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Welcome to the newest episode of counting
the construction. I am your host,
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ohdest thank you so much for joining
us. We're here, it's the relaunch,
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we're on our new platform. We're
rolling. Man, I'm just so
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excited to be with you all again. Man, it's just the blessing and
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the privilege to once again just come
before you all. You know. Thank
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you all for your support. I
want to thank you for the emails and
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the messages that you've left. I
know a lot of you have been wondering
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why we moved from anchor over to
sounder DOT fl. I just felt that
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we had pretty much at current and
the construction. We had outgrown anchor.
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Don't get me wrong, I have
nothing bad to say about anchor. Anchor
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give us out start. We were
able to get our foot in the door
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in a podcasting community through anchor.
I met a lot of wonderful and great
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people who also broadcast on anchor.
I was able to meet a lot of
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you all, you know, but
for the most part, I mean just
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like with some things and just like
you in life, sometimes you begin to
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grow and you are grow certain things
and you are grow certain people or situations,
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and so from there it's time to
move forward or, you know,
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continue it to feel stagnant in the
situation or the place that you may be
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in. And so that in itself
was a lesson, lesson for me more
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than anything, because I just feel
that that's something that God does with us
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a lot. You See, God
takes us through stages in life. Now,
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I know we've all have had this
conversation before and here we are,
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we're having this conversation again and and
I'm loving to have this conversation again.
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That wasn't the direction that I was
going in for this new, relaunched episode,
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but Hey, a lot of times
this is what happens. You know,
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God have me going one specific way
and take me into something that's completely
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different altogether. You know, but
it's the same way that we do when
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God, when we become start to
become stagnant in life or in a situation,
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whether it's a job, whether it's
a relationship, whether it's a friendship,
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whether it's a business, whether it's
something that you're doing, or even
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your relationship with him. You know, God will then in turn, begin
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to take you to a different place
because he begins to make you uncomfortable.
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You see, we can't grow.
Our God can't allow us to grow until
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he makes us some comfortable with where
we are. I make us take that
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hard looking reflection at ourselves in that
process. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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I mean straight up, you know, and this is this is where I
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found myself at that particular time,
just feeling stagnant, just, you know,
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in a place that I felt like
I was no longer growing. I
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felt that the podcast, the episodes
that we were putting out, wasn't quite
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getting to all of the audience that
we had before, we had for over
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a period of time. We're currently
under construction, so I preyed on it.
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You know, I'm not going to
say I was at a place of
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giving up, but I was just
like, okay, God, it's this
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what I want to do. You
did you put me in this position and
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give me this particular platform just to
get me here? And then I feel
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stagnant and stuck or feel like we're
not continuing to grow, or even looking
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at the an Elix of everything,
or looking at to the people we had
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grown accustomed to reaching, that number
seems to have been dwindling and dwindling and
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I was wondering at first, like
okay, well, is it that?
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Are they getting tired of our content
or we're becoming just, you know,
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people not interested in what we have
to say here anymore or anything? But
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that proved to be otherwise, because
I was still getting several emails and several
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messages wondering, Hey, what's going
on? Are we getting a power of
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this week? Are Our man?
You really hit home with that particular episode
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this week and everything. So I
knew it wasn't that. So I again,
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you know, did what I thought
to do, or what I knew
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to do at that particular moment,
which was basically turn it over to God
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see if I can get some type
of message from him or direction. And
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God did that. God gave that
direction. So I begin to research,
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begin to move. I do know
you are remember telling me, telling you
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that we were moving into a completely
different direction. We're currently under construction for
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this upcoming year. The video portion
of it is still coming a for as
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our streaming, I've actually did find
a really great service that we can stream
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on while we're recording, so that
when you have the option to either stream
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it or, you know, as
you've been doing from the jump, been,
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you know, getting our record,
getting our audio which I know a
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lot of you loved that and I
want to continue to deliver that to you.
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But I also want to, you
know, give those the opportunity want
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to maybe, you know, take
a look at us or, you know,
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want to check us out while we're
streaming, you know, to see
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what we have to say, to
see what we're talking about this particular subject.
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We give them that opportunity to do
so. So that's definitely coming.
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But I just want to thank God
for giving me a clear sense of direction
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when I didn't know what's going on, a where to go, what to
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do, and I didn't want to
lose our podcast. I didn't want to
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lose all of the ground that we
gained. I didn't want to make my
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make the people or you all feel
that we're gone, we're not coming back,
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and to disappoint you all because I
love doing this, I love being
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able to sit down and have a
conversation with you, because that's what this
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feels like when I record, when
I doing that sort of a podcast,
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I don't feel like I'm listening to
a huge artist. I feel like I'm
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just sitting here, I'm talking to
my friends, I'm talking to my family,
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I'm talking to my community, I'm
talking to my loved ones, because
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that's what you all are to me. You all are my friends, you
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all are my family, you all
are my loved ones, you all are
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my community. You know I model, you know I'm out of you know
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what we say at the end of
every episode, and that's what you all
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are to me. Those are just
words. That's what I feel, that's
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what I say, that's what I
mean, because that's what you all are
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to me. So we had to
pick this thing up and we had to,
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you know, move on and move
into a new direction and we were
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able to move over to this new
platform and I it took us a while
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to get things up and running because
with this new platform, things of different
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things are we have way more tools
to are at our disposal, things that
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I've had to learn, new tricks
that I've had to learn, new systems
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I've had to learn and and adapt
to. But guess what, I'm here
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to put out the put out the
best podcast I can for you all,
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starting today with this new re launch
of curly under construction. We're here.
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We are here. I didn't need
to feel like that. I was going
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in to preach to you all,
but hey, we're back. I've missed
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you. So in it an event
of all of that. What's going on?
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My people, what's happening it?
Talk to me, let me know
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what's going on. Everybody's being man
with so much that's gone on. So
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much has happened since our last episode, and this was brought back up to
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my attention by several people. I
wasn't wasn't going to touch based on it
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again, but it's brought back around. So we had an episode a few
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episodes ago about dealing with bullies and
Narcissus. So that was such a huge
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outpourt and such a huge topic and
we had such a great feedback on it.
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And as to hey, can you
touch based on that again? Can
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you talk more about that, or
what do you think about such and such
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going on? You know, hey, what do you think about this particular
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form of bullying and everything and and
these particular type of Narcissis? So what
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we're going to do is we're going
to revisit it as apart two, but
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not together like last episode. We're
going to do a separate episode on bullies
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and a separate episode on Narcissis.
Yeah, so in the next couple of
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episodes. That's what's going to be
coming up, so I need you all
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to be on the lookout for that. But we're definitely going to touch based
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on that again because, man,
I'm I'm seeing a whole lot more of
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it. I'm seeing a whole lot
of it that I don't like, and
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you all know I don't like bullies. I despise bullies. Y'All know that.
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I've talked about more than one of
kids. Y'All know how I feel
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about bullies and I'm starting to see
a whole lot more of it. But
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the killing thing about it is I'm
like I'm saying, I'm I'm seeing even
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more of it on social media now. I've seen bits and pieces of it
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here and there, but I'm seeing
more and more of it on social media
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and taking outrageous with this, like
seriously, they really get highly outrageous with
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it. But again, I'm not
going to touch base on that now because
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you know, it's really the for
me to get into. there. Is
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Real easy for me to jump in
on and talk about bullying because, again,
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y'all know how I feel about bullies. I I doubt like them.
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I have no love form in any
shape form of fashion. But I'm going
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to save all of that energy,
all of that pent up things that I
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have to say, we're going to
save that for that episode. So that
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will be the next episode coming,
the episode of bullying and how to handle
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it, what to look for and
this new type of bullying. Well,
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it's not really knew. It's been
around, but it's even more prevalent now
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because these bullets we got behind computer
screens, behind telephones, behind keyboards and
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everything. So we're going to talk
about them and then we're going to also
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talk about these narcissists, these people
that have no regard for anyone but themselves
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who it goes to the point of
even violence. But Hey, like I
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said, we're going to touch base
on that then at another particular time.
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Now I want to send a quick
shout out to a wonderful, wonderful listener
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of ours who's been following us every
day since our, you know, season
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one. Few episodes in the season
one she started listening to us and she's
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been on board with it. But, UM, Miss Mj, it I
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want to send a shout out to
you, Miss Mj. Thank you,
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thank you for your kind words,
thank you for your support, thank you
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for your encouragement, thank you for
your prayers. Your Hu become like a
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second a second mother to me in
so many ways. So I want to
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sit and I want to just take
that opportunity to thank you for encouraging me,
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for uplifting me and for helping me
get back on my horse. So
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I just want to send that shout
out out. You know, man,
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this this it feels good to be
the talking to you all again. Oh,
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got the new equipment to but people. So, uh, I know
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the audio may sound a little bit
better. Hopefully it sounds a whole lot
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better. Hopefully you all can hear
me a lot clear. We got a
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microphone. We have a very first
podcast microphone. Yes, we do.
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I'm excited about it. I'm excited
about all they can do. It has
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a whole lot of features to it, mostly noise canceling and clearing everything up.
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So I've tested it out. Works
great eat. So we're using it
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right now. So hopefully this makes
it our episode a whole lot crisper,
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whole lot clear. Also, a
few choose to read that any of the
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transcripts from our podcast. They will
be a lot clearer to you going forward.
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But yeah, we have our very
first podcast microphone. Will we have
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more equipment on the way? Oh, we're, we're, we're look,
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look, we went to this new
platform. It's open up a whole lot
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of doors to us. It really
has, and I'm so excited about it,
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man, open up to new communities
that I've been able to become a
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part of and be able to network
with on social media, on Linkedin,
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on Tick Tock, on instagram.
So, man, I'm just excited about
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the new heights that God is getting
ready to take us to. Our God
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is in the process taking us to
right now here on currently under construction.
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Just so excited, man, just
just blessing after blessing that's been coming down
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just, I just think, the
most high for just taking his time and
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taking the opportunity to see fit to
use me in a way that he has
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and with this platform and ever how
I can touch anyone. Ministry comes in
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so many different forms, whether you
pastor whether you choir singer, choir director,
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whether you hold some position in the
church or whether you talk to people
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through life experiences or you go visit
prisons, mentor kids, whatever the case
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may be. Mens, ministry comes
in many, many different forms. And
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so this, this is the platform
that God gave me to reach an encouraging
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uplift others in any and every way
that I possibly can through any subject that
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I speak on, that he gives
me insight to speak on and the move
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forward. So again, I'm so
grateful to the most hied for this,
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for this platform, for this opportunity
for dough any and everybody that I can
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reach out and touch, encourage,
uplift in any shape from a fashion with
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this podcast. So that's a part
of our mission. That is our mission
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statement, to continue to uplift and
encourage all of our listeners while having meaningful
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dialog. That is what currently under
construction is all about. It is,
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it is, it is man,
and I love this. Man. I
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Miss Y'all. I Miss Y'all a
lot. Man, I missed doing this,
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but I'm again so excited about we're
finally up and running on our new
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platform. You can still listen to
US wherever you get your podcast, wherever
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you listen to your podcast, and
there are some new platforms that you're going
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to be able to hear his broadcast
on Amazon, Stitcher, just to name
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a few. Deezer, I heart
radio, sound cloud and of course,
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our standard others. You know you'll
be able to listen to us on spotify,
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apple podcast, Google podcast, radio, public overcast, pocket cast,
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souls and and then many others.
You know that you've been able to listen
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to us on and before and you
continue to be able to continue to listen
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to us on now going forward,
I'll ensure if you don't know the new
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link of how to reach us,
I'll ensure that I include that it's in
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our new bio. Make sure I
include it in the transcripts of this particular
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episode so you'll be able to click
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I can say we still broadcast on
every other platform that you've already been listening
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to us on. So if you
still have us and you follow us on
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those particular platforms, then you should
still be able to get these new episodes
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for my new hosting platform on here
as well. Or you can neither.
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Go to our website at www dot
under under constructioncom. That is www dot
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under constructioncom. You can need to
go to our website, our actual website,
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and you can follow us there,
you can listen to it there,
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you can share it and, like
you've been doing before, and get a
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great podcast episode. We're listening every
by it not going to hold you too
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long. This is our relaunch episode. I'll do it you. I get
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another episode again in a couple of
days. I'm going to get back on
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schedule. I'm going to stick to
that, so be on the lookout for
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that. We got a lot of
great things coming up in this second half
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of our third season. This is
still season three. This is not a
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new season we do. We are
still in season three. This is season
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three of your favorite podcast and mine, currently under construction. This is season
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three, episode fourteen, currently under
construction and man, just excited about everything
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that. We're going to do everything
that we are doing and keep it locked
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right there, so I can you
know I'm model see it with me.
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It takes a village to make this
thing happen, and you all are my
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village and we're going to continue to
build this thing together, you and I,
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step by step, one step at
a time, continue to lady this
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foundation one brick at a time.
Currently under construction. I talk to you
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all in a few days. Gotta
be safe and I'll talk to you all
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soon. Peace,