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Hello, Arral Hello, how are
you doing today? Kai? I'm doing

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wonderful. How about you? Absolutely
fantastic. I'm so proud of you for

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this book. The book is called
Joy to the World because you are opening

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up conversations, not just hearts,
not just eyes, but conversations. This

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book is really going to reach out
to people. That's why I wrote it.

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I hope it does that. What
did you go through in writing this

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book? Because I too am an
author and I know what emotions I go

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through and creating storylines and things.
But when you go into this book,

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how did you open up your heart
in order to bring the words to the

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page. Well, I mean,
it was all thanks to Lisa Bunker,

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my co author, But I had
stories from when I was younger, and

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eventually me and miss Lisa met in
real life and we talked about those stories

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and we decided on a story from
when I was in second grade, and

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I told her what I wanted and
she was able to write it down and

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then the editors just brought it all
together and you could see it unfold magically.

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One of the things that you have
here is courage and confidence, and

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for twelve years old with a voice
like that, I mean, there's gonna

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be a lot of people that are
going to want to be like you and

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reach out to you. That that's
a lot to hold onto, isn't it.

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Honestly it is. But that also
makes me so happy that people look

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up to me because I know that
I'm doing this thing. How do you

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get to the hiders of the world, in other words, those that have

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a secret and they don't want people
to know, but yet you have this

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this really great way of creating conversations
that get to them. How do you

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get them to speak out? I
mean, you have a voice. How

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do you get other people to join
your community? Well, as my mom

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would say, I keep moving my
big mouth, no joking. I think

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that I see and I speak in
a way that touches them and just the

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right place that makes them realize ways
that they can hold. One of the

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things that you're open with in the
book, and we need to have more

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conversations about that, is that you
a lot of people do not understand trans

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They don't. And the thing is
is I even have co workers that I'm

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with that that always tell the managers, you will grow into this, you

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will understand and and I love how
patient people are when it comes to this

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is a new world, this is
a change. Yeah, I mean,

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patience is the key because if you
lash out and you're always yelling, that's

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not going to help people, that's
not going to make them hear Your generation

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is under attack right now and and
that and that's why your voice is so

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so powerful because somebody has to be
speaking from the other side. How do

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you help people get beyond the judgment
calls that they're facing every day? Tell

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your story. If you tell your
story, other people will follow, and

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then they'll start telling their story,
and then most people will start telling their

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story and it will reach all kinds
of people. Now, kay, do

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you plan on creating a website where
people can reach out to you? Because

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once once they get their hands on
this book, Joy to the World,

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they're gonna want to talk to the
author. They're gonna want they're gonna they're

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looking for leadership. Well, if
you want to get in contact with me,

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I have my website already called Kaishafley
dot com. Do you learn a

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lot from other people when when you
do that? Because I mean, you're

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you know, you collect stories.
You obviously know how to share a story,

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but in a way. Are you
pulling stories so that you can share

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them in other directions? Yes,
because I want it to not just seeing

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my story. I wanted to touch
everybody. I started writing in the second

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grade. My teachers were always there
to help me. But if I would

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not have asked my educators to show
me how to write, I don't know

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where I would be today. I
was just asking if it's the same,

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is true for you, honestly kind
of yeah, yeah, yeah, But

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I think the biggest help that I
got was Miss Lisa, because I'm not

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good at writing words. I'm not
good at writing down the story. I'm

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only good at telling it right.
Well, Miss Lisa used to wrote it

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down. It's still being creative though, using that imagination. I mean that

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inspires me that you're using your imagination
because most kids your age, what are

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they doing? They're playing with their
smartphones. Yeah, and I mean I've

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played the deal games too, obviously, like any other kid my age does.

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But I also know how to bring
out my creativity in other ways,

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which I think more kids should start
doing. I mean, like a whole

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bunch of kids have particulars to become
so many great things, artists, writers,

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musicians. Yeah, I just love
where your energy is growing. I

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cannot wait to talk with you more
and more in the future because I think

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your future with creativity and telling stories
is just going to be wide open,

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wide open. Thank you. I'm
ready to start creating more stories. Are

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you going to take up songwriting and
somewhere along the line, because I mean

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Taylor Swift, she does pretty good
with storytelling. Probably, yeah, great?

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Will you be brilliant today? Okay, okay, I will thank you.