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Speaker 1: Calling all my Sweetish to the forefront. I'm your host,

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Speaker 1: christ Rna Hazel and this is the Keep It Positive

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Speaker 1: Sweetish Show. Welcome to Keep It Positive, Sweetie, the place

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Speaker 1: where we heal, grow and learn together. Today's episode feels

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Speaker 1: especially important because we are talking about community purpose and

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Speaker 1: what it really means to build success without leaving other

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Speaker 1: people behind, and a world that celebrates individual achievement. Today's

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Speaker 1: guest is challenging the idea that any of us truly

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Speaker 1: make it alone. Through her work, her business, her book,

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Speaker 1: and the communities she continues to build. She's showing what

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Speaker 1: it looks like to lead with intention, collective care, and impact.

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Speaker 1: I am so happy to be sitting down with doctor

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Speaker 1: Key Hallmand. Doctor Lakeisha Key Hollman is a transformational entrepreneur, author, speaker,

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Speaker 1: and founder of the Village Market Enterprises, an ecosystem that

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Speaker 1: has helped thousands of small businesses grow from village retail

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Speaker 1: village books to expanding Our Village United into more than

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Speaker 2: Doctor Key has built her work.

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Speaker 1: Around two core beliefs, no one is truly self made

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Speaker 1: and support is a verb. This conversation is about leadership,

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Speaker 1: purpose and community responsibility, Kids, family, please give a very one.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to doctor Key. Hi. How are you doing today?

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Speaker 2: I am amazing, Well you look amazing. You're radiating. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you came in here and we were like, yes,

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Speaker 1: you brought good energy and we love that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So you are so busy, So thank you for taking

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Speaker 1: time to sit with us today. I'm excited, and we're

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Speaker 1: gonna before we jump into everything that you have going on,

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Speaker 1: because god, she has.

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Speaker 2: A lot going on.

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Speaker 1: I want to play a little game with you. This

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Speaker 1: game is called it Takes a Village, a little play

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Speaker 1: on what you got going on. So the first one

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Speaker 1: is I'm gonna give you some scenarios and I want

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Speaker 1: you to tell us who or what impacted you.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's good.

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Speaker 1: Yes, So the first one is a teacher who changed

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Speaker 1: your life.

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Speaker 3: I'll go with who first came to mind. My third

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Speaker 3: grade teacher, missus Drake.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 3: Phenomenal, phenomenal teacher who I think early on saw me

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Speaker 3: and saw my love for reading, and she really nurtured that.

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Speaker 2: So shout out to miss Drake. Shout out Miss Rake.

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Speaker 2: It's so funny.

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Speaker 1: Mine was my third grade teacher, Miss Sherry Gardner Wow

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Speaker 1: in Topeka, Kansas.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so when you said third grade, I was like,

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Speaker 2: that was mine too. I love that. A lesson from

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Speaker 2: your parents or grandparents. Oh, I would go with.

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Speaker 3: A lesson from my parents and made my mother rest

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Speaker 3: in peace. To always operate in integrity. My mom, my dad.

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Speaker 3: My dad still says it that if you operate in integrity,

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Speaker 3: all would be well.

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Speaker 2: Yes. And not only did they say it, they also

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Speaker 2: modeled it. That's so good. I love that when you

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Speaker 1: We talk about parents and children and how they emulate

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Speaker 1: for years. Yeah, we see it. We see it in

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Speaker 2: Honey. A business lesson you learned the hard way. Oh,

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Speaker 3: This is today a business lesson I learned a hard way.

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Speaker 3: Likely holding onto people too long, Yeah, I think I've

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Speaker 3: we see the science early when someone is not a fit,

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Speaker 3: and I know early on I will hold onto people

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Speaker 3: because of the potential of them. I will hold on

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Speaker 3: to people also because I didn't want to be a

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Speaker 2: Or staff go.

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Speaker 3: But holding on too long it impacts the overall company

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Speaker 3: and the mission and the vision. Yeah, and the evolution

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Speaker 3: absolutely because it will stifle you.

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Speaker 1: Wow, that's good. Next one, someone who saw your vision early.

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Speaker 3: Shout out to my Grandma Josephine and crowd of Mississippi.

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Speaker 2: My grandmother.

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Speaker 3: I remember maybe being nine years old, and I would

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Speaker 2: But you are so special.

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Speaker 3: And she has consistently said this throughout my life, and

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Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, that's beautiful. Shout out Grandma Josephine. If you're watching,

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Speaker 1: Sure you will, she will watch. A wellness habit that

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Speaker 3: A wellness is such central my faith, and my faith

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Speaker 3: And I cannot live without my breath work. I cannot

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Speaker 3: live without the way that I affirmed myself every day.

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Speaker 3: I literally anoint my vessel every day with words and

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Speaker 2: That's good. I love that the last one a moment,

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Speaker 2: community saved you. Ah, that's so good. It's been I

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Speaker 3: Social entrepreneurs like myself are founders who launched a nonprofit.

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Speaker 3: extremely hard for me and we're still getting out of heart.

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Speaker 3: But the way that black women have, they have just

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Speaker 3: known to check on me. They have just known to say, Doc,

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Speaker 3: let's get on, let's get on a call. I want

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Speaker 3: to see how everything is going. I wanted I want

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Speaker 3: to talk to you about your strategy because while a

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Speaker 3: lot is happening, you are seen. While a lot is happening,

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Speaker 3: you are not forgotten. And so I have felt so

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Speaker 3: tethered to love in an embrace, in the way that

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Speaker 3: I give people. It has been so beautiful when I

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Speaker 2: That's so good. Shout out to black women.

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Speaker 3: Shout out to black women. We will save us, we

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Speaker 1: That is so good because some women don't have that testimony.

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Speaker 2: You know, you hear the opposite.

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Speaker 1: So many times over, but to hear the positive side

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Speaker 1: As you said that, it reminded me of our good

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, she literally does that.

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Speaker 1: What is going on, what's your strategy, what are you

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Speaker 2: I love that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that is always going to be central

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Speaker 1: Well, let's go back to last year. Twenty twenty five

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Speaker 2: Year for you.

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Speaker 1: My goodness you. I don't know if you know this,

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Speaker 1: but me and the sweeties are avid readers. I'm always

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Speaker 1: letting them know what I'm reading. And you have Village

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Speaker 1: Books right here in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Speaker 2: Congratulations. I do want to ask you.

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Speaker 1: What made you know that having a physical space to

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Speaker 2: Why did you feel like that was important?

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Speaker 3: You know, I had to open Village Books beyond it

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Speaker 3: being the seven year old me dream. Yeah, I wanted

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Speaker 3: to own a bookstore. That should tell you a lot,

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Speaker 3: also at this point we need to build intentionally scene

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Speaker 3: Everything that I opened, Crystal, I open with a great intent.

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Speaker 3: We see that I open spaces for a sense of safety.

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Speaker 3: I open spaces for a sense of belonging. I open

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Speaker 3: spaces for a sense of love. When you walk into

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Speaker 3: any of my establishments, in particular my bookstore, you will

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Speaker 3: feel the warmth of how it feels to walk into

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Speaker 3: that it was designed just for you. And I also

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Speaker 3: want spaces in the bookstore is central because we need

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Speaker 3: to be expanded in our knowledge. We're at a time

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Speaker 3: into literature, to read opinions that may be different from yours,

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Speaker 2: We need that.

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Speaker 3: And so I'm everything that I open I look at

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I love it, Like, how.

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Speaker 3: So I also wanted to open a bookstore by all

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Speaker 3: those who are gifted with the pen, yes, and gifted

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Speaker 2: So it is literally my honoring of community every single

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Speaker 1: Yes, no, and we see that. Take me back to

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Speaker 1: seven year old Key. What books were you reading back then?

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Speaker 3: I loved fiction, so I was reading like all the children's.

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Speaker 2: Books as well. But early, early.

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Speaker 2: So I would read a.

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Speaker 3: listen to me. And you know, always your first audience, right, Yes,

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Speaker 3: but I was just enamored, enamored with books. I could

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Speaker 2: I love that for me.

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Speaker 1: I was the same way I was like Beverly Clearly

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Speaker 1: Babysitters Club. I remember sitting in my room at my

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Speaker 1: And then I fell out of that as I got older,

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Speaker 1: telling Shelley today, I can tell when I've taken time

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Speaker 1: to really start reading again. Your conversations change, your vocabulary changes,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate that, Thank you, Thank you so much. This

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Speaker 3: You know, to even think about any form of an

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Speaker 3: Self made is to say, be intentional about every single

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Speaker 3: because I think we all have felt that I wish

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Speaker 1: You talked about last year was a really hard year

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Speaker 2: But there's been so much success. Let's talk to.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely I try.

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Speaker 3: I strive my best to be a very transparent entrepreneur

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Speaker 3: and founder. So if you look at my socials, it's

445
00:23:56,440 --> 00:23:59,359
Speaker 3: largely about the work, because there's really no highlight reel,

446
00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:05,920
Speaker 3: you know, and because two things are often true that

447
00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:11,560
Speaker 3: whilst I mean incredible things have happened for my company

448
00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:16,120
Speaker 3: and being able to scale. We also in twenty twenty five,

449
00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:20,560
Speaker 3: as so many other nonprofit organizations through my organization, our Village,

450
00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:24,000
Speaker 3: you name it, we saw the drastic rollback and funding

451
00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:31,560
Speaker 3: and to have so many of our funders say that

452
00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:34,800
Speaker 3: they've gone in a different direction, that they're no longer

453
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Speaker 3: focused on small businesses. In this way, every single note,

454
00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:45,560
Speaker 3: for any founder that has to pay payroll, you start

455
00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:49,239
Speaker 3: to calculate numbers you start to think about Because I

456
00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:52,760
Speaker 3: am not just the CEO who thinks about what is

457
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Speaker 3: good for me.

458
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Speaker 2: I feel it.

459
00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:59,000
Speaker 3: To be a privilege to be a leader, to have

460
00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:03,639
Speaker 3: an incredible team. So I'm always thinking about all our livelihood. Yes,

461
00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:12,120
Speaker 3: and so last year I was deeply prayerful. I'm always

462
00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:15,720
Speaker 3: clear that God always comes through. Now, that is one

463
00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:19,600
Speaker 3: thing that keeps me steady, and that keeps me anchored.

464
00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:24,600
Speaker 3: My spiritual compass is my eye in the storm, and

465
00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:28,000
Speaker 3: so that is why I can stay have a sober

466
00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:29,920
Speaker 3: spirit in spite of all things.

467
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Speaker 2: But yeah, last year was hard.

468
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Speaker 3: I mean it was literally and it continues to be

469
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Speaker 3: hard because we need those in philanthropy to be bold, yeah,

470
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Speaker 3: to continue to make good on getting organizations the funding

471
00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:51,080
Speaker 3: that they need to do the work that will reach

472
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Speaker 3: to people. When is that ever a bad thing?

473
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Speaker 2: Right?

474
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Speaker 1: Yeah?

475
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Speaker 3: So you know, for the founders who or people currently

476
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Speaker 3: who may listen to this number one, you are not

477
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Speaker 3: by yourself and largely a lot of the people that

478
00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:11,840
Speaker 3: you admire and look up to who look like they

479
00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:15,400
Speaker 3: have it all together, probably like twice a week, three

480
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Speaker 3: days a week.

481
00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:17,840
Speaker 2: But I can almost.

482
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Speaker 3: Assure you there is two days during the week, at

483
00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:23,119
Speaker 3: least one day during the week that you're going to

484
00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:26,720
Speaker 3: have to sit with yourself and know that where you're

485
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:30,320
Speaker 3: thinking about your own pivot. I also want a name

486
00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:35,600
Speaker 3: for those entrepreneurs of how normal that is. It will

487
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:38,760
Speaker 3: not always be easy, but it also will not always

488
00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:43,280
Speaker 3: be hard. That is what has been foundationally true for me.

489
00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:48,080
Speaker 3: And I'm always so clear that my heart has a timeline,

490
00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:52,520
Speaker 3: but my good is for it is always our current

491
00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:55,640
Speaker 3: is always running, and so there are moments when those

492
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:58,399
Speaker 3: trying days feel louder than the good days.

493
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Speaker 2: But the good is.

494
00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 3: If we can shift our mindsets to believe that the

495
00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:10,400
Speaker 3: goodness is omnipresent. That means sweetness is always close to us,

496
00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:14,840
Speaker 3: that the yes is always just so close, even though

497
00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:18,520
Speaker 3: it feels so far. But I know that it is hard.

498
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:23,439
Speaker 3: I've had to affirm myself so much. I've had to

499
00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:27,080
Speaker 3: tell myself the work is good regardless of the no right,

500
00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:30,840
Speaker 3: and that I must continue to be a good steward

501
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:34,439
Speaker 3: of the work. When it is overflowing, it is good.

502
00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:38,080
Speaker 3: When it is slowly flowing, it is still good.

503
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:40,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's still good.

504
00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:46,080
Speaker 3: And sometimes we quit too soon, but also sometimes we

505
00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:51,440
Speaker 3: don't pivot soon enough. And I think that just because

506
00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:55,040
Speaker 3: it is your baby, at every gross stage, it requires

507
00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:58,679
Speaker 3: something different of you. I think we have to be

508
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:01,320
Speaker 3: willing to pivot and our businesses, we have to be

509
00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:04,960
Speaker 3: able to pivot in our visions. So maybe the Valley

510
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:08,359
Speaker 3: is time for you to do some pivoting. And I

511
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:11,200
Speaker 3: also know that it has been important for me, Crystal,

512
00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:14,680
Speaker 3: is that I am not reactionary. I am very clear

513
00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:17,679
Speaker 3: when it's a lot happening that it's meant to discombobulate

514
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:21,159
Speaker 3: my own vision and distort what I believe is true.

515
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 3: So when it feels like all is falling apart around me,

516
00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:26,879
Speaker 3: I get still.

517
00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:27,880
Speaker 2: That's good.

518
00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:31,679
Speaker 3: I get still because I don't want to react to

519
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:34,720
Speaker 3: the falling. I want to be a steward of the vision,

520
00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:38,200
Speaker 3: so I need it to fall so my path can

521
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:42,480
Speaker 3: be clear for the vision. And I think sometimes I

522
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:46,640
Speaker 3: know it's survival that we have a tendency to be

523
00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:48,920
Speaker 3: so reactionary, because you're simply trying.

524
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Speaker 2: To survive, for sure.

525
00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:55,960
Speaker 3: But sometimes the job is to be still, to be

526
00:28:56,040 --> 00:29:00,680
Speaker 3: still so you can be clear and path your in charge,

527
00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 3: your path forward. Because all while that was going on,

528
00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:07,040
Speaker 3: I was also quietly working on the airport opening.

529
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:10,959
Speaker 2: For village retail. Yeah, come on, all at the same time, Yes, exactly,

530
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:12,160
Speaker 2: all at the same time.

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Speaker 1: We talked about that before we sat down about it's

532
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:18,640
Speaker 1: so much going on. Everyone is going through so much,

533
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:21,640
Speaker 1: but there's still a peace and a calmness where you

534
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:25,200
Speaker 1: still have the fortitude to push forward or sit still

535
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:28,160
Speaker 1: to get the direction that you need to move forward.

536
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Speaker 2: I absolutely love that.

537
00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:32,160
Speaker 1: And you speak about vision, yeah, And I want to

538
00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:35,280
Speaker 1: know what is the bigger vision of tying all your

539
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:38,560
Speaker 1: ventures together, because you do have village market enterprises, you

540
00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:42,120
Speaker 1: got books, you got retail, wellness, community education, all the things.

541
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Speaker 1: I want to know, what is that vision that you

542
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:48,200
Speaker 1: have for all those Yeah.

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00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:52,280
Speaker 2: I want us to love each other. That's it. Yeah,

544
00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:52,920
Speaker 2: that's it.

545
00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:56,360
Speaker 3: I only build from a place of building a village

546
00:29:56,440 --> 00:30:00,040
Speaker 3: because I know that that is my god assignment, so

547
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:04,000
Speaker 3: clear that it is. I'm on a divine assignment to

548
00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:07,600
Speaker 3: create spaces that awaken our heart in our mind and

549
00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:10,200
Speaker 3: lift the collective consciousness of how we see each other

550
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:14,480
Speaker 3: when we shift in how we see each other, all

551
00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:17,360
Speaker 3: the things that we believe that we are fighting against Willows,

552
00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:20,920
Speaker 3: and I am so clear of that. We have to

553
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:25,640
Speaker 3: train our gaze to see each other and to honoring

554
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:26,560
Speaker 3: what we're seeing.

555
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 2: So, yes, I have my retail stores.

556
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:31,840
Speaker 3: Yes I have our village NATed and we're working with

557
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:36,240
Speaker 3: small businesses across the country. Yes, we deployed millions in grants.

558
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:40,320
Speaker 3: Yes I have my bookstore and all the village market enterprises.

559
00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:44,520
Speaker 3: But every single thing that I build is the deep

560
00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:47,160
Speaker 3: roots are in the ground and the seeds that I

561
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:49,880
Speaker 3: have planted. And the only thing that I ask God

562
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 3: for is at the end of this let the light

563
00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:57,200
Speaker 3: be the light of you, and we can hold space

564
00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:02,160
Speaker 3: and whole light that I can see you, and nothing

565
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:06,239
Speaker 3: inside of me feels that my light was dimmer. I

566
00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 3: see you, and I know that my light is even more,

567
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:15,280
Speaker 3: ever present, evervescent. And that is the word.

568
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:17,000
Speaker 2: I love that, that is the word.

569
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Speaker 1: When did you know this was a God appointed assignment?

570
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:25,719
Speaker 1: Because it was not what I wrote for myself? What

571
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 1: did you write for yourself if you would have asked me?

572
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:30,840
Speaker 1: Maybe fifteen twenty years ago.

573
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:36,200
Speaker 3: My first career path I was an educator, So I

574
00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:40,520
Speaker 3: taught high school tenth through twelfth grade English, and I

575
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 3: loved it, absolutely loved it. And then at the end

576
00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:45,840
Speaker 3: of my educational career. I worked at a Georgia Department

577
00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:49,200
Speaker 3: of Education and I loved it. Nowhere in there have

578
00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:50,840
Speaker 3: I said anything about a village.

579
00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:51,719
Speaker 2: Nothing.

580
00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:55,720
Speaker 3: And so when I started to get the vision for

581
00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:59,120
Speaker 3: village market my very first company, I was like, Oh,

582
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:04,800
Speaker 3: that's nothing, because I think it is true. We write

583
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:09,000
Speaker 3: a vision for ourselves and that's the first draft. Yes,

584
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:13,520
Speaker 3: the blueprint is the path that God wrote for us.

585
00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:15,440
Speaker 2: And I know that.

586
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 3: My deep belief that it takes a village and that

587
00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:24,000
Speaker 3: the village will be the only thing that saves us.

588
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:28,800
Speaker 3: I know that that is something that God put inside

589
00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:30,440
Speaker 3: of me because he knew that I would be a

590
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:35,120
Speaker 3: worthy steward and I would carry it well. And I

591
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:38,440
Speaker 3: also know that that is what we need it. Yeah,

592
00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:40,719
Speaker 3: that is what we need it. We need it, We

593
00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:44,400
Speaker 3: need it in a way. Also, what doesn't seem superficial

594
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:49,440
Speaker 3: because we love We're in a time that when a

595
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:52,640
Speaker 3: marketing industry know that there is a buzzword like community,

596
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,920
Speaker 3: then we start to manufacture community and so then people

597
00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:59,680
Speaker 3: start performing community rather than being in.

598
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:00,600
Speaker 2: It being actual.

599
00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, people perform being sisterly, yes, rather than being a sister.

600
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:06,080
Speaker 2: Yeah.

601
00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:12,520
Speaker 3: Absolutely, for sure, there's nothing performative about my work. And

602
00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:14,880
Speaker 3: I do believe those of us who have been called

603
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:18,240
Speaker 3: light workers called at this time to be light workers

604
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:22,120
Speaker 3: because we don't need more performance. Yeah, we need true

605
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:25,880
Speaker 3: models and models. That's not perfection because we're all human beings.

606
00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 3: But there needs to be things out there that is

607
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:33,120
Speaker 3: genuine so people can believe that that love and light

608
00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:37,360
Speaker 3: and care and warmth. Yeah, it is the human existence

609
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:39,240
Speaker 3: and what we were also created.

610
00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:42,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, for sure, for sure.

611
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:45,880
Speaker 1: I love that everything you do you're intentional about it, absolutely,

612
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:48,040
Speaker 1: and I can see that in everything and how there's

613
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:50,479
Speaker 1: so much synergy in between every venture.

614
00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:55,000
Speaker 2: It's so good. You recently just opened a retail store

615
00:33:55,040 --> 00:33:58,280
Speaker 2: and one of the biggest, if not the busiest airport

616
00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:00,600
Speaker 2: in the world, Atlanta harts Feel Airport.

617
00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:04,120
Speaker 1: Tell me about that whole journey, because one, I know

618
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 1: it's it's not easy to get in that airport. This

619
00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:11,279
Speaker 1: is a big deal. Congratulations versus you, But yeah, take

620
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:12,040
Speaker 1: us on that journey.

621
00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:12,920
Speaker 2: How this came about.

622
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:16,960
Speaker 3: I wrote the vision for opening the Village Retail, so

623
00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 3: I have my first location. We're still opening Punt City

624
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:23,959
Speaker 3: Market on the second floor. Yeah, Village Retail pun City

625
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 3: Market location would be open six years. In November, five

626
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:34,040
Speaker 3: years ago is when I was walking on the Beltline

627
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:37,120
Speaker 3: and I said, I'm going to scale to the airport

628
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:43,280
Speaker 3: because Atlanta has the world's busiest airport, over one hundred

629
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Speaker 3: and eight million annual visitors.

630
00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 2: Crazy.

631
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 3: That is that is incredible, a global audience. My that's

632
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:56,400
Speaker 3: the way I vision cast.

633
00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:57,120
Speaker 2: Yeah.

634
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:03,160
Speaker 3: I vision casts in such a way that how do

635
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:07,440
Speaker 3: I create access in the way that it's undeniable for

636
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:12,880
Speaker 3: the acceleration of my people. There is no airport that

637
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:16,920
Speaker 3: it's more proficient or better position for it. And so

638
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:20,680
Speaker 3: but I'm also clear. I'm a quiet builder, and so

639
00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:23,880
Speaker 3: it's almost hard to know what I'm working on because

640
00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:26,600
Speaker 3: I don't work on anything until I don't announce anything

641
00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:30,520
Speaker 3: until the announcement. But I've been working on this for

642
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:36,360
Speaker 3: five years. I had to ensure that we were prepared

643
00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:38,960
Speaker 3: for where we were going, because I was clear five

644
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:40,560
Speaker 3: years ago that this is where we were being.

645
00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:45,759
Speaker 2: With no experience of it, by the way, wow, none, none, none.

646
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 3: But I was so clear. I was so clear that

647
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:51,080
Speaker 3: we were going to be there. I was so clear

648
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:54,759
Speaker 3: that my job was to train my staff. My job

649
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:58,839
Speaker 3: was to ensure that I can prepare entrepreneurs for that

650
00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 3: level of volume, and that is also me being disciplined enough.

651
00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:06,720
Speaker 2: To not scale too fast.

652
00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:09,879
Speaker 3: I intentionally took my time to be prepared for where

653
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:12,640
Speaker 3: I knew I was going to be. That there was

654
00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:14,840
Speaker 3: never a doubt in my mind that we would not

655
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:20,480
Speaker 3: be where we are, even the location I chose that

656
00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:22,760
Speaker 3: location word is because.

657
00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:26,080
Speaker 2: Were going to be at the airport.

658
00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:31,080
Speaker 3: Concourse being center, absolutely, and when you all see the location,

659
00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:35,920
Speaker 3: what I want people to understand is that that is

660
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:37,239
Speaker 3: what I said I was.

661
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:40,880
Speaker 2: Where we were going to be. That's crazy. I know that.

662
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:48,080
Speaker 3: Vision casting that it is anointed by the love of God.

663
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:53,000
Speaker 3: I don't vision cast along. I asked God to anoint

664
00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:57,400
Speaker 3: every one of my visions, so I don't build in fear.

665
00:36:57,640 --> 00:37:01,439
Speaker 3: I build with clarity that it will be every single thing.

666
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:04,359
Speaker 3: I do not need a lot of people to tell me,

667
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:07,560
Speaker 3: doctor Key, I believe in you. Yes, I believe in me.

668
00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:10,759
Speaker 3: I am so clear. So I don't need a lot

669
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:14,000
Speaker 3: of fan fare and all the things that we need.

670
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:16,400
Speaker 2: I don't need it because.

671
00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:19,440
Speaker 3: I inherently know that every single thing that is chosen

672
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:20,879
Speaker 3: for me will come to.

673
00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:21,600
Speaker 2: Pass for sure.

674
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:28,400
Speaker 3: And I knew this while all literally funding was grant

675
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:32,360
Speaker 3: after grant hour, was like, we're no longer funding. So

676
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:35,560
Speaker 3: I'm getting nose, and I'm also building for a yes.

677
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:40,040
Speaker 3: I'm getting nose, and I'm building for my yes because

678
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:43,680
Speaker 3: we do not have the privilege of not operating in duality.

679
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:48,320
Speaker 3: We do not have the privilege of there's a no here,

680
00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:52,160
Speaker 3: and that's my final no. That's a no here, and

681
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 3: I will continue to see my yes.

682
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:58,160
Speaker 2: And so I just build quietly.

683
00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:02,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I told my team to trust me because

684
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:06,640
Speaker 3: your team also sees what is going on. And I

685
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:10,800
Speaker 3: affirmed them that there will.

686
00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:12,080
Speaker 2: Be hard days in business.

687
00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:15,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's inevitable, and you all would be at a

688
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:18,479
Speaker 3: ribbon cutting in twenty twenty six.

689
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:19,400
Speaker 2: I know that's right.

690
00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:22,520
Speaker 3: So every hard day that you have experienced, a celebration

691
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:28,759
Speaker 3: is coming. And I don't give my team platitudes. I

692
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:31,719
Speaker 3: give my team evidence of what happens when you are

693
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 3: clear of your path, because I also want to model

694
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:37,759
Speaker 3: to them to be clear of their path. And so

695
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:41,800
Speaker 3: a lot of red tape. To get the airport open,

696
00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:45,480
Speaker 3: I had to learn a whole new industry, but I

697
00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:47,040
Speaker 3: gave myself five years to learn.

698
00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:48,920
Speaker 1: I was going to ask you, like you didn't come

699
00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:50,360
Speaker 1: from this background at all.

700
00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:51,960
Speaker 2: But I was going to ask you, how did you

701
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:56,960
Speaker 2: prepare for that? Number One? It takes a village.

702
00:38:57,440 --> 00:39:00,239
Speaker 3: I surround myself with people who are far more hard

703
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:03,440
Speaker 3: and experience. And the thing that I'm not experienced there is.

704
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:05,440
Speaker 2: I am.

705
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 3: I'm always confident enough to know that it is a

706
00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:12,320
Speaker 3: gift to sit at the table with brilliant people.

707
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:12,759
Speaker 2: It is.

708
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:18,239
Speaker 3: I'm also deeply humble enough to know that it is

709
00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:22,160
Speaker 3: a gift to being's faced with other brilliant people. And

710
00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:26,719
Speaker 3: so I surrounded myself with good people. And then I'm

711
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:32,640
Speaker 3: a student. I am forever learning. I do not require people. Two,

712
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:36,360
Speaker 3: it's you know, forever athlete.

713
00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:41,880
Speaker 2: I'm in the gym, yeah, I get up. Yeah yeah.

714
00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:45,759
Speaker 3: And when you have trained yourself to be in the

715
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:48,680
Speaker 3: gym and to be fit in staying with that analogy,

716
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:51,319
Speaker 3: the musclim memory.

717
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:52,839
Speaker 2: It kicks in quick.

718
00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:56,880
Speaker 3: And so I may not have experience of being in

719
00:39:56,920 --> 00:39:59,919
Speaker 3: the world's busiest airport, but I have experience of doing

720
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:02,759
Speaker 3: big things well yes, yeah.

721
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:03,600
Speaker 2: And so.

722
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:09,320
Speaker 3: It was literally me arming my team with what we needed,

723
00:40:09,719 --> 00:40:14,680
Speaker 3: me learning a new industry, like really learning it, having

724
00:40:14,719 --> 00:40:17,960
Speaker 3: dinners with people so I can make the best business

725
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:22,279
Speaker 3: decisions in the faith that every single gap that I

726
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:26,279
Speaker 3: may possess, I will find I will attract what I

727
00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:29,160
Speaker 3: need for sure. And I always say one of my

728
00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:33,759
Speaker 3: prayers is that God protect my blind side. If that

729
00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:38,440
Speaker 3: is a prayer, always just protect my blind side, because

730
00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:39,920
Speaker 3: we don't know what we don't know.

731
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:42,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, we don't.

732
00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:46,000
Speaker 3: Know, especially when it's something new. But I knew, Chris.

733
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:49,400
Speaker 3: I can't tell you enough that I knew that the

734
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:53,120
Speaker 3: Village Retail would be at the world's busiest airport. I

735
00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:55,319
Speaker 3: knew that it was going to transform the lives of

736
00:40:55,360 --> 00:40:58,920
Speaker 3: every black business in our store. I knew that it

737
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:02,280
Speaker 3: was going to put this company on a global stage.

738
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:05,120
Speaker 3: And I'm also clear that that is our rightful place.

739
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:06,000
Speaker 2: Absolutely.

740
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:09,560
Speaker 1: I want take me to the day waking up knowing

741
00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:12,959
Speaker 1: that you are headed to Hartsville Jackson Airport to cut

742
00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 1: that ribbon. Take walk us through that day, because I

743
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:17,560
Speaker 1: know that had to be a glorious day for you

744
00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:18,919
Speaker 1: from the moment you woke up.

745
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:20,160
Speaker 2: You know.

746
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:25,560
Speaker 3: Actually before our ribbon cutting, I was in San Francisco

747
00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:29,040
Speaker 3: speaking at a conference WOW, and I could I can

748
00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:31,200
Speaker 3: only I was only there to speak at the conference,

749
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:34,160
Speaker 3: and I couldn't stay and I humbly, you know, quietly,

750
00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:36,640
Speaker 3: told people, I got a ribbon cutting in Atlanta tomorrow,

751
00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:37,560
Speaker 3: so I have to get back.

752
00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:41,840
Speaker 2: This is your ownership.

753
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:48,160
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, absolutely, ribbon cutting tomorrow. I

754
00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:52,280
Speaker 3: have to get back to Alan. But I was walking

755
00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:58,520
Speaker 3: through the airport when I landed, and because the store

756
00:41:58,840 --> 00:41:59,960
Speaker 3: was open already, we is.

757
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:00,960
Speaker 2: Having a big reveal.

758
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:05,759
Speaker 3: So I walked by the story when I got back

759
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:12,279
Speaker 3: to Atlanta and I said, tomorrow, tomorrow, God, we did it.

760
00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:15,560
Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah. And so.

761
00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:20,880
Speaker 3: What I felt and what I continue to feel in

762
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:25,160
Speaker 3: as a massive amount of joy, and I'm so proud

763
00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:26,959
Speaker 3: of myself, my teen.

764
00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:28,879
Speaker 2: But also.

765
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:32,440
Speaker 3: I also want to be clear that there are moments

766
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:34,840
Speaker 3: in your life when you know, like God, you really

767
00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 3: rock with me, like you really you really trust me

768
00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:43,320
Speaker 3: with this. And so the only what I what overwhelmed

769
00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:47,719
Speaker 3: my heart is that God, you really trust.

770
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:48,000
Speaker 2: Me with this.

771
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:53,279
Speaker 3: And I am always so aware of that because I'm

772
00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 3: only going to be a good.

773
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:56,560
Speaker 2: Steward of it.

774
00:42:56,920 --> 00:43:00,719
Speaker 3: And I couldn't wait until the businesses saw it. I

775
00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:05,239
Speaker 3: could not wait. And for the businesses being a part

776
00:43:05,239 --> 00:43:08,160
Speaker 3: of the ribbon cutting is a requirement for me. There's

777
00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:11,440
Speaker 3: a lot of red tape to have big reveals at

778
00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:14,680
Speaker 3: the airport, a lot of security, and I fought for

779
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:18,359
Speaker 3: every single brand to have that opportunity and.

780
00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:20,839
Speaker 1: Tell people as well that you open this so that

781
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:23,800
Speaker 1: small businesses and owners can come and sell their products

782
00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:24,480
Speaker 1: in your store.

783
00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:29,400
Speaker 3: Absolutely, yes, thank you for naming that, because when I

784
00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:33,719
Speaker 3: open a location of Punt City Market, why I built

785
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:37,759
Speaker 3: the Village Retail. I built the Village Retail because we

786
00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:42,960
Speaker 3: need spaces that honor and center our products. We need

787
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:47,280
Speaker 3: a space that is curated beautifully. We need a space,

788
00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:52,960
Speaker 3: and we not just need deserve, We deserve a space

789
00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:56,279
Speaker 3: that people from all over the world, because that's what

790
00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:59,640
Speaker 3: happened in Punt City Market as well, have an opportunity,

791
00:44:00,520 --> 00:44:03,000
Speaker 3: a privilege to take our products back home with y

792
00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:10,719
Speaker 3: and six years ago that was my mission and you

793
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:12,880
Speaker 3: bring such a You bring me back to a place

794
00:44:13,719 --> 00:44:17,640
Speaker 3: of something that is also very important to me. I

795
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:21,000
Speaker 3: do not believe in supporting and buying black from a

796
00:44:21,040 --> 00:44:26,240
Speaker 3: place of protest. I don't think that we should only

797
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:31,680
Speaker 3: patronize black businesses as a response to a boycott. I

798
00:44:31,719 --> 00:44:35,600
Speaker 3: think we condition ourselves that we only choose us when

799
00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:39,120
Speaker 3: we're mad at someone else. And so I opened the

800
00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:41,800
Speaker 3: Village Retail, and it's open seven days a week. To

801
00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:45,279
Speaker 3: six years ago, not in a place of boycott, nothing

802
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:46,120
Speaker 3: was happening in.

803
00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:48,240
Speaker 2: The world in that sense.

804
00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:51,960
Speaker 3: Or ten years ago when I launched Village Market, I

805
00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:57,120
Speaker 3: literally have opened and created my spaces. It's simply because

806
00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:00,880
Speaker 3: we should choose us every day, and we should have

807
00:45:00,920 --> 00:45:04,520
Speaker 3: a space that has been designed and chosen for us,

808
00:45:04,640 --> 00:45:08,640
Speaker 3: created by us, that we don't have to figure it

809
00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:14,239
Speaker 3: out or one day something may change and there's no

810
00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:17,440
Speaker 3: longer space for me on the shelves. If we build

811
00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:20,960
Speaker 3: and create our things for ourselves, we are not controlled

812
00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:23,319
Speaker 3: by any of the forces that tell you right now,

813
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:27,320
Speaker 3: at this time, you are not important. The Village Retail

814
00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:31,920
Speaker 3: says you are important every single day. You are worthy

815
00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:36,760
Speaker 3: every single day. You are good enough every single day.

816
00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 3: But let me be clear, we require excellence, yes we do.

817
00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:43,600
Speaker 3: We require excellence in the Village Retail. The back of

818
00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:49,160
Speaker 3: our shirt says excellence is a standard, not perfectionism, but excellence.

819
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:56,240
Speaker 3: Because I build from the place of I drive for experience,

820
00:45:56,680 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 3: from customer service to our bags, everything is in peckably branded,

821
00:46:01,640 --> 00:46:07,200
Speaker 3: and that is by design of excellence. And now the

822
00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:14,640
Speaker 3: Village Retail scaling to the airport. This is placing brands

823
00:46:14,719 --> 00:46:19,759
Speaker 3: on a global stage. Also, it is so hard to

824
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:23,359
Speaker 3: get in the airport. It is, it is, It is

825
00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:24,680
Speaker 3: so hard to get.

826
00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:26,440
Speaker 2: Into that industry.

827
00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:30,280
Speaker 3: But when you have a village, when you have a village,

828
00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:32,360
Speaker 3: you don't have to go by yourself.

829
00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:33,240
Speaker 2: We go together.

830
00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:39,160
Speaker 3: Yes, and when people have shopped at Village retail and

831
00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:43,800
Speaker 3: they understand that's thirty plus black businesses, that that ribbon

832
00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:46,800
Speaker 3: cutting was yes for my company, but it was symbolic

833
00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:52,440
Speaker 3: of so many other companies that that is my wife

834
00:46:53,239 --> 00:46:54,320
Speaker 3: and I want to shift.

835
00:46:55,600 --> 00:47:00,200
Speaker 2: I want to shift our the way we choose lose

836
00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:00,600
Speaker 2: each other.

837
00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:06,200
Speaker 3: Do not choose me because you're mad, because when the

838
00:47:06,239 --> 00:47:13,600
Speaker 3: emotion sobers, then often we go back to the very place. Yeah,

839
00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:17,440
Speaker 3: they were no longer upset, and then our community is

840
00:47:17,520 --> 00:47:23,520
Speaker 3: left behind. But if we make patronizing black businesses a lifestyle,

841
00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:27,960
Speaker 3: that it becomes the first thought. I am striving that

842
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:31,400
Speaker 3: we become each other's first thought. If our books are

843
00:47:31,520 --> 00:47:35,160
Speaker 3: coming out, we're each other's first thought. If a podcast

844
00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:38,280
Speaker 3: is being announced, there's an episode, we are each other's

845
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:41,440
Speaker 3: first thought. That is community to me.

846
00:47:41,960 --> 00:47:42,680
Speaker 2: And I love that.

847
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:45,719
Speaker 1: When you were opening the store and you saw that

848
00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:47,759
Speaker 1: I had a hair Caroline, so you literally hit me

849
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:49,759
Speaker 1: and said, Crystal, we need to get your products in

850
00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:53,160
Speaker 1: the stower. The fact that you even reach out and

851
00:47:53,280 --> 00:47:57,800
Speaker 1: you know you spoke our good friend Tabitha Brown.

852
00:47:57,960 --> 00:48:00,879
Speaker 2: Yes, I still love her. When I launched this line.

853
00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:03,440
Speaker 1: She also has her own hair cair line. She text

854
00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:05,279
Speaker 1: me and said, I'm so proud of you. If you

855
00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:09,120
Speaker 1: need anything or help navigating different spaces, you call me.

856
00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:11,360
Speaker 1: And I just want to say thank you, tab because

857
00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:14,200
Speaker 1: she is just a diamond in the rough.

858
00:48:14,280 --> 00:48:16,440
Speaker 2: She's a true gem that we should all cherish.

859
00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:20,320
Speaker 1: But it's the dms like that and the text messages

860
00:48:20,760 --> 00:48:23,480
Speaker 1: that means so much from women that see we see

861
00:48:23,520 --> 00:48:26,000
Speaker 1: each other, you know, and even if we are navigating

862
00:48:26,040 --> 00:48:29,040
Speaker 1: the same space, I'm letting you know there's room for you.

863
00:48:29,040 --> 00:48:31,000
Speaker 2: You know there's room for us.

864
00:48:31,280 --> 00:48:36,759
Speaker 3: Yes, the elevator, the elevation of consciousness is that the

865
00:48:36,800 --> 00:48:38,919
Speaker 3: sun shines on you and I at the same time.

866
00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:44,560
Speaker 3: Come on, and neither one of us is is we're

867
00:48:45,120 --> 00:48:49,480
Speaker 3: we are not without it's warmth. So if there is

868
00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:51,920
Speaker 3: enough space for the sun to shine on both you

869
00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:54,600
Speaker 3: and I at the same time, let's put that in

870
00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:58,879
Speaker 3: practice in our lives. There is room. There is room

871
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:04,720
Speaker 3: in the lane, there is space. Scarcity is another conditioning

872
00:49:06,120 --> 00:49:08,920
Speaker 3: to make us feel that if Krystal has a product,

873
00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:11,440
Speaker 3: then and the way I can support her, because it's

874
00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:14,359
Speaker 3: going to take away from me. That is the conditioning

875
00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:20,640
Speaker 3: of scarcity. And there are opportunities that you do feel

876
00:49:20,719 --> 00:49:24,400
Speaker 3: that it is competition, but we also have been conditioned

877
00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:28,040
Speaker 3: to believe that we are meant to be each other's competitors,

878
00:49:28,520 --> 00:49:34,640
Speaker 3: then each other's sisters, and each other's collaborators. That is

879
00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:39,359
Speaker 3: why words matter and really doing the root cause analysis

880
00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:41,920
Speaker 3: of why we think the way that we think, and

881
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:44,640
Speaker 3: if we go deep into the roots, a lot of

882
00:49:44,680 --> 00:49:50,279
Speaker 3: this is environmental conditioning that we have been programmed. There

883
00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:53,399
Speaker 3: is space. I want every single person to hear this.

884
00:49:54,480 --> 00:49:58,920
Speaker 3: There is room for all of us and even the

885
00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:01,440
Speaker 3: goodness that we see and other people on how we

886
00:50:01,520 --> 00:50:06,920
Speaker 3: may see them doing. Yeah, that is still bread crumbs

887
00:50:07,480 --> 00:50:12,120
Speaker 3: by those who do not look like us. Yeah, that

888
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Speaker 3: it is mere bread crumbs.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Imagine if we decide to elevate our consciousness and to

891
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Speaker 3: know that I require there be a room, I require

892
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Speaker 3: there be space. I require that I require collaboration. My

893
00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:33,560
Speaker 3: reaching out to you is like absolutely, I have a

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Speaker 3: retail story. Come on, let's do this, And I think

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Speaker 3: that is I'm a girl's girl anyway. Yeah, but I

896
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Speaker 3: also think we have to live the things that we

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Speaker 3: talk about.

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Speaker 2: For sure. That's what tab does. She does. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: No, my sister has helped me down. Tabithan Brown is

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Speaker 3: all that people think she is and all that people

901
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Speaker 3: have no.

902
00:50:59,120 --> 00:51:00,480
Speaker 2: Idea that she is.

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Speaker 3: Listen, she is one of the most genuine people I.

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Speaker 2: Have ever met him. She really is.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm so grateful to know her. I met her

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Speaker 1: for the first time at the White House when Trail

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Speaker 1: did the Black Experts question in DC, and She's like,

908
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Speaker 1: me and my husband watch you all the time. I

909
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Speaker 1: got to get a picture so I can send it

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Speaker 1: to him, and I was like, oh, thank you. Then

911
00:51:20,640 --> 00:51:23,200
Speaker 1: we end up exchanging information and then end up doing

912
00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:26,080
Speaker 1: a movie together last year, and we have just been

913
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Speaker 1: locked in and I just love her because she is

914
00:51:28,280 --> 00:51:30,400
Speaker 1: one of those people that are randomly text you and

915
00:51:30,480 --> 00:51:32,600
Speaker 1: let you know that she loves you and I'm thinking.

916
00:51:32,360 --> 00:51:36,080
Speaker 2: About you, and that goes so far. You know.

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Speaker 1: It's because a lot of times people are just so

918
00:51:37,840 --> 00:51:40,160
Speaker 1: coughing their lives that we don't take a moment to

919
00:51:40,239 --> 00:51:42,840
Speaker 1: just check in you know, so, I just love that

920
00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:43,120
Speaker 1: and I.

921
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Speaker 2: Love everything you are doing. It's just it's impactful.

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Speaker 1: It is necessary, especially for our community Atlanta, a largely

923
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Speaker 1: African American community, to have someone like you right here

924
00:51:55,360 --> 00:51:58,319
Speaker 1: at home to show us, Hey, guys, we got what

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Speaker 1: we need.

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Speaker 2: We just need to support each other. I absolutely love it.

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Speaker 1: Do you have anything else that's coming up that we

928
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Speaker 1: can be on the lookout for? We know, concourse be

929
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Speaker 1: at Atlanta Hartsville. We're going there for sure. Right across

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Speaker 1: in the Dell's a lounge.

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Speaker 2: We got that.

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Speaker 1: Is there anything else that we can be on the

933
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Speaker 1: lookout for or other places we can support you in?

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Speaker 3: Yes, of course, always go by the book No One

935
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Speaker 3: is Self Made. Yes, stop by my bookstore, Village Books.

936
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Speaker 3: If you're in Atlanta. What you're waiting on when you're

937
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Speaker 3: flying to Atlanta, add us a part of your destination.

938
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Speaker 3: And if you are a small business owner and you

939
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Speaker 3: are just looking for a village and your people, check

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Speaker 3: out our Village United dot org. We built something so

941
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Speaker 3: special with the organization. But I will say this, one

942
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Speaker 3: of the greatest ways that you can support my work

943
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Speaker 3: is by loving yourself. The greatest ways that we can

944
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Speaker 3: support each other, it's by doing our own individual work.

945
00:52:58,719 --> 00:53:01,600
Speaker 3: Because when we do our INDI visual work, we will

946
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Speaker 3: put the weapons down and we will train our eyes

947
00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:09,200
Speaker 3: to see each other and not be intimidated by what

948
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Speaker 3: we see, but see it from a gaze of love.

949
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Speaker 3: When we get to this place of deep healing, when

950
00:53:17,480 --> 00:53:20,719
Speaker 3: we get to this place of deep knowing that it's

951
00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:25,880
Speaker 3: not by any accident. We were created by such divine

952
00:53:26,120 --> 00:53:29,680
Speaker 3: loving hands, and that it's not by accident that we

953
00:53:29,719 --> 00:53:33,360
Speaker 3: share time together, that we were chosen for such a

954
00:53:33,400 --> 00:53:37,520
Speaker 3: time as this. If you ever want, if you ever

955
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Speaker 3: want to love and support doctor Key, do your work.

956
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Speaker 3: I'm going to do my work and we will be

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Speaker 3: well and do great things together.

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Speaker 2: I love that, Dot Keith, thank you so so much.

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Speaker 1: And closing, I do want to ask our theme this

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00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:59,440
Speaker 1: season is unapologetic. We are walking through life unapologetically. I

961
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Speaker 1: want to know what is doctor Key unapologetic about in

962
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Speaker 1: this season of her life?

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Speaker 3: Chris, I'm so clear and unapologetic about who I am. Yes,

964
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Speaker 3: I am so clear. I'm grateful that I still my

965
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Speaker 3: feet are anchored so deeply enjoy I'm unapologetic about my joy.

966
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Speaker 3: I am unapologetic about my clarity about this divine mission

967
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Speaker 3: that we're on. And I'm also unapologetic that I will

968
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Speaker 3: say the things that needs to be said out loud, affirmingly,

969
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Speaker 3: still with love. But I am wavering and what I

970
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Speaker 3: believe the light at the end of the tunnel is

971
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Speaker 3: for us. Yeah, I love that, doctor Keith.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much.

973
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Speaker 1: I know you got a crazy schedule. Thank you for

974
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Speaker 1: sitting down with us. I know this blessed me, so

975
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Speaker 1: I know it's gonna bless our listeners. Thank you, Thank

976
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Speaker 1: you absolutely, thank you good. What I appreciate most about

977
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Speaker 1: this conversation is that it reminds us that success means

978
00:55:10,160 --> 00:55:12,680
Speaker 1: very little if it only benefits us individually.

979
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Speaker 2: Doctor Key's work is.

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Speaker 1: So powerful because she's not just building businesses, she's building community,

981
00:55:18,440 --> 00:55:21,799
Speaker 1: access and systems of care. In a time where so

982
00:55:21,880 --> 00:55:26,520
Speaker 1: many people feel disconnected, overwhelmed, or isolated, this conversation reminds

983
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Speaker 1: us that we are never meant to do life alone.

984
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Speaker 1: Thank you, doctor Keith for your wisdom, your intentionality, and

985
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Speaker 1: for reminding us the power of collective care and community.

986
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Speaker 1: Be sure to grab your copy of No One Is

987
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Speaker 1: Self Made where books are sold. Thank you all for

988
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Speaker 1: tuning in to another episode of Keep It Positive. Sweetie,

989
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Speaker 1: don't forget to download the season eleven Kip's Reflection Guide

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Speaker 1: at Christineheesa dot com.

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Speaker 2: Subscribe and share this episode with someone who could use

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Speaker 2: a little positivity.

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Speaker 1: And if you want advice, positivity, or just want to

994
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Speaker 1: share what you're going through, email us at keep it

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Speaker 1: Positive dotcoms at gmail dot com. As always, stay blessed,

996
00:56:03,760 --> 00:56:05,720
Speaker 1: stay encouraged, and keep it positive.

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Speaker 2: Sweetly, I'll see you guys next time.