Fearless Fridays - Hidden Battles

Ladies and gentlemen

and gentlemen, gentlemen, welcome to Fearless Friday with your hosts Vanessa Lindsey and Sydney Johnson, empowering to live fearlessly through authentic conversations that inspire purpose and action. I'm your resident DJ, DJ Woody Wood, and I hope you enjoy. Enjoy the show.

Well, well, well, well, look who we got going on tonight. This is Friday Night Live with Fearless Friday. I'm your guy, Sydney Eugene Johnson. That's what my mama called me. And we have my partner in crime, Go ahead, Vanessa.

Vanessa Lindsey. And I don't know what my mama calls me, depends on how she feels each day. I know

that's right. But guys, we have a special, special, special, special guest. How many times did I say special? About 4 or 5 times. That's how special this young lady is in my life, um, watching her grow up. And like Vanessa said, I don't want to go all the way back to the womb But listen, we have Danita Austin online with us today, uh, one of my favorite, um, nieces of all times, um, fully doing her thing. She is now a book writer. We want to bring her on to show the pivots that she's taken in her life, possibly talk about some of her hidden battles and her way forward. How you doing, young lady?

Hey, I'm good. Thanks for having me.

Good.

Well, it's a blessing definitely to have you on. So I know you just got off work and just getting in and we all getting set up. And we do know that we usually get on earlier during the daytime, but, uh, we adjusted sometimes for to meet the client and everything. And I think this may be a way forward for us. Um, Vanessa?

I think so. I think it's a perfect time. This is perfect, Danita, because you're just getting off work. We know it's Friday and you had a long day. So why don't you start off by telling us a little bit about yourself? And tell us about your Friday.

Okay, well, um, thank y'all for being accommodating, first of all. Um, so I am a registered behavior technician now. Used to be an early childhood educator. So I was an early childhood educator for a little over 18 years. Um, within the last year, I made a transition to, um, behavioral technician. I saw that especially in the military community, early childhood, I saw that there was a great need for special needs children. So I work specifically with children who have or who are on the autism spectrum. Wow. So I took a course which then opened doors for me to have this position that I am in now, and I am loving every minute of it. Um, still learning. And yeah,

I remember

that. Yeah.

So, I'm sorry, I do remember. Go ahead. I'm sorry, but I do remember that pivot that you was doing, and now it's in fruition stage, and we're just so proud of you. We are so, so, so proud of you, you know. And, um, yeah. So go ahead, Vanessa,

because you know I got questions. So you mentioned that you were, you were doing that early childhood development, then you pivoted to the behavioral technician because you were seeing more of that, a need for that in the military, around the military.

Yes, ma'am.

For behavioral technician. So you talked about having special needs with autism. Are you finding that, um, more children are from, from people in the military, around the military, are experiencing More autism or behavioral health issues? What's— why did you pivot?

Well, I can't say that it's more so with the military. With my job, I dealt with military personnel children, so that's who I was seeing the influx coming in. Um, it could be anything. Um, not to say parents or their careers or anything like that, but, um, from when I started back in 2008— Mm-hmm. —to recently, I was seeing that a lot of the children that were coming in were needing special attention. Um, a lot more kids are being assessed and are being diagnosed with autism spectrum ADHD, ADD, ODD. So there is just a lot of different behavior disorders that were going around. And as a childcare provider, I needed to know how to manage and handle my classroom. And being in the classroom all the time, we're not given the special training that it would take to handle those behaviors. A lot of times, you know, we are told to just kind of redirect those behaviors, and you can only redirect for so long.

Right, right. Especially when we talk about special needs, it's like you just can't redirect them because they have that special need. So you can't— you treat them as regular, but you have to give them that special attention, and you were told, no, don't do that, just And you're like, look, I need to do something different. I really want to make an impact.

Right.

100%.

Wow. And it's interesting because I was going to ask you that over the years you've seen it, uh, kind of a shift. And I know people talk about so many different things that can shift. Not, not saying it's the parents, or— but it's— it can be the environment, it could be the way that they're eating, the different things that they're eating, the medications that they're given, their vaccines. And there could be so many different reasons why.

And

to be— I applaud you because you're like, look, you could have just went on and said, I've been doing this for 12, 14 years, I'm gonna keep doing it this way because this is the way that we've always done it. But you're like, no, I need— I want to do something different because I want to make that impact.

Right. I, I wanted to be beneficial for the children in the class as well as the providers in the class, you know. Um, it's frustrating for the children when they feel like they're not getting what they need. When they feel like they're not being heard or they're being looked over. Same as with the providers, we're in the classrooms with them, and when we have to put so much time into one child versus the 10 other children that we have in the class, you know, it just makes the day longer, more stressful for everybody. So I wanted more knowledge on how I could work with this child. What are some things that, outside of redirect, that I could do that could be conducive to the classroom, the children in the classroom, and we can cohabitate all together? And, um, you know, we're all about exclusivity, but we can't be Exclusive if I'm having to man one child all day.

Right, that must be challenging. So I know that they're really— so you've learned the tools and strategies, and have you seen what you've learned actually, um, because you said you've been doing this about a year now, have you seen the difference in how not only in yourself but also in the students that you're working with and your colleagues?

Oh yes, 100%, um, just in a little bit of time. And again, I'm still learning, so, um, I do find it a battle with myself. I put on my RBT hat and I go into these people's homes, into the clinics, ready to go. And I find myself kind of slipping back into my daycare habits because I was doing that for 18 years.

Okay.

And I have to check myself that, you know, this is not ABA, this is not the training. But when I am into the schools or the CDCs, when I, especially when I go back to the center that I came from, I am able to give the coworkers that I used to work with, hey, we can do this. Or hey, bring the kids over, let me show y'all something. And so children that knew me as Ms. Nita and now see me with a different hat on, you know, a lot of time it is hard for them 'cause they'll come to me, Ms. Nita, Ms. Nita. I'm like, hey, I don't work here no more. Right. Okay.

But I

think

it's really good that you, that you really have that background because it's kind of like being a foot soldier in the trenches before you become the battlefield commander. Um, you got all the trench warfare capabilities. You work with the community, you work with them individually, family-wise, and, um, it's hard for you to even go anywhere without somebody already recognizing you. Because the kids that you may have assisted years ago, they're, they're pretty big now. They've not grown, some of them, in, in that particular regard. And to mention that because military families get up and go abroad, that you are, um, pretty much known, I would say, globally. I mean, you have contacts like that. So to be able to bring that power base along with your next level up where you at right now that you've been operating in for a year. Um, you're that, you're that professional right now. And so I think that's a wonderful feat to even come up with because it shows that you done really, I think you done took about 4 pivots in the same career field over time. And I'm just accounting for the 2 major ones was one, um, you pivoted from, um, Um, from being the daycare provider and assistants and everything to help orchestrate everything to now, um, in the position that you're in right now to now an actual author. I mean, you're the full one-stop shop. They need you and we appreciate that.

Yeah.

Yes. And, and so what, so what's your ultimate goal? So you, so you've done this and so as I was hearing you and I'm hearing Sydney, you're no longer in the in a daycare setting, but that you're traveling around, you're going to homes, to different places. And so I can imagine you're seeing a lot of different, um, dynamics when it comes to children and families with special needs. Yes. So, so going, going from the child care to the homes, to the community, were you afraid? Were you apprehensive? Can you know, it's like, okay, I'm going to someone's home. Yeah.

I was terrified. Again, I've been CYS with the children for over 18 years.

Now, what's CYS?

CYS is Child and Youth Services.

Oh, OK. OK. OK.

So I have done that for so long. I was— I knew it like the back of my hand. It just kind of came naturally to me. I could do it in my sleep. Didn't have to think about nothing. There was security in it, you know, Monday through Friday, come hell or high water, I knew what I was doing. I did want to excel in my job. I got to a place of complacency a bit, I would think. And then as these kids were coming in and I got into a role of leadership, I was like, I need more. I want I like that. To not just go to work. I want to make a difference. I want my classroom to run and be effective for the children, for the staff, and everything. Um, which led me to, um, my boss now. Um, she came in and she was seeing a client in my classroom, and she had talked to me about Becoming an RBT. And, you know, I, I have not gotten the degree. I've had some college, and, you know, I told her, I said, oh, I don't have a degree yet. She says, you know, well, you don't need a degree. You could take a 40-hour course, and with training and everything, I was just like, well, I am no stranger to a certificate. I will— if you can see that wall behind me, I get my certificates, baby. That's right.

That's right.

Jill of all trades.

Yes, yes, that's right, that's right.

So I said, okay, well, let me take this course and gain more knowledge and get some insight, and then I can apply that to my classroom. Um, and just seeing the difference that she made in the children that were in my classroom almost overnight, children that were nonverbal were now starting to use their words.

Oh, okay.

Um, different, you know, motor skills, just the growth. And—

Oh, okay. So she actually came into your classroom while you're there, and she's working with your students. So you guys have the students in common. And so you notice the students that she's working with, that they're excelling, and you're like, oh. And so you noticed that this was something that you felt that you— I can do this. When she said, let's do it.

Yeah, I definitely— teach me, let teach me.

Yeah.

Um, so I took the course just seeking knowledge, and while I was taking the course, I was offered a job.

Oh, nice.

And, and, you know, that kind of took me out to— wait a minute, I wasn't even applying for Hold up, wait a minute. Um, but again, I had been CYS for so long, um, so I teetered a little bit. I, uh, so I stepped down from my lead position at CYS and I said, well, I'll go part-time. I, I can't quit just yet. Let me stick my toe in. And, you know, um, and so I just started doing part-time. ABA, applied behavioral. Um, and from there she said, you know, where you, you kind of are natural. And I seen that when I was in the classroom, seeing the clients that I was seeing, um, which is why I prompted you to take the course and everything. Um, would you think about doing full-time?

That is so much. Oh my gosh, that's so much.

That's a lot. That was a lot packed in there, ain't it, Vanessa?

It's a lot packed in there, and it's like I don't even know where to begin to start unraveling. But one of the things is, is that you showed up and you are you, and people need to just be your best no matter where you are and what you're doing, because you don't know— you didn't go seeking that opportunity. That opportunity came to where you are. And she said, I seen you. And people don't realize that we see you. We see you whether you're doing good, bad, indifferent. We see you. But you were there, and you were there 100%. You was giving it your all. Your passion showed, and she's like, ah. And that job came to you. The education came to you. That's beautiful. That's beautiful.

That's awesome. You never know who's watching you. You never know when somebody's, um, lining you up for your next level up. And, um, we always assume that we're by ourselves because when we— when we're in the struggle, the real struggle, our dailies, um, but when you're in the— when you're in your element, and you're doing what you should do and you're excelling inside your element, you professionalize. I mean, my God.

Right.

I'm just imagining as you was talking about it, I'm imagining being that lady watching you in your environment, you know? And the fact that you have done that for 18 years, right? And you perfected it. You never faltered. You never ran the opposite direction. And I'm sure there was times you wish you was running the opposite direction. Questioning yourselves and etc., you know. I mean,

that,

that's a story for all of us to recognize through your lens that, hey, I can see myself in what I went through as well. And, um, but look at God, as we say.

Mm-hmm.

Yes.

So you, so you, you, you started doing it part-time. You're like, I'm, I really don't want to leave my job. I start doing— I'm doing this part-time. What was it that made you pivot and say, you know what, I'm going to stop doing this and I'm going to go for this full time?

Wow. That's what made you decide that? Yeah.

I, I pretty much just had to say I had to take a chance on myself. I, you know, I talked to my husband and if that, that was a whole thing, because again, he was just like, well, you have longevity with CYS, you, you know, you got retirement. Um, the company that I am with is fairly new. Um, so, you know, we're getting new clients and they— we are thriving right now. Um, and so, you know, you're on the

wave of that. You're on the tip of that spear.

Yes.

And the word was thriving.

Yeah.

And the first word was, I took a chance with myself. My God.

And oh, it was a fight.

Yeah, because I was going to ask you, how was that? Because usually, like, when you see people that's 18 years, or you see people that's retired, and then they retire, they're like, what's my next thing? And so you're like— so what was that like to say, I'm giving this all up, I'm gonna— I'm betting on me? Especially leaving and going to a new company that might not have had the stability.

This is something—

well, I, I made sure that I, I had something to fall back on. So because I have the longevity that I had with CYS. Um, I do have the option to go back after 3 years. Okay. So I said, you know, this— I'm just taking a chance. I'm just gonna see what happens. I just— I have to, you know. I've been CYS for so long, and through all of those years, um, you know, I, I went from starting at the very bottom of the barrel You know, not getting all the hours, you know, hey, switching hours, working every shift, the undesirable shifts to the, you know, early mornings to the late at nights, um, everything. The younger kids, the older kids, I did it all.

Yeah.

And I, at points, I was kind of hitting brick walls. I wasn't, I wasn't getting anywhere. I obtained— I went to school, I've gotten certain credits. I, you know, I did everything that they told me to do to get ahead. And then I got to a point where they were like, well, you don't have a degree. So at this point, you've reached the ceiling. That's it. Being in the classroom, Parents love me. Children love me. I'm doing everything that I can think to do to keep the kids engaged, to make sure that the staff in my room, we communicate. We, you know, try to make it fun. Mm-hmm. Because when I started CYS, we had fun. And things had changed where people don't want to come to work, whether it be because children have all of these behaviors and all we're told to do is Redirect them. What are you doing in the classroom? What, you know, the teachings that you sometimes get in those trainings do not apply when you're in the thick of it with several different behaviors.

Yeah.

And if I'm honest, I thought I was being targeted at one point because I had a couple of behaviors in there and I was like, oh, I can't do it. What's going on?

Yeah.

Help me. Um, and so when my boss came in, this beautiful soul, and I saw that she was— that kid ain't never talked before. Wait, did he just— what, you told him to sit down and he, he actually sat down? What did you do? Um, it just, it did wonders for me. And I had got to a place where I had one child in my classroom. Whew! This child took me through there. Talk to the parents. Hey, these are some behaviors that I'm seeing. This is what we're doing in the class. Help me help you help him.

That should happen.

Parents are, I don't see it at home.

Wow.

OK, well, you're not going to see it at home. He's an only child. Here he's not.

Yes, yes.

Um, when we would bring up the behaviors, didn't happen. You're, you're picking my child out. You're, you, you are. And I, I don't know about anybody else, but I— and I told this to the parents— I got better things to do than sit here and tell a lie on a 2-year-old.

Now come on.

That part.

Yes.

So all parents or all children do not get a behavioral health technician, correct? What would you tell parents, you know, or parents first, what would you tell parents about the value of that? If someone's listening and they have a child that may have special needs and they don't have, they're just going to childcare, and I'm sure that earlier they get seen, And they, they participate in your program, the likelihood the outcomes are probably better. So what would you tell someone that's listening now? It's like that has a child with special needs.

Even if you don't think your child has special needs, talk to the people, though, those, the staff members, the care providers that are with your child a good portion of the time. We know parents work and, you know, in this economy you have to work. Right. And so, you know, working 12-hour days, sometimes a little bit longer, a lot of children are entering the childcare the moment we open or shortly thereafter and are staying almost until closing. So with that, care providers are with your children a good portion Monday through Friday.

Because you're at the childcare providers, fortunately or unfortunately, are actually raising the children.

Raising your children.

So they're more— the parents are more like the date— the parents are more like the babysitters, right? Because they're not raising, especially if you're there from sunup to sundown Monday through Friday. Yes, because like we always say, our job is our biggest Is our, is our job takes more of our time. So if your child is there before you go to work and they're there after you get off work, who's raising your child really? And so you need to communicate so you all are, are co-parenting.

Yeah, and so I'm so glad you said that because I tell parents all the time, they ask me, Miss Anita, you're so good with kids, how many kids do you got? Oh well, how many kids I got in here today? Because we co-parents.

Yeah.

Um, but yeah, listen to the people who are helping you assist your children, because we know when they are telling you things, they're not saying it to be malicious. They're not saying it to hurt you. It's not a dig on your parenting. Look for those milestones. If your baby is not doing certain things by a certain age at a certain time, yes, Some children learn and develop at their own times, but there are markers, there are milestones. And at checkups, the doctor asks you, is your child doing this by this age? 6 to 12 months, the child should be, you know, rolling over, scooting on the floor. By, you know, 24 months to 36 months, your children should have, you know, these many words in this vocabulary range.

Mm-hmm.

You know, your child should be able to hold a spoon and drink out of a cup and things of that nature. And when those milestones are not being met, don't brush it off as the care providers are disgruntled, that we're bitter, we don't want to do our jobs. Because at the end of the day, our job is to make sure that your child is getting the best. And I think that we're— childcare providers are overlooked.

Absolutely.

And exactly what you said, early intervention is key. It is imperative. There is nothing wrong with getting your child assessed. If you get them assessed and there is something, the earlier we figure it out, The better.

That's right. That's right.

So, question for you, the parents should be— if there's nothing there, then there's nothing there.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Do you get pushback from the parents? Is it like a report that you do or it's just casual observations? I mean, do y'all, when you bring a child in, is it something like, okay, this is your child's age and this is what we are looking for, whether you mention it or not. And then after a while, if you notice something, that's when you say something. How do you protect and cover yourself before Or prepare yourself before you, you know, mention anything to the parent?

Okay, so I can't speak for every childcare, but from where I have worked at, at the different installations that I have worked at, the parents fill out, you know, the intake form. Age, this is what the kid eats, all the allergies and whatnot. We do portfolios in the classroom and observations on the children. So with those observations, we are looking for key things, you know, math, cognitive, science, social-emotional things. And weekly, we have our checkpoints. We have to say that this child did— oh, da da da da da. Little Johnny was playing in the housekeeping area. He, you know, tried to give the baby a bottle. That's the social-emotional. Mm-hmm.

Gotcha.

Deal. Um, we also have checkpoints that we have to do quarterly, so we're checking off that yes, this child is doing XYZ fluently, with no— without hiccup, without fail. And then we have parent-teacher conferences. Yes, in early childhood there are parent-teacher conferences. They should be surprised how many people say, are you just a baby?

Yeah, it's just a baby. Yeah, yeah.

And they will sign off and go about their day.

Well, and, and it's something when we talk about you guys co-parenting. So we know a lot in our world today there are single parents home, but there's people that are co-parenting, and a lot of them are co-parenting. They're very cohesive. But then you have those that are combative, right? And those who don't believe what the other person's saying about this particular child. And that's kind of the same in the child courts. Like, look, I am not one— I am— we're co-parenting, but I'm not that partner, right? I'm not that one that you should be combative with because it's, it's now maybe 3 of you guys in this parenting relationship, right? You have the school, you have the, the, and the, the father and the mother. And so now you all are caught in the middle of being that during that parenting. And it's like you should be seen as, oh, this is my ally, this is my support person that's really able to watch what's going on with my kid. You're taking care of my child. Right. And so it's a challenging job. I could never see myself doing what you do, taking care of young ones. So what's the age group You know, someone asked me the other day, they said, do you know, I want to start a program for adults with autism because there's no housing, there's really no support for them after they get some, you know, get so— they age out of the system and they're 18 or 20 and there's no place for them really to go too much. And they want to find a place for them where it's— where they get that special needs assistance again versus just saying I'm living in a house.

Gotcha. So for the adults There are different, like, centers and there's different programs. It just varies. Okay. As far as, like, the early childhood, depending on the programs, where I was working at was 6 weeks to 5 years old. And then you go to the afterschool programs where it's from 5 years old to 12 years old. And there's, you know, the teen centers and, you know, so it goes. Um, currently where I work at, we have children as young as 2, 3 years old, you know, into 18, 19 years old.

Wow. Wow. And they're all with special needs or some type of behavioral issue?

Yes, ma'am.

Okay. Okay. And so, so what's your long term? So you're, so you're, you're doing this now. I hear you're doing other things on the other things that something that's maybe I'm gonna call it your passion project. I, I hear your passion when you're talking about working with the, um, the youth and the special needs, but I hear you got another passion project. You want to share that with us?

Yes. So my next passion that just happened to come about, um, I'm an author. So, um, and that really came about because I do have a special client. She is near and dear to my heart. Um, through our sessions and everything, she is a wonderful writer. She is so descriptive and everything. And, um, you know, she is, um, getting ready to graduate, and we're speaking of what's coming next. What, what can I do? What does next look like for somebody like me on the spectrum?

Mm.

Um, and so with that, I told her, you know, you're not limited. You're You have a disability, but that doesn't mean that you are limited to anything.

You have a disability, but not an inability. Right.

And so, you know, with her writing and everything, I was encouraging her to write a book. I said, you know, these writings that you do, girly pop, we can write a book. You can write a book. What that looks like exactly, I don't know, but I can find out. We have resources. I, I'm going to actually Google it. I'll actually chat somebody. We're going to figure it out. So with that, I said, you know, how, how can I show her and be there to let her know that she also can do this? So, um, I had never written a book before. It had— I had thought about writing children's books before but didn't really know the ins and the outs. So I reached out to one of my near and dear friends, Quita Rose, who wrote a book a couple of years ago, and used my resources. How'd you go about putting out your book? What was the steps look like? Walk me through it. And so with that, She provided me with the resources, and I just kind of put something together really quick, one of my ideas that I have for a children's book. And that is how I came out with Miss Nita's Big Helper.

Okay,

Miss

Nita's Big Helper. Yeah. Okay. All right.

So with this, um, this was—

And this is the one you did with your client? This is the one you did with your client, your, your, the client with special needs? This is This is the book. OK, this is the book.

Right. And this was a little young for my client. However, the message still hits home that you too can do big things.

Yes.

And I just took my experience working in early childhood and the things that I have done with my littles, is what I call them, on a day-to-day. And I put it into a book and to show her, like, look, if I can do it, you can do it. And now that I have and know those resources, if this is something that you want to pursue, I can help you as well. And before you know it, you can also be an author.

That is beautiful. That is. And that's really right. And so that shows your passion, the caring about them. It's like, I'm not just providing you with the— the behavioral health. I'm showing you how to do more. You can do more. It's like you have the ability to do this, and let's look more— that is beautiful. That is beautiful. And how can, how can people get your book? If somebody wanted your book, how can they go and get your book?

You can find my book currently on amazon.com.

Okay, okay. But I think Sidney

has something special, folks, right there.

You're putting the comment. Okay, but I think I'll put in the comment because I think Sidney has something special for you that he wants to show you today.

Well, okay. So here we go. We're going to continue the conversation. But girl, you know when I saw you launching your book, one of the things we try to do is get people to be seen. This is what me and Vanessa do, right? So what we're going to do live while we're communicating, we're going to burn off your first website to pronounce your book. We're going to do that live while we're watching. Watching right now, so I'm going to bring it up first. Hold on, let me bring it up. And I'm a snatch. I went did a DNA trace on you, and I just told her from the beginning to see if everything that's something you would like to. We'll start your first lander page. I did your DNA trace on you. Sydney, what's a DNA trace? Well, I'm glad you asked because you already out that. Because you are out that way and you do have things, um, that's talking about your book, right? Um, it's not a— I went to even Amazon or whatnot and, um, I do what is called brand DNA scraping. So we're gonna just simply build your brand while we sit up here live and doing what we do. I'm gonna share my screen and give me a second and we're gonna see how this thing looks Like just from scratch. I'm gonna share the prompt with you and everything. First of all, I'm gonna share, um, here we go. Let me get Friday. We'll go back and forth. Friday.

Sydney is a, Sydney is a, a AI wizard, and that's how we met through AI. And he helps people with AI creating different things. And when he seen your book and he seen what you was doing, he says, we're gonna do a, a, a site for her live online.

Yes, that's what we're gonna do right now. I'm sharing the screen, everybody, right? So I built her out a full prompt, and with that prompt, I'm also going to go ahead and add your, your pictures inside there. Um, it's kind of like right here. Here is your— here's Fearless Friday. So guys, you can go to fearlessfriday.live And you can check on Miss Danita Austin and everything that's going on with her, right? So y'all see the profile, it's gonna do the books. You can watch her live, you can go to her, her book sales on Amazon right there. There we go, right there. Okay, that's her Amazon if you want to kind of have that one-on-one conversation with her. But now we're going to add to where she's going to have her own Facebook. I mean, no, But our own website. Okay. So let me, let me spin that off and go out of here. Let me go out of here and let me add your picture to it real quick. And this thing is gonna be burnt off while we talking. Give me one second. Hold on. Let me throw something.

So right now you're at your Vibe Alive. This, this is your brand ecosystem. So this is your ecosystem. Okay, and this you're gonna plug in her information into your system. Okay,

so what you'll see right here, Danita, you're gonna see a lot of transcript stuff right here, right? And we're gonna read it real quick. It's Convive Alive Master Build for Danita Austin, one-page book sales landing page. Everything down about you, scope, success, your patterns, source of truth, everything about your book, all the details. Everything about Lonnie, right? And then I'm gonna go back and plug the new one in with your nephew inside of it. That's really huge. Victoria, knock, knock, knock. Um, your, your, you know, so far it's all the way back to your mom. So anyway, all the data and the details is going inside there, and it's pretty significant because I spent a little time on it, right? Let me add in your actual couple of pictures inside here. Right. I'm gonna add in your profile picture. So the picture's gonna be added in right now, and then we're gonna start burning. I want them to see everything that we doing. Let me go to your document side. Anyone?

And so this is your, this, and so this, the, the long transcript, this is your prompt. So you prompted it, Sydney, but you've been working on it. You didn't just did it here, but you've been working on it because you, you, you're getting all the information in there. It's not just like, Talk— you can talk to it, but you're putting all the information that needs to be in there to create her site.

All the details. And, um, boom, it started, right? So this is a synthetic intelligence system. This is what I use. So my synthetic intelligence system actually has bots in it that's going to literally build out your system while we're watching it right now. And what you're looking at is The system is starting to give instructions, and here's all the instructions.

Wow!

This is all the instructions about you. So when I do a DNA scrape, what I'm doing is I'm finding all publicly known information about you. And me, you haven't really talked about nothing. I said, girl, you want to go live? Boom boom boom. So just to tell everybody, when I do a DNA scrape, I'm looking for anything about you and concerns to what the narrative. Is. Her narrative is about her book. She's doing a brand new book launch, right? I went back and cropped one of the favorite pictures I got on her. You're gonna see that, right? And the fact that's right behind me on the, on the TV anyway, and all that details. But you see the system now is starting to talk back to us. That's a status update. It's gonna start communicating.

Mm-hmm.

And we want it to talk.

Yes.

So maybe about 19, 9 to 10 minutes, We, we should start having a close mirror to our product coming out.

And can you imagine where it would've taken a week to get this set up? Just this quick now, and you can have your website up in 10 minutes.

No time. No time at all. No, we ain't even playing around with it. And then, then I start asking personal questions.

It's crazy.

Yes, it's crazy. And this is what we love doing. Like I said, me and Vanessa, we met during our AI Academy days and we end up, um, just going back and forth, back and forth. And, uh, now we solidify and we do collaborations, right? So now we collabing with Fearless Friday, but we also help a lot of our clients out that come on the board and everything. Yeah. And we do a lot. So

whether they're small business or not. We're excited to do you today. Yeah.

Mm-hmm. Yeah.

All right.

Like I was telling Danita, Danita, you know, if you're doing things for the good of the public, you can even look at running your own nonprofit for the good of the public and look at all that money out there and the grants in those public spaces to further advance you as a consultant while you're working and learning, you know, because you don't work through a lot of different stages. Golly, no one can even imagine what's inside your mind right now.

Yeah,

they can't.

And it's so needed with the work that you're doing with, uh, people that— with the babies and the adults and special needs. You know, what you have to offer is so needed because like you said, you've seen it grow over the time. And someone with your passion— you can have someone that has a job, which I'm sure you've seen people that are just looking for a job, but someone has a passion that can make a difference in the lives of others, or set up your own program. Look at there. Look at here.

No, that's not it yet. That's just the.

Oh, that's still it. Okay. Okay.

While it's burning.

Okay.

So she's still over here burning y'all.

Okay.

Now I can really get excited at this time because none of us really know what it's gonna look like. But let me tell you how deep it went on to you, right? Let's go to the transcript. Let's go up to the transcript. And you guys out there, I realize you might not be able to see it real clearly. But I'm gonna tell you a little bit, right? It talks— it starts talking about the bill. It's going back and forth for me. Here it is right here. This is the communication it's doing.

So you just— you— so what you did was you went out, you didn't program all this stuff into the, the program. You went and it went out into the spirit and it scraped everything and it brought it in here. So the day—

So let me tell you what I did, guys.

Yes,

let me show you what I did with Danita. Okay, so first of all, I went to her— I went to the Facebook page. So let's go out to Facebook, right? Let's go to Danita.

I was about to say, because, you know, I done had a lot of jobs over, over some years. Oh, listen, listen, everything.

So we haven't even— we haven't even went that far yet. So it's a lot that can happen. I didn't even go that deep yet. I went through where I know I could find quick information because we was on a short turnaround, but I was able to get maximum details out of you, right? And this is her Facebook, everybody. And what I did was I just simply copy and paste her Facebook, and I told it to go inside there and strip the elements that I need, especially what it concerns to, um, um, the book, right? This is the video that we— that I produced on the book. I did this last night. Right. It's a big deal. So Danita had already did all the work. All I did was started pronouncing the word, and I told her, let's build an animation around that so everybody can see what's going on with her, right? This is her work right here. I just throw a little extra sauce on it. Stirred it up in that pot. Okay, that's what's going on right here. And I started off with just this that she posted today. Danita, you posted this picture 2 days ago. Look what happened in 2 days. I took that one picture and I threw a couple elements on it, and then I end up building a profile on there and a prompt on there to do the actual, um, To do the actual video. Now I went into your Amazon. I said, okay, let's break down Amazon. So I had my bot go in and train on your Amazon detail. Mm-hmm. So just between those 2 elements and a couple other different intakes, right? I was able to go out and, and, and, and real easily. Why? Just using ChatGPT. We all got it, right? That's what grade you're using that, and I build a master prompt for you out of there. This, this is all you. Ain't nothing. It's even telling what the color of your website's gonna be. Light surface, navy hero, main text, light background, blah blah, all the way down. The typography, the layout, build the page, because I've trained bots to break down elements of building Master Tier 1 systems, and yours gonna be that all the way down inside the book. It's even going inside some of the material from the book. Now, where did I get that from? From what you've already published. I call that a DNA scrape. It's like taking a blood sample from you and running through the DNA scraper. This is what's going on right here and all the way down. So I took that master prompt, I plugged it inside my— oh, boom! There you go, Nita. Nita, this is your— girl, this is your web page. Danita Austin, children book author. The story. Meet Danita. Questions. So I've built systems What we call AEO, um, um, answer engine optimization. And that's when you Googling something, the AI go to work. I've already installed that inside your system.

Mm-hmm. So what do you think? Let's see. There is she.

And we can do something. Oh man. Wow.

For words. Oh man.

This is you, girl. This is you. Let's go about the author right there. Boom, right there, right? Something short, sweet. Listen, get the book. Get the book, girl.

Mm-hmm.

Buy the book today, people. Buy our daughter's book today. We ain't even playing around with you. Go ahead and spend that money.

Oh man.

And get that book today. Today, Nita, this is you, child.

Thank you. And we love you.

Listen, we're going to take it a step further because there's a lot of other things I want to put into the mix of it. I'm even going to go ahead and take this link right here. No, let me go ahead and try something, another something real quick right here. I mean, I'm going to Bluehost. I'm gonna go offline. I want— I'm gonna send you the link so you can Go ahead and look at it on your cell phone. I'm gonna send it to you right now. In fact, I'll put inside the Facebook page so people can see how authentic this is. No joke, God. This is real sauce going on right now. This is Sydney and Vanessa, and we ain't even playing around with you today. And this is Danita's. Look in the comments section. New web page.

And and and and it's it's it looks simple, but the prompting is everything. The information. So you're only going to get in, get out once you get in. It's everything.

You're only going to get out once you get in.

And so right. This is one thing that people should know. That's right. If you don't put in good information, you're going to get garbage out. And the more you have to keep having it work for you. Sydney put great information in. He has a nice this is a nice website. But the more information you put in, the more it's gonna cost you. So you wanna make sure that you know how to prompt, you know what you're telling it, because the more it reiterates it and it has to keep going over and over again to fix things, it costs you more. So people think that you can just get on here and create this without a cost. There's a cost to this, you know.

Building, building the master prompt is like, Danita, you already do it every day. You give master instructions to people.

Mm-hmm.

Right. So what I see out coming out of you right now, you're going to be a consultant. You're already that anyway. People already listen to you. You're very well known, very well blessed, and people want to sow into you. I see a split of your business life, and I see a split of your nonprofit life. I see you centerpiecing yourself As the consultant, I see your continuing education going, and you still young. I see nothing but growth and prosperity inside you, and we claim this now in our precious Son in Christ, Jesus. I profess that this is what I see in you, and I'm very happy for you. And we're gonna animate everything too. Don't play with us. Amen.

And this is great tools for your students. You know, I don't, I know, I don't know if they get online or if they do, but to, for them to learn how to create and build. When you talk about your, your student and you're helping them with writing books and things along that line, this is another great tool for them to learn is how to use AI.

That is definitely something I would like to teach them because right now they, they say AI is crazy. Cringe.

Well, let me show you how to uncringe it.

Oh man.

Yes.

Oh girl, this is— you know what, all this happened literally, no joke, within the last 2 hours of discussions. Mhm. I'm not even joking with you.

Yes.

And, um, it's all you. I sent you, um, if they going— if you're going Inside the, the, um, the feeds. I'm also going to send it to you directly right now on your— oops, oops, oops, oops, oops. I was trying to find where—

And Sydney, for you guys, yes. And so for y'all who know me, I am the nonprofit person. I'm always going to talk about something. So Sydney, and I'm gonna promote. So if somebody wants this and they want to be able to have a website that's But they don't have the time, they don't know how to do the prompt. How do they get in touch with you so they can get this done?

I know we have Fearless Friday.

I'm

not, I'm not hard to find. You can go to fearlessfridays.live, L-I-V-E, not .com but .live, and you're going to pick up on me there. Or you can simply come to my social media, and my social media is my Facebook. If you go to Fearless Friday, it's going to guide you Through my Facebook anyway. You get with me, we just have a simple conversation, and then I start doing your DNA scraping at that point in time to build you out your portfolio. Mm-hmm. And again, the DNA scrape is, is no different than me pulling blood from your vein and doing your mitochondrial or paternal line. I do that through your data, if you will, and from your data it emerge all the elements on this. Stuff that you won't even think about because you thinking about it. And then we will program— I'll make a little Danita, if you will, and the little Danita went and went to work for her, and you see what comes out of it. And this is just the most simplistic form of me doing it, but this thing is already launched. It's already launchable. All I'm gonna do now is go to Bluehost. No joke, we're gonna get your domain, slap that bad boy up on there. And you live, girl.

That's right. That's all you have to do is get it slapped up live. And then you want to put— and then also there's another thing you, um, in the back end, you also want to make sure you want to go hook up your Stripe account or whatever else. And so maybe that's something that Sydney can help you do, get a domain, hook up your Stripe account so people can purchase, you know, if they want to purchase, they want to donate, um, or so that it hooks up straight to, um What's the name of that? Amazon. Sorry, Amazon.

So listen, your Amazon trivia right now, guys, if you want to buy Danita's book, and right now we want people going on here now, especially if you know her, and go ahead and spend the money, buy the book, and give it to some— a child that you know, or maybe a child that you want to read to. This is— we're in promotion stage right now. That's what we're doing right now. So they don't even have to wait for that. They could buy the book right now.

They can write it right now.

They ain't gotta wait for that. Now we will help me and you account and stuff like this. And then when we do that, Nita, what we're gonna do is everything else. You want merch and all this other kind of stuff? How about that? We're gonna square that away too. If you want further promotions, every book you come out, you already set, solidified, period.

Mm-hmm.

Wow.

That's how we doing it up.

And so you take a look at it. Yeah, take a look at it, see if you want any changes, anything added, and send it back.

Okay, I just sent my husband a text message for him to bring me my bag out the car so I can, um, check it out on my iPad.

Yes, yes, there we go. Yes,

your cell phone.

This

is everything we built. Matter of fact, what I'm gonna do right now, what I'm gonna do right now, I'm gonna look at the budget app for you. What I'm gonna do right now is tell it to go into app mode. So when you look at it on your cell phone, it's going to look like an actual app. So on the computer screen, it's going to be one way, and then on your cell phone, it's going to be another way. Watch how simple I program the instructions in right here, okay?

Okay. That's crazy.

Cloud responsive. So when somebody sponsors in tech, they talk about going from a web design on the computer all the way down to the phone. Okay.

Okay.

Go out, build out the responsive, um, smartphone view, um, tier 1. Best practice responsiveness app view. And neither— guess what else we're going to end up doing? Because some of these children may be special needs or hearing impaired, stuff like this. Inside your site, we're going to put a reader inside there So when people would, um, um, um, assess— I mean, uh, special needs and everything, they'll be able to go inside your website, Nita, and go ahead and hit a button and then go ahead and read the website to them in case they have visual problems, or it'll blow up the, the text so they could be able to see it in that way also, right? Oh,

okay.

We're going to make sure you're full blasted, fully ready to go from Jump Street. By the time the end of the weekend go, girl, no one gonna be able to touch you. You got your Amazon site set up, the 90% work on everything. We're going to continue to march for you and build you out. And on fearlessfriday.live, if you go to the website, guys, after tonight you'll be able to go here and see everything about her growth pattern anyway. So every time you have a growth pattern You send it to me, we'll build that growth pattern up so you have a permanent page with us to always promote you. You have your website to promote you and every bells and whistles inside there. And then we'll look at all your social media, etc., etc., etc., etc.

Yes. So while we're waiting for that to render, for all of you who know, because our time is coming to— our time is wrapping up. So, you know, look, I'm the timekeeper here. Sidney's in his wheelhouse. I'm telling you, Sidney loves AI. He is exceptional at AI, and he eats, drinks, sleeps AI. So when you get him on this, he's in his wheelhouse, and so I'm gonna have to shut him down. Okay, so he'll be here for— he'll be here till 10 o'clock tonight if we let Sidney be here till 10 o'clock at night, because he will make you everything. So we're gonna give him something to play with over the weekend.

So—

I appreciate

that

too. That's right, that's right. So, Danita, as we talked about, I have this— how dare you? I'm going to ask you that question. We know a lot about you, all the wonderful work you're doing. Thank you for what you're doing. Parents, if you have a child with special needs, please tune in and listen to what she has to say. Be a partner with your provider. And I'm, I'm sure a lot of us, we say we're doing it, but go in there and ask them if you think— even if you think you're doing it, go in there and ask them, what more can I do? Are we— do you, do you feel we're communicating enough? You may feel you're communicating enough in The person who's taking care of your child Monday through Friday may feel not. So go on there and ask that question, find out. Okay, okay. So, Miss Denise, I'm off my soapbox. I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna shuffle this, and when you tell me to stop, the card that's on the bottom is your card.

Stop.

Okay. Have you ever eaten food from the floor?

Yes.

When was the last time?

A while ago, but the 5-second rule still counts, right?

Still counts.

Oh, the 3-second rule.

Oh, 3 seconds. We pushed it to 5. Okay. I think I did it today. I dropped the peach on my— peach on the floor. Hey, I can't let that go. So, Danita, is there anything else that you would like to tell, tell parents or talk about your journey? What helped you overcome the fear of making that leap into not just changing careers but actually creating your book?

Um, therapy, one. Um, shout out to my therapist. Um,

let me see if I can get, let me see if I can get you in here closer up. Hold on a minute. Because Sydney is, um, let me put you in here. You need a real question for you.

What, what, what do you want to call your website? What do you wanna call it? Is it your name? Is it, um, Nita's Big Helper? Or, um, because you're gonna spin off different variations probably, right? So what do we wanna call your Your site?

Well, that's a good question. I don't know. Okay,

Sydney will have you here. You have everything done. I'm telling you, he would have you have everything done right now. We're surprising you, but you need your name. We need you.

Look, I haven't even thought that far ahead. Um,

I know. So

probably in your book series

Think about it. Think about it because it's really important. So you take your time.

There ain't no rush with it because see what it is, right? Something that's going to build you up because all your books is going to go in here. Every time you spin off another book, we're going to slap it right back up inside here and send it right off to the direction people need to go purchase it with. But we can also do book analogies, um, you know, um, make, make it so many different directions I'm gonna take you in. That I'm gonna show you, because I just see visions upon visions with you right now. So that's what's going on right here. It could be just whatever your name, or it could be whatever your title is, but I can show you how to search that out too. And we'll do the best practice, um, um, best psychographics in terms of that. And, uh, so we got time.

Sounds good.

Don't worry about it. No rush. But you know me, I've been— I had you up and going tomorrow. And by Monday you out there super calli-docious, itty-itty-ocious.

Mm-hmm.

Because what I learned, Nita, this is no joke. What I learned is time ain't on our side. So when it's in your mind, you produce it then.

That's right.

And because we have the capabilities, I'm gonna show you how to— when it hits you, time you dreamed it, you wake up and send something, and then I build out the narrative. It's launched. It ain't no, girl, let me think about it. Uh, let me go eat this cheeseburger and french fries while I pray over it and all that. We ain't doing all that. We going straight into it because it started with the vision. Now God just wants you to walk everything out and he's gonna give you the assets and resources. And I'm just tipping the iceberg right now. 'Cause once you get the gravity of what's taking place, no one gonna be able to shut you down. And I'm here to help you. Right here.

He's got you.

I've got you.

Yes. Okay, Danita, so what is it that you would like to— what would— if you were to tell the parents or tell anyone that wants to make a pivot in their life, what is it that you would like to tell them?

Uh, believe in yourself, trust in yourself. And I mean, you just gotta bet on yourself.

Bet on yourself.

Bet

on yourself.

That's right, that's right. You're a betting person, and everybody's a betting person. They just betting on the wrong thing. Everybody betting

Yeah,

everybody, this is so nice.

I love it.

It's nice.

It really is.

It really is. Okay, so everybody, you know, it's that time. We've been here a little long, and Anita, I know you're just getting home from work and you slid on in here to give us some of your time, so I want to respect your time, and we thank you. Sydney, you have any parting words?

No, just to say that, um, you're always in my prayers. Thank you for being there for me in so many times that me and you can't even count. Everywhere from since you was first born all the way up to you going to the womb.

He going to the flight. He going to the flight. You know, but I said, look, say something to the people.

Look,

he said you won't let me.

Look, if you want to do Fearless Friday Live, if you got something you want to talk about, your hidden battles, your fears, things you want to share while you trying to launch what you launching. Hey, just get with Sydney and Vannessa and let's go ahead and go to beam me up, Scotty. Okay, talk about it, get it going. Hit us up on Fearless Live, fearlessfridays.live, and, uh, let us know what you're working with and let's get you on and burning. Okay. I'm Sydney Johnson with our special beautiful guest, Um, Danita Austin and Vanessa, queen of all queens, we appreciate you so much.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you both. Hope you enjoy your Friday. And everybody, thank you for listening. If you're watching this on the repeat, if you— are you thinking about starting a nonprofit? Check me out, I'll help you and I'll walk you through the step-by-step process to get your 501. And once you're done, Sydney's going to go ahead and help you get your website up and running. And then if you have a child that has special needs and you have questions, please reach out to Danita and please get her book because there's gonna be a lot of information in that book that can help you.

There we go. We got another section now. Danita, what I want you to do is go to that link that I sent out, but look at that on your cell phone and it's gonna look like an app.

Okay.

Okay.

That's beautiful.

Danita, stay online once we go ahead and, um, um, um, end the screen so we can do some conversing real quick.

Okay, so I'm gonna go ahead and sign out. Everybody have a wonderful weekend, and we will see you next Friday. We're gonna be doing Friday Night Live. It's Friday.

Your kidney warrior DJ, DJ Woody Wood.

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