Episode 306 - Etta Juah McCoy Empowers Women Through Keynote Addresses, Seeds of Hope Book, Real Estate & The Mother's Touch Foundation

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[SPEAKER_04]: Good day, good day, everyone.

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[SPEAKER_04]: This is your host Paul Lawrence Van and I hope that you are doing great today.

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[SPEAKER_04]: We have an amazing episode coming up episode three hundred and six.

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[SPEAKER_04]: We have Edda McCoy with us today.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I want to just welcome her at this time and we're going to have a great time.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Edda, how are you doing today, my friend?

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm doing excellent.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm doing excellent today's the day the Lord has made and I'm here my live breathing.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Went for a run this morning and I feel revived, rejuvenated.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So thank you for having me on your show.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And thank you for having your great audience to hear my story and also learn a little bit about me.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you so much for the platform.

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[SPEAKER_04]: with honor to have you here, and it's going to be an amazing episode.

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[SPEAKER_04]: So everyone, put your seatbelt on because we're going into out of space right now.

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[SPEAKER_04]: So again, this is welfare academy podcast.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And our mantra is wealth is more than just money.

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[SPEAKER_04]: So welcome back to another transformational episode of well-focated podcast where we bring you the forces of those who are making a lasting impact in the world.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Today's guest is a beacon of inspiration, purpose, and empowerment.

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[SPEAKER_04]: edema core is not only an inspirational keynote speaker but also an author and that's not all she's also a licensed realtor and talent advocate for women's empowerment through her book sees of hope in the companions sees of hope for her journal

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[SPEAKER_04]: She so sees a faith, resilience, and transformation into the lives of women everywhere, and also youth.

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[SPEAKER_04]: As a founder of a mother's touch foundation, it is on a mission to uplift women and youth locally and globally, through education, mentorship, and community support.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Her life's work is rooted in war and boldly.

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[SPEAKER_04]: in her God-given purpose.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And today, she's here to inspire us to do the same.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And without further ado, Edda, welcome so much and let's get started because it's going to be so exciting.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Now, Edda, welcome.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, yes.

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[SPEAKER_04]: You're welcome.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Edda, you're welcome.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Edda, you're welcome.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Edda, you're welcome.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Edda, you're welcome.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Edda, you're welcome.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Edda, you're welcome.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Ed

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[SPEAKER_02]: So what first spark was I became a mother and I grew up.

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[SPEAKER_02]: My mom let me at a very young age.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So I didn't really have that mother touch when I was growing up.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I was bounced from one step mother to another.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So when I became a mother, that was when I noticed there was something important about a mother's touch.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I love that I was able to give to my daughter that I didn't receive.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So, as I watched her grow and I watched how I was pouring into her, it just kind of let open the spark in my mind and say, you know what?

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[SPEAKER_02]: How many girls like who up just like you that didn't have that experience, you know, that didn't get to experience a mom's love, a mom's touch.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But you're able to pull that into your daughter.

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[SPEAKER_02]: How about you do that for other young women?

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[SPEAKER_02]: So that's how we started.

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[SPEAKER_04]: That's very powerful because touch for baby is one of the most important things.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And they can feel that.

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[SPEAKER_04]: They can.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Eventually.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, I tell you, Adam, I'm one of ten children.

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[SPEAKER_04]: My mother had a lot of touches.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And it made all the difference.

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[SPEAKER_04]: For me, since I was the oldest son.

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[SPEAKER_04]: So yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And thank you for sharing that.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And I know that that continues to this day.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And, you know, I mentioned it earlier about your book, Seas of Hope and the Journal of the Indian.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And they're making incredible impact.

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[SPEAKER_04]: What inspired you to write them and what transformation do you hope readers experience?

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[SPEAKER_02]: So what inspired me to write Seas of Hope has I was going through my journey of life.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I started having this.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I started learning to forgive, like I went through my past, those that have done things to hurt me, those that have said, things to me that really broke my spirit that, you know, made me feel like I was unwanted on love.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't feel like God had a plan for me because I was placing the place where people could not give me that love that I needed.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So as I was playing that, what is it called?

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[SPEAKER_02]: In my head, I realized forgiveness is such a great thing that sometimes we hold on to so much anger in our life and we don't forgive people.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So seeds of hope is a space where basically that is called to be an instrument.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And also trust in God and in the midst of everything that is happening in your life, whether it's going through heartbreak, whether it's coming from a band of men or any space that you've been in.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I know I've spoken to many women that I've been through sexual abuse and you know, they've been through so much and we tend to hold onto that pain and harden our heart.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So seeds of hope came from that space.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I wanted to learn to forgive.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I wanted to learn to grow and understand what God's love was for me.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And that's how seeds of hope came about.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It came about saying, what in the Bible, when you go through the Bible, there was so many people that went through so many trauma.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But if you learn what God wants to wear God wanted to place them was forgiveness.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So that is how seeds of hope came about.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And then the computer journal, I was actually laying in my bed one day, I'm like, okay, so I wrote the book of seats.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I wrote the book seats of hope.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I added my story to it, but I'm a woman.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I want to speak to women and seats of hope, the Holy Spirit just spoke in my heart and say, why don't you write a journal, but not just a journal, go through

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[SPEAKER_02]: women in the Bible that have been through new new issues in the Bible, from the woman with the issue of the blood, Esther Ruth, Naomi, Craig Abigail, all these different women experience something in the Bible.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So I wanted to use them, so women can reference to them.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The story of Esther, someone can relate to it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The story of Hager, someone can relate to it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: A woman feeling unseen by the world, but when she realizes that God sees her, she can relate to the story of Hager.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The story of Ruth going through from a dead of her husband, finally understanding who God is to her following Naomi into a foreign land and meeting the love of her life.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's all transformation for women.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So that is where the book, the journal seeds of hope for women, seeds of hope for her came from.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It was to just let women who no matter what you're dealing with, whether it is being a mother, you're struggling, you're stressed, you're tired.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Pick a moment and understand what your purpose is.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You've got given purpose that God has given you as a woman to help you heal.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So I combine those two stories together, those two books and created the devotional so that women can reflect.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And then it also has a weekly check-in with God, where each month you're able to focus on a theme, a healing, growth, blooming, encouraging women to probably connect with God.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And so they've got given purpose, yes.

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[SPEAKER_04]: That's very powerful.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And the role of women throughout the Bible has always been very, very impactful.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And even though oftentimes we hear that men are doing it, but really it was the women in the background, especially when it came to Jesus, really a very impactful women that are tremendous make a difference today.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And today is even more than ever before.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And we wear a lot of your hats as a woman.

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[SPEAKER_02]: When you become a mother, you become a wife, a girlfriend, or a sister, you wear a lot of hats.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And sometimes you're putting on this mask.

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[SPEAKER_02]: When you get your hair done, you're makeup.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You start to look like a different person.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So you hide behind those spaces, but deep down inside, you're carrying a lot of pain, a lot of brokenness, and nobody else sees it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And then and before you know it, you finally you have a heart issue women are going to rest.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a lot that women deal with and seeds of hope journal for her.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a space for you to connect with God.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That if that was the main purpose for you to and it helps me because I didn't just write it for people.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I did it for myself because I'm like.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, the month of January is new beginning.

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[SPEAKER_02]: What does God tell me the new beginning of month?

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[SPEAKER_02]: What the month of January?

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[SPEAKER_02]: What does God tell me to do?

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[SPEAKER_02]: What is he calling me for?

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, and then the month of February is love.

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[SPEAKER_02]: What it's love from God's point of view.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Now, man's point of view, because when we tend to focus on man's point of view, we're looking at materialistic love.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But we focus on God's point of view, we're looking at eternal love.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I love that brings healing, I love that actually is true.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And it has no conditions on it, you know?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And it's pure, absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And the greatest role that I see for your books is the fact that you're making that connection between an individual who's helped us be a woman.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And God, and the personal relationship is the most important aspect of our existence.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, so, and in this book, especially the journal, you're looking at focusing on women of the Bible.

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[SPEAKER_04]: That's a really great approach to take because most people don't look at it that way.

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[SPEAKER_02]: No, no, no.

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[SPEAKER_02]: for the month of September actually falls on my it's my birthday September and it's the woman with the issue of the blood and that story resonate with me even though I always call myself Queen Esther but that story resonate with me for the throughout the years the things that I've been going through and dealing with a trust in God knowing that my trust in God will

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[SPEAKER_02]: eventually heal whatever I'm dealing with.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so that particular month is so special to me.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I really like your approach to it because from the external standpoint, you have a different mask on.

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[SPEAKER_04]: But the internal, which is really the house we live in is internal is that.

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[SPEAKER_04]: where the strength comes in.

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[SPEAKER_04]: That's where the weight comes in.

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[SPEAKER_04]: You can't fool yourself, right?

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[SPEAKER_02]: You can fool everybody else, but there's a stain in the Bible when night comes.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, that's when reality kicks in when you're home by yourself when you turn those lights off.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So it's best for you to connect with your creator so that way you know how to deal with what you're dealing with because you can weather mass for so long after why you're going to break down.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And most of the time our battles is in our mind is in our mind because our mind is where the enemy finds space and room because it's occupied with so much.

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[SPEAKER_04]: That's a great approach.

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[SPEAKER_04]: with that journal at the book and the journal sees a hope and it's just doing some incredible things.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Now, of course, we all know that faith plays a major role in your life, in your mission.

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[SPEAKER_04]: How has your faith guided you through your own personal journey of resilience?

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[SPEAKER_04]: If you could share that with us, Heather.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I know as my faith got me through, oh, I'm telling you sometimes, you know, that same small has the size of a must to see.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And that's a question God want to tell me like, God, I'm looking for that little faith and sometimes, you know, I know it's got me through is seeing my daughter is an example, just watching her grow.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I remember when I was pregnant with her, didn't see what was ahead of me.

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[SPEAKER_02]: There was that one lady for my church told me, you know, there's light at the end of the tunnel, I'm like, okay, it's very dark.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But she told me, just keep having faith and I've noticed the more I keep counting on God, the more I keep trusting even though things don't look bright to me.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I see I've seen him come through in many areas, many areas of my life, many areas, I can account.

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[SPEAKER_02]: many areas.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He's always been present.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Even when I lose sometimes, we're human.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We lose that faith.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We're like, oh God, things are not working out for us.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But I've seen God work.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I've seen God's hand in my life.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I've seen him do things that all I can say is God is present.

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[SPEAKER_04]: He present, absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_04]: He's with us before we are created and he's with us for eternity.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I've run into several people who say, and there is no God.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And I said, well, I can't you, I'll hold your breath a week, a day, a month.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And you know the answer, God is the area you breathe.

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[SPEAKER_02]: God is the area.

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[SPEAKER_02]: God is the area.

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[SPEAKER_02]: God is the area.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_04]: So thank you for sharing that.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Now you've spoken in one of the earlier questions in regards to wearing many hats and women are really

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[SPEAKER_04]: going through that burnout phase.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And for yourself, you're a speaker, keynote speaker at that, an author, realtor, and non-profit founder, how do you balance your professional life with your personal personal, personal driven work?

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[SPEAKER_04]: And of course, we'll talk about your keynote speaking as well, but you can just share all the hats you wear and and how does that create purpose-driven life for you?

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[SPEAKER_02]: What's mean?

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[SPEAKER_02]: One thing that I've tried so hard to be consistent is being myself.

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[SPEAKER_02]: When I'm a realtor, though I'm servicing people, I always tell people, I don't want to be a transactional person.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I remember my past a PM Smith from Human Memorial's Church, always use the word.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's all about relationship.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, it's about nothing.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I love that word that you always do.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So what I've learned is being a real estate agent does not stop me from being a child of God.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, speakers should not stop me from being a child of God.

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[SPEAKER_02]: All right, being an author should not stop me from being a child of God.

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[SPEAKER_02]: People should be able to see me in all these areas and still see that as a woman of God.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That is what I represent.

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[SPEAKER_04]: been authentic and transparent.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So wearing these hats, I'm a mom.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I always told my daughter, because of you, I don't want to deviate from who I am as a child of God.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_02]: The way you see me, that's the way I want everybody else to see me.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I every hat that I wear shows that I am a child of God.

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[SPEAKER_02]: being a mother, a speaker, all being a real estate agent.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I represent that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: When I'm working with someone, I speak to them.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I get to know them personally.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I create a relationship with them because when someone is buying a home from you, and you just see them as a transaction, you're going to mess them up.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But when you see them as this is a long-term relationship, you create a different platform.

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[SPEAKER_02]: When I meet a client for the first time, I want to know about them.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Why do you want to own a home?

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[SPEAKER_02]: What is your reason for owning a home?

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[SPEAKER_02]: And this home that you're buying is it for you, your children, and I get more connected when that children involved because

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[SPEAKER_02]: I always tell my clients that I single mothers or mothers that are trying to buy home.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I said, remember when you buy in the home, that is just sick heaven for your child.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So make sure every decision you make is protecting that child because this is where that child is going to call home.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So they grow up to go to where they need to go.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So that is just how I am.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't separate my hats and so well today I'm a mother so I'm going to be this woman or tomorrow I'm this person so I'm not I want to be the same I want to be consistent so people know when you meet Anna if she's warm she's warm if she's hot she's hot she's cold.

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[SPEAKER_02]: She's cold.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, they're transparent and authentic.

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[SPEAKER_04]: That's what the next people in other words I was listening to this webinar last week in the gentleman who was stating that

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[SPEAKER_04]: People, they don't hire you to speak because of your speech.

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[SPEAKER_04]: They hire you because the message for what they are audience.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And so that's really exactly what you're saying.

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[SPEAKER_04]: They're looking at the real you.

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[SPEAKER_04]: So you don't deviate as a keynote speaker, as an author or realtor and nonprofit founding.

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[SPEAKER_04]: What you see of edema core is what you get.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But you get when I used to hire employees and

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[SPEAKER_02]: I never go based on how many places you work.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I ask you questions to see your integrity, to see your family values, values to me values integrity and character means more to me than what you present.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So those are the things that I look for.

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[SPEAKER_02]: If what is your value, how is your family value?

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[SPEAKER_02]: What is your character?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Can people trust you in the dark the same way they can trust you in the light?

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[SPEAKER_04]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_04]: It's what you're doing when people are not watching.

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[SPEAKER_04]: That's what Oprah served us.

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[SPEAKER_04]: So let's talk just a bit and shift a little bit as you as a keynote speaker at your recent participation in the speaker showcase.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Please share the title of your speech and what that speech means to you for your audience.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So the title of my speech was you are not buried, you are planted.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, the reason why I chose that title, I felt very for years.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I felt like, um, the reject the stone.

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[SPEAKER_02]: growing up in my family.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Like I told you previously, I grew up in the Muslim home.

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[SPEAKER_02]: My parents, my dad was Muslim.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Ninety-five percent of my family is Muslim on my father's side.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I felt rejected.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I remember growing up in Ghana people used to tell me, oh, you look like an agbarino because I was too light.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Most of my family were dark skin.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Kids used to tease me.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We've been in school, my name, they used to tease me.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That was something that made me, it made me shy away.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I used to hear, I would hear from people you're pretty, but then I would hear from other people you ugly.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So I said, what's the difference?

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry, my African accent came in.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Why?

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[SPEAKER_02]: is this person tell me I'm pretty but in this other person tell me I'm ugly so I felt confused like you know so not having that mother figure to make me understand what beauty was make me understand what my values were as a woman as a young woman young woman it kind of

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, hurt me a lot.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, absolutely hurt anyone.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It brings down yourself a scheme.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It makes you feel like you're not valuable.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You're now good enough.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Of worth exactly.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So my story that I my speaker keynote speaking that I had at what is a speaker term was you're not buried.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You're planted.

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[SPEAKER_02]: When I

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[SPEAKER_02]: When I did a trace back, let's say, go, I went back into history of all the things that I've experienced growing up.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I realized that was not meant to bury me.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It was actually meant to help me get me to where I am, you know, in your pain, that's what your purpose comes.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So I realized that, even though I was cooking for my stepmother doing laundry and all of that, I'm actually a great cook.

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[SPEAKER_02]: No brag or anything right now.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Much of a great cook.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, raising my daughter and another thing is not a brag.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Just looking at how she has grown to be the woman that she is.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I am very proud.

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[SPEAKER_02]: As a mom.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So all of the pain that I experienced growing up watching my friends go to school while I was there doing laundry and cooking and cleaning and delaying to go to school.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It made me push my daughter to go after her education.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So I was never meant to bury me.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's only meant to bury you when you allow the enemy to constantly play that regret in your head and tell you, oh, that is why you went through this.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So when I bumped my feet in the Word of God and I started to walk with my purpose driven and God, I realized that was just the tool that I needed to get to where I am.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That happened to David.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That happened to Joseph.

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[SPEAKER_04]: All the apostles.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, the women of the Bible as well.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So when you have a great calling in you, you go through these type of channel in life.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_04]: That that is just wonderful.

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[SPEAKER_04]: But of course, I was there to hear you deliver that speech and it was a it was great.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I really enjoyed it.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you so much.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Meeting that we look inside ourselves and assess ourselves at the level that you delivered it at.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And you're like, you know what?

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[SPEAKER_04]: I think I've been there too.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you so much.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you.

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[SPEAKER_04]: So let's shift a little bit here.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And let's talk about a mother's touch foundation.

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[SPEAKER_04]: It's a powerful name of course.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Now tell us about the heart behind this organization and the kind of impact that is making

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[SPEAKER_02]: Once again, the heart behind it is just the love that I want to share with other young women that have in the space that I grew up in, not having that mother especially on your period.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So the reason why a mother's touch came about was knowing, I remember when I was on my period and I'm sorry I had to bring this on.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I was playing with boys.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I was playing with boys, we were just playing football because I was a tomboy growing up.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I love soccer.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I was playing soccer with them and a boy kicked the ball and he hit me.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I was like, oh, you hurt me.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So when I looked at myself, I had blistered myself.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That's all you had to be with the ball.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So I ran to my, to a family member and I'm like, the ball hit me with the ball.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It was like, no, sweetheart, you're on your period.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Is that my word?

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[SPEAKER_02]: What is that?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Once again, I was never prepared for that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So that was a disturbing because when you have when you when you're child your mother's duty is to prepare you for these life changes.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But I never had that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So that is where I wish I had that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So when I had my daughter I prepared her even from I think it was from the fifth grade or maybe the third grade I started preparing her for all of this.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So and mother's touch was like a light bulb.

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[SPEAKER_02]: How many young girls don't have where you just gave your daughter?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Sure.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I went back home.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Actually, last year when I was back home in Ghana, doing a mission work, we went to a school that we were actually talking to young women about hygiene products and hygiene issues and just life issues.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And those are young girls actually experiencing that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Sure.

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[SPEAKER_02]: In the midst of our friends,

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[SPEAKER_02]: I got so embarrassed.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, oh my god.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So I pulled her.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So come here, sweetheart.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Let's go.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Let me take care of you.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And

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[SPEAKER_02]: We distributed a lot of sanitary pads to all the schools, all the girls of the school.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm not as touched as coming from a place of love care and we want to support.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And you know, we want to make sure that we are able to provide hygiene product education about sex.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But your body as a young woman, what to do, what to not do.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, because girls in rural areas are quick to get pregnant because they don't have these skills.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They don't have this life lessons.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So that is what Mother started to do.

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[SPEAKER_04]: It makes the right decision.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And of course, I mentioned to you early that I have five sisters and

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[SPEAKER_04]: Wow.

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[SPEAKER_04]: My students, when they ran out of the things that they needed, I had to go to the store and get it.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And I was a real shy person.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I was so shy that I was standing in the store, sweating.

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[SPEAKER_04]: They're like, why are you sweating so much?

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[SPEAKER_04]: I have to get this from my sisters and they're like, I can't really do your towels.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That's where my mother's touch came from.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That is where my mother's touch came from.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't want to see another young woman not going to school because her period is on and she doesn't know how to take care of herself or doesn't know that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, my body's going through changes.

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[SPEAKER_02]: What do I do?

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[SPEAKER_02]: So I've made it my mission to create the space and every year do a mission work

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[SPEAKER_02]: in Ghana, in Nigeria, and hopefully in Liberia, just so that we can help young women all over.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not going to be able to save everyone, but that is my goal.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And hopefully in the future, a mother's touch will have a school that will be called AMTF for young girls.

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[SPEAKER_04]: That's wonderful.

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[SPEAKER_04]: That's wonderful.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I just think that this is such an amazing idea.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And like you said, you've given them experience because they may not have a mother there, may not have a father there.

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[SPEAKER_04]: They can help them through this process.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And if you don't have any one to to lead and guide you, you're going to have some experiences that you never thought you'd ever have.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I think that's very important for it.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Mother's touch foundations.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And I think it's just great.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Now in world that mentorship is a big part of your work, what does mentorship look like in your foundation, why is so critical for women at youth today?

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[SPEAKER_04]: And I know that as you stated to given them this education, how to young ladies work with boys and how boys work with young ladies and just helping them.

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[SPEAKER_04]: But what it comes to that mentorship

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[SPEAKER_04]: What do you provide to the key thing that you provide to young ladies?

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[SPEAKER_02]: I want you to mentor them.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So the key thing that I provide to me, mentorship is not just a program because I hear a lot of people saying, oh, we have mentor with mentoring.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Mentorship is beyond when you talk to them.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's beyond what you do afterwards.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Check it in.

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[SPEAKER_02]: scene, hey, is this something, is this something else you need besides just me walking with you on this path?

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a lifestyle.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So I speak, I try to speak into the lives of young women to see how I can help them.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I remember I started mentorship when I owned my own salon.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I will have young girls that will come in.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Can I be a shampoo girl?

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[SPEAKER_02]: I said, sure.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I always wanted to help someone.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So when they will come in and shampoo for me, I will talk to them about business.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, you know what I'm doing.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You could do it too.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You could do it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You don't even have to go and rush to get a license.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Start with braided and I can tell you with honestly speaking, I have young women that have they have their own shops now.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They have their own businesses because it's like, Miss Eddo, when I speak to you, you tell me things that I wish someone had told me years ago.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, so in the mother's touch, our goal is to find out what the young woman needs because you need to understand what the need of the person is.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You can just mentor somebody and you don't know what their need are.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Not everybody is supposed to be like me.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So I need to find out what their God-given purpose is.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Find out what their talents are, what their, what God has placed in them and improve that and then work on that, build on that and then get them to their destination of where God wants them to be.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So that's mentorship to me.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I think mentorship, she also start from home.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Charity begins at home.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You can go out and mentor other people and at your home, you have broken

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[SPEAKER_02]: Glasses in your home, you're trying to fix somebody else.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So once again, like I told you, my daughter became that space for me.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I wanted to see what I'm able to support into her.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And if I can put that into her, I can point into another young woman.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And then she will go forward and do the same thing.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And that's kind of how it works.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Each one.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And sometimes it's just one.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But just one, you don't have to be, you don't have to be the multi like Jesus did.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You just have to start with one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: One.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And one can become multiple.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Because one person can become the greatest change the world.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And they've got to benefit continue manifesting and everything works out.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Could you share a breakthrough moment of story where you witnessed real transformation in someone you've helped

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[SPEAKER_04]: And I know you've already mentioned some, but let's talk about your daughter some more.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Sure, um, my.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, my daughter is my greatest testimony.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I always tell people, just raising her as a single mom and watching her right now, graduated from college two and a half years with a minor and a major, preparing herself for law school.

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[SPEAKER_02]: When I look at that, I feel like that's the greatest gift that God has given me.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I always tell people your children are a gift that God has given to you.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Not so you to keep up with you to return back to them with what accountability.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And with her, when I was pregnant with her, I wasn't, I came to the Christian religion actually a year and a half before I got pregnant with her.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So I was still new, a new babe to Christianity.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But I was watching TV in the whole time through my pregnancy.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I think that was when I kept asking God, I'm like, God, I'm in this space.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm pregnant.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm about to be a mom.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I've never, I don't even know what a mom.

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[SPEAKER_02]: does.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, but I think the Holy Spirit, back then I didn't know was the Holy Spirit, but the Holy Spirit was speaking to me and say, don't worry, I got you.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And my one prayer and one thing that I've got to say, God, if you bless me and I take and this child grows up, what we've been about hard will be dedicated to you.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I will raise her like the Bible says, train up a child in the way they should go.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And they were not depart from it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So that was my focus.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So I always went back to the biblical direction of raising the child.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And still in her values, I told her, I said, I don't lie to you.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You don't lie to me.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, exactly.

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[SPEAKER_03]: That's right.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And this house.

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[SPEAKER_02]: What mommy does is an example i'm basically using myself i'm an example i don't want to use beyond faith i don't want to anybody else i want to be the one that you see walking in that light so i became that person it was the hardest thing to do as a woman you're trying to create the space for your child and

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[SPEAKER_02]: you're worried about her seeing you making mistakes.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I told her, I want you to see me crying.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I want you to see me pray.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And when I pray, I go on my knees, I want you to see me doing that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I took out a church.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I did everything else for her to see that this is what a child of God does.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I held her accountable for her actions.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I know she's gonna be mad about me telling you the story, but maybe anybody else here in it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: One time something happened in her school and the principal called me and the principal was like, this is not your daughter.

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[SPEAKER_02]: She is an excellent student.

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[SPEAKER_02]: She's been an honor role student from first grade all the way through.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know why this happened.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I told the principal, give her the maximum discipline that the school has.

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[SPEAKER_02]: If it means her being suspended, I am okay with it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And she was like, most parents don't do that because I want her to see the consequences of her action, whether she didn't mean to do it or whether she meant to do it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Sometimes we parents want to protect our children.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Sure.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And what we end up doing is what enabling behaviors that becomes bad for society.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So I told the principal that and when the principal was like, wow.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And then when my daughter came and said, I need you to write a letter to your school.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You're a principal, I apologize him to her for disturbing her school.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Now write a letter to the parents of the child, I apologize him to them for disturbing their life.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Even though it wasn't her fault.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, that is such a great approach to it because if you're showing her, it's better than it happens as a team than it does as an adult.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Because of the adult, the penalty is much higher.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And I'm a former PTA president of my children's schools.

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[SPEAKER_04]: You know what?

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[SPEAKER_04]: I was all about.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And she took today.

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[SPEAKER_02]: She walks in that path.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And that's one that I love about.

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[SPEAKER_02]: She always told me she's a mommy.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I wouldn't tell the people I'm not home.

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[SPEAKER_02]: She's a mommy.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I can't lie.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I can't lie.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Why can't you just tell them I'm not home?

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[SPEAKER_02]: You told me not to lie.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So if I tell them you're not home, I'm lying.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So she's one of those people.

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[SPEAKER_02]: She's like, no, I'm not going to lie.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So that is basically what

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[SPEAKER_02]: you know, being in that, you know, being in that space with her, just being a mom that is transparent and honest.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I told her, this is just how we are.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I think that's a really great approach to it again.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And so what I'm taking in from you and your families that y'all are under God's plan for your life.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And you cannot be in a better space.

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[SPEAKER_04]: When you're doing the will of God in the earth, you can't be in a better space.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's the best umbrella to be under.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm not trying to paint a perfect picture.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's life has a child.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It has his moment.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But when you're under the will and the direction of God, you will still face challenges.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But know that when those challenges come, he will give you the understanding and direction that you need.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And there's such thing as miracles.

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[SPEAKER_04]: You're like, how did this happen?

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[SPEAKER_04]: It was God.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Everybody was gone.

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[SPEAKER_04]: People thinking they're doing it themselves.

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[SPEAKER_04]: No, it was God.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And it just doesn't get any better than that.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And what challenges have you faces a woman leading in so many spaces and how have you overcome them?

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[SPEAKER_04]: In other words, if you can identify a one, what you say is a central theme of a challenge that you face in these spaces as an author, as a speaker, real estate agent that really move you into that direction of path.

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[SPEAKER_04]: The challenge was so great, it's like I was able to overcome it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, challenges.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, I'm trying to understand that a little bit better, so no way I can form that question.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Um.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I would repeat it.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Have you faced it as a woman leading in all of the spaces that you're in?

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[SPEAKER_04]: And you were able to overcome it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And the beginning, my challenge was because when I was a single mom raising the child, it was hard to be in the space that I am in today because my focus was being present in my daughter's life, making sure her homework is done, making sure when she come home from school, I am there making sure there's a roof over her head.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So that was my challenge.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So I was not able to step into the things that I wanted to do that I'm doing now.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Now she's twenty one.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So I don't have to worry about, did you do your homework?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Did you do this?

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[SPEAKER_02]: I made space for that.

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[SPEAKER_04]: But we're dealing with none for her.

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[SPEAKER_04]: You said that she finished college in two and a half years?

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[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, yes.

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[SPEAKER_02]: To an honor role, honor role.

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[SPEAKER_02]: To an honor role.

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[SPEAKER_02]: To an honor role.

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[SPEAKER_02]: She would have made, she would have made one of those top.

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[SPEAKER_02]: What is it called?

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[SPEAKER_02]: But a little glitch.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So, yes.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So those were those challenges.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I remember I used to watch my friends, you know, doing going here and doing that and I couldn't do it because when I was raising my daughter and they would tell you she was like my handbag, you know, from school, homework, from homework to the shower dinner, go outside of play, no TV Monday through Friday.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Friday evening you can watch TV, Saturday you can watch TV Sunday.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We watch TV to twelve PM.

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[SPEAKER_02]: and we need to get back to prepare for Monday.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So we had a structure.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So then we had a structure.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So back then, I couldn't do what I'm doing now.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Now, I don't have to worry about, oh, what are you doing and where you are now?

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[SPEAKER_02]: I can focus on what God, what is my purpose now?

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[SPEAKER_02]: What did you call me?

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[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, that's fantastic.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I know, sorry.

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[SPEAKER_04]: That was just so powerful because again, when you look at

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[SPEAKER_04]: what you've been able to accomplish is, and what I call so little time.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, that's really was accelerated.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I'll talk to you and continue excellence.

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[SPEAKER_04]: If a woman listening right now or today is feeling stuck, I'm certain about her purpose.

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[SPEAKER_04]: What's the first step you'd encourage her to take?

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[SPEAKER_02]: There was stuck above your purpose.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Go back to the songs.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Sometimes we allow the world to overwhelm us when we already have a source.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And our source is what our God Almighty.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You are stuck somewhere.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You have to go back to the creators.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They're God.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I am stuck.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know what to do.

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[SPEAKER_02]: How can you help me fix this?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Get back on your knees.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And later your problem to him, he said, these are coming to me with all your burden, and later all that I might see.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, and I understand the world has so much distraction.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It has so much going on.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And social media now is just making things worse for women.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, go back to God.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Ask them, what is this plan for you?

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[SPEAKER_02]: because we're all created for a purpose and a reason.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But if you don't understand your purpose and you're doing everything else, you're not going to get to where God is calling you for.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So if you're stuck somewhere as a woman, whether it's stuck in your in a bad relationship that just ended and you don't know what to do, get back on your knees and say, God, this happened, what is the next step?

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[SPEAKER_02]: And surround yourself with

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[SPEAKER_02]: people that have, what is it called?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Like mine did.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, like mine did people.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And with me, I'm so grateful to God that He has given me sisters that I can call them.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, let's pray.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Even before I go to complain, they want to pray for us.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, why can't we put a plate to you?

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[SPEAKER_02]: We have to go back to God.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And after we finish praying, then we can talk about it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So round yourself with women that can pour into you.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And the new thing that I've been doing, and I was doing it for a long time is get out of the house early in the morning, go for a walk.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And then why you're walking because sometimes when you're home.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You become complacent.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You become lazy.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You become tired.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And you're like, well, I'm going to sleep a little bit more.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm just going to lay on this couch a little bit more.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to hold my phone a little bit more before you know you're scrolling scrolling and you spend the rest of your day scrolling.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So step out of the house, why you're walking, start talking to God and say God, let's live with passion.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, and talk to him.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And and and and and add some okay, Lord, I'm out here.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know what to do.

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[SPEAKER_02]: This is happened.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know how to change the story.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Help me.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm telling you, God will speak to you.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's not going to be an audiobook voice as though hey, so it's going to speak to in a way that even you, you're going to get clarity and say, you know what?

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[SPEAKER_02]: This is what I need to do.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, that is just.

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[SPEAKER_04]: really a wonderful share there as you pour into women.

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[SPEAKER_04]: They're sitting there now and on our cabinets and this is what I needed to hear.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I agree.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_04]: So this next for Edda McCoy are there any upcoming projects, books or initiatives you want to keep an out for for the people who are listening.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, yes, yes.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you so much for that question.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So what's next?

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm planning on launching my book.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's already on Amazon, but I'm planning on having the book lunch invited my sisters over so we can, you know, read the book, have a panel, speak in where women will sit down and to relate to each of the stories in the book.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Traveling for Minnesota soon and hopefully we have in a book lunch over there to church and

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[SPEAKER_02]: talking about seeds of hope for her.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I'll be in Ghana this year to also have a book lunch over there.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And then stay tuned for my next book by it's coming next year.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's called Turn in the Table.

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[SPEAKER_03]: OK.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Great.

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[SPEAKER_03]: That was really good.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And who wants a more mission work with the mother's touch?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, there was a more mission work with the mother's touch.

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[SPEAKER_04]: That's fantastic.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Congratulations on that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And we're coming to a close at this point.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And first of all, I want to thank Edda for being our amazing guest today.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, thank you.

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[SPEAKER_04]: You know, she poured into all of you all.

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[SPEAKER_04]: She's a women's party advocate.

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[SPEAKER_04]: She's Arthur of this book.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Let me put this up.

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[SPEAKER_04]: sees the faith of hope, sees the hope, and then she has the job as well, sees the hope for her.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And it's a twelve-month faith journal, scriptures, reflections, healing growth.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And we can all use that.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And of course, she's our amazing guest today.

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[SPEAKER_04]: We don't want to forget that.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And we want she all to get out, let your family, friends, colleagues and clients

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[SPEAKER_04]: No more about Edda McCoy, episode three, oh six, and she's really a great virtual studio here today, and we're very grateful to her for that.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And what I want to say now is what an incredible conversation with the dynamic Edda McCoy, a woman who is truly planting seeds of hope and nurturing them into forests of transformation.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Whether through her inspiring words or foundation or her unwavering faith, that reminds us that we have a God given purpose and don't forget it and the curse to walk away in it.

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[SPEAKER_04]: If today's episode, move you, share it with someone who needs encouragement and don't forget to check out C's of hope and a mother's touch foundation because when women rise together, communities are forever changed.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Until next time, keep leading, keep growing and never stop believing in the power of your purpose.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Edo, you have any final words, like to share.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'd like to say thank you for all for this opportunity.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you viewers.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Anyone that is watching whatever country you're watching from.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you so much.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I hope my message touched your heart and I pray that whatever you're going through or dealing with a goddess able to strengthen you and give you, you know, more joy.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Go out there and plant seeds and seeds doesn't mean it doesn't have to be anything big.

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[SPEAKER_02]: by the small, just being kind to someone saying good morning, saying hello, checking in on someone, go out and plant seeds of hope in the lives of other people.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You are only, you are only

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[SPEAKER_02]: On happy when you don't take care of other people, fine happiness and being good to people.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I appreciate you.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you so much Paul.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you for your platform.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I really, really appreciate it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I can't wait to be on here again because I'm literally enjoying talking to you.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, as I stated in the editor asked, she said she want to come back.

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[SPEAKER_04]: She's definitely going to be coming back because she has so much more to share and I want you all to hear it.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Now, on today's episode, which again is episode three, oh six, you can get it wherever you get your podcast, you get an apple podcast, Spotify.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I heart radio, Amazon, music and many, many other locations.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Get out there, write and review it and give that a five star rating for all that she shared today.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And we really appreciate her and thank her and no doubt the seeds of hope we all need it.

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[SPEAKER_04]: And of course, we want all the women as well.

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[SPEAKER_04]: We all need it.

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[SPEAKER_04]: So thank you very much.

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[SPEAKER_04]: My time is up and I thank you for yours.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Again, my name is Paul Lawrence Van.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I'm glad to have you here on episode three, oh six at a McCoy.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Have a great day.

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[SPEAKER_04]: I'll see you on the next podcast episode everyone.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Have a great day.

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[SPEAKER_04]: See you, bye, bye, full.

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[SPEAKER_04]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_04]: Goodbye, my friend.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for listening to this episode with Paul and his guest.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I hope you enjoyed this episode and Paul requests that you write and review this episode and others on Apple Podcasts.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And wherever you listen to podcasts, view all wealth Academy podcast episodes at www.wealthacademypodcast.com.