Nov. 27, 2024
Harnessing Divine Collaboration with C Nicole Henderson: Empowering Dreams, Overcoming Obstacles, and Celebrating Multicultural Voices in Writing
What if the key to achieving your dreams lies in the power of collaboration and divine guidance? Join me, Wanda Pearson, as we celebrate the one-year milestone of the Ready Set Collaborate podcast with an extraordinary guest, C Nicole Henderson. Known for her prolific work with over 750 nonprofit organizations worldwide, C Nicole shares her incredible journey filled with lessons on forgiveness, self-improvement, and resilience. Her insights have not only transformed lives globally but have also been a personal catalyst in my own adventure into writing and self-publishing.
Explore the empowering stories of women embracing their multicultural backgrounds and breaking barriers in politics. Our guest reflects on her passion for political engagement and her lifelong dream of becoming an author, all inspired by a ministry dedicated to helping individuals complete their goals. Discover how her involvement in literary ministries and anthologies fueled her confidence to pursue writing, encouraging others to follow their dreams despite the obstacles they may face.
Finally, we unravel the challenges and triumphs of collaborative writing projects, focusing on the book "Audacity to Love." From ghost publishers to building a team of affordable professionals, we share practical insights for budding authors. Embrace the unexpected as we discuss the theme of love that inspired the book's title, and celebrate the multifaceted journey of creativity and empowerment. As we look ahead to future projects, we express gratitude for the continuous support and collaboration that shape our storytelling endeavors.
Connect with C Nicole Henderson
FB, IG, Clubhouse, Linked In: C Nicole Henderson & C N Henderson,
Email: gracetocompletion@gmail.com
www.cnhassociatesllc.com
audacitytolove.co
audacitytoshine.com
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Chapters
00:00 - Podcast Celebrates Success and Inspiration
08:32 - Empowering Women Through Writing
16:55 - Overcoming Challenges in Collaborative Writing
28:00 - Empowerment and Collaboration in Writing
Transcript
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Welcome to Ready Set Collaborate podcast with Rhonda Pearson, where we will dive deep into the world of networking, collaboration and partnership, unlocking the secrets to a successful team working within innovation.
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Whether you're an entrepreneur, a creative professional or just someone eager to understand the power of networking and collaboration, this podcast is your go-to resource.
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Join us as we explore the stories, strategies and insights from experts, entrepreneurs and thought leaders who have experienced the magic of networking and collaboration to achieve successful results.
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Tune in to Ready.
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Set Collaborate podcast on a journey towards achieving your goals with host Wanda Pearson.
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Welcome.
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Welcome to the Ready Set Collaborate podcast with Wanda Pearson, and I am so excited.
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This month is my one year anniversary, y'all.
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One year I've been doing podcasting.
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Uh, when God told me, actually, edelene Dryden told me why don't you need to do podcasts?
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So I did just like with C Nicole.
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They said God told me to call you to be in her book.
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I am so excited to have, and I wanted to have C Nicole on because, uh, she was my inspiration to start writing books and C Nicole actually is her second book Well, not probably more than that, but her second chapter was a book series of the anthology series.
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That's what it is she.
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She's doing that Another conversation.
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She's going to talk about that as well.
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So say hi, C Nicole.
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Hello, Hello everyone.
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I'm so excited to have you here.
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To celebrate your one-year anniversary.
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I am so excited to be here.
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You are my inspiration.
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You get so much done.
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I was just thinking about this when I was getting dressed.
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I said, lord, this woman needs to bottle up and package how she gets so much done and teach it to others, because she don't realize that's her secret sauce, the things that come so natural to you.
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Other people struggle in Staying on top of details, staying on top of getting things done, checking off the list, making sure you're showing up.
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You are phenomenal, and I'm so happy about the success of your podcast and I'm going to be leaning on you because I'm starting a podcast too.
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So I'm going to be leaning on you on some things that I can do or how I need to go about doing it, and so I'm just so excited for you.
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I'm just so excited, so happy to be here.
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Thank you so much.
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Oh, that's so heartwarming to me because you don't know how you're doing.
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I just do it.
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I just let's say God is guiding me to do these things and I say actually I said I want to go write another book and actually the chapter in there never say never, because God has a plan for you.
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Yes, he does, yes, and that was my second collaboration.
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My first collaboration book was with you see, nicole, which is.
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And then I know I did another one impacted one voice with Arby Robinson.
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Then I said I'm going to write my own book.
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Yes, you did.
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I self-published my own book, god's grace, through the fire, from struggle to triumph, and it was because of you that helped me to start this process and God's pushing me to say it was rough.
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It was rough writing that book because bringing back memories that I had so deep inside but I wanted to share that with other people because you just never know how that can help you and I get stuck and it's forgiveness.
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That was my biggest thing is forgiveness and I thought I had forgave, but I guess you got to continue to ask for forgiveness.
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Yes, for yourself and for others.
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Yes, exactly, and I said that in my book.
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You have to forget.
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First you have to forgive for yourself, because I don't have to forgive for myself, I didn't do anything, but you just never know and that makes it.
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That really is great that you, that you said that.
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So let's get to start.
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I'm going to read C Nicole Henderson's bio and she got a lot to grab.
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She got a lot to share y'all.
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So C Nicole Henderson is the CEO of CINH and Associates LLC.
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She has a proven, clear track 501c3 system to attain exemption from a nonprofit organization.
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She has consulted and coached well over 750 organizations, from small all-volunteer startups to multimillion-dollar foundations.
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Her portfolio has spanned the United States and included organizations in Haiti, africa, uk, asia and the Caribbean.
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Wow, girl, you're doing it here.
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Cnh and Associates' mission is to empower individuals and groups to become nonprofit organizations of purpose and champion, as viable, mature organizations of diversified revenue and impactful relationships, proven results, creating fundraising plans and social enterprise projects for organizations with annual budgets ranging from less than $25,000 to millions of dollars.
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The Rise Up Challenge is the new flagship program for fundraising and impact.
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Her goal is to train nonprofits on how to attain budgets and bank accounts above $100,000.
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C Nicole is fully familiar with the challenges and rewards of working in the nonprofit sector, too often under-resourced, understaffed and overworked, yet full of passionate and committed people capable of extraordinary things.
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Seeing, nicole sees the gold bar in a person's heart.
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She believes in better quality of life for the less fortunate and the removal of barriers for support, resources and advancement.
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The work she has done over 26 years have equipped servant leaders, ministries, philanthropists and founders to reduce suffering, improve, condition and lessen the burden of government and lessen the burden of government.
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She is a four-time author and bestseller author for Chronicles, volume 2, and Insider Tips for Optimum Growth in your Business or Nonprofit.
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Recently published on Amazon Audacity to Shine Lessons from Women of Color, which is what I'm in.
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I'm in that book, y'all.
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Current Anthology of Audacity to Love, volume 2, a Journey of Betrayal, healing and Restoration.
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Ms.
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Henderson has extensive experience providing consulting services and training to nonprofits in the areas of business sustainability strategies, planning, organization assessment, board governance and leadership, development and training and assisting organizations with a wide array of missions and human services education, advocacy, health, housing, community development, international relief, veteran affairs, re-entry programs, business leagues, fraternal and scholastic organization and homeless relief relief.
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Prior to forming CNH Associates, c Nicole worked as a Director of Revenue and Chief Appraiser, economic Development and Planning, city and County Management and Directed Education and Youth Development Programs.
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Ms Henderson holds two master's degrees in Public Administration and Conflict Resolution Management.
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She she is a certified appraiser with the state of Georgia.
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She's a mother of a son and enjoys beaches, travel, reading and meeting interesting people from around the globe.
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She is a member of Apple Cafe Apple wow, sorority.
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I'm going to tell you how you can contact C Nicole Henderson at the end of the session.
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But this is really impressive as far as what you've been doing here.
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I really want to say too I do mentoring at the middle schools and I asked C Nicole last year to come and speak and she spoke in my mentoring program at the Archery and Barber Middle School with the STARS program.
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I'm part of the STARS program and the girls.
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They just enjoyed you speaking to them.
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Oh, I enjoyed them From the heart, and this is what she does too.
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She's a speaker, she speaks no matter what you do.
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She's a speaker and she speaks from her heart of exactly how she started and how she got to where she is.
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So, without further ado, welcome C Nicole.
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Thank you.
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Thank you, what a beautiful welcome.
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Yeah, I'm just so grateful.
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I am how do you say, jenny from the block.
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I am Nikki from the block.
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I was born in New York and raised coastal Georgia girl.
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I used to say I'm a beach bum.
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But I don't say bum no more, I'm a beach girl.
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And then I found out I'm a Creole girl on my daddy's side.
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I'm French and Creole and Jamaican and, oh girl, it's just been a beautiful journey, just a beautiful journey, and so I'm so grateful to God for all the things and all the people that he has brought into my life and all the experiences that he's allowed me to have, because I believe that our experiences are not just a coincidence, the trail we blaze for other people even I'm not going to get political, but even though Kamala did not become president, we made history because we had two African-American women hit the Senate seat For the first time in 2024, two women of color to hit the Senate seat for the first time in 2024.
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Two women of color to hit the Senate seat.
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I was a political science undergraduate.
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I used to want to be a senator and I don't have those aspirations really right now, at the moment.
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But to see that and know that I once wanted to be that, and to know that it's now a reality, I'm like Lord.
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I need to follow these women.
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I want to stay on top of what they're doing.
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I just want to be engaged.
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They actually encouraged me, so I'm just so excited about where we are right now and that we are moving forward.
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Yes, absolutely, absolutely.
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I love that.
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I love how you said that there.
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It's so true, you just never know.
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Look, I got four granddaughters that are aspiring and they look at me, they look at their mothers yes which I'm very proud of.
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They're entrepreneurs, even though they were, but they're entrepreneurs.
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In fact, my daughter, tori, she actually created my logo.
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She created my website.
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Yes, yes, that's a designer, and my other daughter, danielle.
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She actually does my promotional items.
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So seeing them grow up and see that I'm an entrepreneur their father was entrepreneur is entrepreneur.
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Yes, that really makes a difference.
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To let them know there is hope.
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Yeah, there is hope.
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To move forward, but no, thank you.
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So let's get down to girl.
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We're moving with time.
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I wish I could keep going here, so let me ask you something.
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So what inspired you to start collaborating on books with other authors?
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It start collaborating on books with other authors.
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It's so funny.
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You say that I've always wanted to be an author.
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Even my name is why it has something to do with me wanting to be an author.
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When I got my divorce in 1999, I was going back to my maiden name and I literally changed my first name, charquinta, to the letter C.
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Now, at the time I didn't know how significant that name was, didn't realize I was named after my father and all these other things that came much later in life.
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But I knew that back then, 20 something years ago, it was a big deal if you were a male or female author and I didn't want to be scrutinized or judged.
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So I wanted people to just look at my work for what it was, and so my pen name was going to be CN Henderson, and so that's like where that birth, where that started.
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And my best friend and I used to go to the beaches, sit under the sand, under the umbrella and dream about one day writing books, dream about one day being an author, and at that time it was more like about creative works, not so much about self-help and things like that.
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But the Lord gave me a burning desire when you and I used to do things with Becky, and I was a part of that experience, and we used to go to Coke.
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We had this one holiday thing and the Lord gave me this ministry called Grace to Completion, and it's to grace people to complete what they have begun in them.
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And so I said, ok, god, what do you want me to do at Grace to Completion?
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And he said the first thing to do is help people.
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Because that's, he said, what did you struggle in the most?
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Okay, lord, I struggled in finishing my first book.
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And he was like okay, then let's start here, because I was part of a literary ministry for over 14 years and I never wrote my own book.
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I just would minister to other people and was there to help other people, helping them with the scribe anointing under apostle theresa johnson, and we had these people come from all over the country, all over the world, to come to our conferences that we had, and I was the national director of this conference, but I was not an author.
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And so I said you know what God has given me?
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The grace to complete this good and perfect gift that he's given me.
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So I started with a book, and what better thing is, while you're trying to do, something is bring others alongside with you.
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And so what happened was I was a part of an anthology with Jay Stone that was my first one and so I was in her, her chronicles, and so I got a chance to really tell my story about.
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It was my title was called just saying enough above the crazy Cause.
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I have a mother who lives in New York God bless her soul but she deals with mental illness and she sometimes deals with addiction.
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And growing up, my grandmother raised me but, god, there was some crazy going on, okay, and sometimes you got to be just saying enough for the crazy.
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And I know I'm giving you the long answer of how this all came about, but it was all there together, of how this began to evolve.
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And so once I got that first story out just like you did, wanda I said, okay, I can do this.
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And then the lady over XE they did a business book and I said, okay, let me talk about my business.
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So I shared a chapter in the business book and I was like, okay, so now it's time for me to do this.
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And so I shared a chapter in the business book and I was like, okay, so now it's time for me to do this.
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And so I started the anthology and I prayed about it and I was like Lord, who do you want me to have?
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Who should I call?
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And he definitely put you in my heart, wanda, and so I called you.
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Now some people I didn't call, some people reached out to me.
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Some people saw the clarion call, because I actually put out a website and a landing page and put it out there for people, and we ended up with 10 authors, including myself, and another reason why that book was so pivotal it came at a time when we was getting ready for the next election and right before we voted in Biden and Kamala as our next vice president.
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And the Lord showed me people talk about oh God don't care about color.
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Yes, he does, or he wouldn't made us different.
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He made us from different ethnicities, different cultures, different places in the world.
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So, yes, he does care about that.
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And so he showed me that this was the season to honor and not exalt, but to really shine, that the woman needs to shine and that the Black woman needs to shine, and that I needed to shine because I had been in a divorce for a long time.
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My son had graduated from high school and I felt like I had to hide.
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I couldn't really talk about my successes.
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I couldn't really talk about my successes.
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I couldn't really talk about how well I was being in business or thinking his father may not help.
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You know what I'm saying.
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Oh, you're doing too good, so let me stop.
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You know what I'm saying.
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So it was a lot of ways that I hid behind that, and so that book was just as much about me coming out of the shadows as it was about me helping other ladies come out of the shadow, and I thank God for that project.
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I still know we haven't done the fullness of what we need to do with that book, but that's pretty much the long story of how all this came about through the Grace to Completion project and to get other people to get their stories out of them, because we got books in heaven with our name on it and you're not done writing Wanda, yeah.
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I know I heard a little boy say okay, let's get your next book.
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I said, what next book?
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I'm trying to get through the podcast you might be writing about how to get these tasks done because, honey, I'm telling you are a task master get it published.
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Yeah, thank you so much, and you know what you know I really, when you told me that because I just told my girlfriend Sharon I said I'm never writing a book.
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And here you call me.
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You said God told me to call you.
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I said, well, what'd he say?
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I'm not going to disobey God, but what I love about that title Audacity to Shine when you put that title out there, that's and I use that in all my you know, things that I say as far as inspiration and I tell my mentoring the girl you have the audacity to shine yeah, that was such a blessing and even like the book cover with the sunflowers, this blue, that was a blessing.
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On that, yes, they got it, put it on there and it just it was just great because, like I said, it just started me on my mission to do what I.
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Yes, you know you already us the purpose, which I was going to ask you about the purpose.
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So what are some of the challenges you face when collaborating on books and how have you overcome them?
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I would say, my first rodeo.
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It's one thing to be in somebody else's collaboration, it's another when you lead your own.
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And so I learned a lot the first time around and I also learned from the other collaborations what I didn't want to do and some things to do better.
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But the second collaboration I did in the second project called Audacity to Love.
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That project was like whoa, because the first one I actually hired a ghost publisher to do all the publishing for me, even though I had a team of you all.
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They did a lot of the back-end work.
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I just paid them to do it.
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But the second collaboration I did the back-end work and so I learned a whole nother process, a whole new found love and respect for the craft when it comes to the formatting and laying it out and all the areas that you had to do.
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And I really.
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But I love the fact that I did that because it gave me even a greater appreciation for the project and then also it just seasoned us to know other things that we can add to our training and our arsenal.
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And so I have a whole list of people now that I could go to to do different things, from editing to graphic work, to proofing, to formatting, to publishing, to printing.
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Just having that to book covers, just having a whole list of people that you can reach out to that are also affordable, because one of the things we want to do is teach people how to publish their book and not be out of 10 and 20 grand because some people they charge a whole lot in order to publish the book.
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But I feel like you can get the book published and still pay a decent amount to get it done, but still have enough money that when you do your pre-sales you would have recouped a good portion of what you already.
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Every last one of my authors pretty much recouped what they invested and that was a blessing.
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Absolutely, and I love that because you're right, I didn't know what you.
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When I self-published my book, I said, oh my God, I got to do this and this, but it was a chore.
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I said, shoot, maybe I should have had somebody else do this, but it gave me a lesson on how to do it.
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And the good thing about it is that when I self-published my book God's Grace Through the Fire, from Str to trauma, I got to copyright it and then my daughter created my book cover.
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Yes, then my son-in-law did my and I, married, did my editing and my son-in-law did my formatting.
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so I had a team you had a family affair yeah and they and it turned out great, but it's just not.
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I still got to learn how to get it on on kindle and all that stuff.
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I don't know how to do all that yet.
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I thought you did that no, I didn't do that yet, so I don't know how to do all that, yet I thought you did that.
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No, I didn't do that yet, so I got it.
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Okay, we have to go do that.
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You have to set up a Zoom one day.
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I can easily tell you how to do that.
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It's not hard at all.
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Please tell me how to do that, because people say are you going to get it on kindle?
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Okay it's just an ebook format, but you have to have it formatted for ebook yeah, I actually started that, but then I got sidetracked to start.
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Yeah, so if I was you not trying to get off of your tangent, but if I would you, I would just literally let's get somebody on fiverr to easily just format it for you.
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It's ready, it's quick, it's done, and then we just put it on Kindle.
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That sounds good, so I got to talk to you about that.
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So you guys, I actually used Fiverr for my started with my podcast, but now I have another editor that does my podcast, so, yeah, we got to talk about that.
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So let me tell you, and I tell you I think I said we can spend hours, I know Let me ask you something.
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So who is your ideal reader for the collaborative books and how do you keep them in mind while doing your writing process?
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And then I'm going to talk about next, about your new book.
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That is such a good question.
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For the first book, our book for Audacity to Shine, I would say our ideal reader is somebody that was going through struggles.
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You're just like you've been through something and now you're on the other side or you're trying to get to the other side.
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And in that book we had so many people like people who had dealt with cancer, folks who had been in domestic violence, someone who had a sugar baby, someone who had been sexually trafficked, someone who had dealt with abuse in the church, you name it.
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There were so many different personalities and situations that took place in that book, and so I had people who, when they picked that book up, they read it multiple times, they didn't just read it one time.
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So I would say the reader would be and it don't have to just be men, women, but it can be a man as well who's gone through some things and so it's primarily this person who say you know what?
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I have been in the shadows, I've been in my pain points, I've gone through something, Life has been lifing and I need to know how to get out of this place.
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I need to know how to shine, I need to know how to trust God in this process I need to get to the other side.
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And the new book is called Audacity to Love and actually that book was supposed to be volume two, Audacity to Shine.
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But when all the authors turned in their manuscripts our chapters everybody wrote on love.
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It was not planned, Everyone wrote on love, and so my son was like mom, that's audacity to love.
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I love it.
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I love it.
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My son named the book.
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Yes, I love it because I read our book, and he read it multiple times as well, so it's not just for women, it's for men too.
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No, it's for men too, yeah, and so audacity to love dealt with someone who's.
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You've been in love relationships.
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You've been in family hurt and pain.
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You've been in situations with a parental hurt.
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You've been in a situation where, again, you may have had a church hurt, because it's about all types of relationships.
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Maybe you're mad at God, so there's different areas in that.
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Like, my chapter talks about my mother.
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Even when she was pregnant with me, she used heroin and she abandoned me, and my grandmother had me since I was seven and but later in one of my other books I talked about I think I talked about it in Audacity to Shine, or maybe even the one before that with Her Chronicles I talked about where I wasn't abandoned, I was regifted and so, knowing that she did something for me that she couldn't even do for herself, she put me in a place where I can be loved.
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But my chapter talks about when love betrays you from the womb.
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