Out with the Old, In with the New

now is some of the highlights of two. Malik's Bookshelf Year in review. I was able to interview some major headliners that was featured on some of my episodes last year. I know you heard a Spike Lead. That's right, Malik's Bookshow interview Spike Leave for his podcast. Also, I was able to interviewer Marianne Top of the Brown, Terry Crows, Kevina,

Melissa Fredericks, Garcel, and David Rose. Now interview a lot more, but those were some of my top interviews for two that I was excited to be able to have a conversation with and featured those interviews on my podcast. Now. Some of my highlighted podcast episodes for was What's Good in the Hood, Man Cold Build the Damn Thing by By the Box, the nipt, Give Us All a Fact, and Books Not Bullets. So those were some of my highlighted episodes for two and you can go back and

listen to these episodes if you haven't already. One of the main staples of Malik's bookshelf is my book reviews. Most of the time, either interviewer, author or I talk about a book, so I've done many this last year.

But some of my favorite book reviews that I've done was Love Me As I Am by Garself, Marriage Be Hard by Kevin and Melissa Fredericks, Unbothered by amar Yan, Cooking from the Spirit by Tabitha Brown, Nineteen Projects by Nickole Hannah Jones, Level Up by Stacy Abrahams, You, Oh You by Dr Eric Thomas, Mama Mentality by Kobe Bryant, Spike by Spike Lee, Finding Me by Viola Davis, and Touch by Terry Crews. All of these book reviews I did in and I'm hopeful that I'll be doing many

more in this year's upcoming podcast. For I'm looking to do big things, interview more people, be more creative, expand my base. I went out with a bang in two let me tell you that it's a ranking called Charterable, and that's right. My podcast is fifteen hundred ranked in the USA out of millions of pockets. My podcast is ranked fifteen hundred on the charter Bole and around eighteen hundred why why and then on the category they have me in is social and cultural. But hey, I'm ranked.

People are listening and these podcasts is still developed. To go back and review and entertain yourself. This has been a great year and I only touched on you know, two a year and review. I only touched on a few episodes, a few favorite book reviews, and a few of the interviews that I did. You know, I try to do a podcast once a week, so you know, if things work out the way we said, I do

around fifty podcasts in a year. So I have many podcasts that you can go back and you can listen to, and you can get a field for Malik's Book Show bringing a world together with books, culture and community. So hey enjoy this next episode because this is Malik's Book Show. Episode three means new goals comes with the new year. If you ain't setting any goals for the this year, you need to the number one goal for resolutions. I

believe is health. You're not sure what you want when you're younger, but you do know you get a little older that certain things you want more of an abundance of, because health is wealth. Every year after the New Year, the gym is pot people coming out the world world signing up for memberships, working on their body and their health. But don't forget that. You gotta work on your mind. You know, change your mind, change your thoughts. You're able

to be the change that you want. So hit that gym, Meditate, put some affirmation, some mantras together. You know, be positive, vibrate higher, have a higher frequency, put out more energy that is positive. Speak more universal words that are peaceful, into exist is deep deep. Make a change for the better. Don't be the same old you in two when you could be a new This is the year to be the change. So make a decision to eat better, live better,

strike better, elevate your consciousness and everything around you. Bring in the new, out with the old. Surround yourself with friends and family that elevate you to give you good, positive, high frequency conversations, and eliminate the vampires. This just suck your energy out and absorb all your blessings and add nothing to your journey. Get rid of the dead weight,

make a change for the better. You know. That's what my resolution is, and I hope that in that more prosperous and be more abundance for you personally, for your family, your community, your neighborhood. It maybe, just maybe, if enough individuals is able to make a change and unite with like minded people to continue that journey, just maybe, just maybe there's hope for this nation. But it first must start with you. You can't think about expanding until you

think about that little individual. They were all starts and where it all matters, because everything starts with you, You old you, you first, love self first. You be the change, and let's bring a new world together that brings love, joy, happiness and prosperity. We be the change because you change first. Kicking off the season with an interview I was able to conduct with Queen of Four and Supernova Slum at

Malik Books, we hold to the book signing now. Huen four is the author of a book It's Bautful, about twenty years and the New York Times bestseller called Sick of Women. Also, Queen of Four and her son Supernova. Slum co authored this book called Man Held Thyself Now. They put on workshops, seminars in Women's Sacred Circle, healing sessions all across this nation. Queen of Fourth for decades has healed thousands of women and many of the celebrities.

She's known for her spiritual, holistic approach and feminium spirit and energy as well as you know the men workshops in conjunction with their son that they host these training sessions with men to try to get men to open up and choose life and not death. No, oftentimes men

don't go to the doctors as often as women. They don't get checked up as as women, and as a result, you know a lot of things that if you catch it early, you could be healed very quickly if you catch some of these diseases early, and a lot of times men just don't visit the doctors on a consistent basis, so they do these men training sessions all across the nation. Um So, anyway, we conducted this book event at Malik Books and I was able to interview both of them.

So I'm gonna share with some of the interview and experts from this gathering. We took place over the holidays, so enjoy Queen of Four and super Nova Slum Interview. I can't have you at maliek Books to night. Get a few sound bites for Millise books bringing the world together with books, culture and community. Come you at Maleaks. This is Queen of Four Atlas Books and we love it here. Everything about this is such a charge. I

don't relieve Malik's books the Galactic Black Consciousness. I need you to give at least one good motivational inspirational for my audience on Reliks bookshow. Listen, this is the bookstore that will get sweared away body, mind and spirit. Everything is here, social, economic, political, holistic. Our whole journey is all chives here. Support your own, support yourself, Maligue books, Maligue books, well, everything in here charges our culture, our spirituality,

our well being, body minded, spirit, culture. It is such a chock full of knowledge and inspiration. I'm going through it. I just I wouldn't get everything that's in here. I'm excited and I'm coming back. Come on, b if you hadn't defined yourself, okay, one word, what would it be your first? My brother Galactic whoa over the top enjoy of the spirit of the most high quen four. What made you go into healing, wellness and hordlistic approach to healing.

I was in sixteen year olds of year old and I was at asthma, allergies, a fever, um conservation, he m, that's chronic mood. Paint. Every month, I had a list and I would in the three days you to change my life. And I had to change my life. And that three days I got my asthma started to come out as mucus. And then I went on three twenty one day cycles, which is what I have here to

talk program. I went on three twenty one day cycles inspired by a book they read a quick of Mother Nations, and I kept going until I fully healed myself one of those levels. And then I got caught up in the raps. I got excited. I wanted to let anyone know that healing is possible, and healing is our culture. We just started each other the oprah and the vegetable juice and which called the pot lickup. There's our culture.

There's things that we always did and that we must begin to do again so we can recover and heal ourselves. So from gateway to gateway I'm just gonna say very briefly, there's a gateway of mother knew, of whom heeling. The gateway of words was words have power to destroy, aught to be up, to heal and build to Florida, medicine

to move me. This medicine to tapping with you in child is medicine to work with your family as medicine forgivings and and learning and love and the family who no matter what, if you don't hear Ifi, you may not be here if you don't raise that frequent And he could a big old pot of earth teeth every day, and God is Ginger is garlic, and it's earth. It's it's real time, you know. So it's that level. If we level up, there's nothing that we cannot have as

a weak. So if you make it up in your mind and you add that to some detoxing as some good coaching, oh you're good to go. So when springtime can, I always go by and I go by the seasons. I go by this how the sun come up, and when the sun goes down to it's I just live in that place because I'm always growing. So that economics is already in you. Author Begs I am the bank, I am the prosperity. I am the wealth. I bring the well, bring the world. I walk in well. I

have wealthy thoughts. I have wealthy thought and I worked with my people work to bring the well, to receive the well and welcome people. Super No, but tell us a little bit about the man Healed that Self training well online? Right? So pastest training that we do for the men um a holistic wellness rest of pastest training and how did that? We came together and put together some additional information that can whether brother was participating with

us online or he was just working on himself. We laid out holiicic particles that he if he applies on a daily basis, he can really transform himself and be a better service to others. Most men are taught to put everybody else and everything first before him self. But he's still be quite to show up. And this is why a lot of our men have heart attacks and have depression because they have this uh. They need to want to be always the one to show up, and

he's not showing up for himself though. Right and so in the Man Held that Self text, we empower men wherever they're at. In the healing where whether they plant based or not, whatever spiritual have the may be from giving him tools to understand that he's accountable for himself and if even if he's not a percent, if he's working to really better himself, he can show up better for others in his life. But he must first put himself in self care first, love of yourself, you know.

And so it's it's a it's about approach with a lot of our brothers because they again they don't want to appear not today. They want the information, they want that they love the concern, but to to not appear to have it all together. A lot of some brothers and we see it. I got together that put Opie up right. All the brothers may not want to, you know,

be transparent with that right. So it's about finding the right love language to communicate with that brother, letting me it's okay, it's okay, man, open up, and just to enhance himself. You know, we talk about self care. You know, this, this, this whole vessel is about the knowledge of self, of caring for yourself because the lack of to be careless is a detriment of your life. So yeah, it's how

you speak to him. You know what I'm saying with careless for female, Well, if you're a careless man, you are talking it man that is out here on a whim, that in a in a snap, you out of here because you are careless. So be a careful man, a care full man, a man that is cared for in full of man. So are we ready to get our industry this year coming in? Yeah? I was ready to get out of prosperity. And it's even somebody even to connect to. That's why it's called collective economy. That's right,

bring circle, bring that full third. There's somebody in this room that has another piece of what you want. Somebody has the concept that somebody has to find it. Can y'all get together? Yeah? Absolutely, do what you can. But we got to make a conscious effort to do better as black people because economics can change the quality of your life, but also our community in our neighborhoods, and we have to recycle that money and we have to wherever we can. There times when we unfortunately you know,

we won't make no automobiles. So you ain't got no choice, but book right, we got your man helped myself. That's Sacred Woman, we got it here, so I know what Amazon is the number one descript your books will come on. That's right, and support that's still a unit sales for them. And we're recycling that black pill right. Thank you Queen of four and thank you super No Slum for sharing with us your high energy and your frequency and the gifts that you are able to acquire in your journey

towards enlightenment. Thank you, We appreciate you. If you're looking for a good read fore particularly for boys, and it's hard to find. And I'm not saying girls can't read this book, but it's hard to find a really good book for boys. And they you know, people come in all the time ask me, but make what what do you working? Man? And a you know, a preteen, you know, a youth and going to the doulthood, I say, and he doesn't like to read? Um? Because one of my

first is, hey, what do you want? What does he like to read? What I'm saying, well, oftentimes you know, they really don't know. Parents don't know because the kids don't really read. Well. A good book I always say is Victory Stand. Now it just came out, but I like Victory Stand because there's not a lot of a whole lot of reading, but the reading has a message. And the Victory Stand Raising My Fists for Justice by

Tommy Smith and Dirk Bonds. And the reason I like this boo because you know it's illustrations in there is you know, they're all in black and white. But it had doesn't have a whole lot of read, but it got a message in there. And sometimes you gotta meet kids where they had and so Victory Standard is just a book about Tommy Smith raising his fists in the sixty Olympic Games. Uh. He was a member of the Black Panther Party during that time. I believe um or

these sympathize with them. And you know he won the gold medal in the nine Olympic Games. He raised his fist, him and Tommy Collos and as a result of their protests for the social injustice was taking place in America. UM, they were sent home, expelled from uh the Olympic Games, and there was a black last for many years, many years. Uh. Tommy Smith, UM now came out and you know, collaborate with Dirk Bonds to put out this book for our youth to lift uplift them. And show him the power

of change through sacrifice. Shammy sacrifice a lot of his wealth because of the fact that he made a stand against what was taking place in America in UM and so for the social injustice it was taking place in their president that was taking place. He sacrificed his notoriety and his game and his fortunate he achieved by winning and in the nineteen and living gold Man in the two. Now you know, we look back, rewind and so forth,

and he's being honored for his sacrifice. UM at the Mexico Olympic Games and UM John Carlos, he had won the bronze medal. He also stood on the podium UM in his black socks and raised and he also raised his black gulf fists along with Tommy Smith to protest the racial and just inflicted upon African ber I like

to say black people. Both men were forced to lead Olympics, received death threats and face ostracism and continue economic hardship UM in the In this first ever memoir for young readers, Tommy Smith looks back at his childhood growing up in Royal, Texas, through his stellar athletic career, accumulating in his historic ventory at the Olympic podium protests and so, um, you know, sacrifice oftentimes a necessary in order to advance UH personally, professionally,

and you as well as your community and nation. Tommy Smith h you know, protested that. And so this book, Victory stands just you know, beautiful book is illustrated, not a lot of words, easy to read, but it got a message and it's you know, like I say, it's a good book for young men as well as women

can read it as well. But you know, graphic novels is a hot new genrey of books that UH is on the bloom because you know, um, some of my children just don't like to read a whole lot of wordy, wordy books, so why not break them into a graphic novel and a novel they got a message? So I recommend Victory Stand. That's my book review for this episode. You can pick your copy of Victor Stand a League books dot com or visit our stores or wherever books

are sold. Thanks for listening to Malik's Bookshelf where topics on the shelf, our books, culture and community. Be sure to subscribe and leave me a review. Check out my Instagram at Malik Books. See you next time,