Speaker 1: Yeah, legal books has all the knowledge you want. My
Speaker 1: leagal books has all the knowledge you need. Books. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they have all the books that the whole wild world
Speaker 1: want to read, my legal books. I have a customer.
Speaker 1: She expressed to me that she has appreciation for books,
Speaker 1: and so her name is Cathedra, and so I want
Speaker 1: to ask her. You know how it is books change
Speaker 1: your life? Um, I was always an avid reader, like
Speaker 1: growing up. Um it helped me kind of. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: say escape book escape create new worlds, um, see things
Speaker 1: beyond my neighborhood. I'm reach you from Memphis. So like now,
Speaker 1: books are also a way to find out how we
Speaker 1: have um hit our history in order to continue in
Speaker 1: the book, especially with a lot of black authors, um
Speaker 1: running these days. And I absolutely love books. It gives
Speaker 1: you a way to look at the world in a
Speaker 1: different mindset. And also especially if you read authors by
Speaker 1: books why black authors, you kind of get to see
Speaker 1: the totality of blackness and appreciate it. So, yeah, I
Speaker 1: love books. One of the things that I like to
Speaker 1: talk about on Leek's bookshelf is books. Um. You mentioned
Speaker 1: to me that you're getting a PhD. So how do
Speaker 1: you mix reading fiction nonfiction in between getting your PhD. Okay,
Speaker 1: now that is hard, um, because for I always say,
Speaker 1: people like people especial black books who get our doctorate,
Speaker 1: we're not getting it for our health, right. And so
Speaker 1: I have made books audio books or just regular books
Speaker 1: even all down to like the graphic novels and come
Speaker 1: even down to a middle school grade. I like to
Speaker 1: read them too as part of my self care. You
Speaker 1: have to do that. So it's to like I'm getting
Speaker 1: my doctor in policy, It's a lot going on in
Speaker 1: policy right now. So that gives me a step back
Speaker 1: and help remain balance. What do you think we can
Speaker 1: do to increase the interest in reading books, because you
Speaker 1: know there's a stigma in our community that we don't
Speaker 1: read enough. So what can we do? You got any ideas?
Speaker 1: Oh wow, I think honestly, audio books reopened everything to me,
Speaker 1: and so I think for more more schools, they don't
Speaker 1: know new books are out there. They want to recycle
Speaker 1: the same books and the same books not doing it um.
Speaker 1: And so I also start forcing kids to read five
Speaker 1: books and they only like eight, Let them like, let
Speaker 1: them read, let them pick out the book like it
Speaker 1: starts really young. Because we get burnt out really young.
Speaker 1: And so I always encourage people, especially teachers English teachers,
Speaker 1: don't go with the regular books no more. The new
Speaker 1: books are the classics, right, and so that's how you
Speaker 1: get them because now we have more representation. And I
Speaker 1: mean you just look at the book covers. Every type
Speaker 1: of black person is on the book over now, and
Speaker 1: so you just have to get them even with the
Speaker 1: most basic books. Get them back into it. Don't force it.
Speaker 1: Have audio book. Um. Sometimes I think a lot of
Speaker 1: good things that has happened that, like Netflix and Hulu
Speaker 1: has changed books into movies or something. People want to
Speaker 1: go back and read the book tied into a movie.
Speaker 1: What do you like about you know, Mileik books because
Speaker 1: you are continue customer and obviously you know something that
Speaker 1: keeps drawing you back to Mileik books, and so I
Speaker 1: just want to hear from you directly. You know what
Speaker 1: keeps bringing you back to Milik books. Um, you guys
Speaker 1: are open to suggestions. You carry the big authors and
Speaker 1: the small authors, from the kids to the adults to
Speaker 1: even been the the like mask and everything water bottles,
Speaker 1: anything like a black person, we won't y'all have, and
Speaker 1: it includes all types of black people, so all types
Speaker 1: of books, all types of genres. And so also it's
Speaker 1: a black on business in l A. I'm not I'm
Speaker 1: from so it's a lot of black folks, but l A,
Speaker 1: you know, it's a little bit more diverse. Into have
Speaker 1: a black bookstore right here where people are shop and
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, what they're doing like and it's it's
Speaker 1: just the it's the it's sur vibe, the feel of
Speaker 1: the black owned and even the soul is in the bookstore.
Speaker 1: And that's why we exist simply because we want to
Speaker 1: amplify voice. You know, we're not trying to push anybody
Speaker 1: else off the shelf. We're just trying to get on
Speaker 1: the shelf. That's why that's why my podcast Malik Bookshelf.
Speaker 1: Because we want to amplify the voices with books, with culture,
Speaker 1: with community, and so we want to amplify a voice
Speaker 1: and shout it loud and be out. And so I
Speaker 1: want to thank you for this opportunity because this segment
Speaker 1: is called customer appreciation. Um you could we appreciate your
Speaker 1: continued support and thank you and I spread it around
Speaker 1: whenever because I'm about my books for class out of here.
Speaker 1: So I even tell like my classmates, like, if y'all
Speaker 1: live in Cover City area, come to West we if
Speaker 1: we live over there by the cost I'll come to
Speaker 1: that that go to that location if you can't order online.
Speaker 1: So I always always support black on business, especially with
Speaker 1: black on bookstores. We need them, We appreciate you. And
Speaker 1: that website for us is malik books dot com. I
Speaker 1: have with me right now, Barbara Lindsay, the founder creator
Speaker 1: of the Black Business Expo in Los Angeles. She is
Speaker 1: a pioneer. She's helped develop so many incombative businesses all
Speaker 1: throughout Los Angeles and I'm I'm just so happy and
Speaker 1: joyful that I have her in a conversation about her,
Speaker 1: you know, as a strong black woman who's achieved the
Speaker 1: normal success in today. You know the buzzword is by
Speaker 1: black by local. Well, this is something she was doing
Speaker 1: since that what eighties nineties. So Barbara, I want you
Speaker 1: to talk about the Black Meness Expo and the event
Speaker 1: that you're about to put on just coming up in
Speaker 1: November twenty Okay, league, thank you so much, and I
Speaker 1: love your energy. We need that energy today, um, and
Speaker 1: I'm so happy to just be able to chat with
Speaker 1: you and your listeners um, yes, we we really were
Speaker 1: supporting each other way back in the eighties and the
Speaker 1: Expert was started in nine and we went on for years,
Speaker 1: and then Dr Odin and here On Hamburg came on
Speaker 1: board and continue it, and now we're rebirthing it virtually,
Speaker 1: and we still have the same mission today that we
Speaker 1: had back then, is to support black owned businesses and
Speaker 1: to also let the community know where they are, and
Speaker 1: because if you don't know where they are, you cannot
Speaker 1: support them. But now with all the new social media
Speaker 1: and all the new technology, we can locate them faster
Speaker 1: and easier now. But we still want to pull them
Speaker 1: together and to make sure that people know who they are.
Speaker 1: And the leak. Guess what, You're always such an intricate
Speaker 1: part of this, and and that energy that was there,
Speaker 1: you still have it. But we really would love to
Speaker 1: have it again where people are just excited and want
Speaker 1: to support And I believe it's coming back. I can
Speaker 1: feel I can feel it now the time and is
Speaker 1: now the time, and it is coming back. It is,
Speaker 1: you know, because people, you know, there's not enough jobs
Speaker 1: for everybody, so some of them have to get you know,
Speaker 1: create a job for yourself. We're living at a time
Speaker 1: now where stop being the victim, because there are things
Speaker 1: you can do in order to change your dynamics in
Speaker 1: your life. And the Black Business Expo was always a
Speaker 1: pioneering event that I know we participated in that nineties
Speaker 1: and um, I mean holler than all those books back
Speaker 1: and forth. It again, that's work, but it was worth
Speaker 1: it was worth it because you know, to see these
Speaker 1: millenniums radiate this energy today where they want to do
Speaker 1: for they want to be entrepreneurs, they want to you know,
Speaker 1: they're not they That's what that was all about. We
Speaker 1: laid an example that the future generation can take that
Speaker 1: and move forward. And so I'm glad to see that
Speaker 1: you're putting on the event that you started out in
Speaker 1: the eighty I'm glad to see even though it's virtual,
Speaker 1: eventually it's going to become uh a physical event, you know,
Speaker 1: in one of these conventions again just because um you know,
Speaker 1: is needed, is desired is a month And so I know, Barbara, UM,
Speaker 1: I just appreciate me having to have met you and
Speaker 1: being part of that legacy. So tell me you are
Speaker 1: and I know you big on kids. I know you
Speaker 1: big on kids and part of what you're doing with
Speaker 1: the expo this year has a component for youth, and
Speaker 1: Allays said, the children are one of our future. Can
Speaker 1: you talk to us about what you have in store
Speaker 1: for the event with these with the kids and the youth.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you can do that. And Leak, I love
Speaker 1: that the kids are one of our future. And that
Speaker 1: is so true. And if you can recall back in
Speaker 1: the day we supported young people then it was called
Speaker 1: to Mars entrepreneurs today and I want to just take
Speaker 1: a second and this I just have to share with
Speaker 1: your listeners. I was in the Carson Mars. This has
Speaker 1: been probably ten years or so ago, and someone said,
Speaker 1: Miss Lindsey. Miss Lindsey turned around, this tall guy says,
Speaker 1: I want you to see my shop. I want you
Speaker 1: to see my barbershop. And I didn't know who he was.
Speaker 1: And then as I turned around and we engaged in conversation,
Speaker 1: she said, you know, I showed up at the expo
Speaker 1: and I saw all these barbers there on a stand
Speaker 1: and they always dressed in black. But Lee, he took
Speaker 1: time to explain all of this. But he was a
Speaker 1: kid then, right, and he said he knew from that
Speaker 1: moment he wanted to be a barber on his own shop.
Speaker 1: Well he ended up having um, oh my god, I
Speaker 1: can't think of the name of the barbershop now, but
Speaker 1: here architect was the Archet and yes, and the Sun
Speaker 1: is still running it and he was able to open
Speaker 1: a barbershop and the Carson Mall that is called that
Speaker 1: they here Architect too or something like that. Yes, but anyway,
Speaker 1: I always say kids cannot be what they don't see,
Speaker 1: and so we always want to showcase black owned businesses.
Speaker 1: So for this expo, we're partnering with Crystal Mitchell. She's
Speaker 1: been working with youth for years and we're gonna have
Speaker 1: a youth pavilion. These are kids, Malik. This just touches
Speaker 1: your heart. They have their own businesses. They really want
Speaker 1: people to support them because we want to assist them
Speaker 1: and buy our supplies products for their businesses. So when
Speaker 1: you log on on Saturday November ten, you would be
Speaker 1: able to support the young people. And and we want
Speaker 1: all of you to just just you know, log in
Speaker 1: and see what our future holds. And there's no Saturday,
Speaker 1: November a m to four pm and the league. Would
Speaker 1: you be so kindest to let me leave a number
Speaker 1: because I don't want to love a long number for
Speaker 1: the website. It's three one zero four nine eight three.
Speaker 1: You heard that. That's how you can find more about
Speaker 1: this Black Fitness Expo. I do know that because you
Speaker 1: haven't as youth component at the event, that we immensely
Speaker 1: jumped on board to donate as well as to you know,
Speaker 1: donate books and some resources and stuff, some fun and
Speaker 1: the minute you told me because kids are important, because
Speaker 1: its youth and children, you know, and thank you so much,
Speaker 1: and I'm very appreciative. We are giving them the space,
Speaker 1: of course, but we also we were looking for a sponsor,
Speaker 1: a couple of sponsors to step in and sponsor so
Speaker 1: that we could give them prize money. And the prize
Speaker 1: money we're gonna do pitch competition and that money would
Speaker 1: go towards buying products for their businesses and just equipment
Speaker 1: whatever they need. So we were not able to get sponsors.
Speaker 1: But guess what we've been doing. We've been calling people
Speaker 1: in the community and asking them to donate, and some
Speaker 1: are donating dollars, fifty dollars, a hundred dollars. We're gonna
Speaker 1: have enough money because we're gonna keep calling until next Saturday.
Speaker 1: We're our goal is hundred dollars and this would help
Speaker 1: these young people with their businesses. We're donating the space
Speaker 1: to them. They don't pay for any of that. We
Speaker 1: just need money to come to our help them to
Speaker 1: purchase their products for their business and the supplies that
Speaker 1: they need. Absolutely, and that's wonderful, wonderful, wonderful gesture. Um.
Speaker 1: That's it's important for us to invest in our youth
Speaker 1: and our kids, absolutely, you know. And so you know,
Speaker 1: we're delighted to support our youth. And I appreciate the
Speaker 1: opportunity that you bring into the community. And I do
Speaker 1: want you to share the website that also that people
Speaker 1: can register for the upcoming event. Yes, just the number
Speaker 1: twenty one l A B b E dot com l
Speaker 1: A B b E dot com for Los Angeles Black
Speaker 1: Business Expo dot com. What Barbara, thank you for this
Speaker 1: opportunity so we can share what's happening in our community
Speaker 1: and around the country. Positive, positive and very important events
Speaker 1: like the Black Business Expo. Yes, it's gonna be un
Speaker 1: virtually we can have people from all over in our topic.
Speaker 1: I think this year is creating generational wealth, you know,
Speaker 1: are and we we just know that we're going to
Speaker 1: get back and and go further than where we were
Speaker 1: because with the two thousand eight our downturning on the economy,
Speaker 1: Blacks lost most of their wealth. And where is most
Speaker 1: of our wealth created in real estate? Most of our
Speaker 1: wealth is right there in real estate. And uh, we're
Speaker 1: we have some of the top speakers that's gonna come
Speaker 1: and discuss how to even our by real estate now,
Speaker 1: how to get to the point where you own home again.
Speaker 1: That's it block home ownership. I thought it was lord
Speaker 1: than that. Oh my god, there so don't say that,
Speaker 1: but we'll be giving. We have all the top real
Speaker 1: estate people that's going to discuss how you can really
Speaker 1: um be in a position now to purchase your home
Speaker 1: because some of the banks have really great programs. So
Speaker 1: we're excited about it. Important. Our keynote speaker is George Fraser,
Speaker 1: and you know what, this message has never changed. It's
Speaker 1: remained the same for over thirty years, economic growth and
Speaker 1: development for people of African descent. And one thing that
Speaker 1: I've learned from him is he said, you cannot sit
Speaker 1: back and wait for corporate America to bl you out.
Speaker 1: Whatever you want to do, you just get up and
Speaker 1: do it all the time I started to blank business
Speaker 1: ex but I had no sponsorships. At first I did
Speaker 1: American Express car Americans Fress took a card. You got
Speaker 1: me tingling. Now you got me tingling. Now that's true. Yes,
Speaker 1: because that's important. Yeah, you gotta you gotta do. This
Speaker 1: is that he says, until we create a enough businesses
Speaker 1: that we can turn around and hire our own, were
Speaker 1: two millions short. Were two million jobs short around the
Speaker 1: nation because we don't have enough entrepreneurs and and self
Speaker 1: employed businesses. Corporate America cannot hire, they can't even hire
Speaker 1: the majority of their own. We have to create businesses
Speaker 1: for ourselves. As part of our responsibility. We got to
Speaker 1: stop the blaming. Listen, we cannot be a victim no more.
Speaker 1: That we cannot be a victim no more. No. We
Speaker 1: think this is why this is important that we're having
Speaker 1: this conversation, because this is the positive and uplifting information
Speaker 1: just needed for change, you know, and like And another
Speaker 1: thing that George says, which is so important, I think
Speaker 1: all the stuff because he has really his teaching has
Speaker 1: had an impact on my life. His book Success Runs
Speaker 1: in our Race, Success Runs are al. Yes, it gives
Speaker 1: solutions to the problem, not just keep repeating the same
Speaker 1: problems over and over and over again. What other solution
Speaker 1: and you know the others thinking we're gonna have is
Speaker 1: Dennis kimbro Do you remember Dennis kimbro Threak and Grow
Speaker 1: Rich and Black Choice we had, you know, but and
Speaker 1: he's interviewed all the black millionaires and he's going to
Speaker 1: be sharing information on how we can learn from the
Speaker 1: black millionaires and so which is so excited about all
Speaker 1: of that? You got two heavy hitters to success running
Speaker 1: Our Rights and Think and Grow Rich a Black Choice,
Speaker 1: two powerful books that I know that that maliek books.
Speaker 1: We have sod tons of them over to you. We're
Speaker 1: still selling those books today. It's important these books and
Speaker 1: one of those books, I Think and Grow Rich and
Speaker 1: Black Choice, that's one of about Dennis Kimbol is part
Speaker 1: of the Nipsey Hustle reading lists. These are one. This
Speaker 1: is one of the books he read, Yes, that made
Speaker 1: the transformation. It is like the information because you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's that you. You you know, everybody's different, So
Speaker 1: you have to figure out the dynamics that are suitable
Speaker 1: to make you successful. So you gotta look at it
Speaker 1: according to your culture and your situation. You know, sometimes
Speaker 1: the mainstream ain't gonna benefit you. You gotta think about
Speaker 1: how your community, how you can benefit you gotta think
Speaker 1: outside the box today. So those are two powerful hitters,
Speaker 1: absolutely going to be a powerful event Los Angeles Black
Speaker 1: Business expos But well, thank you a leak. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: I just love your energy. Energy. And then we have
Speaker 1: we're gonna have ten wealth additional to all these other speakers,
Speaker 1: Treasure Ower and Dr Tony and we have ten other
Speaker 1: wealth speakers. The topic on the topics, they're gonna be
Speaker 1: uncreated wealth. And debraah Thorn tells the story gives me
Speaker 1: chills of how her great her grandfather has created generational wealth,
Speaker 1: but he had a third grade education and to this
Speaker 1: day they're reaping the benefits. So if her grandfather had
Speaker 1: a third grade education and could create generational wealth, what's
Speaker 1: our excuse won't have any? And generational wealth is important.
Speaker 1: We have to pass on legacy. Yes, we have to
Speaker 1: pass on institutions. That is always reponsibility and no one
Speaker 1: else's always And so one of the ways that you
Speaker 1: know we as collectively is that we got to find
Speaker 1: a way to pull our resources and so we got
Speaker 1: to do a bigger embropment. It's happening, is happening, is happening,
Speaker 1: the excitement that's now surrounding black on businesses. Yes, there's
Speaker 1: a young man that wants to do a documentary on
Speaker 1: it happened in the eighties, nine and two thousand with
Speaker 1: black owned businesses and how we stepped up and supported
Speaker 1: each other. There was the Millenniums during that time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is what has helped then this latest generation called
Speaker 1: the Millenniums is all the work we did in the
Speaker 1: eighties and the nineties. It made it too thought, it
Speaker 1: made an impact the consciousness. It took time, but now
Speaker 1: it's it's united. It is happening all over this country.
Speaker 1: Are you these millennia fired up? They're stepping up? You know,
Speaker 1: it's stepping up. And he was twenty three has the time,
Speaker 1: so now he's twenty four. But let me just share
Speaker 1: this with you rather quickly. He said to me, he
Speaker 1: never he didn't know about Recycling Black Dollar, the organization.
Speaker 1: So we've dropped the ball. We haven't passed on all
Speaker 1: of this to the to the next generation. But listen,
Speaker 1: he wanted to start an organization called Recycling Black dollars.
Speaker 1: Guess what, we already have recycled black dollars. Mohammed started
Speaker 1: in with something right, right. He wants to be a
Speaker 1: part of that and to carry it forward so that
Speaker 1: black businesses can support other black businesses young. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is his mission and life. So we're gonna be
Speaker 1: in good hands. I just have so much faith and
Speaker 1: confidence in young people. Absolutely, it's room for everyone to
Speaker 1: step up, yes, you know, and be about to work
Speaker 1: now is everyone can participate, man, there's room for everyone collectively.
Speaker 1: We can make them more together. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: That's why we recycling money black molting yegg, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. You can't look, you can't. You can't.
Speaker 1: You know. It takes a village to raise a child.
Speaker 1: It takes a community. It takes all of us to
Speaker 1: deal with this situation, you know, And you're an example
Speaker 1: of that. You're an example of that. Like I said,
Speaker 1: I remember you lugging your books to the convention center.
Speaker 1: You never gave up, You never gave up. You never
Speaker 1: get by surgery, all that from carrying all the books
Speaker 1: over the years. Still, but you know where you are,
Speaker 1: and that's that's that's the key. That's the key. We
Speaker 1: can never give up up. I'm so excited and the
Speaker 1: league thank you so much for the opportunity to have
Speaker 1: me to just hop on. It wasn't the planned Um,
Speaker 1: it's all again, all again. No script you do, I
Speaker 1: don't have no notes now, just topped off another call
Speaker 1: the three but you know what, that's okay. Bottom line
Speaker 1: is that we want people to come out on Saturday.
Speaker 1: Actually it's next not to Saturday, but next Saturday from
Speaker 1: ten am to four pm. Again. Are you can reach
Speaker 1: us direct at three one zero four nine eight thirty
Speaker 1: seven eight three three one zero four nine eight three.
Speaker 1: They feel like to meet us some at our website,
Speaker 1: you can do that as well. It's twenty one l
Speaker 1: A B b E dot com one l A Black
Speaker 1: Business Expo dot com. And it would be great to
Speaker 1: see just people tuning in, actually logging in, just logging
Speaker 1: in and it's gonna be it's gonna be a great event.
Speaker 1: You welcome, welcome, You've done. Appreciate you. I wish I
Speaker 1: could bother you. Thank you, Bobara. I appreciate this interview
Speaker 1: so much. Much success, much success, and thank you torkay
Speaker 1: bye for now, bye bye, sometimes a moment of clarity.
Speaker 1: It's early in the morning. We're just sitting in a car,
Speaker 1: driving moved from one destination to another. We have that
Speaker 1: limited time before we arrive at our destination. Just just
Speaker 1: think about was heavy on our minds, what we need
Speaker 1: to do that day, as well as think about something creative.
Speaker 1: I think about something that we need to do to
Speaker 1: change our lives, to make our lives better. I'm sitting
Speaker 1: in my car, I'm driving two leeks books, and I
Speaker 1: got a flood of thoughts just popping in and out
Speaker 1: of my mind. So I said to myself, why not
Speaker 1: take this time while I'm driving the work to talk
Speaker 1: about what's on my mind? Talk about whatever comes to
Speaker 1: my mind. You know these Sometimes your body, your mind
Speaker 1: is just a con do it where your receiver. And
Speaker 1: I find that early in the morning, I'm able to
Speaker 1: be a lot more creative. I'm able to soft solutions
Speaker 1: the things that are heavy on my mind. I'm able
Speaker 1: to figure out just slowing things down, not living the
Speaker 1: life of a microwave, because nothing comes in an instant
Speaker 1: and sometimes to take brain power, thought power, that's just
Speaker 1: figure out what I need to do, how I need
Speaker 1: to do it. You know, life is like a puzzle man,
Speaker 1: and you fit pieces together, you know, and it's like
Speaker 1: an even in a relationship, when the hands and the
Speaker 1: fingers that is, can insert in between each other and
Speaker 1: be a tight fist with two hands become one fifth,
Speaker 1: that makes a more solid relationship. But when you just
Speaker 1: clasp the hands together, not in unlocking the fingers, what
Speaker 1: I should hold, different type of relationship. And sometimes that's
Speaker 1: how life is. You know, things don't stick, the glue
Speaker 1: don't hold because the group ain't firm and ain't tight.
Speaker 1: Every day, every day you should have something to do.
Speaker 1: You should have an agenda on your list of things
Speaker 1: to do. Life got purpose, life got many man ain't
Speaker 1: nothing idle in this world. Everything is moving. If you
Speaker 1: ain't moving, you diad and you need to move. You
Speaker 1: need to push, You need to want better. You need
Speaker 1: to not be complacent and not saying. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: things ain't. You know they say if if it's something
Speaker 1: that's working, they don't try to change it. You know,
Speaker 1: these old cliches, the old phrases. It ain't if it
Speaker 1: ain't broke, don't fix it. Listen, you gotta strive for affection.
Speaker 1: I'm all over the place this morning because my thoughts
Speaker 1: are just flowing in me. It's just flowing in me,
Speaker 1: and I'm just like, I feel good. It's early in
Speaker 1: the morning. I'm blessed to have another day because none
Speaker 1: was promised tomorrow. Put to day, make this day to day,
Speaker 1: to do what you need to do to change your
Speaker 1: life to make it better. Hope is always a reality,
Speaker 1: h and you always hope for better more money, better job,
Speaker 1: better relationships, a better world. Man, we're all hoping for that.
Speaker 1: We're all hoping for that kind of change. If you're
Speaker 1: not hoping, then I don't know what to say. But
Speaker 1: because you know, we're born incomplete to grow into completion.
Speaker 1: Nobody's born perfect. You gotta grow into whatever it is
Speaker 1: that you want to be. That's the process. So that's
Speaker 1: why I said, sometimes you gotta have hope because there
Speaker 1: are a lot of forces that you don't control to
Speaker 1: become what you want. There are a lot of obstacles
Speaker 1: you gotta overcome to be what you want. When you're
Speaker 1: driving in your car of your destination, that's the time.
Speaker 1: Cut the readio off, cut the readio off and gather
Speaker 1: your thoughts and think about take that time to meditate
Speaker 1: and to think creative and the you know, dictate your
Speaker 1: thoughts that you need to do to create a better tomorrow,
Speaker 1: a better world for yourself. Take that time to solve
Speaker 1: a problem that's in your life. Take that time to
Speaker 1: figure out how to make a better relationship with yourself,
Speaker 1: with your family, with you, your mom and your dad
Speaker 1: and your friends. Take that time to figure out how
Speaker 1: to do something better, bigger, grander. That's what I'm doing
Speaker 1: this morning, And all I'm doing is suggest you do
Speaker 1: the same thing because a lot of times you think
Speaker 1: you don't have time to do something, but you can
Speaker 1: fit it in a time that you already are en
Speaker 1: route to do something. So that's my dry time thoughts today. Peace.
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