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Speaker 3: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to Malik's BOOKSHEF Bringing a world together
Speaker 3: with books, culture and community. Hi, my name is Malik,
Speaker 3: your host of Malik's Bookshef. This is episode sixty eight.
Speaker 3: I got a couple of interviews lined up. I was
Speaker 3: able to host de be Leave book signing event out
Speaker 3: in a mansion up on top of Beverly Hills on
Speaker 3: with a stellar view.
Speaker 1: Amazing view.
Speaker 3: View was like overlooking all sage, just like you was
Speaker 3: in the clouds and you was up in heaven. But
Speaker 3: we hosted deb Lee folks signing event at this glorious
Speaker 3: home in Beverly Hills. And let me tell you, it
Speaker 3: was Who's who They showed up at the event. It
Speaker 3: was a lot of influential people in the entertainment world,
Speaker 3: in the news world. Doubly has a stellar career. She
Speaker 3: was CEO of BT for many years. She was instrumental
Speaker 3: and changing BT's programming, which is primarily at that time
Speaker 3: consisted of only music videos primarily and I don't know
Speaker 3: how that was sustainable. I know back in the day,
Speaker 3: I was like, man, they don't have anything else Black
Speaker 3: Entertainment Network or television Black Black Entertainment TV to show
Speaker 3: us something different than just a music video. So she
Speaker 3: was instrumental in changing the content on BT from playing
Speaker 3: all these music videos into bringing in dramas, comedy, and
Speaker 3: unapologetically black programming that speaks to our culture, our history,
Speaker 3: and our representation.
Speaker 1: So kudos to Double Lee.
Speaker 3: Now I probably should have labed with this one because
Speaker 3: this is the seventeenth year anniversary of Malik in April
Speaker 3: this week on May sixth. Every year we try to
Speaker 3: be creative and find new in different ways to celebrate
Speaker 3: our anniversary.
Speaker 1: Sometimes we go out of.
Speaker 3: Town, sometimes we do something in town. But what we're
Speaker 3: gonna do is we gonna go back to.
Speaker 1: It all begin.
Speaker 3: We're gonna go back and celebrate on Saturday where we
Speaker 3: got married. It's a hotel called the Marina del Rey Hotel.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna have the room decorated by Noni. You can
Speaker 3: find her on Naughty by Noni on Instagram. She's gonna
Speaker 3: decorate the room. She's gonna put pictures all around and
Speaker 3: go back to Memory Lane, all the different anniversaries we
Speaker 3: didn had.
Speaker 1: I sent her all the pictures.
Speaker 3: I'm also going to have the room catered by Chef
Speaker 3: Kon Houston. I believe that's her Instagram, and she's going
Speaker 3: to curate an Asian menu. And my wife is training.
Speaker 3: She's in the fitness She got a competition coming up
Speaker 3: in June, so I have to be concerned about her diet.
Speaker 3: So it's all gonna be a big old surprise. She
Speaker 3: doesn't know that I'm gonna decorate the room. She just
Speaker 3: thinks we're going back to it all begins seventeen years
Speaker 3: ago before they remodeled this hotel. It's beautiful, it's overlooking
Speaker 3: the pool and the marina, and we're gonna go stay there.
Speaker 3: Hasn't been seventeen years since we've been back at this
Speaker 3: hotel when we walked down the aisle seventeen years ago,
Speaker 3: So we're gonna go back there and just walk down
Speaker 3: Memory Lane and have a good time to eat some
Speaker 3: Asian food, enjoy the decorated candlelit room. And so we're
Speaker 3: looking forward to that because it is our anniversary.
Speaker 1: So hey, email me DM me give me.
Speaker 3: A shout out for our anniversary Also, I got to
Speaker 3: introduce you to the book.
Speaker 1: The book just came out, The Heart of a Black Man.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 3: Co author Malik Muhammad is featured in that book. I
Speaker 3: have a chapter. It's an anthology of thirty black men
Speaker 3: from all over the country, and I wrote a chapter
Speaker 3: call from.
Speaker 1: Devastation to Elevation. And I am so.
Speaker 3: Excited to announce to the world that I'm now a
Speaker 3: published author along with twenty nine other brothers. And I'm
Speaker 3: greatly excited to announce this book to the world, The
Speaker 3: Heart of a Black Man, Stories of Triumph and Resilience. Listen,
Speaker 3: right now, we're trying to be the Amazon number one bestseller.
Speaker 1: I don't usually push Amazon.
Speaker 3: I pushmlitue books dot Com, you know, But right now,
Speaker 3: in unity, I'm taking one for the team. I need
Speaker 3: anybody that love our mission, love what we're doing, supporting
Speaker 3: Elikue Books, supporting Malik, and they.
Speaker 1: Go and buy on Amazon The Heart of a Black Man. Okay.
Speaker 3: Now, it was compiled by a lovely young lady named
Speaker 3: to Lisha Barry, and she's done these wonderful anthologies with women,
Speaker 3: but now she dropped into the realm to speak on
Speaker 3: the resilience and Trump for me in this book The
Speaker 3: Heart of a Black Man.
Speaker 1: I'm just so excited to be part of this. My
Speaker 1: chapter from Devastation to Elevation.
Speaker 3: Now I'm going to read in part of this segment,
Speaker 3: I'm going to read a affirmation that I wrote this
Speaker 3: in there. At the time I wrote it, I didn't
Speaker 3: even know I was writing affirmations, but it ended up
Speaker 3: being that. And listen, I didn't even think that. When
Speaker 3: I was writing the book, I had it in order.
Speaker 3: And then I sat down and read it to April,
Speaker 3: and she said, you know, that book is already written
Speaker 3: in the order that didn't need to be. I was like,
Speaker 3: what I said, this, Joe is, I was just occasionally
Speaker 3: writing this when I get a free moment, you know,
Speaker 3: write my thoughts down and so forth.
Speaker 1: I opened up my reveal some things.
Speaker 3: About myself in this book, some things you know that
Speaker 3: I wanted to share and open up and make myself vulnerable.
Speaker 3: So you got to read the book. You gotta read
Speaker 3: my part at least, you know, and not that long.
Speaker 3: It's an anthology. I put a lot in a little
Speaker 3: maybe that little will growing too. My own book. You're
Speaker 3: the one Day of feature book based upon this anthology
Speaker 3: that I wrote.
Speaker 1: But hey, I'm going to read this part and it's
Speaker 1: called Elevator. So I'm gonna read that.
Speaker 3: As part of this segment later on, but I want
Speaker 3: to continue to do my introduction for what you can
Speaker 3: expect on this episode and so, and what you can.
Speaker 4: Expect is Malik Mohamed to read part of his book
Speaker 4: The Heart of a Black Man, And I hope you
Speaker 4: enjoy that because I opened up and make myself vulnerable,
Speaker 4: So enjoy that.
Speaker 3: It's called Elevators. I'm gonna read that. But moving on,
Speaker 3: I'm going to introduce you to a lovely young lady
Speaker 3: that I was able to interview at Malik book.
Speaker 1: We meet together with fire.
Speaker 3: We got a lot of energy and we in the
Speaker 3: interview is just fun and refreshing. And the author name
Speaker 3: is kron Nate and she wrote a book called Get
Speaker 3: Familiar with Failure to Succeed that we break it all
Speaker 3: down because the young lady has been repping and designing
Speaker 3: and planning and in corporate America parties and events for
Speaker 3: major companies.
Speaker 1: And she offered us for young and new and upcoming
Speaker 1: arthor of news.
Speaker 3: So she you know, reveals in detail, you know, her
Speaker 3: inspiration and then onto this book.
Speaker 1: So that's coming on this episode, and.
Speaker 5: So hey, all I need y'all to do is listen
Speaker 5: to this episode because it has featured Malite, my comedic
Speaker 5: co author of the Heart of a Black Man, Stories
Speaker 5: of Triumph and Resilience enjoy.
Speaker 6: And they couldn't afford outside council and at a certain
Speaker 6: point five Johnson asked me to come over and.
Speaker 7: Start to leading the party. And that's how I got
Speaker 7: to beg.
Speaker 6: Once I got there, I started doing more business things
Speaker 6: and learned that I liked business more than I did law.
Speaker 6: Eventually became COO and CEO, and you know, as they say,
Speaker 6: the rest is history. But it was an amazing.
Speaker 7: Career and that's what I wanted to write about.
Speaker 6: You know, I think my story is one of resilience
Speaker 6: and the term nation. I wasn't sure too early what
Speaker 6: I was determined about.
Speaker 1: But I was determined to do something and.
Speaker 7: To give back.
Speaker 6: And so for me, be Et provided that Abue, you know,
Speaker 6: a place where I could, when I got to a
Speaker 6: point of being on the business side, focus on programming
Speaker 6: and make high quality, authentic.
Speaker 7: Programming for the black community.
Speaker 6: Turn you know, bet in a different direction when I
Speaker 6: took over the network of sixty music videos and by
Speaker 6: the time I left, we didn't have any music videos,
Speaker 6: but we had a lot of original programming. And you know,
Speaker 6: that was my vision when I became CEO. And I
Speaker 6: always say, when you're CEO, oh, no one asked you
Speaker 6: what your vision is, just what the CEO tells you
Speaker 6: to do. But when you become CEO, then they start
Speaker 6: asking you what your vision is and that vision and
Speaker 6: I'm so proud of.
Speaker 7: What we built at EET. The young people I was
Speaker 7: able to hire and.
Speaker 6: Give opportunities that they wouldn't have other places and allow
Speaker 6: them to stretch. Because you know, if I was looking
Speaker 6: for a CFO, I couldn't say I wanted CFO from
Speaker 6: another media company.
Speaker 7: Because there were no they weren't given those kind of opportunities.
Speaker 6: So instead, you know, I might hire a treasurer and
Speaker 6: let them take the leap.
Speaker 7: And that's really what Bob Johnson did for me.
Speaker 6: I mean, I was a six year associated when he
Speaker 6: hired me, so it was a leap for me to
Speaker 6: become general counsels. So, you know, I wanted to tell
Speaker 6: that story. I also wanted to tell the challenges I had,
Speaker 6: because I really.
Speaker 7: Think that's even more important for.
Speaker 6: Young people to know you can be successful in spite
Speaker 6: of challenges. And I think because of my position, and
Speaker 6: you know, the glamorous side of being CEO and walking
Speaker 6: out on the BT Awards stage once a year and
Speaker 6: my favorite designer, you know, people think it was really glamorous,
Speaker 6: but there was a lot of hard work behind it,
Speaker 6: a lot of sacrifice, you know. I was also I
Speaker 6: had two children, I was married twice, divorced twice. And
Speaker 6: I know one story I particularly.
Speaker 7: Wanted to tell was in between college and law school,
Speaker 7: I got pregnant.
Speaker 6: And with someone I wasn't really involved with, so there
Speaker 6: was no long term relationship there. And I had an abortion,
Speaker 6: and that was something I never talked about publicly, and
Speaker 6: with things and things the way they were in that year,
Speaker 6: I could go to New York and get an abortion.
Speaker 7: I had that right.
Speaker 6: And I wanted to go to Harvard Law School and
Speaker 6: that was my decision, and.
Speaker 7: That's what I wanted to do with.
Speaker 6: My body, and that's what I did, and I did it.
Speaker 6: And I showed up up for day one law school
Speaker 6: and never looked back. And the thing that scares me
Speaker 6: about the political side of that, and what's happening now
Speaker 6: is that our young women don't have that opportunity or
Speaker 6: losing in the process of losing that opportunity. So I
Speaker 6: really wanted to tell that story. And you know, I
Speaker 6: tell the story of having a miscarriage and not being
Speaker 6: able to grieve about that, and you know, showing up
Speaker 6: in New York at business meetings right after I had
Speaker 6: my first child and have to pump milk and throw
Speaker 6: it down the toilet because I shouldn't have been there
Speaker 6: in the first place.
Speaker 7: But you know, those are the challenges we have as women.
Speaker 6: Also tell the story that Bob Johnson and I had
Speaker 6: a personal relationship and that wasn't something I planned, and
Speaker 6: it's a relationship that was good for a while and
Speaker 6: then it turned abuse to then it turned into sexual
Speaker 6: harassment as my job was tied in uh to the relationship,
Speaker 6: and I wanted young women to hear that story. You know,
Speaker 6: we heard so many stories during Me Too and times up,
Speaker 6: but they're always I think a bit exaggerated, you know,
Speaker 6: in terms of guys.
Speaker 7: Coming to the door and roads and you.
Speaker 6: Know, just just that extreme side of me too. And
Speaker 6: I knew my story was a little different. Still, you know,
Speaker 6: it didn't have a great envy, but.
Speaker 7: I wanted to tell it, and so you know, there
Speaker 7: are other things that deal with in the book. I
Speaker 7: don't want to spoil it.
Speaker 6: I think you know people with the response has been great.
Speaker 6: The response been great for women and men, which I
Speaker 6: really appreciate.
Speaker 7: And a lot of some of you tonight have told
Speaker 7: me you couldn't put the book down, and you know,
Speaker 7: I really poured my heart into it.
Speaker 8: And you know, someone told me once, if.
Speaker 6: The Lion doesn't tell the story, the hunter will. I
Speaker 6: wanted to tell my own story in my own way.
Speaker 6: It's funny I didn't let other than my daughter, who
Speaker 6: I let you one or two chapters. I didn't let
Speaker 6: anybody else read it except the proof readers and editors.
Speaker 7: But I didn't want to.
Speaker 6: Have an influence in any way. I just wanted to
Speaker 6: tell And so I'm so glad it's out and I
Speaker 6: really appreciate you all coming out tonight and supporting me.
Speaker 7: And I hope you know some of you have told me.
Speaker 6: You enjoyed the book, and for those of you who
Speaker 6: haven't read it, I hope you enjoy it.
Speaker 7: And I think the reason back to the beginning question.
Speaker 7: The reason I wrote.
Speaker 6: It is wanted to help the generation come in and
Speaker 6: I wanted them to know if I can do it,
Speaker 6: you can do it, and you should dream big. I
Speaker 6: never thought i'd d CEO of a major media company.
Speaker 6: That's not what I started out to do, but that's
Speaker 6: what I accomplished, and I wanted, you know, those who
Speaker 6: come behind me to know about.
Speaker 1: So with that, what are the five keys to success?
Speaker 2: Since you since why you ever stell a career?
Speaker 1: It was the five keys that particularly to the young
Speaker 1: girls and young.
Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, three. Be passionate about what you're doing. We
Speaker 7: all work so hard. If you're not passionate about it,
Speaker 7: you know, it's.
Speaker 6: A waste of time. Whether it's a cause, whether it's
Speaker 6: a company, whatever, be passionate about it.
Speaker 7: Get educated.
Speaker 6: My dad was a big believer in getting the best
Speaker 6: education you can.
Speaker 7: And can be going to HBCU State College, I believe,
Speaker 7: or whatever it was, study home.
Speaker 6: And then I would say, be true to your valuist.
Speaker 7: You know, in your work and.
Speaker 6: In your personal and we all you know, we only
Speaker 6: know what our own values are. But you know you
Speaker 6: have to be honest to yourself and you know play
Speaker 6: honest to your family.
Speaker 7: But keep to your values.
Speaker 8: That's one thing.
Speaker 6: We found a BET that when we were doing mostly videos,
Speaker 6: a lot of employees were embarrassed about the programming and
Speaker 6: they were scared to go to the family and then
Speaker 6: and say, I work at BET.
Speaker 7: And you know, and videos started out.
Speaker 6: Being nutha Frankler, you work, wind and fire, but they
Speaker 6: turned into the Lil Wayne and you pull a lot
Speaker 6: of other people.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 6: But anyway, be true to your values. And I'm sure
Speaker 6: there's seven others. If you want to do those three.
Speaker 7: You're well on your way.
Speaker 2: I got a guess with me right here at Malik Books.
Speaker 2: You know how we do it. We don't script, We.
Speaker 8: Be organic and we have a conversation.
Speaker 2: She's an independent author and she's a new author, and
Speaker 2: I have a book right here in the store signed
Speaker 2: as a matter of fact, so let me introduce you
Speaker 2: to kay Renee, who wrote the book.
Speaker 1: Get familiar with failure to Succeed.
Speaker 2: Now we're gonna die right into it right now, So welcome.
Speaker 8: You have a crazy.
Speaker 9: TV yet Oh my god, Well, thank you for the compliment.
Speaker 8: Appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Well, Hey, my audience on Malik's bookshelf, want to know
Speaker 2: all about this book because it's a book about business,
Speaker 2: aren't you knew it?
Speaker 8: And it's guiding the young and the.
Speaker 2: Youth the oh to not fail but to succeed in business.
Speaker 2: Don't get twisted on the title get familiar with fair First,
Speaker 2: I thought you did.
Speaker 8: Yeh, I thought, I said, get familiar with failure. Well,
Speaker 8: that's something we should.
Speaker 1: Not be familiar with.
Speaker 2: Out, I want to get familiar with succeed.
Speaker 8: But tell us why you came up with this type.
Speaker 10: I wanted it to do just that, Like I wanted
Speaker 10: it to make you challenge the word failure, like, oh
Speaker 10: my god, I don't want to get familiar with selling.
Speaker 10: But it's like, no, we have to kind of help
Speaker 10: people reprogram the meaning of what failure is in business,
Speaker 10: and failure is not something bad, like you know, failure
Speaker 10: is you should be leveraging it as a catalyst. And
Speaker 10: I feel like failure is only bad if you don't
Speaker 10: want to open up your eyes to the lessons, to
Speaker 10: the things that you need to be paying attention to
Speaker 10: and then correcting.
Speaker 9: Those things and going after it again.
Speaker 10: You know, So we gotta like we gotta like reprogram
Speaker 10: ourselves to be comfortable with the thought that I'm gonna
Speaker 10: put this out and it could fail.
Speaker 9: It might fail, but that's not the end goal. That's
Speaker 9: where I learning.
Speaker 2: Ugh, Okay, okay, well I'm feeling that, and I think
Speaker 2: you absolutely correct because every failure I han had allowed
Speaker 2: me to succeed. Every loss I don't had allowed me
Speaker 2: to win because I got better, I got more determined.
Speaker 2: I learned from my mistakes. I learned from my failures.
Speaker 2: And I think that's what you're saying. We're born in
Speaker 2: complete to go into completion with. So it's gonna take
Speaker 2: sometimes feeling or not succeeding.
Speaker 8: In order to learn how to win it and how
Speaker 8: to succeed.
Speaker 10: And skin to go into the next battlefield, like you know,
Speaker 10: like you need you need some bumps, you need some bruises.
Speaker 10: There's there's no reason for you to be in the
Speaker 10: in the game if you ain't even got no bumps,
Speaker 10: no bruises. We're not looking at like, you know, absolutely
Speaker 10: respecting the person that like, oh you're too clean.
Speaker 9: No, no, no, you got to get out of here.
Speaker 8: I can't trust.
Speaker 2: You, you know what. I liking that what you just
Speaker 2: said to the analogy. When I was when we all
Speaker 2: was a child learning how to walk. We felt a
Speaker 2: whole lot, but we got up and we perfected out
Speaker 2: of walk.
Speaker 1: I got tired of falling and I started.
Speaker 8: Standing walking, and I don't fall as much.
Speaker 2: So I liking that analogy to what you what you're saying, right,
Speaker 2: we do gotta get thick skin, because a lot of
Speaker 2: us go into business and the minute we hit a
Speaker 2: road bump, we think about quitting and getting out of
Speaker 2: the game and stop going in a different court.
Speaker 8: I know, me included, I've been there.
Speaker 2: I doubted myself, you know, even in my journey with
Speaker 2: Malik books and so hitting that thick skin help will
Speaker 2: help you overcome when you get those thoughts, because we
Speaker 2: all got them.
Speaker 8: Two thoughts in our minds.
Speaker 2: How and the load that which it wants to motivate you,
Speaker 2: and that which wants to talk you out of what
Speaker 2: you're trying to do.
Speaker 8: So speak on that.
Speaker 10: I mean, I feel like I and even in my
Speaker 10: own journey, I've had to battle with that with myself.
Speaker 10: It's like when I first first first started out, which
Speaker 10: I do talk about in the book, I was homeless
Speaker 10: and broke producing events teaching entrepreneurship, and people didn't even
Speaker 10: know that like I was producing these events and trying
Speaker 10: to be the very last person to leave because I
Speaker 10: didn't want people to know that I didn't even.
Speaker 9: Know where I was gonna go that night, you know.
Speaker 10: But it was like and I used to discourage me,
Speaker 10: and one of my friends used to always be like
Speaker 10: he d stop putting on these events teaching people's business
Speaker 10: when you're broke, and I just be like, no, but
Speaker 10: God keeps telling me to do it. So I don't know,
Speaker 10: I'm gonna just keep doing it cause like, yeah, you know,
Speaker 10: I'm not I'm not making no money. I don't know
Speaker 10: how to I'm not figuring out why I'm out, like
Speaker 10: you know, like I don't know, like I just I
Speaker 10: just had to keep going how to keep going.
Speaker 9: Cause it's like even though.
Speaker 10: I felt like I was failing, because it's like I'm
Speaker 10: putting on these events, I'm still walking away with nothing.
Speaker 10: I'm putting on these events, I'm still walking away with nothing,
Speaker 10: and it's like, you know what, it's okay, like one
Speaker 10: of these days, I'm gonna put this on and I'm
Speaker 10: gonna walk away with something. I don't know when, when when,
Speaker 10: but but something's gonna come back to me.
Speaker 8: You know that takes relief, That takes.
Speaker 2: More than just like you got to know you want
Speaker 2: to see and you faking it until you make it.
Speaker 2: You have sometimes you gotta put on that different look,
Speaker 2: that different face, that different style.
Speaker 1: I mean, dressed too impressive even if.
Speaker 10: You bro, I think like people back then, if you
Speaker 10: looked at like what my hair looked like back then,
Speaker 10: how dry it was. I feel like if you really
Speaker 10: paid attention, you knew I didn't have no mooddy because
Speaker 10: my hair was crisp, then it's all boys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, progress, Yeah, it's so dry.
Speaker 8: Wow.
Speaker 2: I mean you opened up and just made yourself vulnerable
Speaker 2: telling your story. And that's wonderful because you know, we
Speaker 2: can look at success and it looks great, but it's
Speaker 2: a backstory. You just gave your backstory. You just revealed
Speaker 2: to Malice Bookshelf. I was homeless, bro, and yet I
Speaker 2: found a way to step up into my beliefs and
Speaker 2: my glory and my success.
Speaker 8: Now now you're doing now my understandings.
Speaker 2: You you're putting on events for name some of.
Speaker 8: Them corporate jobs. Don't Fortune five hundred talk to them.
Speaker 10: You know, you know essential water water we work, you know,
Speaker 10: we just in these street bam.
Speaker 2: You know, look at that, Look at that, because your
Speaker 2: grind was real, it was one hundred. You believe in
Speaker 2: yourself and yet boom, you walked in and got contracts
Speaker 2: with major corporations due event planning for them. And so
Speaker 2: that's that's amazing because like I said, you know, the
Speaker 2: mind is a terrible thing to weigh, and you will
Speaker 2: talk yourself out of success or.
Speaker 8: No glory if you let it. Because we ain't born.
Speaker 2: With all the skills, and so you know, you had
Speaker 2: to find the skills in order to You've been in
Speaker 2: the game teaching the things that you have in your
Speaker 2: book for about seven years now, right, Yeah, talk about that.
Speaker 10: Well, Like for me, it's like I'm first generation, you know,
Speaker 10: so I feel like I wanted to create and I've
Speaker 10: always been creating for that particular audience because first generation
Speaker 10: entrepreneurs are a vulnerable audience.
Speaker 8: You know, they don't.
Speaker 10: Have sometimes friends or family to confide in about what
Speaker 10: they're doing, you know, because they not even that they
Speaker 10: don't want to be there for them, They don't know
Speaker 10: how to be there for you. And I think that's
Speaker 10: one thing like first generation entrepreneurs, which I talk about,
Speaker 10: need to understand is that don't put so much pressure
Speaker 10: on other people to cheer you on and to hype
Speaker 10: you up. Do not put so much pressure on your
Speaker 10: family to understand because at the end of the day,
Speaker 10: you have to remember, they don't have the same mindset
Speaker 10: as you. So it's your job to educate them, to
Speaker 10: teach them. They're not gonna be here to teach you you,
Speaker 10: you know, so you need to get a circle of
Speaker 10: other first generational entrepreneurs to compie in.
Speaker 2: You know, absolutely, And what would you say, Uh, why
Speaker 2: should people want to read your book?
Speaker 8: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 9: You should definitely want to read this book.
Speaker 10: If you want to be motivated, if you want to
Speaker 10: get access to the tools, to the resources, if you
Speaker 10: want to be out here pitching your way to success.
Speaker 10: Everything that you need to do that is in here.
Speaker 10: If you want to make sure that you building a
Speaker 10: house and your foundation is set, you want to get
Speaker 10: this book because sometimes we go into business and you
Speaker 10: don't even know how to send an email. You don't
Speaker 10: even know how to get someone to respond to your email.
Speaker 10: But this book is going to help you do that.
Speaker 10: Like you don't even know how to put a pitch
Speaker 10: deck together. But this book is going to help you
Speaker 10: do that.
Speaker 9: Yes, you know, you'll know how to live in your confidence.
Speaker 8: Yes you know, yes book, yes you do that. Yes
Speaker 8: we all have to pay it forward. We all have to.
Speaker 2: And I'm saying, like I know, this information in this
Speaker 2: book is a good content. Good content, let me tell
Speaker 2: you in good information, because I know, I meet a
Speaker 2: lot of people, and they I get bone rash a lot,
Speaker 2: and I get calls a lot, you know, to hosted
Speaker 2: books or some proposition or whatever to clear an event
Speaker 2: or so forth, and it's a lot of noise.
Speaker 8: And I tell all all.
Speaker 2: The time, you gotta find a way to get my
Speaker 2: attention because I got a lot of things going on.
Speaker 8: I still gotta do marketing. I still got to do
Speaker 8: a county, I still got to order books. I got
Speaker 8: a lot going on.
Speaker 2: So it's not that I'm busy, and so I only
Speaker 2: got so many hours in the day and so much
Speaker 2: time to do certain tasks. And you're bone weshed up
Speaker 2: in here. You know what I'm saying, What time you closed,
Speaker 2: I'm coming, I'm coming. I got a book, I said, Okay,
Speaker 2: I happened to be here when you came in, and I.
Speaker 9: Knew you was gonna be here when you was full up,
Speaker 9: So that they got was.
Speaker 2: A strategic strategic and and and look she kid knock
Speaker 2: me up in here and had me we up here
Speaker 2: building for.
Speaker 8: About an hour.
Speaker 2: That's how robust the conversation was and how enlightened was
Speaker 2: and we were helping each other in the different industries
Speaker 2: that we might be in. There was a common denominator
Speaker 2: and we begin to talk about, you know, things that
Speaker 2: could elevate both of us. And so it was intriguing
Speaker 2: and refreshing. And that's how you gotta be. Her elevator
Speaker 2: pitch was a one. So I know it's some good
Speaker 2: information in this book because she broke through. And if
Speaker 2: you're trying to break through, and if you're trying to
Speaker 2: learn how to succeed, and if you stop and if
Speaker 2: you don't want to fail, let me tell you something,
Speaker 2: you better come.
Speaker 8: Get a book that you can relate to.
Speaker 1: Get familiar with failure to succeed.
Speaker 8: Knee.
Speaker 9: Now, I'm definitely using that, y'all.
Speaker 8: You heard it, You heard it now more last question.
Speaker 8: You know, let my.
Speaker 2: Audience at police bookshelf know three things that there is
Speaker 2: a takeaway that they can use right now today in
Speaker 2: this book for me and like in this book okay.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying or in general, but you.
Speaker 8: Know, okay.
Speaker 10: Three takeaways that you could leverage right now today. One,
Speaker 10: make sure that you're setting your intentions every single morning.
Speaker 10: Setting intentions is literally gonna help you propel your day.
Speaker 10: Is gonna help you like address everything through those intentions. Two,
Speaker 10: make sure that you are giving gratitude to God for
Speaker 10: waking you up every day. I think that's something that
Speaker 10: you can definitely do today, right now, every single day.
Speaker 10: And last, if you are looking to pitch yourself, the
Speaker 10: thing that you could do right now is you can
Speaker 10: start practicing in the mirror everything a day, talking to yourself,
Speaker 10: asking yourself what the what you want to gain from
Speaker 10: the conversation, who you are, why you're there, and then
Speaker 10: how you're gonna.
Speaker 8: Leave that person.
Speaker 9: Practice that in the mirror every single day.
Speaker 10: Get it down to like fifteen to twenty seconds, and
Speaker 10: you gotta elevate a bitch.
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Speaker 8: The Heart of a Black Man just release.
Speaker 2: It's on Amazon. Needs you to help me make a
Speaker 2: best seller. I'm gonna read a section in here called Elevated.
Speaker 2: Malik Muhammad, co author of.
Speaker 8: The Heart of a Black Man.
Speaker 2: And Spine Stories of Triumph and Resilience. My chapter is
Speaker 2: called From Devastation to Elevation, and the section I'm gonna
Speaker 2: read is called Elevated. I am elevated because my eyes
Speaker 2: are open now. I'm elevated because I help my community.
Speaker 2: I am elevated because I know how to love myself.
Speaker 2: I am elevated because my mind, body and spirit have
Speaker 2: been awaken. I am elevated because I work for myself.
Speaker 2: I am elevated because I am great. I am elevated
Speaker 2: because I am a father and husband. I am elevated
Speaker 2: because I know how to be a man. I am
Speaker 2: elevated because I have survived the pandemic.
Speaker 8: I am elevated because the community supports my mission.
Speaker 2: I am elevated because I understand the many of unity.
Speaker 2: I am elevated because I know my limitations. I am
Speaker 2: elevated because I am here and now. And I'm elevated because.
Speaker 8: I have you.
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