (39:54):
But yes, whatever, whatever, whatever I can do to help
miss doctor Cole, I've got it.

Speaker 7 (40:01):
David's yours, It's yours, yours, yours as.

Speaker 3 (40:09):
I appreciate that, Jay, thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (40:12):
Yeah, sure sure helps that.

Speaker 3 (40:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (40:14):
So your Singers and Musicians Conference is finally returning in
twenty twenty five, I think, long break since COVID. What
can we expect from this year's conference?

Speaker 1 (40:24):
We got some exciting things gonna ready happen for the
singers and musicians.

Speaker 3 (40:29):
Twenty five.

Speaker 1 (40:30):
We're gearing up for twenty six for the actual convention,
not convention, was conference, and that's when we're gonna just
pull out all the stops. But right now, in twenty five,
we're just going to do rallies.

Speaker 3 (40:47):
In different regions. Oh wow, Oh, we'll be coming in
there to let you know.

Speaker 1 (40:51):
Okay, come on, let's see what talent y'all got here,
you know, and we'll we'll hold the talent there, we'll
pull it together. Maybe by the end of this year,
we'll see what we have and then they'll push it
forward till twenty six.

Speaker 3 (41:07):
Wow, we'll have winners of course.

Speaker 2 (41:09):
Yeah wow. So how does the industry change since the
last comforts it happened.

Speaker 3 (41:13):
Oh, it's changed tremendously.

Speaker 1 (41:16):
You know, record companies are not doing like they used
to do. They used to send a lot of the
people there, so now everything is like independent. So it
kind of gets a little hard for some of the
artists because they don't have the ways and the means
to be able to get to certain places, you know,
when record companies usually do that. But it really helps

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you to understand what the industry is bringing because you're
out there, you're trying to see what's new, what's hot,
what's not and try to get out there in.

Speaker 3 (41:49):
The gospel industry.

Speaker 1 (41:51):
So and then it shows you what your commitment is
of how bad do you want people to see your talent?

Speaker 3 (41:58):
Yes, that's the main thing about that. But but I'm
glad to see that there.

Speaker 1 (42:04):
It's it's changing in quite a few ways where now
it's easier to get music.

Speaker 3 (42:11):
It's easier, uh, to get in some of these markets
and you just have to work in mojo. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (42:19):
Wow, So you've just come off you just came off
with two major national tours with Kurk Franklin Union Tour.

Speaker 2 (42:25):
Wanted to feel like being back on the road.

Speaker 3 (42:27):
And oh well, I mean, you know, we never left
the road, I know, but.

Speaker 2 (42:33):
I'm saying a major like a tour every night.

Speaker 4 (42:36):
You know, you have to tour.

Speaker 1 (42:39):
Yeah, you're right, And that was a major tour because
we you know, we've done tours before, but this one
was actually a major tour where it was Kirk. We
were playing playing arenas and big houses this and I
don't think that gospel music was really this laid on

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that wise.

Speaker 3 (43:02):
In a wow, yeah, big arenas you know.

Speaker 1 (43:06):
So Kurt really made it happen and he really kind
of brought out a lot in the industry to show
show people that especially music lovers, gospel music lovers, give
them that chance. Because it was some of everybody that
was coming out to those concerts just gospel people. There

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was secular people that came, you know, so it really
opened up really great. It was a great avenue of evangelism, yes,
of letting people know that you can get this even
if you don't go in the four walls of the church,
you can outside the four walls of the church.

Speaker 3 (43:46):
Ministry came to you. So that was the greatest thing
that I saw that this the tours were.

Speaker 7 (43:52):
Doing, so it was everybody at the tour. It was
like everybody came together, everybody had a good time. I'm
gonna tell you this, you were seeing Birmingham. I was
sending that to a guy who's working the margarita at
the tour.

Speaker 6 (44:06):
So it was like.

Speaker 2 (44:08):
It was so amazing and it was just like and
how do you how do you feel.

Speaker 7 (44:12):
About the people that always have something to say about
what Kirk does on stage? Like people fail to realize
like at the end of the day, you're entertainers and
you're making us.

Speaker 2 (44:23):
You know, you want us enjoy the show.

Speaker 7 (44:25):
And then you have these people who always have something
negative to say, like about Kirk, like Kirk's.

Speaker 3 (44:32):
And you know, I say it all the time, and
I stated that while we were on the tour, I said, listen,
Kirk don't sing. He don't sing. The man is a
genius in writing. God is so music. So just let
him do what he wants to do.

Speaker 2 (44:54):
And he's a bonafie producer.

Speaker 3 (44:56):
That's the way he he gets his feeling.

Speaker 1 (44:59):
Everybody has a way of getting their feeling and what
they do and you know, their gestures and things like that.

Speaker 3 (45:08):
It's just his way of doing it. I mean, you
don't say. What you want to do is just stand
up there.

Speaker 7 (45:15):
I love it and I think it's so entertaining y'all.
Like I told you before the show, y'all put on
a amazing show.

Speaker 3 (45:24):
Thank god.

Speaker 7 (45:25):
The Clark sisters put on an amazing So y'all need
to be the headliners. I need to talk to Kirk. Yes,
bring into a number three. I mean, and how did
it feel y'all went out both times? How did you
feel the go out both times when yeah.

Speaker 1 (45:38):
What Kirk was saying, because we was thinking Loie's okay,
this tour is over, we kind of glad and then
Kirk called us back. He said, man, I'm getting so
many people telling me we got to get the Clarks
and got to get the Clarks.

Speaker 3 (45:52):
And then he said, we're gonna get the Clarks back.
We're gonna get he said, he got a lot.

Speaker 1 (45:56):
Of emails about the Clerks and they will you know,
if you're doing the second tour, you gotta have them
on there.

Speaker 3 (46:03):
So that's what happened.

Speaker 1 (46:04):
That's what happened, and it's a blessing to see you
know that. You know, I think we were the oldest
ones on the tour.

Speaker 3 (46:12):
Wow, can you believe that?

Speaker 7 (46:14):
And y'all energy was like there energy y'all see y'all
the energy was there. And that leads into my next question.
Y'all have been around for fifty years, five decades. Yeah,
and you sound better than you did in any one.
So so it's like, it's how how do you keep

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the how do you keep it fresh and relevant? Because
it's amazing.

Speaker 3 (46:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (46:43):
Well, I think I think it's really important that you
can't you can't have step. You gotta do what you've
been doing, but add spice to it.

Speaker 3 (46:51):
You gotta let people know that.

Speaker 1 (46:52):
You're relevant, you know, for the times and relevant for
the because we just now realized that we are impacting
a whole nother generation. We're talking about grandchildren and great grandchildren.

Speaker 3 (47:08):
Yes, you know, our peers are basically.

Speaker 1 (47:11):
Our age, you know, but now we're the Lord is
blessing us to inspire their children. Yes, now their grandchildren
and great grands So it's a blessing to be able
to have that generational blessings that are being passed down

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to all these generations through our music. So it is
it's a blessing, and it makes us feel good to
know that we're still out here and we still getting calls.

Speaker 3 (47:45):
Some people sitting at home saying, can anybody call me somebody? Yes,
you know, but it is a blessing. The Bible says,
your kid will make room.

Speaker 1 (47:55):
And I'm gonna tell you what keeps us relevant is
that we're connected and we work with our church.

Speaker 3 (48:03):
Yes, we work. Of course, we we are.

Speaker 1 (48:06):
Members of the Residing Bishop Church, our brother in law
and so we're all members of that church.

Speaker 3 (48:13):
And so we're working in the church. We're not just
sitting there. But that's how you keep your gift relevant?

Speaker 5 (48:20):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (48:21):
If you don't use it, you will lose it. You
can't just sit on your gift. You got the work.
But Lord, somebody sing a song said, complete that work
in you, Complete that work in you or you don't
know that song?

Speaker 1 (48:36):
Jay, yay, I can't believe you don't know that song.
It's not a Clark System song, but it's a choir song.

Speaker 2 (48:54):
Okay, I'm gonna tell you this, y'all.

Speaker 3 (49:00):
This, y'all.

Speaker 1 (49:01):
I want y'all to type in the comments, y'all in
the comments with that song, complete this work, can't you.

Speaker 2 (49:11):
I've heard it before.

Speaker 3 (49:12):
Julie is singing it?

Speaker 2 (49:14):
Who's singing it?

Speaker 4 (49:15):
May?

Speaker 2 (49:17):
It's what the olska?

Speaker 5 (49:18):
Is that?

Speaker 2 (49:18):
What the aleska? Okay, y'all get him?

Speaker 3 (49:22):
Get ja. I know I know everybody watching, I know
most of y'all know what I'm talking about. But it
is on the A N M Mask Choir.

Speaker 7 (49:35):
You don't Florida A and M. You did the Family
You Mass Choir. Yeah, okay, I remember that.

Speaker 2 (49:41):
I remember that.

Speaker 3 (49:42):
I remember that you don't.

Speaker 2 (49:44):
I remember I remember what.

Speaker 3 (49:48):
The comment.

Speaker 7 (49:49):
I remember when you did the Family when you did
the Family You thing. I don't remember that song in particular.
I remember it's really okay, I did not know that.
I mean, I'm gonna check it out.

Speaker 3 (50:01):
Get him.

Speaker 2 (50:04):
One of your what has been one of your favorite
moments from the recent tours that you.

Speaker 3 (50:10):
Favorite moments of them about? Oh god, there's so many. Well.

Speaker 1 (50:19):
I think one of our favorites was when we did
get came to Detroit, and of course it was sold out.

Speaker 3 (50:26):
Detroit.

Speaker 1 (50:28):
You know, Detroit got mad love for us, and of
course we have a mad love for Detroit. They supported
us from they want many of them know us from
Mady Cathedral. This is my living in Vain, the record
that was performed there, and I mean, you know they.

Speaker 3 (50:47):
They know that. It was when we did the tour
both times.

Speaker 1 (50:55):
The first tour that we did with Kurt, they gave
us the city of the Spirit of Detroit Ward with
the keys to the.

Speaker 3 (51:06):
To the to the city.

Speaker 1 (51:08):
So that was something that was very memorable to us
that we will never forget. Then the second time we came,
of course, they was everybody was just there, just mad.

Speaker 3 (51:20):
Love, mad love, mad love. So it's a lot of
things that we did on the tour.

Speaker 1 (51:27):
We was in rehearsal one time and Fred he had
surprised us and gave us a gift.

Speaker 3 (51:36):
Of our own director's chairs.

Speaker 1 (51:39):
Wow, which was really something that was really really nice
that we all wanted because we you know, we get
makeup done, we wanted our chairs and so.

Speaker 3 (51:51):
We got that.

Speaker 1 (51:52):
Now, it was this is a lot of things the
Kurt did to make us. You know, you always supported
us in our birthdays. Remember that last time he had
me to sing I'm still here, yes, yes, yes, So
that was really really he always remembered us in some way,
you know, and so we were really really excited about that.

Speaker 2 (52:14):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (52:15):
You serve as the elect Lady of Evangelism for the
Church of God in Christ. What does this what does
this role mean to you? And how does it balance
ministry with music and business?

Speaker 3 (52:27):
Yeah, of the.

Speaker 1 (52:30):
Administrator of the Greater Manual and all that stuff. That
really kind of helped me in the elect Lady's role
as the evangelism as they call it, elect Lady that
was international. So that that role is is kind of

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priceless to me because it really lets me know that
see see evangelism, Jay is my first is my first love.

Speaker 3 (53:01):
Yes, because as everybody knows.

Speaker 1 (53:04):
Me, I was the preacher of the group, and so
I've done that for so many years and many times
that I run ran revivals when I was like nineteen
years old, twenty years old, all the way up until now,
just running revivals, and that was my very very beginning days,
and I would pass out tracks. Remember I never will forget.

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It's a lady called mother. Her name was Mother White,
Mother Mini White. She took me out on the streets
and I first knew what evangelism was is letting somebody
know about what you know.

Speaker 3 (53:42):
Yes, taking that even now as the lady.

Speaker 1 (53:46):
And thank God for our desiiti Bishop for selecting and
appointing me again in this next quadrinium, and I'm able
to move forward with great ideas and new things and
work with my president of course, Pastor Gary spree Will
and had the pleasure of working with him. But it's

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just been an uphell and things has been just just
wonderful seeing that evangelism is not just inside the church,
but it's outside the four walls of the church.

Speaker 3 (54:19):
So that and then just singing and having the.

Speaker 1 (54:22):
Official visit with the presiding Bishop out there with the
wildfires in La seeing that quite a few of our
people that was devastated by the wildfires and lost their homes.
It's quite a few churches that they lost their the
churches well had to get a renovated and everything. But

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just to see that it's more than just preaching, more
than just singing. But evangelism is going out in the
highways and hiss and compelling people not just to come,
but to know that there is a risen savior and
he can give you life and you have it more abundantly.

Speaker 7 (55:05):
Well, how's your How has your approach to ministry evolved
over the years, especially in today's digital age.

Speaker 1 (55:11):
Yeah, now you have the same message, but you have
new methods. That's even a part of evangelism is that
you have to know what's going on in the world
to be relevant for and how to go in.

Speaker 3 (55:29):
And out and to be able to minister.

Speaker 1 (55:33):
You got to know about every everybody, all walks of life.
You gotta know about the the what is a g
the GBS, t q.

Speaker 3 (55:46):
B, all of them. We gotta know about them. We
gotta know live and how you know.

Speaker 1 (55:52):
So it's it's it's like you have to know all
walks of life and being able to minister. That allows
minister to ministry to evolve in a way that you're
reaching everybody and.

Speaker 3 (56:05):
Not just a certain group. And so that's why that's
so important. You've gotta love people.

Speaker 1 (56:11):
You gotta be a lover of people, because if you're
not a lover of people, you can't do this ministry wow.
And so ministry has evolved in a lot of ways.
Of course, we're seeing.

Speaker 3 (56:24):
What's going on with the government now.

Speaker 1 (56:26):
You're seeing people are losing their jobs left and right,
and it's just like, how how do we send a.

Speaker 3 (56:36):
Message to them to let them know that God can
make this all right? But we have to know who
He is.

Speaker 1 (56:43):
And so that's that's what the main thing is. I
have a I have a initiative that I have for
the evangelism department. It's called catch the Vision of the
Flame in our In our church, we have a motto
and that is the flame of evangelism will never go out.

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So to catch the vision of the flame, there are
certain things that we have to do as evangelists and
as elect ladies that we need to do on a
continuous basis to be able to say that you are
the evangelists that God called you to be. So we
have initiatives and things that we do. We give donate

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clothes at a certain time in the month. We also
give out water to those that's a part of our
you know, it's a part of our initiative.

Speaker 3 (57:35):
We give out water because it's a tool of letting
people know.

Speaker 1 (57:38):
And on the bottle of water you have on your church,
your logo, all of that, how you can get to
the church and all of that.

Speaker 3 (57:46):
So little tips that we have that keeps you know,
ministry bobbing.

Speaker 7 (57:52):
Well, how did it feel for y'all to have at
the time our presidential candidate, vice president, couple of parents
at the Great Manual because.

Speaker 2 (57:59):
You all tour? How did how how? What was that experience?

Speaker 3 (58:04):
Had to be home right, Yes, yes, we was in
l A.

Speaker 1 (58:13):
But but the thing is we had to be, you know,
have that support with with bishop and let him know
that we were definitely supporting Kamala Harris And it was
a blessing to see. And the thing is is that
when she came she even knew the way our culture.

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She knew our culture because she she says, I know,
I got to Christ you know, and she came in
and she even had a skirt on I said, I'm
talking about but she.

Speaker 3 (58:46):
I just thanked God for.

Speaker 1 (58:50):
Her commitment and how she stuck it out in spite
of the challenges and you know, the rocks that were
thrown at her, she you know, and then even even
when she did not make it, she still, you know,
gave love and showed and said, I'm just you know, uh, y'all, still,

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let's go in peace. Let's go, let's do this thing
in peace, love each other, you know. And that shows
what a good sport she was with.

Speaker 3 (59:21):
That running for it. And I believe that this is
not over.

Speaker 1 (59:24):
I believe God has something great in store for her
for taking that hit and even supporting the community that
supported her.

Speaker 7 (59:37):
Yes, for young gospel artists and minister's looking to make
an impact, what's your best advice to stay true to
their colin?

Speaker 3 (59:45):
What's my advice is stand true, stay in church.

Speaker 2 (59:50):
In church.

Speaker 1 (59:52):
I think this should preached a message yesterday is Uh,
it's necessary to stay in the church.

Speaker 6 (01:00:00):
Church.

Speaker 1 (01:00:01):
It's vitally necessary to stay in the church. Because what
church does. It gives you a glimpse of hope, It.

Speaker 3 (01:00:09):
Gives you.

Speaker 1 (01:00:11):
Inspiration that in spite of the things and the challenges
that you have to deal with.

Speaker 3 (01:00:17):
Church is a reminder that God is and God can.

Speaker 4 (01:00:23):
Church is a.

Speaker 1 (01:00:23):
Reminder that, in spite of what you have experienced, that
I'm trusting God. There's a faith a factor in this.
I'm trusting God and I'm believing God. Faith comes by hearing.
You can't hear away from church. You can hear away
from church, but some things, but not all things. You know,

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faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.
And the more you hear the word of God, the
better your life becomes. The more you know about the
stories that Christ did in the Bible, it gives you
a glimpse of hope. That's saying, Lord, I know if
you've done it for that woman with the issue of blood,
you can definitely do it. It may not be the

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issue of blood for me, but it it may be
something else that I'm dealing with, diabetes, heart trouble, tumors, cysts,
whatever it could be. You see a mask, but you
have hope in trusting God and believing God that you're able.

Speaker 3 (01:01:25):
I've seen you do it for others, and I know
you can do it for me. I think the wine
is seen that song.

Speaker 1 (01:01:33):
Seeing you do it for others that I know you're
gonna do it for me, you know. So that's the
way I always look at it. That God has a
way of giving us strength when we go to church.
So staying at the church is the only way that
you're gonna survive.

Speaker 3 (01:01:49):
You're going to survive.

Speaker 7 (01:01:51):
Wow, I want you, I want ask you to two favors. One,
can I adopt you? Can I adopt you as my auntie.

Speaker 1 (01:02:00):
Absolutely got a whole lot of nephews and I got
a whole lot of nieces.

Speaker 2 (01:02:07):
Down E. Secondly, this song, I can you sing a
little bit of I respect the miracle?

Speaker 3 (01:02:13):
Oh my goodness, you really love that. So I'm gonna
tell tweety about you.

Speaker 8 (01:02:19):
Well, I'm looking for a miracle. I expect being possible.
I feel the in dangible, see the invisible.

Speaker 3 (01:02:35):
You know that the sky, Scott is a limit to
what I get. I'm singing this, I'm singing the lead
and the background still the limit to what I get.

Speaker 5 (01:02:55):
The sky sky is still limit to what Again, just
believe you see.

Speaker 3 (01:03:08):
You and you see it? Yeah, perform it today?

Speaker 7 (01:03:20):
Oh man, And that's how you do it. That wasn't
no music, that wasn't no background tracks. She's a real singing.

Speaker 2 (01:03:27):
That's that's like that.

Speaker 3 (01:03:31):
That's years of experience.

Speaker 2 (01:03:33):
That's how you do it.

Speaker 6 (01:03:34):
That's how you do it. That's how you do it.

Speaker 7 (01:03:37):
She's a real singing. They the same for real. That's
how you do it. There wasn't no background music, there
wasn't no tracks.

Speaker 6 (01:03:45):
That was real.

Speaker 2 (01:03:46):
That was real singing. That's man, thank you, speechless. Wow, that's.

Speaker 3 (01:03:55):
I don't do that for a whole lot of my
nieces and new know.

Speaker 2 (01:03:59):
That's what's next for doctor colh.

Speaker 3 (01:04:04):
What's next for me?

Speaker 5 (01:04:06):
The sky?

Speaker 1 (01:04:09):
Yeah, I'm excited about twenty five. The year of twenty
five is going to I'm looking to survive. I really
am to survive, and not just only to survive, but
I'm looking to survive in all of my entities.

Speaker 3 (01:04:28):
My clothing line, the Drim, beauty.

Speaker 1 (01:04:33):
Gods, there's so many things that I got a new
thing I can't really talk about right now that's coming
down the pike, and I'm excited about it.

Speaker 3 (01:04:41):
But I am looking for of course, the record is
kind of soothing, and then you know, I did do
the album release.

Speaker 1 (01:04:52):
And the album release concert that is, but that is
going to be coming out on on on YouTube real soon.

Speaker 7 (01:05:03):
What this this the one where you when you and
Kei Ki did the battle. That's that's what I'm talking about.

Speaker 3 (01:05:08):
This one was the one we did in we did
in Maryland.

Speaker 2 (01:05:15):
So what what was that when when you were in
red and you and was saying you can't hearry God?
I was going back and forth at it was that?

Speaker 3 (01:05:23):
No, that was that was new Birth.

Speaker 2 (01:05:27):
No, it's on YouTube and I had to watch that.

Speaker 3 (01:05:30):
No, no, no, that was my That was my twentieth anniversary.

Speaker 2 (01:05:34):
Gotcha, gotcha? Okay? Cool cool, cool cool?

Speaker 3 (01:05:36):
Got The newest thing that I just did was the
and that was last year. I did the.

Speaker 1 (01:05:43):
Album release of this whole album that you just talked about,
Determined Wow. So we did mainly mostly all of the songs,
just a few that we didn't do, but but yeah,
but my favorite.

Speaker 3 (01:05:57):
On that record.

Speaker 1 (01:06:00):
I got three of them, okay, and is God Never failed,
God Never fails.

Speaker 3 (01:06:05):
And then He'll make it all right with Marvin Waits,
Oh my God, Yes, of course I made it made
it that. That song is as a blessing.

Speaker 4 (01:06:15):
Yes to me.

Speaker 3 (01:06:16):
That's another one of my I'm still here, wow, not.

Speaker 7 (01:06:20):
Gonna check that out. And I forgot that about this.
What was it like during the The Plark Siss movie.
It premierted during the pandemic. It was shot in twenty twenty.

Speaker 1 (01:06:33):
What was that like for you guys five years ago. Yes, well,
we are working on something. We are working something now, and.

Speaker 3 (01:06:47):
We really wanted to get our brother to really have
input and to have him on.

Speaker 1 (01:06:55):
On on the the next thing that we were going
to put out. But unfortunately when he passed away, so
we was able to get a.

Speaker 3 (01:07:03):
Few things from him, and because he knew the history
of the Clark Sisters.

Speaker 1 (01:07:10):
Yeah, and I don't think nobody really had a chance
to have an interview with him, to talk to him
about his sisters, which we I thought that that's something
we should have had.

Speaker 3 (01:07:22):
Done, but unfortunately it's gone now. But but yeah, we
we that that situation was a blessing to us and
the world because in the pandemic, nobody was going anywhere.
God had to have been up in net.

Speaker 1 (01:07:40):
Everybody was at home watching Man.

Speaker 2 (01:07:45):
And I still watch It's On It's On two Men, Yeah,
watching I love that movie. Man.

Speaker 7 (01:07:53):
I would tell you one of the funniest things, and
I know this is not funny. Well, y'all were walking
out of the field room and doctor doctor, doctor.

Speaker 6 (01:08:08):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:08:11):
We get it all the time, O Karen. Don't you
think there was just a fussing But Lord a mercy.

Speaker 1 (01:08:20):
Yeah, it was just a lot of things happening during
the time, and it really most of the stuff you've
seen was.

Speaker 3 (01:08:26):
Really true because it is our story. It is what
we actually wrote. Yeah, so wis one of the.

Speaker 2 (01:08:36):
Sisters gangster because I think it's Jackie, but it looked
like it's car.

Speaker 3 (01:08:41):
Careen got a little gangstand you see them roll start
coming together like this, look out, look out. She about
to say something about.

Speaker 6 (01:08:55):
But she is.

Speaker 3 (01:08:56):
When I tell you, my sister Karen is such such
a we person to know. And we're very, very close
of course, because we've been like that since we were kids.
You even sit together at church, so you know, it
just goes to show you how close we are.

Speaker 1 (01:09:17):
But we But she's she's such a sweetheart. She when
I tell you, she's a praying woman. She loves the Lord,
she loves her church, and she would do anything.

Speaker 3 (01:09:30):
And her and Bishop is just like the perfect couple
or ministry.

Speaker 1 (01:09:35):
You know, if anybody was the pattern their lives behind them,
they would I would say because I know them and
very close to them. If they're the perfect couple that
God would have to lead this church, the Church of
God in Christ, lead this organization. So I'm very proud
of them and proud of what God is going to

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do with Bishop these next four years. Thank God back
in yea to all of those that aboded, God bless
each and every one of you.

Speaker 3 (01:10:07):
I promise you you're.

Speaker 1 (01:10:08):
Going to see that the best is yet to come
because I know the works of our presiding Bishop and
what he's done and what he can do.

Speaker 3 (01:10:19):
So, yes, that's my sister and my brother.

Speaker 7 (01:10:22):
I think, well, I'm covering y'all doing gospel festive. I'm
not mistaken. I think that's all my Yes, I think
I'm covering gospel.

Speaker 3 (01:10:33):
Yeah, yeah, I'll be there. Yeah yeah, well not the
I want to.

Speaker 7 (01:10:39):
Thank you so much. You've been such a beacon. You've
been such a relief in my life. God has used you,
through music and through your ministry to speak to me
directly without even knowing. And when it came across to me,
you know this is this is the first episode of
the new show. And when it came across and they

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asked me, who would I wanted anything. I said, I
want the Clark sisters for my first episode. I can
get the Clark sisters. I want Doctor Cole specifically, and
my producer said, I don't know if we can get
all of them, but I can work on this one.

Speaker 2 (01:11:12):
And he got it, and it's just it's just so amazing.

Speaker 7 (01:11:15):
Today it's my very first day with iHeart, and I'm
so excited and I just want to thank you so much.
You don't understand how much you've been joy my life,
how much your songs and you bought the sunshine. I'm
still here and blessing Holly Favor.

Speaker 2 (01:11:30):
I can go on and on and on.

Speaker 7 (01:11:32):
I'm telling you, I listen to this all day every day,
and dealing with what I was dealing with health wives, y'all.
You've just been such a beacon, especially you like I'm
a I shouldn't say this. I know I'm get in
trouble for I had the biggest crush on doctor seriously,
because I'm just such a fan and I really appreciate

(01:11:54):
you and it means so much. It really means so
much that you've taken time to come on this show
today and I just appreciate it and thank you for
adopted me as your nephew.

Speaker 2 (01:12:04):
Were locked in now, Yes you are.

Speaker 1 (01:12:07):
You are locked in, Jay, and I appreciate you. Thank
you for what you're doing to keep the gospel artists
out there. And and let not just gospel artists, but
your show is going to bring on a lot of people.
And I'm excited about your future. When we put God first,
all these other things shall be added.

Speaker 7 (01:12:27):
So Yes, I had table A Man, I had Tembla
and David on and I had was on last week
and everybody talked about doctor Coley, praises doctor Cole, and.

Speaker 2 (01:12:41):
I just have so much love for doctor Cole, and
I want to thank you so much.

Speaker 6 (01:12:45):
Jay.

Speaker 3 (01:12:46):
I appreciate you. Me let me know and I see
you real soon.

Speaker 7 (01:12:52):
Yes, the new project Determined is now available in stores
wherever you buy your music.

Speaker 2 (01:12:57):
All this the platforms, all this the plat form, It
is ready.

Speaker 3 (01:13:01):
It is ready and available, just go downloaded.

Speaker 6 (01:13:05):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (01:13:08):
In the beauty line, how do they how do they
get a cut? How do they reach the one?

Speaker 3 (01:13:11):
You're in beauty dot Com.

Speaker 2 (01:13:13):
In the clothing line.

Speaker 1 (01:13:14):
Yeah, in the clothing line, you can go to the
buying apparel or you could just type in the DCC
the Rolls Collection, Wow, will be there.

Speaker 6 (01:13:25):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:13:25):
I'm also on tc T my TV.

Speaker 2 (01:13:29):
Oh well wait a minute, holdo, hold on, hold on,
how is that your past my nose?

Speaker 3 (01:13:33):
Oh yeah, said what now?

Speaker 6 (01:13:36):
Show?

Speaker 2 (01:13:38):
I remember you did the one with the word network.

Speaker 1 (01:13:40):
I did the one with the roy We're not with
the gospel according to the renda. Yes, yes, yes, but
I'm not doing that one anymore. It's now tc T
I'm doing that. Of course I have shows there. We
started back up initi year of twenty.

Speaker 3 (01:13:55):
Five, so we got a great slew of artists that
is coming up to the Clean.

Speaker 1 (01:14:04):
The show

Speaker 6 (01:14:12):
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