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Welcome back. Welcome back. Welcome back

to another amazing episode of Laquita's

Toolbox. I am your host, Laquita Mandley,

and it is a fantastic day in the Lord, you

guys. I know. I'm excited today because I

have an amazing guest in the studio with

me today. I want to introduce her and have

you guys give her a very warm welcome in

the Laquita's toolbox community, none

other than Miss Tysaundra. And Tysaundra

is a tax accountant and podcast host, and

the name of her show is who God says.

We're going to talk about that a little

bit more in this broadcast, but right now,

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Tuesday mornings at 05:00 a.m. central

standard time. Miss Tysaundra, welcome to

the show today. Ma'am. How are you? Hi,

hi, hi. I am well. Good to hear you. You

know what I'm doing. All right. I could

complain about quite a few things, but we

ain't gonna complain today. I'm gonna tell

the Lord. Thank you. This is the day that

you have made. I'm trying to rejoice and

be glad in it. Thank you, Lord. Thank you.

Amen. Amen. So, look, tell us more about

who you are and what you do. Oh, who am I?

I am Tyshondra in all my glory. Like,

enough to. Right there? Yeah. Like, I

tried to fight it for so long. I wanted to

be everything else but Tyshondra. Oh, no,

I did. I did. I didn't like my name. I

didn't. I just didn't want to be

tashonger. I was like, what is this mess?

This is a whole mess right here. I wanted

to be everything else. I wanted to be

called anything else for that name. Yeah.

God had to make sure he put that on.

Explain to me what that was. Okay, why he

gave me that name. I am the oldest of five

that was raised by my dad. So I was the

little mommy in the house then. I modeled

after my father, like, with everything,

how his mannerisms, his characteristics,

everything. And I became the little man

Mandev. And as I got older, had babies,

got married, got divorced, started a

business. I'm a tax accountant. I have a

tax and booking practice called Emerald

Services. So all of our services are

online now. We're virtual due to the

pandemic. All right, all right, all right.

That's all right. And I opened other

businesses as well. So when I was running

from that name, God had to sit me down and

show me there was a reason I gave you this

name. Tysondra Strong, godly leader. There

was a reason I gave you that name. Yes.

Yes. That was the meaning. That's the

meaning of my name. Come on now. Name set.

Destiny. Come on now. Let's talk about it.

But I ran from it. But hey, now that I

know that we've, me and God has had this

conversation and he made sure, you know, I

couldn't pout about it anymore, I embrace

it. I submit it to him. And I completely

understand why, especially going through

everything that I went through, I

understand why I had to have that name

spoken over me. That's amazing. That's

amazing. Listen, guys, I'm going to leave

you out there in the Laquita's toolbox.

Audience have struggled with your name in

some shape, form or capacity, whether it

was your first name, your last name,

slash, surname. For those of you that

aren't american and or your, or your

middle name, have any of you ever

struggled with that part of who you are?

Your name, because it's amazingly

significant to understanding who we are in

Christ and why we're here, what he created

us to do. So if you have that struggle or

you've had that struggle, what I'd like

you to do, wherever you are listening to

this broadcast, go ahead and reach out to

us. And if you don't mind sharing, share

about. Share with the community about your

struggle with your name and what you've

done to overcome it, or if you are still

yet working through that, let's talk about

that. And maybe someone in our community.

And even in this conversation, we can

bless you with some tips, tools or

strategies that can help you grow past

that struggle. And you can reach out to

podcast acquittamonly.com. again, that's

podcast acquittamonly.com. and let us know

about. And share with us a bit about your

story and your journey with understanding

your name, accepting your name and being

empowered by your name. Yeah. So you have

that struggle with your name. The Lord

took you through a process. He allowed you

to go through a growth process where you

can understand better, understand why your

name had to be Tyshandra. And on the end

of that, were you sitting in that space.

Now, how much of that process, how much of

you know, the things that you gleaned out

of that process are you using for the

success in your spiritual and natural

life? All of it. Absolutely all of it. All

of it. I've always been this no nonsense

type person, and I think all of that came

from my dad. And I'm actually learning

that it's a masculine trait to see things

black and white. And so I picked that up

from my dad. It was like, either you're

all in and you're all out. It's always

been black and white. You do it this way

or not at all. And that kind of. It

traveled. It traveled. It went through my

whole life with parenting, in marriage and

relationships, in business, in pretty much

everything. So just looking at who I was

and who I'm supposed to be, it's like

those traits, even though men sometimes,

I'm gonna say sometimes, a lot of times,

have problems with it, that was just the

core of it. And I had to be refined. I had

to be polished and molded, but that core

of it was absolutely needed. I'm not timid

about a lot of things that people are

timid about. I'm not real good. I don't

really have the kind of, and I'm going to

say care. I don't care a lot about a lot

of things that other people care about. It

doesn't bother me. It's not, you know, I

don't spend my time focusing on things

that regular people focus on, what's on

social media. I don't care whose baby

daddy is, whose baby daddy. It's a lot.

And so I know that I frustrate a lot of

people, but that core had to be developed

in me again. It had to be refined because

I have a mouth. That mouth is piercing.

Oh, my God. That mouth. Oh, my God. If God

did not work on my mouth, I don't think I

would be sitting here right now. And I

just thought I was doing everyone a

service of letting you know. I thought you

needed to know, no matter how you felt

about it. Now I feel like, yes, you should

still be honest, and you should still tell

people what they need to hear. But there's

a way to express that. Yes. Yes. Wait.

That's part of refining. Come on, now.

Let's talk about that refinement process.

How many of y'all need to be refined in

Laquitus toolbox audience today of those

that may be listening for the very first

time? I can identify with you because, my

God. Yeah, my mouth. My husband used to.

And he'll tell me that today. So let me

just be transparent. He'll tell me that

today. So did you have to say that? And

I'm thinking, do you know how many filters

that went through before Ori came out?

Lord have mercy. I might have to go back

in my prayer closet for more filters. But

you're right. You're right. It's, um. Even

when I'm, even when I'm talking about that

in, in the form of, you know, what is

emotional intelligence or what is

effective communication, I go back to

what, what pops up in my mind as a theme

from the Cosby show. And in this scene, it

is when Vanessa brought Dabness home and

wanted them to accept him. Dabnis was a

great fellow. Vanessa, however, was shaky.

And so as they got to know Vanessa, as

they got to know Dabness, their irritation

with Vanessa was like, tenfold. But they

also knew she was going to drop Dabnis.

But nevertheless, they're at the dinner

table, and Cliff gives them a scenario. He

told Dabnis, hey, think of your very

favorite meal. Your very favorite meal.

And Davness told him what that meal was. I

can't remember what the meal is, but it

was a great meal. And he said, now imagine

me cooking that up to perfection just like

you want it, and then taking my trash can

lid, putting that food on the trash can

lid, and then serving you that food. It's

all about how you do it. Presentation,

tone, everything. And so that seeing that

as a kid and even as a young adult, it was

just haha, funny. But, you know, as I

matured, that scene makes so much sense.

Yeah. And can be applied in every way. And

that's what I, that's what I saw when I

heard you talking about refinement. And

even, you know, for those of you that

might be saying, yeah, but you got to tell

the truth. I ain't lie. You write, you

trying to help them and bless them by

telling them something because you

recognizing something and you got a

solution to the problem. How you

delivering it matters. Yes, it didn't

matter that that meal was perfect, what

they wanted and what their body needed.

You gave me, you know, a $200 meal, a

$3400 meal. However, you know, the value

of that meal is, and you put it on a nasty

trash can. I don't want that. Turn that

down and let all that go in the can. Like,

yeah, value is no longer there. It's no

longer there. So listen, y'all, I hope

y'all taking notes. Miss Tashandra has

been blessing us. If you new to the

toolbox, let me tell you how we operate

and how we float. We get something to

write with and to write on, so that when

these tools are blessing our hearts and

minds, we, you know, we write that down,

because that won't forget. We forget as

humans, we flaw. We forget. But when you

write that stuff down, you notate it. It

don't forget. And you can always go back

and learn more. But even in addition to

that, don't hit that save button. So you

could come back, rewind this episode, and

watch it as much as you need to or listen

to it as much as you need to in order to

absorb these tools and then learn how to

implement them. Yeah. So, you know, you.

You walking through that refinement

process, you know, like those of us that

are real, you know, if you spiritually

deep in this place, she was, you know, she

was going through a period. She had done

been delivered. Now she walking in her

deliverance. Right? She's working at her

sanctification of her mouth. Yes. You

think it's like David said, he had to put

a gait about his lips. That mean his mouth

too? I mean, come on now. It was fly.

Yeah. It got to a point where my sister

told me the only time she would call and

ask for any advice or anything was when

she knew there was nobody else to call.

Oh, my. Come on. How did. How did that

make you feel? I was like, you should have

just been called me. What you mean nobody

else to call? I still didn't get it. But,

like, my cousin told me she was going

through something with a guy. And then she

said, I told her I don't even remember.

She asked me a question, I gave her an

answer. She was like, do you even have

feelings? That one I remember. And so I

was like, oh, I'm human. I have feelings.

But, yeah, you know, maybe I shouldn't

have said it like that. That wasn't. I

don't think she's like that. That was a

little clicking moment. That was when it

was like, oh, the light bulb went off. I

can imagine your face being like, you

know, how you. How you look when you. In,

like, a light bulb moment. What? I was

like, okay, okay, okay. Maybe that wasn't

the best way to go about that. Okay. And

then it was crazy. After that, my pastor

asked, well, his wife at the time, she

asked me to, um, help with the praise

dance at the church. And I filtered that

answer had to be 72 times before. That's

when I really started to filter. Like to

sit and filter. At first, it was like you

were talking to a mute. It's like, did you

hear what I said? Second breath of how to

respond. Give me a minute. Oh, my

goodness. Is. Look, y'all, for those of

you that don't go to church, you gotta

understand. Let me give you some

background. So. But, yeah, a lot of my

followers are creatives. You know, whether

you're in the music industry, whatever,

you some type of creative. It ain't no

different in church than it is outside of

church. As creatives, we tend to be a

little tender. Yeah. And a whole lot of. I

won't say a whole lot of crazy, but a

whole lot of different. Now you got a

group of them. Yep. And she is a no

nonsense person that has just learned. I

just can't say everything the way I. You

know, my first thought to say, I probably

should think it twice. Yeah. And now she's

being asked to work with a bunch of

emotional people. Yes. Did your heart

skip? And they were all teenagers. Oh, my

God. Oh, my God. We were all teenagers.

And I'm like, in this generation of, you

know, well, this is my truth. You might

have wanted to say something towards that

little truth, what you do. Oh, my God. So

I was like, okay. The first thing that

came out was excuse. Cause I was like,

well, I don't have any formal training to

do. I'm not formal, you know, I don't know

anything about. And she was like, oh, no.

You know, it's just like, you're just

expressing yourself and let the music hit

you, and whatever God gives you, you just

move that way. And I was like, but they

can do that without me. You know, they

don't need me to do that. And I'm like, in

my head, what kept popping up was, oh, no,

ma'am. You did cheer, you did gymnastics,

you did dance in high school. And I'm

sitting in the back of my head like, shut

up. I don't have training, is what I hear.

That's what I hear. I'm like, shut up. I

didn't go to Juilliard dance school. And

none of this. I'm not doing this. I can't

do this. She was like, her daughter. Oh,

well, she does ballet and everything, so

she can help you out. And I was like, but

why don't she do it? And then you have

someone else that, you know. It was a

whole bunch of excuses. The excuses came

out first, and then she was like, well,

how about this? How about we just go to my

house, we bring all the girls, and you

just see what comes out. And I was like,

okay. The whole time I sat there and I let

her see what came out, like she was doing

it, and. And I was like, yeah, that looks

nice. Yep, yep, that looked nice. And I'm

just going through my head, like, I want

to say this, but I can't say that. I can't

say that. No, I can't say that. Oh, she

gonna put me out her house if I say that?

It was just the whole time I sat in a

chair and I watched, and I had to keep my

mouth closed. That was hard. Hard. I

understand. So hard. Like, it. It is. So,

people, listeners, listen, we're not

saying this is easy. As Tashandra just

said, this part of your. Your growth. This

part of your growth. Um, and this is

important for every aspect of your life,

uh, personally and professionally, your

growth in knowing what to say, when to

say, and how to say it in order to

effectively communicate to your intended

audience. Right? And so here with this,

she had two intended audiences. One is the

leader over it, ie supervisor, you know,

ie customer, as it were, or. And she had

the group of youth, which, again, could

be, you know, end user of your product. If

you have a b, two b product, your end

user, what are. You know, what are they

thinking? What are they saying? How are

they feeling? Are they receiving what I'm,

you know, really, truly receiving what it

is I'm trying to say? Because this is all

about, you know, our growth, and our

growth involves learning how to

effectively communicate, recognizing it's

a problem and what we are willing to give

and do in order to fix that problem and

implement the things that we've learned.

And so you got these audiences, and I, you

know, I love your response better than

mine. My. My daughter is a praise dancer,

and I, you know, full transparency. I got

two left feet, but my daughter does not.

She's wonderful. She could do

choreography, all that. Imagine the style

and the designs of the garments,

everything. And so we were in Germany, and

she was over at the dance ministry, and I

was the adult over her, and it was kids.

So there arose the situation won't go into

the situation. At the end of the day, what

the situation ended up being was a parent

was unhappy with my decision not to allow

their child to perform that Sunday. And

the reason was the child had not been to

enough practices to know everything

correctly. And so she went and told the

pastor, and they called me to the office

and asked me about it, and I told him my

reason. He told me what she said. She was

sitting there and I turned and said, you

need to grow up. Where else at in the

world can you participate in any activity

and you have not been involved in a

preparation for said activity? Make it

make sense, because at this point, we're

all professionals. Right? Like, we're all

professionals. Got a lot of letters behind

our names. I paid a lot of money for these

degrees. Why are we having this

conversation that didn't go well with

nobody? Like, the look on. I don't care

about the look on her face at all. I'm, I

was still growing. Tashandra was still

growing. Yep. And the look on the pastor's

face and his wife was like, wow, you just

said that like that. Mm hmm. I did. For.

No, don't do that, y'all. Don't do that.

Don't do that. Don't do that. Don't do

that. Don't do what liquidity. Do what

Tashandra did. Well, sometimes you have to

learn that you, you don't always have to

speak and then you just have to discern

when. When is that time? When is it that

time? When I, this is a time where I

should actually hold my tongue. Do not say

anything. I know a lot of times people

might feel like they're not taking up for

themselves or they're not speaking their

truth or they're not. They're just letting

somebody run over them. Sometimes it's

wise to not say anything. Yeah, I agree.

Which is thousand percent. It's hard,

y'all. It's hard. But the payoff is great

in the end. Yes, the payoff is great in

the end. I mean, if we can honestly assess

right now, and you guys, again, don't

hesitate to reach out to us on your

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leave comments on those platforms. Let us

know in the comments what you think about

today's conversation. Give us some

scenarios. But if you were like, oh,

Laquita, and enough space in the comments

podcast, acquittamondley.com, go ahead and

shoot me that email. And while you shoot

me that email, you could go out to my

website as well and join our podcast

community where we continue in these types

of discussions. Because, again, the

purpose of Laquita's toolbox is to provide

you tools that are easily implementable,

that you can use to help yourself grow

personally and professionally. And

Tashandra is blessing us today with some

tools on maturity and improving and

growing in the space of effective

communication. And right now, what she

said is sometimes the wisdom is just to

shut up. Don't say nothing. Don't say

nothing. And that's amazing. Like, let's

and talk a little bit more about why being

quiet in those times can be actually more

beneficial. And how do we know when to be

quiet? I can give you an example that

actually happened with me on my job. I'm

not going to say where I work because I'm

about to talk about the people. That

person is an active listener. She may feel

differently. Well, you know, but I'm

going. I'm only going to say the truth. So

every year we have a yearly bonus, and

there was three supervisors who kind of

get with the department head and they talk

about everybody and how they did and

what's their interaction with, you know,

what their interaction was with each

employee underneath them, and, you know,

just how do they feel? We did overall,

there was one supervisor in particular who

did not care for me, and I don't know her

reasoning. I just know that I will say

every time she said something in a meeting

that I knew was incorrect, I would correct

her. That would probably be the reason,

but go ahead. Well, because you have a

team of people and you're supposed to be

the person that they look to say, hey, I

got a question about this. And she's given

an answer and the answer is incorrect.

Yeah, I have to correct it because then

somebody's going to do something

incorrect. Correct. Correct. So I will say

that every time she says something that

was incorrect, I would correct her. So

they had this meeting. It was basically

going to determine what our bonus was. And

apparently, yes, she took issue and I

didn't qualify for my bonus that year. Oh,

my. Right. Oh, my. And so when the

department head, we had a. A personal one

on one meeting, and we talked and they

were like, well, there was one person in

particular that really had an issue. And

because we didn't interact with you as

much during this quarter, we had her to go

off of it based on that. And so I was

like, oh, okay. So what I wanted to say

was, can you pull up the transcripts of

these meeting when she's telling these

employees the wrong information about them

doing their reviews and everything and

where that information was corrected? Who

was that information corrected by? Can you

pull up the review forms where she's

reviewed accounts that I've done and

purposely put things into the review that

was not there and who corrected? I did.

Right. But again, it wasn't my job to

correct it. It was the department's head

to job to correct. Right, right. So even

though she was doing things she was not

supposed to, I was also doing things I was

not supposed to. So during this one on

one, I just let the department head talk,

and I didn't say anything. I was like,

okay. I was, oh, my God, steaming mad. But

I was like, okay. So I got off that

meeting, and I clocked out. I was like,

I'm going. I'm done. I am done. And when I

get into my venting stage, I go in my

room, I fuss to myself, or I might go in

my car and drive and fuss, and people

think I'm listening to the radio, but I'm

fussing and saying everything I needed to

say. And the craziest thing was, I was on

a pilot program where the job that she has

was basically set up by me. All right,

come on. I didn't say. I didn't say, you

know what? If it wasn't for me, you

wouldn't even have this job. I didn't say

any of that. I just said, okay. I went on

my little venting. I was driving in my

car, said everything that I wanted to say.

It was just me, God, and the radio. And so

I took two days off of work, went back to

work. I was in my little stage where I was

like, you know what? I'm gonna do the bare

minimum. I'm not doing. I'm doing what I'm

getting paid for. When you tell me to

clock in, that's it. I'm doing the bare

minimum. Then the department head started

seeing a decline in things that I would

do, and she wanted to have another meeting

with me. She had another meeting, and she

was like, you know, I was going to put you

up for a promotion. And I was like, oh,

no, I don't think I want to do. I don't

think I want to do that. She was like,

okay, well, just let me know, you know,

whenever you're ready, we'll put you on

that path and we'll try to get. I was

like, okay, no problem. Not even, let me

see. I don't even think it was another pay

period. The person who had an issue with

me. Mm hmm. She couldn't work anymore.

Mmm. Wow. She couldn't work anymore.

Nobody knew what happened. There was no

PSA or anything. They were just like, oh,

she's gonna be out for a while. We don't

know how long she's gonna be out. We need

somebody to help fill our spot. Kiss. You

said, who you doing one of these? You?

Cause, not me. So during the time when I

wanted to scream at the top of my lungs

and say, she didn't do this. She did this

wrong. She didn't do this. Check this. I

didn't say anything. When things came full

circle, I had the opportunity to actually

be promoted past her position. I didn't

take that. And now I work in her position.

But if I went off and said everything I

wanted to say, none of. Those

opportunities came to you. Yeah. Because

that is not attractive at all. It's not

attractive to anyone in business. It is

not. Now, having a paper trail, having a

record for something that's detrimental to

the business, that's attractive. Very much

so. But if it's a tiff in between two

employees, nobody wants to hear, well, she

said this, and she did that, and she did

this. You're not showing accountability.

You're not showing that you're capable for

any growth within the company. You're not

showing that you could be responsible for

anyone else in the company. So that's not

attractive. I held my tongue, and, yeah.

Wow. Yeah. So, look, y'all, that was so

much blessings in that story. I'm gonna,

you know, summarize it real quick. We can

find ourselves in situations where we're

doing our very best. Matter of fact, we're

going above and beyond what we are

assigned to do. And then, through no fault

of our own, of what we can see, there is

an attack, whether it's on our character,

the quality of our work, our integrity.

You know, we've just been passed and done

wrong. Whatever the case may be, you may

find yourself in that position. And the

takeaway from what Tysonra just said and

her growth moment, because this is the

moment. This is the test. That was the

test. And then we got a growth moment. We

got to glean something from it. What did

we learn in that moment? Her decision to

say nothing resulted in two promotion

opportunities. One promotional opportunity

to sit in the seat of the person who was

actually giving her the problem to be

promoted above that person's position. And

why did that happen? Because the quality

of her work was always impeccable. But

more importantly than the quality of her

work, Doctor King said the content of her

character came out in this conversation

with the suit with the head supervisor in

her. Just saying, okay, I'm going to, as

we say, take this to the head. I'm just

going, you know, let this ride. I'm absorb

this blow right here. I'm not gonna say

anything. I'm still going to do what it is

you're paying me to do. Mm hmm. And let's

see what happens in the, what happened is

the two opportunities for promotion. So

there are significant times to be quiet. I

also heard in that story, keep a paper

trail. Listen. Yeah. You are entrepreneur,

whether you are a w two earner, c suite

exec, whatever the case may be. Keep a

paper trail. Keep a paper trail. Contrary

clients, for our entrepreneurs, contrary

clients, vendors, collaborative partners.

Keep a paper trail. Yep. So that when

these situations arise, it's not if, it's

when. Because it's going to happen. These

situations arise. You have the ability to

protect yourself and defend yourself if

needed. But the important part is the

discern when I need to do that versus when

I need to just say, okay, got you, and

keep moving forward. And so that was an

amazing, amazing story right there.

Tashandra, let me, and also, y'all, let me

take a minute. Don't y'all forget to hit

them, like share and subscribe buttons.

Let's get this podcast out to as many

people as possible. Possible. Because

these types of tools, these right here,

what you just said in that, in that story,

in the last few minutes, that can change

some people's lives. Yeah. Right. Thank

you. Because it's so simple. Not easy to

do, not easy, not easy, but real simple.

And you can reap some great rewards from

the simplest things, right? Yep. Look,

this is, this conversation is real good to

me. So we've been diving into aspects of

effective communication, knowing what to

say, when to say, how to say it, most

importantly, understanding when to say

nothing at all and the benefits that we

can get from that. And so when you, when

you're looking at that, because, so let me

ask you, at this point in your life, were

you already excited about the meaning of

your name? No. At that point, I was kind

of saying why it was at that. During that

time, God was saying, this is your name.

Embrace it. There's a reason why I'm

calling you by this name. And as a matter

of fact, he called my name audibly three

times. And every time, all I thought was

Samuel. That's all I thought, come on,

now. And I, um, he called my name three

times. And I was just like, but why? But

why? So I didn't, I understood that

that's, it had, there's a meaning there.

There was a reason why I still was not in

the place where I'm like, okay, I'm going

to accept everything that you've called,

everything that you've said over me. I

wasn't in acceptance right then. Okay,

okay. No, come on, listen. But he called

it anyway. He called it anyway. And you

heard it? I heard it three times, and I

was sleeping. So that's another reason I

was like, are you calling Samuel? For

sure, for sure. Look, y'all, if y'all

don't know the story of Samuel, for those

of you who may not know that, para just go

to Google and type in story of Samuel. In

the Bible, it's called pop up. And it's

amazing because he called his name three

times. He recognized the voice, not the

owner of the voice. And then someone had

to tell him the leader had to tell him the

leader at that time is named for. And I'm

summarizing this in a way that everybody

can understand, right? The leader. The

leader where Samuel was serving at the

time, his name was Eli. So he went because

he kept going to Eli to say, what's up?

You keep calling me what you want. And Eli

was like, it is not me that is calling

you. It's the Lord. So this is what you do

next time with a head, let your answer be

different. Speak, lord. Yes. Speak, lord.

Servant is listening. Yes, thy servant is

listening. How many of y'all are feeling

that right now? But you feel that the Lord

is calling you to something greater. He's

capturing your attention, is your answer.

Speak, lord. Thy servant is listening. Are

we still at a place where we looking

around like, who you talking to? Where

this coming from? Who this man? How? Focus

me about my sleep. I'm resting. And you

call somebody calling me. It also in that

story shows the significance, because, you

know, in the beginning of your story, your

dad played a significant role in your

life. And so at this time in your life,

you probably either you still have someone

in your life that is in that capacity.

Let's call it mentorship, like that. That

is mentoring you in. In your comparison,

in here. It's always a great idea, this

life that we walk. We can't walk it alone,

right? We gotta walk it with someone else.

Samuel went to Eli. Yeah. Who did you go

to? Tashandra. But more importantly, those

in the listening audience, who do you go

to? And if your answer is nobody, you got

find somebody and make sure they are the

right somebody. Yes, yes, yes. Come on

now. You know, the crazy thing is, the

voice that I heard, it was my dad's voice,

but my dad had passed, so I knew it was

the familiar. The familiar part of that

voice was like that sound like my dad. But

again, he had passed. So I knew it wasn't

my dad. And that's why my next reaction

was, speak, lord, your servant is

listening. Yeah. The person that I go to

will be my pastor. And he has always said,

you know, I love you like you're my

daughter. Like you're my own daughter. And

at first I was like, okay, yeah. Cause

he's a pastor. He gotta, you gotta love

all of us like that. Right, right. I do

that, sir, you better do your job. But he

has been such a resource with my growth

and with my walk with God. I understand.

He says, I love you like you're my

daughter. I understand it now. Yes, yes.

He has been so instrumental in helping me

along. He's been interpreting my dreams.

He's been, which is mind blowing because

I'm on that. What? What? Um. And then he

basically lets me know because I'm, I'm a

checks and balances type girl and God

knows I don't want to. I used to think I

was being annoying with my prayer saying,

okay, but do you want me to do this? But

do you want me to do this? What do you

want me to do? This? Is it like this? Is

it like this? And so now I don't do that

anymore, but I will. He knows that I need

some type of confirmation. He knows I'm

one of those kids that I have always

wanted to know that I was doing the right

thing. I was supposed to do it. Yeah. And

having reassurance was always big for. Me,

and that's good. My pastor, he has

instrumentally used him as my reassurance.

He lives in a whole nother state now and

he will call me and say, you know, I'm so

proud of you. You are definitely doing

what God told you to do. He'll say

something very specific. And I was just

going, oh my God. Okay. Yeah, yeah. Okay.

Yeah. Sometimes we need that confirmation.

We do. I'm a person that I definitely have

to have confirmation. I'm, I'm all in. But

I need to know that I'm all in for the

right thing. Yeah. Yeah. You don't have to

question whether I'm in or I'm out. I'm

in. I just need to know that I'm in for

the right thing. For the right thing.

Yeah. The right way. Yeah, yeah. Oh, I

love that. I love that. All in. All in.

Man, we can unbox so many different things

today. Doctor Hunter, you want to come

back in for like two, three episodes?

Usually I ask people to come back for one

more. I'm asking you to come back for two,

three more because, listen, look, we are

here trying to grow personally and

professionally and unlocking the different

components of effective communication,

mentorship, having an ear to hear and

receive. Yeah, right. It does you no good

to have a mentor if you don't listen to

them. None at all. None at all. It does

you no good to just receive a boatload of

information if we don't take the time to

learn how to implement it and turn that

information into wisdom. Turn that

knowledge into wisdom and not, you know,

knowledge applied equals wisdom. Wisdom

means taking what I've learned and caused

it to bear fruit in some way. Yeah, in

some way, it has bear fruit for me and the

people connected to me. And I want to make

sure we respect your time. But I have said

that we was gonna talk about who God says

podcast. So that's why we got to come

back, you know, two, three more times,

because some other stuff. But before you

do. Before we do wrap this up, go on to

drop the plug for who God says podcast and

let people know how they can connect with

you. Okay, so I am the host of who God

says podcast. It's basically we're all on

our spiritual journey, but we're all real

people, and life happens. So how do we get

through that as christians, as people,

period. Like, how do we get through that?

If you're not a christian, you still have

standards. How do you live up to those

standards and still go through everyday

life? Still go through boyfriends and

cheating, husbands and children acting

crazy, and people getting on your nerves

at the job, and you relate on your bills?

How do we get through that and still stand

on our principles? So that's what who God

says is about. You can go to the

website@whogosses.com you can see all of

the past episodes. You can follow us on

Instagram. What is it? It's x now, not

Twitter. TikTok, Facebook. We're all over

on all that stuff. Who got sis? And you

can send me an email if you would like to

be a part of the show or if there's

anything that you feel like the church

does not talk about that we should talk

about, send me an email at who God

saysmail.com. Oh, you gonna get a bunch of

emails. That's one of my biggest things. I

know a lot of times, church is too

churchy, and they don't want to talk about

real life. So I want to address

everything. We just did a. Come on. We

just did an episode about sex addiction.

Nobody talks about that in church. Listen,

come on, now. And one of the other things

that they don't feel like that popped in

my head and about that like sex addiction.

But what the church also don't like to

talk about a lot is women. We had a

problem, too. A lot of us have been

delivered from it, still going through it.

But more importantly, because outdated was

never right thinking that we don't have

those desires in the first place. Yeah.

Yeah, we do. Yep, we do. And we are here

being predators. On the low. Yes, we have

some of these poor, defenseless brothers.

Ain't never see it comment and marriage.

Don't fix it. That's not. It's not. It.

Don't fix it. Look, I got it. I don't. I'm

gonna listen to that one. And we don't

talk about it. Look, who got says podcast.

Y'all go out to who God says podcast?

Calm, right? Who got says calm? Who got

says.com? check out the podcast. Yours

truly was a guest on the podcast. We have

a great episode. You can find that episode

actually on my YouTube channel as well. If

you look under my guest appearances,

you'll see my appearance on the who God

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God says. Connect with her on social

media. I assure you, you will be blessed

by the content that you receive. So, you

got anything coming up where we could

connect support in any kind of way? Oh,

the only thing I have coming up is more

episodes. So, you guys, more episodes. I

am stepping into a role that I don't want

to say anything about, that I'm very

nervous about. So I would accept your

prayers. Amen. For strength and capacity

to perform in Jesus name. Amen. And we

would definitely be praying and covering

you, woman of God, as you prepare to step

into this role. I'm going ahead and say

it. The Lord has already prepared you. You

just got to accept it and walk in it,

because let me just leave that right there

for you. You are more than capable and

more than ready. Yeah. Yeah. It's gonna be

great. Look, for those of you also that

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