Kashmiere Culberson | No Arms. No Limits. All Faith

What happens when your life begins with a challenge most people can’t imagine — and you decide to try anyway?

In this unforgettable episode of the Decide To Try Podcast, Pastor Rickie G. Rush sits down with Kashmiere Culberson, a woman whose life is a powerful testimony of faith, resilience, and purpose. Born without arms, Kashmiere shares how she learned to live fully, trust God deeply, and walk boldly into every season of her life.

From childhood confidence struggles to college graduation, from navigating public attention to becoming a mother through a high-risk pregnancy, Kashmiere’s story proves that limitations do not cancel destiny. This conversation dives into faith, mental health, motherhood, identity, and what it truly means to decide to try when fear, doubt, and discouragement show up.

If you’ve ever felt stuck, overlooked, or unsure whether you can keep going, this episode will remind you that trying again can change everything.

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Transcript

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All right, this is Pastor Ricky, and I want to thank you and welcome you to another amazing podcast on the Decide to Try podcast with Ricky G. Rush. Now, today and this podcast, wherever you are is something that you will. You'll never forget.

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You'll always remember, you'll cherish, and you'll be grateful that you spent this time with us today. You know the the story of Peter walking on water everybody pretty much knows about. That is one of the miracles that happened during the life of Jesus, right? Peter said, if it's you, let me come to you like that. So he, he, he told him, just come.

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And Peter got out of the boat and he started walking on water. And that's where that story, gets interesting because most people say, yeah, but but Peter fell. He went under. And you know what's amazing? Peter would not have failed. Peter would not have gotten up. Peter would not have walked the second time. Remember, he walked twice on his way to Jesus after he failed, he got back up and they went to the boat.

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But none of that would have happened had he not decided to try. You can't even fail if you don't decide to try someone listening today. If you are listening and you know friend or relative coworker, even somebody you don't like, but you know that they need to be given a chance to be inspired to just try again. Share this podcast, send it to someone, do whatever you need to do and say listen.

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Go to the Decide to Try podcast with Pastor Ricky Rush because today's guest is who you've heard a Wonder Woman. Well, we couldn't get her here to Batwoman. Couldn't get her? You heard a superwoman? Couldn't get her. You heard of, I'm not your super. Oh, no, there's not a church. So. But anyway, you know, we have all of those wrapped up in one awesome person

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about, oh, I don't know how many years ago I had the opportunity to meet a young person

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who became probably one of the greatest sources of inspiration in my life.

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And every once in a while, I've asked God, you know, God, can you please remind me of my purpose? Can you remind me of why I do what I do? And I was just in the service one day, and Superwoman, I mean Wonder Woman, I mean Batwoman. I mean, every woman wrapped up in one came up to me after a service and say, do you remember me?

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And I went, oh my gosh, who are you?

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Know. So she walks up to me and all of a sudden, the Lord took me back into years when I remembered that I had to give it a try. Her name is Kashmiere.

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Now, let me say this was at a time in my life when I needed some inspiration. And

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so today's guest is one that I will never forget. And I don't know how to even get into this podcast, but here he goes. Okay, her testimony, her story, her life, her love, her strength, her everything has been based on her amount of faith.

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And it's been based on her ability to decide to try.

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So. Right now, go get some friends, go get everybody you know, gather them together, call some people right now and say, hey,

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you probably want to hear this podcast.

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about five seconds, we're going to come right back and I'm going to introduce you to someone you'll never forget.

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Five.

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Four. Three two. Oh, I'm doing my own commercial. I told you, five seconds. So anyway, I'm back in my five seconds. Oh, you thought we were going to take a break? Oh, no. We got to keep this thing live.

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So here she is. Her name is Kashmiere Culberson.

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Kashmiere Culberson was born in a very unique, awesome way

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and had a condition that only God could use. All right, put your hands together or put your feet together for the one and only Kashmiere goes. Hey. Hi, everyone. Yes. I am so happy to have you on hold. I like it now let me tell everybody.

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So I wasn't like doing the podcasting. I'm not a, podcast kind of person. But but Kashmiere has encouraged me. She has motivated me. She has inspired me. But she is. She is, I don't know, she's incredible. And probably I should be more, verbal, but we're we're trying to be as real as possible because she's one of the most real people you've ever met.

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So, Kashmiere, let me explain to everybody. And I want you to explain to everybody. When you look at Kashmiere, when you see this wonderful person, this glowing smile, she's always smiling.

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you notice when I said earlier that we're going to put our hands together for our guests, I said no, we're going to put our feet together because Kashmiere was born with no arms. And when she walked into our lives here at the inspired by the of Christ Church and with what we call our University of dreams now our school system, she was just a little girl, full of dreams, full of hope, full of energy.

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And now she has come full circle. And she is full of God, woman, grace and operates by faith that you would not believe me. Tell us your story. Thank you for being with us. Thank you for being here. Thank you for inspiring me. Now we're going to get through this. We're going to get through this. We may shed some tears.

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Yeah we may we may laugh a lot. And to everyone of you that are listening to us, we are not super sensitive. We are extremely blessed and grateful to God to be here. You're going to see and hear and adventure, adventurous life.

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So, okay, Mia, I don't even know how to get started. Let's just start talking, okay? Okay.

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so my name is Kashmiere Culberson. I was born without my arms. And just to give you all the the name of, I mean, I have an arm is arms is called bilateral focal milia.

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So I was born without my arms. Literally born into a family that had arms. I am the oldest. I have three younger siblings. So I attended, University of Dreams when I was younger. And, yes, when I met Pastor Rush and everyone and his staff. So amazing. They literally took me in and they decided to try lifting with me because I was different, you know?

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So I was a kid, you know, a young kid that didn't have arms, you know, and we are all trying to figure out, how are you going to do this? How are you going to do that? But they literally taught me how to write in cursive Hindi. I had to literally be everything. So once I did that, growing up was normal, my mom, she still taught me to wash dishes.

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Wash clothes? Yeah, I still had a normal

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life.

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My parents have been handicapped me, which I thank them so much for that because it just helped me be independent as much as, you know, I am today.

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So just to fast forward, went to school. I went to graduated high school. I went to TWU in Denton. Texas women's universities are graduating in 2020. And that was around the time also with Covid happened.

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So that was a lot within itself.

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graduated college, so I have my degree in psychology. And then I

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started also doing YouTube in college also. So I am a YouTube creator. And fast forward, you know, life just been life been, I just got to put my faith in God because I really like, learned about God early in my life.

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just make you laugh and smile all the time. I do. I always make, like, a tube of, lipstick and chapstick, always smiling and laughing and and so your inspiration, there's so many people that are depressed, so many people. Because you know what's going on in psychology, the way your mental issues and depression is a real thing that we we used to kind of think and some people just have.

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But that that is real, real thing. Your motivation come on Academy, somebody's not getting it.

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let me say how I

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first of all, I didn't know, I didn't have ahm, that's where we go until, someone at school pointed it out. Wow. And so, the kids at school kind of pointed it out.

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I think I was around maybe seven. I was like seven, eight. And I remember coming home one day and, I looked in the mirror at myself, and I just started crying, and my mom was like, what's wrong with you? And I was like, why did God make me like this? And I was asking God, like, why don't you make me like this early?

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You know, because it was just something I didn't understanding. You know, when you're younger, you think, like, the whole world got arms except for you, you know? So that's what I was literally thinking. But that day I noticed, like, okay, you're very different, and you don't have arms, and everybody's different. But with my different, it's like you could see physically, you know?

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So, that was something from that was something hard for me to take in. Like I was a low self-esteem confidence. I didn't have any confidence at all. So it took me a while. So let's go here because somebody is looking out and they're going, wait a minute, do you see this? You said, man, it's obvious you can see it now.

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There are a lot of people that have no's in their lives. No children, no spouses, no jobs, no income, no courage. There are a lot of no's. You said my nose are visible. Would you consider or have you ever thought that you were blessed to have a strength that no one has? But did you ever think you had this weakness you had to walk around with?

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The older me man, I feel like it's like a it's a strength. I like that I'm different than everyone else. I like that I look different than it. I don't want to look like everybody. So right now it's a strength. But at first it was a weakness.

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you ever wished that you had arms? Yes, when I was younger. Okay. And I have times, where like now I'll be like, oh, if I had arms, I won't have to depend on nobody, you know?

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So I still get like that sometimes, but, it was more like the younger me that was like, oh, I wish I had arm, so, you know,

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but now you you know what? And during this past year, you guys are going to see some, some footage of things because we've been, we've been doing a lot of fun things.

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And you're going to see this, all the time, but we want you to have an opportunity also to meet catch me in person here at the Inspiring Body of Christ Church on December 31st on New Year's Eve, 10 p.m. we have a service, and we just going to have a, thank God for who and what you have kind of a service.

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It's going to be that service that says 2026. God has already let us know it's going to be the year of more than enough. And God has already blessed you. And you didn't. You didn't realize you were blessed, but God blessed you not only to have legs, but the ability to do everything what you want to preach. And you know, I know I want to say something to, God gives everyone more than enough girl.

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So even in 2026, that's more than enough. Yes, because even though I don't have arms, I have more than enough to keep me. And going into live life. Let's get into some stuff. What is the most difficult thing that you have accomplished that you didn't think you could do? Oh wow. Honestly, I don't think like, literally decide to try is such a powerful phrase, right?

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Because I literally decide to try to do everything. So I don't think I ever just been like, I don't know if I could do this, because even though I feel like, I don't know, I still try and I end up doing it anyway. So, do people try to help you? You do stuff, you go, hey, I got that.

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A lot of people will be like, I be scared to ask for help, you know? But, if you got thirsty right now, what would you do? Oh, I'm just going to give me something to drink. Let's let's do an example. My water. Wow.

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That is on set. Life sipping. Now, that would not have happened had she not decided to try to try. Have you ever wasted anything before? Oh, yes. Of course. Oh yes. Of course. Have you gotten discouraged before? Oh, listen, every one of you are listening to this podcast. You're going to you're going to drop some things, some people are going to drop you.

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Yeah. You're going to waste some things. Some people are going to treat you as if you're wasted or you are no good. And and the the point of this whole podcast, this whole inspiration now is to say, whoever you are, maybe you're down on the ground listening to this right now. You may be in a low place like we've all been, and now God is sending a Kashmiere and a message to you to say, this is not just your second chance, but this might be your first real chance.

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Yeah. So let's let's let's go. So, so life keeps going on. I had a baby. You had. Okay, now let's start talking about that. You had a baby and you had a very risky, delivery talking. Oh, let's talk about the. Okay. I'm sorry. Yo, this is just so heartfelt for me. Let's talk about the doctor who decided to try.

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Oh, yes. With you. Because when you went in and you found out you were pregnant, your doctor, I think, was, like, nervous. Talk to us about that. Yeah. So, so my ObGyn, when I found out I was pregnant, I had to find, you know, pregnancy doctor, and, I found one. I called, and, you know, I was telling him, hey, I don't have arms, you know, give him a little warning.

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And so, you know, telling him and wait, you can't just drop that on us. Oh. I'm dropping. You said give him a little warning. Yeah, I'm. I mean, oh, my gosh, I give people a warning. So I called and he was like, basically, he was like, I don't think I could take you. Wow. Like, I don't know if I'll be a good fit for you because he was just like, this is high risk, you know, like, he never had a patient that didn't have arms.

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So, at the time, I was just like, okay, so I was trying to get someone, you know, they had my insurance. And so I was calling, calling around, and I couldn't find no one. So I was like, Lord God, what am I going to do? You know? And so I prayed. And literally the next day the doctor called me and he said, hey, I was thinking.

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And he was like, I'm gonna try. I'm going to, I'm going to try to take care of you and make sure we get everything in place and stuff. And it went on from there. And he be just that we, he, he tried and he took very good care of me I love him. And and when you were in the process of having this baby, now here's the inspiration to someone who may right now be listening this podcast.

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And you've been told that your your pregnancy is high risk. Okay. See, this is all of us now. Your pregnancy is high risk. And and you're thinking to yourself, I don't I don't, I don't know if I can make it, I don't know, this is tough. So has me in. Went to the hospital for just a little routine check a think, but ended up staying basketball.

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Yes, I actually went to my doctor's appointment and he sent me to the hospital. So, for first, before I even get to that. So I do everything with my feet right in my legs. So, me being preemie and just getting beat, that was a whole nother different thing because I still had to learn how to be flexible, you know?

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And I had this big belly and I was just like, oh. And, you know, a big shout out to my boyfriend, my, baby's father,

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was such a big help. So I end up going to, my appointment.

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Yeah. And he was like, your blood pressure is too high. You got to go to the hospital. So I said, okay, so I went to the hospital, and, they were like, yeah, your blood pressure's high, is not going down. We're going to keep you for two days just to monitor you. So I was like, okay. So that was good.

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It's I was like, okay, I'm gonna go home for two days. In two days. I came back and I said, well, you have severe preeclampsia. And this is a lot of women. Preeclampsia is where, when you're pregnant, you get high blood pressure, and you, it causes strokes or seizures. So I was very severe. So they was like, well, we're going to keep you until we deliver you.

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And I was like, what? And they were like, yeah, we're going to take the baby at 34 weeks. And so I was like, oh, okay. So I was in the hospital for two months. The first induction, they induced me the first time and I was getting induced for five days. I was, you feel me? And my baby was getting filled with a whole bunch of medicine.

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Was barely eating. Oh, that was so stressful. I was getting poked like I had so many IVs in my legs. It was just a lot. So, that induction failed. And so I was like, but I didn't want a C-section, and I didn't think God would allow me to have a C-section. Because I was like, I didn't heal my baby.

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Like, I gotta do stuff with my feet in my legs. And if I'm getting cut at the bottom of my stomach, I'm not going to be able to do nothing. So I was like, well, I was like, I was telling the nurses because, you know, at the, at the, hospitals, if the induction doesn't go right, then you're going to automatically in a C-section.

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But I was begging him. I was like, please, no, I don't want a C-section. Like if I'm okay, like, let me just still be pregnant and kind of wait a little longer. So they agree. They was like, okay, which was nothing but the grace of God. So, long story short, two weeks passed by and they tried to induce me again.

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So I get induced again, and he failed again. And they were like, you got to get a C-section. And I was like, okay. And I was crying. My mom was crying, and my boyfriend, he was ready to get it over with. He was like, we ready to get this baby here? Because we've been waiting for the baby for the longest.

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Like the hospital was waiting. I knew everybody at the hospital because I was there for so long, you know, and they don't forget people that don't have arms, you know? So I was just so close with everybody at the hospital, but I was there. I end up getting a C-section, which I really did not want, but,

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God walked me through all of the y'all like, just through the C-section. It went smooth. Her baby went to the meet you for only 24 hours, and then we went home. And you stayed in the hospital for two months? Just pretty much bedridden. Yeah. Okay, now listen, again, this the purpose of this podcast is to inspire people to try.

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The purpose of this podcast is for that person who feels like it's it's it's difficult. Okay. So there's a mother there and maybe you even listening to this podcast in the hospital. Well, first I want to say shout out to the diva here. We want to show you some pictures, perhaps of when she was caring. I mean, she I've never had someone with so much courage.

00:21:42:02 - 00:22:02:11
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And like, she was very proud. You're talking about, Diva Bailey. Oh, my God. Not just not just. And she was doing her own makeup, her aunt taking care of herself, keeping herself lifted. And I want to encourage you, who are listening. Keep lifting up yourself. You know, there's a peer. You go through life when that's just difficult.

00:22:02:16 - 00:22:23:05
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But you gotta encourage yourself. You gotta bless yourself. You gotta pick yourself up and make yourself look great and make others appreciate the fact that you're trying. They may not be the one to love you or say thank you, but you gotta love yourself. So we want to also say big shout out for deciding to try for the hospital.

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Wow. Oh yes, oh yes. And they were so good to me. Methodist, Methodist, Colorado. Shout out to Methodist Hospital to all of you coworkers out there, the workers out there, I mean, and the first responders, all of you, the Methodist Hospital, thank you so much for caring for our community. And we just want to use this podcast to bless you and to all of our hospitals who don't turn people away in the hospital.

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Wow. And they have just like they. Well they're supposed to have patients. It's a hospital. Yeah okay I get it. No you get it. You didn't miss the job. You miss patients. But yeah I could I throw one in there but. Oh yeah they had I'm not good with stuff like that. I'll be like oh were you, were you a good patient.

00:23:10:11 - 00:23:33:13
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Yes I was, you know, you could ask them. They loved me. Okay. It was so nice. They were like, you're so nice. Especially because I was pregnant. You know, most pregnant women be like, And I was so nice. I was smiling even when I didn't want to. And that all the things that you had gone through before the baby, you had to say in your heart, this too shall pass.

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Oh, I did, I did because it was a lot to be at the hospital by myself. You know, at times, it was a lot for sure. No, you've had the baby, and we want to, I want to I want to share the baby here with you in just a minute. So don't don't get off right now. We're going to bring the baby here in a minute.

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But. But I want to. What unique things do you do? Everything to me that you do is unique. But

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that's because I have arms that hurt. I have arms that get weak. I have arms that need therapy and treatment just like other people who have limbs that things go different. I ask you, once when we were talking, girl, do you ever cut your feet?

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You know, imagine cutting your feet and you have to do everything with your feet. A lot of things that we just don't ever think about.

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So give me some of the unique things that I could do.

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Oh wow. Literally everything I can drive.

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I did my makeup this morning. With your feet. With my feet. They just. Some of you all can do it. You can, I can cook for old clothes or icy dishes. What else do I do to clean the house? Yeah, clean the house. I'm most definitely do that. I have OCD a little bit, but I clean the house.

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What else can I do? I can comb my hair. I can do my hair. I can tie shoes. I can write with my feet. I can feed myself. Now, there are some of you that are not watching this podcast. You're listening. I'm going to encourage you to go back and watch the podcast and to see how and what miracles some people don't believe in miracles.

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They don't believe in all of that stuff. I guarantee you'll believe what you see. And she's she's not. I'm going to just say this. She's like, pastor, she's not disabled. She just has a different ability, okay? She doesn't have a disability. She has a different ability. She's able to do some things that people would not imagine. And guess what?

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God can do that same thing in you. I know life may be tough for you, so walk with it. Tough. Walk it out tough. Brush your teeth. Can you do that? I can brush friends. Of course. I can brush my teeth. Is gracious. So when you when you first started to realize you had to do everything, now you have this baby.

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And now I'm going to ask because this is the way we talk. Yeah. All of you that listen to podcast. Does the baby realize that she has arms. Does my baby realize that she has arms. Yeah. Yeah she knows. Yeah. Tell me tell me what she does. Listen. Well see my baby, she's so smart. She just turned six months.

00:26:29:13 - 00:26:45:09
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But she literally, she has arms, but she's be trying to do stuff for her feet, and I'd be like, you don't have to do stuff with your feet. You know? It's just so funny because I'll talk, get frustrated, and I say, you don't have to do it with your feet. I mean, I call her beam.

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But yes, she does have arms. And that was another thing, like, the, doctor was like, you know, wondering, like, he sent me to a high risk doctor to see if my baby will have arms. And I already knew she would have arm. So. Because, it's my hereditary, my being my parents, they have arms, and my younger siblings have arms.

00:27:04:21 - 00:27:24:14
Unknown
It's just, God say, I want you to be different. So I was like, okay, I really didn't say, okay. But you know, I have no choice. In fact, yeah, you know, I do. I do believe that God has purpose to you, has used you. And if and let me tell you, for no other reason, he's used you to inspire pastor.

00:27:24:14 - 00:27:46:03
Unknown
Oh, yes, you inspire pastor. This thing I remember when you came to our school, the whore of saying, what are we going to do with this baby? And I said, let's give her a chance. Let's let's just try. And I had to tell everybody. We just don't tell her. No. Let her try. Her parents trust us. The Lord is trusting us with her.

00:27:46:05 - 00:28:03:05
Unknown
And sometimes in my life and in the lives of all church people, people succeed, and they walk away and they don't come back. You not only came back, you came back with a vengeance. You came back with a cake. You came back with the baby. Yeah. This is great. So, so so, you know, I do want to say this.

00:28:03:05 - 00:28:28:02
Unknown
I drop a nugget here. But, you know, kismet has a has a best friend I'm going to call my best friend, and, he's I'm just going to call him Z, you know, and Z is, you know, man, I just love him like my son. I just I just love him like a son. I can't say a brother because I'm so much older than he is, I guess.

00:28:28:03 - 00:28:51:17
Unknown
But I love him like a son. He has taught me how to not ignore what you see, but acknowledge it and allow her to be who she is. And, he's a he's a precious guy. He is. And he. We are real, man. So I can call him praise. I can get away with it, let him know it.

00:28:51:19 - 00:28:57:04
Unknown
He's precious guy, and I appreciate him. And for helping to even motivate me to

00:28:57:04 - 00:28:58:22
Unknown
soar. This is podcast.

00:28:58:22 - 00:29:07:07
Unknown
and I know now from being around Z that these moments can happen. And God to place us in the right place at the right time.

00:29:07:09 - 00:29:20:13
Unknown
But what makes you and I'm me? I should ask you earlier, but I want your real quick opinion. What makes you say it? Because you're always so seemingly like all of us, joyful. But what makes you say it?

00:29:20:15 - 00:29:25:00
Unknown
okay, one thing is, like, if I see, like, my loved ones around me.

00:29:25:00 - 00:29:27:06
Unknown
Sad that I make me sad.

00:29:27:08 - 00:29:41:17
Unknown
I'm a caring person, you know? So if I have someone around me and, like anyone, if they said if Z is sad or my mom is sad, like, oh my gosh, I'll be sad

00:29:41:21 - 00:29:49:13
Unknown
without getting into any of my personal business, I'm a witness to that. And I just thank God that I have the ability to just share so many things.

00:29:49:15 - 00:29:51:06
Unknown
In this stage of life with different people,

00:29:51:11 - 00:30:02:05
Unknown
there's so many things coming up in 2026 and you're going to have to decide to try. Yeah. But I want you right now to subscribe, share this, podcast with someone.

00:30:02:06 - 00:30:23:09
Unknown
but here's what I want you to do. Also, we want to bring a very special guest that is making her first time ever public appearance. Okay, you guys remember there was something called the back of the day, the Mighty heroes. It was rope man. It was cuckoo man. It was tornado man.

00:30:23:11 - 00:31:02:05
Unknown
It was, diaper man. Well, we don't have Diaper Man, but we have Diaper Baby. I want, I want you all to see how this awesome woman of God handles her gift from God. Now, we've been talking about surviving a season that you did not see coming. When God, all of a sudden, out of all the junk you've gone through, blesses you with a chance to give life in our life and love without condition, that is amazing.

00:31:02:07 - 00:31:21:07
Unknown
And now we're going to show you how. Kashmere. Ten still takes care of and introduces us to her special gift, baby, the no. Zenobia. Okay.

00:31:21:09 - 00:31:21:22
Unknown
Give us

00:31:21:22 - 00:31:24:12
Unknown
10s. You start counting now.

00:31:24:17 - 00:31:32:14
Unknown
Ten. Nine. 876543. Two one. See? We're back.

00:31:32:16 - 00:31:37:16
Unknown
I told you seconds. So that's what we want to do here on the decided child podcast.

00:31:37:20 - 00:31:48:07
Unknown
back in the 70s, we had different kind of cars that we used to drive. And, you may wonder, what does that have to do with the decided to try a podcast with our special guest.

00:31:48:07 - 00:32:10:17
Unknown
Kind of reminded me of, those cars that we drove that was a Malibu. There were. There's nothing like that. The the Monte Carlo stuff like that. But then every once in a while, someone would fly by it real fast and someone would say, hey, there goes another.

00:32:10:19 - 00:32:33:14
Unknown
Novel. Okay, if you're from the 70s and 80s, you get that. So our next guest today, her name is The Nova. So ladies and gentlemen, there goes the Nova. The Nova is the baby. Hi. Yeah. Love the. And you heard me, y'all. See, now you know she's using her feet to get those mics. She's already picking up those wonderful traits.

00:32:33:14 - 00:32:58:07
Unknown
This is amazing. This is the introduction to the world. You get a first time, first chance, first glimpse at how God not only worked miracles in the Bible, but he's constantly working miracles now, now. So this is a case where this is your bestie. This is my bestie. She looks like her dad, so I can't call her my twin.

00:32:58:09 - 00:33:25:11
Unknown
But this is my, bestie. So so so so the the Nova, this is Uncle Ricky. What's up? Hey. It's me. So I just sees this baby, his boat. Another level of joy to your life. But tell me the next level of challenges that. That the baby. His brother. Oh, wow. First of all, this is a responsibility.

00:33:25:11 - 00:33:46:14
Unknown
Now, you guys may hear some scratching. It makes it all. And that's because the Nova is trying things with the hands, with their feet. She's having a good time. Totally ignore it. But we thank God for it. Go ahead. Can you stop, ma'am? So, Zenobia, she comes with responsibility. Let's start there. But, the challenge,

00:33:46:16 - 00:34:06:05
Unknown
Well, first is when I had the C-section, I wasn't able to, like, really, like, just take care or hold my baby. Honestly, at first, but now remember I said I was the oldest, so I've changed diapers before. I don't carry the car seat before.

00:34:06:05 - 00:34:08:00
Unknown
I know how to put her in the car seat,

00:34:08:03 - 00:34:23:15
Unknown
change her clothes. Literally do everything so, I guess is good. God knows what. He. God knows what he be doing. This is this for me to be the oldest. And, you know, I kind of already got a little practice hand with my younger sister.

00:34:23:15 - 00:34:47:13
Unknown
Yes, because they're very younger than me. So, it's just it's it's not too much of a challenge besides her. Oh my gosh. Gosh, she's starting to crawl and, like, grab stuff. You see what I'm saying? Now? She's a busy body. That's what's challenging. But other than that, I love her. And watching her work with this baby is just a wonderful blessing.

00:34:47:17 - 00:35:09:22
Unknown
See what you guys are not seeing. Also on screen. So the baby's grabbing the mic. She's pulling the mic. So I immediately was about to get up. Help! No! Mom! Kashmiere, grab those feet. Push that mike back. Oh, yeah. Baby went after somebody. I mean, went out to, catch me a tear in my ears. No, no, she loves to pull on my hair.

00:35:09:22 - 00:35:35:07
Unknown
Doesn't really. Yes. Well, you just keep growing it so that she'll have something. No hold. No way about it. Yeah. So now what are, some future plans that you have as a mom and that you and you saying we want this for our daughter? You have your own now? Yes. What? You've got to decide to try. And you don't want to hear this, but you're going to have to decide to try to trust someone with her in schooling.

00:35:35:08 - 00:35:59:01
Unknown
Like. Like your mom trusted us with you. It's just. I'm not saying. But there's another level of faith there that you're going to have to deal with, with people complaining about the children. They complain about children in church, they don't like to see children crying, and some parent would love to have a child. They could cry. Some parents would love to have a child that's not in the hospital.

00:35:59:03 - 00:36:22:01
Unknown
What are your some of your plans that you could think of? So my plans with my baby. See, my mom is a minister, so she got Christian, Christian the other day. Okay, okay, first of all, my baby is going to be a child of God, okay? She is a child of God. So this first and foremost, secondly, we don't want to put her in daycare.

00:36:22:03 - 00:36:43:17
Unknown
Because I do, like, work from home. You know, I do YouTube and stuff. And, you know, when it's your first baby, I would like to keep my hair in my head. Thanks. When is your first. When is this? If that comes off, we are going to show it. We are not going to cook. When it's your first baby, you know, you just be, like, overprotective, right?

00:36:43:19 - 00:37:04:08
Unknown
So, I don't want to do daycare. I don't want to put her in gymnastics and stuff until she turns five, when she turns five. And I will send her to school. At first, we was going to do homeschool, but we really don't know, honestly, because there's so much going on with the schools right now. But we do want to put her in school.

00:37:04:08 - 00:37:28:14
Unknown
We don't want her, to lack her social skills and stuff. And she's probably going to want to break from her parents. So, yeah, we're going to send her to school eventually. And I thank God for that. And I and I, I challenge every parent to do that and put that child in an environment that you feel safe and comfortable with trusting with.

00:37:28:16 - 00:37:48:10
Unknown
And how about this the way she's going to have to develop into knowing how to explain her unique mom to other children one day? Okay, is this going to be. Well, we never thought about it. Well, yeah, but, you know, my mom said my mom said, you know, she got asked you, mom, why you don't have arms.

00:37:48:10 - 00:38:12:20
Unknown
And I say, oh, yeah, I know she's, Excuse me, excuse me. She's using that foot to take that. I know we're moving everywhere. She may not she may not know that because she only knows that she may ask any interesting question about the kids. What do your mom. Okay. And things like that. You know, kids are very unique in developing their their ways.

00:38:13:02 - 00:38:20:23
Unknown
Now we have a little crisis here. Yeah. Let's see how mom works around these crisis.

00:38:21:01 - 00:38:55:07
Unknown
What we know about you is that you are a YouTube sensation. Let's talk about that now. You do a lot of YouTube videos. You have quite a following. And I'm sure that people can be rude. And I didn't know that until you told me. I cannot imagine that people could be so, so insensitive or rude or just out there in no man's land just to offer discouragement.

00:38:55:09 - 00:39:27:03
Unknown
Can you tell me, What what what inspired you? What encouraged you in a world where people don't have a whole lot of kind things, sometimes it's. And yet sometimes they do. What made you go there? Why go? Why go to YouTube? And when did you know that? Wait, this is hot for me. So my friend introduced me to YouTube and we were in college, and, she was like, used to YouTube.

00:39:27:03 - 00:39:44:18
Unknown
And I was like, yeah, because I noticed when I will post on social media, like, people will like, oh, you inspire me. You're oh my gosh. And I'm like, you know, because I'm so used to me, you know, some people will be like, oh my goodness, you know, you can do this and do that. And I'm like, I like to look at that stuff, you know?

00:39:44:18 - 00:40:04:11
Unknown
So I'm, I'm really like, you should do YouTube. So I started doing YouTube, not thinking nothing of it. And oh my gosh, this social media period is a good thing. You mean it could be a bad thing? The good thing is, you know, you get your business out there. You can do different things on social media.

00:40:04:12 - 00:40:27:21
Unknown
You can make money and different stuff like that. But the people on social media, I had to literally learn how to. I always remind myself of Beyoncé. And not that I compare myself to be on Say No. But I remind myself because I notice that Beyoncé, no matter what people say about her or whatever the case may be, she says nothing.

00:40:27:23 - 00:40:51:08
Unknown
She responds to nobody, you know? And, my mom always tell me, and I've be telling everybody this, but my mom always say, never miss the opportunity to say nothing, right? And so I learned that I had to stay out for, like, the comments and stuff, you know, because people don't talk about you regardless. They don't know you, you know, and and you don't know them.

00:40:51:08 - 00:41:14:15
Unknown
Like, who are you behind this screen, you know. So I had to learn how to shut that off. You know. But it also comes with I tell people they want to do social media. Before you get on social media, you need to know who you are and you need to, like, be locked in with yourself. Because if not, people can persuade you and think like, oh, well, you eat too much, you know, because I do.

00:41:14:15 - 00:41:35:10
Unknown
I eat on social media. I do a lot of things. They all come on there, honey. They'll say, you eating too much? Are you bad or you know. So once you know who you are, you not going to allow other people, especially strangers. People you don't know to, you know, tell you what you think, what they think you should do or how you should move, you know?

00:41:35:10 - 00:41:54:01
Unknown
So it took me a while to be like, okay, y'all don't know me. I don't know y'all, you know? And I know people will be looking at me now. She'll have arms. Like, how did you do that? And especially when I was pregnant and I posted, oh my gosh, the comments. Oh I got mad. Oh you can't imagine.

00:41:54:03 - 00:42:11:00
Unknown
Oh my gosh, I got to get off of here. Are these people okay. You know they just make up their own assumptions. You know they just be all over the place. But when you know who you are, what you do, and you don't even matter. Because at the end of the day, I still have to pay my own bills.

00:42:11:00 - 00:42:29:12
Unknown
And you got to pay yourself. You know it. This is a funny story. It's interesting. And then I want to talk about I want to know what your mom and the people in your family who are just holding your letter. Because none of us claim unless somebody is there to support us. I want to talk about that second.

00:42:29:14 - 00:43:02:11
Unknown
But right now, if you listen to this podcast, remember, subscribe just right now, subscribe so that you can see more wonderful podcasts like this one. I want you to comment. Great comment. Inspire. Kashmir. Inspire it like this and follow it. But but here's the thing the other day. So we have here and you decided, to visit and come, you know, during the day and people you guys need to know, she, she, she has an appetite, like, like a pastor.

00:43:02:13 - 00:43:22:01
Unknown
Okay. And, so we love to eat around here. So she come through and one of our guys who's security decided to get on the radio. A pastor pastor will listen. I don't know how to handle this, but there's a lady who just came to the gate, and we don't know what to do with it because she's driving with her feet, and this can be awfully dangerous.

00:43:22:03 - 00:43:48:01
Unknown
Listen to me. I must have lost it now. I played it out for a while because I'm kind of goofy. Like this, and. And so it was amazing. It is amazing. Now the most wonderful adventure, because some of you are very adventurous. You like to try things. But the most wonderful adventure that I had was having a chance to ride with, you guys ever heard of Evel Knievel?

00:43:48:03 - 00:43:51:12
Unknown
He's got nothing on.

00:43:51:14 - 00:43:59:11
Unknown
Kashmir. Her driving is unique. It is wonderful. She is more skilled than I will ever be.

00:43:59:13 - 00:44:13:16
Unknown
But now you've got to talk to me. So someone's driving down the freeway, and you zoomed past them and, you know, of course, you're not going to be giving any foul finger gestures, right?

00:44:13:17 - 00:44:38:21
Unknown
But I know sometimes you got to point the toe or do something. You know how do you handle people? You driving down freeway and come on, you are. She is such a practical joker, by the way. Yeah. So to those of you who are waiting comments, pass the rest. Edit insensitive. Listen when you when you see life and you can laugh and smile and thank God in everything, that's what we're about here, by the way, and this whole ministry.

00:44:39:02 - 00:45:02:07
Unknown
But what would give me some of the reactions? You're driving down the freeway and, I don't know how many reactions, but, Oh, there's more than likely it's not on the freeway because I drive too fast. But, the my God, is that. Oh, my gosh, look at me like. Yeah, I do drive a little fast.

00:45:02:07 - 00:45:19:23
Unknown
So on the highway, you might not catch me, but, I've been out at a stoplight or something before, right? And I just have people, like, look. But that's why I like to always get my windows in. Because, baby, I don't want you to get distracted. You looking at me, you know, being around in somebody's car. You need to mind your business.

00:45:20:03 - 00:45:40:08
Unknown
Because I know people be like, you drive wifey. Yeah. Oh, my gosh, so many different stares. You know, just looks some people around a window down. I'm not talking to you. You know. Do you take it. And if not, let me change it instead of taking it as drawing attention take it as giving inspiration from. Now let me just pour into you

00:45:40:08 - 00:45:56:19
Unknown
Yeah. Inspire them. They're going to give you attention and and and in some of our lives, ever since you were born, the attention has been on you. Let's just be real about it. I started getting attention at ten years old, and the attention has never been off me since. People think we want it, you don't want it.

00:45:56:19 - 00:46:19:11
Unknown
You just kind of get used to knowing your pace and your personality or your gift is always up front. And God chose you to carry this unique gift for somebody else. See, today is a life changer for somebody. So it could be attention or it could be inspiration because that's why people follow you on social media, I believe.

00:46:19:13 - 00:46:40:00
Unknown
Oh, you you you you don't you don't manipulate them. You inspire them. And I think that everyone who follows us follow because they're inspired to do so. And that's what makes you such a leader to other people who are learning how to work with different abilities. And I appreciate you for that.

00:46:40:02 - 00:46:41:10
Unknown
So we're going to play a little game.

00:46:41:10 - 00:47:13:05
Unknown
Then I want to talk about well, let's talk about this first. Okay. Your mom mama Tamika. Oh, wow. Everybody needs somebody sometime. But everybody needs a loving parent all the time. Even when they're difficult, even when we're not understood. And now you're that parent, you you're that parent, and you're going to go through understanding what it means to love when the conditions are not right.

00:47:13:07 - 00:47:30:21
Unknown
And I always carry this around. And I decided to try a podcast. And every time you tune in the podcast, you all are going to ask our guest about this. There are have you ever seen this before? No, no. Okay. I want you to look at this here and we'll try to get a better shot of it. Sometimes because of the reflection, you can't get it.

00:47:30:23 - 00:47:52:07
Unknown
But, you see, I'm gonna push this back and let's see, for the sake of what the audience can see. Here we go. This guy is at the bottom. This, is at the top. Which one of these would you think that you,

00:47:52:09 - 00:48:14:12
Unknown
The person at the bottom tell me one. I'm very supportive, very supportive. I want to see everybody doing it. Wow. That's that's. And see, that's the great thing about who you are. This person, though, has to have enough everything to be able to hear because everybody wants to be the top. I want to be number one. I want to be the champion.

00:48:14:12 - 00:48:33:13
Unknown
I want to be the this. I want to be. Everybody wants to be this. That's why we work. That's why we try. That's why we do everything so that we can win. And the the thing about being up here, though, is that the next move you could ever possibly make is back down and nobody goes up and then just away.

00:48:33:15 - 00:49:13:08
Unknown
And and people get discouraged. People stop trying. Suicides, depression, all that becomes very popular because people get here and don't know what's next. Yeah, I like to think, think and thank God I like to thank God for me being a person who's here. Most people would say, oh yeah, that's a rush. Isn't that knotted up map? And but this is my favorite position because I know in order for me to be here, I've got to make sure that who's at the bottom is holding my ladder, encouraging me when I want to come down, when I want to get low to myself or or I don't feel very confident.

00:49:13:08 - 00:49:38:01
Unknown
God has, oh, always put someone underneath to help me stay where I am now. I have an opportunity to do that for others. I love holding others ladders. Yeah, I love supporting others and I love supporting someone like you. But you have always had someone holding your ladder. You get all the attention. We still haven't seen your mom.

00:49:38:03 - 00:50:09:12
Unknown
They know who you are. We still don't know who your mom is. They hear you get all the comments, your mom gets ignored. But she's constantly always been giving you the strength to stand. She has always been holding your ladder. And I think this podcast is important to us because if we can do nothing else but say maybe some of you won't be number one, but you better be number one at being number two, because sometimes God will put people in our lives to help us.

00:50:09:14 - 00:50:41:09
Unknown
Yeah. What does it take for you to realize now? This is you and your baby will be here. Tell me what you've learned from your mom. I want to say this to my mom. One day, my mom and I didn't think about it. She was like, people ask me questions and look inside my head when I was younger, you know what I'm saying?

00:50:41:09 - 00:51:04:19
Unknown
Like, I never thought the attention she got, you know, because. Oh, you had the baby with no arms, you know? So, shout out to my mom because, you know, she had to. First of all, thank God that she didn't give me away. Wow. You know, so she decided to try, you know, so that so big. So she decided to try her.

00:51:04:19 - 00:51:34:11
Unknown
My dad and. Oh, they baby, baby, they big one with me. Because I just can't even find my mom. My mom and my dad. Just hold the ladder, you know what I'm saying? And. And maybe my dad. Hold my mama back, you know, and see how the ladder. But they are so, so supportive. Wouldn't it wouldn't be me, the lady I am today without them, you know, just from making sure they didn't handicap me, you know, they made sure I was around other kids.

00:51:34:11 - 00:51:56:07
Unknown
They made sure I still know how to do everything, even though they didn't know how I was going to do it. But they trusted God, you know? So, my mom and my dad was just a very good support system, and I feel like there's that really structured in foundation, me to be a good mother to my baby.

00:51:56:09 - 00:52:07:16
Unknown
So I'll be able to go up the ladder, you know what I'm saying? And parents, as parents, no parent is perfect. We all learn, you know, as we go.

00:52:07:18 - 00:52:10:04
Unknown
It takes work being a good parent.

00:52:10:05 - 00:52:32:02
Unknown
So, just for my mom, because even at the hospital I'm talking about, my mom will come up there every other day to make sure I was okay. So, do you ever remember being a kid mad at your mom because you thought she didn't understand or didn't give you that freedom? Let's just cross into that. Oh, that's, a good question.

00:52:32:04 - 00:52:55:09
Unknown
Me and my mom got into a heated argument one day. I was into sneakers. Like shoes. Jordans. Yeah. And I got Avery Jordan, and they came out. She made sure, you know, I was up there. And so one day, I was, I wanted to I wanted a pair of Jordans, and she was like, well, we don't have it right now.

00:52:55:10 - 00:53:12:01
Unknown
And I was like, and it's a time I didn't understand, you know? So I was like, I want the shoes, you know? I want the shoes being spoiled. Looking back at him now, it's just like, okay, you know, I do this. This is, you know, how parents be like, I know sacrifice these. Are you tripping? Buy some shoes.

00:53:12:03 - 00:53:37:18
Unknown
And I was like, you don't know how people look at me. And I was like, so the me wearing shoes and I had all the shoes, but that made me feel like I was being with everybody else, you know, and it make me two different. Like I kept up with everything. If that makes sense. Like, you know, when you're in high school, in middle school, you're like, you know, the shoes, you want to make sure you outfit cuz, you know, just to keep, to keep up.

00:53:37:18 - 00:54:02:12
Unknown
So I kind of feel like, the shoes kind of, I wouldn't say hate the fact that I didn't have arms, but it just made me, you know, like, oh, she feel like everybody else. She wear skinny shoes, you know? So when I didn't get the shoes that I wanted. Mama, you don't get it. Well, and and she said, you know, you don't even know, like people was looking at me too.

00:54:02:12 - 00:54:20:20
Unknown
You know what I'm saying? Like so. And I didn't know when she said that at the time, I was just like, oh, but that's so true. You know, like, I was in a car seat with no arms and my mom would take me to Walmart or whatever. And, you know, people looking like, what were the baby arms, you know what I'm saying?

00:54:20:20 - 00:54:44:21
Unknown
Or thinking, like, what was it, the mom fight with the mom? Do you see what I'm saying? So, that was that was deep. My mom had to be strong for that, you know? Because my mom didn't do drugs. She never did drugs. She don't drink. She never did drink. She's like herself, you know, she's like like, she had, like, really ongoing, like, without nothing.

00:54:44:22 - 00:55:19:02
Unknown
So, you know, just the thought of that, you know, had her having to deal with them. I didn't even think about that, you know? So, but I honestly, truthfully, I honestly feel like nobody knows how I feel, because if you have arms, you can't know how I feel, you know? So, I know my mom experienced that, which was different, but she still has arms, you know, everybody around me still has arms, so just, it's amazing.

00:55:19:02 - 00:55:45:02
Unknown
They have arms, but you have a broader reach. Yeah. People with arms. It don't go as far. I have not reached probably as many as you will ever. There's a story in the Bible where the man is born blind, and they ask Jesus. They said, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind like this?

00:55:45:04 - 00:56:15:14
Unknown
Jesus looked at him like, wow, y'all don't get it. He said the man's mom or his father didn't sin. But if God's going to get the glory from this, I've gotta work the works of him that sent me. I got it, I've got to do something with this now. Yeah, because God's getting the glory out of this and you are doing something so they get glory out of it.

00:56:15:14 - 00:56:39:12
Unknown
You opened up to say, I want to do this podcast, and I want to be here and blessing people in person so that they can have their questions answered so that someone who may have been born with something different can't be angry at God. But tell the devil I'm gonna put this in your face if you're trying to blame it on God.

00:56:39:14 - 00:57:05:04
Unknown
I'm gonna maybe make some other people wish they could use their feet to do more than walk over people, stamp on people. And I just admire you. You. I meant it when I said it earlier. You have become more than a superhero to me. You've been a ton of of inspiration. And when we see you walking around with a cape on that, that cape stands for Kashmiere.

00:57:05:09 - 00:57:30:02
Unknown
Yeah, yeah, I can say king, but, you know, whatever. It's just like, Amazing. Cowabunga! Okay, so what's next for you then? We're going to play a quick game and we're going to, we're going to make sure that all of you know, to be with us in person on New Year's Eve at 10 p.m. right here, that you'll see we're going to have praise God is going to walk us into the next year.

00:57:30:04 - 00:57:53:18
Unknown
Only spectacular things going to happen. God's going to speak to you through the heart, to the mouth of a person who has learned to decide to try and, she is going to be with us and we're just going to bless this new year, coming in and get ready for a year that's being promised by God through His Word, speaking from this mouth.

00:57:53:20 - 00:58:09:22
Unknown
This is going to be the year of more than enough. You you better you better open your hearts, open your account, open your everything. Because God's about to do some overflow. And I'm not just one of those preachers is talking about it. To give you hype, I'm going to show you a book chapter in verse on what this is.

00:58:10:00 - 00:58:36:03
Unknown
So what's next for you? What's next for me doing and doing God's work? And not just this podcast. And I thank you for having me because this decides to try. So be like, this is this is inspiring. You know, the decide to try because a lot of people give up, you know, and they got all their limbs and and you know, but everyone we all have our own situations.

00:58:36:03 - 00:58:56:22
Unknown
We all have our own challenges, you know. So this decides to try podcast is very inspiring and uplifting. But I'm going to continue to tell my testimony. I feel like that's my purpose and my assignment that God has me here on earth. Because I'm like, Lord God, you couldn't have made me like this, but no reason.

00:58:56:22 - 00:59:12:16
Unknown
So now it all makes sense. So when I was asking God, you know, younger, like, hey, Lord God, why did you make me like this? You know, and and God is not a genie. God is going to answer you when he's ready, and he's going to make you make sense when he's ready. You know what I'm saying?

00:59:12:16 - 00:59:39:13
Unknown
So, I go speak at different, schools and, you know, just speaking, finished doing, continuing doing content, inspiring people. And, you know, I also have my text company. But other than that, I'm just going to continue to inspire Pastor Ricky Russ. Yes he did. You came in, pick me up by the shoulder and go, hey, we're going out there.

00:59:39:13 - 00:59:56:15
Unknown
We're going to tell the story. I was so glad to see you last year. I was so happy I walked up to him because I haven't seen you in so long. Been a long time. So I walked up to him and I say, you remember me? And you can't forget the girl? No, I'm. He was like, oh, yes, you went to the school.

00:59:56:15 - 01:00:17:22
Unknown
I'm like, yeah. So we just sat on that stage and reflected and time for a long time. Yes. Thank you for not forgetting me. It's it's it's it's it's horrible to live a long life. And people can remember what you did for them, but they can't remember who you are now. And that's why we want to make sure that we spend this time.

01:00:18:00 - 01:00:20:20
Unknown
Okay. Hey, here we go.

01:00:20:22 - 01:00:39:05
Unknown
We're going to play this game, okay? It's called. You decide to try because it's all about choices and quick decisions. Okay? Okay. There's a game show music in the background, but I don't have that. I don't have the data that you can that. I mean, we'll make it a game show. Music. Okay, so here we go.

01:00:39:05 - 01:00:43:20
Unknown
You ready? I'm going to say something and you give me the first thing that comes to your mind,

01:00:44:00 - 01:01:08:18
Unknown
You ready? I'm nervous. You're nervous. I knew it was coming. Here we go. Chocolate. Vanilla. Oh, chocolate. Rain or snow? Rain. Hamburger or fish? Hamburger. Basketball or football? Football house or apartment? House. Walk or drive a drive.

01:01:08:20 - 01:01:49:03
Unknown
Horses are cows. Horses. Eagles are cowboys. Cowboys. Nike or Adidas? Nike. LeBron or Jordan? LeBron. You're pretty good at this. Yeah. Okay. YouTube or TikTok? YouTube. Now or later? Later. Look at me. Someone later, I appreciate it. I appreciate my friend, I appreciate Tamika, I appreciate us meeting baby Z. And I'm just looking forward to what's going to happen in the future.

01:01:49:05 - 01:02:10:18
Unknown
And I'm looking forward to you not only supporting the Decide to Try podcast, but letting us support your future. Listen, I want to make a proclamation and a promise for the rest of my life while I'm alive. I will never, ever not be there for you and your family. Thank you. I'm saying that now, and I will live to say that for the rest of my life.

01:02:10:20 - 01:02:39:10
Unknown
Then thank you. Thank you to some. We're not born with arms. But God w space with the heart. Yeah. Thank you, thank you, thank you. So the decided to try a podcast with Pastor Ricky Ross and, we look forward to seeing you next time right here, because there was something that's going to happen to you in a season that you did not see coming.

01:02:39:12 - 01:02:55:01
Unknown
And it won't win if you just decide to try. See you next time. Thank.

01:02:55:03 - 02:11:21:20
Unknown
Okay. In.

02:11:21:22 - 02:11:32:19
Unknown
Was.

02:11:32:21 - 02:11:42:15
Unknown
Me.

02:11:42:17 - 02:11:44:09
Unknown
Okay. In.