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Pretty Vee Reveals Secrets Behind 'The Pretty Victory' 📚 | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Feb 25, 2025
Pretty Vee joins Sway In The Morning to reveal the secrets behind her 100-day devotional and guided journal, "The Pretty Victory." 📚 In this exclusive interview, she opens up about her journey through challenges like depression, finding purpose, and embracing inner radiance beyond appearances. From reflecting on her career in comedy and acting to sharing personal stories of faith, healing, and resilience, Pretty Vee inspires with her honesty and strength. Discover how "The Pretty Victory" combines humor, devotionals, and actionable exercises to help readers recenter themselves and unlock their full potential. Plus, hear heartfelt stories about pivotal moments, valuable life lessons, and the support she's received from mentors like Shaquille O’Neal and Charlamagne tha God. Don’t miss this inspiring conversation! Subscribe for more exclusive interviews, uplifting stories, and impactful moments from Sway’s Universe. Watch now and explore the transformative insights shared by Pretty Vee! 🎤✨ #dailyjesusdevotional #transformingmentalhealth #selfimprovement #bookrecommendations #transformationaljourney #journalingformentalhealth #selfimprovement #creativejournal #briantracy #shorts CHAPTERS: 02:06 - Embracing Beauty and Self-Acceptance 03:35 - Inspiration Behind the Book 05:52 - Overcoming Depression 08:19 - Discovering Your True Purpose 12:33 - Angels in Your Life: Support and Guidance 18:09 - Day 87 - Self-Validation Techniques 18:43 - Day 88 - Coping with Persistent Pain 19:30 - Unlocking Your Full Potential 21:00 - Transforming Pain into Triumph
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ladies and gentlemen another milestone
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for our friend right here another
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milestone for our friend Heather be come
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on man she's not just a personality
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she's not just a comedian she's not just
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an actress and I don't even like to use
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the word just because all of those
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accomplishments are huge right
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absolutely uh you got to add author to
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this one right now ladies and gentlemen
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and I enjoy her so much from the first
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time I've seen her on social media um
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like she was Millie Rocking In Harlem
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somewhere bong I remember them days I
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thought her Millie Rock was nice I had
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no idea what else she did so much I was
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like God damn her Milly rock is crazy
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right but we gotten to learn that
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there's so many layers to the special
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human being who goes by the name of
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pretty V and she's here to talk about
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the pretty Victory it's a 100 day
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devotional and guided journal to help
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you to find your goals find the strength
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to reach them and it's available for
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purchase right now I just want to read a
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little excerpt from the book okay I want
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to read a little excerpt from the book I
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learn how to read let's see this Oakland
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education Oak California how Oak treated
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Town business we read okay and this is a
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cold read right here cuz I just turned
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to this page okay hearing the word
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pretty makes a lot of people think of
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something soft or sweet something that's
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all about how you look like oh isn't she
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so pretty and there's nothing wrong with
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wanting to look good or feel good when I
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first first started to make it in the
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entertainment industry I needed a way to
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stand out something that will help me
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build my brand by choosing to go by
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pretty V which I did not know I wasn't
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rejecting the idea of being pretty in
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that way I was embracing it but that's
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not all it is or it was either for me
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pretty doesn't have anything to do with
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makeup or cute clothes it's not about
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the Glam it's about who someone is the
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light that shines out from inside it's
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about embodying an inner Radiance woo
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that's pretty V come on
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man that's more than pretty though
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that's
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beautiful but at what stage in your life
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what was it that made you start to
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embrace pretty and give it this
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definition that you so eloquently
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written in this book I mean well thank
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you hey y'all you know
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the what up what's up y'all thank you so
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much sway you know and my family and
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y'all for just having me once again you
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know I'm just always just so delighted
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and always humbly grateful just to be in
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this seat um because when you're just
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you're called You're called in rooms you
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know and when it's your name in rooms
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you just got to go out and and be in
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those rooms the right rooms so I'm
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always feel so welcome every time I come
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in this room because it's the right room
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to be in so thank you so much for having
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me but again I embraced uh me being um
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pretty V but also the meaning of it and
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having that Radiance of just boldness of
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being the light and just being kind and
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being sweet and being genuine from a
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long time and I think people get it
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twisted when they say oh she's pretty
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and she's just this and she's just funny
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and she like no it's not about all of
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that it's just about what's within you
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know I think you're pretty you have a
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good radius I think you're pretty like I
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just TCH you think T pretty you know
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because every time you know I may come
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in it's just it's always welcoming it's
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warm it's it's it's it's inviting you
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know so it's just not about the looks
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it's just about what is within how can I
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respect the inner man you know when the
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inner man is good it's it's I'm I'm able
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to see outwardly yes you know so yeah I
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love that man come on man we going to
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get gems from pretty V all day uh when
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did you decide to put it to a book and
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you said you hope that it helps people
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yeah it sounded like you needed to do it
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to help yourself as well you better talk
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so don't make me cry on it no no no no
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you cried last time I know I did um I
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think I needed that I needed to Center
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myself I think as influencer turned
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actress and all these things that the
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accolades that she just read and just
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even for my peers who in the same boat
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we're chasing the necks when we should
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be asking God to show me what my next
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look like give me the instructions to do
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what I'm called to do I don't need to
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get depressed and have anxiety behind
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what ifs in the Mayes and the ne you
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guys are legends up here clearly it's
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longevity in this building so we're
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trying to get to that next space but
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this generation in this world we're
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living is so different and I just wanted
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to come in and show a different side of
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me outside of of the table outside of B
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Sheron outside of clean up Mom outside
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of all the characters that I do and say
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hey Ministries within and if you respect
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and trust my comedy you trust my words
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too and that's what I decided to go in
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my closet and isolate myself and say yes
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I wanted to turn this book sideways and
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go back on the table and jump and be a
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this this this Class Act but also
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there's a mission too this is liquid
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it's always going to be on the Shelf
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you're going to always hear about the
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pretty Victory it's in Target it's in
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Barnes know it's always going to be that
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but it's the space of what is the next
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and how can I make sure I give the
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people something different outside of
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what I do and I just the words that I've
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seen growing up I turn it into words my
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pain you know my disappointments you
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know the love my dad you know just me
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being depressed anxiety just things that
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I've experienced while I'm in the
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industry I just wanted to put it all
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together and I read devotionals I love
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Joyce Myers and this is not just your
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typical devotional it's has comedy work
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though to it's a workbook you get to
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write you get to do crossw puzzles and
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I'm not just in the book alone I ask my
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friends that's in the industry well some
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of them what makes them Victorious and I
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actually have a section of my Victorious
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friends that's in the book like Shaq
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like Issa Reay like Charlamagne like you
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know be Simone blon Quay and I ask them
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what makes them Victorious and you're
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not going to just be healed and inspired
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by my words but their words as well I
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love it pretty V man let's say the name
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of the book again the pretty Victory um
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I hear you talk about you use the word
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de de in that response and folks may not
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realize what your bout has been with uh
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with depression even as you start
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experience success whether it's coming
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out of college graduating it's supposed
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to be a happy time you know man you
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completed this Mission you put yourself
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on now it's the world in front of you
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but you come out of college and you
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dealing with depression being getting
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connected with wilding out and you
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having all you know you're successful on
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social media but you're still battling
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with depression yeah right talk about
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that was that peculiar because a lot of
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us think once you get to a certain goal
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y all your issues go away don't work
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like that it don't work like that how
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did it work for you um I always go by
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this uh there's a process before the
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promise and that's actually in my book
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as well I don't know what day it is but
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it's there there's there was a process
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to get here and the process had to come
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with all those things it had to come
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with those anxieties it had to come with
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those sleepless nights it had to come
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with the depression to get to my
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Victorious season and do we have those
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days where we're overthinking still and
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it's like okay what what am I doing next
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or how can I orchestrate these things
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but yes it does it comes but all you
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have to do is Center yourself and really
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take a second and say look I'm blessed
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I'm here I'm I'm able to breathe I'm
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able to smell I'm able to touch I'm able
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to give God glory whatever season I I'm
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entering in but yes it doesn't stop
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those up and downs come but all you got
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to do is say okay now I'm very spiritual
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devil get behind me I don't know what
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that is what we talking about I need you
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to move past cuz I got to go to my next
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seon
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I'm to has that happened recently um
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yeah for sure you be in the car thinking
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like why I just had that thought at six
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years old why that thing came back in my
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mind what I'm talking thinking about
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you'll be in that space because I think
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we all have it where you're driving and
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you just get a glimpse of what God
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pulled you from but that's when the
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enemy brings you back to make you feel
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like you have to sit there it's like you
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don't make a house in the depression you
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can't go back to what if and what was
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when God already healed you from it so
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of course we have those moments I'm
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human you know that's why what makes me
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uh happy I'm able to write it down and
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see my words to really go and resonate
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to this book and go back to say oh girl
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what are you talking about this is in
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your hand read these days and remind
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yourself what you're doing for these
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people and what you're doing for
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yourself pretty V is in the building man
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yes pretty V can we talk about ugly
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victories oh come on now because you
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know sometimes folks don't realize their
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pursuing goals without Soul you know and
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maybe that can look like seeking
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validation through social media and
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becoming an influencer a content creator
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but you don't necessarily know why yeah
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you just are craving attention or
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perhaps you're pursuing a particular
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partner because on the surface it
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appears they can give you things but
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then once you lock that individual in
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all hell breaks loose right can you
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share how to know that your purpose is
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really coming from a pure place the
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intention of it versus your purpose
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coming from a desire to look dope and
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I'm going tell you straight like this um
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it's simple it's it's if God is not the
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arthor of confusion I don't walk in no
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place feeling confused or feeling second
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guessing about what my purpose or
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calling is like are you going to last in
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this industry that's my thing when I'm
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in my space and my calling I'm like this
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is what I'm supposed to do it's running
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smooth for me like I don't have no
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issues I don't have nobody feeling like
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oh well is V being genuine or she's
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doing this no when I walk into places
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I'm already praying before I after I
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leave my car I'm praying I'm outside
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like okay God before I walk in I need
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you to shift the atmosphere you know I
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need you to make sure I'm good when I'm
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on the tables and I'm entertaining on
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social media this is a place of look I
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want the longevity of it I'm just doing
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this entertain my people but there's a
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bigger calling I want to get on these
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one woman shows I want to be that whoop
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be Goldberg like I know I have it in me
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to produce and direct my own plays like
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I know those moments are coming you know
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but again you just have to understand
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it's just it's simple it's just are you
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able to uh go through the storms are you
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able to uh sacrifice some things and are
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you going to last and you see people
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come and go all the time like what is
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that like I I get it like we all have
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those moment where we may not be booked
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every day you might just Monday through
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Thursday and then Friday Saturday and
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Sunday you home just chilling waiting on
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the phone call those things happen it's
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just a part of the game all you got to
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do is just keep yourself going get
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yourself centered and find what you're
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finding and and ask God to give you the
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creativity and the wity inventions to do
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it sometimes we sit on our own gifts you
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be like what's next and it's like he
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already gave you what you should do you
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just don't know how to get it done
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because you still depending on social
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media and those numbers and and and
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trying to see if I can do this and do
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that you don't see it as exciting
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exciting yeah and of course we got been
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in those spaces as influencers to be
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like oh my God like did this video do
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this this video do that like am I still
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funny I only got like 100 likes on this
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post like am I cute still they don't
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even like this it's like this is what we
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stressing about I used to do that we be
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in a group chat like bone should I
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delete this video right quick girl a hit
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the way I needed to hit million views
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last week we us we used to do that a lot
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to cause us like girl we lit we're funny
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you we really bugging about the likes
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and the comments right now just no and I
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and I started just embracing like
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whatever it is someone's watching amen
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you know someone's looking at me it's
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okay about it but then it's very
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important with Brands too though like
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the brands investing their money and
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time into you they want to see something
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in return what does that engagement look
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like you know you're not going to give
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me a Fenty deal and I only got two likes
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on my post that ain't what it is let me
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get that 50,000 back right quick girl
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we'll try again in two years like that's
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how it goes and thank God I never ran
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into that problem but it does and that's
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why sometimes we are concerned about all
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these things that we may feel that we
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need validation from people and we'll go
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so hard and mix and miss the we'll miss
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the Mark if you doing too much thank you
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here until you soaking up game over
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there Heather what's going on you know
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why I love it because I'm waiting on
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Heather no it's it's a blessing to have
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you here it is it really is and today
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happens to be good news Thursday for us
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but we
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CI to call and share
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testimonies and we SP half of theing
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that I shared today about basically God
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sending angels in Disguise you know you
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just don't know sometimes when that
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blessing is coming and it can come
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through a person you may know who you've
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been waiting to meet all your life and
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then it can come through a complete
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stranger and you get a blessing through
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that has that happened to you in this
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industry you know maybe someone who you
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least expected or on one of those days
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where you're questioning so much you're
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even asking God what am I supposed to do
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with this you got confirmation yeah um I
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could go back to when I was in college
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is actually the intro of my book when I
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was so hungry y'all my stomach was
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growling I had no food I was in school
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like again you could call a mom for sure
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you could call the sure we do but you
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know when you in college you just feel
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like you were just a boss like now you
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grown cuz I got this I'm going to school
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I'm out of school I'm have my own
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apartment everything but I was still in
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a space of lacking you know I was just
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like I need need help until Mr Daniels
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came he was a janitor at my um
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university and he said God told me to
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give you this $50 cuz you haven't been
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eaten wow because you hadn't been eaten
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and God told me he said God told me to
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seow this $50 in you because you have
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haven't been eating and my stumble was
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just growling and he literally was like
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no no no no and I said Mr Dan I can't
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take that he's like I need you to take
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this cuz God said you have not been
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eating I need you to eat so that was one
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of my angels that I still talk to this
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day and that was back in 2015 2014 and
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you still Cheon prophetically said that
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and he was so right about that cuz I
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wasn't and I didn't want to call home
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the refund checks don't hit as much you
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know you got to pay the people back you
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know from lying on it like like you know
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you got to make made give your mama
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$3,000 from the 6,000 and you left with
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nothing for real you know so for him to
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to know that it was a blessing and in
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the industry now you know I could say
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the Charlamagne has been Ang for me you
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know those esays the sways to speak in
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my life and I hold that the Heather's a
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you like those are my angels there's
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nobody in particular that I could say
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anybody I walk into the room with you
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guys are being that for me to speak life
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into me to encourage me you gave me the
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longest hug to say you're proud of me
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that's so Angelic to me you know that is
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so Angelic because I broke out of that
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box and for you guys to see me and to
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hear me and to have me on your show is
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just it's I'm grateful pretty V man I
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love it yes you we we we recognize your
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light and then it's our duty to make
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sure we help it to shine pretty V
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playing yeah man what happened get off
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of my message what's up Shaq okay up sh
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Tex pull up radio haunted house pull up
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in the ghost sha that's our guy right
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here love Shaq man peace to Shaq his mom
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came up here I I feel like I became Shaq
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big brother right there that day you
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don't think I became his big brother
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brother no brother his mom was nice to
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you but I don't think it was brother go
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ahead and that's and that's the greatest
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thing shout out to Shaq man Shaq Shaq
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Shaq has been a vessel in my life it's
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been plenty of times I've been on the
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blogs and I wanted to respond so much
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and Shaq's like uh um no ma'am you're a
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queen you don't come off your throne to
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address anything yes you keep going I
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think you're funny I think you're dope
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let's go you know so I shout out to Shaq
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I love him so much I want to to that
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because the last time I saw a shack I
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was in Vegas actually with Kanani's mom
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we were at his William we were at a
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benefit for his foundation yeah there
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are thousands of people there that man
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got up from his table walked over to our
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table not only to say hello and greet
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everybody there extended his phone
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number and said if you ever need
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anything call me someone like him
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doesn't have to do that you know but to
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your point sis pouring into somebody you
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know he doesn't know what kind of day I
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could have been having or anybody there
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but for him to take time out to do that
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those things stay with you for a long
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time I don't let nobody talk about Shad
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yeah I love Shad I love him he's just so
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awesome but he's still you still not the
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big brother I'm the big brother man I to
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I talk to him I talk to him on FaceTime
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yes we love that when yo I don't like to
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brag about
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my you know my brother Peter guns called
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me from the car with Shaq in the car and
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Shaq said some beautiful words to me yes
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yes as they should sway you are a legend
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I'm always going to give your flowers
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you one of those ones you know you one
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of those ones who made us say hey we
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want to be that when we get older you
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know we want to go to school for for for
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excuse me for communications to make
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sure like we're in that place like I
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you're just a legend right and you look
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good you better I pray don't don't don't
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don't do it to him going to be
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impossible to deal with when you leave
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now pretty s yeah
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pretty you know
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that's this is what I want to do you
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have um this book is great by the way
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and I I've been I've been pages when I
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read books M and each page is a
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different day yeah a different day
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devotional okay so you wrote on day 87
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and I would love for you to if you can
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give a a brief
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just a synopsis of what this is about
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and I'mma go down a line like a litany
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right and so that the audience that's
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watching yeah can hear you break this
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down okay what camera would she okay day
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87 says validate yourself pretty V what
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did you mean by that validate yourself
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you don't need the world to tell you
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that you're this person you don't need
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the world to tell you that you're funny
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you don't need the world to tell you
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that you're lit when you know you're lit
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you don't know the world to to tell you
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that hey uh you know uh if you not this
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person then you can't be no you don't
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need the validation from others you have
18:35
it God has already qualified you boot
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all you got to do is just keep on going
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all you got to do is keep on going that
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was a powerful Day Day 88 the time has
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changed but the pain hasn't oh Lord so
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why you went to get I've been in your
18:49
book man come on I had to know who's
18:51
dancing on that table come on
18:53
now right the time has changed but the
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pain has it time goes by I mean look how
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many people that we've lost in the
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industry you know um the things that we
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have to go through that we still face
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but the time keeps going it's already
19:07
11:30 yeah you know and somebody has
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passed away yesterday on us last month
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on us a year ago and the time has but
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the pain is still there and if you don't
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forgive or if you don't you know heal
19:20
yourself properly it's the pain will
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still be there so I think for me it's
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just plain and simple the time is gone
19:26
but the pain is still there you know so
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yeah I like that and this is one of my
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favorites that you wrote on day 90
19:34
Unleash Your Own potential this is for
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our listeners what does that mean
19:38
Unleash Your Own potential you are
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suffocating the gift that God has for
19:42
you you have to now step out I don't
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care if you go out there with a big T
19:47
don't care if go ban coca bread or or
19:50
Coca-Cola juice you better go out there
19:52
and go into sit and stand in your own
19:55
potential and stand there because it's
19:57
time you have to unleash what God
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already embedded in you you have to
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unleash the gift that God has placed in
20:03
you you're holding so much in and you're
20:06
just trying to say when is a good time
20:07
to do it how can I do this no you're
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just it's time the time is now unleash
20:13
your own potential stop suffocating the
20:15
gift that God has for you stop waiting
20:17
stop questioning stop feeling like you
20:19
can and cannot do it fear and faith
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don't mix so that's just basically what
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it is for me and then I'mma finish with
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this one because we we
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um in my experiences through personal
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experiences I have a lot of
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conversations uh with that are focused
20:36
on the pain right that are focused on
20:39
the struggle um the adversity but not on
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solution yeah PE that's my pet
20:46
PE and not in a upward motion or not in
20:50
a forward motion we just in
20:52
inertia feeding off the pain and feeding
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off the you know this these things right
20:58
you wrote on day
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99 turn your pain into Victory yes turn
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your pain into Victory explain that
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um this is an example you are the living
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yeah embodiment of that right I'm living
21:13
in an answered prayer I ask God to
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remove take away please Judas get out
21:20
the way excuse me amen you know get out
21:22
of my way please forgive me God I ask
21:26
that you cover me whatever I've been
21:27
through whatever the people that I don't
21:29
see it for no let me have a clean heart
21:31
and a pure mind and a warm heart towards
21:33
people like so at the end of the day
21:34
like you know when you say that you just
21:36
you you now you just got to stand tall
21:38
in your Victory you got to stand tall in
21:40
your Victory and you got to live up to
21:42
your words right um in the book you talk
21:44
about being in a toxic relationship yes
21:48
right and you said in that that you felt
21:50
like you were lied and manipulated too
21:53
right and um I'm curious to how did you
21:56
recognize the red flags and this is for
21:59
people who remain in toxic toxic
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relationships yeah and you stayed in it
22:04
but how did you get out of it yeah and
22:07
I'm GNA be very honest with you sway um
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again sometimes when you're young I was
22:11
like super super young then but when
22:14
you're young and you're like okay this
22:17
looks good feels good and you don't
22:19
really understand but that's when I've
22:21
been having a discernment from Young so
22:23
I'm like I ain't really supposed to be
22:24
here for real like I Ain I'm just here
22:26
just dragging it on but again when you
22:28
just feel like this is your end all be
22:29
all or do you feel like this is where
22:31
you're supposed to be or you're praying
22:33
and the person hasn't gone nowhere yet
22:34
so like well this is the maybe this is
22:36
the one or maybe I'm supposed to be
22:38
around you justify it y I'm going to
22:39
tell you how I got out of it right and I
22:42
had to continue to stay in that place if
22:44
you know that you're going to get out of
22:45
something we tend to go back and forth
22:47
with ourselves and like well the double
22:49
minded start coming in like maybe if I
22:51
stay everything's going to be okay I'm
22:52
safe here bills will be paid this is
22:54
going on if I leave then I have to start
22:56
over start new what I did was I was in
23:00
their mirror one day I went downstairs
23:03
and I said God I need you to bind this
23:05
up whatever is holding me with this
23:07
person I need you to release it and I
23:10
tell you the the year later it was
23:12
confusion between us it was this going
23:14
back and forth all this I'm like oh yeah
23:17
soon as I said no to that I was able to
23:18
get my house I was able to start again I
23:21
was able to begin again and I was able
23:23
to heal and I was able to you know be
23:25
this person that's sitting here with you
23:26
guys today come on up amazing yeah it
23:29
only took words it took words it's words
23:31
right words took words and you got to
23:33
believe those words got to believe it
23:36
you got to know it in Your Heart Right
23:39
which brings me to day 10 okay I forgive
23:42
you oh
23:45
[Laughter]
23:47
Lord started something pretty B you done
23:49
started something I like this book you
23:52
like this book I love this book good
23:54
book right a good book well you say I
23:56
forgive you that's any and everything
23:58
everybody including yourself including
24:01
the to person in a toxic relationship
24:03
right right can you speak to that um I
24:06
just forgive you and it's just simple we
24:08
we uh sometimes we feel like oh why
24:11
should I be the first one to call why
24:13
should I be the first one to forgive
24:15
you're not doing it for you you're doing
24:16
it for your next because we hold oursel
24:18
back when we don't forgive The Grudges
24:20
hold us back the pain that you know you
24:22
have against someone hold you back from
24:24
your neck you may think you going
24:25
somewhere but it's some things that you
24:27
still need to shed away and off of you
24:29
and I think for me I I I just got to
24:32
forgive a lot of people have hurt me a
24:34
lot of people have did wrong a lot of
24:36
people have shaded me and did these
24:39
things and that thing but I just kept
24:41
going and moving with Grace and saying I
24:43
forgive you you know so I hold that to
24:46
not just to me forgiving my childhood
24:49
forgiving what I've experienced but also
24:50
when I tapped into this industry I
24:52
forgive you and you got to do the same
24:54
thing for yourself and whoever has done
24:56
you wrong you just got to forgive them
24:58
and some sometimes be the person to call
25:00
sometimes if you feel like I got a my
25:02
pride put it to the side because you
25:03
don't know what that phone call would do
25:04
when you hang up you don't know there's
25:06
an email that should have been answered
25:07
will be answered you don't know that if
25:10
something is going on internally with
25:11
you you will feel so Victorious after
25:13
you hang up like you know what that was
25:14
it even if they don't get it you got it
25:17
and you know there's a next for you for
25:18
sure pretty V the book is called the
25:21
pretty Victory 100 day guide to recenter
25:24
yourself and find your purpose 88 74233
25:29
we got Iowa uh we got star from Iowa on
25:31
the line you all the way in Iowa what up
25:35
star hi guys how are you hi pretty V hey
25:39
girl how are you oh my God I'm
25:42
nervous it's
25:45
okay so I had a couple of questions for
25:48
you my first question was how long did
25:50
it take you to write your book from
25:52
start to finish um I've been I was
25:54
writing on my own for like a year but
25:56
the process well it took two years and
25:57
one of the years I was writing and
25:59
positioning myself to really put this
26:01
you know let the ink be dried so I had
26:03
to put it on book but I was really um
26:05
writing on my um my notepad and my my
26:08
laptop for a
26:09
year okay and my last question to you is
26:13
what is your favorite quote in your
26:16
book a delay is never denial what was
26:19
that a delay is never denial a delay is
26:21
never a denial yeah okay that that's my
26:23
favorite uh day actually um and it just
26:26
reads that a delay is never denied I
26:28
mean you you you can be delayed so much
26:30
but you not denied God is trying to get
26:32
you right sometimes he got to go through
26:34
some things but he's just trying to get
26:35
you right you first of all you got to
26:37
get yourself right you know God already
26:38
told you how to do it we got to do get
26:40
it ourselves like I'm a relatable person
26:42
so I'm just look clacking toes heel red
26:46
bottoms boo we going talk gold teeth
26:48
Yankee fitted we G to speak about God
26:50
and we G to speak about that walk you
26:51
got to get yourself right you got that's
26:53
it sometime we be like God God this no
26:56
it's you too so you got to get yourself
26:58
right yeah for sure absolutely I'm I
27:00
gotta go because I got to get back to
27:02
work but I do want to let you know
27:03
pretty V that I'm so very proud of you
27:06
and you are amazing I've been there
27:08
since you had the little baby on your
27:10
hip in the middle of the street I still
27:12
don't know who baby that is baby is
27:15
that we are rooting for you and you here
27:18
for every little black girl that thought
27:21
she couldn't do it she did it so I love
27:23
you I will continue to support and y'all
27:25
have a beautiful day
27:27
okay young I said what up all right
27:29
peace you're a citizen as you know
27:33
young I'm sorry shout out
27:36
to my it's my guy right there pretty V
27:40
I'm curious curious three years from now
27:44
what do you see for yourself
27:47
wow um three I want another book I want
27:51
to I'm definitely in the motion of doing
27:53
I want to do a kids devotional so okay
27:56
KY needs and I wanted to rhyme okay you
27:59
know you know bars a little something
28:02
don't put me on the spot this time no no
28:03
we run the freestyle all the time we
28:06
made it into a sweeper so you get that
28:08
that goes daily okay go ahead um but I
28:11
think for me in the next three years
28:13
again just tapping back into the space
28:15
of you know uh the comedy space the
28:18
acting space producing directing um my
28:20
woman woman show I'm in the midst of
28:22
trying to get that together and get that
28:23
going so you guys can see that happening
28:26
for myself as well and just pushing the
28:28
whatever I put down I'm picking back up
28:29
there you go and that's what I'm doing
28:31
yeah give it up for pretty V man I want
28:32
to thank you for he coming by keep to
28:35
see us keep Vis your
28:38
family and I met your mom I did met at
28:41
the black effect charotte Chara man yeah
28:44
amazing I couldn't believe she was your
28:46
mom she was here yesterday watching me
28:48
and she was like wow look at my child
28:50
dop yeah that's great yep anything you
28:52
want to say in closing um what I would
28:55
say um thank you for having me
28:58
absolutely um I appreciate always uh the
29:01
love here and just sharing your outlet
29:03
with myself um I I I hope you guys get
29:06
the book I hope you guys read it um I
29:09
hope it becomes lifechanging for you
29:11
guys um again like I said if you guys
29:13
trust my comedy you would trust my words
29:15
and even if you don't pick it up it's
29:16
it's there you know and if and if you
29:19
finish the book you can start again and
29:21
that's why I made it that way in days so
29:23
I appreciate y'all so much love yall
29:24
thank you thank you pretty V man get the
29:27
book listen it's a great gift yeah
29:29
gifted gifted um the pretty Victory
29:32
that's the name of the book The 100 day
29:33
guide to reenter yourself and find your
29:36
purpose bar Barnes & nobl online all of
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that stuff right pretty V y'all give it
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