Nov. 19, 2025
Journaling For Clarity And Calm with Tonya White
Send us a text A single page can change the pace of your life. When educator Tonya L. White lost her home to an electrical fire, she rebuilt her days with a guided journaling practice that turned chaos into calm and busy into intentional. We sit down to unpack how a simple, undated daily layout—priorities, affirmation, gratitude, notes, and a self-rating—helps reduce anxiety, track progress, and create momentum you can feel. Tonya shares how gifting her journal to a teaching fellow's directo...
A single page can change the pace of your life. When educator Tonya L. White lost her home to an electrical fire, she rebuilt her days with a guided journaling practice that turned chaos into calm and busy into intentional. We sit down to unpack how a simple, undated daily layout—priorities, affirmation, gratitude, notes, and a self-rating—helps reduce anxiety, track progress, and create momentum you can feel.
Tonya shares how gifting her journal to a teaching fellow's director sparked campus workshops for overwhelmed freshmen who were struggling with deadlines, transitions, and mental load. You’ll hear why paper beats apps for reflection, how visual checklists reinforce motivation, and what it takes to build a supportive circle that keeps you accountable without shame. We explore collaboration as a growth engine—from publishers who helped refine the layout to community partners bringing journaling to women’s groups, mental health centers, and reading circles.
If you’re a student finding your footing, a busy parent juggling too much, or a creator turning pain into purpose, this conversation gives you tools you can use today. We talk practical routines like Sunday planning, five-minute morning pages, and lightweight group check-ins that transform good intentions into steady habits. Tonya also previews what’s next: a 90-day reset journal for quick momentum and a teen-focused edition that helps young people put words to big feelings.
Ready to try it? Grab a notebook or visit SuddenlyLifeBusy.com, start with one clear priority and one honest line. If the episode resonates, subscribe, share it with a friend who needs a gentle reset, and leave a quick review to help others find the show.
Connect with Tonya White
Website: SuddenlyLifeBusy.com
Email: tlw@suddenlylifebusy.com
Phone: 910-840-0454
Facebook – Tonya L White Instagram – tonyalwhite
TikTok @tonya.white39
YouTube – www.youtube.com/@TonyaLWhite-h4u
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00:00 - Welcome And Guest Introduction
00:29 - Tanya’s Background And Mission
03:04 - Invitation To Speak And College Workshops
05:29 - The House Fire And Finding Journaling
09:46 - Why Writing Works Better Than Screens
10:05 - Inside The Journal: Layout And Philosophy
11:29 - Collaboration That Opened Doors
14:33 - Publishing Support And Building Community
15:09 - Teaching Freshmen Organization Skills
18:02 - How Leaders Can Use Journaling
20:08 - Time, Accountability, And Group Support
21:44 - Early Feedback And Quiet Transformations
23:39 - Start Before You Feel Ready
25:33 - What’s Next: 90-Day And Teen Journals
26:54 - Closing, Resources, And Subscribe
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Welcome to ReadySet Collaborate Podcast with Wanda Pearson, the show will bring we bring together inspiring voices, creative entrepreneurs, and thought leaders who are making an impact in their communities and beyond.
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Today's guest is Tanya L.
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White, a special education teacher, turned author and creative entrepreneur.
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Tanya is a creator of the guiding journal and Suddenly Life Got Busy.
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Oh Lord, I know that's right.
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It's designed to inspire productivity, reflection, and balance.
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She beautifully blends her background in education with a passion for mental wellness to build a purpose-driven journaling brand that helps individuals pause, reflect, and thrive.
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You can find her work at suddenlylifebusy.com.
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I'm so excited to dive into a conversation about the power of journaling for wellness, focus, and purpose.
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Let's get started.
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Welcome, Tanya, to the Ready Set Collaborate Podcast.
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I appreciate you coming on.
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Thank you for having me.
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Oh, absolutely.
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I was gonna say hi to the audience.
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You already said hello to the audience.
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It's really great.
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And I'm very excited to hear about your journal, your journal as far as what you're doing here.
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Because I was just telling you about how I was journaling, not knowing that actually helped me to relieve, like you said, mental stress, to relieve any kind of anxiety, aggravation, or whatever I'm going through stress.
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It's a blessing of what you're doing here.
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And also, I'm gonna read your bio.
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And then we can talk about that because actually, what you do is for a special education is just I was just saying, how do you have patience for that?
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But God gives you patience, right?
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Yes.
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All right, so let me read your bio.
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Tanya White is a special education teacher, turned author, and created entrepreneur.
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She created the guided journey and suddenly life got busy to inspire productivity, reflection, and balance.
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Tanya blends her educational experience with her passion for mental wellness to build a blend to build a brand centered on purpose-driven journaling.
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She has shared her expertise as a presenter at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke and is a member of the North Carolina Reading Association.
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Her goal is to help others transform their creativity and self-discovery into sustainable success.
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Learn more about her work and resources at SuddenlyLifeBusy.com.
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I'm getting tongue-tied here.
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They're definitely welcome to the podcast because we really need to hear about this, Tanya.
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And I just asked her what God has blessed you to do and also what you're going to be doing, because He also gives you a position to get an opportunity into the colleges to help the college students to help them with their journaling.
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Tell us a little bit about that before we dive into some questions here.
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Okay, I recently graduated from University of North Carolina at Pembroke with my master's degree in special education.
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And one of the teaching fellows directors invited me to come and speak to the freshman.
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And she first I went to gift her my journal.
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And she just held it up and she started smiling.
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And before I could leave, she booked me to come back to speak to college students about journaling.
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She says, This is great.
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They had just had a networking event about what they could do for freshmen because some of them, it's their first time away from home, get a little overwhelmed.
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They're not used to a teacher keeping them in line with assignments and do this, do that.
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The transition to college life, for some, it becomes a little overwhelming.
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But she thought it was a perfect idea to have me to come back and speak with them and just give them some tips, which I created a workshop, a journaling workshop.
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It's like all coming together.
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I never even thought that I would be doing any of that.
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Now that I've done it, I'm going to create more workshops and try to get journaling out there because people don't know that they're journaling or how much journaling can help them.
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That's awesome because you're so right.
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When they go to college, like what I'm doing, I mentor at the middle schools, the middle school girls from sixth to eighth grade.
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And the next step, and we're trying to get into the high school now because that's the freshmen in high school.
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When you're leaving one group of education and they don't know what to do, they're like, in fact, the first one then, like the freshmen in high school, freshmen in college, they're the ones that are being picked on.
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Help journaling, I think that actually helps show their creativity, actually getting it whatever's on their mind.
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And that actually can help with uh with mental illness, mental wellness as well.
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Yeah, yeah.
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I it's just amazing what you're doing, and what a blessing.
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See, God put you in the right place at the right time.
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And I see at the right time.
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Yes, yes.
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I can see you doing it at other colleges, not just North Carolina.
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And what part of North Carolina are you?
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I'm from the Southeast North Carolina, near the North Carolina, South Carolina beaches.
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Okay, okay, because I think I was just well, we were just babysitting in Morrisville, North Carolina, Charlotte.
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Wow, that's amazing.
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Let's dive into some of these questions here.
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Can you share your journey from being a special education teacher to becoming an author and creative entrepreneur?
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Okay, yes, I am a special education teacher.
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And two weeks before school started, two years ago, I lost my home to an electrical fire.
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I was on my way to a part-time job that I worked on the weekends, also in mental health.
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I work with elderly that have mental issues.
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I had just left home and I got a phone call from my sister, and she said, Your house is on fire.
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I actually hung up the phone.
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I said, I don't know why she's pranking me too early in the morning for this.
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I just got to work.
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And then she called back and she said, No, your house is on fire.
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I already called the fire truck, but you need to come home.
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I came home and it hadn't even been 30 minutes in my home.
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It I lost everything.
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Literally walked out with the clothes on my back that day.
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Fast forward a little bit.
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I went back to work.
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I'm still working at that point as a special education teacher, still doing the part-time job on the weekend.
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And it's like my mind had to stay busy.
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I didn't know how to slow down.
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I was just on autopilot.
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And around December, because that fire happened in August, December, we had some snow days.
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And I was sitting there and I was thinking, what can I do to help someone that may need the same type of release, just a space where they can let everything go and not be judged.
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That was my comfort for me to journal.
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I can write because when you're going through any type of trauma, yes, you have your support with family and close friends, but sometimes you feel like you're burdening them because you're still going through it.
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It's still on your mind, and you still want to talk about it.
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But maybe in my mind, I was just like, they're tired of hearing me talk about this.
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I just started writing and it helped me so much.
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It helped me calm down, it helped with my anxiety.
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I was able to sleep because when you're so full of everything and you can't get it out, it's like your mind is just still going and going, and then you just never slow down.
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I went through that and I said, now that I've done it and now I'm here, at that point, I was getting ready to close on my new home.
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And I said, I should do something because someone else may need this exact same thing because it worked for me, it could work for someone else.
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That's awesome.
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And that's when you inspired you to create the and suddenly life got busy.
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Is that when you started writing that?
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You created it.
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And that's when I started to do it.
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I did it on the space.
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I was home, not home, at my mom's house because I moved in with her temporarily until everything was ready.
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And the title, and suddenly life got busy because my life was so busy at that moment.
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So I just said, you know what, this is going to be the title, and that was the end of that.
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I love it because it really makes sense.
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And suddenly get busy.
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You just never know.
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And then and how God puts you into that space, unfortunately, with the fire at the house, but also to make you think about that.
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And also to be you becoming an author, right?
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That's a blessing.
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That's a blessing right there.
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Why is journalists such a powerful tune in today's fast-paced world?
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Well, I think it's special because people are just going and never slowing down.
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They don't know how to slow down.
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Yeah.
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And it helps them to navigate through challenges that they may be having and going through, reflecting, and sometimes sitting down writing, it all comes together.
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Now everyone is more tuned into social media and electronics.
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But for me, when I actually sat down and wrote it and saw it in paper, and then I could have my checklist and I could just go and check things off or cross it out, it made me see, okay, you are making progress because when I'm just doing things on social media or getting electrical or whatever, it just didn't seem like anything was happening.
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But when I wrote the steps or put everything down and then had that checklist, it just made me feel so much better because I could see my progress.
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And also I could see if there were other things that I needed to add or take away, or if I put a time frame of when I wanted to do something, I could modify that.
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That's awesome.
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I love it.
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I love it.
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Tell us a more about your journal, how it's designed to help people pause, reflect, and find balance.
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Okay, so in the journal, it's a page for every day.
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So it's 365 pages for the year.
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Each page has a priority task list that you can actually put your task.
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It has an affirmation, it has a section that you can put what you're grateful for, task of the day, and then notes.
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It is even has a section at the bottom.
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You can rate yourself of how productive you think you were for that day.
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I thought that was really cute.
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Um, I purposely did not date the pages.
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So you'll see a section at the top to you can manually put the date in the day because I thought, okay, if someone buys this, I don't want it to be like a calendar and they have to start on it right away because if they don't use it, then it's not going to be any good.
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With me not dating it, they can start at any time because sometimes I know in the past I've ordered something that I intended on using and I threw it to the side and didn't start with this journal.
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They can start at any time during the year, and it's going to just roll over until the next year of that same time.
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That way it'll be helpful.
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I love it because you're right.
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I got mag, I got magazine, I got calendars that's oh my god, I never wrote in 2024 or 2025.
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I'm still trying to catch up with 2025.
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Yeah, but no, I love that you do that because you didn't date it.
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And like you said, you can start whenever you want to start here with this.
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That's awesome.
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How did collaboration, whether with mentors, colleagues, or creative partners role in bringing your journey to life, journal to life?
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Flaboration was a really big key because it let me see that I don't have to do everything alone.
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There are resources or people that you can collaborate and network with to make the process a little easier.
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And if I thought about it, didn't even intend for the collaboration with my teaching fellows director, but going there, letting her giving her just gifting her a journal gave me the idea.
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She just planted the seed.
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This is what she put, she created the date and everything, didn't ask, and I was like, okay, what's happening here?
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Yeah.
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Now workshopping, that's something else that I can do stemming from my journal.
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I love it because you like I said, and that really, and that's my next question about what lessons about teamwork and collaboration have you learned through your work and education that also apply to your writing and publishing journey.
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How did that work?
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With me, teamwork, it requires a lot of trust because you're putting, giving your ideas and your thoughts to someone.
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It requires trust, communication, and of course, flexibility because everyone may not be available at the same time or not able to meet in person.
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Now we can meet online and do virtual meetings and things like that.
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So I try to call that into consideration, being flexible.
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I love doing virtual meetings.
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Sometimes you may have someone that wants to only meet in person.
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So you have to be flexible with that.
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Yeah.
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And that's true because when COVID happened, we had to do virtual.
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And that's really when I created my my brand, because I do services in Legal Shield is with WD Pearson Associates and helping people who wanted to start a business and get the LLCs, that's when I actually thrived because people were getting laid off from their jobs, and you just never know.
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It's good.
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And I said, What would we do without Zoom, Tanya?
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We're gonna I should have bought some stock in Zoom.
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That's what I should have done.
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No, it really gives us another alternative.
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Alternative not just to be in person, but also to meet online and really do the same thing as far as having that conversation.
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And I really love it how you gaped the team, and you're right about trust.
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You got to trust the person that you're giving your project to.
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That really makes a difference there.
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What about when you created your journal?
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Did you have a support network or community that helped guide your process?
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And I think we were just talking about that.
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And how did that collaboration impact the final product when you finally got it done?
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Okay.
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At first I did not, but I reached out to a publisher.
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And actually, this publisher create was the publisher of a lot of school books, McGillion.
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I looked at the name, I'm like, where do I know this name from?
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And then it's our older school textbook.
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Yes.
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So they reached out to me and they said, okay, what kind of type of project do you want?
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They helped me create the layout and all of that because I'm not that tech savvy yet to just put it together.
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They were very helpful in getting that done.
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Afterwards, I could say collaborating with others that would help with like mental health and pausing and reflecting.
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We can maybe do events together and things like that.
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So I'm looking forward to getting some of those things on the book as well.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Tell us about how you were able to go to the college and now they want you to come and help with the freshman.
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Well, being that I was a recent graduate, even though I'm older, but I could relate to what they're going through with the timelines and getting those assignments in and making sure that you didn't miss those deadlines because those are very important points that you miss.
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It all worked out.
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The group that I had, they loved it because they didn't know about organizing and getting their things ready because it was their first year.
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That part, it really helped them.
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And I actually took some cheeks and helped them work through their first week of assignments and they loved it.
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Hopefully, you know, they'll continue to use it throughout the semester.
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But I'm looking forward to going back for the next semester and speak to the newer students that are coming in.
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That's awesome.
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I wish you were around when my daughters were going to college.
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I was one, I was especially my older, I was the one with encouraging her going on the back office.
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Okay, you got to get this assignment done, you got to do this here.
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Yeah, no, that that this is really something, and this is unheard of as far as what you're doing here.
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You have really pivoted to something that can really be used, not only in colleges, but in high schools.
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Yes.
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Wherever you go, you should be able to use this because it's just something that um that this is great.
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When did your book come out?
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And I would like to get a copy of that too.
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I'm sorry, when did your journal come out?
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June 3rd of this year.
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It's fairly new.
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Okay, congratulations.
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That's awesome.
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That is awesome.
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And we both were with the author all-stars, right?
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Yes, we actually that that's how I met Tanya through the author all-star and I mean being on the media, be the podcaster.
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I am so happy that you came here because this is definitely something different that I love talking to you about.
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How can parents, teachers, or community leaders use journalist to support youth and adults alike?
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It's not just the youth, but adults as well.
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Adults, I actually started reaching out to like mental health centers, women's groups, reading circles, and things like that, get it out, get the word out about my journal.
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Going to be doing a workshop, I think, next month.
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And some busy moms that wanted to get together and do a journal and workshop because sometimes when you're in the mom role, you play the mom, you have a job, and then you got to keep up if your children are in sports and all these other extracurricular activities.
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It's a lot to keep together sometimes.
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So I'm looking forward to doing that as well.
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That's awesome.
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And I was actually gonna ask you the next question.
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In your experience, how can journaling help teams, educators, and creative partners communicate and connect better?
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And like you were saying, your journal is gonna help that.
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And by you doing workshops, that's great in getting it out there.
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Even like on the with a call, next door neighbor, I think they have, I don't know if they have there in North Carolina, letting people know that you have this journaling, this vehicle to help with that.
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That's awesome.
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Many people struggle to find time for reflection.
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How can journaling and collaboration work together to support accountability and growth?
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A lot of people ask me how to journal, getting into the question you just asked, and my answer to them is never a really set-in-stone perfect time to journal.
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