1 00:00:13,040 --> 00:00:15,360 What's up guys? My name is Alexis, your host of 2 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:19,080 Praises and Plod, and I am so excited to be in the studio by 3 00:00:19,080 --> 00:00:22,160 myself just chatting it up with y'all hitting one of these 4 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:24,800 monologue. Monologue, is that right? 5 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:27,840 Yeah, one of these monologue episodes that I always talk 6 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:31,080 about that I couldn't stand. It's been so long since I did 7 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:33,080 this and honestly, I miss doing it. 8 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:35,200 And I say that it's been a long time. 9 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:37,360 It kind of hasn't, but it kind of has. 10 00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:38,720 I'm going to tell you why I say that. 11 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:40,720 Let's start off in prayer and then I'll jump right in. 12 00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:43,560 So here we go. Lord, Heavenly Father, thank you 13 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:45,360 for today. Thank you for all your many 14 00:00:45,360 --> 00:00:47,200 blessings. Dear God, I just pray that you 15 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:50,000 go before me in this podcast recording right now. 16 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:53,640 Lord God, I pray that you just calm whatever I have going on 17 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:56,520 inside of me, all the distractions that are going on. 18 00:00:56,520 --> 00:01:00,480 Lord God, I pray that I can just tell what's been going on in my 19 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:04,840 life, what I've learned in this current chapter and season I've 20 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:07,880 been walking through, Lord God, and I pray that you just give me 21 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:09,840 peace. I pray that when I feel like I'm 22 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:12,920 running ahead of you, Lord God, that I just be still, that I 23 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:16,480 yield to your spirit. I've, I use my discernment and I 24 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:20,520 actually truly lean on you to show me which way to go and what 25 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:22,760 to do. Lord God, I pray that you always 26 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:25,320 speak to me and you always speak through me. 27 00:01:26,080 --> 00:01:29,960 Lord God, I pray that you just glorify or you're just glorified 28 00:01:29,960 --> 00:01:33,720 in all that I do Lord God, I pray that this is for you and 29 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:38,280 only for you. In Jesus name I pray Amen, Amen 30 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:41,480 guys. OK, so kinda have recorded, 31 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:43,360 started to record this twice now. 32 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:47,200 I started to record and I just felt really anxious. 33 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:50,520 OK, like I just felt anxious and then I'm like, what in the 34 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:51,680 world? What's going on? 35 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:57,120 I, I woke up late this morning. I did not have my quiet time. 36 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:01,360 And so I'm like, you know what? I'm not recording right now. 37 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:04,640 So I shut it off. I do some quiet time with the 38 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:08,800 Lord, get my mind right. And then I start to record again 39 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:15,560 and my husband come home and he's like, so my studio is above 40 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:18,760 my garage, like our upstairs area or whatever. 41 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:22,160 So like he pulls into the garage and I feel like the whole room 42 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:25,480 starts shaking because he closes the garage door and then he's 43 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:27,880 like in and out of the car. So I'm like texting him like, 44 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:34,520 hey, like I'm recording. And like that just kind of felt 45 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:39,680 like let me chill out. Let me chill, it's going to be 46 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:41,800 OK. I have all the free time in the 47 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:44,880 world. It's not like I pay a studio 48 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:49,160 time to be in hearing thing like I could literally just not 49 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:52,280 record right now. And so anyway, here we are. 50 00:02:52,640 --> 00:02:55,880 So I want to tell y'all what has been going on in my life here 51 00:02:55,880 --> 00:03:00,720 recently, Actually not even just recently like yesterday. 52 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:05,360 This all has transpired yesterday and This is why what 53 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:08,880 has been going on? You may have seen on social 54 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:11,760 media that I had this big announcement coming out on 55 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:14,320 February 14th. By the time this episode comes 56 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:18,440 out, you probably will know a little something, but not the 57 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:20,040 full story. So here's the full story. 58 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:24,760 I had this big announcement I'm super excited for, and I had 59 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:30,200 been like in the works of this for probably like 4 to six 60 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:35,000 weeks, like praying about it, all this stuff, and it just all 61 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:37,120 kind of came together and then it all fell apart. 62 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:43,760 So let me start back about two months ago, I recorded with 63 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:46,960 another podcaster and she was trying to like, tell me about 64 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:49,040 Patreon. And that kind of sparked my 65 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:52,120 interest because I had already been thinking about something 66 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:57,320 like that and I was interested, but I was like, you know what? 67 00:03:57,320 --> 00:03:59,920 I'm not going to jump to it. I want to go into prayer and I 68 00:03:59,920 --> 00:04:01,280 want to seek the Lord about this. 69 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:03,760 And I want to be sure that this is what he's calling me to do. 70 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:09,440 And so with that, I end up finding out that the Lord shut 71 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:11,760 that down. He's like, no, ma'am, you're not 72 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:15,920 having a Patreon it I'm not, I'm not throwing trade to anybody 73 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:19,279 that has one whatsoever. He just said that I wasn't going 74 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:21,920 to have one because honestly, I was already idolizing it. 75 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:23,720 Truly. I was like, oh, I'm about to 76 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:25,880 make some money off this, like all this stuff. 77 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:34,320 And well, anyway, I had reached out to a podcast network a few 78 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:37,920 weeks prior maybe to that. And I kind of was like, hey, I 79 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:39,480 just want to know more like what? 80 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:42,280 What are the benefits of being with a network? 81 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:46,440 What does that look like? I'm interested to talk to y'all, 82 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:50,880 all this stuff Like I reached out to them because in 2024 on 83 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:57,720 my bingo card 425, I said that I wanted, maybe I wanted to join a 84 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:03,760 podcast network and it just ended up not ever, you know, 85 00:05:03,840 --> 00:05:08,360 nothing came from that. So I ended up just letting it 86 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:10,520 go. Well, when I was talking to this 87 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:13,440 network, I'm telling y'all like everything just sounded great. 88 00:05:13,840 --> 00:05:18,400 Like they were going to put ads in my show, which will get to 89 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:21,000 the ads, but you know, you make money off the ads. 90 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:24,040 That's nice. And then they're going to help 91 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:28,880 me like branch out, like get other podcasters and other 92 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:32,680 people in the network on my show, me on theirs, you know, 93 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:35,880 help me market, you know, get my name out there, post me in their 94 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:39,360 newsletter, all this stuff. And it's like hundreds of 95 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:44,320 thousands of people that are on this like network that look at 96 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:47,800 this network stuff. So I was like perfect. 97 00:05:47,840 --> 00:05:52,520 And it just it, it, it was just a goal of mine. 98 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:57,800 So yeah, I was praying about it. And for a few weeks I was 99 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:03,400 praying about it. And I kept trying to find me in 100 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:06,680 the Bible, like, where is my answer from the Lord? 101 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:09,960 Where is every time I read, I'm like, he's about to tell me, you 102 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:11,520 know, yes or no, He's about to tell me this. 103 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:13,360 He's about to tell me that, like every single time I read the 104 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:16,360 Bible. Well, I started reading, I'm 105 00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:19,800 doing, you know, the Old Testament in a year and I'm 106 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:24,120 reading in Genesis at the time. It's talking about Joseph and 107 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:29,880 he's in Potiphar's house. And you know, it basically said 108 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:33,080 that anything that Joseph did, he had favor with the Lord 109 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:38,560 because the Lord was with him. And I took that as, oh, anything 110 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:42,000 that I do, the Lord will be with me because I have my heart 111 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:44,640 posture set on him and I'm trying to glorify him and all 112 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:46,280 this stuff. So I thought that was the green 113 00:06:46,280 --> 00:06:49,520 light. So my big announcement was I 114 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:52,560 joined a Christian podcast network. 115 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:55,920 I'm not going to say which one or anything, but I did join one, 116 00:06:56,640 --> 00:07:02,640 signed my paperwork, Good to go. My migration date was February 117 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:06,080 18th, so my first episode with them was going to come out that 118 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:08,920 day and it was just like everything was just like falling 119 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:14,000 into place. Well, from the moment that I 120 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:18,080 signed my contract with them, I did not feel at peace. 121 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:23,120 I did not feel at peace at all. And I thought that all of the 122 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:26,760 feelings that I was feeling was pride. 123 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:31,840 I thought, this is going to sound so terrible, but this is 124 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:34,080 me being raw. Real, raw and relatable. 125 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:36,000 OK? I don't know about how 126 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:38,480 relatable, but this is me being real and raw, OK? 127 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:41,520 I thought that I was better than this company. 128 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:47,520 Oh my, it sounds disgusting. It sounds disgusting. 129 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:51,000 I know. And I only say that because some 130 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:55,720 of the things that they do, I know that like my talents do 131 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:59,240 better in that area. And so I was like, man, like I 132 00:07:59,240 --> 00:08:01,880 would love to help them in this area, like all this stuff. 133 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:04,560 And I was like, that just doesn't really fit with what I'm 134 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:07,480 doing. Like, but I'm like, that's my 135 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:10,040 pride. The Lord is working on me about 136 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:11,720 my pride. Like this is the route. 137 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:15,000 He's made it like a way for me to go this way. 138 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:21,560 He has done all this, you know, and they're going to pour into 139 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:23,080 me. They're going to help me grow. 140 00:08:23,080 --> 00:08:24,560 They're going to do all these things. 141 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:27,080 And I just, I just didn't feel good about it. 142 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:33,559 Well, I continued to keep going down that path, setting up all 143 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:38,720 my stuff and getting ready for this like merge migration, 144 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:43,520 whatever. Well, I started questioning the 145 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:46,480 ads. OK, this is another thing 146 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:51,160 because I have been fully sustainable, made this podcast 147 00:08:51,160 --> 00:08:56,280 sustainable off of my personal like income, merch sales, 148 00:08:57,080 --> 00:09:00,240 freelance jobs, like it's still my income, but like stuff that I 149 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:05,760 do and I, you know, like pour myself into is how this runs. 150 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:10,960 So like the ads and making money off the podcast wasn't the 151 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:14,880 biggest thing for me. That was like something that I 152 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:18,600 wanted, like I wanted to monetize more off the podcast, 153 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:22,600 but at the same time, like it wasn't something that like was 154 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:26,000 like super eager for me. One of the things that I wanted 155 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:31,360 to join a network for was because I wanted more growth. 156 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:33,640 I wanted more people to hear these testimonies. 157 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:36,880 I wanted more people, you know, to hear about the goodness of 158 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:38,400 God and what he's done in our lives. 159 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:41,000 Like that truly is what I wanted. 160 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:44,520 I did not necessarily care about the money aspect. 161 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:47,560 Now, it was a portion of it, but not crazy. 162 00:09:47,560 --> 00:09:51,280 OK. So I told them I was like, hey, 163 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:54,160 like how many ads are like we thinking in the podcast? 164 00:09:54,160 --> 00:09:56,360 And they were like, oh, you know, one at the very beginning, 165 00:09:56,720 --> 00:10:00,080 two to four in between, and then one at the end. 166 00:10:00,920 --> 00:10:05,560 And so I'm like, OK, I don't want one at the beginning. 167 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:10,000 Like, this is my podcast. And I really want my voice to be 168 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:13,960 the first voice that's heard. Not because of like who I am or 169 00:10:13,960 --> 00:10:18,440 my pride or anything like that. I want people just to hear from 170 00:10:18,440 --> 00:10:20,400 me. I want them to hear my voice and 171 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:23,080 know like, hey, this is the host. 172 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:25,040 This is whatever. I don't want to start out with 173 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:27,400 an ad. And they said that that was 174 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:30,560 something that we couldn't do. That was something that we had 175 00:10:30,560 --> 00:10:33,880 to stick to because that was like, you know, the standards 176 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:36,800 across the board for podcasting and advertisement and these 177 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:39,760 people pay, you know, good money to be at the beginning of 178 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:45,920 episode. And so that just hurt because I 179 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:51,200 was like, oh, this is something that's so important to me and 180 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:53,960 it's something that y'all are saying isn't even possible. 181 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:59,840 So I talked to our editor, shout out Isaiah, so great. 182 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:02,480 And I'm like, look, we're just going to make the most of this. 183 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:06,320 We're just going to ride it out. The Lord's going to, you know, 184 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:09,600 refine me in this process and like teach me things and 185 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:11,920 everything else like we're just going to ride it out. 186 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:14,160 But I wasn't feeling good about it. 187 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:19,640 Well, things went on and my husband, we were sitting down 188 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:23,480 eating dinner the other night or two nights ago at this point. 189 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:28,480 And he's like, hey, like, does Isaiah put the ads in your 190 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:30,920 episodes? Like how does the ads get in 191 00:11:30,920 --> 00:11:32,840 there? Like he was really fixated on 192 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:34,800 these ads. And then he made a comment. 193 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:37,880 He was like, I mean, is there going to be like a Budweiser Bud 194 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:40,360 Light commercial? Like what, what are these like 195 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:41,520 ads that are going to be in there? 196 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:44,880 And I said, oh, no, like, I don't, I don't really know what 197 00:11:44,880 --> 00:11:46,600 the ads are. They're going to put them in 198 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:52,960 after, after like Isaiah edits everything and he like does it 199 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:54,400 all. He's going to, they're going to 200 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:56,920 go in and put the ads in. And so I won't really get to 201 00:11:56,920 --> 00:11:59,920 hear them until it's out. And he was like, oh, and I said, 202 00:11:59,920 --> 00:12:02,920 but they told me that they're all like Christian related 203 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:05,640 content that matches my brand and everything's fine. 204 00:12:05,640 --> 00:12:07,160 Like I'm feeling good about that. 205 00:12:07,160 --> 00:12:09,880 Whatever. Well, I go and lay down and I'm 206 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:13,080 like, you know what? Let me let me go listen to a few 207 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:18,480 other podcasts that have like that they represent and see what 208 00:12:18,480 --> 00:12:23,560 the ads sound like. I'm not even kidding when I tell 209 00:12:23,560 --> 00:12:29,560 you that the first ad that came out was like a drinking ad on 210 00:12:29,560 --> 00:12:38,040 one of these, I my heart sank like I was straight up upset 211 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:45,000 because it was it. It wasn't necessarily like a 212 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:48,120 drinking like, but it was talking about alcohol. 213 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:53,400 Like it was like an alcoholic, add alcohol, add whatever. 214 00:12:53,680 --> 00:12:57,480 And I was just like, I cannot have that on my podcast and I'm 215 00:12:57,480 --> 00:12:59,920 not going to have that on my podcast podcast. 216 00:12:59,920 --> 00:13:03,000 I don't know why I said it like that, but like I'm just I cannot 217 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:07,680 do that. And then I'm sick because I 218 00:13:07,680 --> 00:13:12,080 remember I just signed a contract of saying that I was 219 00:13:12,080 --> 00:13:14,840 going to be with them for at least like four months, 10 220 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:18,640 episodes, like all this stuff. So I'm locked in. 221 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:22,480 I'm locked in. I am so upset at this point. 222 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:26,520 I'm so upset. So I call my sponsor and I call 223 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:29,320 and like, you know, my boss, they're actually husband and 224 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:31,440 wife. And so we're on like a three-way 225 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:33,240 technically call. Like they just had me on 226 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:35,040 speaker. So we're all kind of talking 227 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:36,840 through it and they're like, send me the contract. 228 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:39,840 Like let's talk about it. Let's look it over. 229 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:44,960 And so I drafted up an e-mail and we just, it's, you know, I'm 230 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:48,160 just like, all right, Lord, like I want out. 231 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:50,720 I know without a shadow of a doubt because y'all, I have 232 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:55,560 already at this point already been feeling like on edge about 233 00:13:55,560 --> 00:13:59,680 things like I just don't really feel at peace about it. 234 00:13:59,680 --> 00:14:03,260 So I've already been praying Lord, I've this is quote UN 235 00:14:03,260 --> 00:14:04,360 quote when I was praying to the Lord. 236 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:08,400 Lord, I think I truly think that I've went ahead of you. 237 00:14:08,760 --> 00:14:13,480 I think that I made this decision without your yes, I 238 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:17,120 think that I should have yielded to you and listen for your voice 239 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:20,160 closely and not move forward with this. 240 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:22,600 And I'm so sorry. Can you please make the best out 241 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:26,360 of this situation if I have to be in it and teach me something. 242 00:14:26,920 --> 00:14:31,200 So that was my prayer probably for like a week or so before 243 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:34,160 this happened. So then as soon as that happens, 244 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:39,680 I said, Lord, please, please do a miracle in my life like Get Me 245 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:43,200 Out of this contract, whatever it looks like, please go before 246 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:45,280 me. I'm like praying before I hit 247 00:14:45,280 --> 00:14:50,680 send everything. So the next day I go in, I'm 248 00:14:50,680 --> 00:14:54,440 just like still praying. Lord, do what you got to do. 249 00:14:54,520 --> 00:14:57,240 You're a miracle working. God, you've broke the chains on 250 00:14:57,240 --> 00:14:59,240 my life. Break the chains on this 251 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:02,280 contract. OK, break the chains on this 252 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:07,440 contract. And so I get an e-mail back 253 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:12,840 from, you know, the director and he's just like, would you be 254 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:15,360 open to jump on a call with me and all this stuff? 255 00:15:15,360 --> 00:15:19,400 And I said yes, yes, please. Like let's let's just talk about 256 00:15:19,400 --> 00:15:21,760 it. And so we talked about it and he 257 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:24,960 like said that they would take out the pre roll ads for me to 258 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:27,560 stay on with them. Like all this stuff, like they 259 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:30,240 wanted to make it right and they were being very sincere about 260 00:15:30,240 --> 00:15:32,240 it. They said that that ad just 261 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:35,080 somehow slipped through the cracks like it shouldn't have 262 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:39,160 been in there, but it did. And I just said, I just I'm just 263 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:42,440 don't have a good like good feeling about it. 264 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:44,840 It's not like I don't have a good feeling about the network. 265 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:50,360 I'm not saying that whatsoever. Like this is not on them at all. 266 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:55,960 I please hear my heart on that. I just I just knew that God was 267 00:15:55,960 --> 00:15:58,440 not calling me to go that route. I just know that. 268 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:01,240 And when we got off when we were finishing up the call, they were 269 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:05,760 like absolutely, you know, like we will release you from the 270 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:09,720 contract like no ands is and buts about it like they were 271 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:12,400 just going to let me move on y'all. 272 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:17,160 That is an answered prayer that I don't think y'all understand. 273 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:20,640 Like they could have been so ugly about it technically. 274 00:16:20,640 --> 00:16:23,200 Like they could have been like, no, you've signed the contract 275 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:28,840 for four months or 10 episodes and this that and the other what 276 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:31,160 not. But they didn't like God truly 277 00:16:31,160 --> 00:16:34,520 did move in a big way. And I know I posted and I was 278 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:35,720 like y'all, I really need prayer. 279 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:37,720 Like I messed up and this is what I'm saying. 280 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:41,360 I messed up in the sense of I move before God. 281 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:45,120 If you have ever moved before God and you know that you moved 282 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:47,760 before him and he did not give you the green light. 283 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:49,560 He was actually giving you a red light. 284 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:54,320 You know what that feels like? It's like I know that I 285 00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:58,000 disappointed God. I truly did think about a time 286 00:16:58,240 --> 00:17:01,880 that you disappointed your parents or guardian, whatever, 287 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:07,000 you disappointed someone and like you felt so shameful, like 288 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:11,920 you felt so just, it was heavy. It was a burden. 289 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:15,760 And so like I felt like that because I knew that I 290 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:18,960 disappointed God. Like I moved without him giving 291 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:23,319 me the green light. I moved without him showing me 292 00:17:23,319 --> 00:17:27,359 which way to go because the whole time I kind of already 293 00:17:27,359 --> 00:17:30,000 knew. Like I kind of had this 294 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:33,080 discernment, but I kept talking myself out of this discernment 295 00:17:33,080 --> 00:17:36,160 that I was having. I thought that it was this, that 296 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:41,120 and the other and trying to make myself fit in this puzzle. 297 00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:45,360 Like there's a puzzle piece and like there's this exact thing 298 00:17:45,360 --> 00:17:48,480 that the Lord is calling you to do, but you are trying to like 299 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:53,000 snip and take away and move and reform, like reform this like 300 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:55,160 whole puzzle piece to make it fit in there. 301 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:56,720 And that's exactly what I was doing. 302 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:02,240 I just kept trying and trying and trying like to make it work. 303 00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:07,880 And that was the first time that I'm like, this is that control 304 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:12,640 problem that I have. This is where I'm lacking in 305 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:17,000 discipline because I want to make myself grow. 306 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:20,480 I want to give myself these opportunities and make these 307 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:26,800 opportunities happen. And I just, I just need to sit 308 00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:30,240 back and relax and let the Lord do his thing. 309 00:18:30,240 --> 00:18:35,160 OK, This is such a big thing that I just recently read like I 310 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:39,400 think it was on Facebook. And it was like think about when 311 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:43,800 he gave Noah all the instructions to build the ark, 312 00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:47,360 right? He builds every or he gives him 313 00:18:47,360 --> 00:18:52,520 all the instructions to the last like piece of nail or I don't 314 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:56,280 even know. Like he is just so detailed with 315 00:18:56,280 --> 00:18:57,880 every little thing about the ark. 316 00:18:58,480 --> 00:19:03,320 But he did not tell Noah to put a steering wheel in that big 317 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:06,840 huge ship. Noah had to give on that big, 318 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:11,160 huge ship, right, and not have a way to drive it. 319 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:14,640 He had no control of where that ark went. 320 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:18,240 He just had to be along for the ride and trust that the Lord had 321 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:21,360 already brought him this far, that he was going to continue 322 00:19:21,520 --> 00:19:24,000 leading and guiding him and getting him to safety. 323 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:29,800 He was going to get him like back to society, to the land, to 324 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:31,680 the earth, whatever, like the water. 325 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:33,200 He was already there. But you know what I'm saying? 326 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:38,120 Like he truly had to just hold on and just be along for the 327 00:19:38,120 --> 00:19:40,800 ride. And it's so crazy because I 328 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:44,880 really just read that about six weeks ago and I talked about it 329 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:48,120 in my life group and I'm like, y'all, did you ever notice that 330 00:19:48,120 --> 00:19:50,000 there's not a steering wheel on the arc? 331 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:54,720 They never once mentioned that. And that was the first time 332 00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:59,800 where I'm like, wow, love that I apply it to my own life. 333 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:02,200 Nope. The light bulb went off. 334 00:20:02,560 --> 00:20:06,880 I was like wow but. It just now dawned on me like, 335 00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:09,160 that's exactly the season that I was walking in. 336 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:12,760 Like I was trying to steer this big, huge ship by myself without 337 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:14,480 a steering wheel, without anything. 338 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:18,960 And there's no way to do that. And I need to sit down and just 339 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:22,720 let the Lord move, let the Lord lead and guide me. 340 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:26,920 And so yesterday morning, I just was praying. 341 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:31,960 And I'm like, Lord, if you Get Me Out of this contract, I will 342 00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:36,160 not seek another opportunity without you bringing it to me 343 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:41,040 first. I will not go before you like 344 00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:44,160 it's going to come from you. And I know without a shadow of a 345 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:48,720 doubt. And so I got a call literally 346 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:54,600 all, I'm not even exaggerating, 30 minutes later and it was a 347 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:58,720 pastor's life asking me to come speak at a place that I have 348 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:03,960 been wanting to speak at. And just when I looked down and 349 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:06,560 I saw her calling, I kind of figured that's what it was about 350 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:07,920 to be about. I didn't know that it was going 351 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:14,880 to be so soon, but I just knew like the Lord was about to use 352 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:19,240 her to reveal something to me. And she did like she truly did 353 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:22,560 because that opportunity just came out of nowhere. 354 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:25,680 It was something that I had talked to the Lord about before. 355 00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:29,200 It's something that I had like wrote on a bingo card before and 356 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:32,400 I never sought it out. I never tried to make that 357 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:35,680 happen myself. I sat back, I relaxed, and I 358 00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:38,880 just let the Lord like I didn't have to do anything. 359 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:42,280 The Lord sent her to me and he's going to continue to send these 360 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:45,960 opportunities as long as I'm obedient, as long as I'm doing 361 00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:48,280 what I'm supposed to be doing with him and not trying to get 362 00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:52,680 ahead of him. It's so hard to say that 363 00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:56,800 sometimes though, because we always think that like I tried 364 00:21:56,800 --> 00:22:00,800 to form everything into like almost a spiritual thing, like 365 00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:04,400 everything is spiritual in my life 100%. 366 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:07,000 You know, some people be like, not everything is spiritual. 367 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:10,200 Yes, it is. I can make every every single 368 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:13,840 conversation, every single song I listen to like I can listen to 369 00:22:14,360 --> 00:22:17,360 literally anything. I can turn it spiritual because 370 00:22:17,360 --> 00:22:21,520 I'm like, no, there is something that we can talk about through 371 00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:26,200 this. But my thing is, is like I will 372 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:30,960 try to make it where I can see what the Lord is like trying to 373 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:37,040 teach me or show me and I will distort it because I'm trying so 374 00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:43,760 hard to make it fit. I'm trying so hard to see how 375 00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:47,880 God's going to use this, how God's go into like where he's 376 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:49,920 taking me, like what this happened. 377 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:54,160 Oh, because of this, because I have, I have looked back all my 378 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:56,800 life and I'm like, oh, I see why that happened. 379 00:22:56,800 --> 00:23:01,240 I see where this happened. So now my mind naturally wants 380 00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:06,760 to say, oh, this is happening because he's about to do this. 381 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:11,240 Oh, I got that text. I got that call because this is 382 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:13,880 about to happen. Like I have gotten to the point 383 00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:16,920 where I'm trying to think like God, there's absolutely no way 384 00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:19,400 possible that I can do that. None. 385 00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:26,960 So this has been quite a learning past few weeks. 386 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:34,040 I am hopeful. I still know that the Lord is 387 00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:35,840 leading and guiding this podcast. 388 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:39,840 I know that it is helping women grow closer to Jesus Christ. 389 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:43,560 People, people have told me they're like, you always say 390 00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:47,840 women, but what if men listen? Hey, I'm so glad you're here. 391 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:50,000 I hope that you are loving this podcast. 392 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:52,760 I love that y'all are jumping in. 393 00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:55,880 Even if it's a girly pop room that's full of pink and flowers 394 00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:58,280 and everything else. Thank you. 395 00:23:58,600 --> 00:24:03,920 I truly do appreciate it. But my heart and this ministry 396 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:08,240 is built on trying to grow, you know, with women and letting 397 00:24:08,360 --> 00:24:11,560 women have an opportunity to share what God has done in their 398 00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:15,000 lives. And it's going to be that 399 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:18,480 because that's what I like and that's what the Lord has led me 400 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:23,160 to. So y'all, I kind of just wanted 401 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:26,640 to like jump on and tell y'all, you know, what about it? 402 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:32,520 And some people may be like you put all this stuff on social 403 00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:35,480 media just for that. Like you said that you messed up 404 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:40,240 because y'all I'm not even playing the bottom of my TikTok 405 00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:41,840 videos where I was like I messed up. 406 00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:44,240 I've been got myself in a mess. I move before God. 407 00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:46,240 I need prayer. Like whatever real wrong 408 00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:51,720 relatable starts with me. The caption or the like, what is 409 00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:54,120 it? The hyperlink maybe of what 410 00:24:54,120 --> 00:24:56,320 people searched after they watch that video. 411 00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:59,040 It was like marriage troubles or something. 412 00:24:59,120 --> 00:25:04,280 And I was like, what do y'all? What do y'all think I messed up 413 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:06,640 doing? Like I was referring to the 414 00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:11,520 podcast and people might still say that's not even that big of 415 00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:14,800 a deal for you to get on here and talk about that. 416 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:19,800 It is because how many times in your life have you tried to move 417 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:21,920 before God? How you tried to control 418 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:27,320 something, how you tried to do you instead of letting God do 419 00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:33,360 God, like be God. And I feel like that is super 420 00:25:33,360 --> 00:25:38,000 real, raw and relatable. Like I messed up. 421 00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:40,960 I let my pride get the best of me. 422 00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:45,520 I thought that I had this great plan that was going to work out 423 00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:47,760 perfectly. And here we are. 424 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:54,160 And so I'm confident that I am going to be PITP praises in the 425 00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:58,600 pod without a network, without anything, because God is the 426 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:02,480 ultimate marketer. God is the ultimate podcast, you 427 00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:08,800 know, director He had what is it? 428 00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:12,880 I think I saw this on Tiktok recently where it was like, who 429 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:15,640 needs an algorithm with you when you have God? 430 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:21,720 God is the best algorithm and truly, yes, it would be probably 431 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:25,960 a lot easier to get my name out there and not my name, not my 432 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:28,400 name. Let me let me back that up. 433 00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:31,000 The Lord's name and praises in the pod. 434 00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:34,600 It probably would be easier to get praises in the pod out there 435 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:38,800 if I was a part of a network. But I just looked back at the 436 00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:43,120 last 18 months and I'm like, look at what we've grown without 437 00:26:43,120 --> 00:26:46,640 a network. Look at what the Lord has done 438 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:51,080 without anyone helping me, without anyone except for, you 439 00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:54,080 know, like my editor and stuff because big shout out. 440 00:26:55,000 --> 00:27:00,920 But like, look at what I've done with the resources that I've 441 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:05,280 had, the things that the Lord has given me and provided. 442 00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:10,800 Like for me to be able to work at a church and do all these 443 00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:13,040 like side gigs to be able to buy all this stuff. 444 00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:16,600 I mean, yes, we have merch and it does really well and we sell 445 00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:19,760 and it helps, helps fun. But like there is no way 446 00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:23,160 possible for me to have bought all this stuff for this podcast 447 00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:27,720 studio. OK, like truly, like I, I do 448 00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:35,520 well, but with the anyway, there is just only God could have done 449 00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:36,360 it. God. 450 00:27:36,360 --> 00:27:39,760 That's what I'm trying to say like the only God could have 451 00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:42,680 made all of this possible. Where people do support praises 452 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:45,520 in the pod, where y'all buy the stuff, Where I have the 453 00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:49,480 resources where I can talk to our video director and I'm like, 454 00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:52,560 hey, I need cameras and he finds me good deals. 455 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:58,760 Or the podcast mics where you know, the student student 456 00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:01,800 ministry had this stuff and then all of a sudden I'm using it and 457 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:05,760 then I've got to just buy little stuff here and there along the 458 00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:10,080 way. So it's only the Lord that any 459 00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:12,760 of this was possible. So if I continue to trust in him 460 00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:18,120 and I continue to know that he's he's stewarding this above all 461 00:28:18,120 --> 00:28:21,720 else, like he's giving it to me, to Stewart, but like he's the 462 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:27,720 captain of the ship. He's the, you know, he's, he's 463 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:34,000 running it, he's doing it. Then I can know that we're going 464 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:38,800 to just continue to grow and I'm not going to need a network for 465 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:40,760 now. You know, who knows what the 466 00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:47,480 Lord has in store. I'm super confident knowing that 467 00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:50,200 he does have something in store and he's going to continue to 468 00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:56,160 leave and God and bless. So I hope you know, this helps 469 00:28:56,160 --> 00:29:00,160 somebody. I hope that my mistake and my 470 00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:06,920 mishap and all this stuff, it encourages you to really, you 471 00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:11,080 know, seek the Lord and try to see what his will is for your 472 00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:14,800 life and what he is calling you to do. 473 00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:19,400 Because when there's it's he's the Prince of Peace. 474 00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:23,200 And we say this about everything, OK, Like you're 475 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:30,640 going through mourning or like you're feeling like guilt or 476 00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:32,760 this and that. And then you meet the Lord and 477 00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:36,200 then you have so much peace. And it's like when it when it 478 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:41,520 comes from the Lord, when a decision or something happens in 479 00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:45,080 your life that is from the Lord, you will have peace beyond 480 00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:48,480 understanding. You will truly not know how to 481 00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:50,120 explain it. You'll just know that it was 482 00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:54,200 from the Lord. And there is so many times that 483 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:56,960 I get caught up and I'm trying to force peace. 484 00:29:56,960 --> 00:30:00,800 And you cannot force peace. You cannot force peace. 485 00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:05,240 All right, guys, I think that's pretty much the gist of what's 486 00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:06,920 been going on. Some things that I've just 487 00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:11,480 really wanted to talk to you about and just talk to myself 488 00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:16,840 about because I, I really do miss doing monologue episodes 489 00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:24,080 sometimes And I didn't realize that I missed it until I started 490 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:28,760 recording the last one. So I already did record a whole 491 00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:30,120 episode. I don't know if I said that 492 00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:33,440 really or not, but I recorded a whole episode talking about this 493 00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:37,680 like migration with this podcast network and like what that looks 494 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:41,280 like, what talking about the ads, talking about how I was 495 00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:44,880 like moving the video to YouTube and all of this stuff. 496 00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:48,400 And so when I sat down to talk about all of that, it just 497 00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:52,640 reminded me that sometimes it's just nice to sit down and talk 498 00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:55,600 to yourself and just have these full blown conversations and 499 00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:59,480 talk things out because sometimes your mind will get the 500 00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:02,640 best of you. Like until I say some things out 501 00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:09,440 loud, once I hear it actually said, I'm like, wait, that 502 00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:11,600 actually wasn't as good as I thought it was. 503 00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:13,960 Like that did not eat as much as I thought it did. 504 00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:20,080 So sometimes it is nice just sit down, talk it out with no one. 505 00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:23,760 Like I don't really want the feedback, I just need to have a 506 00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:26,440 full on conversation with myself, you know what I'm 507 00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:29,960 saying? So I might bring back these one 508 00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:33,240 off episodes ever so often. I don't know what that looks 509 00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:34,880 like. And I like a schedule. 510 00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:39,600 I like to stick to something. So what would y'all want to 511 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:41,160 hear? Like would y'all want to hear 512 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:44,680 one of these like once a month again, probably not. 513 00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:47,160 I probably could not do that part. 514 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:51,560 It just seems like a lot, but maybe like once 1/4, so that 515 00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:55,360 would be like four or five times a year. 5 is more than 1/4. 516 00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:58,040 Every two months maybe would be more feasible. 517 00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:02,440 That's six episodes a year, so every other month. 518 00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:04,520 Mike could do that. What do y'all think? 519 00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:08,280 Let me know comment y'all. And one more thing, you know 520 00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:10,920 what, while I'm here by myself, let me talk to y'all about 521 00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:12,640 something. Can y'all please like make sure 522 00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:15,760 y'all are rating the podcast? Can y'all make sure that you're 523 00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:19,960 commenting on the episodes? Love those. 524 00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:21,800 Make sure you're following the socials. 525 00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:24,320 All of them are praises in the pod. 526 00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:29,080 My other socials are you know like ASSN Brown not. 527 00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:31,120 Not sure if y'all actually want to follow that or not. 528 00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:36,160 I really, I've been trying to post more like realistic roles 529 00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:40,560 dumps on there, like whatever my camera roll looks like for a few 530 00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:42,240 days. Like I'm really just dropping it 531 00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:44,760 just to be more rail rot and relatable. 532 00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:49,280 And so, yeah, make sure you're like following, liking, sharing, 533 00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:53,960 commenting, all of that good stuff that is so appreciative 534 00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:57,840 you have not it. So in this video, I would love 535 00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:01,040 to hear if y'all want to keep the monologue episodes, what 536 00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:03,600 y'all want to hear me talk about when I do do the monologue 537 00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:07,160 episodes and how often you want to hear them. 538 00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:10,720 OK, that's your homework. Thank you guys. 539 00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:13,040 Love you girlies. TTYL. 540 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:15,080 Stay tuned. Stay blessed and we'll see you 541 00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:16,040 guys later. Bye.