This is Past the Mike Greetings and God bless welcome to another episode of

Past the Mike dynamic voices for a diverse church powered by the witness a black Christian

collective I am your host Tyler Burns you can follow me on Twitter and Instagram at Burns

clan please follow at your own risk and I'm joined today by the illustrious author incredible

incredible minds and incredible podcast host our vice president here at the witness

Ali Haney how are you hey I'm glad that I got like a really big introduction like usually

like yeah hey Ali Haney is here and also she has it's she has a now released book entitled

I Won't Shut Up finding your voice when the world tries to silence you please pick that

up wherever books are sold and this is a rare treat Ali we have a special guest here today

he is sitting in between us and he is typically behind the camera and he's a video producer

here at the witness he is the one the only Ryan Gentry Ryan how you doing I'm so I'm

so glad to be here I'm actually I'm really excited as it's been a little while I know last

time was ages ago but I'm glad to be back home and I think the people are going to be glad

to have you back home because they have asked me continuously when is Ryan coming back

no no I'm dead serious I'm not lying to you they've asked me when is Ryan coming back

think I'm gonna lie on this mic hey like we can move you out buddy okay I'm kidding but

no they have seriously been like man you know what Ryan was so your Gen Z episode did very well

I think you're honesty on it everything people really enjoyed so it's good to welcome you back

yeah I'm glad to be back it was it was really fun to record I never I think this is the first

podcast episode of anything I've ever done and yeah I'm happy to be back well so we have this

tradition at past the mic where I I think I started it where I would do these little affirmations

for black Christians and we theme an entire episode around it you know black Christians you are

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