Speaker 1: Have you been having a merry month of May? All
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Speaker 1: April showers. I'm getting all of your share of rain.
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Speaker 1: was a kid, I used to love to pick flowers
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Speaker 1: a great month. Mothers are important. I think the entire
Speaker 1: month of May, not just the second Sunday, should be
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Speaker 1: are being joined by a Hollywood producer in New York
Speaker 1: Times bestselling author who's been blazing his own unique trail
Speaker 1: with an unwavering commitment to uplifting the human spirit through
Speaker 1: stories through entertainment. He and I first met several years
Speaker 1: ago when I was asked to voice a small part
Speaker 1: in an animated film he was producing, call the Star.
Speaker 1: Our paths continue to cross from time to time, and
Speaker 1: it's always a delightful encounter. D von Franklin is the
Speaker 1: driving force behind Franklin Studios and some of Hollywood's most
Speaker 1: successful inspirational films, including Breakthrough and Miracles from Heaven, as
Speaker 1: well as the soon to be released Kingdom Business television
Speaker 1: series for b ET. In addition to his work as
Speaker 1: a producer, he's also the author of best selling books
Speaker 1: such as Live Free, The Success Commandments, The Truth About Men,
Speaker 1: and his new Audible original that We're going to be
Speaker 1: speaking a lot about today. It takes a woman a
Speaker 1: deeply personal look into the tragedy that transformed his family's
Speaker 1: life forever. The book is narrated by Devon, several of
Speaker 1: his aunties and his mother. Before we get to all
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Speaker 1: through the month of April. Hello Devon, welcome to love
Speaker 1: someone with the Lilah. I I'm so excited to talk
Speaker 1: to you. Oh I'm grateful and I always wanted to
Speaker 1: talk to you. Thank you, thank you for being here. So, um,
Speaker 1: I have to tell on myself a little bit. I
Speaker 1: have you know how people say, oh, I have COVID brain,
Speaker 1: I have COVID brain. I don't know if it's that
Speaker 1: I have COVID brain or mom brain or no brain.
Speaker 1: But when my podcast producer came to me and said, hey,
Speaker 1: how would you like to talk to Davon Franklin, I'm like, Wow,
Speaker 1: that name sounds familiar. And she, you know, kind of
Speaker 1: snickers and I'm like, why don't just tell me refreshment
Speaker 1: in my mind? She was like, uh, like major producer,
Speaker 1: famous author, writer, actor, um, and you know him. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, ah, okay, another clue. She goes the star
Speaker 1: and I went the star of the Star of the Start.
Speaker 1: What's start? You mean the start of the animated movie
Speaker 1: that I was in. Yes, So that's why I say,
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's COVID brain, mom brain, or
Speaker 1: no brain. But I'm like, oh, my word, listen, we Hey,
Speaker 1: I was so grateful that you lent your voice to
Speaker 1: the Star. It definitely was a welcome edition. You sounded amazing,
Speaker 1: did a brilliant job. So yes, my, my, all three
Speaker 1: lines of it. Okay, there's other people we wanted to
Speaker 1: involve that we had to change out their voice because
Speaker 1: even for a few lines, if it ain't right, it
Speaker 1: ain't right, it ain't right. Well, I had I had
Speaker 1: a lot of fun doing that, and and so I
Speaker 1: don't tell my kids or my grandkids or whatever, and
Speaker 1: I just pop it in. Is that right? And then
Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, Grahama's I'm kind of a big deal.
Speaker 1: I have three lines in this. I'm a big deal
Speaker 1: out there. You know, I'm a big deal in Hollywood,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Up And then they're like,
Speaker 1: how come you're not in it anymore? How come you
Speaker 1: We keep waiting for more, Like, well, I'm doing some more.
Speaker 1: I'm actually doing uh animated David and Goliath. So I'll
Speaker 1: make sure, okay, remember me, remember me, although I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I could. I don't know who
Speaker 1: in David or Goliath, Like there's a lot of characters,
Speaker 1: so oh, okay, okay, I love that story. I love
Speaker 1: that your story is kind of that story. Oh wow, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know that's interesting. Yeah, yeah, there are aspects of
Speaker 1: that for sure. I mean, you have a new book out,
Speaker 1: an audio book out. It takes a woman, and that
Speaker 1: is kind of metaphorically David and Goliath. You know when
Speaker 1: you think about it, the five smooth stones that David
Speaker 1: had to slay Goliath. God gave you how many aunties?
Speaker 1: And Mama were your five smooth stones? Yeah, and this
Speaker 1: book there's there's five aunts, five great aunts yep, my
Speaker 1: mom my mother. So so the five great aunts maybe
Speaker 1: the five smooth stones, and Mama Bear was the slingshot. Wow,
Speaker 1: Deli is a prophet too. I love it. That's that's deep.
Speaker 1: I love that. I can't wait to share that with
Speaker 1: them because that is your story. That is your story.
Speaker 1: You know what what Satan intended for evil, God has
Speaker 1: used for good. Because if you had not, I mean,
Speaker 1: I know it sounds callous and cold to say, but
Speaker 1: if you had not gone through everything you went through
Speaker 1: as a child, and had God not put those five
Speaker 1: smooth stones, the five aunties and your mama there, would
Speaker 1: you be impacting the world the way you are For good.
Speaker 1: Probably not. Would you be in the position you're in now?
Speaker 1: You have the eyes and the ears of millions of people,
Speaker 1: and you get to influence them with a message that
Speaker 1: we desperately need to hear. Yeah, would you be in
Speaker 1: the position you're in Devon if God had if you
Speaker 1: weren't David against Goliath back then? Wow? Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't think I would. And so you putting it
Speaker 1: in this brilliant you know, prophetic you know, historic theological
Speaker 1: con constants are struck in you know, perspective. It's just amazing.
Speaker 1: And I agree that if it was not for those circumstances,
Speaker 1: I would not be where I am, you know. And
Speaker 1: that's a that's a really a thought I want to
Speaker 1: ponder even more after this because it is deep when
Speaker 1: you think about how how the prophet looked at at
Speaker 1: David's older brothers, you know, Okay, God said this one, y'all,
Speaker 1: I just gotta figure out which one you are. And
Speaker 1: he didn't even meet Scraffie, a little David because he
Speaker 1: was out tending the sheep, like he wasn't even a
Speaker 1: candidate in the father's eyes, in the family's eyes, he nobody.
Speaker 1: He's the little kid out out tending the sheep. You
Speaker 1: know that as a kid, I felt, I felt, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of like that. You know, I felt like, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, I was the middle child. Nobody. You know,
Speaker 1: my older brother got the attention, my younger brother brother
Speaker 1: got the attention. I felt like I was left to
Speaker 1: fend for myself. So, you know, even though I wasn't
Speaker 1: the youngest like David, I did feel that sort of
Speaker 1: kinship of not knowing or feeling like I had a
Speaker 1: clear place. And yet the prophet was told, no, it's
Speaker 1: that little that little run that's the one. That's the one.
Speaker 1: That's the one, that's the one. And and actually, I
Speaker 1: thinking back, I'm trying to remember the whole story. He
Speaker 1: wasn't even selected at that time. He's the one that
Speaker 1: came forward and said me, me, me, I'll do it,
Speaker 1: I'll do it. The the oil fell, you know, from
Speaker 1: when the prophet Samuel put the horn over him, so
Speaker 1: that that happened, but then that was it of that story,
Speaker 1: like Samuel, you know, when the oil fell, But then
Speaker 1: we don't that storyline in terms of him becoming king.
Speaker 1: There's such a long journey, and David wasn't even concerned
Speaker 1: about it. You never hear David say when am I
Speaker 1: going to be king at all? He goes to fight
Speaker 1: Goliath because he's upset that Goliath is offending his people,
Speaker 1: and who is this man to talk about our God
Speaker 1: like that? So you know his heart was so pure. Uh.
Speaker 1: It wasn't about promotion, It wasn't about wanting his purpose
Speaker 1: or even wanting the promise on his life. He just
Speaker 1: wanted to stand up for what he believed in and
Speaker 1: stand up for his faith. And as a result, he
Speaker 1: fought Goliath and then that put him on a path
Speaker 1: ultimately become king. So divan. Instead of calling you divon
Speaker 1: through this interview, I just might call you a little
Speaker 1: David because how old were you when you knew that
Speaker 1: you wanted to share all this goodness with all of us? Like, um, well,
Speaker 1: I knew that I wanted to go to Hollywood, oh man,
Speaker 1: you know young twelve thirteen years old, just about the
Speaker 1: time you'd be out there in the fields with the
Speaker 1: sling shot possibly. And now there are so many things
Speaker 1: that you are involved with. Just just give me a
Speaker 1: synapsis a screenshot of today, of all the different projects
Speaker 1: that you're working on today. Because I know you carved
Speaker 1: out time for us, and I appreciate that. I truly
Speaker 1: do time is a gift and you're blessing us with that.
Speaker 1: So just just a snapshot, yeah, I mean in terms
Speaker 1: of my snapshot today, I mean, you know, I have
Speaker 1: a lot of interviews that I'm doing for this new
Speaker 1: book It Takes a Woman, So you know, I probably
Speaker 1: have about fifteen interviews today. Um. I am Also, you know,
Speaker 1: there's a book that I wrote that there's some interest
Speaker 1: to turn it into a TV series, so I'm meeting
Speaker 1: with some agents on that. I'm actually having a meeting
Speaker 1: with one of the executives from Audible because they really
Speaker 1: like what we're what I've been doing, what It Takes
Speaker 1: a Woman, and they want to talk about doing more things.
Speaker 1: Supposed to go to my grand my, my, my cousin's
Speaker 1: graduation tonight, you know, like that's in just you know,
Speaker 1: twenty four hours, and then tomorrow it's a whole another
Speaker 1: set of things. I'm testing my movie. I just finished
Speaker 1: with screen testing that tomorrow, um promoting a TV series
Speaker 1: that I produced. You know, I'm just trying to do
Speaker 1: as much as I can, to put as much as
Speaker 1: as people give me opportunities to put great things in
Speaker 1: the in the culture. I'm gonna do my best to
Speaker 1: do that most proud accomplishment professionally. Like if you were
Speaker 1: to say this, this, this has been my my favorite
Speaker 1: project that I've got to birth and bring to life
Speaker 1: and put out there. It's this new audible book. I mean,
Speaker 1: it takes a woman. It is. This is the most
Speaker 1: so so for folks who don't know where that expression
Speaker 1: comes from, it takes a woman. Um, that's your adaptation
Speaker 1: of one of my favorite expressions. It takes a village.
Speaker 1: And uh, and I know you know that takes the
Speaker 1: village has been around for a long time. But and
Speaker 1: I believe that, and I also believe it takes a woman.
Speaker 1: I believe that if it wasn't for the moms and
Speaker 1: the grandmothers and the aunts in our culture and our family,
Speaker 1: where will we be. And so often we do not
Speaker 1: acknowledge and reward and memorialize their contributions. And so I
Speaker 1: really want to do this book on some level as
Speaker 1: a way to do that, and doing that by telling
Speaker 1: my family story and how these women helped save me
Speaker 1: and my brother's lives after my father passed away. And
Speaker 1: how old were you when your last dad nine years old.
Speaker 1: Hard time in the young man's life to have his
Speaker 1: world shattered, You got that right, Really really difficult. And
Speaker 1: that's that's why I start the book with that incident,
Speaker 1: the death of my father, us being in the morgue,
Speaker 1: seeing his body, my mother saying, kissed your father goodbye.
Speaker 1: That's where I start this book. That's where I start
Speaker 1: this journey because that's the pain that was the catalyst
Speaker 1: for these women in my family to come together to
Speaker 1: help my mom, uh save us. Five women, five smooth stones.
Speaker 1: I'm sure some very colorful personalities in there. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: without a doubt. Who's who was the most strict? Was
Speaker 1: were one of the aunties, like the matriarch or was
Speaker 1: that mom? Mom was strict, There's no doubt. Her name
Speaker 1: is paul It. She was strict. Um but also on
Speaker 1: Ida was strict. And don Ida is like in the
Speaker 1: in the middle, she's uh, she's eighty six and you
Speaker 1: hear her voice. And she was also the wife of
Speaker 1: Pastor Williams and they were the ones that started the
Speaker 1: church that we grew up in. And Um, but on
Speaker 1: Ida and my mother and and sometimes on Enus were
Speaker 1: very strict, very much disciplinarians. My mom was a big woman.
Speaker 1: She were a size twelve shoe. She was a large woman.
Speaker 1: And I don't mean heavy, she was very thin. She
Speaker 1: was just very big, big bone, over six ft tall.
Speaker 1: But her most most useful weapon was just wait until
Speaker 1: your dad gets home. Uh. So this book is on audible,
Speaker 1: Folks can find it on audible. And the movie that
Speaker 1: you're screening is this something we can look forward to seeing?
Speaker 1: Is it going to be? And by the way, thank
Speaker 1: you for for working on so many UM faith based
Speaker 1: projects in a way that that is accessible. Is that
Speaker 1: the word I want to use now, digestible perhaps by
Speaker 1: people who don't even know, probably that they're getting a
Speaker 1: message about goodness and God and redemption and salvation and love,
Speaker 1: I mean bottom line love. Yeah. Yeah, no, it's it's
Speaker 1: my honor to be able to do it. And and uh,
Speaker 1: you know it's not it's not easy, but you know
Speaker 1: God has certainly been making away. How many times have
Speaker 1: you had doors slammed in your face? Tom because you
Speaker 1: came up with a pride jacked idea like this star
Speaker 1: that you know that was precious because you really did
Speaker 1: present the Nativity in a way that UM like is okay,
Speaker 1: like not watered down at all, but presented in a
Speaker 1: way that's entertaining and fun and heart heart touching. Like
Speaker 1: how many how many times have you had doors slammed
Speaker 1: in your face because of your faith? Uh? Uh? Well,
Speaker 1: you know what, in terms of my faith, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: say I've had many doors slammed my face, But in
Speaker 1: just in terms of I think people don't realize that
Speaker 1: being a producer, you know, you're the doors are being
Speaker 1: shut in your face every day. Uh you know they're
Speaker 1: They're way more nose than I get in my career
Speaker 1: than yes is like no, we don't want to do
Speaker 1: this project, or no, you know we we don't want
Speaker 1: to hire that writer, or no we don't want to
Speaker 1: move forward with this. I mean, I mean literally Like
Speaker 1: so I just have got got accustomed to no um
Speaker 1: And that's okay. I'm I'm always about trying to find
Speaker 1: the right people, the right situation that really sees it,
Speaker 1: because you know, I can maybe really strong arm somebody
Speaker 1: into giving me a yes, but if they don't believe
Speaker 1: in it, it's not going to go further than that.
Speaker 1: So I get a lot of nose, a whole lot
Speaker 1: of note You've had so many movies, so many projects.
Speaker 1: Tell my listeners just a handful of your top favorites. Um, well,
Speaker 1: right now, the most favorite is It Takes a Woman.
Speaker 1: You know that that project is my favorite because I
Speaker 1: put so much into it, And I'm thinking, you need
Speaker 1: to turn that into a movie for us. It's possible,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm thinking, because right now, on so many levels,
Speaker 1: our nation needs to understand the value and the power
Speaker 1: of women coming together. I do something called Friday Night,
Speaker 1: Girls Night every Friday night, and it's girls night out.
Speaker 1: And it's not about you know, going out and partying.
Speaker 1: It's about celebrating Sisterhood's your best friend, your your sister,
Speaker 1: your mom, your auntie. And that's what your book is about,
Speaker 1: but in a very real way, like you've got you've
Speaker 1: got the story to tell. And I'm I'm just sitting
Speaker 1: here thinking those five smooth stones that might be even
Speaker 1: an even an even bigger picture than the book. But
Speaker 1: we got to get people to download the audible book.
Speaker 1: It's not in print, right, that's it's audio only. It's
Speaker 1: audio only, so we get to hear your voice. Yes,
Speaker 1: and and my hope is that you know, to the
Speaker 1: point you're making like as people listen to it, as
Speaker 1: it gets more into the culture, then that will lay
Speaker 1: the foundation for me even being able to make a
Speaker 1: movie or a television series out of it. So I'm
Speaker 1: excited to see what happens and uh, you know what
Speaker 1: level of impact it will have in the culture. Oh,
Speaker 1: I am enjoying this conversation with the van so much.
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Speaker 1: think intrinsically we know in our gut the power of
Speaker 1: of it takes a woman. We know that on some level,
Speaker 1: but somehow we get stupid and forget that all the time.
Speaker 1: Like like, like you said, you would not be here
Speaker 1: probably your siblings either or certainly be enjoying the success
Speaker 1: you are today if you if your mom did not
Speaker 1: have those women to come alongside her. I think there's
Speaker 1: far too many women who don't have the five smooth stones,
Speaker 1: who don't have the great aunties or you know. I
Speaker 1: I hear stories every night, That's what my show is at. Stories,
Speaker 1: and people feel so disconnected and so alone, and if
Speaker 1: we could somehow, if you could, somehow uh impart upon
Speaker 1: them the importance of those connections and getting back to
Speaker 1: because that that proverb it takes a village has been
Speaker 1: around four thousands of years, not a new concept. That's right,
Speaker 1: that's right, But that's but to that point you make
Speaker 1: about connection. This is also one of the reasons why
Speaker 1: I wanted to do the book, so that anyone that
Speaker 1: feels disconnected you can learn you can have that connection
Speaker 1: through what you hear from my family. What you hear
Speaker 1: from the women in my family, Uh, you know, they're
Speaker 1: they're there. They open up their hearts and they're so
Speaker 1: transparent and so loving and so giving. And so even
Speaker 1: if someone listening may not have um their own family
Speaker 1: or those own their own five smooth stones, they you know,
Speaker 1: through listening to this book, it can kind of be
Speaker 1: like almost like a surrogate situation, you know, where my
Speaker 1: aunts can become your aunts, so have u. And that
Speaker 1: was going to be my next question. Have your aunts
Speaker 1: become aunts to other young people? I know they have.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know the answer to that, but how
Speaker 1: many other kids who were disenfranchised, who were without parental
Speaker 1: support or whatever have they taken under their wings there
Speaker 1: their mother hand wings and nurse and I can count
Speaker 1: I mean some that they've you know, actually were adopted
Speaker 1: into our family and others that they have you know,
Speaker 1: mothered throughout the years, but more more than I can count.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be a fun addition to get some of
Speaker 1: those testimonies somehow of those kids. Yeah, because I know
Speaker 1: a lot of people who may listen to it takes
Speaker 1: a woman might say, well, but that's not my mom.
Speaker 1: I don't have that kind of structure. I don't have
Speaker 1: that kind of construct to show that you can, you
Speaker 1: can create that you can. Yeah, you really can't, You
Speaker 1: really really can. And also the blessing of technology these
Speaker 1: days is that you can bring anyone into your village.
Speaker 1: You can bring you know, Delilah can be in my
Speaker 1: village and you know, other voices and other thoughts because
Speaker 1: you whether it's through a book, whether it's through podcast,
Speaker 1: where's through radio, whether it's through knowing people. I mean
Speaker 1: now rereason V technology, there's there's so there's a way
Speaker 1: to create such a rich life and get the information
Speaker 1: that is lacking just by going and seeking it out. Well,
Speaker 1: I want everyone to seek out. It takes a woman.
Speaker 1: I don't care what aide you are, I don't care
Speaker 1: what race you are, there is wisdom and goodness and
Speaker 1: love and mercy and grace, all that good stuff that
Speaker 1: that transcends everything. Right now, we are living in such
Speaker 1: a time to von where there's so much division. I know,
Speaker 1: it's taken on a life of its own that's so ugly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I love that everything I've ever seen that you
Speaker 1: are involved with, you got no time for that. Like right,
Speaker 1: it's all about Hey, you know, great trying to put
Speaker 1: great stories in the world, because stories are the great
Speaker 1: united and they're all so you know, when you think
Speaker 1: about our culture, our families, our communities, a lot of
Speaker 1: um them are based upon oral traditions and you know,
Speaker 1: those stories being passed out from generation to generation. And
Speaker 1: so you know, I'm very committed to storytelling and bringing
Speaker 1: great stories to our culture and our families in whatever
Speaker 1: way I can. So if it's with audible as an audiobook,
Speaker 1: if it's if it's a movie, if it's TV series,
Speaker 1: you know, in all other ways, I'm just passionate about
Speaker 1: using every medium I can to try to really bring
Speaker 1: more connection to our culture. And you do it in
Speaker 1: such a beautiful way. Thank you, thank you, thank you
Speaker 1: so much. It takes a woman available on Audible. Now
Speaker 1: they can go do you do you have a website?
Speaker 1: You just want them to go straight to audible. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can go to audible or devon Franklin dot com
Speaker 1: and either way it'll take them to It takes a
Speaker 1: Woman Divine Franklin dot com. By the way, easy on
Speaker 1: the eye, You're hilarious. Just I'm just saying, just seeing.
Speaker 1: It's a really nice it's a love it's a well
Speaker 1: well produced website. How's that. I'll just leave it right there.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you for your time. Thank you for
Speaker 1: spending this time with us. God bless you and all
Speaker 1: that you do. God bless you too. Always get seeing
Speaker 1: you have a great day. His new book, It Takes
Speaker 1: a Woman, honors and holds space for the women in
Speaker 1: our lives who uplift, who encourage, and who fearlessly stand
Speaker 1: in the gap for all of us to be our
Speaker 1: best selves. May has almost come to an end, but
Speaker 1: there's one more weekend left, and it's a special one.
Speaker 1: Memorial Day is Monday, a federal holiday set aside as
Speaker 1: a national day of mourning for all US military personnel
Speaker 1: who have died while serving in the US Armed Forces.
Speaker 1: While it also kicks off the unofficial start of summer
Speaker 1: and is usually marked with the first camping trips of
Speaker 1: the year, a chance to bring out the lawn cushions,
Speaker 1: dust off the barbecues. There are usually a number of
Speaker 1: events planned, from parades to volunteer opportunities in every community,
Speaker 1: and I encourage you to find one that speaks to you.
Speaker 1: It Takes a Woman by Devon Franklin, narrated by Devon,
Speaker 1: his Aunties and his Mother, is available on audible right now.
Speaker 1: I promise you will enjoy this so much, and you
Speaker 1: can keep up with Devon and all of his incredible
Speaker 1: inspirational projects by visiting Davon Franklin dot com and on
Speaker 1: his social media at Davon Franklin. Enjoy your first burger
Speaker 1: of the season this weekend, but also please take a
Speaker 1: few moments to pause and reflect on the ultimate sacrifice
Speaker 1: that many thousands paid so that we have the freedoms
Speaker 1: that we enjoy today. I hope the rest of the
Speaker 1: month of May and the coming long weekend is spent
Speaker 1: safely and in the company of those who you care
Speaker 1: most about and who care about you. I will see
Speaker 1: you next time. I love some one. M