 Thank you for tuning in to Sister Power. I'm Sharon Thomas Yarbrough. Our topic, your vibe attracts your tribe, the power of sisterhood. Yes, our special guest, Gail Moore, backed by popular demand, and Ella Johnson. Welcome to Sister Power, ladies. I'm so excited. Gail was on before, and then she was on your show, Ella, and listen to your show. I said, I've got to meet this lady. I'm honored. Yes. Yes. She is really too special. I mean, Ella has got more, I've got more comments on this show, and Sharon on your show, people are still calling about the show. And they're saying, for you, Ella, they're saying, you know, because my husband's mother's name is Ella. And so all these people are calling one, you know, is Ella, your family. Yes, of course. My brother called me and he was like, you know what, you didn't even ask her about Johnson, because my family's Johnson. Really? And you're from Alabama, just like me? Yes. So my brother's like, she might be a kid, she might be a cousin. I'm telling you. Anyway, I want to tell you that it's right out of the air from everybody. Your vibe attracts your tribe. That's what we're talking about. You know, so, you know, I have an organization, Hawaii's Sisters in Prying Hawaii, Hawaii's foremost women's empowerment organization. And I love that both of you ladies have organizations. And so, Gail, you are the founder of a young women's movement entitled Just Girls. Tell us about this organization. Just Girls is actually an organization that was really created from speaking in so many schools and, but you know, in school assemblies, you only have a few minutes. And but so after the assembly was over, all of these girls would be lined up like 100 deep to the point where the bell would ring and they would just stay in line and the principal would look at me and say, okay, Gail, just keep them because I know they want to, they got questions. But they had so many questions that birthed Just Girls because I thought I needed to do something to give these girls a platform to share their experiences, to vent their frustrations and find real answers for them. And that's the folks, but I thought I was just going to do it for like 30 girls. 800 girls showed up the very first time off the box. Since then it's been running 1500-2000 girls that have been doing it for like 10 years. Yes. You know, we got gang bangers coming, hating, we're in rivalry together, but when they leave, maybe they are in tears and hugging each other. The penitentiaries would call and bring bus loads of their women just to be, they'd call, is it okay? And I'm like, yes, bring them, we want them to be involved. Just put them in regular clothing. I don't want them to be standing out like, you know, embarrassing thing, but it has been a very, very successful situation where these young women relate to other young women and they embrace one another. Because women, we have more in common with each other, which is what I tell the girls, than we do to resent one another. You know, we all love clothing. We love to be loved. We love to be accepted and honored and adored. You know, the fighting has got to stop. That's just not ladylike at all to me. That's right. In these schools, they have so much fighting and violence. The principals would call and say, girl, Gail, the girls are beating up the guys. Some of them are hotheads because they just, they're upset. People are hurting so much right now. That's why I've developed the Just Girls program. I like it. I like it. Ella, my new bed. You are the president and CEO of two businesses, Mahogany Motivations and Women at Work International. Please tell our viewers about your businesses. Well, I'll start with Mahogany Motivations. How I came up with Mahogany. This is a funny story. I used to sell Mary Kaye back in the day and my color was Mahogany Bronze. So I just adopted that Mahogany theme. So that's where the name comes from. Mahogany and I love to motivate people, but I'm a writer and I have four books out there, which is a compilation of the Torn series, which I am definitely looking to have that turn into a movie. Just stay tuned for that. Oh yes, absolutely. And then the other organization is Women at Work International. That's my nonprofit 501C3. And I'm from Alabama and this dream of having this nonprofit started from me as a young girl. I would, we were very poor. We grew up very poor. And I remember as a young girl making a promise to God saying, you know, I'll always come back and give back. And so Women at Work International is a nonprofit that was started to go back to Alabama. And what we do is everything's given, we go back and feed families. And I just wanted to stretch my faith a little and like three years ago we started doing it in Africa as well. Because I feel like if we can feed one, we can feed a thousand, right? It's the same God. It's the same God. It's the same God and he's everywhere. And you know, I like how we put, we definitely make it a faith-based situation. Everything that we do, yes I can, is faith-based. Because you'd have to give these young people scripture. God is the only healer. He's the only one that can really change your life and give you the joy that you're looking for. That you think you're looking for a man. They just have the wrong information. They just don't have it correct. But when you go and inspire them and encourage them, like they do with Ellis Organization, with Mines and with Sister Power, all of these things, like I said earlier on the show, we don't, you can't have enough. I'm telling you can't have enough. And I, you know, just like all of the ladies here, we love people and we empower one another. We bring our resources together because we have one common goal and that is to bring people to Christ. The end of the day, that is the end of the day. Yeah. And that's what it's all about. That's what we have in common. At the end of the day, it's all about Jesus. Because in this day and time, in this climate, you need to run. If I wasn't saved, I would run to get saved. I'm telling you, I would be looking for Jesus's feet. Give me a tote, even. I'm so glad that I do know him because it does give you that foundation of security. And you know at the end of the day, regardless of what these political people do, what the one 1% people try to do to us. God is our source and he already promised. He told us he warned us that this was going to happen. And he said, I'm going to take care of you. So don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. The moon is up there. Man is just trying, just getting on the moon. So that's one of the answers right there. But if people are just tuning into sister power, your vibe attracts your tribe. And so my tribe is of course my sister. I have my traffic tribe extends way back 60 years. I've had the same girlfriends who are there for me. So Ella, I want to ask you, who is your tribe? A lot of people. I, you know, I, I don't really define it by whether it's a cousin or uncle, because God uses anybody. I have even met people that maybe under the influence of alcohol that have influenced me in some kind of way. My tribe, I am attracted, people are attracted to me because of the message that God is trying to give me, and he will use anyone willing to be used. I think I was sharing with you before the show, when we first talked sharing that, you know, I found God in my desire to turn over from the club life in the club. I know it's like Ella, really? Yes, really. Yes. Because God will find you wherever you are. It's not. And at that time, I wasn't going to church. So I said, if he's going to find me, he's going to have to find me where I'm at. And that's where I was. And, and listen, he used that man. He used the beggar. He uses whomever. Yeah. So my, oh yeah, my vibe is to serve him. And my tribe are the people that he uses to get me there. I love that. Gail, who is your tribe? My tribe are people who I have likeness with, people who will support what I believe in, because I don't really, I'm not really big on me, but I'm like Ella too. God has used all kinds of people to get me where I am right now. You know, but my tribe, the people in my vibe, really, I connect with people who are on a positive, who love to love people. I like to keep myself around people who are the positive thinkers and believe in the Word of God and can, can encourage, you know, and inspire. And then we go collect those other ones who may not know we are there to inspire them, but my, my, my vibe is definitely always going to be bottom line. I'm coming to love on you, not to hurt you, not to slam you, not to cut you down, but just to make you let you know that God is not mad at you. I'm not mad at you. Let's just love each other and be there for one another. Man, we couldn't need that more in our lives for the women especially. Especially. Yes, because women are running the households a lot more now. So we need them strong because the world has continuously tried to strip the man from the household. And in a lot of cases they have done that. So women, we need to prepare them because it's a different world than when I was growing up. You know, back in the day when I was growing up in Alabama, if you needed something, you could go knock on your neighbor's door and ask for it. And it was, it was no thing. Sharon and Gail, it was nothing. Nowadays, we're a little taken back by that. We're like, I don't know. Because you're afraid you might get raped. You don't know, you know, and that you don't know. So we have to adjust ourselves accordingly. You know, we do have to adjust ourselves so we can't be as careless and as those bills with a good old days. Yeah, those are the good old days. We could go to our neighbor's house and say, hey, you know, I need a cup of sugar and it would gladly give it to you. Nail, I mean, I'm from California. You don't be, you don't bother people. You don't get to know your neighbors. You leave people alone. And that is just not the way God created his people. We can always embrace one another and we need it like COVID when COVID came, oh my God, it just took the relationships and people need to be around each other and see the smiles and and say hey, how you doing and that that that's what they're trying to rip strip this country up, but that is not God's purpose for our lives. I don't play into it. Well, you know, I think I had a conversation with you about the skill about COVID. My husband I both came down with COVID. And as you know, yeah, I'm his caretaker. So when he had COVID and I'm sick with it. What do you do? I reached out. I sent an email. I reached out to my tribe. This is why you go ladies. Listen to this. It's easy to have a tribe when you're doing well. You're feeling good. Yeah, but you don't have a tribe. When you are down and out you haven't lived yet. My tribe came through. They cook dinner for us. They deliver groceries. The small things we take for granted. Yes, you know, you know, you know, to add to that, your vibe is your tribe. You know, if you want to do you know the saying I know Ellen knows this and you did to Sharon. If you want to know where you're going you look at the people that you're hanging out with. So your vibe, it definitely attracts your tribe. You know, I don't, I'm not a crackhead. So I don't hang out with crackheads. It's important to me the kind of women that I put around myself because they're, they're going to influence my life. And I'm there to influence their life. So, you know, one of, I'm a quotes person and I remember reading this quote once about if you really want to test the people that you're around, raise your standards, because they'll either go, or they're going to grow. That's very true. That is so they're going to go around one of the other. Yeah. Yes, I'm right. It's like for a reason or a season season, you know, anyway, yeah. So it's left up to us to decide, okay, well, Lord, if God is in control of your life, that he's going to lead you to the right people. Amen. Make that connection, you know, to create your, your, your tribe, you know, but it is so depending on what kind of vibe you're putting off on people. You know, women are doing a lot of things, but I always tell them, is it getting you the results that you're looking for? You know, if you're hanging around people that are putting you down or putting down or just down in life, you either you have to lift them up to your level. But you cannot bow to their level. That's right. And that's why when we are around people, we can't conform to what they're doing, or we can't, we can't be the light they need. Right. We can't be the light they need. Absolutely. You have to, we have to stay focused on who we are, because all three of us know that we're calm. God has given us a specific thing to do, a duty, and you have to man your post regardless of where you are in your life. Whatever circumstances God allows you to be in, you still have to stay focused. And I heard Megan Good say that earlier. You know, when you know your call, the things around you don't really influence you. They don't bother you. Because when you know, no, I can't go this direction, I must stay right here. That's what the Lord's called me. You know, it's very, very important. It is. Well, because it's a lot. Ella, you know, I just want to switch gears. Your author, what motivated you to write the torn series, and your newly released children's book. Love you more. This is this answer that I'm going to give is 100% the truth because I am 100 about everything. I lost my children to the state of Florida, because my husband was accused was allegedly accused of touching my daughter. And that turned into an entire case with the state of Florida, and my children were removed from my home at that moment when that happened to me. I was either going to live or die. Can you imagine it's one thing to lose your children by death, but I was losing mine to the system. So I had to make a decision. I'm either going to be mad for the rest of my life. I had to use this to help someone else. And I pulled out a tablet, because back then I didn't have a laptop. I pulled out a tablet and a pen and I just start writing. I didn't care what it sounded like I just wanted to get it out. And every day that I was going through this I would journal, and I was able to put my real raw emotions into my writing. And that's why when people read my story, they felt what I felt, because I wrote it as I was allowing myself to relive it. It's a true story. It's based on true events in my life. So what motivated me Sharon was the fact that I didn't want to die. And I wanted to do something positive for someone else. So I did it and I couldn't stop writing because I wrote four books. And each of the books are over 400 pages each but it is definitely a movie and a series. Just putting that out there here on Sharon show. You heard it. But the Lord use you. Yes. Right now, the best thing to do is just find me on Facebook, Ella Johnson find me there. And the reason is because I want to introduce you guys to the relaunch of the torn series. We are currently relaunching that it's getting re edited and all of that, because we're going to break it down a little more and turn it into, you know, the movie that's that's because I've already written a script as well. And I didn't even write a script I googled it Google is your best friend, let me tell you, but I have written the script I've written a script because I'm ready for this this is a lifetime movie that is all has always been my dream. And so that's what we're working towards and now the children's story. That was more than the motivation from that came from my sister recently passed. And I was the one that was there with her when she took her last breath. And she always said love you more to everybody. I made a promise, and I keep my word. I made a promise to my sister that I would always look out for her. Neff, I mean her grandkids her kids, who had to say goodbye, because she always believed in me I don't care if I sold a button my sister purchase it. She was very supportive of me. So I had to do this for her. And so I turned the book and made her a character. She was an angel. I want to write books that are real life in our in our day and time because pie in the sky, somebody else can do that for me, I want to reach kids and reach them in their heart, because they're going to be leaders one day. So we have to start with them and in my book I used a homeless man, and these kids saw him and our kids these days they look at homeless people, and they just think they're nothing and they poke fun at him and throw rocks and all this, like they're not human too. So I wanted to change that mindset. So I wrote a book about a homeless man and the kids my sister, the angel inspired her grandson in the book to do something. No, you don't have to just look at him he wants love. And when you go do it tell him that God loves him. And so that's what the book was about and I don't want to give the whole thing away because you guys can go to Amazon and get the book. But, but in the end, she tells him I'm always with you. And he said I love you grandma and she says I love you more. And that's why I titled the boat love you more dedicated it to my sister, who recently passed. I'm loving beautiful story. It's a beautiful story and this is what I love about it. But I want to come to you gal. How do we build a genuine sisterhood. Well, first of all, you have to be genuine. First of all, you, it starts with us. Yeah, yes, we have to be genuine. And you can only be genuine. You can only. She likes that she's like, I'm shot and with you that's awesome. Yeah, it's one thing to give out information but you first starts with you. How do you become genuine. You can't be genuine, unless you have God because it takes love to be genuine. Yes. In order to reach out to people, you can only do it through the love of God, because he is love. If you're looking for love. That's where love is. And the love that he has placed inside about all of us three here in thousands of others. That's the love that is automatically going to reach out, like Ella was saying, about the homeless. When I was a child, my father, there was a home, there was a homeless guy that continued to come to our church. He was filthy. I mean, very dear. You can smell, you can smell him just sitting in certain way and he always sat in the back. My father one day, I'll make a long story short, my father one day took this man to our beautiful home. And we just got a brand new bathroom, blue carpet, white cream, French bought that man to our home, put him in our bathtub. He had sores all over his body. His hair had never been washed. My father took that man, washed his clothes, gave him a bath, cut his hair. Now I'm just a kid looking on that impacted my life. And I think that is why where I see the genuine, my father was a genuine man because he truly was a man of God. First, he was a man of God. And when you are a woman or a human being, and you really have God on invested in you, you are going to love those people. So it must start with you being genuine first, in order to attract your tribe, a genuine tribe, and to show them genuinely true, true love. You know, what's, you know, like my husband, we were thinking about, we have a, we haven't, we have, we were beginning this, this youth organization is called the Love Center. And so I told him, I said, baby, if we're going to have the Love Center, let's really love people for real. You know, we don't have to fake love. We can just love people. That's where I'm at with it. I want to be, like you said, what is genuine? You got to be genuine first and really love people. Because people know the difference. They know the difference. People can tell the difference. They can't because you're not going to be able to go the long way. You're just going to go so far. You're only going to do it as far as people are watching. As long as people are watching, there you go. As long as the cameras are off, very good to get out of my face. Yes. When I call you, you don't feel like it. Yeah, because a lot of times they're going to call and you may not feel like it. But love will take over. If love is there, it will take over. We come to, you know, the golden rule. So there's the golden rule. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Yeah. And I think that if women and men, especially women, because we are the backbone of this society, especially black women. We are. We are. We are the salt. We are the salt in the soup with the salt from the bread. We are that we are that entity that God, that's, that's what's so powerful. Everything that, that you women are sharing right now shows the power. Like what Ella is doing when she, when she went through this whole thing with her, her husband and that whole thing with her child, being molested or whatever. That power, it was the, that shows how much power we have invested in us. That's the part that stands up. That's how powerful we are. God has invested that in us. That's power that took over and made you say, you know what, I'm not going to die. I'm going to live. And that's all this whole thing is about making the choices and you know what, I'm not going to let this thing get me down. We have to do it every day, every day. You know, every single day, every single day, every single one of us right now has gone through and is going through something right now. Right now, right now. So power. I'm not saying is that power. If you're tuning in to sister power now, your vibe attracts your tribe, the power and sisterhood Ella. Yes. If you could change anything you've been through. Would you. Absolutely not. It's just like Joseph. If Joseph, Joseph had to pick being thrown in the pit being sold into slavery, being accused of rape. If he knew he was going to go through that he would have never chosen that he would have said I gotta go through all that for the palace. But I guarantee you now, if you ask Joseph, he would say no because look at the reward. That's just like a woman when she's in pain and I've been in labor, when she's in labor pain for six times. Yeah, six kids. There's something about when you're in labor and you push that baby out once that joy of that baby, you forget all about the pain. So when you asked me, would I change a thing. No, because it was all necessary. Because it really that's really what we're why we're where we are right now. That's right because of all of that's why I was telling the young lady who called me this week, and was ready to commit suicide. Well, because my parents don't love me and I've been raped and, you know, this guy invited to church and on the way to church he said I need to stop by my house real quick. I left some food on, and he bites her in, and he rapes her, and locks her into his house. You know, those kind of things, if we focus, it will bring you down. But you know what? I want to love on her. I want you to connect with me. She's going to help somebody, isn't she? She's going to like what you just shared your story. That blessed my life because when I see your life, now I see what you've gone through. It's a beautiful thing. It's a beautiful thing. There's so much power in it. And I told Erica, you do not, people need to hear what you've been doing, how you made it through. That's right. You can't, you can't jump off the edge now. And it makes her stronger. It really does. I'm not going to change a thing right now. Me neither. I am. No, that's it. That's indeed. And I love me. That's another thing. That's right. I love ourselves. Yes. That's another thing, you know, thing that I always tell my husband, God is crazy about me. He is so crazy about me. He really is. He loves me so much. That's the way I really feel. So there's nothing, I couldn't trade that love for nothing. Right. And I wouldn't trade one moment of chaos and trust me, honey. I have been through pure hell. Yes. Tell me, tell me. Intense. You know, we're going to have to have a part two. I hope you ladies are available in two weeks to do it. Always. Five tracks, your tribe. Give us closing in 10 seconds. Some healing words. Don't give up. If God brought you to it, he can take you through it. God allows things to come on you because he knows what he put in you. Okay. So just hang in there. It's going to be all right. Trust me. If I did it and I went through it, because let me tell you something. I see lot of people in the chapter with blood in their hands, nose, nose, nose, nose and nose man with Ron and the lions. Dan. They were in there and nothing touched them. You're going to go through the fire sometimes, but I guarantee you if you trust God, you'll come out not even smelling like smoke. Real talk. And Ella Johnson. Thank you, Queens, but your expertise and your wisdom. And in closing. it just blooms. Blooms where you're planted ladies. Thank you for spending your time with Sister Power. I'm your host Sharon Thomas Yarbrough, Allah. Mahalo.