Called to Serve: How One Sign Changed Her Life Forever

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[SPEAKER_03]: I had three girls right away, and then we had five together.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And so I always feel like the bathtub was my soulless place of the bathroom.

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[SPEAKER_03]: The bathroom, blowing for a while, but yet you'd always see little fingers under the door.

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[SPEAKER_04]: You in there?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, hello, and welcome back to Be Life Changers.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I am Kathy Coats, your host.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And I am so excited to have a good friend.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We might as well say we're friends.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, like we are.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We have that one time on Zoom.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And so this is the very first time we have met in person and I am thrilled.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm so excited.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Just literally, it feels like you're my sister.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I know, it's this crazy, like when we started talking back and forth, this is sometimes people just click.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And so I'm excited to introduce you to Gabby's Stars, also known as Marte, and I have invited her here with me at J.T.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Super excited.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I am so glad to have you here with me.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And, you know, I'm so excited.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So tell me just a little bit about how to, you know, Marta gets started, like, where the name comes from?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Let's introduce you to everybody, and let them get to know you just a little bit more intimately.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, well, thank you, Kathy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you for having me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, man, I feel like there's so much history, but I'll, you know, for the sake of the podcast.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm keeping short.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, I'm Gabby Sarns, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: The reality of my name, Marta, is that that's my middle name.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So when I started music, there was a Gabriella at the time Williams was my last name.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's a Gabriella Williams and she was an adult star.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I'm talking about?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, yes, yes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She was doing all these videos and stuff online and they were not great.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And at the time, you know, I'm a believer.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So in Jesus.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And you know, putting my stuff on the internet to compete with another Gabriella or Gabby Williams who is doing like adult industry stuff was wild.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I was like, what can I do?

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, we have a Beyonce and share.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Madonna, it's Marta.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I love it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I love it.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's just, it's very unique.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I know my daughter is an artist too.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And so that was kind of what happened to her, you know, Genesis, the name Genesis, everybody, you know, the big, big, big, root Genesis, you know?

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[SPEAKER_03]: She's going with her middle name too, Genesis, Mariah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So I get it.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I get it.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So it does sometimes you do want to make sure that you are the one that's seen.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So yeah, I love it.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So yes.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so when did you really know that you were like called to music?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, that's good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know to be honest, I always wanted to do music, but the calling.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So let me let me back up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I wasn't born and raised in the church at all or into Christianity.

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[SPEAKER_01]: My parents were just much like going about it like American people just doing their thing and so and we're from California originally me my family.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I didn't move to Kansas City until about eight or nine years ago.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's an 18.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's like eight years.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, for us, me growing up, I'm growing up in this family, no concept of like, truly God.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But my daycare sitter growing up was like, super pinacostal, Tom talking, chick with blonde hair blue eyes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This lady was a real deal.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She was praying over my family.

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[SPEAKER_01]: My mom and my dad were a little bit wild in this sense of like,

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[SPEAKER_01]: They could be a little heated passionate, like Italian.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You think Italian, but we're not Italian.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But like, just super, super passionate.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I love my Italian people, by the way, that was not a diss.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, you show your emotion really well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: My parents are the same way.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, Anna, my babysitter, since like I was born, my mom put me in daycare at like, I think it was like three weeks old, because she had to go straight back to work, no maternity leave kind of thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so, Anna would pray over my family and I, and my mom would trust Anna.

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[SPEAKER_01]: with my parents problems and so and it was like, holy moly, all are a little crazy, but doesn't scare me, I'm gonna pray for you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So and it paid for our family and then at the age of 15 for me, I had a friend, a man in middle school, like right before I turn 15.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She invited me to church and I never really went to church, but with Anna and her churches were a little bit older, a little more like traditional, which is totally fine.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I just was there running around with the kids, nothing crazy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But this church that my friend invited me to was this tiny little country church, sometimes I walk by because it's like a mile from where I grew up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I just walked by and like reminisce.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I walked in that church and I felt the Holy Spirit so strong when the worship leader was up there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And to be honest, I knew it was something different.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't know anything about the Holy Spirit like that, but I knew it was different because to be honest, I'm a soul, I love soul music.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so my music kind of takes on that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: My love soul army, I was raised on that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It moves, you know, and moves my emotions.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But this guy, white guy, love him to death.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I actually ended up on the worship team with him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so this white guy named Chris with a blue guitar, by himself up there singing, and I was like,

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's nothing special about this man and his music.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I was like, he's leading worship.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I felt such a peace.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And my parents were like on the brink of divorce.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I was just like in this chaotic environment all the time at home.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like it just felt like, oh, dad left because he's mad today.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And mom was just yelling at dad and like, I don't know where to find peace.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so when I was sitting there in those little like pews that they had, and some of my other middle school friends at the time, they were just like goofing off and throwing things, but like I felt the literal piece of God when Chris started worshiping.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's not true in 19.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh my gosh.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's not true in 19.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I feel like I was sensitive, you know?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Because I'm a musician, God made me to be a musician, not only a musician, but like, I'm sensitive to music in a major way.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, my friends might have just missed it.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I felt like when you were trying to do that, you know, that's your, you're starting to understand that's your gift because we all have gifts and they all work together.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And so, you know, when that gift starts to come out, it literally pulled you 100% you know,

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[SPEAKER_03]: It pulls you to it.

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[SPEAKER_03]: You can't get away from it if you want to not get away from it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I started doing music, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: So what I was already doing music, but then I was like, oh wow, God is like, huge.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I love him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I went on this journey of finding the Lord and just like really truly fell in love with him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I had no prior context.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So like,

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I didn't grow up in like a still church.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't go to church.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So like God was truly like, whoa, who is this guy?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, and so I kept going to church, falling more love.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then I was like, well, of course I want to sing about it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they were like, during the worship team.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, you're always like singing really loud in the back.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, will you help us?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like in the front?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I said, sure.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So long story short, my mom was like, you got to clap on beat.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If you're going to be on the worship team, you keep in these ones and threes and I need you to and for a girl I was like I like the ones and threes just like it's not helping us so I started on the twos and fours of the worship team But just kept doing you know Serving and then the local it was so like it didn't feel like a big deal

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[SPEAKER_01]: But God's like cultivate it and me, like more love for him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But like also smooth out my gifts a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Because like they were rough, you know what I mean?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I don't know how to harmonize with people.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Or like, I don't know how to play instruments.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I play the clarinet, but like a guitar or a keyboard.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, no.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, I don't.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's how I really got started.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, right there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's awesome.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and we do have to take those gifts.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Even, you know, sometimes, you know, people I think,

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[SPEAKER_03]: feel that they're not gifted in an area because it's not to perfection.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But you have to go through the fire.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Like you gotta go get refined, learn, more about what you're gifted in.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And like with you, with music being on that team, that's exactly what it was being trained by people.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm your gift being trained with your sitter at the time.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I know exactly how to line everything up.

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[SPEAKER_03]: to bring you to a right where you're supposed to be.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And so that is just, I mean, it's amazing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And you know what to be honest, like I think everybody wants to hit that, like, I've made it place, which I don't even truly know if that exists to be honest, like you're always reaching for the next thing.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, I don't know if it, I feel like that if you feel like you have arrived, you've become complacent.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, or prideful.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both, we're both

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[SPEAKER_03]: and then sharing what you've learned was someone else and helping them.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And so every season.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And to be honest, the deeper you get into something like music or even a relationship with the Lord, the more you understand how like...

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[SPEAKER_01]: bad you are at something like the more like guitarists I'm around that are incredible that can shred the more bases that I play with I'm like man I I suck like truly like there's so much more ground for me to cover when like if you don't ever expose yourself to that you think you really you're really doing something like and maybe you are on this like really basic level but then if you really open yourself up

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[SPEAKER_01]: to meeting new people, even with your relationship with the Lord.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, open yourself up to meeting new people, really commit yourself to seeking him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You start to realize, oh my gosh, like, there's so much of you, I didn't even know existed.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Or I've never, you know, like, I never knew what dang old seven in the Bible met, like crazy stuff that you start.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And the Lord just humbles you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But that's true humility.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like you understand, he like, I can't do it without him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like this is crazy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And the more you really rely on him, yeah, you know, the more those doors open.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And you guys, it is him ordering your steps.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It is him taking you to the next spot.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And then that faith comes in that I don't have to worry.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Like, and that's a true piece.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Because you know, right in the midst of the storm,

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[SPEAKER_03]: you don't have to worry because you know he wants what's best for you.

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[SPEAKER_03]: 100% you know.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So when did you, so what led you to Kansas City?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, girl.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Wow.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Music school.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Ministry school.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know to be honest, I, I never have felt a leading so strong.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But to come to Kansas City.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like I've had thoughts like, and that's a whole concept, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I talked about it on my Marta YouTube channel.

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[SPEAKER_01]: How are you, how are you

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[SPEAKER_01]: because I don't think that's really taught a lot in the church.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like we get a lot of sermons, we're buccin' our generation.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, if I hear another one of those, I'm out, like, for sure.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm never coming back to church.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just kidding, but like, truly, I'm tired.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But like, truly, like, teach me how to know and love God.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Because there's processes and ways God is not a process.

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[SPEAKER_01]: or a math equation, but like there's ways to approach him, like with things giving or like there's ways that he speaks pretty commonly to all of us, like sometimes you could have thought and you're like, yo, there's no way on the green earth I would think I thought like that, like and that's like got thought.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like thought is using your mind, planning thoughts in your mind because you know him, he's anyu.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so coming to Kansas City, the Lord brought internal signals of also like so many signs.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He was like, I don't want you to miss this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like we're going left.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a hard left.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I need you to be on board, like the train is leading.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I mean, the first one was my pastor at the time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're from Monterey, California.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, God bless him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He was doing a whole series on when to go.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, wow.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, there's your sign.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was like one out of like many and then

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[SPEAKER_01]: And two other very prominent signs the first one was I was at a music like festival in Washington, statements in Washington at this music festival.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And my friend her band was there too, and we hadn't seen each other in a while.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She does jewelry.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She makes jewelry from hand like scratch.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And she pours out like this recycled bag of gems and jewels.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I had already had Kansas City on my mind, like the Lord showed up through a marketing ad, which is funny because I do marketing, so like the Lord has used marketing in my life really powerfully.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm thinking, you know, Kansas City, now my pastors doing this series on Go.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm at this, you know, music festival, my friend.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She's so sweet.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She has these gems, and then she goes, Marte, and I'm like, yo, what's up?

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[SPEAKER_01]: And she's like, Kansas City.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a gym with the skyline of Kansas City and it will not a gym.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's like a little metal piece.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It has Kansas City written on the bottom, the only one in the whole, I said, what the heck.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then so just to make it like even more concrete, I'm at like a Bethel music conference.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's like a women's conference.

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[SPEAKER_01]: My church is going.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm there with a few girls.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And this lady's giving a speech, and I'm telling all the girls, I think God has leading me to Kansas City, blah, blah, blah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sitting there, you know, I just woke up, they dragged me to like 9 a.m. session, and I'm like, I feel like I got hit by a train a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm just trying to catch up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And the lady speaking, she goes, and I bought a one way to get to a ministry in Kansas City, and never came back.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And everybody in front of me, who knew me, turned around, and they were like,

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yo, do you hear that guy?

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, I heard it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I, you know, I'm tired of the Lord coming at me like this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But like, it was so clear.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So I packed up and I came out here.

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[SPEAKER_03]: That's that faith walk, you know?

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[SPEAKER_03]: And things always come.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It always, a confirmation.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Always comes behind it.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And I think that's how you know for sure.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Like, there's always a confirmation behind it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, with a Lord new like being like whenever you truly follow him like I mean think about it right like if you pack up your whole life like all I knew and life I had traveled for sure, but like my living life was in California right born and raised family there I'm a California girl through and through like I'm making kombucha and like trying to like start sourdough like

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?

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[SPEAKER_01]: People are like, Kathy, you're so weird.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not actually, these are my people.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, that's how I was raised.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so, you know, to move somewhere like Kansas City where I had no inkling.

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[SPEAKER_01]: What is happening in Kansas?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't know, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I had no clue.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I had to have that knowing on the inside of me that when time's got tough in Kansas City, I wasn't just gonna leave.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, God is calling me here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So when things got tough, I'm like, no, no, no, no, God has called me here.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Like, I felt the same way.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Because, you know, I got sent to Atlanta.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Mm-hmm.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm okay.

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[SPEAKER_03]: is girl though.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, come on out from Kansas.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm Kansas.

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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, but I went to Atlanta for two and a half years.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I called that my Joan at home as in the whale.

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[SPEAKER_03]: That's real.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I really haven't to journal a lot.

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[SPEAKER_03]: That's where the journals came from.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's like journaling a lot, trying to figure out what's going on.

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[SPEAKER_03]: The word why this pivot, why this switch.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And so I literally, it was God lined it all up and led us here to Kansas City literally from my husband taking us to Atlanta.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We were there for a reason because the job that he was with took us there and then nine months later serve plus team out anyway.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Wow.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And so it's just a moment of really trying to figure out what was going on.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And then God sent us back here to Kansas City.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Wow.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And I wasn't realizing that, you know, I was going to be starting my business in, you know, the name B life changers was given to me back in Atlanta.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So it was just a crazy kind of like twist and turn of event and God just ordered those steps and let it all the way in.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And then when I got here and started getting into business, I started hearing, you know, well, you know, a lot of negativity about Kansas City in the business field.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Like I said, you know, like people don't

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[SPEAKER_03]: collaboration to get the people to work together.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So I mean, I mean, like all this, there's a lot of like, um, in the music industry a little bit, you know, it's a little bit of like, you know, people aren't supporting each other.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And when I started doing the pop-up shopping events, I started kind of seeing what they were talking about.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Like, you know, people didn't want.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And I thought, oh, Lord, what are you doing?

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[SPEAKER_03]: See, always puts me in the midst of some great.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, you're a changer, right?

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[SPEAKER_03]: Be like changers with Cassie.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Let's go and on.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But you know, I look at it now, you know, because we got here and just at the end of 2015 won in 2017.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so I went out and watched the same time, you know, similar, very similar.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And so, but now working and just, you know, teaching and talking about collaboration, collaboration, coming together, and then there's other businesses doing the same thing and I've had the pleasure of meeting them as well.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I have started to see a shift.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You can see it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You can see it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I can see it through you.

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[SPEAKER_03]: One million people.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But that shift is coming.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm starting to see people collaborate more, and it's just...

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[SPEAKER_03]: is is really neat and to see the growth in Kansas City.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's really cool actually.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's happening on the music front too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like when I first got here, totally that vibe was real.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I had just come from so Monterey is like a hundred miles south of San Fran.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: California's weed.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We rip and run up again.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's like it's not even a blink like we're always in San Francisco and so there's such a crew out there in San Francisco Like I remember um somebody got sick in our little music crew in San Fran and South by Southwest Which is the biggest music festival in the nation right now right he had like six sets and he called me was like, can you take them?

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's like unheard of, like you're giving me all of your sets.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's how it buys Southwest, like people kill for that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like their dream is to play Southwest.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so that's the kind of community I came from and then come to Kansas City where people are like, I don't know you, why would I ever want to perform with you?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like...

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I'm on the internet, like, I'm not like, just like, some of that, you know, we're crazy lady.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, what?

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[SPEAKER_01]: You can see that I do this, but they were like, we don't know you like that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm like, whoa, but like, you're not even like, open door, like, hey, how about we have a coffee and I get to know you?

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[SPEAKER_01]: And like, that's why, but that is change.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like a shift too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It is a shift.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It is a shift.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And, you know, I know my daughter being in the music industry is kind of the same way.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Atlanta, like, they were all shifting and moving together.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And then when she moved to Houston for a while,

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[SPEAKER_03]: She said they really collaborate down there like everything.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Wow music.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, they're always doing Collaborator days and I was like, man, maybe I should go down there and throw one of my events, but you know, yeah, but then she came back here And so you know, you know, she's part of that, you know, trying to get it to shift to and I think that's that's pretty cool because whatever

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[SPEAKER_01]: right here in the center, like, you know, so if you never experienced it, I could see why maybe you fear it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But like, I'm not in competition with you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I'm so focused on what God has me doing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not even tripping off of you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But if we're collaborating, I actually want to help you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Because now we're in like fellowship together.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, like, we're stronger together.

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[SPEAKER_01]: 100%.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We're stronger together.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And, and you could be in the same industry, which is crazy, because when we first came here with KC women's

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[SPEAKER_03]: And I did the pop-up shopping events.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and literally my business partner and I was both selling health and nutrition And we would set a booth by each other anytime of the day any time of the year I mean because because there was things I had that her people could use right because me and her

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I mean, I knew some people will work better with her and she knew some people will work better with me Yeah, and then the things and mistakes we make we keep each other from making I mean, there's just so much.

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[SPEAKER_03]: You don't matter physically exactly the same thing.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that you are doing There is no there's no there's no there's no There's no Gabby There is no you know, there's not another you yeah you are called to do what you are called to do I'm called to do what I'm called to do it when we come together

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, it's powerful.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And you can step ahead.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Way quicker.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Your preachers.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Do you all hear this?

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, it's true.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then, you know, if you look at like real businesses, like on the East Coast, you'll see a Starbucks.

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[SPEAKER_01]: right across from a Dunkin Donuts competition does not scare them right and in fact it like makes them thrive That's why they do that and so you know, I don't know all the numbers and the revenue numbers behind it But like it is a thing right happening and so why don't we do that?

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[SPEAKER_03]: So I know I were in a fast forward to like when we met and so I know it was pretty much I think online You had requested you were getting ready to launch You were album and had asked a question in one of the one of the amazing groups we have

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[SPEAKER_03]: And it's nice because we just answer each other and I was like yeah sure I'm helping and we had a zoom So we've only that on zoom and tell today now.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We can touch a person No, which is crazy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't feel that way Yeah, it really doesn't.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, no and I don't even think we met that long on zoom Like we both were Russian.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I think it was less than 30 minutes Yeah, but I just felt like I need I just kept we kept talking back and forth to shoot messages to each other But but tell me just a little bit about the launch.

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[SPEAKER_03]: That's exciting.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my gosh, Kathy

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[SPEAKER_01]: So as an artist, like Marta is my artistry, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it is who I am as well as I am an artist.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But like, I think a lot of people nowadays, like music industry, a lot of people just want the fame, the numbers, and that's cool.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like if that's what you want, like, I'm not here to stop you, but like, music to me has always been about art, like reflecting who God is, making me, but also who God is, and like what he's saying.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so for this endeavor, this launch,

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[SPEAKER_01]: it was such a dream come true and it's like a place I've always dreamt my artistry would go and my videographer Andre Ribeito, he goes by Andre Palone, he just moved back to his home country Brazil like this Monday that we're recording this, which is crazy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I was like, and we had work together since I got to Kansas City, which is about eight years.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we've done over 250, I want to say videos.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Wow.

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[SPEAKER_01]: From podcasts, mostly music, but like, album stuff, everything.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like covers, like we've done it all.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Every location, like we've done it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he's like a brother to me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we would always, he'd always say to me, Marthe, I just see you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: in like a lounge environment, Alicia Keys, Tile Concert, like we got to do that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And at first I was like, Andre, really never, that's just, I don't know, man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's like a huge undertaking.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But then when I knew he was gonna move back,

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, this is it, like, we either got to do it, or I might regret never really doing this with my brother.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I got like, it was crazy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I felt crazy for this, truly.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Because this thing costs us him amount.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, a low budget, but like, you know, weddings are expensive.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But, right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: on lower end if you could dream up the lower end of a wedding budget we were there so like I knew what I was committing to a super expensive music is expensive just in general like hiring a band like things people don't think about like it's probably more expensive than a little budget wedding because we had the band we had to have the sound the sound has to be good right on drain his crew which I don't you know all these things I love um just the flowers

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[SPEAKER_01]: decoration.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was so beautiful.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm so grateful.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, they made sure they'll check it out.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Go look out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, the videos are coming, but it was just it was so beautiful.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We sold it out, which I wasn't even thinking that I was just trying to make sure my vendors were paid.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I was trying to get through.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so my my guitarist, my band manager, Zach, I was like,

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[SPEAKER_01]: running around, he's like, you'll get me, they can't get tickets.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, it says it's sold out online, we're trying to get tickets.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, can someone open this up?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Because there's on event break and I was like, did we just for real sell out?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, hit me late.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, what?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, so-and-so, get the tickets.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so, yeah, it was really a cool experience.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It felt like what I had always dreamed my artistry would become.

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[SPEAKER_01]: When they, like, the sound, the look.

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[SPEAKER_01]: the band I love playing with the light bands.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was just it was on the rooftop.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's on a rooftop.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, down in Kansas City, Corgan City, and then in the weather was beautiful that day.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was perfect.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was like perfect.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Not hot and cold.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was a little windy at the start, but we were like, it was too cold.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We saw some of the videos that you did and I loved it because it was a little windy, but it was blowing her hair just right.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So I

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like the video wasn't a parent be on safe and we're like, what's that like look at her hair bloated I needed it too because you get so hot.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm so I was like I had a fan ready And they're like Marta, you're not gonna need that fan I said we'll praise God.

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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, thank goodness.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I have it just in case.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I was like you're ready So awesome.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so how do people find your album?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so I'm on all the platforms like Spotify, Apple Music, somebody actually asked me for a physical CD and I was like, are we still doing that?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, no offense.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I need to make one just for you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, where I would like tour and I had like a bunch of physical CDs, like truly I'm like in that era.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But like my car doesn't even have a CD player.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I was like,

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think people have city players anymore, or truly, and if you do, it's kind of like the new record thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah, it's like the album.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to make you an album next.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I know.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I need to get some vinyl.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Some vinyl's, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But I was from the real era of vinyl's, though.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's how my name is.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm telling my age now.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But those have come back.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So you snagged like a vinyl.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It just comes back.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It's very nice to be still young again.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: You see these will come back in like five years.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Which?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Something.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: It'll be something.

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[SPEAKER_03]: So let's talk just a little bit about, um, I know your mom and a wife and so I want to speak to the audience because so many people are like, well, you know, I'm busy right now.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm a mom.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm a wife.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I can't do these things and there's, you know, there is timing.

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[SPEAKER_03]: You have to think of the time.

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[SPEAKER_03]: 100% but how do you maneuver being a musician or wife and a mom?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh man, I pray and I hope for the best I'm kidding um there are seasons like you said right like so when I was pregnant with my son I'm a mom of one okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: My little boy is 10 months y'all.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my gosh.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's so cute.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you And all the lack of sleep we get we look at him and we say, okay, it's worth it But I call him a sleep snatcher.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so jeerathy if you keep slamming my sleep And he laughs at me and it's cool, but

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[SPEAKER_01]: So the season where it's different this season I was in when I was pregnant to be honest when I was pregnant I felt sick most of the time right so I really put music on but I didn't record like anything Oh, really like I which is weird for me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's like fun to me to record but like I was just trying to make it So I was a season so as soon as my son, oh, was born Something I really thought my music was gonna die to be honest with you and that's strange when people look at me like you like you're the The Hustler girl that like

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[SPEAKER_01]: would do tours and stuff like you thought it would die, I really did.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I just felt like, oh, maybe it's time to focus and like, and that grew up a little bit, but like, grow up a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know music, I doesn't feel young, but it's something I've been doing since I was very young.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I feel like the Lord really met me there and was like, uh, it's that a young thing to do music.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But it's not my job, it's like my art.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so I don't make a ton of money with my music at the moment, maybe it got to change that, but I just don't.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not the main provider for my family.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I have my own marketing company, but something really lit on the inside of me when I had my son.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I saw something that put words to that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I saw a real on Instagram, this guy goes, you will inherently teach your kids to love themselves by coming alive and what you're called to do.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He was like, that's not something that you can teach.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They will catch it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so I have a lot of friends like, oh, Gabby, you're so ambitious and Gabby, you love yourself so much.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'd always be like, really?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, huh?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I don't feel like I am like some exceptional, but I will say my dad growing up really, I could see the love for himself and him doing things up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: brought him to life like he would go mountain bike on Saturdays and like play basketball on Sundays and like those things feel small to maybe someone else but to him those things brought him a lot of joy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So my music and doing my own business and being able to be a mom and a wife those things bring me a lot of joy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're not easy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're challenging.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that's where you got to lean on the Lord.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: A little bit and you know make sure you're

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[SPEAKER_01]: doing things with the right intent and heart and energy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like sometimes, okay, maybe the music needs to be dealt back in the season.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Or maybe my friendship hang out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, that's just different seasons.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So just making sure you're totally into with the Lord and navigating all that.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, because when your cup is empty, it's really hard to pour from 100% and you have to pour into yourself.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And when you let the Lord pour into you, it's a natural overflowing that doesn't stop.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And I think what people don't understand is that you have to feed yourself what you need.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Not always what other people want for you.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And I took a while for me to

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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, you are, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, yes.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I couldn't get on myself for a while, like yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But I made myself do that.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And when I started realizing, like you said, going for a while, walk or going hiking, or going to the gym and working out those things fed me.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And when I took time to feed myself, get up in the morning with, you know, and be very quiet and still in the Lord.

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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, when I let myself do those things, take a hot bubble bath.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Like you know, that's huge.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Whatever it was at the time and season, because I am a mother of eight kids.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know how she does it so you do great.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, we're a blend of family and so when I got married 32 years ago Wow, I had three girls right away and then we had five together and so I always feel like the bathtub was my Solus place of the bathroom.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We're blowing for a while, but yet you'd always see little fingers under the door You and I could feel it

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[SPEAKER_03]: No, it's my dog's, I mean, it doesn't end, it doesn't end, but yes, but I think it's so important to make sure, you know, you fill yourself and that's whether you have a business or if you're just at work or at home with your kids, that's so important because you can't give.

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[SPEAKER_03]: if you aren't full.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that rest is huge.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So Marta, my middle name does mean rest.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, wow.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And Gabriella, my first name means messenger.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I was on a music tour one time and someone was like, what is your name mean?

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, oh, messenger arrest.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they laughed in my face.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they said, oh, that's hard to believe.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, huh, like, it just like never left me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And the person became a good friend later on, but it's something I really tried to do in my life, which is pretty safe-strived, but like intentional about one day, every week, I do not do anything that makes money, or like produces an output.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Because I want to say to the Lord and give him my rest and say, at the end of the day, this all belongs to you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And you can take it away.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But like at the end of the day, you're my provider, right?

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[SPEAKER_03]: So, yeah, the rest is huge.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And that's something I learned.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And that's exactly why I made this journal.

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[SPEAKER_03]: One of the journals was a gratitude journal.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And so inside it, you can see that, you know, in the morning, you write what you're grateful for.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And at night, you reflect on your day.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And a lot of times, I mean, I used to like reflect, but it wasn't every day.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But the big thing about this is after you've reflected, cast and let it go.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Surrendering.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Surrendering it to the Lord.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And it took me, I'm 52 years old, and I'm still learning it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, to really truly surrender.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Like surrender over to him, knowing it's already taking care of.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Because if you've done all you can do.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And now you just need to stand and that's why a lot of people cannot manage the seasons of their life right because you're not meant to Yeah, like you need to let go Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so I want to bless you with one of these.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, my gosh, you're so sweet because I know Oh, there's to be a busy mom

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, we have, we have our other one words affirmation because I think affirmation is important.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And, you know, you know, making sure you know who you are and who you are.

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[SPEAKER_03]: I always ask, I told my kids when they went out the door.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Don't forget who you are, but most of all don't forget who you walk.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Come on.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Because I mean, that's the power.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And to me, that was me letting go and understanding now God has them.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And he loves them more than me.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And if I can do that,

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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh my god, it's just a super powerful and we're going into that season right now and you were talking about, you know, rest and I see fall and being gratefulness and thankful of does that everything is falling off letting it go and and the winter to me is like being that that grizzly bear that full of against the hibernation season.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, and you now look before spring comes out and so you know, I always ask people so the last thing I'm going to ask you is Overday what would you say that you're most grateful for this year?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, wow.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I just, I think the Lord for, first thing that comes to my mind is family.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's the family you're given, but also the family that you inherit.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like good friendships and people around.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I will say, God forbid, you know, my life is tomorrow, but if it were to, I feel so blessed.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's nothing else I need to achieve, just having those relationships and the way God has shown up in my life through those relationships and just shown up on his own.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm grateful.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_03]: That's a powerful thing to be grateful for.

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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, all those that are around us, you know, and being living intentionally every day as if it was your last.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Because we aren't promised tomorrow.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And I do want to be one of those that is known for legacy, like, you know.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And I know, you're building it, too.

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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, Marta will be known for many, many, many years, but that name shows last forever.

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[SPEAKER_03]: But you know, but those around you that we touch, we only have one time to do it.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And so I think that's just so, so powerful.

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[SPEAKER_03]: just think about what you're grateful for in this season and let us know.

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[SPEAKER_03]: If you're on YouTube, comment below.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Let us know what you're grateful for.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Please love to hear it.

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[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you so much Gabby for humming and being on this episode of Be Life Changers.

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[SPEAKER_03]: it is a true blessing.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And I know we'll be hanging out a whole lot more.

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[SPEAKER_03]: We will see you back on with me again because you know, I mean, we have a lot more to talk about.

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[SPEAKER_03]: A lot more to talk about, but you guys have a wonderful holiday season.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And I will look forward to seeing you on the next episode of Be Life Tainters.