Praying for Destiny Helpers w/ Jekalyn Carr

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Speaker 1: Calling all my sweeties to the forefront.

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Speaker 2: I'm your host, Christophine, and this is the Keeping Positive Sweetish Show.

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Speaker 1: Today.

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Speaker 2: Joining us, we have a Grammy Award winning singer, songwriter, actress, author, and entrepreneur Jacquelin Carr. I know she's gonna pour into us, and I'm so excited.

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Speaker 1: Sweetie.

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Speaker 2: Please give a very warm welcome to Jacquelin Carr. Heyo, are you.

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Speaker 1: I'm good. It's so good to see you you. Likewise, thank you. It's been a long time. What was it like twenty twenty three?

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Speaker 2: Yes, when we did praise this together right here in Atlanta, that was a good time.

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Speaker 1: It was hot. Listen, Hilanta definitely got his death every scene it.

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Speaker 3: So you did have different wigs your characters bring you know what I'm saying, evly, your character.

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Speaker 1: Was a lot of fun. We had fun shooting at you. It was yes, yes, well, Jacquelin, I'm glad you're here.

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Speaker 2: It's been a long time because we've been talking about doing something together. So I'm glad you got on when they called and I was like, absolutely, we have to have her.

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Speaker 1: Yes, And I'm just so proud of you for everything you've done.

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Speaker 3: Likewise, thank you, here doing your thing.

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Speaker 1: You know, we're doing I'm trying to stop saying I'm trying. We're doing it. Yes, we're doing that thing. Thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 2: So at just the age of thirteen, you've been doing this for a long time since you You've been singing since you were five. But at the age of thirteen, you had already been on Ebene's power one hundred.

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Speaker 1: I ain't even done that.

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Speaker 2: That is amazing looking back, like, what would you feel like the drive was even start getting accolades at that age.

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Speaker 3: Honestly, I didn't even expect it. At a very young age. I just knew that, you know, I was destined to be to be great and to do what I do or whatever. And you know how like you're doing what you do and you just say yes, so Jesus, then yeah, and then he just you know, rewards you, and he follows you. Sometimes you don't even know what the journey looks like. I guess that's why, well not, I guess I know that's why it pays to just trust them. And so a lot of things that I have accomplished is yeah, very very young, and I'm like, oh my goodness, yeah, but it's great because I remember saying, you know, all I wanted to do was to inspire people and to give them hope through my gifts. I didn't know that it would be at that young where I'd be actually accomplishing things.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, things, my huge molestones at a very young age.

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Speaker 2: Let's take it back to that five year old Jaquelin card when you said you always knew you were destined. A lot of people, I think who dream big and then actually make it. It's something in that little child that they always knew. Take us back to a five year old Jacquelin and what she always knew.

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Speaker 3: Well, So I come from a singing family, speaking for very talented family, and I was that little girl I couldn't escape. Every time I turned around, I was singing. I was singing in the mirror, singing to the grass. The grass was my choir. Cousins, come over. I would make a choir, had to sing in my choir.

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Speaker 1: Okay, you were that cousin singing it. Well, did you have a name for the choir?

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Speaker 3: No, it was just Jaqueline car choir. And you know, going to church and all of that and being around it like I grew up in it. But sometimes just because you know you're around it, that doesn't mean that's what you're supposed to do. I knew that was what I was supposed to do, and my parents recognized my gift.

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Speaker 1: I teld a little.

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Speaker 3: Bit of the story when we was in choir rehearsal and the choir was singing that was out of key. At that time, I was like five years old, and I stopped the choir and I was like, y'all, WoT the key? And I gave them their correct keys. And you know, my parents they recognized my gift and started cultivating that and it just went from there.

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Speaker 1: That's amazing. Wow.

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Speaker 2: So raised in a church, come from a family of singers and talented musicians. What was or was there ever a moment where you were like, you you know how we start. We know this is what we're supposed to do. But was there ever a moment where you're like, I want to try something different? Or has it always been gospel?

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Speaker 3: It has always been gospel for me specifically, because I just always love music that just I don't know, give people hope. Not saying no other music does that, but it's just something about gospel music.

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Speaker 1: It is.

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Speaker 3: It's just something about it. I don't care who it is, whether it's traditional contemporary that you listen to. After you finish, you you're gonna have some type of feel good about yourself. And I just love singing that type of music. So I never kind of wait, never wavered away from that.

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Speaker 1: That's good. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I learned early on what my lane was and I stay true to that. There's a lot of things that I know that I could do, and I'm like, when when it all boils down to one thing, I know, this is what I'm supposed to do, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I love it. I love that.

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Speaker 2: So you were recently inducted into the Gospel Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 1: How was that? Girl?

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Speaker 3: It just feels surreal. I'm twenty eight, and you know, but I have been doing this, like we said, since I was five years old, and it's just amazing to see how far God has allowed my reach to be when it comes to my music and all of my gifts as a whole. And to just know that people have been such because in order to be inducted to the Gospel Music Hall of Fame, you know, you have to have somebody listening to you. And so Okay, I'm just grateful it is mission accomplished for me because that I see it from the view of so many people have listened and have been encouraged and inspired, not just in America but all across the world.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, you were doing the lawyer's work. Truly.

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Speaker 3: I do my best.

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Speaker 1: I love that. Let's take it too.

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Speaker 2: I'm an artist as well, and a lot of people don't see all the hard work that goes into becoming a Hall of Famer. Studio time, the touring, all the things. And you've been doing it since a young age.

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Speaker 1: What was that like? Were you always excited to go into the studio? Was like do I have to do this? And what is your favorite part of the artistry?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and every day in one excitement Because there were times that I would literally have to get off the plane, which is recently because I'm working on my album and had to get off the plane, had a little time to go home and then go straight to the studio, you know, or and then have did what I did the night before on stage and stuff. Because I don't know what it means to not go hard, like I'm always you know, giving my all, you know, and just having those moments where it's like you have to go from one thing.

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Speaker 1: To the next and the next and the next.

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Speaker 3: However, I find joy in it. It's like once I'm in that studio booth or on that stage, it's like something that goes is offered me because it's like these people they don't know what happened before I got here. You know, they don't know what happened before you got in the studio. And it's your duty to always give your best and give your all and always say too when you're grace for it. It kind of just flows a little differently for your grace.

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Speaker 1: I love it.

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Speaker 2: I love that in your twenty eight years, what has been some of the biggest lessons that you've learned so far in business?

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Speaker 3: To know your business, come on to read your contracts, you know, things of that sort. My journey is a little different. I've been independent since we came out. My dad's my manager, we have our own record label, publishing company, all of the things, and so but I would encourage people, no matter what your journey looks like, to it doesn't hurt to get to know the business that you're trying to go into, not just you know you being on stage. How do I preserve my vocals? You gotta know the business too, you know, and it's okay to not know. That's what research is for. And then also you know, praying and ask God to send those people who can also handle you the way you're supposed to be handled. Yeah, because we're not gonna mishandle nothing over here.

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Speaker 1: I know that. Yeah, that's so good.

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Speaker 2: And it's good that you have your father, someone that you know really cares about you. And since literally day one, exactly.

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Speaker 3: Day one, Yeah, because I would hear stories and you know, so many people have to change this and you know, we go through changes with teams, and everybody who started doesn't stay.

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Speaker 1: It's just a whole lot.

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Speaker 3: But I've been blessed to have my day once. So yeah, God is good.

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Speaker 1: He is good.

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Speaker 2: And I love that you guys have your own label, your own publishing company, because a lot of especially us in our black community, we don't we lean on the big labels to really kind of help us cultivate what's going on?

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Speaker 1: You do not know? Yeah, so I love that taking on that? Is it more responsibility?

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Speaker 2: Do you feel having your own label and have your own publishing company?

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Speaker 3: Well, A lot of the work is on my dad, so he'd how dannce that. I just tell him this is what this is. The vision is da da da da dad.

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Speaker 1: I love it, or we have a collective vision or whatever.

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Speaker 3: But it is a lot of responsibility because we literally have to run it as if it was another label. You know, from pr and you know all the aspects. Okay, so it's a lot of responsibility. But we can handle it. You are handling and handle it, handling it since thirteen.

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Speaker 1: I love it. That is incredible.

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Speaker 2: Now you have nine nine and number one Billboard and songs. How does that feel one as an independent artist and you're only twenty eight years old.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Uh, It's just one of those surreal moments for me because my very first song, which was my breakout single, greaterst Comment, we released that when I was about fourteen fifteen years old. We did not know what that song was going to do. All we knew was, you know, God had given us a song and told us to release it. And I'll never forget, you know, just the different testimonies that I will hear across the world, and then from there now to don't faint and just how far I'm speaking of radio singer, how far we've come, it's just been It's amazing. I'm like, goodness, we're about to be number hello, yes.

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Speaker 2: Seriously, because don't think has already gotten two million streams?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, now over three years.

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Speaker 2: Good lord, that's a lot of people and a lot of taps, right right exactly?

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Speaker 1: They love you like we love you like that? Yes, I love it. When did you know that this was more than just a gift?

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Speaker 2: It was an assignment, you know, because you had this undeniable talent.

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Speaker 1: But when did Jacquelin know that this was actually your assignment?

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Speaker 3: I don't remember at what point it was, but I do know I was young. I'm grateful for the type of parents that I have because, you know, when they recognized it, they first knew that, you know, it was this was something. This was something we didn't know where it was going to go, that it was something to the point to where they invested into their child.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, when it comes.

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Speaker 3: To values, teachings, even sacrifices, just all the things. And then along my journey I started to see, you know, how much how important this was, and my walk and my journey was to God that I wasn't just an average person. And I will say to one of those moments was when I was in public school and then I was taken out of public school to go to homeschool. And my parents was like, you know, they were just felt the need because they didn't know it was ahead. But in my mind, I'm like, something much get read, man, this be something. So yeah, I started public school in fourth I mean homeschool rather in fourth grade.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a big shift, I'm sure. Friends to home.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I was in what you call extended homeschool, so I would do my work at home and then we would go to the school to test. Yeah, shout out to Gateway Christian Homeschool. They were great people, amazing people to my family. And obviously it was before like middle school, junior high, high school, all that, so I ain't really I wasn't really bothered by that. I was still I was an active kid. My parents still I cheered, I modeled, I did a whole lot of things because I was active.

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Speaker 1: They just made sure that there was a balance. That makes sense.

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Speaker 3: Like even when it was.

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Speaker 1: Time for prom, I was gonna ask you my.

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Speaker 3: School it was it was a Christian school.

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Speaker 1: They didn't really have all that prom stuff.

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Speaker 3: However, during the same time that I was supposed to have from or would have had from, that's when Ebony magazine was honoring me that year with Beyonce Lebron James and whole a lot of people. I'm like, yeah, take that, that is crazy.

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Speaker 2: I mean even that so passively. Yeah, Beyonce Le, that is amazing. Now you have Jaquelin and the Legends. This is a stacked album of gospel royalty from Yolanda Adams, BB Winings, Karen Clark Sheer, Shirley Caesar, one of my favorite childhood like I Love Me So Shirley, tim Barell, and John p Key had more to be so young? What made you really want to pull your greates closer?

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Speaker 3: It was time. Anyone who knows me any interview that I do, people ask me all the time, who are some of your favorites. It's always going to be the legends. Yes, I was blessed to be raised in a household where I got everybody, not just contemporary, but the older the old school too. And these people have obviously paid the way, broken barriers and all of that. Some of the things that they went through I never had to go through. You know, because they endure, they conquered, Yes, and to have them on my album, it's just like, oh my goodness. And literally when I hit all of them mother, they were like, of course, yes, okay.

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Speaker 2: Take us to them because I'm so curious, like you just call them up and say hang on.

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Speaker 3: Shirley, yes, her Yolanda Adams bb he like Niee Bear women niece. But it was so fun and also, you know, even beyond the being actually in this studio with them now, Pastor Shirley, we have recorded before, but it's been a minute, and so being in the studio with them, it's just never a dull moment. I always imagine something from them.

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Speaker 1: Laughter.

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Speaker 2: It's always if you could remember a piece of advice any of the legends have given you. What's something that really that she really held close to here.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, one of the things that Pastor Shirley told me, and this was actually before the world knew who Jaquelin was, she had to sing in Memphis.

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Speaker 2: That's where I'm from, and I did not you're from Memphis. I'm from Martin, Tennessee, two hours.

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Speaker 1: North of Memphis. That's crazy. I did not know that.

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Speaker 3: She had a concert there and she said. She called me baby Shirley, and she said, uh, I want you to remember this one thing. Never let people change who you are. Stay true to who you are. We actually still have that video somewhere some some hard drive something. But yeah, that that really stuck with me. And as I went along my journey, I knew that, you know, I may not be everybody's cup of tea, but what I have and what God has given me is assigned to somebody's destiny. And so yeah, I stay true to Jacquelin. I love Jaquelin, I love my lane. I love what I'm supposed to do how I do it.

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Speaker 2: And uh yeah, if you had to list your top three worship leaders and listen, okay, this is like if you're not a list, it's okay, you are still great.

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Speaker 3: She put me on the spot. It's top three. I'm gonna say, Jason Nelson is one. Oh my gosh, Brian Courtney Wilson.

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Speaker 1: C yep, that's good. Listen, we are that is so good.

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Speaker 2: Yes, How do you balance honor, honoring the traditional gospel sound and the new sound that you are cultivating now?

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Speaker 3: The balance is very well interesting enough, Like when I would do my live concerts, I have this segment that I like to call the old school segment, and I would just do like throwback songs, you know, hymnals and all of that. So it's something that I've been doing for a while. I'm just now putting it on record, you know, on an album. I think it's very important because I think my generations, generations.

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Speaker 1: After me, all of that need to be.

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Speaker 3: Informed of the old school gospel that is still hitting today. It's not something that we they that was song then and then it was left. No, we still singing them songs today and they get the blood will still tear up a house.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so the balance, the balance is very good, and I'm glad that, you know, the gap is constantly being bridged so people can know it's not it's not a separation or anything to be divided, because it's all The gospel is the gospel, you know, you just have the different sounds.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that.

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Speaker 2: Ten years of number ones is rare for any genre, like any jore.

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Speaker 1: But how do you keep your song writing fresh?

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Speaker 2: Do you have like different writers come in or do you write everything.

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Speaker 3: All of our writing is in house. I write it, my dad write it, Mom, write it. We write it together.

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Speaker 1: Wait, so the whole family writing?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: And how do I keep it fresh?

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Speaker 1: Now?

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Speaker 3: I don't mean to be deep, but I mean to be deep. I never and when I say never, I mean that I never release anything if God has not given it to me, because He knows what his people need and who better to acts, you know than him?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 3: I'm always asking him for music that is not just for a season, but you can sing it and you can play it at different parts of your life and in different seasons. And God has done that and continue to do that.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 3: Most of my songs are pulled me out. So on this, you know, I recognized what my assignment was. And I say this all the time, which is supernatural faith activation, debating your faith, getting you to see who you are in God, what he wants for you, despite your past, despite where you come from. God can use where you at, wherever point you are. And so that's what I try to you know, I try to do sing in my music and all of that. And the only way it can be done is I got to ask him.

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Speaker 1: Verse. Absolutely, I love that.

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Speaker 2: So what is your time before you go into the studio, before your creator space, and before you even enter that space, what is that time like for God to even receive what he asked for you?

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Speaker 3: So I study my songs because the more you study them, the more connected you become to them. And I always have to ask to what ad libs you want me to say? I'm very big gonna have ad libs. I like to say stuff with substance. I want to just be singing, and we say, you know, because what you say can go a long way or it can stay right there right, and so yeah, I always have to ask, even when it comes down to the ad libs and all of that, and people ask me. People when I be in the studio, the engineers be like, you be out here in an hour and that I was gonna be yeah, because I can't prepared spend the night here.

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Speaker 1: I do. Yes, I love it. Do you like record on your phone?

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Speaker 6: Like?

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Speaker 3: So when a song comes comes to me, I record on my song because I'm gonna forget yes, because they sometimes come at run the moments and then I'll come back at whatever moment. I don't like the forces. I like for it to just naturally happen, come back, finish writing it, and send it to my daddy, send it to the team, and we go from there.

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Speaker 1: Do you have a studio on your home?

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Speaker 3: I don't, and I've contemplated it because it's like all of my work is done, you know, every once we create the pattern on the key piano and stuff like that, everything is done elsewhere. Yeah, And I'm just asking myself, is it really worth worth it?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Because I mean, one, it's expensive, but also I just think about the times that got downloads, things like you can just run downstairs.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, I ain't gonna be recording and no.

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Speaker 1: Little separation. You know. I feel you said you work, work, work, so you'd really be working that hard.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that far, I gotta add engineer to my head.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised, got it exactly.

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Speaker 2: I love that outside of music, you also have a beauty brand to Caelen beauty that is quickly growing. Tell you more about it and like what really push you into the entrepreneurial space.

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Speaker 3: So I've always knew that singing wasn't all that I was going to do, you know, there was so much more. However, I believe in doing things in the right time. You know, you create that foundation and then you build from there. Yes, And so for me when I did release it, it was it was successful, way more than what I realized. I mean, I believe in myself we're not.

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Speaker 1: But you just never know exactly, Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 3: And we did the fragrance first and it sold out twice, and then we did the skincare. I'm very big on speak care now. As much as I love thank you, much as I love a bee phase, I love taking all this off and you take I want to love my skin. I'm very big on hygiene and all of that. And so the skincare is doing great. People ask me all the time, what do you use on your skin?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, beauty, that's right, walking exactly.

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Speaker 3: To promote like you, that's right?

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Speaker 1: Come on.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I told people like very anything that I do, I'm passionate about. It's not just something I wake up overnight and be like, oh I'm going to do this, or I see this as a trend.

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Speaker 1: I want to do this.

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Speaker 3: I'm very passionate about what I do. I best time all of the products that I have. I used it during the pandemic. You know how long we was locked up in that house. Okay, come on now, And I was able to jail and get connected with my own product to know what I didn't want, what I did want, and then after that it just was.

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Speaker 1: Like, yeah, this time it's time. That is a So what else do you want to create?

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Speaker 3: It's some things that we're working on. I'll come back on the show.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about that and we can know I'm serious and bring the product. Yes, yes, yes, and we will pushing for the world.

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Speaker 3: And I'm excited about it too because it's also been something that has been on my list for a while. Uh, definitely still in the entrepreneur side or whatever.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, when it comes to entrepreneur, is there anything that's different or did you take a lot of the lessons that you learned in the music business onto this side of business or has there been other things that come and you're like, oh, I didn't realize I had to deal with this on this side.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, of course, because you know, you're dealing with products, You're dealing with things that people have to use in their everyday lives. So you know, it's a lot of stuff that you have you learn what the dos and don'ts, the regulations, the hazards, all the things. But I also think The biggest thing too, is learning that sometimes you need a team for that specific thing, you know, just because if you're dealing with somebody who's in music, use them in music, they may not be good.

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Speaker 1: And you know what I'm saying, in skincare, whatever the case may be.

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Speaker 3: And so yeah, I think it's just really understanding who you need for each vision.

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Speaker 1: That you have. That's so true.

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Speaker 2: That's all love about my team now because I have so many ideas that'll come to me and a lot of everything is I'm passionate about saying, as you it has to be something that I really believe in, because I can't sell anything even with brand partnerships. I don't truly believe in it and I don't use it. I can't promote it. Okay, we cannot do it. I had to stand behind it ten toes down.

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Speaker 1: I'm not really good at line. Yeah, they either. They don't know it on my face right all the time. You see her use it when on Instagram.

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Speaker 2: Hell, but I love them because I'll tell them something. They'll call the experts in that space to say, hey, this is what our client wants to do.

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Speaker 1: How can we make this happen?

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Speaker 2: So I love that they don't try to take on everything as well. It's like, we're gonna find the person that can help make.

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Speaker 1: This happen for you.

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Speaker 2: And that's important because a lot of things can go down real fast if the wrong people are handling it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so good for you. That is amazing.

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Speaker 2: You also are an actress, so we work together on phrase this.

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Speaker 1: We talked about that. What sparked that and what made you say I want to act too?

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Speaker 3: As I said, I've always been that active little girl. I was always that actor little girl, and I was always in a camera, Like literally, my dad has footage of me always picking up a camera recording. I will record. Yeah, it's too much. And I've always known that television was something that an area that I would go into. But again it's a out the right timing. And it's also about what's right for Jaquelin, because you know, I would get sent stuff at different points and I'm just like, it's good, but I don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's.

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Speaker 3: Good for me because I also value to what I've built and yeah, but I love it even with praise this. Uh, that was the first time that a lot of people really got a chance to see like the fun side of Jaquelin and I'm like, y'all, I love to laugh. I wanted to have a good time. Y'all just didn't know that because sometimes they can some people can't handle that. You know, you don't know what to say. Nowadays, you know, you don't know if they're gonna be excited, they're gonna laugh, or they're gonna be like that was too much. It's just you just never know what. In that film, I was able to, you know, show that side some people, well at least my family. They was like, oh, she was not playing all okay, that is her. But it was fun and I look forward to doing more of it. I really really love it. I love you were amazing in that moise.

00:28:07
Speaker 1: Thank you. It was such a good time.

00:28:09
Speaker 2: I heard there was rumors about a part two, but then the strike happens, so I haven't hear anything else about it. They need to go ahead and bring a part that part to phrase this part two, you go ahead and bring it back. If there's a dream role that you could do. We talk about roles that you know you can't do, and I'm the same way. I have boundaries when it comes to the roles that I'll play. And is there anything when you think about just your dream role, what would it be.

00:28:35
Speaker 1: It's a couple of Okay, we got time, we got time.

00:28:39
Speaker 3: One. I would love to play a very successful it could be young, it could whatever woman. You know, so many times we see different stories of a woman who, of course we have our struggles and things we go through, but just that woman who is like, I can have it all in life because they some some people tell us, oh, you can't have it all. It's got to be one of the Uh, he's fighting for me, he's on my side. I can have it.

00:29:10
Speaker 5: So something like that, I feel like I would. It's I feel like I.

00:29:22
Speaker 3: Want to play something in a thriller.

00:29:26
Speaker 1: I think I feel like.

00:29:30
Speaker 3: I'm a laugh too much, you know, I don't know.

00:29:34
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe maybe.

00:29:37
Speaker 3: In a good uh uh action movie. I would love to play something like that. But yeah, there really are no limits. It's just those certain areas or certain things that I just.

00:29:49
Speaker 1: Know it's not for. Yeah, would you ever do like a horror movie? Yeah? It really it depends I'm scared to see I don't watch horror movies.

00:29:57
Speaker 3: I'm scary and I have a lit depends on Yeah, you know, not knowing those spirits and stuff. Listen, that's about over there, you know. But a good thriller, you know, like when a stranger calls, Yes, what is it? Don't breathe?

00:30:20
Speaker 2: That was crazy, Yes, yeah, dude, you'd be laughing.

00:30:24
Speaker 3: You know, you choose this moment to fall. You could have failed any of you feel.

00:30:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm always tripping on said tis like Crystal, I'm like, sorry, my feet hurt, I'm tired everything. I'm just tripping over myself at that point. Yes, yeah, that's that's me too. And I'm always laughing when we have serious scenes that are funny.

00:30:48
Speaker 1: And I was supposed to be the serious one.

00:30:50
Speaker 2: Yeah, I break character every time, Like I had to literally bite my tongue to stop.

00:30:53
Speaker 3: Like I was just that was this uh film that I was feeling for a few months ago, and I had to be very serious, like I had to be mad, and I also have to slap the guy. When I would slap them, it wasn't me, but he would make a certain reaction because he would be like, god, girl, you have to do all that.

00:31:23
Speaker 1: It was.

00:31:23
Speaker 3: It was hilarious to me. So it's all about me, just you know, standing character. Yes, they're gonna have a lot of bloopers. I'm gonna tell you that it's.

00:31:29
Speaker 1: Hard when you're naturally a happy person. Naturally happy.

00:31:34
Speaker 2: Oh, it's so hard. You are not the only one, I promise you. We are in that same boat for sure. You are also a motivational speaker, which is some public speaking is something funny enough, it's something that I have a hard time with. I can care the conversation, but speaking to people who are not speaking back.

00:31:52
Speaker 1: Is hard for me.

00:31:54
Speaker 2: How did you even realize there was a gift that you had and that you wanted to speak and pour out into people.

00:31:59
Speaker 3: I realized it at the age of thirteen when I was singing. It was almost as if I was speaking anyway. So it just kind of like flowed in for me. That confidence has always been there. Now the only time, like you said, speaking and then you're not getting a reaction because I'm a speaker and a preacher.

00:32:19
Speaker 1: Okay, my next question.

00:32:21
Speaker 3: So as a speaker, okay, we could deal with that, but as a preacher, I need to know you don't don't say hege you know what I'm saying. But you know I still even with that, I still don't allow it as long as I'm doing what I'm supposed to do, saying what I'm supposed to say, that's all that matters. You just never know and I and that also taught me. It was really the speaking that taught me that you're you never know who you're going to be in front of, what type of audiences. I've been in front of audiences who are not black, you know what I'm saying, and they received differently, but they received you know. So I think once you learn that kind of you kind of just flow through it, because, yeah, as long as you're doing what you're supposed to do.

00:33:05
Speaker 1: Child. So when you say preaching, do you actually go to churches and preach?

00:33:11
Speaker 4: Yes?

00:33:11
Speaker 3: Really that's what I started at thirteen.

00:33:14
Speaker 1: Wait a minute now, yeah, you know you was preaching at thirteen.

00:33:18
Speaker 3: It was actually wow that that that catapulted my music. Yeah, so I traveled the world for two years before Greater Is Coming came out and then you know, everything just started, you know, coming together.

00:33:32
Speaker 1: Yeah that is crazy. Yeah. So were you also at home, like in the mirror preaching to yourself? Is that how they realized mirror preaching?

00:33:40
Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, it's so funny too, because people be you know how some people think that because you preach, you're supposed to pastor.

00:33:51
Speaker 3: And I told him.

00:33:53
Speaker 1: Two different graces.

00:33:56
Speaker 3: I tell him if he if he ain't calling, ain't answering. But I do love you angelizing. I love preaching, I love traveling doing that. It's so amazing to just be able to have something to give to people who are just at different parts of their journey and they need the push, they need that encouragement and to be the vessel that you know they call.

00:34:20
Speaker 1: It's just it's always humbling, I can imagine.

00:34:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, So when it comes to preaching, was a moment where you you, you know how like you can be preaching to people, but then God really feels you. Can you recall a moment where a particular sermon or a place you were preaching and.

00:34:35
Speaker 1: You were like, God, I needed that.

00:34:38
Speaker 3: I would say. When I was in Detroit a few months ago and I was preaching, it was it was the sermon itself, but it was what God had gave me to release before the sermon, you know, telling the people that they were getting ready to cross over into something, that very thing that they had been holding on to, they've been believing God or in all of that because you know at some point you hold on to it, but eventually you're supposed to step into it. Yes, that's what his will is, and that was something that I needed in the moment, and to help the people understand it doesn't matter what is being said, but it's been done against you in any way. When God says it's your time, it's your time and nobody can stop that.

00:35:23
Speaker 1: That's so good. I love that, and it's so true.

00:35:25
Speaker 2: A lot of times we second guess ourselves, will self sabotage or allow the enemy to get in our mind knowing God has pushed us for it and said it's your time, and we're like no.

00:35:34
Speaker 3: I told people, where there's warfare, there's breakthrough. If it gets intense, that is an indication to you you're close to something. I mean, I know it's been hard, but the moment where it gets like even harder, something's about to break for you and it's just a matter of you pushing through to see it happen. Or do you give the enemy what he wants and never see it right.

00:36:01
Speaker 1: That's so good. I love that.

00:36:05
Speaker 2: Being a motivator and a public speaker, what do you do for motivation?

00:36:08
Speaker 1: And who motivates you.

00:36:11
Speaker 3: I have a great, great support system my family, my parents always encouraging me and making sure that I'm refilled, because especially when you give a lot, you have to be refilled. There's no way around that. I listened to motivation, motivation, motivational messages and yeah, to just keep my spirit fed. If I don't feed myself, I will have nothing to give. And so yeah, I have a great, great grace supporter system.

00:36:41
Speaker 1: I love that.

00:36:41
Speaker 2: What does that balance look like for you? Like, what is a day? Where to Kaelin? Is it going and going to the next thing?

00:36:47
Speaker 3: Yeah? For me, I love watching a good movie. I love going to the spot of getting giving massages and all of that. And I'm really a home body, like especially because when you do so much, you travel a lot, you just want to be a home Yeah. I like to create whatever I want at my house. Of those times you gotta go out. You know what I'm saying, You gotta be social whatever. I love atv riding. You know a girl, I love horseback riding.

00:37:22
Speaker 1: Simple.

00:37:23
Speaker 3: Do you still live No, I'm in Atlanta.

00:37:26
Speaker 1: You're in Atlanta, Okay, awesome.

00:37:27
Speaker 2: So do you have like land where you have like horses and land to a TV and all.

00:37:31
Speaker 3: That stuff that's actually here.

00:37:32
Speaker 1: That's awesome. I love that good country girl listened. I know all of that is. So what is your day to day?

00:37:40
Speaker 2: Yeah, from waking up to at the end when you're laying back down.

00:37:45
Speaker 3: It varies because of the different things that I do. I do have my own radio show with every one Jaquelein Car Family Fair Show. I have my own syndicated radio show, the Jaquelen Car Show. And then you know, so here lately, I'm working on my album. So it's been stuff surrounded by that girl you and then there are days that you just never know interviews. Yeah, there's days were smud, you know. I love I've become a gym girly. So going to the gym three days out of the week ago twice because I do the functional training and I do the boxing great yeah, and then the other days I go. The rest of the days I go for functional chunctional training.

00:38:39
Speaker 1: I love that.

00:38:40
Speaker 2: I was just telling my team last week. I started fasting for the month of September, but from certain things, but for food, I started doing the eighteen six rule, where you eat six hours a day with the other eighteen you're fasting, Jacqueline. Want to tell you the difference I felt in my body. I just talked to a doctor. I said, is it something that sustainable? He said absolutely, he said a lot of people adopt that as a lifestyle. Because I've noticed, like my energy even now, like I'll tell you, before we started, i'd be getting tipping like yeah.

00:39:07
Speaker 1: I don't know.

00:39:09
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not because I'm bored, but my body is literally shutting down. But I've noticed even like getting up earlier and going to the gym and making it a point to make sure I'm getting my vitam into my NUTRIENTSIM has made a big difference. And I had this thing called did you move to that challenge? So I love that you're moving. You're in the gym because a lot of times detection when we had these crazy schedules, that is the first thing that goes by the wayside.

00:39:35
Speaker 1: It's so hard.

00:39:37
Speaker 3: And then don't let me ben, I got my hair done because anything going to nobody's gym, okay, So we better get what we need to get done.

00:39:46
Speaker 1: I'm hollering before I get that hair. Do you sweat your head to yo? Girls so bad?

00:39:53
Speaker 3: Yes? And and you know What helps me too, is a few years ago I stopped looking at it as thing that you just gotta do this like as a no, this is something that I adapted to be a part of my lifestyle. So I went from feeling like I had to go to the gym.

00:40:12
Speaker 1: So now I actually love going.

00:40:14
Speaker 3: To the gym, and I don't feel good when I don't go, you know, except for the days I get my hair done.

00:40:20
Speaker 1: And then it's like still it doesn't bother you. It's like, okay, all right.

00:40:26
Speaker 2: On the same way when I get my I get my hair straightened twice a year to get a really good trim, and those are the days where I'm like trying to.

00:40:33
Speaker 1: It's so funny.

00:40:33
Speaker 2: You should see my I pull my hair up and I go to the gym, and before I even like do anything, I go back to the bathroom. I start blow drying the web par before I take it down because my hair.

00:40:42
Speaker 3: Is because I'm still trying to and I'll do mycronks. I've been on that okay for a minute now, just trying to give the wigs.

00:40:49
Speaker 1: Baby. This heat is just like especially is he yes exactly? And the humidity forget about.

00:40:54
Speaker 3: And this heat just don't mix. Like, yeah, I've been putting my units on like only when I had photo shoes. Yeah, you know wards he stuff like that. Yeah, so you're gonna have to teach me how to do that. I got you. Yes, Now I'm the natural girl, like that's my thing. But yeah, I trust me. I get it, especially with this Atlanta humidity.

00:41:13
Speaker 2: Yes, we talked about pouring into yourself and pouring into others. In a moment where you may get frustrated, how do you center yourself and where do you go for that source of like, Okay, let me pull it back together.

00:41:26
Speaker 3: The first thing I have to do is to be quiet. I have to process what I'm feeling in the moment. I don't like to just yeah, because I value my piece and anything that will pull me out of that. You don't want to do that, right, You don't want to do that, So not even myself.

00:41:48
Speaker 1: I don't want to pull.

00:41:48
Speaker 3: Myself out out of it. So it helps that I take a moment to breathe, relax, go for a walk, think it over, and then you know, go back at it because you can think it rule properly. And if I have the same result as I did before, I started walking and stuff. It helps to call it an accountability partner. People that want to see you be great. Nobody that's going to be a yes person. You need no, I need you to be able to be wise, you know, because if you that's the point of having an accountability part so that they can help better you. And so those are some of the things that I like to do and it helps me out a lot.

00:42:34
Speaker 1: I love that you are wise beyond your ears.

00:42:36
Speaker 2: Seriously, I can't live in here talking to a twenty eight year old if you are so wise. There are a lot of young women that watch our podcasts and older women alike. But if you could speak to the woman that maybe that has a dream, that knows she's destined for something greater, but can't really figure out how to get to that point, is there any advice or just encouragement that you could give her.

00:42:58
Speaker 3: Well, one of the things I want to say is is none of us really sometimes know how we don't.

00:43:03
Speaker 1: Really know the steps.

00:43:05
Speaker 3: The beauty in it is when you have the courage to step out period, no matter what. If there's a gift that is in you and your and it's lying dormant, just you have to tell yourself. This is every day that goes by, I'm allowing greatness to be wasted. I'm allowing myself to sit down on something that could actually change, whether it's my community or the world. Because you got to also know what you're called to, whatever it is. I want to encourage you to step out. You don't know the steps all the time. Even with Ari, if I can go by biblical Abraham, he didn't God and give him the full vision until he stepped out, until he got to a certain point. And so sometimes it's like that with us. All he needs is your yes, that's all, and your willingness to move forward, to keep going, to keep pushing, and also pray for destiny helpers, people that he will place along your journey to help encourage you, help give you insight on what you need so you can be where you're supposed to be.

00:44:10
Speaker 2: You better preach. That's so good. I received that too. Thank you so much to Kaylin. Before we get out of here, I want to play a little gospel.

00:44:19
Speaker 1: Edition of this or that.

00:44:20
Speaker 2: Okay, you're crazy, Okay, so the first one is quartead or choir.

00:44:26
Speaker 1: Well, I know this one.

00:44:27
Speaker 2: I thought she was gonna say, quiet.

00:44:33
Speaker 3: It's kind of hard, but I'm say quartet because my mom used to sing it.

00:44:36
Speaker 1: Okay, got it, got it? Okay, solo or do it?

00:44:45
Speaker 2: Oh that's hard, I say so low Okay, yes, okay.

00:44:52
Speaker 1: Sunday sunrise service or a midnight prayer service.

00:44:56
Speaker 3: Midnight. I'm not a morning person.

00:45:00
Speaker 1: Organ or keyboard.

00:45:02
Speaker 3: I know.

00:45:05
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say keyboard. You can get a different times. Yeah, for sure. I love that. Testimony service or praising praising worship.

00:45:11
Speaker 3: Let's do testimony.

00:45:13
Speaker 2: You know we didne got away from that. You remember back in the day, like testimony.

00:45:16
Speaker 4: Time, Praise the Lord everybody, Yes, vacation, Bible school or revival revival me Lord said the revival.

00:45:28
Speaker 1: We had not had a revival in so long. I may do a lot. You need to do revival. Please do revival for us.

00:45:34
Speaker 3: Get you to come preach.

00:45:38
Speaker 2: That you try to.

00:45:42
Speaker 1: Now I come up, I'm coming.

00:45:43
Speaker 3: Yes, I'll be.

00:45:47
Speaker 1: On the front road.

00:45:48
Speaker 2: Yes, I had abody, Kayla, Thank you so much. I've enjoyed this conversation with you. Before we leave, let our audience know how we can when you have coming up all the things in where we can find you as well.

00:46:03
Speaker 3: On socials, Yes, well, you don't know about Now, I'm ja kaylen Car. You can follow me on all of my social media at jaquelen Car. That's j e k A l y n c A r R. All of my music is available anywhere you stream or download your music, all the good things.

00:46:21
Speaker 1: Yes, a new song, Yeah, new song, don't faint.

00:46:24
Speaker 3: Another single that is coming right after that the album Jaquelein and the Legends. I don't know when this will be aired, but it may already be out. If it's not out, it's coming. Yeah, just follow me perfect.

00:46:38
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Yes, thank you for having me.

00:46:40
Speaker 2: No, this is amazing, and thank you for speaking into our audience.

00:46:43
Speaker 1: Appiate.

00:46:44
Speaker 2: Yes, hey, sweetie, I hope you all are filled with as much inspiration and life as I am after that conversation.

00:46:54
Speaker 1: Now it's time for me to go pray for my destiny. Helpers.

00:46:57
Speaker 2: If you were inspired by this conversation, please let me know in the comments and be sure to share this with a friend in the meantime. In between time, keep you posave, sweeties. I'll see you guys next time.