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Speaker 3: Yet they have all the books that the whole wild
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Speaker 1: My League Books.
Speaker 2: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to Malik's Bookshelf, bringing the world together
Speaker 2: with books, culture and community. Hi, my name is Malik,
Speaker 2: your host of Malik's Bookshelf. Welcome everybody to this ninety
Speaker 2: fifth episode. This is amazing, ninety five episodes, incredible milestone
Speaker 2: for my podcast. I didn't see myself doing this a
Speaker 2: few years ago, but I'm grateful and thankful that i
Speaker 2: have a voice, i have an audience, and I'm on
Speaker 2: my ninety fifth episode. Now when I hit that Huntred
Speaker 2: and my conversation is gonna be a little different in
Speaker 2: terms of the and me being elated about. But I
Speaker 2: think that ninety five is a milestone, and this episode,
Speaker 2: I think it's special because it's called Love your Self.
Speaker 2: And the reason why I named it that is because
Speaker 2: I was able to host an event at Milik Books.
Speaker 2: It was last minute. But Lydia c. Rivera, she's an
Speaker 2: author and she's an NACP Immateur Ward nominee for her
Speaker 2: book called I absolutely positively loved my spots, and so
Speaker 2: she was one of five this up for and Image
Speaker 2: Awards this weekend and we hosted her at Malik Books.
Speaker 2: It was last minute, but it was powerful, it was electric,
Speaker 2: and we had a few children come by who suffered
Speaker 2: from what it's called vandelago. That's why the book is
Speaker 2: called absolutely positively Loved My Spots. It's about valdelago and
Speaker 2: how Lydia growing up as a kid, growing up as
Speaker 2: a teen, as an adult in dealing with valelago, a
Speaker 2: skin disorder, not a disease. I'm well, it's not contagious
Speaker 2: or anything like that, but it's a disorder, and how
Speaker 2: it affected her a confidence, her self esteem, and how
Speaker 2: she internalized it and dealt with it and how it
Speaker 2: traumatized her. So the book is beautiful, it's colorful. Image
Speaker 2: illustrations are just outstanding. But it's a book about representation,
Speaker 2: loving yourself and accepting yourself. You know, part of loving
Speaker 2: yourself is that you got to accept yourself. So we
Speaker 2: were blessed in grace with author Lydia c Riverea to
Speaker 2: meet and greet book signing at Malik Books in the Westfield,
Speaker 2: Colovid City, More and so we had an engaging conversation.
Speaker 2: I was able to do a podcast with her right
Speaker 2: there on the spot with the audience. I was also she.
Speaker 1: Did a reading.
Speaker 2: She read a book very touching, and it just brought
Speaker 2: up a lot of things, as you're going to hear
Speaker 2: in the conversation with her that about my mother and
Speaker 2: my experience or how I grew up. And so in
Speaker 2: terms of how although I don't have volago, I internalized
Speaker 2: those spots as being those billy miishes and those things
Speaker 2: that are uncomfortable, those things that we internalized that has
Speaker 2: trauma tied us, these spots that that handicap us that
Speaker 2: we have to deal with that you know, whether it's
Speaker 2: our skin color, our hair color, our impediments and what
Speaker 2: have you, you know, a growing up when you're young. Anyway,
Speaker 2: I internalized that as she read the book, the spots
Speaker 2: that I had within me growing up as a as
Speaker 2: you know, in fighting you know, whatever racism or discrimination
Speaker 2: or what I lacked or what I doubted in myself,
Speaker 2: my handicaps about myself. And so here's the thing is
Speaker 2: just you know, everyone has these spots, and that's what
Speaker 2: we kind of moved towards in terms of after she
Speaker 2: read the book as you can see. So it's just
Speaker 2: a great conversation, heartfelt book. Must pick it up. Got
Speaker 2: that elite books courses all everywhere, but believe books dot
Speaker 2: com that's where you can ordinate. We got a few
Speaker 2: steal sign copies. So but lydal Seve Riviera was amazing.
Speaker 2: I hope she wins the fifty fourth. I believe immateur ward.
Speaker 2: I hope she wins. It'll be huge and major, uh,
Speaker 2: not only for her career, but for this book that
Speaker 2: really is powerful and inspiring and relatable. So stay tuned
Speaker 2: for this episode ninety fifth. Now I'm brushing the shoulders
Speaker 2: off love your self. Well, come, welcome, Welcome to Malik's
Speaker 2: books'll bringing a world together with books, culture and community. Well,
Speaker 2: we got a wonderful, beautiful guest here who wrote a wonderful,
Speaker 2: beautiful book and it's called absolutely positive Positively Love My Spots.
Speaker 1: Her name is Lydia c.
Speaker 2: Riverian. She's in town and she's doing a pop up
Speaker 2: at Malik Books.
Speaker 1: And you know what I love.
Speaker 2: To do is I love people when they off the
Speaker 2: show up at Milik to talk about this book.
Speaker 1: And she's gonna read it to us.
Speaker 2: On this podcast.
Speaker 1: Her book so I'm excited for this.
Speaker 2: She's here for a naacp immateeur ward.
Speaker 1: We believe she's gonna win.
Speaker 2: The book is timely and it's old time, so she's
Speaker 2: gonna take it from here.
Speaker 1: There's nothing else I need to say.
Speaker 2: She's gonna read us a little bit about the book,
Speaker 2: and then we're gonna have a little conversation about the book.
Speaker 1: Welcome to my podcast, Lydia. Thank you for having me. Wonderful, wonderful.
Speaker 1: Thank you for having me.
Speaker 4: First of all, that was like the best introduction I
Speaker 4: have ever received.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you Malik first and foremost, it is
Speaker 1: an honor to be here. I love what you're doing here,
Speaker 1: believe books.
Speaker 4: This is amazing, So thank you so so much. Yes,
Speaker 4: I am in town always from Georgia, here in La
Speaker 4: here in California.
Speaker 1: It's the weather's nice, and I'm excited to just be here.
Speaker 4: More importantly, I'm excited to share this beautiful, beautiful masterpiece
Speaker 4: written by myself and illustrated so brilliantly.
Speaker 1: By Nina Mata.
Speaker 4: I'm excited about and just a little bit about why
Speaker 4: I wrote the book.
Speaker 1: I have vidligo.
Speaker 4: I was born with the skin condition. So about thirty
Speaker 4: seven years I have lived with vid aligo. I don't
Speaker 4: know life without vid aligo. Why did I write our
Speaker 4: children's book because that's where a lot of my story
Speaker 4: and testimonies started. As a child, I went through the challenges,
Speaker 4: I went through the obstacles, I went through.
Speaker 1: The bullying, I went through the.
Speaker 4: All kinds of abuse, verbal, just mental abuse because I
Speaker 4: was born different, and it's important for me, especially now
Speaker 4: being a mother, that I highlight the differences that each
Speaker 4: and every one of us have and to let everyone
Speaker 4: know that it doesn't matter how you look, how you walk,
Speaker 4: how you talk, it was on purpose. You were created
Speaker 4: as such on purpose, and you have got to walk
Speaker 4: like you know, like you know, you are beautiful just
Speaker 4: the way you are. And I didn't see that kind
Speaker 4: of representation when I was a child, and it was
Speaker 4: important because we all understand that representation matters, especially to
Speaker 4: our brown and black children. Representation, it is important. So
Speaker 4: I am excited that I was chosen to be able
Speaker 4: to provide some sort of representation that positively, absolutely positively
Speaker 4: encourages every child to love who they are, just the
Speaker 4: way they are.
Speaker 1: So I'm just gonna jump.
Speaker 3: Right in and yes, yeah, you read this to my
Speaker 3: audience and.
Speaker 1: Not scripted, no questions written out.
Speaker 5: We're doing is live in person right here at books
Speaker 5: in the Westfield.
Speaker 4: All right, all right though, I absolutely positively love my
Speaker 4: spots written by me and ill by Mina Mata. I
Speaker 4: stand up and I stand out. I am the light
Speaker 4: and the spark. I was created special with my many
Speaker 4: beauty marks. Some people call them patches and ask me
Speaker 4: why do I have dots? And some people call them blotches,
Speaker 4: and they ask me why do I have spots.
Speaker 1: But my mama says, with.
Speaker 4: Love, vitiligo makes you, and my Papa says, smiling, your
Speaker 4: royalty through and through my skin is fly, I say
Speaker 4: proudly as I rock what I got because I absolutely positively.
Speaker 1: Love my spots.
Speaker 4: My spots can feel like home or brave adventures far away.
Speaker 4: My spots can bring the sunshine on the most rainiest
Speaker 4: of days. My spots come in all shapes and sizes
Speaker 4: and in every shade. Every spot is perfectly painted, and
Speaker 4: every spot is specially made from sun up to sundown.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna rock what I got.
Speaker 4: Because I absolutely positively love my spots. So even when
Speaker 4: I get shy or when I start to feel doubt
Speaker 4: when I need a reminder of what I.
Speaker 1: Am all about.
Speaker 4: My spots make me feel strong enough to face my
Speaker 4: biggest feats. They show the world I am one of
Speaker 4: a kind and I am here.
Speaker 1: My spots are a part of me.
Speaker 4: And just in case you forgot, I have patches, blotches
Speaker 4: and dots, and yes I have a lot. I'm standing
Speaker 4: boats and be beautiful as our rock.
Speaker 1: What I got now, I need some help in the
Speaker 1: audience with this.
Speaker 4: Last part here, because I absolutely positive.
Speaker 1: Spots. I love it.
Speaker 5: That story is relatable, whether it's external or internal. We
Speaker 5: got blotches, we got spots, we got limases, we got freckle,
Speaker 5: you name it.
Speaker 2: We all have something, you know that was relatable. And
Speaker 2: I certainly thought about you know when I became conscious,
Speaker 2: and I wanted to open up a store so that
Speaker 2: we could have representative learn about ourselves because I had
Speaker 2: a degree from usc but I didn't have a knowledge itself,
Speaker 2: so I was empty.
Speaker 1: I was void. I didn't know anything about my past.
Speaker 1: I didn't think we did anything as a people, so
Speaker 1: I was white wives. So here's the thing.
Speaker 2: When I discovered all this and started to read about
Speaker 2: these things, I went home and talked to my mama,
Speaker 2: and she revealed to me that my mama was very
Speaker 2: dark skinned.
Speaker 1: And she revealed to me as she when she was
Speaker 1: growing up.
Speaker 6: The spot that was put on her was in the
Speaker 6: mind because my grandmother, you would always say, don't bring
Speaker 6: no jiggaboos homes, don't bring no dark babies home. My
Speaker 6: grandmother and my mama.
Speaker 2: Would ultimately end up becoming best friends, but there was
Speaker 2: trauma there in the early stages because my mom being
Speaker 2: so dark and my grandmother saying all those hateful things
Speaker 2: to my mother.
Speaker 1: My mother hated to be dark skinned.
Speaker 2: So if she hated to be dark skin, what you
Speaker 2: think she was gonna do to me and my sister
Speaker 2: and my brother. She was gonna spill that spots over
Speaker 2: to us. Wow, So no, wonder, this is how and
Speaker 2: this goes on all the costs this country where we
Speaker 2: hate our skin or we hate our hair or she
Speaker 2: told me for the first time, I'm a grown man
Speaker 2: now that.
Speaker 1: She hated being dark skinned black. So I got to
Speaker 1: dig myself out of that.
Speaker 2: I'm brief and thankful God put me on the journey
Speaker 2: to open up Malik books so that I can share
Speaker 2: what I've discovered and it's expanded, But I know that
Speaker 2: the real journey is for us is the children.
Speaker 1: That's what we do this for. That's what this book
Speaker 1: is for, because children are one of our future. Sin
Speaker 1: I do it for the truth, truthful, because without them,
Speaker 1: we have no future.
Speaker 2: So what everything that I do is to make a
Speaker 2: difference for the next generation.
Speaker 7: I love to be able to reach the adults as well,
Speaker 7: and I have because I was an adult when I changed.
Speaker 7: But books like this matter because it helps me on
Speaker 7: my mission. It helps me expose what I've been trying
Speaker 7: to say, you know, the hatred of self, lack of
Speaker 7: love for self, hating the color of your skin and
Speaker 7: your hair and spots.
Speaker 1: And blimachers and freckles. All of that is a snowball effect.
Speaker 1: You can only go so far.
Speaker 2: In the world if you don't have any love for yourself,
Speaker 2: because that's where it starts. How can you treat somebody
Speaker 2: with love when you don't even know how to treat
Speaker 2: yourself with love?
Speaker 1: So books like this helps me.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you. I hope you win. That's much
Speaker 2: easier because we you got materials out here.
Speaker 1: You can understand that this is the mission to day.
Speaker 1: That's it. Yeah, so talk to us about your inspiration.
Speaker 2: I mean, I know you said things that you grew
Speaker 2: up with and so forth, but you came up with
Speaker 2: a nice flow.
Speaker 1: Your story was relatable. It touched all of us.
Speaker 2: What was the inspiration to come up with all those
Speaker 2: beautiful words other than the fact that we know that
Speaker 2: you grew up and you hid a lot of things,
Speaker 2: and you had a lot of mental trauma, and you
Speaker 2: had a lot of things how you viewed yourself.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's almost similar to what you were talking about
Speaker 4: when you come to that realization. I came to a
Speaker 4: realization after thirty something years that I was because that's
Speaker 4: to hide my did Lika, And I realized I wasn't
Speaker 4: hiding necessarily for myself, because I still had to see
Speaker 4: myself every day every night. I was hiding myself because
Speaker 4: I was afraid others wouldn't accept me.
Speaker 1: They did it.
Speaker 4: People would not sit next to me. I didn't have
Speaker 4: a lot of friends. Even as an adult. It was
Speaker 4: not the best interaction with people. I dealt with the bullying.
Speaker 4: I dealt with all of that from childhood.
Speaker 1: Up until adulthood.
Speaker 4: And I say adulthood and I really mean that like,
Speaker 4: there were people that did not want to sit next
Speaker 4: to me, whether I be on the bus, whether I
Speaker 4: be in a restaurant or whatever, because people there for
Speaker 4: one lack of knowledge. Okay, this having these type of
Speaker 4: books and these representations is to educate people and to
Speaker 4: spread awareness because when people don't know something, they don't
Speaker 4: know how to react to it.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: So for me, I was inspired by the fact that
Speaker 1: I was.
Speaker 4: Just sick and tired of pleasing everybody else and I
Speaker 4: was unhappy to get They're here and here for over
Speaker 4: thirty years, and then I have children my own looking
Speaker 4: up at me. They will draw pictures of me. This
Speaker 4: was another part of why I did a children's book.
Speaker 1: They will draw.
Speaker 4: Pictures of me before I would cover, before I stopped
Speaker 4: covering up the lego, and it will be pictures with
Speaker 4: hair or hats covering it up. So none of the
Speaker 4: pictures they do when they were children showed my bit
Speaker 4: of liga and I had to say, what.
Speaker 1: Am I teaching them?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 1: You see what I'm saying? What am I teaching my children?
Speaker 4: Like they are drawing pictures of me that's not even
Speaker 4: me Because I have been.
Speaker 1: A light up and I had to realize I was.
Speaker 4: I couldn't tell them, hey be confident, Hey hold your
Speaker 4: head up high, Hey love these things about you, And
Speaker 4: they clearly saw I hated all those things about me.
Speaker 4: I hated things about me. I did not love who
Speaker 4: I was. I went through a very very very dark
Speaker 4: place in my life, held myself captive in my own
Speaker 4: mental prison.
Speaker 1: And that is the thing.
Speaker 4: I was tired of arding myself captive in my own
Speaker 4: mental prison.
Speaker 1: I was tired of. I would look in the mirror
Speaker 1: and I just cried. I'm a grown woman. I want
Speaker 1: to be confident. I want to love who I am.
Speaker 4: But there is so much power in truly accepting who
Speaker 4: you are just the way you are, and not caring
Speaker 4: about what anybody else think around you.
Speaker 1: Because the moment.
Speaker 4: I did there, the moment I did that, so many
Speaker 4: things open up for me, not just personally, but just
Speaker 4: even in.
Speaker 1: My endeavors in life.
Speaker 4: Right just I'm a confidence coach now today, like what
Speaker 4: like you see, like a woman who didn't have confidence
Speaker 4: there at self esteem since childhood. Now here I am
Speaker 4: helping others reach their breakthrough coming out of that place
Speaker 4: of mental captivity, disliking themselves, hating their skin not liking
Speaker 4: the way they look, not liking this about them, and
Speaker 4: that is so it's very disheartening because I've been there.
Speaker 4: But it is also personally. I know it's your draining. Yes,
Speaker 4: it is draining, it really is.
Speaker 1: And how you saddenly.
Speaker 4: We all have our own spots, blemishits and perfections that
Speaker 4: we we you know, these insecurities.
Speaker 1: That we all have.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna tell you one thing, how far are you
Speaker 4: gonna go holding on to what? I don't like this
Speaker 4: so I don't like that. You gotta learn how to
Speaker 4: love because what else can you do about this?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: This is thirty seven yearlf be yourself to love yourself.
Speaker 2: You know, how did this affect you and your relationships
Speaker 2: with boys, men or whatever?
Speaker 4: Yeah, So every person I ever dated didn't see my
Speaker 4: vind of lego until months and months after I hid
Speaker 4: my goddle lego.
Speaker 1: Even when I had gotten married, I hear my bit
Speaker 1: of lego. I had to.
Speaker 4: I remember the first time showing my ex husband my
Speaker 4: husband at the time, my vidal lego. I was picking
Speaker 4: my my hat up just to show them a little bit,
Speaker 4: because that's like I was that ashamed.
Speaker 1: And at this time I was in my mid twenties,
Speaker 1: early early mid twenties.
Speaker 4: So I'm just like picking my hat to show up
Speaker 4: a little bit. And did he know it was a
Speaker 4: whole lot more under that little piece that he saw.
Speaker 1: But it was it was not easy.
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 1: I wo man, dating was not fun. Uh, it wasn't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I always say when we get into
Speaker 2: these relationships, the number one thing why most of them
Speaker 2: don't work out.
Speaker 1: I believe it.
Speaker 2: Is because number one, you're not honest in truth about yourself.
Speaker 1: And number two, no this no discipline.
Speaker 2: And one day I saw this little probably was in
Speaker 2: their early twenty had a baby, and I just something
Speaker 2: just said to me, and let me just pray for
Speaker 2: these this couple heres sign on because I know that
Speaker 2: the challenge they're gonna have to deal.
Speaker 1: With is that they don't know who they are and they're.
Speaker 2: Gonna be trying to find who they are wandy together,
Speaker 2: and that's gonna create the misunderstanding, this communication problem.
Speaker 5: And then they god baby and men you know, unfortunately
Speaker 5: win't the most, especially when you're that young.
Speaker 1: They go both way.
Speaker 2: So I said that, I said, you know, that's what's
Speaker 2: gonna get this honesty, the deception. See it's gonna create
Speaker 2: the misunder the communication to be disruptive, destructive, see, because
Speaker 2: both it's gonna be showing another alternative fact, not the truth,
Speaker 2: you know, to try to justify, because it's called deceptive
Speaker 2: intelligence where you rationalize doing something that you know. But
Speaker 2: so that's why I asked you that about you know,
Speaker 2: your relationships, because you know, we put a lot of
Speaker 2: time and energy and.
Speaker 1: Cultivating these relationships. And if we're not true ourselves, then
Speaker 1: how would that impact you?
Speaker 2: Know, as you begin to discover who you are and
Speaker 2: then you and he's really and you denying who you are?
Speaker 1: You know, how did that turn? You got the marriage?
Speaker 1: So at what point did you.
Speaker 2: Said to yourself to love myself, to stop hiding who
Speaker 2: I am?
Speaker 1: So i'll I'll be transparent if that's okay.
Speaker 4: When I got when I got married, I got married.
Speaker 1: Loving a man and not loving me.
Speaker 4: So really did I love him if I didn't know
Speaker 4: how to love in a sense because I didn't love
Speaker 4: the person that I was, I didn't love the woman
Speaker 4: that I was. And this is this is being I'm
Speaker 4: being very transparent and honest here. My marriage, more than
Speaker 4: lifely did not last because I.
Speaker 1: Wasn't all together in whole.
Speaker 4: Okay, I came into a marriage broken because I was.
Speaker 4: I was broken, I was shattered, I was I have
Speaker 4: very little self esteem, no confidence.
Speaker 1: I mean, I was really depressed.
Speaker 4: A lot, and it was very very hard trying to
Speaker 4: be in a relationship, in a marriage with children.
Speaker 1: Still trying to pick myself up.
Speaker 4: But I have other responsibilities to help, you know, my
Speaker 4: children help love and cultivate this relationship that I'm in.
Speaker 4: But it is very difficult whenever you are not whole
Speaker 4: and complete, and that is just the truth. Do not
Speaker 4: go into relationships, friendship, any kind of situationship's broken, because
Speaker 4: then you begin to bleed on those and they did
Speaker 4: nothing to you.
Speaker 1: You begin to bleed on other people who didn't even
Speaker 1: cause those wounds, you see what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: So you got to heal those wounds first, or you
Speaker 4: will bleed all over everyone that God has put them
Speaker 4: to your life to come in to help heal them.
Speaker 1: But you won't allow them to help heal you.
Speaker 4: Because you don't even know what really broke you or
Speaker 4: why you're so broken, And that.
Speaker 1: Really is inner work. You have got to find you.
Speaker 4: You've got to learn how to deal with you sit
Speaker 4: with yourself. What does that feel like? Sitting by yourself?
Speaker 4: For me, I felt like because I hate I did
Speaker 4: not like this woman. I felt like I needed somebody
Speaker 4: else to tell me that they liked me. Help, No,
Speaker 4: someone else validate my beauty. Help somebody else come help
Speaker 4: validate me, because I was not and I was not complete,
Speaker 4: And that is the wrong way to go. Men, woman, whomever,
Speaker 4: You've got to be complete in the whole with yourself
Speaker 4: going into in a relationship or even just be.
Speaker 1: Able to reship, be in a reaship with yourself. Okay,
Speaker 1: so relationships, and.
Speaker 4: This is this is even just beyond just my skin condition.
Speaker 4: This is beyond the bit of ligo itself. It's a
Speaker 4: it's a person thing.
Speaker 1: It's a people thing. It's a human thing. You see.
Speaker 1: Not no one in here, aside from myself, has been
Speaker 1: a libel.
Speaker 4: But I'm pretty sure someone in here has dealt with
Speaker 4: some type of insecurity, some kind of imperfection that they're like,
Speaker 4: I wish I could change it, So I wish I
Speaker 4: didn't have to have this, you know, and maybe this
Speaker 4: person would like me better, or maybe I could get
Speaker 4: this type of situation.
Speaker 1: Listen, I'm.
Speaker 4: What I've learned is that no one can tell me
Speaker 4: about me or make me feel anything less than who
Speaker 4: I know I am. When I walk into a room
Speaker 4: my head held high. Yeah, And you have got to
Speaker 4: walk into rooms with your head held high when you're
Speaker 4: supposed to be in those rooms, whether be in those
Speaker 4: rooms or in relationships. So if you're saying I want
Speaker 4: this type of relationship, you've got to walk as if
Speaker 4: you know that you are.
Speaker 1: Deserving of that kind of relationship. So it's real. All
Speaker 1: in a work. In work, we can pass the collection.
Speaker 1: We got to go through something to give something.
Speaker 6: Every knock is a boost.
Speaker 2: But my greatest challenge is is what make us? You know,
Speaker 2: it ain't always you know us doing it right. You know,
Speaker 2: sometimes you know when things are too close to you,
Speaker 2: we can't see it in this blurd, So sometimes you
Speaker 2: got to You gotta see it at a distance in
Speaker 2: order to make the course correct. So this book to hey,
Speaker 2: what's to take away? What you want the audience to
Speaker 2: take away by buying this book and reading this book
Speaker 2: to the audience how to get in touch with you
Speaker 2: and as well as where they can find the book,
Speaker 2: of course, you can find that big.
Speaker 1: Book that part love the skin that you're in.
Speaker 4: You will always win and whatever that means to you,
Speaker 4: whatever winning looks.
Speaker 1: Like for you, you.
Speaker 4: Got to love you first. Whatever winning looks like for you,
Speaker 4: whatever success looks.
Speaker 1: Like for you, you you've got to figure out what
Speaker 1: that is, and that comes from you loving yourself. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm Legacy Rivera.
Speaker 4: You can find me on Instagram, Facebook, all over, Google
Speaker 4: me l I d y A C.
Speaker 1: Rivera. The book is in.
Speaker 4: Target, Amazon all over anywhere books are sold, Barnes and
Speaker 4: Noble Books million of course, Malik Books, Malik Books and
Speaker 4: all these signed colleges right here at Malik Books. Okay,
Speaker 4: so that's how you can get in touch with me,
Speaker 4: Go and get you a copy, If not for you,
Speaker 4: for someone who you know will be blessed by this book.
Speaker 1: But yeah, thank you, thank you, thank.
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