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Speaker 1: my name is Malik, your host. Oh, Malik's Bookshelf. WHOA
Speaker 1: we bring it into two. This is my first episode
Speaker 1: of three and what I want to talk about right
Speaker 1: now is some of the highlights of two. Malik's Bookshelf
Speaker 1: Year in review. I was able to interview some major
Speaker 1: headliners that was featured on some of my episodes last year.
Speaker 1: I know you heard a Spike Lead. That's right, Malik's
Speaker 1: Bookshow interview Spike Leave for his podcast. Also, I was
Speaker 1: able to interviewer Marianne Top of the Brown, Terry Crows, Kevina,
Speaker 1: Melissa Fredericks, Garcel, and David Rose. Now interview a lot more,
Speaker 1: but those were some of my top interviews for two
Speaker 1: that I was excited to be able to have a
Speaker 1: conversation with and featured those interviews on my podcast. Now.
Speaker 1: Some of my highlighted podcast episodes for was What's Good
Speaker 1: in the Hood, Man Cold Build the Damn Thing by
Speaker 1: By the Box, the nipt, Give Us All a Fact,
Speaker 1: and Books Not Bullets. So those were some of my
Speaker 1: highlighted episodes for two and you can go back and
Speaker 1: listen to these episodes if you haven't already. One of
Speaker 1: the main staples of Malik's bookshelf is my book reviews.
Speaker 1: Most of the time, either interviewer, author or I talk
Speaker 1: about a book, so I've done many this last year.
Speaker 1: But some of my favorite book reviews that I've done
Speaker 1: was Love Me As I Am by Garself, Marriage Be
Speaker 1: Hard by Kevin and Melissa Fredericks, Unbothered by amar Yan,
Speaker 1: Cooking from the Spirit by Tabitha Brown, Nineteen Projects by
Speaker 1: Nickole Hannah Jones, Level Up by Stacy Abrahams, You, Oh
Speaker 1: You by Dr Eric Thomas, Mama Mentality by Kobe Bryant,
Speaker 1: Spike by Spike Lee, Finding Me by Viola Davis, and
Speaker 1: Touch by Terry Crews. All of these book reviews I
Speaker 1: did in and I'm hopeful that I'll be doing many
Speaker 1: more in this year's upcoming podcast. For I'm looking to
Speaker 1: do big things, interview more people, be more creative, expand
Speaker 1: my base. I went out with a bang in two
Speaker 1: let me tell you that it's a ranking called Charterable,
Speaker 1: and that's right. My podcast is fifteen hundred ranked in
Speaker 1: the USA out of millions of pockets. My podcast is
Speaker 1: ranked fifteen hundred on the charter Bole and around eighteen
Speaker 1: hundred why why and then on the category they have
Speaker 1: me in is social and cultural. But hey, I'm ranked.
Speaker 1: People are listening and these podcasts is still developed. To
Speaker 1: go back and review and entertain yourself. This has been
Speaker 1: a great year and I only touched on you know,
Speaker 1: two a year and review. I only touched on a
Speaker 1: few episodes, a few favorite book reviews, and a few
Speaker 1: of the interviews that I did. You know, I try
Speaker 1: to do a podcast once a week, so you know,
Speaker 1: if things work out the way we said, I do
Speaker 1: around fifty podcasts in a year. So I have many
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Speaker 1: Episode three means new goals comes with the new year.
Speaker 1: If you ain't setting any goals for the this year,
Speaker 1: you need to the number one goal for resolutions. I
Speaker 1: believe is health. You're not sure what you want when
Speaker 1: you're younger, but you do know you get a little
Speaker 1: older that certain things you want more of an abundance of,
Speaker 1: because health is wealth. Every year after the New Year,
Speaker 1: the gym is pot people coming out the world world
Speaker 1: signing up for memberships, working on their body and their health.
Speaker 1: But don't forget that. You gotta work on your mind.
Speaker 1: You know, change your mind, change your thoughts. You're able
Speaker 1: to be the change that you want. So hit that gym, Meditate,
Speaker 1: put some affirmation, some mantras together. You know, be positive,
Speaker 1: vibrate higher, have a higher frequency, put out more energy
Speaker 1: that is positive. Speak more universal words that are peaceful,
Speaker 1: into exist is deep deep. Make a change for the better.
Speaker 1: Don't be the same old you in two when you
Speaker 1: could be a new This is the year to be
Speaker 1: the change. So make a decision to eat better, live better,
Speaker 1: strike better, elevate your consciousness and everything around you. Bring
Speaker 1: in the new, out with the old. Surround yourself with
Speaker 1: friends and family that elevate you to give you good, positive,
Speaker 1: high frequency conversations, and eliminate the vampires. This just suck
Speaker 1: your energy out and absorb all your blessings and add
Speaker 1: nothing to your journey. Get rid of the dead weight,
Speaker 1: make a change for the better. You know. That's what
Speaker 1: my resolution is, and I hope that in that more
Speaker 1: prosperous and be more abundance for you personally, for your family,
Speaker 1: your community, your neighborhood. It maybe, just maybe, if enough
Speaker 1: individuals is able to make a change and unite with
Speaker 1: like minded people to continue that journey, just maybe, just
Speaker 1: maybe there's hope for this nation. But it first must
Speaker 1: start with you. You can't think about expanding until you
Speaker 1: think about that little individual. They were all starts and
Speaker 1: where it all matters, because everything starts with you, You
Speaker 1: old you, you first, love self first. You be the change,
Speaker 1: and let's bring a new world together that brings love, joy,
Speaker 1: happiness and prosperity. We be the change because you change first.
Speaker 1: Kicking off the season with an interview I was able
Speaker 1: to conduct with Queen of Four and Supernova Slum at
Speaker 1: Malik Books, we hold to the book signing now. Huen
Speaker 1: four is the author of a book It's Bautful, about
Speaker 1: twenty years and the New York Times bestseller called Sick
Speaker 1: of Women. Also, Queen of Four and her son Supernova.
Speaker 1: Slum co authored this book called Man Held Thyself Now.
Speaker 1: They put on workshops, seminars in Women's Sacred Circle, healing
Speaker 1: sessions all across this nation. Queen of Fourth for decades
Speaker 1: has healed thousands of women and many of the celebrities.
Speaker 1: She's known for her spiritual, holistic approach and feminium spirit
Speaker 1: and energy as well as you know the men workshops
Speaker 1: in conjunction with their son that they host these training
Speaker 1: sessions with men to try to get men to open
Speaker 1: up and choose life and not death. No, oftentimes men
Speaker 1: don't go to the doctors as often as women. They
Speaker 1: don't get checked up as as women, and as a result,
Speaker 1: you know a lot of things that if you catch
Speaker 1: it early, you could be healed very quickly if you
Speaker 1: catch some of these diseases early, and a lot of
Speaker 1: times men just don't visit the doctors on a consistent basis,
Speaker 1: so they do these men training sessions all across the nation.
Speaker 1: Um So, anyway, we conducted this book event at Malik
Speaker 1: Books and I was able to interview both of them.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna share with some of the interview and
Speaker 1: experts from this gathering. We took place over the holidays,
Speaker 1: so enjoy Queen of Four and super Nova Slum Interview.
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Speaker 1: This is Queen of Four Atlas Books and we love
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Speaker 1: don't relieve Malik's books the Galactic Black Consciousness. I need
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Speaker 1: my audience on Reliks bookshow. Listen, this is the bookstore
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Speaker 1: I just I wouldn't get everything that's in here. I'm
Speaker 1: excited and I'm coming back. Come on, b if you
Speaker 1: hadn't defined yourself, okay, one word, what would it be
Speaker 1: your first? My brother Galactic whoa over the top enjoy
Speaker 1: of the spirit of the most high quen four. What
Speaker 1: made you go into healing, wellness and hordlistic approach to healing.
Speaker 1: I was in sixteen year olds of year old and
Speaker 1: I was at asthma, allergies, a fever, um conservation, he m,
Speaker 1: that's chronic mood. Paint. Every month, I had a list
Speaker 1: and I would in the three days you to change
Speaker 1: my life. And I had to change my life. And
Speaker 1: that three days I got my asthma started to come
Speaker 1: out as mucus. And then I went on three twenty
Speaker 1: one day cycles, which is what I have here to
Speaker 1: talk program. I went on three twenty one day cycles
Speaker 1: inspired by a book they read a quick of Mother Nations,
Speaker 1: and I kept going until I fully healed myself one
Speaker 1: of those levels. And then I got caught up in
Speaker 1: the raps. I got excited. I wanted to let anyone
Speaker 1: know that healing is possible, and healing is our culture.
Speaker 1: We just started each other the oprah and the vegetable
Speaker 1: juice and which called the pot lickup. There's our culture.
Speaker 1: There's things that we always did and that we must
Speaker 1: begin to do again so we can recover and heal ourselves.
Speaker 1: So from gateway to gateway I'm just gonna say very briefly,
Speaker 1: there's a gateway of mother knew, of whom heeling. The
Speaker 1: gateway of words was words have power to destroy, aught
Speaker 1: to be up, to heal and build to Florida, medicine
Speaker 1: to move me. This medicine to tapping with you in
Speaker 1: child is medicine to work with your family as medicine
Speaker 1: forgivings and and learning and love and the family who
Speaker 1: no matter what, if you don't hear Ifi, you may
Speaker 1: not be here if you don't raise that frequent And
Speaker 1: he could a big old pot of earth teeth every day,
Speaker 1: and God is Ginger is garlic, and it's earth. It's
Speaker 1: it's real time, you know. So it's that level. If
Speaker 1: we level up, there's nothing that we cannot have as
Speaker 1: a weak. So if you make it up in your
Speaker 1: mind and you add that to some detoxing as some
Speaker 1: good coaching, oh you're good to go. So when springtime can,
Speaker 1: I always go by and I go by the seasons.
Speaker 1: I go by this how the sun come up, and
Speaker 1: when the sun goes down to it's I just live
Speaker 1: in that place because I'm always growing. So that economics
Speaker 1: is already in you. Author Begs I am the bank,
Speaker 1: I am the prosperity. I am the wealth. I bring
Speaker 1: the well, bring the world. I walk in well. I
Speaker 1: have wealthy thoughts. I have wealthy thought and I worked
Speaker 1: with my people work to bring the well, to receive
Speaker 1: the well and welcome people. Super No, but tell us
Speaker 1: a little bit about the man Healed that Self training
Speaker 1: well online? Right? So pastest training that we do for
Speaker 1: the men um a holistic wellness rest of pastest training
Speaker 1: and how did that? We came together and put together
Speaker 1: some additional information that can whether brother was participating with
Speaker 1: us online or he was just working on himself. We
Speaker 1: laid out holiicic particles that he if he applies on
Speaker 1: a daily basis, he can really transform himself and be
Speaker 1: a better service to others. Most men are taught to
Speaker 1: put everybody else and everything first before him self. But
Speaker 1: he's still be quite to show up. And this is
Speaker 1: why a lot of our men have heart attacks and
Speaker 1: have depression because they have this uh. They need to
Speaker 1: want to be always the one to show up, and
Speaker 1: he's not showing up for himself though. Right and so
Speaker 1: in the Man Held that Self text, we empower men
Speaker 1: wherever they're at. In the healing where whether they plant
Speaker 1: based or not, whatever spiritual have the may be from
Speaker 1: giving him tools to understand that he's accountable for himself
Speaker 1: and if even if he's not a percent, if he's
Speaker 1: working to really better himself, he can show up better
Speaker 1: for others in his life. But he must first put
Speaker 1: himself in self care first, love of yourself, you know.
Speaker 1: And so it's it's a it's about approach with a
Speaker 1: lot of our brothers because they again they don't want
Speaker 1: to appear not today. They want the information, they want
Speaker 1: that they love the concern, but to to not appear
Speaker 1: to have it all together. A lot of some brothers
Speaker 1: and we see it. I got together that put Opie
Speaker 1: up right. All the brothers may not want to, you know,
Speaker 1: be transparent with that right. So it's about finding the
Speaker 1: right love language to communicate with that brother, letting me
Speaker 1: it's okay, it's okay, man, open up, and just to
Speaker 1: enhance himself. You know, we talk about self care. You know, this, this,
Speaker 1: this whole vessel is about the knowledge of self, of
Speaker 1: caring for yourself because the lack of to be careless
Speaker 1: is a detriment of your life. So yeah, it's how
Speaker 1: you speak to him. You know what I'm saying with
Speaker 1: careless for female, Well, if you're a careless man, you
Speaker 1: are talking it man that is out here on a whim,
Speaker 1: that in a in a snap, you out of here
Speaker 1: because you are careless. So be a careful man, a
Speaker 1: care full man, a man that is cared for in
Speaker 1: full of man. So are we ready to get our
Speaker 1: industry this year coming in? Yeah? I was ready to
Speaker 1: get out of prosperity. And it's even somebody even to
Speaker 1: connect to. That's why it's called collective economy. That's right,
Speaker 1: bring circle, bring that full third. There's somebody in this
Speaker 1: room that has another piece of what you want. Somebody
Speaker 1: has the concept that somebody has to find it. Can
Speaker 1: y'all get together? Yeah? Absolutely, do what you can. But
Speaker 1: we got to make a conscious effort to do better
Speaker 1: as black people because economics can change the quality of
Speaker 1: your life, but also our community in our neighborhoods, and
Speaker 1: we have to recycle that money and we have to
Speaker 1: wherever we can. There times when we unfortunately you know,
Speaker 1: we won't make no automobiles. So you ain't got no choice,
Speaker 1: but book right, we got your man helped myself. That's
Speaker 1: Sacred Woman, we got it here, so I know what
Speaker 1: Amazon is the number one descript your books will come on.
Speaker 1: That's right, and support that's still a unit sales for them.
Speaker 1: And we're recycling that black pill right. Thank you Queen
Speaker 1: of four and thank you super No Slum for sharing
Speaker 1: with us your high energy and your frequency and the
Speaker 1: gifts that you are able to acquire in your journey
Speaker 1: towards enlightenment. Thank you, We appreciate you. If you're looking
Speaker 1: for a good read fore particularly for boys, and it's
Speaker 1: hard to find. And I'm not saying girls can't read
Speaker 1: this book, but it's hard to find a really good
Speaker 1: book for boys. And they you know, people come in
Speaker 1: all the time ask me, but make what what do
Speaker 1: you working? Man? And a you know, a preteen, you know,
Speaker 1: a youth and going to the doulthood, I say, and
Speaker 1: he doesn't like to read? Um? Because one of my
Speaker 1: first is, hey, what do you want? What does he
Speaker 1: like to read? What I'm saying, well, oftentimes you know,
Speaker 1: they really don't know. Parents don't know because the kids
Speaker 1: don't really read. Well. A good book I always say
Speaker 1: is Victory Stand. Now it just came out, but I
Speaker 1: like Victory Stand because there's not a lot of a
Speaker 1: whole lot of reading, but the reading has a message.
Speaker 1: And the Victory Stand Raising My Fists for Justice by
Speaker 1: Tommy Smith and Dirk Bonds. And the reason I like
Speaker 1: this boo because you know it's illustrations in there is
Speaker 1: you know, they're all in black and white. But it
Speaker 1: had doesn't have a whole lot of read, but it
Speaker 1: got a message in there. And sometimes you gotta meet
Speaker 1: kids where they had and so Victory Standard is just
Speaker 1: a book about Tommy Smith raising his fists in the
Speaker 1: sixty Olympic Games. Uh. He was a member of the
Speaker 1: Black Panther Party during that time. I believe um or
Speaker 1: these sympathize with them. And you know he won the
Speaker 1: gold medal in the nine Olympic Games. He raised his fist,
Speaker 1: him and Tommy Collos and as a result of their
Speaker 1: protests for the social injustice was taking place in America. UM,
Speaker 1: they were sent home, expelled from uh the Olympic Games,
Speaker 1: and there was a black last for many years, many years. Uh.
Speaker 1: Tommy Smith, UM now came out and you know, collaborate
Speaker 1: with Dirk Bonds to put out this book for our
Speaker 1: youth to lift uplift them. And show him the power
Speaker 1: of change through sacrifice. Shammy sacrifice a lot of his
Speaker 1: wealth because of the fact that he made a stand
Speaker 1: against what was taking place in America in UM and
Speaker 1: so for the social injustice it was taking place in
Speaker 1: their president that was taking place. He sacrificed his notoriety
Speaker 1: and his game and his fortunate he achieved by winning
Speaker 1: and in the nineteen and living gold Man in the two.
Speaker 1: Now you know, we look back, rewind and so forth,
Speaker 1: and he's being honored for his sacrifice. UM at the
Speaker 1: Mexico Olympic Games and UM John Carlos, he had won
Speaker 1: the bronze medal. He also stood on the podium UM
Speaker 1: in his black socks and raised and he also raised
Speaker 1: his black gulf fists along with Tommy Smith to protest
Speaker 1: the racial and just inflicted upon African ber I like
Speaker 1: to say black people. Both men were forced to lead Olympics,
Speaker 1: received death threats and face ostracism and continue economic hardship
Speaker 1: UM in the In this first ever memoir for young readers,
Speaker 1: Tommy Smith looks back at his childhood growing up in Royal, Texas,
Speaker 1: through his stellar athletic career, accumulating in his historic ventory
Speaker 1: at the Olympic podium protests and so, um, you know,
Speaker 1: sacrifice oftentimes a necessary in order to advance UH personally, professionally,
Speaker 1: and you as well as your community and nation. Tommy
Speaker 1: Smith h you know, protested that. And so this book,
Speaker 1: Victory stands just you know, beautiful book is illustrated, not
Speaker 1: a lot of words, easy to read, but it got
Speaker 1: a message and it's you know, like I say, it's
Speaker 1: a good book for young men as well as women
Speaker 1: can read it as well. But you know, graphic novels
Speaker 1: is a hot new genrey of books that UH is
Speaker 1: on the bloom because you know, um, some of my
Speaker 1: children just don't like to read a whole lot of wordy,
Speaker 1: wordy books, so why not break them into a graphic
Speaker 1: novel and a novel they got a message? So I
Speaker 1: recommend Victory Stand. That's my book review for this episode.
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