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It's Personal Episodes

My personal struggles with life, mental health, and trusting in God.
Various conversations with friends and family.
Dec. 21, 2023

#90 Getting the Word Out on Premature Awareness

Hello, my name is Cheryl Secrest and I am the host of E.M.A.N. Effectively Making A Noise! December is Premature Awareness Month! I need your help to spread the word to the world about Premature Births. Please visit my podpag...

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Nov. 27, 2023

#87 Dream Trip, No Meet & Greet

This episode is about my trip to LA and the meet and greet with Daniel Ezra, a.k.a. Spencer James from All American that didn't happen. Please excuse my coughing, my allergies are terrible. I pray that the meet and greet will...

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Oct. 15, 2023

#85 My Apologizes For My Post

This episode is an apology recording from a video that I uploaded to my facebook and instagram pages. Due to the comments I received, I have deleted this post from both facebook and instagram. The post was showing a plane fly...

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July 11, 2023

Pray, pray, pray for everybody!

This episode is just a quick reminder that we need to keep praying for everyone in our community and our country and all around the world. Some events that happened this Monday have led me to record this episode. It is about ...

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June 8, 2023

I said what I said, don't hate! 🤷🏽‍♀️

Hello, I am Cheryl Secrest, your host for E.M.A.N. Effectively Making A Noise and I'm coming to you with real talk about issues that affect me personally. Some things I say you might not like, but I'm coming from the heart to...

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May 29, 2023

That's Love, 1 Corinthians 13 ❤️

This episode was inspired by the Holy Spirit as I was studying this morning. Yeah on Memorial Day, I just happened to be on 1 Corinthians 13. Let's strive to be imitators of God and live in love. Peace ✌🏾 --- Send in a voice ...

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April 7, 2021

Mental Illness Is Real - Get Help!

This episode allows me to share a very real and personal thing that happened in my life. I do reference my therapist, Angelah Browne, because she is the best. My prayer is that this talk will allow someone to get the help the...

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Feb. 9, 2021

E.M.A.N. the podcast name

This episode tells where I came up with the name of the podcast, E.M.A.N. Effectively Making A Noise. It also introduces you to the series of episodes that God laid in my spirit to present on Self Image. Please allow your tee...

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Dec. 10, 2020

When my Mental health got Better...The rest of the story!

This episode concludes the last episode and shows how God can work things out in tragic situations. I want to dedicate this episode to the nurse, Jana Jones, who was working so hard to revive Emanuel the morning he passed. Si...

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Sept. 30, 2020

Making Memories with my Mom

Just an ice breaker and fun time talking to my mother who turned 92 in July 2020. Because of a stroke in 2009, she has a delay in her speech. We had fun doing this and I did have to help her with some of the answers but that’...

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