Hello, Arral Hello, how are you doing today? Kai? I'm doing
wonderful. How about you? Absolutely fantastic. I'm so proud of you for
this book. The book is called Joy to the World because you are opening
up conversations, not just hearts, not just eyes, but conversations. This
book is really going to reach out to people. That's why I wrote it.
I hope it does that. What did you go through in writing this
book? Because I too am an author and I know what emotions I go
through and creating storylines and things. But when you go into this book,
how did you open up your heart in order to bring the words to the
page. Well, I mean, it was all thanks to Lisa Bunker,
my co author, But I had stories from when I was younger, and
eventually me and miss Lisa met in real life and we talked about those stories
and we decided on a story from when I was in second grade, and
I told her what I wanted and she was able to write it down and
then the editors just brought it all together and you could see it unfold magically.
One of the things that you have here is courage and confidence, and
for twelve years old with a voice like that, I mean, there's gonna
be a lot of people that are going to want to be like you and
reach out to you. That that's a lot to hold onto, isn't it.
Honestly it is. But that also makes me so happy that people look
up to me because I know that I'm doing this thing. How do you
get to the hiders of the world, in other words, those that have
a secret and they don't want people to know, but yet you have this
this really great way of creating conversations that get to them. How do you
get them to speak out? I mean, you have a voice. How
do you get other people to join your community? Well, as my mom
would say, I keep moving my big mouth, no joking. I think
that I see and I speak in a way that touches them and just the
right place that makes them realize ways that they can hold. One of the
things that you're open with in the book, and we need to have more
conversations about that, is that you a lot of people do not understand trans
They don't. And the thing is is I even have co workers that I'm
with that that always tell the managers, you will grow into this, you
will understand and and I love how patient people are when it comes to this
is a new world, this is a change. Yeah, I mean,
patience is the key because if you lash out and you're always yelling, that's
not going to help people, that's not going to make them hear Your generation
is under attack right now and and that and that's why your voice is so
so powerful because somebody has to be speaking from the other side. How do
you help people get beyond the judgment calls that they're facing every day? Tell
your story. If you tell your story, other people will follow, and
then they'll start telling their story, and then most people will start telling their
story and it will reach all kinds of people. Now, kay, do
you plan on creating a website where people can reach out to you? Because
once once they get their hands on this book, Joy to the World,
they're gonna want to talk to the author. They're gonna want they're gonna they're
looking for leadership. Well, if you want to get in contact with me,
I have my website already called Kaishafley dot com. Do you learn a
lot from other people when when you do that? Because I mean, you're
you know, you collect stories. You obviously know how to share a story,
but in a way. Are you pulling stories so that you can share
them in other directions? Yes, because I want it to not just seeing
my story. I wanted to touch everybody. I started writing in the second
grade. My teachers were always there to help me. But if I would
not have asked my educators to show me how to write, I don't know
where I would be today. I was just asking if it's the same,
is true for you, honestly kind of yeah, yeah, yeah, But
I think the biggest help that I got was Miss Lisa, because I'm not
good at writing words. I'm not good at writing down the story. I'm
only good at telling it right. Well, Miss Lisa used to wrote it
down. It's still being creative though, using that imagination. I mean that
inspires me that you're using your imagination because most kids your age, what are
they doing? They're playing with their smartphones. Yeah, and I mean I've
played the deal games too, obviously, like any other kid my age does.
But I also know how to bring out my creativity in other ways,
which I think more kids should start doing. I mean, like a whole
bunch of kids have particulars to become so many great things, artists, writers,
musicians. Yeah, I just love where your energy is growing. I
cannot wait to talk with you more and more in the future because I think
your future with creativity and telling stories is just going to be wide open,
wide open. Thank you. I'm ready to start creating more stories. Are
you going to take up songwriting and somewhere along the line, because I mean
Taylor Swift, she does pretty good with storytelling. Probably, yeah, great?
Will you be brilliant today? Okay, okay, I will thank you.