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Speaker 1: Hello, everyone, Welcome to your favorite podcast, Cheeky's and Chill.

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Speaker 1: I'm Cheeky's. I hope that you know that by now,

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Speaker 1: but if this is your first time listening into the podcast, welcome.

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Speaker 1: We love new listeners, so thank you so much. And

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Speaker 1: I hope you're feeling good, and I hope you're having

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Speaker 1: a great day today. And I'm feeling good. Actually, I'm

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Speaker 1: having a very very good day, and I'm very excited

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Speaker 1: because what I have to share about is something that's

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Speaker 1: very dear to me, something very new and different, and

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Speaker 1: it has to do with a new book. And it's

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Speaker 1: called The Girl who Sings to Bees and it happens

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Speaker 1: to be my first children's book. Guys, it's my fourth book,

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Speaker 1: but it's my first children's book, and I wanted to

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Speaker 1: talk about it because I think some people are like, uh,

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Speaker 1: why maybe, But those that know me know that I'm

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Speaker 1: very good with children. Kids always are very drawn to me.

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Speaker 1: Maybe because I'm an older sister and a lot of

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Speaker 1: people grew up watching me on our reality shows and

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Speaker 1: me being like a second mother and stuff like that.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, but I am really good with the children,

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Speaker 1: and this idea came to me like eight years ago,

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Speaker 1: and it's something that God put in my heart. And

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Speaker 1: I didn't feel ready then, I guess, and now I

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Speaker 1: feel ready. I don't know if it has to do

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Speaker 1: with my age or where I am in my life,

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Speaker 1: but it just all happened, I feel at the very

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Speaker 1: right time. So I am excited to share this with

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Speaker 1: wrote it. So, like I said, it is called The

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Speaker 1: Girl who Sings to Bees, and I love bees. If

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Speaker 1: you didn't know that already, well now you know. But

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Speaker 1: I love bees and I have boss by Nation, and

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Speaker 1: I love the story of a bee, and you know,

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Speaker 1: and I've talked about it plenty of times, and I

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Speaker 1: just knew eight years ago, about eight years ago when

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Speaker 1: I thought about this, Actually no, I'm lying, more like

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Speaker 1: seven six years ago. I knew that I want it

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Speaker 1: to be about bullying. It was either going to be

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Speaker 1: about bullying my children's book, or it was going to

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Speaker 1: be about Have you guys ever read that story The

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Speaker 1: Little Engine That Could? I read that book when I

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Speaker 1: was a little girls, one of my favorite books, and

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Speaker 1: you know, the little engine said, and the little train said,

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Speaker 1: I can, I can, I can I'm going to do it.

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Speaker 1: So I kind of had that idea of you know,

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Speaker 1: I was struggling in my life and so many people

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Speaker 1: thought I wouldn't make it, or I couldn't make it,

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Speaker 1: or I shouldn't or whatever it is. And I had

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Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, I'm going to show myself that I can.

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Speaker 1: And I wanted to, you know, write a children's book

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Speaker 1: so that children can know the power that they have

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Speaker 1: within themselves. And with that also came the bullying, and

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Speaker 1: I felt like with social media and stuff, that became

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Speaker 1: dealt with bullying my whole life when there was no

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Speaker 1: social media, and then social media came, and then it

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Speaker 1: wasn't just me. There are you know, internet trolls, mean

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Speaker 1: this is a real issue and it starts with our children.

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Speaker 1: Something that I'm passionate about is something that I've experienced,

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Speaker 1: something that I see other people experience, and we have

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Speaker 1: to nip it in the bud. And that's why I

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Speaker 1: decided to write this book because it starts in schools,

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Speaker 1: In my mind, I'm like, if I were to write

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Speaker 1: I always said like she was kind of like my

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Speaker 1: if you heard the first episode of this fourth season,

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Speaker 1: I'm not necessarily planning a tour for music right now

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Speaker 1: and my grandma does have short hair, and my mom.

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Speaker 1: But the thing that I didn't add was my mom's mole.

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Speaker 1: I'd love to come out with a different children's book

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Speaker 1: about Pancho. This is exclusive here, Okay, only the Cheese

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Speaker 1: and Chill podcast listeners will know about this. But Pancho

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Speaker 1: So I think there's something here, guys. And definitely with

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Speaker 1: in my opinion, at the perfect time, and I can't wait.

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Speaker 1: I cannot wait for you guys to read it. And

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Speaker 1: even like, when you guys see the cover of the book,

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Speaker 1: you'll see that the little girl's wearing those little bolita's

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Speaker 1: a little hair ties with the little balls. That's all

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Speaker 1: things that it is cheeky's, but it's not cheeky's and

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Speaker 1: it's my story. So so you guys, once you read it,

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