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Unmasking a Pretty Wreck

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The bravest moment isn’t the breakthrough; it’s the decision to stop pretending. We sit down with author and prophetess Leah M. Kelly to trace a raw arc from generational trauma and domestic violence to faith-led healing, clean boundaries, and an unshakable sense of worth. Leah’s story dismantles the “pretty face” myth with startling honesty—soaked pillows, secret wars inside a divided home, and the heavy cost of keeping up a facade. Then she shows the pivot: surrender, therapy, and the courage to say, “This is not acceptable,” even inside ministry spaces that often prioritize titles over fruit.

We dig into how discernment protects the heart when charisma and platforms can mask impure motives. Leah explains why representatives show up first, how to test for fruit over time, and how to honor God without excusing harm. Her testimony reaches beyond one family or one church; it resonates globally, with readers across cultures recognizing the same patterns of silence, shame, and spiritual confusion. The response to her memoir, A Pretty Wreck: From Trauma to Triumph, sparked unexpected reconciliation within her own family and signaled a wider need for honest, spiritually grounded conversations about abuse, recovery, and identity.

Leah also shares what’s next: Kingdom Voices TV—a platform for women in ministry, authors, and creators—to take their message to the masses with excellence, plus a monthly Zoom class designed to move women from surviving to overcoming with practical tools and faith-centered support. If you’ve ever wondered whether God can redeem your wreckage, or if you’ve questioned the gap between public titles and private truth, this conversation offers clarity, comfort, and a roadmap. Start with one step: come out of denial, name what’s real, and choose worth over silence.

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SPEAKER_01:

Welcome, welcome, welcome to this edition of Listen Linda Live. I am your host, Dr. Jacqueline Cox, and today I have a special, special, special guest. Um I want to tell truth and break chains today. And we have a powerful guest who are who is going to do just that. Her story is raw, it's redemptive, and it is set to inspire. She is none other than Leah Prophetess. Let me prophetess, Leah M. Kelly. How are you doing, Leah? And welcome to the book club live.

SPEAKER_02:

I am doing well and thank you for having me here, Dr. Jackal, and I really appreciate it.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, thank you. Thank you. So for those of my following who don't know who you are, can you introduce yourself and just tell a little bit about what you do?

SPEAKER_02:

My name is Prophetess Leah M. Kelly. Yes, she introduced me. I am not only an author, but I'm the founder of Inspire to Live and Grow Prophetic Ministries, which was birthed out of the office of the prophet that I walk in. And God just gave me that ministry to impact, empower, and to encourage those that are in ministry. And also I am a life coach and a mental health advocate.

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Okay.

SPEAKER_01:

Now before we dive in, of course, y'all know I got to do what I do when I do what I do. We gotta pray before we come in, okay? So let's bow our heads. Father God, we thank you for this gathering of hearts. We thank you for the voice of truth, for healing across trauma, and for victory sprung from pain, Lord God. We ask you now to cover our time, open our ears and our hearts, speak through us in authenticity and in love. In Jesus' mighty name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Now, Leah, your memoir, which I'm going to put on the screen right now. Um let's get into it. Um, A Pretty Wreck from Trauma to Triumph. It invites readers into some very, very, very honest places. I have my copy here. Um it broke me down, chat. Um, because it it challenges the readers to go into some very honest places, generational pain, abuse, betrayal. Yet it delivers a message of hope and deliverance at the end. You've also shared publicly on Facebook that this is not a ministry. I mean, this is a ministry, not just a book. We all know that you are contributing to you're contributing a chapter to Through the Rain with raindrops of revelation, which people can see to my right, to their left here. Um raindrops of revelation and the upcoming devotional through the rain that is set for winter 2025. And and and you are gracing the cover of the Listen Linda magazine this month for domestic violence awareness, okay, which they can also catch at the end of October on October 31st. Um, besides all of that, your story, um, your story has such a momentum behind it and a lot of testimony to unearth. So let's get into it, okay? So take us back. Uh we're going back to pretty wreck, guys. Take us back. What was life like before you began to see yourself as a pretty wreck? Like, when did you first sense I need more than surviving? I need a breakthrough.

SPEAKER_02:

Well, let me see. I want to put this in in the in the perspective, uh visual perspective, because it was a compilement of trauma. It was, it was like, you know how you you one would say to themself, when am I gonna get a break? When am I gonna be able to breathe? And so it was compiled trauma from childhood to my teenage years into my adulthood that spilled over into my marriages. So it was compiled trauma, one situation after another one. But I was keeping up the face. You know, I had they were like, oh, pretty face, green eyes, you know, cute little uh build, everything like that. You seem like you have it all together. But inside, I was a wreck. I was living up underneath the ruins of disappointment, rejection, abandonment, and bitterness. I just have to be real with you. It was like me climbing from underneath all of that rubble. And I had to say, enough is enough because we have to stop putting on appearances. I was putting on appearances. I was like, you know what, everything is good, everything is cool, but my bed, my pillow would be soaked at night, and I'd be crying out to God, when is it gonna stop? When is the abuse gonna stop? When am I gonna be able to breathe? Because I was suffocating up underneath the pain of all of that rejection. I just gotta put it out there like that. It's real. I was dressed up looking good. I mean, you know, and around ministry, uh, around people in the industry that I was hanging out with, collaborating with. It was just the face of the fake facade. It goes back to the mask of me and put on that everything is fine. And we gotta get to the point in our lives, like I did, when we say everything's not fine. I gotta go get some. I gotta go get me some help. Yeah, I gotta get me some help. I gotta go not only talk to God, but I need to talk to somebody that can help me figure this out. Because honestly, Jacqueline, I felt like I had a sign across my head. It was shining lights like that, neon lights, saying, all abusers apply with it.

SPEAKER_01:

Thank you for sharing that. That hep, that's that's super heavy. But it matters. It matters because a lot of times people don't understand because they think that because you're beautiful and you you you look like you got it all together. Um, and on the on the outside, you're carrying it as if everything is fine, but on the inside, and when you close those doors, they have no idea what you're going through or what trauma you're enduring. Because as women, especially black women, right, we have to put on the persona like we're tough, we got it all together, because we build up these walls because of what we see in our childhood, what we see at home, what we see happening in society. And we don't want to become that. We don't want people to know that we're actually falling victim to those things. So a lot of times we hold up this this barrier um so we so we don't get broken by everyone else when on the inside, and sometimes inside our own homes, we're being broken every day. So I just appreciate your transparency um in this book because your book it speaks of abuse, generational pain, and silence. Um, what was the deepest wound or the moment you realized that you could no longer keep quiet about it?

SPEAKER_02:

It was different instances, but I wanna if I can go back and piggyback on what you said in regards to what's taking place with inside of the home. My mother was a teenager mother. My mother had seven children by the age of 21. I am the oldest of my mother's children. So that within itself was very traumatic because we weren't able to receive everything from her that she may have wanted to give, or at the time did not possess the tools to give. So we fell into the responsibility of my grandmother. My mom at the time had my sister and brother majority, and then she was forced to give up the twins that I talk about in my book. Okay, so in the interim of all of that, being told that you're dumb, you're stupid, you're nothing, you're never gonna have nothing, you're never gonna amount to anything. That was a tape that would constantly play. Why? Because it was resentment against my mother, because my mother wasn't able to care for us like she wanted to, and she tried. She did her best. And I have to say this motherhood was forced on her, okay? She didn't want to be a mother. She didn't want to be a mother. She'll tell you to this day she didn't want to have no kids. All right? But seven of them came out of trauma, lies, disappointment, and rejection from the men that and from rape, because I'm the product of her rape. So it we were born out of all of that confusion and chaos. So right then that was something that we had to fight through and overcome. And in the home, it was no structure. You know, it needed to be a little bit more structure. So with the lack of structure, you grow up. Jesus. And it's like the formative times and what really formed, we were formed in trauma. If I can just truly express that, we were we were formed in trauma, dysfunction, chaos, confusion. Yes, love was there, but what was supposed to be established within the boundaries of the and the confines and the boundaries of that love, we lacked. We had God. I gotta I gotta put this out there. We had God, and we were raised in a Christian home, okay? But within that Christian home bore secrets of the even the controversy within the Christian home, because my grandfather was a Baptist preacher and a voodoo priest. So how does that match? And then my grandmother was a uh Pentecostal preacher married to a Baptist preacher who was a voodoo priest, and so it was so much controversy and so much spiritual warfare. Oh man, I can imagine that was attached to the family that we now are of the lineage of Irma Jean Kelly and Bob Kelly, the children and the grandchildren and the great-grandchildren were breaking the curses because it was a divided home. It was a divided home because he would have witches come in and do seances while my grandmother was pleading the blood of Jesus and rebuking the demons. My grandfather had them in the living room speaking stuff over to children. So it was generational dysfunction that I talk about that we now are breaking. So our upbringing, our upbringing was tumultuous at times. I'm just being honest. And that's what people don't want to talk about. They don't want to talk about the dysfunction in the household, they don't want to talk about stuff that wasn't orderly, they don't want to talk about any molestations and rapes, they don't want to talk about the mental, emotional, and physical abuse that carries to generations after that.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, I'm I'm glad that somebody had the britches. No, how they say the britches, they had the britches to do it. That's you. Um, because this book, when I tell y'all I read it from cover to cover, this is a book. This book right here, you could read this book and then you can turn around and read it again. I'm telling you, if you if you are emotionally healed, you can read it again. But I really think that going through this, it took me back to a lot of things in my childhood too, that I could relate. And um, I saw that you didn't just survive it, you surrendered, and now you're walking in your victory. What role did faith play in turning those broken pieces into your purpose for you?

SPEAKER_02:

It played, uh, oh my god, it played a key part. And I have to, and my grandmother, she's in heaven now, I know she's looking down. Um, she taught me how to pray. And when I found out that, and and I say this respectfully, that man didn't have the answer for what I needed right then. I had to go to the healer of broken hearts. I had to surrender every broken piece, every wound, every disappointment, every healing. Let him. I love that song. The wants to put you back together again. I had to go and take this broken vessel that I was to the potter's house and say, fix me, put me back together. Only you have the answer, only you know, you know the deepness of me. You and I, oh my god, you know the deepness of my heart's cry. My heart was screaming, but nobody was listening. But he tuned, hallelujah! He put an attuned ear and he said, Daughter, I love you, daughter. I'm concerned about you, and I'm gonna fix it. Come ye, all thee that are heavy laden and burdened, and he will give you rest. He was telling me, I want to give you rest, Leah, but what you gotta do is give it to me. Because I was looking for it in love, I was looking for it in all the wrong places, in men, in ex-marriages, and toxic relationships, for them to fill that void and they couldn't. But the lover of my soul, he did, and I begin to weep at the feet of the master, and I begin to allow him to complete and finish the process of my healing.

SPEAKER_01:

I love that. I love that. God shows that shows that God just he really does not waste our wreckage, he makes it, he makes it so worth it at the end. And I truly, truly, truly appreciate appreciate that. Um, since the launch of a pretty wreck, this a pretty wreck, I I keep showing y'all this book because it is phenomenal. It is truly phenomenal. Since the launch of this book, what has surprised you about how people respond to your story? Has someone reached out to you other than me, right? And said, I saw me in your story. I saw me in this book. You know, it it's um it's about to make me cry.

SPEAKER_02:

Excuse me, I didn't plan to come out here and cry, but I'm I'm very real and I'm very transparent. My sister, the one that was adopted away, Maya. She read, excuse me, y'all. Me and my sister, we don't talk that often, and we had different views because of the whole thing of her being adopted away. But it touched me, Dr. Jacqueline. It touched me so much because my sister ordered my book and she read my book and she said, I understand now. And she told my other sisters, get the book and y'all need to read it together. Because Leah brings clarity to some questions, may not be all, but some questions that they had, and healing begin to take place in my siblings. And that's what touched me out outside of your phone because I was over I was on the borderline of going to Mexico, I had to make a U-turn when you called me. I that you had my heart screaming. And then when they told me that my sister got the book and she read it. You the curebreaker in your family, you the one that's tearing down generational demonic altars that have warred against your family, Leah. You're gonna usher your family into victory. And for my sister to say, she understood, and she was the one who I felt, okay, this is my perception that she was the one that was one of the hardest to reach out of the twins that got adopted away. God just confirmed to me, Leah, and your obedience, your obedience, this book through your obedience is going to set the captives free.

SPEAKER_01:

Amen. Amen. Now let's look ahead for a minute. We're gonna uh speak a little bit about your chapter, um, your chapter in the Through the Rain devotional, raindrops of revelation in through the rain that's coming out this winter. What key messages are you giving readers there? Like, how does that chapter, without giving too much away, build on what you shared in your memoir? Because I know the key points, but so other people can know, you know what, it's more layers to Leah. It's more layers to to that story that you don't really talk about, you hit on, but you don't really hit on as much um in a pretty wreck that you kind of um you kind of layer out a little bit more in raindrops of revelation.

SPEAKER_02:

Well, and raindrops of revelation, before I even um wrote began to write that chapter, it was amazing because I said, God, what am I going to share? What am I gonna say? And raindrops of revelation was birthed out of that. And in sharing in that chapter, it is an eye-opener. Because oftentimes, without giving too much away, and oftentimes we we put too much stake into individuals at times, and we really have to know someone because if you don't really know them, because see, it's always said that their representative shows up first, the representative is gonna show up first, so wear that mask, chat. They're gonna wear that mask, and that representative is gonna be on their best behavior, and we have to be careful, even in ministry, especially in ministry, in ministry, how we elevate people that are on the higher echelon of the totem pole, and we have to stop thinking that they are beyond fault, that they are beyond uh reproach, reproach, that they are beyond, oh God, I'm gonna go there, that they are beyond not having a pure heart predicated on the title that they possessed. Because when David said, created me a clean heart and renew a right spirit within me, see, you got to know that you have to deal, not only does your heart have to be pure, but the individual that you are dealing with, especially if you're talking about having kingdom relationships, must possess a clean heart. Because let me tell you, not everybody surrendered to God, even though they got a title. Not everybody walking right before God, even though they got a title, not everybody have a relationship or intimacy with God because they have a title, and your heart will be broken if you do not walk into the situation in the relationship with the discernment of the Holy Ghost.

SPEAKER_01:

A moment. Her chapter is powerful. I read it, and we we kind of had a little talk about that um a couple times. How a lot of times we we think that because this this person is a man of God or a woman of God, that they they somehow um they are righteous within that, right? Like they are doing the right thing. And then God will open your eyes and say, uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh, Lucifer was an angel, baby. You better be careful, you better be careful. And he was pie, yay, yay, yay, yay, from what the Bible, the Bible didn't say pie, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But he said it was the most beautiful, one of the most beautiful angels with the most angelic voice, right? And he knew the word and he was awesome, he was all these things, but he was envious, he was evil, and he was jealous, and he was jealous of God, and he he wanted to, you know, be God. He wanted people to surrender to him, right? And and and and you talk about that in your chapter. Um, and I appreciated that chapter, but it opens some ass for me. Um, not necessarily romantically, right? Um, but just in kingdom ministry, period. We could think, like you say, these people with these titles, that they are this and they are that, and what they speak is truth. And a lot of times it'd be Lucifer, child. You gotta be careful. Everybody that knows the word is not of the word. And and and she speaks about that a lot in this chapter. Um, it's very eye-opening. I was I was blessed to be able to read it first. Um, I was blessed to be able to um just have her grace this book with this chapter. It's one of the best chapters that I've read in all, and I think I've published um or I've I've been the visionary of eight anthologies so far, and this one has really got my heart up in a roar. I loved it, I loved it, I loved it. Now we're gonna move on to um the October edition of the Listen Linda magazine, where you are gracing the cover. Leah's got the cover, yes. Um your story will be front and center out of three women. Um, but yours will be front and center for the Listen Linda magazine for domestic violence awareness month. Um, what do you want survivors and observers to take away this month? And what action do you hope people will take?

SPEAKER_02:

What I want them to take away from this, their takeaway, the key point is you're worthy. You're worthy. You you have to see yourself as worthy, worthy of better, worthy of more, worthy of love, worthy of love, and worthy of respect. Being a domestic violence survivor myself, I had to love me. It's okay to love you, it's okay to set boundaries, it's okay to say this is not acceptable. And I really want you to know it's okay to walk away. It's okay to say this relationship is not for me, it's not for me. You are beautiful, you are loved, you are worthy, you are cared about, you are needed, you are wanted because I know going through domestic violence, sometimes you don't feel worthy, sometimes you don't feel worthy of love. The words hit like daggers. I've been there, but I want you to know that once you take the courage to get up and walk away and heal and do the work of self-recovery and love, you're gonna find yourself and you're gonna find the most beautiful version of who you are. You gotta reclaim you, take back the power that they think they have over you, take it back over yourself and live and live.

SPEAKER_01:

I wanna thank you, Jesus, for that. I want you to speak a little bit about um, because I I do want to recognize that I have been on hiatus from Pathios or I want to say since May. And I decided to write about uh because I had just finished this book and I wrote about it on Pathos. And um I was alright, I I had been gone since like May or June, and I'm maybe five months out. And um, I was still like number two, you know, for women in religion. And for you guys who don't know what Pathios is, Pathios is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, religious platform for journalists. And I had the excuse me, I had been on there for a little over a year, and I had the number one column in women in religion, but then I was bumped down number two. Well, I wrote this about Miss Miss Uh Leah, and she brought me back to number one child. I told Grace Awakening, get out the way, girl. It's my turn again. You go back to number two where you came from. And um, so she didn't not only, not only in new visions in, you know, in where I put the category, but they also placed her in a couple more, which is relationships and religion, which also hit number one. And she had another column. I couldn't find it because I was coming on late. Um, but she hit three columns. I only put her up for one, but they Pathios, they will see where your story relates, and then they will put you in that category as well to see where you chart. What Pathios has over 400 million readers, so this is like oh, in in over 400 countries. Okay, so this is a huge platform. Um, I was blessed to write her story, and it did numbers. So I want to say congratulations to you, but also thank you for your book, Chad, because it put me right back where I need to be at number one. Boop, boop, boop, miss grace. You're welcome. Thank you. I will take that spot,$4,000. Thank you, thank you very much. Okay, so uh when you saw that, what did that what did that do for you? When you was like, What? Wait a minute now, hold on. She did what what what's what's going on here? Because you have to know that your story that it it it's people in China who went through what you're going through, it's people. In Honduras, it's people, you know, in Cuba, it's people everywhere. People think that just because we're in America, that sometimes like we're the only people that go through these things, but it's other cultures that go through those things. So, how did that feel for you to know that so many people? Because it goes by who's reading it. So that's where they chart you at, by how many readers are reading it. So, what did you think about that?

SPEAKER_02:

I was screaming, number one. Can I just get that out? I was screaming, and I said, Thank you, Jesus. So, you know, but for real, this brought me back to a confirmation. So I was sitting down uh about a couple months ago with my uncle that has a church in Virginia, and he was talking to me. He said, Leah, he said, I see international ministry all over you. International ministry. You're gonna reach international platforms, right? And so when I saw that, my heart was just rejoicing. I'm sitting rejoicing and grateful to you and God, and grateful for God for where he is allowing it to go and to reach the platforms where he wants it to reach in order to connect with the people who need it. Amen. See, it's it's the ministry, it's the ministry that he put inside of me through that book, even though my story is still ministry. Why? Because he delivered me out of all of it, right? So he says, once you have strengthened yourself, once you have yourself been strengthened, you go back and you strengthen your brethren. So this is what I'm doing through my memoir. I want to strengthen my brethren in China, in Cuba, Japan, wherever you are. God is a healer. So I am excited about what God is doing through a pretty wreck from trauma to triumph.

SPEAKER_01:

Now, because you know you got a lot of things going on, so I try to make sure that I hit everything, okay? Um, so before we go into our lightning round, speak more about this. Because I see that you got this coming up. So let's take, let's take people into what this will be doing. Um, when it when it is it has it already started? Is it starting? What can we expect from Kingdom Voices TV?

SPEAKER_02:

Okay, this is just starting and it's uh soon gonna launch. I'm excited about Kingdom Voices. I am ecstatic because Kingdom Voices, which is gonna air on VHC Media Network, is gonna allow women in ministry uh content creators, uh, women in ministry, entrepreneurs, authors, a platform where they can come on the show and share their ministry, their business. Uh it's so vast. And it even gives an opportunity for them to have their own show on Kingdom Voices.

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SPEAKER_02:

I'm excited about that. You know, if you ever thought about having your own show, God has given you a vision about it. We here at Kingdom Voices can make that happen for you. And I coined it, taking your ministry to the masses. Because a lot of times we have international ministries, but you know, of course, like, okay, we can't travel at this time, you know, and or the finances are not there. Let's talk about it because it takes finances to do international travel, to fly back and forth, and to help and to uh give and impart and to the people that you're ministering to. So you want to do that with excellence, right? We represent the kingdom of God as ambassadors with excellence. So here at Kingdom Voices TV, we help you reach the masses that you want to reach ministry-wise, right from the comfort of your own living room.

SPEAKER_01:

Amen. Amen. Now tell people where they can reach you to find more information about that. I'm gonna create a banner here.

SPEAKER_02:

They can reach me at Dr DRLMK69 at gmail.com. They can email me about their interest uh regards to the show there.

SPEAKER_01:

And there you have it right here at the bottom of the screen, drlmk69 at gmail.com. If you would like to be a guest on the show or even have your own show on Kingdom Voices TV, you can contact Dr. Prophetess Leah M. Kelly, um, and she will help you um reach the masses. Congratulations on that now. For listeners watching right now, maybe they are in a wreckage, maybe they're in healing, maybe they're helping someone else. What's one just one practical step you encourage them to take right now towards that transformation?

SPEAKER_02:

The first step of your transformation is come out of denial. You gotta come out of denial. You know, there's a saying they said, you know, call it what it is, call it what it is. And so the first step to your healing and transformation is recognization, recognizing it and calling it for what it is, and stop denying the state that you are in. Amen. Amen.

SPEAKER_01:

Now we have um what I would like to call the lightning round, okay? So um, with this, I I play it with all my people that come on, and it's just a quick one question, I mean, one one word, maybe one phrase answer. Um, because it goes fast, okay. So the first thing that comes to mind. Okay, so we'll start. First book you read as a child.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh my goodness. The cat in the caterpillar.

SPEAKER_01:

Your go-to scripture when you felt most broken.

SPEAKER_02:

Isaiah 54 and 17.

SPEAKER_01:

Can you say what the scripture is?

SPEAKER_02:

Yes, no weapon that is formed against me shall prosper, and every tongue that rises against me in judgment shall be condemned. This is the heritage of them in the Lord. Hey, that's right, I get excited by that.

SPEAKER_01:

What one song that still moves you to tears?

SPEAKER_02:

My goodness. Yes, that song by the Shekinah Choir, Shekinah Glory Choir. Yes.

SPEAKER_01:

Morning routine in 2025.

SPEAKER_02:

Get up and pray, devotional, and then the daily routine of getting prepared for the day.

SPEAKER_01:

One word that describes your 2026 vision. Victorious. Oh, I love that. I love that choice. I love that. I love that. I love that. Um okay, Leah. Thank you. Thank you so much for coming today. Your story, your transparency, your victory. I know there are hearts being healed right now just by your voice. And um, today, um, you guys, I was actually so funny. I was supposed to be recording this to go live at 3 15, but I guess God had other plans because I know I hit record, but we are actually live. Look at God. Look at God. He knows who needed to hear this today. Um, Lee Ann, hello, Sunshine. You were the one who made me realize that we are live, actually live. So, yes, uh, thank you all uh for joining us, but we will be running this back at 3 15, okay? Um, for everyone um who is watching now, um I want to let them know that there are hearts being healed right now just by your voice, okay? And for everyone watching, if you have not grabbed your copy yet, please, please, please, Leah, tell them where they can grab a copy of A Pretty Rec from Trauma to Triumph.

SPEAKER_02:

You can grab your copy of A Pretty Rec from Trauma to Triumph on Amazon. But if you would like an autograph copy from me, you can get it directly from me. And you can email me and say, I would like to get the autograph copy, and I will show you how to go about purchasing it directly from me, and I will mail it to you promptly uh to get the copy into your hands. And I want to thank you for all your support.

SPEAKER_01:

Okay, and this is where you can email her, drlmk69 at gmail.com, to get your copy. Um, you can connect with Prophetess Leah Kelly on Facebook at um Leah, is it Leah Kelly, right? So it is Leah Kelly. Okay. Um, and also stay tuned for the devotional through the rain, which comes out winter 2025 with Leah's chapter um Raindrops of Revelation, and which is right here. I want to make sure that I highlighted here. And watch out for the October Domestic Violence Awareness Month issue with Leah. We have three cover stories, but Leah's is one one of the ones right here for the Listen Linda magazine domestic violence awareness month with her cover story. Leah, I know we talked about a lot, but what's next for you? What is next for Leah M. Kelly? Where is God taking you from here?

SPEAKER_02:

God has taken me to start a once a month. I'm gonna be starting a right now working on how I'm correlating it all together, a once a month uh class titled, titled the same title as my book, but it's gonna be on Zoom. And I'm gonna be reaching out to the women on them once a month that would love to join my a pretty rec from trauma to triumph so that I can help you be equipped with the tools to really not only survive, but to overcome. See, we can survive, but we gotta overcome it too. So I've that's my next venture.

SPEAKER_01:

Awesome, awesome, awesome. And um, before we um exit and I do my closeout, I always have to ask my guests to close us out in prayer. So can you close us out in prayer, please?

SPEAKER_02:

Yes, I would love to. Thank you, Father God, in the name of Jesus, I just thank you, Father. I thank you for being here. I thank you, Holy Spirit, for showing up and showing out and for your will being done today. God, I ask you to bless every hearer, every person that joined the life. God bless them and heal them, God, deliver them, set free and break every chain. God bless Dr. Jacqueline, God, and every venture and everything that she puts her hands to do, Lord. Be with us, Holy Spirit, and we forever, forever give you the praise. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

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Amen. Amen. Again, be looking out, y'all, because we're going live again at 3 15. I'm running this back. I'm running it back. But God had other plans. He said, nope, it's going live right now. We got to do it right now. So I appreciate you guys again. Um, listen, Linda, you've been tuned in to an unforgettable conversation. Prophetic words, real stories, healing, emotion. But don't go anywhere. Follow, share, and uplift. And until next time, keep your faith, keep your voice, keep your story. Love you all like Christ loved the church. Peace.

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