March 15, 2026 • 27 mins
Natima Sheree is a Narrative Healing Coach, author, and poet helping women transform their scars into beauty marks — one page at a time. Her books and journals — including Pretty Broken, Mascara, Heal Her, and Wife in Waiting — give women the language, the space, and the tools to heal out loud. đź“– Shop the full collection: natimasheree.com
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hello everyone, and welcome to the Anti Thought Podcast. I
have remembered to say the correct podcast two times, and
then this time it was professional. You heard this right,
I said, welcome to the Anti Thought Podcast, like I
actually had a show. I think I might like this
coming back to doing podcasts, I'm not gonna I will
(00:22):
never be that professional. I don't care how old I
I will never be that professional.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I will know no.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
By the way, high five to me for remembery to
introduce myself. You guys, look, we getting there. We get
in there, I'll remember my name and then next them,
I'll remember my books because there are six yeah, six,
ha got them? Six this And I thought that was bad,
and I thought being runnable was easy if only I
were me a memory and verse foreign coffee, widdows web
and widdows that, and those six books are wherever audio
(00:48):
books are found. And by the way, y'all, since I
haven't done this for a minute, let's go ahead and
just to remind y'all, this is six and siling. So
those six books or wherever you can find audio books.
And now we're going to continue to the part where
I self promote, so you could go ahead and find
the rest of the twenty one books, because there's a
total of twenty seven, because twenty one plus six is
(01:09):
twenty seven. Y'all at www dot audiobooks, audiobooks Www Dot
and I thought ladies dot Come. Why am I been
here trying to give stuff to other people? Go back
to my website if I thought ladies dot com. Oh,
I forgot to mention on one half of the end.
I thought ladies hence the name of the website. In
the podcast, Ah, I am segueing all over the place here,
(01:31):
but y'all are here to hear about me, which is
a shame, because I have a lot to tell. No, No,
I'm thinking about it. Maybe not so much. I'm getting
a little more. You're here to hear about our wonderful guests.
Wonderful guest. Would you like to introduce yourself?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Yes, Hi, afternoon. I am Natima Scharie.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
I am the founder of Transparent and Jim Ink and formerly.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
The Diamond Writers, now known as The Right Hers Room.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
I am a mom of two and a seven time
published author. I absolutely love literature. Started as an avid
reader and eventually transitioned into a talented writer. Didn't know
that I had it in me to do, but eventually
started writing and publishing books, and now I am dedicated
to helping others, specifically women, publish their books and empower
(02:19):
them to heal through their own narrative.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
So that is what I do.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Wow, I just love how you concisely put that together.
I've been around for a few years and I still
can't do that. Will be him and and Han through
the whole.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
First of all, what on earth got you from reading
to writing and then into motivating it to be an
empowerment act?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Because I need to get some started, get my power.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Book, you know what. So I've always loved reading.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
I grew up in Jamaica, Queens, New York, where I
didn't really know life outside of the ten block radius
that I grew up, right, So I wanted to see
the world.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
That's what led me to reading. I wanted to read books.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
From other countries, the other states, other perspectives, other lifestyles,
to see that there was more to life outside of
the norm that I knew from that. You know, like everybody,
trauma leads you to journaling, right, that is a therapists
go to. Have you considered journaling your feelings. So I
started journaling. Journaling somehow turned into my desire to write,
(03:20):
which then evolved and morphed into this like narrative healing
coach position where I was not only healing myself through
my words, but now I was empowering.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Other women to heal through their stories. Right.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
I don't want it to encourage women to have a
single story. I don't want our trauma story to be
our only story. But in order to have other stories,
in order to have the stories about joy and growth,
you have to have that first story about reality, and
sometimes the reality is our trauma. And so that's how
I started writing, releasing my trauma through pages, and so
putting pain on the pages is what birthed what I
(03:54):
do now.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I have to admit, first of all, I'm going to
make a joke about myself and my own expense. With
my therapist told me to start journaling. I was like, dear,
I write books for a living. What do you think
I write about? She's like, if I haven't helped now,
if it had to help yet, I'm not sure.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I'm not really sure about that. Yeah, yep.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I still did the journaling. It was hard. And then
the second thing I wanted to notice is you said
that you wanted to You started reading just to travel
to different places. So where have you traveled since.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
You started writing journey? Oh my goodness. Okay, So I
have been to Thailand.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
I went all by myself. That was a fantabulous trip
because I.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Loved ty food.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
So after reading a bunch of different books on cuisine
and culture and architecture.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
That's another thing.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
A lot of people don't talk about Thailand in their structures.
They have gorgeous landscape and structures, so that was one
of my favorite parts about going there.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
I've also been to many of the islands.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
So I've been to Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Saint Thomas, Puerto Rico,
the Bahamas. I've been to Bermuda, Barbados. You know, I've
been to a lot of the different islands.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Right. I've also been to Japan. That was a very
brief trip, but still had a great time for the.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Three days that I was there. Very very brief brief
time there. I was there for work. Yeah, so it
was more business than pleasure, but I did still enjoy myself.
So yeah, those are I guess some of the bigger
places that I've been. Oh, I've been to Sydney, Australia.
That was an amazing trip. I really really enjoyed my
time there. Again, their architecture and their buildings and their
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structures are gorgeous and funny enough, the reason I went
there is because I had spent a week in Toronto
and one of the people I work with in Toronto said,
have you considered going to Sydney? Their structures are a lot alike.
So all of those things reading it led me.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
To visit those places. Yeah, this is what I.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Love about your story. Your reading led you to actually
live out your dreams, both reading and in real and
in life. To go to First of all, I normally,
like when I asked the travel question, we normally could
talk about one place in common that we travel. You
have gone to all everything on my bucket list.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Really that's left. Listen, let's add Greece and we'll go
there together.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Like, let's just put.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Us avacation in Greece for almost nine years, walked to
back to back to back.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Well, that's where I wanted to go. See, so you've
been where I haven't been yet. Greece is on my list.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Yes, yes, yes, the food is amazing, not as good
as time food. But dang it, it's good.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
I believe it. Oh, I can't wait to go.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yeah, an amazing time. Before we go onto the seriousness. Now,
I've always wanted to visit Australia because I hear that
the men have built well did you did you notice
if any of them you know, I.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Will say this, there is a population in Australia that
it's like Caribbean or African folks that have you know,
relocated and move and it's spot on what you've heard
it is.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
It is okay, still getting that ticket.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Then, sat, That's all I'm gonna say.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Go on the bottom of my bucket list though it's
on the blottom because I was like going to place
just to see what the men look like. Not the
best idea, but that.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
It's the accents and the muscles and they eat well
so they have great skin.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I would move it up a bit, just move it
up a couple of notches on the list, that's all.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
It's all okay, I will do that, thank you. I
know her before Thailand. But anyway, now back to the
serious business about talking about like empower her, write.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Her story, empower her.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
That's okay, see I used to be a good host.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
You're doing great. Yeah. Are you remember the Writer's Room,
the Right Her Room?
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Yes, yeah, So we used to have I used to
have a writing collective under Transparent gym Ain't called the
Diamond Writers. I have since completely dismantled and closed that
out and really wanted to be obedient as well as
strategic and intentional and rebuilding.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
And so I'm.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Currently in the works of working with my partner and
cousin Well, she's a founding member of my organization. Shout
out to Tiffany, and we're going to relaunch something called
the Right Heirst Room. So it's the Writer's Room, play
on words, we're spelling it hers on the end, and
that's going to replace the Diamond Writers because I feel
like there needs to be a level of maturity in
the writing. There needs to be a different level of
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discipline and an intentional commitment to healing that wasn't happening
in the Diamond Writers. And so that's why I've decided
to relaunch under this new brand.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
And I love that your new brand is a lot
about being able to be true, truly vulnerable, so you
can get a genuine connection as that holds you you
feel to stay true to your path and even be
resilient even as you had to rebrand.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
I think what's key is my organization is called Transparent
gem INK, and to me, it's hard to represent TGI
if I'm not being transparent and vulnerable, if I'm not
being authentic and honest with myself. And a lot of
the late that I encounter who are on their healing journey,
who are writing their first book or wanting to write
their first book, a lot of them do struggle with
what should I share? How much should I indulge? How
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much should I tell the world about my story? And
as we were talking backstage about helping women to not
have the single story, which is the trauma story, but
having multiple stories about joy and growth and reality all
in the same space. And I think that's something that
the writer's room is going to significantly assist with because
I had to go through it first. I think that's
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the dopest part about writing is we often have to
live the words before they hit the book. Many of
us have had to live those words first.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
So how do you encourage the people that do write
their stories to write them without being retraumatized.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Yeah, I think it's really owning the story.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
I think in order to write without retraumatizing or opening
old wounds is you have to own it differently. Sometimes
we approach what we've been through and it still hurts
to tell the story, and so we try to force ourselves.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Through the tears. No, let the tears flow, because once.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
That flows from you, and it flows out of you,
you can then use.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
That to empower someone else.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
I think when we are ashamed of the trauma we've experienced,
that's how we forfeit the power, and that's when we
allow others to tell the story on our behalf. But
when we own it, it's saying, yes, that hurt like hell,
I did not enjoy that. That was not fair, that
was painful. How could they do me like that? But
once you have that moment, you then say, but this
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is not my only story, this is not the end
of my life, this is not the last chapter. And
then that's how I really remind them that there's life
on the other side of this. That's just one part
of what you went through. It's not who you are,
And so constantly coaching them, being a champion for them,
reminding them of their greatness, reminding them how many women
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are going through the same thing with no community, with
no support, with no help, with no love, and so
that I think really helps them tread usition out of
staying a victor, a victim, and becoming a victor.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
So that's how that helps.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Yeah, do a play on words, well, victims of orgements? Yes,
her story, Yes, this is great. Okay, I'm going to
go back to being the semi bad host. But I
thought I have read that you had a podcast.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Yes, okay, you read that correctly, you sure did so. Yeah, So.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Late last year I decided to launch what's called Behind
the Pages.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
It's a podcast for independent authors. I feel like.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
There are so many podcasts where celebrities interview other celebrities,
or you know, influencers interview other influencers. But there are
so many amazing men and women who are sharing their
story with the world. Who are you know writing these manuscripts,
writing these novels, writing poetry books? And no one ever
sees it, no one hears about it because it's often
(12:01):
subdued or suppressed by the bigger people's books. Right if
Michelle Obama releases a book, no other book that came
out that week is.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Going to matter.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
No one's gonna remember who else released the book, right,
And then we have people who who publish independently and
their books get lost on KDP and Amazon, they get
lost on Lulu, they get lost on Barnes and Noble,
and so I created this platform not only to give
a voice to the stories, but to also promote them
to say, look, your work is fantastic, and I'm so
(12:30):
glad you published it. I'm so glad you decided to
leave your legacy on paper. Why don't you tell my
audience about it? And so it's just my way of
giving back to the literary community, the independent literary community,
which I love so much, that has really nurtured me
as a talent and as a writer. So, yes, that
podcast we just launched August and we've already had significant
(12:53):
growth and following and you know, different guests, and so
continuing to bring guests on. Hint, hint, I'd like to
have the poetry you know, the poetry writer on my podcast.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
So yeah, I was just about to be like, hand hand,
what does the poetry writer have to do.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
To get on the pay I'm already on it. I'm
already gonna follow up with an email to get your availability.
We'd love to have you on.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
I would love to be there. Dang it, that just
took me the steam out of the whole thing. I
had a whole other question after that question. You've got
to try to rearrange. Fine, it brings me to the
more serious question, because I was gonna have fun then
come back to being serious. So we're serious again. Yeah,
after writing a trauma book, which I am familiar with
(13:38):
writing a trauma book and trauma book, yeah, how do
you get to the next one? How do you get
to your happy place?
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Oh? That's so good.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Honestly, it's not writing to everyone, but writing to someone
that perspective of saying, there has to be one woman
who who's doing her healing work, who's moving past her trauma,
and she wants to hear what happens on the other
side of the work. She wants to hear what happens
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at the end, she wants to hear what happens next.
And so that's when I decided, like, yeah, I think
I've told my story enough. I've shared how I've been
broken and bruised and traumatized and abandoned, and all the
other things that I've gone through. But what does life
look like for me now? Am I smiling or am
I still crying? Am I you know what I'm saying?
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Am I broken?
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Or am I traveling? Am I loving again?
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Am I in a relationship? A healthy one compared to
the terrible ones I wrote about? And so I think
it's fair for our readers for them to hear that
there is love and restoration and recovery.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
On the other side of the trauma and the pain.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
But if we keep writing about the pain, they're going
to think that's what life looks like, that it's just
decades of brokenness and trauma and pain.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
But really, there is love on the other side.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
There is reconciliation, there's forgive, there's wholeness. There's so much
that happens when you decide to do that healing work.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
So the healing work is It's hurt.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
It was painful, it was unfair, but I'm not staying there,
and so I'm right about it so that I.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Can release it.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
And then once I release it, I'm going to allow
myself to live. And so that's what I share. How
I'm now allowing myself to smile more, I am giving
myself permission to trust people again. I am opening my
life up to someone who won't do me like those
before this person had done me. So I think that's
really important for people to see that we can have
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that on the other side of our pain.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I love that. I absolutely love that. This does bring
me to the other question, since I again have written
about trauma. Sometimes you run into the reader that has
no experience in life. What is your book covers them?
Because I'm getting a review from a reader that I
obviously had no experience in life, and You're.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Like, yeah, like they can't relate, right, It's like, you know,
this is foreign to them.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Oftentimes, when I have.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
An inexperienced reader who has never like for example, again,
I grew up in Jamaica Queens.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
If you're not from my neighborhood, you would not believe
it was a real place.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
You could not fathom and you could not comprehend what
everyday life looked like. For me, it was normal to
see street pharmacists and people selling narcotics and you know
what I'm saying women, you know, having random men in
and out their homes, people selling their food stamps.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
This was normal life. For me. Right, If I try
to tell that to.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Someone who grew up in the suburbs with two parents
in the home, the picket fence, you get what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
The dog. They can't believe that that's real.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
They believe that's just a show on TV, that that's
not life. So what I often do is introduce them
and then invite them to consider someone else in their life.
Maybe it's not you, but is it so hard to
believe that it could have been someone in your classroom,
someone on the same pew at church, someone waiting to
get their car service, someone shopping behind at.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Publics or at the grocery store. You may not be able.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
To relate, and not all, not all literary work is relatable,
Not all of it is relatable, but it is relevant
and it is real. And so that's what I constantly
tell them. Be open minded enough to believe that this
is real, that this could really happen, or have someone
had really come through this.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
So yeah, that's how I help them along. Thank you
so much.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Do it the way I dealt with it. I wrote
a whole other book.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
That's a good idea.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Obviously you need something different. Let's try whole another book.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Hey, we get on motivations certain ways. You know what,
do you hope that starting your incorporation will help women? Do?
I mean other than of course, find their power, like
when they're done put into.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
The world, and yeah, you know, I'm hoping that it
launches and them into what they're called to do. I
think sometimes before we release the trauma through writing, before
we do the narrative healing work, we carry so much
trauma and pain.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
That there's no room for purpose. There's no room on our.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Plate for destiny or promise or you know, ambition and dreams,
because we literally only have capacity for what's hurting us.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Right.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
I always hear the phrase that pain makes us selfish
in the same way pain keeps us from ourselves. We're
always so busy trying to keep the pain from hurting
that we're not seeing what else is in us. And
so what I'm hoping is as I continue to aid
women to do their healing work through narrative, and I
continue to help them to publish their stories, that it
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then propels them into something else, Like whether you want
to go on to be a speaker, write more books,
maybe you want to become an artist.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Maybe you want to do poetry. Maybe you now.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Want to help people to publish, and so you start
your own organization whatever it is that I hope they
birth inside of them. Consider myself a literary midwife. I'm
just here to help you birth something great through your story,
and hopefully, as a result of your story, you then
recognize your own destiny, which is to do something beyond
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this book or this contribution to an anthology. Whatever it
is that you're called to, you go forth and do
something great. So that's what I hope to continue doing
for women.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Now, what are you going to do great with this?
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Oh my gosh, I have so much on my places, Like,
there's so much I want to do. I think sometimes
I'm overly ambitious. But the next thing that I'm working
on is my personal memoir. I have written about my
trauma and my pain, and I have written about hardship.
And I have helped other women write and I have
contributed to their writing.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
But I haven't actually invited people into know me, like
to true intimacy into me. See, Like I want to
invite people into who the little girl is that grew
up in New York.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Who's the girl that was in the movie Fresh, and
then what did she do when she got married?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
At twenty one? Did you become after divorce?
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Like, I want to share more of that story, like
in a sequential you know, from a sequential standpoint, And
I think that it's going to connect the dots for
people who make a lot of assumptions about who I
am because they're only getting bits and pieces of my
story through anthologies and through different workbooks and speaking. But
I think if I center it and put it all
in one place, in one book, where there are no gaps,
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there are no assumptions, there is no misunderstanding, I think
people are going to see.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Me differently and embrace me.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
So that's a big goal of mine, to show the
world who I am from a whole standpoint, not just the.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Pieces of me that you've come to know on social media.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
You said from who was in a movie? Yes, became
literally So you were a visual artist first.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Yes, yes, at the age of eleven.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Artist because you know, yes, your writers were like, don't
you show my face?
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Yeah? So funny enough. I was in the movie Fresh.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
It's a cult classic that came out in nineteen ninety
four with Samuel Jackson and Sean Nelson and a couple
of other stars. It was my i think, second time
in front of the camera. I had done like some
other stuff locally, but this was my first big, you know,
silver screen film that I had done. And after the fact,
everyone was like, do you want to continue?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Do you love it?
Speaker 4 (21:22):
And I'm like, no, I just want to go back
to my writing, Like I just I wanted to go
back in the corner and finish writing.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Right looking back, you know, in hindsight, I'm.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Like, man, I probably should have stuck with it, you know,
seeing how a lot of us are now behind the camera.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
That's honestly where I wanted to be.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
I liked being in front of the camera, but I
feel like my true talent is directing and writing, and
so I would love to go back, especially being here
in Atlanta where you have you know, TP Studios, and
you have so many other projects that I can get
involved in. So that's probably on my goal list as well,
to get back into that space.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Let me understand that you will be opening your own
production house.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
And this was that It sounds like like like a
long term goal.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Yes, yes, yes, long term yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Have I have my I have a show that I
produced and direct. It was on Amazon.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
So you so you're saying that I need an audition
for you, is what they're telling you.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Believe me, I had no business doing that. You know
what my long term was. I started a contract and
seven days later they were like, where's the product? So
mm I made a showcase. You don't have to be
long term.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Okay, So now so move that up on the list.
I got you. I'm here.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
You know how Sydney's moving on mine, that's moving up
on your.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
I love it. I love it.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Yes, guys, get your production house, get on to be
if you can, and then move on from there.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Yes, thank you for that. I appreciate that I received it.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Yes, okay, And then you know, after this, I will
start talking to you about things that you can do
to get like Hollywood to pay attention to you.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Quicker, thank you. Look at this. You are such a
yeah my sayer. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
I'm not sure if any of it has helped me.
It's helped others, but.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
It's like the case like that's the same for me.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Like some stuff that I pour into others they go
and do big things with it, and I'm like, I've
had that in me this whole time, and where's mine?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
But yeah, some stuff we're supposed to give. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Okay, So let me wrap this up because I told
you sab fifteen to seventeen minutes and per the normal,
it is not.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
That's okay.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
So where can we find out more information about you?
About your organization and listen to your podcast?
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Yes? Thank you.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
So we're on YouTube. Our media is cut in Clarity Media.
You can find us on YouTube. I'm also on Instagram
as Cutting Clarity, and then you can also follow me
on Natima Underscore Charie and then I have a website
Natimashurie dot com as well as Transparentgeminc dot com, which
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is the mother company of all the other things that
you heard today, that's the parent company.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
So in essence, but she's that she's seriously busy. And
I said the last question before I recognize I need
to say one more question. Okay, there I go again,
adding question nine and ten. Oh right, So ten, for
anyone going out there that wants to write about their
trauma and give purpose to the world, what are three
tips that you would tell them to consider as they
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put pen to paper.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Oh? I love that.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
First would be adopt the seventy thirty methodology. The seventy
thirty methodology is writing from a perspective of seventy percent
from your joy and your growth, so what you've been through,
how you overcome it, and how it's changed you. And
then the other thirty percent from your reality, So it's
what are you going through currently, what challenges are you facing,
and how are you moving through them. That perspective makes
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you both relatable, but it also makes it relevant and
it makes it more digestible from others, because I think
sometimes people struggle with, as we just spoke on understanding
your story when they can't relate. If you sprinkle it
with a little bit of joy and growth and that
earned wisdom.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
People are a lot more receptive.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
The other thing I would say is show up transparently.
Start the book as yourself. Don't worry about the voices
of anyone else. Don't compare yourself. Social comparison is such
a destroyer of our authenticity when we often compare ourselves
to other influencers or other writers. Don't look at anyone else,
look at yourself. If you have to talk through the
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manuscript in the mirror, do what you have to do.
To stay focused. And the last thing I'll say is
get you some beta readers who know nothing about your story.
If you try to engage people who are already familiar,
they'll try to write for you. They'll try to tell
you say something differently, or write it this way, or
don't include that person in your story. As complete strangers
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to participate as a beta reader, because they have no
you know what I'm saying. They have no opinion, they
have no idea. They're just reading from a genuine place.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
I love that, especially about the bataies. You definitely do
need bataies who were not there. Yes, I had co
authors who were not there, so they made things clear.
They're like, that's overly personally and please don't share that.
That's embarrassing to me.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Listen, you're gonna tell us what one more time where
we can find your website?
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Yes, on the team is sharide dot com or transparentgem
Inc dot com.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Look at that. That's me going back to make sure
that we get that in so for us, for me
over here, and will Nona Marie, I'm one half of
the anti thought ladies. Look at that, y'all, remember what
part of half of something the Anti Thought Ladies. You
can go to www. Dot an i thought ladies dot
com and down in the middle of our page you
can see the charities that we probably support. We asked
that youn take a moment and support them. Also, it
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does not have to be money. It could be you
know your wisdom, your skill set, or you can get
your hands actually dirty and go build it in a
orphanage in Ethiopia.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Who knows.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Whatever one you decide, we thank you in advance for that.
Remember that wisdom is all around Andrew, if you're open
to finding it and accepting it. So peace and love
you guys from Molnona and the Missing Jade. Oh yeah,
thanks for listening.
Hello everyone, and welcome to the Anti Thought Podcast. I
have remembered to say the correct podcast two times, and
then this time it was professional. You heard this right,
I said, welcome to the Anti Thought Podcast, like I
actually had a show. I think I might like this
coming back to doing podcasts, I'm not gonna I will
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never be that professional. I don't care how old I
I will never be that professional.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I will know no.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
By the way, high five to me for remembery to
introduce myself. You guys, look, we getting there. We get
in there, I'll remember my name and then next them,
I'll remember my books because there are six yeah, six,
ha got them? Six this And I thought that was bad,
and I thought being runnable was easy if only I
were me a memory and verse foreign coffee, widdows web
and widdows that, and those six books are wherever audio
(00:48):
books are found. And by the way, y'all, since I
haven't done this for a minute, let's go ahead and
just to remind y'all, this is six and siling. So
those six books or wherever you can find audio books.
And now we're going to continue to the part where
I self promote, so you could go ahead and find
the rest of the twenty one books, because there's a
total of twenty seven, because twenty one plus six is
(01:09):
twenty seven. Y'all at www dot audiobooks, audiobooks Www Dot
and I thought ladies dot Come. Why am I been
here trying to give stuff to other people? Go back
to my website if I thought ladies dot com. Oh,
I forgot to mention on one half of the end.
I thought ladies hence the name of the website. In
the podcast, Ah, I am segueing all over the place here,
(01:31):
but y'all are here to hear about me, which is
a shame, because I have a lot to tell. No, No,
I'm thinking about it. Maybe not so much. I'm getting
a little more. You're here to hear about our wonderful guests.
Wonderful guest. Would you like to introduce yourself?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Yes, Hi, afternoon. I am Natima Scharie.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
I am the founder of Transparent and Jim Ink and formerly.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
The Diamond Writers, now known as The Right Hers Room.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
I am a mom of two and a seven time
published author. I absolutely love literature. Started as an avid
reader and eventually transitioned into a talented writer. Didn't know
that I had it in me to do, but eventually
started writing and publishing books, and now I am dedicated
to helping others, specifically women, publish their books and empower
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them to heal through their own narrative.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
So that is what I do.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Wow, I just love how you concisely put that together.
I've been around for a few years and I still
can't do that. Will be him and and Han through
the whole.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
First of all, what on earth got you from reading
to writing and then into motivating it to be an
empowerment act?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Because I need to get some started, get my power.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Book, you know what. So I've always loved reading.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
I grew up in Jamaica, Queens, New York, where I
didn't really know life outside of the ten block radius
that I grew up, right, So I wanted to see
the world.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
That's what led me to reading. I wanted to read books.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
From other countries, the other states, other perspectives, other lifestyles,
to see that there was more to life outside of
the norm that I knew from that. You know, like everybody,
trauma leads you to journaling, right, that is a therapists
go to. Have you considered journaling your feelings. So I
started journaling. Journaling somehow turned into my desire to write,
(03:20):
which then evolved and morphed into this like narrative healing
coach position where I was not only healing myself through
my words, but now I was empowering.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Other women to heal through their stories. Right.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
I don't want it to encourage women to have a
single story. I don't want our trauma story to be
our only story. But in order to have other stories,
in order to have the stories about joy and growth,
you have to have that first story about reality, and
sometimes the reality is our trauma. And so that's how
I started writing, releasing my trauma through pages, and so
putting pain on the pages is what birthed what I
(03:54):
do now.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I have to admit, first of all, I'm going to
make a joke about myself and my own expense. With
my therapist told me to start journaling. I was like, dear,
I write books for a living. What do you think
I write about? She's like, if I haven't helped now,
if it had to help yet, I'm not sure.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I'm not really sure about that. Yeah, yep.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I still did the journaling. It was hard. And then
the second thing I wanted to notice is you said
that you wanted to You started reading just to travel
to different places. So where have you traveled since.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
You started writing journey? Oh my goodness. Okay, So I
have been to Thailand.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
I went all by myself. That was a fantabulous trip
because I.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Loved ty food.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
So after reading a bunch of different books on cuisine
and culture and architecture.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
That's another thing.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
A lot of people don't talk about Thailand in their structures.
They have gorgeous landscape and structures, so that was one
of my favorite parts about going there.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
I've also been to many of the islands.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
So I've been to Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Saint Thomas, Puerto Rico,
the Bahamas. I've been to Bermuda, Barbados. You know, I've
been to a lot of the different islands.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Right. I've also been to Japan. That was a very
brief trip, but still had a great time for the.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Three days that I was there. Very very brief brief
time there. I was there for work. Yeah, so it
was more business than pleasure, but I did still enjoy myself.
So yeah, those are I guess some of the bigger
places that I've been. Oh, I've been to Sydney, Australia.
That was an amazing trip. I really really enjoyed my
time there. Again, their architecture and their buildings and their
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structures are gorgeous and funny enough, the reason I went
there is because I had spent a week in Toronto
and one of the people I work with in Toronto said,
have you considered going to Sydney? Their structures are a lot alike.
So all of those things reading it led me.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
To visit those places. Yeah, this is what I.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Love about your story. Your reading led you to actually
live out your dreams, both reading and in real and
in life. To go to First of all, I normally,
like when I asked the travel question, we normally could
talk about one place in common that we travel. You
have gone to all everything on my bucket list.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Really that's left. Listen, let's add Greece and we'll go
there together.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Like, let's just put.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Us avacation in Greece for almost nine years, walked to
back to back to back.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Well, that's where I wanted to go. See, so you've
been where I haven't been yet. Greece is on my list.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Yes, yes, yes, the food is amazing, not as good
as time food. But dang it, it's good.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
I believe it. Oh, I can't wait to go.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yeah, an amazing time. Before we go onto the seriousness. Now,
I've always wanted to visit Australia because I hear that
the men have built well did you did you notice
if any of them you know, I.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Will say this, there is a population in Australia that
it's like Caribbean or African folks that have you know,
relocated and move and it's spot on what you've heard
it is.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
It is okay, still getting that ticket.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Then, sat, That's all I'm gonna say.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Go on the bottom of my bucket list though it's
on the blottom because I was like going to place
just to see what the men look like. Not the
best idea, but that.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
It's the accents and the muscles and they eat well
so they have great skin.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I would move it up a bit, just move it
up a couple of notches on the list, that's all.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
It's all okay, I will do that, thank you. I
know her before Thailand. But anyway, now back to the
serious business about talking about like empower her, write.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Her story, empower her.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
That's okay, see I used to be a good host.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
You're doing great. Yeah. Are you remember the Writer's Room,
the Right Her Room?
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Yes, yeah, So we used to have I used to
have a writing collective under Transparent gym Ain't called the
Diamond Writers. I have since completely dismantled and closed that
out and really wanted to be obedient as well as
strategic and intentional and rebuilding.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
And so I'm.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Currently in the works of working with my partner and
cousin Well, she's a founding member of my organization. Shout
out to Tiffany, and we're going to relaunch something called
the Right Heirst Room. So it's the Writer's Room, play
on words, we're spelling it hers on the end, and
that's going to replace the Diamond Writers because I feel
like there needs to be a level of maturity in
the writing. There needs to be a different level of
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discipline and an intentional commitment to healing that wasn't happening
in the Diamond Writers. And so that's why I've decided
to relaunch under this new brand.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
And I love that your new brand is a lot
about being able to be true, truly vulnerable, so you
can get a genuine connection as that holds you you
feel to stay true to your path and even be
resilient even as you had to rebrand.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
I think what's key is my organization is called Transparent
gem INK, and to me, it's hard to represent TGI
if I'm not being transparent and vulnerable, if I'm not
being authentic and honest with myself. And a lot of
the late that I encounter who are on their healing journey,
who are writing their first book or wanting to write
their first book, a lot of them do struggle with
what should I share? How much should I indulge? How
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much should I tell the world about my story? And
as we were talking backstage about helping women to not
have the single story, which is the trauma story, but
having multiple stories about joy and growth and reality all
in the same space. And I think that's something that
the writer's room is going to significantly assist with because
I had to go through it first. I think that's
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the dopest part about writing is we often have to
live the words before they hit the book. Many of
us have had to live those words first.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
So how do you encourage the people that do write
their stories to write them without being retraumatized.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Yeah, I think it's really owning the story.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
I think in order to write without retraumatizing or opening
old wounds is you have to own it differently. Sometimes
we approach what we've been through and it still hurts
to tell the story, and so we try to force ourselves.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Through the tears. No, let the tears flow, because once.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
That flows from you, and it flows out of you,
you can then use.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
That to empower someone else.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
I think when we are ashamed of the trauma we've experienced,
that's how we forfeit the power, and that's when we
allow others to tell the story on our behalf. But
when we own it, it's saying, yes, that hurt like hell,
I did not enjoy that. That was not fair, that
was painful. How could they do me like that? But
once you have that moment, you then say, but this
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is not my only story, this is not the end
of my life, this is not the last chapter. And
then that's how I really remind them that there's life
on the other side of this. That's just one part
of what you went through. It's not who you are,
And so constantly coaching them, being a champion for them,
reminding them of their greatness, reminding them how many women
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are going through the same thing with no community, with
no support, with no help, with no love, and so
that I think really helps them tread usition out of
staying a victor, a victim, and becoming a victor.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
So that's how that helps.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Yeah, do a play on words, well, victims of orgements? Yes,
her story, Yes, this is great. Okay, I'm going to
go back to being the semi bad host. But I
thought I have read that you had a podcast.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Yes, okay, you read that correctly, you sure did so. Yeah, So.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Late last year I decided to launch what's called Behind
the Pages.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
It's a podcast for independent authors. I feel like.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
There are so many podcasts where celebrities interview other celebrities,
or you know, influencers interview other influencers. But there are
so many amazing men and women who are sharing their
story with the world. Who are you know writing these manuscripts,
writing these novels, writing poetry books? And no one ever
sees it, no one hears about it because it's often
(12:01):
subdued or suppressed by the bigger people's books. Right if
Michelle Obama releases a book, no other book that came
out that week is.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Going to matter.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
No one's gonna remember who else released the book, right,
And then we have people who who publish independently and
their books get lost on KDP and Amazon, they get
lost on Lulu, they get lost on Barnes and Noble,
and so I created this platform not only to give
a voice to the stories, but to also promote them
to say, look, your work is fantastic, and I'm so
(12:30):
glad you published it. I'm so glad you decided to
leave your legacy on paper. Why don't you tell my
audience about it? And so it's just my way of
giving back to the literary community, the independent literary community,
which I love so much, that has really nurtured me
as a talent and as a writer. So, yes, that
podcast we just launched August and we've already had significant
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growth and following and you know, different guests, and so
continuing to bring guests on. Hint, hint, I'd like to
have the poetry you know, the poetry writer on my podcast.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
So yeah, I was just about to be like, hand hand,
what does the poetry writer have to do.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
To get on the pay I'm already on it. I'm
already gonna follow up with an email to get your availability.
We'd love to have you on.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
I would love to be there. Dang it, that just
took me the steam out of the whole thing. I
had a whole other question after that question. You've got
to try to rearrange. Fine, it brings me to the
more serious question, because I was gonna have fun then
come back to being serious. So we're serious again. Yeah,
after writing a trauma book, which I am familiar with
(13:38):
writing a trauma book and trauma book, yeah, how do
you get to the next one? How do you get
to your happy place?
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Oh? That's so good.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Honestly, it's not writing to everyone, but writing to someone
that perspective of saying, there has to be one woman
who who's doing her healing work, who's moving past her trauma,
and she wants to hear what happens on the other
side of the work. She wants to hear what happens
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at the end, she wants to hear what happens next.
And so that's when I decided, like, yeah, I think
I've told my story enough. I've shared how I've been
broken and bruised and traumatized and abandoned, and all the
other things that I've gone through. But what does life
look like for me now? Am I smiling or am
I still crying? Am I you know what I'm saying?
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Am I broken?
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Or am I traveling? Am I loving again?
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Am I in a relationship? A healthy one compared to
the terrible ones I wrote about? And so I think
it's fair for our readers for them to hear that
there is love and restoration and recovery.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
On the other side of the trauma and the pain.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
But if we keep writing about the pain, they're going
to think that's what life looks like, that it's just
decades of brokenness and trauma and pain.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
But really, there is love on the other side.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
There is reconciliation, there's forgive, there's wholeness. There's so much
that happens when you decide to do that healing work.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
So the healing work is It's hurt.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
It was painful, it was unfair, but I'm not staying there,
and so I'm right about it so that I.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Can release it.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
And then once I release it, I'm going to allow
myself to live. And so that's what I share. How
I'm now allowing myself to smile more, I am giving
myself permission to trust people again. I am opening my
life up to someone who won't do me like those
before this person had done me. So I think that's
really important for people to see that we can have
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that on the other side of our pain.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
I love that. I absolutely love that. This does bring
me to the other question, since I again have written
about trauma. Sometimes you run into the reader that has
no experience in life. What is your book covers them?
Because I'm getting a review from a reader that I
obviously had no experience in life, and You're.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Like, yeah, like they can't relate, right, It's like, you know,
this is foreign to them.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Oftentimes, when I have.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
An inexperienced reader who has never like for example, again,
I grew up in Jamaica Queens.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
If you're not from my neighborhood, you would not believe
it was a real place.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
You could not fathom and you could not comprehend what
everyday life looked like. For me, it was normal to
see street pharmacists and people selling narcotics and you know
what I'm saying women, you know, having random men in
and out their homes, people selling their food stamps.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
This was normal life. For me. Right, If I try
to tell that to.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Someone who grew up in the suburbs with two parents
in the home, the picket fence, you get what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
The dog. They can't believe that that's real.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
They believe that's just a show on TV, that that's
not life. So what I often do is introduce them
and then invite them to consider someone else in their life.
Maybe it's not you, but is it so hard to
believe that it could have been someone in your classroom,
someone on the same pew at church, someone waiting to
get their car service, someone shopping behind at.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Publics or at the grocery store. You may not be able.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
To relate, and not all, not all literary work is relatable,
Not all of it is relatable, but it is relevant
and it is real. And so that's what I constantly
tell them. Be open minded enough to believe that this
is real, that this could really happen, or have someone
had really come through this.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
So yeah, that's how I help them along. Thank you
so much.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Do it the way I dealt with it. I wrote
a whole other book.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
That's a good idea.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Obviously you need something different. Let's try whole another book.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Hey, we get on motivations certain ways. You know what,
do you hope that starting your incorporation will help women? Do?
I mean other than of course, find their power, like
when they're done put into.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
The world, and yeah, you know, I'm hoping that it
launches and them into what they're called to do. I
think sometimes before we release the trauma through writing, before
we do the narrative healing work, we carry so much
trauma and pain.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
That there's no room for purpose. There's no room on our.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Plate for destiny or promise or you know, ambition and dreams,
because we literally only have capacity for what's hurting us.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Right.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
I always hear the phrase that pain makes us selfish
in the same way pain keeps us from ourselves. We're
always so busy trying to keep the pain from hurting
that we're not seeing what else is in us. And
so what I'm hoping is as I continue to aid
women to do their healing work through narrative, and I
continue to help them to publish their stories, that it
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then propels them into something else, Like whether you want
to go on to be a speaker, write more books,
maybe you want to become an artist.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Maybe you want to do poetry. Maybe you now.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Want to help people to publish, and so you start
your own organization whatever it is that I hope they
birth inside of them. Consider myself a literary midwife. I'm
just here to help you birth something great through your story,
and hopefully, as a result of your story, you then
recognize your own destiny, which is to do something beyond
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this book or this contribution to an anthology. Whatever it
is that you're called to, you go forth and do
something great. So that's what I hope to continue doing
for women.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Now, what are you going to do great with this?
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Oh my gosh, I have so much on my places, Like,
there's so much I want to do. I think sometimes
I'm overly ambitious. But the next thing that I'm working
on is my personal memoir. I have written about my
trauma and my pain, and I have written about hardship.
And I have helped other women write and I have
contributed to their writing.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
But I haven't actually invited people into know me, like
to true intimacy into me. See, Like I want to
invite people into who the little girl is that grew
up in New York.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Who's the girl that was in the movie Fresh, and
then what did she do when she got married?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
At twenty one? Did you become after divorce?
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Like, I want to share more of that story, like
in a sequential you know, from a sequential standpoint, And
I think that it's going to connect the dots for
people who make a lot of assumptions about who I
am because they're only getting bits and pieces of my
story through anthologies and through different workbooks and speaking. But
I think if I center it and put it all
in one place, in one book, where there are no gaps,
(20:24):
there are no assumptions, there is no misunderstanding, I think
people are going to see.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Me differently and embrace me.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
So that's a big goal of mine, to show the
world who I am from a whole standpoint, not just the.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Pieces of me that you've come to know on social media.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
You said from who was in a movie? Yes, became
literally So you were a visual artist first.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Yes, yes, at the age of eleven.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Artist because you know, yes, your writers were like, don't
you show my face?
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Yeah? So funny enough. I was in the movie Fresh.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
It's a cult classic that came out in nineteen ninety
four with Samuel Jackson and Sean Nelson and a couple
of other stars. It was my i think, second time
in front of the camera. I had done like some
other stuff locally, but this was my first big, you know,
silver screen film that I had done. And after the fact,
everyone was like, do you want to continue?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Do you love it?
Speaker 4 (21:22):
And I'm like, no, I just want to go back
to my writing, Like I just I wanted to go
back in the corner and finish writing.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Right looking back, you know, in hindsight, I'm.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Like, man, I probably should have stuck with it, you know,
seeing how a lot of us are now behind the camera.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
That's honestly where I wanted to be.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
I liked being in front of the camera, but I
feel like my true talent is directing and writing, and
so I would love to go back, especially being here
in Atlanta where you have you know, TP Studios, and
you have so many other projects that I can get
involved in. So that's probably on my goal list as well,
to get back into that space.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Let me understand that you will be opening your own
production house.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
And this was that It sounds like like like a
long term goal.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Yes, yes, yes, long term yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Have I have my I have a show that I
produced and direct. It was on Amazon.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
So you so you're saying that I need an audition
for you, is what they're telling you.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Believe me, I had no business doing that. You know
what my long term was. I started a contract and
seven days later they were like, where's the product? So
mm I made a showcase. You don't have to be
long term.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Okay, So now so move that up on the list.
I got you. I'm here.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
You know how Sydney's moving on mine, that's moving up
on your.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
I love it. I love it.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Yes, guys, get your production house, get on to be
if you can, and then move on from there.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Yes, thank you for that. I appreciate that I received it.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Yes, okay, And then you know, after this, I will
start talking to you about things that you can do
to get like Hollywood to pay attention to you.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
Quicker, thank you. Look at this. You are such a
yeah my sayer. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
I'm not sure if any of it has helped me.
It's helped others, but.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
It's like the case like that's the same for me.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Like some stuff that I pour into others they go
and do big things with it, and I'm like, I've
had that in me this whole time, and where's mine?
Speaker 3 (23:12):
But yeah, some stuff we're supposed to give. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Okay, So let me wrap this up because I told
you sab fifteen to seventeen minutes and per the normal,
it is not.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
That's okay.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
So where can we find out more information about you?
About your organization and listen to your podcast?
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Yes? Thank you.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
So we're on YouTube. Our media is cut in Clarity Media.
You can find us on YouTube. I'm also on Instagram
as Cutting Clarity, and then you can also follow me
on Natima Underscore Charie and then I have a website
Natimashurie dot com as well as Transparentgeminc dot com, which
(23:53):
is the mother company of all the other things that
you heard today, that's the parent company.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
So in essence, but she's that she's seriously busy. And
I said the last question before I recognize I need
to say one more question. Okay, there I go again,
adding question nine and ten. Oh right, So ten, for
anyone going out there that wants to write about their
trauma and give purpose to the world, what are three
tips that you would tell them to consider as they
(24:22):
put pen to paper.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Oh? I love that.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
First would be adopt the seventy thirty methodology. The seventy
thirty methodology is writing from a perspective of seventy percent
from your joy and your growth, so what you've been through,
how you overcome it, and how it's changed you. And
then the other thirty percent from your reality, So it's
what are you going through currently, what challenges are you facing,
and how are you moving through them. That perspective makes
(24:47):
you both relatable, but it also makes it relevant and
it makes it more digestible from others, because I think
sometimes people struggle with, as we just spoke on understanding
your story when they can't relate. If you sprinkle it
with a little bit of joy and growth and that
earned wisdom.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
People are a lot more receptive.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
The other thing I would say is show up transparently.
Start the book as yourself. Don't worry about the voices
of anyone else. Don't compare yourself. Social comparison is such
a destroyer of our authenticity when we often compare ourselves
to other influencers or other writers. Don't look at anyone else,
look at yourself. If you have to talk through the
(25:27):
manuscript in the mirror, do what you have to do.
To stay focused. And the last thing I'll say is
get you some beta readers who know nothing about your story.
If you try to engage people who are already familiar,
they'll try to write for you. They'll try to tell
you say something differently, or write it this way, or
don't include that person in your story. As complete strangers
(25:48):
to participate as a beta reader, because they have no
you know what I'm saying. They have no opinion, they
have no idea. They're just reading from a genuine place.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
I love that, especially about the bataies. You definitely do
need bataies who were not there. Yes, I had co
authors who were not there, so they made things clear.
They're like, that's overly personally and please don't share that.
That's embarrassing to me.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Exactly.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Listen, you're gonna tell us what one more time where
we can find your website?
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Yes, on the team is sharide dot com or transparentgem
Inc dot com.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Look at that. That's me going back to make sure
that we get that in so for us, for me
over here, and will Nona Marie, I'm one half of
the anti thought ladies. Look at that, y'all, remember what
part of half of something the Anti Thought Ladies. You
can go to www. Dot an i thought ladies dot
com and down in the middle of our page you
can see the charities that we probably support. We asked
that youn take a moment and support them. Also, it
(26:46):
does not have to be money. It could be you
know your wisdom, your skill set, or you can get
your hands actually dirty and go build it in a
orphanage in Ethiopia.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Who knows.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Whatever one you decide, we thank you in advance for that.
Remember that wisdom is all around Andrew, if you're open
to finding it and accepting it. So peace and love
you guys from Molnona and the Missing Jade. Oh yeah,
thanks for listening.
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