Speaker 1: Mileage Books has how the knowledge you want, Milie Books
Speaker 1: has how the knowledge you Needled Books. Yeah, they have
Speaker 1: out the books that the home wild world want to read.
Speaker 1: Mali Books, Malik's Book Show bringing a world together with books,
Speaker 1: culture and community. So if this is your first time
Speaker 1: tuning in, let me tell you a little bit about
Speaker 1: Malik's Bookshelf. We want to make reading exciting and we
Speaker 1: want to give voice to the voiceless. That's why we
Speaker 1: have independent authors as well as top shelf best selling
Speaker 1: authors as well. We want to give a platform to
Speaker 1: amplify these unknown voices in spotlight, voices that have impacted
Speaker 1: our culture and community. Life is a body of books
Speaker 1: that makes your own personal bookshelves. Those bookshows are both
Speaker 1: in the mind and at home. So oftentimes when I'm
Speaker 1: inter viewing some of my guests, I want to know
Speaker 1: what's on their bookshelf. I want to know what they're reading.
Speaker 1: Oftentimes I interview customers that come in to the store
Speaker 1: and I asked them, you know, what do you love
Speaker 1: about reading and why do you continue to visit and
Speaker 1: support Malik Books. So this podcast, you know, we want
Speaker 1: to keep it exciting, refreshing. We want to keep it lit,
Speaker 1: lit for literature and lit for what's hot. We want
Speaker 1: to do book reviews, We want to invite guests on
Speaker 1: We want to be current in our affairs on subject
Speaker 1: matters that are current in the media or on the
Speaker 1: people's heart. You know, there's a lot of things going
Speaker 1: on in society. There's a lot of things that happened nationally,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things that happened locally, and we
Speaker 1: want to sometimes spot like that there is a connection
Speaker 1: between oftentimes what's happening currently and books. So Malik's Bookshelf
Speaker 1: it is outgrowth and extension of what we do here
Speaker 1: at Malik Books. I've been surrounded by books for so
Speaker 1: many decades, you know. I've been serving the community with
Speaker 1: books for since n you know, and I consider myself
Speaker 1: a book activists and I believe books brings a whole
Speaker 1: world of opportunities of reinventing and imagining ideas, and I
Speaker 1: just think that they have a great impact on the
Speaker 1: direction of our culture, of our society and the country
Speaker 1: as a whole. H I love books, have a passion
Speaker 1: for books, and I have a passion for what I do.
Speaker 1: So my podcast it's just an extension of me and
Speaker 1: my community and my culture and the support group that's
Speaker 1: around me. So I hope you enjoy my podcast, Malik's
Speaker 1: Bookshelf Bringing a world together with books, culture and community.
Speaker 1: This is episode seven, So enjoy you know when authors
Speaker 1: coming Malik books, I can't do nothing but trying to
Speaker 1: interview him. Why because I got the opportunity to talk
Speaker 1: to him about and this wonderful says that are usual
Speaker 1: good with good all? Are us your good all? Got
Speaker 1: two books dating the Single Mom and the Single Mom
Speaker 1: Survival God, and I just want her to talk about
Speaker 1: her books. She's an independent authors sub published two books
Speaker 1: addressing this single minds giving him advice. How are you doing? Good? Good,
Speaker 1: good good. Welcome to Malik. This is Miliek's Bookshelf Bringing
Speaker 1: the world together with books, culture and community. This is
Speaker 1: my podcast, and so I'm happy to interview you. Since
Speaker 1: you walked into LEI and you walked in my domain,
Speaker 1: I got to get your own record. Now appreciate that.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. I appreciate you having my books and
Speaker 1: your store. Um. So yes, I am a two times
Speaker 1: author of a single Mom's Movement. So my first book
Speaker 1: I authored I actually published in two eighteen is Dating
Speaker 1: a Single Mom, and well, no, that's I'm sorry, that's
Speaker 1: the Single Mom's Survival Guide is the first one from
Speaker 1: two thousand and eighteen. I went through a divorce, an
Speaker 1: ugly divorce with small children, and so I figured the
Speaker 1: experience that I had then wasn't for me. It was
Speaker 1: for another mother who lost hope or who doesn't feel
Speaker 1: like she has a voice and to believe in herself
Speaker 1: again that no matter what happens to you in life
Speaker 1: with children, you are able to come out on top.
Speaker 1: And so I give her hope about finances, about loving herself,
Speaker 1: about healing, about forgiveness, and just dating again, which leads
Speaker 1: me to my book two years later, Dating a Single Mom.
Speaker 1: What men need to know and what women need to do.
Speaker 1: And so that's just teaching men that when you have
Speaker 1: high performing women that are others that you're dating, it's
Speaker 1: a deep dive. It's a deep dive, and it's a
Speaker 1: lot of like selfwell awareness because as myself, I did
Speaker 1: a lot of self work, inner work, inner self, inner child.
Speaker 1: So that's just you know, educating our women that you know,
Speaker 1: don't lose hope and don't lose yourself and your children
Speaker 1: and don't settle for less because we are powerful as
Speaker 1: women raising children. Absolutely, don't settle for less. That's got
Speaker 1: to be the number one standard is don't down grade yourself.
Speaker 1: That's a very powerful first principle. Give me some more
Speaker 1: principles that women, single women should know in terms of dating.
Speaker 1: On what advice would you give men who dating? What
Speaker 1: high performance women? You gotta define high before me. Now,
Speaker 1: I think I understand what that means, but I want
Speaker 1: you to tell the audience, Yes, high from performing women
Speaker 1: are for myself. I actually worked a job for like
Speaker 1: twenty years, raising kids and operating a business, and I
Speaker 1: wrote two books, and so you know, coming off of COVID,
Speaker 1: you know, I got laid off. But because I had
Speaker 1: already established my business, which is a wellness and fitness business,
Speaker 1: I created um safe space for women, you know, to
Speaker 1: unleash self love and to embody self love through total
Speaker 1: total body fitness. Because what happens is is high performing
Speaker 1: women we get so indulged in our work and our
Speaker 1: children soccer mom, football mom, basketball mom, and we figured
Speaker 1: about ourselves and so a lot of times, you know,
Speaker 1: men they don't know how much we juggle, so they
Speaker 1: they're expectations of us is way off the chart. And
Speaker 1: then also to always go into you know, have those
Speaker 1: tough conversations, you know, ask those questions, those elephant in
Speaker 1: the room questions, and let's see if the guy wiggles
Speaker 1: a little bit in his seat, if you don't want
Speaker 1: to answer the question, then there might be an issue
Speaker 1: there out when you when you know, when you know,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm like when you're getting your fifty ain't saying
Speaker 1: you in your fifties now? Still okay? Well, I'm saying
Speaker 1: like I know that I'm in my fifties. And if
Speaker 1: I'm not sayingle but if I was dating the first
Speaker 1: one of the first questions, I'm saying, what is in
Speaker 1: your cabinet? What kind of medicine you got up in
Speaker 1: your absolutely because you know what like, because I'm in
Speaker 1: wellness and fitness, you know, like across the board, health
Speaker 1: and wellness as is at a state of emergency. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Your mental health supersedes everything else.
Speaker 1: Working out in nutrition is a bride product of your
Speaker 1: mental health because everything is a mindset. And if you
Speaker 1: don't eat well and you don't talk to your mind,
Speaker 1: well you're not gonna treat the people around you well,
Speaker 1: you know, and so and that medication too in the
Speaker 1: cabinet impacts your mental health from what you're dealing with.
Speaker 1: Don't don't dig yourself in the hole in this relationship
Speaker 1: only to find out she ain't gonna be around for
Speaker 1: a couple of years. Now. You need to know that upfront, right,
Speaker 1: And then I don't want to go to bed thinking
Speaker 1: that I might not wait up to you in the
Speaker 1: morning because of your health issues. You know, that's not
Speaker 1: a that's not a comfortable space to be in because
Speaker 1: a whole lot of people ain't take care of self.
Speaker 1: Health is wealth. Health is wealth, right, Absolutely, we know
Speaker 1: that living now. So also to not to get lost
Speaker 1: in the sauce. Don't get lost in your children, you know,
Speaker 1: don't let them take over because we teach everybody, including
Speaker 1: our kids, how to treat us. And kids are sharp,
Speaker 1: they're sponges. So if they see that they can get
Speaker 1: away with ABC X y Z and that you just
Speaker 1: go for the oaky dog, they will run over you. Will.
Speaker 1: They will the boundaries setting, you know, boundaries for yourself,
Speaker 1: for your children, and for whomever you're dating. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: easy to get lost in yourself. Um. You know, I've
Speaker 1: known people at times I've you know, that was my
Speaker 1: safe haven. Um years ago when I was going through something,
Speaker 1: my solace was the kids and that was the only
Speaker 1: joy I had When they won't around, I was sad,
Speaker 1: you know. And I have friends that did the same thing.
Speaker 1: But um, you know, and you gotta find time for yourself.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, and that self love, you know, and self
Speaker 1: love is not selfish. That's what I teach. You know.
Speaker 1: I actually have, you know, a campaign that I'm running
Speaker 1: for self love, and it's embodying self love total transformation.
Speaker 1: That's that's deveing into the deep parts of yourself, your
Speaker 1: inner child, you know, those traumas because these kind of
Speaker 1: things we pass on to our kids, but then we're
Speaker 1: passing on into our relationships. And so if we're not
Speaker 1: tapping into that, then we're just taking this toxic you know,
Speaker 1: energy and such thing as going into a relationship when
Speaker 1: you get a certain age without baggage being part of it.
Speaker 1: Um No, because there's always work as long as we live,
Speaker 1: there's always work. Now, you can be healed, but then
Speaker 1: there's still work because look at what's coming at us daily.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, we have to constantly, constantly recalibrate,
Speaker 1: you know, our thinking, our words are energy, going to meditate, praying,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, taking those long walks, working
Speaker 1: out whatever that is. You find that thing that's going
Speaker 1: to bring you joy and set your soul on fire
Speaker 1: by yourself first. First, by yourself first, because then your
Speaker 1: children are looking at you, and then they're gonna grow
Speaker 1: up doing that, you know. So that's what I committed to,
Speaker 1: is changing the trajectory of you know, the way that
Speaker 1: our children are coming up. Yes, yes, well I definitely,
Speaker 1: I definitely um believe they all star wars. So that's
Speaker 1: why malikue book spends a lot of time um with
Speaker 1: outreach doing book fairs with kids at schools. Why because
Speaker 1: children are one we believe, and we believe we're gonna
Speaker 1: make this universal change and create a change for the future.
Speaker 1: It starts with the youth, you know, so, and to
Speaker 1: teach them to love themselves and believe in themselves and
Speaker 1: know that they can achieve anything they want. But they
Speaker 1: gotta first belief, have confidence, and put their mind to it.
Speaker 1: But this has been a very very very great conversation
Speaker 1: about your book and the journey to you on and
Speaker 1: I'm glad you shared it with my audience on release
Speaker 1: book show. And it's anything that you would like to
Speaker 1: leave the autists before we conclude, I thank you, thank
Speaker 1: you so much for allowing me to have my books
Speaker 1: here and I just want to leave this space for
Speaker 1: both men and women. Take care of you first before
Speaker 1: you start to get into any type of relationship. And
Speaker 1: if you have children, make sure they come first before
Speaker 1: the person that you decide to be with. You know,
Speaker 1: marriage is good and great, but do we need companionship, No,
Speaker 1: we want it, but our companionship and our relationship is
Speaker 1: with self first, so that we can add value to
Speaker 1: our children, add value to our future. Made absolutely well.
Speaker 1: Thank you and for sharing your ideas about in your book,
Speaker 1: your wonderful book that is blessing to all of us.
Speaker 1: Thank you again and I hope to help you sell
Speaker 1: a million of them. Let's go, thank you, Thank thank
Speaker 1: you today my guests, as a young lady that's near
Speaker 1: and dear to me, someone that special to me, someone
Speaker 1: that I know like the back of my hand, someone
Speaker 1: that actually has the relationship with me. Her name is
Speaker 1: Mecca Mohammed, my daughter, so I'm gonna ask her about
Speaker 1: a subject matter. This is all about what Malik's Bookshelf represents,
Speaker 1: which is books. Mecca, Welcome to Malik's Bookshelf. Thank you.
Speaker 1: I put it on the spot. I think sometimes that's
Speaker 1: how you get the best interviews. You know, she was
Speaker 1: sitting here, sitting on the couch and reading. I said,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gonna come over here and interview
Speaker 1: Maca Mohammed and feature her on a segment on Malik's
Speaker 1: Bookshelf that brings a world together with books, culture and community. Mecca,
Speaker 1: why do you love reading? I like to read because
Speaker 1: it helps, It helps you learn about the world, and
Speaker 1: it gives you a great imagination. Absolutely, I think that's
Speaker 1: so important to having an imagination. What would the world
Speaker 1: be like without imagining? You know, everything is? You know,
Speaker 1: did we imagine? We can bring forth? That's why creativity
Speaker 1: come from. And books they opened a whole new world
Speaker 1: of opportunity and so forth. And Mecca, what types of
Speaker 1: books do you like to read? I like to read
Speaker 1: fantasy and uh fantasy and kind of like manga and
Speaker 1: chapter books. Basically, Yeah, what's some of your favorite books
Speaker 1: you read? Um, Blood and Bone and Wrath and Ruin.
Speaker 1: So and why would those why those books your favorite book?
Speaker 1: They're my favorite because I can understand them better than
Speaker 1: I can't understand can understand the rest of the Yeah,
Speaker 1: like they helped the fantasy book. Yeah, they're fantasy, and
Speaker 1: I it's closer to my age group. So it in
Speaker 1: order to what is your age group? Um, fourteen and
Speaker 1: around that? Okay, you know preteen? Well now, yeah that's
Speaker 1: an early teen right and about to start high school.
Speaker 1: So in the last year, how many books have you read?
Speaker 1: Over a hundred? And doing your birthday you ended or
Speaker 1: special holiday? You always asked for books? Um, you've asked
Speaker 1: for what the Harry Potter series? Yeah, I have. Did
Speaker 1: you read the whole series? Yeah? Yeah, she did reduce
Speaker 1: there you know. Um what other series did you ask
Speaker 1: for us to get for your birthday or special occasion? Um?
Speaker 1: I've asks for Well, I don't always ask for series books.
Speaker 1: I asked for independent books also, like like oh a
Speaker 1: series I know Percy Jackson, I asked for that series.
Speaker 1: You read the whole series? Correct, I read all of
Speaker 1: his authors. But the thing is that you go back
Speaker 1: and read it to three times again. Well, I like
Speaker 1: to reread it because you get something new each time
Speaker 1: you read it, and sometimes you might accidentally miss something,
Speaker 1: and if you reread it again, like I said, you
Speaker 1: understand it better. But here's the thing. You've read a
Speaker 1: hundred books within the last year. Yeah, that's amazing. Most
Speaker 1: people don't read a book a month. When you think
Speaker 1: about that, Um, I think I'm doing it, doing extremely good.
Speaker 1: I'll say this, Um, I know one series, you read
Speaker 1: the whole series and you read it more than once.
Speaker 1: Is the I um number four is have to the
Speaker 1: name of the series? Yeah, yeah, I read that too,
Speaker 1: right right, right right? She learned about I'm number seven,
Speaker 1: I'm number six, And you know they all had special
Speaker 1: powers and abilities. They were aliens that caname the earth.
Speaker 1: And you read the whole series and in between monks,
Speaker 1: you know that you know them in between books. Those
Speaker 1: are the books that they right in between a story.
Speaker 1: You know when they say book one, book two or
Speaker 1: just that has you know this is some things that
Speaker 1: happened in between, like the tiny details. Yeah, mysteries and
Speaker 1: missions and stuff they have to go on in order
Speaker 1: to be who they are in the book, right and
Speaker 1: you I mean all these methyls like Percy all the
Speaker 1: methylogical and Greek and and you know meta thorns and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. You know that that could be some
Speaker 1: difficult reading. It's not difficult reading to you know. I'm
Speaker 1: kind of gotten used to it. Um, since I read
Speaker 1: a lot of Rick Roordon's books. Um, I have every
Speaker 1: single I have every single right your bookshelves to right
Speaker 1: above your bid. We built them on the wall the house,
Speaker 1: all these books. On top of that, another series I
Speaker 1: think you read was have you read all the Twilight
Speaker 1: books too? Yeah? I have them. Some thick books too,
Speaker 1: like no acally, those are the ones that pull in.
Speaker 1: I don't read some, but no you don't. You don't.
Speaker 1: In fact um, Sometimes when I'm at the store and
Speaker 1: people say, hey, can you recommend the books? I show
Speaker 1: him a book right here that's too thick. No, that's
Speaker 1: gonna run them away. Books don't run you away duty. No. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when it's a you know, it's a joy when you
Speaker 1: see you the read because you know everyone doesn't like
Speaker 1: to read, and it's just a wonderful joy when I
Speaker 1: see you know, our door to reading books. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: we don't have to twist the arm and we don't
Speaker 1: have to force her. Is something that she just does
Speaker 1: on her own all the time. And I have no
Speaker 1: problem on any book you want. And my thing is, look, um,
Speaker 1: we want you to read the things you enjoy to read.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I might not have some books on the shelf
Speaker 1: that she liked to read, and we have to go
Speaker 1: out and by books that are you know, available on
Speaker 1: the market that went on necessarily have the store. So
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter to me. My thing is, you know,
Speaker 1: you need to read some enjoy what you're reading, and continue.
Speaker 1: You know, some youth they like you like graphic novel
Speaker 1: because you mentioned manga. Yeah novels too, I like, Um,
Speaker 1: I read a little bit of both. Yes, well you
Speaker 1: kind of turned us onto this this crave, this new Manica,
Speaker 1: c these teams loving these graphic knowledge and mom with
Speaker 1: these Japanese books or whatever you ad um. You know,
Speaker 1: we eventually went out and as a result, my daughter
Speaker 1: curvated Meca, curvated the Maka selection at Malite Books. Tell
Speaker 1: us about that, well, that's just because of all like,
Speaker 1: somebody introduced me to somebody introduced me to manga um
Speaker 1: and I started to take a liking to and I
Speaker 1: tell my parents about it, so they gave me my
Speaker 1: own area, and that's what I decided to do with it.
Speaker 1: Belie Bull. She's in charge of the manga. You know,
Speaker 1: I got enough John reason I'm dealing with. She is
Speaker 1: the one that supposed to stock the shells and order
Speaker 1: the books for the Margat series and what happen. She
Speaker 1: knows what's hot and was not so Um that responsibility
Speaker 1: falls on Metha Mohammed. And but we do have some
Speaker 1: a few. We don't have a whole lot, but we
Speaker 1: have them at Meligue Books. And the kids, they and
Speaker 1: the teens they come in and they and they look
Speaker 1: for them, you know. They it's a big it's a
Speaker 1: big explosive genurey, these graphic novels, particularly manga. Um. I
Speaker 1: have a son, a zaire Um. He likes more graphic novels,
Speaker 1: so I out and get him graphic. Now. You know,
Speaker 1: we want to upset books in front of the our
Speaker 1: children and our teens and our youth and our young adults.
Speaker 1: Did they want to read? You know, I can't. You know,
Speaker 1: I can force to read something, but the most important
Speaker 1: thing is that she reads something that she wants to,
Speaker 1: that she enjoys. That's my point. So is anything else
Speaker 1: you would like for all the young people out there
Speaker 1: who are struggling to read or who love to read.
Speaker 1: You want to say anything of encouragement to them? UM,
Speaker 1: I just have to say, take your time. It takes
Speaker 1: time to find what you really like. UM, always try
Speaker 1: new things and you can do it. I love it,
Speaker 1: I love it. I love there you go, Mecca Mohammed,
Speaker 1: thank you for sharing with us my audience at Malie
Speaker 1: Bull shut your your thoughts about reading and uh and
Speaker 1: your story. Thank you. My book review for this segment
Speaker 1: for episode seven. It's a book I came across. It
Speaker 1: was uncorrected, proof for limited distribution. But I was blown
Speaker 1: away because this is the kind of thing that I
Speaker 1: really think can impact change in our community. So I
Speaker 1: had to do a book review on this book. And
Speaker 1: the book entitle was called Build the D Thing. That's
Speaker 1: d a M. You know what I'm saying, Build the
Speaker 1: D Thing. You know, I don't think damn it is
Speaker 1: a bad word, but it's called build the damn Thing.
Speaker 1: I don't think damn it is a bad word, but
Speaker 1: somebody think it is. But it's a book about how
Speaker 1: to start a successful business if you're not a rich
Speaker 1: white guy. That's right How to start a successful business.
Speaker 1: This book just blew me away. Build the Damn Thing
Speaker 1: is a hard one, battle tested guy for every entrepreneurs
Speaker 1: who the establishment has left out. Um. Katherine Finney, an
Speaker 1: investor in Startup Champion, explains how to build a business
Speaker 1: from the ground up, beginning from developing a business plan
Speaker 1: to finding investors, growing the team, and reinforcing the products.
Speaker 1: Finney empowers entrepreneurs to take advantage of their unique networks
Speaker 1: and resources, arm readers with responses to investors who like
Speaker 1: your pitch but still does not want to invest in
Speaker 1: your product or your idea. Katherine Finney points out that
Speaker 1: the level playing field is not the same. There is
Speaker 1: advantages and disadvantage depending on this group or that group.
Speaker 1: But the reality is this that you still can build
Speaker 1: the damn thing, that you still can overcome the obstacles
Speaker 1: of it in your way. So what the level playing
Speaker 1: field and the entitlements are in favor of a different group?
Speaker 1: So what build the damn Thing? Some of the contexts
Speaker 1: in the book Get Your Mind Right Your Personal Success
Speaker 1: Toolbox Squad goes how to build an amazing team and
Speaker 1: get int the bag. How to get the money you
Speaker 1: need to grow your business. So these are some of
Speaker 1: the contest is in the book. It's a revolutionary did
Speaker 1: it just helps you to build and start your own business,
Speaker 1: your own successful business. Build the damn thing. How to
Speaker 1: Start a successful business if You're not a rich White
Speaker 1: guy by Katherine Finney. Pick up your copy. It's a
Speaker 1: great book. It's a timely book and no more excuses.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to Leak's Bookshow where topics on the show,
Speaker 1: our books, culture and community. Be shore to subscribe and
Speaker 1: leave me a review. Check out my Instagram at Malik Books.
Speaker 1: See you next time.