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Speaker 1: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to Malik's BOOKSHEF bringing a world together
Speaker 1: with books, culture and community. HOI, my name is Malik,
Speaker 1: your host of Malik's BOOKSHEF. Historically, this is the eightieth episode,
Speaker 1: a milestone. Twenty more and I'll be at one hundred. WHOA.
Speaker 1: But for today this is the eightieth and I have
Speaker 1: a subject that I want to talk about about the
Speaker 1: three things that bring about division. I want to talk
Speaker 1: about that those three things that just bring about, you know, confusion,
Speaker 1: division in conflict. That's women, religion, and politics. So I
Speaker 1: did a little segment discussing those three things.
Speaker 3: But these are three things.
Speaker 1: That are very important that sometimes you gotta talk about
Speaker 1: instead of walking away from Because they elevans in the
Speaker 1: room anyway, they caused the vision and I thought I
Speaker 1: did a I thought I would do a segment to
Speaker 1: discuss those three things. The other thing on this eightyth
Speaker 1: episode I'm gonna be talking about is an interview that
Speaker 1: I did downtown at the La convention center. There was
Speaker 1: a business business meeting this weekend and I was invited
Speaker 1: to talk about business success for gold Daddy. So it
Speaker 1: was a panel discussion. So I was interviewed along with
Speaker 1: two other people. But I'm just gonna air my statements
Speaker 1: throughout the interview. I just stocked them together. The young
Speaker 1: lady by the name of Jeannette was the one who
Speaker 1: did the interview, so all I did was stack my
Speaker 1: answers back to back to back to back, so just
Speaker 1: so you can kind of hear some of the things
Speaker 1: I had to say when I was down there. I
Speaker 1: don't really have Jeanette leading the questions because I didn't.
Speaker 1: I wasn't able to get the full footage, but I
Speaker 1: was able to get some of my answers, and I
Speaker 1: thought that that was since it was organic refreshing. I
Speaker 1: was invited the first time invited on any panel where
Speaker 1: I had to talk about business to business owners, you know,
Speaker 1: or those seeking to get into business. So this was
Speaker 1: a first for me. I've never been in invited on
Speaker 1: a panel and it tall, Hey, I've done a segment
Speaker 1: before to tell you how I used to have a
Speaker 1: phobia in anxiety even talking to people. Let alone, standing
Speaker 1: on top of the stage and discussing subject matters.
Speaker 2: So that this is the first for me.
Speaker 1: I've been to schools, I've been to talk to kids,
Speaker 1: but I'm talking to adults, professional adults, adults seeking professional advice.
Speaker 1: So in hey, listen, that was the first for me.
Speaker 1: So I enjoyed it and I'm gonna air my assers.
Speaker 1: Then the other segment that I have on this episode
Speaker 1: is I was able to interview, and you know, I
Speaker 1: either do a book review or interviews, sometimes both, and
Speaker 1: in this case, I did an interview with doctor Gail.
Speaker 2: James, who wrote a book called From the.
Speaker 1: Pit to the Pilace. She talks about trauma, self sabotage.
Speaker 1: She used her own personal spiritual journey through her trials
Speaker 1: and tribulations and her success stories. She offers an adultly
Speaker 1: to help others reach a level of success. As she said,
Speaker 1: from the Pit to the Pilace. So that's what I'm
Speaker 1: a feature on this episode number eighty. So hey, I
Speaker 1: hope you enjoy I know I did, so stay tuned.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Malik's Book Show, bringing a world together with books,
Speaker 1: culture and community. I'm interviewing doctor Gail James, who wrote
Speaker 1: a book from the pit to the piloce my rise.
Speaker 4: From pain to a purpose.
Speaker 1: So hey always say, the author can tell you more
Speaker 1: about their book than I can.
Speaker 3: Welcome, Welcome, welcome.
Speaker 1: So let's tell my audience about this wonderful, timely book
Speaker 1: only thing. I know you're dealing with some trauma. Maybe
Speaker 1: it can help my audience.
Speaker 5: Yes, So my book it's about childhood trauma, but not
Speaker 5: only childhood trauma, childhood sexual abuse. And then it let
Speaker 5: me down making decisions that was not very good, which
Speaker 5: led me into domestic violence. So it was trauma on
Speaker 5: top of trauma, or what I chose to do instead
Speaker 5: of sitting stackling and stuck in the trauma, what's get
Speaker 5: on my healing journey? And on that path to healing,
Speaker 5: I learned about forgiveness. I learned about not self sabotaging,
Speaker 5: increase my self esteem, getting some therapy, and then everything
Speaker 5: that was meant to break me, I use it to
Speaker 5: build me. So instead of staying and wallering in the pit,
Speaker 5: I rose up to the palace. So now I'm an
Speaker 5: owner of home health care agencies in the US Virgin
Speaker 5: Islands and in Florida. I'm an owner of mental health
Speaker 5: practices in the US, Virginalis and in Florida. I'm a therapist,
Speaker 5: a pastor, a number one best selling author, a business coach,
Speaker 5: a trauma coach company.
Speaker 6: I'm trying.
Speaker 3: I'm trying.
Speaker 6: I'm trying.
Speaker 5: But you know, the whole goal of the book is
Speaker 5: letting people know that no matter what it is, you
Speaker 5: can survive it. As long as you're breeding, there is
Speaker 5: still hope that you can make it.
Speaker 6: And so that is what it's about.
Speaker 2: Boy, that's you know.
Speaker 1: I always say this, as long as you don't have
Speaker 1: a period on your life, you got a chance to
Speaker 1: change and so you so basically this is a testimony
Speaker 1: of your growth and what you experienced, and you offer
Speaker 1: this as an anecdote for others.
Speaker 3: Is that what I'm hearing?
Speaker 5: Yes, exactly, because in the book also have some self
Speaker 5: help tips on how to get out of the pit,
Speaker 5: because a lot of times you get stagnant and you
Speaker 5: get stuck and you miss your moment. And if you
Speaker 5: miss your moment, your moment becomes a memory.
Speaker 6: So if you can.
Speaker 5: Get yourself out of that rut and that that complaining
Speaker 5: and that pity party, then you can write from it
Speaker 5: and become a better version of yourself, because that's what
Speaker 5: we're trying to do, not be better, but be better.
Speaker 3: You know, you dropping a lot of what I call
Speaker 3: sound bites in here.
Speaker 1: You know the first time, you know, when you first
Speaker 1: addressed the first question, you know, you had a sound bite,
Speaker 1: and then this one you just with that bitter.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you gotta be better, not bitter, because a lot
Speaker 5: of times we're better.
Speaker 6: We stay stagnant, We complain, we fuss. Everything we talk
Speaker 6: about is negative.
Speaker 5: We gotta get out the negative, get out the toxicity,
Speaker 5: and rise to the positive. How can I make positive
Speaker 5: out of this situation?
Speaker 6: And that helps you be better?
Speaker 5: When you sit there and complain and wiler in it,
Speaker 5: that makes you be bitter. So we wanna be better,
Speaker 5: so we can be a better version of ourselves, actually
Speaker 5: the best version of ourselves, and so you can let
Speaker 5: go of the bitterness comes with forgiveness, not only forgiving others,
Speaker 5: but forgiving yourself for those things that you blame yourself
Speaker 5: for that you think you may have done. Yes, the sham,
Speaker 5: the abandonment, the rejection, all of that low self esteem,
Speaker 5: trust issued self sabotage. Someone comes in your life and
Speaker 5: we do it in every relationship, not.
Speaker 6: Just intimate relationships.
Speaker 5: Someone comes in your life and you're like I got you,
Speaker 5: I got you, and you're like, yeah, right, no, because
Speaker 5: the person that was supposed to love you the most,
Speaker 5: that father, that mother, that sister and brother, they hurts you.
Speaker 5: And now you bleeding on people that didn't coot you.
Speaker 5: You know, hurt people, hurt people, so that healing if
Speaker 5: necessary necessary because if you don't heal, you're gonna bleed
Speaker 5: on people that didn't cut you.
Speaker 6: Because hurt people, hurt people, hurt people, hurt people.
Speaker 2: Look another sound bite.
Speaker 3: Hurt people, hurt people.
Speaker 2: It's like the hate that produce the hate.
Speaker 1: And I think you had said something to where you
Speaker 1: mentioned I'm trying to remember you said so much. You've
Speaker 1: been dropping so many bombs. You know, I'm just enlightened
Speaker 1: because you know it's all about you know, you're passing
Speaker 1: on and transmitting this information to try to elevate, to
Speaker 1: change the consciousness and mindset of others who suffer from
Speaker 1: a lot of trauma. This self sabotagic that we talk
Speaker 1: about here. It's huge because I always say we our
Speaker 1: own worst enemy. Well, we sabotage our own success, our
Speaker 1: own you know, blessings and so forth. So speak on
Speaker 1: that because that's real, that it goes down.
Speaker 2: I got five kids, and I see them.
Speaker 3: I said, man, why do you self sabotage yourself?
Speaker 6: We didn't give you every ding.
Speaker 1: You you ain't been without food, shelter, clothing. I've done
Speaker 1: everything under the sun to give you what you need
Speaker 1: to win, because you can in this country.
Speaker 2: But yet you're sabotaging yourself.
Speaker 1: You don't want to be successful, you don't want You
Speaker 1: wanna eat beans your whole life?
Speaker 2: Or do you wanna eat steak sop?
Speaker 3: Talk about that self sabotaging.
Speaker 6: That self sabotage. You know most of us do it.
Speaker 6: The relationships.
Speaker 5: We get into a relationship and we look in for
Speaker 5: something the person can't give, or we we we we anything.
Speaker 5: I want that business, but before I get the business,
Speaker 5: I'm talking negative. Naw, I'm not gonna get that. That
Speaker 5: ain't gonna happen for me. You know what, They're not
Speaker 5: gonna prove me for the loan. They're not you self sabotaging.
Speaker 5: You don't know until you try, and because your mindset
Speaker 5: is that you're not gonna get it.
Speaker 6: You spoke life into that thing.
Speaker 5: Your perspective has to change where your what your mind
Speaker 5: sets is what actually happens.
Speaker 6: Because you are your thoughts.
Speaker 5: Your behaviors exhibit what you're thinking. So you have to
Speaker 5: walk in those situations and say, you know what, I'm
Speaker 5: gonna put my best foot forward.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna win. Victory is mine.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna do it. But we go in and we
Speaker 5: go in in the mindset, oh, I'm not gonna get it.
Speaker 5: You get into a new relationship the last person hurts you,
Speaker 5: and this person has done anything to you, and you, oh,
Speaker 5: I'm just waiting for the shoe too drop. He's doing
Speaker 5: too good. He's doing too good. I'm just waiting for
Speaker 5: the shoe to drop here and that nothing. You don't
Speaker 5: sabotaged it. You went for the chulter drop. He's not
Speaker 5: the old person, he's the new person. So we have
Speaker 5: to speak life and speak what we want. When you
Speaker 5: speak life to a situation, life is what comes. When
Speaker 5: you speak death to a situation, death is what comes.
Speaker 2: Will talk, will talk?
Speaker 3: See.
Speaker 1: I always say this, why do you why do we
Speaker 1: love the devil? Because he gives us nothing and the
Speaker 1: people around you to give you everything. You are the
Speaker 1: hardest on the people that love you, that give everything
Speaker 1: to you, that want to see you win. But the
Speaker 1: person that don't do nothing for you, don't give you nothing.
Speaker 2: You love them, you bid over backwards.
Speaker 3: To be there for them.
Speaker 5: So I always you know why you talk to Let
Speaker 5: me tell you why people, I.
Speaker 1: Said, because they give you nothing, but knock it down deeper.
Speaker 6: People don't.
Speaker 5: People don't appreciate nothing unless it's tied to a cost.
Speaker 6: If I give it to you, you just got it.
Speaker 6: It's good and you got it.
Speaker 2: You don't.
Speaker 6: I'm not important because I just give it to you.
Speaker 5: But if you go down the road and you have
Speaker 5: to spend one hundred and fifty dollars to get it,
Speaker 5: you're gonna appreciate it because you had to work and
Speaker 5: earn that one hundred and fifty dollars to get it.
Speaker 5: People do not appreciate anything unless it costs them something.
Speaker 5: It has to cost something. If it costs you something,
Speaker 5: you're gonna appreciate it. Your son drive your car, he's
Speaker 5: not gonna take.
Speaker 6: Good care of it. But when he got his, he
Speaker 6: gonna shine it up.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, real, what they're gonna do because yet what
Speaker 5: it's his continw and.
Speaker 6: He put his money in there. This is my car.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but this is my daddy car. I don't have
Speaker 5: to worry about it. It get wrecked, you're gonna fix it.
Speaker 5: But this is my cot now, so I'm gonna shine
Speaker 5: it up. I'm gonna drive carefully. Yeah, that's how it is,
Speaker 5: unless it's tied to some kind of financials.
Speaker 6: Get on some kind of work.
Speaker 1: If you ain't got no blood square equity in something,
Speaker 1: you usually just walk away.
Speaker 4: You walk away.
Speaker 1: Because I did home loans and the people we were
Speaker 1: doing one hundred percent finance, people didn't invest any money
Speaker 1: basically loans. You got the right fight o and the income.
Speaker 1: You know that we qualified you. You got the loan
Speaker 1: when he was doing one hundred percent finance. But the
Speaker 1: people who invested five percent ten percent in their home
Speaker 1: wanted to hold on to that home. The person who
Speaker 1: got it for one hundred percent financing when it got rough,
Speaker 1: we just want to walk away.
Speaker 3: That's nothing.
Speaker 6: They ain't losing nothing. You got to tie it to
Speaker 6: a work.
Speaker 5: And that goes into self esteem because a lot of
Speaker 5: us don't.
Speaker 6: Give ourselves credit for where we are.
Speaker 5: You know, I talk about a diamond and the pressing
Speaker 5: and the pressure that has to go into making a diamond,
Speaker 5: what it is to cut the carrote.
Speaker 6: You know, we don't look at that.
Speaker 5: You know, from pain to purpose, there's an in between part,
Speaker 5: and that part is the process. None of us want
Speaker 5: to go through the process, but we want to get
Speaker 5: to purpose. You can't do that unless you go through
Speaker 5: pain and process. You don't just get the purpose.
Speaker 6: You don't just jump from air to purpose. It don't
Speaker 6: work that way.
Speaker 5: So you know, it goes into your self worth, knowing
Speaker 5: that you're worthy, knowing that you're enough, because if you
Speaker 5: don't love you, how you gonna expect somebody else to
Speaker 5: love you.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, love, start at home, love, start with self.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: That's why we specialize in children books that they have
Speaker 1: representation because in books that talk about you know, girl
Speaker 1: get up and win every day, our courageous woman to
Speaker 1: Alicia Barry, you know who helped publish your book, right,
Speaker 1: So you know, so it's very important that we lift
Speaker 1: each other up, you know, because together we can do more.
Speaker 6: I wish most people would think. I wish most people
Speaker 6: would drive that because.
Speaker 5: I think we're in an edge where everybody feels it's
Speaker 5: the crab.
Speaker 6: In the bucket syndrome.
Speaker 5: I gotta step on your head so I could get up.
Speaker 5: Why don't we collaborate? That's so much power in collaboration,
Speaker 5: if we can sit down, put our minds together. I
Speaker 5: may don't have what you have, but you may have
Speaker 5: something I need. I may have something you need. She
Speaker 5: may have something. And if we all come together, we
Speaker 5: can make a greater impact.
Speaker 6: When you drop a.
Speaker 5: Little stone in the water, it goes out, but with
Speaker 5: the bigger the stone, it goes ripple.
Speaker 6: It ripples more.
Speaker 5: So if you could imagine what happens if you drop
Speaker 5: fifty stones in the water, it goes all.
Speaker 4: The way up by the way.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, And.
Speaker 5: That's how we gotta think about it. Like, there's so
Speaker 5: much power in collaboration, but we are so afraid of
Speaker 5: someone being on top of us or being ahead of us.
Speaker 5: Why don't you just be comfortable with where God desires
Speaker 5: for you to be in this moment.
Speaker 6: If you're where God desires you to be in this moment, you're.
Speaker 1: Good, You're good, you're good. Well, Hey, you know, I'd
Speaker 1: like for you to tell my audience on Malice bookshelf,
Speaker 1: how can they find out more about you?
Speaker 4: And where can they reach you.
Speaker 5: You can find out more about me on my website
Speaker 5: at doctor Gailjems dot com or at by email doctor
Speaker 5: Gail James dot gmail dot com.
Speaker 3: Thank you. What's your social media tag?
Speaker 5: It's doctor Gail Jims on Facebook, on Instagram, it's doctor
Speaker 5: Gail James, and on TikTok it's doctor Gail James.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you, thank you, thank you. This has been
Speaker 1: rushing and you had me pump, you had.
Speaker 2: Me passionate, love it.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 2: Director of Integrated Marketing, get GoDaddy, and I've been with
Speaker 2: the company for about five years.
Speaker 1: It's a company that I absolutely love working for because
Speaker 1: I get to work with small businesses on a daily basis.
Speaker 2: But about your business, how you got started? And yeah,
Speaker 2: all right, hi everybody.
Speaker 7: My name is Malik and I just want to fight
Speaker 7: Go Daddy for a fight with us on this final
Speaker 7: to day.
Speaker 2: We got a partnership with Go Daddy.
Speaker 7: They hosts our webs But let me tell you a
Speaker 7: little bit about Religue Books. So we at the African
Speaker 7: America Independent Books flore We have two locations in last
Speaker 7: one of the balls Frenhawn.
Speaker 2: Moon and the others in our marquees and what they
Speaker 2: call Fox in the Wall.
Speaker 1: Now it's called Westfield Coach City Hall, so we invite
Speaker 1: you all to CIS.
Speaker 2: We also toured schools.
Speaker 7: And put on book fairs and expos because children are
Speaker 7: one hundred percent of our future. So we're really targeting
Speaker 7: our youth because we want them to love themselves, to
Speaker 7: beat themselves.
Speaker 1: So you know, we had online or part of our business,
Speaker 1: which is with go Daddy, and we've been.
Speaker 7: Serving the Los Angeles community since nineteen ninety.
Speaker 2: I've been the founder. I founded the company in nineteen ninety,
Speaker 2: but I do have a part. We co owners. My
Speaker 2: wife is right here, April, and you know, my biggest supporter,
Speaker 2: and believe it or not, she's the secret weapon to
Speaker 2: Malite booth. Thank you, thank you for that question.
Speaker 7: As soon as you said that question, I thought about
Speaker 7: the twenty five thousand dollars that I lost.
Speaker 2: In nineteen ninety because I opened up Elite Books in
Speaker 2: the area where they might eat fish, they might eat chicken.
Speaker 7: But they showed he didn't want a book. So demographics
Speaker 7: player a major part when you open up a retail store,
Speaker 7: so you have to you know, target the right location
Speaker 7: and let me say, you won't get all the parables,
Speaker 7: but you got to do your homework. I graduated from UNC.
Speaker 7: I didn't have a degree in I had a degree
Speaker 7: in public administration, so I had a little knowledge about administration.
Speaker 7: But marketing is a great part, a major part of business.
Speaker 7: So I opened up in a market that wasn't conducive
Speaker 7: to what I was trying to do. So that twenty
Speaker 7: five thousand dollars was just ay. Was a class that
Speaker 7: I took on not to open up in the area
Speaker 7: that's not gonna be conducive to the product that you're
Speaker 7: trying to market and growing changes in our market today.
Speaker 7: But you know, back in the day, right we had
Speaker 7: to wear a lot of hats, and I think that
Speaker 7: one of the tools because it's hard to change. You know,
Speaker 7: you can teach a dog new tricks, but it's hard
Speaker 7: to teach your dogs, you know, it's hard to change.
Speaker 7: I'm used to the old system and just trying to
Speaker 7: change over to the do technology.
Speaker 2: It's a task because sometimes I.
Speaker 7: Still like to do it. I'm more comfortable with doing
Speaker 7: it manually, but there's different ways that you know, time
Speaker 7: one thing that.
Speaker 2: You can't get enough of is time.
Speaker 7: So time management is very important because it's not enough days,
Speaker 7: not enough.
Speaker 2: Hours to do all the things.
Speaker 7: So hiring people to do some of these tasks, using
Speaker 7: technology to do some of those tasks can really give
Speaker 7: you life back.
Speaker 2: And so that and you know, trying to find the
Speaker 2: right people.
Speaker 7: That's the task right there byself, because sometimes you bring
Speaker 7: people on that ain't gonna enrich your business. So we
Speaker 7: have you know, it's on the job training when you
Speaker 7: become a business owner.
Speaker 2: I still love it because I'm my own boss.
Speaker 7: I love the challenges. I love getting up in every
Speaker 7: day and doing what I got it too to grow.
Speaker 7: I don't want to be stacked. I want to grow
Speaker 7: and continue to elevate. And so you're gonna be faced
Speaker 7: with each other and what don't care you make it stronger.
Speaker 7: The biggest challenge because you know, sheltering place, you sitting
Speaker 7: at home, your business shut down.
Speaker 2: I'm in two malls. The malls was shut down, so.
Speaker 7: I couldn't even get to my product. You know, they
Speaker 7: said you got twenty four hours to get what's in
Speaker 7: your store, you know, out if whatever you need because
Speaker 7: tomorrow we're locking down the mall. So that was a
Speaker 7: challenge because I'm like, okay, you know most people, we
Speaker 7: only have so much savings. You know, we got a
Speaker 7: lot of debt, but we only have so much savings
Speaker 7: put away oft the time. So I'm just sitting there
Speaker 7: as a as a as a father, as a husband, like, Okay,
Speaker 7: what we're gonna do during the pandemic, you know, to
Speaker 7: generate some in income, and so we've tried to find
Speaker 7: you know, creative ways, one of which is our biggest
Speaker 7: because like she came up with her idea just before
Speaker 7: the pandemic and it blew up during the pandemic.
Speaker 2: One of the things sitting I said.
Speaker 7: Well, you know, we came up with the idea of
Speaker 7: creating a bootball bill, and with that we wanted to
Speaker 7: go be able to go to schools and go to
Speaker 7: expos and conviction and pull up and host the book fairs.
Speaker 2: And so, you know, we come up with a lot
Speaker 2: of idea And you should always think, spend time every
Speaker 2: day meditate thinking about what can.
Speaker 7: Grow your business and your brand. You know why because
Speaker 7: out of them thoughts come ideas. Let me tell you something,
Speaker 7: when you're thinking, it's already gone because thought travels twenty
Speaker 7: four billion miles per.
Speaker 2: Second, so you got to catch up to it, so
Speaker 2: I thought about a bootmobil. So now I gotta go
Speaker 2: to work to go get that bookmobil. See it's in
Speaker 2: the future, right, The thought was in the future. I
Speaker 2: had to just make steps to get to it. And
Speaker 2: so we created it, launched it on Black History Month,
Speaker 2: went to.
Speaker 7: Schools and it was a hit because the kids love it,
Speaker 7: the teachers love it because you know, we want to
Speaker 7: be interactive, not just with book but we want to inspire.
Speaker 7: We want to elevate our youth because we believe children
Speaker 7: of one to percent.
Speaker 2: Of them our future. So we got we came up
Speaker 2: with a gingo.
Speaker 7: We got our own music video, we got our own
Speaker 7: you know, hip hop music. Find ways to brand yourself
Speaker 7: because our people, you know, culture is everything. So we're
Speaker 7: using the culture as part the brand. Like we don't
Speaker 7: want to just be any bookstore.
Speaker 2: We want you when you coming to.
Speaker 7: Meet get the Africa, the total African Americans parent of
Speaker 7: Pride of Joy, where we get forts to the forces.
Speaker 7: So spend time every day thinking about because look, you're
Speaker 7: on the clock when you're doing that, because that's part
Speaker 7: of growing and elevating.
Speaker 2: Let's go, Daddy me.
Speaker 7: Having my website in place before the pandemic allow me
Speaker 7: to blow up during the pandemic because there were certain people,
Speaker 7: you know, you was.
Speaker 2: At home, people wanted to read.
Speaker 7: Well, Malague Books dot Com became a tutor, a lot
Speaker 7: of people brought a lot of books a platform built
Speaker 7: out on Go Daddy.
Speaker 2: It allowed us to blow up and I mean blow
Speaker 2: up on social moment, sorry, or on the internet.
Speaker 7: Also, I'm gonna tell you another thing that I was
Speaker 7: able to partner with a lot of publishing companies like
Speaker 7: Random House, Half of College and.
Speaker 2: So for them, and we host many of their authors
Speaker 2: at our bookstore. And but sometimes because the pandemic created
Speaker 2: this new technology.
Speaker 7: Zoom we you know school on Zoom meet, all the
Speaker 7: meetings on school everybody doing that work on the zone
Speaker 7: that they developed that technology.
Speaker 2: At an ice feed.
Speaker 7: And so what happened is we do a lot of
Speaker 7: pre order campaigns, so we host those on go Daddy.
Speaker 2: And so we've been able to host you know, like
Speaker 2: Virgil my Block, you know, he was the Louis Vatan
Speaker 2: designer three thousand of his book.
Speaker 7: And they ain't she by hosts. They don't Go Daddy.
Speaker 7: Being in the right place at the right time, do.
Speaker 2: It do help you know. Sometimes it ain't least she know.
Speaker 2: She says something on social media and it just blew up.
Speaker 2: We saw like six thousand dour book all of because
Speaker 2: we was in a position and we had go daddy.
Speaker 6: We had the author this.
Speaker 2: No worker because that's part of your brain, that's part
Speaker 2: of your growth. And we and we had the publisher.
Speaker 7: And with all this working together, Malitalo goote that the
Speaker 7: publisher as well as the author.
Speaker 2: Bone you everywhere.
Speaker 7: I've got.
Speaker 2: Heat up faith.
Speaker 7: Listen, you've got to have creativity, imagination and innovation today.
Speaker 2: So I'm saying fear is probably the number one thing
Speaker 2: while we get stagnant and get we got to get
Speaker 2: out of that box.
Speaker 5: I said.
Speaker 7: I jumped up because that's a legal faith challenge of fear,
Speaker 7: because that's we hold a lot of us back. Listen,
Speaker 7: anything that's different and you charge a path that's unknown,
Speaker 7: it's gonna create fear. So pay anxiety. But the only
Speaker 7: way to get do is that you've got to what
Speaker 7: travel down that road. And if you want to learn
Speaker 7: anything about anything, well, guess what you got to You
Speaker 7: got to go up be a body right, always say
Speaker 7: the people you can't you can't give advice about the
Speaker 7: game unless you're in the game.
Speaker 2: So get in the game. Try interfears. Take the leap.
Speaker 7: You know, I took the leap when we opened our
Speaker 7: Marquee store in the west Ville Coach City Mall. It
Speaker 7: was during the pandemic and she gave me an offer
Speaker 7: I couldn't refuse.
Speaker 2: But I still had anxiety. I still had fair because
Speaker 2: I don't like to lose money. I like to make money.
Speaker 2: So it was a leap of faith. And I'm saying,
Speaker 2: jump out, jump off the cliff. Figure out what you
Speaker 2: got to.
Speaker 7: Do to win, because the opportunities are never before has
Speaker 7: been like this.
Speaker 2: You could complain about it, to be about it all right,
Speaker 2: thank you.
Speaker 4: Underneath that, listen, I got some dry time thoughts.
Speaker 1: I was just sitting here driving thinking about conversations I've
Speaker 1: had over a period of three weeks, and I was
Speaker 1: just thinking.
Speaker 2: I said, man, the three things that.
Speaker 1: Divide people and probably cause more wars and the history
Speaker 1: of humanity is religion, politics, and women.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 1: You know, the most famous Trojan War was over a woman,
Speaker 1: but there have been other incidents in the history of
Speaker 1: humanity where women have caused war and caused the separation
Speaker 1: of families, brothers, sisters.
Speaker 2: You know, that's why they have the Golden rule.
Speaker 3: You know, some things are just off limits. Politics. Boy
Speaker 3: oh boy, are very passionate about.
Speaker 1: Their beliefs politically and religiously, and they're certainly.
Speaker 3: Possessive about their woman.
Speaker 1: So them the three things that I was just sitting
Speaker 1: here thinking about driving that has caused so.
Speaker 3: Much war and division.
Speaker 1: We're coming off the pandemic, right, and so many families
Speaker 1: were separated and divided just on the vaccination.
Speaker 8: Their political views on the vaccination, these policies, these politics
Speaker 8: man created.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's so much division between people who are
Speaker 1: Democratic Republicans and certainly those who align themselves with Trump
Speaker 1: versus the others. That is a divisive conversation that has
Speaker 1: separated families.
Speaker 3: Brothers, sisters as well. Man a boy oh boy.
Speaker 1: I don't know a name, and I'm sorry in the
Speaker 1: media that's spoken more often in my lifetime than the
Speaker 1: word Trump.
Speaker 2: Boy oh boy.
Speaker 3: If you want to create a fire and division, boy
Speaker 3: oh boy.
Speaker 1: All you got to do is start talking about Trump.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you whether it's in the black.
Speaker 3: Community, white community, Asian community. Boy oh boy, that.
Speaker 1: Name has caused a lot of separation and arguments and passionate.
Speaker 1: You know, I mean, these conversations can be is just man,
Speaker 1: I try to stay away from my pot I try
Speaker 1: to start away from the politics because it don't bring
Speaker 1: nobody together.
Speaker 3: Religion, it don't be nobody.
Speaker 1: I think you should have your own You entitled to
Speaker 1: your own beliefs, your own opinions, and people.
Speaker 3: Just need to learn how to respect that.
Speaker 1: And now that could be difficult, that could be difficult,
Speaker 1: but certainly you shouldn't be hating nobody because of your
Speaker 1: political and religious beliefs.
Speaker 3: Come on, man, this is insane. You know, this is insane.
Speaker 1: But I blame the media for creating this kind of
Speaker 1: hostility in the environment and in our culture and in
Speaker 1: our communities and in society.
Speaker 3: I blame the media because they're praying on you know,
Speaker 3: twenty four seven, seven days a week.
Speaker 1: You know, they spew their opinions and narratives, and they
Speaker 1: have an agenda, absolutely have an agenda. Be under no
Speaker 1: illusion that the media is shooting straight. You know why,
Speaker 1: because they have a motive. You know, the media and
Speaker 1: the news is one of the.
Speaker 3: Businesses that, especially the news segment of the media.
Speaker 1: It's the only business I know where you can have
Speaker 1: no readings or the worst ratings in the programming don't change.
Speaker 3: And I asked myself, I said, now that's not sustainable.
Speaker 1: So why would a person continue to invest in a
Speaker 1: business that don't have an audience?
Speaker 3: See?
Speaker 1: Why would they continue to spend billions on programming.
Speaker 3: By seeing it? They got the worst ratings in their
Speaker 3: history right now, and it's been going.
Speaker 1: On for about four or five years or six years.
Speaker 1: They got the worst ratings. They are in the tank.
Speaker 1: They got shows on TV talking about nothing. They got
Speaker 1: better ratings than Seeing in And you know what's crazy,
Speaker 1: They don't change the programming. They keep the same people
Speaker 1: on there spewing the same narratives. And you would like,
Speaker 1: you'd be like, isn't an object to increase your audience.
Speaker 3: They don't care.
Speaker 1: They don't care because it's more important that they can continue.
Speaker 3: To divide the people with this propa ganda that.
Speaker 1: Comes out off these off these news networks. And that's
Speaker 1: all of them, whether it be Seeing in Fox, they
Speaker 1: all got an agenda. They all have a motive and
Speaker 1: they losing a tremendous a mind that I mean, they
Speaker 1: got shows they talk about ratings and the ratings in
Speaker 1: terms of news is nowhere because.
Speaker 4: A lot of people don't find it credible.
Speaker 1: So the ratings is in the tank, all right, And
Speaker 1: Fox can boast about their ratings, but hey, it ain't significant.
Speaker 1: They got a lot of shows that get way more
Speaker 1: viewers than what's critical and current and what's going on
Speaker 1: in this world. So that should tell you right there
Speaker 1: that you know, they can boast they had their chest
Speaker 1: out Fox right because they might got better ratings than
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 3: Seeing in in ABC or what have you. But dumb it.
Speaker 3: But those ratings.
Speaker 1: Once again or not what they could be. So the
Speaker 1: question is why do they continue? You know, they lose
Speaker 1: money on a lot of these news reporting stations and
Speaker 1: they don't change the program. So you say, okay, if
Speaker 1: it's profit driven, why would they keep the same program
Speaker 1: because it ain't.
Speaker 3: About it ain't about the money.
Speaker 1: It's about control, about control, and they want people to
Speaker 1: think a certain way no matter what. Neither none of
Speaker 1: these programmers are out here to really reunite the people
Speaker 1: and to give people violence and armony, reciprocity and to
Speaker 1: lift and elevate people.
Speaker 3: They're all about control. That's all the expeing on here.
Speaker 1: And the Black media is so important because we got
Speaker 1: to speak our agenda. We got to have our own agenda,
Speaker 1: because you got to have things that are important, that
Speaker 1: you value and that speak to what it is that.
Speaker 3: We need to do as a community.
Speaker 1: Stuff that goes on in the black community don't necessarily
Speaker 1: go on in other communities. We got the lowest education scores,
Speaker 1: don't you think we need to in terms, create an
Speaker 1: agenda to address that.
Speaker 9: So if you're in a community and your scores like
Speaker 9: the age Can are the best, hey, you don't need
Speaker 9: no agenda too like we do because your scores are
Speaker 9: leaning Americancy.
Speaker 3: So you gotta have a specific agenda to address the
Speaker 3: specific needs of your community. And I don't see you know.
Speaker 1: We're doing a good enough job what I'm saying, but
Speaker 1: we have to have a voice. We have to have
Speaker 1: an agenda because we got unique issues that we have
Speaker 1: to address. There has nothing to do with anyone else.
Speaker 1: But all I'm saying is politics, religion, and women right
Speaker 1: cause a lot of division and fights and wars. All right,
Speaker 1: the golden rule should stand. Leave someone's women alone. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Leave, Do not be a be
Speaker 1: careful what you say about another man women, all right,
Speaker 1: that is very critical.
Speaker 3: The golden rule stands.
Speaker 1: Stay out of the politics, man, keep it to yourself
Speaker 1: going to booth, Oh how you gonna vote? But if you,
Speaker 1: if you, if you having dinner and you're sitting around
Speaker 1: the table, well I could tell you three things that
Speaker 1: you shouldn't talk about at the table.
Speaker 4: If you want to harm me.
Speaker 1: Don't talk about religion, don't talk about politics, and certainly
Speaker 1: don't offend nobody's women or wife.
Speaker 3: You see what I mean, So.
Speaker 1: Beware, beware because them are fighting, uh and devisive subjects.
Speaker 3: All right. So I mean that's that was what was
Speaker 3: on my mind and I just needed to get it out.
Speaker 3: Those are my thoughts man.
Speaker 4: That's how I see things time and time.
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