Episode 501 - The Narrative Podcast - The Narrative Podcast

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And and and.

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Total total Without the Narrative Podcast, The Narrative Whatever at

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a time, Peace, peace, peace, family. You now tapped into
another edition of the Mighty Mighty Narrative Podcast. Narrative Podcast
is the home of original people, Original people, peace, original people, respirasity,
and original people positivity. Narrative Podcast promotes positive frames of

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reference about original people and original people culture. The Narrative
Podcast provides positive frames of reference about original people in
the original people culture. Welcome to the Narrative Podcast. I
am your host, all Z Allen. Welcome all my narratives. Peace, peace,
peace on this sensation on Saturday. Not gonna lie today.

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This week was kind of a long one. But welcome
to the Narrative Podcast. So glad you're with me, So glood.
Your presence is always appreciated. So those who are unfamiliar
with me and my platform, it's in all black platforms,
speak about all Black content. I'll give you a quick

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mini breakdown of the narrat Podcast. The Narrative Podcast highlights

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the beauty and strength and resilience of the black community,
covering topics as black love, empowerment, unity, and progression. Near
the podcast dives deep into discussions about black health, economic wealth, innovation,
and positive reinforcement of black voices. Tune in weekdays and
weekends here inspiring stories, uplifting news, and they focus on

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the achievements of Black individuals across the globe. And that's
pretty much the foundation of Narrative Podcast. What I basically
do here on this platform is I promote positive reinforcement.
I encourage listening audience to share positive frames of reference

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about our people and our culture on their you know, media,
and then also expand on the importance of why it's
important to be selective with the content you share about
our people and our culture, and also to encourage people
to share positive frames of reference about our people and

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our culture. So basically this whole platform, I'm just uplifting
and edifying our people with this content and trying to
motivate and inspire people to you know, share positive news
about our people and our culture across our media platforms.

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So that's what the Narrative Podcast is all about. Typically,
how I begin things usually, and I'm saying usually, I
have a I do a week format breakdown, because I

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broadcast on two separate occasions during the week weekdays and
the weekends, and I want you to see how the
weekday format differs from my weekend format. Then after that
I do a promotional portion of the narrative podcast. And
then from my promotional portion, then I do a broad

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overview of the narra the podcast, just telling you all
the nuances of the podcast, just to make it more
digestible for you the listener to so you can see
in the grand scheme of things, how all the content
you know blends and messages with each other and centers

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around the main focal point of the podcast is the
main focal point of the podcast, it's positive frames of
reference by our people and our culture, and then also
building around the bigger picture addressing why we have negativisms
within our community to begin with. Basically, anything negative happening

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within our community centers around systemic oppression and psychological programming
and conditioning, and so I kind of build everything I
speak on, all my speaking points and content around that premise. Usually,
and I'm saying usually because I've started, you know, this

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broadcast very late, and if I do my normal format,
it's not going to get uploaded back to the social
at a reasonable time. Also, on my platform. I really
tried to not exceed one hour per broadcast. So I'm
starting recording like a quarter till six Central time. Usually

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I like to start recording like much earlier, but my
day just has been very It been a day. It's
not a bad day, but just I got off to
a late start. So it's going to be a condensed
version of my weekend edition. So I'm basically going to
wing it and describe all my sections as I come

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to Then. That's why I try to, you know, scratch
the surface as much as I can during the intro
of this time about what it is I do here
on this platform and trying to make my content relatable
and digestible for the listener. So what I think I'm

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going to do is I'm going to skip over the
the format breakdown. I'm also going to skip the broad
overview of the narrative podcast. So I'm just going to
open up with a promotional portion of the narrative podcast

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and then just dive into the content. I'm going to
describe each section as I come to them what it's about,
and yeah, we're just going to do that this evening.
So first and foremost, there are many ways to support
the Narrative Podcast. It's available on all audio podcasts streaming platforms.

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Wherever you go to listen to an audio podcast, the
Narrative Podcast is available on it. Just be careful and
make sure when you're listening to the Narrative Podcast or
you're looking for the Narrative podcast, make sure it's hosted
by me Halsey Allen. If you're really passionate about listening

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about to black people in black content, you know, make
sure you're listening to the Narrative Podcast hosted by me
Hawsey Allen. As there are tons of podcasts out there
titled the Narrative Podcast. That title is pretty much fair use.
Anybody can use it. It's really no way to trademark it.

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That's why there's so many podcasts titled the nror the podcast.
But if you want to listen to all organically all
black content, make sure you're listening to my podcast, The
Narrative Podcast, hosted by Hawsey Allity. So, like I said,
it's available on all audio podcasts streaming platforms. When you

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listen to it, after you're done listening to it, or
during while you're listening to it, make sure you download
the episode of the narrative podcast should see a download
feature on the audio podcast streaming sites and it's usually
in the shape of a cloud with an arrow pointing down.

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Look for the cloudshep icon with the arrow pointing down
and click on it to download that episode of the
narrative podcast on your audio podcast streaming sites and then
share it back to social media to whatever social media
platform you enjoy sharing or uploading content too. And that's

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how you support the narrative podcast when streaming it on
audio podcast streaming sites. The most efficient way to support
the narrative podcast is to check me out on x
formly Twitter. And the reason why you want to do
that because this recording platform that I'm recording these episodes

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on it uploads the content directly to X as soon
as I'm done recording an episode. So if you see
the narrative podcast outside of audio streaming sites and X
is probably a good chance I had to manually put
the link on that site. So like while you're scrolling

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on Facebook or Instagram or threads or you know, any
little site that you like scrolling on and you come
across my link, I probably had the manually put it there.
Other than that, you know, like I said, it automatically
goes to X as soon as I've done recording an episode.

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So that's the most efficient way to stay up with
the newest releases of the Narrative podcast is to follow
me on X. When follow me on X, you shit,
you receive alerts every time I debut a brand new
episode of the Narrative Podcast, you'll be alerted first. So

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follow me on X formally Twitter to get the alerts
right away. You know, all other sites just kind of
hit and miss. My EX profile name is I stay
good at Harsey Isllen. And your confirmation you're on the
correct X page. You should see a black book came
to the top of the page titled the Black Card,

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and I'll be promoting that momentarily, but we're just focusing
on promoting the Narrative podcast. You know, that's your confirmation
you're on the correct X page. You need that confirmation
because out here cloning pages and my X page is
not verified. I never got around to verifying it. I
do have sufficient funds to get it verified. I just

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I don't know, I don't really see the need for it.
When I started my EX page, it was just strictly
to socialized I had a whole lot of friends on
X that I used to be and all that the
network with, but now I just mainly use it to
promote my content, so you know, I don't really see

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the need to spend some extra bread to get it verified. Anyway,
I may invest any I don't know, just see if
I notice a difference. But anyway, go to my ex
page and look for the latest link of the narrative podcast.

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When you see the latest link of the Narrative podcast,
click on that link and the link should expand, revealing
my podcast logo. My podcast logo is a silhouette of
a microphone that says the Narrative podcast on it. When
you see my podcast logo, what I then need to
do is click the play button and then click the

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light button located at the top of the podcast logo.
The pot the light button is in the shape of
my heart, so click on the heart shape light button
at the top of my podcast logo. After you do that,
it shid cause the podcast logo to expand the second time,

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rebuilding a new set of you know, menu options in
which to engage the content. And what you want to
do is basically, you know, go through all the options
and the menu options. The more options you perform, uh,

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the more page hits generates. The more page hits generates,
the more revenue it creates for the platform. So basically
this is the nature of this promotional portion of the
narrative podcast is to inform you about all the projects
you know to support that generate revenue for the podcast.

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So yeah, So this time when it has expanded the
second time, click on like letting again it's in the
shape of heart. To click on the heart shape like
but again a second time, but this time it will
be located underneath the podcast logo rather than on top.
Then next to it there's a comment box. Please leave

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me a comment in the comic box. Comment whatever you
know you'd like to about.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
You know.

Speaker 3 (15:27):
My content, you know what you liked about it, which
you didn't like about it? Positive or negative feedback is welcome.
Just you know, leave a comment in the comment box.
If you don't feel like leaving me a comment. You know,
what's your name? Your profile name in the comment box,
but a letter of the alphabet, but your flag in

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the comment box. Put something in the comment box a character,
you know, a letter of the alphabet, but type something
in the comment box. Leading the comment in the comment
box helps jenerate revenue for the platform. Then after you've

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left your comment, then I need you to go to
the most important feature, which is the download feature also
available on the oodcast audio podcast streaming sites, and download
that episode of the Narrator podcast. And just to reiterate,
the download button, it's in the shape of the cloud
with an arrow pointing down The arrow pointing downwards symbolized

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the action of downloading, So click on that to fully
download that episode of the Narrative podcast. Then after the
episode is downloaded, then go to the share button and
share upload that episode to whatever social media platform that
you like sharing or uploading content too. And that's how
you support the Narrative podcast we following me from X

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and then, last but not least, the final way you
can support the Narrative podcasts. Followed me on YouTube, like,
comment and share all the episodes it's featured on YouTube
to across all social media platforms. And how you access

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my Narrative podcast episodes on YouTube is go to my
YouTube page which is is Hawsey Allen. Then go to
my videos and access those Like I said, like, comment
and share on all those narrative podcasts up videos uploaded
to my videos on YouTube, and just a brief insight,

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YouTube is once sent to this platform just as X is,
so like after I will be done recording an episode,
after you know, get uploaded the X, it will also
get uploaded to YouTube. However, that's all changed because YouTube
has updated their software and their community guidelines and policies.

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And when they did that, you know, it left this
platform in non compliance with their upload requirements. You know,
it had to be a certain number of whatever make
advis I don't know, some technical stuff, and this platform
didn't meet it. So rather than upgrade all their equipment

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to just to fit the specifications of YouTube, it just
dropped YouTube as you know, a source where users of
that platform can distribute their content. And so therefore, for
that I can no longer upload brand new episodes of

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the new podcast to YouTube. However, YouTube has not deleted
all my old older content. All my older narrative podcast
content still available on YouTube. Like I said, the access
to go to my videos and that's how you support
the narrative podcast will follow me from YouTube all engagement accounts,

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so you know, any engagement on YouTube still counts in
the monetization process, So like comment and share all those
older episodes of the Narrative podcast hosted by me Halsey
Allen on YouTube. And then my next project I'd like
to promote is my book of poetry. It is titled

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The Black Card and it's written by me Halsey Allen.
It's a thirty page book of poetry chronically highlighting me
and encompassing all the dynamics of the Black experience, everything
we go through as a people, everything we experience, both

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positive and negative. You know, just an all inclusive, in
depth look at our culture as a people with thirty
sensational creative poems. If you're a mellenated man or a woman,
you can automatically relate to all the poems written in
that book. And the name of it is The Black Card.

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And to purchase the book, you gotta go to a
site called Poetizer and then go to their virtual online
bookstore on poetizer dot com to purchase my book called
The Black Card. So if you're unfamiliar with Poetizer, Poetizers

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just a social media platform for people that like writing,
particularly poetry, and it's implied in the title Poetizer. Although
it's open to all other genres of writing, but they
really kind of, you know, specialize in accommodating poets. They
have a host of activities for poets to engage in

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on that site. They have daily writing prompts, you know,
like write a poem about XYZ, contest and games. And
then also you can there's a social media factor. You
can social interact socially interact with other users on the platform,
make friends, be and people, all that good stuff as

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all other social media sites have. But the most important
feature they have built in self publishing software which will
allow the users to write a book, not only write it,
but also market it and sell it. So that's why

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they have a virtual online bookstore features books written by
the users of that platform. And that's why what I've
elected to do. And it's really good for novice writers,
people who have never written a book, because unless you
write a book at a fraction of a cost as
all the major ones like Kindle and Amazon and all

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those ones, so you can write a pretty decent book
for under one thousand dollars. So you know, that's my
first book on there, go check it out. It's called
The Black Card, written by me Halsey Allen and about
the hitching the sales pitch. So the Black Card it's

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more than just poetry. It's a poetic manifesto or lyrical
tribute to the reality, resiliency, and richness of the black
experience with both versus the cut, deep in imagery, the sores.
The Black Card reclaims dignity, the man's respecting honors, the
legacy of a people who have turned struggle in the
stream culture, and the power. More than just poetry, this

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is a declaration. Black is royal, Black is unstoppable, Black
is everything. Head on over to poetizer dot com and
purchase my book titled The Black Card or get your
Black Card revote. Yes, yes, yes, okay. So my very

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last project I'd like to promote is my personal poetry
blog on blogger dot com and the address to it
is ww dot mister blogs dot com. The name are
a personal poetry blog. It's called Hawsey's Poetry Corner. I'm Hawsey.
I write poetry. So in addition to doing the Narrative podcast,

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I'm an avid poet. You know. Anytime when I'm not
you know, uploading an episode of the Narrative podcast, I'm
pretty much doing some type of poetic activity. I'm writing poetry,
you know, it's in an attendance at some type of
poetry function. You know, I perform spoken word art. So yeah,

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I'm pretty much a poet through and through. That's what
I was doing before I started, you know, doing the
Narrative podcast. And when you visit that site, you will
see get a glimpse into my world and really you know,
grasp you know, my artistic style, my art form. It's

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just really down to earth relatable poetry. Anybody from any
walk of life can enjoy it. Now. I do have
a whole lot of poems, particularly you know, about our experience,
the black experience, where as I refer to our people

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on this platform, original people, which I usually again you
were use we you know, go into detail about on
the broad overview of the Narrative podcast. But I don't
have time this evening because I'm started started recording late,
so I'm trying to get this episode out before midnight.

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But yeah, so it's on blogger dot com. The name
of it is horses Poetry Corner. Another unique thing about
the site is that all the poems featured on Hawses
Poetry Corner are all spontaneously written in the moment. I
didn't contemplate on the subject matter, you know what I
was going to write about each poem. They just pretty

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much took on life of themselves and amalgamated flowed right
onto the screen. You know, I just almost said no.
It felt like I had no involvement in the process
other than being used as a vessel body universe, like,

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you know, because none of the poems are about anything
I'm experiencing or going through. Even the poems about our people,
I mean not directly going through it. So pretty much,
you know, those poems are literally for somebody else. You're
going to be able to relate to a couple of

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lines or a poem in its entirety when you visit
the site. So here's how you support the narrative podcast
on Hause' Poetry Corner. Oh, I even have a slogan
for my poetry blow Pauses Poetry Corner poetry or the
Passion Poetry for all occasions. And when you read the

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poems on there, you will see that you know, each
one of them lives up to that title because they
are that spot on or that unique and creative, and
you know, relatable. So here's how you sport the poems

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on horses Poetry Corner. You can share the link to
horses pot What your Corner, as well as poems posted
on horses what Poetry for on a blog across all
social media platforms, and the link is ww dots mister
Hawes blogs dot com. And then also poems posted on
horses Poetry going across all social media platforms. And then

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also when you come to the site, there's a like
button underneath each poetry piece. So click on the like
button and the like buttons and shape of the hearts
and click on the heart shape like button. Then the
comment box you know again, leave me a comment. If
you can't think of a comment to leave, uh, you know,

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just leave your prof file name or you know whatever
you know name that you trying to Internet with if
you would like for me to uh respond to a
comment that you leave in the comic box signing with
your Gmail accounts, and I'll respond immediately. And then after

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that share upload. I already said share upload, So like
in comment, shaving link or poem's posting on Hawses Poets,
you're going to blog. So that's pretty much how he supports.
You know, the poems are Hawses poet you're going to blog,
you know, just go go there, read the poems. You

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will enjoy it, you know, and I'm gonna hit you
with my uh you know, selling points slogan or a
breakdown of Hawses poetry're corner. So when you on the
Hawes's Poetry Corner, prepared to step into a world where

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emotions flow like rivers and word paint, big pictures. Halles
Poetry Corner is your ultimate destination for captivating poetry to
touch the stow. Whether you're just a poetry enthusiast, or
whether you're a posy poetry enthusiast or just a casual reader.
Hawses Poetry Corner has something for everyone. It's for all
my poems, timeless, classic, thought, broken versus, prepared to ignite

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your imagination and spoil the beauty of language and it's
purest form. Let's celebrate the part of poetry together. You
can be part or that's just like how you share it.
That was pretty much be a selling point for ot
his Poetry Corner, So check those poems out. Hawes Poetry
Porner on blogger dot com at ww dot miss blogs

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dot com. Be some poetry in your life today. And
then this goes out to all content creators before I
move on from my promotional portion of the Narrative Podcast.
All content creators. So if you have create content, you
know indoors, promote, shout out the Narrative Podcast Hause poach

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owner on your content platforms, appreciate you in advance. And
now we're going to get to it. We're going to
dive into the Narrative Podcast content. I'm foregoing the overview
of the Narrative Podcast the broad overview this evening because
it's a late upload, but I just uploaded Friday, so

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you can kind of just hear it, you know, here
the big spiel on my previous episode, I believe that
would be episode five hundred. It's going to be five
oh one. We're getting right on into it. In my
very first section of the Narrative Podcast Weakend edition, it's

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called the Highlights section. And what I'm doing is I'm
highlighting business owners and entrepreneurs. And the reason why I'm
doing this section is because I feel, you know, we
don't have a lot of representation as far as business
owners and entrepreneurs. We're not giving those positive frames of

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reference to draw inspiration from. It's intentionally done by the
people that run the media. They only want to flood
the media with the most negative examples of our people.
So they want a universal representation of our people to
be negative. They want to reinforce negative stereotypes about our

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people and our culture, and they want to downplay all
the good positive things about our people and our culture,
particularly business ownership and entrepreneurialism. So you know, that's why
I provide positive the positive frame of reference about business
ownership and entrepreneurialism on the Narrative Podcast Weekend edition. And

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the criteria that I use to select the businesses I
highlight in the highlight section goes as follow. Number one,
they're black owned from the top to the bottom. You know,
they do something positive for the community. They hire their
own and they do something with their brand to positively

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impact the community. They you know, pay into a nonprofit
organization or have their very own you know, or some
involvement some type of activity that impacts our community, the
black community or as I refer to our people on
this platform, original people community see in a positive way.

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And then, last, but not least, that must coincide with
my theme, and my theme for the highlight section of
the Narrative podcast is usually you know, nationally recognized days
or the nationally recognized month, so you know, their business
service or product has to coincide with the nationally recognized
day or a month. Some other things you should know

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about the Narrative podcast highlight section. I call it the
highlight section because I'm highlighting a business owner or an
entrepreneur's journey to becoming a business owner or an entrepreneur.
So I'm basically giving you a brief bio of that person.
You know, where they were born. The information I try

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to include when the information is available, is like where
the person was born, what's their inspiration or motivation for
wanting to start a business, how they get into that
particular business. You know, any and all experiences, life experiences,
academic training or vocational skills training to play the role

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into the development of that business. And also give you
some specifics about the business, what the number one seller
is and what system apart from the competition. And you know,
if it's online, you know, uh, you know, specific order instructions,
if they have specific ordering instructions for online orders, or

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if it's a brick and water you know. I try
to include, you know how the maximum capacity of the building,
hours of operation, things of that nature. The address of course, parking,

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what it's located by for physical address, stuff, directions, just
stuff you would need to know to visit patronize a
brick and mortar location. And I try to be specific
and as detailed about the person and the business as possible,

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you know, if there are many of them, like the
name of their business holds a significance. Like many businesses
I highlight in the highlight section, the name is an
acronym for something.

Speaker 2 (35:27):
You know.

Speaker 3 (35:27):
I break that down like and as I said, when
the information is available, but you know, it's not always
available all the time. Sometimes on the information that I
can pull up about the business is as it's listed
as a black owned business and nothing more than nothing less.
You know, Sometimes they don't, you know, have the person's

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first and last name and you know, which is kind
of a kind of a smart move because these days,
like there's just a whole lot of weirdos on the internet,
and that's all they need is information like that to
you know, track you and do stuff to your name

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and with your name so a lot of people just
elect when they open businesses to you know, leave as
much as their personal life personal you don't, you know,
the boats all their information. They only just promote what
you would need to know about their business, which I
think is it's a double edged sword because it's good,

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but they're not good because you know, you want to
tell as much about as yourself as possible to establish
familiarity with your consumer base. To establish a consumer base
because people will be more active spend with you if
they feel they know you, if they feel you they
know your life story. So, like I said, it's a

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double edged sword. Some people are comfortable exposing all those
aspects of your life when I'm a business owner, and
then some people or not. But anyway, that's pretty much
the highlight section in its entirety, everything you need to

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know about the highlight section, And without any further ado,
I'm going to dive into this week's highlight section here
on the Narrative Podcast Weekend edition. So, as I said,
all the businesses highlight that I highlight, the highlight section
must coincide with the nationally recognized day or nationally recognized month.

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So today it's going to be The nationally recognized day
today is July twelfth, which is National pe Can Pie Day,
so p Can Pie Day. The origins started when settlers

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from France begin to immigrate to New Orleans. The French
were induced to the Pecans by the native Americans in
that area, commonly referred in that region as the martyr
Gras Indians or the black Indians. So, yes, not all

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of us came from Africa. The majority of us was
already indigenously you know, located in the Americas. So we
played a hot we you know, we influenced American culture.
So when they're saying, you know, the Pilgrims came over
here and you know, rape the Indians, they're talking about you.

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They're talking about you. There was a mass migration from
Africa to the Americas early thousands of years before slavery,
and many of us got classified as black and then
put on plantations with the Africans, with the enslaved Africans.

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So there was a lot of intermingling. But when they
say American blacks have you know, no culture, no sense
of identity, they don't, you know, we don't have our
own food, we don't have our music, own music or
we don't have our own vision, we don't have our
own back. That's a bold faced live. We are the
fabric of America. Everything in America stems from, you know,

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American blacks. There would be no America to immigrate too.
So all immigrants from with every country that they immigrate from,
need to be especially grateful for American blacks. But anyway,

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getting back to it, I didn't mean to get off track.
So pecan day begin when the Native Americans or the
Marty Guard Indians introduced them to the pecan and pecan

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pis became you know, super popular by the nineteen forties.
And that's pretty much the history of how the pecan
pie came to be. In my very first business, I'll
be highlighting the highlight section about pecans is a business

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by the name of Veronicas. So as I said, you know,
all the information I try to include in the highlight
section on the Narrative podcast week. In addition, I try
to walk you through their journey. I try to, you know,
include like you know, their hometown, where they were born,
in all their you know, qualifications and skills and let

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up to them owning their own business. But you know,
all the time it don't work out like that, and
this is one of those signs that didn't work out
like that. There's nothing listed about this business other than
it's a black woman owned business and the owner's name
is Veronica. There's no data revealing her last name for

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where she was born, whether she you know, is from
you know, organically here, ruty in America, or from a
different country, we don't know. It's just named her just
name is Veronica and on her website's page is Veronica's
Fabulous Schools dot com does until the year was established.

(41:49):
It's just in Catersville, Georgia. That's where it's located at.
And that's pretty much get other than it being black
women owned, it says. They just use the authentic Southern
style pecan pie recipe, no fancy ingredients. Everything is you know,

(42:15):
organic and fresh. They use locally sourced pecans in Georgia,
and you know white cane sugar from you know, within
that surrounding area, the butter and all that, it's all
locally sourced. That's the only thing really about the site.

(42:41):
They hire their own. Of course, you know, they always
take the applications. Their network with other black vendors and
that's what they give back to the community, is just
networking and providing opportunity for those that need an opportunity.
They do have a blog on the website to go

(43:01):
to Veronicasfabulous Foods dot com and support of Veronica's Fabulous
p CAMPI they specialize in just p campis. That's what
they say. P campires. All right, onto the next business

(43:24):
I'll be highlighting in the highlight section. This is called
Todd's Pies And to find out more about that, go
to mister Todd's dot com. And I was able to
find out more about this gentleman. He has more about
his story posted online or established in twenty twenty two

(43:45):
by mister Todd A. Wilson. He was born in Yonkers,
New York. He attended the University of Richmond. He was
raised our Southern style comfort.

Speaker 2 (44:01):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (44:02):
Dessert was his favorite part of dinners growing up, and
his favorite dessert was sweet potato pie. And I know
you're saying, well sweet potato his peaking day. Trust me,
he sells peakings too. So the star was, you know,

(44:23):
like I said, he'd he enjoyed a sweet potato pie
was his favorite. And so he basically set out to.
He liked it so much he asked for the recipe,
the family recipe it to their sweet potato pie. Began
making sweet potato pies, you know, and after he had

(44:44):
mastered it, it had gotten you know, compliments from everybody
and his family every time he would bring the sweet
potato pie. You know, there was all his relatives was
looking forward to his sweet potato pie family functions. He
began selling pies. Of course, he expanded his palette just

(45:07):
from only sweet potato pies and started experimenting with all
different varieties of pies, developing his own recipes, ah, you know,
modifying his his family sweep potato pie recipe as well,
and eventually he went into business selling pies. He started

(45:32):
doing pop ups at different venues, eventually opened up a
brick and mortar in New Jersey, and then finally he
went to you know, get funding to expand his business
on the popular show Shark Tank season one, and he

(45:55):
made a deal with Demi John's and Barbara Cochrane for
fifty of his business. I don't know if that was
such a good deal, but he seems to have benefited immensely,
immensely from it, you know, his business has become so successful.

(46:16):
He's platformed in the other things that he has his
own podcast series and you know, doing speaking events and
motivational speakers. He trains people, has all kinds of you know,
extra things going outside of just making pies. So you know,
his companies always hiring. He does you know, nonprofit type

(46:38):
of stuff for the community, inspires and motivates, you know.
And he also has franchise opportunities available within that company
as well, and he's working on other businesses too, just
from you know, selling pies. And then of course he

(47:00):
has pecan pie on the menu. He has a pecan
chocolate pie with says his pies apart from all other competitors,
everything is like a coconut based coconut I think it's
a coconut cream base for all his pies. Yeah, that's

(47:26):
what says him. Apart from the competition, and it's more
of a home field. You don't get that manufactured machine type,
you know. Buy everything's done with love, everything organic, handmade,
in house, locally sourced products to ensure the freshest quality

(47:49):
of the pie and go check them out again. His
website is tidesmister toides dot com. So what about any further,
a dude, please join into giving our brother Todd Hey
Wilson a warm narrative podcast round up, aplause for mister

(48:10):
Tod's pie Forti's pie, and then I forgot to clap
up our sister and miss Veronica no last name that

(48:30):
Veronica's Fabulous Foods LLC for her Mini p camp fires.
All right, moving right along now onto the next section

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of the Narrative Podcast. This section is called the Spotlight section.
In this section, what it's designed to do is to
spotlights prominent figures within our community responsible for uplifting and
edifying our community through their actions or deeds, whether they're

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you know, advocating for something, speaking on our rights, you know,
providing our community with a service it needs inspiring, you know,
people with the life story or you know, their life's work.

(49:34):
We're just representing our people in a positive way. Sections
also a section to prove all heroes don't wear capes.
So basically what I'm doing in this section is promoting
positive reinforcement. You know, that's the cornerstone of the Narrative Podcast.
To promote positive reinforcement about our people and our culture, because,

(49:57):
like I said, our image, our lights this is and
images have been corrupted by the media. It is an
absolute form of psychological warfare and using the media to
destroy our people, you know, by constantly putting out negative
frames of reference about our people and our culture. So

(50:19):
that's why it's it's very important to always shine the
light on all positive things that happen within our community.
I also do this section to promote you know, positive
reinforcement on the Internet because a lot of us are
brainwashing and thinking that. You know, a lot of us

(50:42):
want to make money on the internet, and you know
that the quickest way to the bag is you know,
uploading the negative content using their platforms, the trash other
brepens and sisters, you know, kicking water down or just
you know, if they can't think of anything to make
up lies and rumors and just anything to generate page clicks,

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you know, talk all crazy talk out the side of
the net and just to you know, generate views and
clicks for their page or their channel up there, like
you know, got a TikTok or YouTube or whatever. You know.
But the problem with that is it creates, even it

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reinforces the negative stigma about our people in our culture,
you know, being you know, uh, heavy prone, heavily prone
to drama, creating chaos, cause of confusion, chron to violence,
quick the anger. You know, it reinforces all these those

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negative stereotypes about our people in our culture. So you know,
and like I said, it is the agenda to get
rid of all of us on the bigger picture perspective.
When you come into you know, when you bring systemic oppression,
systematic racism, and the psychological programming and conditioning into play,

(52:18):
you see how it all works. How they just line
us up, you know, and get us to turn on
each other, and the main people to benefit from us
being at odds with one another, ages faceless fortune. One
hundred and five hundred companies you know, the benefit from

(52:40):
it financially, and those are the ones stoking the headlines
with all these negativisms. They infiltrate our entertainers camps, you know,
they put out miscommunication, you know, between two opposing entertainers.

(53:00):
They might just not you know, agree with one another,
just planing, oh, don't like each other. But then they
stoke that fire to create headlines and create you know, friction,
and then they sit back and let the profits roll in.
But meanwhile, while the feuding's going on. There's people on

(53:21):
both sides getting you know, hurt, you know, and in
some cases loss of life, all because you know, people
want to go for that easy gossip bad. I call
it the gossip bad. You know, gossip is literally destroying

(53:45):
our community. There's people like these days use the Internet
for gossip. But you know, it could be a networking too,
or to help build ourselves up, you know, forge, you know,
really important collaborative endeavors, you know, learn from each other,

(54:10):
network and build with each other. But instead we want
to use the Internet to fight and feud with one another.
But it's not entirely our fault because, like I said,
we've been programmed and condition to do that. And the
reason why we get picked on the most to do
that because we're the most highly influential people in the world.
So what sells negativity? Negativity sells, violence sells, sex sells.

(54:38):
So combine that with somebody who's always in the headlines,
like everything we do as a people is exciting and appealing.
So make our people the poster board of all things negative,
and that will guarantee to sell news and and you

(55:00):
know media. And that's why we're selected because you know,
we're the most interesting people in the entire world. Everybody
wants to emulate our music, our style, you know, the
way we speak. Everything. Everybody's inspired by our people. So

(55:23):
that's why they choose us to be the postable poster
models of negativity on the internet. But in reality, everybody
gets messy on the internet, everybody. But the difference between
us and everybody else, we're the most marketable, we're the
most influential people is too. White people arguing on the

(55:44):
internet is just boring. Nobody cares so Asian people going
back and for if. It's not entertaining at all. When
we go back and forth you know, with each other online,
it's must see TV. So that's why I'm really trying
to promote this section, to positively promote positive reinforcement of

(56:08):
our people and our culture and to celebrate each other
rather than using our platforms to tear each other down. Now, branted,
you can tell the truth, you know, sometimes it's just
not a nice way to tell the truth. You know,
like they said, the truth is ugly. But if you

(56:30):
just plan old, don't like your brother and sistant for
whatever reason, you can just keep that reason to yourself
and keep it pushing. You don't have to publicize your
dislike or this thing towards a brother and system. If
they don't, you don't you know what I'm saying. If
they reb you wrong, wrong, that wrong, find a way

(56:51):
to reach out to them and you know, talk to
them because you might be wrong. You might just be
assuming things that you see on the internet and whatever.
You don't know that person, but you know, create a dialogue.
I know, I understand. Like, we can't all just like

(57:11):
each other. We can't all just get along. Right. Our
brother Rodney King asked, can't we just all get along?
And unfortunately the answer to his rhetorical question is no.
There's just people in the world. You can't get along
with it. But when you encounter those people, there is
a way to civily agree to disagree. And that's what

(57:36):
we need to do as a people. We just need
to civily agree to disagree. We don't need to be
calling each other out of each other's names and threatened
in to you know, beat each other up on site
and then alive each other and all that on the internet.
Just if you don't like somebody or don't rock with somebody,
you know you can be honest and just tell them.
You know, if in the interview, if the interviewer asks

(57:59):
you whether you think about this that in person, you
should say no comment. But you know, you can speak
your piece and keep it pushing. You don't have to
do the back and forth. But yeah, that's what the

(58:21):
spotlight section on The Narrative podcast is all about. It
spotlighting positive people within our community, impacting our community in
a positive way. And not for nothing. I created the
land for spotlighting because before I created a spotlight section

(58:43):
on my podcast, The Narrative Podcast, nobody nobody with spotlighting anybody.
Now every time you you know, hear a podcast or
TV show or whatever, they're using the term spotlighting. While

(59:06):
I didn't coin the term spotlighting, I definitely popularized it
on this platform because nobody really was spotlighting anybody. Now everybody,
you know, that's a real popular phrase and you can
fact shape and go through my episode log and just
you got the free time to see, you know, nobody
was really organically using that phrase. So I started using

(59:31):
it on this platform, or let me rephrase, using it
on a regular basis. You know, I normalized that phrase.
It was just like you would only hear it once
in the blue moon, but now it's just a very
common thing to hear and to think about the internet.

(59:54):
It makes the world small. Is every time you produce content,
regardles of what your stats say, you know you have
an audience, you have a following, especially if you produce
content on a consistent basis and all. Since I've been
doing this podcast, I've been consistently producing episodes. The longest

(01:00:18):
I've never not uploaded since I started this podcast has
been about a month totally. I've had like outside of that,
you know, one week here, I missed the week, one
or two weeks hearing it from like I think twenty two,

(01:00:39):
twenty three. It's up to now, I missed like, you know,
four months total of broadcasting, but that's spaced out. The
longest time I've gone is one month, and then I've
had like one or two times when I didn't broadcast
at all for that week or that weekend. But our

(01:01:00):
broadcast consistently, so I know I have a following. You
and the people that follow me are celebrities within our community.
So I know they follow my content because they incorporate
my content into their content, not just what I say,
but the nuances of what I say, so they incorporate
my speech pattern into their content as well. So they're

(01:01:23):
just quietly a fan of me, not promoting me, not
endorsing or advertising the platform, but just letting me know
they listen to my platform on a regular basis, So
they're regular listeners, not for nothing. I even get on

(01:01:44):
here for validation, you know. I you know, got started
doing this to you know, convey a message to my people,
because at the time I started this podcast, we was
like in the wake of the pandemic lockdown, and everything
on the news about our people in our culture was
all negative. So that was my mission just to put

(01:02:06):
out positivity about our people and our culture. And it
is slowly, you know, elevated over time and grown into
this platform. And so I've been consistently producing content ever since,
and I've been reaching the masses. You know, I've said

(01:02:27):
certain things that have caught the ears of influential people,
and they've said or done things to respond in kind
directly to my content, you know, in a positive way,
just letting you know I heard you, and yeah, you're right,
we do need to do something about that. So, you know,

(01:02:52):
but I'm very impactful and influential in my humble little space.
I'm influencing lives. So I'm not just spinning my wheels
on here. So yeah, I am living up to my
title the Narrative Podcast. I am changing the narrative with

(01:03:12):
my content. Every episode that I broadcast an episode with
a narrative whatever, guy in a real way, all right,

(01:03:35):
without any further ado, this week we turned the spotlight
on a brother by the name of Sean Dove. Sean
Dove is a social change leader, author of public speaker Motivational.
He was born in Canada. He came over into America
in the nineteen eighties. Since then, he's championed many uh

(01:04:01):
tons of uh uh nonprofit organizations things to help up
with impact our community in the positive way. But I'm
giving him the spotlight for his uh nonprofit organization called
the CEOs for the Partner uh the CEO for the

(01:04:29):
Campaign for Black Male Achievements, and that particular nonprofit organization
that they was when he founded it, it really focused
on popularizing, you know, the positive achievements of our brothers,

(01:04:49):
you know, doing positive things for the community. Also, uh
later on in corporated you know, vocational skills training and
you know, other man type stuff that we should just
know as men, like how to tie tie and all

(01:05:09):
that good stuff, and how to carry and conduct yourself
in public, interpersonal soft skills as well as the network skills,
digital skills, you know, and other vocational UH training skills
as well. Now, when I went to the site, it
says that site is no longer in you know, operable,

(01:05:36):
So I don't know if that SIT's down, if they
just switch sits for that campaign, or if the site
is in existence anymore. But he's definitely at He's had
since then five more UH nonprofit organizations to uplift and

(01:05:57):
entify our people and change that trajectory of young black
males here in America. Although he's originally from Canada, he's
been transforming American blacks lives or as I refer to
our people on this platform, original people, been transforming young

(01:06:20):
men's lives, changing their trajectory in life, and you know,
really promoting positivity. And like I said, he's a promotion
UH motivational speaker. He can just type his name of
the YouTube browser and all his motivational speeches that come up.

(01:06:41):
And then he's also an author as well. Uh. He's
written a book co authored with Nick Childs called I
Too Am America and then combined as a member a
memoir case studies and Strategies, Guidance and Uplooking Black Men

(01:07:06):
and Boys. The profiles young leaders in Detroit and Oakland
office does personal journey growing up in Harlem and provides
actionable frameworks for supporting youth and development amid America's racial reckoning.

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Also written a book called A New Me in the
New Millennium, A concise pocket guide, published in two thousand.
The bookshare seven spirit sees core principles designed for personal

(01:07:55):
transformation and spiritual empowerments, and also some honorable mentions the
hidden monster, pedophilia. And so yeah, that's pretty much his
body of work as an author. Go check those books out.

(01:08:19):
But we're honoring him for all his nonprofit organizations, specifically,
you know, the Campaign for Blackmail Achievement. So without any

(01:08:40):
further ado, please join me to giving our brother warm
Neir to podcast roundup applause for all his nonprofit organizational work.

(01:09:06):
All right, moving right along, And then also I want
to point out in the highlight section of the narrative
podcast as well, I alternate genders one week it'll be
a female, and then one week it'll be a male.

(01:09:27):
And the reason why I don't just through a male
and a female in one episode is because, you know,
I said in the Visible time limit for myself, I
try not deceive one hour per broadcast, and I forever
exceed an hour, you will never be able to tell
by listening to it. I want to make you know,
all my content really cohesive and concise and straightforward and

(01:09:52):
to the point. I don't want to linger on and ramble,
you know, I want to just speak about a plethora
of topics and you know, not just be all over
the place all willy nilly with it. That's why I
try to split all my topics, all my content into

(01:10:14):
sections and give these sections speaking points. But yeah, so
I alternate males and females in the spotlight section, and
that's pretty much the only thing I left out. But
yeah that this will conclude the Spotlight section this week

(01:10:36):
on the Narrative Podcast. And once again, please join me
to give me my brother Sean Dove a warm narrative
podcast round of applause. All right, moving raging ball. Yes,

(01:10:59):
it is much shorter without the broad overview of the
narrative podcast because I'm nearly done. I have two more
sections after this section, but the broad overview kind of
brings everything into focus and helps you see we're all
the dots connect. But like I said, I got off

(01:11:22):
to a late start. It wouldn't have been midnight, but
it would have been later than I would have liked.
I want to upload it like before. You know, have
my content done before like eight pm, so you know,

(01:11:42):
any later than that, it just doesn't really like generate
patients and do like late uploads. So moving right along.
Next section is my health and wellness section. In the

(01:12:05):
health and wellness section, I'm speaking about just what it
sounds like, health and wellness. I'm trying to, you know,
promote total body wellness for my people, black people, or
as I refer to our people on this platform, original people.

(01:12:31):
And the reason why I'm promoting that is because unfortunately,
you know, my people are under attack. There isn't inherent
agenda to get rid of all of us, and they
are attacking us physically, mentally, and spiritually. On the physical
side of it, they're putting things in our food, in

(01:12:55):
the air we breathe, in the water, common products that
we use every day, either for personal grooming or for
household related cleaning. Even the very fabrics of our clothing
contain harmful chemicals that can either alter, rearrange, rewrites, or

(01:13:20):
completely destroy our unique genetic makeup. All bioengineered, by the way,
So it's not an accident, especially those of us living
in the United States of America. You know, that's on

(01:13:43):
the physical side of it. On the mental side of it,
they are, you know, trying to destroy us mentally, trying
to really make us go insane, you know, to keep
on bombarding us with all this negativity, you know, launching

(01:14:07):
these smear campaigns and just promoting and pushing and creating
propaganda about our people and our culture. So they're trying
to destroy us mentally and then launching spiritual attacks against
us as well. We're getting attacked on all fronts. So yeah,

(01:14:30):
no matter what your religious back belief is, spiritual discipline,
there are dark forces out there, and there are people
that know how to tap into those and project them
and weaponize them. So you need to know how to
defend yourself against spiritual attacks. And that's pretty much what

(01:14:57):
I do here in this section of the Narrative podcast.
As I just provide information that will help you, that
will fortify power people against all the areas that we're
being attacked in. As I said, we're being attacked mentally, physically,
and spiritually. So the types of tips that I will
give in this section, Like on the physical side of it,

(01:15:18):
you know, some physical exercise you can perform to stay
in you know, to keep your body in the you know,
peak physical condition, or some type of something you can
incorporate into your diet that will promote you know, your
physical well being. You know, I might list the attributes

(01:15:43):
of a food, usually like a food you can eat,
you know, the health benefits you can derive from eating
that food or applying it topically if you can't apply
to food topically. On the mental side of it, you
know mental exercises you can use and incorporate and strengthen

(01:16:03):
your mind to keep yourself mentally balanced and mentally well
and emotionally sound, such as like meditation or mindfulness or
mindful breathing. Spiritual side of it, you know, different type

(01:16:30):
of spiritual exercises you can perform, not rituals, but just
things you can do to you know, identify when something
is not right spiritually. I probably give you know, described
signs of a spiritual attack, you know, and then provide

(01:16:52):
remedies that you can provide to guard against that. That's
the type of tips I give in this section here
on the Narrative podcast, you know, and not for nothing,
all my content and towards my people, like anybody from

(01:17:15):
any walk of life is more than you know, welcome
to listen to my podcast. That they have an open
mind and they want to connect with and improve their
relationship with, you know, black people they know or black
people they encounter on a daily basis or plan to

(01:17:36):
encounter at one point, trying to build a relationship, you know,
with somebody black. You know, this podcast will be a
perfect reference to it, you know, for people outside of
our culture and just you know, learn of our plight
to be more knowledgeable of the things that we encounter
and go through as a people, you know, to help

(01:17:58):
you make yourself more knowledgeable. But having said that, all
the content on here is to improve the better quality,
overall quality of our lives and get us back to
the essence of who we are as a people as
it's been corrupted over time, and the true essence of
who we are as a people where kings and queens,

(01:18:20):
guys and goudst the universe, and I try to promote
content that will reinforce those attributes within us. So, you know,
having said that, out of all the sections on the
Narrative podcast, this section is especially for my people. You know,

(01:18:45):
you probably can derive some health benefits. So like if
you eat something, if I'm talking about you know, some
food you can eat to improve your physical well being,
or exercise you can perform your physical well being. You
not being of our culture, you might listen to the
podcast and you probably be like, well, everybody can benefit

(01:19:08):
from that. Everybody can benefit from doing these type of exercises.
And the thing I focus on is the especially so
why you would be right in that assertion. I focus
on why it's especially helpful for my people while we
especially need to do it, and why that especially impacts us,

(01:19:32):
and the benefits you know that we especially derived from
that would improve our overall physical health, you know, mental
health or whatever. Because you know, I think religion has
really play a role into us believing that we are

(01:19:56):
all like just created equally, I know, through religion and
they tell us we're all God's creatures and you know,
godless us are the same and we see no color.
We're just you know, brothers and sisters of this and
of that, whether you're a Christian, whether you're a Muslim.
And that's just the biggest lodocroc ever, there's indifferences in everything,

(01:20:20):
especially religion, because if there wasn't there, why are there's
so many different denominations of Christianity? Why are there's so
many different kinds of Muslim? Why are there so many
different iterations and perception and views of everything spiritual and
everything religious? If we're all the same. Not even in

(01:20:47):
the animal kingdom, you got different varieties of the same
creature in the plant where you have different varieties of
the same plant. So nothing in no is all the same,
different circumstances for different people and things, you know, the
things that will nurture and prolong and sustaining my life

(01:21:18):
will harm and devastate your life, and vice versa, and
it all. You know, it's just, you know, it's culturally,
it's nothing personal. It's nothing like you know, black people
think they're better and all that is just like we're different.
You know, this is what this experience is all about,
is acknowledging our difference. How we differ from other groups

(01:21:40):
of people, and you know, don't take it as a
personal slight which is different and I'm appealing to you know,
the differences within our people and our specific needs we
have as a people, but especially in this section. So
without any further ADO, I want to make that very

(01:22:02):
very clear. You know the intent in my niche for
this podcast, but I want to really make bring make
sure I'm hitting close to home with the intention of
this section of the Narrative podcast. So that's why I
took too long to get to the park. I get
right down to the nitty gritty. I had to just

(01:22:23):
make sure we're all on the same page. But anyway,
without any further ado, we want to talk about the
health benefits of the good old common peach. So peaches
are really widely available pretty much all over the United

(01:22:46):
States here in America and abroad. Obviously, you know, better
quality in the South, as the South is warmer in
climate and the perfect climate for growing peaches, and then
you might get a good uh you know here in
the states out west, you know, like California, they grow

(01:23:10):
all kinds of fruit in California, but like peaches, you know,
outside of down south, where you can get a good peach.
It's always perfectly fresh and fragrant and sweets. But you
know this, uh you know, simple fruit yields a whole

(01:23:38):
lot of us a whole lot of uh you know,

(01:23:59):
health benefit to sustain your life. It's really you know,
a pack full of vitamins and minerals and things.

Speaker 2 (01:24:08):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:24:11):
They can really prolong your life. There's nothing, no real
downside about eating peaches. Everything is just healthy for you.
First and foremost the rich in fiber, so they'll help
you lose weight because you'll eat less of them. It's

(01:24:32):
as delicious as a in season fully ripen peaches. If
they're underwright, you know, not so much. They're really tart
and very unpleasant. But a good in season peach, you know,
rich in fiber. So anything rich in fiber, you know,

(01:24:54):
makes your stomach feel full, so then you will eat less.
Also lowers your blood pressure. Also rich and antioxidants. Anything
rich and antioxidants burns fat, so that also again with
the weight loss. Fortifies your immune system. I hate when

(01:25:18):
people say boost your immune system, because first of all,
there is no such thing as an immune system. Your
body performs immune functions, and your the immune functions that
your body performs is already at its peak. The only
thing you can do is drop So the only thing

(01:25:40):
you can do is make sure that it doesn't drop
beyond below standard operating you know. That's all you can
do is sustain your immune system or immute bodies natural
immune functions. That's all you can do is fortify it.
You can't boost it. You can't raise it. You can't

(01:26:02):
bolster your immune system. You can just make sure that
it's operating and peak optimal operating efficiency. That all you
can do is make sure it never drops below normal.
You can't boost it because people that's a marketing gimmick.

(01:26:23):
It'll make you think, you know you can raise it.
If you boost your immune system enough, you will never
get sick. You know. If you boost your immune system
through the roof, you incorporate you know, foods into your
diet that boost your immune system, and take artificial chemicals

(01:26:45):
that say immune booster on it, juices and chemicals to
say immune boosts your formula. Like, you will never be sick,
and you're setting yourself up for failure if you think
you know you can boost your immune system as you can.
So that's a marketing givement when they say boost your

(01:27:05):
immune system, all you can do is make sure that
your body is performing immune function. It's immune's it's natural
immune functions as normal, and then as it doesn't drop
below normal. But in life, you're going to get sick.

(01:27:30):
You want to have a day where you're just not
feeling it, and that's due to your body getting pursuring
itself of you know, all impurities. So no matter how
much you work out, no matter you know, what diet
you adhere to, you're going to have like a purification cycle.

(01:27:55):
And during your purification cycle, when your body's purging itself
naturally from you know, contaminants and pathogens and anything that's
not supposed to be in it, you're going to go
through a brief period of discomfort. You know, you're not

(01:28:16):
going to feel good when your body is cleansing itself naturally. Now,
if you're in good shape, if you exercise every day,
and you eat right and make correct health you know,
your health decisions, then your purification process won't be as
in unbearable or intolerable as say, if you don't eat

(01:28:42):
you know good and you don't exercise on a regular
basis and you're not properly hydrated. You know, it'll be
more unbearable for you if you're not living healthy. But
you will experience discomfort while your body is healing itself
and purging out all harmful contaminants in your body, you know,

(01:29:08):
pursing yourself of everything it's not supposed to be there.
We're talking parasites too. But yeah, I didn't mean to
get long winded. I just want to make sure we're
perfectly clear. There's no way you can boost your immune
system because, for one, you don't have an immune system.

(01:29:29):
Your body performs immune functions, and all you can do
is make sure your immune functions don't drop below normal.
But everything experience in life, experience sicknesses. Illness is a
time where it doesn't feel good. It even happens in nature.
Animals go through it too. Plants go through it too,

(01:29:53):
you know, a mulching season. Even water, the water cycle,
that's what that. It's all about, the water naturally removing impurities.
It changes forms. It also is a great source. Now,

(01:30:20):
now what you can do is get a boost of
energy for food. That's a correct statement. So energy booster,
that's a correct statement. You know, peaches will elevate your
energy levels, cleanse yourselves, fortifies the immune systems, and then

(01:30:43):
peaches also, you know, if you suffer from allergies, peaches peach.
There was a study to show peaches suppress histamine, so
they their nature's natural histamine blockers. So if you are
average allergies, suffer, suffer from our allergies, like you get

(01:31:04):
the congestion and stuffy running noses, eat some peaches that
help with all that nasal congestion, sinus pressure. Peaches will
relieve all that. So you know, you have to do

(01:31:27):
your own due diligence for more, you know, uh ah,
the health benefits of a peach. But getting to the
especially part of it for my people, why it's especially
beneficial for my people, uh, my people, original people originally,

(01:31:53):
you know, we descend from the point of origin for
our civilization and ordy of us come from Africa. But
for those of us here on the planes too, we
were mostly had a plant based diet. Out of all
the beings on the planet, you know, we are the

(01:32:17):
ones mostly you know, has the deepest connection to nature.
Out of all the people on the planet. We're the
only group of people that actually mimic a plant's photosynthesis process.
We absorb energy the same way plants do, and so
when our people eat anything plant based, it enhances our senses,

(01:32:43):
it purifies ourselves. Anytime we eat vegetation or fruits, it
automatically increases enhances our health. So that's the especially factor
for people listening to this podcast as Well's everybody can
benefit from eating peaches. They can't get the same benefit

(01:33:07):
we do. They can't get that same boost the energy
that we do. You know, that will boost your melanin,
and that's the key to our existence. Who are as
people as we are heavily endowed with carbon aka melaning
that strengthens and boosts that anything anything, all plantforms strengthen

(01:33:39):
and boost our melody, especially things that are green. But
definitely get you some peaches in your life, especially now
you know before fall. This is you know, they're at
their best right now June July let me ship yep,

(01:34:03):
So you want to get it now. That's one of
the most sweets. Peak season for peaches here for those
of us living in the United States is June through August,
you know, and they're just so tasty. They're also a

(01:34:32):
sustainable food store because it has a seed. It has
a peit, so you can pop. You know, after you're
done eating it, you can grow you a peach tree.
You know, you can even grow peach indoors. So yeah,

(01:34:52):
Progaly sustainable food source. You can eat everything you know
about the peach except the pit. You can't eat the
peach pit, but you can eat the pit. Peach yourself
is in the outer layers. It's fuzzy, tastes kind of weird,
but you know, good for you. You can blend it

(01:35:15):
up smoothies. You can make nice cream. Just take it
up in the food processor, blended with some heavy cocon
and cream freeze that bad boy. You can make your
own little soorbet like that, really good on desserts, perfect garnishment.

(01:35:39):
You know, if you're a if you're a baker, if
you like the bad peaches always makes everything pop visually.
You know, a Welsh sliced peach fan it out. Peaches
are visually appealing. Seven said, peaches aren't natural afridis act.

(01:36:02):
So you're trying to get the mojo with the late dash.
They like the peach, the juice, but get you some
peaches in your life. I mean, you know, I can
see the afrodisiac because like you know, with shape like

(01:36:23):
a peach mhm or peach pit, what should I say,
like with what kind of resembles that unless you got
a stretched out one. But anyway, that will conclude uh

(01:36:51):
this week's health and wellness tip, the health benefits of
a peach. Now we're going on to the next section
of the narrative podcast section. It's called my speaking point section.
With this is about as I'm covering current events, anything
going on in the world, uh, either directly or indirectly,

(01:37:12):
indirectly relating to our people in our culture. So yeah,
second to the last section, It's called my speaking point section,
and what I'm addressing here is current events, things that
could potentially uh impact our community or directly impacts our community,
things on the internet, things in the news. I'm a podcaster,

(01:37:36):
so of course all podcasters speak on current events. But
the difference between me and most other ones is, you know,
whatever you know current news that I'm speaking on, I
break it down from the black perspective as it relates
to us, as it pertains to us or would it

(01:37:58):
or it could potentially mean or saying to us, but
especially if it does, like especially if a black celebrities
and the news for something whatever. In that instance, what
I'm doing is controlling the narrative because the media have
is obscure way of trying to manipulate the narrative, having

(01:38:23):
us looking and sound and crazy. So you know, that's
why I cover current events, is to stay relevant, stay current, obviously,
but then also just you know, bringing it to perspective.
As far as you know, we're we're concerned with, well,
whatever's going on in the world that makes any sense.

(01:38:44):
And in the rare event that I don't have any
new current news to speak about, or if I feel
like there's nothing happening in the world, you know, in
the news world worth discussing, I'll replace that with my PSA.
And my PSA is just basically an observation, you know,

(01:39:11):
that I've made about our people and come to the
conclusion we need to work on this as the people together.
And when I say we, I mean me too, and
in many cases it's me especially, all right, getting back
to it, So, yeah, I actually do have some news

(01:39:35):
to briefly speak on, so it's not going to be
a PSA day PSA day to day. But well, I
take that back, I might sprinkle in a little PSA
because it's just hits really close to home for a
lot of us. But today my speaking points, what it's

(01:40:03):
going to be about is the Trump Administration's decision to
eliminate the Section eight program. Section eight benefits a whole
lot of Americans living in the United States of America.
They are slowly eliminating Section eight nationwide. They're phasing that out,

(01:40:27):
and then next is going to be food assistance, and
then ultimately after that they're going to be eliminating any
type of subsidized housing like low rents, rent, low rent
or you know, those places to go by your income.
They're going to be getting rid of those, so you're

(01:40:47):
gonna be paying full rents or not at all. So
we're going to be seeing an influence, an influx of
homeless people here in the United States, as if there
already isn't enough of it. You don't see too many
homeless people abroad. You don't see too many homeless people
like on the continent the vas. You don't see too

(01:41:08):
many homeless people in Korea, in Japan and China because
they have everything is sufficient. You don't see home influx
of homeless people in the Middle East, you know, places
like Dubai, pakistandards is not a whole thing because they

(01:41:35):
you know, they understand the importance of dwelling. They give
their people, you know, the basic necessities, food, shelter, water.
Only in America where they charge you for all of that,
not only charge you, tax you for it too as well.

(01:41:58):
So what I'm seeing on line is video after video
about the Trump administration, you know, cutting off Section eight.
So many videos where females are posting they got ten
less than two weeks to vacate their premises because you know,

(01:42:23):
Section eight has stopped paying the other portion of the
rent like three and four months ago. So you know,
that's what I'm seeing all up and down my timelines,
So doing my due diligence. It says it's not in
effect yet, but yet I'm seeing streams and waves of
people online, you know, getting evicted.

Speaker 2 (01:42:46):
Due to.

Speaker 3 (01:42:48):
Their Section eight vouchers and programs that they were on
getting eliminated. So what's happening to implement it? On May
twenty fifth, that a proposal went out calling for forty
three to forty four percent of HUD funding slashing, designed

(01:43:11):
to slash the budget by seventy seven billion to forty
three zero point five billion, and that'll include a twenty
six point seven billion dollar reduction and rental assistant program says.
A Section eight Vouchers Public Housing and Elderly and Disabled

(01:43:32):
Housing Plan also will eliminates h when it goes into effect.

(01:43:55):
The plan will also eliminate the federal Section eight voucher program.
It also turning over into state run block grants, and
impose a two year cap on rental support for able

(01:44:15):
bodied adults HUD. Workforce cuts are also proposed fIF in reduction,
including four thousand layoffs impacting offices, UH office managers and
fair housing investigation managers. So they can't even have you know,

(01:44:40):
they're about to not be able to have these low uh,
these income based dwellings, you know, inspected to make sure
everything's up the cold.

Speaker 2 (01:44:52):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:44:52):
They're going to be laying off and getting rid of
building managers. It's already happening because you know, it said
it's about to happen. It's already happening because people are
doing videos about it. So nobody's just posted video just
to be trying to you know, go viral for being broke,

(01:45:14):
like letting the world know you're on section eight. So
the one that's going viral is this white woman living
in the trailer. She an addicted out of the trailer
with six kids because Section eight didn't cover her rent,
and the lady told her she got like less than
a week to move out, and so she went viral

(01:45:35):
for that. Their sister's going viral posting the video, so
it's already happening. So it ain't like you know, it's
not like his cat. So the moral of the story

(01:45:58):
is got to be self sufficient. My assessment of it.
Trump at the president we want, but Trump is the
president that we need because it will force us to
become self sufficient because they're not trying to help nobody,
especially Black people, especially foundational Black Americans. Ain't trying to

(01:46:20):
offer us no assistance, no recourse, no nothing. You gotta
get it on the muscle because this administration is not
playing with us. You better develop some type of secondary
stream of income. If you're working a four time, nine
to five, you better come up with some you know,

(01:46:43):
supplemental streams of income. Better be researching stuff that'll be
finding in some type of side hustle in addition to
your ninety five job. Because like this should They're showing
us that our ship is sinking. So if you're not
planning to leave America, better start developing a higher ground strategy.

(01:47:03):
You better start cracking open that nest egg trying to
you know, make a business or something, because you cannot
rely on any any type of assistance from our government anymore.
That's what's happening. We're doing away with all these programs
helping people, but especially Black Americans. Man, we were about

(01:47:28):
to be in the trenches. We're about to see a
way of homeless people. Like you think it's bad now there,
it's likely always been homeless people. You know, stroll all
about on you know, on the East coast, place like
New York City. You know, the homeless population continues to

(01:47:50):
skyrocket in California. People want to move out to California
and then find out how expensive it is to live
out there and then become homeles. So that's even that's
gonna get even worse. So like movie stars are u
in the next few few you know, months to a year,

(01:48:11):
you're gonna start seeing homeless people like over there in
Beverly Hills and and out by movie lots in front
of movie lots homeless people chanties. That's how bad it's
about to get. But yeah, it's it's it's real terrible.

(01:48:41):
Better get you a higher ground strategy, be looking into
like markets, dabbling in real estate. Something Gotta get you
some financial stability really quickly. Gotta get multiple hustles worn,
because if working a nine to five job like that,

(01:49:02):
that's not it. Ain't it.

Speaker 2 (01:49:04):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:49:06):
You gotta have some more sustainable streams of income, something,
some type of side hustles or something that you're doing
on the weekend, something's bringing in money. Because this administration
is cutting all forms of government assistance and health. You
also better be going online finding out what grants still

(01:49:29):
exists and taking advantage of those, the type of grants
you don't have to pay back while they still exist. So,

(01:50:00):
I mean, I think I've really summed up my speaking
point nicely. Like it's really getting ugly out here as
far as like Section eight lowering housing housing assistance, and
you better be sure like medical is coming next. To
come up for the medical. It's like we never really

(01:50:21):
had too much of assistance anywhere other than like giving
you a cop. You're about to cut that. You're gonna
have to have money in hand to be seen at all.
So no more county hospitals, you know, in this administration.

(01:50:46):
Notice some saying Trump administration not just penning it all
directly on Donald Trump, because you know, the presidents of
the United States, they're just figureheads anyway. All these law
all some policies, they'll be in play no matter who
is in the White House. So for those that think

(01:51:07):
it would have been different if Kamala had got uh elected,
your delusional would have been no different. In fact, it
probably would have been even worse had she got elected.
They're all on the same team. They're they're all what's
they hit, all in the same game. We're all in

(01:51:31):
the same game. The Republicans and Democrats, the random blue
they're all in the same game. They like they worked together.
You understand me that that rivalry, that political rivalry, that's
all a facade. They're all the Republicans, the uh, the

(01:51:52):
the donkeys and the elephants and whatever the other animals
for the Conservative Party and the Liberal they're all working together,
and they all have harbor anti black agendas. Even the
so called grassroots Party is supposed to be for black people,
they harbor an anti black agenda. So you know, literally

(01:52:23):
we out you man. You see, they like white people
is panicking like that white lady she got a victor.
She was on Section eight talking about she got like
Hellambord told her she got three or four days to
vacate the premises. It's real, man, they're getting rid of all,
you know, public assistance. So if you're not trying to

(01:52:44):
leave the United States in America, you better get you
a fall back plan now, because by the time we
roll into fall, we're going to see an influx of
homeless people. We want to see an influenced flux of
you know, people hungry because they're cutting off all the
food assistance too, so starving. So we're definitely going to

(01:53:08):
see an influent flux of crime. People are going to
be going to jail for stealing. You're gonna be trying
to steal food because they can't afford to buy it.

(01:53:41):
So you know that's where I'm gona land my plane
at the section eight.

Speaker 2 (01:53:46):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:53:50):
You know, I don't even know what to call of
the situation. It's getting worse, you know, the pros of it.
The pros would be, I guess it would be some
sort of a tax break I guess there will be
like more money to develop uh houses that have better

(01:54:16):
nimities and dwellings that have better enmities because they're not
really focused on quote unquote poor people. So that would
force you know, property owners to make sure their you know,
dwellings have proper enmities and be clean enough to have

(01:54:36):
somebody want to rent from the place looking good on
the outside, in that in that inside and outside if
they're going to be charging all that rent money, but
then on the pot on the down side of it,
it's like, okay, no, section eight, So how are we

(01:54:58):
gonna make it so you better be trying to be
a homeowner pretty soon? Something some gotta shape? Is this, man,
This ain't it? You gotta get you a side hustle
steady something, get you some supplemental streams of income, start

(01:55:23):
you a podcast. Something is this? It's hey man, hey.
So That's where I'm gonna land my plan with that
my speaking points section, and on I'm in this thing
out this evening with my final section of the narrative

(01:55:46):
podcast section, my wise word of the day. My wise
word of to day is a philosophical thought, a gem
at youel, a pearl of wisdom, uh, just something to
get you think critically and uh philosophically ponder this thing
we call life. And my wise word of today is observed.

(01:56:14):
Dictionary describes observing observed, to be or become aware of,
especially through careful and direct attention. Notice to watch attentively,
to make systematic or scientific observation of observed. So you

(01:56:44):
can learn a lot in life just by being quite
and observing. You can observe your surroundings, observe your audience,
observe all who you come in contact with. So you
should never go through life life perplex on how you receive.

(01:57:07):
Because if you be quiet and just observe people, observe
the reactions, look for the unspoken message, you will know
directly where you stand with people at all times. Not
just people, but circumstances and situations. You can be quiet

(01:57:28):
and observe, you know patterns. This is how businesses thrive.
They have whole departments called research and development in businesses,
filled with people whose job it is to just observe trends.

(01:57:53):
People invent things based on their observation. They observe people
like always needing something. Boy, I wish it was an
easier way to do this, I wish it was an
easier the way to do that, and based on their observation,
they'll go invent something to accommodate that need. So observation

(01:58:22):
is necessary for progression in life. You know, everything doesn't
need an immediate response or retort. Sometimes you just gotta
lay back in the cut and observe. Observe the people
around you. Observe how the traffic's flowing, you know, and

(01:58:48):
your love life. Observe your partner is not gonna tell
you what's wrong with them. You have to observe changes
because that a uh that'll save you from a lot
of heart breaking. Can just observe the tone if they're

(01:59:09):
speaking in when it's like on the rocks, when it's
like thiszling out and ain't the same energy, You save
yourself a lot of heartaching time just by detaching and
moving forward when you notice changes. Business relationships, you can
observe when it's no longer you know, mutually beneficial for

(01:59:35):
you to be in that partnership in business where you're
not you know, where you're only in it for the paycheck,
within the paychecks, the mathing on the paycheck. If you're
doing all that work and like, no, it's starting to
move forward. Or like if you did some type of
business deal and you know that's the maximum amount that

(02:00:02):
they're going to pay out for that deal, y'all did
They're not going to just come out and say it,
but you're at that salary cap. So now it's time
to strike a new deal, or you know, do some
business with a different entity. So everything in life, you know,

(02:00:26):
you must observe. In the wild kingdom, the apex predators,
they observe, you know, their prey. They're hiding the bushes
that they just like observe. You know, they're mating habits,
the times they feed, and they from their observation that
it sus the best time to strike them. So wise

(02:00:53):
word of the day observed, be observant, keep your eyes
open then just observed. Peat gang. All right. This will
conclude this episode of the Narrative Podcast. Join me next
weekend for another full edition of the Narrative Podcast, complete
with the broad overview of the platform. I didn't have

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time this weekend because I wouldn't have had it wouldn't
be uploaded at a reasonable time had I included the
broad overview of the Narrative Podcast, I barely, you know,
got it the fit for this time that I'm uploading
you because I've waited so late in the evening to

(02:01:37):
you know, start recording. I usually try to do it
like first thing in the afternoon or first thing in
the morning, but it just didn't work out like that today.
But well, we'll try again next weekend and check me
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