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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to this episode of Keith It Paza

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Speaker 1: is sweetie. I'm Christophine and Hazlet and if you cannot tell,

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Speaker 1: I'm not at home. I'm in Los Angeles catching up

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Speaker 1: with some of my favorite people right here in La

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Speaker 1: We are at thirteen Loon in Los Angeles. It is

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Speaker 1: a black founded store by Nikayo Grayco. And ninety percent

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Speaker 1: of the products sold here are bipop founded. Thank you

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Speaker 1: so much thirteen Loon. Today I have with me none

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Speaker 1: other than Major, also known as a Whole Dealer. My brother.

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Speaker 1: I'm so excited to have you on the couch today.

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Speaker 2: I'm super honored to finally be on the cap.

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Speaker 1: We've been working this out because the way I shoot,

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Speaker 1: it's very unorthodox. A lot of people just shoot whenever

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Speaker 1: I shoot line in blocks. So I'm glad were.

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Speaker 2: It's called organization. Yes, yeah, yeah, you got you got

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Speaker 2: intention to it all and I'm honored. First things first,

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Speaker 2: I want you to know that I'm extremely proud of you.

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Speaker 2: You're impacting in more ways than one. And as I

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Speaker 2: shared right before we started shooting, I was saying that

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Speaker 2: it's a an effortless relatability that you represent. You give

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Speaker 2: people permission to just show up, show up fully, dream big,

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Speaker 2: and keep it positive. Period. It is.

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Speaker 1: So congrats, Thank you so much for those of you

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Speaker 1: who may have been under a rock. Major is also

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Speaker 1: known as the Hope Healer, but he is.

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Speaker 2: Also a platinum hope dealer. I said healer, but I'll

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Speaker 2: go with hope healer. A few folks have said that before,

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Speaker 2: because I do believe a whope mindset does heal. But

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Speaker 2: we'll get into that. Keep going, keep.

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Speaker 1: Going, Come on, he is a hope dealer. He's a

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Speaker 1: platinum American soul singer and an actor. So just in

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Speaker 1: case you don't know that two is Major. You and

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Speaker 1: I first met, I feel it was through Instagram, Yeah yeah,

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Speaker 1: and then we ran into each other at the NAACPO

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Speaker 1: Wars dinner and.

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Speaker 2: I was like wait. I was like, I get to

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Speaker 2: actually meet you.

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Speaker 1: And You've always been such a beautiful light and spirit

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Speaker 1: and just amazing a lot of people know you from

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Speaker 1: your songs and your music and the joy that you

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Speaker 1: bring into our homes, but meeting you, I was like,

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Speaker 1: I see it translates through.

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Speaker 2: You realize it's real. Yeah, Because I want to make

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Speaker 2: sure that people know that this ain't some front, like

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Speaker 2: I really choose joy. I hope. It's literally my fuel.

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Speaker 2: And it doesn't mean everything's perfect, but it is. It

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Speaker 2: is very much who I've who I am, and who

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Speaker 2: I've always been. Yeah, I love it.

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Speaker 1: So for the people who don't know, just tell us

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Speaker 1: a little bit about yourself.

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Speaker 2: So I'm originally from Houston, Texas. Yeah, h time. I

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Speaker 2: went to the former arts schools all my life. I'm

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Speaker 2: one of thirteen siblings.

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Grew up in a household a family of it was

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Speaker 2: ten of us, a blended family, ten siblings. And yeah,

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Speaker 2: I was very very close to family, have always been.

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Speaker 2: The church is where it all started for me. The

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Speaker 2: churches where it ends for me. You know, it's the

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Speaker 2: kingdom assignment. That is something that I've I've embraced early on.

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Speaker 2: I went on to UH do some some work in

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Speaker 2: music and did an intensive at Julliard before going to UH.

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Speaker 2: The Berkeley College of Music in Boston, where I graduated.

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Speaker 2: Was very active at Berkeley student the president because I

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Speaker 2: believe our voices should be heard. You know. That was

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Speaker 2: my slowe let your voice be heard. No. But I've

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Speaker 2: then fast forwarded moved to Los Angeles, UH to pursue

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Speaker 2: this dream of singing and acting and voiceover work. Uh.

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Speaker 2: It's been a disrespectful yet rewarding adventure, a lot of

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Speaker 2: lessons along the way. I'm married now, three and a

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Speaker 2: And uh, yeah, so we're here. I was a worship

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Speaker 2: leader for a very long time with one church, you know,

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Speaker 2: it for Torrey Roberts and Sarah Jax Roberts. And I'm still,

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Speaker 2: you know, just a church boy living out a soul singer.

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Speaker 2: You know. Yeah, I love it.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about some of the disrespect and rewards along

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Speaker 1: your journey, because a lot of people see you feel like,

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Speaker 1: oh man, he's made it. Like I'm trying to get there,

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Speaker 1: you know. But as artists, we feel like we have

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Speaker 3: Let's speak to that.

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Speaker 2: Well, you said it. As artists, we feel like we

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Speaker 2: we're human first. Oh yeah, And so I try to

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Speaker 2: live in a way to bring people back to I'm human.

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Speaker 3: I'm human.

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Speaker 2: I'm human first, And rejection probably was my greatest disrespector

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Speaker 2: but my greatest teacher. I have a new relationship with

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Speaker 2: a rejection. But rejection is very much a part of

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Speaker 2: this journey that I've lived pursuing entertainment as a career

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Speaker 2: because people don't know that we get way more knows

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Speaker 2: than we get, yes, a whole lot more. We just

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Speaker 2: when we're in flight, when there's turbulence, if we see

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Speaker 2: say flight attendant, don't say steward is. No more flight

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Speaker 2: attendant tripping during turbulence. We're gonna act up, We're gonna

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Speaker 2: their composure in the midst of the turbulence, because turbulence

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Speaker 2: rejection and it's great side of disrespect has definitely challenged

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Speaker 2: me to to question if what I'm longing for, I'm

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Speaker 2: And it doesn't always feel good, especially when rejection is

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Speaker 2: not necessarily an indicator of you're not qualified. So that's

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Speaker 2: the teacher in it, because I realized that it's not

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Speaker 2: always about not being qualified. That doesn't mean that that

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Speaker 2: is the reason why a thing isn't a thing for you.

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Speaker 2: Yet it's not your time or this one, this ain't what,

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Speaker 2: this ain't a part of the plan, or you know,

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Speaker 2: just a redirection. You know, we say rejection is God's

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Speaker 2: my reclaiming and my renaming of rejection, the word no

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Speaker 2: that acronym is next one, because Crystal, if it ain't

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Speaker 2: ain't that one, we're gonna get the next one. My

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Speaker 2: only thing is to show up well every time so

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Speaker 2: that I don't have a regret.

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Speaker 1: Exactly have you always had that you no?

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Speaker 2: I told you journey. I imagine imagine being the talented

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Speaker 2: it's a whole bunch of talented big fish, you know,

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Speaker 2: and and you have to figure out where your place

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Speaker 2: start to question, am I as talented? As a thought?

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Speaker 2: You're still talented, but there's a whole lot of others,

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Speaker 2: and so it's just about where you belong and where

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Speaker 2: God needs you ultimately in the season that you're in.

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Speaker 2: And so it took some time and some growing and conversations.

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Speaker 2: Like my uncle play him and his wife Lodonna dal

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Speaker 2: hugely had a conversation with me about rejection and he

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Speaker 2: was like, man, I've been rejected way more than I've

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Speaker 2: been accepted, he says, But when I was accepted, I

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Speaker 2: leaned into that thing with everything I had. And so

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Speaker 2: when people see that that's what they were doing.

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Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, I know for artists, I don't know how

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Speaker 1: we longed for the awards and the award season. We

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Speaker 2: It's do you feel like that?

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Speaker 1: So how do you deal with I know a lot

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Speaker 1: of times an award season comes around, it's just like dang,

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Speaker 2: And how do you deal with that. It's the count

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Speaker 2: You know, at the end of the day, people get

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Speaker 2: while I'm on earth, I would love to enjoy some benefits.

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Speaker 2: Who doesn't want to smell the flowers? Look at that

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Speaker 2: doesn't want to enjoy treasures? It's I just have to

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Speaker 2: make sure that the reward, the award, the accolade, is

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Speaker 2: what I think many of us get caught up in

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Speaker 2: I counted our joy by just counting up the moment,

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Speaker 2: like you literally are pulling in some influential people. So

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Speaker 2: if you don't realize that that's your perpetual reward and

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Speaker 2: accolade for the impact that you're making. Because people don't

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Speaker 2: trophy or the success of your podcast, we win it. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I love that some people don't know that your real

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Speaker 1: name is Major. My mama name me that that's right exactly.

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Speaker 1: And when your mom was pregnant with you, her prayer

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, it has been. It's been an interesting journey

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Speaker 2: we define impact with certain accolades. Yes we do, which

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Speaker 2: love letter to God, you know, And I'm not realizing

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Speaker 2: that it's impacting people in a way that they decide

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Speaker 2: not to commit suicide because they realize that they're worthy

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Speaker 2: so this is the impact. It's not just about I'm

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Speaker 2: It's about how you are speaking to the cry of

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Speaker 2: and every day I have to reset my perspective and

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Speaker 2: intention to make sure that that's first. The other stuff

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Speaker 2: yearning to be reminded that they're worthy. Yeah, so my

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Speaker 2: mama knew. My mama prays, and I love her for it.

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Speaker 1: Shout out to mom. I love that. So speaking of

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Speaker 1: your childhood, what was it like growing up in Houston?

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Speaker 1: You said you were in the church with Like how

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Speaker 1: to Juilliard And what was that journey like from a child?

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Speaker 2: Oh, I've always been extra So my Mama named me

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Speaker 2: right for that major has always been in I've always

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Speaker 2: been bold and courageous, not always confident. And we can

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Speaker 2: talk about that later, because that's that's the thing that

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Speaker 2: Relieve yourself or that. I'm saying that just in case

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Speaker 2: The as you love yourself is the operative. It's not

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Speaker 2: God will never, I have learned. God never wants us

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Speaker 2: Sometimes you just you just have to. It's just that reset,

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Speaker 2: there is the way, and that is love and that

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Speaker 2: is God and that is life. Yes, I love it.

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Speaker 1: I love that you are known as the hope.

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Speaker 2: He dealer.

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Speaker 1: I want to call you the whole heal I don't

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Speaker 1: know why he's coming out the whole healers.

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00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:31,360
Speaker 2: All right, I'm gonna go with the flow of what

436
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:32,680
Speaker 2: this profitences seen.

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00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:36,360
Speaker 1: But Billy Johnson is the one that gave you the

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Speaker 1: name the hope Dealer. Can you just give us the

439
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:39,880
Speaker 1: story behind that?

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00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:47,280
Speaker 2: So, Billy Johnson is a journalist, a music journalist. He

441
00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:50,480
Speaker 2: used to work with Yahoo Music when Yahoo Music was

442
00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 2: a big thing, and he did an interview and he

443
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:57,200
Speaker 2: brought attention to this term that had been floating around

444
00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:00,760
Speaker 2: about me. He's a hope dealer. He's a hope dealer.

445
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:02,520
Speaker 2: And my team was like, yeah, we the hope dealer.

446
00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:08,680
Speaker 2: You're the hope dealer. And because and he said in

447
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:15,280
Speaker 2: this article that major is feeling the void of hope

448
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:20,120
Speaker 2: and inspiration that is missing in mainstream music. And I

449
00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:25,040
Speaker 2: was like, oh yeah, I like that. That's an assignment

450
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:31,200
Speaker 2: I rock with that. Hope has always been my theme.

451
00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:38,560
Speaker 2: I define hope is this Hope is not the denial

452
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:44,000
Speaker 2: of reality. It's the commitment to believe greater is on

453
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Speaker 2: the other side of it. I break it down even

454
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:53,480
Speaker 2: more that hope is not the pretending that circumstance and

455
00:30:53,600 --> 00:31:00,480
Speaker 2: hardship and difficulty ain't real. Yeah, because it is because

456
00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:05,000
Speaker 2: life is gonna life. Yes, hope or no hope, But

457
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 2: hope is a commitment to anchor yourself to the promise

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00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:13,120
Speaker 2: and the promise keeper. And if he did it before,

459
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,040
Speaker 2: he can do it again. Yes, yes, And that the

460
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:19,520
Speaker 2: fact of the matter is every storm runs out of rain,

461
00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:24,880
Speaker 2: every single one. So all I have to do is

462
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 2: hold to this hope that is attached to this phenomenon

463
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:35,040
Speaker 2: called faith, that it's shown and proving to always work

464
00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:40,280
Speaker 2: as long as you hold to it and you put

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Speaker 2: in the work, because you can't talk faith unless you

466
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:47,280
Speaker 2: talk hope, because faith is a substance of things hope for.

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00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:51,760
Speaker 2: But hope has changed my life is it has been

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00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:55,880
Speaker 2: the fuel to what I do. It has given me

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Speaker 2: perspective to shift in moments, a pivot in moments to

470
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:08,360
Speaker 2: say and is next one? Yeah? You know. I even

471
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:10,640
Speaker 2: had it tatted on my arm. I have a foundation

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00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 2: called major Hope, Major Hope. I put this. I tatted

473
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 2: hope on my arm right after while I Love you

474
00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:24,920
Speaker 2: blew up the first time, and then I'm like, what

475
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:28,400
Speaker 2: do I have next? I felt this pressure of needing

476
00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:33,240
Speaker 2: to outdo this, you know the success of that, and

477
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:36,040
Speaker 2: thinking that people were putting pressure on me, assuming pressure

478
00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:41,480
Speaker 2: that wasn't even real. And I realized I had to Major.

479
00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:46,360
Speaker 2: You gotta start living the hope you're giving. And so

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00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:49,480
Speaker 2: I tatted on my arm as a reminder. Never thought

481
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:52,360
Speaker 2: i'd ever get a tattoo, but I tatted on my

482
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:55,720
Speaker 2: arm as a reminder that the hope you live is

483
00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:59,240
Speaker 2: a hope you give. The hope you give is a

484
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:00,360
Speaker 2: hope you must live.

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00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:00,920
Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 2: And it has been the current that has kept me.

487
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:11,640
Speaker 2: And I'm telling you it delivers well. Lock into hope.

488
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:15,280
Speaker 2: You get your joy there, you get your peace there,

489
00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:20,360
Speaker 2: you get your abundance there. Yeah, Lock into hope.

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Speaker 1: That's amazing. You speak about your foundation, tells how we

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Speaker 1: can support it.

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Speaker 2: What it's about, The Major Hope Foundation Major all caps

493
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:33,800
Speaker 2: with a period. That's that's the clever part. By my

494
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:36,600
Speaker 2: real name is Major. I capitalize every letter and put

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Speaker 2: a period after that because I mean that name. Major

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Speaker 2: dot Hope All Caps Foundation is a social action initiative

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00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 2: committed to the amplification of hope and communities and people

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00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:55,200
Speaker 2: near and far. My intention is just to help redefine

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Speaker 2: our understanding of hope to not just see it as

500
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:04,200
Speaker 2: some fluffy cliche that's just said when circumstance circumstance, but

501
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:11,080
Speaker 2: really a real tangible answer and remedy to the tough

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00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:17,759
Speaker 2: times of life. Major Hope Foundation Major Hope Foundation dot org.

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Speaker 2: You can go on there. We have three programs. The

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00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:25,840
Speaker 2: Major Hope Experience, which is like a concert experience. We

505
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:28,759
Speaker 2: do it acoustic or with the full band, where it's

506
00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:34,360
Speaker 2: music meets motivation, where motivation and music Collie think MTV

507
00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 2: on Plug meets of the Soul Sunday, it's special. That's

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00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 2: one program. The other program is Random Drops of Hope

509
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:49,719
Speaker 2: likened to random Acts of Kindness, where it's pop up

510
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 2: charitable activations where we just respond to needs and it's

511
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:56,920
Speaker 2: super dope. And the last one, which I really love,

512
00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:03,359
Speaker 2: is Confidence Coaching. Do this intensive that helps young people

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00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:08,640
Speaker 2: and also adults on building esteem and value systems, because

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00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 2: I think we live different when we feel that we're

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00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:15,960
Speaker 2: worth something. Absolutely, we we really live different. We move

516
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:19,760
Speaker 2: different when you feel that there's value, yeah, in your living.

517
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:24,560
Speaker 2: And and so we work on effective communications, ways to

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00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:31,600
Speaker 2: communicate more effectively, understanding that you might talk a certain way,

519
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 2: but there's other environments that require a different way of communicating,

520
00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:38,520
Speaker 2: and it's not denying who you are. The colde switch

521
00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:43,960
Speaker 2: is necessary for everybody. Oftentimes it's a very necessary thing.

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00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:48,800
Speaker 2: But making sure that there's authenticity and whatever switches absolutely.

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00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:53,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I love it amazing, So make we make

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00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:54,279
Speaker 1: sure we support that for sure.

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00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:54,759
Speaker 2: Yeah.

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00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:58,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I want to talk music, Okay, let's I

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00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:00,440
Speaker 1: want to know what you have coming up? People know

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00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:02,439
Speaker 1: because I know we've been writing on some music.

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00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:04,320
Speaker 2: So what do you have next? Well, I have a

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00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:08,880
Speaker 2: new EP called The Hope of My Soul. We just

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00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:13,760
Speaker 2: released The Hope of My Soul Deluxe that's available everywhere.

532
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:17,920
Speaker 2: I'm a soul singer you are, and I sing from

533
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:22,760
Speaker 2: the heart of my experiences a church boy. The sound

534
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:28,160
Speaker 2: and the sonics of this particular project is soul meets Americana.

535
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:29,480
Speaker 2: It takes her to church.

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00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:30,200
Speaker 1: Wow.

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00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 2: So it's real, it's real good. You can feel my

538
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:38,759
Speaker 2: my Southern roots coming out. Think Bill Withers meets Ray

539
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:41,760
Speaker 2: Charles and Ran and to Month and and his sons.

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00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:46,160
Speaker 2: It's anthemic, it's good. It's message music.

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Speaker 1: Is that where you were when you walk in?

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00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:56,520
Speaker 2: Yeah? For the Wind was one of the songs the lyric.

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00:36:57,480 --> 00:37:02,600
Speaker 2: There's a process to it all, so many lessons great

544
00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:07,720
Speaker 2: and small. Should you go under struck by the thunder?

545
00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:14,920
Speaker 2: Embrace the rain? There's a testing in the fall. How

546
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 2: will you rise up to it all? Do you surrender,

547
00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 2: return to cinder, or do you face the pain?

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00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:34,759
Speaker 4: It's all working together for the wind. Yea, it's all

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00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:37,040
Speaker 4: working together.

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00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:42,719
Speaker 2: For the wind. So all you gotta do is let

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00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:50,640
Speaker 2: it flow, Let it flow, let it flow. Shit, God,

552
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:54,919
Speaker 2: encourage myself because life is gone. Life. But the fact

553
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 2: of the matter is, it ain't over till it's good.

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00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:02,600
Speaker 2: It ain't over until it Yeah. God doesn't have us

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00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:05,560
Speaker 2: just out here, just out here. Yes, there's intention and

556
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:08,920
Speaker 2: there's a reason. Yeah, and we will meet that reason

557
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:12,800
Speaker 2: sure as we show up and show up. Well, it

558
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:15,439
Speaker 2: gets tough. I got a song on there called joy

559
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:19,840
Speaker 2: in the Battle, And there's a verse that I that

560
00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:23,520
Speaker 2: says the second verse says, you shouldn't let yourself get

561
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:27,040
Speaker 2: tangled up and worry, cause that kind of live and

562
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:32,239
Speaker 2: takes its told, m you better take that pencil back,

563
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:37,200
Speaker 2: rewrite your story and write the best one ever told. Yeah,

564
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:39,799
Speaker 2: all over me. You won't my piece, but you won't

565
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 2: get it but it says joy in the battle, joy

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Speaker 2: in my victory. I keep my eyes to the heaven,

567
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:48,840
Speaker 2: so my joy never slips from me. M This is

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00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 2: real life. We don't need the permission of our storm,

569
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:56,120
Speaker 2: our circumstance, or hardship to choose joy. You choose it anyway,

570
00:38:56,719 --> 00:38:59,760
Speaker 2: and your circumstances no other choice but to fall in line.

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00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:04,520
Speaker 2: So good were keeping it positively, We keep it sweet. Yeah, yeah,

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00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:05,480
Speaker 2: the hope of my soul.

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Speaker 1: My goodness. Okay, we definitely got it.

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Speaker 2: I love that. Yeah, my goodness. I really think it's

575
00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:13,880
Speaker 2: gonna I really think it's gonna be soundtrack to the

576
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:17,480
Speaker 2: get back, to get back to winning, to the reset.

577
00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:20,720
Speaker 2: Be it in the morning, but in the evening. Shout

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00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:24,520
Speaker 2: out to everybody that just yes decides to show up.

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Speaker 1: Well, I love it.

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Speaker 2: I love it. Major, Thank you so much, thank you

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Speaker 2: for having me this.

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Speaker 1: No, I appreciate you. Before we close out, if you

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00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:36,239
Speaker 1: like to hang out just for a bit, we do

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00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:38,920
Speaker 1: what it's called positive outcome. Okay, that's our listeners right

585
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:41,160
Speaker 1: in and we give them advice. Yeah yeah, all right,

586
00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:43,880
Speaker 1: So this one says high Crystal. I just watched your

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00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:46,960
Speaker 1: episode with Eva Marcel. You talked about multiple things, but

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00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:49,719
Speaker 1: what stuck out is that when you asked why she

589
00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:51,840
Speaker 1: wanted to get back into the word, she said, it

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00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:55,440
Speaker 1: was you your light. When she said that and followed

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Speaker 1: up by saying, because I've been feeling empty, I felt

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00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:01,919
Speaker 1: that I immediately shed some tears. These past six months

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00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:05,520
Speaker 1: of my life have been indescribably painful. I have always

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00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:08,120
Speaker 1: been extremely close to my grandma. She raised me, and

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00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:11,000
Speaker 1: I've always taken care of her. She became sick in

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Speaker 1: November twenty twenty three, and I was in and out

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Speaker 1: of the hospital until January twenty twenty four. Both my

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00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:19,800
Speaker 1: mom and I are only children. My mom and I

599
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:23,520
Speaker 1: were working around the clock, were working like clockwork to

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Speaker 1: make sure that my grandmother was safe and healthy. My

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Speaker 1: grandma was getting better, and then one day my mom

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00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:31,359
Speaker 1: called and said she was gone. I have never dealt

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00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:33,880
Speaker 1: with this type of loss, and I have been devastated

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00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:37,640
Speaker 1: ever since. So many first without my grandmother had flown by.

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Speaker 1: When Eva said that she was feeling empty, it really

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00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:43,440
Speaker 1: struck a chord. I have been feeling empty and down.

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00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:46,440
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm losing my light that God gave me.

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00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:49,520
Speaker 1: I want my light back, I want my energy back.

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00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:52,719
Speaker 1: I want to feel whole again. What do I do

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00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:55,360
Speaker 1: now that my purpose is gone? And how do I

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Speaker 1: grow my dimn delight?

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00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:04,719
Speaker 2: So what we just did naturally after reading it, we

613
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:07,520
Speaker 2: took a deep breath in and we let it out.

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00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:14,400
Speaker 2: So to my sister that wrote that, I would encourage

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00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:17,920
Speaker 2: you to catch your breath first. So we're gonna do that.

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Speaker 3: Take a deep breath in, let it out, Take a

617
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:30,719
Speaker 3: deep breath in, let it out.

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Speaker 2: That's surrender. Life does not need our permission to life.

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00:41:43,719 --> 00:41:52,200
Speaker 2: It won't ask for permission to life. Grief, which often

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00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:57,960
Speaker 2: comes not just at the loss of loved ones, but

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Speaker 2: it comes as a result of the unfamiliar of the

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00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:07,160
Speaker 2: familiar changing. Grief does not just come at the loss

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Speaker 2: of loved ones. It comes when the familiar changes. And

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00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:20,719
Speaker 2: you said something that really hit me. You said you

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00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:28,000
Speaker 2: no longer have purpose MM. Your purpose will never only

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00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:34,160
Speaker 2: be in one individual or assigned to one individual. I

627
00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:40,120
Speaker 2: guarantee you that there is purpose that was connected MM

628
00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:44,320
Speaker 2: to the one you loved. And if you catch your breath,

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00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:49,239
Speaker 2: get back to your maker. Yes, you will discover and

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00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:56,400
Speaker 2: uncover that there are lessons that were learned while your

631
00:42:56,480 --> 00:43:02,399
Speaker 2: grandmama lived That you learned along the way, and now

632
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:05,440
Speaker 2: is the time for you to walk in the fullness

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00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:10,879
Speaker 2: of what that was. That is where purpose is going

634
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:20,320
Speaker 2: to be. And remember this purpose reciprocates. It helps others,

635
00:43:21,239 --> 00:43:25,560
Speaker 2: but it also helps you. So please don't ever think

636
00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:30,840
Speaker 2: that you're missing in the equation of assignment and intention

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00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:35,040
Speaker 2: and what God has destined for you. There is so

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00:43:35,239 --> 00:43:38,640
Speaker 2: much more life to live, and we on a legacy

639
00:43:39,239 --> 00:43:43,239
Speaker 2: when we choose to continue to live when the familiar

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00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:50,840
Speaker 2: has changed. Grief is simply love finding a new rhythm.

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00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:56,279
Speaker 2: Were going to be all right, Sis, I've been there.

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00:43:57,440 --> 00:43:58,880
Speaker 2: Welcome to life.

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00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:02,839
Speaker 3: That's so good.

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Speaker 1: Major, thank you, Thank you that helped me, and I

645
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:07,719
Speaker 1: know I know that's going to help her.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so good.

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Speaker 1: So what we like to ask our guests is what

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Speaker 1: I'm going through and what I'm growing through? Is there

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Speaker 1: anything in this particular season in your life that you

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Speaker 1: are going through and growing through?

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Speaker 2: In this season, I am going through the unknown. I

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Speaker 2: don't know what is fully next. I'm convinced that it

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Speaker 2: is good, but I'm just trusting God. I'm trusting God

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Speaker 2: in deeper ways than ever before. It feels crazy because

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Speaker 2: I'm often the one that helped so many people get

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Speaker 2: through stuff. Yeah, and it's I'm just in this season

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Speaker 2: where I'm just trying to figure out how am I

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Speaker 2: to be used next. And I'm grateful. I'm grateful, but

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Speaker 2: I'm also hopeful that there is more. I'm grateful for

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Speaker 2: what has already happened. I don't want that to be missed,

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Speaker 2: but I'm hoping for so much more and the peace

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Speaker 2: as I journey there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's crazy, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Cause I know that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah it is. It's like so much good is happening.

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Speaker 2: But I'm also like God with it. You do it.

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Speaker 2: It's like my feet aren't on the ground and I

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Speaker 2: but that's faith. Yeah, when your feet don't touch the

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Speaker 2: ground to still believe, that's faith. Yeah. Man, Okay, I'm crying.

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Speaker 2: They got me crying. Ah man, I love Jesus Christ

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Speaker 2: so much. Yes, it's my best friend.

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Speaker 1: Mm hmm, yes, I love that.

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Speaker 2: Cool.

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Speaker 1: Alright, to close out, We're gonna and I leave. I

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Speaker 1: know this is you having a moment right now. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we keep we close off. But keep it blank, sweetie.

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Speaker 1: If you could leave a word for the people, how

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Speaker 1: would you tell him to keep it blank?

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Speaker 2: Sweety? What would your feeling be for that I'm just

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Speaker 2: gonna go with what's on my hat. There, you go,

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Speaker 2: keep it joy, Yes, sweetie, I love that choose anyway.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and I'm gonna say keep it hopeful, sweetie.

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Speaker 2: A appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Oh my gosh, thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you guys so much for tuning in to this

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Speaker 1: episode of Keep It Positive.

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Speaker 3: Sweetie.

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Speaker 1: If you want to write into our open listener letter,

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Speaker 1: you can write into keep It Positive sweety at gmail

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Speaker 1: dot com. That's Sweetye with an Ie. You can follow

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Speaker 1: me on all platforms that love Christoine and that's l

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Speaker 1: u V Major. Tell the people they.

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Speaker 2: Can follow you now that's Major dot com or now

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Speaker 2: that's Major on everything. And if you're googling me, Major

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Speaker 2: is all capital letters with a period, because, like I said,

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Speaker 2: I make that period.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 1: Guys, thank you so much for tuning in in the

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Speaker 1: meantime in between time you know what to do. Keep

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Speaker 1: it positive, sweetie.

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Speaker 2: Father, we love you with our whole heart. We thank

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Speaker 2: you for having us on your mind. It is so

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Speaker 2: clear that as breath moves in and through us, that

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Speaker 2: there is more. So, Lord God, we say, yes, we surrender,

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Speaker 2: We make ourselves available for your great flow and intention. Yes, God,

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Speaker 2: Thank you for the heart of Crystal and her incredible tea. Yes, Jesus,

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Speaker 2: they clearly seek to move and purpose and purpose alone. Yes,

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Speaker 2: Father God, I pray that you continue to show favor

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Speaker 2: and grace on it. I pray that this session be refreshing,

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Speaker 2: be something new, take us to a new dimension, even

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Speaker 2: higher or deeper, wider. Whatever you have intended for today,

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Speaker 2: may it fully be Thank you. Thank you, Thank you

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Speaker 2: for today and now and for whatever tomorrow bring from

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Speaker 2: this Lord God, thank you for every heart that's connected.

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Speaker 2: If there's any individual circumstances that the people are dealing

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Speaker 2: with that they haven't shared God, in this moment, as

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Speaker 2: we take a deep breath in and we let it out,

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Speaker 2: may they be assured that it too as well. In Jesus' name,

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Speaker 2: we gray, Amen. Amen,