Launching A Bizness Still?

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1:18 Well, good evening, good evening, good evening, and okay, wow, welcome, welcome, welcome. Hey, it's the last Monday in February and it's like, okay, we're here. This is it? This is it? Is it? Anyway, before we go into further let's pray. Lord, we just thank you tonight. We thank you for this week, We thank you for last week. We just love you so much. Father God. We know that chaos is here. It's here and present, ever present. God. We pray for everybody, and we pray for any and everybody that has your heart, that is seeking and work with you every day, every hour a minute. That Father plus chaos is here, and we will be affected in one way or the other, but we will not take our eyes off of you.

2:13 We will listen for the word, we'll listen for direction, and we will do accordingly as you've already put it in us to do. Now, Father God has always this is your podcast, this is your dialogue. We are just your children. So we're going to get behind the cross and that you do what you do best, and that set the captives free. All this and more we ask in Jesus name, Amen and amen. Okay, there was supposed to be a surprise tonight, but we'll wait till next week. It will be on point. Got to text some people tonight. Anyway. How's everything, how's the weather up there? What's going on? Cold? Oh?

2:54 Actually is cold? Though it's cold. Okay, it's really cold and got snow. It's gray. It's like, are you traumatized? Are you? Are you okay? So I'm fine, I'm fine. I'm actually fine that I'm doing well. Okay, well, I know, I know, I know, and miss Kay. We're in the midst of some mid terms and all that kind of stuff now, right or just regular just regular exams and stuff and projects, regular midterms, mid terms. Okay, Well, she's counting down the days and the weeks, y'all. She's counting them down. I'm counting them with her. Halli Loujah.

3:36 We're gonna make our grand entrance on the stage and look at everybody saying, you wish you could do this and keep it moving. So we're thankful. We're thankful, We're thankful. We're going to continue to talk about launching your own businesses, uh and whether it's a for profit or nonprofit. I'm going on participating in a couple of workshops online that's going to talk about AI and funding stuff for nonprofits and little stuff like that. So I need to catch up on that and see what's what, who's doing what, and I definitely will report that back. I need roll call out there. Where's everybody who's on who's on roll call?

4:17 Let's do it, Let's do it, all right, let's see coming through. Good evening, good evening, all right, VINSTI, hey even and congratulations. All right, all right, all right, let's let's do it. Let's do it. Yeah, wow, I think we left off with UH again. You know, you've got to get your mission statement, your vision and because that will lead us to knowing or help you to be directed towards what you want to do. Everybody wants a business, but not everybody can run a business. If you don't have the patience, if you don't have the skills to on how to get along with people, if you're not an organized person, need to be organized so that you can help your your You know, the organization itself, the mission and the goals be carried out, you can have.

5:08 You have to convey them. You have to teach them to some people. Sometimes not everybody know everything. Okay. They may just have a great personality, but they don't know how to answer a phone, you know, or they're going through a lot of emotional stuff and they're just an emotional roller coaster. That's not somebody you needed the front door because they don't know how to balance that yet. And that's where you come in and you have workshop excuse me, guys, you have workshops and things like that to better teach them. I was always an advocate for teaching. I think I shared with you all. After I got married, and then a year after the babies were born, I went I was invited back to my former organization to do a workshop and it was called Humor in the Workplace, and that's where the clown showed up. Yeah, that one, well, there were three young ladies in there that were mad.

5:54 They were mad. And before I left the organization, before I retired from it, I asked the board and the council and the executive director to commit to making sure that any agency that my team, which was the Family Strengthening Team funded, make sure any and all their staff get a shot at least eighteen credit hours of continuing education, even if it's just our workshops. They don't have to go to college, they don't have to step outside of CSC, but they need to be able to come and learn. So we were going around the room and I could smile them. I knew their agency guy because I heard them talking. I can't believe we got to come to this now.

6:37 We gave them breakfast, you know, it wasn't gonna be all day. But they were just so adamant about why do we have to come here? And they were made to come to this workshop and I don't understand. And we got that. Yeah, we got to do so many hours of it whatever they call it, and I'm like, oh my god, so we got to them, and of course the question was you know, tell us your name, what agency, and why are you here, and all three of them were like, oh, blah blah blah, this is my agency, and we were told we had to come. It was mandatory. So when the third person finally spoke, I said, well, the mandatory came from me over a year ago when I retired, and they were like, I said, yeah, So if you're mad at anybody, don't be mad at your exec your boss, don't be mad even at children's service.

7:20 Be mad at me, because you're the last people that will get any type of education. You're the last person and people who will get any updated information. You're not going to go beyond your high school diploma. And guess what, you're the front line evening evening. You're the front line. I left my notebook in the ride share. I had to flag the car mickey, stop launch, mincky come back here, you come back here, Mickey. I can only see it. I can only I don't even know what you look like, but I can visualize what that look like that day.

8:01 Bless your heart and make God bless you that. But you know, and then here's so there are people who don't who just don't want education because not everybody's built for college and and tech school and you know, higher education. We get that, but I just knew that these frontline people who are dealing with the clients who have no educational support at all except the high school diploma, could benefit from some of the workshops and at least eighteen credit hours in a year. And that was one of the mandates for you your agency. Hey, Charles, it keeps the getting the learning going. At times, it's hard to keep the learning going at tech. Yes it is, Charles, but you've got well, I guess you don't have to.

8:47 Because I'm a social worker. I have a ever learning and yearning for learning just because because my career, just like I say, a doctor or nurse. Things are changing over thirty years ago when I did CPR, when I taught, I was an instructor for the Red Cross, it was you know, fifteen chess compressions and two breaths. Now it's not even that. You can just you got you know, automatic defibrillators. You know, Also the numbers have changed because if you're cracking chests and stuff like that, and people because of the good Samaritan law. You can't sue people, you know, when your your ribs have been broken. We're trying to remind you. So things have changed, and my career, you know, my discipline social work is always changing in the sense as far as laws and legislation, insurance you know what they're doing, and stuff like that. So I'm a life learner. That's what That's what I was looking for.

9:45 That's I'm a life learner. So I'm always going to be checking in on things. So go ahead, Trey, I know you want to say something. I know when I was going to say, just kind of because I know sometimes being in a formal learning setting can be intimo day and overwhelming. But they have so many things like on YouTube now that you can just kind of go and dibble and dabble get. What you need to know. You know, I'm not saying you're going to be an expertise at it, but at least it'll give you some knowledge that if you decide to take it further, it might not seem so overwhelming, you know. So like one of the things. I'm trying to learn the American Sign language, and so I go on YouTube and I've learned like the alphabet.

10:27 I'm not you know, I still miss some alphabet, but that was a start. So now at least I can spell out some things if I need to. Now it's like gestural, you know, it's more than fingerspelling. Its other stuff that I'm learning as I go, because the population that I have now surrounding me is a lot of deaf and harder hearing and ASL or American Sign Language P efficient people. So and it's just beautiful to see. Sometimes we take things for granted. But that's the way. That's all I was going to say, is your film. It's okay, and yeah, thank you. We know that it's not for everything. It's not for everybody. Yes, okay, No, I'm not licensed. I was thank you for joining. No, I was blessed enough to have enough license spoke around me that I didn't. I did try for an exam.

11:19 I missed it the first time by six points, and I said, oh, I got to keep working. So I was just very fortunate that I was able to be around enough people if I need the license, you know, accreditation, thanks for having us that. You know, if I needed it, I could, I could be up under someone to do it. But the lord is blessed. Most of the time, everybody paid me in cash, so I didn't have to seek insurance reimbursement. But thank you for that question. But yeah, I always thought, oh, kind I gotta be. I was like, nah, I could do what I got to do, So you know, I was very blessed with that. But thank you so much for asking that, and thank you Trey for saying that. But yeah, EDGIC is not for everybody, and I get it.

12:03 But I just did not want any agency that we funded to have employees that were in the dark, especially those who were taking care of the client. They're the ones running the programs and stuff like that. They're the ones that was overseeing, not the executive director and not the program director, but they're the case managers or the case workers or the team players. That was that was the heart of the organization, and I didn't want them being in the dark. So there, so I said, if you need to be mad at somebody, be mad at me. I did it. I begged them to make sure that they kept that in play. But at least the next three years of funding. We went to a three year funding cycle. So so yeah, so I'm gonna always look and see. That's why you know a lot of my I've been right to lectionships switch from social science to behavioral nice and it's very much needed, definitely, very much needed.

12:58 I remember back in the day. You may be not old enough to know this, but back in the day here in Florida, there was a very bad case where a case manager of what HRS which is now DCF here in Florida, returned a child back to his family and they, basically, I think I believe they the child died. And so the news was out, Oh, social worker from dc HRS. I said, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no no. Unless they had a master's degree a social work or a bachelor's degree, that person was not a social worker. And that was just ongoing battle with the lay people in the community. Oh that's a social work. No no, no, no, no, I appreciate that. I had a coworker that worked for the health department. She had a degree in anthropology, and she called herself a social work.

13:47 I said, well, I know, you study bone of pretty much dead people. Social work we deal with the live people, you know. But yeah, yeah, the want to learn and is there time is not there? Well that's organic time management. Thank you George for leading me that way. There's there's skills that you have to have, you know, stigmentation, Yes, there's there's there's you've got to have. Organization. Time management is key because you still got to run the clock even though you're not clocking in at an agency, but you're running your own business. I'm starting a greeting card with my god daughter greeting card business because she's already in it, and I just need to add some scriptorial type cards because they're not out there. Because people need scripture and you know, to to help them to get through the things that are here and the things that are around the corner. So what better to do it in a greeting card. But you know I had to, you know, we had to really talk. You know, the stigma's gone there by now, well not really, not really.

14:51 Uh yeah, yeah, because they still think that people that work for DCF and and and child protective services are all social work and they are not. You know that they may have changed and made, you know, a priority with the different disciplines, but to my knowledge, I've still got people who were real estate people and they became a case manager and I had a coworker that sat in a group meeting with our psychiatrists and the head of the medical department at the facility, and she said, well, we social workers, I said, and you're not a social work you're not a social case manager. She said, well you know what I mean. I said, No, I don't. You got real estate background. I don't. So listen, well you know, no, no, no, because when you're going and other disciplines, you don't. You don't treat them with the disrespect.

15:41 A nurse is a nurse. There's an r N, LPN, CNA, and an HHA, which is a whole health aid. They only required ten hours of any type of educate of certification. That's all ten hours and you get your certification. You're an HJA CNA. That's a little bit longer. But LPN and r IN AARN nurse practitioner. You've got to be licensed, you've got to have enough, you got to take exams. But you respect that career, that discipline. But you don't respect social work because everybody licensees om a social worker. No, you're not appreciate you though you got the mind, you got the mindset for it. But anyway, but organization discipline, discipline, the ability to negotiate, to negotiate, you know, communication, active listening, things like that. I don't care what business you go into, you know, you need to have active listening skills because you need to hear what your customer is saying the consumer is saying, and be able to reinvent and go back and check your stuff, check your plans, check what you've put down in your bylaws and your articles and corporation and all that kind of stuff, and your business plan and make sure you're lining up with that. It sounds like a lot. I know, I've just heaped a whole bunch of stuff on y'all. I just put a whole bunch of snow on y'all. I'm not doing that.

17:04 I just want you to know that. You know, I know that when you see colleagues or friends or neighbors or family they started their own business and stuff, sit down with them and ask them, give me start to finish, start, and you know, tell me about the beginnings. You'd be surprised because all we're doing is looking at the outside, and the outside looks golden, but they've been for seven years and so yeah. Just scripturally, if you look at whether it Rebecca two and two like a vision and make it plain. And so you know, I've been picking up some tips to even though I do have a for a profit right now, but picking up tips from other people who are successful.

17:49 And so in order to get there, you have to write stuff down so you can see it. So I'm a visual learner and an audio learner, so I need to do both. But just start with that or what you see, and then when you do your vision. When you do that, like your vision, I mean yeah, like like your vision to make it plain, then you can probably start with what your mission statement will be. That's it. I need to because a lot of people, you know, when I was teaching on the college level, a lot of students I'd asked, well, why are you here to take this degree? Why are you pursuing this discipline? And most of them would say I'm here to help people. And I'm like, Okay, what people? What's the poppet, what's the age group? What are you helping them with? And they'd be like, well, I want to work with kids. Okay, good start What do you want to do with them?

18:39 What's their problem? How do we figure what kind of learning we are well. It's very simple. Can you do you like to be Do you like to listen and you're good at listening and understanding and taking notes? Or do you and that's audible, you know? Or do you like to do you do things with your hands? You like puzzles, You like to do things with your hands to figure things out with your hands and things like that. So you'll learn, you know right now. No, I love to listen. I can really I'm a good listener, you know, versus a tactile I think it was called tactile learner. And that's a hands on person they do they do better with that. That's your construction people, that's your mechanical engineering people that do things and they learn better. They got to have it in their hand and that's how they can figure it out.

19:25 Go ahead, Trey, I if I can share too. So one of the things that you can kind of recognize. So when I read, when I read something, typically I have to read it more than once to kind of understand it. And the reason I have to do that because sometimes thoughts, you know, I get distracted, you know, trying to read the words and and and just being transparent, even like with the Bible, trying to stay on task and focus on just what I'm reading. But sometimes like in school, I'll read it, but I can also hear it. So what I read and then a teacher's teaching and I can take notes. That was my learn the style because I did not know how to study to this day, if you tell me to study, I said, study? What study?

20:06 How? I never really grasped the technique studying. I did more memory memorization type stuff. But I remember repetitively spoken to me and I've written it down. So that's my learning style. Read it, hear it, write it. So I learned better that way. So that's moving forward. It's kind of be more in tune of how you learn and how you understand and how you better retain something. And I remember remember stuff from years ago someone's told me versus something that I've read. So that's the way it kind of start and recognize how you what type of learning you are.

20:46 I was just about this, I'm sorry, I was just about to say that as far as basically to identify what type of learning you are as how like how to better like how can you better retain it? Know whether you're touching it you see somebody else building, you're able to build it. You listen to somebody, you're able to buy. Listening to them, you can be able to recite what they said in your own words and stuff like that, or whatever case may be. That's how you basically identify Thats basically going back off of the straight set. There are four times learning learners visual, auditory, reading, and writing, and kinesthetic. So go ahead, tray, you're gonna say something. I'm gonna break these down a little bit.

21:28 When you were talking about the hands on so a lot of times if I've ordered something that I need to put together that requires the directions. Sometimes the directions are very confusing. So typically I might grab a couple down and say, okay, let me just look at the picture and I can kind of see this goes there, that that goes there, and rarely. Do I use the direction. I'm not telling you not to do that, but I can kind of look at something, glance at the direction, make sure I have the tools there, and kind of piece together what goes where. So that's a different I don't know what that type, but that's that's a different type of learning style too. But you just have to be more cognizant of how you learn stuff.

22:09 And how you read more information, how you you're learning now. Visual is a seeing. These learners prefer maps, graphs, starts, diagrams, and, to a lesser extent, photos or videos. They often use color coding and have strong visual memories. Okay. Auditory is hearing. Auditory learners process information best by hearing, discussing, and listening to lectures. They may benefit from recording lectures, reading notes out loud, and participating in group discussions. Then there's the tech textual reading and writing. These learners connect best with information through words. They thrive on taking detailed notes, reading textbooks, and writing lists. Okay, and the kinesthetic is doing TecTile.

22:58 He's my tactile known as tax child or body smart learners they learn best through hands on experience, physical activities, simulations, and role playing. And then up with the main definition and said now, these styles represent how individuals prefer to take, in, process, and retain information, while most people using a combination of styles to enhance their learning experience. So between college and grad school and and doctorate, I you know, I'm foremost read write and second visual? There you go? You know, I you know? Thank you tre see got gne you you could combine them. Okay, you can combine them, and you usually you're combining them. I am not a hands I've got right The only right brain activity I can do is martial arts and performing arts. But sitting down to crochet something or to knit something, I don't have the I don't have the patience. I just I know.

23:59 But I know people who could just crochet and go. I know people who can build things, look at it and say, oh, I know what to do and done. It's you know, I don't have that. I have the and I'm not afraid to or scared to do public speaking. I don't have a fear of that. Like I said, I've done martial arts. I'm going back into preferently taekwonk taekwondo and stuff. But so that's that's my jam man. I love to make things. There you go, Missy. Yes, So we've got people like like our crew here that that loves to crochet and knit and things and make beautiful things, you know, And and that's that's that's your main gifting. But you also may be an auditory person, maybe like some of you are listening to us on radio so you made you're able to listen, You're able to retain, and then of course you can go back and view, you know, the show, you can pick it up, you know, and take a look at it. So learning your styles, but not only you learning your style, but the people who are going to work for you and you're volunteers and the clients. You're consumers. I am a consumer that loves loyalty. I find that people with ADHD have different I have often auditory learners. Yes, yes, creative is good, very good, because you can express yourself in so many ways. That's why journal journaling became a big thing, you know, a big thing over the years. And now we've got the word called mindfulness. That's a whole expressive arts,

25:29 that's a whole that's a whole class, that's a whole degree. Now you could get a master's degree in expressive arts, you can. And mindfulness and yoga, all of that goes into that journaling, painting, doodling, all it's a whole thing. Now, it's a whole place, it's a whole discipline, it's a whole degree you could get now. So we moved on, you know, we moved through. We just kept you know, the wheel just kept turning and things just people are like, oh, hey, that's some like you're being so mindful holding space. No, just respecting somebody and being quite and let them talk. But now it's called holding space. You know what's another one?

26:12 My truth? If that's your truth. So they've been a liar before. Thank you. Journaling is fun and it really is because to write it down, write down your thoughts and everything you know is key. And sometimes then you go, oh, okay, I'm sorry, okay, thank you, guys, I just had to text something. But anyway, so you got to learn what type of manager you are, what type of director you are. It was hard for me to It wasn't hard, but I transitioned from a case manager to a team leader. Over my colleagues and the supervisors who I would work under was concerned because I've got a great sense of humor.

26:59 I'm always laughing. And do you think your coworkers will take you serious? And I said, well yeah, because all of them are trying for the position and I'm trying for it as well. So whoever's going to get the spot, we're gonna respect the person because we know they've got the skill. Set. We know that they were the better choice. And I ended up getting the job, the position, and I still kept my sense of humor. But I was organized, I was I played attention to detail, and I told my colleagues, you're going to have to you know, don't try to move me out the way. You need to be better than me. And I grew up with that, and I believe the Lord just placed that on me because I would say that same conversation, have that same conversation with my younger sister. You know, my job is to make you better than me. I would have that conversation with my kids. My job is to make you better than me. Don't meet me where I'm at, past me, past me, you know, so anything else, guys, y'all want to add here?

27:59 I want to say when it comes to starting a business, you want to think about how can you solve a problem. And that's key in like foundation to selling period, like going into like selling field, like the sales field. You want to identify that first and then create your solution of how you get help these people and stuff like that, because people are going to want to know, Okay, why are you what makes you different? I mean you also have to identify what sets you apart as well. So I think that's very important to consider when wanting to start a business. Yeah, yeah, and don't and don't be fearful now because if I'm working with any problem or problem with starting the company, hang on the end stage. I'm gonna get with that. Uh. I'm going if you if I was mentoring you and starting your business, right, I'm gonna already told you got to get a notebook, a three to five subject notebook, and happen that has pockets in it.

29:01 And I need a mission statement, I need a vision, and I need your goals. How are you gonna do what you say you want to do? And I'm also going to ask you to do some homework. I want you to take a look at your community and see how many businesses do the same thing you're proposing. Not to scare you, because there's plenty of money for everybody, plenty of customers for everybody. We how look at your competition. I'm a therapist, I was a therapist. I've got I've got not only the National Data Data Bank data base for social workers for the state of Florida. I got here in Orlando where I'm at you know, I got a county where I came from, So you know, if I was gonna be scared of timid, oh my god, there's so many of us out there doing that. There's so many therapists out there. And then they're not only social workers are are therapist. There there are people who have a master's in mental health, uh and psychotherapy.

29:52 And all like that. And then you got the psychiatrist that's a whole different thing. And then we got the psychologists. You know, we all do the same thing. So I'm gonna ask you take a look at who what you said you want to do. That's really gonna be beneficial because as somebody who I sell soul food, you know what I'm saying. So it's you know, anybody can necessarily do that, you know what I'm saying. But I've looked at my competition to see, you know what I'm saying, like, okay, what are they doing? And you know you need to identify what you could do better than that, because everybody has their faults and their red flags and their businesses. Right, sometimes people aren't consistent with their food. Me personally, I don't play so like my food has to be hot and ready like little Caesars. A lot of people that's cold. I'm not delivering no food that's cold. If I'm frying fish or frying chicken, you coming to my house or you better make sure you close enough for me to get to you.

30:46 Because I wanted to be hot. I wanted to be fresh out. Like I tell my customers all the time, let me know when you ten minutes away, I'm gonna drop your fish. I'm gonna drop your chicken. That's what sets me apart. And even when I go to events to sell and stuff like that, mainly my deserts. I don't cook my food food there because again that's just a lot of work. But just seeing other people's tables and stuff like that. Being in that you know room where it's just like, okay, there's a lot of people selling desserts in here, right. I'm also with them. You know, I've thought about it before, like dang, like you know, everybody's selling desserts, Like, ain't nobody different. They probably gonna go to them whatever the case may be. But nah, I'm usually always sold out, you know, due to my support system and everything like that, and people that just know meat period but it's just also I feel like it's important to know if it's for you or not. So that's why you want to start something small before you go into you know, getting the LLC dot da boom. Go to events. There's events in every state.

31:41 I feel like pop up shops and stuff like that where people go to the flea markets and sell yourself. Everybody got flea market. Go go there. And see how it works for you. Because you're gonna deal with a lot. And if you can't deal with people maybe even trying to tarnish your business whatever it cas for whatever reason, for whatever reason, if you cannot do with that, again, negotiate and be able to negotiate with people, being able to communicate. You know what I'm saying, you know, not reacting negatively, negatively when somebody comes at you negatively. You know, like you saw a lot that place, I look at you. But they need to be filled every year, is that correct? I looked into articles that articles of corporation. Yeah no, well no you don't have to do you don't have to want that articles of incorp are developed in your by laws that I think that's what you're talking about. No, that's that's that's foundational. Unless you change things. You have to change them something in your your bylaws. Then you have to filed. Oh, annually, Yeah, you have to do an annual report, yes, ma'am, Yes, ma'am. I didn't know.

32:45 And my daughter, she was like, she's you know, she we turned her, you know, into an LLC, and she's like, man, this came, this is coming through. But it was a miscellaneous advertisement, so we had to block those people. I had no choice in that. Uh. Well, I had no choice but to go LLC, right. Right, that's true. But uh and then I was able to teach her. I said, yeah, every year you have to report, you know, for us, it's some biz down here in Florida to the to them, and you don't. She's like, well, do I have to write something or that. No, you just have to pay your fee, you know. And that is an LLC. So see, that's a lot to work. So you want to test it out to see if it's for you. First, you have to see if it's for you. I'm telling you right now, I didn't have any I don't believe negative, thank god, too many of a negative.

33:32 Like I probably only had like one and that was just. Because you know, people get money hungry and they'd be wanting their money back for no reason. Fool be good, they demolish it. Oh, I just want my money back. You know, people would do that because people are not okay here, you know sometimes so they just do stuff. So that's the power of prayer too, because we know who these why no choice could you do it? So basically the. Being a licensed barber and a natural hair specialist. The building I'm in, we I have to have an LLC like put my hair business under that to be in there, basically. So yeah, and I didn't want to go space with the other sweet people because that's too many people back to back, Like I'm my own space.

34:12 I don't got to deal with nobody but the elderly. But her customers don't want but they do allow her customers to come in as well. Yeah yeah, yeah, which is cool. But yeah, so just knowing, just test it out first if you are thinking about starting a business, because it's a lot, Like it's a lot, and it may not be for you because if things get overwhelming really quick for you, it's. Not going to be. Yeah, if you if you're not able to do your breathing exercises and and calm down. And also now you've got us, you can you've got resources here that you know, you can pick up the phone and say, hey, I'm thinking about this. What do you think or what do I have to do? And we can give you that does that and your report need articles or just the first filing, just the filing every every every year, just the filing. And you usually you're paying a fee. You don't have to write anything or anything. You just go on electronic clean and fill it out and pay your fee.

35:07 That's all you have to fill anything out. Yeah, and a great question. Boom. And again, when you do start a business, you're not gonna be making money for real until your second or third year, so be mindful of that. You're gonna be doing. Nothing but investing, investing, investing, like putting back into your business. Put it back. All that money you made here, put it right back into it to get more materials and stuff that you need. Like you could start off with basics. By all means, you could start off a basis. I started off with like Mason Jar cheesecakes and stuff. Like that, very good. I upgraded to upgraded to starting cupcakes. You know, when I was able to afford that, and then I upgraded that to cookies and then started doing cakes and stuff like that. So therefore, like take it little by little.

35:49 You don't have to have everything when you first start, you know what I'm saying. Just ensure that you're continuing to invest it to It's like, okay, shoot, I'm making enough to where I could pay myself, et cetera, et cetera. You know, and I'm an author of four books. Now I've not made it to the New York best selling list. My baby brother just came into town last week. Thank you, Yes, come to Orlando. Let me know you're coming. When does the bylaws come into being needed. Well, when you're starting a business, you need to that's just that's just a piece of it. And if you're going to do a nonprofit, definitely that you've got to have bylaws in place. If you're going to go to a bank to ask for funds, to ask for a loan, they ask for your bylaws.

36:35 They want to see your mission statement, they want to see your business plan. Sometimes. Now I haven't done that. I've never had to do that, so I don't know what's what they're asking for. Now because things that so many things have changed. So that's another thing you need to, you know, kind of learn the rules of your state. So you need to see who's doing what. Who are the business entrepreneurs and state that are posting or whatever, and seeing what they're saying. You know, just a couple of them. You don't have to do a whole lot. I don't want you to get swamped under this. But I was saying that, you know, when my baby brother came, the Lord told me to make gift bags because he's got some friend girls. I don't know why my phone put the gs okay INNA station, but the Lord told me to make little gift bags for them, even though they've been to Orlando forever. But and two of them are from well three of them are from Florida, but one lives in Atlanta. So she flew flew down and the other two came up from Palm Beach County. And so I made little gift bags. And instead of putting my books in it, I put the bookmarks in it.

37:34 And I pay per clip. I have this long paper clip. It's so cool, but they're very long. And I used that and so and so, I said, you can't. Y'all can't look in until everybody gets here, and then y'all look in the bag. And so he calls me from his hotel. He said, least listen to this. And they're like, oh, thank you, thank you, thank you. No one's ever done this before. I've never gotten a gift. I said, well, I'm just appreciating you. A friend of my brothers forever, and you're loyal. Whenever he's in town, You're coming no matter what. And even though this is a shorter time he's gonna be in town, y'all made away here and you're making a sacrifice. So the Lord wants me to just say thank you, and they're like, okay, so now I want We've been worried one and two. No, I won't weep and worried one and two. And I'm like, oh, okay, I'll come by tomorrow. Okay, no problem. And then I get here. Before I was leaving on Saturday to go to his hotel, the Lord said, go pack pack the other book, The Weeping Warrior, number two. And because I've got a grip in my car, I believe in leaving out the middle man, because I don't I don't get Kinneys.

38:43 If my publisher sells the book or any other book you know, printing company, bookstore sells the book, I'm only getting a couple of dollars. But if I'm selling the book, I'm getting the full monty so and so I ran back in the house and I put some in the book in the bag and stuff. So when I get there, the third person who did not order a book that's from Atlanta, she said, I want the prophets one. I say, oh God, look, and they just had nobody else. So I made seventy some dollars that just you know, being obedient, being obedient to the Lord. And that's what I want to talk about these last next few minutes. I really need you all. I really need it's it's the sky is falling. The sky has fallen its and it's on everything, It's on every foundation. I need you, really please to consider your relationship with the Lord, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, because that's the if we go dark and we cannot electronically get in touch with anybody. I need to know that you know how to pray. I need to know that you know that you won't give up on God and you will still listen for him to give you direction on what you need to do. I need you to do that because I'm here, I'm you know, all the prophets, we're all saying the same thing, and we're using the same words. And now the chaos is here and we don't and it's on every side, whether it's students protesting at the college, or we've got now

40:14 cartel people, you know, taking out it on people. Now, you can't go to this country, now, you can't go to this almost this state. You know, it's everywhere, it's everywhere. Then we got people just not feeling good. They get fired or get laid off and then go back and then want to shoot up the place. I mean, just please, please, please, please work on your relationship with God unlike ever before, because he'll give you a peace that passes all understanding. He will give you a peace you can look at and see what's happening, and you can see God. Really it's really getting It's really right outside my door, but it won't come through the door. You need to know that you all are working on this. And I thank god somebody was. I heard on the news today and one of my talks your favorite talk shows they were talking about is a farm farm farm is a farm thing. Basically, people are renting houses and using it and putting technology in there so that they can and thank your other, Kay, they can. You could purchase, you can make a purchase like ten thousand dollars for them to get influencers, to increase your shares, to increase your viewers. And it's all fake things, it's all AI. But they're setting up computers, iPads and phones in these houses and your farm views, farming farming viewers, there's something like farming viewers is something like that, and it's somewhere in Google. I mean, we got we could google it. And that's how some people

41:47 I'm not saying everybody, and I don't even know who the people are, but if they you've got five thousand dollars, ten thousand dollars, you could farming views. Contact these people and say I get what can you get me? And they can tell you, oh, I could get you ten thousand viewers and it's ten thousand dollars. And and you know, so people, you know I've got a million dollar million followers, I got one hundred thousand. You know, you don't know what I mean. I would hope that that was all honest and everything. But right now, you know, this is just getting crazier and crazier because people were rather lie. So I was listening. I was thinking about our faithful viewers who have come through who but more importantly, they're faithful, and more important than that, they're praying, they're listening, they're taking back the information, and they're reflecting on it, and their lives are changing. So I'll take you twelve who've been loyal this is our fourth year. I'll take you twelve and the new ones too, the newbies too, and we will conquer this world. We will conquer this world.

42:45 I don't need no more shape. I mean, please be doing good with shares. I did finally get a little number, and we've had five thousand, over five thousand shares in the month of February. Only y'all did that. Only y'all did that I did. I personally need to know, and then I'm gonna let everybody else talk before we end up tonight. I just need to know that y'all doing your best to work on your relationship with God. You'll have your own testimonies, you're doing your own reflection, You're doing your own. You're taking your critiquing things, you're you're taking it in, you're bouncing back, you're pivoting like, Okay, that doesn't work. I gotta go over here. Anything you guys want to add I think she was gonna say something.

43:29 Learning from listening, and we're telling more and more people to listen to the to the show. Thank you, Charles, thank you, anybody. I guess minutes, please talk, you know, I think you know, trusting learn God really, you know, just just getting closer to him. Just start where you are. You know, it's no particular you don't have to measure where you are. I guess where someone else is. Just make us start and just listening to you know, things that are motivational if you follow. I follow a few people that are really motivational for me and encouraging and so just trusting God. Really, that's the motive I'm in. I'm stepping out of the way because before I could just try to do it without consulting God first. But you know, put him first, you know, trusting what He's gotten sought for you, and you know, just stay faithful.

44:31 Yeah, I'll say, if you want to be disciplined, I'm telling you yes for suresion love that I want to say, if you want to be disciplined, start by building your relationship with God. He will help you. You know, stay on course, for he knows the plans he has for you. So you got no choice. And yeah, just stay. If you want peace, because you're doing you want peace, be miserable. And because I got people who've been in therapy, like I just don't know what to do. It don't what to do. And I'm like, okay, well what do you want to do? I don't know? Okay, right, like lead on God for them. I'm telling you I've shared it before.

45:12 It in us, We put it in us. Assume you at peace. You know what I'm saying. Its strength whenever you need it. What Isaiah forty, chapter verse twenty nine. You know, so just trusting him. I mean, although you cannot see him, I'm telling you it's the best person you cannot see that. You can ever encounter. So you always come through. I just got my notification. I've been inducted. So you've been inducted. You've been inducted in where. The National Society of Leadership and Success. What the trouble? Wait on the email. I'm right now. We can get discounts on restaurants right now, that's okay.

45:55 But you can't get this movie tickets. To what you say, we go, we go into the movies. Congratulations, my baby girl did it. That's an extra cord of graduation in a few months. All right then, yeah, but anyway, but you gotta stay away from the distractions, the noise. You gotta move yourself away from the noise. And they there and and and get with people who are. Gonna lead you. Right. You know you'll know who they are. Just watch you, be watchful. But you gotta you gotta limit a distractions. Five minutes of peace a day, just to be quiet, be still. Amen. All right, guys, that's it. We're gonna see you next month, which is next week. I don't care what you say, be here or be square. We love you y'all.

46:45 Stay safe, stay warm. Yeah, amen, God bless y'all that night. SA