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Speaker 2: Hi, my name is Malik, your host of Malik's Bookshow.
Speaker 1: Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers in the whole
Speaker 1: wild world. Wishing you a happy Mother's Day. From Malik's
Speaker 1: Bookshelf and Belik's Books. This is a glorious day to
Speaker 1: celebrate the future of civilization because without mothers, there is
Speaker 1: no future. So we earn a you, we cherish you, read,
Speaker 1: love you, we respect you. May this day be a
Speaker 1: day of celebration, jubilee and fellowship with family and friends.
Speaker 1: We love you and we wish you a happy Mother's Day.
Speaker 1: So I had to start off with that today is significant.
Speaker 1: We honored it and celebrating the impact of women who
Speaker 1: are mothers, who are foster mothers, who are step mothers,
Speaker 1: who are biological mothers.
Speaker 2: If you a mother, give yourself the honor that you deserve.
Speaker 1: We celebrating mothers and we went out to the waterfront
Speaker 1: beach resort out in Huntington Beach to April and the
Speaker 1: kids and we went to celebrate Mother's Day and give
Speaker 1: her honor and glory and appreciation that we had brunch
Speaker 1: with the ocean front view. They had all these different
Speaker 1: buffet stations from breakfast making omelets to order. We also
Speaker 1: had a sushi station. We had an American buffet station.
Speaker 1: They had a.
Speaker 2: A solid station.
Speaker 1: They had of course, a dessert stage, every type of
Speaker 1: delicious dessert you can think of. And they also had
Speaker 1: a you know, a meat carving station as well. And
Speaker 1: you know, what's a buffet without having pizza, right, Okay,
Speaker 1: so they had some pizza too, So hey, it was
Speaker 1: a glorious brunch overlooking the ocean, the waterfront view while
Speaker 1: we sat there and serenade in honor in April as
Speaker 1: a mother. We had a wonderful experience, wonderful time. They
Speaker 1: played music and someone also played a violin. But you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of times when you pay for these types
Speaker 1: of things, you know you're really paying for the ambiance.
Speaker 1: And the food was good. Food was okay. You know,
Speaker 1: it was a variety, so you can find something that
Speaker 1: you like. But the reality is that you know you're
Speaker 1: paying for the ambiance. You know, when you go to
Speaker 1: a restaurant and you sit down and you pay those
Speaker 1: kind of prices, you paying for the ambyance, the experience,
Speaker 1: you know, having a wonderful good time. And we had
Speaker 1: a wonderful and good time having Mothers Day brunch right
Speaker 1: at the Waterfront Beach Resort, a Hilton right out in
Speaker 1: Huntington Beach, and it was beautiful, incredible, and it was
Speaker 1: so many wonderful mothers that came.
Speaker 2: Out and had brunch. So Happy Mother's Day. Whoa wait,
Speaker 2: this has been a long week now.
Speaker 1: You know last week we celebrated seventeen years anniversary, so
Speaker 1: we rolled into Mother's Day this week. So just in between,
Speaker 1: your boy is exhausted, let me tell you exhausted. It
Speaker 1: just seemed like it's always something we involved in.
Speaker 3: Went to a couple of schools this week.
Speaker 1: In the community and host of the book fair went
Speaker 1: to a middle school out in Westchester called Canton, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Canton Johnson Stem Academy. And we don't put out the
Speaker 1: middle school books for the kids that were that attended
Speaker 1: the school.
Speaker 2: So that was at the earlier this week.
Speaker 1: Then by Thursday we had another book fairbull we gave
Speaker 1: away books to every student at Frank D Parent Elementary
Speaker 1: right out here in Inglewood. We gave away books to
Speaker 1: every school. These books was donated by Black Infinity Group
Speaker 1: at Pisky Media Corps book driving partnership with Malik Books.
Speaker 1: So in this partnership with Black Infinity Group and Pisky
Speaker 1: Media Corps in partnership with Elite Books, we did a
Speaker 1: book drive and we were able to give all the
Speaker 1: students at frank D Parent one book each.
Speaker 2: You should have.
Speaker 1: Seen the excitement and the warmth and the just sheer
Speaker 1: joy that the students had receiving these books.
Speaker 2: And let me tell you something.
Speaker 1: I got an opportunity to talk with all the students
Speaker 1: at Frank D Parent Elementary in the auditorium. So on
Speaker 1: this podcast, you know, I got the feature that conversation
Speaker 1: I had with one hundred percent of our future, our youth,
Speaker 1: our children.
Speaker 2: It is so hey, it was electric.
Speaker 1: When I get an opportunity to be able to talk
Speaker 1: with our youth, I got to inspire, I got to enlightened.
Speaker 1: I got to drive on one thing. Reading is important
Speaker 1: and readers are leaders. So that's going to be featured
Speaker 1: on this podcast as well as a conversation I had
Speaker 1: with my two children as I was coaching them on
Speaker 1: the track. We were training and there were some things
Speaker 1: I saw that really drove home a point that I
Speaker 1: had to talk to them about. And it was called
Speaker 1: step into You. So it's very really organic. It's right
Speaker 1: on the spot. I only recorded half of it, but
Speaker 1: it sounded so good and motivational. And then I said,
Speaker 1: let me recall what I'm saying, you know, So I
Speaker 1: recorded the conversation I had with Maca Anxie year in
Speaker 1: my pursuit of trying to push them to step into you.
Speaker 3: So that's featured on this episode.
Speaker 1: So sit back and enjoy this episode coming to you now.
Speaker 2: Fright you fight, you give it up for Tiffany Cambris.
Speaker 2: Y'all know my miscam, give it up. I just want
Speaker 2: you to see an example.
Speaker 4: Oh what happens when you come together, you meet people
Speaker 4: in your network.
Speaker 2: Then you can leverage that.
Speaker 5: Network into opportunities like this for me to be able
Speaker 5: to stand here and talk with you today. So as
Speaker 5: you journey and your I guess growing up because we
Speaker 5: all got to grow up, right, y'all want to be
Speaker 5: big one day?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 4: Listen, we're a grateful and thankful to be here, and
Speaker 4: we want to thank doctor Goffney, your principal, for giving
Speaker 4: us this opportunity. We want to thank Ms Cambridge for
Speaker 4: this opportunity to be here today because we got something
Speaker 4: special for you today.
Speaker 2: Now she already told you see it already left it out.
Speaker 2: But that's what you can expect today. You can expect.
Speaker 2: You can expect a book. Now.
Speaker 4: These books were donated by the Black Affinity Group and
Speaker 4: Pisky Media Group. Black Affinity Group and Piskey Media car
Speaker 4: donated these books to your school.
Speaker 2: So I need to give y'all to give them a
Speaker 2: round of a flag for stepping over the sponsor. That's
Speaker 2: a wonderful thank.
Speaker 1: Because you know why it's wonderful because children are one
Speaker 1: hundred percent of our future. Everyone right here, sitting down
Speaker 1: is our future. Without you, there is no future, and
Speaker 1: without teachers.
Speaker 2: There is no development of youth. So we need to
Speaker 2: give around the power for all the teachers. But thank
Speaker 2: them for their service and education because a sacifier. They
Speaker 2: don't even know what the work, and it's the labor
Speaker 2: of love because they love you and we love what we.
Speaker 1: Do it because we know that you in the future
Speaker 1: and children are one hundred percent of our future.
Speaker 2: So we want to make sure you love.
Speaker 1: Yourself, you believe in yourself, and you have to desire
Speaker 1: to be anything that you want.
Speaker 2: To be, because you can't. Your only limitations you have
Speaker 2: is the limitation you put on yourself.
Speaker 4: And you're gonna be going along in this journey of
Speaker 4: life and you're gonna doubt yourself.
Speaker 2: Tell you something, Anything that you want to find you
Speaker 2: can find in a book.
Speaker 4: Anything that you want to be you can find in
Speaker 4: a book.
Speaker 2: Now we here to to give you the gift of
Speaker 2: a book.
Speaker 4: Today, one per student, and we got a ton of books.
Speaker 2: What you what you don't? Point down? Point up? Now,
Speaker 2: all right, point up. That's a good thing. It's a
Speaker 2: beautiful thing. You know what I'm saying. People love you,
Speaker 2: People give it to you. You know you are, You
Speaker 2: have value, you.
Speaker 4: Have, you matter, and we want to make sure that
Speaker 4: you be all you can be when you grow up.
Speaker 1: We want you to be anything that you want to
Speaker 1: be what you grow up. But I know one thing
Speaker 1: readers are leaders.
Speaker 2: Say readers, you got to read it to a chief.
Speaker 1: You got to read to a chief. There's no way
Speaker 1: around it. There's no way around it.
Speaker 4: And they're gonna get things that are gonna you gotta
Speaker 4: to read more complex books when you when you when.
Speaker 2: You get older. But right now, we got a lot
Speaker 2: of good books. They teach you, you know about your culture.
Speaker 1: That makes you love yourself is the books that reflect
Speaker 1: yourself because your matter, and you got to see yourself
Speaker 1: as great and it glorious and worthy.
Speaker 2: Isn't that right? Okay?
Speaker 1: So Elite Books is a is an independent black ghost store.
Speaker 4: We got two locations in Los Angeles, Fox Heals Mall.
Speaker 2: I don't know if y'all know about the Fox Heals Mall.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, your parents probably shocked there right and you
Speaker 1: know about Paul I was Crenshaw Mall.
Speaker 2: So we got to the store. We also have a website,
Speaker 2: Elite books dot com. We we share nation why. We
Speaker 2: also have social media. Now, I don't know some of
Speaker 2: y'all got phoned, some of y'all don't.
Speaker 1: But you welcome to follow us because we got great content,
Speaker 1: show content that matters, content that's inspiring.
Speaker 2: And so it's Elite Books. If you got it's the Grand.
Speaker 4: If you got TikTok, you know, Malik Books is our tag,
Speaker 4: So hey follow us. We appreciate that but today it's
Speaker 4: all about you. Today, it's about giving to you because
Speaker 4: books make readers make leaders. See what I'm saying, because
Speaker 4: readers our leader, and books open up a whole new
Speaker 4: world of life for you.
Speaker 1: We want you. Now, how many in here love to read?
Speaker 1: How many raise your hands? That should be everybody? Come on, now,
Speaker 1: raise your hand. Let me tell you something. If you
Speaker 1: don't have your hand up, that's all right, because our
Speaker 1: job is to make sure that one day you do
Speaker 1: love to read. All of y'all look at the ones
Speaker 1: that don't have their hands raised, And it's called each one,
Speaker 1: teach one, all right, Your job responsibility to help your friend.
Speaker 4: To love to read, just like you. Right, You got
Speaker 4: to help your friends. You got to inspire your friends,
Speaker 4: all right. We gotta inspire each other to help each other.
Speaker 4: Is that right. Let's not inspire each other to do
Speaker 4: things against what mommy and daddy and your teachers say.
Speaker 2: Let's inspire. Let's inspire each.
Speaker 4: Other to do things to help each other to be better,
Speaker 4: all right, So.
Speaker 2: Help your friend. Each one, teach one say that. Let's
Speaker 2: say it again. The one teacher.
Speaker 1: That's so with that, I just want to thank the school,
Speaker 1: Thank the teachers, Thank the parents for this wonderful Thank
Speaker 1: Black Infinity Group and Piskey Media Media Court for this
Speaker 1: opportunity to be able to sponsor these books to you
Speaker 1: in partnership with Elite Books. And so we're gonna transition
Speaker 1: from here, one class at.
Speaker 2: A time to get your book all right.
Speaker 1: Now, we have other books for sale for later on
Speaker 1: when your parents give of you've got some money.
Speaker 2: But right now, we got some books out here for you.
Speaker 4: And so your teachers is going to bring you out
Speaker 4: one by one, and we probably want have some story
Speaker 4: time too, so we have our can we have someone
Speaker 4: coming to read.
Speaker 2: Some some books to you as well. We're gonna make
Speaker 2: it fun, We're gonna make it entertaining, and we're gonna
Speaker 2: have a good time. Right, Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 6: All right, I'm trying to help you to find you.
Speaker 2: You is in you. Let me tell you something.
Speaker 1: Every time you step out here and you run, you're
Speaker 1: running against yourself. Every time you go in class, you're
Speaker 1: studying against yourself. Every time you running the track meet,
Speaker 1: you're still running against yourself, even when other people are there.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to you, I'm trying to get you to
Speaker 1: discover you, and I'm trying to believe in you until.
Speaker 2: You believe in yourself.
Speaker 1: I don't expect you to have understanding like an adult,
Speaker 1: but I do know that you can have understanding as
Speaker 1: you get older, and right now, y'all at an age
Speaker 1: and the way you can understand when I'm trying to
Speaker 1: teach you out here, you got to believe in you.
Speaker 1: You got to push you, you got to step into you.
Speaker 1: And I don't see that. And that's what makes me
Speaker 1: frustrating because I keep repeating the same thing over and over.
Speaker 2: You're competing against yourself. I'm not gonna give you no
Speaker 2: time whatsoever to run.
Speaker 1: That I don't think is unrealistic. I'm not giving you
Speaker 1: times unrealistic. But you gotta believe in what we're doing here.
Speaker 1: And that's what I don't see. You ran ten seconds
Speaker 1: off that time because you don't believe what you're laughing at.
Speaker 1: What's the smile about. You're competing against you. There's nothing
Speaker 1: funny here.
Speaker 2: Take this serious. This is serious work.
Speaker 1: It's gonna hurt if you run slow. So why not
Speaker 1: get a benefit. Why not get a benefit by pushing yourself?
Speaker 1: Why not get a benefit by running the times. The
Speaker 1: difference between you and animals. When they race a horse,
Speaker 1: they beat him and he spink. He don't have no
Speaker 1: intelligence like a human, so they run them.
Speaker 2: I'm not out here just to run you.
Speaker 1: I'm out here to teach you, cultivate you, elevate you,
Speaker 1: teach you, understand you, and you not listening because.
Speaker 2: I'm not interested in tactics. This is my strategy.
Speaker 1: Did you run this sprint all out, all out, one
Speaker 1: hundred percent? You blasted, and you try to hold on
Speaker 1: a fight until you hit the finish line.
Speaker 2: That takes mental ability. When you getting when you feel
Speaker 2: yourself getting fatigued, you got to say I can go faster.
Speaker 1: When you feel yourself getting slow, you gotta say I
Speaker 1: gotta go fast. The key is just to pump your
Speaker 1: arm fast, pump your arms, violent, pump your arms.
Speaker 3: That's how you pick it up as a sprinter.
Speaker 2: The legs go as fast as you pump your arms.
Speaker 2: So when you get tired and you get fatigued.
Speaker 1: Start plumping them on finally, start pumping them arms finally,
Speaker 1: so you can at least maintain your speed because your.
Speaker 2: Body is decelerating.
Speaker 1: But in the beginning it's as celebrating and we need
Speaker 1: to pump violently so that we can get our speed up.
Speaker 2: And then we want to hold it. We gotta hold
Speaker 2: it and listen.
Speaker 1: The march that remind you is that when you get
Speaker 1: into the curve, hit it again.
Speaker 2: When you come out the curve, hit it again.
Speaker 1: Those are reminders while you're out here, be you, step
Speaker 1: into you.
Speaker 2: That's all I gotta say.
Speaker 1: Man. My book review for this episode is a book
Speaker 1: that I had the pleasure of reading called The Good
Speaker 1: Mom's God to Making Bad Choices. Let me tell you
Speaker 1: a little bit about this book written by Erica Dickinson.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 2: That is Eric Dickinson's daughter. She is the daughter of
Speaker 2: the Pony Express on the La Rams.
Speaker 1: When she teamed up with her partner best friend, Erica
Speaker 1: Matt and they wrote this book called The Good Mom's
Speaker 1: Guide to Making Bad Choices. Now they have a podcast
Speaker 1: called Good Mom's Bad Choices, and they're in the one
Speaker 1: percent in terms of podcasts in the world. They're in
Speaker 1: the one percentile, so they have a lot of listeners.
Speaker 1: And what typically they wrote about the book is pretty
Speaker 1: much what they talk about on the podcast. Simply, they
Speaker 1: challenge the traditional definition of motherhood and so they wrote
Speaker 1: a book of their experiences in trying to find the
Speaker 1: balance of being a mother but also not neglecting themselves,
Speaker 1: still in time to enjoy themselves without feeling guilty because
Speaker 1: they want to love themselves and beat themselves and yet
Speaker 1: still be a good mom. And so it's the definition
Speaker 1: of a bad mom who does everything. Do the homework
Speaker 1: with the kids, cook them the meals, read them bedtime stories,
Speaker 1: tell them, I Love you, hug them, kiss them, take.
Speaker 2: Them out on dates.
Speaker 3: But yet they you know, they smoke a little weed,
Speaker 3: or they want to take retreats with girls and have
Speaker 3: a good time, or want to be single instead of
Speaker 3: being in a toxic relationship.
Speaker 1: So my two beloved sisters wrote this book as the
Speaker 1: olive branch to other mothers out there trying to figure
Speaker 1: it out. There are very few books out there on
Speaker 1: the market, as they stated, that talk about when you
Speaker 1: become a mom, the challenge is that you're gonna face
Speaker 1: being a mom.
Speaker 2: You know, spirits is the best teacher.
Speaker 1: So when you you know, being really you get pregnant,
Speaker 1: you have a baby, you know, then a lot of
Speaker 1: things change drastically, And they point that out and them
Speaker 1: trying to be you know, be a mother, be in
Speaker 1: a relationship that you know toxic, what's the right decisions
Speaker 1: how to deal with that, going through drama and also
Speaker 1: losing themselves in the process and feeling shame, feeling guilt,
Speaker 1: feeling not worthy, no one there to really.
Speaker 2: Help when the man falls out.
Speaker 1: You know, it's just a lot of things can happen
Speaker 1: in these relationships when really no one knows themselves.
Speaker 2: And the journey to self is number one.
Speaker 1: So they point out that, you know, get to know
Speaker 1: yourself and love yourself. But at the same time, you
Speaker 1: still can be a good mom, even if it's not
Speaker 1: a traditional definition of what a good mom is. So hey,
Speaker 1: all I'm saying, the good mom's god to making bad choices.
Speaker 2: Good be the book mothers.
Speaker 7: And brothers need to read in order to have a
Speaker 7: healthier and more positive relationship with you, with your kids,
Speaker 7: with your community, with each other.
Speaker 1: So all I'm saying is, hey, they get personal, they
Speaker 1: talk about their personal trauma, they talk about their personal
Speaker 1: journey while being a mother. And then, like I said,
Speaker 1: there are very few books out there like that from
Speaker 1: a perspective from the community or.
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