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Hey guys, welcome to another episode of the Blessed and Bostup Podcast.

I'm really excited. I say I'm excited every week, but I'm really, really excited about today's episode because I get to talk to on this platform.

Somebody that's very, very near and dear to my heart. Her name is Mrs. Tonya lofty. She's an entrepreneur.

She is a prophet. She's a woman of God. She's a mom. And she just everything to a lot of people, especially me.

And the way you bless my life, I can't even put it into words. And for me, the fact that, you know, I consider myself somebody who didn't grow up in church wasn't involved in a bunch of ministries.

I got saved, saved in my closet and been rocking with God since then. But at the same time, I've always recognized the need for wisdom and the need for people.

I'm just good at knowing that I don't know something or I need somebody wiser than me to pour into me. It's so funny. The opportunity came when me and BJ were engaged.

And we were looking for a premarrow counselors. We were given like a list of couples. And immediately I was like, Oh, Tonya and Virgil. I didn't even know them like that. I don't know.

I was very adamant about those are the people who need to be talking to us. And I know it was God. But at the time, I was just like, I don't know, something about them. We need them.

And so that was really like the foundation for you just being such a pivotal figure in my life. Like I'm always calling you trying to run something past you getting your wisdom or something, seeing what you think on something.

And so this lady, I'm like talking to her and y'all at the same time, but she has really blessed life. So I'm just so happy to have you on this platform. And I just want to welcome you officially to the platform that you hear me talk so much about.

Hi, baby.

There you go. Hi, baby.

Thank you. I appreciate that. I love you very much.

I love you more. So the reason why I wanted to interview you finally on the show is because there are a lot of us who are young women. I mean, I feel kind of old for real, but young is I guess.

But there are a lot of us who truly just have hearts to serve God. I'm a lot of people who listen to the show who are trying to break out of that religious space.

And really understand what true relationship with God is like. And I think you being somebody who's been a ministry for 20 something years who is mature spiritually will be a good person to come on the show and have this conversation with.

Because you know, I always say this like when I reach my capacity, I know it and I'm okay with that. And so I thought it would be great to kind of have you on here to bring a extra level of wisdom on this platform to help those who are trying to build a real authentic relationship with God.

Let's actually start from the beginning of your faith walk. So tell us when you originally got saved and how you've been able to still live a life forgot all of these years later.

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