WEBVTT - Armed with Good Intentions 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:02.600 League has all the knowledge you want. 0:00:03.000 --> 0:00:05.360 League has all the knowledge you need. 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:09.000 Yeah, they have all the books that the whole wild 0:00:09.080 --> 0:00:15.760 world one up reads. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to Malie's bookshep 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:19.120 bringing a world together with books. 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:20.560 Culture and community. 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:24.880 Hi, my name is Malik, your host Malik's Bookshelf. 0:00:26.239 --> 0:00:28.000 Another eventful week. 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:34.840 We had three book signings in one week at Malik 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:39.320 Books at the Westfield Coche City Mall. And it don't 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:43.480 stop from there because we have some community events such 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:48.159 as the Orange Coast County children Book Festival. So we 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:53.080 got a tremendous week that we're coming off. 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:57.240 Of community, books, culture. 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:04.560 But let me say this, Malie Books mission and aim 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:08.040 is to change the world one book at a time. 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:12.160 We breaking out the book more bill this week at 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:14.840 the occ Children's Book Festival. 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:16.720 We gonna have. 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:21.080 About seven eight authors with us, so we excited about that. 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:28.000 But I do have some upcoming events that already took 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:31.880 place that I wanna feature on this up episode. I 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:35.880 was able to interview Chante Griffin, who wrote the book 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:41.520 Loving Your Black Neighbor as Yourself. Quite interesting, but it's 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:45.560 her take. It's her take on how to heal, how 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:50.480 to work together, how people can embrace each other, you know, 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:55.400 the god the rules, treat others like you wanna treat yourself. Well, 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:58.360 it's kind of like, you know, loving your black neighbor 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:05.680 as yourself basically, you know it is it's everyone taking 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:11.720 the initiative to embrace their neighbor, their community, and to 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:15.480 be able to work together in a collective miner for 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:17.639 the sake of the neighborhood, the sake of the community, 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:19.639 sake of the nation, and so forth. But I'm gonna 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:22.080 let Shaun Tate break down her book. No one can 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:23.800 tell you more about their book than they ought to. 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:28.480 Always say. Also, I'm a feature the interview I took 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:31.639 with Yvonne Sanai Jones. 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:32.400 Who's the moderator. 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:38.280 Other she's a bilingual actress and an entrepreneur, So I'm 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:43.639 gonna interview her and let her talk about her background 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:46.320 and what she's doing as an actress, because you know, 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:48.880 actress are the ultimate storytellers. 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:51.440 You know, they make stories come alive. 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:54.360 So these are some of the things that I plan 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:58.160 on featuring on I'm a feature on this particular episode. 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:00.679 And one more. 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:08.640 Segment I want to feature on this podcast is Wallow 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:15.000 two six seven was at Malik Books. Woo. Was that 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:19.000 a wonderful event, But I got a chance. I didn't 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:22.320 moderate the event, Amma Grimes moderate the event. 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:22.520 Now. 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:26.960 The book that came out, the new book that Wallowed 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:30.680 two six seven just released and the New York Times 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:36.840 bestseller his first week, Armed with Good Intentions, A very 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:44.760 powerful book, a very moving, touching, inspirational book. Wallow is 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:53.240 a brother that spent the twenty years in jail, came 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:59.960 out and believed in himself, believed in the fact that 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:03.320 a person can have a second chance. I think he 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:05.720 went in at seventeen, came out at thirty seven. 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:08.200 He's now on forty four and. 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:16.200 He has come out running NonStop. He's amassed millions of 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:20.960 followers as an infloor on social media, and it's all 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:24.000 about inspiring. 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:29.880 Telling people to wake up, believe in yourself, get going. 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:31.960 No one's promised tomorrow. 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:38.640 Listen, he said in himself at the event, and he 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:42.680 was like, look, nobody owe him nothing. Nobody owes him nothing. 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:48.479 And he believes in accountability and he's straight short. He 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:51.039 speaks the language of the streets, he speaks the language 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:52.560 of the people. I mean, it's a lot of us 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:55.480 come out of the streets a lot of us to speak. 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:58.119 It's a different language. I always believe it, always believe 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:03.120 that God always sends someone speaking the language of the people. 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:05.880 So it's a lot of people in our community hip hop, 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:11.800 their street and whatever the case is, someone has to 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:15.760 speak their language. They're not gonna you know, leaders like 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:22.719 President Obama when he was president, or Trump when he's president, 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:26.240 when who else? Biden when he spreading a lot of 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:29.080 these people. You know, they speak to a large group 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:32.440 of people, but it's a lot of people that just 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:33.560 don't hear him. 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:34.200 They don't. 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:37.279 They no matter what they say or what they do, 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:40.200 they don't penetrate the streets. 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:44.760 Maybe their policies do, but them as a leader don't. 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:49.279 And sometimes people like a Wallow who speaks the language 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:52.640 of the streets, and he talks in a way. 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:54.800 That they can relate. 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:59.200 You know, they not talking all intellectual, but they talking 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:02.800 in a manner that they can understand and they can 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:05.599 hear it. Because everybody is a lot. But do you 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:08.920 got the key to unlock them? That's I always say that. 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:12.000 And so some of us are heard differently, and so Wallo, 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:14.520 you know, he speaks the language of the streets. This 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:19.360 brother came out of jail, you know, spent twenty years, 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:23.039 you know, in the four corners. But he didn't come 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:27.800 out with a hand held out. He came out giving out. 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:30.960 And he came out sprinting and running. And he came 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:37.880 out making with a movement, with an idea as an entrepreneur. 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:42.840 And he came out running as a sprint And all 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:46.600 I'm saying is armed with good intentions. 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:52.640 Telling his story is giving you insight to change. Start 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:56.320 with you, and that's what bottom line is. 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:58.440 And you got to be accountable for your actions and 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:03.760 stop acting like somebody owe you something, whatever cars you 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:04.240 deal with. 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:06.720 And you know, all he knew. 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:09.159 Was the streets people around him was the streets. He 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:13.360 got caught up in the streets. But he allowed changes 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:16.960 to come about in his life to help change the streets. 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:21.440 So the brother got millions and millions and millions of followers. 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:23.840 A lot of people know them. 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:28.640 Elie books was packed from the back to the front. 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:34.080 Wallow dropped some knowledge, some inside. I think the biggest 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:36.440 thing that I took away. Now I got a chance 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:39.000 to talk to him for myself while he's there, and 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:40.440 I always try to do that. 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:42.400 Give me a couple of few minutes, give me a 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:42.920 few minutes. 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:45.840 If you at Elie books, I'm not moderating, But if 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:48.480 I got you, I'm gonna come. Ay, let's go to 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:51.280 the back. Brothers all to the front. Let me ask 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:54.560 you a few questions from my audience on Malik's bookshelf, 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:59.280 bringing a world together with books, culture and community. But 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:01.680 let me tell you the thing that I thought this 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:07.880 stuck out the most. He said a lot. The brother 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:12.960 ain't shot on words. He's electric, he's passionate, he's powerful. 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:16.360 Let me tell you though it. You know I'm not 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:20.800 as eloquent as him, and certainly I don't know the 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:24.440 language he knows to read that group of people. But 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:28.200 you know, I you know, the language that I speak 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:31.240 touches certain people in a certain way. 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:33.560 But I'll tell you this my takeaway. 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:37.840 The thing that's stuck out the most is when he 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:38.600 said that. 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:43.280 They spent a lot. 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:48.240 Of money to market death and destruction and for people 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:53.840 to make bad decisions. That there's a billions of dollars 0:08:53.840 --> 0:09:00.480 of spent to create you know, because he mentioned how 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:08.240 certain icons in our community, like criminals. 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:10.400 Al Campone. 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:16.840 Gotdi all these gangsters they glorified and our people know 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:24.800 a lot of these mafia and gangsters and people who 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:29.320 and former criminals or whatever. A lot of people in 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:33.400 the community, Black community, Hispanish community, they know a lot 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:36.199 of these people El Choppo and all that. But they 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:39.959 couldn't tell you all the presidents of the United States, 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:42.760 or at least if you ask them, give me ten 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:44.480 president of the United States couldn't tell you. 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:49.720 They tell you ten high profile criminals. So he said, 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:50.400 why is that? 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:56.920 Because marketing, marketing, And I thought that start out the 0:09:57.000 --> 0:10:00.360 most of me, because and I analyzed that, it's lot 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:05.600 of money spent to market death and destructions all across 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:09.600 these cities and all across this nation. How much money 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:12.640 is spent to make the wrong de eat the wrong foods? 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:16.360 How much how much advertisement goes. 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:20.360 Into promoting sugary foods and drinks that ain't doing nothing 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:24.560 but cause health problems? How many things are marketed to 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:30.480 create licensius bib or having sex without responsibility? People are 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:34.800 you know, no protection and so forth, like person get pregnant. 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:36.760 What you're gonna do? Can you you a child? You're 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:37.400 a teenager. 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:39.440 You ain't making no money, you ain't got no career. 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:41.960 You know what I'm saying, so, how much when you 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:44.000 look at these commercials, when you look at a lot 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:48.320 of things, how much money is spent on you making 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:53.800 wrong decisions, wrong choices, and ultimately affecting your life. 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:57.679 In a negative way, Drinking drugs, all of these things, 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:02.920 Wasting your time on activities that don't enrich you. How 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:06.120 many hours a day do you spend watching football and 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:13.520 basketball in sports versus investing in yourself to make yourself successful, 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:15.920 to make the kind of money of the people that 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:16.440 you sit. 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:18.719 Up and watch all day. These are the coin I. 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:23.000 Said, Man, A lot of money is spent marketing death 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:28.480 and destruction and self sabotaging to create self sabotaging behavior. 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:31.719 So I was interested. I mean, that point to me 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:33.079 stood out in. 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:38.640 The insightful conversation that took place between Wallow two sixty 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:43.120 seven and Amber Grimes. And so I was intrigued by that, 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:46.360 and I, you know, to analyze that. But I got 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:49.320 a chance, like I said, to interview him, ask him 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:53.760 a few questions. It was interactive while people were still 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:56.600 in the store and he was signing books. So you know, 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.599 some you know, there might be a break here and 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:02.960 a break there. But nevertheless, it's all organic, it's all 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:06.000 not it's not scripted, just me, you know, being me 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:10.400 and talking to Wallow and him giving me his insight 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:13.920 about his new book, arm with good intentions. So anyway, 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:17.480 let me let this episode begin to roll, all right, 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:18.840 please thank you. 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:23.559 I got a special guest. 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:27.160 She's gonna do an event today right here at Maligue Books. 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:29.960 You know, I gotta get just a few minutes just 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:33.320 to her to tell you about her book, Loving Your 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:38.800 Black Neighbor As Yourself. Her name and author is Chantay Griffin. 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:43.000 How you doing, Schantae, good, good, good good. I'm wonderful. 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:45.360 So let's get right into it. No one can tell 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:47.760 you about the book more than the author, So please 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:48.560 tell us. 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:49.120 About your book. 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:53.800 Loving your Black Neighbor As Yourself is a book straight 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:58.400 from the heart of God. Martin Luther King was a 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:01.560 prophet who came to this kind that said, all of 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:04.920 God's children deserve to be free, all of God's children 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:08.960 deserves civil rights, all of God's children deserve education and 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:13.120 great housing and economic opportunity. So this book is taking 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:15.760 us back to the heart of King's message and saying, 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:20.080 what is stopping you externally and internally from loving your 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:21.320 black neighbor as yourself. 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:23.120 This book gives you the tools. 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:26.840 To break through those barriers and love the way God intended. 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:29.560 You to love. Wow, you know what. I love that 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:31.920 because I always use this analogy. 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:37.840 The sun rises every day and it shines on everyone 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:41.800 on the whole planet, which me is an analogy of 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:45.679 every day as a new day. But more importantly, God's 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:49.280 gift is given to everyone. And so when you said 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:53.360 what you said about the Martin Luther King and about 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:58.800 loving your neighbor, your black neighbor as yourself, I thought 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:02.200 about that as an a knowledge. So what are some 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:05.680 of the highlighted points the best chapter of your book? 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:07.160 All of them. 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:10.280 No, what we do in the book is we take 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:13.960 this concept of the love languages, right, this is how 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:16.520 different people give and receive love. We flip the script 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:18.800 and we say these are cultural love lenses. How do 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:22.640 African American communities give and receive love? So I actually 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:26.640 created five love lenses, and this is how Black folks 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:30.120 give and receive love. Number one intimacy community, right, we 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:34.040 always want to be together. Number two honor and respect. 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:38.040 Don't disrespect us. You don't want to see that. Number 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:42.840 Three God's gives resources. We're always giving given to the community, 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:46.400 giving to the next generation. Right number four, stand up, 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:49.560 we're speaking up. We're standing up for righteousness, for justice 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:52.440 for ourselves. And then lastly we're praying people. 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:54.560 We're gonna pray over you. 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:57.400 We're gonna pray for you. God bless your heart. So 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:00.280 I talk about how you can love black community, these 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:02.800 and black people the way we're already loving each other 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:03.520 because we love. 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:05.600 Each other doing it by nature, like a spider spenser 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:08.600 of web, not because it read a book, but because 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:09.760 it comes out to nature. 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:12.600 You know what I'm saying, what's in us just got to. 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:14.800 Come out, you know with some of the most soulful, 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:16.480 joyful people. 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:16.600 Want to play. 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:20.000 They write books about, you know, how we can find 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:24.120 joy in the midst of oppression and sorrow. 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:26.359 Why is your book important? 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:30.200 It's important because we're living in an age where people 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:33.280 are trying to take us back. They're trying to take 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:35.880 the civil rights legislation that was meant to protect and 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:39.080 uplift black people and say that now we're discriminated against 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:41.880 non black people. So this book is important because it 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:45.880 shows you how we can love politically, how we can 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:49.040 love relationally and how we can love holistically and with 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:49.640 our dollars. 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:50.840 Wow wow, wow. 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:54.840 Now you heard it first hand from Jaunty Griffin, who's 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:58.360 going to be doing an event today right here at 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:00.680 Malik Books in the Westfield, Co City Mall. 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:04.000 So thank you. Tell people how they can find you. 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:07.400 As we close this off, you go, Shante. Sometimes you 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:13.360 got to encourage yourself website, Instagram, Facebook, you go, Shante 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:16.480 y O, you g O C H A N t E. 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:18.280 You go, Chante find me there. 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:20.680 Thank you, Chante. 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:28.920 Malik's Bookshelf bringing a world together with books, culture and 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:33.080 community change in the world with one book at a time. 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:40.560 I have Yvonne Snai Jones, a bilingual actress. She's gonna 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:44.880 be moderating the event today with Chantey Griffin, who authored 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:48.760 the book Loving Your Black Neighbor As Yourself. 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:50.800 Welcome, Yvonne. 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:56.520 Tell my audience at Malie's Bookshelf why reading is so important. 0:16:56.960 --> 0:17:00.720 Oh, it's foundational. It's foundational. You can and go to 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:03.640 different places. You can learn things that you never knew 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:06.879 that aren't going to be learned in school, and you 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:09.200 can write and then you can share your own thoughts 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:09.919 to other people. 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:11.760 So it's fantastic. 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:14.959 You know, I came across a stat they said, forty 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:17.399 five million Americans are illiterate. 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:19.400 What we're gonna do about that? 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:22.800 I think more events like these get some more good 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:26.080 books that don't want to read, right, you know? 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:30.240 You know, for there was a time in America where 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:34.639 we were denied the right to read and write. 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:37.680 And that's why reading it's important. 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:44.600 Because it's transformative, it's empowering. And anything you can find 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:49.040 you can find in a book. Now your actress, and 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:52.719 you know, so you know how to make stories interactive 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:53.520 and coming along? 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:54.840 Tell us all about that. 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:58.760 Well, that is actually what drew me to acting, is 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:02.200 my imagination. I was an only child until my brother 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:04.440 was born right about ten years old for me, so 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:08.120 it was just me and stories and acting them out 0:18:08.119 --> 0:18:11.040 in the backyard. And I loved books as a kid. 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:13.640 That was my mom would take me to the library. 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:14.919 That was the first place I got to walk all 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:17.119 by myself, so it's a big deal. And I would 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:18.760 go and I would check out books and I would 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:20.800 gobble them up, and then the next week I would 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:24.359 get more. So I'm very blessed to be able to 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:27.200 have had that kind of experience. 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:28.200 Wonderful, wonderful. 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:34.159 Now you shared with me that you have a production company, entrepreneur. 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:38.040 We living in a time where it's very important to 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:41.760 do for self and be resourceful. Now I believe it 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:46.560 is your husband's standing right here and life. 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Man questions Yep, well hey amor 0:20:45.400 --> 0:20:48.920 good intentions, it's your new book, break it down because 0:20:48.960 --> 0:20:51.400 you know your book better than anybody else. 0:20:51.359 --> 0:20:53.160 Home, Well, good attentions to the book to show people 0:20:53.160 --> 0:20:55.680 the similarities of the struggles that take place when you're 0:20:55.680 --> 0:20:57.800 growing up trying to figure out life and you adult 0:20:57.880 --> 0:20:59.800 you trying to figure out life. But I just want 0:20:59.840 --> 0:21:02.840 to see people to see the similarities of the struggles 0:21:02.880 --> 0:21:04.560 that I went through. But I never gave up on 0:21:04.640 --> 0:21:06.720 myself and I got through on the other side. And 0:21:06.720 --> 0:21:08.520 when you don't give up on yourself, there an example 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:11.720 of what can happen. The possibilities is endless, endless. 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:16.119 Well, you know, brother, one thing that stood out to 0:21:16.160 --> 0:21:18.080 me was when you talked about marketing. 0:21:18.440 --> 0:21:19.359 Marketing is everything. 0:21:20.000 --> 0:21:22.000 Market is anything one thing that's that's something you do 0:21:22.200 --> 0:21:24.120 because you're not afraid to get out of market your brand. 0:21:24.119 --> 0:21:26.080 You're not afraid to do videos and talk about my 0:21:26.119 --> 0:21:27.760 elige books. You're not afraid to do none of that. 0:21:27.760 --> 0:21:30.040 If I'm you, I'm doing today day, I'm getting worried 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:32.320 out about books. I'm pulling up at events where you 0:21:32.359 --> 0:21:34.520 know books is necessary or whatever, and I'm just gonna 0:21:34.600 --> 0:21:37.040 keep it alive. But uh, you gotta market your product. 0:21:37.040 --> 0:21:38.919 Nobody can market your product more than you. Because you 0:21:38.960 --> 0:21:40.639 know your product. They don't know it. You're trying to 0:21:40.640 --> 0:21:42.159 get them to know it. In order to get them 0:21:42.200 --> 0:21:43.200 to know it, you gotta tell them. 0:21:43.119 --> 0:21:45.560 About it, and he'll be too cool. Yeah, and people 0:21:45.600 --> 0:21:48.879 be too cool. You know, brother, how. 0:21:48.800 --> 0:21:52.280 Much money do you think they spend to keep people 0:21:52.320 --> 0:21:55.720 believing that they can't be all they can be a 0:21:55.760 --> 0:21:58.000 lot of money now building its brother. 0:21:58.640 --> 0:22:00.239 They spend a lot of money because you know, it's 0:22:00.280 --> 0:22:02.479 just so much doubt in the air. They mark it 0:22:02.480 --> 0:22:05.560 out out here. Doubt is marketed, so you. 0:22:05.520 --> 0:22:07.719 Know a lot of people can't rise above. 0:22:08.359 --> 0:22:11.679 They talk about prisons, but the biggest prison is the mind. 0:22:12.280 --> 0:22:15.320 It is because you know, it's like people be locking 0:22:15.320 --> 0:22:18.119 their own people be incarcerating their mind and don't believe 0:22:18.119 --> 0:22:19.719 that they can move. They could do this and that, 0:22:19.760 --> 0:22:21.960 and it's like you've done once you do that, like 0:22:22.800 --> 0:22:25.000 most of the game. You know, it's the mind. The 0:22:25.080 --> 0:22:27.679 mind game is anything man. And if you shut your 0:22:27.720 --> 0:22:29.800 mind down of what you can do and what you 0:22:29.880 --> 0:22:30.400 can't do. 0:22:30.960 --> 0:22:33.160 You trouble. You're in trouble, them in trouble. 0:22:33.440 --> 0:22:37.160 You know, always say change your thoughts, change your life. 0:22:37.400 --> 0:22:40.160 You can change everything. You know, if you could change 0:22:40.160 --> 0:22:41.320 the thoughts, you could change the world. 0:22:41.640 --> 0:22:44.919 Yeah, yeah, they did us. 0:22:45.119 --> 0:22:45.840 I think it was. 0:22:48.000 --> 0:22:56.240 The Dell KONNECKI commission Napoleon Hill to study success. And 0:22:56.480 --> 0:22:59.119 you know he wrote a series of books, Think and 0:22:59.160 --> 0:23:02.160 Grow Rich, you know what I mean. 0:23:02.200 --> 0:23:04.280 He was a think of rich. I think that was 0:23:04.320 --> 0:23:05.120 a prison classic. 0:23:05.440 --> 0:23:08.199