Hope

gonna be discussing a very important word called hope. I'm going to the streets. I'm gonna talk to the community about their definition and meaning and how they apply hope. I also have my thoughts on the word hope and how in what it means to me. Now I also have a book review and the book review is on Sister Mother Warrior by author Vanessa Rally is Slave. The come out this upcoming Tuesday. So enjoy episode thirty two

called Hope. I wasn't sure I was going to be able to do a podcast for this week because I lost my voice. Came out of nowhere. Never had that happened before. Now I've I've had a situation I remember years ago where I couldn't speak only because I had anxiety for briefly, but then once I calmed down, then I was able to words were able to come forth. But that was more of an anxiety shock type of thing,

and it was brief this case. You know, it was Friday afternoon and I noticed my voice started changing, and then by Saturday, I completely lost my voice. This has never happened before in my life. Now my voice is not all the way on it, but I'm able to speak now. It was very challenging back back a few days ago. So I'm able to do my podcast. I'm able to push through and try to produce this episode, and I can think of no other subject matter, because you know, it was just I had a lot of

expectation about a lot of different things. But it was a lot of things that I can't control. I can only control what I can control, but things I can't control, I really wanted, you know, to rely on what I call hope. You know. My expectation was that I hoped for these things to come to pass. I had expectations that I wanted to come forth. So I thought my episode should be on the world Hope because I think

everyone or at least. Most people ain't gonna say everyone, but most people, I think you know, have some measurable hope in their life because it's a feeling of expectation and a desire for a certain thing to happen. It's also a person or thing that may may help or save someone grounds for believing that something good may happen. And it's also a feeling of trust, but a feeling of expectation desire for certain things that happened. That's really thinking.

A lot of people to your strength on such a word like hope, and they have these feelings of expectation. Now that's a noun, and hope can also be a verb because you're looking for something to happen. You know verbs of action. So I'm looking for the action hope. I'm hoping, and I got expectations and a desire for something needs to come the past and and there's some

things that I just cannot control. And we all if you, if you, if you live long enough, evolve long enough, grow long enough, then you know that you can't control everything and that there are times when there's just things out of your control. And we can hope, we can pray. But here's the thing. I'm just hoping for these high expectations because, um, it's just you know a lot of different things that are taking place and are happening and aspiring,

aspiring and cascading on top of each other, you know. So, uh, I was just sitting here and saying, you know what I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do episode on the world Hope because I think this is something that you know, most people can relate to. And you know, I decided to go to the streets. I decided to interview various people and asked them their thoughts and would hope means them? Also, you know, have my thoughts on hope as part of

this podcast that's going to be the name. Just you know, this episode thirty two is Hope, and so I want you to sit back, relax and enjoy this episode. Um. I would like to say this is that when my children, when I first had children, I had a lot of expect a lot of hope. I want them to go to college, I want them to graduate. I want them to make the NFL. I want them to make millions of dollars. You know, you know this is the typical thing I want them to sell on them to be,

you know, as great as they possibly in. You know, I had those kind of expectations, and which is hope. You know. Then some of those things come to past, yes some of them didn't. But I put these just projection of hope out, you know, on my children when they were born. And you know, I have five. I have five kids, five children and two are still teams.

Three adults and so far. Um. I got to college graduates, and it was always my desire even if you become you know, I feel like this, you know, get the highest education as possible and use it to do whatever it is that you want to do. If you want to be entrepreneur, if you want to be electrician, if you want to work in corporate America, if you want to you know, work in Hollywood, or whatever you want to do in sports or whatever. Still get that paper,

you know, get that paper. This is a world of expectation, you know, this is a world of high expectation. So, um, when you live long enough, I'm pretty sure you're gonna throw out a lot of different expectations and desires. And you hope for a lot. You hope for a lot, and I think that you know what I wish for and hope for. Um, it's a world that is able to work together and be in harmony with each other.

Because life is balanced life. You know, everything, ain't it, you know, in life ain't don't get along everything in life, you know, because friction, what I'm saying is fuses things together. Friction fuses things together. So you gotta have that. You gotta have opposition, you know, and that's sometimes how you know each other, you know. But the reality is that, um, um, we can't hope for a world that p people are able to work together and being in harmony and peaceful together.

You know, always look at you know, I grew up and I watched a lot of animal channels. I watched a lot of animal channels. And what I noticed is that you got all these different animals. You got all these you know, that the zabras, the lions, the you know, the giraffes, the elephants, and I mean just they and they moved together thousands of miles from one one source of water to the next. But they moved together. But

yet they all have their little communities. They all have their different families and communities in areas, right, But yet you know, they moving together and the goal is to get to the water. So sometimes it's peaceful and sometimes, you know, some of the predators got to eat, so someone getting knocked off along the way. But they all still moving together. So we gotta be realistic. I mean, we gotta be realistic. You know, everything ain't gonna be

peaches and cream. There's gonna be some friction, all right, But it doesn't mean we can't be in harmony. It doesn't mean we can't move as one and fulfill the objective. In the case of the animals, it was the water. In case of life, its prosperity is peace, is financial independence, its homes, its friends. You know, it's all of these things, you know, food, shelter, clothing, you know, being able to obtain the necessities and desires and wants of life after

you get your needs, because your needs come first. So anyway, this particular episodes call hope, I hope you enjoy. I just rolled up on a couple of most sisters, and I want to get there understanding the meaning and definition of hope and what it means to them. How you doing, young ladies, are good, good, good good. So tell me your thoughts on the word hope and what it means to you and how you understand it? Um, Well, thoughts

on hope? I I understand hope to mean or to be an expression of no matter what's going on, it can always get better. And UM, as long as you do what you need to do to make it better, it will get better. UM. Hope is that element that keeps us positive when we're going through you know, turbulent times, because everybody goes through struggle. Everybody's got some issues, every eybody's got some stuff. But hope is that spark that

makes it all okay. Hope is that element that helps us to see the light at the end of the tunnel, trusting, knowing that no matter what it looks like, feels like, tastes like, it's gonna get better. So hope is that the wind beneath the wings of a better day. What's your thoughts on person loses faith and hope? Um. The person that loses faith and hope is um for lack of a better expression, someone who um is uh just in a bad way because UM, as I said, everybody

goes through something. We all have bad times, we all have hard times, we all have troubled times. But it's it's hope that gets us through that. So without hope, you know, you're in despair, and that's a bad and terrible place to be in my opinion, um, because that makes you hope less. So without hope, you know, without hope, you know there's no positive vision for your future. But as long as you stay hopeful, you know there will

always be a brighter day. I was looking back there for one of your bags that featured, um, one of my favorite poets my um yeah yeah, and it said you know and still I rise. So you know that that's a testament of hope. It doesn't matter, you know where you are right here, right now, doesn't matter where you start. What matters is how you finish. And if you're hopeful you're finished will be positive, strong, and you will be successful, victorious, empowered and powerful. Hello. Hello, I

ain't leaving you out myself. I'm coming straight tell you

right now. I don't think Yeah, I think that having hope is important and it's a it's positivity and um yeah, feeling like there's something better than the situation that you're in now and just being hopeful for something, just knowing it's like having faith and hope intertwined like knowing something positive is coming, knowing something better it's coming, but just holding on, Yeah, and just holding on because people can get down in the rut and a lot of things

are happening and moving fast, a lot of things in this world that we can't control. And you know, sometimes you gotta hope for a better day. You gotta hope for you know, better tomorrow. Um, it's the best you've got to offer, then the best death can be offered to you. It's hope, and it's not much, but it's something that is tied to your objective, your goals and

how you see you know your world. You know, if if if you if if you know you come up with an idea and then you got to manifest that idea, the manifestation you gotta you gotta believe that it's gonna come true and believe that one day the vision and the goals that you set forth it's gonna become a reality. And hope. You know, that's you know, the things that

you can't control, that part you can do. But the things that you cannot control, I can't control the sun gonna come out, the wind, the forces that sometimes we have to deal with every day. I can't control those things, but I'm hoping that those things change. I'm hoping that the day come their things are better. And then control your level of hope. You can control the decision to stay hopeful in the faith of all of that. You

can control that, absolutely I can. And but the forces that are out there that we cannot control, then that's with prayer. That's where you know the hopefulness coming at hand. You know, UM, you know you you know I sometimes when I think the most extreme part of hope is when you know, when we were enslaved and we hope for a better day and we you know, someone's running off the plantation and some of us, um tried to

free ourselves. They were looking for a better tomorrow. But they believe, They prayed, they dream, they plotted, and they hoped. The hope and the dream of the slave. You know what we are it we are their hope manifested. You know, we are their dreams manifested. That's the responsibility to stay hopeful for future generations. Right. Yeah, the third wind didn't walked in Mama's daughter. So I got to interview you.

I gotta get your thoughts on hope. I gotta get your you know what it means to you, and you know, you look very young and you got a bright future. And I'm sure everything the mom's did was to you know, to set you up to wind, set you up to be great, and I'm sure she taught you to love yourself and so forth. But here I want to get your thoughts on the word hope and what it means

to you and how do you incorporate it in your life? Um. To me, hope is just waking up every day with a sense of expectancy for good things and blessings to come your way, even when you're filling down, just knowing that you can, you know, trust that God will put better opportunities in front of you or have better days

ahead even when you can't see the full plan. Um. So I think hope and faith are like really linked because hope can come and go, but if your faith is unwavering, then you always kind of have a good foundation a positivity. Did Mama teach you that? Yeah? My daughter, well said, well said, thank you? Yeah? And so what's um, what are you hopeful in the future? Actually, I feel like the word hope is not but I feel like I prefer to speak things into existence as as I

feel like already was. So UM, I feel like I'm manifesting positivity and success in terms of my professional career UM, my business UM, and my personal relationships and just like personal growth in different avenues. So I think, um, hope has to come with actions. So and you speak into a distance and you believing that it's going to happen. So I would like to say I would like to manifest that. I think that's well said. I appreciate your thoughts.

I'm gonna be queuing this up for me Leak's book show, bringing a World Together with Books, Culture and Communities, coming out this Monday. Now go to my website maleak books dot com and the first thing that pops up is the link to Leek's book show. Now, I just spoke to about five women from a podcast about the word hope. But I got my young brother here who's been a

very very long time supporter and nothing but positive energy. Brother, I got to ask you your thoughts on the word hope and what it means and how it should play a part, if any, in your life. Well, that's that's a that's an incredible question. There Um, hope. It is a necessity, right, because we have to keep the hope alive. Um, it's a motivation, right to keep us uh going, we have to weather the storm. Um. Wow, it's uh that's an incredible question, sir. I that's what I have for now.

You know, well, I think you hit it on the money on you know, it's a necessity and it's something that you know, the things we can control, I always say, and then there are things that we don't control. And then the things that we don't control, that's when sometimes you gotta have prayer, you gotta have faith, you gotta have hope. Hope. It's oxygen without hope, that people will perish m hm. Hope gives you energy to move forward and to keep on pressing on to make yourself better

and improvement every day. So you wake up in the morning with hope that you're going to have a better day, a fresh day, a new day, that you can see things in a better light. So, yes, hope, that's hope. You need it. It's it's part. It's gonna be on the Leak's book, you pod, that's what this is all about. Thank you. I'm in the streets and I got a couple of young ladies right here. I'm want to ask them about the meaning of hope. I'm putting them on the spot. I just want to come from the heart.

Just tell me what's your meaning of hope and what it means to you in your life. Okay, So the mean of hope to me means since I am in the book story uh, our community coming together, um and understanding that our children are really our future. And at this point we need to come together to make so sure that school it's priority. Um. That not only when you see a child walking and you know they're supposed to be in school, that you stop and say something

that you acknowledge, like I am here for you. I do not know you, but you are our children, and that's what we're losing. And I'm hoping that we come together to mode these children into being successful and and move on with life, because at this point, if we don't, we are really failing our children. You said something significant about the future of our kids, you know here Malik's books. One our want of our slogans or missions to say

we believe children are our future. So we emphasize you know, a lot of kids, both a lot of children both. Why because we want to create self esteem, self awareness, love himselves because that's tied to success. So when you mentioned about you know, our young and our you, then you know that you know, it is what maleak books mission is all about. Now, I see you have your daughter here, she kind of scooting away. I'm gonna get her though, Come on over here with my sister. I

need to get your meeting the hope. I just understand you just were graduated with school, Carson High School, Carson High School. You go to college. Alright, alright, that's a beautiful thing. I imagine that mom had hoped that one day you will graduate from college. Yea, hello, we first year to get through high school. So tell me you know you're young, I've been coming. What does hope mean

to you? Um? Hope. It has a lot of definitions. Um, just hope right now for me is hoping that you know, I get good grades in college and I'm able to be successful. Um, you know, get my doctor degree later on in life. But you know, just hope is like hoping that throughout time that everything would come together. You know, you said something here, you said, I'm hoping to get good grades. Some things we can control some things we

can't control. You can control them grades. Now, we don't need hope for your grades because you can control that. There are a lot of things in this world that we we don't can't control, and we hope that's what your mom was speaking to. This change gonna come, you know, Sam cook song, so that you can control, you know, even if you got to spend extra hours to study to become what you want to be, you can control that, you know, mostly you know. I mean I went to college.

I had a professor and when the final grades came out, the grades, um, he had me down as a C. Well, I did my own calculations, and my calculation said I should had up being in this class. So I had a one on one meeting when he was a former FBI. Um I was it was criminal justice. He was a former a former FBI and he's a professor and we went down through the grades. He saw the calculations. It came out of B and he said told me, I'm still not changing your grade. That's what you're gonna be

dealing with the things you can't control. So when you think about that story I just shared with you, that's gonna be too much because it's like I can't do nothing because that's the professor. But it's like that's like I could appeal. I could have one took it. How I didn't. There's there's still channels because there's still got uh steps. You can appeal outside of him, but I didn't do that, you know. But there's checks and balances in place. There's still things that we can do to

bring it better tomorrow. Because he was just pure racist and didn't like the fact that I did well in his class, so he went out of his way to deem me. And you're gonna suffer from that because the color of your skin, it is Marca, it's the reality. Don't walk. Yeah, what it says, my shade is beautiful. Yes, yes, so mama. With Mama giving you a hard time, it's

because she want to see you win. She want to see you develop, She want to see you elevate, She want to see you, you know, become all that you was born to be. Yeah, that's true. Get annoying enough, but I know it's not of love. I gotta think of it that way. Yes, yes, well, hope it's important. So that's why I wanted to ask because sometimes it's all we got left. Sometimes we ain't got nothing. We can't control what's going on around us, but we can't

still hope. What you think people in prison holding onto hope, that's all they got someone in here for life. We have to make sure that our young youth are educated. Am I saying? Everybody have to go to school, but you have to still be educated some type of way. Absolutely, young ladies, thank you for this interview. Appreciate it's gonna be on Relik's Bookshew bringing the World together with Books Coaching community. Thank you, thank you, thank you. You heard

from the adults. Now let's hear from the team's young lady. I would like to know what you think about what hope means to you and how hope is important in your life. Um, Hope is something that you need UM in order to get UM, in order to get like lots of things done, and it's something you have to have in yourself and your family. Uh. You have to have hope that they um like they love you and that they will protect you and whenever you need to

be protected. Well, it's a beautiful thing. Where you heard it from the team. I got the thoughts on record, but I had to get someone a little younger to see what their thoughts about it. Your hope is going to evolve. As you get older, you you'll get a better and deeper and meaningful understanding because knowledge works like this. The more you know, the more your world evolves. And so as you get older, you see hope today. It's

gonna be different tomorrow. Thank you. It's time from a book review, and this is a very powerful title since The Mother Warrior by Vanessa Rilly. She's an acclaimed author of Island Girl Vanessa Around Breather a Reader, a vivid, sweepy novel of the Hajian Revolution based on the true life stories of two extraordinary women, the first Empress of Haiti, Marie Claire bond Hero and Grand Torria, a West African born warrior who helped lead the rebellion. They drove out

the French and freed to enslaved people of Haiti. So this book is a novel, but it's also based on the true story and its revolutionary in this call. You know, these are called historical fiction. So this is book right here. It really captures the strength and power of women in the Hajian Revolution. And this is the first country that got his independent is from France. From the Napoleon Bottle part.

They defeated the French and for their independence, and Tucsson overlook was the UH general that helped free the Haitians. But this book is about the not about Tucson Overtroy, but it's about the women who are mighty and powerful and extraordinary and was part of the Haitian revolution that helped defeat the French and gained independence from the French. Vanescessarily brings us two extraordinary historical figures, Grand Toyer and Maria Claire to life in his new historical fiction novel.

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