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called do It with Passion. I think you love. It is filled with passion and it tells you my thoughts about passion. My interview for this episode is with her author about the name of Jane Anna, who's new book just released Firruory for on Block History Month, Black Girl Must Be Magic. That's right, Black Girls Must Be Magic. I'm gonna be in a viewing her and she's also the author of another book did was the first in the sequel to this series called Black Girls Must Die Exhausted.

So stay tuned for that interview with Jane Island. Our third part of this episode is road Trip. Road Trip. Hey, I took a family trip to Mexico to pick up my two grandchildren and we went down as a family. So I'm gonna have that segment called road trip where I'll discussed I road trip to Mexico to pick up our grand child. Now, our fourth part of this episode is my book review, and the title of the book is called A Hit of the Game by Kevin J. Ryan.

Now you're gonna love this because this is a very inspirational book. It's an entrepreneurial book. And so stay tuned for my book review about A Hit of the Game by Kevin J. Road Trip. I can't hear y'all, oh man, because that year went to sleep Owners. We're riding down to Santy ain't go. Then we're gonna cross into Mexico, and then we're gonna pick up our grandchildren, your niece and nephew. You're excited, Mecca, Yes, we're all excited and waiting on this day. We almost to the Mexican border.

We're already in San Diego, and we're gonna go down here and pick up our grandchildren, bring them back that l a. We gotta Carmala two years old, a little Ishmael three years old, the most adorable and beautiful two grandchildren. I'm a gee daddy, And you're what said loud, Yeah, cheep, mama, keep mama. H oh yeah yeah. So we're excited. We're gonna spend some time with our grandchildren, spend a while. They've been living in Mexico, they've been living in Venezuela,

they've been living in Colombia. My son, my oldest son, went to Columbia, found a young lady, had two beautiful kids. So now we're gonna spend some time with our grandchildren and enjoying this. We went down the world. We went down to Port of Our, YadA, and we spent some time with our kids for a whole week. We went down there during the pandemic. It went down in the league. Had a great time. Part of our Yalla kids were

in school, but it was a pandemic. They was doing their homework right there on the Palmpty overlooking paradise in the ocean. That was the thing about the virtue you can be anywhere and year school. So that's how we had to set up. My kids was on the balcony there too, balcony, so hey one was on one. They had the beautiful view. Teachers like where how y'all la,

where y'all la, what's all that behind y'allad dies. Yeah, yeah, that was That was a great experience though, to be in school and being powder Farada and not missing class and had a good time with the whole family where his spell and Diana and two grandkids and who had to come back though. So it's been uh what was that a couple of years ago? Yeah right, yeah, yeah, right when the pandemic started though, so where we were

almost at the border. We're gonna pick up our two grandchildre and they're gonna spend some time with us in l A. You're excited, baby, that's I'm excited. It's gonna be coming. You know, all the babies always are. It just takes him some time let out. Then I can't shake them. Like, they'm gonna leave. They're gonna cry, They're gonna cry. Yeah. Yeah, you are magnet a. Yeah yeah, get around. You can't leave you. You become a stocker, baby, become a stock, right, I say, I know, I'll be

stocked in you. Yeah, we're excited. It's gonna be nice. It's gonna be nice. Yes, road trip trip. This week's inspiration for the podcast is do it with passion, and what I mean by doing with passion is in order to be successful, you gotta have passion behind what you believe and how you thinking what you're trying to do off and times, if you do something and your energy is low and your energy is weak, you won't come

across with the same effectiveness. So the passion needs to radiate from you whatever it is that you're trying to do. And I think there's a key component in order to be successful having passion. You know, I know that a lot of my success in my life pain from having passion.

We do what we do with passion, and and a lot of times people mistake the passion is being overconfident, cocky, or fiery or sometimes even you know, it's just sometimes misunderstood what I'm trying to say because you have passion and what you're trying to say and what you're trying to do. I've always been a passionate person, and so yes, passion is an emotion. So I have emotions and what I do. But that's what separates us from something that's

not living, is that we have emotions. That's what separate us from other life forms because we can express our emotions at a higher level. Being Emotional being is important, but it's how you demonstrate those emotions. Yes, passion can turn into something that can be against you if you apply it in an inappropriate way. But you know what, I apply my passion when I created my podcast. I applied this passion when I got this opportunity to have this podcast. So I think that if you want to

be successful, examine your passion. Examine your passion and do it because you believe in it. And a lot of times that's where your passion is drawn from, because you believe so hard. You got to want this more than you want to believe. I'm sorry, you gotta want this more than you want to breathe. That's how strong you have to be about what it is that you want to do and become in this world, in his life.

And I think that if you can draw into that in a stripped deep inside of you and bring forth the passion and what you're trying to do, I think you'll be more effective. Man. They called me the Kyle Weather of the books. Why because I do it with passion? Did I did I see myself like this? No, I'm just redirecting my emotions to something near and dear, And so I do it with passion. That's my inspiration for today.

Do it with passion. Well, hey, I got another beautiful author and then walked into Malak Books and I'm gonna have the pleasure of just getting a few words with her. She's the author of Black Girls Must Die Exhausted. Jane Allen. She got a new title coming out called Black Girls Must Be Magic. Yes, you gotta be excited. This is your second major publishing and tomorrow the beginning of black history. But your book comes out, and we're gonna have that

Molique Books. So you need to tell us about this new book coming out. Yes, we love to hear about Black Girls Must be Magic. Yes, well, of course Black Girls must be Magic. But the story continues with Tabitha Walker's journey. So she starts her journey and Black Girls

Must Die Exhausted and the Black Girls Must Exhausted. The first book, we meet her on her very worst day, and she thought her whole life was going according to plan, and then all of a sudden, she gets this devastating news and it turns everything upside down and she has to completely reimagine her life and figure out what fulfillment means. Now, a completely different cont text and different from what she

ever imagined. So that first book is about that first part of the journey and the thing that she realized she wanted most was to have a family of her own. And that was the news she got, news that she that was in jeopardy. So we at the end of the book there's a little bit of a surprise, and then we pick up where that book leaves us. I don't want to give any spoilers, but one way or another getting pregnant, we just don't know how. And so

we picked up with her. Tabitha's pregnant now, and we take this journey with her as what does motherhood and impending motherhood do to change her? And how does she rely upon her friends. There's a whole bunch of colorful cast of supporting characters. Her best friends Layla and Alexis. She has Miss Gretchen, who have people read the first book. She's a spicy woman in her nineties who just doses out truth in almost every sentence. She's gives wisdom and

humor coupled and um. And then she has her on again, off again relationship with Mark, who a lot of people have different opinions about the Mark. To show up in the second book, Black Girls Must be Magic, And so Tabby's got to find her magic in this book, and she has the help of her her village and a bunch of supporting uh characters to do that. But it's a it's a fast paced, fun journey with some real substance about life and fulfillment. It sounds like a good read.

It sounds like a fun read, and it sounds like reality. Yeah, it's a slice of life. I like to write books that take you that that bring you deeper into life, but also entertain you and also give you something to take away that you can learn about the life that you're living. Like I don't take you so far away that you don't come back with something useful. Your title is so realistic, Black Girls Must Die Exhausted. So when I first I never read the book, Yeah, you know

they not. And then you know, but I'm of a nonfiction right reader. You'll like it. I promise you'll like it. I got feedback, like you gotta let me know, Okay, I gotta let you know. I gotta let you know. I know that that title black Girls like it when I read. When I read the title, and we got it in the store. I said to myself, Um, well that's a real title, because black woman, you know the amount of work did you know you put into developing

your career. And then if you and I said to myself, you know, if she has a child on top of that, and I don't even read the book, but when I'm saying that, I said, you know, because I'm being uh, you know, I have five kids. So and I thought about the lifestyle of my wife and I said, man, you know, having a child, that's a career by self, the greatest career in my opinion. But if you're working in corporate market and raising the child, that's two career.

And I said, you're always going to be exhausted. And then and then on top of that, you know, things are not gonna be the same in your relationship simply because um, you're exhausted. I didn't get the same benefits because you exhausted. And I have to be simple that I can understand that. And that's what I saw when I saw that, you know, I saw the conversations I had with my wife. Yeah, it's I think it's just

it's necessary to acknowledge the burden that we carry. And also, uh, celebrate the joy and the incredible people that we that we become in the process of bearing this and and learning to thrive in the midst of the challenges. And I write a letter to readers in the beginning, and I just say that you know, we're reconditioned to believe that somehow ago you think because you struggle, that it makes you unworthy of something of joy or or something. But what I view struggle as is qualifying you for

something greater, and that fulfillment is our right. And and so we need to not just you know, make it through each day, but think about what do we want for ourselves. And so that's what I'm trying to encourage with not just giving people something to enjoy and read, but also to inspire and encourage to dream and to think about fulfillment and not just survival. Yeah, we've been surviving too long. We got to live, We got to thrive, and we got to elevate. And Black Girls must be magic.

That title resonate too. Why because black girls are magic? Man? Do you resume you your queen? You are the backbone of our movement without you the first teacher, the first I mean, when I first on the Mother's there when we first speak the Mother's there, when we first read the Mother's there. So that's why I say black Girls are mad, because you're the mother of civilization. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

but it's important, I think, to acknowledge. And one of the best compliments I get from readers is that when someone says, I feel seen, and to be able to do that and then bring a story about where you go on a journey and you're able to understand why, why the magic? You know what that means, and take that meaning on a journey and even with Black Girl's Best Exhausted, that title changes its meaning throughout the course

of the story. And that's something that we've been able to do, is the people we use culture to change the meanings of words of experiences for positive and so that's a lot of what this is is to amplify the positive and to take the pain and to take the struggle and to transform it into something useful, inspirational, enjoyable, meaningful. Yeah absolutely, because that's what I mean. Struggle is on Dame,

but I have to differently come east. You know, we rewarded at the end of the rainbowt for the sacrifice, you know, for the hard work for the dedicate, devotion, you name it. But I believe black Girls are magical and I love that title. I want you to sell a million copies. You you know what I'm saying. I'm hoping New York Times, you know, do a book if you blow up, sell a million copies. I mean for

you to get this self public. I mean, you went from self published selling seventeen thousand copies, which is great to Paula, into a major book deal with Harvard Complies. Yes, it was. It was a community. I mean what I believed when I when I originally set out to try to get the book traditionally published. At first, the feedback that I got was that my black fremale protagonist wasn't relatable.

Uh didn't like her. They love the stuff. The stuff that I was like, you know, this sounds really subjective and it doesn't sound like it's reflective of the community that this book is about. And so I thought, if I put this book out, it will attract its own community,

it will attract its own audience. I believe the audience will be diverse, and I believe that people can read about a black woman and learn about themselves, and they don't have to be black and they don't have to be a woman, and that the community that came around

this book at this book attracted proved that right. And so HarperCollins came in and they've been amazing and they said, we see this, we support this, we want to amplify this, and they have and so it's really been an incredible collaboration. It's it started with community. Community can create anything, and we are we're strongest in community and together. So you know,

I'm I'm very proud of that story. Well, I'm proud of you as an author, um you know at Believe, but we love independent authors, but we also like you know, major publishing authors, you know, so you know, we get voice to the voiceless here. Yes, this has been a lovely conversation. I'm so grateful. I'm going to share this with my podcast called Malik's Bookshelf bringing the world together

with books, culture and community. So we're gonna feature this conversation that I was blessed to have with you just walking into Milik Books. So I appreciate you and I appreciate a much success. Thank you, and you know, we want to help you blow up. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate it absolutely. Books bring opportunities. Thank you, You're welcome. This week's book with You is a book that I

stumbled upon and I was just fascinated about. The title of the book is called A Head of the Game, The Unlikely Rise of a Detroit kid who forever changed the East sports industry. This book is about a year old DELAYE Parcel who's just not a typical CEO. That's right what I said. Delayed Parcel at is a CEO of a company that he created called play Verse. Now I was blown a white because it's not that many black people in and it's still Black History Month, it's

not that many black people in the tech world. I believe it's just one percent. Particularly a CEO of this guy, Pernell, Delane Parnell raised a hundred million dollars invented capital and what he did was extraordinary. And he connected with guess who Sean did? He Combs And it's these kind of partnerships oftentimes did allow us to elevate. And what happened is a Sean took a meeting with him. The guy already had his hustle, he already had his company, he

already had his vision. He already had his imagination, but he's out here trying to form partnerships with people who believe in his vision. And the team had. Played Verse is a gaming platform that connects people in high schools and colleges and tournaments. And guess what, they get letters as well in this gaming world they get actually let football players get letters in high school and college basketball, baseball, track,

you name it. Well, guess what. This gaming industry is also an industry that gives letters out to people kids in high school in college. And he helped forge that type of platform with his play Verse company, which is a Los Angeles base. So here's this guy, Delane Parcel, who, like many black people, had grew up with obstacles but

overcame them. And one of the things he told Shawn did he Combs, was it's people like him and the bold moves and him and jay Z made did he felt helped his vision, his imagination and gave him the strip and the courage too to break and bus open the tech world and create a platform that gives high schoolers in college people an opportunity because this East sports is a billion dollar industry and this platform allows them to play video games as a sport and get letters

and awards and money. I always say they're taking magination with this book. A Hit of the Game about unlikely rise of a Detroit kid who have forever changed the each sports industry is about the Lane Parcel. This is an incredible book. I recommend it's a good read, particularly this is Black History Month. But more than that, this if you're into Archi and New Ship, if you're into tech, this is an excellent book to open up your imagination

and drive your force and passion. So right, that's my book review for the day because this is a great book and it talks about the life and the obstacles did Delanne had to overcome to get to this point, the moves he made and what he did, and the people he met, the forest partnerships like with Sean de Coons. So this is a great boat that is just filled with vision, imagination, hustle, business, chech So pick up your copy A Hit of the Game by Kevin J. Ryan,

available at Malik Books dot com. What you hear is in the background is the grand babies. We just picked him up and we had dinner together as a family. Then we're on our way back to the United States. We have the border right now, and he's crying. He's crying. That's all part of the responsibility when you're raising kids. You heard them, It's okay, little Ishmaelsmael, It's okay. Well, hey, we hit it back. I just want to let you

know that there's been a nice road trip. And um and and and when you have family and when you love family, these are the things you do before a family. I love to share some real, authentic, organic conversations with the family. That's all for now. Malik's book show bringing a world together with books, culture, and community. Thanks for listening. Be sure to subscribe and leave me a review. Check out my Instagram at Malik Books. See you next time.