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Listen Linda! Hosted by Jacquiline Cox
Celebrating Literary Victories: How Five Women Published Books in 21 Days
The moment when five women transformed from aspiring writers to published authors crackles with electricity in this emotional graduation celebration. Listen as tears flow, laughter erupts, and powerful testimonies unfold when these courageous storytellers reveal how they completed their books in just 16 days through the Listen Linda 21-Day Author Boot Camp.
Each graduate's journey brims with vulnerability and triumph. Cherise King's raw memoir "Sir, I Am Not Her" boldly declares independence from others' perceptions with quotable "Cherise-isms" that will have you snapping in agreement. Pamela Nance Johnson's devotional tackles the excuses we make when neglecting our spiritual lives. Dr. Leanne Cerise Hendrick serves up "Just a Cup of Holy Tea," replacing worldly gossip with divine wisdom. Seventy-three-year-old Myra Cook proves it's never too late with her touching romance "Finding Love After 70." LaShawn Fernandez rounds out this phenomenal cohort with her "Book of Divine Devotions," born from personal transformation.
Beyond celebrating their publications, this episode offers invaluable insights into the creative process itself. The authors candidly share their obstacles, breakthroughs, and what sustained them through moments of doubt. Host Dr. Jacqueline Cox reveals why she's keeping this transformative program affordable at just $600 despite pressure to charge more: "Your story might be the very thing that saves somebody else's life, and cost should never be the barrier between someone's testimony and someone's healing."
Whether you're harboring a book idea or simply love witnessing moments of breakthrough, this graduation showcase delivers equal parts inspiration and practical wisdom. These women didn't just write books—they birthed a movement that proves obedience produces legacy. Ready to turn your story into a book that outlives you? The next bootcamp cohort is forming now.
Thank you. Thank you All right Moment of truth. You ready Leigh-Anne.
Speaker 2:Ho Ho.
Speaker 1:Let's publish One, two done, bam. Let's publish one, two, done, bam. We are published. Just a cup of holy tea, hey, hey, hey, girl, don't get me started. Girl, you know, I do a whole tiktok dance. Yes, we in there, we in there, we in there. Congratulations, sweetheart. Yes, that's my girl. Yeah, done, done, congratulations. I want to congratulate you. You are officially published hey, bam, bam bam, bam bam. Look at that Oreo girl. We look good, don't we?
Speaker 3:hey, I'm published.
Speaker 1:I'm published alright, mama Myra, you published. That's your ebook.
Speaker 2:All right.
Speaker 1:Mama Myra, you published. That's your e-book. Now you ready to do your paperback. Okay, I'm ready. Thank you, lord.
Speaker 2:You crying. Look at God you crying. I know girl.
Speaker 1:I can see oh, I feel this way. Hallelujah.
Speaker 5:You crazy, I know girl. 21 days, it was less than that.
Speaker 1:That's really what got me? Yeah, because technically it's been 16 days. Yes, yes, technically it's been 16 to 17 days, because we started technically on the 3rd. And here we are. You ready? Yes, tell me to hit publish.
Speaker 5:I'm going to do the drum roll. Hit the drum roll. Publish.
Speaker 2:Congratulations.
Speaker 1:Go ahead, girl you ready girl. Congratulations Pam. Go ahead, girl, you ready girl.
Speaker 5:Congratulations Pam they ain't ready for this.
Speaker 2:They ain't ready, girl, now let's do this ebook so you ready.
Speaker 1:I'm ready one, two, three ready One two, three, yes, yes, yes, yes, we did it, we did it, you published, you published. How do it feel?
Speaker 1:Good, and now you got the steps and you know how to do it and, of course, as always, you can go back and look at the back of the workbook, Because everything that I just showed you today, I already put it in the DIY in the back of your workbook. Okay, okay, all right, so we are done, girl. Yes, and that's how we do it over here. Listen Linda, listen, welcome, welcome. Welcome to the Listen Linda 21 Day Arthur Boot Camp Graduation. It's a testimony showcase, a worship service and a celebration of stories that needed to be told. I am your host, dr Jacqueline Cox, mrs Illinois USA Ambassador 2025, best-selling author and the voice behind the Listen Linda podcast on iHeartRadio. Tonight, we are honoring a powerful group of women who trusted the process and became best-selling authors in less than 21 days. Drop the emojis in the chat for our graduates yes, hey, hey, hey. Now, before we get started, y'all know how I do, when I do what I do. We got to pray first, okay?
Speaker 2:That's right.
Speaker 1:Father, god, we thank you for this moment Cover every author, every book and every reader who will pick up these pages. Let these words travel farther than their feet ever will. In Jesus' mighty name, amen, amen. In Jesus' mighty name, amen, amen.
Speaker 1:Now, first up, I just want to say congratulations to all the ladies that are here Cherise King, lashawn Fernandez, myra Cook, pamela Nance Johnson and my girl. All of them are my girls, but my girl, dr Leanne, cerise Hendrick. Okay, congratulations, ladies, you did it, you did an awesome jobrick. Okay, congratulations, ladies, you did it. You did an awesome job, each and every one of you. First up, I want to celebrate a woman who stepped into her truth and before I do that, I would like all my ladies to please mute your mics. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I want to congratulate a woman who stepped boldly into her truth. Her book is raw, it's unfiltered and it's healing all at once. Family, give it up for Cherise King, the author of Sir. I Am Not Her, she is not me and we are not the same. Roll the trailer.
Speaker 7:They said I was bossy, but I was born to lead. From childhood battles to adult scars, my strength was forged in fire. They tried to define me, but I chose to define myself. This is not just a book. It's a declaration. Battle cry for every woman told she was less. It's time to own your story and step into your power, for I am not her, she is not me, we are not the same. I Carice King. Reorder now $24.99 at whatshesaidbiz.
Speaker 1:Yes, charisse. Charisse, are you there? I don't see you. You dropped off, okay, I see you girl. I see you girl. Now. It is my mistake. I played the wrong trailer, so I apologize, charisse, I hope you can forgive me. You know I was pressed wrong trailer, so I apologize. Sharice, I hope you can forgive me. You know I was pressed for time so I picked the wrong one, but still I got the wrong trailer, just the wrong voice. Okay, but y'all better go check my page and check her page and check YouTube later, because it's going to be fixed, okay.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's all good. I know you were doing things and I was like that sounds good, but it ain't me, so she ain't her. She's not me and I ain't her.
Speaker 1:We're definitely not the same, literally well, I love you, I love you, I love you. Now powerful, right, charisse? Let's talk about it. Let's talk about it. What made you finally say yes to telling your story in 21 days?
Speaker 3:Well, you know I had talked with you before that I had been wanting to write this book. I wanted to have it done by spring. And then we had talked some time before and I was like I've been telling people that I want to write the book, and when you tell people you want to write, you're writing a book, they're expecting it. So I put it out there in the universe, in the atmosphere, and I've told people, and so therefore, I had to keep the promise to myself. First and foremost, it's keeping the promise to myself something that I had decided to do on my own. One of my good girlfriends had said you should write a book by yourself. I'm like, yeah, you're right, I should, and that's the saying. The statement of that book is the saying that I say, and I'm like you know what I mean? It's a title, and I'm like let me go ahead and go through it, because there's all of us even though it happens to men, but we're women Sometimes we have been in someone's mind, thinking someone has thought that Pamela was her and Pamela had to tell them no, sir, she's not me.
Speaker 3:Oh, and we definitely not the same. That had probably happened for LaShawn. So I was like I had to go ahead and write it and get the words to paper and put it out there, because I believe that this is a book that is, like you said, a declaration. There's going to be people who can relate to that, may it be female or male, but most importantly women and women of a season, mature age that you get so confident that from when you was 20 or 30 that, oh, if I say it, I might lose them. And now you're like and if I do so, I'm not her baby and sir, she definitely not, because of the her that was. Her then would have cared, but she right now we don't care in a respectful, respectful way, not trying to be mean or nasty or just be the mean girl. It's not about that. It's about trying to keep everybody in pieces while you lose all your peace.
Speaker 1:Amen.
Speaker 3:Amen, no, sir, so I'll just ask you something.
Speaker 1:Which chapter challenged you the most to write?
Speaker 3:Oh, wow, hmm.
Speaker 1:She got some chapters. Y'all she got some chapters. Baby, she got some chapters.
Speaker 3:Well, you know I'm going to just give a little snippet. You know, having standards in this life and season of life, of having standards and you having standards and boundaries, it's been hard to develop relationships with, I would say, the opposite sex, with men or even sometimes women. So one of my chapters is let your standards be higher than your legs, that meaning that people sometimes will lower their standards and let their legs be high in the air just to be in a relationship. And you know you think don't really like this person and I'm not. It can even be in a relationship or just having relationships that you want to be part of the crowd.
Speaker 3:You've allowed yourself to go through some hard trauma that you try to be in the part of association with an organization or with people and allowing some slide shade to be happening and you let some stuff slide and then they go ice skate and then you got to stop that, no matter what it is. You just got to be, let your standards and your boundaries be higher than your legs. And so, being that, you know that some of the things that I emulated or stated in the book that I may have done just to be part of the crowd or to be part of the organization or to be fit in, but I'm not made to fit in, I'm made to stand out and therefore, when you get that to this point, you realize that the only applause and audience you really need is yourself and God, and God will bring the rest. And when you start doing that, whatever it is he's calling you to be, to be, because slow obedience is still disobedient. So that means if he's told you and shown you that in this part of your life he's told you and shown you that in this part of your life he's moving you here, but you stay. He's moving you over here, but you stay here, you're still being disobedient because you want to make everybody else feel comfortable, but I can't make you feel comfortable while I'm uncomfortable.
Speaker 3:So this right in that chapter, right there being vulnerable and transparency on some things that I've encountered, that I did have standards and even when you have standards and dress appropriately because people have subpar standards and used to treating people like small ants on the crab hill that they think that who you think you are to say that you shouldn't be treated like that. That's because you're used to her and we still, again, that's where we are. You see that, whoever that surreal her is in your mind, or how they feel about themselves, however they feel about them, they see that they want that to be for you, and that's not who it is.
Speaker 1:That's not what we're doing over here.
Speaker 3:Y'all are not the same.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm, not at all I love editing, look. But I say, this lady got some isms baby. She call them Sharice isms. Okay, this lady got some isms baby. She called them Sharice isms. Okay, this lady got some isms baby. Do you hear me? If you don't have this book, please go get this book. Please go get this book. Now, what do you want women to feel when they close the last page of your book?
Speaker 3:Well, I really want them to feel courageous, self-confident and allow that those things that happen to them happen for them and not to them, and they learn from it. And then what happened is that when you stand in the face of being ostracized, obscured or feeling different, sometimes what it is we feel different and uneasy because God has challenged us to take that out of us. And so, therefore, the things that was you were comfortable with before, you don't feel comfortable with no more. And then you got to be bold enough and respectful, but sometimes people don't know how to. They don't take your nice, so they want to be nickel slick. You have to be a dime faster. And so, with that being said, being confident to stand in your own truth. But we also in that book. I will also self reflect back. What did I do to get into that situation? Or what did I do that a person thought that that was OK? And again it goes back to when you let those little small halfway compliments or mistreatments slide. It's not always their fault, sometimes it's your own fault because you let it happen. So I want them to feel whatever your truth is, stand in it.
Speaker 3:And here's the thing when people try to tell you. Remember when you used to. They try to throw up what you used to be or what they thought you used to be in your face. But when you tell your own truth and story, you can't. If I'm telling my own secrets, you can't make me feel bad. You are sick as your worst secret.
Speaker 3:And so you can't make me feel bad about what I told you. Baby, don't you think you can use me. Don't think you can use that against me. So, like I have suffered from alopecia and sometimes I wear my haircut real low, and there was one time a person I thought I was a friend too, like if we're all girlfriends and your wig is sliding to the left or whatever, I'm going to be like, hey, sweetie, just out of love. Well, they got upset that I would tell them that all the time. And the person said to me well, how would you like me to tell you you got your bitty beads sticking out the back? But since I'm confident, I said I don't care, tell me that don't bother me.
Speaker 3:Girl me, that's the least of my worries about some BDBs. I'm like you're going to have to come up with something else. If Utah shoots, shots, fire B, b, b, b, b B. That didn't bother me, you're going to have to come up with something else. When you stand in your truth like that, when you know that people are trying to throw you shade, that didn't bother me, honey.
Speaker 3:I was want women to feel comfortable in who they are. And we know that we're not fit for everyone and that's just okay, because when you try to downsize yourself to fit everybody, you're repressing who you are and that's not fair to you. They're not really getting your true, authentic self. Whoever's going to like you is going to like you because you're true and honest. And then sometimes the things that I say I don't put salt, I don't put sugar on it, I give it right, straight but straight no taste, no salt. It is what it is, because sometimes that's just what it is. I mean, do it in love. If you're offended. Sometimes the offense is because you're offended, because people just want to be offended, to be mad. When we be chewing on rocks all the time, that's all them.
Speaker 1:Or chewing on concrete, as I say. But like you said shots fire, not a nickel slick or a dime. Faster, pam. Your niece said congrats Auntie Pamela Nance Johnson and the other graduates.
Speaker 3:Yes, congratulations, ladies.
Speaker 1:Denise is here. She's always here. That's my girl, that's everybody's girl on this stage. She says amen and congratulations, ladies. Deborah, how much is the course? We will be talking about that just a little bit later, okay? Next up we have our girl, pamela Nance Johnson. We have a woman whose story reminds us that God's timing is always perfect. Family. Help me celebrate Pamela Nance Johnson. Arthur, you're not too busy.
Speaker 9:It's God's time anyway. Roll the trailer. Life moves fast, too fast, but what if your waiting time, your busy moments, were God's time? 31 days of scripture, reflection and prayer designed for the everyday believer, from small beginnings to urgent calls of faith. God will meet you right where you are. Don't wait for the perfect moment. Every moment is his. Transform your busyness into blessings.
Speaker 1:Discover the devotional by pamela nance johnson, releasing soon on amazon alone alone alone alone alone alone alone alone alone alone alone alone alone alone alone alone alone alone alone alone alone alone alone alone alone alone alone alone alone alone alone alone alone alone alone alone alone alone alone alone alone alone alone. Johnson, now Pamela. What a title, what a title. Girl. Let me ask you, how did you balance writing this book while juggling your busy schedule?
Speaker 5:While juggling what now.
Speaker 1:Your busy schedule.
Speaker 5:Oh yes, you know what it took you to just help me to focus and to push us and I say us because we were together for a little while and then I had a one-on-one a couple of occasions. So I just had to. If I looked at the title, it said you're not too busy. So I had to internalize that too, if I could tell people they're not too busy to. You know, study God's word. To read this scripture, listen to this song, get this message. I had to make sure I wasn't too busy to finish and I kept saying to myself I can see the finish line, I can almost see the tape and we almost there. So we get ready to cross, I'm going to lean in and we're going to get it done. It was really. It went by, but I stayed focused.
Speaker 1:Absolutely Now. What, during the bootcamp moment, reminded you that you were exactly where God wanted you to be, reminded you that you were exactly where God wanted you to be.
Speaker 5:It's when, actually, you put that, the announcement or the flyer out, and I pondered 21 days, but I had a good structure to begin with and it was just time, and I don't believe in accidents or coincidences, I really don't. So this was the time my divine assignment met with your, this divine appointment. So there was meant to be you and I at this time to get this done.
Speaker 1:And I'm so, so proud.
Speaker 5:I couldn't let the time pass. I couldn't let it go by. There'll be no excuses. Why couldn't I just commit to 21 days?
Speaker 1:well, you did a fantastic job, fantastic job. I'm so super proud. All of you did every single one of you did an awesome job. Okay, I just I really want to stress that enough.
Speaker 5:I'm almost in the brink of tears because I know, looking at the trailers and seeing just how everyone evolved in this short time, I'm just teary-eyed. I don't get really emotional, but, yes, just to see it all come to fruition and how you took everyone's vision and just brought it to life. And so congratulations, every woman who's here. And I have to just share this one thing with you One of the weeks when I wasn't with you all, on Sunday, my women's ministry at church had our conference and our theme was bad girls Ba-d, bless and deliver.
Speaker 5:And I just said the opening with charise girl, you a bad girl yes, I see girl but we bless and deliver because of this and we hope that somebody else is going to be as well. And you know what?
Speaker 1:Okay, go ahead, I'm sorry. Well, so the reason why I think I was able to connect with each and every one of you because I know each and every one of you on a personal level. Pam, you've been in a couple of my books, my anthologies, and also you've worked with me on some campaigns before, so I know you in that aspect, same with mama myra. I call her mama myra because that's my girl, myra. You there, that's my girl, mama myra. She's also working with me as well as some campaigns in different magazines and stuff that I've done. Cherise, Cherise, my girl, me and Cherise go back to when I didn't even have no anthologies and I was participating in one that she was participating in and I think our personalities just mesh so well, like, that is my girl. She was one of the first people that was a guest on the listen linda podcast that I started three years ago. And then, of course, I got lashon fernandez, who I was actually introduced to by my mentor, uh, dr laquita parks, who if it was not for her, I wouldn't know half the stuff that I know, um, today, like, as far as like publishing or just anything dealing with the literary world, that is my girl, that is the guru. You want to go to the master for publishing or anything. You never, never, never, not know who the person publishing is. Okay, dr LaPita Parks, she was the way you need to be and so she actually introduced me to LaShawn Fernandez and LaShawn actually she does so much with me in such a short period of time. She did the Women of the Waiting Room Volume 2 devotional. She did the Through the Rain devotional. She did the podcast one-on-one podcast training with me. I produced her podcast Wounded Warrior podcast and now she did the Listen Linda Publishing 21 Day Arthur Challenge.
Speaker 1:So I was able to connect with you guys on a personal level because, even though I do business with people, you can always call me and kiki with me. How crazy you know you got my number. It don't always have to be about business with me. If you need somebody to talk to, need somebody, need some advice on anything, any or I need some advice from anyone, you guys gave me some advice earlier this week. It's just like I I was able to hone into your stories and help you to um develop your stories because of the personal relationship. So I know your voices, I know who are and I think that's what it really boils down to when, when you publish with someone, get to know the person so they can know you, because if they don't know you, they can't help you tell your story if they don't know who you are. Ok. So one another thing I want to ask you before we move on to our next person how do you hope that your devotional change lives?
Speaker 5:How do you hope that your devotional changed lives? I hope that someone who, in the book, in the devotional, I say to them that I'm not trying to replace your fellowship or your study, I want to enhance it. So I want to for someone who's already a believer. If this is a tool, another resource tool. But then I thought, okay, it could also be evangelism. It could reach someone who isn't going to open up a Bible today, but they may, if they, you know, get this to pique their curiosity. It may lead someone to say I need more than this, and so that is what's going to lead them to salvation. Not necessarily me. I want to plant some seeds, I want to do some watering, and God is going to get the increase, absolutely.
Speaker 1:Absolutely so. Let's everybody give a round of applause for Pamela and for Sharice, next up. Now y'all know what we got to do. Let's bring her on the stage, baby um, because now we gotta sip some holy tea, y'all. Our next graduate brings wisdom, encouragement and daily reflection through her pen. Clap it up for dr leanne.
Speaker 10:Leanne Arthur of Just a Cup of Holy Tea Devotional Roll the trailer. In a world thirsty for gossip, what if the real tea was holy? What if the real tea was motivational? Dr Leanne Cerise Hendrick invites you to sip from a different cup, one brewed with excitement and joy, brewed with God's word, steeped in grace and sweetened with truth. Get ready for a spiritual boost. Each page pours a new flavor of faith, delicious and uplifting. From unity to humility, from adversity to victory, every sip is a celebration. With every sip, your soul will be refreshed, strengthened and inspired. Feel the energy. This is more than a devotional. It's a daily ritual of peace, prayer and purpose. Let's go A reminder that the best tea isn't gossip, it's God's truth. Pass it on. Just a cup of holy tea, available on Amazon August 24th. Don't miss it. From Dr Leanne Cerise Hendrick, bringing you inspiration. Every day, Sip reflect, be transformed.
Speaker 1:Yes, Dr Leanne. Dr Leanne, your book feels like sitting down with a friend and God at the same table. Love, what inspired you to write your devotional through this season?
Speaker 8:being tired, being sick and tired, if I must be honest, with how Christian folk, specifically Christian folk, conduct themselves. You know, all of us, for whatever reason, are now on social media, whether we want to be or not, and because of that we get. Of course there's beauty in it, but we get front row seats to some of the ugly. And God actually put it in me through me, praying, like you know, literally like God, what is wrong with your, for our people, your people, why do they find it so so much urgency in um, spilling gossip, talking about negative stuff, so much so that I did a, I did my point.
Speaker 8:You know, we don't find joy in success. We find joy, it seems, like you know, through people's adversities. And it just was weighing on me and I was already charged by God to go forth, you know, and because I love tea, I was like everybody always say they got the tea, but they ain't got the real tea because they're not talking about you, god, you know what I'm saying. The real tea is what's going to last forever and it definitely ain't the hottest gossip that everybody thinks Right. And so then, when you proposition, yeah, when you propositioned, hey, let's do the boot camp, you know I was already toiling with trying to get this done, and it just made me get it done.
Speaker 1:It was time. I want to ask you was there a scripture that became your anchor through this writing journey?
Speaker 8:It was a scripture that was my anchor, although it's not in the book.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 8:And my peace I give to you. Look not unto the hills from which cometh my help. That scripture really does resonate with me. You know, I ask the Lord constantly to bridle my tongue as well, because you know that that whole cup of tea hit my lap before it even hit y'all's. You know that whole cup of tea hit my lap before it even hit y'all's. I also have to be cognizant of the things that I say, whether it's about people I don't watch television y'all but whether it's about people in general or even in my own household, I also have to be an example. So it did hit me, trust me to be an example. So it did hit me, trust me, I got drenched in all those cups before I even put it into text.
Speaker 1:Well, when you gave me the manuscript for it, I was floored when you was already telling me we had the conversation about what you wanted to write about.
Speaker 1:you remember that conversation and when you gave me the title, I was like, oh, my word, and I had the first dip on it. Y'all, when I say it is good, it is really good. Now, one thing about me I'm not gonna say something is good if it ain't, especially if it's under the lintel in the brand, you're gonna know like, hey, let's tweak it a little bit, let's do this, do that. I don't have to do that with none of these ladies, none of them. I'll tell you that right now everybody came, came in hot and ready with something good.
Speaker 1:And one thing about um leanne, dr leanne's book is that, like she said, she holds herself accountable in so many parts of this book and when she say tea, the good thing about it, like the most unique thing about it, is that every different chapter is with tea, like accountability, all those different words is with tea. Tea, um, all those different words ends with tea and they it's just all. Just put it all into perspective. And it was so fun for me to read it for the first time and I and I read it for everybody. Only people hasn't seen it before me was heard. That's where everybody else is, and so I know how everybody else booked in and I got the ins and outs of it, um, but it helped me spiritually as well. Each one of your stories and devotionals. It helped me in a different type of way and I think that's one of the reasons why I really love doing this is because it gives me a chance to get to know you guys in a way that I didn't know you before, and so I appreciate you even more now by reading this, because it takes a real woman, a God and a woman with a lot of wisdom to come up with some of the things that you put into this book to help people. There was nothing but God working and putting oil through you for you to spill it out on this paper. It was amazing, amazing.
Speaker 1:If you guys do not have this book, please pre-order the book from Dr Leanne, cerise Hendrick. This book is amazing and talking about if you weigh in back and forth, if you want to hold yourself accountable, or even if you just want to see some of the things that's going on, like Dr Leanne said, that's going on that's at the church and how they can fix those things. This is a great, great resource for so many people who are afraid to go to the church because of the things people are saying in the church. It might be a good resource for some of you people that's in the church. That's weighing in on the fact that is she talking about me? Because if you got to ask somebody talking about you nine times out of 10, baby, so you might want to pick up this book to figure out if she talked about you. So what do you pray that your readers experience as they sip their holy tea?
Speaker 8:I pray that they experience Self-awareness. I pray that you know people always want exposure. I hope that it exposes who they are or who they should be, because, again, that's the tea right Everybody want to know. You know what Jackie is doing or what Sharice is doing or what Mama Myra is doing. But I pray that my book actually shows you what you're doing and what you need strengthened, and that you know that the real tea, the real tea, you know that scripture where it says thirst no more. Know that. You know that, that scripture where it says thirst no more. Um. I pray that the real tea has you, has you thirsting more for god and less for the world, because that's the, that's the um, that is the tea that's going to last forever, that is the tea that's going to quench your thirst, that is the tea that um will get you where you're supposed to be amen, and it's really and it's really, and it's really not that hard.
Speaker 8:I promise you it's really not that hard. I promise you it's really not that hard. I mean, every walk is difficult, but I promise you that the walk on this side of the T-isle is way better.
Speaker 1:Absolutely, Absolutely Everybody. Give a round of applause for Dr Lee and Cerise Hendrick. Congratulations, Not yet. Now family, family. Let's get ready for a story that proves it's never too late for love. Introducing Mama, Myra Cook, Arthur of Finding Love After 70. Roll the trailer.
Speaker 5:Some love stories don't rush, they arrive right on time. Catherine wasn't looking A whisper, a pew in the sunlight, a brave hello and a heart.
Speaker 9:Second chances show up in ordinary places Picnics, porch swings and soft yeses.
Speaker 5:Healing asks for courage and a little holy water.
Speaker 9:Butterflies become rhythm, Gossip becomes background noise and hope looks good on them. This isn't young love trying to prove itself. This is grown love, steady, present and unafraid to take its time, Because love doesn't own a watch.
Speaker 5:it keeps a promise.
Speaker 9:Finding Love After 70. Where tenderness meets timing.
Speaker 11:Coming soon. Pre-order today $24.99. Email myracook1951 at gmailcom.
Speaker 4:I love you when your hair turns gray girl yes, mama, myra, mama, myra, now myra, myra, myra.
Speaker 1:First of all, let me let y'all know something when I was making this video, I had no idea that the narrator Was going to be a black man singing. Okay, that took me all the way. Oh, I was like oh yes, I got to keep this one right here. Isn't that sick that man's on good on that video. Got to keep this one right here, isn't that man sick, that man's on good on that video. Baby, I was like now, where's this man at? When I be being him for other people, I be doing this.
Speaker 2:So your book is giving me the God best of what made you decide to share this story with the world at this stage in your life well, I met this lady, uh, at a church uh program I was at and, uh, she had gotten married at age 84 and, uh, she wasn't looking for no man either, because she was talking just like me.
Speaker 2:I'm fine by myself, I don't want no drama, I don't want nobody, I ain't looking. But the man said God sent him to that church. He pointed to that lady sitting on the podium and he pointed to that lady sitting in the I mean on the podium and she ran from him for a while until he finally caught her and they stayed married for, I think she said, four years before he passed on and I thought, well, wow, but I ain't looking about either. But you know, god sends him. God put a note on him saying I send this is for you, because you know you get these crazy men too that want to take everything you got. But yeah, I thought that was a good story right there it really was.
Speaker 1:It was a good story right there. It really was. It was a great story. Now let me ask you something. What fears did you have before saying yes?
Speaker 2:to joining this camp, I didn't have no story to tell. I'm trying to think what kind of story did I got? I mean you, I got, I mean you know, I didn't know. But then when I thought about it and thought about the lady, okay, I'm almost 74, but then I thought, you know, am I qualified to be writing about somebody falling in love when I ain't been in love in years? But I just tell everybody, it's pure fiction, pure fiction.
Speaker 1:Y'all don't understand the time I had with Myra with this story. Every time I would try to tell her Myra, your boy has come. She said he can stay where he at. I ain't looking, she is just proving somebody Like you. Talk about a good time and a good laugh. Talk to Myra. I love talking to Myra. I always learn something new and something different every time we talk this lady. She keep me laughing, just like Leanne Cerise, everybody here. They keep me laughing. But that Myra baby, that Myra, she right here, y'all, she right here. She's something special too. Now I want to ask you one more question, mama Myra. What do you hope women of all ages will take away from your story?
Speaker 2:That the Lord was sending the right man, just ask. That the Lord was sending the right man, just ask. But you know that it's never too late to fall in love, no matter if you're 20 or 100. You know it's never too late if you want somebody. I'm not wanting nobody, but uh, you know. But you know, if, the if, if the Lord sends him to you, I mean you know you can't help but take, you know you're not going to deny the Lord what he sent for you, what he sends to you. So you know, if he say he the one, he the one, and don't ignore it, Myra.
Speaker 2:I'm trying, I don't know why everybody want to find me. I don't know why everybody want to find me a boy. I mean, I done had enough. The drama and all that. I'm fine just like I am. The drama and all that, I'm fine just like I am.
Speaker 8:But if the Lord sent it, I know, I know I want to turn it down.
Speaker 3:Mama Myra, those wasn't Boaz's, those was our jokester, because if it was Boaz's, you'd be booed up right now on that. On this video, some was Boaz's, not Boaz, because if there was Boaz, you'd be booed up right now on that on this video no.
Speaker 4:Boaz, no, boaz Okay.
Speaker 1:We're going to call it done in Jesus' name. Amen. We're going to find her. We're going to find her like the man in the book. We're going to find her, christopher, okay, amen.
Speaker 3:Amen.
Speaker 1:Mama Myra, let everybody know where they can pre-order your book.
Speaker 2:You can send me an email or text Myra Cook 1951 at gmailcom with your address and you can cash out me dollar sign.
Speaker 1:Myra Cook 51 okay, so you guys heard it here first. You can email her for pre-orders at Myra Cook 1951 at gmail dot com, or you can cash out her at dollar sign, myra Cook 51. 51.
Speaker 2:51.
Speaker 1:Or you can cash app her here At Myra Cook 51. To pre-order the book For $24.99. You will get a signed copy of Mama Myra's book Finding Love After 70. And for those who don't know, Myra is still in her bestseller campaign. So if you have not purchased the ebook for 99 cents, you still got time. Go on amazoncom and purchase the ebook for 99 cents. It will be available for 99 cents for the next 24 hours. So this time tomorrow that price goes up. So please make sure to help my reach the best seller status. Congratulations to my report. Being a amazon chart topping author, she reached um chart-topping author.
Speaker 1:She reached started the Amazon Hot New Releases in all three of her categories. Let's give it a round of applause for Mama Myra, thank you, still working to help her reach bestseller status. Now, last but not least, certainly not least, this Queen Pen is anointed. Her journey is a warrior's journey and her devotional is packed with fire and faith. Family, help me to honor LaShawn Fernandez, author of Book of Divine Devotions.
Speaker 6:Roll the trailer. I bet you didn't know peace isn't found by. I bet you didn't know peace isn't found by carrying it all alone. Are you tired of feeling weighed down by life's struggles? There's hope waiting for you, introducing Book of Divine Devotions by LaShawn Fernandez, a heartfelt guide for anyone seeking spiritual renewal. Inside you'll find 30 days of uplifting scripture, honest prayers and powerful stories designed to help you lay your burdens at the cross. Each day invites you to slow down, reflect and trust God's plan, even when life feels overwhelming. This isn't Thank you. You are loved and your pain has a purpose. Ready to find the peace you've been longing for? Book of Divine Devotions by LaShawn Fernandez, available now on Amazon. Start your 30-day journey today.
Speaker 8:Yes, yes yes.
Speaker 1:So, lashawn, we'll have a generative media trailer Very soon. We'll be looking out for it. Okay, lashawn LaSha, it okay, lashawn, lashawn, lashawn, I know that your story personally carries weight. What did God reveal to you while you were working on this devotional the biggest thing for me.
Speaker 4:The reminder was was which is day 14, when the past knocks. Because for me, as you heal and walk on this spiritual faith journey and when I say faith journey, I no longer walk by sight. Walk by sight, and that means I totally do everything in believing my God, who exudes that lives in me and exudes through me, guides me along this path. I no longer do it Sean way, but his way, and I truly believe, from day 14, when the past knocks, the scripture 2 Corinthians, 5 and 17 from the NIV retreat. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, they are a new creature. Everything has become new. The old has gone and the new is here, and that's also a tattoo that's on my right arm.
Speaker 4:I dedicated to God when I got so far on this journey, two years in, and the affirmation said my past does not define me. God does, because as you heal, people go try to bring the old you back, but that's the trick of the enemy. So I had to learn I'm no longer Sean that they knew or they called me, but I'm Sean, who God created and even when he incarnated me here and I was conditioned and programmed, that knew me. See, I had to learn he was the potter and I was the clay. So when he put me back together again, I'm better than the original state I was in when I first came.
Speaker 4:So with that, I thank God and no longer do I just say God is good. Look at God in his cliche. It's truly, truly the truth, because I know God for myself now in his temple. This is his temple. He loaned us this body. It ain't ours and I allowed him. I moved out the way and allowed him in his temple to lead me on this journey, because I'm this is just a journey. This ain't my destination, I'm just passing through and doing his will.
Speaker 1:Yes, you are, yes, you are, and I'm thankful, I'm thankful, just you know, I'm thankful, I'm thankful, Just you know. Like I said, we met through my mentor, dr Laquita Parks, and she always, she always, just when I say just, a good spirit attracts good spirits and she always just selflessly helped everybody. And I'm not going to say that's where I get it from, but I think she is one of the reasons why I strive to be better. All of you are, everybody who I've encountered, whether whether they do good or bad to me, itions. It really put me in a place where I was like what this lady is saying is the truth. This is how everybody needs to be living. So, like I say, each one of you guys' book helped me in a way.
Speaker 1:Dr Leanne's book helped me to take accountability and other things in my life that I may have been lacking. On Charisse, well, her Charisse-isms, girl, you gave me some new words to use, baby, and some ways to use them and to be able to structure my life, even though people may see me and they'd be like, well, she got it, you know, she got the husband, she got the kids, she living her life right. But we all need adjustments in some areas. You know, um, even though I struggle with a lot of things health wise, I can't keep using that as an excuse to why my mood changes. You get what I'm saying or why I address people the way I do. So when I take accountability for some of those things, it just really it helps me to become a better person and for people to see me, because all the time it may not be what, what it looks like or what it sounds like, but I know that my delivery sometimes can be whack. So when I learn how to Word by word is a little different or say things a little different, it helps me become a better person. But it helps me to keep some of those relationships that sometimes I lose because of the way that I approach things.
Speaker 1:So each one of you ladies really helped me with that. So I just want to appreciate you, ladies, and thank you. I'm glad that I was able to publish it. That's all I got to say, cause I got the first first hand on a lot, of, a lot of knowledge that I may have been lacking in my little 36 years of living. You know we all are not too grown, you know, for growth. You know we all are not too grown to apologize or to take accountability or to admit when you're wrong. You know we're not too grown to be wrong, okay. So I want to ask you something, and not just when writing this book, but just writing as a whole. Um, mama LaShawn, was there a moment you had to stop and just cry while you wrote?
Speaker 4:of course, for every book. For me it's. It's a purging moment, because it's not easy being vulnerable, it's not easy reliving that moment. It's you the trauma, healing from it and reliving it. It takes time. So, with that being said, there's plenty of times, even now, with just the healing process. I have my cries of joy, I have my cries of seeing how far God brought me and just living and understanding. We are all human and it's normal to cry, even jesus well, when he walked on this walk on the earth. So we have to understand that's a natural emotion and that's how we release pain absolutely absolutely well, I want to thank you, ladies.
Speaker 1:We're not done, though, okay, because we got some games to play. I got some things that I want to kind of kind of peace out for y'all, okay. So this first game, I want you guys to finish the sentence. Okay, then we'll have book confessions and then we'll we'll end it with super, super latest, ok, so let's start With finish the sentence. Ok, pamela, we're going to start with you Finish the sentence. I was most happy when I. I was most happy when I.
Speaker 5:I was most happy when I finished the book. I'm going to tell you, yes, I'm going to go with that.
Speaker 1:I was most happy when you pushed the button and said publish it was good, you did a little dance and everything you was so happy that's a good one, that is a really good Mama. Myra, I'm my best when I I'm my best when I. I'm my best when I'm being truthful to myself and to everyone else. I can't hear you, mama, sorry.
Speaker 2:I'm my best, when I'm being truthful to myself and to others.
Speaker 1:That's great, great. That's a good one. That's a really good one, dr Leanne Cerise, yours is. If I had one more opportunity to change something, I would change.
Speaker 8:I would change the timeliness of me surrendering my life to the Lord.
Speaker 4:Amen, that's a great one, great one.
Speaker 1:Great one. That's a great one, cherise King.
Speaker 3:Tell me what she said. Tell you what she said. Well, you know what she said is my speaking company, because it's just what she said I feel. I believe that, like all of us, we have our own things that we went through in our life, and I believe God has imparted some wisdom so that I can share with people older or younger, so that I can give the God the glory and everything that I do. That, whatever I do, is not always about me.
Speaker 3:Sometimes, when I say things, people are like, oh, and I'd be like, well, that's what it is. I mean, that's because God is no in between, and so, knowing that what she said a lot of times in my speaking and my author, my motivational speaking, what she said, but the what she said comes from God, I pray that everything I do is a glorifying. It says, I think in Peter somewhere, that he let your words be edifying to everyone that is around you. However, but it's got to give glory to God and when he's edifying and glorying to God, it's not going to always be sugarcoat the way people want. You know people want you to give them what fits them, to make them feel comfortable. But I can't do that, and even when I'm giving that to them and what she said, it's also ministry to me to check. Make sure that in what I'm saying, am I applying it in my life? Am I living that way? So more than anything? And then this walk of life that God has given me, the blessings and the purpose and the passion is always to speak in a way that it can bring someone closer to God, make right, sound decisions, be confident in who God told them to do, and then you are on the other side of your yes, and I think it's in Proverbs one change from God can turn your life around. So if I give somebody one good word, a couple of good words to believe in themselves, not to take abuse, but to believe in themselves and go ahead and step into that, step out, get out of the boat or go ahead and get in the water. It's warm, it's safe inside.
Speaker 3:You want to start that business. You want to move across country. You want to quit that job? You want to stop. You know. You want to build your company. You want to write that book. You know, go ahead and do it. We don't need you, don't? You don't need anybody else's permission to do what God has told you to do. All you need is the audience of him or part of you. If you believe in yourself, that's all you got, because people will give you their fear and put it on you, or either what happened is people will see you reflecting back to them what they're not and try to make you feel bad because you believe in yourself. Go somewhere with that.
Speaker 1:Amen.
Speaker 3:Amen.
Speaker 3:That's what she said we all write in these books. Dr Leanne brought the. She brought the tea, but she knows she the juice. So you know it's believing that who you are. You know. Lashawn said the things that she knows what she got out of her book and writing the book and everything. Just knowing who you are. When you know who you are, after a while, when people try to they can, they can be like somebody can say hey girl, hey girl, and I don't really like the. I don't like the word girl because I'm like girl. I most like remind me of the slave word gal. So I don't. You know, I'm a full girl, woman. So somebody call your other name. They could be talking right to you and you don't even hear because you know who you are and you stand in it and that's the most important thing of everything. And it may be uncomfortable and lonely doing that but in the meantime, like Mama Myra said, she want peace, she don't want no joke. Ass I mean bro, ass I mean joke ass.
Speaker 1:You want no joke ass? Look at Sharice. With these Sharice isms I'm trying to tell you yeah so it's just that.
Speaker 3:It's just that when you know that you got in what she said, when you know that God has given you a gift and a purpose and a passion. I know that sometimes when I say stuff it's going to make people uncomfortable, but God didn't say he wanted you to be comfortable anyway. When you're grooming and growing, your shoes are going to hurt your feet. You need to set them. Shoes are too small. Why are you still in them shoes? You wore them in eighth grade, you full grown woman. Amen, put them. Put them a little bit.
Speaker 3:You know, two size, two shoes down and get inside some eight and a half your size shoes that you fit. But in that it's going to be uncomfortable and everything that's growing is going to be uncomfortable. But it's expanding you to a whole nother level, because God said he gives people wisdom. If you ask lack wisdom, I will give it to you generously. And the wisdom is unfound, uncanny wisdom that is not meant to fit the world. So your wisdom that you have will not fit the world and so it ain't going to make sense, and I'm good with that because I've been doing a whole bunch of things. People say they don't make sense, but it don't have to make sense.
Speaker 1:It got to make sense. It got to make sense. Amen, amen, amen. Y'all see why I love. I am not her, she is not me, we are not the same.
Speaker 3:I'm not the same baby.
Speaker 1:You got me confused. It will be failable very, very soon. Hopefully by tonight, if not tonight, definitely by tomorrow. I want y'all to go on Amazon, hit it up, run up that e-book, let's get this girl to bestseller. Honey, I'm telling you Y'all got everything in it. And then I also want you guys to go to wwwwhatshesaidbiz to pre-order the book directly from her for $24.99. Because the e-book is only going to be 99 cents for 24 hours. Okay, I tell them, 24 hours. Better, hit her up. Okay, to get your signed copy of the book. Okay, next up last, of course, but definitely not least, lashawn Fernandez, I want you to finish the sentence. I want you to finish the sentence.
Speaker 4:If I could tell God one thing, I would say If I could tell God one thing, as I already told him, I am so sorry for waiting so long to seek to find you because I found her, but it took me years. If I knew back then what I know now, I would have seeked them a long time ago, because this peace and joy surpasses all understanding, and what's understood don't have to be explained.
Speaker 1:Look at Leanne talking about something. I love it. This group is so fun y'all. I wish I could get a group like this every time, but I know I ain't, because they ain't own people. I'm going to miss y'all so much. This was like one of the most fun groups I ever had to work with. This was truly, truly a good group. Now we're going to get into book confessions, okay. Well, I would like to call 21 day bootcamp confessions. So this is when y'all give me the honest truth, or the honest holy tea, of what you guys thought about the boot camp. Ready for my criticism. Look, we're gonna go counterclockwise now, okay, so we're gonna go. We're gonna start with dr leanne, and don't don't take it easy on me, because y'all my my friends. Now I want y'all to tell people the truth on what they can expect out of this boot camp. I'm going to start with Dr Leigh Ann okay.
Speaker 8:So I, honestly I honestly, because you know me I would have told you already, um, I don't have, I don't have any criticisms. I don't have any criticisms and, like I said, I would have already addressed them, so you would have known them. Um, but, uh, what? My takeaway from the 21 day bootcamp? Um, are a few things. One, um, very knowledgeable. You don't get keep information.
Speaker 8:You know, you're open, you're honest, you're yourself, you're real, um, and not only that, but you, I can't speak for everybody else, but you know I wear a thousand and one hats. So what I? Why? What I appreciated the most, which is even why I was late getting on here you know what I'm saying. What I appreciated the most from the bootcamp was not only did you pour into us, but you understood my individual need and you knew, you know, that that 12 to 3 AM time slot was really all I had some days and you allowed that to take place. So, to find a coach that is willing to adjust To make sure that you get it, I really appreciate that. You know, and I think also you know the 21 days. You may have hesitations, you may have.
Speaker 8:Um, I always tell people just do it. If you're scared, do it anyway. You know what I'm saying. If you're, if you're not sure, do it anyway, because if God is in the midst, it's going to happen anyway. Right, and it's going to. It's going to. All things are going to work out. So I believe that. Listen, linda publications. The boot camp was phenomenal, and the next time she posts about it, y'all need to just get with it.
Speaker 1:Amen amen.
Speaker 8:I mean get with everything else. Might as well, just get with it.
Speaker 1:You better tell us All right, Sharice, come on with it.
Speaker 3:Well, you know, I'm right with Dr Leanne, I don't have any. I don't have anything to complain about. As far as you know, you kept us on task. You were up late at night sending out alerts and saying get on your calendar. One thing for me was I had spoke about it before, you had mentioned it to me and then I decided to get into it. I was traveling back from a real estate conference and I was able to get right in the next following.
Speaker 3:God started on August the 1st and then on the 3rd, I was able to get right on in and knowing that the great thing about it was also, this was your first Arthur Bootcamp. Is that correct, right? So, with that being said, you were also taking the chance on yourself and we were taking a chance on you and we were very vulnerable and transparent with it and also making us feel, I'm going to say for me and I believe it's hopefully across the board felt comfortable to talk to you about whatever we were doing and what we needed and sending feedback and being very thorough, and if it didn't really kind of comprehend what it was that you were asking for or if it was repetitive, in my words, like I was. You said here and there and you gave examples, but being just letting us see that you're a human being as well, even though you're doing it this is your first time and it wasn't like, oh, I've done this before, because sometimes people have done it and they don't have the patience, the capacity for someone, even if they had written before. I had written before, but my book that I had chapter I'd written before, was written 10 years ago when I first moved here about my brother's homicide. So this was something that was thinking about writing. I didn't have all the words, I knew what kind of, and so some things that you helped me with, with some ideas of putting into the book. So I thought it was really well and it did.
Speaker 3:It was 21 days, but the great thing about it is sometimes we are, as we are, our own worst critic and we want to be successful. But you know, if you ever seen Keela in the Beat where she does that word or the poem or words about how we are afraid of our success. We want to be successful but we're afraid to be successful. We want to be it but we're afraid because being successful we're champions and eagles. That means when you now. You wrote a book, so now you've got to be here and here.
Speaker 3:It makes you be another level and expounds you and you open up and it gives you confidence that you are as powerful as you say and believe you are, because he said that you are and you have to believe that you are. So you don't have to worry about doubting yourself because if God give it to you, well, god will give you the vision. He give you the provision. He didn't ask you to figure it out. Get your pen to paper and write it down. When you're writing it down, he going to bring it to you.
Speaker 3:Or you're going to have a conversation and somebody going to give you more tool, energy, and you think and we had to worry about that, if, if it don't fit everybody, well, sometimes it does fit everybody. They just don't want it to fit because it's you. So what? It's their issue, it's a them. It's a them thing, not your thing. They got to get over it, cause you know you are powerful and you're great and it's been a good opportunity and I'm glad that I we opportunity and I'm glad that we wrote our books.
Speaker 3:And now we're going on to the next, and you don't know what these books are going to allow for us to do in the realm of the spirit realm, of what other doors is going to open. So just have to be ready for that and be confident in yourself that you did it. You don't need no permission from nobody, you did it. She's the tea. She got the tea, but she's the juice. We are the boss in God's eyes. It's a wonderful feeling. So I'm just ecstatic about me being open to write this book and, more importantly, that it gives everybody strength and power, encouraging. Encouraging them to how they have seen themselves and how we responded to things like oh, this is why I thought of myself before, but I'm not there anymore. I'm now this new creature because every day is a new day. So it was a wonderful. Um, I just appreciate that. I don't have no criticism. I know I went on a tangent, but that's why it's called what she said it's okay, I appreciate you.
Speaker 1:I'm telling y'all better get that book when they go live we go. I make sure to be following my page and Cherice page and all the ladies pages because when it goes live we all are going to make sure that we support and Sharice, support Sharice when it goes live. I am not me, we are not the same. Ok, next up, I got my girl. Y'all know I got to kiss up to her, but I got my girl LaShawn Fernandez.
Speaker 4:Tell me about your experience. Well, we spoke on that yesterday, so I'm not going to put all that here. But at the end of the day, the one thing I would say some people may be going through some things. You know, like I know, in the beginning I mentioned that August is my busy month for certifications and training. However, we got even another surprise to find out that the government is shutting down one of our insurance companies. So that means a huge book of my business got to be moved.
Speaker 4:So I was kind of overwhelmed, you know, and it's just like when I get overwhelmed now, this side of me, the new me, I kind of shut down and just allow God to come in. You'll see me, knowing you. It's not I'm ignoring you on purpose. I no longer react on my emotion. I can't say I'm of God and God dwells in me and exudes through me. If I respond off of my emotions, I have to have my time away and speak in love, because God is love, nothing less than that. So for me you might not which it was.
Speaker 4:I think it was about three, three days, you know, because when I say I was a stubborn somebody before God changed. That's why I tell people. If God can deliver and heal me, he can heal anybody. I think I was one of his most stubborn children. There was and I'm just you know somebody worse than me, but I'm just saying so. Um, we talked about it, we addressed about so. So what we talked about don't need to be exposed and God handling you.
Speaker 4:Come back and, like I said, I do everything in love, now no longer in emotion. But I told you once before and you know I put it even on Facebook gave you a file You're very talented, you skill and you have more gifts than others. So that's the blessing with you. You so gifted with from the trailers on down podcasts, because I've done several um courses with you and you never let me down or disappointed me in those errors, even in this. We fix it to make it work. But, like I said at the end of the day, um, sometimes people going through things and they just don't, you know, say anything because they know you couldn't fix the problem. They can't fix the problem. Only God can fix the problem. So I would say, but overall, you're very gifted, very talented, and you go over the call when you're delivering.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. Thank you so much for that, lashawn, and you are absolutely right, we don't have to discuss that. But I'm glad that you stuck with the concept. But I'm glad that you stuck with the concept. I'm glad that you know, because the enemy will try to disband something that's so powerful and the Book of Divine Devotions you guys is so powerful.
Speaker 4:Let me just say this this is why the enemy was so working. I was like you know, I was like I'm, you know. I told you I'm just go by law. And I realized once everything was done, this is why the enemy was had all these distractions, because when you come back and you read the devotion it kind of goes with my book of me telling my story of how this healing journey was for me and the walk, how hard it was. But just understanding I was no longer a victim to a survivor, I became a warrior and I became a warrior in Christ Jesus, understanding, like Cherise said, understanding who I was in Christ Jesus. So at the Sheree said, understanding who I was in Christ Jesus.
Speaker 4:So at the end of the day, satan go always, when he knows something is powerful and of God, he go always try to disturb. And God told me you know, when I reached out to you and we talked about that before Saturday I think it was Friday and God said you're going to do this devotions and I had to be obedient because why walk away? And just like you say you paid me, why walk away? God had to show me because I have to learn. You can't just keep moving off emotions. So sometimes it's just growing up, as the elders would say, coming up, you got to put your big panties, big girl panties, on.
Speaker 1:So that's a phenomenal job, phenomenal what you had inside of you to be able to put that on paper. And for me, to help you kind of expand that a little bit, I was truly blessed by it. I really was. It was phenomenal and that's why it was it was. It wasn't more so about the money for me or the fact that she was losing money, even though that was one of the reasons. Yeah, I was like, girl, you paid me, is you crazy? But it was more so about look at the message that people won't have if you just throw it away. And I was so glad that you reached back out and said OK, yeah, we're going to go ahead on the, do you know? So I appreciate you. I appreciate you for telling that and being truthful about that, because I want people to see that sometimes it may not always be easy, but don't let the trick of the enemy stop you. Your testimony, just what you're talking about now, will give somebody who may feel scared to do it a chance to really do it. Oh, oh, I was waiting on her to come in. You better go ahead, mama Quita. She said congratulations ladies. Yes, mama Quita, I was just talking about you, girl. I was just talking about you, girl. I was just talking about how you're my mentor. You help me do everything. I appreciate you. I love you.
Speaker 1:If y'all don't know who the publishing guru is, you better Google Dr Laquita Parks. Okay, at Payprobe Publishing she is phenomenal. She published all of my family's books, my kids' books, my husband's, my books. Just show me so much in this literary world. I love you so much. I thank you so much for everything that you've ever done for me. I truly appreciate you and all that you do. If you guys don't know who Dr Laquita Parks is, you've been hiding under a rock, honey, because I would know half of this if it wasn't for Dr Laquita Parks. That's my mentor. Okay, I love her so much. Thank you so much, dr Laquita Parks. Now we're going to get to Mama Myra. Let's give some of your book moments.
Speaker 2:What you going to know.
Speaker 1:How was your experience?
Speaker 2:it was a good experience. It really was. At one time I got kind of fed up. I'm like I'm tired of this, but you know I get tired easily because when I'm doing something over and over again I get sleepy. But I thoroughly enjoyed it and you did a phenomenal job in helping me to understand different things and, you know, expanding what the readers wanted to know. That I thought they would already know as I was writing. But I enjoyed it. I really did, and I hope you do another one.
Speaker 1:Thank you so much, and we're going to talk about that in another couple seconds.
Speaker 5:Pamela Nance Johnson got another couple seconds. Pamela Nance-Johnson, this has been an amazing, awesome, anointed experience. You have been transparent. You poured into us and allowed us to put our vision on paper and you just took it and ran with it, with our vision on paper, and you just took it and ran with it. So it was just an amazing experience.
Speaker 5:If I did not know that this was your first time, we wouldn't have known. Anybody from the outside would not have known. You have a gift, many gifts. I don't remember who said that, but the many gifts that you have, you do things that you just make it look easy. You just flow with it. It's not like it was forced or anything. And, yeah, I love this experience. I so appreciate that we are your first, because there's something about the first, but we came, like you said, with it. Everybody came with a mission and the mission has been fulfilled. It's my prayer that, if nothing else, we got all these accolades and claps and all of that, but if God is well pleased, then we did what we were supposed to do.
Speaker 1:Absolutely, absolutely. I appreciate all you guys.
Speaker 5:Oh, I have to say one thing there was one day when I told Jackie that okay, um, just as the group as a whole, that we didn't want Dr Dean to come out, so we need to make sure we got our ducks in the road and we were all on time. Like we don't want Dr D Cox to come out. Oh man, look, I think at one point.
Speaker 1:I called myself Major Payne. I was like now y'all better get it together, because y'all didn't hire me to be who did? I say I forgot, it was some South person. I said y'all hired me to be Major Payne. And this is a boot camp. And everybody's like now wait a minute, where did this come from? I was a real Look. I had told LaShawn the other day. I said girl. I said I apologize, girl, because I sure wasn't Major Payne mode.
Speaker 1:You would have thought I went up in my closet and got my husband army sergeant uniform and put it on. Girl. The way I was up in here acting the fool, but I'm glad that y'all stuck it out with me. Y'all knew that I was doing it for the greater good. So I appreciate y'all so much and like that scripture say in the Bible I think it's I always butcher this word, but I think it's Habakkuk, habakkuk 2 and 2. Write it down and make it plain. Write it down and make it plain, okay. Sandra Washington said congratulations, ladies, thank you. Miss Queenie Quinn said hey, hey, hey. Miss Queenie Quinn said hey, hey, hey. So yeah, we got some people in here. And this is where the last one is superlatives. I want to ask you guys let me do a round robin who's most likely to have a sequel? Pam? Who do you think is most likely to have a sequel? A sequel Pam, who do you think is most likely to have a sequel?
Speaker 5:I'm going to say, sharice, because we got to get all of it. All these little, yeah, we got to have all of it. She said what? Okay, what else did she say?
Speaker 2:Yes, I love it, Mama Myra who do you think is most likely to have a sequel? Cherise? Yes, because I'm waiting for some more, and I'm letting my granddaughter read it because she needs that.
Speaker 1:Okay, we're going to get off the rails. You're going to leave my friend alone. Okay, I love her granddaughter. Granddaughter, if you're watching, I love you girl. Okay, let's see grandma, but I love you, okay, dr Leanne I actually was going to say Dr Leanne.
Speaker 8:I actually was going to say Sharice and Mama Myra.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I was thinking Mama Myra too, but you got to go with Sharice and Mama Myra. Yeah, After reading Find the Love After 70, it sounds like it's got to be more.
Speaker 8:Yeah, it's got to be some more.
Speaker 3:Charisse. Well, I thank you, lace, for all your support. Now I'm trying to figure out what my next title is going to be, because it probably is going to be some more, because I got some more, trust me. But I think Mama Myra going to find love, and she's going to be talking about it. And she's going to find love, and she's going to be talking about it. She's going to find love. She's shaking her head. No, you keep shaking your head. No, as soon as you say no, you're going to be sitting at church, you're going to slide to the left.
Speaker 1:You know what Destiny Child said. You be saying no, no, no, no, no, when it's really yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, honey, we're going to put a ring on it yeah, if you like it, then you should put a ring on it.
Speaker 3:Yes, well, thank you guys for that. For that sequel there might. Now I got to figure out what the other title would be. I mean it might just be a sequel to that. But more importantly, I appreciate you guys' support and I think we all would like Miss Leanne after she get the tea. Then she might have to write something and talk about her being the juice. I'm just saying, hey, yeah, Her being the juice. People be giving out the tea, but now God has told her she's the juice. You know where she come from. As well as Miss LaShawn after her divine devotions, hey, other things that she's got. We all can have a sequel. But thank you so much. I'm glad to hear that.
Speaker 3:I would love to come up with a sequel and you just may know, you never know, it may just come up and you have a sequel. But I can see Mama Myra might have. She might just find that love after 70. And it may be called love. I don't know. She found the love after saying I don't know what it'd be called, but she got it. Y'all got it, Between her and Dr Cox they got it. But yeah, if it be a sequel for mine, I'm going to have to do some book tours, so I'll come and make y'all laugh with my racism because I got some stuff People are like what did you just say?
Speaker 1:The lady could be a comedian. Y'all read this book. It is super funny, but it is so real and so raw and so truthful. Um, I'm just, I'm in all of it, I, I. When she gave it to me, I was like this is gold, this is gold. So, yes, lashaun fernandez, who do you think will have a sequel?
Speaker 4:sharice sequel Sharice. Everybody said Sharice. Yeah, she gonna be the one with this. She will.
Speaker 1:Okay, so this is my special announcement.
Speaker 1:Okay, I have to pause and share what God placed on my heart. Publishing Y'all know it's costly. Okay, producing, promoting and publishing I do, all of it wrapped into a boat, okay, and it it does. It adds up and too often the people with the most powerful testimonies cannot afford to get their story out. But God told me this bootcamp is not about profit. Okay, it's about ministry, and that's why I've decided, after long thought and talk with God, because I was like God, you cannot be telling me this right now because kids need shoes and paper, okay, for school. But he told me anyway, keep the Listen, linda.
Speaker 1:21 Day Arthur Boot Camp at just $600,. Okay, so it's not going to be $5,000. It's not going to be $2,000, but $600. Why? Because your story might be the very thing that saved somebody else's life, and cost should never be the barrier between someone's testimony and someone's healing. Okay, so this bootcamp is not a money grab, it's a ministry, and it's teaching you not just how to write but how to publish on your own, build a legacy and stand in God's assignment for your life. Okay, so I wanted to up the price on it because a lot of people were telling me I should and that it has so much value and how dare you do this, how dare you do that? But I honestly believe that God told me to do this and he set that price at 600 for a reason, and I cannot go against what he is telling me to do. So the bootcamp will remain at $600. Okay, it will remain at $600. Um, so, if you want to be um in this bootcamp or you find that it may be a beneficial to you for you to tell your story, get in contact with me, because the price will never change for the bootcamp. It will never change for the bootcamp, okay.
Speaker 1:So, ladies, ladies, ladies, give yourselves a round of applause. You did it, congratulations. Now I know, um, I, I. I tried to um upload the certificates for you ladies, but I was. I didn't have a chance to do that. But I did mail upload the certificates for you ladies, but I didn't have a chance to do that. But I did mail the ladies certificates of graduation.
Speaker 1:So now you are certified publishers, you're able to go with the tools that you learned in this boot camp. You didn't just write your book, but you learned the tools on how to publish your book yourself and also how to reach the bestseller status. I gave you guys all the tips and tricks that I know. My brain became yours, okay, and I hope you guys take the tools that you learned and just learn that now, if you want to publish and you want to use somebody else, that will be out of convenience and not out of need Okay, you have the tools. You have everything that you, that you need to know as far as editing, as far as formatting, as far as book cover design, as far as bestseller campaigns and how to run those, as far as promotion. You guys have all those tools and you learned that right here in 21 days. So thank you for trusting me right here in 21 days. So thank you for trusting me, trusting little old me, little engine that could to help you reach that finish line and doing your book in 21 days.
Speaker 1:Because, ladies, you did not just write books. You birthed a movement and tonight you reminded the whole world that obedience produces legacy. So I want you, ladies, to keep writing, keep pouring and, most of all, keep building. Let's clap it up one more time for our graduates Cerise King, pamela Nance Johnson, dr Leanne, cerise Hendrick, myra Cook and LaShawn Fernandez, this is just the beginning. Okay To everyone watching. Don't wait. Please don't wait. Join the bootcamp, write your story and change lives. I am Dr Jacqueline Cox. You're listening to podcast whole saying keep writing, keep shining and keep standing in your peace at all costs. God bless you and I want us to end with LaShawn Fernandez. Can you pray us out please?
Speaker 4:Sure Our heads bow, dear Heavenly, most Gracious Father. Thank you, lord, for this day and all that was in it. Lord, thank you for this group of ladies, lord, I ask that you continue to strengthen them, keep pushing them forward for your purpose. For of ladies, lord, I ask that you continue to strengthen them, keep pushing them forward for your purpose, for your glory, Lord, keep letting us take one step in front of the other, but making sure you are within us, guiding us along this journey, because we have to fulfill our purpose before we reach our final destination. So, lord, on this day, we thank you, we praise you, we love you. And ladies, go forward. Don't let the distractions, because they're going to come. Keep pressing and know who you are. In Christ Jesus, you can move mountains. Trust the process by leaning on God's understanding and not your own.
Speaker 1:In Jesus' name, we pray Amen, amen, amen To God be the glory. Congratulations again, ladies. Ms Queenie said congratulations, denise said congratulations, sandra said congratulations, laquita. Of course, we love you so much Congratulations. Thank you so much, dr Laquia Parks. Denise said amen, and we are going to close out. Peace.
Speaker 3:Much success, many blessings. See y'all at the top.
Speaker 1:And be looking, because Sharice ain't went live yet, but when she go live, y'all better look at our pages and look for her so we can take her to number one. And look and go on my page right now for Myra Cook so we can help her reach bestseller status. Everybody else here has reached bestseller status. Congratulations, ladies, even LaShawn Fernandez. Her book came out last night and has already charted on all three categories for bestseller status. Congratulations, lashon. Congratulations. Everybody is so wonderful. Oh, pam got her book. Pam got her book. Yay, and I will be going live with Myra's book today on Listen Linda Book Club. I was supposed to be talking about my book, but I actually got Myra's book in the mail today. So I will be going live in the next hour to talk about Myra's book Find the Love After 70. She's going to meet me there. She don't know it yet. She know it now. She's going to meet me there. We're going to kind of discuss her book, okay, so I will talk to you guys soon.
Speaker 4:That was my other surprise, love you have a great night.
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