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Speaker 1: Calling all my sweeties to the forefronts. I'm your host,

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Speaker 1: Christophinee and Hazel and this is the Keep It Positive

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Speaker 1: Sweetie Show. Welcome to another episode of The Keep It

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Speaker 1: Positive Sweeties Show, a safe space where we heal, love

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Speaker 1: and grow together. I'm your host Christophinee Hazel, and I'm

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Speaker 1: super excited about this episode because I get to talk

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Speaker 1: to one of my new favorite people, Lee Vassie. Lee

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Speaker 1: is a triple threat singer, songwriter, and actress who is

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Speaker 1: shattering genre barriers with her unique blend of Christian and

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Speaker 1: R and B music. The incredibly talented singer songwriter actress

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Speaker 1: Lee Vassi hails from Faetteville, North Carolina, beginning her career

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Speaker 1: in entertainment at the age of nine years old on

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Speaker 1: Broadway as Young Nalla and the Lion King. Lee has

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Speaker 1: since released multiple singles, making her one of Christian music's

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Speaker 1: most exciting new stars, and Amazon Music naming her as

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty five Artists to Watch Guys. I am

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Speaker 1: so excited she's here. Welcome Lee, Thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for coming.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for having you.

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Speaker 1: Look beautiful.

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Speaker 2: I feel great. How you feeling, I'm good?

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Speaker 1: I'm good. Yeah. It has been a long week. We

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Speaker 1: just finished your fashion week? Yes, that was my first one.

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Speaker 1: Was that your first one?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was my first one.

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Speaker 1: Girl. When I say exhausting, girl's not built that.

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Speaker 2: I got to get back at there. You know what

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Speaker 2: I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: We really had to, like, like the same way you

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Speaker 1: get ready for tour. I feel like you had to

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Speaker 1: be prepared for fashion because it is a marathon.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's a whole production. Rachel. I loved it.

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Speaker 1: How was your first experience?

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Speaker 4: You know it was it was full of surprises. I

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Speaker 4: had no expectations, but it was great. I got to

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Speaker 4: meet people like you and it was awesome. I'll definitely

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Speaker 4: do it again, is yours?

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Speaker 1: It was amazing. But the first day we got there,

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Speaker 1: Delta lost my luggage. So yes, all my day one

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Speaker 1: looks were left in Atlanta. No, yes, you should have

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Speaker 1: seen this girl. We were literally a shan and I

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Speaker 1: we landed and the guy came out and he's like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm only seeing six bags and we were like, well

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Speaker 1: there was definitely seven. And so as we're we like,

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Speaker 1: plane on had like maybe three hours before Sergio Hudson's show.

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Speaker 1: Got in the car. I was like, we s we

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Speaker 1: silence or my assistant Herman had put into each suitcase,

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Speaker 1: and I was like, it's not in here. We opened it,

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Speaker 1: I was like, it's not in here. I was like,

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Speaker 1: we got one more and then if not, we gotta

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Speaker 1: figure this out. So the pivot is it's powerful and

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Speaker 1: we Shan ended up calling a girl at burgdor from

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Speaker 1: Sergio hudsd and we went. She literally threw it in

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Speaker 1: the car as we were driving past Burgdorf held it

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Speaker 4: I love the d honestly, I love the drama of

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Speaker 4: It's like, you know, you can't beat a good memory.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, thank you. So yeah, it was fun.

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Speaker 1: It was a lot of fun. I've met a lot

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Speaker 1: of amazing people like you, Like this is my first

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Speaker 1: time meeting you. I was first introduced to your music

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Speaker 1: on Instagram. Okay, we had a bar moment with GPS,

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Speaker 1: which I absolutely love that song. I feel like everybody

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Speaker 1: I was super excited to meet and happy that you

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Speaker 2: Yeah, man, thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: I want to know more about you because it's our

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Speaker 1: first real chit chat, because everything in New York was

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Speaker 1: really learn more about you and your journey. So you're

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Speaker 1: from Faybville, North Carolina, I am Yeah. How was that

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Speaker 1: And then you did Broadway. I did in New York.

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Speaker 2: I was nine.

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Speaker 4: I was nine when I booked it, and I did

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Speaker 1: And was Nala your first was that your first role?

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Speaker 4: my brother actually used to get me ready for auditions.

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Speaker 1: Was pursuing so and I'm always interested like what is

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Speaker 4: Well, so I actually did have hair and makeup. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: have to be on it's live, it's you know, eight

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Speaker 1: What was like, can you remember what was a moment

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Speaker 1: where it was like whoa, Like you had your first

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Speaker 4: So, actually, the first technical difficulty I had was not

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Speaker 2: I was seven.

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Speaker 4: I didn't know what to do, but you know, you

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Speaker 4: that that definitely was like a core memory for me

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I had a moment like that my first pageant.

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Speaker 1: such a time boy growing up. Okay, but you know

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, And that's life, man.

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Speaker 1: I love that you ended up. How long did you

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Speaker 2: I kind of like never stopped. I just shifted my focus.

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Speaker 4: So when I was in the Lion King, I became

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Speaker 4: interested in songwriting, okay, and I was like a huge

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Speaker 2: And so I used to watch all the MTV.

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Speaker 4: and I was like, I could do theater, I can

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Speaker 2: I wanted to do all of it and still do

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Speaker 4: Focusing on music when I was sixteen, and I was like, Okay,

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Speaker 4: focus on for now before I branch out, you know.

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Speaker 1: What prompted that ship to be like I need to

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Speaker 4: Life just started life in and I didn't know how

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Speaker 3: And the regret and the shame, Like ID don't want

441
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Speaker 3: us to live like that.

442
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Speaker 4: He does us to be like comfy and have a

443
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Speaker 4: good day and not think about what we did last night.

444
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Speaker 2: And you know, and so I experienced connection with that.

445
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Speaker 1: How are you on with that now? Because we just

446
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Speaker 1: think about like we we teetered the line of like

447
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Speaker 1: cold and Christianity. We're around it, but we're not consuming it,

448
00:20:04,359 --> 00:20:06,280
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And I feel like my

449
00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:08,520
Speaker 1: church we call like what is your street that God

450
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Speaker 1: has pitching on? Like our street is the street of

451
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Speaker 1: arts and entertainment, where we take God's life into those

452
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Speaker 1: spaces where he's normally not talked about. But like, do

453
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Speaker 1: you ever feel like when we're like out in the

454
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Speaker 1: clubs and so, like you got to go to these

455
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Speaker 1: places and meet these people to build these relationships, does

456
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Speaker 1: your spirit ever feel convicted?

457
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Speaker 2: So I don't drink anymore.

458
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Speaker 1: You cut it out.

459
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Speaker 2: I stopped.

460
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Speaker 1: That's good.

461
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Speaker 2: I stopped.

462
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Speaker 4: And it's God's grace because so what what God actually did?

463
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Speaker 4: Because he knows me and I'm still I still gotta

464
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Speaker 4: work on being a little stubborn. But so God put

465
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Speaker 4: me on a TV fast in three he was like,

466
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Speaker 4: and we had gone to church and the pastor was like,

467
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Speaker 4: asked the Lord to reveal to you, like things that

468
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Speaker 4: are that are that you're keeping in your life, that

469
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Speaker 4: are keeping you from what.

470
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Speaker 2: He has for you. And this was right before I started.

471
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Speaker 4: To release my Christian r and b wow, And I

472
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Speaker 4: asked the Lord, you know what that thing was for me?

473
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Speaker 4: And he told me TV, like you watching too much TV.

474
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Speaker 4: Stop watching TV for twenty one days, right, only consume

475
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Speaker 4: like Christian podcasts or Christian content. Yeah, And so so

476
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Speaker 4: I stopped. I stopped watching the TV and started watching

477
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Speaker 4: Christian podcasts. And I'm watching Christian podcasts and I would

478
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Speaker 4: get my you know, drink watch these Christian podcasts and.

479
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Speaker 1: You know, like, that's not what I told you to do, right.

480
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Speaker 4: But because God knows how to talk to me, right,

481
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Speaker 4: It's like, because He I had taken all the distraction

482
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Speaker 4: out from all these other sources and I was only

483
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Speaker 4: taking in content that was reminding me of Him. Naturally,

484
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Speaker 4: my spirit started to be convicted right and naturally, oh,

485
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Speaker 4: after twenty one days like that habit started to become

486
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Speaker 4: a thing that I recognized was keeping me from Him, right,

487
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Speaker 4: And it's a personal conviction thing, right for everybody has

488
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Speaker 4: to go on their journey with it.

489
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Speaker 2: But so I stopped drinking alcohol in.

490
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Speaker 4: September of twenty twenty three, and I watched my life change.

491
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Speaker 1: That is beautiful and.

492
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Speaker 4: The biggest, the biggest thing of it for me has

493
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Speaker 4: been just focused right, like God knew. And it's so

494
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Speaker 4: funny because the pastor's question was about, like, what is

495
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Speaker 4: there that's keeping you from what.

496
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Speaker 2: God has for you?

497
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Speaker 4: Yes, I didn't know what God had for me on

498
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Speaker 4: the other side of that obedience, but I just did

499
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Speaker 4: it and I watched, I was like.

500
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Speaker 1: Oh, crazy, you know how like when you literally surrendered. Yeah,

501
00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:26,359
Speaker 1: and like before your eyes you're like, oh, I was

502
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Speaker 1: just telling what was the other day? I was like, man,

503
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Speaker 1: I said, ever since I like surrendered sex to God,

504
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Speaker 1: Like literally I see doors, doors that were shut. It's

505
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Speaker 1: just like now it's multiple options. Like I'm like, God,

506
00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:43,119
Speaker 1: that's how that's how he works. Yeah, it's crazy. And

507
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Speaker 1: wait until you experienced it, you don't really understand it.

508
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Speaker 1: But you're right, you don't know what's on the other

509
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Speaker 1: side of that, of the obedience.

510
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and so now you know.

511
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Speaker 4: And I did wonder like I was like, Okay, how

512
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Speaker 4: am I gonna you know, how like who am I

513
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Speaker 4: out without drinking?

514
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Speaker 1: Right?

515
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Speaker 4: Because I started to become a young adult and be

516
00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:06,280
Speaker 4: the version of myself that I knew like drinking, right,

517
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Speaker 4: I was like, so, who am if I don't drink?

518
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Speaker 4: Do I can I still go out? Can I you know,

519
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Speaker 4: go to events or you know? And I really did

520
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Speaker 4: have a season where it was just really quiet in

521
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Speaker 4: my life and it was really just like going home,

522
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Speaker 4: doing by work and talking to God, you know, and

523
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Speaker 4: didn't feel like I could I could have the self

524
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Speaker 4: control or the discernment, you know, to to keep up

525
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Speaker 4: what God had called me to and so but now

526
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Speaker 4: I can right like now, it's not a temptation for me,

527
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Speaker 4: you know, and it is something that I'm seeing, like

528
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Speaker 4: what it means to.

529
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Speaker 2: Grow in the fruits of the spirit.

530
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Speaker 4: Yes, because I'm like, oh wow, like I don't I'm

531
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Speaker 4: actually not tempted in this space in a place where

532
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Speaker 4: I thought I had to become a shell of myself

533
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Speaker 4: or a hermit.

534
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Speaker 1: You know. Yeah, because he wants he doesn't.

535
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Speaker 2: Want exactly exactly. And I love like, girl, I'll go

536
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Speaker 2: get a good macktail. I love me a good macktail.

537
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Speaker 2: I love a little vesty macktail, you know.

538
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Speaker 4: You know, like you can't still go live your life

539
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Speaker 4: and you know, and have fun and just represent him

540
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Speaker 4: wherever you go.

541
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Speaker 1: Yes, it's yes, that's it. I think that's the part

542
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Speaker 1: that we miss. I used to always say. People think

543
00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:11,199
Speaker 1: being a Christian is born. It's not, you know. And

544
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Speaker 1: when you really follow him, you can still have a

545
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Speaker 1: sense of humor, a clean sense of humor, you know,

546
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Speaker 1: And there's ways to do it where He's still like

547
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Speaker 1: that is honible my side, you good, you know, and

548
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Speaker 1: the ways for us to spread his word and his life,

549
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Speaker 1: you know. And I remember like last year I was

550
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Speaker 1: going through like a really big season of spiritual warfare

551
00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:33,200
Speaker 1: where people close to me who had like this really

552
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Speaker 1: good relationship with God it literally would irk me because

553
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Speaker 1: like I'm like, yes, I believe in Him, Yes, but

554
00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:41,200
Speaker 1: you're doing too much, you know, like calm down, like

555
00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:44,040
Speaker 1: everything got to be Jesus, Jesus, jes Jesus, Jesus. And

556
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Speaker 1: in this season on life, I'm realizing that was the devil.

557
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Speaker 1: He was literally like he knew what God was trying

558
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Speaker 1: to work in me. And I was like, no, like

559
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, tetering that line and entertainment,

560
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Speaker 1: like trying to figure out where I fit in and

561
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Speaker 1: how does this work and how do I keep everything

562
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:03,000
Speaker 1: going but not lose myself? And guys like, you're not

563
00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:05,600
Speaker 1: going to lose yourself if you would me, you know,

564
00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:08,600
Speaker 1: because that's where the authentic true you comes out. Come

565
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Speaker 1: on ding ding ding Ding.

566
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Speaker 2: I was really going to say that.

567
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Speaker 4: I was like, because you who you are and him

568
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Speaker 4: is the real youth, yes, right, and we think that

569
00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:18,920
Speaker 4: when we go to him that we're gonna well, okay, yeah,

570
00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:21,640
Speaker 4: we do lose ourselves, but we're supposed.

571
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Speaker 3: To because of like the self that you're losing. It's

572
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Speaker 3: not you, it's not you.

573
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Speaker 2: And he wants so much more for you.

574
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Speaker 3: On the other side walking with him, you know, I

575
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Speaker 3: love that for you.

576
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Speaker 1: Yeah, like it's it's so much more peaceful, even with music,

577
00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:39,160
Speaker 1: Like I did want to evolve this past summer, and

578
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Speaker 1: even in that moment, I was still like struggling because

579
00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:45,040
Speaker 1: that's I had just done the crazy episode and I

580
00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:47,160
Speaker 1: talked about He's like I saw where you weren't having

581
00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:48,600
Speaker 1: safety for a marriage and I was like, yeah, that

582
00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:51,360
Speaker 1: was a season of my life. But not being mature,

583
00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:54,919
Speaker 1: I was still on some milk at that time. To

584
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Speaker 1: the Philip mcna, I was like, I said, that was

585
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Speaker 1: a season. And when that this, i'mna be honest with you,

586
00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:04,679
Speaker 1: I thought that, like, okay, God, I'm gonna do it

587
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:07,000
Speaker 1: your way. I've been doing it my way all my life.

588
00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:08,880
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it your way. And I just knew

589
00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:11,760
Speaker 1: my testimony was gonna be y'all. I did it guys

590
00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:14,600
Speaker 1: like I gotta ring, okay, and that did not happen.

591
00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:19,600
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, so I'm sacrificing my flesh and

592
00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:22,480
Speaker 1: what I really want, and I didn't get what I wanted,

593
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Speaker 1: so I went back dumb. I went back to my

594
00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:29,119
Speaker 1: old ways, and it was a cycle of still heartbreak

595
00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:34,080
Speaker 1: and everything. And I realized, like when I was open

596
00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 1: about that, the Christian fans of his podcast literally like

597
00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:43,159
Speaker 1: crucified me for being honest about my transgressions and like

598
00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:45,080
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying where I was, and it

599
00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:48,119
Speaker 1: was like an attack, and I'm like, so y'all been

600
00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:52,199
Speaker 1: perfect your whole life, Like y'all see, I'm trying, you know,

601
00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:55,000
Speaker 1: and I'm just being honest about my shortcomings. And at

602
00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:56,840
Speaker 1: that moment, I was like, I'm not doing any other podcast,

603
00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:59,840
Speaker 1: and I actually cried on stage. A woman evolved telling it.

604
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:01,720
Speaker 1: I was like, I just didn't want to talk about

605
00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:04,680
Speaker 1: God anymore because and then because I knew I was

606
00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:06,879
Speaker 1: still doing things that weren't pleasing in his sight, I

607
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:09,159
Speaker 1: didn't want to feel like a hypocrite, you know. So

608
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:11,159
Speaker 1: I was like, I just let's not talk about I

609
00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:13,240
Speaker 1: want to have fun. Like you look at the podcast

610
00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 1: that have millions of views. They got the alcohol on

611
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:18,360
Speaker 1: the set, they're cussing and they having fun, and it's

612
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:21,399
Speaker 1: like you get kind of blindsided, like what's working? You

613
00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:23,480
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, The numbers ain't numbering, Like okay,

614
00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:25,720
Speaker 1: so I need to go do this, and like God

615
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:27,600
Speaker 1: had to work. I mean, like, Noah, baby girl, that

616
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:30,600
Speaker 1: ain't that? Ain't he trying to run for me? And

617
00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:33,240
Speaker 1: I noticed like in the season as we started filming

618
00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:34,600
Speaker 1: and I was like, guys, we want to switch I

619
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:36,480
Speaker 1: want to switch it up on any more fun. You

620
00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:40,280
Speaker 1: say that a little risk cake, And every episode here

621
00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:42,359
Speaker 1: come Jesus working his way in.

622
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:43,320
Speaker 2: I said, you do it.

623
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Speaker 1: I see what you're doing. Yeah, you are not letting

624
00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:48,720
Speaker 1: me run from you. Okay, let me stop, you know,

625
00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:51,440
Speaker 1: not a runner like that anyway, let me sit down.

626
00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:54,119
Speaker 1: But it was in those moments where I was like,

627
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:56,960
Speaker 1: God showed me what you want me to do with

628
00:27:57,040 --> 00:27:59,560
Speaker 1: this platform because I'm trying it. I'm trying to do

629
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Speaker 1: what I see his working and not reinvent the wheel,

630
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:04,480
Speaker 1: but give me the will that you want me to run,

631
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:08,560
Speaker 1: you know. And I think now I'm finding that. And

632
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:10,240
Speaker 1: even with my music. I was telling Wes, I was like,

633
00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:12,920
Speaker 1: you know, after that, I was so convicted. I was like, Okay,

634
00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:15,080
Speaker 1: I can't curse in my music, like and I was

635
00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:18,440
Speaker 1: talking to my friend Pastor Brenda we call it BP.

636
00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:22,359
Speaker 1: We call her past peep uh be p because I

637
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:24,040
Speaker 1: has been in power, but I call her pastor Brenda

638
00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:26,080
Speaker 1: Treet hate it. And I was like, you know, I

639
00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:28,000
Speaker 1: was like just trying to figure out what to do

640
00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:30,679
Speaker 1: my music. And she's like Crystal, she goes she's major

641
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:32,880
Speaker 1: and STEVIEE. Wonder as example. She was like, they don't

642
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:35,800
Speaker 1: curse their music. They make great secular music, but it's

643
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:38,760
Speaker 1: nothing derogatory. And she was like, you can still find

644
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:41,840
Speaker 1: your lane and it doesn't have to be Christian. But

645
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:44,120
Speaker 1: in my mind, I was like, you seeking Christian music

646
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:46,440
Speaker 1: like I was. I just was still trying to figure

647
00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:48,720
Speaker 1: out how to navigate that. So I love how you

648
00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 1: found like a way because I listened to Karen Hawthorne's

649
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:54,800
Speaker 1: album and that was a great album and you couldn't

650
00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:57,400
Speaker 1: really tell if it was Christian or R and B.

651
00:28:57,520 --> 00:28:59,680
Speaker 1: But then when you listen, like, oh, she's talking about God.

652
00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:02,600
Speaker 1: And I just love how she like found her lane

653
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:05,480
Speaker 1: to within her journey to still talk about God but

654
00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 1: make it unique to her walk right right, So when

655
00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 1: you got to this, like when you got to that

656
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:13,680
Speaker 1: point and you were like all right, God, I'm gonna

657
00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:15,400
Speaker 1: do it your way. And you decide to do Christian

658
00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:18,239
Speaker 1: R and B. What was that like aha moment? Like

659
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:20,720
Speaker 1: were you just in your room like writing and God

660
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:22,880
Speaker 1: was like write about me? Or were you just in

661
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:24,160
Speaker 1: that space where you're like I want to write a

662
00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:24,920
Speaker 1: love letter to God.

663
00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:26,920
Speaker 3: Yeah.

664
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:30,440
Speaker 2: So it was a process. So I had quit music.

665
00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:33,560
Speaker 3: I moved back to North Carolina.

666
00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:35,280
Speaker 2: I like waved the white flag.

667
00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:38,080
Speaker 3: I was like, okay, well I was wrong because I can't.

668
00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:38,880
Speaker 2: I had no peace.

669
00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:40,720
Speaker 4: And I was like, I guess all the visions that

670
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:42,760
Speaker 4: I saw that God showed me from my life, me

671
00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:45,320
Speaker 4: on stage and you know, different things that.

672
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:46,960
Speaker 2: I would see come to pass.

673
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:49,720
Speaker 4: I was like, okay, I guess I read all of

674
00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:51,880
Speaker 4: it wrong. And so I went back to North Carolina.

675
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:53,360
Speaker 4: I got my real estate license, like.

676
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:54,160
Speaker 2: I like gave up.

677
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I was like okay, God, like I would

678
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:02,560
Speaker 4: pray to him, like I want to know you, like

679
00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:06,840
Speaker 4: reveal yourself to me because something's not clicking.

680
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:11,480
Speaker 2: I didn't. I still didn't know like who God was

681
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:12,080
Speaker 2: for myself.

682
00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:13,960
Speaker 4: I had only heard what people had told me about him.

683
00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:16,200
Speaker 4: You know, I had the Bible, so I would like

684
00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:18,440
Speaker 4: go back and read the Bible sometimes when I was like,

685
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:20,120
Speaker 4: you know, the in.

686
00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:21,600
Speaker 2: The lowest places.

687
00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:24,280
Speaker 4: But I was like, I still don't feel like I've

688
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:25,280
Speaker 4: ever seen your face.

689
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:27,080
Speaker 2: I've never I don't know who you are.

690
00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:31,080
Speaker 4: And so that was my prayer for about like an

691
00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:34,440
Speaker 4: eight month period, and I was just you know, I

692
00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:36,719
Speaker 4: would go and I would watch sermons, and you know,

693
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:38,960
Speaker 4: music was nowhere in my mind.

694
00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:41,840
Speaker 2: I was like, Okay, that's a thing of my past.

695
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:46,880
Speaker 4: And so I ended up getting an opportunity to move

696
00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:53,360
Speaker 4: back to Atlanta about a year later, and I was weeping,

697
00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:57,040
Speaker 4: just tears of joy the night before I was moving back,

698
00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:59,840
Speaker 4: because I love Atlanta and I always wanted to get

699
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:01,840
Speaker 4: here and it really does feel like home for me.

700
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:03,680
Speaker 4: But I didn't know how it was going to work

701
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:05,360
Speaker 4: and how I was going to get back here. And

702
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:07,239
Speaker 4: so the night before I moved back, I was just

703
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:10,040
Speaker 4: praising God for all he'd done for me, all he'd

704
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:13,600
Speaker 4: healed me from, walked me through, and the fact that

705
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 4: he had revealed himself to me, and I feel like, Okay,

706
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,040
Speaker 4: now I know who you are. And I was like, okay, God,

707
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:21,600
Speaker 4: when I go back, like what do you have for me?

708
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:24,920
Speaker 4: And this was the first time that I ever felt

709
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:29,040
Speaker 4: redirected by the Holy Spirit in prayer, and the Holy

710
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:31,719
Speaker 4: Spirit redirected me to ask the question, God, what do

711
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:32,640
Speaker 4: you need from me?

712
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:34,640
Speaker 2: When I go back?

713
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:37,080
Speaker 1: What you need from And.

714
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:43,120
Speaker 4: It was like a movie the way that I then

715
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:46,960
Speaker 4: heard the voice of God speak to me. And I'm

716
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:48,920
Speaker 4: here because it was right here on my left side

717
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:51,160
Speaker 4: that I like felt and heard the voice of God

718
00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:52,160
Speaker 4: say music.

719
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 2: And I trembled.

720
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 4: Because I was like, okay, okay, okay, I just heard God,

721
00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:00,880
Speaker 4: like that was God. I know that was God, and he,

722
00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:04,840
Speaker 4: like you said music, Like I don't how, you know,

723
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:08,800
Speaker 4: I didn't understand what that meant to do music for him,

724
00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:14,160
Speaker 4: you know, and and to you know, still stay walking

725
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:19,520
Speaker 4: in the new life that I had, you know, because yeah,

726
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:21,360
Speaker 4: I just I just didn't I didn't know that Christian

727
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:24,560
Speaker 4: ARMB was an option. And so when I moved back

728
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:30,040
Speaker 4: to Atlanta, probably like two weeks later, I reconnected with

729
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:33,920
Speaker 4: my manager who we had met in like twenty nineteen

730
00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:36,120
Speaker 4: when I was kind of hustling out here as a

731
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:38,479
Speaker 4: songwriter and trying to figure out, you know, the secular space,

732
00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:42,040
Speaker 4: and he now was working in the Christian hip hop

733
00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:45,360
Speaker 4: space and invited me to some events out here in Atlanta.

734
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 4: And so the first events I went to in Atlanta

735
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:53,960
Speaker 4: were in this round of my time here were Christian

736
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,240
Speaker 4: hip hop events, and my mind was blown.

737
00:32:56,560 --> 00:33:01,520
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, like completely, so everybody sober, you.

738
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:04,600
Speaker 4: Know, this is hip hop music, this is you know,

739
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:07,000
Speaker 4: and we're just turning up in Jesus name.

740
00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:12,000
Speaker 2: It blew my mind, yes, and so like with that exposure,

741
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,040
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, now it's clicking.

742
00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:16,600
Speaker 1: Now is like I'm gonna give you the destruction and

743
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:19,360
Speaker 1: I'm gonna show you right right.

744
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:22,239
Speaker 3: And so I was like, okay, God, I see you.

745
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:25,080
Speaker 4: And so then I got curious about all the different

746
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:28,040
Speaker 4: things that are happening in the Christian space right obviously

747
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:33,040
Speaker 4: Christian hip hop, Christian R and B, Christiangathon, afrobeats, Christian

748
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:35,800
Speaker 4: Like there's all these different genres that I had never.

749
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:36,880
Speaker 2: Been exposed to prior to that.

750
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:39,960
Speaker 4: And so I heard him, but I was like, okay,

751
00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:42,880
Speaker 4: like I don't really, I still I was scared. I

752
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:45,080
Speaker 4: was scared to get back to music. I was like traumatized.

753
00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:46,760
Speaker 4: I was like, I don't know, I don't know, I

754
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:50,320
Speaker 4: don't know. You know, I hadn't written music in two years.

755
00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:52,480
Speaker 4: I hadn't listened to music. I wasn't even listening to

756
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:53,680
Speaker 4: music during this time of my life.

757
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:55,120
Speaker 2: I was quiet. It was just quiet.

758
00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 1: Yeah.

759
00:33:56,880 --> 00:34:00,560
Speaker 4: And so then I ended up actually getting health scare

760
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:05,840
Speaker 4: in May of that year. That really made me like

761
00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:08,520
Speaker 4: think about death in a way that I had never.

762
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 2: Had to before.

763
00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 4: And I was like, if I don't make it through

764
00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:17,759
Speaker 4: whatever this is, I have to go to God and

765
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:18,360
Speaker 4: answer why I.

766
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:19,799
Speaker 2: Didn't do what he told me to do. He told

767
00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:21,759
Speaker 2: me to do music, you know.

768
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:27,440
Speaker 4: And so I ended up just going on YouTube finding

769
00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:30,719
Speaker 4: some YouTube beats because also my manager was like, you know,

770
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:33,279
Speaker 4: you have to create new memories around your gifts, right

771
00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:35,160
Speaker 4: like this fear you have of it, this you know,

772
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:37,040
Speaker 4: your gift right now is in kind of the thicket

773
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:38,440
Speaker 4: of like you know, it's in kind of like a

774
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:41,520
Speaker 4: clouded forest, and you have to just break out of

775
00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:43,440
Speaker 4: it and give new memories to your gift. So go

776
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:45,840
Speaker 4: on YouTube, and I know how to how to record myself,

777
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:47,440
Speaker 4: and he was so it was like, go on YouTube,

778
00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:50,000
Speaker 4: get you some beats and record yourself, write you some songs, wow,

779
00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:51,759
Speaker 4: and figure out that you don't you can you can

780
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 4: just do it. You don't, you don't need anybody to

781
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:56,600
Speaker 4: co sign or you can just do it. So I

782
00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:59,040
Speaker 4: did that, and I, you know, I was kind of

783
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:00,600
Speaker 4: finding my song with.

784
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:01,120
Speaker 2: God, right.

785
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:03,040
Speaker 4: I was like, I don't know what my new voices

786
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:06,560
Speaker 4: as a writer, as an artist, and I just kind

787
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:09,040
Speaker 4: of started pouring my heart out to God. And that

788
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 4: became my pe from me to God because I didn't

789
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:14,600
Speaker 4: have an audience at the time, like I was, you know,

790
00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:15,000
Speaker 4: I was.

791
00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:16,160
Speaker 2: I was in my little cocoon.

792
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:20,400
Speaker 4: And then in September of that year, I released My

793
00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:23,640
Speaker 4: Bad and the kind of the rest is kind of history,

794
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:26,520
Speaker 4: but it was a really organic kind of flow with God.

795
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:29,200
Speaker 4: It's not like I set out to do Christian R

796
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:31,919
Speaker 4: and B. I was just setting out to be obedient. Yeah,

797
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:34,719
Speaker 4: I ended up in this space and it's a really

798
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:35,440
Speaker 4: cool place to be.

799
00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:39,600
Speaker 1: And I'm so proud of you. Thank you, I really

800
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:43,680
Speaker 1: am you. Do you have you started off with acting

801
00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:45,560
Speaker 1: and singing? Is that something that you want to kind

802
00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:48,319
Speaker 1: of get back into And it's so like what roles

803
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:49,799
Speaker 1: would you see yourself playing now?

804
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:50,320
Speaker 2: Yeah?

805
00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:52,400
Speaker 1: Walk of your life?

806
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:55,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, so definitely I want to I want to do

807
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:57,520
Speaker 4: all of it, like I wanna. I want to act,

808
00:35:57,560 --> 00:35:59,399
Speaker 4: I want to write, I want to produce. I want

809
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:00,920
Speaker 4: to do all of the things I want to, you know,

810
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:02,799
Speaker 4: I want to do Broadway again. I want to, you know,

811
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:07,120
Speaker 4: I I there was a time when I thought that

812
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 4: I had to give up everything.

813
00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:09,680
Speaker 2: I was wrong about everything.

814
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:11,800
Speaker 3: And now I'm in a place where I'm like, oh,

815
00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:12,920
Speaker 3: now I just have.

816
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:15,920
Speaker 2: To do everything huge for your glory.

817
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:16,680
Speaker 1: That's it, you know.

818
00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:19,160
Speaker 4: So I want to go do all of it. I

819
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:23,680
Speaker 4: think roles, So I have some ideas of roles that

820
00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:24,160
Speaker 4: I would.

821
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:24,520
Speaker 2: Like to create.

822
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:27,759
Speaker 1: Okay, come on, I like that.

823
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:32,279
Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean I think that I would just

824
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:36,960
Speaker 4: love to I'm really big on representations of liberation, yes,

825
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 4: and like what it looks like to be a modern

826
00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:42,560
Speaker 4: liberated woman and walking with God in that. Yeah, And

827
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:45,640
Speaker 4: so I think any roles that align with that, that's

828
00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:46,520
Speaker 4: where I'm That's where I.

829
00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:47,120
Speaker 1: Would like to be.

830
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:47,759
Speaker 5: Yeah.

831
00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:49,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that it's going to happen.

832
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:52,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, I received it.

833
00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:52,440
Speaker 5: Yes.

834
00:36:52,600 --> 00:36:55,400
Speaker 1: Is there anything coming up that our audience can support

835
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:56,680
Speaker 1: you on and that you won't let us know you

836
00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:58,240
Speaker 1: can give us a little tea on? Yeah?

837
00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:02,239
Speaker 4: So obviously have new music coming out. I have a

838
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:03,879
Speaker 4: lot of new music coming out this year. I really

839
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:06,560
Speaker 4: feel like I'm making the music that sounds like my

840
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:09,439
Speaker 4: soul and how I really have always heard myself. Yes,

841
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 4: So I'm excited to release more music and some some

842
00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 4: some creative business okay adventures as well, and definitely more

843
00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:22,440
Speaker 4: live shows. I'm gonna, you know, hopefully be able to

844
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:24,520
Speaker 4: go out and you know, do some touring this year too,

845
00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:27,479
Speaker 4: and really just just be with the people. I really

846
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:29,400
Speaker 4: love performing. You know, I was the theater kids, so

847
00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:31,520
Speaker 4: I love to be in person. And you know, social

848
00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 4: media has been so great to be able to connect

849
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 4: with people from everywhere.

850
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:38,600
Speaker 1: Isn't that crazy that you have on social media? Like

851
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:39,880
Speaker 1: all the world is crazy.

852
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:42,960
Speaker 4: It's crazy, it's crazy, and so I would love to

853
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:44,719
Speaker 4: go see some of those places this year.

854
00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:45,640
Speaker 2: So good.

855
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:48,560
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. Well. Before we get

856
00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:49,719
Speaker 1: out of here, I want to play a quick game

857
00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:49,920
Speaker 1: with you.

858
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:50,280
Speaker 4: Okay.

859
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:54,640
Speaker 1: It's a rapid fire game and it's just this or that, Okay, Okay,

860
00:37:55,640 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 1: Praise and worship or balla city.

861
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:03,719
Speaker 2: M Okay, I'll say.

862
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 4: I'll say praise and worship, street edge or a church boy.

863
00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:20,920
Speaker 5: Come on, Jesus, Jesus, am I say church boy with

864
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:21,600
Speaker 5: street edge.

865
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:26,160
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm with you all that, okay, all right, we

866
00:38:26,239 --> 00:38:33,760
Speaker 1: just did fashion week, so chanel or oh maybe okay,

867
00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:34,800
Speaker 1: love it classic?

868
00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:35,120
Speaker 3: Yeah?

869
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, Lemon pepper wings or caesar salad.

870
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:48,920
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm I'm gonna sylemon, give me.

871
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:51,200
Speaker 2: A right right salad?

872
00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:56,760
Speaker 1: Yes, there you go. Balance inches and bundles or naturally stuff.

873
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 2: These are really the questions. These are tough because I

874
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:02,799
Speaker 2: really love my natural hair.

875
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:07,800
Speaker 4: Okay, right now, I'm gonna have to say bundles because

876
00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:09,560
Speaker 4: I'm in my Bojo era.

877
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:12,479
Speaker 1: I love it and it works. I love it. Yes,

878
00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:15,520
Speaker 1: I feel you a fun night out or a quiet

879
00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:18,960
Speaker 1: night in, quiet night in. I love me too, girl. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: My home body, my social battery be draining, so fan yeah,

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Speaker 1: just give me a quiet night I feel you sneakers

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Speaker 1: or heels, heels, yeah, acting or singing?

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Speaker 2: Singing? Yes.

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Speaker 1: If you could listen to only one album for the

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Speaker 1: rest of your life, not including yours, what would it be?

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Speaker 2: Okay? The emancipation of me me baby right?

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Speaker 1: So good? Shout out Mariah, you shout out Maria, so good?

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Speaker 1: Last one your favorite Bible verse?

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Speaker 2: Okay?

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Speaker 4: Psalm ninety four nineteen, When anxiety was great within me,

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Speaker 4: your consolation brought joy to my soul.

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Speaker 1: So good?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that fir saved my life.

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Speaker 1: I love it. Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: That wraps up this round of rapid fire questions. Amazing.

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Speaker 1: I love you and I am so proud of you

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Speaker 1: for staying on this journey and finding your place in

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Speaker 1: this world where you can honor God. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: taking time to be with us.

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Speaker 2: I'm so proud of you. I just want to touch agree.

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Speaker 4: I'm so proud of you and the vulnerability that you

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Speaker 4: just like so freely share with people with your journey matters.

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Speaker 2: Is it's important.

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Speaker 4: Don't let nobody condemn you. You're doing the Lord's work

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Speaker 4: and that's all that matters.

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Speaker 2: And I'm so proud of you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for having us. Of course, no pleasure. Please

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Speaker 1: come back when something else come back. You always have

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Speaker 1: a place on the couch. Thank you, absolutely, thank you. Wow,

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Speaker 1: today's episode was so amazing. I really enjoy talking to Lee.

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Speaker 1: One of my takeaways from our conversation is that your

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Speaker 1: relationship with God is uniquely your own. We can inspire

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Speaker 1: each other by being transparent about what we're going through

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Speaker 1: in our journeys because we're all going through something, but

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Speaker 1: our relationship is ours and with Him alone. So remember that,

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Speaker 1: don't compare your journey or your walk to anyone else's.

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Speaker 1: You can be inspired by people's journey in their walk,

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Speaker 1: but your relationship with Jesus Christ is yours. Thank you

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Speaker 1: all so much for spending time with me today. I

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Speaker 1: hope today's conversation inspired you all to dream big, break boundaries,

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Speaker 1: and be confident in your career and faith journey. You

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Speaker 1: guys can follow me on all social media platforms at

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Speaker 1: Love christa Renee, and you can also follow our show

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Speaker 1: at Keep It Positive sweety If you want to write

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Speaker 1: into our positive Outcomes listener letter, you can send us

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Speaker 1: an email to Keep It Positive Sweetye at gmail dot com.

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Speaker 1: In the meantime and in between time, you guys already

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Speaker 1: know what to do. Keep it positive, sweeties, I'll see

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Speaker 1: you next time. Bacon Bacon