# The Dating Debate (Guests: Pastor Marcus D. & Nicole King, Jessica Reedy, Rashid Floyd, David C. Williams, Tyreese Smith, Shaniqua Rischer)

An episode of [Dear Future Wifey](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1506095537), 27 Aug 2025, 3 h 29 min.

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Hook: What does it take to transition well in life and love? This raw conversation dives deep into the journeys of eight transparent panelists. Overview: Popular podcaster Laterras R. Whitfield leads an intimate discussion with a diverse panel about their personal transitions in life and relationships. Guests get vulnerable about singleness, divorce, cancer, and more. Timestamps: 7:30 - Introductions 16:45 - Dating optimism? 26:30 - Abstinence and boundaries 37:15 - Overcoming cancer 55:30 - Letting your man lead 1:16:00 - Proverbs 31 woman today 1:23:00 - Getting connected Key Takeaways: - Give your partner grace to become who they're meant to be - You are enough, flaws and all - Submitting to God prepares you for marriage - Community is key during seasons of change CTA: Are you in a season of transition? Tune in to hear stories of hope that will inspire your journey. Search "Dear Future Wifey" now! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: How's these dating streets been treating you?
[0:02] Speaker 2: Somewhere on the way. It seems like men have stopping.
[0:08] Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you.
[0:11] Speaker 1: We are alive in the Soto, Texas at DC three
[0:15] Speaker 1: in the building. I was watching a video today. This
[0:18] Speaker 1: man gives his wife one hundred and fifty thousand dollars
[0:20] Speaker 1: for each baby that she has. Y'all clap and see
[0:23] Speaker 1: look at you see. Let us straight deliverance. The altar
[0:25] Speaker 1: is right here for you. So men look at it
[0:27] Speaker 1: and now, oh see, now you want one hundred and
[0:29] Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars.
[0:29] Speaker 3: I have three soomes.
[0:30] Speaker 1: That's four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
[0:32] Speaker 3: You just hold on every single last one of my pregnancies.
[0:35] Speaker 3: I didn't use any medicine and I almost die. It's
[0:38] Speaker 3: not a dollar amount, it's just value.
[0:40] Speaker 1: So it's not the dollar value you saying, just the
[0:42] Speaker 1: acknowledge that you want to push present. Absolutely, Okay, that's fine.
[0:46] Speaker 1: I'm just staying. One hundred fift thousand dollars look extreme,
[0:48] Speaker 1: Hey man.
[0:48] Speaker 3: You've given to yourself. So to even have the mentality
[0:52] Speaker 3: that anything you're putting in my hands you're losing, is wrong.
[0:54] Speaker 3: Off back. We are in the wrong relationship.
[0:57] Speaker 4: If I'm for a child like a vending machine, that's weird.
[1:01] Speaker 5: My father didn't get my mother a push present, But
[1:03] Speaker 5: did he appreciate her and do something for her? Sure,
[1:05] Speaker 5: I'm sure he did. But at the same time, do
[1:07] Speaker 5: you want to keep it one hundred in here? Let's
[1:09] Speaker 5: go away at one hundred. Sometimes men feel like my
[1:11] Speaker 5: money is our money and your money.
[1:14] Speaker 4: Is your money. That's a real thing.
[1:16] Speaker 6: I think sometimes people get into relationships with this Shack
[1:19] Speaker 6: and Kobe perspective. Sometimes folks go into the racers say, man,
[1:22] Speaker 6: I ain't changing nothing. I'm as good as to get.
[1:24] Speaker 6: I'm the best that there is. Some people say, look,
[1:26] Speaker 6: I think that every day I want to love you better.
[1:28] Speaker 6: I want to get better as a person myself. But
[1:30] Speaker 6: everybody's not willing to do that.
[1:31] Speaker 1: In that name a time in your life where you
[1:35] Speaker 1: experienced the greatest transition.
[1:36] Speaker 3: I'm real skeptical to even saying this all out, But
[1:39] Speaker 3: last year I found out I had cancer. I was
[1:41] Speaker 3: ready to take a big transition. I was very happy
[1:45] Speaker 3: to do so.
[1:46] Speaker 1: So you were saying you were ready to go see Jesus.
[1:48] Speaker 3: Absolutely, it's hard.
[1:49] Speaker 1: For people to reconcile. Most of the time you hear
[1:52] Speaker 1: people older in age who get to this place of solace,
[1:55] Speaker 1: this place of release. How would you do this as
[1:58] Speaker 1: young as you are, the Dear Future WIFEI podcast has
[2:04] Speaker 1: global impact from Texas.
[2:06] Speaker 2: I have been on this journey of healing and self discovery,
[2:10] Speaker 2: and this podcast has been a vital part of my process.
[2:14] Speaker 7: God's establishing through you a legacy, a display of freedom,
[2:19] Speaker 7: founding authentic spirituality.
[2:21] Speaker 1: California.
[2:22] Speaker 8: I learned so much as a single man through your
[2:25] Speaker 8: podcast and continue to learn so much as now a
[2:29] Speaker 8: married man Nigeria.
[2:31] Speaker 3: This is just therapy for me.
[2:32] Speaker 7: You know, I've been healed, I've been strengthen in my
[2:35] Speaker 7: convictions on the stoo to do single hoopbitsa.
[2:38] Speaker 2: Amsterdam way that you've shown us how it is possible
[2:42] Speaker 2: for a man to be as intentional as you are
[2:47] Speaker 2: New Jersey.
[2:48] Speaker 8: I appreciate your vulnerability.
[2:49] Speaker 2: I appreciate just being able to see that there is
[2:52] Speaker 2: life after divorce.
[2:53] Speaker 1: To New York.
[2:55] Speaker 2: I am a single woman, so these episodes really give
[2:58] Speaker 2: me hope and courage that God.
[2:59] Speaker 1: Does have a husband for me discover, uncover and recover love.
[3:04] Speaker 1: I'm La Terrasaar Whitfield and this is season ten of
[3:07] Speaker 1: the Dear Future WiFi Podcast. I'm thea Terrasaur Wifield. Welcome
[3:12] Speaker 1: to a Dear Future Wifie podcast. I'm your host. Are
[3:14] Speaker 1: you still shacking up with us? If you're still shacking
[3:18] Speaker 1: up with us, can we get a commitment? Come on,
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[3:27] Speaker 1: We are live in De Soto, Texas at DC three
[3:31] Speaker 1: in the building. We have an amazing episode today. Before
[3:39] Speaker 1: we get started, I want to just go around and
[3:42] Speaker 1: have everybody introduce yourself, starting from my far right in
[3:46] Speaker 1: the back talk King.
[3:49] Speaker 4: My name is Tarry Smith. I'm gonna give age.
[3:52] Speaker 1: Yeah, just give a little bit of background about good
[3:54] Speaker 1: thirty seconds.
[3:55] Speaker 4: Of who you are.
[3:56] Speaker 9: Twenty five years old. I'm from DeSoto, a member here
[3:59] Speaker 9: at D been a member here since about two thousand
[4:01] Speaker 9: and seven, two thousand and eight. Yeah, So Pastor King
[4:07] Speaker 9: is the shepherd over my life and I give him
[4:10] Speaker 9: all the honor and Lady Nicole as well.
[4:12] Speaker 1: So good, good, give it up from y'all. Ty Reef.
[4:17] Speaker 2: Hello, my name is Janika Richard. I am a business
[4:20] Speaker 2: owner and I'm a minister. I'm from Dallas, specifically o'cliff
[4:26] Speaker 2: right right, Dallas, And that's just a little bit about me.
[4:32] Speaker 2: I've been a member of here at DC three since
[4:34] Speaker 2: we first started an inception was seventeen years. It's hard
[4:38] Speaker 2: to pass to me, but I appreciate that he does.
[4:43] Speaker 1: Good. Give it up for Shanika, y'all. What's up?
[4:48] Speaker 3: King?
[4:49] Speaker 4: What's good? Bro? David Williams.
[4:52] Speaker 6: I was on season two of Queen's Court with Will
[4:56] Speaker 6: Packard and Lisa Ray and all those folks. I'm also
[4:59] Speaker 6: a natives South Downas, Texas. I'm also a two time
[5:06] Speaker 6: Engineer of the Year. I'm a take exec published author.
[5:10] Speaker 1: And a great run that back you said two times?
[5:12] Speaker 4: What again? Two time Engineer the Year?
[5:15] Speaker 1: Did y'all hear? Engineer? That means the brother got brains.
[5:18] Speaker 1: He says he's smart, he's intelligence. That's what's up?
[5:21] Speaker 10: Key?
[5:21] Speaker 4: Thank you? Brother?
[5:23] Speaker 1: What's up? Brother?
[5:24] Speaker 4: Hello? Hello? My name is Rashid Floyd.
[5:27] Speaker 5: I was seen on Oprah's Ready to Love Season two.
[5:32] Speaker 5: I'm originally from Houston and I am also a luxury
[5:37] Speaker 5: automotive specialist and I'm also a podcast host and I'm
[5:39] Speaker 5: just happy to be here and I'm a great great dad.
[5:42] Speaker 1: Yeah, dad, Yes, that's what has him in town right now.
[5:47] Speaker 1: Your son is competing and what Yes.
[5:49] Speaker 5: He's got an AAU tournament this weekend right here in
[5:52] Speaker 5: the area.
[5:52] Speaker 4: And things worked out so here I am.
[5:55] Speaker 1: Yeah. So he called me in he said he was
[5:56] Speaker 1: in town, and I was like, I'm gonna put you
[5:58] Speaker 1: on a panel. I want you to show up, and
[6:00] Speaker 1: so I just drafted him to be on the on
[6:02] Speaker 1: the panel of Day because it's an amazing guy that's
[6:05] Speaker 1: very vulnerable, and so I love when I hear men
[6:07] Speaker 1: that are very transparent and vulnerable. Here's another face that
[6:11] Speaker 1: y'all is no stranger. Introduce yourself, queen.
[6:16] Speaker 3: How y'all doing. I'm Jessica Reedy. I'm just a comedian.
[6:22] Speaker 3: I'm the one who mopped the floors, so please make
[6:24] Speaker 3: sure not to scuff him up. I see, y'all, were
[6:27] Speaker 3: y'all heels today. I worked really hard and I'm very
[6:30] Speaker 3: happy to be here. Latyrs picked me up from the street.
[6:33] Speaker 3: I got real nice and dressed up for the occasion.
[6:35] Speaker 3: So very happy to be here, thank y'all.
[6:38] Speaker 1: And she just so happened is able to sing very
[6:40] Speaker 1: very well too. Just so happy to sing very very well,
[6:43] Speaker 1: she's annoying songstress. Brother. When I was going to the
[6:48] Speaker 1: start from lady.
[6:50] Speaker 2: Hey everybody, I'm Nicole King and I am the wife
[6:53] Speaker 2: of Pastor King.
[6:55] Speaker 3: We love DC three. This is the house, y'all.
[6:59] Speaker 2: Y'all rings up DC three DC three. So I am
[7:05] Speaker 2: a personal trainer. I'm a group exercise trainer as well.
[7:10] Speaker 2: It's right next door in the same shop and center.
[7:12] Speaker 2: By the way, I have three children. I'm fifty years old.
[7:19] Speaker 2: I just recently finished my master's right before I turned fifty.
[7:24] Speaker 2: I was really excited about that, and I just love serving.
[7:28] Speaker 2: Weight loss is my passion. Working out and fitness is
[7:31] Speaker 2: my passion and my heart over here and my children.
[7:36] Speaker 4: What's it?
[7:37] Speaker 1: Yes, yes, the shepherd of the house, my brother, Pastor
[7:41] Speaker 1: Marcus King. Give it up for him before even starts speaking,
[7:44] Speaker 1: give it up for this brother. Yeah, I give it
[7:46] Speaker 1: up for I love this dude. I've been knowing this
[7:49] Speaker 1: dude for years. I mean how long we known each other?
[7:52] Speaker 1: About me?
[7:53] Speaker 11: I was trying to think back, what was it one
[7:55] Speaker 11: of your one of your earlier players.
[7:57] Speaker 1: Yeah, so I think it's about fifteen years or something.
[7:59] Speaker 1: We've known each other, is what I started. Oh, Yeah,
[8:03] Speaker 1: so this's seventeen here.
[8:04] Speaker 11: About twenty. Realize that y'all give it up for the
[8:08] Speaker 11: Terrence Whitfield. That's what you've given up for. He been
[8:12] Speaker 11: doing this stuff for years and he didn't just come
[8:14] Speaker 11: on the scene. He been doing this and so we're
[8:17] Speaker 11: grateful to have you here today. Man, I'm just her husband,
[8:20] Speaker 11: that's all I am. I'm the janitor here and I'm
[8:24] Speaker 11: just we're just glad to have y'all here. So you've
[8:26] Speaker 11: seen that. I'm ready to get along with the show.
[8:28] Speaker 11: So y'all want to know something about me, make sure
[8:30] Speaker 11: you get some books tonight, that's what that's first thing
[8:32] Speaker 11: until you get my book tonight and my book coming out.
[8:35] Speaker 11: I have a book coming out on prayer called The Audacity,
[8:38] Speaker 11: and so we want to make sure we're talking more
[8:40] Speaker 11: about that later on.
[8:41] Speaker 4: But yeah, well we'll get that.
[8:42] Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna get all of your business today. So
[8:44] Speaker 1: get ready. We're gonna have fun. All right, So let's
[8:47] Speaker 1: let's let's just jump on one of the Let me
[8:49] Speaker 1: ask y'all who y'all want me to start with?
[8:51] Speaker 12: First?
[8:51] Speaker 1: Who y'all want to whome name? Who y'all want me
[8:54] Speaker 1: to talk talk to Jessica. David, y'all said, David, Jessica.
[9:01] Speaker 1: David raised your hand, all right. Jessica raised your hand,
[9:06] Speaker 1: all right. So here we go, Jessica. We've been talking
[9:08] Speaker 1: to you, Jessica. So, Jessica, this weekend is titled Transitions.
[9:14] Speaker 1: When you hear the word transitions, what comes to mind
[9:17] Speaker 1: when you think about your own personal life, name a
[9:20] Speaker 1: time in your life where you experienced the greatest transition.
[9:24] Speaker 3: Okay, well, this year I and y'all about to go ooh,
[9:29] Speaker 3: and I'm real skeptical to even saying this all loud,
[9:33] Speaker 3: but last year I found out I had cancer, and
[9:36] Speaker 3: so this year, I, you know, went out of town
[9:40] Speaker 3: and had an amazing experience, and it transitioned my mind
[9:45] Speaker 3: from the value of time and how willingly I was
[9:50] Speaker 3: ready to take a big transition. I was very happy
[9:54] Speaker 3: to do so, and God giving me an opportunity to
[9:57] Speaker 3: stick around. It made me very press I was always present.
[10:01] Speaker 3: I enjoy talking to people, but it grounds me down.
[10:05] Speaker 3: I realized I don't have limits. I can get whatever
[10:07] Speaker 3: I want. There's no place I can't go. I truly
[10:12] Speaker 3: believe with all my heart every room is mine. I
[10:16] Speaker 3: belong there, I find my place, and everyone else has
[10:22] Speaker 3: to adjust. That's how I feel about it. And because
[10:26] Speaker 3: I like me now, I like me. I like everything
[10:29] Speaker 3: about me. I like my flaws. I mean, I really
[10:33] Speaker 3: like me, you know, And that took a long time
[10:35] Speaker 3: to get that. I really like me. I think I'm cool.
[10:39] Speaker 3: I don't know when y'all are experiencing me. I need
[10:42] Speaker 3: a Yelp review because I just I think I'm dope.
[10:49] Speaker 3: So yeah, that's what comes to mind me.
[10:54] Speaker 1: So, Jessica, you touched on this. You said you were
[10:58] Speaker 1: ready to transition. So you were saying and you were
[11:00] Speaker 1: ready to go see Jesus absolutely why it's hard for
[11:04] Speaker 1: people to reconcile. Most of the time you hear people
[11:07] Speaker 1: older in age who get to this place of solace,
[11:10] Speaker 1: this place of release. How would you do this as
[11:14] Speaker 1: young as you are?
[11:15] Speaker 3: Thank you so much. As you can see, I'm still
[11:17] Speaker 3: in my twenties. The truth is I've lived many lives.
[11:24] Speaker 3: God has used me to do a lot of amazing things.
[11:28] Speaker 3: For me, I had made my contribution, Like you know,
[11:32] Speaker 3: people smile, people are happy the music I've put out,
[11:36] Speaker 3: whether it helped one or two or five or five
[11:38] Speaker 3: thousand or five million, you know, we in the millions,
[11:40] Speaker 3: but I would what else can I do?
[11:47] Speaker 1: But you got these beautiful.
[11:48] Speaker 3: Sons, right. I'm an amazing mother, right, And because of
[11:54] Speaker 3: how I raised my children, I've raised my children to
[11:56] Speaker 3: be independent. I've raised my children to understand life and
[12:00] Speaker 3: how amazing it is to go to a place where
[12:02] Speaker 3: there's peace. The Bible says to cry when babies are
[12:07] Speaker 3: born and to rejoice when you die. So, however, we
[12:13] Speaker 3: program to each his own. But when you finally understand
[12:17] Speaker 3: that life is about making sure other people know light
[12:20] Speaker 3: and love and Jesus, what else I'm holding on to?
[12:25] Speaker 3: You know, if it's time, it's time, I'm gonna have
[12:27] Speaker 3: a huge smile on my face. I have made a
[12:30] Speaker 3: great contribution. Okay, it wasn't time, So okay, God, what
[12:33] Speaker 3: else you want me to do? Because now, if you
[12:36] Speaker 3: thought I was a problem, then you know what I mean.
[12:40] Speaker 3: I wasn't no problem. You know, easygoing, I'm a problem.
[12:43] Speaker 3: No Lord, Yeah, it didn't come as a challenge. My
[12:49] Speaker 3: tears were for my children, my oldest, he was hurt
[12:52] Speaker 3: by it. My oldest said some things that made me say, okay, cool,
[12:56] Speaker 3: I'll go and figure out I'm not doing chemo. I said,
[13:00] Speaker 3: but if there's something natural, I'll go do it. I'll
[13:01] Speaker 3: find it out. That's the only reason y'all't looking at me,
[13:04] Speaker 3: Cause right now I was okay, I was one thousand. Okay,
[13:09] Speaker 3: Please don't have no pity. I can't stand that emotion.
[13:13] Speaker 3: Know that we do what we're supposed to do, especially
[13:17] Speaker 3: if you love God with grace and with honor. I
[13:19] Speaker 3: get the opportunity to serve God's people. That's the biggest
[13:23] Speaker 3: thing I could have ever done, and I'm very pleased.
[13:26] Speaker 3: I'm happy about it.
[13:27] Speaker 1: Well, can we just give God some praise because she's
[13:30] Speaker 1: still a monkst the living. Give God some praise all
[13:33] Speaker 1: over this place. Yeah, I was hard watching her on
[13:38] Speaker 1: social media. She always smiled when she was in Bali,
[13:43] Speaker 1: and she was just smiling, and I was like, gosh,
[13:45] Speaker 1: to know that she's going through this, and I always
[13:47] Speaker 1: kept this beautiful smile on her face. Was encouraging to
[13:51] Speaker 1: just watch. But uh, I wasn't ready to let go
[13:54] Speaker 1: of you just yet, So I did you to this.
[13:56] Speaker 3: Is what a regulatorians is not kind to me and
[13:59] Speaker 3: and you know, when you want to know, this is
[14:01] Speaker 3: how the funeral would have sound. But he's not actually
[14:04] Speaker 3: nice to me. I'm serious, he shurely. I'm that balloon
[14:09] Speaker 3: thing that stand outside and do like this. That's the
[14:12] Speaker 3: only reason I want the stage right now. He knew
[14:14] Speaker 3: I cracked some jokes, he using me, and I wanted
[14:17] Speaker 3: to say that just in case people up here was boring.
[14:20] Speaker 3: I'm here to just fill in gaps. That's the only
[14:22] Speaker 3: reason I'm here. That's it. But go ahead say what
[14:25] Speaker 3: you're gonna say. I'm listening.
[14:26] Speaker 8: Give me my flowers.
[14:30] Speaker 1: So I would have missed Jessica if she was gone.
[14:34] Speaker 1: I would have missed her. That is my buddy. I
[14:36] Speaker 1: love her. And so I'm glad that you're still amongst living.
[14:40] Speaker 1: And yes, you are right. I did bring you in
[14:42] Speaker 1: here to crack jokes and that crazy and maybe sing
[14:45] Speaker 1: a song at the end of this podcast. Amen. Amen, Amen, David.
[14:52] Speaker 1: You're a single man. How optimistic are you in these
[14:57] Speaker 1: dating streets? When you're dating? Let me ask you, do
[15:00] Speaker 1: you date?
[15:01] Speaker 4: Yeah?
[15:02] Speaker 1: Okay?
[15:02] Speaker 4: Yeah?
[15:03] Speaker 1: And so as you are dating people, are you optimistic
[15:08] Speaker 1: when you when you let me ask you, do you
[15:10] Speaker 1: desire marriage?
[15:13] Speaker 4: Yeah?
[15:13] Speaker 1: Okay? And so sound a little skeptical, didn't he? He said?
[15:18] Speaker 6: Yeah, little hesitation. No, we've had this conversation. Yeah, yeah,
[15:24] Speaker 6: I want to be married, so you want to be married.
[15:26] Speaker 4: So conditions now it's conditions.
[15:28] Speaker 1: Yeah, we know, it's conditions, and so you desire marriage.
[15:33] Speaker 1: Do you feel optimistic as you are dating people? Do
[15:37] Speaker 1: you feel like that person is out there? Or have
[15:40] Speaker 1: you gotten weary and you're well doing?
[15:42] Speaker 4: No.
[15:42] Speaker 6: I do believe that a person is out there for me. Yeah.
[15:47] Speaker 4: Sure.
[15:48] Speaker 1: How long will it take if you met said person?
[15:51] Speaker 1: How long would you have to date her in order
[15:54] Speaker 1: for you to put a ring on her finger?
[16:01] Speaker 6: One second? You know, man, that's not a number, right. Look,
[16:16] Speaker 6: I think it could happen within less than two years,
[16:21] Speaker 6: probably less than I don't know, a couple of years.
[16:26] Speaker 6: I'm gonna put around two man, I'm gonna put around too.
[16:29] Speaker 6: I mean, look, it's it's it's difficult to understand people today.
[16:32] Speaker 6: There's a lot of personas that people have. There's a
[16:35] Speaker 6: lot of things that people bring, whether it's trauma, baggage.
[16:37] Speaker 6: Some people want to hold onto those things and keep
[16:39] Speaker 6: talking about the past. Life is a needle on the record.
[16:41] Speaker 6: We got to keep going. You know what I'm saying.
[16:43] Speaker 6: Everybody's not there. I just want My request is simple.
[16:48] Speaker 6: I'll ask that someone reciprocate incredible only.
[16:56] Speaker 4: Now that's yeah, unpacked that unpacked that David. Okay, so
[17:01] Speaker 4: you know.
[17:04] Speaker 6: I like to use basketball terms, but I'm not gonna
[17:06] Speaker 6: do that this I'll do it, Okay, all right. So look,
[17:08] Speaker 6: so you got shacking Kobe right, Yeah, okay, I gotta
[17:15] Speaker 6: go here one time. Man, Look, Shack was like, Kobe's like,
[17:18] Speaker 6: I want to practice all day every day. Shack like, man,
[17:20] Speaker 6: I'm not doing all that practice, bro, you know what
[17:22] Speaker 6: I'm saying. Kobe's like, look, everybody can get better in shocks,
[17:24] Speaker 6: like I'm the best.
[17:26] Speaker 4: I think.
[17:26] Speaker 6: Sometimes people get into relationships with this Shack and Kobe perspective.
[17:30] Speaker 6: Sometimes folks go into the races say, man, I ain't
[17:32] Speaker 6: changing nothing. I'm as good as it gets. I'm the
[17:34] Speaker 6: best that there is. Some people say, look, I think
[17:39] Speaker 6: that every day I want to love you better. I
[17:41] Speaker 6: want to get better as a person myself. I don't
[17:43] Speaker 6: want the first date to out to be the first
[17:46] Speaker 6: year that where we're together, be better in the second
[17:48] Speaker 6: year or the third. You know, it should get better,
[17:50] Speaker 6: not worse. Right, Okay, Yes, Well, if you Shack and
[17:54] Speaker 6: you breaking all the goals around here and be ya, okay,
[17:56] Speaker 6: then you' doing what you're doing. Okay, Then we're gonna
[17:58] Speaker 6: go with three championships together. The life gonna be great. Man,
[18:00] Speaker 6: We're going into the Hall of Fame. But if you
[18:03] Speaker 6: didn't come with all that talent and skill, all that
[18:07] Speaker 6: stuff that you developed that does run the whole NBA
[18:10] Speaker 6: like shack, If that's not who you are, then every
[18:12] Speaker 6: day should be a little bit of developer. And I'm
[18:14] Speaker 6: not afraid to say, look, I stuff, I need to
[18:16] Speaker 6: get better at this stuff. We all need to get
[18:18] Speaker 6: better at. But everybody's not willing to do that.
[18:20] Speaker 4: In that thing.
[18:21] Speaker 6: A lot of times people be like, I don't want
[18:23] Speaker 6: to change, and change me. Okay, well I guess I
[18:25] Speaker 6: got to go.
[18:30] Speaker 4: I mean, I'm not.
[18:31] Speaker 6: Asking for anything that I don't want to give. My
[18:34] Speaker 6: whole point is reciprocate incredible only let's leave that mediocre.
[18:40] Speaker 4: You know, after that, he.
[18:43] Speaker 1: Donet redeemed himself, didn't it? He said two years? He
[18:47] Speaker 1: sain't gonna wait too. Let me ask you all that.
[18:49] Speaker 1: Let me pull the audience. How many y'all wait two
[18:51] Speaker 1: years for a man to put a ring on your finger?
[18:53] Speaker 1: Anybody anybody's okay, let me get what's the right number.
[18:56] Speaker 4: Then what's the right number?
[18:58] Speaker 1: I ain't the right it's your number. Okay, then it's
[19:01] Speaker 1: your number. It's checking, that's check it. But shouldn't take
[19:04] Speaker 1: two years anyway, So how you know what?
[19:06] Speaker 4: Honestly, honestly, it may not even take two years. I'm I'm, I'm, I'm.
[19:10] Speaker 4: I'm working off of data from the past.
[19:13] Speaker 1: He said that I got your engineer and everything.
[19:16] Speaker 6: Honestly, I'm just saying it may not take two years.
[19:18] Speaker 6: If somebody's reciprocating, incredible, I'm not gonna it. Don't take
[19:21] Speaker 6: a whole day to recognize sunshine. It's just that everybody's
[19:24] Speaker 6: not gonna do that.
[19:25] Speaker 1: I'm talking about her. I'm talking about the one. I'm
[19:27] Speaker 1: talking about the one.
[19:28] Speaker 6: I mean, if you're talking to like that, if we
[19:30] Speaker 6: don't just go ahead and put the Disney glasses on. Look, man,
[19:34] Speaker 6: I still believe in love at first sight.
[19:36] Speaker 1: Okay, but do you believe in proposal at first sight?
[19:47] Speaker 4: I mean she putting the ring on me. We're talking about.
[19:55] Speaker 6: I'm saying, we can't have a conversation, we can't talk,
[19:58] Speaker 6: fight or nothing.
[19:59] Speaker 4: It's gonna run.
[20:00] Speaker 1: I'm saying, how many musks because you said two years.
[20:03] Speaker 6: Hey, look if if she's her, okay, she's her, she's incredible,
[20:07] Speaker 6: she's incredible. It's not gonna take it's not gonna recredible
[20:10] Speaker 6: only incredible only. It's not gonna take two years. No,
[20:12] Speaker 6: it's gonna take probably several months to be Like, look,
[20:15] Speaker 6: while we're playing, while we're.
[20:17] Speaker 1: Playing, so you would say while we're playing, while we're playing. Good,
[20:20] Speaker 1: all right, So if you met what you're looking for,
[20:22] Speaker 1: because I'm telling you reason why.
[20:23] Speaker 6: I date in Dallas, So I haven't you know, I'm
[20:26] Speaker 6: just saying, you know it. You know it's I don't know,
[20:28] Speaker 6: it's I love it. You know you're you're kind of
[20:32] Speaker 6: in Disney right now with this. You know, you know,
[20:34] Speaker 6: I don't know why.
[20:36] Speaker 1: You say you think? So what is Dayton, Dallas? Gotta
[20:37] Speaker 1: do it?
[20:38] Speaker 6: I mean, I'm just saying it. In the real world,
[20:39] Speaker 6: I'm just saying I haven't ran an incredible yet.
[20:41] Speaker 4: Brother.
[20:41] Speaker 6: You know she here, You give me the number, you
[20:43] Speaker 6: got my number, pass it on. I'm not on tender Bumble,
[20:47] Speaker 6: I'm not on the app. So you know what I'm saying,
[20:49] Speaker 6: I'm missing it.
[20:50] Speaker 1: He said, if you hear, give me your number.
[20:51] Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean if you if you know her me.
[20:53] Speaker 1: No, I will. I'll give you the layer.
[20:55] Speaker 4: I'm not bull. I'm not on bumping fishing.
[20:58] Speaker 1: I give you a layup out. Let me ask you
[21:02] Speaker 1: all this. I want to ask the women out there.
[21:04] Speaker 1: How many y'all will wait? How many y'all with data
[21:07] Speaker 1: guy for two years before expecting areen? How many y'all
[21:11] Speaker 1: raise your hand? So it's a lot of y'all. So
[21:14] Speaker 1: let's let's let's pull it from this standpoint. If you're
[21:17] Speaker 1: under the age of thirty and you will wait two years,
[21:20] Speaker 1: raise your hand, you all right? If you're under the age,
[21:24] Speaker 1: if you're between thirty and forty and you will still
[21:27] Speaker 1: wait two years, raise your hand?
[21:30] Speaker 12: All right?
[21:30] Speaker 1: One one person over there? If you if you over
[21:33] Speaker 1: forty and you will wait two years, raise your hand.
[21:38] Speaker 4: And now.
[21:40] Speaker 6: Kids, now we're not talking about outside kids into two years?
[21:43] Speaker 4: Ain't is it?
[21:44] Speaker 6: Outside kids? I said, we're not talking about that. Now,
[21:47] Speaker 6: we ain't talking about outside kids.
[21:48] Speaker 1: How the kids get into the equations.
[21:50] Speaker 6: I'm just saying, you acting like the two years, it's
[21:51] Speaker 6: like we're dealing with some drum in the middle of it.
[21:53] Speaker 6: I'm just saying, I say, no drum, I'm talking about
[21:55] Speaker 6: healthy love, healthy baby.
[21:58] Speaker 1: You never had a baby on the n right? All right?
[22:00] Speaker 1: Come wrong, come testimony. Got something you want to say
[22:04] Speaker 1: the testimony.
[22:05] Speaker 4: Brother, I'm just saying you over here, like yeah, I'm testimony.
[22:10] Speaker 1: I'm saying you met a woman that you liked and
[22:12] Speaker 1: you started dating her exclusively for two years. You will
[22:17] Speaker 1: wait two years with exclusivity before you decided to put
[22:21] Speaker 1: a ring on it. It will take you two years
[22:23] Speaker 1: to figure out if you want to spend forever with
[22:25] Speaker 1: this person.
[22:25] Speaker 6: Man, not an incredible person. Brother, It's gonna take some time.
[22:28] Speaker 6: If y'all going through issues. You know, y'all going through
[22:30] Speaker 6: bumps in the road and it's all kind of weird stuff.
[22:32] Speaker 6: But no, if you run into somebody incredible, man, I mean,
[22:34] Speaker 6: like I said, I believe in love at first sight.
[22:36] Speaker 6: It's just as in life, you go through issues, somebody.
[22:40] Speaker 4: Gonna assume this. Somebody gonn judge.
[22:41] Speaker 6: It's somebody gonna you know, somebody family know they got
[22:44] Speaker 6: this kid, somebody other baby. You know, there's all these
[22:46] Speaker 6: other things that getting a big.
[22:47] Speaker 1: Kids keep coming up from David Worthy's kids popping up
[22:51] Speaker 1: and the car. What have you been dealing with?
[22:53] Speaker 4: My brother?
[22:54] Speaker 1: So you so hold on.
[22:56] Speaker 4: One second, one second, one second, one second.
[22:58] Speaker 1: You'll be da.
[22:58] Speaker 6: All these people in here don't have no But you
[23:00] Speaker 6: said the kids like they popping up.
[23:02] Speaker 1: You done met him. Hope, if you met them, you
[23:04] Speaker 1: know they got kids, you start finding out about them
[23:07] Speaker 1: in year one, you'd be like, oh, I know you
[23:09] Speaker 1: had three other kids. He said, My brother needs So
[23:14] Speaker 1: that's what you mean. My brother traumatized out here? Good lord,
[23:20] Speaker 1: he said, you found out about the kids. What I
[23:24] Speaker 1: found out in raising was something that I didn't expect.
[23:28] Speaker 1: Around the forty agent up, most of y'all raised y'all hand,
[23:32] Speaker 1: that y'all would give it longer time, which is something different.
[23:35] Speaker 1: I asked, y'all more y'all raised y'all hand than the
[23:38] Speaker 1: forty above, that y'all would wait two years. That is interesting.
[23:42] Speaker 1: Did y'all realize y'all did that? So y'all more cautious,
[23:46] Speaker 1: y'all more? Uh huh, yep, I believe it. All right,
[23:53] Speaker 1: We're cool. I'm gonna ask when we do a Q
[23:55] Speaker 1: and A. I want to unpack that because typically the
[23:58] Speaker 1: older you become, the shorter the day is you like,
[24:01] Speaker 1: I ain't finn, you ain't gotta wait no, two years.
[24:03] Speaker 1: I got. I done froze my eggs. I need to
[24:06] Speaker 1: get my eggs all out. I don't have time for
[24:08] Speaker 1: all this. I done went to the opg yn. They said,
[24:12] Speaker 1: I'm about to have a geriatric childbirth. I'm thirty five
[24:15] Speaker 1: years old. We need to go ahead and get this
[24:17] Speaker 1: show on the road. You got six months tops. After
[24:21] Speaker 1: six months, I'm moving on. So y'all said, y'all wait
[24:24] Speaker 1: two years. Y'all got grace over here in disciple Christ like,
[24:31] Speaker 1: good Lord, it's interesting. So that's good. We're gonna talk
[24:34] Speaker 1: about that. So your wife may be out there. They
[24:36] Speaker 1: gonna give you two years. You know that's good. Sneaker,
[24:42] Speaker 1: how's these Dayton streets have been treating you?
[24:45] Speaker 2: I can't say these Dayton streets?
[24:47] Speaker 1: Why not?
[24:48] Speaker 2: Because it's foolishness. There's so much oh between men and
[24:53] Speaker 2: women right now. It's not good. It's not good. But
[24:56] Speaker 2: I don't like the Day's streets.
[24:57] Speaker 4: I date.
[24:59] Speaker 2: I think that men are very interesting at this point
[25:01] Speaker 2: in my life. But it is what it is.
[25:04] Speaker 1: When you say they're interesting, to unpack that, please.
[25:06] Speaker 3: Oh.
[25:07] Speaker 2: So somewhere along the way, it seems like men have
[25:13] Speaker 2: stopped being thank you, thank you amen, they.
[25:20] Speaker 3: Answered it for me.
[25:21] Speaker 2: We all have touched and agreement.
[25:23] Speaker 1: You have a whole choir out there.
[25:25] Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, man, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. They expect you
[25:31] Speaker 2: to do a lot of the work. They expect you to.
[25:33] Speaker 2: And it's so funny because it's what's interesting is that
[25:35] Speaker 2: a man doesn't want a woman to lead but in
[25:37] Speaker 2: the day and they want a woman to lead. Wow,
[25:41] Speaker 2: And so these streets. It's not conducive for dating, it's not.
[25:47] Speaker 1: You had a very interesting journey that you're very transparent
[25:50] Speaker 1: and vulnerable about. When did you see yourself getting married.
[25:56] Speaker 2: I thought I would be married probably in my med
[25:58] Speaker 2: excuse me, my early thirties. I thought I married then.
[26:00] Speaker 1: So early thirties, and you remained a virgin all the
[26:04] Speaker 1: way up until what age forty five? Forty five?
[26:09] Speaker 2: He didn't know that.
[26:10] Speaker 1: He's like, what, yeah, yeah, so so forty five. I
[26:16] Speaker 1: want y'all to see if y'all keep clapping, And so
[26:19] Speaker 1: around forty five you got weary in your well doing why.
[26:25] Speaker 2: So it's so funny because when we went to a
[26:27] Speaker 2: mission trip in the Gambia and we had this conversation
[26:31] Speaker 2: and I thought I had put this to rest. So
[26:33] Speaker 2: everyone knows the story of the prodigal son, but most
[26:37] Speaker 2: people don't ever think about the oldest child, the other brother.
[26:40] Speaker 2: And so what happens when you were so tired of
[26:45] Speaker 2: being the one that you feel like is doing everything
[26:47] Speaker 2: right and nothing is coming your way. That's good And
[26:50] Speaker 2: so for me at that age, I was just over
[26:54] Speaker 2: and done with it because I've had reproductive health issues.
[26:58] Speaker 2: I just was like, is coming from as far as
[27:02] Speaker 2: a mate, is this man gonna ever show up? I'm
[27:05] Speaker 2: trying to be obedient a Meani's hard. I'm trying to
[27:09] Speaker 2: be obedient. I'm trying to be all of this and
[27:12] Speaker 2: I'm trying to follow God. I'm trying to walk in
[27:16] Speaker 2: my calling. I'm trying to do all of these things
[27:19] Speaker 2: in nothing. And so for me at forty five, I
[27:22] Speaker 2: was like, I'm done with this. I'm tied, and I
[27:24] Speaker 2: methodically planned it. I called him up, I said, hey,
[27:27] Speaker 2: when you come into town, I want to sleep with you.
[27:30] Speaker 1: And what was his response? Well, I know his response.
[27:33] Speaker 2: His response was yes, if I were to ask anything,
[27:38] Speaker 2: I would sincerely doubt that any of the men that
[27:41] Speaker 2: I have ever talked to would say no. So I
[27:45] Speaker 2: that was not even a problem. That wasn't even that
[27:49] Speaker 2: never crossed my mind that he would say no, was.
[27:51] Speaker 1: That somebody that was just a friend or somebody were dating.
[27:55] Speaker 2: I mean, he wasn't anyone I was dating. But he
[27:58] Speaker 2: wasn't just a friend. He had just kind of evolved
[28:02] Speaker 2: and moved a little bit more towards attraction and things.
[28:05] Speaker 1: And he knew that you were a vision. He knew
[28:07] Speaker 1: that that decision he would be making would be you
[28:10] Speaker 1: surrendering your virginity to him.
[28:11] Speaker 2: He asked me, are you sure about this? And I'm like,
[28:14] Speaker 2: I'm positive.
[28:17] Speaker 1: And then how did you feel knowing that you were
[28:20] Speaker 1: disciplined for forty five years, honoring God, after math, the aftermath,
[28:26] Speaker 1: and then you decided to surrender that? Then what hit you?
[28:30] Speaker 1: Take me through mentally spiritusly? What did you undergo going
[28:34] Speaker 1: through that? Because I take it that you were literally
[28:36] Speaker 1: waiting for marriage to give up your virginity.
[28:40] Speaker 12: Right.
[28:41] Speaker 2: So what's so interesting is that the older that I grew,
[28:44] Speaker 2: I wasn't quite sure I was waiting for marriage, but
[28:46] Speaker 2: I was waiting for love. At one point when I
[28:50] Speaker 2: was younger, I was like, I'm waiting for marriage, But
[28:53] Speaker 2: then as I got older, it became I'm at least
[28:56] Speaker 2: waiting to have love and a love connection with someone,
[29:00] Speaker 2: and then that when that didn't happen, my decision, but
[29:03] Speaker 2: the aftermath of it, the immediate aftermath, I was like, Okay, okay,
[29:09] Speaker 2: I've done this. But then slowly after that, the devastation came.
[29:14] Speaker 2: Because I've used sex as sacred. I believe in soul tis.
[29:21] Speaker 2: I believe that there are connections that you make with
[29:24] Speaker 2: other people that you can't break. I believe that when
[29:27] Speaker 2: you are with other people that spirits. I believe in
[29:34] Speaker 2: all of that. And so for me, sex was so sacred.
[29:39] Speaker 2: And I'm not saying I was perfect beforehand, so let
[29:40] Speaker 2: me really be clear on that, but I just was
[29:45] Speaker 2: like I was tired. But afterwards, the devastation after rooms
[29:49] Speaker 2: was I, you know how, and it's gonna sound bad
[29:53] Speaker 2: from a spiritual standpoint, but I feel like I got
[29:56] Speaker 2: my lick back. I felt like God was like, I
[29:58] Speaker 2: got you, and he did. He handled me. He did,
[30:01] Speaker 2: he handled me, And that was the devastation with that,
[30:04] Speaker 2: and then the disappointment and disappointing God. That's probably what
[30:09] Speaker 2: crushed me more than anything that I had to finally
[30:13] Speaker 2: make peace with, is that because my relationship with God
[30:17] Speaker 2: is so important to me that I was intentionally disobedience,
[30:21] Speaker 2: like this wasn't just something that just oh happened. No,
[30:24] Speaker 2: I was methodical. I was intentional with my disobedience because
[30:28] Speaker 2: I was rebellion, rebelling against all of the hurt, all
[30:33] Speaker 2: of the grief, all of that, and then once it
[30:36] Speaker 2: was gone, it was gone.
[30:39] Speaker 1: Did you forgive yourself from that? I have you said
[30:43] Speaker 1: your therapist walked you through grieving the life that you
[30:48] Speaker 1: thought you were going to have walk us through that?
[30:52] Speaker 1: What was that process? Because I believe that a lot
[30:54] Speaker 1: of us can learn something from that. When we're younger,
[30:58] Speaker 1: we have these especially they start playing with Barbie dolls early.
[31:03] Speaker 1: They they're taught about marriage and love and relationships at
[31:06] Speaker 1: an early age. You put in your mind, I'm gonna
[31:09] Speaker 1: be married by the age of twenty five. Some guy
[31:11] Speaker 1: that you dated in high school. You'll tell yourself, we're
[31:14] Speaker 1: gonna get married. Uh, And he's like, yeah, right, But
[31:17] Speaker 1: you're sixteen years old. Your frontal low ain't even developing.
[31:20] Speaker 1: You just you you you believe that this guy is
[31:22] Speaker 1: the one, until you realize later on that he's not.
[31:26] Speaker 1: How did you what type of things that you have
[31:29] Speaker 1: in your mind that you had to reconcile and grieve
[31:32] Speaker 1: that didn't happen at the age of forty five when
[31:34] Speaker 1: you made that decision.
[31:37] Speaker 2: So I think I started grieving the life I didn't
[31:40] Speaker 2: have within after forty five, after I slept with someone,
[31:44] Speaker 2: and part of that so I'm very open to transparent.
[31:48] Speaker 2: So I had fibroids when I was in my no
[31:53] Speaker 2: in my twenties. I was first diagnosed with fibroids, and
[31:57] Speaker 2: immediately I was like, I can't have kids. My doctor
[32:00] Speaker 2: was like, no, that's not gonna be it. But I
[32:02] Speaker 2: literally felt like I had a vision for God actually called,
[32:05] Speaker 2: which is a part of my calling to ministry, Like
[32:08] Speaker 2: I had a vision, and part of that was I
[32:10] Speaker 2: was not a mother, but I had all of these
[32:12] Speaker 2: children that were not mine around me. And so from
[32:16] Speaker 2: that I had to get in my mind, Okay, you're
[32:19] Speaker 2: being pessimistic in your twenties, but then thirty comes and
[32:23] Speaker 2: then forty comes and this still isn't coming to fruition.
[32:27] Speaker 2: And so when I had had the first firebreaid surgery
[32:30] Speaker 2: and then later on was still having other surgeries, and
[32:33] Speaker 2: then I ended up sleeping with someone, and then the
[32:36] Speaker 2: funny thing is is that so have I've had a
[32:39] Speaker 2: hysterectomy last year, and so when people ask you do
[32:43] Speaker 2: you want kids? And I had to make the decision
[32:46] Speaker 2: to have a hysterectomy, well, I don't know if I
[32:48] Speaker 2: can have kids because I haven't had sex to figure
[32:51] Speaker 2: this out. Oh God, so I haven't been in a
[32:54] Speaker 2: position to figure this out. But I'm about to alter
[32:57] Speaker 2: the entire course of my life on what So at
[33:02] Speaker 2: that point I had to really start having conversations with
[33:06] Speaker 2: myself and with my therapists because I put it off
[33:08] Speaker 2: for so long, Like it got to the point, I
[33:10] Speaker 2: mean it was bad, like I've had multiple reproductive surgeries
[33:13] Speaker 2: before I finally had a hysterectomy, and like even my
[33:17] Speaker 2: doctor was like, child, you sure you won't just go?
[33:19] Speaker 2: And I was like, no, I'm trying to wait. I'm
[33:21] Speaker 2: gonna try to do this the right way. But so
[33:24] Speaker 2: it had gotten to that point though that I really
[33:26] Speaker 2: had to reconnizile within myself. This is not what my
[33:30] Speaker 2: life is about to be and I can no longer
[33:33] Speaker 2: make a decision, especially with my health, based on I
[33:37] Speaker 2: wish I would when I had nobody was in sight,
[33:42] Speaker 2: and so I had to learn to start grieving that
[33:44] Speaker 2: and acknowledging that I'm not gonna be a mother biologically,
[33:49] Speaker 2: I'm not about to I won't know the answer to
[33:52] Speaker 2: the question if I could have kids, even though I
[33:55] Speaker 2: had so many other reproductive health issues with fibroads and
[33:58] Speaker 2: poly ups and all of these things as a woman.
[34:01] Speaker 2: And so those are things in hard conversations I had
[34:04] Speaker 2: to have with myself that I had to cry, that,
[34:07] Speaker 2: I had to talk to my friends and my therapists
[34:09] Speaker 2: and my doctor and be like, I can't believe I'm
[34:11] Speaker 2: about to do this. But now on the other side
[34:14] Speaker 2: of that, I'm like, oh, it's the best decision I
[34:15] Speaker 2: ever made.
[34:16] Speaker 1: I love that y'all give it up for her, because
[34:19] Speaker 1: I I just want to say thank you for sharing this,
[34:25] Speaker 1: thank you for your vulnerability. I believe that you're setting
[34:29] Speaker 1: people free. I believe that what you're saying right now
[34:32] Speaker 1: because it's the thing that a lot of women struggle
[34:35] Speaker 1: with privately, that you're giving voice to those women and
[34:39] Speaker 1: in the church unfortunately, and I thank you, Pastor King
[34:42] Speaker 1: for allowing this conversation to take place, because a lot
[34:48] Speaker 1: of churches would over spiritualize that and beat her up
[34:53] Speaker 1: that she didn't have enough faith. She didn't have enough
[34:56] Speaker 1: faith to wait for God to bring that person to her.
[34:59] Speaker 1: She didn't have enough to believe that God could heal her.
[35:02] Speaker 1: And you didn't have enough faith. And she's saying, you
[35:04] Speaker 1: have no idea, how much fasting, idea, how I may
[35:08] Speaker 1: have the mothers of the church lay handsome.
[35:10] Speaker 4: You don't know.
[35:11] Speaker 1: And what makes it so bad is that we will
[35:15] Speaker 1: demonize her struggle. And her struggle has been for forty
[35:22] Speaker 1: five years. Believe in God for this thing, and like
[35:24] Speaker 1: she said, she had to make a decision from her health.
[35:26] Speaker 1: So I'm saying, Shanika, I appreciate you, queen. I salute
[35:30] Speaker 1: you queen for giving voice of this because as a man,
[35:34] Speaker 1: I've been having these conversations with women often on my
[35:37] Speaker 1: podcast that a lot of men we just don't know.
[35:41] Speaker 1: People don't even know. She said, we don't. God, I'm
[35:43] Speaker 1: trying to have a safe space. You just attacked us, right,
[35:46] Speaker 1: just attack, But.
[35:47] Speaker 2: So many men don't. It's so many men don't know
[35:51] Speaker 2: about women's reproductive health and what we experience and what
[35:55] Speaker 2: we go through, Like I just can't. I've had literally
[36:00] Speaker 2: sent conversations with male friends and they were like what
[36:03] Speaker 2: you mean. It's just so much that it's overlooked when
[36:09] Speaker 2: it comes to women, and it's a lot of things
[36:11] Speaker 2: that women hide. Yes, but I don't believe, especially when
[36:15] Speaker 2: it comes to that. I don't believe in hidiness.
[36:17] Speaker 1: That's good. I had a conversation with one of my
[36:21] Speaker 1: goddaughters yesterday and she said that she had gotten My
[36:25] Speaker 1: daughter had a baby shower last week and so I'm
[36:29] Speaker 1: gonna be a grandfather. I'm gonna be a grandfather. So
[36:33] Speaker 1: I praised God for that. In September, and her friend,
[36:37] Speaker 1: who I've known since high school my daughter was in
[36:40] Speaker 1: high school, she said that she had a miscarriage last
[36:43] Speaker 1: year and the first thing that the father of the
[36:46] Speaker 1: child said was what did you do? And it devastated her.
[36:52] Speaker 1: And then the doctor said, hey, listen, you can come
[36:54] Speaker 1: into the office. We'll extract the baby, or we can
[36:58] Speaker 1: just give you a peal for you the past. The
[37:00] Speaker 1: baby based in the toilet and the guy said she
[37:04] Speaker 1: took the pill. She was very nauseated. He said, make sure.
[37:06] Speaker 1: The doc said, make sure someone is present while you're
[37:09] Speaker 1: going through this or whatnot. The dude sat around for
[37:11] Speaker 1: a little bit that day and he said, man, I'm
[37:13] Speaker 1: gonna go, ahad and pick up a shift from work
[37:15] Speaker 1: and went to work and left her there. And when
[37:19] Speaker 1: I said, I was so upset when she told me
[37:22] Speaker 1: that yesterday, and I was like, ah, this is so
[37:25] Speaker 1: just how naive can you be? But unfortunately that's probably
[37:29] Speaker 1: commonplace for a lot of men to be like, oh,
[37:31] Speaker 1: you'll be all right, You're just gonna go use the
[37:33] Speaker 1: bathroom and you're gonna pass this, and we're gonna you're
[37:35] Speaker 1: gonna be all right, thinking that it's just she's on
[37:37] Speaker 1: a cycle or something, not knowing that he needs to
[37:40] Speaker 1: be present in that moment. And so that's why I
[37:43] Speaker 1: applaud you for giving conversation to give him voice to
[37:47] Speaker 1: this right now, because I do want more men to
[37:50] Speaker 1: be sensitive to the reproductive health of women. So it's
[37:54] Speaker 1: not a thing of well, what's wrong with you? You know,
[37:57] Speaker 1: I've had situations with a friend and so whatnot where
[38:00] Speaker 1: the man was blaming the woman for not being able
[38:03] Speaker 1: to get pregnant when you found out that he was sterole.
[38:06] Speaker 1: You know, he's blaming her and saying you can't get pregnant,
[38:09] Speaker 1: you can't get this or whatever. And then she said,
[38:10] Speaker 1: you know what I want you to go get checked
[38:13] Speaker 1: and then found out that he couldn't have kids. And
[38:16] Speaker 1: so it's so crazy how it is that will blame
[38:18] Speaker 1: the woman and blame the woman when you know, we
[38:20] Speaker 1: all need to have grace for each other. So again,
[38:22] Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, Thank you did that. Bless y'all
[38:25] Speaker 1: to have this conversation because a lot of women are
[38:28] Speaker 1: dealing with fibroids like crazy during this time, and so
[38:32] Speaker 1: I thank you. Just talk to this young king, Tyrese.
[38:36] Speaker 1: I love your song Sweet Lady. By the way, I
[38:40] Speaker 1: loved that song. I love that song, Tyrese. But listen,
[38:44] Speaker 1: so Tyre's how old are you? You said you're twenty
[38:46] Speaker 1: five years old.
[38:47] Speaker 4: Twenty five years old, yes, sir.
[38:48] Speaker 1: And I love that you're going to give voice to
[38:51] Speaker 1: the younger generation. But you're so different in the conversation
[38:55] Speaker 1: that we had, you know, right before coming on stage,
[38:57] Speaker 1: you're a very very intentional young man. What has made
[39:02] Speaker 1: you so intentional when it comes to relationships and love?
[39:07] Speaker 9: Honestly, just tom, you know, spending time with the same
[39:12] Speaker 9: woman that I've been with for a while.
[39:15] Speaker 4: We've been rocking for a while. Yeah, but also too
[39:20] Speaker 4: just seeing the people.
[39:21] Speaker 9: Around me, like my parents, having role models around me
[39:24] Speaker 9: like Pastor King and different relationships in the church, just
[39:29] Speaker 9: just different people. Just being around older people a lot.
[39:32] Speaker 9: That's I know, Pastor King said, I'm like an old
[39:34] Speaker 9: young old soul, and so just being around older people,
[39:38] Speaker 9: it's taught me a lot.
[39:39] Speaker 1: So I would say that, so you desire marriage, I
[39:42] Speaker 1: do absolutely why.
[39:45] Speaker 9: I feel like your blessing is on the other side
[39:47] Speaker 9: of covenant.
[39:48] Speaker 4: I truly believe that.
[39:50] Speaker 9: And for me, I would definitely say I haven't had.
[39:57] Speaker 9: You asked a question to uh Miss Jessica earlier about
[40:01] Speaker 9: her transition, and I feel like I'm still in my
[40:04] Speaker 9: transition trying to figure life out, you know, who I
[40:06] Speaker 9: want to be, what I want to do, and stuff
[40:09] Speaker 9: like that, and I haven't had the best look. However,
[40:11] Speaker 9: I've been with this woman, and so it's like, well,
[40:13] Speaker 9: maybe I need to This is the part that's gonna
[40:16] Speaker 9: unlock that that blessing for me. Because because we talked,
[40:26] Speaker 9: we often bring up, you know, the verse of a
[40:29] Speaker 9: man that finds a wife, find a good thing, but
[40:30] Speaker 9: he also finds favorite with the Lord.
[40:33] Speaker 4: And so I need favor, I need favor.
[40:37] Speaker 1: So yeah, so do you believe this woman is your
[40:43] Speaker 1: favorite factor said that one time. Do you believe this
[40:47] Speaker 1: woman is your favorite factor?
[40:49] Speaker 4: For sure?
[40:50] Speaker 1: Why?
[40:51] Speaker 4: Why she sent from heaven?
[40:55] Speaker 12: Man?
[40:57] Speaker 9: I mean yeah, so yeah, I would say this. I
[41:03] Speaker 9: mean I don't really have an ancest to why.
[41:05] Speaker 4: I just haven't.
[41:06] Speaker 1: You just said, I just believe it. You just said it.
[41:09] Speaker 1: You said that someone sent from heaven. There's no greater
[41:12] Speaker 1: place to be from, you know. And so for you
[41:15] Speaker 1: to be able to understand that and then have the
[41:18] Speaker 1: wherewithal and know that that next level of transition is
[41:22] Speaker 1: only unlocked through covenant to understand that. And I want
[41:26] Speaker 1: to talk to you, young king, for you to understand
[41:29] Speaker 1: that at twenty five years old, do you know how
[41:32] Speaker 1: much heartbreak you're saving yourself? Do you realize how much
[41:36] Speaker 1: wasted time you're saving yourself? You realize how quickly you're
[41:40] Speaker 1: going to get where you're trying to get because you
[41:43] Speaker 1: are doing things God's way. You have to understand that.
[41:47] Speaker 1: And I want this to vibrate across you the whole
[41:50] Speaker 1: world right now. I want for younger people, especially men,
[41:54] Speaker 1: to get the lesson early, to learn the lesson early,
[41:59] Speaker 1: because as you can be that was called like an
[42:01] Speaker 1: old fool. You know, you be fifty five years old.
[42:03] Speaker 1: Still like, come on, I mean, at the end of
[42:06] Speaker 1: the day, how many girlfriends do you want? You know,
[42:08] Speaker 1: it's like you twenty five, you realize that and this
[42:11] Speaker 1: power in that. I want you to understand that there's power.
[42:14] Speaker 1: Do you find that a lot of guys your age
[42:17] Speaker 1: don't think like that?
[42:18] Speaker 4: Absolutely? Absolutely?
[42:20] Speaker 1: What are they on right now? But what type of
[42:22] Speaker 1: time are they on? I'm hip, I'm hip right, So
[42:29] Speaker 1: I just lost it when I said hip, right. I
[42:31] Speaker 1: just lost it when I said I'm hip.
[42:33] Speaker 4: To be honest with you, I'm gonna be completely honest
[42:35] Speaker 4: with you. I have I have two friends that are married.
[42:39] Speaker 9: That's twenty five to twenty six, twenty seven range. I
[42:43] Speaker 9: have three that are engaged. That's twenty five to twenty six.
[42:48] Speaker 9: So everybody your circle is like that.
[42:54] Speaker 1: Hold on, so you just named five friends that are
[42:59] Speaker 1: in it intentional relationships like that?
[43:02] Speaker 9: Yeah, but not not all of my friends are some
[43:04] Speaker 9: of them, some of them are single. I do have
[43:05] Speaker 9: other friends that are in relationships that aren't engaged or married,
[43:10] Speaker 9: but a good amount of them.
[43:11] Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, how's that? Are they in the church or
[43:13] Speaker 1: I mean, how do you meet these guys?
[43:15] Speaker 13: Like?
[43:15] Speaker 3: Yeah?
[43:15] Speaker 4: Yeah, the two that are married.
[43:17] Speaker 9: They're both pastors, and so they they kind of put
[43:21] Speaker 9: me on game.
[43:21] Speaker 4: That's why I can talk the way I do about this.
[43:23] Speaker 9: But and then my other friends they are they are
[43:28] Speaker 9: in the church, they are believers, and so I think
[43:30] Speaker 9: that that plays a huge part in it. But you
[43:32] Speaker 9: asked the question about what type of time are these
[43:35] Speaker 9: young men on. I think everybody's on their own type
[43:37] Speaker 9: of time. I mean, I couldn't. I can't just say.
[43:40] Speaker 9: I mean, we know, you know what I'm saying, You're
[43:41] Speaker 9: gonna have some young boys that's out here that's trying
[43:44] Speaker 9: to get to it, you know what I'm saying, And
[43:46] Speaker 9: then something that's actually trying to be intentional about day.
[43:48] Speaker 9: And I have one friend of mine, my best friend,
[43:50] Speaker 9: actually he is like super intentional, like to the point
[43:54] Speaker 9: like he kind of liked David, like he believe in
[43:56] Speaker 9: love at first sight, and he's very optimistic and stuff
[43:59] Speaker 9: like that, and so he's super intentional about everything, and
[44:02] Speaker 9: so I look at him. But then I do have
[44:04] Speaker 9: other friends that's not on that at all, you know
[44:07] Speaker 9: what I'm saying.
[44:07] Speaker 1: And so it's both ends of the spectrum. You said
[44:11] Speaker 1: something that was interesting when you were speaking about the
[44:16] Speaker 1: love of your life. What did you say that I
[44:20] Speaker 1: don't want to give you your words, but what did you
[44:23] Speaker 1: say that made you know that she's the one?
[44:29] Speaker 9: Honestly her support for me, but also the fact that
[44:32] Speaker 9: she gave me the space to become or to allow
[44:35] Speaker 9: me to become the person who I want to be.
[44:37] Speaker 9: And like I said, I'm still in my transition, and
[44:40] Speaker 9: so a part of it is I'm still figuring it
[44:43] Speaker 9: out and she's allowed me that space to do that,
[44:45] Speaker 9: and I'm allowing her the same way.
[44:46] Speaker 4: So it's that reciprocation.
[44:49] Speaker 1: And see, I think that's so important to give people
[44:51] Speaker 1: the grace to figure it out. I know a lot
[44:54] Speaker 1: of y'all are somebody in the forties and fifties. You're like, no,
[44:56] Speaker 1: you should have figured out by now. I ain't got
[44:58] Speaker 1: no grace. I have zero grace. Grace has expired. Give
[45:03] Speaker 1: this rap career up. You fifty five years old. You
[45:06] Speaker 1: are not going to be a rapper, that's what you're saying.
[45:10] Speaker 1: And you heard that in the spirit. You said, you're
[45:12] Speaker 1: not going to be a rapper. Thus saith the Lord
[45:14] Speaker 1: thy God, and so you don't have grace for that.
[45:18] Speaker 1: But I'm talking about is people are getting to know
[45:20] Speaker 1: each other as people, because you sometimes you feel like
[45:22] Speaker 1: people are supposed to know you already, Like let somebody,
[45:26] Speaker 1: that person existed on this earth for thirty five years,
[45:28] Speaker 1: thirty seven years without you, and so give them the
[45:31] Speaker 1: grace to get to know you and be open and
[45:34] Speaker 1: vulnerable and transparent so they can actually understand and learn
[45:37] Speaker 1: who you are. But I love when you said that
[45:39] Speaker 1: one of the things that you admire most about your
[45:42] Speaker 1: woman is that she gave you the grace to figure
[45:44] Speaker 1: it out, and you're giving her grace to figure it out.
[45:46] Speaker 1: And that's cultivated in friendship. So I highly respect that.
[45:50] Speaker 1: So thank you. Say something, all right, what you want?
[45:54] Speaker 1: All right? Well cool, I'm gonna talk to Rashid real quick. Rashid,
[45:59] Speaker 1: And so you were on the show Ready to Love.
[46:02] Speaker 1: What made you decide to get on the show like
[46:04] Speaker 1: ready to Love to find love? And where where your
[46:06] Speaker 1: intentions looking for love or you had a different intentions.
[46:12] Speaker 5: Well, I was divorced prior to right, So going through
[46:15] Speaker 5: that whole season of grieving and healing and the whole
[46:18] Speaker 5: process and counseling and things of that nature. And it
[46:21] Speaker 5: was about two years, right, and then just organically.
[46:24] Speaker 4: I wasn't. I didn't even know. I'd heard of the show,
[46:26] Speaker 4: but I didn't know.
[46:26] Speaker 5: They were coming to Houston looking for a Houston based cast,
[46:29] Speaker 5: and I was just one of my buddies of mine.
[46:31] Speaker 5: I was like, man, you know what tied to being
[46:33] Speaker 5: in the house, I've been, you know, tied to.
[46:35] Speaker 4: The pity party. Let's go. I'm ready. I got myself together.
[46:37] Speaker 5: So he's like, great, man, to meet me out somewhere
[46:40] Speaker 5: and then we'll we'll.
[46:41] Speaker 4: You know, commune and I have a couple other buddies
[46:43] Speaker 4: with me.
[46:43] Speaker 5: So anyway, I'm there and I met someone that was
[46:45] Speaker 5: telling me, hey, are you single? We're talking to there's
[46:48] Speaker 5: this show called Ready to Love. They're casting for Houston.
[46:50] Speaker 4: I didn't even know about it.
[46:50] Speaker 5: I said, oh, I can getting my information, and sure
[46:52] Speaker 5: enough they called me and I started thinking about the show.
[46:56] Speaker 5: So the reason why I went on the show is
[46:58] Speaker 5: because I was ready. I had done the work through
[47:02] Speaker 5: counseling and accepting my flaws and where things went wrong.
[47:06] Speaker 5: So those of us have been divorced, you go through
[47:10] Speaker 5: like so many different stages.
[47:12] Speaker 4: It's aggrieving.
[47:13] Speaker 1: You go you grieve that, and then you go through
[47:15] Speaker 1: y'all how many y'all have, how many y'all divorced? All right?
[47:19] Speaker 1: It's a lot, all right? All right? So about that
[47:23] Speaker 1: sound bad? When I say it's a lot, Just that
[47:25] Speaker 1: sounds bad? Oh well, I raise it was a lot.
[47:29] Speaker 1: It seemed like I had almost all the audience to
[47:33] Speaker 1: raise my hand. What I just I'm sorry I say
[47:37] Speaker 1: stuff wrong. Sometimes I don't. I don't know. I know
[47:40] Speaker 1: it's that many people. It's getting worse and worse as
[47:43] Speaker 1: I talk, it's getting worse.
[47:46] Speaker 4: Go here.
[47:46] Speaker 5: So for me, I felt I had done the work personally.
[47:50] Speaker 5: My son was already adjusted to his new normal. That
[47:52] Speaker 5: was my most important to make sure he was set
[47:54] Speaker 5: up and things were going ready for him. So now
[47:57] Speaker 5: it's time to take care of that. And then so
[48:00] Speaker 5: when the opportunity came, hey, why not. I'm gonna be
[48:02] Speaker 5: open to the process. I'm gonna be myself. And if
[48:04] Speaker 5: I happen to find love on the show, then so
[48:07] Speaker 5: be it. Because I am a lover of love. I'm
[48:09] Speaker 5: a sucker for love. I do love love. I think
[48:11] Speaker 5: love and relationships makes me better. So I've always felt
[48:14] Speaker 5: that way, and anyone who's known me from middle school,
[48:17] Speaker 5: high school, college, even my teammates in college will still
[48:19] Speaker 5: tease me to this day as a forty seven year
[48:21] Speaker 5: old man like god dog Rushie, like everything is not
[48:23] Speaker 5: gonna be peaches and cream and lollipops and rainbows. But
[48:28] Speaker 5: knowing that, going on there and saying, but why not?
[48:32] Speaker 4: Why not?
[48:32] Speaker 5: Sometimes we always defeat what we don't even know before
[48:35] Speaker 5: it's even presented to us. So when I went on
[48:37] Speaker 5: the show, I'm gonna be open to the process and
[48:39] Speaker 5: be myself and see where the chips fall.
[48:41] Speaker 4: And so that's what led me to the show.
[48:43] Speaker 1: And you found love on the show, you would say
[48:46] Speaker 1: love right, yes, sir, all right, so you found love
[48:48] Speaker 1: on the show and it led to an engagement, and
[48:53] Speaker 1: what happened with that engagement?
[48:55] Speaker 5: Okay, well on the show we found like on the
[48:59] Speaker 5: show and after the fact, we actually started dating after
[49:01] Speaker 5: the show. There wasn't a true love connection on the show.
[49:04] Speaker 5: And she's actually from the d MV.
[49:07] Speaker 4: I mean not d M D. I'm sorry, I'm from
[49:09] Speaker 4: Houston'm sorry, d f W. The little sister.
[49:12] Speaker 6: Slow down man, slow down down, hold up.
[49:18] Speaker 5: You know in Dallas in the bags over here, you
[49:20] Speaker 5: know how we do Houston in Dallas. So anyway, so yes,
[49:23] Speaker 5: So we actually started dating more intentionally after the show, right,
[49:27] Speaker 5: and again just open to the process and just we
[49:31] Speaker 5: met each other at the right place in our lives,
[49:34] Speaker 5: and then we were very open and honest with one
[49:37] Speaker 5: another in the beginning about what we wanted and what
[49:41] Speaker 5: we had gone through and things of that nature. And
[49:43] Speaker 5: so ultimately you fall in love. And would I say,
[49:49] Speaker 5: because a lot of people see TV love and they
[49:50] Speaker 5: think it was fake, for that, I was looking at
[49:54] Speaker 5: it as to I see this person outside of the team,
[49:58] Speaker 5: So it made it more intimate that we actually started
[50:02] Speaker 5: pursuing each other after the fact, and then we started
[50:04] Speaker 5: to get to know each other, and I would say,
[50:08] Speaker 5: she's not She wasn't typically the woman I would typically
[50:11] Speaker 5: go for.
[50:12] Speaker 4: However, when you.
[50:13] Speaker 5: Start meeting someone and talk and she really poured into me,
[50:16] Speaker 5: and it was like, Wow, she's dope, and then you
[50:18] Speaker 5: just go down that road and you just kind of
[50:19] Speaker 5: fall in love.
[50:20] Speaker 4: So we did that, and then you know, things.
[50:23] Speaker 5: Things started to go awry, and I'll I'll own up
[50:27] Speaker 5: to the things that I did in the relationship. And
[50:31] Speaker 5: then oftentimes now I speak to men about the things
[50:33] Speaker 5: that we do and the things that we don't have
[50:35] Speaker 5: to do in relationships, we show up as our eighty
[50:39] Speaker 5: percent best is what we can be and be okay
[50:42] Speaker 5: with the twenty and sometimes we try to put on
[50:45] Speaker 5: a facade of the twenty that we don't even need.
[50:48] Speaker 5: So I say that all the time, and I'll say
[50:50] Speaker 5: that to myself. I am enough just as who I am,
[50:54] Speaker 5: flaws and all, because I think I'm pretty dope even
[50:56] Speaker 5: with the eighty percent of me.
[50:57] Speaker 4: So with that, you go through the work. Are you're
[51:00] Speaker 4: trying to you.
[51:01] Speaker 5: Know, as the kid say, I'm you know, you're doing
[51:02] Speaker 5: a whole lot of cap and you you portraying something
[51:04] Speaker 5: that you're not when the truth and the core of
[51:08] Speaker 5: you is enough and sufficient. So with those things, they
[51:11] Speaker 5: started kind of leaning us down the wrong, wrong path.
[51:14] Speaker 1: Did you'll understand what he's talking about? Okay? Because I
[51:18] Speaker 1: want to, because you know, I like specifics. Let's do it,
[51:22] Speaker 1: let's do it. I just want to make sure y'all understand,
[51:24] Speaker 1: because I if I didn't know already, I would understand
[51:27] Speaker 1: nothing he talked about, so specifically, okay, let's do it. Yeah.
[51:31] Speaker 1: So so specifically that was just a warm up, warm up,
[51:36] Speaker 1: all right, lit'stenpact this. So you said you showed up
[51:41] Speaker 1: eighty percent, but the twenty percent you tried to beat
[51:46] Speaker 1: what happened? So you were engaged to her? What did
[51:51] Speaker 1: you do wrong?
[51:53] Speaker 2: Right?
[51:54] Speaker 4: So that's a great question. So see he laying on.
[51:59] Speaker 1: My podcast twice, so he's been on both times with
[52:04] Speaker 1: his ex fiance. And what I admire about him is
[52:07] Speaker 1: that he was willing to give voice to something that
[52:09] Speaker 1: most men aren't willing to give voice to. So I
[52:11] Speaker 1: always like it when men when they show up in
[52:13] Speaker 1: spaces when people haven't heard the story before. I want
[52:17] Speaker 1: them to have a clear vision and understanding so other
[52:19] Speaker 1: men in that audience can say, dang, I'm doing that too,
[52:22] Speaker 1: let me fix that. So that's the only reason why
[52:24] Speaker 1: I'm challenging here, all right, So unpact this.
[52:28] Speaker 5: So I wasn't vulnerable enough, right, So men, we get
[52:32] Speaker 5: taught to go out there and divide and conquer when
[52:34] Speaker 5: we leave our perspective homes, and we have to be
[52:38] Speaker 5: this strong person that doesn't have feelings and we don't
[52:42] Speaker 5: have fears, insecurities, hope streams and wishes that we want
[52:45] Speaker 5: to pursue. And sometimes we will put on a facade
[52:50] Speaker 5: for things that happened to us in.
[52:51] Speaker 4: The past and try to overcome those things.
[52:53] Speaker 5: So for me, I was always the underdog right coming
[52:57] Speaker 5: up through the educational system.
[52:59] Speaker 4: I was a bit behind. I was a bit delayed.
[53:01] Speaker 5: So my mother, being a single mother, a single strong
[53:04] Speaker 5: black woman, wouldn't take that finanswer. My mother tracked me
[53:07] Speaker 5: all over Houston for me to get caught up and
[53:10] Speaker 5: learn through where I could be in catch up with
[53:12] Speaker 5: my with my age group. And then in school and
[53:15] Speaker 5: counselors saying, you know what, I think he's an athlete
[53:19] Speaker 5: and he'll either go to school on a college basketball
[53:22] Speaker 5: scholarship or it needs to go to be a blue
[53:24] Speaker 5: collar and learn a trade.
[53:25] Speaker 4: And my mother again, no, absolutely not. And then what
[53:27] Speaker 4: do they want to do.
[53:29] Speaker 5: Back then put us on Ritland and all this kind
[53:31] Speaker 5: of ADHD medicine and things of that nature. So being
[53:34] Speaker 5: told that I wouldn't be successful in college, So now
[53:36] Speaker 5: you have this mindset, I got to prove you wrong,
[53:39] Speaker 5: and everything I do, I have to over extend myself
[53:42] Speaker 5: to prove people wrong. And then when you get in
[53:44] Speaker 5: your family, you start doing good. Then you start now
[53:47] Speaker 5: all of a sudden, now I'm the pedestal of the family.
[53:50] Speaker 5: Now I'm the first to go to college and the
[53:51] Speaker 5: athletic scholarship and then which I did go to college
[53:54] Speaker 5: and graduate with honors.
[53:55] Speaker 4: So then I'm still trying to prove people.
[53:57] Speaker 1: Give it up, give it up, don't just run by that. Yeah,
[54:01] Speaker 1: that's good, that's good, keep talking, king.
[54:03] Speaker 5: So at that point you take on this persona as
[54:07] Speaker 5: I got everything figured out. And sometimes men we fall
[54:10] Speaker 5: into that trap when it's okay, especially if you have
[54:13] Speaker 5: a queen with you that can understand that you're not
[54:16] Speaker 5: always going to be perfect and I accept you as
[54:18] Speaker 5: you are. So that's kind of what the saying with
[54:19] Speaker 5: the eighty twenty. I need to acknowledge those things up front,
[54:22] Speaker 5: because sometimes men, we see you, we like you, like,
[54:26] Speaker 5: ooh she bad. I can't, man, I gotta give her
[54:28] Speaker 5: the whole thing. I gotta tell her everything that she
[54:30] Speaker 5: may want to hear and understand that you're just as sufficient.
[54:34] Speaker 4: With what you truly, truly are.
[54:36] Speaker 5: So that's kind of where I lost my way when
[54:40] Speaker 5: I was very very good enough just being and telling
[54:44] Speaker 5: who I was. So those were some things, some misconceptions,
[54:46] Speaker 5: some things I left out, and some things that I
[54:49] Speaker 5: lied by omission, right, And so for now, when I
[54:52] Speaker 5: talk to men it's like, bro, be okay, you're still
[54:57] Speaker 5: him regardless of your flaws. But we acknowledge those things,
[55:01] Speaker 5: don't run from it and try to act like we
[55:03] Speaker 5: got it all figured out because we don't. And then
[55:06] Speaker 5: once we figure that out, it's easier in life. I'm
[55:08] Speaker 5: so so much more peaceful now after I kind of
[55:11] Speaker 5: bear it all to the world what you know about.
[55:14] Speaker 5: But it was for not only me to release those shackles,
[55:18] Speaker 5: because that's really a whole lot of pressure, a whole
[55:21] Speaker 5: lot of pressure to try to pull people wrong. And
[55:23] Speaker 5: then sometimes now when you get to this certain pedestal,
[55:25] Speaker 5: now you continue with your life trying to prove people
[55:28] Speaker 5: right that you were right because I did all this stuff.
[55:31] Speaker 5: Now I'm gonna prove you right. And now I've already
[55:32] Speaker 5: gotten rid of the people that I proved wrong. And
[55:34] Speaker 5: it's never any cycle, and you never have any peace.
[55:37] Speaker 5: So that's was the biggest thing for me to have
[55:39] Speaker 5: to overcome.
[55:40] Speaker 1: Yeah, beautiful, beautiful, give it up from y'all. And so
[55:46] Speaker 1: literally what it was, and this happens a lot that
[55:48] Speaker 1: as he speaks to men, is that they'll try to
[55:51] Speaker 1: front like they got more than what they really got.
[55:53] Speaker 1: They'll be on Instagram showing the fancy cars, showing all
[55:57] Speaker 1: that stuff and really don't have it like that. You know,
[56:01] Speaker 1: maybe behind four car notes, but you're showing that car
[56:04] Speaker 1: for the last month you got it, and so you
[56:07] Speaker 1: acting like you really got it going on. And so
[56:10] Speaker 1: what was so interesting that I found that it was
[56:13] Speaker 1: the most powerful revelation that I've seen on social media
[56:18] Speaker 1: for a man to have Rashid shared about all this
[56:21] Speaker 1: stuff that he had. He had nice cars, he had
[56:23] Speaker 1: all this stuff, and it wasn't he didn't really have
[56:27] Speaker 1: it like that, you know what I'm saying. He was struggling.
[56:29] Speaker 1: He was trying to give his ex fiance a dream
[56:33] Speaker 1: wedding when he knew he couldn't afford it, you know.
[56:35] Speaker 1: And I want more women to understand that that when
[56:38] Speaker 1: a man truly loves you, he'll try to go over
[56:41] Speaker 1: and beyond for you, but he know he ain't got
[56:43] Speaker 1: it like that. And it's because he has a fear
[56:46] Speaker 1: that you won't accept him if you if he told you,
[56:49] Speaker 1: I don't have it like that, like this wedding you're
[56:51] Speaker 1: trying to plan that maybe one hundred thousand dollars. I
[56:54] Speaker 1: got one hundred dollars on it all right, I got
[56:55] Speaker 1: one hundred dollars on this hundred thousand dollars wedding, and
[57:00] Speaker 1: and so we need to scale back. We need to
[57:02] Speaker 1: go to Golden Corral and treat the family to buffet.
[57:07] Speaker 1: That's all I got. But where you still marry me
[57:09] Speaker 1: in spite of all that, you know? Is like, that's
[57:11] Speaker 1: what men really want to do, is say here I am,
[57:14] Speaker 1: this is all I got. Do you still love me?
[57:16] Speaker 1: And it's interesting that we want that because in those
[57:19] Speaker 1: vows that we take, we say for better or for worse.
[57:22] Speaker 1: We say for richer or for poor, but nobody ever
[57:25] Speaker 1: imagines the poor moment. You know, when you take those vowels,
[57:29] Speaker 1: you always look like in your mind you say for richer,
[57:31] Speaker 1: for better, you know, for help, you know. But when
[57:35] Speaker 1: you take those vowels, you need to take those vowels
[57:37] Speaker 1: understanding those transitions between the good and the bad.
[57:41] Speaker 5: And let me say, let me say, kind of the
[57:44] Speaker 5: piggyback off what you said, because with that, the men
[57:47] Speaker 5: that most of the women in here would want to
[57:50] Speaker 5: marry and see as their husbands, Even with that those deficiencies,
[57:54] Speaker 5: those men still want to be that leader. They still
[57:57] Speaker 5: want to be that provider. They still want to be
[57:59] Speaker 5: that protector. But sometimes where men we fall into place
[58:02] Speaker 5: we feel if we don't have all of that, we
[58:04] Speaker 5: can't be all of those things. And that's the problem
[58:07] Speaker 5: where we fall into. That's the trap that we get into,
[58:11] Speaker 5: and that's when we start lying and acting like we
[58:13] Speaker 5: have it all figured out when we don't. When this
[58:15] Speaker 5: woman will understand, especially if she sees you in the
[58:19] Speaker 5: place that you are and where you're going. Now, I'm
[58:22] Speaker 5: not talking about the brother sitting on the couch playing
[58:24] Speaker 5: the game all day. Y'all don't want that man anyway,
[58:26] Speaker 5: but the man.
[58:27] Speaker 8: That you want.
[58:28] Speaker 1: Hold on, let me ask me, do y'all want that man?
[58:29] Speaker 1: Do y'all want? Okay, wett to ask.
[58:31] Speaker 5: I gotta ask the man that you want that's working
[58:35] Speaker 5: hard and not trying to hurt anybody, trying to do
[58:37] Speaker 5: his best, trying to figure it out. We need to
[58:39] Speaker 5: accept we're okay with that, and then we'll accept where
[58:42] Speaker 5: the chips fall. If we find a beautiful woman, if
[58:44] Speaker 5: we be upfront and honest and say I got it
[58:46] Speaker 5: all figured out, but guess what, I'm on my way
[58:48] Speaker 5: there and I need to help me to help me
[58:50] Speaker 5: with that because at this end of the day, God
[58:53] Speaker 5: brought woman from here from our rear, right from our side,
[58:57] Speaker 5: not to be too far in front of us, not
[58:59] Speaker 5: to be too feign back. Yes, right here as a
[59:01] Speaker 5: helpmate on our side. So we need those things, but
[59:04] Speaker 5: we also have to come to it correctly.
[59:06] Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. How many y'all are. Look,
[59:08] Speaker 1: y'all give it up for them, y'all are y'all wanting ready? Mamen?
[59:13] Speaker 1: Y'all understand the power of being a helpmate. Y'all understand
[59:16] Speaker 1: the power of that, because a lot of times you'll
[59:18] Speaker 1: feel like and I just hate what social media does
[59:21] Speaker 1: to our psyche. You see all this stuff on social
[59:24] Speaker 1: media where you were, you know, especially as a black culture,
[59:27] Speaker 1: we're arguing over fifty to fifty and one hundred and
[59:30] Speaker 1: all that nonsense that don't even makes sense if you
[59:32] Speaker 1: really listen to if you actually listen to your grandparents,
[59:35] Speaker 1: they wouldn't argue about no foolishness like that. They just wasn't,
[59:39] Speaker 1: you know. And so at the end of the day,
[59:41] Speaker 1: we're all supposed to be one team. When you get
[59:44] Speaker 1: married to that person, y'a are a team. And so
[59:46] Speaker 1: if you think of everything as a team. Then you
[59:49] Speaker 1: won't be arguing about fifty to fifty and one hundred
[59:51] Speaker 1: and it's like what And this has unpacked us real quick.
[59:54] Speaker 1: When do you expect to do with all your money?
[59:56] Speaker 1: If you working and I'm working and I'm supposed to
[59:59] Speaker 1: bepend all my money on all the bills, you just
[1:00:00] Speaker 1: gonna save all your money up until I die, and
[1:00:03] Speaker 1: then you're gonna ball out of control, Like what is that?
[1:00:05] Speaker 1: What is that? You're just keeping all your money for what?
[1:00:08] Speaker 1: That's not even fair. That's not a good partnership, you
[1:00:10] Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. That's not even partnership. It's like
[1:00:13] Speaker 1: it don't even make sense. But we argue about stuff
[1:00:15] Speaker 1: like that all day. And so we gotta understand that.
[1:00:18] Speaker 1: Don't let the devil trap us into foolishness. Because as
[1:00:22] Speaker 1: you're believing God for your purpose, partner, the stuff that
[1:00:25] Speaker 1: you are digesting, these these these social media reels that
[1:00:30] Speaker 1: you see in and you digest and you start saying,
[1:00:32] Speaker 1: that's what I want right now, I want that too.
[1:00:34] Speaker 1: I was watching a video today that this man gives
[1:00:37] Speaker 1: his wife one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for each
[1:00:39] Speaker 1: baby that she has y'all clap and see look at
[1:00:43] Speaker 1: you see led Astray deliverance. The altar is right here
[1:00:45] Speaker 1: for you. The altars. The altar is right here for you.
[1:00:49] Speaker 1: One hundred and fifty thousand dollars for each child that
[1:00:52] Speaker 1: he has. Like to do? What with it? One hundred
[1:00:55] Speaker 1: and fifty thousand dollars? It's like it's just and then
[1:00:58] Speaker 1: other men look at it and that now you want
[1:01:00] Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
[1:01:02] Speaker 3: Hey, I promise you is gonna be quiet.
[1:01:03] Speaker 1: You you want a d dollars? Just hold on a set, okay,
[1:01:07] Speaker 1: go ahead, and I'm packed, Jessica.
[1:01:08] Speaker 3: Let me tell you something. I have three sons.
[1:01:11] Speaker 1: Uh huh. That's four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
[1:01:12] Speaker 3: You just hold on, you just hold on, all right,
[1:01:16] Speaker 3: go ahead. I have three sons. Every single last one
[1:01:20] Speaker 3: of my pregnancies, I didn't use any medicine, and I
[1:01:22] Speaker 3: almost died my baby boy. I hmmhaged out so bad
[1:01:26] Speaker 3: that when he was two days oh, I flew the
[1:01:28] Speaker 3: sagon off so that my children will be with my
[1:01:31] Speaker 3: mama just in case I transition. That's how bad it
[1:01:35] Speaker 3: was for me having a child. It's not a dollar amount.
[1:01:38] Speaker 3: It's just value. It's not a matter of I need
[1:01:42] Speaker 3: a hundred like oh, in order to have your kid. No,
[1:01:45] Speaker 3: it's not that. It's thank you. I don't want this
[1:01:48] Speaker 3: is how you tell.
[1:01:48] Speaker 1: Them about Yes, you be quiet over over there, look
[1:01:52] Speaker 1: at it goes right there.
[1:01:54] Speaker 3: It's really it's it don't have to be that. It's
[1:01:57] Speaker 3: just the fact that you would do something. That's forget
[1:02:01] Speaker 3: something is here's something he got in like that. Here's
[1:02:04] Speaker 3: something is one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Another guy,
[1:02:08] Speaker 3: I got you this big old bouquet of flowers. Thank
[1:02:11] Speaker 3: you for acknowledging that life comes at a sacrifice. That's all.
[1:02:16] Speaker 3: So I hear you. I hear you. You was going
[1:02:19] Speaker 3: you know you was in it. I just want to
[1:02:21] Speaker 3: pull you back a little bit.
[1:02:23] Speaker 4: That's good.
[1:02:26] Speaker 1: So it's not the dollar about you saying, just the
[1:02:28] Speaker 1: acknowledge that you want to you want to push present. Absolutely, Okay,
[1:02:33] Speaker 1: that's fine. I'm just saying one hundred and five thousand
[1:02:35] Speaker 1: dollars extreme, hey man, So listen, because it's like, where
[1:02:40] Speaker 1: the money going, what's you? What's what we're doing? We
[1:02:43] Speaker 1: just just put in your Account's the thing about it?
[1:02:45] Speaker 1: When I look at what you say, teachers, don't worry
[1:02:48] Speaker 1: about where the money went. Teacher said, don't worry about
[1:02:51] Speaker 1: where the money went?
[1:02:53] Speaker 3: All right, Well, then I will say this go ahead.
[1:02:55] Speaker 3: You know me, I believe that if if in a relationship,
[1:03:01] Speaker 3: if a woman is thinking about her man and that
[1:03:05] Speaker 3: man is thinking about her, all ends are covered. So
[1:03:10] Speaker 3: you're giving me, you given to yourself. I'm not storing money.
[1:03:17] Speaker 3: If y'all ever get a chance to read Proverbs thirty one,
[1:03:19] Speaker 3: this woman went and saw land, and she purchased it.
[1:03:22] Speaker 3: So it's like you given to yourself. So to even
[1:03:26] Speaker 3: have the mentality that anything you're putting in my hands
[1:03:28] Speaker 3: you're losing, is wrong. Off back, We are in the
[1:03:31] Speaker 3: wrong relationship because if we're really a team, babe, like
[1:03:36] Speaker 3: this is an US thing. Every dollar is our dollar.
[1:03:40] Speaker 3: I don't know if you'll run out, ain't you glad?
[1:03:42] Speaker 3: I got some Like look what I did with the
[1:03:45] Speaker 3: money you gave me. I just put it right here here,
[1:03:48] Speaker 3: bab Like, why you gotta be so negative? A terrrist,
[1:03:53] Speaker 3: That's all I'm asking. Why are you so pessimistic?
[1:03:58] Speaker 1: Listen, listen, I just talked. So I just told my fiance.
[1:04:01] Speaker 1: I just told my fiance. My fiance like I said that.
[1:04:06] Speaker 1: Like I said that. So I told my fiance the
[1:04:09] Speaker 1: other day I sent her some money and she was like,
[1:04:11] Speaker 1: she was like, oh, you just sent that. I said,
[1:04:13] Speaker 1: just transferring accounts, I said, I look at it as
[1:04:16] Speaker 1: he's just going from my account to your account. It's
[1:04:18] Speaker 1: just it's all the same pot. So that's how I think.
[1:04:21] Speaker 1: I'm just saying when you talk, because on social media,
[1:04:24] Speaker 1: what happens is when you start putting videos like that out,
[1:04:28] Speaker 1: then people get the ideology that because their man can't
[1:04:33] Speaker 1: do one hundred and fifty thousand dollars because he had
[1:04:35] Speaker 1: six kids with her then, and then now he feels
[1:04:39] Speaker 1: less than a man because she's because that woman will
[1:04:41] Speaker 1: show that video. Look look at what he did right here.
[1:04:45] Speaker 1: It's that nice. You didn't give me one hundred and
[1:04:47] Speaker 1: fifty dollars. He gave her. So it starts making men
[1:04:49] Speaker 1: feel inferior. And I always watched the spirit of a thing,
[1:04:53] Speaker 1: and so what happens is is that I recognize that
[1:04:56] Speaker 1: there's a spiritual influence that's keeping black men and black
[1:05:00] Speaker 1: women divided by any means necessary. It's happening so much.
[1:05:06] Speaker 1: And so that's what I'm trying to eradicate. So it's
[1:05:08] Speaker 1: not a dollar amount what you say, So I'm sorry,
[1:05:13] Speaker 1: go ahead.
[1:05:14] Speaker 2: What you have highlighted, though, is the disparity that a
[1:05:16] Speaker 2: woman whose man can do that, can she not celebrate
[1:05:19] Speaker 2: him for that?
[1:05:20] Speaker 1: Well, it's not her doing it, it's him seeing the video.
[1:05:23] Speaker 1: It's him making the video. It's not like she's saying,
[1:05:25] Speaker 1: look at what she just says there silent and he
[1:05:27] Speaker 1: throwing money on it and doing it.
[1:05:29] Speaker 2: Can he not celebrate that he has the fact to
[1:05:31] Speaker 2: be able to praise his wife like that for the
[1:05:33] Speaker 2: gift that she has just given him. I mean, I
[1:05:37] Speaker 2: don't understand because if he has it, So the premise
[1:05:42] Speaker 2: of what what I've hearing you say is the premise
[1:05:46] Speaker 2: is that the issue is it's the one hundred and fifty thousand,
[1:05:50] Speaker 2: But to Bill Gates, one hundred and fifty thousand is nothing.
[1:05:53] Speaker 2: And so we don't know this man's bank account. So
[1:05:55] Speaker 2: while we count this man bank account and think it's
[1:05:57] Speaker 2: such an extravagant gift because to him and may the pennies,
[1:06:01] Speaker 2: but just because it's just because it's a lot to us,
[1:06:04] Speaker 2: So are we not supposed to what to say?
[1:06:07] Speaker 1: Something?
[1:06:07] Speaker 6: Go yeah, I think I'm gonna get you back on
[1:06:10] Speaker 6: this one.
[1:06:13] Speaker 4: I know That's why I got my guard ran. No.
[1:06:23] Speaker 6: Look, I think that it's the spirit of it. It
[1:06:28] Speaker 6: shouldn't feel transactional. If I'm paying for a child like
[1:06:34] Speaker 6: a vending machine, that's weird. But if i'm but if
[1:06:40] Speaker 6: i'm I'm pouring love, whether it was our new child,
[1:06:46] Speaker 6: some of our wealth, or whatever that may be, it
[1:06:50] Speaker 6: is what it is. To your point, is just moving
[1:06:52] Speaker 6: from one pocket to the other, as long as it's
[1:06:54] Speaker 6: not transactional. But I think the question is, like, what
[1:06:57] Speaker 6: are we here for? Are we here to be each
[1:06:58] Speaker 6: other's number one fan or are we you know, playing
[1:07:02] Speaker 6: that game that I'm acting like I'm in the position
[1:07:05] Speaker 6: of number one fan, But I'm not really here for
[1:07:07] Speaker 6: you like that, bro. I just want to you know,
[1:07:09] Speaker 6: what do we you know? I think we just have
[1:07:11] Speaker 6: to be transparent and real with each other and.
[1:07:13] Speaker 2: Not I'm never look at because I think what's the
[1:07:18] Speaker 2: deeper thing in what that calls out though, is that
[1:07:20] Speaker 2: you look at that as transactional because that's your lens
[1:07:23] Speaker 2: and so he may not look at that. So one
[1:07:26] Speaker 2: of the things I have to I'm six feet when
[1:07:28] Speaker 2: I walk into a room. I walk into a room.
[1:07:29] Speaker 2: And so when people say, oh, you're so intimidating, I'm
[1:07:32] Speaker 2: not intimidating. You are intimidated. That's your view. And so
[1:07:36] Speaker 2: you have to understand when it comes to social media,
[1:07:39] Speaker 2: you have to realize the construct of who you are
[1:07:42] Speaker 2: and how your mentality is of what you're viewing, because
[1:07:45] Speaker 2: that's not necessarily what someone is putting out there. That's
[1:07:47] Speaker 2: what you're reading into it. And those are two different things.
[1:07:52] Speaker 4: And I'm not I guess no, please finish.
[1:07:56] Speaker 2: No, I'm just saying, but we we put a lot
[1:07:59] Speaker 2: on others people, and we don't do the work to
[1:08:02] Speaker 2: check ourselves.
[1:08:03] Speaker 4: I agree.
[1:08:04] Speaker 6: I think I'm just stating from the fact of when
[1:08:08] Speaker 6: we see something happen in three seconds on our screen,
[1:08:12] Speaker 6: it feels it can come across transactional. We don't know
[1:08:17] Speaker 6: the whole spirit of what just happened. That's all I'm saying.
[1:08:21] Speaker 4: Well, shee, So I think two things.
[1:08:23] Speaker 5: One, I think you're speaking to towards there's an expectation
[1:08:28] Speaker 5: of a gift of something of that nature. And I
[1:08:30] Speaker 5: think this whole push present is I mean, that's social
[1:08:34] Speaker 5: media generated in general. If we're even talking about the
[1:08:36] Speaker 5: word the premise is social media generated. Because my father
[1:08:39] Speaker 5: didn't give my mother a push present in the seventies,
[1:08:42] Speaker 5: but did he appreciate her and do something for her
[1:08:45] Speaker 5: that she well deserved.
[1:08:46] Speaker 4: Sure, I'm sure he did and did I do the same.
[1:08:49] Speaker 5: But at the same time, we're gonna keep it. Do
[1:08:51] Speaker 5: you want to keep it one hundred in here? Let's
[1:08:53] Speaker 5: say one hundred. There's not a lot of men in this,
[1:08:55] Speaker 5: but I wanna speak to the men to what you
[1:08:56] Speaker 5: said earlier about the money being made.
[1:09:00] Speaker 4: And things of that nature. So you can speak to
[1:09:02] Speaker 4: your experience and you can speak to yours as well.
[1:09:04] Speaker 5: But when you talk to other men that in a
[1:09:06] Speaker 5: circle of professional men who are doing well, sometimes men
[1:09:09] Speaker 5: feel like my money is our money and your money
[1:09:14] Speaker 5: is your money. And that's not that's a real thing.
[1:09:17] Speaker 4: So that's the thing that we need to unpack and
[1:09:19] Speaker 4: have to talk about.
[1:09:20] Speaker 5: Because when women and men disagree, that's okay. Women from
[1:09:24] Speaker 5: mars women for meness, that's fine. But at the same
[1:09:26] Speaker 5: time we need to get on some sort of common
[1:09:28] Speaker 5: ground because now it's changed from the battle of the sexiest.
[1:09:31] Speaker 4: Oh that's kind of cute.
[1:09:32] Speaker 5: Now it's a war between the sexiest, and that's not
[1:09:34] Speaker 5: good because I want to see black families and black
[1:09:36] Speaker 5: people come together and be married and then be able
[1:09:38] Speaker 5: to take on and do what the world has out
[1:09:39] Speaker 5: there for us.
[1:09:40] Speaker 4: Right. So with that being said, sometimes we feel that way.
[1:09:43] Speaker 5: Sometimes we feel that And women, y'all can tell me
[1:09:45] Speaker 5: if I'm wrong. You were bought, you were taught and
[1:09:48] Speaker 5: raised to have a little something on the side, keeping
[1:09:50] Speaker 5: something for the rain to day, keep something for that
[1:09:51] Speaker 5: man messes up, keep something this.
[1:09:53] Speaker 4: That and the third. So I gotta call some cap
[1:09:55] Speaker 4: on that like y'all clapping ha hahakikiki.
[1:09:58] Speaker 5: But y'all have been talked to that some and men
[1:10:00] Speaker 5: feel that way. Men feel our money. I mean, my
[1:10:03] Speaker 5: money is ours and yours is yours.
[1:10:05] Speaker 3: We do okay, thank you, I feel you.
[1:10:09] Speaker 2: I've got you.
[1:10:12] Speaker 3: Now Here's how I feel about it, and it's just
[1:10:14] Speaker 3: my my individual emotions. The thing is, men, y'all are
[1:10:21] Speaker 3: beautiful by the way, I'm attracted to men. Okay, So
[1:10:26] Speaker 3: everything I'm about to say it, I don't know this
[1:10:28] Speaker 3: me too moving, y'all. I love man. Y'all are beautiful.
[1:10:32] Speaker 3: So the thing is, because in the slave days you
[1:10:36] Speaker 3: all were breeded. You have so many attractions. You have,
[1:10:42] Speaker 3: so your eyes are so wandery. Women are very observant
[1:10:45] Speaker 3: of that. Now, while you're coming from a pure place,
[1:10:50] Speaker 3: a woman can see how immature you are. But you're
[1:10:53] Speaker 3: in your skin. You don't know what she looking at.
[1:10:56] Speaker 3: You don't know she's been equipped to see you beyond
[1:10:59] Speaker 3: where you are, where you're supposed to be, where she
[1:11:02] Speaker 3: can take you. You have it, that's her superpower, that
[1:11:05] Speaker 3: is her gift. So she looking at you, and your
[1:11:08] Speaker 3: natural things are happening. A woman walk past you. She's
[1:11:12] Speaker 3: paying attention to this. So what looks like, what looks
[1:11:17] Speaker 3: like selfishness, is really like, am I gonna fight for this?
[1:11:22] Speaker 3: Because I'm watching his process? He don't even know. I'm
[1:11:26] Speaker 3: seeing little details. He's showing me what we're about to
[1:11:29] Speaker 3: be like. Now, I can either pick this fight. I
[1:11:32] Speaker 3: could call it out. You're gonna tell me I'm wrong
[1:11:34] Speaker 3: because I know his emotional intelligence. All right, I'm gonna
[1:11:37] Speaker 3: chuck it. But here's what I'm gonna do. I gotta
[1:11:39] Speaker 3: be wise. A woman has so many factors to incorporate
[1:11:44] Speaker 3: when she is thinking about a man. Because you all
[1:11:47] Speaker 3: are beautiful, but you are in process, just like we are.
[1:11:50] Speaker 3: It's different processes. How you are processed. We can see
[1:11:54] Speaker 3: how we process you can see. It's respect on both sides.
[1:11:58] Speaker 3: I just think that if a woman till my beautiful
[1:12:03] Speaker 3: sister's point, you don't know our bodies and the transition
[1:12:07] Speaker 3: of life to life and the sacrifice of being one
[1:12:13] Speaker 3: with something and it being taken out of your body.
[1:12:16] Speaker 3: It's not an expectation of money. But do you not
[1:12:20] Speaker 3: understand what just happened. Your legacy is here, like your
[1:12:25] Speaker 3: namesafe is here, your continuation is here. I am forever
[1:12:31] Speaker 3: etched in your life. Look what I did for you.
[1:12:34] Speaker 3: You telling me you're just gonna say, oh right, that's ours. Nah, baby,
[1:12:38] Speaker 3: I had this one for ten months. I had him,
[1:12:42] Speaker 3: and now this is about to be cultivated everything you.
[1:12:46] Speaker 3: I'm gonna make sure he's completely infused with you. I
[1:12:50] Speaker 3: need your family line to be good. I need your
[1:12:53] Speaker 3: grandparents to be proud. I'm about to infuse this baby
[1:12:56] Speaker 3: with you, and you tell him you can't give me
[1:12:57] Speaker 3: no flowers. Yeah, Yes, I have high expectations.
[1:13:01] Speaker 4: One.
[1:13:02] Speaker 3: I think that is wrong for any woman not to
[1:13:06] Speaker 3: challenge a man to continue to arise to his greatest self. Yes,
[1:13:10] Speaker 3: expect greatness from me. Expect me to take care of you.
[1:13:14] Speaker 3: Expect that why you think I'm here. Absolutely, I'm about
[1:13:17] Speaker 3: to take care of you, about to be good, But
[1:13:19] Speaker 3: I expect me to be good too. Don't make me
[1:13:23] Speaker 3: feel bad for expecting that. Go ahead, go ahead, talk,
[1:13:27] Speaker 3: you're talking, so go ahead.
[1:13:32] Speaker 5: There's a lot of words salad, because we went from
[1:13:38] Speaker 5: talking about men feeling our money is your money, Your
[1:13:42] Speaker 5: money is yours. Then back to the childbirth where I said,
[1:13:45] Speaker 5: it's definitely something that a man should pour into a woman.
[1:13:48] Speaker 4: He brings his legs. You right, but.
[1:13:51] Speaker 5: Then you would you equated that with paying attention to
[1:13:56] Speaker 5: a man who's his wandering eye.
[1:14:00] Speaker 3: No, no, no again, this is another one. Do you see
[1:14:03] Speaker 3: this moment? We just had to tell you. That's what
[1:14:08] Speaker 3: I heard.
[1:14:08] Speaker 4: That's what I heard.
[1:14:09] Speaker 5: I heard you, okay, I heard you bring your point
[1:14:14] Speaker 5: to saying what you have to observe men because men
[1:14:17] Speaker 5: are naturally wired like this.
[1:14:19] Speaker 3: I don't have to I just do this is this.
[1:14:23] Speaker 4: Is a gift.
[1:14:24] Speaker 5: So meanwhile, you said you observe men while you say
[1:14:27] Speaker 5: you love men, right, but while observing Michael.
[1:14:31] Speaker 1: Says, you're cautious.
[1:14:34] Speaker 5: Sorry, you're saying that you're cautious while you observe them.
[1:14:38] Speaker 5: And that's why you may hold back and be more cautious,
[1:14:40] Speaker 5: because what I was talking about is women saving things
[1:14:44] Speaker 5: rainy day type stuff because she's never sure if this
[1:14:47] Speaker 5: is going to work out. And based off of that,
[1:14:49] Speaker 5: you said how men are naturally wired and you see
[1:14:51] Speaker 5: how this man.
[1:14:52] Speaker 3: Makely No, that's not what I said.
[1:14:54] Speaker 4: Okay, Please, I have no problem.
[1:14:57] Speaker 3: Reiterating into your point. You covered both. You covered the
[1:15:01] Speaker 3: baby side of things. I want to address that, so
[1:15:03] Speaker 3: I hope you didn't merge all of them together, but
[1:15:05] Speaker 3: I got you. So, So when it comes to when
[1:15:10] Speaker 3: it comes to how you position the statement of ladies,
[1:15:14] Speaker 3: let's be real, y'all been taught to stash some when
[1:15:18] Speaker 3: you come from that point. That's why I drove the
[1:15:20] Speaker 3: point of women have the ability to observe. That is
[1:15:25] Speaker 3: our natural gift. So if you find a woman and
[1:15:30] Speaker 3: she tucking away, if she's actually a good woman, she's
[1:15:33] Speaker 3: just observed some things. That's not all situations and circumstances.
[1:15:39] Speaker 3: This woman is looking at a good man and so
[1:15:41] Speaker 3: now she's saving it for a rainy day. My baby
[1:15:44] Speaker 3: working hard, Bay, I got this money over here. He
[1:15:47] Speaker 3: don't even know it. But I'm a surprise him with something.
[1:15:50] Speaker 3: So it's a matter of what she's seeing. It's how
[1:15:54] Speaker 3: she's gonna use whatever it is, her auntie, her uncle,
[1:15:58] Speaker 3: you know. That's all. That's all I'm saying.
[1:16:00] Speaker 12: No, I get it.
[1:16:00] Speaker 4: No, no, it's great.
[1:16:01] Speaker 5: But you did you not mention when you said a
[1:16:05] Speaker 5: man will observe and yeah, wait, I'm sorry, while you're
[1:16:10] Speaker 5: observing a man, right and if he looks and a
[1:16:13] Speaker 5: woman passes by, did you not mention something of that nature.
[1:16:16] Speaker 3: As an example that a woman, a woman can be
[1:16:19] Speaker 3: paying attention to a natural state of a man, just
[1:16:22] Speaker 3: seeing something beautiful for her, for her.
[1:16:25] Speaker 5: State of a man. So you're saying, that's natural for
[1:16:28] Speaker 5: a man to do. So that's what I'm asking.
[1:16:31] Speaker 3: I think this is fantastic.
[1:16:35] Speaker 4: Because I heard you say it's natural for a man.
[1:16:40] Speaker 3: It's fantastic. I don't think it's no, no, no, no,
[1:16:42] Speaker 3: that's what we got. We got. We got this twenty
[1:16:44] Speaker 3: five year old, amazing king right here. I agree, who
[1:16:48] Speaker 3: has already surrounded himself a good counsel, who has prepared
[1:16:52] Speaker 3: the way for his mind to already be in position
[1:16:55] Speaker 3: so that he can be successful in his endeavor with
[1:16:58] Speaker 3: this woman. This is all what your point proven right here.
[1:17:01] Speaker 3: What I'm saying is generationally it is in the blood.
[1:17:07] Speaker 3: It is in the blood for there to be certain
[1:17:10] Speaker 3: personality traits to come out. Now, as you already said,
[1:17:13] Speaker 3: you had done the work, what is this work. There's
[1:17:17] Speaker 3: challenges throughout your upbringing that you have had to do
[1:17:20] Speaker 3: the works in order to be on ready to love.
[1:17:22] Speaker 3: That's everybody's journey. However, everybody don't take that journey the
[1:17:26] Speaker 3: same way. If you decide to prematurely get with a
[1:17:29] Speaker 3: woman before you go through your own journey, your own shedding,
[1:17:33] Speaker 3: your pruning, if that happens, and this woman is brave
[1:17:38] Speaker 3: enough to take you up on herself, even if she's
[1:17:41] Speaker 3: done the work. If this happens, she has to watch you.
[1:17:46] Speaker 3: If you want her to help, she has to watch you.
[1:17:49] Speaker 3: She has to pay attention to details. She got to
[1:17:52] Speaker 3: be in there. If you want the help, if you
[1:17:55] Speaker 3: could do it yourself, you would, So here she is,
[1:18:00] Speaker 3: and she's fully equipped. This is a natural thing.
[1:18:04] Speaker 8: We have.
[1:18:05] Speaker 3: We looking at everything, We hear things. That's not said.
[1:18:08] Speaker 3: We got two ears, two eyes too. No, we're smelling everything.
[1:18:11] Speaker 3: So we're just paying attention We're looking at you in
[1:18:13] Speaker 3: your natural state of being, and it just so happened
[1:18:16] Speaker 3: that your hangup is a big budd She like, there,
[1:18:21] Speaker 3: he go, what I'm about to do with that? Then
[1:18:24] Speaker 3: he go looking okay, either I'm going to address it.
[1:18:31] Speaker 3: But now I got to see if he even know
[1:18:32] Speaker 3: he doing that, because now this is a potential for
[1:18:36] Speaker 3: you to downgrade and invalidate my feelings and my experience.
[1:18:40] Speaker 3: Do I want that? Some women still want that when
[1:18:43] Speaker 3: you get older. I don't want that. I don't want
[1:18:46] Speaker 3: to argue with you. I'm watching you. Do I want
[1:18:48] Speaker 3: to take this challenge on or not? That's my choice.
[1:18:52] Speaker 3: Do I want to do this? And that's all I'm saying.
[1:18:53] Speaker 3: I don't mean no harm. You kept bringing up I like, man, Yeah,
[1:18:57] Speaker 3: I appreciate me. I am not a man hater. No
[1:18:59] Speaker 3: me here, you guys are great game.
[1:19:02] Speaker 4: I don't know, and I love this type of dialogue.
[1:19:06] Speaker 5: But I think more men and women need to have
[1:19:09] Speaker 5: these things because we do have different opinions in different
[1:19:12] Speaker 5: thought processes. That's what makes us unique. At the end
[1:19:15] Speaker 5: of the day. What I'm saying is those things, and
[1:19:17] Speaker 5: then what we hear in a group of primary primarily women,
[1:19:21] Speaker 5: we hear certain things and we hear yes girl, yes girl,
[1:19:23] Speaker 5: yes girl.
[1:19:24] Speaker 4: But most women in here want a man, so we're
[1:19:28] Speaker 4: not that bad. And that's all I'm saying.
[1:19:30] Speaker 5: So for men, we need to fix what we have
[1:19:32] Speaker 5: to work on to be there and present and be
[1:19:35] Speaker 5: the right man for that woman when she comes along,
[1:19:37] Speaker 5: and once we present ourselves.
[1:19:38] Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely, thank you y'all giving up for this is
[1:19:44] Speaker 1: and I allow that to go on because I want
[1:19:46] Speaker 1: to hear could they get to a place of resolution?
[1:19:49] Speaker 1: Could you get to a place accepting the differences? Because
[1:19:52] Speaker 1: what happens in conversations like that sometimes you can get
[1:19:57] Speaker 1: too heated. You know, y'all may have experienced that talking
[1:19:59] Speaker 1: to your significant others where it gets too he didn't
[1:20:03] Speaker 1: y'all get mad and hang up the phone on each other.
[1:20:05] Speaker 1: But it should be a place where y'all could have
[1:20:07] Speaker 1: a conversation, hear each other out, and even if you
[1:20:09] Speaker 1: don't agree, you agree to disagree and be like, all right,
[1:20:11] Speaker 1: well that's cool. You know what I'm saying. I love
[1:20:14] Speaker 1: intelligent conversation like that, So thank y'all for displaying that
[1:20:18] Speaker 1: right in front of us. I appreciate that. Pastor King,
[1:20:25] Speaker 1: how did you meet Nicole. Lady Nicole, No, I ain't
[1:20:31] Speaker 1: gonna ask you. I'm gonna ask lady the cold lady, Nicole,
[1:20:35] Speaker 1: how did y'all get here?
[1:20:38] Speaker 2: Okay, so I'll go all the way back. We knew
[1:20:40] Speaker 2: each other in middle school and high school. He was
[1:20:43] Speaker 2: an upper classman, so we actually met. I think I
[1:20:46] Speaker 2: was in sixth grade. Were in seventh grade or seventh
[1:20:48] Speaker 2: grade and eighth grade. We didn't like each other, and
[1:20:52] Speaker 2: then we.
[1:20:52] Speaker 1: Went on to y'all like each other.
[1:20:55] Speaker 2: We didn't know each other. We didn't know each other. Okay, okay,
[1:20:57] Speaker 2: so you're right. We didn't each other in middle schools.
[1:21:01] Speaker 8: We didn't.
[1:21:03] Speaker 2: We got to know each other in high school. And
[1:21:06] Speaker 2: that's because he played football and I was in drill teams,
[1:21:09] Speaker 2: so we would travel, would be at all the games together,
[1:21:11] Speaker 2: so we knew of each other. We would speak, and
[1:21:14] Speaker 2: that was it.
[1:21:15] Speaker 4: Hearing for me all my life.
[1:21:19] Speaker 2: Yeah, so that was many many years ago, and probably
[1:21:26] Speaker 2: what was at two thousand and sixteen, he slid right
[1:21:32] Speaker 2: in my DM.
[1:21:34] Speaker 3: That's what he did.
[1:21:38] Speaker 4: The Lord created dms for a reason.
[1:21:41] Speaker 2: And this is what he said. He said, you're not
[1:21:44] Speaker 2: the same Nicole I remember from high school.
[1:21:47] Speaker 4: Hold on what that means post boy.
[1:21:49] Speaker 11: Let me tell you. So middle school and high school.
[1:21:53] Speaker 11: You know, she was a little skinny something tall. She
[1:21:57] Speaker 11: was cute, but you know, I try to go cute,
[1:22:00] Speaker 11: little heathen in ways. I didn't want to corrupt the
[1:22:02] Speaker 11: you know, a little young que doesn't. I'm gonna leave
[1:22:04] Speaker 11: our Lord. We'll let him make it right. So you know,
[1:22:07] Speaker 11: through all the years, you know, so we never you know,
[1:22:10] Speaker 11: I knew our friends and and think of that nature.
[1:22:12] Speaker 11: But you know, we got older. The Lord had blessed,
[1:22:18] Speaker 11: I saw, I saw the heavenless. I saw, I saw
[1:22:22] Speaker 11: God had done some great things in her life. So
[1:22:28] Speaker 11: and so uh yeah, so I mean I just checked it,
[1:22:30] Speaker 11: checked it out, saw and I was like, yeah, that's
[1:22:33] Speaker 11: the Lord that's filled it in places. He's a feeling god.
[1:22:38] Speaker 11: He knows what the Lord of myself, you know what
[1:22:40] Speaker 11: I want?
[1:22:41] Speaker 4: All right? So that that's what.
[1:22:43] Speaker 11: That means from an external person, because we didn't know
[1:22:46] Speaker 11: each other, and so it was, you know, knowing eachthing
[1:22:49] Speaker 11: like that.
[1:22:49] Speaker 4: We knew each other.
[1:22:50] Speaker 11: But and so then getting to talk to her and
[1:22:52] Speaker 11: have conversation that that increased that.
[1:22:55] Speaker 1: Yeah, so go ahead, and so what do you think
[1:22:57] Speaker 1: when he slid in your DMS. What did he say?
[1:22:59] Speaker 2: Okay, so he said you're not the same the color
[1:23:02] Speaker 2: I remember, I think from biology or science or something
[1:23:04] Speaker 2: like that. And then he said, hey, can we you know,
[1:23:08] Speaker 2: can we be friends? That's exactly what he said.
[1:23:11] Speaker 1: So when he's hold on, let me go back and
[1:23:14] Speaker 1: into I gotta get the translation of that from a man.
[1:23:17] Speaker 1: When you said be friends, what you mean by being friends?
[1:23:20] Speaker 4: I didn't say be friends.
[1:23:23] Speaker 11: She remembers that I would go back and find them DMS.
[1:23:27] Speaker 14: No.
[1:23:27] Speaker 4: I think one of the things was.
[1:23:31] Speaker 11: I was interested in getting to know her because where
[1:23:34] Speaker 11: I was in my journey, I knew what I wanted, right,
[1:23:38] Speaker 11: So I'm not finna one go on your DMS one
[1:23:41] Speaker 11: because I already knew who she was. So it was
[1:23:43] Speaker 11: a safy thing. You know, people today they won't put
[1:23:46] Speaker 11: all your DMS on everything. You can't even get to
[1:23:48] Speaker 11: know nobody because they so be the trying to make
[1:23:51] Speaker 11: money off of you, out you so you can't go
[1:23:53] Speaker 11: in with some crazy person. So I felt safe enough
[1:23:57] Speaker 11: to do that, And some men won't do that. If
[1:24:00] Speaker 11: you ain't got none to lose, you just out here reckless.
[1:24:03] Speaker 4: Right.
[1:24:03] Speaker 11: I was intentional because I had studied her for a while,
[1:24:08] Speaker 11: I understood her situation, and I became safe enough because
[1:24:12] Speaker 11: I watched her social media before I ever approached her
[1:24:16] Speaker 11: about it, and that told me some things about her
[1:24:19] Speaker 11: that she's a safe enough person for me to approach.
[1:24:24] Speaker 1: That's good, that's good.
[1:24:26] Speaker 11: And so that led me to, all right, let me
[1:24:29] Speaker 11: get a deeper look into who she is. I'm excited
[1:24:34] Speaker 11: about what she looks like. But I you know, I
[1:24:37] Speaker 11: was forty one, forty two. I'd seen Fine, I'd been
[1:24:40] Speaker 11: with Fine all my life. That wouldn't I ain't choose
[1:24:43] Speaker 11: no snacker tuos at bugle Wolf's all right, so I
[1:24:46] Speaker 11: can go back in my history.
[1:24:47] Speaker 4: I have no issues with that. So surface is fine.
[1:24:52] Speaker 11: I was at a point in my life I need
[1:24:54] Speaker 11: somebody to walk with, right, So I didn't need a project.
[1:25:00] Speaker 4: I needed a partner.
[1:25:02] Speaker 11: And so when I studied her, it gave me the
[1:25:07] Speaker 11: reason to go ahead. And so I just wanted to
[1:25:10] Speaker 11: get to know her, have dialogue with her, and talk
[1:25:12] Speaker 11: with her a while before we even saw each other
[1:25:16] Speaker 11: in person.
[1:25:16] Speaker 4: But that's what we discussed. So that's kind of what
[1:25:19] Speaker 4: that meant is, Hey, let's get to know each other.
[1:25:22] Speaker 1: And so how what did you think of that moment?
[1:25:24] Speaker 1: So clearly you were open to it, right or were
[1:25:26] Speaker 1: you not open to it? Where were you at in
[1:25:28] Speaker 1: your mind? Nicole?
[1:25:31] Speaker 2: I was very nervous because you know, this is Pastor King,
[1:25:35] Speaker 2: but I knew him as Marcus King, and so I
[1:25:38] Speaker 2: was I was so nervous that I just wanted to
[1:25:41] Speaker 2: chat with him a messenger. I need to want to
[1:25:43] Speaker 2: talk to him on the phone, because I was extremely
[1:25:45] Speaker 2: intimidated because it's not the same guy. He's intelligent, not
[1:25:49] Speaker 2: that I'm not intelligent.
[1:25:50] Speaker 3: And.
[1:25:55] Speaker 2: He's a pastor, right, he's a pastor. So I was
[1:25:59] Speaker 2: highly entamed, intimidated, and I didn't want to talk to
[1:26:02] Speaker 2: my Tha was scared. So he said, this is not
[1:26:04] Speaker 2: the way I want to communicate with you through messenger,
[1:26:08] Speaker 2: but if this is what I can get, you know, okay,
[1:26:11] Speaker 2: let's let's just go with it. And so he's I
[1:26:14] Speaker 2: think he sent me his number. I didn't call, and
[1:26:17] Speaker 2: I sent him my number and he called, and so
[1:26:20] Speaker 2: and so we chatted for a few days and within
[1:26:25] Speaker 2: a week because we knew each other, because I felt safe,
[1:26:29] Speaker 2: he came to pick me up and we went out
[1:26:32] Speaker 2: on a date. Yeah, I remember they came to pick
[1:26:34] Speaker 2: me up, and literally that was like the happily ever
[1:26:37] Speaker 2: after because when he came in, he shut whatever I
[1:26:40] Speaker 2: was doing, he shut it down, completely shut it down.
[1:26:44] Speaker 3: He was so intentional.
[1:26:45] Speaker 2: It could be a Friday night I could do with
[1:26:47] Speaker 2: my friends, like what you're doing, and I'm like, well
[1:26:49] Speaker 2: I'm here, Oh I was.
[1:26:50] Speaker 1: I want to see you.
[1:26:51] Speaker 2: So now because I'm interested, I'm wrapping up whatever it
[1:26:55] Speaker 2: is I'm doing so I can meet with him as exactly. So,
[1:26:58] Speaker 2: cause he was intentional, he wasn't playing. I never felt
[1:27:02] Speaker 2: the games with him, and that was scary because a
[1:27:06] Speaker 2: lot of times women don't get that directness. Because he
[1:27:10] Speaker 2: was able to tell me immediately what he wanted, what
[1:27:14] Speaker 2: his purpose was, what God told him, He told me
[1:27:18] Speaker 2: all of this. So so he just came and I
[1:27:20] Speaker 2: don't care what I said to him, because I you know,
[1:27:23] Speaker 2: I had been married and divorced, very broken, and I
[1:27:28] Speaker 2: really thought God brought him into my life to help
[1:27:31] Speaker 2: me through what I had just emotionally come out of,
[1:27:35] Speaker 2: not knowing that he was going to be my husband. Yeah,
[1:27:38] Speaker 2: so that's what I thought at first. But I'm saying
[1:27:40] Speaker 2: that to say whatever I said to him, my sad story,
[1:27:44] Speaker 2: which was true. It did not run him off. And
[1:27:47] Speaker 2: I mean I told him everything everything. Nobody can come
[1:27:52] Speaker 2: tell him anything about me that he does not already know,
[1:27:56] Speaker 2: because that's how you live in your truth and you
[1:27:57] Speaker 2: do not have to avoid conversations and people. I laid
[1:28:02] Speaker 2: everything on the table, and all he said was I
[1:28:05] Speaker 2: ain't scared of it, That's all he said. I'm not
[1:28:07] Speaker 2: scared of at I'm like, okay. So you know, we dated.
[1:28:11] Speaker 2: We started reading books.
[1:28:14] Speaker 1: Excuse me.
[1:28:15] Speaker 2: We started reading books every Thursday. I think it was.
[1:28:18] Speaker 2: We would go to different yeah, Jason's Deli and Mansfeld
[1:28:23] Speaker 2: lived in Mansfeld at the time, and we would read together.
[1:28:28] Speaker 2: I'd beat a chapter, he'd beat a chapter. We go
[1:28:30] Speaker 2: to the bookstore. It was just something different that I
[1:28:34] Speaker 2: had never ever experienced. So he changed my mind because
[1:28:38] Speaker 2: I didn't want to get married again. I didn't. I say,
[1:28:41] Speaker 2: you know, it's gonna be my children. We just gonna
[1:28:43] Speaker 2: hang out and hang out with my girlfriends. I made date,
[1:28:46] Speaker 2: but it's not gonna be anything serious. And he came
[1:28:50] Speaker 2: and he like intentionally, he was so intentional with me
[1:28:53] Speaker 2: that he changed my mind. And then I just fell
[1:28:56] Speaker 2: in love with the person that he is and how
[1:28:59] Speaker 2: he accept to me flaws and all, yeah, falls and all.
[1:29:04] Speaker 1: So were there moments where you were trying to sabotage
[1:29:07] Speaker 1: the relationship? Lady? Were there moments where you tried to
[1:29:13] Speaker 1: sabotage the relationship? He's coming with intentionality. You said you
[1:29:16] Speaker 1: didn't even want to be married, so you said he
[1:29:18] Speaker 1: had to change your mindset to even desire marriage again,
[1:29:22] Speaker 1: you had three kids, right, you had three kids at
[1:29:25] Speaker 1: the time. So now you got a transition if you
[1:29:28] Speaker 1: take on this, this intentionality he's given you. Wow, Okay,
[1:29:33] Speaker 1: now this is going to I have to introduce my
[1:29:36] Speaker 1: kids to this man, and he's a pastor. It's a
[1:29:39] Speaker 1: whole lot of transition that your mind has to go
[1:29:42] Speaker 1: through put you in the position of being the first lady.
[1:29:45] Speaker 1: So how did you reconcile that? Were you trying to
[1:29:48] Speaker 1: sabotage relationship before it got there? And what that looked like?
[1:29:51] Speaker 2: Well, I think I was kind of just telling him
[1:29:54] Speaker 2: how it felt and that I was nervous. That was
[1:29:57] Speaker 2: that was more afraid than anything than sabotaging the situation.
[1:30:02] Speaker 2: I was just afraid, I really was. And once I researched,
[1:30:06] Speaker 2: because I hadn't seen him what twenty something years. I
[1:30:09] Speaker 2: may have seen him at a wedding. I may have
[1:30:10] Speaker 2: seen him at a funeral and passing we would say hello,
[1:30:14] Speaker 2: that was it. But I just did not feel like
[1:30:16] Speaker 2: I was good enough to marry a pastor. That's just
[1:30:20] Speaker 2: what it was. And I even told him that, I'm like,
[1:30:22] Speaker 2: I listen, I've been married, have three kids. You know,
[1:30:26] Speaker 2: I don't know that's it. I'm scared, and he was.
[1:30:30] Speaker 2: He just talked me through it. He just was really
[1:30:32] Speaker 2: good with talking and listening, and he made me comfortable,
[1:30:36] Speaker 2: and he just reminded me of who I am. That
[1:30:39] Speaker 2: you can't even see what God has put in you,
[1:30:42] Speaker 2: is what he said to me. You can't even see that.
[1:30:44] Speaker 2: And I couldn't. I couldn't see it. So he just
[1:30:48] Speaker 2: was really good through a really really dark time for me,
[1:30:53] Speaker 2: and I appreciate it so much.
[1:31:01] Speaker 1: Yeah, Pastor King, how did you deal with that? What
[1:31:04] Speaker 1: made you say that's it? I ain't scared of that?
[1:31:08] Speaker 1: What made you? What made you think like that? When
[1:31:11] Speaker 1: it came to her, Well.
[1:31:13] Speaker 11: It wasn't even just her initially, right, I was in
[1:31:17] Speaker 11: a place in my life and as you know, actually
[1:31:20] Speaker 11: just on Tuesday, I've been preaching thirty two years, right,
[1:31:23] Speaker 11: I've been in ministry thirty two years.
[1:31:25] Speaker 1: Give it up, y'all, thirty two years.
[1:31:28] Speaker 11: I grew up, you know, in the pastores home my
[1:31:32] Speaker 11: father and mother. Before my father passed in twenty thirteen,
[1:31:36] Speaker 11: they were on a way of making forty six years
[1:31:38] Speaker 11: a marriage. So I had seen marriage. My grandparents have
[1:31:43] Speaker 11: been married almost sixty years.
[1:31:44] Speaker 4: Right.
[1:31:45] Speaker 11: So marriage is what I always wanted, but I respected
[1:31:50] Speaker 11: it enough not to just jump in one.
[1:31:54] Speaker 4: And I think that's what the deal was.
[1:31:56] Speaker 11: So I spent my time dedicating myself to living a
[1:32:02] Speaker 11: life of intentionality. But I would not There were churches
[1:32:06] Speaker 11: that would come to me that wanted me to just
[1:32:10] Speaker 11: get married so I could pass to their church.
[1:32:12] Speaker 4: I'm like, I gotta live with that woman, and you're.
[1:32:16] Speaker 11: Gonna talk about it. You're gonna talk about me if
[1:32:18] Speaker 11: it don't work. You see what I'm saying. And it's
[1:32:20] Speaker 11: a lot of churches. And that's what you know. The
[1:32:22] Speaker 11: generation we grew up in, even before people were just
[1:32:25] Speaker 11: getting married and people wonder why a lot of pastors
[1:32:27] Speaker 11: are getting divorced or a lot of cheatings going on
[1:32:30] Speaker 11: because it was a business transaction. I grew up and
[1:32:34] Speaker 11: I saw a real love. I saw a real relationship.
[1:32:39] Speaker 11: I wasn't interested in a business transaction and I wasn't
[1:32:42] Speaker 11: gonna do that. So I took the time and waited
[1:32:46] Speaker 11: on God, and I dated some wonderful people, went through
[1:32:49] Speaker 11: different things, And all I would say is, at that
[1:32:52] Speaker 11: point in my life, I was clear for a while
[1:32:56] Speaker 11: on what I wanted, but I still had to wait
[1:33:00] Speaker 11: on God to give the clearance. Because just because you
[1:33:04] Speaker 11: say you're ready doesn't mean God says it's time. And
[1:33:08] Speaker 11: I want his time, his will, his way. So when
[1:33:11] Speaker 11: you know I was a single man, and it's like
[1:33:14] Speaker 11: the you know, the whole opposite of what everybody tried
[1:33:17] Speaker 11: to say.
[1:33:18] Speaker 4: Whatever. I was a single man. I had my own.
[1:33:23] Speaker 11: House, have my own card, everything in my name. I got,
[1:33:28] Speaker 11: had degrees, I written books. I was passion at the time.
[1:33:32] Speaker 11: I was traveling around the world. I would travel to
[1:33:34] Speaker 11: places by myself. I had a lot going on just
[1:33:37] Speaker 11: as a single man, no kids, and so to be
[1:33:41] Speaker 11: in space, in that space, I could make whatever decision
[1:33:45] Speaker 11: I wanted to make. I wasn't dating out of desperation.
[1:33:49] Speaker 11: I was dating because I knew God, this is where
[1:33:52] Speaker 11: I wanted to be and I did not just date everybody. Now,
[1:33:55] Speaker 11: of course, because I was single that long. I was
[1:33:58] Speaker 11: engaged to people I never met. I'm still I'm still
[1:34:04] Speaker 11: trying to find out some of these people I was
[1:34:07] Speaker 11: engaged to.
[1:34:09] Speaker 4: I was dating. I was dating people I never met.
[1:34:12] Speaker 4: All right.
[1:34:13] Speaker 11: I had children. I had a baby with with a woman.
[1:34:17] Speaker 11: This was a conversation going on with a in a
[1:34:20] Speaker 11: beauty salon. I had a baby. I had a special
[1:34:23] Speaker 11: needs child. I wasn't taking care of my child child
[1:34:29] Speaker 11: and the child was in a stroller, you know, at
[1:34:31] Speaker 11: the move child around. I have all kinds of weird stuff.
[1:34:35] Speaker 11: I had seven women that was supposed to be God
[1:34:38] Speaker 11: told them I'm their spouse. Uh, and they all knew
[1:34:42] Speaker 11: each other. And I didn't know how that was gonna
[1:34:43] Speaker 11: work out. But I liked the concept. Lord, if it's
[1:34:50] Speaker 11: your will, all right, now, I'm talking about this this
[1:34:54] Speaker 11: whole train preacher, a preacher, un or everyone. So we
[1:35:00] Speaker 11: just keep it reading around that, right, So when you
[1:35:04] Speaker 11: talk about that, man, it's just a lot that goes on,
[1:35:08] Speaker 11: and a lot of people are hearing God, and you
[1:35:11] Speaker 11: ain't hearing none of that that they're saying. So when
[1:35:13] Speaker 11: it came to marriage of course I'm single. I got
[1:35:17] Speaker 11: opes and I can do what I want to do
[1:35:19] Speaker 11: single woman, build a life together, start with kids, grow
[1:35:24] Speaker 11: a legacy, continue the king name. That's what I desired
[1:35:29] Speaker 11: to have, and I desired to do that younger. But
[1:35:34] Speaker 11: my surrender to what God wanted. I had opportunities to
[1:35:39] Speaker 11: be married. They want what God wanted for me, and
[1:35:44] Speaker 11: my picture of what I wanted wasn't what I needed.
[1:35:50] Speaker 11: I needed somebody in my life because I'm a person
[1:35:54] Speaker 11: I can look back at all my life and I
[1:35:55] Speaker 11: can see God never puts me in easy situations because
[1:35:59] Speaker 11: I get bored, and so I needed someone who had
[1:36:06] Speaker 11: worked through something, who had gone through some wars, who
[1:36:11] Speaker 11: would be less judgmental of me, because the world and
[1:36:14] Speaker 11: the church is already judging me, and they love judging
[1:36:19] Speaker 11: preachers because we up here it's a whole lot of judgment.
[1:36:21] Speaker 11: I needed somebody who had been through some stuff and
[1:36:24] Speaker 11: understand and had that sensitivity where it was going to
[1:36:27] Speaker 11: be combative. And so single women, no kids, had stuff together,
[1:36:32] Speaker 11: all that was there. Why would I choose somebody with
[1:36:37] Speaker 11: a divorce and three children. And I'm at the age
[1:36:43] Speaker 11: at that point where if I marry you it's a
[1:36:48] Speaker 11: risk that you might not even be able to have
[1:36:50] Speaker 11: my child. And that was a piece that I had
[1:36:54] Speaker 11: to say, Okay, God, but if it's you, I'll do it.
[1:37:02] Speaker 4: And when I.
[1:37:03] Speaker 11: Tell you, you know, And we have never talked about the
[1:37:07] Speaker 11: other piece. I don't know if you will talk about
[1:37:08] Speaker 11: it all right. When we when we got married, I
[1:37:13] Speaker 11: desired a child and have a child, because she already
[1:37:16] Speaker 11: had three in her own I think we were forwarded
[1:37:19] Speaker 11: you were forty two.
[1:37:20] Speaker 4: Would it happened? Yeah, so I was forty three to
[1:37:24] Speaker 4: forty two.
[1:37:25] Speaker 11: And people never know what we're dealing with while we're
[1:37:29] Speaker 11: helping other people teach. We wanted children, to a child together.
[1:37:35] Speaker 11: She actually got pregnant and then she had a miscarriage.
[1:37:41] Speaker 11: And when I saw the pain she was in when
[1:37:47] Speaker 11: I when I saw my wife on the floor and
[1:37:53] Speaker 11: the baby didn't come out all at once, it was
[1:37:57] Speaker 11: days that it had to come out of her. And
[1:38:02] Speaker 11: when I sat in that hospital room with her and
[1:38:04] Speaker 11: I saw the pain she was in, I said, we
[1:38:08] Speaker 11: ain't got to do this.
[1:38:10] Speaker 4: You're all I need.
[1:38:12] Speaker 11: I take the kids. I'll take I'll take the kids.
[1:38:19] Speaker 11: God has blessed us with love them. I'm just gonna
[1:38:23] Speaker 11: trust God for the rest, because at the end of
[1:38:26] Speaker 11: the day, I just want to be in his will
[1:38:30] Speaker 11: and that I never wanted to put her in that position.
[1:38:35] Speaker 11: And I know she wanted to give me kids, and
[1:38:37] Speaker 11: I want the kids, but you first.
[1:38:42] Speaker 4: And as I got you, I'm all right. Does it?
[1:38:49] Speaker 11: Does it come to my mind sometimes to see one
[1:38:52] Speaker 11: of little me running around you?
[1:38:53] Speaker 4: Yeah, that goes there.
[1:38:55] Speaker 11: But I think there's a point in your life where
[1:38:56] Speaker 11: you have to recognize and realize that sometimes you know,
[1:39:01] Speaker 11: God would turn on another parting you. And I love
[1:39:05] Speaker 11: those children like they were my own children. Matter of fact,
[1:39:08] Speaker 11: my youngest son. Everybody think we had that baby before
[1:39:14] Speaker 11: because he was looking just like me. We are pretty much,
[1:39:18] Speaker 11: I mean the same. I'm actually an introvert. People don't
[1:39:23] Speaker 11: believe that, but she could tell you I'm actually introvert.
[1:39:28] Speaker 4: I can go home. I'll be by myself.
[1:39:29] Speaker 11: People think about I'll be aware when I'm finished with y'all.
[1:39:32] Speaker 11: I've had my negro quot shit for today.
[1:39:37] Speaker 1: I go home.
[1:39:39] Speaker 11: I'm watching the Shy, I'm watching Papa right. I'm chilling
[1:39:45] Speaker 11: right because that's why I do it. I'm with her.
[1:39:48] Speaker 11: Tonight is date night. Ever since we've been together. It's
[1:39:52] Speaker 11: be nine years coming up. We have dated every single
[1:39:56] Speaker 11: Friday night. Because before I got married, Before I got
[1:40:03] Speaker 11: married Latian's, I would pray every Thursday for my wife.
[1:40:11] Speaker 11: There were characteristics I want and I wanted her to
[1:40:13] Speaker 11: be healthy.
[1:40:14] Speaker 4: I wanted her to be whole.
[1:40:15] Speaker 11: I want her to be beautiful externally and internally. I
[1:40:20] Speaker 11: wanted her to be at peace. I wanted her to
[1:40:22] Speaker 11: have her own relationship with God. I wanted her to
[1:40:26] Speaker 11: and I also prayed, God give me somebody that I
[1:40:29] Speaker 11: can know how to support her in her journey. When
[1:40:34] Speaker 11: we got married, I kept that date and I still
[1:40:38] Speaker 11: pray intentionally for I pray for every day, but I
[1:40:41] Speaker 11: have that day still slated just for her. I love
[1:40:45] Speaker 11: it every Friday. It's just for her and so to
[1:40:51] Speaker 11: do this. So that's kind of the whole journey piece.
[1:40:54] Speaker 11: I mean, because I realized aftter watching my parents. After working,
[1:40:58] Speaker 11: I counseled so many peace people through the years, and
[1:41:02] Speaker 11: I just recognized it's a lot of people that's given
[1:41:06] Speaker 11: the second person what they should have given the first
[1:41:09] Speaker 11: if they'd have slowed down. And I'm like, I'd rather
[1:41:13] Speaker 11: get married later so I can love healthier longer.
[1:41:17] Speaker 1: You better teach, you better teach, and I want to
[1:41:21] Speaker 1: come back to the people you counseled. But I want
[1:41:22] Speaker 1: to ask, Lady Nicole, give words to the tears that
[1:41:26] Speaker 1: you were.
[1:41:26] Speaker 2: Shedding, because I do believe that God will give you
[1:41:31] Speaker 2: another chance at love. That's where the tears come from,
[1:41:35] Speaker 2: because I was I was broken from my first marriage
[1:41:38] Speaker 2: and I was afraid to get married. I was afraid
[1:41:40] Speaker 2: to bring anyone around my children or my family. I
[1:41:45] Speaker 2: just didn't want to go through it again. And it
[1:41:48] Speaker 2: was really just protecting myself from being hurt. So anything
[1:41:51] Speaker 2: in the beginning with which may have looked or sounded
[1:41:55] Speaker 2: like I was pushing him away, it was just a
[1:41:57] Speaker 2: protection because I was afraid, So let me protect me.
[1:42:02] Speaker 2: You know, I know him, he's a pastor, you know
[1:42:05] Speaker 2: he was you know, we're in school together, but I
[1:42:07] Speaker 2: don't know him and I need to protect my heart.
[1:42:10] Speaker 2: And so that's basically where those tears come from. And
[1:42:13] Speaker 2: just know that even after heartbreak in a marriage, God
[1:42:17] Speaker 2: can bless you better and give you back everything that
[1:42:20] Speaker 2: you have ever lost. I promise you he can and
[1:42:23] Speaker 2: he will. So that's where a lot of those tears
[1:42:25] Speaker 2: have come from.
[1:42:26] Speaker 11: Can I say this about that, And going back to
[1:42:29] Speaker 11: the question you asked about why I wasn't I afraid
[1:42:32] Speaker 11: of it? When I sat with her and I talked
[1:42:36] Speaker 11: with her, I saw and I listened. I like listening
[1:42:41] Speaker 11: to people's stories because sometimes you can judge a person
[1:42:44] Speaker 11: or you got to keep your two kids and three
[1:42:46] Speaker 11: kids and you divorced and s y z. But what's
[1:42:51] Speaker 11: your story? Because because if you had a different space
[1:42:59] Speaker 11: to work in, what that story have been different? Or
[1:43:04] Speaker 11: have you learned from your story and it's created you
[1:43:07] Speaker 11: to be the person that you are now? And what
[1:43:11] Speaker 11: is my assignment in your life? Because my assignment may
[1:43:14] Speaker 11: not be be to your husband because we still have
[1:43:17] Speaker 11: to have that clarity on what is this supposed to
[1:43:20] Speaker 11: be right? And I'm praying because I'm want to listen
[1:43:22] Speaker 11: to God to every step. I want God to order
[1:43:24] Speaker 11: my steps and my stops. It's like, let's go this far,
[1:43:29] Speaker 11: let's cut that off.
[1:43:30] Speaker 1: This is where order your steps and your stops.
[1:43:33] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[1:43:34] Speaker 11: So I saw her, and and the reason that I
[1:43:38] Speaker 11: fell in love with her is because I recognize she
[1:43:43] Speaker 11: was just trying to survive her entire life. And what
[1:43:48] Speaker 11: I'm good at is helping people thrive, and I recognized
[1:43:54] Speaker 11: I was equipped for her. And if you're talking about
[1:43:59] Speaker 11: it helped meet, she didn't have a whole lot financially
[1:44:02] Speaker 11: to give me at the time. She didn't have a
[1:44:05] Speaker 11: whole lot of time wise because she's trying to handle stuff.
[1:44:10] Speaker 11: So when we start talking about help meets, a lot
[1:44:14] Speaker 11: of times we talk about a person who you know,
[1:44:18] Speaker 11: talking about you know equally equallyoak. You know, you gotta
[1:44:20] Speaker 11: have this job, you gotta have this kind of money,
[1:44:22] Speaker 11: you gotta have this.
[1:44:23] Speaker 4: She didn't have all that.
[1:44:24] Speaker 11: How she gonna be help me because she taught me
[1:44:27] Speaker 11: how to love from her perspective, and she showed me
[1:44:34] Speaker 11: what love looked like to her, how she loves her children.
[1:44:38] Speaker 11: And I also knew that she had been through pain
[1:44:43] Speaker 11: and I had to help her understand. Of course, I'm
[1:44:48] Speaker 11: not who you were dating or who you were married.
[1:44:52] Speaker 11: I meet, and I knew I would have to be
[1:44:55] Speaker 11: patient that part. But I had another in my emotional
[1:45:01] Speaker 11: spiritual bank account that I knew she wouldn't bankrupt me.
[1:45:10] Speaker 11: So so I knew because of you know, my relationship
[1:45:15] Speaker 11: with God, and plus I had been equipped all the
[1:45:19] Speaker 11: things and all the people I counseled all things that
[1:45:21] Speaker 11: I've gone through, all the relationship I've been through. It
[1:45:24] Speaker 11: was preparing me to handle anything she came with. And
[1:45:31] Speaker 11: I was at peace with that because then I knew
[1:45:35] Speaker 11: I ain't worried about it. I got a house big enough,
[1:45:38] Speaker 11: or I could move your kids in and your mama
[1:45:41] Speaker 11: if we need to, because I did that while I
[1:45:45] Speaker 11: was single. I can listen to you. We can, we
[1:45:49] Speaker 11: can whatever you have. There's a plan we could make
[1:45:52] Speaker 11: for good. And that's kind of what we've been doing.
[1:45:56] Speaker 4: She didn't.
[1:45:57] Speaker 11: She didn't, uh, and she may want to say whatever
[1:45:59] Speaker 11: when she when we got together, she hadn't finished her
[1:46:04] Speaker 11: Uh what.
[1:46:05] Speaker 4: Was the career? Yep, you put the mic up. Just
[1:46:07] Speaker 4: tell me tell that story, tell that part.
[1:46:09] Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, yeah. So when after I think it was
[1:46:14] Speaker 2: maybe six months after he got married, and I said, well,
[1:46:17] Speaker 2: I want to go back to school. I want to
[1:46:18] Speaker 2: I want to finish something. I want to do it,
[1:46:20] Speaker 2: one for myself and one for my kids, and one
[1:46:23] Speaker 2: when I tell my story that it's never too late
[1:46:25] Speaker 2: to go back to college and get your education. And
[1:46:28] Speaker 2: so I finished. I went to Jarvis Christian College. At
[1:46:32] Speaker 2: the time, yes, HPC you at the time, it was
[1:46:35] Speaker 2: at Friendship West when I started, and now I think
[1:46:39] Speaker 2: it's in Red Bird. Uh yeah, in Redbird now. So
[1:46:43] Speaker 2: I finished that about a year and I said, okay,
[1:46:46] Speaker 2: So he said, what you don't do now? He didn't
[1:46:48] Speaker 2: care if I went to school or not, he said,
[1:46:50] Speaker 2: And I'm all he said was to me, if you start,
[1:46:54] Speaker 2: we don't finish. We're going to finish. You're not gonna quit.
[1:46:57] Speaker 2: That's all he said.
[1:46:58] Speaker 1: Do this for you.
[1:46:59] Speaker 2: I hope you not doing it for me. And of
[1:47:01] Speaker 2: course I'm doing it for me because I wanted to
[1:47:02] Speaker 2: finish something, you know, let me finish something. So once
[1:47:06] Speaker 2: I did that, and I said, well, I think I
[1:47:09] Speaker 2: want to get my master's in Family Christian counseling. And
[1:47:12] Speaker 2: he said, where'd that come from? Ain't you talk of
[1:47:16] Speaker 2: our family Christian counseling. But I heard the Lord say
[1:47:19] Speaker 2: that to me. He said, you need to go ahead
[1:47:21] Speaker 2: and go. I'm like, okay, everything just lined up. I started.
[1:47:26] Speaker 2: I think I finished that in about two years. Told
[1:47:29] Speaker 2: the bachelor's was twenty twenty and my master's was the
[1:47:34] Speaker 2: close of twenty twenty four. Yeah, the close of twenty
[1:47:37] Speaker 2: twenty four. So that was a high achievement. But again
[1:47:43] Speaker 2: It was nothing to do with him other than you know,
[1:47:46] Speaker 2: he paid for me to finish school.
[1:47:50] Speaker 11: Yeah, but pers we wasn't doing no loans, so I
[1:47:55] Speaker 11: paid total that so when you were in there, yeah,
[1:47:58] Speaker 11: we paid. I went to college and I was blessed
[1:48:01] Speaker 11: to have a scholarship when I played football in sam Houston.
[1:48:04] Speaker 4: I didn't have any debt from that. That's good.
[1:48:06] Speaker 11: So we went't fin to have that debt. Plus you
[1:48:08] Speaker 11: had a nice little wed and that that we had
[1:48:10] Speaker 11: to pay.
[1:48:11] Speaker 4: For it absolutely beautiful. Yeah we had a wed.
[1:48:13] Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, so hallelujah. All right, So we wanted to
[1:48:20] Speaker 11: make sure. That's why I say, hey, if we start,
[1:48:23] Speaker 11: we're gonna finish. We're not doing all that, but I'm
[1:48:25] Speaker 11: gonna push you to be what you what God did
[1:48:28] Speaker 11: you feel that, what do.
[1:48:29] Speaker 2: You want to do? Don't do this for me? So
[1:48:32] Speaker 2: that was another piece. It didn't matter to him, he said,
[1:48:35] Speaker 2: what are you gonna do? I didn't marry you for
[1:48:38] Speaker 2: you to go to school, for you for me to
[1:48:39] Speaker 2: change anything that you're doing. That's not why I married you.
[1:48:43] Speaker 2: So that pushed me, and he pushed me to be
[1:48:46] Speaker 2: a better meeting to get my education. So that's the
[1:48:48] Speaker 2: kind of story on that piece. But yeah, he just
[1:48:51] Speaker 2: accepted me just where I was.
[1:48:53] Speaker 1: And see, I like that. See a lot of times.
[1:48:54] Speaker 1: It was a real that I shared earlier this week
[1:48:57] Speaker 1: where this young lady I was doing the podcast, said
[1:49:00] Speaker 1: Tasha Cobbs Church, and she said that she didn't believe
[1:49:03] Speaker 1: she was worthy to get a husband because she has
[1:49:05] Speaker 1: a special need, special needs daughter, and she says, she
[1:49:09] Speaker 1: don't believe that a man wild Like love that, and
[1:49:12] Speaker 1: I love the fact that here you are with three
[1:49:14] Speaker 1: kids and you found the king that says your kids
[1:49:18] Speaker 1: are my kids. And so I respect that. I hope
[1:49:21] Speaker 1: a lot of y'all are being encouraged by that, because
[1:49:24] Speaker 1: I hate to hear women count themselves out saying, ain't
[1:49:28] Speaker 1: no man gonna want my kids or whatnot. The godly
[1:49:31] Speaker 1: man will because your kids will become his kids and
[1:49:35] Speaker 1: he has to look at it like that, and vice versa.
[1:49:38] Speaker 1: A lot of men who have kids same mindset. A
[1:49:41] Speaker 1: lot of women be like, well, I don't want I
[1:49:43] Speaker 1: want to be the first person that had your kids.
[1:49:45] Speaker 1: He's like, we already got two, so you know that's
[1:49:47] Speaker 1: out of question. So you can think it in your
[1:49:49] Speaker 1: head you be the first one. I had kids with
[1:49:51] Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five. Okay, but you ain't the first,
[1:49:55] Speaker 1: so you just got to reconcile that. And so I
[1:49:57] Speaker 1: know that I love the fact that you loved her
[1:50:01] Speaker 1: and you didn't you said something that was so powerful
[1:50:05] Speaker 1: and healing. And again I didn't even know that was
[1:50:07] Speaker 1: your story. But it's interesting the story that I shared
[1:50:10] Speaker 1: about my goddaughter whose boyfriend while she was miscarrying their kid,
[1:50:15] Speaker 1: made her feel like she was just worthless. And then
[1:50:18] Speaker 1: here you are saying, I don't want to ever see
[1:50:20] Speaker 1: you go through that. You know what you are enough,
[1:50:23] Speaker 1: You are enough. I want that to speak to the
[1:50:26] Speaker 1: people in this audience right now that you are enough.
[1:50:31] Speaker 1: Every man, you are enough. Every woman, you are enough.
[1:50:35] Speaker 1: And as Rashid said early, he had to get to
[1:50:37] Speaker 1: a place in his life where he was enough. You
[1:50:40] Speaker 1: know you hear that common thread through even Schaniku when
[1:50:43] Speaker 1: she said that just getting to a place where whatever
[1:50:46] Speaker 1: it is, however you showed up, whatever cars that the
[1:50:48] Speaker 1: Lord dealt you. You look back today and say, you
[1:50:51] Speaker 1: know what, I'm enough, I'm worthy. And the minute that
[1:50:53] Speaker 1: you received that space, the more that you'll be able
[1:50:56] Speaker 1: to manifest things in your life and bring people in
[1:50:58] Speaker 1: your life that's supposed to be in your life and
[1:51:00] Speaker 1: they're supposed to stay because it starts with you believing
[1:51:04] Speaker 1: that you are enough. And so I just I love
[1:51:07] Speaker 1: that y'all shared that. I really love and Jessica, you're
[1:51:10] Speaker 1: gonna get you a husband that's gonna accept yo. All
[1:51:12] Speaker 1: your kids, all your many kids that you have, They're
[1:51:15] Speaker 1: gonna accept all your little bad kids. They're gonna accept them.
[1:51:19] Speaker 1: I'm believing that in the spirit that you're gonna give
[1:51:22] Speaker 1: a father for those kids and they're gonna take care
[1:51:24] Speaker 1: of them. May bad, they real bad.
[1:51:27] Speaker 3: I wasn't gonna talk about that. Hen I saw your
[1:51:29] Speaker 3: Instagram order feet that you posted earlier today. Y'all see
[1:51:34] Speaker 3: his instagram? Did y'all see here? It showed us these
[1:51:37] Speaker 3: and tones. By the way, I talk about my children.
[1:51:42] Speaker 1: Right, They're amazing, They're actually amazing.
[1:51:44] Speaker 4: I love them.
[1:51:45] Speaker 1: I love them, except the little young one, A little
[1:51:47] Speaker 1: young one bad. Hakeem is bad, he bad, he bad.
[1:51:52] Speaker 1: He need a whooping. He need a good whooping, a
[1:51:54] Speaker 1: real good whooping. But now I love your kids. Listen,
[1:51:57] Speaker 1: I want to go around before we open up the
[1:51:59] Speaker 1: audience to ask questions. I want y'all all to talk
[1:52:02] Speaker 1: about what is the greatest thing you're looking forward to,
[1:52:05] Speaker 1: the greatest transition you're looking forward to. I'm gonna start
[1:52:09] Speaker 1: with you, Tyres. I probably want to sing when I
[1:52:12] Speaker 1: say your name. I don't know what that is. That
[1:52:15] Speaker 1: is crazy, just seen, go ahead, Tyres.
[1:52:22] Speaker 4: For me, it would be probably marriage.
[1:52:24] Speaker 9: Marriage, That'll probably be the greatest transition, becoming a father,
[1:52:28] Speaker 9: and but also just figuring out where I want to
[1:52:30] Speaker 9: take my life, getting to the end, not the end
[1:52:33] Speaker 9: of the transition, just figuring out, you know, this is
[1:52:36] Speaker 9: what I want to do, this is who I want
[1:52:38] Speaker 9: to be as far as a career goes, because I
[1:52:41] Speaker 9: still haven't figured that out all the way. And so
[1:52:44] Speaker 9: probably those three things I would say all put in
[1:52:46] Speaker 9: put in one.
[1:52:47] Speaker 4: Good good.
[1:52:51] Speaker 2: Today. I desire marriage, and I'm just joking. I do
[1:52:54] Speaker 2: desire marriage. But I think what I'm looking for to
[1:52:59] Speaker 2: the most is not anything that I can actually classify
[1:53:02] Speaker 2: at this point in my life. I just want. I
[1:53:06] Speaker 2: want all the dreams that God has for me that
[1:53:08] Speaker 2: I haven't dreamed for myself, or that I've just put
[1:53:11] Speaker 2: myself at this level. And God, it's like I want
[1:53:13] Speaker 2: you to be here. That's what I want.
[1:53:16] Speaker 1: That's good.
[1:53:16] Speaker 4: That's good, David Transitions.
[1:53:22] Speaker 6: You know, look, I'm a grandfather. I clap for myself.
[1:53:29] Speaker 4: It's all good. You know what I'm saying.
[1:53:30] Speaker 6: I haven't had any kids, but you know, God work
[1:53:33] Speaker 6: that one out for me, and so I'm just working
[1:53:36] Speaker 6: at being a better grandfather than enjoying that new experience.
[1:53:39] Speaker 6: You know, his birthday is almost the same as mine.
[1:53:41] Speaker 6: I'm a June Team baby boy. And you know, man,
[1:53:46] Speaker 6: look just you know, staying optimistic and dating in love.
[1:53:48] Speaker 6: You know, I mean, it's a crazy world out there.
[1:53:51] Speaker 6: Social media is poisoning everything, everybody's perspectives. Even you know,
[1:53:55] Speaker 6: good people get weird stuff. And so it's just you know,
[1:53:58] Speaker 6: trying to keep a good heart and you know, hopefully
[1:54:01] Speaker 6: run into somebody like me like I like them.
[1:54:03] Speaker 1: That's good love love for she transition looking forward to.
[1:54:08] Speaker 5: For me is just continue to do the work as
[1:54:10] Speaker 5: far as myself is concerned, like growing as a man
[1:54:13] Speaker 5: through counseling and being a better father, and then ultimately
[1:54:16] Speaker 5: looking for that lady in my life that we can
[1:54:20] Speaker 5: concert with one another and decide we want to pull
[1:54:22] Speaker 5: in the same direction, because that's all I want at
[1:54:24] Speaker 5: the end.
[1:54:24] Speaker 4: Of the day for us to have.
[1:54:26] Speaker 5: A common goal and to pull in the same direction,
[1:54:28] Speaker 5: because if we're not in this tuggle war. And then
[1:54:31] Speaker 5: at the end of the day, besides that, I remember
[1:54:34] Speaker 5: the old pastors used to say in small town Louisiana
[1:54:36] Speaker 5: with my grandparents, for you had your ancestors who prayed
[1:54:39] Speaker 5: for you and prayed and prayed and prayed and prayed,
[1:54:42] Speaker 5: and you have storage closets of prayers. And he said,
[1:54:45] Speaker 5: you don't want to leave this earth without emptying all
[1:54:47] Speaker 5: those storage stored up blessings and prayers for you. So
[1:54:51] Speaker 5: that's my ultimate goal, is to not block the blessings
[1:54:54] Speaker 5: that have been already set in front of me and
[1:54:56] Speaker 5: just be there to receive them.
[1:54:58] Speaker 1: Good good Jessica transition.
[1:55:01] Speaker 3: I have to say, I look forward to like safe,
[1:55:04] Speaker 3: consistent love, like you know, love that's dependable and it
[1:55:10] Speaker 3: just keeps showing up, like you're like, you ain't gonna
[1:55:13] Speaker 3: show up today, and then it just do and you
[1:55:15] Speaker 3: were like, oh you came back. I think, I think
[1:55:22] Speaker 3: that's gonna change my life, Like to have that experience
[1:55:26] Speaker 3: every day all days, like ooh you yourself every day. Yeah,
[1:55:33] Speaker 3: that's that's what I look forward to.
[1:55:34] Speaker 1: I love that consistent love, Lady Nicole, transition, what are
[1:55:38] Speaker 1: you looking forward to?
[1:55:39] Speaker 2: I just really just want to be the best wife
[1:55:42] Speaker 2: that I could be to my husband, the best mother
[1:55:45] Speaker 2: I could be for my children, and I just have
[1:55:48] Speaker 2: great satisfaction in that, and just continue to grow in
[1:55:52] Speaker 2: my walks spiritually in this position that I'm in, and
[1:55:57] Speaker 2: help women that feel like they've and counted out. I
[1:56:01] Speaker 2: definitely have a passion to help people with different issues
[1:56:05] Speaker 2: and things that they have gone through in life. So
[1:56:08] Speaker 2: that's something I would like to touch later on good
[1:56:12] Speaker 2: passor King.
[1:56:14] Speaker 11: I mean, I'm listening and thinking through the whole piece.
[1:56:19] Speaker 11: It's so many transitions are always taking place because you know,
[1:56:22] Speaker 11: as a leader and doing so many things, I've kind
[1:56:26] Speaker 11: of come to the point of my life la terrors
[1:56:28] Speaker 11: where I used to have I can still put a
[1:56:31] Speaker 11: five year plan together, but God's done changed that in
[1:56:34] Speaker 11: six months, right. I'm just looking forward to whatever next
[1:56:39] Speaker 11: God wants to surprise me with and the transition of
[1:56:43] Speaker 11: me surrendering more than him. It might sound like an
[1:56:47] Speaker 11: old big louse, you know, whole spiritual piece, but truly
[1:56:51] Speaker 11: I want to be.
[1:56:54] Speaker 4: Submitted for whatever.
[1:56:57] Speaker 11: Transition He has, And I say that because family wise,
[1:57:03] Speaker 11: you know, one son left in the house, that's going
[1:57:07] Speaker 11: to be a transition. Church wise, you know, I think
[1:57:10] Speaker 11: we you know, it's our seventeenth year. We're trying to
[1:57:13] Speaker 11: not trying, but we're right now in the process of
[1:57:16] Speaker 11: building affordable homes for seniors, senior adults. So that's a
[1:57:20] Speaker 11: transition going into economic development in that piece. I mean
[1:57:25] Speaker 11: we could go on you know, chamea plug book coming
[1:57:28] Speaker 11: out right now. That's a transition because I need the
[1:57:31] Speaker 11: money to pay for it. All those things are transitional.
[1:57:34] Speaker 11: And here's the I want. I'm looking forward to the
[1:57:38] Speaker 11: transition where God blesses me with so many resources and
[1:57:44] Speaker 11: money that I can bless so many people that I
[1:57:47] Speaker 11: dreamed about.
[1:57:48] Speaker 4: Yes, that's what I'm looking for.
[1:57:50] Speaker 1: Listen, speaking of the book, is a book that you
[1:57:52] Speaker 1: had in the green room that you gave each and
[1:57:54] Speaker 1: every one of us. It's called Cheaters.
[1:57:59] Speaker 4: Cheaters, Breakups, Love Worth Finding.
[1:58:01] Speaker 1: The Love worth finding it. I want you a touch
[1:58:04] Speaker 1: on that. What made you write that book?
[1:58:06] Speaker 11: Well, I told you I have been over you know,
[1:58:09] Speaker 11: when I was on staff of Friendship, I was over
[1:58:14] Speaker 11: the counseling ministry for the most part. I mean, we
[1:58:16] Speaker 11: had counselors and I do pastoral lay counseling. Were over
[1:58:19] Speaker 11: licensed professional counsel so all the counsel you know, those
[1:58:22] Speaker 11: like ten thousand people. And then through the years, like
[1:58:25] Speaker 11: I said, I've been doing it for thirty two years.
[1:58:27] Speaker 11: I always counsel people and it usually came in relationship piece.
[1:58:32] Speaker 11: You know, you don't get to counsel everybody. I mean
[1:58:35] Speaker 11: everybody will seeing you in boxes. Everybody was sitting there.
[1:58:38] Speaker 11: But what I started noticing was a trend. Whether they
[1:58:41] Speaker 11: were single, whether they were married or whatever the situation was.
[1:58:45] Speaker 11: Most of the stuff I kept seeing was in three categories.
[1:58:49] Speaker 11: People were cheating or being cheated on. People were breaking
[1:58:55] Speaker 11: up and didn't know how to break up. It's like
[1:58:59] Speaker 11: people know how to join the church, but they don't
[1:59:01] Speaker 11: know how to leave, and they joined walking.
[1:59:03] Speaker 4: Down the aisle and shouting.
[1:59:05] Speaker 11: When they leave, you just see him in Walmut one
[1:59:07] Speaker 11: day and you ain't seeing him in eight months, and
[1:59:10] Speaker 11: they want to go.
[1:59:11] Speaker 4: Down the other aisle, like hey, how you doing.
[1:59:14] Speaker 11: They just ghost you and that's kind of the practice
[1:59:17] Speaker 11: of their life. So I kept seeing cheetahs then breaking up,
[1:59:21] Speaker 11: and people were violent when they broke up. It's like
[1:59:24] Speaker 11: this is a person you spent twenty years with. At
[1:59:27] Speaker 11: least be a Christian towards them. It's still your Christian
[1:59:32] Speaker 11: brother and your Christian sister. At least you can hate
[1:59:35] Speaker 11: Charles and his guts, but you're still a brother and
[1:59:40] Speaker 11: sister in christ. People know how to break up, right,
[1:59:43] Speaker 11: It's like I gotta burn everything down with you. Well,
[1:59:46] Speaker 11: you didn't do that when you were putting that hump
[1:59:48] Speaker 11: in my back and I had to hump in yours.
[1:59:51] Speaker 4: We must have been good for a few seconds.
[1:59:53] Speaker 1: How may'all know what that hump is? The hump that
[1:59:55] Speaker 1: he's speaking about, the hump.
[1:59:57] Speaker 4: No, no, know what I'm saying.
[1:59:58] Speaker 11: You know what I'm saying, Like all this passionate love
[2:00:02] Speaker 11: making and you got kids and all kinds of stuff.
[2:00:05] Speaker 11: They couldn't have been that bad all the time, Right,
[2:00:09] Speaker 11: at some point you liked each other for three minutes.
[2:00:15] Speaker 11: So so I so I kept seeing that cheating breaking
[2:00:21] Speaker 11: up and then the journey of hey where is because
[2:00:26] Speaker 11: you know, I was a single pastor for so many
[2:00:28] Speaker 11: years and and doing singles mission and speaking of the
[2:00:31] Speaker 11: word the same thing. I don't care if I was
[2:00:33] Speaker 11: teaking the white people, black people, whatever the room was
[2:00:36] Speaker 11: always mostly fool with women, and they would be mad
[2:00:40] Speaker 11: because they're asking what.
[2:00:41] Speaker 4: Men at.
[2:00:44] Speaker 11: And it's like, how we're gonna get found if ain't
[2:00:46] Speaker 11: no men showing up here.
[2:00:49] Speaker 1: A lot of y'all had that conversation. Y'all walked in
[2:00:51] Speaker 1: here today, didn't you, Holly? Women Again, we already.
[2:00:56] Speaker 11: Know it was gonna take place what it is, so
[2:00:58] Speaker 11: and then with the men it was the same thing.
[2:01:01] Speaker 11: You know, I really want to, you know, connect, So
[2:01:03] Speaker 11: it's a love worth finding that process. So I start
[2:01:05] Speaker 11: looking at all that, checking it out and say, you
[2:01:08] Speaker 11: know what, I can't counsel everybody, but I can do
[2:01:10] Speaker 11: it through a book. So my piece as I wrapped
[2:01:14] Speaker 11: this up, was the cheating piece, why people cheating the
[2:01:18] Speaker 11: first place, the real premise that I was looking at
[2:01:23] Speaker 11: because men are always known what me and cheat. But
[2:01:27] Speaker 11: in my counseling sessions, most of the women was one
[2:01:31] Speaker 11: doing the cheating, and it didn't come out till later
[2:01:36] Speaker 11: that they cheat and defining cheating because cheating ain't.
[2:01:40] Speaker 4: Always sleeping with somebody.
[2:01:42] Speaker 11: You got this person you still calling your best friend
[2:01:45] Speaker 11: as a female who they know things about you your
[2:01:50] Speaker 11: wife never does, right, So that means they have influence,
[2:01:55] Speaker 11: and you don't talk to your wife about the things.
[2:01:58] Speaker 11: You've just opened up a door and and now you're
[2:02:00] Speaker 11: sleeping together later on. But that's not how it usually starts.
[2:02:04] Speaker 11: It starts with an emotional safety net, a place of safety.
[2:02:10] Speaker 11: So we start talking about cheating is not just physical,
[2:02:13] Speaker 11: it's emotional and attachment. So people didn't know that they
[2:02:17] Speaker 11: were cheating and didn't know why people were isolating them
[2:02:21] Speaker 11: from all the people in their lives because they couldn't understand.
[2:02:24] Speaker 11: I ain't slept with nobody physically, you haven't emotionally.
[2:02:30] Speaker 1: You're a prostitute and went to prostitute you. That escalated
[2:02:35] Speaker 1: real fast, didn't it? Yeah, real fast.
[2:02:38] Speaker 11: So that's kind of what the pieces. So we started
[2:02:41] Speaker 11: from the cheating piece. We talk about that, we give
[2:02:44] Speaker 11: guidance for that, We talk about cheating breaking up. And
[2:02:49] Speaker 11: I looked at Lot's Wife because I saw one of
[2:02:52] Speaker 11: your few different wife podcasts, and I wish I was
[2:02:56] Speaker 11: on that one because I could give it elect Sometimes
[2:02:59] Speaker 11: we realize, yeah, God, God don't always bring everybody together.
[2:03:06] Speaker 11: And you know, when God is going together, letting no
[2:03:09] Speaker 11: man put asunder or a lot of this stuff God
[2:03:12] Speaker 11: ain't put together.
[2:03:14] Speaker 4: We did because we wanted a wedding.
[2:03:16] Speaker 11: I tell single people our time, mel the female, if
[2:03:19] Speaker 11: you just want to see what you look like in
[2:03:20] Speaker 11: a wedding, call your homeboys and homegirls up, go down,
[2:03:24] Speaker 11: get you a fitty dress, get your suit, take some pictures,
[2:03:31] Speaker 11: go to Chili's and get that out of your system.
[2:03:36] Speaker 11: Because many people spend more time preparing for their marriage,
[2:03:39] Speaker 11: for their wedding than they do their marriage. And they
[2:03:42] Speaker 11: already they got that image in their head, and once
[2:03:44] Speaker 11: they got that picture, then the marriage is like, oh well,
[2:03:49] Speaker 11: that's why she said, we spend a lot of time
[2:03:52] Speaker 11: preparing for marriage and me getting to know hurt. Because
[2:03:56] Speaker 11: a ring is a ring. What is the covenant in
[2:03:59] Speaker 11: your heart? Because what's gonna keep me faithful to her
[2:04:04] Speaker 11: is not this Exactly what's gonna keep me faithful to
[2:04:07] Speaker 11: her is if I was a whole as a single,
[2:04:10] Speaker 11: putting the ring on my fingers not gonna stop my hortem.
[2:04:14] Speaker 11: I have to learn what faithfulness is to God, and
[2:04:19] Speaker 11: that's who keeps me faithful. So so we were looking
[2:04:22] Speaker 11: at that and people did so. At the end of
[2:04:25] Speaker 11: the day, I looked at Lot's wife, and Lot went
[2:04:29] Speaker 11: to a place got married God didn't tell them to
[2:04:31] Speaker 11: go to that place Sodomgamore. When it was time for them.
[2:04:34] Speaker 11: They were married, they had kids. The angel told them
[2:04:37] Speaker 11: to leave and don't look back. Right leave And some
[2:04:41] Speaker 11: people don't think God would be involved or allow your
[2:04:46] Speaker 11: relationship to break up.
[2:04:48] Speaker 4: A lot of his wife or leaving. I ain't said
[2:04:51] Speaker 4: don't look back. They got the kids.
[2:04:53] Speaker 11: Well, Miss lot lighted Dottie. She turned around because she
[2:05:00] Speaker 11: want to do her own things. She's an independent woman.
[2:05:02] Speaker 4: She likes the foty.
[2:05:04] Speaker 11: She don't bother nobody.
[2:05:07] Speaker 4: All right, here we go.
[2:05:08] Speaker 11: So she looks back, right, she looks back. She's salty,
[2:05:16] Speaker 11: turned to a pull of salt. But what it does
[2:05:20] Speaker 11: it ends their marriage. Her act of obedience of turning back,
[2:05:24] Speaker 11: looking at the past into her marriage. She stops there
[2:05:27] Speaker 11: in the tracks. He has to make a decision. I'm
[2:05:31] Speaker 11: now a single father with two kids. I can either
[2:05:35] Speaker 11: stay here and be salty, or I can learn how
[2:05:38] Speaker 11: to move forward and trust God.
[2:05:41] Speaker 4: And so we look at that whole breakup piece.
[2:05:43] Speaker 11: Sometimes God has to allow her to break up because
[2:05:47] Speaker 11: you weren't supposed to be there in the first place.
[2:05:50] Speaker 11: The second piece is the breakup is you don't have
[2:05:54] Speaker 11: to be broken when you break up, you can be
[2:05:59] Speaker 11: heal the inno sense, because sometimes people break up because
[2:06:02] Speaker 11: they were broken when they got started, and and and
[2:06:07] Speaker 11: and then because see one of the one of the
[2:06:10] Speaker 11: best places that people going through divorce are bad marriage.
[2:06:15] Speaker 11: One of the first times they agree on everything, well
[2:06:19] Speaker 11: they come to a point of agreement, is in divorce court.
[2:06:23] Speaker 11: You known argue and disagree with everything all the way,
[2:06:26] Speaker 11: but it took you going to divorce court to come
[2:06:30] Speaker 11: to say, okay, we're cool, so so. And then the love,
[2:06:34] Speaker 11: we're finding the whole piece where you know what, You
[2:06:37] Speaker 11: got to find a love that fetch you, not comparing
[2:06:41] Speaker 11: it to anybody else, but you gotta love you. And
[2:06:45] Speaker 11: then the reason I could identify my wife is because
[2:06:49] Speaker 11: I was praying, trying to live a certain way and
[2:06:53] Speaker 11: and not we ain't talking about.
[2:06:54] Speaker 4: No perfection because Martin ain't Marcus King.
[2:06:56] Speaker 11: But I'm saying when I say live a certain way financially,
[2:07:00] Speaker 11: I was preparing for a wife even though she had
[2:07:04] Speaker 11: been divorced. I saw wife in her. I saw wife
[2:07:09] Speaker 11: in her. I didn't see girlfriend. You can't find your
[2:07:14] Speaker 11: wife looking through boyfriend's eyes. I had husband eyes, and
[2:07:21] Speaker 11: I saw a wife hart Tea, and that's why I
[2:07:24] Speaker 11: was able to do that. So that's kind of the
[2:07:26] Speaker 11: process of those three And that's kind of what the
[2:07:29] Speaker 11: book I talked about.
[2:07:30] Speaker 1: Do you have are the books here? Do you have it?
[2:07:32] Speaker 11: I got them right out there. They're not free nine
[2:07:34] Speaker 11: and nine, they're fifteen none. And I got you right
[2:07:36] Speaker 11: out there.
[2:07:36] Speaker 1: All right, So listen, how many books you got?
[2:07:40] Speaker 11: I think I have on hand? I got about one
[2:07:43] Speaker 11: hundred and fifty maybe something out that. But then I
[2:07:45] Speaker 11: got another book out there, Finding Your Focus on Relationships,
[2:07:49] Speaker 11: which is about fifty two devotionals about relationships each one,
[2:07:53] Speaker 11: So I got that out there too.
[2:07:54] Speaker 1: So I want everybody to go grab a book. I
[2:07:56] Speaker 1: want you all to go buy a book because you
[2:07:58] Speaker 1: said you're coming out with another book, and I want
[2:08:00] Speaker 1: this to be the seed that's planning for your next book.
[2:08:04] Speaker 1: So I want you all to run out there. And
[2:08:06] Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you the reason why that's important. It
[2:08:08] Speaker 1: is because they didn't charge for this event. They did
[2:08:11] Speaker 1: not charge all one dollar to come into this event.
[2:08:14] Speaker 1: So give it up for DC three and so and so.
[2:08:18] Speaker 1: But I believe in sowing and reaping, and so make
[2:08:20] Speaker 1: sure y'all go out there, go grab a book. Show
[2:08:22] Speaker 1: that y'all support uh opportunities where we do stuff? Is
[2:08:26] Speaker 1: that the book?
[2:08:28] Speaker 4: Good?
[2:08:29] Speaker 12: Yeah?
[2:08:30] Speaker 1: Do commercial? What am I doing?
[2:08:32] Speaker 4: Do commercial?
[2:08:33] Speaker 11: You said we in charge, but I gotta pay you,
[2:08:35] Speaker 11: so you got you're gonna do that book right there?
[2:08:37] Speaker 1: A Cheaters, make sure you pick up Cheaters, Breakups and
[2:08:42] Speaker 1: the Love Worth Finding by Pastor Marcus D.
[2:08:45] Speaker 4: King and doctor Jazcerlot did the full worth of.
[2:08:48] Speaker 1: Doctor Jasmine Charlotte and uh Finding your focus on relationships.
[2:08:52] Speaker 1: But you said they can get the people that's watching
[2:08:54] Speaker 1: online right now, they.
[2:08:54] Speaker 11: Can get it on You can go to Marcus D.
[2:08:56] Speaker 11: King dot com right now, all right, Marcus D. King,
[2:09:00] Speaker 11: you can pre order my book on prayer, the audacity
[2:09:05] Speaker 11: uh speaking boldie praying praying, you know, with audacity, praying fearlessly,
[2:09:10] Speaker 11: And you can get that right now and pre order that.
[2:09:13] Speaker 11: That book should be out within the next couple of weeks.
[2:09:16] Speaker 1: Love it, Love it, Love it.
[2:09:17] Speaker 4: I got some other books on that too, but yeah, good.
[2:09:19] Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't know what you wrote so many books.
[2:09:21] Speaker 1: I remember I was talking to you and I saw
[2:09:22] Speaker 1: this plaque that you had with how many books have
[2:09:24] Speaker 1: you written? Like seven? This number eight, number eight. Yeah,
[2:09:28] Speaker 1: so seven and number eight. That's good, give it up.
[2:09:31] Speaker 1: It's so difficult to write a book, so difficult. Listen,
[2:09:36] Speaker 1: we're gonna open the Oh well, let me just tell
[2:09:38] Speaker 1: y'all what my transition I'm looking forward to about that part.
[2:09:47] Speaker 1: So the first one, of course, is in September the fourteenth,
[2:09:49] Speaker 1: the transition to be uh a grandfather to a beautiful
[2:09:56] Speaker 1: young granddaughter. I'm having a granddaughter. And on November the
[2:10:01] Speaker 1: twenty second will be the day I get married, and
[2:10:05] Speaker 1: so and so I'm looking forward to the five years
[2:10:09] Speaker 1: that I've been on this journey to discover, uncover and
[2:10:12] Speaker 1: recover love. Start the podcast April fifteenth, and so this
[2:10:15] Speaker 1: is a huge godwink to know that God did not
[2:10:18] Speaker 1: forget about me. A lot of times people are watching
[2:10:21] Speaker 1: the podcast or seeing stuff on social media and they're saying,
[2:10:24] Speaker 1: he don't want nobody. I mean, he got all these women,
[2:10:26] Speaker 1: he doesnet met, he don't want nobody, And they don't
[2:10:28] Speaker 1: know what's brewing behind the scenes. They never know what's
[2:10:31] Speaker 1: taking place behind the scenes. Like Pastor King said, is
[2:10:35] Speaker 1: that a lot of people come up with these ideologies,
[2:10:37] Speaker 1: but you can't just choose incorrectly, because what happens is
[2:10:42] Speaker 1: if I rushed on people's timeline and got married, but
[2:10:45] Speaker 1: that marriage only lasted a year, y'all be like, see,
[2:10:47] Speaker 1: he should have took his time, He should have took
[2:10:48] Speaker 1: his time. He done found somebody and already divorced, you
[2:10:51] Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So you can't win for losing.
[2:10:53] Speaker 1: And that's why one of the major vowals that we
[2:10:55] Speaker 1: take is forsaking all others, because you can't base Mayor
[2:11:00] Speaker 1: and covenant on other people's opinions. So I'll do an
[2:11:04] Speaker 1: episode in the next couple of weeks where I'll just
[2:11:06] Speaker 1: sit on the yellow couch and I talk about this journey.
[2:11:09] Speaker 1: One of the things that I am doing is I'm
[2:11:11] Speaker 1: keeping it private till it's permanent because of how just
[2:11:14] Speaker 1: social media is. You know, you can't just lend. Especially
[2:11:17] Speaker 1: when you got somebody and all eyes are on them.
[2:11:21] Speaker 1: You can thrust them into a position where they are
[2:11:23] Speaker 1: being judged, criticized, and you're bringing that into your marriage
[2:11:28] Speaker 1: before you even get married. It's already a challenge to
[2:11:31] Speaker 1: get to the altar, especially preparing for a marriage. A
[2:11:34] Speaker 1: lot of marriages break up just planning the wedding you
[2:11:38] Speaker 1: know they will fall out just planning the wedding, and
[2:11:41] Speaker 1: so God gave me wisdom on how to cultivate that.
[2:11:45] Speaker 1: And I've been in counseling. We've been in pre I
[2:11:49] Speaker 1: went through pre engagement counseling. So before I even put
[2:11:53] Speaker 1: a ring on her finger, we went through three months
[2:11:56] Speaker 1: of pre engagement counseling. We love Matt Peerson and been
[2:12:00] Speaker 1: an amazing journey. So I give God all the glory
[2:12:03] Speaker 1: for this chapter ending in a new one beginning. We're
[2:12:08] Speaker 1: gonna open this up briefly for about fifteen minutes to
[2:12:10] Speaker 1: give a little Q and a microphones in the center.
[2:12:13] Speaker 1: I'll come address whoever you want to address, ask your question.
[2:12:15] Speaker 1: Come on, let's talk. Anybody, questions, comments, concerns. Don't be scared.
[2:12:22] Speaker 1: Y'all gonna wait till the first person go, and then
[2:12:24] Speaker 1: about twenty of y'all gonna get in line. There you go,
[2:12:28] Speaker 1: there's a microphone on.
[2:12:30] Speaker 15: All right, Sorry, hello, everyone, I just wanted to make
[2:12:34] Speaker 15: an announcement that if you would like to ask a question,
[2:12:37] Speaker 15: you can come up to the mic just formal line,
[2:12:40] Speaker 15: no more than four people and just.
[2:12:42] Speaker 8: Ask your question.
[2:12:43] Speaker 1: Good, Thank you.
[2:12:46] Speaker 3: Hello, everybody.
[2:12:47] Speaker 1: You can tilt it down, tilt it down to your mouth.
[2:12:49] Speaker 2: Hi, everybody, go and stay your name yetes go ahead.
[2:12:53] Speaker 8: My name is Nikki.
[2:12:54] Speaker 2: I'm new to the DFW area, move from the Memphis area.
[2:12:59] Speaker 1: Welcome to doubt Us. Welcome, welcome, welcome, Thank you, Hold on.
[2:13:04] Speaker 1: I want y'all, you know, I want y'all to make
[2:13:06] Speaker 1: friends with it. Like when people come to new cities,
[2:13:08] Speaker 1: it makes it very difficult to build relationships. So being
[2:13:11] Speaker 1: the body of Christ, I want y'all to put some
[2:13:13] Speaker 1: love on it and connect with her. So make sure
[2:13:16] Speaker 1: that takes place.
[2:13:16] Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you.
[2:13:20] Speaker 2: So I was in a marriage for it's been ten
[2:13:23] Speaker 2: years now, but after nine years feeling intimately neglected, which
[2:13:32] Speaker 2: eventually became emotional abuse, I left and now have been
[2:13:38] Speaker 2: going through a divorce for a year and he's making
[2:13:40] Speaker 2: it very difficult. I still believe in love. I know
[2:13:46] Speaker 2: for a fact that I love that man, the wrong person,
[2:13:51] Speaker 2: the right way. So I'm still a big support of love.
[2:13:57] Speaker 2: Super excited for you and your transition. By the way,
[2:14:03] Speaker 2: as I'm going through my healing journey, how do I
[2:14:08] Speaker 2: rebuild trust and not let my past pain block the love.
[2:14:14] Speaker 3: That I truly do?
[2:14:15] Speaker 1: Learn I won't, Lady Nicole, that's right there in your bag,
[2:14:19] Speaker 1: right there.
[2:14:23] Speaker 2: Okay. First, I think you need to see God and
[2:14:28] Speaker 2: ask him anything that you have concerns with. Number one,
[2:14:32] Speaker 2: just ask him and just talk to him like you
[2:14:34] Speaker 2: talk to your friends. Just be that transparent and ask
[2:14:38] Speaker 2: him to really heal your heart so you could be
[2:14:41] Speaker 2: open to receive love and also to give love.
[2:14:45] Speaker 3: Okay.
[2:14:46] Speaker 2: And I think the main thing again is just asking God, God,
[2:14:49] Speaker 2: you know, help me through this pray pray time of
[2:14:53] Speaker 2: getting your word and meditate and then just ask him
[2:14:57] Speaker 2: for science because I'm a big believer that God. I
[2:15:00] Speaker 2: will show you signs if you ask him and ask
[2:15:03] Speaker 2: him for sevil, you know, so you won't be confused
[2:15:05] Speaker 2: because a lot of times you can get confused is
[2:15:08] Speaker 2: this God?
[2:15:08] Speaker 3: Is this not God?
[2:15:10] Speaker 2: Ask him for clear signs so you know that you
[2:15:12] Speaker 2: are not missing it. And just get with a good
[2:15:15] Speaker 2: group of people that are speaking positive things to you,
[2:15:19] Speaker 2: not negative things, not and understanding what you have gone
[2:15:23] Speaker 2: through because that's a lot. That's a loss, that is
[2:15:25] Speaker 2: like a death. A lot of times, divorce is a
[2:15:29] Speaker 2: lot of mourning. So just allow yourself to heal. I'm
[2:15:32] Speaker 2: not sure if you're all the way healed right now
[2:15:34] Speaker 2: or not? Just allow yourself to healed and just be
[2:15:37] Speaker 2: able to open your heart when you feel like you're ready.
[2:15:41] Speaker 1: And let me ask you this, Do you believe that
[2:15:43] Speaker 1: there's any reconciliation for your marriage?
[2:15:45] Speaker 3: Absolutely not?
[2:15:46] Speaker 1: Amen, So here we go. So listen, I just.
[2:15:51] Speaker 2: Want to become a physically abusive absolutely absolutely so.
[2:15:54] Speaker 1: Here it is because I was gonna pray for those
[2:15:58] Speaker 1: for a release to take place. You said that he's
[2:16:01] Speaker 1: tying up the divorce proceedings correctly, and so we're gonna
[2:16:06] Speaker 1: pray that a release is gonna take place, and a
[2:16:09] Speaker 1: miracle is gonna take place, and you're gonna find something
[2:16:12] Speaker 1: in the next few days where he's gonna say, I'm
[2:16:14] Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and let it go. Tisha Owens, I
[2:16:16] Speaker 1: want you to come up here, at Teasha. I want
[2:16:18] Speaker 1: I want my sister right here to to pray for you.
[2:16:27] Speaker 14: First of all, Lord, we just want to say thank you,
[2:16:29] Speaker 14: thank you. We thank you for the sister just being
[2:16:31] Speaker 14: transparent that you will allow her, allow her to come
[2:16:35] Speaker 14: forth and just share and be open with us.
[2:16:38] Speaker 3: Father.
[2:16:38] Speaker 14: She's asking for restoration on her heart. She feels broken,
[2:16:46] Speaker 14: and I'm sure she's felt betrayed, misunderstood for whatever reason,
[2:16:51] Speaker 14: that husband put hands on her, and I'm sure she
[2:16:56] Speaker 14: has felt alone. But we want you, Lord, to put
[2:16:59] Speaker 14: your arms around her and let her feel your presence
[2:17:04] Speaker 14: even when she's trying to understand how this happened and
[2:17:08] Speaker 14: what went wrong. Let her know that it was not
[2:17:11] Speaker 14: her fault. Let her see that you love her and
[2:17:14] Speaker 14: that you know what has transpired. But you are going
[2:17:18] Speaker 14: to continue to walk with her. You're going to be
[2:17:21] Speaker 14: her peace. You're going to be her joy. You're going
[2:17:24] Speaker 14: to provide her with the friends and the support that
[2:17:27] Speaker 14: she needs. You're going to touch that man right now,
[2:17:30] Speaker 14: in the name of Jesus, where he is realizing what
[2:17:34] Speaker 14: he has done, the pain, the hurt that he has
[2:17:38] Speaker 14: brought on her, and we pray Lord that he comes
[2:17:41] Speaker 14: asking for forgiveness, not necessarily for restoration, but just that
[2:17:45] Speaker 14: she would see that you have, that she has been heard,
[2:17:49] Speaker 14: and that you are aware of what's going on in
[2:17:51] Speaker 14: this situation. We want him to be so uneasy that
[2:17:55] Speaker 14: he understands that he does need to go ahead and
[2:17:58] Speaker 14: rectify the situation. Give her what she is asking for,
[2:18:02] Speaker 14: which is freedom and release. Father, you said where two
[2:18:05] Speaker 14: or three are gathering your name that you.
[2:18:07] Speaker 3: Would be all so here we all are.
[2:18:09] Speaker 14: We know that you move mountains, We know that you
[2:18:12] Speaker 14: part red seas, So surely you hear us calling you,
[2:18:16] Speaker 14: asking for your guidance, asking for your wisdom, asking for
[2:18:20] Speaker 14: your peace. And you're gonna surround her this room tonight.
[2:18:23] Speaker 3: We're gonna love on her. We're gonna remind.
[2:18:25] Speaker 14: Her again that you hear her and that you are
[2:18:28] Speaker 14: aware of what's going on, and you're going to fill
[2:18:31] Speaker 14: her with your joy again. She will have testimony that
[2:18:36] Speaker 14: she is now restored and renewed and has that peace
[2:18:39] Speaker 14: of God that only you can provide. We thank you
[2:18:42] Speaker 14: in advance for how the testimony is going to come forth,
[2:18:45] Speaker 14: and we're gonna hear the goodness of how she comes
[2:18:47] Speaker 14: out with her hands up saying that it has been
[2:18:49] Speaker 14: victorious and you have done just.
[2:18:52] Speaker 8: What you said.
[2:18:53] Speaker 14: We thank you in advance for how you're gonna move
[2:18:55] Speaker 14: in her life and the name of Jesus.
[2:18:57] Speaker 1: Amen, Thank you, thank you, Thank you. Hil Luis. How
[2:19:04] Speaker 1: many y'all believe that right now? Do y'all believe that
[2:19:07] Speaker 1: this is what these moments are for? This is what
[2:19:10] Speaker 1: these moments are for. You're next good evening.
[2:19:14] Speaker 14: My name is Kim from San Francisco. First lady and pastor,
[2:19:18] Speaker 14: thank you so much for hosting us, betrayus, what a
[2:19:22] Speaker 14: blessing and the entire panels.
[2:19:24] Speaker 1: She gave me a new name. She gave me a
[2:19:25] Speaker 1: new name, took me right there. So you so you
[2:19:31] Speaker 1: live in San Francisco right now? I do you're visiting
[2:19:34] Speaker 1: for this weekend? I am, oh, good, good, welcome, welcome,
[2:19:37] Speaker 1: welcome friends.
[2:19:39] Speaker 3: You said what I'm one of good friends.
[2:19:41] Speaker 1: Oh okay, teacher, that's your that's your friend. All right.
[2:19:43] Speaker 14: Yeah, So I have I guess a two prong question.
[2:19:50] Speaker 14: I after divorce, the Lord had called me to not
[2:19:55] Speaker 14: date for some time, and the Lord kept me in
[2:19:58] Speaker 14: peace during that, and then I felt like God took
[2:20:03] Speaker 14: the hedge off and I was like, oh cool, I'm
[2:20:07] Speaker 14: gonna have a winter boo or whatever the case may be.
[2:20:11] Speaker 14: Winner came and went like several times and.
[2:20:18] Speaker 8: No one came.
[2:20:20] Speaker 14: And I noticed that this dating pool that we're in now,
[2:20:27] Speaker 14: especially with social media, that people just date very differently,
[2:20:32] Speaker 14: and men no longer pursue women anymore. And I'm with fashion,
[2:20:38] Speaker 14: I'm not chasing, I'm not looking, and I feel like
[2:20:44] Speaker 14: I'm saying, okay, God, it's coming, when are you bringing it?
[2:20:49] Speaker 8: But how do you get through that season.
[2:20:52] Speaker 14: When you think that God said yes, and nothing's out there?
[2:20:57] Speaker 14: And how do you deal with what is out there
[2:21:01] Speaker 14: that's coming towards you that may not feel as great.
[2:21:05] Speaker 1: That was the most politically correct way of saying. I
[2:21:09] Speaker 1: don't want none of these in words. That's what she said.
[2:21:12] Speaker 1: I don't want none of these in words, is what
[2:21:15] Speaker 1: she said in a very politically correct way. It was
[2:21:18] Speaker 1: amazing how you formed your words to say that question.
[2:21:21] Speaker 1: Is this when you got married the first time? How
[2:21:24] Speaker 1: did you meet him?
[2:21:26] Speaker 8: I met him through friends.
[2:21:28] Speaker 1: All right? And so always go back to how work before?
[2:21:33] Speaker 1: Talk to your friend, talk to your friend group and say, hey,
[2:21:35] Speaker 1: do y'all know anybody that you know I would be
[2:21:38] Speaker 1: interested in and put it out there. I know you
[2:21:42] Speaker 1: said your old fashioned, and I still believe in old
[2:21:44] Speaker 1: fashioned ways. Do you go out places where you can
[2:21:50] Speaker 1: meet guys like home depot or lows or you know,
[2:21:55] Speaker 1: I mean I do.
[2:21:56] Speaker 14: I mean I work a lot in the community, I
[2:21:59] Speaker 14: do travel a lot, but men don't approach me.
[2:22:03] Speaker 1: Well do are you? Are you? Do you find yourself approachable?
[2:22:07] Speaker 1: Do you like smile at guys, you know, because sometimes y'all.
[2:22:11] Speaker 8: I definitely don't growl, and so I.
[2:22:19] Speaker 1: Always say that it's this thing that I always say,
[2:22:22] Speaker 1: the proverbial handkerchief. You know, back in the day, the
[2:22:25] Speaker 1: woman would drop her hanky and then the man would
[2:22:28] Speaker 1: walk up and pick it up. I say, today in
[2:22:30] Speaker 1: social media, it's just engage like a heart of photo.
[2:22:34] Speaker 1: I mean, are you on social media?
[2:22:35] Speaker 4: I am all right?
[2:22:36] Speaker 1: Do you how do you respond if you see a
[2:22:38] Speaker 1: guy that comes across your timeline to somebody you know,
[2:22:41] Speaker 1: you may went to school with, just anybody, your coworker
[2:22:43] Speaker 1: or whatnot. Do you ever engage with people? Do you
[2:22:46] Speaker 1: feel like even saying hi to them is making the
[2:22:49] Speaker 1: first move.
[2:22:50] Speaker 14: No, I definitely engage, but I don't do the first flirt.
[2:22:57] Speaker 1: And get what does your engagement look like?
[2:23:00] Speaker 14: I mean, I have a humble lifestyle show, so I'm
[2:23:06] Speaker 14: on social media.
[2:23:07] Speaker 8: So I engage.
[2:23:08] Speaker 14: So I'm not quiet, I affirm, I laugh at stuff,
[2:23:13] Speaker 14: I comment back and forth, banter.
[2:23:16] Speaker 8: I just don't make the first move.
[2:23:18] Speaker 14: The other thing, Yeah, yeah.
[2:23:22] Speaker 1: You said the guys that you meet, so you said
[2:23:24] Speaker 1: that you don't like, so are you meeting guys you
[2:23:27] Speaker 1: just don't like the selection because you made a comment
[2:23:30] Speaker 1: in the most politically correct way about that's what you
[2:23:33] Speaker 1: don't like. So you are meeting guys, do approach you, right,
[2:23:35] Speaker 1: you just don't like what's coming.
[2:23:37] Speaker 8: Well, no, that's a hard one.
[2:23:43] Speaker 14: I think what it is is I don't get approached
[2:23:47] Speaker 14: a lot. And what I see I'm not even attracted to.
[2:23:52] Speaker 14: I'm not moved in a way that I'm like, I'm
[2:23:56] Speaker 14: checking for him.
[2:23:57] Speaker 1: How many women are having that same problem right there? Yeah?
[2:24:00] Speaker 1: About that?
[2:24:03] Speaker 14: So, and especially since this is what you do and
[2:24:08] Speaker 14: in terms of like interviewing and having guests.
[2:24:12] Speaker 8: Come on, have you seen a shift in a culture?
[2:24:15] Speaker 4: Oh?
[2:24:15] Speaker 1: Yes, it's been a great shift. I mean it's everything
[2:24:18] Speaker 1: you're saying is true. Everything you're saying is just the
[2:24:22] Speaker 1: signs of the times. Men aren't approaching women as much
[2:24:27] Speaker 1: as they used to do. They fear rejection a lot.
[2:24:30] Speaker 1: I don't know. We used to get rejected all the
[2:24:32] Speaker 1: time when we were in high school and it was
[2:24:34] Speaker 1: no big deal. You know. We would go to the
[2:24:36] Speaker 1: mall and see how many phone numbers you could get.
[2:24:38] Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, And don't care. It's just
[2:24:40] Speaker 1: a numbers game. We used to think of as a
[2:24:42] Speaker 1: numbers game back then. Now guys be like, man' you know,
[2:24:45] Speaker 1: ain't finna do all that? You think? What's that?
[2:24:48] Speaker 14: I think the age of social media. You know, they
[2:24:52] Speaker 14: have a plethora of women that they can slide into
[2:24:56] Speaker 14: and if if you're not moving as quick enough. I
[2:24:59] Speaker 14: didn't mean to say it like that, slide into the
[2:25:02] Speaker 14: deer if you're not moving quick enough, or if you're
[2:25:10] Speaker 14: not stepping to them, and I you know, I just.
[2:25:14] Speaker 4: Can I can I say something?
[2:25:15] Speaker 8: Yeah?
[2:25:16] Speaker 4: And this is am am.
[2:25:20] Speaker 8: I gonna like it. First, lady, what is he what
[2:25:22] Speaker 8: he's gonna say? Is he gonna be a tough one.
[2:25:25] Speaker 4: I've been doing it.
[2:25:26] Speaker 11: We've been doing this for a while. Here's here's a deal.
[2:25:31] Speaker 11: Because I was single till I was forty one forty two, right,
[2:25:35] Speaker 11: I've had opportunities to, like I say, choose whoever you
[2:25:39] Speaker 11: wanted to date whatever.
[2:25:40] Speaker 4: It doesn't matter whether you're a woman or a man.
[2:25:43] Speaker 11: When God has what he has for you, they will
[2:25:47] Speaker 11: find you. I don't care if you in Walmart and
[2:25:52] Speaker 11: you got your bonnnet on that day and you're trying
[2:25:54] Speaker 11: to hide, You're gonna be fine to him right now,
[2:25:59] Speaker 11: here's what I think we have to have to do.
[2:26:01] Speaker 11: We can't just be blaming God for everything. God didn't
[2:26:07] Speaker 11: make me marry this woman. God didn't make me slide
[2:26:10] Speaker 11: to her DMS. That was my decision, that's my choice.
[2:26:16] Speaker 11: We can't generalize men aren't doing that.
[2:26:20] Speaker 4: That's a lot.
[2:26:20] Speaker 11: I got a twenty five year old right here know
[2:26:22] Speaker 11: his woman. I made a decision to chase this woman.
[2:26:27] Speaker 11: So the men you mess with are scared to that.
[2:26:32] Speaker 11: Now here's the other part. Society has changed in a
[2:26:35] Speaker 11: lot of ways, and you can't have it both ways.
[2:26:40] Speaker 11: Women want their independence and be an independent woman and
[2:26:42] Speaker 11: do all this.
[2:26:43] Speaker 4: You can't even open the door for women. Why one
[2:26:45] Speaker 4: door for woman?
[2:26:46] Speaker 11: She got an attitude like I'm demeaning her, Like, ma'am,
[2:26:50] Speaker 11: I'm just opening the door for you.
[2:26:52] Speaker 8: I'm not that one.
[2:26:53] Speaker 4: No, no, no, I'm just saying. It gets stupid, it's just dumb.
[2:26:59] Speaker 11: Now, it's like you, you do you want a partner?
[2:27:04] Speaker 4: Do you really want a man? And do you?
[2:27:07] Speaker 11: And I found out a lot of men, a lot
[2:27:10] Speaker 11: of women want a man until he starts manning. Yes,
[2:27:15] Speaker 11: Because because society is trying to feminize men. We ain't
[2:27:21] Speaker 11: just talking about when I'm not talking about people being
[2:27:23] Speaker 11: homosexual and stuff like that, I'm saying society is trying to.
[2:27:27] Speaker 4: Take the man out of manhood.
[2:27:31] Speaker 11: You raise your voice, well you hollering, or you your
[2:27:34] Speaker 11: threat or your aggressor.
[2:27:35] Speaker 4: No, just talking. I'm expressing myself. I'm black.
[2:27:39] Speaker 11: It's what we do that we talk because I grew
[2:27:41] Speaker 11: up in my household, right, so so I recognize a
[2:27:45] Speaker 11: lot of women that that I have to deal with
[2:27:49] Speaker 11: stuff like that. And here's the other part. We don't
[2:27:52] Speaker 11: there are consequences to our actions. I told you earlier,
[2:27:57] Speaker 11: you know God's grace. He gonna give us grace because
[2:28:02] Speaker 11: he loves us. Right, but you told me you already
[2:28:05] Speaker 11: been married, right, that's the covenant. What if God has
[2:28:09] Speaker 11: already gave you that, that's the only one you get.
[2:28:13] Speaker 14: Well, I was married unto the Lord.
[2:28:16] Speaker 4: No, so you never had a husband.
[2:28:20] Speaker 8: I didn't leave until God I was.
[2:28:24] Speaker 11: I don't know your situation. I want you to stand.
[2:28:26] Speaker 11: It's not a judging peace know nothing about you. I'm
[2:28:28] Speaker 11: saying many people are on their second. But just because
[2:28:35] Speaker 11: somebody else gets another chance in marriage doesn't.
[2:28:38] Speaker 4: Mean you will.
[2:28:40] Speaker 11: And just because you've lived your life a certain way,
[2:28:43] Speaker 11: and and you feel the Lord is that God ain't
[2:28:47] Speaker 11: promise you no spouse. If you look in your Bible,
[2:28:50] Speaker 11: God only promised one person's spouse, Adams it who else
[2:28:57] Speaker 11: in the Bible that he promised the spouse. So we
[2:29:01] Speaker 11: start talking about promising and relationship and things this nature.
[2:29:05] Speaker 11: Sometimes when God frees us up, it's for us to
[2:29:12] Speaker 11: get right with him. I married a woman with kids
[2:29:18] Speaker 11: that being divorced, allso the kind of stuff, and it
[2:29:19] Speaker 11: was a whole lot of single available women, right. I
[2:29:23] Speaker 11: found more peace with her with three kids than a
[2:29:28] Speaker 11: lot of women that had none. It's not about what
[2:29:33] Speaker 11: she had or whatever. It's the quality of the person.
[2:29:39] Speaker 11: And if we don't understand, you can be a virgin
[2:29:44] Speaker 11: and have a nasty attitude, you can be you can
[2:29:49] Speaker 11: be whatever you want to be.
[2:29:50] Speaker 4: In It's like, so, all I'm saying to you is
[2:29:54] Speaker 4: understand your picky.
[2:29:56] Speaker 11: You like what you like, and there are consequences is
[2:30:00] Speaker 11: for your standards and if and if there is no
[2:30:04] Speaker 11: grace in your choosing people, don't be mad at God
[2:30:09] Speaker 11: because you don't know how to extend grace and and
[2:30:14] Speaker 11: loving people in their imperfections.
[2:30:18] Speaker 4: That's all I gotta say.
[2:30:20] Speaker 8: Thank you.
[2:30:21] Speaker 4: I received that.
[2:30:24] Speaker 1: I was depressed and Pastor King, let me let me say,
[2:30:32] Speaker 1: let me say, let me say it like this, Let
[2:30:34] Speaker 1: me say it like this.
[2:30:35] Speaker 4: See, at the end of the at the end of
[2:30:37] Speaker 4: the day, we take scripture.
[2:30:39] Speaker 11: Sometimes God will give you the desires to your heart.
[2:30:42] Speaker 4: What if you already did that.
[2:30:45] Speaker 11: And now the next piece is all right, let's move
[2:30:48] Speaker 11: past that. You still got that desire, you still want
[2:30:50] Speaker 11: to be married. Okay, it's out there.
[2:30:52] Speaker 4: We don't. We like sensationalism in the church today and.
[2:30:57] Speaker 11: We like all this stuff, but when you come back
[2:30:58] Speaker 11: and line it up with script sure, with scripture, I'm
[2:31:02] Speaker 11: not talking about I want this, I want that. No,
[2:31:05] Speaker 11: what is scripture saying about this? God bless this show, right,
[2:31:11] Speaker 11: God bless all the show? But how many podcasts do
[2:31:14] Speaker 11: we have to have with people talking about stuff and
[2:31:17] Speaker 11: they ain't using.
[2:31:18] Speaker 8: Scripture or trusting the Lord.
[2:31:22] Speaker 4: Or trusting the Lord in relationships.
[2:31:23] Speaker 8: Walking the walk and even with me.
[2:31:26] Speaker 14: It's not that I'm picky, but as a woman of God,
[2:31:31] Speaker 14: I deserve to be treated like a woman of God.
[2:31:36] Speaker 14: If I'm giving one hundred percent, I'm not It doesn't
[2:31:40] Speaker 14: necessarily mean that I'm looking for fifty to fifty or
[2:31:44] Speaker 14: whatever the case may be. But I still want to
[2:31:46] Speaker 14: feel like a woman. If I'm making sure that my
[2:31:50] Speaker 14: man is feeling like a man, that I'm affirming him,
[2:31:54] Speaker 14: that I'm supporting that I'm understanding my place as a woman, which,
[2:31:59] Speaker 14: by the way, I think is a gift.
[2:32:01] Speaker 8: I love being a woman.
[2:32:03] Speaker 14: I didn't get divorced because I wanted to be divorce.
[2:32:08] Speaker 14: I got divorced because I had no choice.
[2:32:10] Speaker 4: But oh yeah, that has still.
[2:32:12] Speaker 14: A saved wife even after the divorce, and I honored
[2:32:18] Speaker 14: him because we had a child together.
[2:32:21] Speaker 8: I honored him.
[2:32:23] Speaker 14: Even after that because that's who God has called me
[2:32:26] Speaker 14: to be. But in this season of my life, I
[2:32:28] Speaker 14: don't necessarily think it as too picky or being.
[2:32:34] Speaker 11: I just said, you have standards, Yeah I don't have.
[2:32:37] Speaker 11: There's no problem with stands things like this. I'm not
[2:32:39] Speaker 11: saying that God doesn't have anybody that he's gonna bless
[2:32:42] Speaker 11: you with. I'm not saying that that's God. We don't
[2:32:44] Speaker 11: control that. I'm not saying you're wrong for anything you're doing.
[2:32:48] Speaker 11: I'm not saying the divorce is your fault. Like I said,
[2:32:50] Speaker 11: I don't know anything about that. What I'm saying is
[2:32:53] Speaker 11: what I'm saying clearly across the board is this, God
[2:32:58] Speaker 11: has a purpose for your life. And if a mate
[2:33:04] Speaker 11: is not in this season, sometimes being married can become
[2:33:11] Speaker 11: your idol.
[2:33:14] Speaker 4: Do you understand what I'm saying?
[2:33:16] Speaker 11: Like it can overtake you, like you're a peace with
[2:33:22] Speaker 11: everything else in your life.
[2:33:24] Speaker 4: But I'm not married, right And it's subtle. It's subtle.
[2:33:30] Speaker 11: And next thing, you know, that's what you're thinking about
[2:33:32] Speaker 11: the most, and you don't have this peace and you
[2:33:36] Speaker 11: want to honor the Lord. And there's nothing wrong with you.
[2:33:42] Speaker 11: There is nothing wrong with you. It's just where God
[2:33:46] Speaker 11: hats you. And many times when one door is closed,
[2:33:50] Speaker 11: God is saying, turn around to.
[2:33:52] Speaker 4: See what I want to do next in this season?
[2:33:55] Speaker 4: Just me and you because I'm writing yours.
[2:34:00] Speaker 11: If I'm writing your story and your desire is to
[2:34:03] Speaker 11: be married, that means I'm working on him too.
[2:34:08] Speaker 4: And trust me with the timing. Thank you, You got
[2:34:11] Speaker 4: what I'm saying. So it's not God ain't gonna do this.
[2:34:14] Speaker 3: No.
[2:34:15] Speaker 11: God is a personal God. God loves you. God has
[2:34:19] Speaker 11: plans for you. God knows the desires of your heart.
[2:34:22] Speaker 11: But do you know the desires of God's heart for you?
[2:34:27] Speaker 11: That's what I'm trying to.
[2:34:28] Speaker 3: Get you, can I say, just on a lighter note,
[2:34:34] Speaker 3: just on a lighter note, right, because I thoroughly enjoy you.
[2:34:37] Speaker 3: You have the essence of a lady. You're absolutely gorgeous,
[2:34:41] Speaker 3: and because the times are a little different, you might
[2:34:44] Speaker 3: just need to cast your sin. Right, let me show
[2:34:47] Speaker 3: you how you do it. Right, there's a guy you
[2:34:50] Speaker 3: like this guy. There's no guy's over here. Sorry if
[2:34:52] Speaker 3: I'm pointing at one of y'all, I told y'all what
[2:34:54] Speaker 3: I like. So so watch this at of times because
[2:35:01] Speaker 3: men are on alert right now for the hyper independent
[2:35:06] Speaker 3: woman and you you just you're so well put. They
[2:35:10] Speaker 3: do need a bone. They need to know that you're interested.
[2:35:15] Speaker 3: Call it fear, call it. I don't want to be offended.
[2:35:17] Speaker 3: I don't want to get sued. I don't want her
[2:35:19] Speaker 3: to say I'm raping her, that I accidentally touched her.
[2:35:21] Speaker 3: But like they have a lot of things to consider now,
[2:35:25] Speaker 3: just just hey, how you doing? Like if everybody get
[2:35:30] Speaker 3: like this, smile give him this one, you know what
[2:35:33] Speaker 3: I'm saying, Just like, you know, like, just just a
[2:35:38] Speaker 3: little at it so he can know he's different in
[2:35:39] Speaker 3: the room, and then in the midst of everybody else.
[2:35:43] Speaker 3: I see you if you give an eye contact to
[2:35:45] Speaker 3: everybody because you really care, really stare at him, squint
[2:35:49] Speaker 3: a little bit. You don't sound like, hey you, That's
[2:35:52] Speaker 3: all I'm saying. Just cash your sin, just just a tabit.
[2:35:55] Speaker 3: Not enough to where you you misunderstood, but enough to
[2:36:00] Speaker 3: let him know if you are interested. So am I
[2:36:03] Speaker 3: that's it?
[2:36:04] Speaker 1: Okay, that's good, thank you, thank you so much, queen.
[2:36:08] Speaker 4: But let me ask you though you can't.
[2:36:10] Speaker 1: Say nothing else. Brought it back around this ters room again.
[2:36:20] Speaker 1: The readon.
[2:36:21] Speaker 11: I'm saying this is because we get so depressed and
[2:36:24] Speaker 11: so down. And we talked about casting sins, which is great,
[2:36:28] Speaker 11: but what are you trying to catch?
[2:36:29] Speaker 4: What do you do? You want to be married? I'm
[2:36:32] Speaker 4: just said being clear, do you want to be married?
[2:36:34] Speaker 11: Do you want to because here's once again God bless
[2:36:36] Speaker 11: you though, but do you want to be married? This
[2:36:40] Speaker 11: one wants to be married and and those practical things
[2:36:43] Speaker 11: are good. But once again, I watch all these podcasts,
[2:36:46] Speaker 11: I see all the people. I got to counsel these
[2:36:48] Speaker 11: people when it don't work out, and then they wonder
[2:36:50] Speaker 11: and then they suicidal.
[2:36:52] Speaker 4: I'm just trying to tell you I'm just saying no, no, no, no, no.
[2:36:56] Speaker 4: I'm trying.
[2:36:58] Speaker 11: I'm trying to I'm trying to be real. This is
[2:37:00] Speaker 11: where the council says, just go. So I'm trying to understand.
[2:37:04] Speaker 11: I love what you said. All this is great. I
[2:37:09] Speaker 11: want to see you happy, but we gotta have sound
[2:37:12] Speaker 11: by what.
[2:37:14] Speaker 4: Do you want?
[2:37:15] Speaker 14: Okay, let me just say this. I have been in
[2:37:19] Speaker 14: peace during the time that.
[2:37:22] Speaker 8: God has called me. Not to date, I haven't.
[2:37:25] Speaker 14: Murmured, complained, but it just seemed like the hetch was
[2:37:29] Speaker 14: taken off.
[2:37:30] Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what you said earlier. That's why I understand
[2:37:32] Speaker 1: what you're saying. You're in the right season right now
[2:37:34] Speaker 1: where you said you want companionship. Ain't nothing wrong with that. Amen,
[2:37:38] Speaker 1: you wanta matching pajamas this December getting on this reskin.
[2:37:44] Speaker 1: Reskin gonna have you sitting there in the saying asylum
[2:37:47] Speaker 1: it was just depressed. This man that told you to
[2:37:50] Speaker 1: wait on the Lord forever.
[2:37:51] Speaker 8: They got peace and joy.
[2:37:54] Speaker 2: Like there's I may say a couple of things. I'm sorry, Oh,
[2:38:01] Speaker 2: there's a couple of different things that I've heard you say. Okay,
[2:38:04] Speaker 2: when you first came up, you talked about the peace
[2:38:06] Speaker 2: and joy, and then you transition from a season a
[2:38:08] Speaker 2: moment ago you said that, Hey, I'm a woman. I
[2:38:11] Speaker 2: deserve to be treated this way. There are a couple
[2:38:14] Speaker 2: of different things there that for me, I see a
[2:38:16] Speaker 2: mirror because I was peace and joy before I became
[2:38:21] Speaker 2: discontent and made a move out of intentional disobedience to God.
[2:38:25] Speaker 2: And so you can be in a season where you're
[2:38:28] Speaker 2: thinking that I am good here, but it's a lull,
[2:38:32] Speaker 2: it's a law until you come face to face with hey,
[2:38:36] Speaker 2: I'm not so good here God, what is happening? And
[2:38:39] Speaker 2: what I've heard you say that you have equated relationships
[2:38:43] Speaker 2: in men with validating your womanhood. And part of what
[2:38:47] Speaker 2: you said in the beginning was how do I live
[2:38:50] Speaker 2: during this season? What should I be doing right now?
[2:38:54] Speaker 2: Live if you do not? Because the question I've had
[2:38:58] Speaker 2: to ask myself, and this is not on you, but
[2:39:00] Speaker 2: the question I've had to ask myself, what if I
[2:39:02] Speaker 2: never get married? Can I still be content? Do I
[2:39:06] Speaker 2: still have joy? Does this still mean that I am
[2:39:09] Speaker 2: less than or am I worthy? It is independent of
[2:39:13] Speaker 2: any man joining with you that's going to validate your womanhood.
[2:39:17] Speaker 2: You are a completing whole as God has created informed
[2:39:20] Speaker 2: you in your mother's womb, and so that's a sense
[2:39:23] Speaker 2: that you have to be able to get to if
[2:39:25] Speaker 2: He adds someone to your life. If you become someone's
[2:39:29] Speaker 2: helpmate to God, be the glory. But if not, that
[2:39:33] Speaker 2: doesn't take anything away you are as a woman. We
[2:39:36] Speaker 2: are people, we are human. We have desires, but we
[2:39:41] Speaker 2: have to be able to know how to handle those
[2:39:43] Speaker 2: desires and not self outside the will of God with
[2:39:46] Speaker 2: those desires like I did. So I just want you
[2:39:49] Speaker 2: to be careful with what you're speaking and what you
[2:39:54] Speaker 2: are saying, because I don't necessarily know if you hear yourself.
[2:40:00] Speaker 2: And I think that's some of the things that Pastor
[2:40:02] Speaker 2: King is touching upon because a lot of times from
[2:40:05] Speaker 2: a ministerial standpoint, we hear what people don't necessarily say,
[2:40:13] Speaker 2: and you said a lot, but what I've for me personally,
[2:40:17] Speaker 2: what I've heard, those were system some concerns for me
[2:40:21] Speaker 2: because you were at a place where you were like
[2:40:23] Speaker 2: I was good, but now I'm like, I'm supposed to
[2:40:26] Speaker 2: be experiencing this. Are you supposed to be experiencing that?
[2:40:29] Speaker 2: Or is that discontent? Is this your season or you
[2:40:33] Speaker 2: trying to make it your season? Because That goes back
[2:40:36] Speaker 2: to what Pastor King was saying about timing, because if
[2:40:39] Speaker 2: it was your season, it's your season. But if it's not,
[2:40:43] Speaker 2: then you're trying to make it that way.
[2:40:49] Speaker 1: So be still, Be still and know that I am God,
[2:40:52] Speaker 1: and that's what the scripture. Be still and know that
[2:40:55] Speaker 1: I am God. Weeping may endure for a night, but
[2:40:59] Speaker 1: joy comment in the morning. It's a long morning. It's
[2:41:03] Speaker 1: a long morning. Queen, introduce yourself.
[2:41:08] Speaker 10: Hello, my name is Mary, and it's such an honor
[2:41:13] Speaker 10: to be in the house of the Lord.
[2:41:15] Speaker 1: Amen. You real saying amen?
[2:41:17] Speaker 8: Brother?
[2:41:21] Speaker 3: Okay, okay.
[2:41:23] Speaker 2: My question is what is abstinence?
[2:41:26] Speaker 10: Right?
[2:41:26] Speaker 8: What is abstinence until you're married?
[2:41:30] Speaker 1: As you said, what is abstinence?
[2:41:32] Speaker 3: Yes, what is before you know marriage?
[2:41:35] Speaker 1: Abstinence has been absent for sex before marriage.
[2:41:39] Speaker 8: Okay.
[2:41:40] Speaker 3: And then when you.
[2:41:40] Speaker 10: Get in a relationship, do I tell them tell my boyfriend.
[2:41:44] Speaker 1: Tell your boyfriend. You should have told him before he
[2:41:46] Speaker 1: became your boyfriend, because he might not be your boyfriend
[2:41:49] Speaker 1: if you tell him, you said, before you get in
[2:41:58] Speaker 1: a relationship. In the dating process, all state your intentions
[2:42:01] Speaker 1: in the fact that you are saving yourself a marriage.
[2:42:04] Speaker 1: And then so that y'a are in alignment before y'all
[2:42:08] Speaker 1: get in a commitment.
[2:42:10] Speaker 10: Okay, so when we when he gets, you know, in
[2:42:14] Speaker 10: the program.
[2:42:15] Speaker 1: So how long do we well the fact that you
[2:42:18] Speaker 1: didn't know what abstinence means? I'm wondering. So you said,
[2:42:21] Speaker 1: why do you say you don't know what abstinence means?
[2:42:24] Speaker 10: Now I'm trying to get the full definition of what
[2:42:26] Speaker 10: actually an abstinence is from a male perspective.
[2:42:30] Speaker 1: And a male perspective, it's a definition perspective.
[2:42:33] Speaker 3: So what is it?
[2:42:35] Speaker 1: Are you abstinate?
[2:42:36] Speaker 8: I don't?
[2:42:37] Speaker 1: Yeah, you are? How do you know?
[2:42:39] Speaker 11: Because girl, if you get if you're giving it up,
[2:42:43] Speaker 11: you ain't after that. If he looking on you and
[2:42:47] Speaker 11: you doing stuff, you ain't after that. If your tongue
[2:42:51] Speaker 11: down his throat and somebody got with you ain't after that.
[2:43:01] Speaker 4: You know what.
[2:43:02] Speaker 6: Let's let's see we're hearing now what what?
[2:43:05] Speaker 4: What's what?
[2:43:06] Speaker 11: Most of people Shanika said everything I said. You don't
[2:43:10] Speaker 11: want to hear a man's perspective. You you don't want
[2:43:13] Speaker 11: you you have to hear it from a woman. She's
[2:43:15] Speaker 11: the same thing I said. Because here's a deal. I
[2:43:19] Speaker 11: walked her through her process. We've been talking about this,
[2:43:21] Speaker 11: how many years, too many years, Shanika, Pastor, I want
[2:43:26] Speaker 11: some girl.
[2:43:27] Speaker 4: You can't have none. You.
[2:43:29] Speaker 1: You're a woman.
[2:43:31] Speaker 11: You she's hard headed. Okay, we've been knowing each other
[2:43:36] Speaker 11: for years. I'll counseled her. She's cried, we've talked, say
[2:43:41] Speaker 11: she she she was hanging in the after Pastor, I'm
[2:43:43] Speaker 11: just gonna get somebody to go to a room and
[2:43:45] Speaker 11: do it. I said, the Lord gonna get you because
[2:43:48] Speaker 11: you hear there, because you have waited so long, right,
[2:43:53] Speaker 11: you have waited so long. You you you've done this.
[2:43:55] Speaker 11: But I can't force you. It's between you and God.
[2:44:00] Speaker 11: But what we ain't gonna do. We're not gonna lie
[2:44:03] Speaker 11: about the situation. We're gonna be honest with ourselves. We're
[2:44:07] Speaker 11: not gonna play like we don't know what abstin this
[2:44:09] Speaker 11: is because you're too old. You're too old.
[2:44:14] Speaker 1: Now.
[2:44:15] Speaker 11: You're too old to be coming to a microphone.
[2:44:20] Speaker 4: Asking what after this is? So stop it.
[2:44:27] Speaker 11: Now, ask a real question and ask what you came
[2:44:31] Speaker 11: here for so we can stop playing in church?
[2:44:39] Speaker 3: Okay?
[2:44:40] Speaker 4: Hello, shall me?
[2:44:42] Speaker 3: Okay? How long do how long?
[2:44:44] Speaker 8: Do how long?
[2:44:44] Speaker 3: How long do I date my boyfriend?
[2:44:48] Speaker 10: How when is the right time before we get into
[2:44:53] Speaker 10: before we're married, we're in a relationship, we're practicing abstinence.
[2:44:58] Speaker 3: How do we know when to like?
[2:45:01] Speaker 8: You know when? How do you know?
[2:45:03] Speaker 7: Is it when the body is feeling like, okay, we
[2:45:06] Speaker 7: can't hold it anymore?
[2:45:07] Speaker 1: Or is it does he want does he? Does he
[2:45:10] Speaker 1: want to marry you?
[2:45:12] Speaker 2: Yes?
[2:45:12] Speaker 1: How you know because he asked you, He told me,
[2:45:15] Speaker 1: he told you want to marry you. So wait till
[2:45:17] Speaker 1: you ask you. God, bless you, thank you, thank you, God,
[2:45:22] Speaker 1: bless you.
[2:45:24] Speaker 2: All right, amen, Hi everyone, I'm Angel.
[2:45:28] Speaker 3: I'm a member of DC three.
[2:45:30] Speaker 1: Since we first started there. It is DC three.
[2:45:33] Speaker 13: So I'm currently in a relationship right now. And before
[2:45:37] Speaker 13: I was in a relationship.
[2:45:38] Speaker 4: I was single for five years.
[2:45:41] Speaker 8: He has children.
[2:45:42] Speaker 13: I do not, But I guess my question is how
[2:45:45] Speaker 13: do I, I guess, not be the lead and let
[2:45:49] Speaker 13: him take the lead. I don't know how to let
[2:45:52] Speaker 13: the rains go, the rains of what the reins of me?
[2:45:57] Speaker 3: I guess who's saying, like, how do I him.
[2:46:00] Speaker 13: To be the man that he was destined to be
[2:46:04] Speaker 13: when I've always been the one to take care of
[2:46:07] Speaker 13: everything for me?
[2:46:09] Speaker 1: So the question is what are you feeling like you
[2:46:11] Speaker 1: have the need to take over or let the reins,
[2:46:15] Speaker 1: like what how are you showing up? First of all,
[2:46:17] Speaker 1: how long have you been in this relationship?
[2:46:19] Speaker 3: About six months?
[2:46:20] Speaker 4: Now?
[2:46:21] Speaker 1: Six months? And then what do you feel that you're
[2:46:24] Speaker 1: doing that's not allowing him to take the lead.
[2:46:28] Speaker 13: He says that I demasculine him.
[2:46:30] Speaker 1: That's good, But.
[2:46:32] Speaker 13: I guess the way I speak to him based on
[2:46:34] Speaker 13: previous traumas that he's had.
[2:46:37] Speaker 1: Is that is that previous traumas or the way you
[2:46:40] Speaker 1: talk to him?
[2:46:40] Speaker 13: I couldn't tell you, because you know what used to
[2:46:44] Speaker 13: being by myself. So the way I talk to him
[2:46:48] Speaker 13: is the way I would talk to anybody. It's not
[2:46:50] Speaker 13: I'm not giving us like a specific oh like you're
[2:46:52] Speaker 13: my man, I'm talking to you differently than how I
[2:46:54] Speaker 13: would talk to anybody else.
[2:46:55] Speaker 1: So has anybody ever said that you speak to them
[2:46:59] Speaker 1: extremely harsh? No, So no one has ever said that.
[2:47:02] Speaker 1: So when he says something to you the way you
[2:47:05] Speaker 1: say it to him, does he stop you in the
[2:47:07] Speaker 1: tracks and say you see how you just said that
[2:47:10] Speaker 1: to me?
[2:47:10] Speaker 4: No?
[2:47:10] Speaker 13: He waits till like later on, when he's feeling some
[2:47:13] Speaker 13: type of way to bring up that he feels like
[2:47:17] Speaker 13: I've demasculated him, demasculated him, and.
[2:47:21] Speaker 1: You have no reference when you think back on what
[2:47:23] Speaker 1: you're saying, what he's saying. You don't have no understanding
[2:47:27] Speaker 1: of what you're saying.
[2:47:28] Speaker 2: I mean, I'm a rough woman as it is.
[2:47:30] Speaker 1: See right there, right there, right there, s he's a
[2:47:32] Speaker 1: breakthrough right there. It's a breakthrough right there. I felt
[2:47:35] Speaker 1: the release happened right there when you said I'm right there.
[2:47:38] Speaker 1: It came you said, I am a tough woman. You
[2:47:41] Speaker 1: just said it. So the way that your natural heart
[2:47:44] Speaker 1: posture is, you just said some key things. I've been
[2:47:46] Speaker 1: by myself, by myself all this time, been five years,
[2:47:49] Speaker 1: I've been single. Now I got somebody. I'm used to
[2:47:52] Speaker 1: talking a certain way. I'm a tough woman. That's where
[2:47:55] Speaker 1: you have to listen to yourself and talk soft. You
[2:47:58] Speaker 1: gotta go get a one mentor or something that's that
[2:48:02] Speaker 1: that can like women. I believe that women are great
[2:48:05] Speaker 1: for women. So go ahead and talk to your your
[2:48:07] Speaker 1: first lady right here. She can she can help you
[2:48:09] Speaker 1: through that because you identify some things that you just said.
[2:48:13] Speaker 1: You said, I'm a tough woman. A lot of men
[2:48:14] Speaker 1: don't want women that come at them like that. I
[2:48:17] Speaker 1: feel like they dating their homeboy. You know what I'm saying,
[2:48:19] Speaker 1: It just don't feel good. So at the end of
[2:48:21] Speaker 1: the day, you got to talk to himself, you know
[2:48:23] Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And so, but you you you touch
[2:48:26] Speaker 1: on some key stuff and you actually started off saying,
[2:48:29] Speaker 1: how do I let him pretty much lead, which automatically
[2:48:33] Speaker 1: lets you know that you don't feel comfortable letting them lead.
[2:48:37] Speaker 1: And so if you automatically don't feel comfortable letting them lead,
[2:48:39] Speaker 1: guess what, you're being the one that's carrying more of
[2:48:42] Speaker 1: the masculine energy in the relationship and he's wanting a
[2:48:45] Speaker 1: feminine Women and men don't just come out and say
[2:48:48] Speaker 1: you're masculating them using words like that unless you're actually
[2:48:51] Speaker 1: emasculating them. You know what I'm saying. He don't watch
[2:48:55] Speaker 1: something and and told him that's what that's what she's doing.
[2:48:59] Speaker 1: That's exactly you know, you're masculating me. You know what
[2:49:02] Speaker 1: I'm saying. He did some research for that, you know
[2:49:04] Speaker 1: what I'm saying, because he said he could have just
[2:49:06] Speaker 1: said you acting like a dude right now, you know
[2:49:08] Speaker 1: what I'm saying. But he used a good word to masculate.
[2:49:11] Speaker 1: He used a PhD word, right there. So, so you
[2:49:14] Speaker 1: got to make sure that you you you understand that,
[2:49:17] Speaker 1: and like I said, get a woman mentor to help you.
[2:49:20] Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. And so do you do
[2:49:22] Speaker 1: you provide that lady in the call.
[2:49:23] Speaker 2: I'd be happy to help you with that because a
[2:49:25] Speaker 2: lot of men they don't want to be talked at.
[2:49:29] Speaker 2: They just don't. You just have to and I think
[2:49:32] Speaker 2: you can get your point across without being rough. That
[2:49:35] Speaker 2: doesn't mean you're being a pushover or anything like that. Uh,
[2:49:39] Speaker 2: I just nick tone is very important. And I can
[2:49:41] Speaker 2: say my son he just recently told us, you know,
[2:49:45] Speaker 2: in a relationship that he was in. This is my
[2:49:47] Speaker 2: oldest son and he had a sweet girlfriend. And he
[2:49:50] Speaker 2: called me and I said, what happened?
[2:49:51] Speaker 4: We not together?
[2:49:52] Speaker 2: I said why? He said, she's just too manly for me.
[2:49:55] Speaker 2: And I said, what is that? What is that? He so,
[2:49:58] Speaker 2: I don't like, don't talk to me like that. I
[2:50:00] Speaker 2: wouldn't raise like that. He said, you would always get
[2:50:03] Speaker 2: your point across without talking at us. I have two
[2:50:07] Speaker 2: big boys, you know, and I have a daughter, but
[2:50:09] Speaker 2: I never demean them, or I don't demean my husband.
[2:50:13] Speaker 2: I'm not going to talk at him because that starts
[2:50:16] Speaker 2: what's going on now, and and people getting in their
[2:50:19] Speaker 2: feelings and things like that. So I just think when
[2:50:21] Speaker 2: it's more to it, hey, you can set up and
[2:50:23] Speaker 2: say that you have to say, but other than that,
[2:50:26] Speaker 2: just watch how you deliver it. Most men are looking
[2:50:29] Speaker 2: for something. I feel that it's a little soft when
[2:50:33] Speaker 2: it's necessary and then be strong when it's necessary.
[2:50:37] Speaker 1: Yeah, that's good to help you.
[2:50:39] Speaker 5: Yeah, go ahead, Yeah, so I'm sorry, ma'am.
[2:50:43] Speaker 1: Quick question you still want to talk to you passed away?
[2:50:45] Speaker 5: Passed a real quick so as far as you said,
[2:50:48] Speaker 5: your boyfriend and he said he was triggered by some
[2:50:51] Speaker 5: of the ways you were talking to him from his
[2:50:53] Speaker 5: previousans with mom.
[2:50:56] Speaker 4: Okay, got it. So have you kind of.
[2:51:00] Speaker 5: Dug deeper and asked more questions for him and giving
[2:51:03] Speaker 5: him a safe space to kind of tell you his
[2:51:05] Speaker 5: traumas and where that comes from or to just surface
[2:51:07] Speaker 5: it's just from my mother and she just talked this way,
[2:51:09] Speaker 5: then you can really get into it.
[2:51:10] Speaker 13: I'm he's had moments to sit and talk to me
[2:51:13] Speaker 13: about his past as far as like growing up in
[2:51:17] Speaker 13: his childhood and same with me because our childhoods were
[2:51:21] Speaker 13: completely different.
[2:51:22] Speaker 5: So he said He's had opportunities to give you that,
[2:51:24] Speaker 5: But have you asked questions like, hey, how did this
[2:51:27] Speaker 5: make you feel at this age?
[2:51:29] Speaker 4: Or where does this think you're coming from?
[2:51:30] Speaker 5: Have you seen someone else and talk to it, because
[2:51:33] Speaker 5: and the reason I'm saying that if you haven't done that,
[2:51:35] Speaker 5: If you're doing it, great, wonderful. But a man he
[2:51:37] Speaker 5: hears that, our guard comes down right, and then I'm
[2:51:41] Speaker 5: able to really tell you what's going on and where
[2:51:45] Speaker 5: this is coming from. If you sometimes dismiss it because
[2:51:49] Speaker 5: a lot of men are taught to like, all right,
[2:51:51] Speaker 5: just get over just the push ups, you'll be all right, like,
[2:51:53] Speaker 5: and those types of things are being dispelled now because
[2:51:55] Speaker 5: we need more of an understanding where we come from.
[2:51:58] Speaker 5: So I'm saying all as to say, if you give
[2:52:00] Speaker 5: him more of that, then that's a softer side and
[2:52:03] Speaker 5: then you can understand him a little bit better.
[2:52:05] Speaker 4: That's just mine.
[2:52:05] Speaker 13: I don't think I'm necessarily like dismissing it. I just
[2:52:09] Speaker 13: feel like I don't want to dig too deep to
[2:52:11] Speaker 13: where it puts him in a shell that he doesn't
[2:52:13] Speaker 13: even want to talk about it.
[2:52:15] Speaker 1: But you made that up, So you made that up
[2:52:17] Speaker 1: in your head. The fact that that's my assumption.
[2:52:20] Speaker 6: But that's how Homeboy's talking. It shows you care though.
[2:52:24] Speaker 6: You talk to me about it, man, and then you'll
[2:52:26] Speaker 6: tell me about it. Otherwise you may not ever tell
[2:52:28] Speaker 6: me about it if I don't ever say, hey, man,
[2:52:30] Speaker 6: you know you could talk to me about that.
[2:52:31] Speaker 4: You know it happened to me too, or whatever. You know.
[2:52:33] Speaker 1: Yeah, because you just said that he actually told you
[2:52:35] Speaker 1: about childhood trauma. That's a moment to be like, hey,
[2:52:38] Speaker 1: would you like to talk about that?
[2:52:39] Speaker 12: Yeah?
[2:52:39] Speaker 1: I mean yeah, and he'll start talking to you. But
[2:52:42] Speaker 1: if you if you act like you're not interested, he
[2:52:44] Speaker 1: can't do nothing but assume that you're not interested, he
[2:52:46] Speaker 1: lets you do. And you got to think of something
[2:52:49] Speaker 1: that is the biggest thing. You're in a committed relationship
[2:52:52] Speaker 1: with him, meaning you said for five years you didn't
[2:52:55] Speaker 1: have anybody, So you did something right in order for
[2:52:58] Speaker 1: him to commit to you. Now it's time to cultivate
[2:53:01] Speaker 1: that relationship so that if this is a person that
[2:53:03] Speaker 1: God intended for you to be with, y'all gonna have
[2:53:06] Speaker 1: to go through it anyway. Y'all gonna have to talk
[2:53:08] Speaker 1: about all that stuff in order to get to marriage.
[2:53:10] Speaker 1: And see a lot of times we're wanting certain things
[2:53:13] Speaker 1: out of a person that we're not showing up for
[2:53:15] Speaker 1: to be that meaning that we want a husband when
[2:53:18] Speaker 1: we're not showing up as a wife. I may want
[2:53:20] Speaker 1: a wife and I'm not showing up as a husband.
[2:53:22] Speaker 1: And so in order to get to that place, you
[2:53:24] Speaker 1: got to start having those uncomfortable conversations because if you
[2:53:27] Speaker 1: can't have it now, you can't have it later. So
[2:53:30] Speaker 1: get through those conversations. Talk to him, and let him
[2:53:32] Speaker 1: be the one to say, you know what, I don't
[2:53:34] Speaker 1: want to talk about that. Hey, listen, whenever you're open
[2:53:36] Speaker 1: and you want to talk about it, I just want
[2:53:38] Speaker 1: you to know I'm really concerned about you and I
[2:53:40] Speaker 1: would love for you to share that with me. Even
[2:53:42] Speaker 1: if he walks away from that conversation, she'd be like, dang,
[2:53:44] Speaker 1: nobody has never said that to me. And he's gonna
[2:53:46] Speaker 1: come to you later on and have that conversation and
[2:53:49] Speaker 1: then you just pass another heart place in him to
[2:53:52] Speaker 1: get a deeper place in his heart. That would be
[2:53:54] Speaker 1: a beautiful moment. I can't wait here the testimony of that,
[2:53:56] Speaker 1: So thank you so much.
[2:53:58] Speaker 6: Can I just say one thing, as incredible as li
[2:54:00] Speaker 6: tericists put that I think when a woman says that
[2:54:03] Speaker 6: to her man, it's even more incredible in that moment.
[2:54:07] Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, absolutely, go ahead Queen.
[2:54:11] Speaker 4: O.
[2:54:13] Speaker 2: Hi everyone.
[2:54:14] Speaker 3: I am Daphne.
[2:54:16] Speaker 16: I am.
[2:54:18] Speaker 1: Like we had an AA meeting.
[2:54:22] Speaker 2: I am a member of DC three.
[2:54:25] Speaker 16: I actually have a testimony in words of encouragement to Jessica.
[2:54:30] Speaker 16: Two years ago, I was diagnosed with stage four coreo
[2:54:33] Speaker 16: corsiona councer.
[2:54:35] Speaker 3: And you can get this cancer.
[2:54:37] Speaker 16: From abortions and miscarriages. Abortions, miscarriages and being pregnant in general.
[2:54:45] Speaker 16: I had the counsel started in my uterus and it
[2:54:49] Speaker 16: spread it to my chest, to my lungs into my head,
[2:54:53] Speaker 16: so it was very aggressive. I had multiple blood transfusions.
[2:54:59] Speaker 16: I took four different keymos weekly. However, when I was
[2:55:05] Speaker 16: first informed of it, it was the day before Christmas,
[2:55:09] Speaker 16: actually December twenty four, twenty twenty two, and once I
[2:55:15] Speaker 16: received that information at one time, I believe that I
[2:55:18] Speaker 16: had it.
[2:55:19] Speaker 2: Within five months, I was cancer free. I had two thank.
[2:55:27] Speaker 16: I had my peak line got infected, so it built
[2:55:30] Speaker 16: up a bacteria in my knees called a seratio. So
[2:55:35] Speaker 16: I had two knee surgeries on both knees, so my
[2:55:39] Speaker 16: bones in my knees. It's a RoboN bone to bone
[2:55:44] Speaker 16: and by the grace of God, I made it. And
[2:55:47] Speaker 16: I heard you talking about cancer and I'm like, keep
[2:55:51] Speaker 16: the fake that you have because I got through it
[2:55:55] Speaker 16: and you will too. And God is just so amazing
[2:56:05] Speaker 16: because people was.
[2:56:07] Speaker 3: Planning in my funeral.
[2:56:09] Speaker 8: But then at chary time.
[2:56:10] Speaker 16: I'm praising God because I'm like, this is just the challenge.
[2:56:15] Speaker 2: It's something God want me to see.
[2:56:17] Speaker 16: It's something that the enemy is trying to hander me
[2:56:20] Speaker 16: from saying. And as I like, just this past Sunday,
[2:56:26] Speaker 16: I call a revelation with me joining the church, Gosh Church.
[2:56:33] Speaker 16: So I rededicated my life and a lot of things
[2:56:38] Speaker 16: that I used to do I no longer do anymore
[2:56:41] Speaker 16: because I'm allowing God to lead and I'm trusting him
[2:56:47] Speaker 16: and sometimes it's very challenging, but I'm just grateful that
[2:56:52] Speaker 16: I am getting through it, and I just want you
[2:56:54] Speaker 16: to know you will get.
[2:56:55] Speaker 2: Through it too.
[2:56:56] Speaker 1: Amen. Amen, you want to say something.
[2:57:00] Speaker 3: To me, thank you, I want to. I want to
[2:57:04] Speaker 3: let you know I appreciate that. And I want you
[2:57:07] Speaker 3: to know that faith sounds like something, it walks like something,
[2:57:11] Speaker 3: it talks like something. I believe without my heart. I'm well,
[2:57:17] Speaker 3: so I walk like it, I talk like it, I
[2:57:19] Speaker 3: move like it. I laugh like it. I smile like it.
[2:57:24] Speaker 3: Doubt also looks like something being unsure. It sounds like something.
[2:57:30] Speaker 3: I make sure that that's not present around me. If
[2:57:33] Speaker 3: I hear it in somebody when they're talking to me,
[2:57:37] Speaker 3: they're talking to themselves. I don't want to be in
[2:57:40] Speaker 3: the environment. I keep a safe environment. I am. I
[2:57:45] Speaker 3: love faith. It's opportunity for God to keep moving for me.
[2:57:49] Speaker 3: I love faith, so I thank you. You'll be just
[2:57:52] Speaker 3: fine if you want to be and if you don't,
[2:57:55] Speaker 3: you won't. If you want to be happy, you're gonna
[2:57:58] Speaker 3: be happy. God will be done. I don't get to
[2:58:02] Speaker 3: choose how my life is gonna go and what God's
[2:58:05] Speaker 3: will be done. I fully submit with joy. God's will
[2:58:10] Speaker 3: be done. I'm not fighting to cling to life here
[2:58:14] Speaker 3: on earth. It's temporary. If my death means more than
[2:58:19] Speaker 3: me living, God's will be done. If me living God, Hey,
[2:58:24] Speaker 3: I'm with it. Letting all of that go. It allows
[2:58:29] Speaker 3: me to be in rest. I ain't clinging to nothing whatever.
[2:58:37] Speaker 3: I don't care, and I don't know how else to
[2:58:39] Speaker 3: say that. I don't care. God's will be done. He
[2:58:42] Speaker 3: loves me, he has chosen me for whatever he wants.
[2:58:47] Speaker 3: I am fully submitted to that. Do your think. Let's
[2:58:51] Speaker 3: enjoy this. I'm gonna smile. So don't cry. You sound
[2:58:54] Speaker 3: like you don't cry? Be happy? Faith, sound like something? Okay?
[2:58:59] Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh, tears of joy. Here's a joy. That's a
[2:59:04] Speaker 1: that's a testimony. That's a miracle. That's a walking miracle.
[2:59:07] Speaker 1: Right there, a walking miracle. Joey and Queen.
[2:59:11] Speaker 2: Hello, I'm Ebony and I'm from Fort Worth.
[2:59:15] Speaker 12: Hi.
[2:59:16] Speaker 3: I have a question for you, Jessica.
[2:59:19] Speaker 17: I'm actively seeking to I'm actively seeing. I'm actively seeking
[2:59:22] Speaker 17: to possess a value, the possessive value.
[2:59:26] Speaker 1: Can you do your favorite tilt the microphone down? Yes,
[2:59:28] Speaker 1: I can hear you.
[2:59:29] Speaker 3: Yes, Okay, I have.
[2:59:30] Speaker 17: A question for you, Jessica.
[2:59:36] Speaker 1: She said, I'm starting all the way over. Here's my notes.
[2:59:39] Speaker 1: This is the order of service.
[2:59:41] Speaker 3: Go ahead, okay.
[2:59:45] Speaker 17: I'm actively seeking to possess values of a Proverbs thirty
[2:59:49] Speaker 17: one woman. How can I apply these characteristics this day
[2:59:56] Speaker 17: in time?
[2:59:57] Speaker 1: You asked, Jessica that question.
[2:59:58] Speaker 3: Yes, that's that stuff talking about what tells Hey, as
[3:00:02] Speaker 3: long as there's proof, y'all recording this. Wow, here's the deal.
[3:00:08] Speaker 3: You can do nothing. What do you don't come with
[3:00:11] Speaker 3: a manual? You need Jesus. Worship God, spend time with God,
[3:00:19] Speaker 3: speak in tongues, shut everything out, and just worship. It
[3:00:24] Speaker 3: shows you how to submit. It shows you how to serve.
[3:00:27] Speaker 3: It builds a patience. It makes you know how to
[3:00:30] Speaker 3: dig deep within yourself and say God, search the innermost parts.
[3:00:34] Speaker 3: It reveals yourself to yourself. It reveals how much God
[3:00:37] Speaker 3: loves you and how much you don't love God. It's humbling.
[3:00:41] Speaker 3: The presence of God is everything you need. It's nothing
[3:00:45] Speaker 3: outside of yourself that you can prep to be A
[3:00:48] Speaker 3: proverb thirty one? Who is that? That was a mother
[3:00:51] Speaker 3: telling her son at vice. But this mother was submitted
[3:00:56] Speaker 3: to the Lord. She was virtuous. She was speaking of herself.
[3:01:03] Speaker 3: I can't give myself virtue. I'm dirty. I can't claim myself.
[3:01:08] Speaker 3: Look at men, I'm dirty. Look at my flesh. It
[3:01:11] Speaker 3: comes up, it disappears, it tall, it pears its head,
[3:01:14] Speaker 3: and it what am I? I can't give you no advice.
[3:01:19] Speaker 3: The Holy Spirit, it leads it gods, It directs the
[3:01:24] Speaker 3: blood of Jesus, It purifies Father, God, authority, God, protective, God.
[3:01:33] Speaker 3: Once you learn how to be led by God, you
[3:01:36] Speaker 3: will be You will be perfect for a man. And
[3:01:41] Speaker 3: you'll also know how to respect authority. You'll know how
[3:01:45] Speaker 3: to recognize authority because you've been under it. That's that
[3:01:52] Speaker 3: everything you need as a woman to be prepared to
[3:01:55] Speaker 3: be a wife, a woman of all the things. It's
[3:01:59] Speaker 3: just God, it's Jesus.
[3:02:02] Speaker 4: Nobody can teach you this.
[3:02:03] Speaker 3: Your mama, she it's gonna be lace with stuff. You
[3:02:08] Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. She gonna lace it with her
[3:02:11] Speaker 3: own experience Jesus when I pray. Girl, Look, let me
[3:02:16] Speaker 3: tell you. I tell God everything. I don't care what
[3:02:20] Speaker 3: I did. If I dug get my nose, I'd be like,
[3:02:22] Speaker 3: let me tell you. I was in the car, I
[3:02:25] Speaker 3: felt that.
[3:02:25] Speaker 4: Not right there.
[3:02:26] Speaker 3: I was like, do I get it? Do I have tissue?
[3:02:32] Speaker 3: Is this a thumfer day or not? He's my friend.
[3:02:39] Speaker 3: I don't withhold anything, And you know what, that makes
[3:02:41] Speaker 3: me a great communicator. I am trained when I'm with God.
[3:02:48] Speaker 3: So you want to be everything. God's presence is the training.
[3:02:53] Speaker 3: Learn how to talk with him, kick it with him.
[3:02:55] Speaker 3: He picks my clothes. I'm like, I wanna put this
[3:02:58] Speaker 3: shirt here, like you ain't gonna light that shirt. You're
[3:02:59] Speaker 3: gonna be sitting up like this all day. Slaucher, all right, cool,
[3:03:03] Speaker 3: He's everything for me because I'm submitted. I'm submitted, okay,
[3:03:10] Speaker 3: So I can't give you no advice. All right?
[3:03:13] Speaker 1: You just did that was beautiful. That was beautiful. That
[3:03:16] Speaker 1: was beautiful. No, that was beautiful advice.
[3:03:18] Speaker 4: It was really beautiful. Yeah, that was real good.
[3:03:20] Speaker 1: I like that. Yeah, all right, thank you so much
[3:03:23] Speaker 1: if that means I chief good. What how the air
[3:03:29] Speaker 1: bound this stage, She's gonna ask you about proverb thirty
[3:03:31] Speaker 1: one woman, you go a head. I had the whole
[3:03:34] Speaker 1: first lady up here, and I'll asked you how the
[3:03:36] Speaker 1: air bound this day had a woman that was forty
[3:03:39] Speaker 1: five years old when she gave up a virginity. But
[3:03:41] Speaker 1: she asked you that is something else, boy, something else?
[3:03:54] Speaker 1: Go ahead? What's your question? Comment concerned? Prairie quest? What
[3:03:57] Speaker 1: is it?
[3:04:02] Speaker 2: Okay?
[3:04:02] Speaker 7: So I brought this down as low as I thought
[3:04:04] Speaker 7: it would go. So my name is Kayla. I'm twenty seven.
[3:04:08] Speaker 7: I just moved here from Alabama and I'm in the
[3:04:11] Speaker 7: Air Force and that's what brought me here.
[3:04:13] Speaker 1: Good welcome and thank you for fighting for our country.
[3:04:16] Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you.
[3:04:19] Speaker 7: With that being said, what you say, I.
[3:04:25] Speaker 8: Said, we fight you so.
[3:04:27] Speaker 1: Exactly.
[3:04:30] Speaker 7: So with that trans just being about transitions, I realized
[3:04:34] Speaker 7: that I've accomplished.
[3:04:35] Speaker 1: Go closer to the microphone, please, but yes, okay, better, yes, okay.
[3:04:39] Speaker 7: So I realized I've accomplished a lot with my age,
[3:04:42] Speaker 7: on my background, new moves, military, all of that, and
[3:04:45] Speaker 7: I feel like God brought me here for something. Not
[3:04:48] Speaker 7: the military, no shade to them, but I know it's
[3:04:51] Speaker 7: more than just.
[3:04:53] Speaker 8: The air Force.
[3:04:54] Speaker 2: But I don't really know what that is yet.
[3:04:57] Speaker 7: And although I have like that foundation in God, like
[3:05:02] Speaker 7: my dad as a minister, come from a biblical family,
[3:05:05] Speaker 7: all of that great stuff, I don't really feel connected here.
[3:05:09] Speaker 8: And I'm trying to.
[3:05:09] Speaker 7: Figure out how if you guys have any advice on
[3:05:13] Speaker 7: getting realigned, to try to figure out what brought me
[3:05:16] Speaker 7: here and what God may.
[3:05:17] Speaker 4: Have for me in this chapter?
[3:05:18] Speaker 1: Are you connected with a church here?
[3:05:22] Speaker 4: No?
[3:05:23] Speaker 1: Well, it takes so long you think about it?
[3:05:26] Speaker 3: Well, I said it.
[3:05:27] Speaker 7: I don't think the microphone called it though, Oh.
[3:05:29] Speaker 1: Would you say? No?
[3:05:30] Speaker 4: No?
[3:05:31] Speaker 1: Okay? So, and how long you been here?
[3:05:36] Speaker 8: Too long?
[3:05:37] Speaker 1: Too long? And so is there a particular reason have
[3:05:41] Speaker 1: you do you visit churches or or like what is that?
[3:05:44] Speaker 1: Do you feel the need to be connected to the
[3:05:46] Speaker 1: local church.
[3:05:48] Speaker 8: I would like to.
[3:05:50] Speaker 7: So when I first got here, I got sick, so
[3:05:52] Speaker 7: I was kind of in the house for the first
[3:05:54] Speaker 7: little while, and then I found out I had to
[3:05:56] Speaker 7: compromise immune system, and then some more stuff, and then
[3:05:59] Speaker 7: I started going through stuff with my job. So I've
[3:06:01] Speaker 7: kind of been like to myself outside of that, and
[3:06:05] Speaker 7: I'm getting into the stage to where now I kind
[3:06:07] Speaker 7: of want to be outside, but it's high outside, so.
[3:06:13] Speaker 1: Class. Would you like to invite her to Sunday service.
[3:06:19] Speaker 4: To DC three great air condition?
[3:06:22] Speaker 6: Let me say this pristine, pristine Antarctic Alaskan Santa claus Is,
[3:06:30] Speaker 6: December twenty fourth, towards the night.
[3:06:36] Speaker 1: I don't know what you talk about. What I'm saying,
[3:06:37] Speaker 1: would you like to invite us? She says she doesn't
[3:06:39] Speaker 1: have a church home, okay, and she's from Alabama. Well,
[3:06:42] Speaker 1: let me do like this transition. We'll be talking about
[3:06:45] Speaker 1: this this whole weekend and one. We're glad to have
[3:06:47] Speaker 1: you here in Texas. Let's give old Texas welcome because
[3:06:54] Speaker 1: change can be difficult.
[3:06:55] Speaker 11: You seem like you're gone through several things even when
[3:06:59] Speaker 11: you got here, and it can be confusing. And one
[3:07:02] Speaker 11: of the things, like I just say briefly, when I
[3:07:04] Speaker 11: was leaving, when I was in college in Huntsville, I
[3:07:07] Speaker 11: just knew God called me to come to Dallas, and
[3:07:09] Speaker 11: I didn't know why. I discovered it as I connected
[3:07:14] Speaker 11: to a church, continue to pursue my education and just
[3:07:19] Speaker 11: continue to grow, And through serving at church and building
[3:07:23] Speaker 11: relationships and having my own personal time, community helped me
[3:07:28] Speaker 11: discover why I was here. And I think that's one
[3:07:32] Speaker 11: of the things we're talking about, is being a part
[3:07:34] Speaker 11: of community. So you being here tonight is not by accident, right,
[3:07:39] Speaker 11: There's a divine assignment for God for your life. So
[3:07:43] Speaker 11: once we do want to invite you to come and
[3:07:45] Speaker 11: be a part, you already are here. You know where
[3:07:48] Speaker 11: you are. We love you here. They can't tell you
[3:07:52] Speaker 11: what that oh yeah, yeah, yeah, So that excuse is washed.
[3:07:57] Speaker 11: You met the pastor and the wife so we could
[3:08:01] Speaker 11: talk with you afterwards. It just hey, But at the
[3:08:03] Speaker 11: end of the day I tell people that, hey, go
[3:08:06] Speaker 11: where you feel you are led, but go somewhere and
[3:08:09] Speaker 11: church is not gonna save you, but it will help
[3:08:11] Speaker 11: develop you. Right, so I'll just say that and that
[3:08:15] Speaker 11: will begin now. As it helps you align and understand
[3:08:18] Speaker 11: your purpose in God, then can begin to give you
[3:08:20] Speaker 11: direction or you can fulfill the purpose He has a
[3:08:24] Speaker 11: sign for you and have peace in this area of
[3:08:26] Speaker 11: your life.
[3:08:28] Speaker 1: Amen. So thank you so much. I appreciate you. Listen.
[3:08:32] Speaker 1: I asked Jessica to sing a song to lead us out,
[3:08:35] Speaker 1: but I have to apologize. She said she ain't gonna
[3:08:38] Speaker 1: sing unless I apologize to her on the microphone. So
[3:08:41] Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Jessica for all the bad things I said
[3:08:44] Speaker 1: to you during this episode, and I'll never do it
[3:08:48] Speaker 1: again today. Tomorrow I may start back, but today I'll
[3:08:53] Speaker 1: never do it again. I'm sorry, Jessica. So can you
[3:08:55] Speaker 1: please sing a song for the people of God?
[3:08:59] Speaker 4: Amen? All right?
[3:09:02] Speaker 3: All right, don't stare at me, I'll get nervous. Thanks.
[3:09:07] Speaker 3: Still looking Hi?
[3:09:08] Speaker 17: All right?
[3:09:09] Speaker 3: The song that I told the terrace I was gonna
[3:09:11] Speaker 3: sing because he wanted me to sing some song that
[3:09:13] Speaker 3: he played from the CCMs channel. I don't know the lyrics,
[3:09:18] Speaker 3: so I'm gonna sing one that we should all know.
[3:09:22] Speaker 3: You gave me my hands to reach out to me.
[3:09:29] Speaker 3: Show them your love, and you'll perfect plan you gave
[3:09:37] Speaker 3: me my yes, I can hear your voice so clear,
[3:09:43] Speaker 3: I can hear the crises of sinners. But can I
[3:09:49] Speaker 3: wipe away that tease? You gave me my voice to
[3:09:57] Speaker 3: sing your words, to tell of all your praises to
[3:10:05] Speaker 3: those who never. But with my eyes I see the
[3:10:11] Speaker 3: need for more availability. Lorty, I hear hearts that have
[3:10:20] Speaker 3: been broken, so many people to be free. So Lord,
[3:10:30] Speaker 3: I'm available to you. My will, I give to you,
[3:10:42] Speaker 3: and I'll do what you say.
[3:10:45] Speaker 4: Do.
[3:10:47] Speaker 3: Use me, Lord to show someone the way. And it
[3:10:55] Speaker 3: ain'tble me to say my storeage is empty. And I
[3:11:06] Speaker 3: am available to you. Now I'm giving back to you
[3:11:18] Speaker 3: all those twos you gave to me my hands, my ears,
[3:11:26] Speaker 3: my voice, my eyes, so you can use the mask
[3:11:30] Speaker 3: you please. I have emptied on my cold so that
[3:11:39] Speaker 3: you can feel me. Now I'm free. I just want
[3:11:48] Speaker 3: to be more available to you. So Lord, I'm a
[3:11:59] Speaker 3: vail the bowl to you, my weird I kill to you,
[3:12:11] Speaker 3: and I'll do what you say.
[3:12:14] Speaker 1: Do.
[3:12:15] Speaker 3: Please, use me, Lord to show someone of the way.
[3:12:24] Speaker 3: And it ain't you for me to say my store
[3:12:32] Speaker 3: ridge is empty. Yeah, my store ridge is empty. My
[3:12:41] Speaker 3: store rage his empty. And I am of a bowl
[3:12:52] Speaker 3: to you.
[3:12:56] Speaker 12: Hallelujah.
[3:13:15] Speaker 1: Isn't she awesome? Her voice just arrests you. She has
[3:13:21] Speaker 1: such an anointing in the timbre of her voice. Just
[3:13:25] Speaker 1: absolutely amazing. God, Thank you, Jessica, Thank you for allowing
[3:13:31] Speaker 1: God to use you. Anybody want to get saved, anybody
[3:13:37] Speaker 1: want to get saved. I don't want to close this out.
[3:13:39] Speaker 1: If you know that you want to give your life
[3:13:41] Speaker 1: to Christ today and we're at a church, wei, the
[3:13:45] Speaker 1: doors of the church are open if you want to
[3:13:47] Speaker 1: get saved. You know I'm old school. If you want
[3:13:49] Speaker 1: to get saved, just walk down to the altar and
[3:13:50] Speaker 1: we're going to walk you through the sinner's prairie. If
[3:13:52] Speaker 1: you feel like if you were to die right now,
[3:13:54] Speaker 1: you would not go to heaven. Roma's ten ninety ten says,
[3:13:58] Speaker 1: if you confess with your mouth that Jesus Christ's Lord,
[3:14:00] Speaker 1: and believe in your heart that God raised them from
[3:14:02] Speaker 1: the dead, then thou shall be saved. And so I
[3:14:05] Speaker 1: always want to extend the opportunity if you know that
[3:14:08] Speaker 1: you're living a wayward life, if you're living a life
[3:14:11] Speaker 1: of sin, not saying that you're not perfect, but the
[3:14:14] Speaker 1: Bible calls you righteous when you give your life to Christ,
[3:14:16] Speaker 1: meaning you're in right standing with him. And if you
[3:14:20] Speaker 1: want to give your life to Jesus Christ right now,
[3:14:22] Speaker 1: we want to allow you to come down to this
[3:14:24] Speaker 1: altar and give your life to Christ. So everybody saved.
[3:14:27] Speaker 1: Y'all good, y'all good, and everybody save. Everybody say all right,
[3:14:32] Speaker 1: all right, all right, we're good. Listen, Pastor King, thank you,
[3:14:39] Speaker 1: thank you for creating the atmosphere. He said something so generous.
[3:14:45] Speaker 1: I was asking him. I was like, what is the
[3:14:46] Speaker 1: time allotment? He was like, it's Friday night, Just however
[3:14:50] Speaker 1: long you want to go. I was like, well, I'm
[3:14:52] Speaker 1: just gonna do about two hours and we're done. He said,
[3:14:54] Speaker 1: you ain't got to do two hours. Just let pretty
[3:14:56] Speaker 1: much the Holy Spirit do what the Holy Spirit does.
[3:14:58] Speaker 1: And it's almost eleven clock. Can y'all believe that we've
[3:15:01] Speaker 1: been sitting here since seven point thirty I got to
[3:15:04] Speaker 1: use the bathroom and everything. We just been sitting here
[3:15:07] Speaker 1: and for all these hours. And I shouldn't have drunk
[3:15:10] Speaker 1: their water before I came on stage because it's coming
[3:15:13] Speaker 1: back with vengeance. But listen, but thank you so much
[3:15:17] Speaker 1: for creating this atmosphere.
[3:15:19] Speaker 11: Man.
[3:15:19] Speaker 1: He has a heart to serve young adults, knowing that
[3:15:25] Speaker 1: we need spaces like this. So this event kept a
[3:15:28] Speaker 1: lot of y'all out of trouble, didn't it, Uh huh?
[3:15:30] Speaker 1: Because you know typically when you at home and you
[3:15:32] Speaker 1: you know, you idled, you know, idle minds the devil's workshop.
[3:15:36] Speaker 1: And so I love that you allowed this to take place,
[3:15:41] Speaker 1: and so thank you so much, first Lady and Pastor King.
[3:15:45] Speaker 1: I appreciate all that y'all do here in the De
[3:15:48] Speaker 1: Soto Metroplex helping to make Christ known and to amplify
[3:15:54] Speaker 1: the Bible. Thank y'all so much. Give it up for
[3:15:56] Speaker 1: these amazing panelists for their transfer, parency, their vulnerability. I
[3:16:02] Speaker 1: thank y'all so much. I speak blessings over yall life.
[3:16:06] Speaker 1: That's pretty much. You want to say anything before we
[3:16:08] Speaker 1: close out?
[3:16:09] Speaker 11: Yeah, this is just the first day tomorrow, Brandon, who
[3:16:13] Speaker 11: you had saying about tomorrow? Can we give it up
[3:16:16] Speaker 11: for our young adult team who help put this together.
[3:16:20] Speaker 11: It's a weekend, so I want you to go ahead
[3:16:22] Speaker 11: quickly and share Brandon, what is taking place in the morning.
[3:16:27] Speaker 11: It's gonna be some exciting things. And then Sunday morning,
[3:16:29] Speaker 11: go ahead real quick, all right.
[3:16:31] Speaker 18: Y'all give it up for the pend on this panel.
[3:16:32] Speaker 18: Let's give it up on real quick, real quick. Tomorrow morning.
[3:16:37] Speaker 18: Doors are opening up at nine am on tomorrow. It's
[3:16:40] Speaker 18: gonna be an amazing time. We have our community choir that
[3:16:42] Speaker 18: is actually doing a concert in the morning, so you
[3:16:45] Speaker 18: want to be here for that.
[3:16:46] Speaker 1: That's gonna be great.
[3:16:47] Speaker 18: After that concert is over, we're gonna go into our
[3:16:51] Speaker 18: general Session period on tomorrow.
[3:16:53] Speaker 1: General Session.
[3:16:54] Speaker 18: We got amazing, amazing speakers coming that's gonna be tomorrow
[3:16:58] Speaker 18: and pasting put up.
[3:17:00] Speaker 3: On the tomorrow.
[3:17:03] Speaker 4: Oh tomorrow, Yeah, give them the topic.
[3:17:04] Speaker 1: So tomorrow.
[3:17:07] Speaker 12: I got.
[3:17:09] Speaker 4: If a concert. They're not gonna be singing all morning.
[3:17:11] Speaker 11: No, not all morning, two three songs. They we're not
[3:17:16] Speaker 11: getting up in the morning. They're here, but hell, you're Jackson.
[3:17:19] Speaker 11: We just it's gonna just get us started. So they
[3:17:22] Speaker 11: were clarify that we're like concert, really no, we're not
[3:17:25] Speaker 11: doing that.
[3:17:26] Speaker 12: No.
[3:17:27] Speaker 1: So so tomorrow we will be.
[3:17:32] Speaker 18: We will be in the general Sessions. It's gonna be
[3:17:35] Speaker 18: talking about the power of change, elevating decision making, making
[3:17:41] Speaker 18: moves without regrets. We're gonna be also dealing with the fear,
[3:17:48] Speaker 18: dealing with your fear, also opportunities for growth. So all
[3:17:53] Speaker 18: of these different things will be happening on tomorrow in
[3:17:56] Speaker 18: the general Session, and at the end we're gonna have
[3:17:59] Speaker 18: Q and guess what else is gonna happen during the
[3:18:02] Speaker 18: Q and A period on tomorrow. You will be able
[3:18:04] Speaker 18: to eat your lunch and food during that Q and
[3:18:06] Speaker 18: A time and ask those questions. So please come back
[3:18:10] Speaker 18: on tomorrow. And also we're gonna have vendors in the building,
[3:18:13] Speaker 18: y'all give it up. Our vendors that's gonna be here tomorrow,
[3:18:15] Speaker 18: so you'll be able to patronize them and connect with them.
[3:18:18] Speaker 18: So we got all those great things happening on tomorrow,
[3:18:21] Speaker 18: so please come. Doors is opening up at nine am tomorrow,
[3:18:25] Speaker 18: So y'all come tomorrow and let's have a great time.
[3:18:28] Speaker 18: And then Sunday gonna be the close out, but we'll
[3:18:30] Speaker 18: talk more about that on tomorrow as we close out.
[3:18:32] Speaker 1: All right, y'all good, all right?
[3:18:35] Speaker 11: And then last thing, could y'all help me do something
[3:18:38] Speaker 11: because here it is. I've been doing this a while,
[3:18:40] Speaker 11: and I know when you're going out and pouring into
[3:18:43] Speaker 11: people across the country, across the world, and La Teris
[3:18:47] Speaker 11: has been doing this for a long time, and this
[3:18:49] Speaker 11: Dear Future Wifey podcast all the blessings that come with it,
[3:18:54] Speaker 11: attacks come with it too, right, and you can try
[3:18:58] Speaker 11: to keep a good spirit about it even with the
[3:19:01] Speaker 11: whole engagement piece.
[3:19:03] Speaker 4: That's that man business who he gonna marry.
[3:19:05] Speaker 11: He's letting you see a hand, be thankful for the hand, right.
[3:19:11] Speaker 11: And so here's what I'm saying, I really I value
[3:19:15] Speaker 11: the work you put into this because of people don't
[3:19:17] Speaker 11: know the work you put into it, the prayer you
[3:19:19] Speaker 11: put into it.
[3:19:20] Speaker 4: It's intentional, and.
[3:19:21] Speaker 11: That's why we allow it to take place at the church,
[3:19:23] Speaker 11: because I know his heart. But I want us to
[3:19:26] Speaker 11: do something. I don't want us just to be takers.
[3:19:30] Speaker 11: I want us to also be givers. So if you
[3:19:32] Speaker 11: could come forward and stretch your hands toward the terrorists,
[3:19:36] Speaker 11: and let's pray over him that God blesses his marriage
[3:19:41] Speaker 11: and God blesses this podcast to do greater than he
[3:19:45] Speaker 11: ever expected.
[3:19:46] Speaker 4: Can we do that? Did you have anything else before? All? Right?
[3:19:50] Speaker 11: Can we give him a hand to everybody? Thank everybody,
[3:19:52] Speaker 11: Thank all of y'all. We thank all of y'all for.
[3:19:56] Speaker 4: What you're doing. So just stretch your hands toward.
[3:20:00] Speaker 11: And those who want to come up here and put
[3:20:02] Speaker 11: your hands on him.
[3:20:04] Speaker 4: We believe God. I do.
[3:20:06] Speaker 11: While you while it's okay to come forward, you can
[3:20:09] Speaker 11: move from your seat. I do want to thank all
[3:20:12] Speaker 11: of you all. I want you to hear the fact
[3:20:15] Speaker 11: that the reason we do this, and while the Terris
[3:20:18] Speaker 11: is doing this, it may sound challenging, it may sound
[3:20:23] Speaker 11: a little rough, but the reason I speak the way
[3:20:26] Speaker 11: I speak to you is because I know what happens
[3:20:29] Speaker 11: behind closed doors. I know we got to deal with
[3:20:34] Speaker 11: and we sit down, and this man right here has
[3:20:37] Speaker 11: gone through a lot.
[3:20:38] Speaker 4: I've seen him in door lot. We haven't talked, but
[3:20:41] Speaker 4: I've watched him, and I.
[3:20:43] Speaker 11: Thank God for his life. And so let's pray. Father,
[3:20:46] Speaker 11: we thank you for this brother la Terris, which feel that.
[3:20:51] Speaker 11: We thank you for how you've crafted and created him.
[3:20:55] Speaker 4: We thank you for the vision that you've given him.
[3:20:58] Speaker 11: We thank God that he is open and transparent about
[3:21:02] Speaker 11: his life and about his journey because he realizes he's
[3:21:07] Speaker 11: nothing without you, and so he can be open in
[3:21:10] Speaker 11: private and that's why you can use him with annointed
[3:21:14] Speaker 11: in public. We thank you right now God for his
[3:21:17] Speaker 11: journey as a man. We thank you for his journey
[3:21:20] Speaker 11: as a man of God. God, we thank you God
[3:21:23] Speaker 11: that even in his best days and even in his
[3:21:26] Speaker 11: worst days, You've been there for every last one. We
[3:21:29] Speaker 11: thank you for the things that he had to go
[3:21:31] Speaker 11: through to be a blessing to so many other people.
[3:21:35] Speaker 11: So even right now, God, we thank you. We celebrate
[3:21:38] Speaker 11: with him all the success that has happened in his
[3:21:41] Speaker 11: life and all the success that has happened with this podcast.
[3:21:44] Speaker 11: We thank you for every person that's been touched, those
[3:21:47] Speaker 11: he will never meet, those who have come to Christ
[3:21:50] Speaker 11: that he will never meet, to against of heaven, whose
[3:21:54] Speaker 11: lives have been helped and transition in a positive way
[3:21:57] Speaker 11: he will never meet. Thank you for the impact he
[3:21:59] Speaker 11: will never know until he sees you face to face.
[3:22:03] Speaker 11: But even right now, God, we thank you, right now
[3:22:05] Speaker 11: God for his life, and we thank you God for
[3:22:07] Speaker 11: this new transition in his life, the transition from being
[3:22:12] Speaker 11: married to divorce. That now, God, this transition is journey
[3:22:16] Speaker 11: of being one with someone else. We thank you God
[3:22:19] Speaker 11: that even in the days to come, God, as preparations
[3:22:22] Speaker 11: are taking place, as their planning, as they're talking, as
[3:22:24] Speaker 11: they're communicating, God, we thank you right now God that
[3:22:27] Speaker 11: we are you will continue to cover him from the
[3:22:31] Speaker 11: public that doesn't need to know what needs to be
[3:22:34] Speaker 11: private and help him and her.
[3:22:37] Speaker 4: Help them get to know one another, Help them.
[3:22:39] Speaker 11: Find spaces God where they don't have to have it
[3:22:42] Speaker 11: on the internet and have it in public. Help them
[3:22:44] Speaker 11: have private times to build strong behind the scenes, so
[3:22:48] Speaker 11: that when when they step out in public, no weapon
[3:22:51] Speaker 11: formed against them shall be able to prosper. We thank
[3:22:54] Speaker 11: you right now for peace in their communication. We thank
[3:22:57] Speaker 11: you right now for love in their relationship. We think
[3:23:00] Speaker 11: you right now for their finances that will continue to flow.
[3:23:03] Speaker 11: We thank you for their faith that they will grow
[3:23:05] Speaker 11: together in every single way. We thank you right now
[3:23:08] Speaker 11: God that you're gonna open doors that they never thought
[3:23:10] Speaker 11: could be open. And God, in this transition in their lives,
[3:23:15] Speaker 11: blow their minds. Blow their minds so much God that
[3:23:19] Speaker 11: they can't even stand it. Blow their minds that one
[3:23:22] Speaker 11: day they'll just stand and look at each other and
[3:23:25] Speaker 11: tears will come because they can't imagine what a God
[3:23:29] Speaker 11: can love them like this. We thank you right now
[3:23:32] Speaker 11: God for every person that's here today. We thank you
[3:23:34] Speaker 11: God for those who are single, those who are married,
[3:23:36] Speaker 11: those who are in transition, those who have desires of
[3:23:39] Speaker 11: their heart, those on the panel. They could have been
[3:23:42] Speaker 11: anywhere else, but you crafted us to be here tonight.
[3:23:45] Speaker 11: And for that, right now, God, I thank you for
[3:23:48] Speaker 11: peace for every person that's here. I thank you for healing,
[3:23:51] Speaker 11: for every person that's here. I thank you for a
[3:23:53] Speaker 11: direction for every person that's here. And matter of fact, God,
[3:23:56] Speaker 11: we're not gonna take anything else from you. Right now,
[3:23:59] Speaker 11: here's the we're going to do. We're gonna lift our
[3:24:01] Speaker 11: hands and just tell you, thank you. Thank you for
[3:24:04] Speaker 11: being such a kind God. Thank you for being such
[3:24:07] Speaker 11: a faithful God. Thank you for being such a forgiving God.
[3:24:10] Speaker 11: Thank you for being such a healing God. Thank you
[3:24:13] Speaker 11: for being.
[3:24:14] Speaker 4: A God who's never turned his back on us. We
[3:24:18] Speaker 4: honor you in this place.
[3:24:20] Speaker 11: We honor you with our lives, and we give you
[3:24:23] Speaker 11: glory today for being God. We love you, We thank you.
[3:24:31] Speaker 11: It's in the mighty name of Jesus. We do pray.
[3:24:35] Speaker 11: All God's people say Amen, Amen, God, bless you.
[3:24:41] Speaker 1: Ladarien thrust it suddenly into child protective services in twenty fifteen,
[3:24:47] Speaker 1: my nephew, Black a boy the likelihood have been adopted
[3:24:51] Speaker 1: outside of kinship slim to none Ourmione, sixteen years old,
[3:24:57] Speaker 1: Black a boy with five years years in the Falter
[3:25:00] Speaker 1: care system before I even knew his name. The likelihood
[3:25:04] Speaker 1: of ever being adopted, Yep, you guessed it slim to none.
[3:25:10] Speaker 1: While Laderian and our MONI were trying to survive and
[3:25:13] Speaker 1: barely thrive in an overpopulated and underfunded false care system,
[3:25:16] Speaker 1: I was living my own life, doing well professionally, having
[3:25:20] Speaker 1: been a single father with a daughter who at that
[3:25:22] Speaker 1: point was doing well in college. It was my time
[3:25:24] Speaker 1: to live my life right wrong. I felt unsettled, tireless, agitated.
[3:25:32] Speaker 1: There are just too many of our Black children stuck
[3:25:36] Speaker 1: in ambiguity and in the limbo of the Falter care system.
[3:25:40] Speaker 1: In twenty seventeen, I legally adopted my nephew Ladarian. Fast
[3:25:44] Speaker 1: forward to twenty nineteen. I had no ties to this
[3:25:46] Speaker 1: other young king, but I felt God instructed me to
[3:25:49] Speaker 1: adopt him also in il Babe, starting over with parenting
[3:25:52] Speaker 1: should have been enough. Right, Working with various foster care
[3:25:55] Speaker 1: and adoption agencies to help bring awareness to the countless
[3:25:58] Speaker 1: young Black kings the Falster care system should have decreased
[3:26:02] Speaker 1: my agitation right joining the board of directors of Advantage
[3:26:06] Speaker 1: of Adoption and organization that helps find permanent adoptive homes
[3:26:10] Speaker 1: for children in falseter care should have led to some
[3:26:12] Speaker 1: type of resolve. Right, No, not at all. None of
[3:26:17] Speaker 1: it felt like I had done enough. I now realized
[3:26:21] Speaker 1: that every one of those experiences was land the fundamental
[3:26:25] Speaker 1: foundation for my life's mission. Kingdom Royale. Kingdom Royal would
[3:26:30] Speaker 1: be a luxury, state of the art home for foster boys.
[3:26:33] Speaker 1: Our first location will be in the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex.
[3:26:37] Speaker 1: We will utilize the whole person approach that instills identity,
[3:26:41] Speaker 1: empowers them to advocate for themselves, and enlightens them regarding
[3:26:44] Speaker 1: new perspectives and limitless options that they thought were impossible.
[3:26:50] Speaker 1: Though the young Kings will attend the local public schools
[3:26:53] Speaker 1: that are in proximity to Kingdom Royal. Our at home
[3:26:56] Speaker 1: curriculum will broaden their worldview through participating in the art arts,
[3:27:00] Speaker 1: attending various cultural events, learning about and engaging in multifaceted
[3:27:05] Speaker 1: discussions about current events and even relevant historical contexts, Introducing
[3:27:10] Speaker 1: them to gardening and landscaping, and even caring for our
[3:27:13] Speaker 1: animals on our form and on site stables. We just
[3:27:17] Speaker 1: launched our startup capital campaign with the goal of raising
[3:27:20] Speaker 1: two point eight million dollars. Now why two point eight
[3:27:22] Speaker 1: million dollars? Well, In twenty seventeen, I created a web
[3:27:26] Speaker 1: series in which I performed random acts of kindness for
[3:27:29] Speaker 1: targeting the homeless community. One of the most notable successes
[3:27:32] Speaker 1: was that one of the videos went viral, garnering twenty
[3:27:36] Speaker 1: eight million views. However, one of my biggest regrets is
[3:27:40] Speaker 1: that I didn't raise a single dollar to help in
[3:27:42] Speaker 1: implementing a more sustainable plan for the homeless community. So
[3:27:47] Speaker 1: throughout the years, with much remorse, I reflect that I'm
[3:27:51] Speaker 1: not maximizing that moment. I knew if at that time
[3:27:54] Speaker 1: just ten percent of the viewers donated one dollar, we
[3:27:57] Speaker 1: would have raised at least two point five eight million
[3:28:00] Speaker 1: dollars that could have really established long term support for
[3:28:03] Speaker 1: the homeless community, or at least started a long term
[3:28:06] Speaker 1: initiative to do so. This is my due over, this
[3:28:11] Speaker 1: is our new beginning. Together, we can attack this at
[3:28:15] Speaker 1: the route by specifically helping our homeless Black boys who
[3:28:19] Speaker 1: are already disproportionately represented in the American fossil care system.
[3:28:24] Speaker 1: I'm a Terisarwickfield. I've been nominated for three regional Emmys
[3:28:28] Speaker 1: documenting my work with the homeless, as well as my
[3:28:30] Speaker 1: personal adoption journey. Despite those accolades, the greatest award for
[3:28:35] Speaker 1: me is truly providing the infrastructure for a transformed life.
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