006 EYL - Elaine Harrison (mom)
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J. E Harrison: So today I am super excited to have one of my absolute favorite women in the world with me today [00:01:00] on the Elevate Your Life podcast.
She goes by Elaine Harrison, but to me, she's mama. . Elaine Harrison is a woman of unwavering faith, fierce love, and quiet resistance. As a devoted wife of one husband and the mother of three, she has poured her life into her family with strength rooted in prayer, and a heart anchored in grace.
To know her is to be seen, covered and championed. She is the one who believed when others doubted. Who prayed when others walked away, and one who never stopped speaking life even. And trying seasons. As a sister, a friend, a lifelong encourager, Elaine is more than a mother. She is a safe place, a spiritual midwife, and she is a steady hand that has helped shape her daughter's calling.
I. Mama, welcome to the Elevate Your Life Podcast.
Elaine Harrison: Well, thank you so much. That was a beautiful introduction. It is. I appreciate it.
J. E Harrison: It is all true. And that was just a [00:02:00] small amount of the things that I can say. So how are you feeling today? You look amazing.
Elaine Harrison: I feel fantastic. I'm, I'm glad and grateful to be alive.
Every day that God wakes me up. It's a wonderful time to get everything together.
J. E Harrison: Absolutely. Absolutely. So I was really praying about who to have on the podcast for season one, and of course, you know, I was torn between you and daddy. So my mindset was do I bring you both in at one time or do I bring you both in separately?
And so I say, you know what, there are different areas that we can dive into with them individually. So I decided to bring you guys in at separate times. So. I am starting with you for one of the main reasons because of course we've just recently celebrated Mother's Day. And then not only that, I was looking at the evolution of our relationship over the years, right?
So just from the standpoint of being a mom and me being your oldest child. What were you feeling? What were [00:03:00] you thinking when you found out you were pregnant with me? 'cause you and dad were really young. What was your mindset? What were your thoughts at that time? I.
Elaine Harrison: My thoughts at that time, definitely not intended on getting pregnant at a young age.
Yeah. But once I realized that I was pregnant, it was a great feeling. Mm-hmm. That came over me. And then I started to wonder what type of mom would I be? Would I be what she expect me to be? Would I put into place that my grandmother and my mom taught me? How would I be as a mother and will I have the support there?
From my family members, but definitely by your dad. And I must say everything that I was fearful of, I didn't have to fear that because God had put everybody into place that needed to be in place to help me to be the mom to you guys. Yeah,
J. E Harrison: absolutely. No, I think that's, that's really good. And it, the funny part is, you know, a lot of people that know me.
Of course know me as Evangelist JE and all of that. All of that stuff. And then I tell [00:04:00] people all the time, I'm not a pew baby. Like people think I grew up in church. They think my parents or my grandparents were bishops and first ladies. I'm like, huh, just the opposite. So I want to know just from your idea of who you thought I might grow up to be, to realize and when did you realize that the hand of God was on my life?
Maybe more so than what you even realized.
Elaine Harrison: Well, that's a good question. When you were born, I instantly became a mom, and I knew that you had to be my first priority, but it was only after going to church. I was taught to go to church when I was coming up, but we weren't made to go to church. Mm-hmm.
And so if we went out to the nightclub. Then we automatically had to get up and go to church the next day for Sunday. That's right. I like that rule. That was a good one. No, it wasn't a good one, but it, you know, by going to church, it strengthened my life to be the mother that I needed to be for you. And it was a lot of things that I had to learn as the mom.
I didn't do everything [00:05:00] right. Still don't do everything right. But I do know that being a mom. Your children are looking at you and the impact and the things that you say and do, they're like sponges. They soak up everything that you do or stay, and so at that time I was doing a really. Terrible things.
Well, I won't say terrible things. It was just things that I knew God wouldn't be proud of me. Mm-hmm. Because I had the attitude problem. You know, I, I wanted to fight. I wanted to if you hit me, I was taught to hit back. You know, don't let anyone take advantage of you. And so I realized as you guys were coming up, especially you, because you were the oldest, you would give me more resistance.
Than the other children. Me? Yes. You and I often talk about this, and I know you don't like me to talk about it, but the time that you got kicked outta daycare because of your attitude, and I had to go to God. 'cause I'm like, God, what is it about this child that her attitude is so bad? And so when I started talking to God about it, [00:06:00] God said, you know what?
She's looking at you. She's mimicking everything that you do. And so God said, if you want to. Preserve her life and, and make up so that she have a better life and she'll be a better person than I was during that time. Then you gotta change your heart and you gotta change the way you do things. So if you want her to do right, then you gotta do right.
So that means anytime I'm talking to someone, I gotta show them respect everything that I required from other people. You are a requirement for me. And so when God told me that, then I'm like, you know what, God, you're right. I've got to change the way I approach people and how I say things in order for my children to do things.
Right.
J. E Harrison: No, that's really good. And I think that's a good segue into something that I didn't wanna talk about because, you know, I don't testify about it often, but you know, sometimes I will. And, and I, it's a testament to God's power to, to change an individual because when I tell people that. No.
Everything you could get kicked out of, I got kicked out of
Elaine Harrison: Absolutely.
J. E Harrison: [00:07:00] From, from daycare to the bus. You remember when I tried to fight that principal in middle school? I do. I do. Yeah. Well, we, we, we, we went through some things. We did. We went through some things. We, we absolutely did. Yes, we did. And so I think to people looking at me now.
And saying, I can't see you acting like that. I can't see you having that type of attitude. I can't see you. You know, going off on the bus driver and getting kicked off the bus and trying to throw a desk at the middle school principal like, honey, it's all to God's glory. But I did. So what, what was maybe some conversations that you and Daddy had that I wa, that I wasn't privy to?
And how did you guys, I think, help get me through that, being able to understand my emotions and my anger and how to be able to express them in a healthy way.
Elaine Harrison: Well, I think a lot of times when we have children. Sometimes as parents, we try to live our life through our children. Mm-hmm. And we can't do it.
We can't go back and relive our [00:08:00] eras and things that we did at that time. So one thing I realized about children, children are very manipulative. And they will come, they will come to the mom when daddy is not around. And they would, who did that? Which one of
J. E Harrison: your
Elaine Harrison: children did that? Mama. Especially Jamia, Eli Harrison.
But a lot of the children would go to the mom when the, the dad is not around and they would ask mom a certain question and she would answer it. If they don't get the response that they wanted, then they will go to their dad and then he may overrule what I said. And so, you know, I got together with your dad and I'm like, look, we're gonna have to talk about.
The things that we tell the children and how we answer their questions. If they wanted to do something, they don't need to come to one of us. They, they need to come to both of us. And as a team, we have to decide what is appropriate and what's not appropriate. For instance you came to me one time and you wanted to go out with, with some of your girlfriends.
Yes, I remember this story and I told you no. And so. I remember you getting [00:09:00] upset with me. We were outside that time and I remember you getting upset, upset with me, and I heard your daddy in the background. He said, I wish you would. And I'm like, what's going on babe? He said, well, she drew back her hand to hit you because she didn't get the right response that she wanted.
Who did that? Jamia Harrison did that. Oh. And so he said I wish you would put your hand on your mama. And so. That's when I realized, you know what, as a team, as parents, you have to, whether you like each other, whether you, you together or not, you, you two guys together have to come and come up with a plan.
So I can't tell you to do something without consulting with your dad, your dad, to make sure that everything is okay between the both of us because I can tell you to do one thing and he tell you not to do anything. And at that time, that caused the devil to creep into your marriage. And then start wanting to try to separate you guys.
Joe Woolworth: Mm-hmm.
Elaine Harrison: And so that was the biggest thing, is making sure that you talk with your partner about what we think you should or shouldn't do. And be on agreements with that.
J. E Harrison: Yeah. [00:10:00] And
Elaine Harrison: stick to it.
J. E Harrison: Yeah. No, I think a very pivotal point for me, especially with dealing with my attitude and my anger problems because, you know, I really couldn't define them because typically, like if people have attitudes, anger, most of the time you can kind of pinpoint that back.
To something maybe, you know, they were abused or, you know, they didn't grow up in a two-parent household or, you know, just something you could typically point that back to. There was really nothing that I could point back to, you know, like I, I've been privileged to have, you know, both of my parents in my life, my entire life.
You know, you guys provided for us, we had. The best of everything, you know what I'm saying? We, we were in band, we gotta go on trips, we went on family vacation. So there was nothing that I could pinpoint back to say why I have such this horrible attitude, you know?
Elaine Harrison: Well, I don't think it was you. I think you was mimicking me again.
Mm-hmm. Because when I came up, things were totally different. Mm-hmm. Back then we didn't have the best of everything. I was in a one family [00:11:00] household, so my mom did the best that she could to provide for us. Mm-hmm. But we had no running water. We had no inside bathroom. And so we bullied, we were bullied a lot.
Mm-hmm. So my stance was, I'm gonna get you before you get to me.
Joe Woolworth: Mm-hmm. And
Elaine Harrison: so that brought out the anger all of the resentment. Okay, so you wanna do this, let's do this. But I'm not going to allow you to do this to me. Pulled out my self-esteem because during that time, my self-esteem was already low because I felt like everybody already had more than I had.
Joe Woolworth: Mm-hmm.
Elaine Harrison: And you know, you had cousins out there that had more than you had that didn't wanna claim you as being cousins or friends. And my, my attitude was, okay, you know what, before I let you come in and hurt me emotionally, I'm gonna get you first. And that's like telling me, I'm gonna get you out of my face, and that way you won't be bullying me.
I'm already low. And I, I, I remember telling you guys. When you were coming up, don't ever. Judge someone else by what somebody is saying about that person. Mm-hmm. You go and you talk to that person, you learn that person for [00:12:00] yourself, and then you make the judgment call. And I've always used this example, and I will continue to use this example to the day I leave this earth.
If you are bullying people, other people are bullying people. You go up to that person and you try to be a friend to that person. You never know what a person is going through. Mm-hmm When they're away from school or away from you. They could be living in a terrible situation at home. And then you go to school and other people are bullying them.
Mm-hmm. You be nice to that person. 'cause you never know what that person may do mentally. Yeah. And I take, you know, for example, if someone comes in and they got a gun and they wanna shoot everybody in the school and they'll look at you and say, well you know Jamia, I'll let you go. 'cause you was always nice to me.
Joe Woolworth: And
Elaine Harrison: so that's why I always say tell people be nice to other people. 'cause you don't know what people are dealing with on a daily basis.
J. E Harrison: Yeah. No, that's very true. That is very true. And I think that's one of the things that you guys really taught us growing up in the household, is to have empathy for other people, you know, to treat other people.
Well, and that's one thing I can say that I've seen you do throughout my whole [00:13:00] life. I've seen you constantly show up and be a caregiver for people that probably didn't deserve it, to be honest with you. And so just to see your heart and how caring and loving you are has been something that. I thrive to be like, you know, like just people love to be around you.
Your personality is effervescent. And I've even told you before, like even if you weren't my mom, you would still be a person that I wanted to be around and hang around. So I just wanted to give you your flowers on that to say you really are an amazing person.
Elaine Harrison: Well, I really appreciate that and I try to encourage all young women and men too, that they could be anything they want to be, but they have to have that positive influence in their life.
I'm always willing to look, listen to people and you know, the position that I'm in on a professional level, I deal with a lot of young people and I try to encourage a lot of young people. Mm-hmm. You know, you can be who you, who you want to be. You don't have to, first, you gotta learn how to love yourself.
If you can't learn how to love yourself, then you need to put everything to the side, talk [00:14:00] to God, and learn how to love yourself. Learn how to be by yourself. And I think once you get those things together, then God will start bringing the appropriate people in your life for, to elevate you in different areas of your life because you wanna be around positive people.
You wanna be around people that essentially have the influence that you taught them to go on and be bigger and better, whether you're a foster child, whether you it is your biological child. Everybody wants to that accomplishment or they want to be felt like, you know, they're special and people may not come out and say that you are special, but everyone is special in their own way.
J. E Harrison: Yeah. [00:15:00] Welcome back everybody. We are here with an amazing woman, and I may be a little biased because she's my mom. Welcome back to the Elevate Your Life podcast. Well, thank you. I appreciate being here. Yeah, so we're, we're just continuing on in the conversation and I wanted to pivot a little bit. I tell people all the time that you know.
My mama is a mama bear. That's how I describe you because you absolutely are. Like, if I'm hanging out with some friends and you send us a text and I'm like, hold on, let me stop and respond to this text. 'cause if I don't respond to this text, probably within a good 30 minutes she will put together a whole conclave of people to come looking for me.
And I don't say that just for fun. I say that because I've seen you [00:16:00] do it. And one of the stories of course that comes to mind laughing already is my little brother you know, he was off of college and we didn't know it at the time, but he was pledging for a fraternity. And so because they were going through that whole process, I don't think they were allowed to share that information.
And so you were trying to get in contact with my brother. Couldn't get in contact with him. You called me like, Hey, when was the last time you talked to your brother? It's been a couple days. And then you reached out, started calling his roommate at the time, and my brother did not get back to you. And the next thing I knew it was what?
In the middle of the night. You had called some of our family friends, some of his classmates, and everybody was in their car on their way, ironically to Raleigh.
Elaine Harrison: Absolutely.
J. E Harrison: To try to find my little brother. So, and then one of his friends reached out to him and was like, Hey, your mama got a whole slew of people about to come to Raleigh to find you.
Can you please call her? And then he called you and that kind of, you know, [00:17:00] settled your nerves. So of course I'm not a mom mm-hmm. Yet. But what is that instinct in you that just causes you to automatically just want to jump into action and take whatever steps are necessary to make sure your children are okay, even though we are grown?
Elaine Harrison: Any mom. I truly love her. Children would do that. I hope they would do that. But for me, God gave me the position of being a mom that's to take his place while. You guys are on this earth to oath to protect you, to make sure that you guys are safe at all time. And I take that job very seriously.
So when one of you guys go missing or do not respond in appropriate time, I'm going to come look for you because as a, as a mom, regardless if you're grown or not until you leave this earth, I feel like that's my duty is to watch over you guys. And I think that's why God made me a mom and made other mothers mom, you gotta watch over your, your flea.
And that's what I do.
I take [00:18:00] pride in that because I love you guys and I don't want anything to ha to happen to you. And if I can prevent anything from happening to you, I, I'm a ride die. I, I got you guys back until I leave this earth. Ooh.
J. E Harrison: We be telling people, like when people meet y'all, they'll be like, Ooh.
Daddy. 'cause you know daddy muscular. Right, right. So they'd be like, y'all daddy look like he don't play. We be black child. It ain't him. We need to worry about it. Is Elaine, that's, listen, I might, I
Elaine Harrison: may be short and statue, but I'm going to take care of my children. If you guys tell me like you, if you are sick or one of your siblings are sick, and I'm well mama, I need you.
I don't care what happens if I have to call that job, if I have to get terminated, we know I'm coming to see about my children.
J. E Harrison: We know. That's why some stuff we just didn't even tell you. 'cause we already knew like, Elaine don't play.
Elaine Harrison: I don't not when it comes to my, down to my children. You
J. E Harrison: don't. And we absolutely love you for that.
So mama, I wanna talk a little bit about, my teenage years and I think, huh? I didn't say it. Sound like you sit. What'd you say? Okay. So yeah, so just the evolution [00:19:00] of our relationship. I don't know if you remember this, but our pastor at the time,
Elaine Harrison: okay.
J. E Harrison: The late grade apostle Larry Nathan Crosby Senior.
Mm-hmm. He prophesied to us one time during service and he told us just to paraphrase that your relationship is, you know, like very cantankerous and. Toxic right now, but there will come a place in time where you two are more like sisters than mother and daughter. I will be honest with you, when he gave us that prophecy, I feel like the day before you had just like, rammed me into the wall.
So I just, I, it, it was, it, it was hard for me to, to, to grasp that word of, of, of prophecy.
Elaine Harrison: Well, I think as young people mm-hmm. We have a tendency sometimes as parents to. I wanna be the child's friend.
J. E Harrison: Mm-hmm. I
Elaine Harrison: was never that type of parent. You were
J. E Harrison: not,
Elaine Harrison: You had to listen to my rules. You had to follow my rules.
'cause even though you thought that I didn't know anything, I knew what was best for you guys at the time. And I feel it's [00:20:00] like, I feel though, when you have your children, then what I didn't instill in you then that's a something that you gonna have to pan out. But long as you was under my roof and I had been through those teenage years, I know what to look for.
I knew that I had to, in order for me to make you better adults, that it was certain rules and regulations you had to follow. No, you guys didn't always like the rules, but you had to maintain the rules and you had to abide by those rules because you weren't gonna live under my house. You're not, no talking back.
I remember you guys telling me, well, I'm gonna call CPS, and we did, I said, call ccp. SII forgot about that one. Yeah, I, I am CPS and when CCPs come, your clothes will be packed so you can go with CPS and CPS are no foster care. Is gonna love you like your biological children. Well, I'll speak for myself.
No one's gonna love you more than I did.
Joe Woolworth: Mm-hmm. And
Elaine Harrison: so if you felt like that they could treat you better, a foster parent could treat you better, then maybe that's where you needed to be. But I [00:21:00] do know that as you become adults, you guys will appreciate all the things that we taught you guys. You know, I, I still stand on.
You guys wanting to go spend the night with your friends and family, and I wouldn't allow that in my house. And the reason I wouldn't allow that, because it's not my house, it's the house that you wanna go spend the night in. I don't know who come, who comes in and out of that house. Yeah. And I'm not gonna put you in harm's way.
So I'll always say, you know what, you can bring your friend here to my house, but you're not going to stay over to anyone else's house.
J. E Harrison: Yeah. Like a couple other rules that come to mind. So I think, well, we couldn't wear, well, of course, me and Mika, me and my sister, we couldn't wear makeup until we were what, 15, 16?
Y'all wouldn't let us go out on a date until we were 16. I remember one time this guy that I was talking to, you know, he was a little older, not much older, you know, he already had his license and everything, so he decided to pop up at the house and I was like, oh, okay, well I'm just gonna ride with him to the store.
No. Oh, I was so [00:22:00] mad at you and daddy that day.
Elaine Harrison: It's okay. But it like, we just gonna the store. That's not the point. The point is that he had to respect us as parents and our rules said that you guys weren't going to date until you get turned 16. And we were gonna stand on those rules.
J. E Harrison: Y'all did. It wasn't gonna change.
Yeah. And it didn't. Yeah,
Elaine Harrison: it wasn't gonna change. And so, yes. So being teenagers, it's hard being teenagers. I understand that. Yeah. But. Most seniors have to realize that their parents have their best interests in mind. We, you know, we've been through that process.
Joe Woolworth: Yeah.
Elaine Harrison: And sometimes I wonder if that's the reason why we deal with so much stuff going on now, because parents wanna be friends with their children.
Yeah. It's plenty of times to be friends when they become adult. Like me and your relationship. The relationship with I have all, with all of you guys. Yeah. I've always, I told you guys, you can come and talk to me about anything. It didn't matter what it was because I felt like having a bond and being able to be honest and have that trust where you guys can continue to talk to me, that our relationship will have a bigger and stronger bond over the years.
J. E Harrison: [00:23:00] Absolutely. No, and it definitely does. So mama, I just wanted to know you. Do you remember the very first job that I had? Do you recall that?
Elaine Harrison: Was it radio station? It
J. E Harrison: was the radio station. Mm-hmm. And so I'm like, even with us sitting here now, I'm just like, wow. How much of a full circle moment that was.
Because one of the, the things even in, in our household, y'all didn't make it a requirement for us to work. Y'all just told us to go to school, make good grades, do well in our extracurricular activities. That wasn't a requirement for us to work, but because I was interested. And working at the radio station, you know, you and daddy allowed me that opportunity to do that.
And so that was my very first job. I didn't have a driver's license, so you or daddy would get up early in the morning and take me to the radio station on Saturday or Sunday, pick me up. And you guys were like, you can do it. But if your grades start slipping you know, I think I was playing a saxophone at the time.
You were like, you know, if you're not doing well in band and all of that stuff, [00:24:00] you're no longer gonna do this. you know, you guys definitely allowed us the space to explore and to find out what we were great at and to see now have something that I had no thought, no idea about because it was Apostle Crosby that made that introduction
Elaine Harrison: Absolutely.
For
J. E Harrison: me to be at the radio station because they needed a, a female personality and he thought I would be great at it. So to see that experience now evolve to what I chose to do in college and pursuing journalism, mass Comm to the roles that I've been able to secure as director, senior director of Mass Communications.
And now to have my own podcast like, is this. Is this weird to you or does it make perfect sense? Like when you see this, are you like, okay, no, this is something that she was born to do, she, she's been made to do and she's doing a great job at it. Like what are your thoughts about that?
Elaine Harrison: Well, I think it's something that you was born to do.
When I, when you were coming up, I could see the, the different talents that each one of you guys had, and you always had a [00:25:00] talking talent. Talking more talking talent. You always had a talking talent. I mean, you, you could, you could really talk and now I see why God made you so talkative. Because I mean, you preach, you, you could communications, I mean, you love to talk and.
I enjoy hearing you talk and I enjoy hearing you preaching and I think that was something that you was meant to do because you do a great job. Thank you, mama. You, you really do. So yeah, I, I'm, I can't say that I'm impressed. I can say that you're following your dreams and you using the gift that God gave you.
J. E Harrison: Yeah.
Elaine Harrison: And it's a wonderful gift and I'm so proud of you.
J. E Harrison: Thank you, mama. So
Elaine Harrison: proud of you.
J. E Harrison: I appreciate it. So, I'm, I'm gonna say this and then we're gonna move over to the next segment. There was something you made us do as, as children, and I'm not sure if you remember, but you would always get the newspaper.
Oh, I
Elaine Harrison: remember.
J. E Harrison: Oh yeah. And you would make us read articles in the newspaper until we could read them through fluently. And if we could not pronounce a word, you'd make us sound it out. [00:26:00] You'd make us look it up. You'd make us write a sentence with it. All of that. To say this, at the time, I absolutely hated it.
Oh, I hated it so much. I know you did. I hated that. You made us do that. I know, but as an adult, I am so grateful that you put that amount of pressure and expectation on us to teach us how. To read fluently and to perfect our gifts and to do the things that we are now in position to do. Because I come across so many people that older, my age, younger.
That really can't read. Well, and that could be from a myriad of reasons, however, what, what made you cause us to do that?
Elaine Harrison: Well, as I stated earlier, I grew up in a poor home. Mm-hmm. So it's just my mom mm-hmm. And us poor. And so I begin to talk to God and I'm like, you know, God, I need, I don't want to raise [00:27:00] my children in poverty.
Joe Woolworth: Mm-hmm.
Elaine Harrison: And God said, the, the way out of poverty is education.
Joe Woolworth: And
Elaine Harrison: so that stuck in my mind, you know? And I'm like, God, if you teach me. If you continue to allow me to be healthy and and happy, I would go to college. So I knew that if I got a degree, of course I could get a better job and get more money.
Mm-hmm. And so I thought, okay, well I want my children to have. A better life. And so I need them to understand and comprehend. So that's why I would, 'cause I would see so many children that, you know, when they get outta school, they didn't do their homework, they didn't do any of those things. And my expectations of you guys was high from day one.
Joe Woolworth: Mm-hmm. And
Elaine Harrison: so my thing was, okay, I, you guys gotta get this newspaper, you reading the article, but are you comprehending what you read? Yeah. So that's why I will make you guys write me a paragraph. So I knew that you guys understood what you were reading. Mm-hmm. And I said, I know you didn't like it and your brother and sister probably didn't like it, but you guys wasn't.
No, [00:28:00] probably they didn't. But you guys was, you guys was going to appreciate it as you become adults.
J. E Harrison: Yeah, no, for sure. We, we definitely do now. All right, mama. We're gonna pivot into this segment I call 60 seconds to Elevate, I am gonna ask you a series of five rapid fire questions.
Elaine Harrison: Oh, okay.
J. E Harrison: Yeah. And you have to give me the answer off the top of your head, okay? Okay. You ready?
Elaine Harrison: Yes.
J. E Harrison: All right. The first question, what's one habit that has changed your life?
Elaine Harrison: Being around people that are negative.
J. E Harrison: Second question. Favorite scriptures to stand on when things feel heavy.
Elaine Harrison: PSAL one 20. Am I distressed?
I call on the Lord and he call and he heard me.
J. E Harrison: Watch your voice, ma'am. Alright, third question. Most elevated decision you have made in motherhood,
Elaine Harrison: To stand on principle and not let anybody discourage me from that.
J. E Harrison: How do [00:29:00] you stay spiritually grounded and professionally? Excellent.
Elaine Harrison: Because I have a pastor that is very encouraging and she allows, she tells us things and I believe in God, and I know that God is in controller in charge of everything.
J. E Harrison: Last question. If you could send a 15 second voice memo to your younger self, what would you say?
Elaine Harrison: I would say to myself, I wish that I would took more time into spending time with my grandparents and my mom to get all their informational background to learn about my forefathers.
J. E Harrison: Wonderful. Yeah, and a special shout out to my grandparents.
Great-grandparents. I was so privileged that I had the opportunity to get to know them on both sides of my family. So thank you and Daddy for making sure that we had that family unit to get an opportunity to know them and spend time with them.
Elaine Harrison: Absolutely.
J. E Harrison: All right, mama. So that concludes this episode of the Elevate Your Life podcast.
Do we have to stop? You know, for, for this, for this episode, I might, you know, I might bring you [00:30:00] and daddy back on a future season. Let y'all come in here together, help Lord.
Elaine Harrison: Mm mm mm-hmm. Yeah.
J. E Harrison: Yeah. But anyway, are there any final thoughts or anything that you wanna say before we wrap up this episode?
Elaine Harrison: Well, no, I just wanna tell you that I appreciate you thinking of me and loving me enough to ask me to come into our, to participate. I really appreciate it. I love you and there's absolutely nothing you can do about it. I love you too, mama. And one more thing I want to say. I know a lot of people may not do this, but I make sure that I send you guys a text every night and every morning you do to say, good morning.
Have a wonderful day. God loves you. And so do I. And that's just so that you guys know that I'm okay. Yeah. And that I'm thinking about you guys all the time.
J. E Harrison: Yeah. Well, you know, I tell you often, I was like, you know, even if I had the opportunity to choose my own mother, I still would have chosen you. Aw, isn't that sweet?
And so I love you with all my heart. And so that wraps up this season and this episode of the Elevate Your Life podcast. So until next time, keep elevating. I love [00:31:00] y'all.
