Waiting for true love requires the patience of a saint and the faith of a mountain mover. As I share my own prayers for a partnership rooted in shared dreams and compatibility, I invite you to join me and the brilliant Shaday Void, an esteemed author, in a conversation that's as revealing as it is enriching. Our anthology, "Listen, Linda Presents the Women of the Waiting Room Surgery for your Soul," began as the collective whispers of seven remarkable women, each with a story that befits the number's symbolism of perfection.
Balancing the scales of family, work, and artistic passion is no easy feat, yet it's in this delicate dance that the seeds of creativity are sown. My journey from beauty salon owner to author was not charted on any map I knew, but it's one that has led to the discovery of new horizons in the written word during the global pandemic. The anthology project blossomed into a vibrant tapestry of voices, sharing the pains, joys, and revelations of life, enabled by the liberating power of writing.
As we close, it's with gratitude that I look forward to the promising futures of the women involved in this endeavor. The upcoming episodes promise to be just as heartening, with Melanie Johnson, Allaina Maria, and Laquita Parks slated to share their own sources of inspiration. And as Tasha Cobbs's music plays us out, we're reminded of the eternal hope we hold as children of God, forever embraced and unfettered by fear. Join us on this journey of faith, patience, and self-discovery.
Waiting for true love requires the patience of a saint and the faith of a mountain mover. As I share my own prayers for a partnership rooted in shared dreams and compatibility, I invite you to join me and the brilliant Shaday Void, an esteemed author, in a conversation that's as revealing as it is enriching. Our anthology, "Listen, Linda Presents the Women of the Waiting Room Surgery for your Soul," began as the collective whispers of seven remarkable women, each with a story that befits the number's symbolism of perfection.
Balancing the scales of family, work, and artistic passion is no easy feat, yet it's in this delicate dance that the seeds of creativity are sown. My journey from beauty salon owner to author was not charted on any map I knew, but it's one that has led to the discovery of new horizons in the written word during the global pandemic. The anthology project blossomed into a vibrant tapestry of voices, sharing the pains, joys, and revelations of life, enabled by the liberating power of writing.
As we close, it's with gratitude that I look forward to the promising futures of the women involved in this endeavor. The upcoming episodes promise to be just as heartening, with Melanie Johnson, Allaina Maria, and Laquita Parks slated to share their own sources of inspiration. And as Tasha Cobbs's music plays us out, we're reminded of the eternal hope we hold as children of God, forever embraced and unfettered by fear. Join us on this journey of faith, patience, and self-discovery.
We require certain things, and that's what I pray for. So that's what I wait for, Dear God, can we?
Speaker 1:Waitin' on a man that I prayed for, not rushin' with no man. That wasn't made for me. See, this love, we have gotta be tailored. Ain't wishing with no man. That ain't no fit for me. Do you pray, cause I pray? You want kids. I want names. Are you faithful? Oh yeah, tell me, can you stand and reign you a king? I'm a queen. We require certain things, and that's what I pray for. So that's what I wait for.
Speaker 1:Dear God, come when you're sinning. I'm gon' be ready. Dear God, you do this for me. I won't forget it. My heart, I've been through so much and I just wanna feel your love for once. And, dear God, I hope he's happy already here, but if it's in me, I know he is, I know he will. Dear God, that's what I pray for. So that's what I wait for, and I vow to be everything you need, share my life with you, on the right, with you, and I promise to support all your dreams, but I gotta know that you were made for me. Do you pray, cause I pray? You want kids, I want eight. Are you faithful? Oh wait, tell me, can you stand and reign you a king? I'm a queen. We require certain things, and that's what I pray for, so that's what I wait for.
Speaker 2:That's what I pray for. That's what I wait for. Dear God, I'm your sinner. That's what I pray for.
Speaker 1:That's what I wait for, dear God. You're missing me. I won't regret it. Dear God, you do this for me. I won't forget it. My heart brings you so much and I just wanna feel your love for once. Feel your love for once and, dear God, I hope he's happy Already here with you. I know he is. I know he's happy already here. I know he is, I know he will. Dear God, dear God, that's what I pray for.
Speaker 3:So that's what I wait for yes, that was miss ashby, with pray, for today, I am actually going to be the one being interviewed by one of my favorite authors. Her name is Sade Boyd. How are you, sade? I am great. How are you? Beautiful lady? I'm good. I'm good. I'm a little nervous. I'm a little nervous because I don't like being questioned. I feel like I'm being interrogated, you know, and I ain't been in that situation very long time. However, I am super excited.
Speaker 3:If you guys do not know, sade is one of the co-authors for my newest anthology project. She's actually in the devotional of that project and it's called Listen. Linda Presents the Women of the Waiting Room Surgery for your Soul Devotional, and I have been blessed with over 30 amazing women to be a part of this devotional, as well as a separate well, actually, the mother of the whole project, which is Women of the Waiting Room Serving for your Soul Anthology, which I have my Fab 7 in, and we all just came together and this project is amazing and I'm so, so grateful to have Sade back on. If you guys do not remember, she was one of the featured authors on the birthday bash that we had here. So how are you today?
Speaker 4:I'm great, I'm great. Another beautiful'm great.
Speaker 3:Another beautiful day, all right, so you ready for these to question me? Sure, sure, let's get right to it, but before we do, I want you to lead in prayer, because you know how I do. So I want you to lead in prayer, and then you can get right to it.
Speaker 4:All right. Dear Heavenly Father, I thank you for this moment for us to fellowship and speak about positivity. Father, I thank you for giving us another day to do over and do better than what we've done yesterday. Father, I'm thankful for this sister right here, a beautiful wife, a mother, a successful entrepreneur and wonderful author. I am thankful to be a part of this journey with her, with my sister. Heavenly Father, anything that's not of you, I ask you to remove it in the name of Jesus. But anything that is of you, father, help me to gain the wisdom and knowledge to speak on what we are doing here today In Jesus' mighty name. Amen.
Speaker 3:Amen, amen.
Speaker 3:So let's get right to the questions, girl so the question for I have for you is what made you start know um dealing with a lot of women can be challenged dealing with a lot of people can be challenging, especially for a creative um like myself, who's also an introvert, right, like I love people, I love speaking with people, I love dealing with people, but I like to do it, you know, one at a time. So this has been something that I wanted to do, but I really didn't want to take on that challenge. But you know, when we can't grow, if the the place that we're trying to grow is not is comfortable, right. So we have to step outside our boundaries a lot, and I first, um, like I said, I came up with the idea for the anthology, but God gave me the vision to do the anthology and I had my seven, you, my fab seven, and we was going with it and I was like, okay, cool. But then I actually got a call from Dr Velma, like you should do a devotional, and you know I had already had a plethora of women who wanted to be a part of this project, but I shut the door at seven because I was like, okay, seven is the number of completion, right. And God put it on my spirit to just use those seven women.
Speaker 3:However, it was just tugging at my heart because it was like, okay, a lot of these people want these women, want their voices heard as well, and they all have amazing stories. But a lot of people may not be able financially, you know, to be able to afford to be in the the magnitude of what the anthology entail. So I decided I'll just sow a seed and do 10 percent of what what the other women pay for the anthology and give everybody a chance. You know just a small excerpt that maybe they can do when they can tell their story, they can uplift others and they can join in on the experience for a fraction of the cost. Now, of course, they're not going to get everything like the anthology, but I still wanted to grant people who may have never written before, who wanted to start their writing journey, or people who just really want to touch lives and uplift people and just give inspiration. I feel like everybody deserves that opportunity, no matter their financial status, and so that was my reason.
Speaker 4:Amen, that's what's up. That's what's up. I really love it and you're doing an amazing job. That's pretty awesome For you to juggle being a wife and a mother. What makes this challenging for you? Do all the aspects and all the projects that you got going on. What is the most challenging for you?
Speaker 3:to get everything completed by a certain deadline well, the deadline is not an issue because I have dominion. So when you have dominion over stuff and you, you, you, you, so to speak, you know, god put you in position to say you know what, I could push this day back if I want to. So I don't think it's more so of the deadline, but I will say it's challenging in the aspect of being a wife and a mother. Um, because it's only so many hours in a day. I wish, wish I could double the time in a day, but I just cannot.
Speaker 3:So I try my best to set a schedule and be firm in that schedule and be firm in my work time. So, as much as I really truly adore every single woman in this project I have a personal connection with every single person in this project I still have to know my boundaries, set my boundaries and be firm in my boundaries, because if I don't, that takes away time for my children, it takes away time for my husband and my family and, like you said, other projects that are going along with this. So I have other things that I cannot speak about at this moment, but big, huge things that I'm working on, and all of it, you know, goes under the women of the waiting room umbrella. So you know, if I got somebody that needs to speak with me, if it's dealing with anything with the anthology, they have to wait until the next day. So I try to be as fair as I possibly can, while still maintaining my boundaries, but still be empathetic to people in the process in the process.
Speaker 4:Amen, amen. That's beautiful. That's beautiful. What? What really truly inspire you to even become an author and a creator? And all the aspects that you got going on, like what really truly inspire you to get to this point you know what Shade God gives us oil, right?
Speaker 3:he gives us a certain amount of talent and gifts and blessings and I've always been a creative. Since I came out the womb, I've always been drawing, I've always been writing, I've always been doing poetry, I've always been just a creative singing, dancing, all of those things modeling I just have designing, interior design, fashion. I've always been evolved and kind of engulfed in creativity and art and that started, you know, like I said, coming out of the womb. So starting the Arthur journey actually happened, I want to say almost a year ago. A little over a year ago, Me and my husband were, um, it was, it was during covid and we had just shut down my, my shop. I had a, um, a boutique where I did mink lashes and I did cryo skin services and nails and, uh, it was one of the top ranked um, uh, beauty salons in Oswego, illinois. You can Google it Classy Defined LLC. C-l-a-s-s-e-d-e-f-i-n-e-d-l-l-c. If you Google that, you will see that I was one of the top-ranked businesses in Oswego. I've won multiple grants from not just Oswego but Aurora and Montgomery as well. I've always just, you know had that aspect.
Speaker 3:But anyway, covid got shut down, me and my husband were having some alone time on the couch, he was playing his video game. I was on my phone, but we were kind of like kicking it, you know like Netflix and chill type of thing. And I was scrolling through Facebook and I saw an ad from Bookly for a 21 day poetry challenge. Well, I write. My husband is an exquisite writer and poet and we've always had that in common and it was actually one of our goals. That was on our. Our vision board was, you know, to publish a book. And I was like, oh look, they got this thing, this 21-day challenge. We pay $50 for 21 days, we write poetry and they'll publish it, you know, just for the $50. And so we got involved with that From that birth, it Can't Always Be Night, which is available on Amazon and all platforms e-book, paper book, available everywhere.
Speaker 3:It Can't Always Be Night Poetic Memoirs of a Grown Girl and I took the poetry that I've written from fifth grade all the way up to like right after college, and I merged it all into that book and it just it went viral. It was just like crazy. I ended up on all type of podcasts, all type of platforms and, um, I I credit some of that um, I was in magazines and I credit credit that to God first. To God be all the glory. But God introduced me to Laquita Parks and Laquita Parks introduced me to the Book Slam and another group that was on Facebook.
Speaker 3:But the Book Slam is where I met all of the women in the waiting room. It's where I met you know me and Laquita. We connected through the Book Slam Me and Melanie me and Carolyn me. And know me and Laquita, we connected through the book slam Me and Melanie me and Carolyn me and Audrey me and Teresa. We all connected, dr Velma, we all connected through the book slam. And the book slam on Clubhouse was actually co-hosted by Laquita Parks and Indy Brennan, and they had this group on there, this clubhouse, so to speak, where authors would come on and they would read excerpts from their work, and that just created a firestorm in me and just made me want to write even more, and so that's how I got started with that.
Speaker 4:Amen. That's what's up. That's pretty, that's pretty dope. I dig it, I dig it, I dig it. So this is a two-parter. What makes faith hard for you in the things that you have going on? Does it make it hard for you or or not? And what Bible character do you relate to the most that fits you in this reality now, even though you know your faith is strong and you have your belief in God and things like that, what is those two things that you can put in place and relate to from the biblical aspect?
Speaker 3:Faith is never hard for me, because, because, um, through everything that I go through, I may panic sometimes, but I never lose my faith. Um, my faith has always been with me and that's what's got me to where I am now. Um, and as far as, uh, biblical characters, I actually relate to quite a few, but my favorite one that I always say that I relate to is Ruth, and the reason why I say Ruth is because my husband is my Boaz. I, you know, lost love. I, you know, lost love. I, you know, am one of those women that's always been a working woman, ready to get it on my own, do what I feel I need to do in order to not just survive, but just, you know, do my mother-in-law. I'm in tune with family, with purpose, with just integrity in general, and I always want to be better than I was yesterday. So Ruth, to me, embodied that, and she was never afraid to get her hands dirty.
Speaker 3:So when my husband found me so when my husband found me, I was working. I was working three jobs. I was a single mom. I was actually single for four years before we got married, before we got serious enough to get married. I was single for four years I was a single mom. I was working three jobs with no car, in the wintertime in Chicago and I had to walk to work. I had to get on the bus to the other two jobs and I was really just working jobs to pay for a babysitter for my son, to work a job. But I did what I had to do in order to survive. But everything that I did, I did with integrity, with morality, and I stayed focused on the goal at hand, which at that time was taking care of my son. So when he met me, I was working. When we got married, I was working and today I'm still working. That's what really gave him like I just want her to be a woman, you know, like not take on so much. Of course he doesn't mind me working, you know. I don't think that. You know, because you have some men who my wife can't work, he's not like that, and even if he is, I'm one of them. People like who said I can't work, he's not like that, and even if he is, I'm one of them. People like who said I can't I'm one of those, but I'm just like a strong, independent woman and that's why I feel Ruth was Another character in the Bible that I feel I may relate to is Esther, because Esther was never afraid.
Speaker 3:She knew that she had to save her people, and she knew the only way she was going to be able to do that was to go through those doors and talk to the king and get up in his face and tell him what needed to be done. And I'm one of those people. I'm not scared, I walk in my truth, I walk in faith, and I'm not going to walk up in nobody's place with no shambled clothes on. I'm going to put on my best every time I step out my royal robe, just like Esther. And so those are the two that I feel I relate to.
Speaker 4:Amen, amen. That's what's up. That's what's up, I dig it, I dig it, I dig it. What is one song that speaks to your heart, that gets you motivated and gets your creative juices flowing, for you to get the thoughts down from pen to paper.
Speaker 3:Oh, that was a good question, because you know I love music. Um, it just depends on the mood I'm in. Um, it depends on what I'm writing about. It depends on where my mindset is at. Um, if I'm writing poetry, um, I will listen to nikki giovanni, uh, which I know is poetry, but still it's in the musical aspect. So I'll Google some Nikki Giovanni or some Maya Angelou or you know, I'll play some of those things.
Speaker 3:If I'm in like a love, like writing about love, or something like that, I'll play what I just played, which is Ashby Prayed For. I'll play Soft R&B, neo Soul I'll play. If I'm trying to be uplifted and encouraged, I will play Tasha Cobbs. Or I will play Marvin Sapp, one of my favorites. I will play Hezekiah Walker. I will play Zachary, I will play someone who's in my married side of my family I can't think of his name right now and then I also play Travis Green. So I have a few people. Girl, I like music. Girl, check my resume A lot. I can't even. It's so many different type of people. I'm just a music lover in general. So I'll play anything. Basically that it depends on what emotions. If I'm in the knock, if you buck mode, I'll play Nicki Minaj or Three 6 Mafia or Project Pat, it just depends it depends on the mood.
Speaker 4:I'll play, p play. Uh, it don't matter, it just depends on the mood, I guess. Oh, that's funny, gee, I love music too. That's funny, that's true. Music saved my life. So, um, who then? Who back then and now inspire you to be the better person you are today? Who truly inspired you and who did you truly look up to? Or staff in the school?
Speaker 3:So I would have to say I had a second grade teacher, miss Barbara Keller. Third grade teacher, who is my friend on Facebook right now, robbie McLaurin. Fourth grade teacher, lawanda Miles. Fifth grade teacher, nonethi Zell Joyner, who actually inspired me to become a writer. She was actually the reason I wrote my first poem, because I was mad at her and it was a hate poem, but still she told me it was good and that I should write um. Sixth grade teacher, um, who ended up taking me in as a foster child, and um was my mom until the day she passed and a grandmother to my child when I didn't have one. Sharon Sharon Moore. Seventh grade, ms Beverly Love, rest in peace. Eighth grade, ms Goodloe. I can go on and on.
Speaker 3:All the women my principal at my high school, barbara Hall, emma Norris, dean Davis, miss Smith, who was the disciplinarian. It was just so many different people who inspired me to just be a better person back then while I was in foster care. Angela Jones was a caseworker, angela Jones was a caseworker, aisha Davis was a caseworker, malia Arnett, who was the queen of parks, audrey and carolyn coleman is a very, very good friend of mine. Um, theresa dorsey, melanie johnson, just all my people. My people will always be my people. Um, once you, you know, I build a bond with somebody, those are my people. My mother-in-law, patricia Cox, my cousin in marriage, yvette she's a really, really inspirational person. My sister, my blood sister, my bloodline, darcelle Didi I talk to her every day. My oldest sister, I look up to her so much. She does not have children, but I'm her child, you know, and she raised me through foster care, through going from group home to group home. She's always still been there for me. It's not a time that I can call her and she won't come. So those are the people, just a strong foundation of black women, who have always been instrumental in my life. Now that I go back and I think about it. My mom, who is still fighting the demons, know, fighting that monkey off her back, but she still never loses her faith in god, no matter what obstacle she's going through in her addiction and in her fight to become who god wants her to be. Um, she, she always speak very highly of god and she keeps them rooted and I I think that's why she, I know, that's why she's still covered today.
Speaker 3:Her name is Chyna, my grandmother. Now that I think about it. She's born in 1923, fannie Bell rest in peace. She's born in 1923. So she was only had a second grade education. So you know she was dealt the card. She was dealt with.
Speaker 3:She suffered from some mental and physical and emotional abuse that may have caused her to act in certain ways and have certain characteristics that I didn't think were right growing up, in the way that she treated us as children I didn't think were right growing up and the way that she treated us as children. But I've learned that you know you cannot fault people for generational cycles and hamster wheels that they are on. We have to learn to meet people where they are, be empathetic to the surroundings and the way that they grew up, because that may be all they know. Every person who is an adult had to grow up, had to become a child first, and the behavior that they exhibit as adults is learned behavior. So they had to learn it from somewhere. So I try to use that as a reason and a way to forgive.
Speaker 3:But even through everything, she had 14 boys, one girl. She was raped, she was beat, she was abused, but she still raised all 14 boys and one girl and she did it without complaining and she loved all her kids and she loved them equally and no matter what they did, wrong or right, she was down for her kids. She may pull them to the side and tell them they wrong, but in front of everybody else, you know she, she was behind her kids, whatever decision they made, and that's what I think I get my loyalty from. She was just an all around genuine good hearted person. She fed people on the street. She, she wasn't a snitch when it came to the gangbangers. She was cool with everybody and everybody loved her and they and I think I get that spirit from her. So, yeah, fanny bell, definitely, definitely the og and and that's probably my number one, amen, amen.
Speaker 4:That's a powerful, powerful testimony and that's pretty awesome to have a strong support system. We definitely need that, you know, and many challenges that we have. Um, also, when did your life change for the better and why? What pulled you to the direction to be the gifted person? I know you've been gifted all your life, but what made it turn for the better?
Speaker 3:when I had my son Jaden. Jaden saved my life. Without going into full detail about my story in the anthology, I was at a very, very low point in my life in the year 2010 and I was going through, uh, abuse in my relationship and all the relationships that I've had, um, but specifically this one and I was on a downward spiral mentally and, um, I wanted to give up and I acted out on that and found out I was pregnant. And well, I knew I was pregnant when I acted out on it, but it slipped my mind because I was going through so much mentally and emotionally in that toxic environment and in that toxic relationship. But once I realized the depth of what I was doing and I realized like, oh, no, girl, you're pregnant. It just it. God woke me up. God woke me up when I should. What I did to myself, what I did to myself, I should not have waken up. And God woke me up and that changed my perspective on a lot of the decisions that I made, every decision that I made from 2010 up until today.
Speaker 3:I make, for I think about my children and my husband now in every single thing that I do and if it's not going to benefit them in any way, then it's not something that I'm willing to partake on. And when I say benefit them, it doesn't have to be material or money or those type of things, but if I'm not sane I can't be there for them. So if it's going to be material or money or those type of things, but if I'm not sane I can't be there for them. So if it's going to be anything that's going to cause me stress, anxiety, depression, it has to get out of my spirit and that's something that only God can give me is peace. But God also gives us dominion to make those decisions for ourselves. So if we choose peace, then we know that God gives us dominion over our lives. So if we, if we are having any type of chaos or confusion or any type of drama in our lives, that's because we allow that door to be open. We cannot open Pandora's box and, in the words of the famous Nene Lee, the door is closed. For that in my life and I give all glory to God for that changed my life and I found my purpose.
Speaker 3:Just within this year, doing motivational speakings, you know, going on different podcasts or TV shows and just seeing the reaction of the people who are inboxing me or just being on social media, just, you know, writing encouraging words to not lift other, just uplift other people. But a lot of times those are affirmations that I'm giving to myself. That is something that I'm not hearing from somebody, that I may need to hear from myself, or some things that I may want God to speak to me that I'm not hearing anywhere else. So if I know, if I'm having a bad day, I'll put something out in the world that's positive, so it can come back to me a hundredfold. And those are the things that open the segue into my mind to start embracing my worth, embracing my talent and using those things as the oil that God gave me in order to walk into my purpose.
Speaker 4:Amen, hallelujah, that's what I'm talking about. Beautiful, beautiful. What is a comfort item you have as a child and as an adult right now?
Speaker 3:I wouldn't necessarily say that I have a comfort item. I don't have a comfort item. I have a comfort food. The comfort food that I had as a child would probably, to be honest with you, rice pudding, rice pudding. My grandmother used to make the best rice puddings. I would probably say rice pudding as a child, um, and to this day I love rice or anything starch. Um, today I will probably say my comfort item right now will be my heated blanket, and it will also be a good book.
Speaker 4:Yeah, so my Heated Blanket and a good book, that's pretty good. Oh my God, that brought back some memories. Describe your favorite quiet spiritual place and tell me why it's your favorite place for you to get to a point where you will separate yourself from family, to kind of collect yourself. If that's something you do, if you do have a quiet, favorite spiritual place in your home um.
Speaker 3:I'd rather not, but I will say that within that quiet space I am able to reflect on God's word. You know, my family gives me that time and space alone and I'm able to either write, create, read, talk on the phone. Just give me my little Zen area. But my war room is between me and God, respectfully. It's just certain things you don't let the enemy know, and you never know who's going to listen to this, or you know who's listening now and you don't want to. You never, and I'm going to tell you that as well, and anybody who's listening never let nobody know where your war room is in your house. Your war room is yours and yours alone, because you do not want demonic forces. Even though you covered in jesus name, you still don't open that door and let people know where your war room is located. So I will take it to the grave, honey on that one respect, respect.
Speaker 4:That's very true and understandable, very, very true, um, for if you ever was nervous, or if you were nervous at any point, what do you do as an icebreaker to kind of get you back on balance so you are comfortable to speak to people? What is the icebreaker?
Speaker 3:I never. You know, nervous is not really in my forte. If I do start off nervous, I always start off with a joke or a prayer. So, like on this platform, I can never be nervous because my icebreaker is always the walk-in music. So I come in with good vibes, positive vibes, good music. We always start off with prayer. So prayer is always, always, always going to be an icebreaker for me, or an uplifting scripture be an icebreaker for me, or an uplifting scripture, something to calm the room, ease the room, or something to pump it up and get it motivated, depending on your audience. You have to know your audience. So if I go into a church, I can't play um, nervous, you know not give you book, am I 14? Or um, uh, pretty, with no makeup or something to get the party jumping right. But if I go into a room of girls between the ages, of 12 and 20, then I can play that music.
Speaker 3:But if I go into a church it's like you have to know your audience and it's not like you're good. A lot of people say, oh, that's traveling, positive vibes, good music. I think you have to meet people where they're at. We always start off with prayer.
Speaker 4:And this is just my personal belief.
Speaker 3:You have to meet people where they're at, show them that you connect with them. Calm the room and then you bring them, you know, or something to pump it up and get it motivated. See, little by little, you have to bring them to Christ. If I go into a church, I can't play. If I go to church, my icebreaker would be a spiritual song or a Bible verse or words of encouragement. If I'm speaking at a school, it's going to be some music that they would listen to, Of course no explicit music, but you give what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:If it's a row, to be the music that they would listen to between the ages of 12 and 20.
Speaker 3:If it's a rowdy crowd like a women's prison or something, or if I'm going to play something that's motivational but still upbeat gorgeous. I'm going to come in. I think you have to meet people where they're at, and this is just my own personal belief. You have to meet people where they're at set the tone of how you want the rest of your speaking engagement to go. So if you start, out rowdy, you've got to stay rowdy all the way to the end.
Speaker 4:If you start out smooth, you've got to stay smooth, and that's just my mode and depending on what message you're trying to send.
Speaker 3:So icebreakers are. If I go to church, my icebreaker would be a church song or a Bible verse or words of encouragement, if you can have an endless supply of anything in the world that God will bless you with. What would you do with the endless supply and how would you?
Speaker 3:contribute and give back prison or something I'm gonna play, something that's um motivational but still applies, just um immediately reading up every day, and I'm trying to learn more and more every day. I'm going there, going the bible, you're speaking engagement or I'm on my phone, so if you start, out around you. Gotta stay rowdy all the way to the kind of make it through my start off smooth.
Speaker 3:So I feel like if I had an endless supply of the knowledge and depending on what message you're trying to see of that and just give it to people. Take a little piece of that life. Amen, I believe that that's true.
Speaker 4:That's what I would pray for if for endless knowledge of the word supply of anything in the world that god will bless you, what would you do? And how would you contribute and give back?
Speaker 3:oh my god, one one thing if I had an endless reply that what is your most contribute to the world?
Speaker 4:it would definitely be knowledge of the word, and you're so consistent on every day.
Speaker 3:I'm trying to learn more and more. Every day I go in there, go in the Bible and I'm reading or I'm on my phone and I'm looking up everybody that I come across with. So I feel like if I had an endless supply of the knowledge and I could just take a piece of that and just give it to people for anybody that.
Speaker 3:I meet. That's what I would pray for. Even though a lot of people may not want to see me win the same way I want to see them, I think that's one of my most positive actions. That I have is my consistent loyalty. That I have is my one thing is loyalty.
Speaker 3:And what is your most positive, unique habit that you have in yourself? I have a habit of being empathetic and caring and nurturing to everybody that I come across with, and empathetic and um, if an opportunity was presented to you based on your true, wonderful and amazing testimony.
Speaker 4:What would the title of your movie be, if that ever?
Speaker 3:came to play or came to pass. For anybody that I meet, I want to see everybody. I've already written that book. Even though a lot of people may not want to see me, I want to see them 64 days. I think that's one of them as a bestseller on. Amazon. Mountains can't rise without earth is my memoirs of a grown girl. Um, it has already been uh I think that that that pretty much sums it up.
Speaker 4:Okay, okay, that's what's up. That's what's up, and if that's an opportunity for you to look like as a celebrity, to play your part. Wonderful and amazing testimony. What would the title of your movie be if that ever?
Speaker 3:came to play, or came to, don't we? Kravitz will have to play me hands down, and it's not that. Um, I think that I've already read that book, best-selling memoir, that uh 200, and well, I know 64 days today and um on amazon and you know as a bestseller on Amazon Mountain Camp. I have been through it In my memoirs of a grown girl. It has already been, the trailer has already been televised and I am in works to making that a movie, okay okay, that's what's up.
Speaker 4:That's what's up, okay. Okay, that's what's up. That's what's up. And if that did happen, you had to do something. You look like as a celebrity to play your part to go to help give and to share the knowledge, to people, don't be crabby.
Speaker 3:What has to play me? That we have hands down, and it's not that I think that she looks like me. I would go to, but I just think that, um, my heart, really, why no haiti from her story?
Speaker 4:for a number of reasons you know.
Speaker 3:Watch the interviews um that she's been. I will go to haiti that I have been. Um, a lot of people are in my life and I think that you know a lot of people go to dubai. They go to these different places and I would definitely choose, but I would go to Haiti, okay okay, that's what's up.
Speaker 4:If there was a time that you had to understand, what part of the world would you be able to go to? Thank you for sharing as well and to share the knowledge to people that can't get the access that we have.
Speaker 3:You better wrap this show up. I will go to.
Speaker 4:Haiti.
Speaker 3:Thank you, guys, for coming on tonight.
Speaker 4:My heart really aches for Haiti. Thank you. For a number of reasons, I'm sorry. Thank you, guys, for coming and visiting with us tonight.
Speaker 3:And thank you, my sister, for sharing wonderful people testimony.
Speaker 4:You're a beautiful person inside and out.
Speaker 3:I thank you for this opportunity to be your guest host tonight and I appreciate everything that you're doing with all the sisters that are a part of the projects that are going on.
Speaker 4:that's going to happen this year. Thank you so much for this opportunity tonight. All right, my sister, I'm done asking you some beautiful questions. Thank you for answering. Thank you for sharing as well.
Speaker 3:Thank you for interviewing the queen of questions. You had some great questions. That's not how you're going to wrap up this show. You better wrap this show up. You are an amazing talent. You have so much potential. I see you doing so many great things.
Speaker 4:And I'm super proud of Everything that you have already accomplished and I look forward to.
Speaker 3:Seeing what you have going on in the future.
Speaker 4:I want you to. Leave us out of prayer and then tell me what's on. We're playing out and I appreciate everything that you're doing with all the sisters that are a part of the project.
Speaker 3:We can do toxic.
Speaker 4:So thank you so much for this opportunity tonight.
Speaker 3:All right and I want to thank you as well for coming. Thank you for this moment, thank you for this interview tonight I thank you for all the people that bring in to listen.
Speaker 4:Um, thank you, thank you for your wonderful testimony, your beautiful spirit, amazing person every father, um, I thank you for her so much potential and I'm so grateful to have you doing so many great things today and I'm so proud of everything that you have already accomplished.
Speaker 3:And I look forward to seeing what you have going on in the future. I want you to lead us out in prayer and then tell me what song we're playing out.
Speaker 4:And then lead us out in prayer. Land out and then lead us out in prayer, the gift that you instored in me to create and write and give back and be gifted, and I'm so thankful.
Speaker 2:Lord for this moment.
Speaker 4:I'm thankful for this time that you gave us mercy and grace to do it better than what we did yesterday.
Speaker 2:Today, we have to focus on the now because, just like with Jesse, we can't control anything that is out of our hands right now. Listen, Thank you, Jackie, for your wonderful testimony and our beautiful spirit a beautiful person.
Speaker 4:And Father I thank you for her hand and her mind, that you anointed her with the gift to create and write and to push us down from the hurt that she left us in our life, and that you blessed our home and comforted us throughout the night. And every aspect and every area of the life home and comforted us throughout the night.
Speaker 3:And every aspect and every area of the life and what we will be doing today, father you are the Alpha, you are the Omega, you are the beginning.
Speaker 4:You are the King of Kings and you are the Lord of Lords. You are the author of our lives.
Speaker 3:We would not take the pen out of my hand Because you are still writing for this time, that you not take the pen out of my hand because you are still writing for this time You're still writing my mercy and grace.
Speaker 4:You do it better than what we did. Jesus' mighty name, amen. Today we have to focus on the now, because yesterday was yesterday. We can't control anything that is out of our hands right now, father, and I am so thankful for this moment and this opportunity and all the wonderful people that are on the line tonight.
Speaker 3:I ask you to cover us with joy peace, Linda. Linda, we have covered up. On May 1st we have Melanie Johnson.
Speaker 4:On May 2nd we have Elena Maria. And on May 7th we have Miss Lizzie Park.
Speaker 3:All coming in to take over.
Speaker 4:And that's the queen of questions. And guess what? I'm ready, you guys. This has been a great great, great evening a great interview. And I just want to tell Ms Sade again, thank you so much.
Speaker 3:I appreciate you, god bless you and we're going to head out with Tasha Cobbs. And on that note, I want to say thank you all for tuning in to this edition of the Women of the Waiting Room. Take over, listen, linda. We have coming up on May 1st, we have Melanie Johnson, on May 2nd we have Elena Maria and on May 7th we have Ms Laquita Parks all coming in to take over and ask the queen of questions some questions and guess what? I'm ready. You guys, this has been a great, great, great evening, a great interview, and I just want to tell Ms Sade again thank you so much, I appreciate you, god bless you and we're going to head out with Tasha Cobbs. Have a great evening, guys.
Speaker 1:You surround me with a song.
Speaker 2:Of the enemy, of my enemy. I'm no longer a slave to fear. I'm no longer a slave to fear. I'm no longer a slave to fear. I am a child. The little girl is calling my name. I've been born again. I'm in your family. I'm no longer a stranger From my mother's womb. I'm a child. Let's declare it together your blood, your blood flows through my veins. I'm no longer a slave to fear. I am a child of the Father's hand. I'm no longer a slave to fear. I am a child of God. You're my family. I've been wanting you. You're my family. You're my family.
Speaker 2:You blow my face. I know I'm saying it's a tear to the heart, but I feel like I'm missing some child. I know you're saying it's a tear to the heart, but I feel like I'm missing some child. Thank you, I can fall. I can fall. My fears are drowned in darkness. You rescued me. You rescued me so I can stand. Don't you have the seeds so I can fall? You saved the seeds.
Speaker 2:I feel the sea so high. I feel the sea so high. I feel the sea so high. I feel the sea so high. I feel the sea so high. You rescued me so I can stay and I'm safe. You rescued me. You split the sea so I can go and I'm safe. My dreams are dreaming. I'm safe. You rescued me so I can stay. And I'm here to help you. You rescued me so I can stay. I'm here to help you. You rescued me so I can stay. I'm here to help you. You rescued me so I can stay. I'm here to help you. You rescued me so I can stay.
Speaker 2:I'm trying to find my love. I know who I am. I know who I am. I know who I am. I know who I am. I know who I am. I know who I am. I am a love. I am a love. I am a love. I'm trying to find my love. I'm trying to find my love. I'm trying to find my love. I am a child of God. If you know who you are, just lift your voices in this room and scream a praise to Jesus. I am a child of God. I am, I'm shown, I'm gone. I am. I know who I am. I know who I am. I know who I am. Hey, I am, I'm shown, I'm gone. I am a child again. Oh my God, no-transcript.