Can you recognize a God-sent man? And what does it mean to be a 'super single mom'? These thought-provoking questions set the stage for our raw, heartfelt conversation with acclaimed author and celebrated super single mom, Dorian Evans. Dorian returns to the Listen Linda Show, enlightening us with her journey from the hardships of single motherhood to becoming an inspirational figure and the founder of a non-profit organization, Super Single Mom.
Our chat with Dorian is a roller-coaster ride of emotional highs and lows, brimming with nuggets of wisdom about life, faith, and self-confidence. We uncover how her experiences as a sixth-grade teacher and the profound impact of her former teacher shaped her outlook on education. We navigate through the tough terrain of the challenges of motherhood in the social media age and discuss the ripple effects of divorce on students and their families.
In our final act, we plunge into Dorian's personal narrative about the struggles of growing up without a father, the trap of unhealthy relationships, and her journey towards self-acceptance and empowerment. Dorian generously shares how she works to protect her daughter from the same experiences she faced and how she navigates conversations about relationships, trust, and divorce. Join us as we unravel the complexities of life as a single mom, teacher, and a woman striving to make a difference in this authentic, powerful episode of the Listen Linda Show.
Can you recognize a God-sent man? And what does it mean to be a 'super single mom'? These thought-provoking questions set the stage for our raw, heartfelt conversation with acclaimed author and celebrated super single mom, Dorian Evans. Dorian returns to the Listen Linda Show, enlightening us with her journey from the hardships of single motherhood to becoming an inspirational figure and the founder of a non-profit organization, Super Single Mom.
Our chat with Dorian is a roller-coaster ride of emotional highs and lows, brimming with nuggets of wisdom about life, faith, and self-confidence. We uncover how her experiences as a sixth-grade teacher and the profound impact of her former teacher shaped her outlook on education. We navigate through the tough terrain of the challenges of motherhood in the social media age and discuss the ripple effects of divorce on students and their families.
In our final act, we plunge into Dorian's personal narrative about the struggles of growing up without a father, the trap of unhealthy relationships, and her journey towards self-acceptance and empowerment. Dorian generously shares how she works to protect her daughter from the same experiences she faced and how she navigates conversations about relationships, trust, and divorce. Join us as we unravel the complexities of life as a single mom, teacher, and a woman striving to make a difference in this authentic, powerful episode of the Listen Linda Show.
Welcome, welcome, welcome. Y'all already know what time it is. It's the Listen Linda Show and y'all know how I do Five minutes of waiting music. Let's get it All right, all right, all right. Y'all know what time it is, it is five o'clock and we have a special, special returning guest. Hey, girl, hey.
Speaker 4:Hey girl, hey how you doing.
Speaker 1:Girl now, you know it's been a while, honey, but you are back. Yes, Are you back and you ready to spill the tea honey?
Speaker 4:Yes, yes, let's get into it. We're going to spill some tea today. I know people have questions and I'm here to answer them.
Speaker 1:Yes, girl, the Screech want to know, honey, the Screech. They want to know the streets, the rooftops, the buildings, the mountains. Ok, they want to know, honey, what's going on with Ms D? So, before we get into it, ok, you already know I've got to open up a prayer. Ok, absolutely. And then I'm going to get my ratchet on. But before I do that, I ain't going to put my ratchet on, I'm going to try to be a ratchet professional. Ok, I'll be ratchet professional today, because I'm here with elegance and grace and I want to make all the black women look bad, because I want to be a little ratchet professional today. So I'm going to do us some. Just do what. We're going to spill some tea. We're going to talk about it today, y'all OK. So let's go to the Heavenly Father. Ok, dear Heavenly Father, we come before you as we begin this listening show. We ask for your guidance and your presence to be with us throughout this time. Yes.
Speaker 1:May your love and wisdom fill our hearts and minds as we engage in conversations and discussions. Lord, we pray for clarity and understanding as we listen to Dorian's perspectives and her experiences. Lord, help us be open-minded, respectful and compassionate in our interactions. Lord God, may we seek to build bridges and find common ground, even in differences. Lord, god, father, we ask for your blessings on this show. May it be a platform where people can feel heard and valued. May it be a safe space where ideas are exchanged and understanding is fostered. Lord God, may it promote unity and harmony, bringing people together in the spirit of love and respect. Lord God, we give you thanks for the opportunity to have this show and for the ability to connect with others through it. I pray, god, that we use it for your glory and to bring about a positive change in the world. In your precious name, we pray God. Amen.
Speaker 4:Amen.
Speaker 1:Amen, amen, amen. Now let's get into the tea, honey. I didn't get it. Lord God His do just do. You know? We owe Him everything. He owe us nothing, honey. Ok. So, before we get started, I'm going to start with the song that you requested called God Sent man, and then we're going to get into it.
Speaker 4:OK, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 6:All right.
Speaker 7:Hey, oh, god, sent man. He is my God. Sent man Directed by His plan, directed by God's plan, and drive away my fears and drive all my fears away in one and drive away my tears, drive away all my fears, drive away all my fears. He is my God. Sent man Pray to love, heard in abuse, scared to trust a man. So my heart will never be mine, never be mine. So this man with God's own plan to love me and keep me and cherish me and take me as His wife, this man of God, strong and wise, I will be the lover of my life.
Speaker 8:He is my God sent man.
Speaker 7:Directed by His plan, directed by His plan, and drive away my fears and drive away my fears, drive away my tears, drive away all my fears. My man covered by love, oh, love, a conditional love. Make no mistake what God has put together no man can ever take. He's in a man with His plan to love me and keep me and cherish me and make me His wife. This union we had together is gonna last me. It's gonna last me the rest of my life. He is my God sent man. He is my God sent man, directed by His plan, directed by the plan, the plan to take care of me and drive away my fears. Treat me with care and some more. Her heart and danger, drive away my fears. He is my God sent man. He is my God sent man. Oh, my God sent man. Oh, my God sent man. My God sent man. He is my God sent man. Oh, you see, I'm gonna tell you, he's my God sent man, directed by His plan.
Speaker 1:Girl that remind me of Sierra's prayer. Oh yeah, Girl, you better come on with it. So why didn't you pick that song?
Speaker 4:So I picked that song. I know there's always questions about my divorce and that song is literally everything that a man should be.
Speaker 4:Amen come on now with it, as I'm getting so funny because my daughter is all like Mom. You know she'll see somebody and she'll be like Mom. You know he looks like a nice guy and I'm like girl, bye, just leave me alone. And I think the biggest thing right now for me is I don't. I'm like I'm tired of imposters, I'm tired of men that say their God sent man coming in my life or coming in, you know, on my face, and I'm like, yeah, no, I'm not having it, I'm not doing it, I'll wait until he is God sent. Until he is that God sent man, I will wait. So that's why I picked that song. I love that song.
Speaker 4:That is a friend of mine, dear dear friend of mine, my sister, that sang that song. And you know I look at her and her marriage and her husband is that God sent man. I have a saying and it is you know, if someone said something to me or whatever, I was like, well, that ain't what school would do, because that's her husband. And well, school wouldn't do that or school wouldn't say that. And so we laugh about it. You know, I call them my little school isms, but truly she has a God sent man and it's just an example to a relationship.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I totally agree. So do you in your book, because you can. You tell everybody, because we just write it went right on into us. So for people who don't know, can you give them your name, the title of your book, where they can find your book, any upcoming book projects or anything else that you have going on right now?
Speaker 1:And then we're going to get into the tea of your divorce and you know, of course, you say you're going to sip it, we're going to sip it today. So you know, we're going to sip the tea. We ain't going to spill it because I'm not trying to get by her, you know right, but we'll sip on it and you know, just, we're going to get people a little bit more background about it. I definitely have some questions I want to ask you and the game that we plan to get today you guys, if y'all don't know, it's called Dorian's 21 questions. So we're going to play Dorian's 21 questions. She's going to answer each and every one of these questions. I don't care if they sound the same. She's going to answer all 21 and get right Dorian.
Speaker 4:Yes, I mean, I ain't in the hot seat for nothing today, I guess. So my name is Dorian Evans, I am an author. I have a book out called understanding my assignment. It is a memoir and it just touches on my life after moving from Ohio to the state of Texas and starting over Just a little bit. It talks about my kids mostly and their champions, and you know what it takes to be a champion and we redefine that off the bat.
Speaker 4:I don't touch on it and this is why me and Jackie are laughing because I don't really touch on my divorce in the book, because that's not what it's about. It's about, you know, just moving forward. You know, and understanding what it is I'm here to do and my purpose on this, this planet. I do have. I am a co-author and upcoming project that will be released next month. She said yes to herself unapologetically, which I just think that the way you know my book came out and this opportunity opened itself up is really just got opening doors.
Speaker 4:And then also I do have a journal out and it is the understanding my assignment and it's basically a journal to figure out what it is that you want to do, to make sure that you are reflecting and being, you know, gracious to yourself. There's scripture in there. There's positive affirmations in there. It kind of helps you with a to-do list. It has a monthly calendar.
Speaker 4:I took a few things from the book, but mostly I took everything that I have in all of my different planners and I just wanted to combine it into one so that I would only have to carry one now and not carry several planners. So that is out as well. Those are all on Amazon, so you can find it on Amazon. You can find my book on my publisher site, archway Publishing. You can find it on Barnes Noble and you can find it on Amazon. You can find the journal on Amazon. You can pre-order the new book that is coming out, that is being released next month, on my website, wwwthedorianevanscom. If you pre-order it you will get an autographed copy of it. So you know and anything. You can always find information and find my upcoming projects and things like that on my website as well.
Speaker 1:Great, great, great. So before we get into the 21 questions, I'm going to play this song and then we're going to get back to it, okay?
Speaker 4:Okay, well, before you play this song, jackie, full disclosure. I just want everyone to understand and to realize, you know, the reason I am so vulnerable, or I am talking about certain things, is only to uplift others and to let other women and even men, and just you know, know, in general, like you're not alone. I've been through this or I'm going. You know, if you're going through something chances are I've been through it there is light on the other side of the tunnel. So that is, you know, always my purpose when I share my stories to uplift others.
Speaker 1:Amen, amen. And that's what we are here for, and anybody who knows to listen listen to the platform. That is that that exudes what I bring. It's not to bash, it's not to boast, it's not to make fun of, it's not to discourage, it's not to bring any type of sadness or negativity to the world. That's not what my platform is about. Check the record is always to uplift and encourage and inspire not just women, but men, just people in general. So the reason why I asked Dorian to come back on and she was so open to do it is because she has been kind of shying away from that topic. But I believe, I truly, truly believe, that her telling her story in the best way that she know how because her story is her story is to show people that you know, I went through this, I dealt with this and I made it through it and it's all. That's why it is called the rainbow, because it's always a gift on the other side of the storm, right? So that's what this is about.
Speaker 7:She will be, she will be, she will be, she will be, she will be, she will be, she will be, she will be, she will be, she will be, she will be, she will be, she will be, she will be, she will be, she will be.
Speaker 1:She will be. Come on now, shoot, shoot, shoot, be do door in. Yes, okay. So if you guys I don't think Dorian mentioned it, but I'm going to go ahead and mention it because she didn't Dorian has a not for profit that she started and called super single mom. So can you tell us more about your not for profit, super single mom and what? What actually inspired you to start this not for profit and what? Where did the name derive from? Well, I'm going to go ahead and show you the name of the name. I'm going to show you the name of the name. It's not for profit. And what? Where did the name derive from?
Speaker 4:Well, the name From someone saying that I thought I was a super single mom.
Speaker 4:Well, I was trying to portray that I was a super single mom out here doing this by myself and I had no help, et cetera, et cetera, and I think it was meant to hurt me, but it kind of, you know, god revealed to me I'm going to bounce off of you and go back out and be something powerful.
Speaker 4:And so I took that super single mom and a friend of mine.
Speaker 4:She made me a logo and I talked about it with her, about how I really just want to be able to help support moms that have been through the hardships that I have, like when I lost my job and you know I was worried about food on the table, or when my children had an event coming up and you know I needed gas money to get them there, or to help pay a registration fee for them to be, you know, to participate in a camp or some kind of sporting event, some kind of you know just whatever.
Speaker 4:And so the vision behind it is really just to give moms like that are really out here doing it and trying to make sure that their children don't, you know, end up going down the wrong path. I just want to say here here's you know, do you? If you need something, if you need a hotel, well, here's $100 to get you a hotel, because you're going to, you know, whatever event starts, it's three hours away. It starts at eight o'clock in the morning and I get it. I've been that mom on the road at 4am and then coming home at 9pm and I've been so tired that I'm like please, god, get me home, you know, safely, because I'm exhausted. So really, it's just about supporting single mothers who are out here doing what they're supposed to do for their children.
Speaker 1:I think it's awesome, awesome, awesome and I love how you took that negative and really turned it into a positive and just let God, like I said, you know people would do something bad and think or say something bad, and they think they're doing something to hurt you, but God will use your enemies as your footstool and I think that that's really what I took from that. Next question how has being a divorced mom since 2016 influenced your journey in education and your perspective on teaching?
Speaker 4:Um, so I think I have a. I always had a great appreciation for single moms because my mom was a single mom and she's one of the best to do it, so I always had an amazing role model and a great example. So that's, you know, never been a question, I think, once I went through the process and then just by children, you know, going through the whole. At times they want to go live with their dad, they want to, um, you know, go hang out and I always have to be. You know, I always have to be the disciplinarian. I have to be. You know, I can't be the fun parent all the time, I can't be the friend parent. Um, you know, I have to be the parent, parent and so, um, just going through that, I, you know, I really have to look to God for guidance on raising them and making sure that I'm doing what's best for them and exposing them to opportunities that are good for them.
Speaker 4:Um, as far as my kids at school, I think I have an understanding of what they go through when they go through a divorce or they're coming from a divorce home or their parents are separating, and it's amazing to me how many kids mentioned that and um, it's just kind of an un-said understanding there and I'm like I got you. You know, um, you know I call all of my students my kids. It's something I've always done, um to me. Once you are in my classroom, you are in my care. I've been with you for that much time, you know, throughout of the year, um, I have a love for you and I want to see you succeed. I want to see them do well, um, and just because they come from a divorce home does not mean that they're not going to to reach all of their goals that they set in life.
Speaker 1:I think that's amazing. I think that's absolutely amazing, um, and we need more teachers like that. You know, um, I know I I had. A lot of my teachers were strong black women. A lot of them were divorced or married or single moms that had never been married and, um, they took me under their wing a lot. You know, um, being a little girl out here in the streets and I talk a lot about it in mountains.
Speaker 1:Actually, I mentioned one of those particular teachers in particular. She was my sixth grade teacher and she ended up being a foster parent of mine. Um, recipes, Ms Moore, but her name in my book was Ms Williams and um, she took me in, um, she was my sixth grade teacher. She took me in in the eighth grade and she, uh, I stayed in her house, um, until I was 16 years old and thought I was grown. So I was grown and gone and on my own because she had me get up out of there.
Speaker 1:But when, when I came back, like the prodigal child, she accepted me and she put that robe on me and she covered me and my child Like we was her own honey. So I applaud you and I want to let you know that, no matter what, I will always respect you as a teacher and as a parent and as a mom. I think that you are phenomenal at what you do and you know her and I speak about that in mountains as well. But her taking me in um it caused a shift between her and her kids and their relationship because they were super tight but they felt like she cared more about her students than she did me. I mean they had them and that caused the rift. Do you feel that rift at home with your kids and how you um taking other people's kids and they feel like it's a disconnect there?
Speaker 4:I don't feel like my boys, um, maybe not my. Well, my oldest son not really, because I was in the middle school working as a sub, um, when he was in high school, so I didn't see him much and he was probably like a junior senior he was. He was kind of up there. Um, as far as my, I think I feel it more, I hear it more with my daughter. You know she'll say, oh, you love them more than you love me, and I don't think that's the case at all. Um, she is just, very, uh, a teenage girl and you know we all go through that stage of being a teenage girl where we don't necessarily want our moms in our lives.
Speaker 4:You know, we want to do what we want to do and hang out with who we want to hang out with and, um, you know, I'll mention my students, or I'll mention something. Or my students. You know they follow me. I created my Instagram really just for them because, um, it was a way for them to reach out or just for me to keep an eye on my ones that were going from a grade to high school. Um, they were just like crying and I'm like guys like this isn't the end, you know, I'm still in the district, I'm just not going to be with y'all, and so I literally created that so they could. Um, if they need me, I was there for them. Um, you know, they'll say well, Miss Evans, I'll follow you, but you don't follow me back. I'm like, because I'm not a creeper, I'm not doing that.
Speaker 1:Right, my step kids like hey, you know my bonus kids like hey, follow me and I'm like I don't follow the chair. I don't follow the chair. And even when they even like, even like some of the kids like my, my little cousins, or you know my in-laws, and they, they, they all under a certain age, 21, even someone that's older over 21, I still don't follow them because I just feel like I knew you when you was a baby. I don't want to see you cuss.
Speaker 1:I don't want to see you acting the fool. I don't want to see the wrong type of status, the wrong type of clothes, because you know, you know it's easy to say that we don't judge, but when we looking at them we're like no, don't do that. Like what are you doing? Like you're doing it wrong, like don't do that. And so I just have this whole out of sight, out of mind thing. When it comes to kids, or kids that's under me, I don't care if you grown now, if you a kid under me. I just feel like I can't follow you. But you can follow me. I need my advice, I give it to you or whatever. But I'm just at that stage was like you know, no, no, thank you, no, whatever. If you cussing on your page when the wrong type of clothes, I don't want to know.
Speaker 4:So when I first went into the school system, started working, I had a rule and you know this was for Instagram and everything. Only thing I was Facebook. And I said I would say you have to be graduated for five years in order to be my Facebook friend. And so since social media has kind of evolved, you know I'm like my Instagram is a little separate. You know I was a little bit more opinionated on my Facebook and you know it just was it was.
Speaker 4:I didn't want the kids on there. You know, all around election time and things like that, but now I really don't. You know I don't really use my social media for for a platform like that is just more. This is who I am, this is where I am. You know, just, it's just kind of fun, I guess now versus anything else. And you know I want to be that person that if, if someone needs something they can reach out and if I can't help them, I'll find somebody that can help them. But our kids go through a lot nowadays, you know, and I didn't realize how much our students went through Until I got into teaching in the classroom full time not just as a para or a substitute teacher or a secretary.
Speaker 4:you know, now that I'm in the classroom and I'm with them, you know, I see, I see all that they really do struggle with.
Speaker 1:Yeah, how was that been like having that dynamic with your students and then having to come home, you know, and and and have your daughter like say the things that she said?
Speaker 4:It's really hard Because you know I'm a very empathetic person, so I really feel what my kids are telling me. I really take. You know, there's days I come home and I'm just exhausted just from, you know, being around them and in there, just the things that they say or whatever. And then when I come home, you know, when I last year, when I picked my daughter from school, she'd get in the car and immediately she would just like dump everything out of her that she went through, and you know, middle school is a hard time for kids, and so by the time I walked in the door I was just physically exhausted, I was mentally just drained.
Speaker 4:And I think that you know, now we have a better balance, a better understanding. Like I'm like okay, you know she'll ask me how was my day and I'll ask her, you know how was your day? And I'll have a little bit of separate times to show. I usually get home after her. You know she'll ride the bus home and so she has a little bit of time to decompress. And then when I come in, it's not just like mom, let me just throw all this at you one time. And so I think that it's a better balance that we have now that you know she's in high school and she realizes. You know my mom goes through stuff too. My mom has tough days.
Speaker 4:You know, and just seeing all the work that goes into being a teacher.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she's like, let me just give my mama a little grace. Yes, now we're going to get into this next song and then I'm going to come back with a little more questions for Dory and guys. Okay.
Speaker 7:Last night I prayed on a falling star that you'll never have a broken heart. Oh, the world is cold. Just remember who you are and I pray that you'll never have a rainy day and no matter what people say, even when it hurts, it'll be okay. Tomorrow brings new promise, so don't worry about today.
Speaker 8:The first time I saw you, I knew my life had changed.
Speaker 7:I would have been dead and gone, but I found purpose when I brought you home and even though I'm not there.
Speaker 8:I took you in every day. I'm not far away. This is what I'm all about.
Speaker 7:Last night, I prayed on a falling star that you'll never have a broken heart.
Speaker 8:Oh, the world is cold. Please remember who you are.
Speaker 7:And I pray that you'll never have a rainy day and no matter what people say in your darkest hours, I'll help guide your way. Those dreams you have. I want you to chase them, chase them.
Speaker 8:This bond we got. Let nobody break it. Break it even when I'm on the road and I can't see your face.
Speaker 7:This music will never take your place. I love you, chase, I love my chase, and that's why last night I prayed on a falling star that you'll never have a broken heart. Though the world is cold, remember who you are.
Speaker 8:And I pray that you'll never have a rainy day.
Speaker 7:And no matter what people say, even when it hurts, it'll be okay, and I pray that you'll never have a rainy day. And no matter what people say in your darkest hours, I'll help guide your way. This is what I'm all afraid of, oh yeah, oh yeah. Your daddy loves you and I love you too. Sorry, we couldn't work it out for you, but we gon' do what's best for you. I pray, oh I pray. I love you, cause this is what a mother prays.
Speaker 1:And that song is dedicated to your daughter, that beautiful young lady who I had the pleasure of meeting on FaceTime, and I think that that is the perfect song to explain what's going on. I'm not a therapist, but I know that you love your daughter so, so, very much, and I know that you do the absolute best that you can do to make her feel secure and uplifted and empowered as a young black woman. And I just, I see it, I'm a real friend, y'all who've been on the phone in FaceTime and we've been talking and kikik and laughing and crying. So this is someone who I feel does not get the true recognition that she deserves as a mom and as a divorced wife. But she's still somebody's wife. He just ain't his marvels, ain't there yet to find a boy. He gonna get his marvels, but what do you think about that song, dorian?
Speaker 4:I love that song. I loved it, you know. You played it before and I really loved it and it does. It just makes me think about how much I do love her and you know I just try to pour everything into her that was poured into me. And then some, you know, because you know I was always my mother, always, you know, I had a great mom. She was one of those moms that you know uplifted you and if you had a dream or wanted to do something, she would, you know, make it happen. You know she's just always been there for me. My mother is my best friend. Shout out to Linda Owens my my, listen Linda. I just love her so much and I just hope that I love my daughter the way that I was loved.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, For sure. And you know, and as moms, like you said, as moms, we have to be that tough person sometimes and it's not always easy. And I'm going to go back into the questions that I wrote. So you mentioned, you know, when we were going over what we were going over about the show you mentioned facing challenges related to your divorce, interracial, you know, adultery, disrespect and gambling. And I put interracial in there because I want people to understand the dynamic of what's going on.
Speaker 1:Okay so it's not to be racist or anything like that, but I need people to really understand and stop trying to shy away from the fact that it hurts just a little bit more when it comes from our black men. Okay, so I just want to throw that out there. So it was related to your divorce. That were interracial adultery, it was disrespect and gambling, and how have these experienced shaped your outlook on life and your mission with Super Single Mom?
Speaker 4:I think I'm just very, I'm more compassionate, you know, because I was married for 12 years and there was so many red flags that I ignored and I chose to ignore them.
Speaker 4:And I can look back on that now and take that accountability and say I ignored the gambling and you know the things, you know, and I think the infidelity was the last straw. But there were a lot of things that I should have, you know, walked away a long time before that 12th year, before that that even happened, and I think part of the reason that I did not walk away from it was because I didn't want my children to come from a broken home. I didn't want to be a statistic and those kinds of things. So I understand now you know, and I think, with Super Single Mama, understand some of the challenges that as a wife and as a mother, we face and we you know the sacrifices that we make in order to keep, you know, our families together. I think I'm less judgmental, you know, when it comes to whatever it is that so we lost her for a minute.
Speaker 1:So until we bring her back, I'm going to play a song, you guys? Okay, Hold on baby Hi.
Speaker 11:Stinky Hi Stinky Hi Stinky Hi Stinky Hi Stinky Hi Stinky Hi Stinky Hi Stinky. I'll put it down for you Did you miss me?
Speaker 7:Yep, you don't miss me, I don't miss you, you do miss me. Give me Kissy, thank you.
Speaker 11:I can kiss you too. I love you. I didn't come yet, ma'am, okay, bye, Okay, bye, all right, bye.
Speaker 8:Okay, bye, hahaha, hahaha. When I first laid eyes on you and I heard your heart beat too.
Speaker 7:I never knew I could witness an angel so beautiful.
Speaker 8:From the very moment you arrived, I felt something new inside. I developed a love that was so unconditional and I promised to give you everything that I had.
Speaker 7:There's not a dream in this world you can't accomplish for granted. I will cross the ocean before I let you land. Just hold on to mama's hand and never let go. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Just hold on to mama's hand and never let it go.
Speaker 8:I'll never let nobody hurt, you give you the world, cause you deserve it. It's here to help to treat a woman that you know You're gonna be something great. I want for you to shine so bright so you can do anything. Through Christ, I see that there is a star inside of my soul.
Speaker 7:Let your in my life. I promise to give you everything that I have. There's not a dream in this world you can't accomplish for granted. I will cross the ocean before I let you land. Just hold on to mama's hand and never let it go. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Just hold on to mama's hand and never let it go. Oh, oh, oh. Just hold on to mama's hand and never let it go. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Hold on to my hand, hold on to my hand, never let it go. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Yeah, son, hold on to my hand, hold on to my hand. Just hold on to mama's hand and never let it go. Hold on to my hand, never let it go. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Just hold on to mama's hand and never let it go. Hold on to my hand, oh, oh, oh, oh, son. Hold on to my hand, never let it go. I love you, I am your mama.
Speaker 1:All right, that was Queen Naja, with hold on to my mama's hand, and we got Dorian back. Y'all, devil, trying to make this not happen, but it's not going to happen. You devil, get me behind us. Dorian, you back. Yes, ma'am. Okay, so we're going to get right back to that question. How have those experiences far as like the disrespect, the gambling to interracial adultery? How has that shaped your outlook on life and your mission with super single mom? Your, your nonprofit that you're starting?
Speaker 4:So I think I'm like what mental when it comes to, you know, women that go through things and why they stay, because I've been through it myself and I understand. You know I didn't want my family to be a statistic, I didn't want my children to be from a broken home, and so I stayed longer than I should have stayed. I think the infidelity was literally the last straw and you know I could have walked away years prior to that, but I chose not to. You know, that was a conscious choice that I made. I just think I'm more compassionate and you know I'm a little bit more understanding than I was when I was younger or, you know, hadn't gone through a divorce yet, and I get what it takes, what you know, that ultimate All right I'm, I throw in the towel, I'm going to do this by myself. I understand what that means and I understand, like all the thought and the prayer and the tears and everything that goes on before that decision is usually made.
Speaker 1:That's an awesome answer, awesome, awesome answer, and I I just commend you and I'm so proud of you, girl. Okay, so we talked, we delved a little bit into you leaving your hometown to pursue your passion for teaching, so could you share a specific incident or moment that made you realize you needed to leave your hometown?
Speaker 4:The day I remember, you know, coming to the decision that I'm going to leave. Well, first of all, I was working for the school system that I went to. So I was, you know, born and raised a product of Sandusky City Schools, you know. And I was a. I was a blue streak through and through. I'll be a blue streak till the day that I die, and all of that. But I had a degree.
Speaker 4:I was subbing in the school district, I was, and then I got hired full time as an administrative assistant. And I just remember, like as I was, you know, working in that job, I was going through my divorce and I was like man, like I can't work this job and take care of my family because I was not making enough money. I would have had to get a second job, a part time job or whatever, which then makes me think, you know, oh, I'm not going to be able to be the mom that's there for everything for her kids, because I'm going to have to work two jobs just to provide for them. And I remember an opportunity to come back to Texas opened up, and it had nothing to do with teaching. You know, I do event planning as well, and a friend of mine was opening up a venue and I was like, oh, if you ever need an event planner, you know, let me know.
Speaker 4:And she's like, oh, don't play with me, I'll have you down here doing real estate and doing event planning and whatever. And I, and I remember talking to my boss, I remember talking to my superintendent, and they were like, you know, you're at an age like, if you're going to do it, you need to do it. And I will say that they were some of my biggest like cheerleaders telling me I could do it and you know, whatever you do, you'll be great at. And I never really believed that until recently. But there was a, you know, and there were some incidents where, you know, I had wanted to teach a speech class and I had a degree.
Speaker 1:No, get into that. No, get into that. That's not right now. Oh, get into that.
Speaker 4:Well, that was one of the incidents.
Speaker 1:We're going to play this song, and then we're going to get my bad. Oh yeah, oh, it's your bad. It's so bad because we got 21 questions. No, try to skip out. No, we're not doing. See, I'll see how she tried to do me. I'll see that. Look, that's why you can't invite your sister on the show, because she tried to try to just be like I never know what she's been trying to do. So let me go ahead on the answer this question without answering no. No, no, we're going to get to this song, honey, and then we're going to answer the question.
Speaker 1:No, you're not going to answer enough. We're going to get to the song, and this song is called School in Life by Beyonce. Okay, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 7:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 6:Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 7:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 13:No matter what you're going through, I know that you can stand, For. Your life is in In this hands. Listen, you don't have to worry and don't you be afraid. Joy comes in the morning troubles they don't last always, for there's a friend who chooses, who will wipe your tears away. And if your heart is broken, just lift your hands and say oh, I know that I can take it, I know that I can stand.
Speaker 7:No matter what comes my way. Jesus, my life, my life, is in your hands.
Speaker 15:Let's sing it together. Listen, you don't have to worry, and don't you be?
Speaker 13:afraid Joy comes in the morning. Troubles, they don't last always, for there's a friend who chooses who will wipe your tears away?
Speaker 15:And if your heart is broken, just lift your hands and say oh, I know that I can take it. Bless your name, jesus. I know that I can stand. No matter what may come my way.
Speaker 7:My life. Oh, I know that I can take it, jesus my life.
Speaker 15:I really love you. Jesus with him.
Speaker 7:With him. I know I can stand, no matter what may come my way. No matter what may come my way, my life is in your hands. Listen.
Speaker 15:So the test and trials they seem to get you down.
Speaker 13:And all your friends and loved ones. All your friends and loved ones they're nowhere to be found. I know where to find them. Remember, remember. Remember there is a friend, Remember there's a friend who chooses. Oh I love him, I love him, who will wipe your tears away? I know he will and if your heart is broken, this is all you have to do.
Speaker 7:Just lift your eyes. Come on and work with me. Stand, come on. Oh my God, that. I can make you Don't, you give up. I know I know that I can stand. Hang on joy is coming. I know it, no matter what may come my way, jesus, my life, my life is in your hands, hallelujah hallelujah with him.
Speaker 15:I know I can take it.
Speaker 7:Jesus, I can take it With him, I know it With him, I know I can stand. I feel like having some church in here. No matter what may come my way, jesus, my life is in your hands. My life is in your hands. Every person that's going through.
Speaker 15:lift your hands and stand with me. I know I can. I know that I can stand. I got a witness in here somewhere. I know, I know that I can stand.
Speaker 7:No matter what may come my way. No matter what may come my way, jesus, my life is in your hands. My life is in your hands. Oh, I love you so much, jesus. With you I know I can take it, jesus my life is in your hands.
Speaker 15:Oh, bless you, man Jesus.
Speaker 7:With him. I know I can stand, no matter what may come my way. No matter what may come my way, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Come on and stand with me. I know, I know that I can live. I know you can make it. I know you can, I know that I can.
Speaker 7:No matter what may come my way, take it Jesus. No matter what may come my way, my life is in your hands. Hey, with him, I know I can take it Jesus, my life is in your hands. I feel him all in my spirit right now. I feel him. No matter what may come my way, no matter what may come my way, no matter what may come my way, oh hallelujah.
Speaker 2:My life is in your hands. Jesus, my life is in your hands. No matter what, you go with me. My life is in your hands. Yes, christ, the most Do it. Brother, my life is in your hands. He loves you, I know it.
Speaker 7:My life is in your hands. Oh, hallelujah, hallelujah. Thank you Jesus, hey Miss.
Speaker 1:D. How does that song resonate with your spirit? I love that song.
Speaker 4:I grew up listening to Kirk Franklin and all his different groups and stuff. I just feel like that my life is truly in his hands. And you know again, no matter what does come my way, you know I've learned to recognize when storms come that there's something on the other side that is going to be so big or so great, or just. You know Another line in my testimony, in my story. So I love that song, I love it, I absolutely love it. Yeah, you know I played devilish. I played devilish.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know, I played devilish, you in mind, you know, because you know, and I literally just put that on the playlist as you were talking I was like, oh, this song, my life is in your hands, you know it just really like everything you say. It resonated with that song to me, like how you just let God use you because your life is in his hands. He holds, you know, you so close, all of us so close. And you know, while we going through our storms and while we going through our trials and our tribulations, as long as we know that he got us covered, we, you know, fret not of ego doors.
Speaker 1:You know, we are not worried, we are not stressed, we are not bound to the enemy of what their plans to do was, any type of harm, because we know that our life is in his hands and he's the ruler of every and all things. And if he is the ruler and we are his children, then we have dominion over our life and over the world, and above all things, that of the world and above the world. So we are not worried, we are not stressed, we are not depressed, we are not down and we are buying in those those things you know in Jesus name, as his name, and it shall be given to us. So, with that being said, we we began in the beginning letting you guys know that we are both part of the anthology that's coming out, cause she say yes herself, unapologetically, and this empower her guy for women. Can you tell the people more about the anthology she say yes and how it aims to empower women?
Speaker 4:Yes, so the anthology. I think there's 31 of us that have written and contributed to the anthology and it's just women from all walks of life, and I love it because you know it's short, it's to the point. It allows you to contact these different women if you, you know, want to reach out to them. My chapter is just self empowerment, believing in yourself, and I think that that is something that I have struggled with the majority of my life and that there's various reasons why, and so I'm hoping that you know this guide is for that will. It will reach. It will just reach the masses and will really help women understand that they're the power that they hold and they harness within themselves, and then just you know how to tap into it and go out there and make change in this world.
Speaker 1:Okay, that's great, great, great answer. So what motivated you to contribute to the anthology and could you share a little about the inspiration behind your chapter or your contribution to? The anthology.
Speaker 4:Yeah. So I was writing home one day, I was driving home and God had given me a word and I got into the point where I'm like, okay, I'm going to be obedient, and I pulled out my phone and I just started writing what he's, you know, had poured into me, what it coming to my spirit. And a few days later I was on Facebook and I saw something about you know being part of the anthology, and I reached out to the visionary and Chanel was you know. We chatted a little bit and I was like, you know, I just really would like to talk to you. And we set up a call and after talking to her, I didn't think that I was really qualified to write for it, because I just put out my first, my first book had just gotten released and, you know, I didn't have a website yet and I didn't have all of these other things and and I was just like I don't know if I'm, if I'm, ready for this, and she was like, oh no, you absolutely are. And I really appreciate the encouragement.
Speaker 4:And sometimes it's so funny because, again, god works in mysterious ways and people that don't even know you will encourage you or pour into you and tell you yes, you can do this. So I was like you know what? You know, I just got a word, I got something in my spirit and that's what I'm going to write about. And that's literally how it came to be that I that I had what I was going, because I didn't know what I, why this had come to my spirit. I didn't know what I was supposed to do with it. I didn't know if it was for a new book, my next book just a blog post or something like that. I didn't know. And but after talking to her, I was like I know exactly what this is for and that's where I got developed my, my chapter from.
Speaker 1:Amazing, amazing. And what ways do you believe that this anthology will resonate with women who are seeking empowerment and self acceptance?
Speaker 4:I think it will resonate with women because we're just, we're everyday women. You know we all come, we come from all different walks of life. We're not that that I know of got that like celebrities status where you know you can't walk out of your house. You know you have something to contribute and there is going to be people that resonate with you because of you know there are. There'll be women that resonate with me because I'm a single mom or I'm a divorce mom or you know I was mentally abused for, you know, pretty marriage and just coming out of all of that and just seeing you know the value in myself and finally believing it and walking in it and knowing my worth. You know, I know there's, there's someone out there that will. It will resonate with them and I think that's why it'll resonate with people, because there are more people that are out here living, you know, the everyday life.
Speaker 1:There's more 99% is in, there are 1% or so Amen to that, and let me see, me see, me see, because I want to make sure, because we got 21 of them. So yeah, one question. So Okay, dorian, so how do you hope to inspire and encourage women through your story, not just in the anthology but just your story in general?
Speaker 4:And that they are. I mean, we just, you know, there's just so much that we do and we give and we sacrifice. There's so much wisdom in women. You know, we don't have to be a status quo, we don't have to be ratchet, we don't have to be ghetto. You know, it's okay to be intelligent is it's okay to be, and that's that's. That's a big one for me, because I remember when I moved from one school district to another school district, they would talk about how I spoke and they would say you know, like, why do you talk like that and like what? I talk like what? And it was just the fact that I didn't use a lot of slang. You know, it's not how I was raised. I guess I wasn't ghetto enough for people. I feel like I kind of dumb myself down going through school because I didn't want to be seen as the smart girl or the intelligent girl. I just wanted to be. I wanted to fit in.
Speaker 1:I was like oh, white girl, because that's what I got a lot. Oh, you talk white, you don't know. And my dad used to always tell me no, you don't talk white, you talk proper. Because because you pronounce your Rs and you don't talk with a list, don't mean that you're talking white. And who says that white is right? It's not that you're talking white, you're talking, you're using proper English. Use your RS is nothing wrong with that. I totally, 100% agree with that.
Speaker 4:And you know being light skin and having brown hair and you know speaking proper English. You know, as it's like you said, you hit it right on the head is kind of like you know you're not accepted by your own, your own sisterhood, that you're not accepted by your own and I'm not like you're not accepted by your own and I'm not like you're not accepted by your own and I'm not like you're not accepted by your own. So for me, my French, my friend circle has always been very limited. It's been, it's been very small and I used to think that that was. You know, I didn't want that. I wanted to be the popular girl, wanted everybody to love me and whatever, and be invited to all the parties and things like that. But one of my friends, she has always told me and she's on this chat right now, her name is Jeanette, we listened to her song earlier and she's always told me she said during you are not born to fit in.
Speaker 1:You have always been. You was born to stand out. Baby, yes, and.
Speaker 4:I didn't believe that for the longest, but now I'm okay with it. You know, I'm okay with the fact that I have a small circle. I was tight. I can call any one of my, my few friends and you know they'll pray, they will fast with me, we will. We could talk about anything and and everything, and I know it's not going nowhere and I can cry with them, you know, and vice versa. So I'm good with it. I'm good.
Speaker 1:I really can appreciate your testimony. You have a bomb testimony. So is there any specific tips or advice that you didn't put in the book that you would like to offer women who may be struggling with self confidence or finding their own voice that you would like to say today? Yes, so.
Speaker 4:I would say don't ever let anyone downplay. You Don't let anyone. You know I have a saying, and I got it off of a movie is nobody puts baby in a corner, and I truly stand on that now, like nobody's putting me in a corner. I'm not second best to anyone or anything, and it's okay for me to come out swinging with, you know, words of intellect, and it's okay for me to be assertive. It's not aggression, it's assertiveness, because I'm standing up for myself. I'm standing up for I could be standing up for some of my students, I could be standing up for my children, but you can never, I say, you could even be stunning up for me.
Speaker 4:I tell them because I know when I was married my husband would always say things like when I went to, went back to school and was in college, he would make little comments and say such and such a smart girl, or okay, you think you know all that because you're in college. You think you know this because you're in school and it you know. It made me always kind of shy back a little bit. But now that I look back at that I'm like I did know some things, and not just because I was in college. I knew some things. Because I knew some things. You know, I'm not a dummy and I would tell any woman you know, chin up buttercup, go, you do this, you believe in you and you go out there and you stand 10 toes down for yourself and if you need somebody to come and stand next to you, call me.
Speaker 1:And, with that being said, I'm gonna play this next song. Okay, okay.
Speaker 7:I reply to you. You ask me if it's another man, I say. You laugh and say is it a woman? I say, surprisingly, you ask me for honey. And I finally see that loving you and loving me just don't seem to work at all. So patiently she's waiting on me to tell you that she needs love and to choose between you two, boy. You know, if I have to choose, I choose a man. She told me to tell you could never hurt me again. Yet and still you try and test me by raving an angry hand. Put it down. Put it down, I'm leaving, don't try and stop me.
Speaker 7:I'm late and she is waiting. My love for me is too much so I can't stay. And her name is me and she loves me more than you'll ever know. And I finally see that loving you and loving me just don't seem to work at all. So patiently she's waiting on me to tell you that she needs love and to choose between you two, boy. You know, if I have to choose, I choose, cause she's actually forming a threesome and I'm happy that I can't join them. And their names are me, myself and I and her name is me. She loves me more than you'll ever know, I finally see that loving you and loving me just don't seem to work at all. So patiently, she's waiting on me to tell you that she needs love and to choose between you two. Boy, you know, if I have to choose, I choose me. She's waiting on me to tell you that she needs love. You gotta choose between your two, and you know, if I have to choose, I choose me. Me, I gotta go with me.
Speaker 1:Yes, you better go with you, girl. So tell me what you think about that song, girl.
Speaker 4:I love that I choose all the time. Now I didn't for a long time and I regret it, but I choose me every day, all day. I bet on myself now for sure. Yes.
Speaker 1:So how has the infidelity and divorce affect your self-esteem and trust in future relationships?
Speaker 4:So I think that of course you know you asked yourself a question, why. You know, what did I do wrong? Why did this happen to me? You know I was doing everything that I could do, or or being the best wife that I could be at the time, and you know it comes to a point where it's not it's not a new thing, it's a them thing and there's nothing I could have done more or there's nothing I could have done differently. You know I had gotten to that point where I was kind of coming out of my shell of just taking any and everything and going along with the flow and I was just like whatever. I think I was at the point where I was just starting to choose me and choose. You know, what kind of future do I want to have? Because I, you know, you often hear people say, you know women that have been married for like them, 40, 50 years. They had to go through some things and I'm like, well, I don't want to go through them things. I'll tell you right now.
Speaker 1:And then they like oh, you know, we just stuck it out, we just we did. But and that's why I just appreciate our generation so much it's like you know what, yeah, we took those vows, that we did those, but at the same time he took them to Right the vows by themselves. So when he messed up, he violated, he, would they say, he boarded the contract Right, and I think you know what I saw growing up.
Speaker 4:You know I had a grandfather who was, was faithful to the end, love his wife. And you know, when my, my biological grandmother passed away and he remarried, you know I saw love and I saw what love should look like. And I had an uncle. You know my uncle has been married to my aunt Jenny for, let me think, I'm I'm 45 and they got together when I was a little girl, maybe two years old, in college, like so they've been together for like you know. So I saw what it should look like, I saw what it should be. I saw strong men of God and, and you know, leaders and protectors and providers and in that. But but somewhere deep down I felt like this is the best I could probably get. But I don't feel like that anymore.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I feel, and I'm so glad you don't feel like that no more, girl, because you are just a vision like I. Just I, just I see so much value and worth in you and I'm so glad you don't feel that way no more, because that's not the best, trust me. I never even seen a Mitchell husband. I'm pretty sure that that ain't the best and she can get on and trust me. But what I will, but what I will say is good, don't take me back the way they say, oh, honey, okay. But what I will say is that we see those relationships and we think that they're perfect, right, like your, your grandma and your uncle and we and I and I and I had those same things, like my grandmother and my and my granddaddy. They got married very young. They got married at 14 and 17, right. But then they work for 25 years, were not divorced, but they separated for 25 years. When my grandmother came back to my granddaddy, she had 15 kids by four different men and he accepted all of them and he had his little three, but she had 15, including my dad. That was one of them. But we don't really know, because you know they say and rest in peace.
Speaker 1:My Luther King was on the outside. We look at my Luther King and Coretta Scott King. We think it's all great and we think it's all good. Well, my Luther King cheated to. We don't know what happened truly, but what we do know is that they, we saw and vision what it looks like and it was painted in a nice bow and that's what we should have, and then it's going to like.
Speaker 1:It's going to be times that you deal with certain things, but I just think that infidelity, abuse, neglect, whether it's emotional, physical or mental, should never be tolerated on the enders and in these circumstances. Because if that man love God, he gonna love his wife like he love the church, right. So you're not going to do this at church and you're not going to do this to the church and you should not be doing it to me, because I am of the upper echelon. Okay, I am. I am supposed to be sitting on a pedestal. You are supposed to dust me off and polish me, okay, and love and respect me.
Speaker 1:And if I can't get all of that, then why am I with you? Because I'm going to be somebody out there that's going to love and respect me and treat me as such, because I don't ever want to have to question why, if I'm, if I'm bearing your children and I'm almost dead on this table bearing your children and going through nine months of carrying your child your supposed price possessions Right, and I'm making all these sacrifices. You may not be working at the time and I'm working and you may not have the credentials that I have. So now I have to dump myself down or make more damn my life. I don't offend you as the man or I'm making more money than you and people questioning your value to the relationship of this today and you not feeling manly enough for yourself. That's not going to do with me, has everything to do with you. So I'm never going to sit in question and I'm going to go into the song, okay no-transcript.
Speaker 7:I knew I had to use that. I know I wouldn't go into this. Yeah, why you been my door. Look at you, look at us. We're so small. Don't you get the answer to my question why?
Speaker 11:Now, ladies, y'all know I speak from experience, right, I used to just look at him and wonder why? Why? Huh, you know what I'm saying. But, ladies, I learned not to worry about them, living the half-lap of an after-court. See, that shit was built on a lie, so it should've followed. That's why I stand tall Baby, baby, baby baby. I just looked at him and said this ain't you?
Speaker 7:Did I get all your nerves? Did I get you too much? You came with my love. Why Tell me when she was hurt? Don't wake your eyes. You're missing me. The grass looks green on the other side, but I promise you'll be back tonight. Look at you, look at us. We're so small. Don't you get the answer to my question? Why? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, why.
Speaker 1:Tell me why. All right, come on, durian, give me your commentary on that one now.
Speaker 4:You know, I can't tell you this? One, because it makes me realize just how much I've healed and how much I've grown and how much I've, because it don't really matter you know what I'm saying, like it don't really matter who it would have been, it just, it just happened yeah.
Speaker 1:But you said at the end she said, you know, she don't really question why I heard no more, because at the end of the day, you know he lost. He lost because, like I just love my husband, because my husband he, you know it was somebody trying to creep up in his little DM and he hit him with the one, two baby. It's going to be, it won't be, won't be you baby. Okay, because you know that I'm a married man and if you know that I'm a married man, you, you flawed already. Already. I'm not about the. I'm not about to give away my ticket to heaven for for somebody like you, like I'm just not going to throw away everything that I've built you know what I'm saying and to do right and be right, you know, and to waste it on somebody like you who already know that I'm a married man and I know the only reason why you're doing it is to try to hurt my wife, you know. So it's like what are you really gain from that? That's why that's what I get from the song. Right, I get like I like she know you with somebody, she know you married. So if she know you with somebody, she know you married, why would you want to deal with somebody like that? Like that's my perspective, like that's you know, that's my own personal opinion of the song. Like that's what I got from it.
Speaker 1:Like what, what did she have that I didn't have? Like what, you couldn't handle me because I was there for you too much. Like what was it? You know? Like what did I do that was so wrong that made you go out and feel like you could do this with this person who ain't even gave you half, like Beyonce says, she ain't even half of me. Like you, okay, move along. Cause girl, baby, okay, okay. So this is a good one, this is a good one. So two questions. Cause you know I don't want to be on here with three hours, you know cause you know I could go five, 20 hours if I want to. That's copying a boss, okay, but um, how, okay. So do you feel hesitant or afraid to enter into new relationships due to the betrayal that you experienced? That's number one and number two how has been the single mom of a teenage girl impacted your approach to dating and relationships to parkour?
Speaker 4:Oh, um. So am I hesitant or fearful? Um, not really, because I think I'm at a point in my life where I'm, I know I don't ignore red flags anymore, so I'm not going to give you the time, I'm going to give you an opportunity or maybe a chance, but I'm not going to give you a time, you know, like to play around with my life. I'm just not doing that anymore. Um, so I try to be open minded. I think I've done a lot of. You know, I've been through a lot of healing and a lot of self work on me. So, um, I'm not, I'm not afraid of love or I'm not afraid to try. I just know what I'm about Tolerating what I want.
Speaker 4:Um, as far as having my daughter, I've never wanted, you know, I've never been one of those kind of moms that has had a lot of relationships. Or, you know, if I, if I talk to someone or go on a date, you will not know my children until I, you know, I'm ready to say, okay, this is something, that it might be going somewhere. Or you know, um, I'm very, very selective of who I have around my daughter. I was very selective of who I had around my sons, um. So I think that you know, having a girl, having a daughter, I always want to. I want her to emulate me, and in emulating me, that means I have to be the example, I have to be the standard, so I can't just be, you know, out here doing whatever it is that I want to do, or, you know, I just I'm.
Speaker 4:I'm just, I've never been that mom, I've never been that mom. Um, so I'm always going to make sure, um, you know that I'm just always putting putting forward that best foot for her. Um, I want her to understand love is what love does. I want her to understand she's so much like fiercer than me, she's so strong, um, I say she's like me, 2.0,. You know, where she is now is where I wish I would have been at her age. Um, because she's just like huh okay, yet no, so she's, she's, she's got it together, she's got it going on for sure.
Speaker 1:Um, and, and you know kids they are, um, they, they emulate, like you say, learn behavior, you know, only emulate what they see. And so if she's strong and she's you 2.0, that's because you are setting, like you say, you are setting that example for her and you are making sure that she's around other strong women, like your mom and you know, maybe other, you know women influences in her school, um, and just you know, overall, in general, that is showing her, hey, this is what a woman is supposed to be. This is why we won't tolerate, this is what we won't have. You have happened to you and you know, in doing that, like you said with you know we don't have. You know, different people that we're dating around our boys, but especially our girls, right, because they're more delicate, um, not saying that they're more important, because all kids are important, um, but they're more delicate. Our hormones are just fixed that way where we're just more emotional and we are more, um, intact with our feelings. So you know everything that we do.
Speaker 1:You know men can kind of pull it together from what I've seen. If they do cry, they cry behind closed doors, in the shower and they and they closets and the prayer closets and stuff. But women girl, look, you already know how I bust out of crap. I get too mad, too emotional or anything. I cry right now on this platform. Y'all know me, y'all know I, uh, y'all hear that voice crack, y'all know what time it is, um.
Speaker 1:But with that being said, you know, we want to have somebody in our corner, right, letting us know like love is blind, you know. And so that's the next song that I'm going to play is, uh, eve, and she was, you know, kind of talking to her friend about love being blind, and you know, and just you know, trying to save her from the inevitable, right. And so I really think that we need to play this song, and this is, it is a women empowerment song, even though it don't end that way, um, but if we listen to those people that are truly in our corners, if we listen to our moms, even though they may not have went the best route, if they're telling you to back away when they, when they see any red flags, even though they may not have backed away, they're trying to warn you for making the same mistake that they did. So it's not always about where did you do it. No, I didn't do it. That's why I'm telling you to do it Right. So it's not always about that they do it, but did they learn from it and they're trying to keep you from making those same mistakes.
Speaker 1:So here's Eve, you guy with love is blind. Excuse the language in it, but I got to get my point across.
Speaker 6:I don't even know you and I hate you. See, all I know is that my girlfriend used to date you. How would you feel if she held you down and break you? Try to try, but she never could escape you. She wasn't loved. And I'd ask her how? I mean why? What kind of love from a nigga would black your eye? What kind of love from a nigga Every night make you cry? What kind of love from a nigga make you wish he would die? I mean shit. He bought you things and gave you diamond rings, but some things wasn't worth none of the pain that he brings and you stay. What made you fall for him? That nigga had the power to make you crawl for him. I thought you was a doctor. Be on, call for him, smack you down, cause he said you was too tall for him. That was a love, baby girl. You were dreaming I could have killed you when you said just, he was growing from the scene.
Speaker 7:She's blind and it'll take over your mind. What you think is love is truly not. She needs to elevate and find she's blind, and it'll take over your mind. What you think is love is truly not.
Speaker 6:She needs to elevate and find I don't even know you and I kill you myself. You played with her like a doll and put her back on the shelf, wouldn't let her go to school and better herself. She had to make me buy your ass and do it and give her no help. Uh huh, big time hustler, snake, motherfucker. One's born every day and every day she was your sucker. How could you beat the mother of your kids? How could you tell her that she love her? Don't give a fuck if she live? She told me she would leave you. I admit it. She did, but came back, made up a lie about you missing your kids. Sweet kisses, baby ain't even know she was your mistress, had to deal with fistfights and phone calls from your bitches Lost like you, possessed her telling me to mind my business that it was her life and say a fuck out of it. I tried and said just for him. I keep it ready.
Speaker 7:Love is blind and it'll take over your mind. What you think is love is truly not. You need to elevate and find Love is blind and it'll take over your mind. What you think is love is truly not.
Speaker 6:You need to elevate and find I don't even know you and I want you dead. Don't know the facts, but I saw the blood pour from her head. See, I laid down basada in the hospital bed and about two hours later doctor said she was dead. Had to nerve the show up at her mother's house the next day to come in, pay your respect, to help the family, pray, even now them and when me, and let it tear drop. And before you had a chance to get up, you heard my gun cock Praying to me. Now I ain't got, but I'll pretend I ain't. Start your life with nigga. I'ma bring it to an end and I did. Clear shots and no regrets. Several cops coming like me under the gel. Nigga, whatever my bitch, fuck that my sister. You can never figure out, even if I let you live, what I love is all about. I consider her my blood and it ain't come no bigger. Love is blind and it'll take over your mind.
Speaker 7:What you think is love is truly not. You need to elevate and find Love is blind and it'll take over your mind. What you think is love is truly not. You need to elevate and find Love is blind and it'll take over your mind. What you think is love is truly not you need to elevate and find Love is blind and it'll take over your mind. What you think is love is truly not. You need to, but you think his love Is truly not. You need the elevate and find and It'll take over your mind, but you think his love Is truly not. You need the elevate and find and It'll take over your mind and it'll take over your mind, but you think his love is truly not you to ever think, and I'm what do you think about that one?
Speaker 4:Oh, oh, no, I don't remember what this one came out, and um you know he was. She was a different yeah, she was, you know, different kind of truth rapper Like she was. She was a rough writer, she was. She was no joke, and I just think that you could dig so deep into that message and you could, you could apply it to you know, you just being emotionally and physically and spiritually dead when you're in the wrong relationship.
Speaker 1:Yeah, right, to help our friend you know, and they, like I've been in abusive, very abusive relationships. I've been in relationships where I'm talking about the man to put a gun to my head. I talk about it in my man. I put a gun to my head to say, if I can't help you, I will kill you. Like I've been in those types of relationships and it was hard to get out of.
Speaker 1:Because you know you, you grow up in a household where you know your mom and your daddy fighting your mom always leaving your daddy with the kids, and you know it's back and forth, back and forth. You know other women fighting your daddy, your daddy always in defense. You know, you know he's not abusive. They are the. You know the women are the aggressors from what I saw. And so it's like when you, when you, but you thinking like, okay, so they write back together at the end of the night, so that's what people that's in love do. And you grow up thinking that and you got that in your mind. And so when you have kids and you find out that that's not what it is, but by the time you have your kids, you want to protect them from that. You don't want to see that. You don't want them to see their mama getting bashed upside the head or the mom and the daddy always arguing because if you do, then if they see that, then they're going to think that's what love is supposed to be. You're more in the household, you know, and then you know.
Speaker 1:So, moving right along to the next question because I can get wrapped up in that all day Child just glad that God delivered me from that and that he delivered you from that as well. Do you worry about your daughter's perception of relationships and trust due to your own experiences with infidelity? That's number one and number two how do you navigate conversations with your daughter about relationships, trust and impact of divorce? And I'm not just saying not all your kids, but I know your daughter is who you're there with now. So I don't want to seem like I'm just focusing specifically on your daughter, but this is women empowerment and you know so.
Speaker 1:Not to exclude your sons, because they are not excluded by far. You can speak on how you speak to all of them in general, as far as like what you tell your boys to. You know to groom them and to be a better man for women, but it's just more so I have and I'm asking you for my own personal self, because I have two bonus daughters, one 15 and one 16, that I try to talk to as well, and I know they have their own moms and different things like that. But I try to give a different perspective than what they're getting, if that makes sense, without me saying too much or going off too much into detail. You know what I'm saying, so I'm asking for my own people like I'm asking for a friend.
Speaker 1:No, sweetheart, I'm asking you too.
Speaker 4:To answer the first question, yes, you know, I think there is an impact on her and how I address things with her. The biggest thing is, you know, I grew up without my father. So I feel like, you know, if you're not going to be helpful, kind of get out the way, type of thing, but at the same time I know girls need their fathers. So there's a very thin line there, you know, and I would never deny my ex-husband access to our children because at the end of the day, that is their father and they're going to learn things from him, whether it's good things, they're going to learn things. So there's that aspect of it. But when I talk to her, when I address things with her, the first thing I do is I really listen to her. You know, I try to like, if she has questions or if she has something to say or whatever, I listen to what she's really asking me so that I'm not just rambling on about my past experiences, you know. But I also try to let her know at one time I was your age, I've been where you are. At the end of the day, whatever it is is going to be okay, but you know, it's just it's very hard to navigate with teenagers, I think, in this society because of all of the social media and cell phones and things like that. Now I know that my daughter has a very strong relationship with my mother and she'll say, oh, I've talked to Granny or I told Granny or whatever. And I love that and because I trust my mother wholeheartedly, you know she can, she can call her and I don't have a problem with it or need to know what my mother relayed to her, what message she gave to her.
Speaker 4:And I think the biggest thing is, you know I try to keep waving around my daughter that are like-minded like me, from you know her godmother, her Texas godmother myself. You know my good friend Jamie. You know I keep people around her and my sister, I just keep people around her that I trust to give her good advice, because I know it's important to have someone other than your mom to go to and but I also know it's important that I want them to make sure that they have, like I want them to have, the same morals I have. And you know her godmother, like her TT Janette, she not going to sugarcoat nothing for Dana, and I love that. I love that because I know she's going to tell her the truth, you know, and they're going to put a spiritual aspect on it. You know they're going to tell her from the word perspective, not the world's perspective, and I love that, because that's what I do.
Speaker 1:I think that's great. I think that's great and she dropping gems y'all tonight. So I hope y'all got y'all pants and papers out, honey, because Dorian is really sipping and she's spilling the tea. Now she's spilling the tea and I'm here for it all because you got some young ladies out here who are getting taken advantage of right and we have seen it with our own eyes especially like these celebrity kids who are growing up in the industry who have been taken, getting taken advantage of by these sharks in the industry and it's, you know, it's rough to see and it's hard to see.
Speaker 1:And I've never been in the industry, but I was one. You know, I was 15, 16. My people thought I was at my friend's house the whole time. I'm laid up with a grown man who knew exactly how old I was. You know, put the text messages under one of my friends' names. So when my mama looking at my text message, she see my friend's name, she ain't going to pay attention to what that text say because she looking for a boy's name, like those little things that I did.
Speaker 1:So when my bonus kids or my bonus daughters try to pull it, I know what to look for. So they kind of scatter me because they know, like Jackie, she up on game you can't pull nothing over her ass. She already she hip to it. I done, did it, done it and done it with the best number of child. You can't pull nothing on me. But you know, with that being said, like you say, growing up without a father, with no daddy in the house, it leads you to go down roads, and that you wouldn't go down if that father was in the house. So I'm going to play this next song and then we're going to get back to the question.
Speaker 8:I think, cause these jeans that I'll give it up my two face full. I had no daddy around when I was growing up. That's why I'm wild and I'll give it up. Y'all think, cause these jeans that I'll give it up my two face full. They threw so much in my life, same things in my life that I never thought I'd make it through. I had a few close calls in my life that could have ended my life. But I'm here looking at you. Never thought that I'd be here. I'm the type that don't give a damn about rules. I was forced to survive on the streets. Make my own way to eat. Gotta do what I gotta do. Best believe. I know plenty of girls like me that they make their hell, just like me. Keep what your mama teach ya. Don't let she or just seem to feature and don't mind if girls like me that they never afraid to see I'm like. They try to treat ya Like you're free cause you're straight and look good. Tell them I had no daddy around when I was growing up. That's why I'm wild and I don't give a. Y'all think, cause these jeans fit, I'll give it up. Don't let my cute face fool ya. I had no daddy around when I was growing up. That's why I'm wild and I don't give a y'all think, cause these jeans fit, I'll give it up. Don't let my cute face fool ya. No, I don't strip in the club, no trick in the club, but I got friends that do. So. My girls, let's get in the dough the best sweaty. No, no, hey girl, I got you, even though it ain't me. I understand it's real in these streets. I understand. When it comes to that rip, that whip, that check, ain't nobody gonna protect your neck like you. I don't know plenty of girls like me that they meant through hell. Just like me, keep what your mama teach ya. Don't let you or the suit to feature. And all my cute girls like me that they never afraid to see. That's why I'm like. They try to treat ya Like you're free, cause you're straight and look good. Tell them I had no daddy around when I was growing up. That's why I'm wild and I don't give a y'all think, cause these jeans fit, I'll give it up. Let my cute face fool ya. I had no daddy around when I was growing up. That's why I'm wild and I don't give a y'all think, cause these jeans fit, I'll give it up. Let my cute face fool ya. All my girls, I'm a broken home. We feelin' all alone and we feel the king. Go on Call me. All my girls, I'm a broken home. We feelin' all alone and we feel the king. Go on Call me.
Speaker 8:I know plenty of girls like me that they meant through hell, just like me, keep what your mama teach ya, don't let she or the suit to feature. And all my cute girls like me that they never afraid to see. That's why I'm like. They try to treat ya Like you're free, cause you're straight and look good. Tell them I had no daddy around when I was growing up. That's why I'm wild and I don't give a. Y'all think cause these jeans fit, I'll give it up. Don't let my cute face fool ya. I had no daddy around when I was growing up. That's why I'm wild and I don't give a. Y'all think cause these jeans fit, I'll give it up. Don't let my cute face fool ya.
Speaker 7:How could the one I gave my heart to break my heart so bad? How could the one who made me happy make me feel so sad? Won't somebody tell me so I can understand. If you love me, how could you hurt me like that? How could the one I gave my world to throw my world away? How could the one who said I love you say the things you say? How could the one who was so true to just tell me lies? How could the one I gave my heart to break this?
Speaker 8:heart of mine. Tell me how could you be so cold to me when I gave you everything, All my love, all I had inside?
Speaker 7:How could you just walk out the door? How could you not love me anymore? I thought we had forever. I can't understand. How could the one I shared my dreams with Take my dreams from me? How could the love that brought such pleasure Bring such misery? Won't somebody tell me? Somebody tell me, please. If you love me. How could you do that to me? Tell me. How could you just walk out the door? How could you not love me anymore? I thought we had forever. I can't understand. How could the one I gave my heart to break my heart? You made me so happy, you made me feel so sad. Won't you tell me? How could you not understand? How could the one I shared my dreams with how could you not love me anymore? Throw my world away? You said you loved me, but you didn't love me. Oh, you told me lies. How could you not love me anymore? How could the one I gave my heart to break this heart of mine Tell me?
Speaker 1:How could you not love me anymore? How could you not love me anymore? How could you not love me anymore?
Speaker 4:I think her brothers are very good examples as well to her. She has phenomenal three older brothers. I've always said that God gave me the boys because he knew that she would need that kind of a role model in our life. They're all different but yet they're very loving toward her, they've always been loving toward her and they've always had her back. I think that helps.
Speaker 4:Of course, I worry about the knuckleheads out there and dusty boys. One thing I always try to do with my kids is show them the finer things in life and talk to them about what life is or what you can have if you do things the correct way or if you do things a certain way. I'm proud to say I don't have any grandchildren. I'm blessed that my boys are self-sufficient. They're not calling me and asking me for anything. I don't pay nobody's phone bill. I don't pay nobody's mortgage or rent. I don't do any of those things. I feel like I've done something right. They've gotten it right somewhere. I feel like she'll follow along. She'll fall in line.
Speaker 4:There's some pushback right now because she's a 14-year-old girl, what it is, she wants her life to look like and what's your plans after school? And she runs track, and so I do try to encourage the good and just keep the lines of communication open and at the end of the day, I let her know I'm your parents, I'm not your friend and she's very. She has a few guy friends and I know them. They always speak to me and things like that, which is fine with me because that's how I was in high school. I was always kind of the same way, so I'm okay with how things are going right now. I don't want to put in the atmosphere.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, no, no. Put that in the atmosphere. Okay, that's not what we're here to do now. We're not putting that all in and doing we rebuke. Whatever thought that came into mind about that being in the atmosphere. Jesus name, okay, and what we're going to do is we're going to play this next song and then I'm going to come with the last thing, last question, the last song, and then we're going to close out, but I definitely want to play this one.
Speaker 16:You need to cut your laws on your own right now, cause he don't even know how to make you smile.
Speaker 7:Y'all don't even make love. See, it's over, baby.
Speaker 13:He spends all his life at the strip club, when what he got at home girl is real love.
Speaker 7:Nothing like him. You need to leave him, baby.
Speaker 13:Going to a man who found somebody new, who could love you better I could love y'all better Going to a man who found somebody. Going to a man who found somebody new who can love you better. I can love you better, don't mean a thing.
Speaker 7:Your house, your car, your ring, that's just material saying baby. Since that's what she's all about, I'll be with you, baby, don't die, no, baby, and I'll give you every little bit of my love and I'll give you every part of my life. But you need the lever If you are the real one. Go and tell ya Girl. Go and tell ya, tell ya that you found somebody. You found somebody. No baby, no baby. Oh, can love you better. Baby, baby, no baby, no baby, no baby. Listen to me. Go and tell ya, tell ya that you found somebody I can love you. Go and tell ya, tell ya that you found somebody. Go and tell ya, tell ya, tell ya that you found somebody.
Speaker 7:You can love you better. You can love you better, baby. I'm feeling used to what we're doing and what we're feeling so strong. I don't wanna put us through this, but if we won't feel love, we gotta do it. My heart is on the high and I'm looking out the window and I don't wanna make myself a victim of this pain. I know I wanna make it harder than it already is.
Speaker 7:Tell ya girl, tell ya man. I'ma tell my boy friend. I'ma tell my girl, i'ma tell my friend Ain't no one who's in love with you. No, I found somebody, ooh, who can love me better. Yeah, go and tell ya. Tell ya that you found somebody. Go and tell ya girl that you found somebody. Go and tell ya girl that you found somebody. You can love you better. You can love you better, baby. Go and take your hand that you found somebody. Go and tell ya man. Tell her right now, baby, ooh, you can love ya better, baby. Go and tell ya girl that you found somebody. Go and tell ya girl that you found somebody. You can love ya better. You can love ya better.
Speaker 16:Go and tell ya man that you found somebody new.
Speaker 7:Go and tell ya, girl, that you found somebody.
Speaker 16:Go and tell ya man that you found somebody.
Speaker 7:Who can love you better? Who can love you better? Who can love you like me? Nobody, nobody, nobody.
Speaker 13:Listen, mama so many words that describe you stronger being understatement warrior would so just so much better, cause you've been fighting she was just turned and sistaing daddy left her out on the cold streets. He went havin' it. He found all her sins underneath the mattress. Then suddenly her daddy a bit died, but still she sees her father there in Luci's eyes, mama, oh mama, for everything you've been through there's nothing that I won't do to you.
Speaker 7:Mama. Oh mama, say you deserve a better star. What is working?
Speaker 13:over to you, mama, I love you, mama, mama, mama, I do love you, mama, I love you, mama. Mama Love with the thought of becoming queen.
Speaker 7:She never told she did seventeen, she gave it all so one selfish lead, and she did it all just for loyalty. That's my mama.
Speaker 13:I never knew someone to sacrifice everything for love even gave up their whole lives oh mama for everything you've been through.
Speaker 7:There's nothing that I won't do to you. Oh mama Say, you deserve a better star. What is working over?
Speaker 13:for the reason for my being in Mama. I'm so grateful. Yes, I am, I'm gonna be the one to guide your heart, all the Lucius racers you still made us from the side.
Speaker 7:Mama, oh mama. So for everything you've been through there's nothing that I won't do to you. Oh, mama Say, you deserve a better star. What is working over to you?
Speaker 1:Alright, dorian, tell me what you think about the two song choices that were played.
Speaker 4:You know, I absolutely love that last one. I like both of them, but I really love the last one because it's just so much raw emotion in that one.
Speaker 1:It is. You can hear his voice trembling how much he loved his mama baby. You couldn't tell now with the other one. What I took from that is that okay? First, let's show that they never mentioned husband and wife, man and woman, boy, friend, boyfriend and girlfriend, and I feel like even with man and wife, that song resonates with everybody in the sense of if you're not happy, leave. Don't stay and cry. I'm a firm believer of don't stay and cry, don't stay and complain, because what happens is that either you stay, you accept and you make best of what is, or you walk away without regret. But what we don't do is stay and cry, because if we stay and cry, whoever we cry to gonna tell you like I'ma tell you, my ears are not your trash, can I?
Speaker 1:don't want to hear about that you know I don't want to hear about what's going wrong. What's going wrong, what's going wrong Without you giving me a resolve of what you're gonna do to change your situation? God gives us dominion over our own lives here. This person ain't making you happy. They're doing things to just bring you down as a human being and as a person while staying and crying. God got so much better for you and if you truly believe that, then you're gonna do what you need to do. God keep giving you these signs, right like he gave you the red flag and you say you ignored a lot of them. But the last point infidelity. That was it. It was like you don't have to do all this and they ain't tack on this too. Correct, correct. You know what I'm saying. So I totally commend you. I'm so, so, very proud of you for everything that you're doing. How you keep taking limits and turning them into lemonade child Girl. You know we love some lemonade, child, and I love a lemon drop. Even better now.
Speaker 1:But we know you're gonna talk about that cause the dance on there. We're not gonna talk about the rest of your lemon drop.
Speaker 1:But what I will say is that I truly, truly am so very proud of you, sis, but everything that you're doing for the not for profit that you're starting, the super single moms not for profit that you're starting If anybody knows any grant writers out there, please get in contact with Dorian. She's gonna give you her information in a second on how you can reach her. If you know any grant writers, any sponsors, anybody who's involved in you know uplifting and empowering women, are you up to doing speaking engagements and those type of things like what can we expect next? I know we got the empowerment book that's coming out October 12th Shameless Plug. I'm a co-author as well, so you know I got to do my little Shameless Plug. But tell people where they can buy, pre-order the book from you, where they can reach you, how they can reach you if they're interested in you coming out and doing speaking engagements. Like what's next for you?
Speaker 4:So they can reach me at my website, wwwthedorianevanscom. You can put in for you know request for speaking engagement. You can put in a request just to talk about you know how to start working your five year plan and things like that, because that is truly what I teach. I teach how to. I teach this to my kids at school. You know how to be successful in college and beyond, so I'm here with the skills. Please contact me if you have questions.
Speaker 4:But you can reach me at my website. You can follow me on any of the social handles. On Facebook, I am Dorian Evans. Please follow, like, share all that good stuff. Twitter, instagram I am the Dorian Evans. And your website, my website, wwwthedorianevanscom. Yeah, so just any way you want to reach out to me, I will reach back. I'd love to come out. I'd love to talk to young ladies. I'd love to talk to groups of women. My books are out there. It's just so much this going on. Right now it's full-ball season, so I do a lot of traveling. Just watch my son play. You know he plays college football, so I'm going like every week on the weekends and Jackie can tell you, on the weekends I kind of am like I'm kind of in the wind.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she called me one day. Let me tell y'all, this girl goes to me and talks to the day of man. She ain't gave me no type of because I could have got out of what I was doing. And she didn't stand up here and say oh, by the way, I'm in Chicago where you at girl. She's in my face. Chicago is an out and half away. Why you ain't telling this beforehand, girl?
Speaker 4:I didn't have four hour layover in Chicago, just sitting there looking around and that's an hour and a half away from me.
Speaker 1:So then I'm like, okay, so even if she came out here, what? You going to come out and look at my face, turn around, hurry up and go back, because old hair is literally two hours away from me. So just came to look and then turn around and go back.
Speaker 4:Yes, but it's okay, I'll be in Chicago, I think not this weekend. Next weekend maybe. Maybe next weekend I might be up there. Let me see what the tickets look like.
Speaker 1:But yeah, so GoPen State, because her son plays for Penn State and he's an amazing, amazing athlete. So congratulations to him, and all her kids are amazing. Like I said.
Speaker 1:I've had the pleasure of meeting her beautiful, intelligent daughter and she is truly a vision, truly a really really sweet heart, and I know she get that from her mama. So, yeah, you do have a caller that's calling in and you guys can feel free to hit that button, that microphone button, to call in. If you have any questions for Dorian before we head out, go ahead, call her.
Speaker 10:Hello, I'm Miss Amanda Jackie. Hello, Dorian, I'm Carolyn Coleman, so I'm a co-author as well on the she said yes to herself and Palomite Guy. But I've been listening to the show and listening to you. It was just like having a girlfriend sitting around chatting, you know, about life, and I really did enjoy that.
Speaker 10:I teach a clinical group, so you know my students are college age and I like what you said when you said I don't accept friend requests for five years. Well, your group is a little bit younger than mine, but I tell mine the same thing I don't take friend requests from you all until you have graduated. And a few of them have reached out. I never reach out to them. I allow them to reach out to me and they have gone on to do some great and wonderful things. So I think we still need to maintain that professionalism, no matter what age group they are, because in college you don't just have the 19-20 year olds, you have some people who are going into second careers and things of that nature. So I do think we really need to emphasize that, you know, in order to keep that professionalism there.
Speaker 10:I'm the professional, you know, I'm the instructor, you're the student and you know, and so we had that conversation the other night. Yeah, I don't usually take friend requests until after you graduate, because I don't want to give the impression that we're friends and you're asking me questions that you may have to ask someone else. But the interview was just so good. It was so very, very refreshing and I just wanted to speak on that. And being a single mom at one time, I know what that struggle is. Even though you have great family support, which is what I did as well, it's still a struggle because it's still your responsibility. Your children are your responsibility, you know, and so you're trying to build a life, build them up, keep them in power, keep them engaged, keep them supported and keep their confidence level where it needs to be, you know. So I commend all the single moms out there, because the job is not an easy job, with or without support.
Speaker 1:I 100% agree with that, because I tell people now like they see me with my husband and my kids and be like, oh she just so, just living life like it's gone. No, jayden grew up with me, honey. I didn't have. I was a single mom for over four years and I didn't have family support. I had one lady her name was Sharon Moore and her kids who supported me. If they wasn't available, I was on my own.
Speaker 1:His dad was not around. I was literally on my own with this child in this world by myself, working two jobs with no car. Having to walk over two, three miles to work in a snow blizzard okay to get to work while I took my son to school on the bus in Chicago weather okay in the Chicago winter. So I know the struggle of a single mom. I have went, didn't have food, had to let my son stay with Ms Moore for a week until I got my check and not have no food at home, but didn't tell nobody because I didn't want nobody to know. I was too ashamed to tell people I had no food in my house. So I know the struggle.
Speaker 1:So when people look at me like, oh wait, you got to, I get that all the time. Oh, you got your husband, thank God, because y'all don't know what I've been through. So you know to know both, to understand. That's why I say I get it, I get it, I get both ends of that. Me and Carolyn, we get, we've been on both sides of the fence and Dorian, you've been on both sides of the fence. So it's like we understand, like, even though it's in reverse for us, you know, we still understand that struggle.
Speaker 1:And that's why I think that I can resonate with you so much from what you're going through now, because I went through that in the beginning as a young mom, like in my, I had jaynet 21, you know. But I suffered, you know, from a miscarriage due to physical abuse at 18 years old, you understand, like somebody stoned my baby out of me at 18 years old. I was a baby, you know. So to have to go through those things as a teenager, in that type of trauma, and then have a baby, that I'm like ain't nothing going to happen to this, you know what I'm saying. So I did everything I could and because I was obedient and because I listened to God, and because I say you know what often I just work, take care of my kid, god sent me somebody to help me and send me a help mate, you know, and I know that your boy ass is kind of, I know it, I know it.
Speaker 1:And even if it may not be right now, you know, because we want to attract, we want to be who, we want to be the light that we need, right, like we want to be that person that we want to attract. So we know that when we look in the mirror. We're not the best versions of ourselves, like you say. We want to say yes to ourselves, right, unapologetically. We want to do that self care, we want to do that work, we want to take that therapy, we want to dive into that word wholeheartedly and do what God tells us to do and be obedient. And then, when we do that, trust and believe, he's going to give us everything that our hearts desire and he's not going to leave us or forsake us, and he's not. He's going to be there and he is there for you. And that's why I see, I see a glow. Every time I talk to you, even like when you're not your best self, and I'm talking to you, I see that glow, I see the blessing on your life.
Speaker 1:And I'm not a prophet, I'm not nowhere near a prophet. You will never catch. Let me tell you one thing about this and, linda, you will never catch me on here. Prophe line to nobody, okay, that's why I don't do. I'm not going to be like oh, god told me to tell you, god ain't told me to tell you nothing, because he's going to tell you his cell. But what I will say is that I've seen a glow on you, and it wasn't Cocoa butter. Okay.
Speaker 1:It's a glow on your life, because I know it wasn't Cocoa butter, because you know, you know we like can, we can tell we just got shot with a little ash. So I'm not saying you was ashy, but what I'm saying is that I know it wasn't Cocoa butter. But what I do know that it was the blessing that when you are anointed you could look at somebody and tell that they are anointed. And I look at you, I could read your book. I can tell by, even by the way you conduct yourself on social media or even on the phone with me you are anointed. Carolyn is anointed. Dr Valmer is anointed. Laquita is anointed. These are people that I know for a fact. Dr Audrey and all these people I know for a fact are anointed Right. And those are the people that I hold close to me because I know, like, no matter what God, have something on your heart and on your life and I need to be surrounded by that as well, because when you surround yourself with people of the world, you become the world Right. If you stay on that, for the stay in that dimension, and you know those people can't touch you, touching out my anoint to do my profit. No, I'm not no profit. But I know I'm anointed so you ain't gonna be able to touch me. I'm not worried about that no more.
Speaker 1:I used to be so worried about what other people do to me or did to me. I'm not worried about that no more. I will be disappointed because I'd be like man. I can't believe they could do that to me. But I keep it moving because I'm like God bless, bless me in your face. You know what I'm saying, so you can see. You know, no matter what people try to say, oh what you think you are super single mom. Yep, you know what. Thank you for that. Thank you so much for that. Now let me go get that copy ready, let me get that trademarked, because you just gave me a word and a blessing that God going to use your enemies as your first to every time says every time. So you are encouraged, you stay encouraged because God gonna continue to bless you.
Speaker 4:Thank you, carolyn, that you know that you said that about it just feels like girlfriends talking, because that's one thing I really strive to be is relatable. I really want people to understand like I'm just a person, like you are, I'm, I'm just, you know, applied myself and you know, when I have things or dreams and goals that I want to achieve, I literally just go after it. I put my head down and I go after it and you know I just my mother always taught me nothing beats a failure but a try, and so every day I try, every day I try, and I really appreciate that, that compliment.
Speaker 10:Oh, you're welcome. You are so welcome. My fingers are getting fat or something, but you are more than welcome. But it was a fresh thing. And so much I could resonate with. So it was. It was great. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1:Thank you as well, carolyn. We we truly appreciate you calling in and before we play this last song or I'm going to ask Dorian what song she would like for me to play last, but I'm going to end in prayer first, if you guys don't mind, dear Heavenly Father, as we come to the end of this, listen, linda show. We thank you for the time we've shared together. We are grateful for the conversations, the insights and the connections that have been made. Lord, god, lord, we ask for your continued guidance and wisdom as we reflect on the discussions that took place. May the words spoken resonate in the hearts and minds of those who listened and will listen to the replay on all platforms, fostering understanding and empathy. We pray that this show has served as a platform for unity and growth, where diverse perspectives were respectfully exchanged. Lord God, may disease planted during this time bear fruit in the lives of those who participated and those who tuned in.
Speaker 1:Father, god, father, we ask that you bless each person who took part in this show. May they be encouraged and inspired to continue to seeking understanding their own assignments. Lord, god, compassion that Dorian has so eloquently explained and also given to so many people who we may feel that didn't deserve it. But, lord God, you know her heart and we are so blessed to just know her and be in her presence and love in her, you know, in our interactions with others. And, as we conclude, we offer our gratitude for your presence with us, lord God, throughout this time. Thank you for guiding our thoughts, our words and our actions, and we pray that you will use the seed song during this show to bring about a positive change, lord God, in our communities and the world. In your presence name, we pray, lord God, amen, amen. And so, dorian, I'm going to let you give me the song that you want to play, and then we're going to take it all home, honey. So I'm going to wait on you.
Speaker 4:From Maverick City Music featuring Dante Bowie and Chandler Moore. That has been my theme song for this year, okay, and so if you would play that, I would love it.
Speaker 1:Oh, you know, I got you All right, all right. So we're going to wait on you and we're going to close the show. Good night, and thank you all for attending.
Speaker 4:Good night.
Speaker 10:Thank you, good night, thank you all.
Speaker 7:And I don't believe in fairy tales. I guess I've outgrown them, but that doesn't mean that I don't believe that there's something bigger than me, because I've seen in a hospital room when the doctors said sorry there's nothing more we can do.
Speaker 7:Well, it wasn't through. I've never seen a particle at the end of the rainbow, but I've got a promise I can hold in the middle of the struggle. Oh God, if you said you'll perform may not be how I want you to, but here's what I'll do. I'm going to wait on you. I'm going to wait on you. I'm tasting your goodness. I'm going to wait on you. I'm going to wait on you. I'm tasting your goodness. I'm trusting your promise. I'm going to wait on you. Yes, I will. Yes, I will, I will, I will. I know you ordered every step. Yeah, you are the author, but there's no predicting why it's that. But you are the future and all the questions they come second through. The one I know is true. Yeah, you've always been true. I'm going to wait on you. Yeah, I'm going to wait on you. I'm tasting your goodness. I'm trusting your promise. I'm going to wait on you. Yeah, yeah, I'm going to wait on you. I'm tasting your goodness. I'm trusting your promise. I'm going to wait on you. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. It's the least I can do. It's the least I can do. It's wait on you. What are you? What else is there to do. It's the least I can do. Let's wait on my way. Oh, wait on the Lord. Wait on the Lord. Wait on the Lord. Wait on the Lord. He will renew your strength. Oh, wait on the Lord. Wait on the Lord. He will renew your strength. Oh, wait on the Lord. Wait on the Lord. I know you will Wait on the Lord. Wait on the Lord, wait on strength. He will renew your strength. Oh, wait on the Lord. Wait on the Lord. Wait on the Lord. Wait on the Lord. He will renew your strength. He will renew your strength. Oh, wait on the Lord. Wait on the Lord. He will renew your strength. He will renew your strength. He will renew your strength. I'm going to wait on you. Yeah, I'm going to wait on you. I'm dancing for goodness. Trust in your promise. I'm going to wait on you. I'm going to wait on you. I'm dancing for goodness. Trust in your promise. I'm going to wait on the Lord. Wait on the Lord. He will renew your strength. So, wait on the Lord. Wait on the Lord. Wait on the Lord. He will renew your strength. So, wait on the Lord. Wait on the Lord. He will renew your strength.
Speaker 7:If you're weary, use it your way. If you're weary, why you can stay right there. He will renew your strength. Somebody wash away. Somebody wash away. Somebody wash away. Strength is rising, weight is rising, hope is rising. You're bound up on wings and eagles. You shall run. Nothing we're in, you shall run and nothing. Just wait on the Lord. Wait. You should just wait. You should just wait Instead of trying to get your own strength. You should just wait Instead of calculating what will happen if you go wrong. You should just wait. Must dance on it, mother Lord. You should just wait. They will wait on the Lord.
Speaker 7:They shall renew your strength, they shall mount up on wings like an eagle. And their sword, they shall walk. And I can read it they shall run and nothing.
Speaker 7:This is what will happen when you wait Happens when you wait. They will wait on the Lord Shall renew your strength. They shall mount up on wings like an eagle and their sword. They shall walk. And I can read it they shall run and nothing. Just wait on the Lord, wait. You should just wait. Instead of trying to get your own strength, you should just wait. Just wait Instead of calculating what will happen if you go wrong. You should just wait. Instead of calculating what will happen when you wait, you should just wait. You should just wait. That's what will happen when you wait. They will wait on the Lord. They shall renew your strength. They shall mount up on a wing like an eagle and their sword. They shall walk. And I can read it they shall run and nothing. That's what will happen when you wait. That's what happens when you wait. That's what happens when you wait.
Speaker 7:They shall put an Donald in their way, not giving a wish. That's what happens when you wait. They shall give a wish. That's what Will happen when you wait. That's what will happen when you wait. Just wait on the Lord. That's what happens when you wait. That's what I really want.
Speaker 9:Out in the comments, always talking like they know me. I thick bitches in a black truck packed in E. Whoever in my way. Miss Pac-Man Urmins made a real big purchase. Perse, so big, had to treat it like a person.
Speaker 3:Bad bitch can realize. Show me real love. People fuck up about two likes Bitch. Tryna say I ain't fine, or I?
Speaker 9:They know I'm thick like I'm eating beans with the rice, like lean over ice got the real meat pie. So I be spilling like my ass out. These jeans when they tight and the way they watch me need to be monetized. I'ma need a money bag if I sleep overnight. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Hostpops, pills, but I'm the one they can't take. Hot girl shit. I'ma make some shake. I know the stil pohs can't relate Such a shot like a free throw.
Speaker 7:Just love this pussy and free throw my BD is a me go.
Speaker 9:Bitch, your BD is a zero. My back shot sound like bongo I ain't scared for admit I'm a freak. At least I'm getting my money. Y'all hoes broke pussy took more turns than a keyhole Like a bum, my back like it's thirsty.
Speaker 12:I got cake. I'm lit, it's my birthday. I don't ride on my knees but you ride on my toes Big. That ass is leaving up the thong Girl. You guys for the phone cards that I never joke A bitch couldn't scold me, but it's too long, so sexy, I can make y'all hear the roar.
Speaker 7:I can body every look and I can body every pose Next full of diamonds. Yeah, I'm forever froze. Well, cardi, ever fall up, bitch, you never know. Woo, be it up. Wait, bitch.
Speaker 12:I'm hot, I ain't no hotter Pussy. Get popping hotter Looking like money. You could put my face on the top. This pussy, the mini-gana, this pussy, the Americana.
Speaker 7:See, you get it. Get the door on my door, my butt a couple quid.
Speaker 14:So my own, I'm my owner. Be it up Real hot girl shit Like Cardi last minute.
Speaker 17:Ain't a new house say do I look basic? Wipe me now I heard cash rules. Let me show you how. Better spin that shit. Baby, ice me out, hand clap left right, both cheap Housekeeper knockin' still fuckin' up the sheets Till the ballet, y'all niggas so cheap. If you lookin' for a wee bitch you know it ain't neat, pussy ain't for you. Better spin that shit. Since I'm on the gay birth man. I been that bitch, got a first shop the wrong way. I'm in that shit. He say he love me, he show me he met that shit I lay it down, lay him up in town.
Speaker 11:I'm a bitty thing. Jt, shout out my bitches gettin' bags out of niggas. I just think I leveled up. Hoes sound bitter. I'm in that big bullet proof where they hit it. He ain't blowin' a bad bitch, pick a better nigga. I'm in a new cool mind. Go room room Bitches that be hatin' on me. Really ain't got no room. I mean literally no house bitch, no room. I'm a city girl so he gotta be a taco. That bass down is up. That's the way I like it. You want a bitch from the city? Huh, pussy pretty. Huh. Got a nigga out of motherfuckin' Philly.
Speaker 17:Huh, what good is any good bad if he don't spin it. Bad bitches, love shoppers, friends. Last minute. Bad fat black boo bitch, we ain't trippin' Bottle grub bricks on my ones. Don't let them stop tippin' A. What good is any good bad if he don't spin it? Bad bitches, love shoppers, friends. Last minute. Bad fat black boo bitch, we ain't trippin' Bottle grub bricks on my ones. Don't let them stop tippin' A.
Speaker 18:But it's now I'm thawin' him. He was a thawin' Uh-huh. He ain't give a fuck. That's what I like about him. He ain't my b***h. From dark to the mornin' he called this girl up and told her we was lonely. He's one of the rick and boppy. He used to be a deacon, but now he be f***ing one a weekend. And this black dude I call King Kong. He had a big ex. Get a hurricane. Tell me what. How many extra tech-t you got?
Speaker 7:this in the artist. I got you. No, how many extra tech-t you got this in the artist? Tell me how many extra tech-t you got this in the artist. How many extra tech-t you got this in the artist? Oh, oh, oh. How many extra tech-t you got this in the artist.
Speaker 18:This girl sco's out to my d*** in jail Beatin' a g*** to the XXL magazine. You like how I look in the awkward green? Get your vaseline go sweet with some tissue and close your eyes and imagine your tongue in between my thighs. Co, open up, sell block feet.
Speaker 3:Alright, that's enough, stop lookin'.
Speaker 18:Listen. Get back to your position, kim. Got your car. Start fightin' it. Y'all Hotter than the pop. Talk fresh out of the toaster. Do anything for a little, kim. Poster Essays, bloods, crypts. All the thugs up north in the hole. They all want it up. How many extra tech-t?
Speaker 7:you got this in the artist. Tell me how many extra tech-t you got this in the artist. Tell me how many extra tech-t you got this in the artist. Tell me how many extra tech-t.
Speaker 18:You got this in the artist. Tell me how many extra tech-t you got this in the artist. Tell me how many extra tech-t you got this in the artist. Hold on to your seat, grab your mouth while I ride the beat and if you see a shiny black Lamborghini, fly by ya. That's me tonight, dressed in all black, with the gat in the lat Lunatics in the street. Gotta keep the heat. 60 on the bezel, 100 on the ring, sitting pretty baby with a cash money glaze 12 baby and my mama waited a club After three bottles. I'll be ready to Sub-Codez, who put me on the grocery list Right next to the whipped cream and box of chocolate, cos I'm a mackerel coming flake. It's hot class taste. Got to spend paper. Live it right the first time or you gotta do it over Like it's rehearsal for a touchy commercial. I'm still gonna try. How many extra tech-t you got this in the artist, tell?
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Speaker 16:Yeah, she gonna get nasty.
Speaker 16:Yeah, that lil baby gon shake some Whole lotta money you can make some.
Speaker 16:Don't throw a back, don't break none.
Speaker 16:Yeah, she gon get nasty.
Speaker 16:Bro, bro, girl, I ain't one Whole lotta money. You can make some. You ain't wanna say some, she gon do it on that ass. Then do it on that. Do it cause you know you need the money for the friend. Do it cause you hopin this gon put you on the jet. Do it cause you know how to get that good. Good with it. We live gon shake that. It's V live Instagram with it. Baby, we live Do whatever for the cat. Let her feel on.
Speaker 16:Bring that back like it's rewind. Bring it back, bring it back. I ain't know you doin like that like that. Go ahead, get into it like that. Like that, throw that. Then I'm throwin money back. Yeah, yeah, yeah, bring it back. I'm tryna throw it up, track it, love it. When you do it like that, like that, tell the DJ gotta run it back. She gon get nasty. Yeah, lil baby gon shake some Whole lotta money you can make some. Don't throw a back, don't break none. Yeah, she gon get nasty. Bro, bro girl, I ain't one Whole lotta money. You can make some. You ain't wanna say some, but you gon get nasty, nasty, nasty, nasty. She gon get nasty, nasty, nasty, nasty. She gon get nasty, nasty, nasty, nasty she gon get nasty, Nasty, nasty, nasty.
Speaker 13:She like it. When I dove in Pulling on her head. I'ma show you what the problem is. I'll be tryna get naughty Girl. I'm sorry, not sorry. Wish I could freak you for me. Throw it in my purse, make it easy for me. Sure, loose game got you leaking for me. Make it easy for me If I tell you Shawty got a TNT. How do you believe me? Dawg, Shawty was down, but I had a van. I got a few more girls. What you letting me in All I see is beddies, A couple dimes with the Fettys. Yeah, Girl, Shawty thought down what you represent. Bet she the president, yeah, and when we done we gon do it all over.
Speaker 16:Yeah, she gon get nasty. That lil baby gon shake some. Hold a lot of money you can make some. Don't throw it back, don't break none. Yeah, she gon get nasty. Yeah, Bro, bro, girl, I ain't one. Hold a lot of money you can make some. You ain't wanna say some, but you gon get nasty. Yeah, Nasty, nasty, nasty. She gon get nasty. Yeah, Nasty, nasty, nasty.
Speaker 5:She gon get nasty. Yeah, we definitely gon get you in the steer Later on. We gon have so many people on here Y'all amped. But you know what I'm trying to finish, so I ain't belating the chat Cause the chat thing's not working for me, but we gon continue this going until the end and then we gon head over to 30A's, 215, and see y'all head over there after this. And then we gon keep on doing it.
Speaker 12:I don't think. All in my booty hole I'm finna. Get my ass bleached. I don't want your kids, nigga, put them on my ass. Shit Cause I'm trifling 40 block on my nightstand. Roll up his backwood Before he put that pipe in. Bitch, I'm bustin' jewels In the hellcat In the backseat. Get in fuck from the back. Don't be scared, nigga. You know I got that good cat. You better break the bitch off. Kikak, I just wanna be thickin' my sub again. These niggas love me cause I'm pretty and I'm chocolate. He just popped a perk 30, got that perky dick and my red dude. Bitch, you know I'm takin' dick, I'm hot in the tail and I'm sellin' tail. Bitch, I'm drunk as hell. Where is the rotale DIT? I need some rotale DIT. Bitch, you know I'm strapped with a stick Every.
Speaker 5:Ooh again not here. I got a couple more minutes, but we gonna run it To hell, y'all.
Speaker 13:I hear you callin' here I come, baby, to save you.
Speaker 7:Uh-oh, baby, no more stallin'. These has been longin' To touch you, baby, and now that you've come around To see it in my way, you won't regret it, babe, and you surely won't forget it, babe. But if the sun, believable how your body's callin' to me, I can just hear it callin' Callin' to me, your body's callin' to me.
Speaker 8:I can hear it callin' to me, your body's callin' to me, your body's callin' to me, my body's callin' to me, oh, oh, oh, my body's callin' to me. Come on, baby, tell me what your desire. Baby, oh, wish is mine? Oh, yes, it is baby. Let me take you higher and show you how you should feel, babe.
Speaker 13:Oh, so speak now, if I ever hold your body, whatever it is you want from me, babe. You see, you don't have to say nothin'.
Speaker 9:I know your body wants somethin' and it's easy for me to see that your body's callin' to me. Oh, oh, oh. I hear it callin' to me, my body's callin' to me. I can hear it callin' to me, oh, oh, oh Callin' to me, my body's callin' to me.
Speaker 15:I'm missin' it, baby. I hear it callin' to me. I'm listening, baby. I hear you calling me. Yeah, your body calling me, calling you. I hear you calling me. You just hear you calling me, calling for you see you by the journey.
Speaker 5:You just hear you calling me, calling for you. See you by the journey.
Speaker 15:There's so many girls in here. There's so many girls in here. There's so many girls in here. I wanna see you push it, push it, push it. I wanna see you Push it baby. Oh, just push the thing, push it baby.
Speaker 15:I'm standing in the club. I'm so hot tossing dollars at the bars like really women every year. Like fitting game in their ear, like baby blue won't play no games. Head to my feet. So fresh, so clean, but not the par. Like it ain't no thing. Hop for a light way. Bumpers in my chain, bling, bling, bling. I can do it. I make lusters like that buster got the nature. Like my yeetie saying color buster, buy a drink, buddy chicks in that AOE, mojin, if you want, I'm the same mojin. I wanna see you push it, push it, push it. I wanna see you Push it baby. Oh, just push the thing, push it baby. I wanna see you. I'm a team Rick Ragell, siby Yuma, piper Tynara ride in some quick life, lead them haters in the dust. Like girl standing on the corner. Like you know, I put up on the scene all late, 28 big plays, two days leasing. Can't wait to see you, you.
Speaker 7:You, you, you, you, you. Yours is the cloth, mine is the hand. It's the time. Yours is the force that lies within ours is the fire. All we can find. He is the feather in the wind. All of my love, all of my love, all of my love, dear man. All of my love, all of my love, love, love sometimes. Sometimes sometimes oh yeah, oh yeah, ooh yeah.
Speaker 7:All of my love, all of my love To you and me, all of my love, all of my love, all of my love to you and you, and you and you. Yeah, I could live it lonely, just a little bit lonely, just a little bit lonely. We were broken, hungry on a summer day. They sent the sheriff down to try and drive us away. We were sitting ducks for the police man. They found a dirty-faced kid in a garbage can, and I'm alone, I'm on my way. Oh yeah, get on line. I'm walking down in dirty dressed in rags. I'm from the day my mama told me, boy, you had your bags. Look at me, say I'm alone. Oh yeah, get on my way. I'm on my way. Oh yeah, get on my way.
Speaker 7:I'm walking down in dirty dressed in rags. I'm from the day my mama told me, boy, you had your bags, and we were sitting ducks for the police man. They found a dirty-faced kid in a garbage can, and I'm alone, I'm on my way. Oh yeah, get on line. I'm a spark on the rags. La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la la.
Speaker 3:Welcome everybody. For those of you just getting in, I sadly fell through the cracks for Muya, which is why I came up with the bootleg edition of the year that I chose, 1979, which is when I'm playing now, prior to Muya. I figured you guys might be a little tired and hung over after the real Muya, so it's kind of like a pre-show and the year that I selected was 1979 and I wanted to let you guys know I'm not going to really talk too much. This is probably going to be one of the very few times that I talk, just to let you guys know and to also thank you for coming. Even if you're just doing a heart and dart, I really appreciate it.
Speaker 3:So, jason Swann, hooligan Pasternak, dream Warrior, pat, and then, for all I'm so sorry I'm losing my voice here Lancer, gareth, jx Lee Alien obviously love our alien here. Mona, I'm so glad that you guys have come. And of course there's another guy. He's got the little Pokemon character, but I can't remember his name. I'm so sorry, but I really do appreciate you guys coming in and remember these songs are from 79, I'm only allowed to play 79, so just kind of keep that in mind and I hope you guys enjoy this.
Speaker 7:Oh, oh.