Speaking Truth in a Broken System | Cassaundr Burks | 13

In this episode of Founder Fumbles, host Dahmari Taplin sits down with author and speaker Cassandra Burks for a deep and personal conversation about faith, resilience, and purpose.

Cassandra discusses the message behind her book Remember What You Are and explains her perspective on the relationship between the human spirit, the body, and the natural world. She also shares how her experiences in politics, personal hardship, and family struggles shaped her worldview and strengthened her commitment to speaking her truth.

This episode explores the realities of perseverance, spiritual growth, and the mindset required to keep moving forward even during life’s most difficult moments.

Topics covered:

• The philosophy behind Remember What You Are
• Cassandra’s journey from politics to spiritual writing
• Overcoming personal adversity
• Faith, purpose, and the human spirit
• Staying strong when life gets hard

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Welcome back to another episode of Founder Fummers, where we talk about real life entrepreneur struggles and comeback strategies. I'm your host, Damari Tapler, and today we are joined by the executive director of Veterans Social Circle Corporation, Prophet located in Georgia, spiritual studies enthusiast, and now she's the author of Remember What You Are. Ladies and gentlemen, we have Cassandra Burks.

SPEAKER_02 0:27

Woo! Thank you for having me on. I love it. I love it.

SPEAKER_00 0:31

Yeah, for sure. Where are you from, by the way, if you don't mind me asking you?

SPEAKER_01 0:36

I am from a ghetto town called Cincinnati in Ohio. I was born there, but my soul did not reside there for long after birth.

SPEAKER_00 0:44

Okay. Okay, okay. I'm from Michigan, by the way, so that's a little close.

SPEAKER_01 0:49

Dad, you know all about the ghetto towns.

SPEAKER_00 0:52

Yes. But you also, you are author. What's tell me about that? What's the name of your book? One more time.

SPEAKER_02 0:58

Yes. So this particular book is Remember What You Are. Remember What You Are The Name from? It was mostly it had to do with the theme of the book. Remembering who you are and how special you are to the earth. And that you have a special place amongst a many of creatures. And we're just beautiful, wonderful, intricate beings.

SPEAKER_00 1:20

Right. So if you could sum up this book in 10 minutes, would you how would you do that?

SPEAKER_02 1:26

I I would try it. And if you start the timer, I will start by now is making it as fascinating and as real to you as possible. Are you ready?

SPEAKER_00 1:35

I'm ready. Let's do it.

SPEAKER_02 1:37

We're gonna jump on into this car. I'm gonna need you to put your seatbelt on and hold on for this ride. Okay, now listen, everything you've been taught about yourself and the world around you deserves to be questioned. And tonight, I want to invite you to look at life from a different perspective. Some of you may be thinking, who is this woman to tell me something that I don't already know? And you may say, I've never heard of her before. So she must not be important. And in many of the systems you've been taught to trust, you would be right. I'm not famous. I don't hold a title that the world tells you to respect. But there is one place where I do matter. And that place is right here in this moment. Because sometimes the truth doesn't come from the people the world tells you to listen to. Sometimes it comes from someone willing to stand in front of you, look you in the eye, and challenge what you think you know about yourself and the world around you. Tonight I'm going to walk you through a series of ideas about who you are, what your body is, what your spirit is, and how the world around you is actually working. And as we go through this together, if something raises a question in your mind, I want you to put that in the chat. And at the end of our session, I'll take some of the questions that you want answered. Sound good?

SPEAKER_00 2:48

Sounds great.

SPEAKER_02 2:50

Okay. And here we go. Humans are animals. We are classified as mammals. We differ from any other animal because we have the ability to choose between right and wrong, good and bad. We are the only ones who are able to create, to build, or bring about things that are unnatural to our habitats. We live in habitats. We are affected by our environments, such as rain, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, and other forms of natural or weather-related changes, right? We experience emotions and can hide or disguise these emotions. We have a spirit assigned to our flesh, and these characteristics separate us from any other animal. The flesh, also known as the human body, is made from elements that come from the earth. When we die, those elements break down and they return to the earth. However, some people choose to hold on to the most broken down parts of their body after cremation. But that doesn't mean that the body still was not broken down. Your spirit decides what is good or bad for your flesh. And as a result, your spirit is accountable for the actions of your flesh. The flesh carries out the actions, but the spirit is what guides the choices. So when the body does good and bad, it reflects what the spirit allowed or choose or chose. In that sense, the spirit is responsible for what flesh does. Now, many attribute the flesh to the earth and the natural world. However, many attribute the spirit to a creator, a higher being or God. Many are in disbelief of the concept because they do not believe in a creator, a higher being, or a God. I will briefly attempt to explain what God is while discrediting some of the man-made ideas attributed to God. Now, man cannot see the wind. He does not know that it but he does know that it exists because of its force. He can see and feel the effects of the wind with the senses. So even though he has never seen the wind itself, he has experienced it and therefore believes it exists. The same is true of our breath. We cannot see our breath, but we can feel it. We know it exists because we can we need it to survive. You like we can see the forces of its works in certain temperatures. Okay. And so the earth itself does not uh create oxygen in the way living organisms do. The oxygen in our atmosphere is produced mainly by living organisms, living things, especially plants, algae, and microscopic organisms like cyanobacteria, and through the process of photosynthesis. In simple terms, oxygen in the air exists because life on earth continually produces and uses it, keeping the atmosphere in a relatively stable balance. In simple terms, life requires life to live. So every living thing on earth has a cycle. Even the earth itself has cycles. People have life cycles, which we call a lifespan. Weather has cycles, nature itself moves in patterns of growth, change, and renewal. The creator of this universe designed the earth with all of this in mind. Now, one thing that we have to understand is that a lot of people they link creator and God to a man-made thing. They think of him as someone like you and I, imperfect, who's looking on life and saying, I'm just gonna allow corruption to go on because that's there's nothing I could do to stop it. But they don't recognize that God is more so a what and lesser of a who, right? And so your spirit has a cycle too, just like the body has a cycle. And so the earth also goes through cycles of growth, struggle, renewal, and rest. The flesh is born, it grows, it weakens, and eventually returns to the earth. But the spirit experiences life through those stages, learning, changing, and responding to what the body encounters. In that sense, the spirit also moves through cycles, through awareness, choices, and experiences that shape it over time. And in fact, maturity is often measured by these cycles. And now, as I have stated before, something important happens when we die. Our flesh returns to its earthly form. It goes back to where it was before it was given spirit. Your parents may claim that they that you belong to them, that they birthed you, but that is only true in a limited sense. They may have brought you into this world, but when you die, your body returns to the earth that it came from. You do not return to your parents in the form that you were when you were conceived. Now, therefore, even though you were born of man, your flesh is of the earth, in the end it returns to the earth from which it was formed. So when you die, your flesh returns to the earth and your spirit returns to the air, the breath from which it came. Your body breaks down and goes back to the elements of the earth. But the breath of life, the breath that gives your body the ability to sustain, it leaves you. Have you ever heard of someone say that they've taken their final breath? In reality, for someone to die, they must also release their final breath. And so life begins with breath and ends with breath. As long as breath is moving through the body, the flesh remains alive. But the moment that the final breath leaves the body and does not return, life in the flesh comes to an end. And that is why breath has always been connected to life itself. And I know that we're laying up on probably seven minutes. So I'm gonna go ahead. Breath is closely connected to your conscious. As long as breath moves through the body and mind remains aware and the body remains alive, when breath stops permanently, consciousness in the body ends. And that's when you die. That's why breath has always been associated with life and awareness. Okay. And so your breath sustains the body, and through the body, your consciousness experiences the world. In many spiritual traditions, breath is seen as the link between the body and the awareness within it. However, remember, I stated before that a man can still live and lack spirit. They are considered brain dead or in a vegetable-like steak. So there can be flesh without the spirit. This is because you are not just an instinctive being. You are the only being that is capable of breaking cycles and of awareness. You can choose between good and bad. The spirit is not life itself because the spirit can reflect on life. It can alter life, it can change the course of life. This means that instinctively we are all headed on a particular path, but we can all choose to deviate from that path. With that being said, spirit is the inner awareness or will that guides the body. It is here that we see the spirit does not belong to the earth, the body, or to the parents. So the spirit is often understood as the animating awareness that temporarily inhibits or inhabits the earth. I mean, excuse me, the body experiences the world through it and directs its actions. That spirit belongs to your creator. So many may denounce God or a higher being. However, man did not create himself, and the earth that relies on other living things to survive also did not create itself. Otherwise, it would not need us to survive. Man did not create his own spirit. Instead, he struggles with it day and night over decisions to choose from between good and bad and right and wrong. It is the spirit that determines what is good or bad and what is right and wrong for both the flesh and the spirit. And this alone we can see that man is not ultimately bound by his own laws. This is because good and bad already existed before man came along and began creating his own laws. How do we know this? Because, in order for humans to need a conscience or a spirit to judge through our senses what is good or bad, right or wrong, those things must already exist. Otherwise, there would be no reason for us to have an inner awareness capable of making those distinctions. Our bodies and minds were given a kind of oversight, a conscience that monitors our actions and decisions. Through this awareness, we recognize whether we are doing good or bad. So the ability to judge right from wrong suggests that those moral distinctions were already put in order of life before human beings began writing about them, right? And making laws. This suggests that there is already a final judge of the spirit. And the earth itself is the final judge of the flesh because eventually everybody returns to it, no matter who or what they are. The flesh cannot escape the earth. In the end, every human body dies and returns to the ground from which it came. So in that sense, the earth judges the flesh through the certainty of death. While the spirit remains accountable for the choices it made during life, yes, it is true your flesh and your spirit are very different beings that exist inside of you. Nature, something, or someone may kill your flesh, but they cannot essentially what? Kill you because your spirit is not earthly. And the recap, just briefly, in the natural world, death does not go somewhere separate. It returns back into the same system that lives come, life comes from. Death becomes the matter that supports new life. On earth, the spirit is active, struggling, learning, and being tested. Now let me explain the world that you live in and the battles of your spirit and of your flesh in the upcoming book. And so this pretty much sums up what the book is about. And it gives you a backstory. It tells us that there are two worlds that we live in: there's a secular world and there's the world of nature. And even though we try to separate it and, or excuse me, keep it all bound into one, it's still separated. Our houses are in the middle of nature. When we get into our car and go for a drive, we're driving in the middle of nature. When we die, we go back to nature. The food that we eat comes from nature. Our water, all of these things were taken from us by this system, our water, our land, our earth, and they were rationed out to us for us to pay for. So essentially, we are being held captive as well as one of God's creations. And I believe that religion was created to keep us battling over those things and hoping that someone would come back so that we can't stand up for ourselves and rightfully take back our own choice and right to choose between good and bad and right and wrong. And as we see that, the leaders and the rulers of these systems will tell you, we represent God, we believe in God. God gave us the ability to choose right between wrong. And they said, we do this for your own safety and protection. Guess what? The fish in the sea, they never had man sitting there protecting them saying, Hey, listen, you killed this guy. Hey, you took advantage of this fish. And so now all you fish must be put to death for this. That's not how it works. And still, God makes sure that they exist plentiful for us to partake of. And the same for the lions and the lioness of the sea. But we have been hijacked, so to speak. Our roles in nature have been tainted. We are no longer running how we should. Back in the day, a family, when we think of a family of lion, right? There's one leader. Now we have one leader of a nation, and then we have a lot of people who are leading their own homes, which goes against everything in nature, because that's like what? Triple, triple the authority over your one being, but you're an instinctive being. And so I just want to leave off with this because I know you you're looking like you want to say something. But here's the thing: a lot of people don't realize that we are domesticated beings. Just like we have dogs and cats. If they were in the wild, they may not have been the dogs and cats we know today. They may have been just the wolves, right? Or the lions, et cetera. But here we are, and we're like them as humans, as mammals, as being domesticated beings. And we're not barbaric. We're civilized. That's why we live in civilizations and societies. And so once we realize that, okay, two things can be true. We can still be natural. We could still be more in harmony with the earth and still have a secular bit secular world. Then I think that there is a setup for destruction. And the only reason that there's a setup for destruction is because of nature and earth has its cycles and we are putting unnatural things into nature. And that only lasts for so long. We think about everything that's dead in life. Okay, we think about a tree that's dying off. What happens? It gets cuts off, it's cut off from the world, from the earth. Think about a plant. When your plant is sitting on your table in your kitchen and it's not getting sunlight and it slowly begins to die, what happens? You better bring it back to nature. You better bring it back to all of its roots right immediately, or else it's gonna wither away. It's gonna die. And it's the same for us. We die eventually. And that's why. Because we pollute our world, we don't take care of ourselves, we go against ourselves by going against nature. And we do this because we feel like there is no God. But regardless, we know we didn't create ourselves. By the way that we die, we go back to the earth. So that's just what the book is pretty much about. Thank you for letting me share.

SPEAKER_00 14:28

Yeah, for sure. So you're definitely like a spiritual studies enthusiast. My question to you is like, how did you get to this place to where you become so spiritually uh educated?

SPEAKER_02 14:41

Listen, I can say that I've been in politics for over 10 years. I've done some of the most grimy work that that a lot of people, even voters, even supporters, didn't want to do. I've helped raise money. I've I've taken the verbal abuses, the ostracizement from the majority regarding my own vote and my own voice, right? And I've also seen the systems literally not care about anyone involved in them and treat it like it's a like it's a program, like it's a system, and less of something that other people's lives are being ruled and guided off of. And it made me take a step back and say, you know what, listen, I'm not doing the right thing. Am I doing what's right here? By saying, and where's God? And I struggle with that. And I'm like, where is the love for humanity? And I had to take a step outside of the religions that were being compelled on me and thrown at me and say, What are we? And think about nature and just sit outside and say, you know what? We are animals all under the sun. Everything that we need comes from the earth. And if we were so different from any of the other beings associated with the earth, then we wouldn't need the earth's substances. And so it made me start to think of things differently and the approaches of how I want to help humanity and from what little that I have in life.

SPEAKER_00 15:50

Right. So I gotta, so let me ask you this question. Like, where okay, here's my here's my actual question. You got another book, actually. So this book is called Black is Dead. First of all, tell me about this book. What is it about? You got another book. It's called Black is Dead.

SPEAKER_02 16:07

And you threw that at me. I want to tell you what it's about.

SPEAKER_00 16:09

You threw that at me, but I want to know how the how like they relate, first of all. That's because I want to know how your first book. Tell me the name of the book one more time.

SPEAKER_02 16:18

Yes, Black is Dead.

SPEAKER_00 16:20

No, no, the other one, Black is Dead.

SPEAKER_02 16:22

Remember what you are.

SPEAKER_00 16:23

Remember what you are. So I want to know how Remember What You Are and Black is Dead relate because you're the author of both of these books. They have to relate in somehow, some way.

SPEAKER_02 16:33

Okay. What I can say is that Black is Dead is an erotic book, and it is the bestseller, which means that it sold over 30,000 copies in the first week.

SPEAKER_00 16:45

Wait, Black is Dead is an erotic book.

SPEAKER_02 16:47

Yes. It has nothing.

SPEAKER_00 16:50

Okay, okay. Let's do that. Let's do that then.

SPEAKER_02 16:53

So that's fine, though. But yeah, I want to explain. Because I think that it's it's something that needs to be talked about. Because I'm sure that over time people will say, go back on the book and say, You wait, you wrote this book and you authored this book too. So how does that work? So yeah, so it's it's an erotic book. And I was actually getting ready to run for office when I had written the book. And for me, it was just like it's a source of entertainment, so it's not that big of a deal. And but later I started to realize that literally every decision that we make, everything that we do in this life, it is either right or it's wrong. It's either working in harmony with our universe or it's going against it. And so what I like to say is you're either fighting good or you're fighting bad. At all times of the day, remember, you are either fighting good or you are fighting bad. There are no in-betweens because there are no in-betweens. And I at that point in time, you could say it was a flush. I was going through my mood, getting ready to run. And I said, this is just entertainment. I sat down, I wrote it out. I never expected it to become a bestseller. I never expected to see it in a Barnes and Noble. I never expected any of those things. But I'm glad because what it did was it's in actual schools, colleges. I know it's in some universities. I pray it's not in any high schools or whatever because it's erotic, but I know it's in libraries. And it just got me on the journey of being able to now open up and tell my truth. So even though it was a book that if I could, I would have gone back and said, I'm not gonna write that mess. I'm not gonna do that because it can influence people to do the wrong things. It could just give them the bad perspectives of life. And I don't want to be that person knowing what I know now. But it gave me a voice. And through that voice, now I can write books. And even if nobody listens to my radio station, even if nobody listens to this podcast, even if nobody likes a thing on social media, people read. There's still people who read, and you will never know. So it's like you're still planting seeds. I'm still able to get my word across, which is the word of the creator, which is remember what you are. You're supposed to be living in harmony with the earth. And so I'm still able to get that across. So I appreciate that. Okay. I hope I answer your question.

SPEAKER_00 18:59

So these books don't they don't relate pretty much.

SPEAKER_02 19:02

They no, okay. Because I even the spirit behind it was totally separate. Like the spirit, the residence that I reside on right now is totally separate from where I was then. I was doing a lot of door knocking for a lot of people, and I was being talked to the scum of the earth at the same time while I was donating to a lot of these people. And it's like, how do not only am I helping you in knocking doors, doing like the lowliest work, but I'm also taking my hard-earned money and I'm donating to you as well. And I'm like just all around investing in this. And I'm seeing how these people are talking, how they're treating people. And I'm like, there's no God in this. And then they start saying, Oh, we believe in God. We're gonna pray before these sessions. I'm like, oh my God, you don't believe in God at all. And so that's where my voice came from. That's where my strength and my real power came from. Writing that book gave me the strength to say the things that I felt like I couldn't say in person or in public because I felt like I had to create this image. And if I say anything outside of this image, I'm gonna ruin my career. And now I realize that the keys to my career are not in any man's hand, any man's hands, they're in God's hands. And so once I start looking at the world, like even if you were to kill my flesh, you can never kill my spirit. It just I took off. And so it led me into writing this other book. So even though they're separate, the spirit is separate, the journey led me somewhere. And so that's probably what you're picking up on.

SPEAKER_00 20:30

Okay. So you you spoke a lot about a cellular world. I want to know exactly what that means to you. Does it mean it's a world like inside of your body and your cells? What do you mean by that exactly?

SPEAKER_02 20:43

So I said a secular world.

SPEAKER_00 20:45

And what I secular, secular, okay.

SPEAKER_02 20:48

Well, what I mean by that is, and I'm glad that you asked that because somebody else might be listening. What in the world is she talking about? So a secular world is obviously we have the world of nature, the natural world. But then on top of the world of nature, the natural world, we have the secular world of work, of business. And I think, and I like to compare it to a lion. Like nobody goes out into the jungle and rallies up a lion and slaps him and says, you know what? I want you to start sitting at a desk wearing a tie and filing paperwork. You know why? Because he's an animal and we recognize it. We recognize that animals and cats can be domesticated, but we still allow them time to be animals. Only we don't do that for ourselves. We see ourselves as not being animals, although we are still connected to all of nature. And so that's why I mean by a secular world. The secular world means all of the things that are not important to your existence or your flesh, which means to survive, you need food. To survive, you need sunlight, you need nourishment. If you don't get that, you're gonna die. And so, outside of that, everything outside of your survival, your basic survival, is secular. And we think about this because all of this world, these systems, these books, this education, we can't take it with us. And in fact, most of us, when we reach a certain altitude or a certain age, we start. To forget some of the stuff that we were even taught it doesn't matter anymore after it's 70, 80, 90 years old. None of this stuff we could take with us. Laws and rules change over all the years. You have all this property, you say you're gonna put it in a trust, and then the laws for the trust change, and then your heirs, your grandkids, your great grandkids, they never see it. And so we are ultimately working for nothing in this system so that the people who are at the height of this system can have ultimate success while they're alive. And it's just that's a very shitty place to be.

SPEAKER_00 22:32

So, what would you say is your being is your biggest challenge, like staying connected mentally? I mean, staying focused mentally. What's been like your biggest challenge?

SPEAKER_02 22:43

My biggest challenge now is realizing that some of that for 10 years I have been growing a platform. I've exceeded over 20,000 followers, I've gotten millions of views, a lot of supporters, a lot of donors. But my biggest challenge is knowing that in telling the truth, I will start seeing a vast majority of these people fall by the wayside because it's easier to live in a world where we just get along, go along to get along than to speak our truth. And in fact, and like I stated before, that religion, I believe, was created here to keep us divided, to keep us in these little stories so that way we don't really see what's going on, that we are created and our freedoms have been taken from us and to give us hope that something or someone else is gonna come back and just ultimately do something different than what's being done now. So even though a lot of people, the majority, are upset and feeling like disdain with the way that men are making decisions on our behalf, and we just look at it like listen, we're all imperfect beings. If we're imperfect beings and we're building something, wouldn't it be corrupt? And that's just common sense. If I'm imperfect and you're imperfect, then we're working on something. We can make it beneficial and it could feel good, but it's still going to be imperfect. Think about a computer, it's supposed to be one of the most phenomenal creations, but it still crashes. Think about Chat GPT, it still needs to be refreshed. And so one of the things are that I believe is that religion was given to man to confuse him because if he knew what he was, if he knew the extent of his freedom, he wouldn't be so easily governed.

SPEAKER_00 24:23

Okay, so if this is your challenge, what are you doing to overcome this?

SPEAKER_02 24:28

So obviously, I'm continuing on, and a lot of people might see it as Jesus did in the Bible. Jesus, he went up against the systems. He told them, You are not our creator, God is our creator, and uh he was put to death for. And even when I put him to death, he told them, It's all right that you're killing me because you could kill my flesh, but you can never kill my spirit. And they are so true. And the reason that is so true is because the fact that you can never kill the spirit is the reason why people like me can come here and speak the truth, because they're the spirit has touched so many more lives than you can ever even imagine, even without physically being here in the flesh. That's how powerful the spirit is. I'm continuing to speak my truth, to observe, to listen to the universe, to listen to the world, and to know that every living thing that God has created is an image of Him.

SPEAKER_00 25:32

Yeah. So do you have a like a partner or something, like someone like holding you accountable or some that you someone that you talk to on regular basis, like just helping you stay focused?

SPEAKER_02 25:43

Absolutely. So I have a great team, I have a great team of people, and I also have a shitty team of people. And first I want to talk about the great team, but then I want to also talk about the shitty. Let's talk about shitty team. Okay, so listen, I have a great team, but then I also have shitty people. So my husband was hit by a car. He was crossing the street, he was on foot. Lady comes, hits him, runs him over from head to toe. He's broken up, spine messed up, eye socket broken, and skull cracked and ruptured, intestines and lungs all punctured, like all, and he became something for me to care for. And then months later, what I'm realizing is my husband will never be the same. Okay, because the person that he is or he was, he could never be that person again. And so I'm dealing with this. I'm dealing with a daughter with autism, and I'm also dealing with another daughter with epilepsy and another daughter who is quote unquote normal. And I'm dealing with it all on my own. You understand? I'm dealing with it all on my own, not a friend, because every single person who I consider to be a friend called me even now and asked me for stuff. Do you understand? In the middle of me figuring out how to provide for now five mouths on just me as I'm the head of my house, but I still have a head of my house who's alive. I still have to show him that respect, that love, that honor, that loyalty. I don't have anyone that I can depend on without paying them in my life. You understand? Everybody in my life who helps me, my kids gotta pay them. Everybody in my life who helps me gotta give them something. They want to take in even in my weakest moment. You understand me? Even in my weakest moments, these scoundrels will come around me and ask me and take from me and have me and allow me to do for them and never replenish me. So at this point in my time, I do have someone, and that is my God. You understand? That is my God, He is my sanctity, He has been my fortitude, He has been my friend, He has been my brother, my uncle, my father, my cousin, my sister, my mother. To go to a church, I don't have to be baptized in the Holy Spirit in order to know this because God created me in this world without any of that. Before God knew if I was gonna be born, able to read his word, listen to a sermon, he still gave me life. I'm still alive, it's still gonna rain on me, it's still gonna snow on me. It's the good and bad are still gonna happen for me. And I know that's why I'm not bound. And in seeing the state of the world today, I realize that there are a lot of people who are like me who don't have that love, that genuine friendship. Anybody who cares about them, they gotta get it out the mud no matter how they get in it. Oh, but they're still managing to survive. And I want to let you know that you have someone, and that person may not be me. That person is most certainly God. He provides for every bird, every fish, every worm, every ant. And it is man with his corruption who has came in and made it more difficult for you to provide for yourself to have what he put in the natural world around you by creating barriers. That's not God. And yes, I do have someone here, and it is the wonderful, magnificent creator. Yeah, and thank you for allowing me to rant on a little bit.

SPEAKER_00 29:22

Yeah, no, that was deep, man. And I'm sorry about your husband and for the people that's in your circle that's been just still bringing that bad energy when you have so much going on within yourself. Already so much to take care of. They're just adding more stuff to your plate. That's crazy. Instead of and I get that, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 29:40

And I don't feel sorry for myself. But one thing I can say is that none of those people that I knocked doors for, none of those people that I donated to, none of those people who I sang their songs, even when I saw that they had the same white coal in their eye that needed wiping while they tried to look at me and tell me to wipe my own eye, were there for me. And that's not, it's not a bitter place to say, you know what? Now I see that's wisdom. And sadly, what a lot of our old folks don't shed light on is the fact that wisdom comes with pain sometimes. Growth comes with pain because learning is not easy it's not easy. But I commend every human being who can say, I've gone through things, this hurts. I got tears in my eyes right now. I've gone through things, this hurts. I'm humbled, and I still have enough love and patience in me to continue to love and be patient with the people who are around me. I've been taken advantage of, but through that deception that I've experienced, I wouldn't want anyone else to experience that deception. And so that's where we decide the good and the bad. When bad happens to us, we decide, are we gonna be good or are we gonna be bad? And in this decision, I have a choice. In my struggles, I have a choice. Am I gonna show love, continue to work in harmony with the earth, even though I feel pain, even though man has harmed me, or am I gonna give them the same leeway that God has given them, which is freedom to choose?

SPEAKER_00 31:17

That's deep, and you got a good head on your shoulders with everything that you got going on already. But I'm proud of you. I just wanted to tell you that, like for continuing to push every single day, and sounds like you have a lot going on and you're still making hitting all of your accomplishments. But yeah, I'm super proud of you. I do got a couple more business-related questions. I'm just taken away by your story and how you were able to continue pushing forward. So I do want to just announce that I am proud of everything that you accomplished today.

SPEAKER_02 31:49

And I do want to say that means something to me. That means a lot because sometimes when people, when you go on and you hear people speak like I do, sometimes you say, Oh, they're conceited, or they think highly of themselves. And you don't realize that a lot of the times the reason that they are like they are is because they have no one in their corner. They have no one who's screaming and shouting their praises. They have no one who's saying, you know what, you did a good job today. So what happens? They become their own celebratories. And when that happens, there's no way to shut it off. It could be in the middle of a speech and they're like, I did good. And everybody's just looking around. Could you be humble and is listen, in order for me to get here, in order for me to wake up every day and to put a smile on my face and to not lose my mess, right? I have to be like this. I have to shout out for success. I have to speak success over my life. I have to say great things about myself because if I don't, no one else will. And that's okay because that helped you come and get to the point where you are today. And I just want another young lady or another young man who's listening to us speaking right now, who's trying to figure out their situation and feeling like they don't have the strength or the power, the equipment to get through what they're going through. You do have that. You have it, and it's in yourself. You have that power, and you don't need anyone else to tell you how beautiful, how smart, how well educated you are or you can become. It doesn't matter about what you're going through, what illness that you have, how different you are from anyone else. This is your life, this is your story, and no one can live it the way that you can live it. I got rest.

SPEAKER_00 33:17

No, I got a good question for you. I'm gonna even skip the business question because it's a little bit off topic. But are you, would you, are you like a little bit afraid of being looked at as being seen as different?

SPEAKER_02 33:30

I can't say that's the case for me. Being afraid of being looked at as different because I have a daughter with autism, and now I have a husband who is so banged up that he can't even walk. You understand? And his memory, his short-term memory, dear Lord.

SPEAKER_03 33:46

My husband can't remember. I could have a conversation with him and he can't remember some of the closest, most important things that I tell him, and I have to deal with that every day. So I'm not afraid. Oh being looked at is different because I am afraid of living my best friend, and that scares me. That I might be here without my best friend and have to raise our kids on my own. I think that to me is the only thing that scares me. I'm not afraid of death myself. I'm not afraid of I'm not afraid of life. But I'm afraid of losing my husband and living this life without my better half.

SPEAKER_00 34:42

Completely understand that. Um sorry you're going through that. That's a lot to deal with, but you keep your head up because I think you're doing a great job where you come so far. And I'm still proud of you for keeping staying here, keeping things together mentally and taking care of your husband, even while you know he's sick, and you're still there for him. You haven't given up on him and you still love him, and you're still grateful that he's here with you today. And you can't do really any more than that. Still be grateful, the fact that you still have him. You're still, it sounds to me like you're still appreciating every single moment that you spend with him, rather of any situation, any of the circumstances. I'm just, I'm super proud of you for keeping, you know, a good head on your shoulders and staying positive throughout this whole situation.

SPEAKER_02 35:34

No, absolutely. And I did not intend to cry. I can guarantee breaking down was not on my long list of stuff to do today. But what I can say is that it's it's this journey is not for the weak. And even if you think you're the strongest, sometimes you can get weak. But one thing you have to be able to do is pick up. Okay, you got to be able to pick up and say, you know what, this hurts. This is painful, this is a lot for me to deal with. And sometimes you're gonna cry, but you still gotta get up. You still gotta keep it moving. And this is in this fight, I am able to see life at its purest. I am able to see the battle between the spirit and the flesh. I am able to see so much from this realm, and um, and it is led me to letting people know the things that I have. I wrote this book before my husband got into his accident, and I've started to see it some of the things that I wrote even more after his accident. I wrote that book within two days, and I just typed. And a friend of mine was like, Before, how did you write the book? Like, I did it wasn't any AI, there's typos in it. It's I it was my work, and I wrote it in two days, and it was something that my spirit wrote. My spirit wrote the book and my flesh guided it, and it wasn't until maybe six or seven months after I wrote that book that I realized that book was for me. Because after what my husband went through, it was like, oh, this book was for me. And so I'm trying to laugh because I don't want to break down again. But yeah, I'd always like, okay, so my spirit wrote a book to my flesh before this happened to my husband. How odd. So I just want to share the message and I appreciate you for giving me your platform and allowing me to speak and cry on your shoulder. And just, and I appreciate you so much for that.

SPEAKER_00 37:25

Yeah, for sure. Do you have anything, any other new stuff that we can look forward to, like from you, any new projects or anything else where we can even go to support or anything like that?

SPEAKER_02 37:36

Yes, if you can pick up a copy of Remember What You Are written by Cassandra A Book works, but also too, I am going to take this teaching on a whole different level. Because the thing of it is a lot of people, they've gotten into the churches and they started seeing the hypocrisy. The Bible tells one thing, and then people are seeing people falling out on the floor running around the churches. And we've never seen anybody, any Christian, running around their work or running around a Walmart or doing it any or doing those little instances anywhere outside of a church, which leads you to believe, okay, is this real? And as far as demon possession, we've never seen any of this go on at work or a Walmart or any of these places. Why? Because they start to blame it on mental health. They'll be escorted off the property, taken to a psychiatric facility, and then all of the Christians that passed into them will have never taken them to a church. Why? Because we know that is not normal or typical for a human being to experience those types of things. And so we keep them into churches and places where we feel like it's okay to have them here, but that just discredits the fact that this is an unnatural thing. And I want to start calling out the churches because for years people believe that this is a natural thing and it's not. And so people start to believe if I'm locked away or if I can't read, if I can't hear, and I don't have the opportunity to read about God's word, what does that mean for me? It means that you're still God's creation and he loves you just the same. How do we know? Because he provides for you just the same. There's air, there's breath, you have life. And as long as people can see that, there's a will to fight. And so that's what I just plan to do. I plan on continuing to grow in my message and strengthen my message and looking for people who are willing to, who are not hard-hearted like yourself, who are not shut off to listening to other people's perspectives and lives' views, whether you agree with them or not, just understanding that we can't change anyone. We don't own anyone, and it's not our right to try to force anyone else to be what we want them to be. And if we can see that about ourselves, then we'll see what the real problem is in the world. And it's mostly everyone wants control over someone else or over what someone else thinks or what they post. I see it all the time. I post something on social media. Somebody comes to my my my page and they're like, no one cares. I know like, okay, if you didn't care, why would you say that? You know what I'm saying? If you didn't care, why would you even mention me? And but the thing of it is, is you've gotten their attention, you've gotten their awareness of their spirit, even if their flesh wants to hate you. And a lot of people get killed for it. But I'm going to continue to tell the truth, and I appreciate you so much. Yeah, and so that's where you can find me is speaking the truth somewhere. I'm going on lectures, I've been in a couple of universities, I've had some great, really great professors who've allowed me to share this rhetoric with their students.

SPEAKER_00 40:26

Okay. Let's be just be, I know you mentioned like where we can find you, but let's be a little bit more clear on what's your where can we find you specifically? Like what's your social media handles? Like if someone wanted to reach out, what's your let's tell us your social media handles and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_02 40:42

Oh, absolutely. And here I see your youth, and I'm going on here now trying to find it. Okay. So on TikTok, you can find me under honorable H O N O R A B L E. Period. B-U-R-K-S. So it's honorable.berks. And then if you want to come and show me some support on Instagram, make sure you go to Cassandra C-A-S-S-A-U-N-L like Nancy, D-R-A underscore Burks, B-U-R-K-S no-e. And those are the two main platforms on YouTube. You can find me under drain the swamp, D-R-A-I-N-L-Nancy, T-H-E-S-W-A-M like man P. And we're gonna run it again.

SPEAKER_00 41:23

All right. Sounds good. Cassandra, it was the honor today. It was very nice meeting you. And thank appreciate you for sharing your story with me. Let's keep in touch.

SPEAKER_02 41:34

Absolutely. We'll do. And I look forward to interviewing with you as well. So this isn't our last time. We've got some great things coming up for our viewers and our listeners. And we're gonna go deeper into depth on those of you who really want to know what's going on in the world around us. So thank you so much. And you have a good day.

SPEAKER_00 41:50

Yeah, for sure. So everybody, that's a wrap for today's episode of Final Fumbles. Huge thanks for to Cassandra for sharing her journey with us, the highs, the lows, everything in between. If it's just if this story inspires you in any way, shape, or form, please be sure to go check out, check her out, reach out to our social media on Instagram and TikTok. And please do not forget to subscribe and comment. It means so much and it will help us grow the channel. Until next time, y'all. Peace.