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Unknown
Well, thanks so much for joining me here. And you're one of our presenters on SAT-7 KIDS. In Egypt. Yeah. So can you tell me a bit about yourself and how did you first get involved with SAT-7? All right. That's a nice question. Thank you for asking. So I think I started around seven years of just working with SAT-7, and it was all because my sister was a presenter very long ago, since she was even four years old.
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Unknown
So I looked at what she did growing up and I felt, wow, how does she impact so many kids and how does she love so many people? By just being on the TV and just loving them and doing fun things, and even competitions and other stuff, not only spiritual things. And so I wanted to get involved and have one of these for myself.
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Unknown
And I started going with her to SAT-7 and they started giving me bits and pieces of as if they were given the responsibility of tiny things. So do that or do this song, or just be involved in that. And it became like 2018. I started presenting a show that was called Chato, and it was a life changer for four years doing live, TV show and I think this has changed drastically everything in my life.
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Unknown
I've learned more about God, I've learned how to love people, and it was all based on other people's testimonies and also challenges. So I saw challenges and I knew how to honor of each other, and I knew how to honor what kids are passing through. So this made me a whole other person. But other than that, I studied graphic design and I'm 19 years old.
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Unknown
So these are all the boring things that that. Yeah. Do you find path is the do you think you want to be a presenter than a TV presenter? Do you think that's what you want to do for your career? That's a tricky question because, sometimes I feel like presenting is not something I would love to do all the time.
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Unknown
But I get how much God rejoices when we just when he gives us a small talent and we put it and try to challenge ourselves and to reach out to other people. So I just tell myself, even if I'm not enjoying to the maximum, and it doesn't have to be my career for the rest of my life, but I can find I can navigate my way through this in in learning more about things and going through them and searching and studying so I can help many other people and kids also, because I care most about kids, others also, but I care.
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Unknown
This is part of my where my heart belongs. But not the presenter. But when I find that God is super enjoying what I'm doing, I feel like you know what? It's worth it. I do it over and over and over again just because you're enjoying it. Even if it's hard. That's right, that's good. So can you tell me about your show, cupcake?
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Unknown
What's it about? And what's the, kind of concept? All right, so, cupcake, this it has been two seasons already. We've just shot the second season a couple of weeks ago, and it's so fun because it takes us through journeys with, like, different parts that we play with kids here, and then we just give them challenges here, and then we just share a testimony through someone drawing something or a story about a kid.
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Unknown
And then it comes back to the studio and me and Uncle Medhat, who is the other person, but he's much older than I am presenting with me. We we start talking about what they did and saying, oh, this was nice, but this wasn't. But we learned from that what we did. And then at the end, he teaches us something from what we learned today in the TV show, and it's so beneficial because he does it in such a humble and cute way.
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Unknown
So we all, we all have goosebumps because he says true stories and he he really impacts my life. Even though I'm 19 years old now and I act as if I'm a bit younger. But he impacts me. And the last time when we did like 30 episodes, like 20 of them, when he says a story and he says, you know what?
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Unknown
This is a real story. I get goosebumps after he says the story. And I feel like, you know what? I want to live the life you're trying to teach us. And the more is you're trying to show us. Yeah. And that's what you hope for your viewers too, that they get that discipleship. Yeah. Learn more about Jesus. Yeah.
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Unknown
And how this isn't only like to go to church and to just do everything that's asked of us, but life with Jesus is more of living. And to me, it's a bit different too, because I get challenged to live the same life onstage and in the shows as my real life, because this is what's most important, to show them that living with Jesus is not only is not impossible and is not different here and there, it's the same thing.
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Unknown
And we should strive to do that and show them it's very possible. And you know what you to kids at home, you can influence so many others as I didn't hope, I couldn't hope, couldn't of hope to influence as much as kids. But you can do so too. Just living the same life and loving God and being blessed with his love first.
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Unknown
Yeah. Do you find that you feel the pressure of that, that you need to be a certain way because you are sort of this role model on screen? Do you feel like there's pressure to be a certain way or. Yeah, just in the rest of your life, do you feel like because they need to match up that hard?
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Unknown
To be very honest, yes. It's something. Yeah. Yeah. If, if I want to be vulnerable. But what I've learned is this feeling of, you know what I should be careful has helped me go through the right path. As if I'll tell you an example. If a child doesn't have their father looking at them, whether they're playing a game or just take care, don't do that or just do that, they would be less careful of what they're doing, and they could break a leg or break their real leg, not break a leg.
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Unknown
But if someone's watching and you feel like you're irresponsible and you should do so, as if their father is watching and looking at them, you see, like, no, I should do things better. And this saves us so much trouble and so many dark ways we can go. And so it's such a help, yet it's such, it could be hard, but with the help of family and with the help of the people around me at church, it's not only it's not only church, and it's not only family, it's the mix of everything and the support of also my friends, everything.
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Unknown
So what kind of messages to get from your viewers today? Kind of write in and send you messages? Actually, I feel like I'm privileged because I get more than messages. Like for example, when when I visit places that have people who are underprivileged or something, they come to me right away and they're like, hi. And I'm like, how do you even know me?
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Unknown
Do you watch TV here? Is that is that? And then you realize how much it affects their life. And they say it verbally and they're very expressive and and you feel instantly inspired to do more of what you're doing. And even by messages, they keep on sending us things. It's only because cupcake is not a live show, so we don't get the messages they send us.
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Unknown
So that's a that's not a nice thing, but and share too. The one before that I did for four years they used to send us crazy messages like all the time we would read at the beginning of the, the episode. So many messages and we feel touched, and this would boost us to keep on doing what we're doing.
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Unknown
Even if you come before, like real show with four hours and get started and try to practice in on all this goes in a second by just listening to their comments and their love for you, not your love for them, but their love for you is even harder and harsher and beautiful. Yeah. So you get recognized when you go out then.
00:07:32:07 - 00:07:53:23
Unknown
Yeah, well, what's what I care about most is the unprivileged more than even the we should talk to everyone, which is what I'm learning nowadays. I'm so tiny. I'm still learning so many things. It's such a privilege to make them feel heard and tackle their problems and what they're feeling and make them feel acknowledged. I wouldn't imagine that I would do that.
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Unknown
Well, I'm that's such a blessing. That's amazing. What do you think is the impact that the show is having? Do you think young people are responding and growing in their face when they watch? It's very tricky to know. So because you don't know how they're feeling and you don't see it with them at home. But you should know more about that when even when you walk a church and a kid tells you, yeah, oh, are you the person who is doing so so you feel like if they recognize me and run to me, this even without their knowing how to express what they want to tell me that you're doing amazing.
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Unknown
Ron explains how much they love what we're doing. They're that passionate about coming and talking to me. So it's more of because they're younger, they can't express it. But you understand through their life, through their, like loud voice, like you have, you know, this is a passionate kid who loves what they're watching. And I keep on praying that even while preparing the episodes, it's so tricky to say what and not to say what.
00:08:55:02 - 00:09:12:08
Unknown
So I try as much as I can, and I pray as much as I can with every single word I say is a living testimony. It's the only things I want them to do and I'm not doing. But because I live, then I have examples that they've been going through. I get you and I understand what you're passing through.
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Unknown
And here's an example that I've passed through something. But God showed me this and that, so they would feel impacted more than just it's story of being told. Yeah. If I'm sitting here because yeah. When you were growing up, did you watch at seven and what were some of your favorite shows? All right. This is a good question.
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Unknown
I used to not watch TV like I, when I was young, I was, I actually I liked working more at seven. I worked in other places, and I loved doing things and, and so I didn't have much time to watch TV. But when I watched, I used to watch two things. Barney and said, seven, these are my favorites.
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Unknown
And then in seven, I used to watch something called Schnabel, and some competitions also. But the neighbor was a writer, was the one who was presenting it in another person with her. And then I loved it then I love the story time, the bedtime stories that were being told everything. So as a kid, I think when I look now at what I'm presenting, I'm like, I wish I could be as good as you guys were laid back when I was a child, and we, as glowing and fun as you guys were when I was a child to meet other children.
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Unknown
Yeah, I'm sure you are, being that. I hope so, because they obviously love you. Okay. So just finally, how can we pray for you and your viewers? Wow. It's always also a blessing for you guys to pray for us, but, if there's one thing we need prayer for is to. Really touch kids hearts and show them how our God is alive and what we do on TV is not outdated.
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Unknown
And it's not something that would go by time. It's just something that we want to tell them through. It's just an element or an or a tool for us to tell them, you know what, go ahead and live your lives and be empowered by God and be bold and brave and speak up and just be yourselves and you being yourself with impact so many others because people are scared or kids are scared to be themselves and be Christians and be, children of God.
00:11:20:10 - 00:11:38:07
Unknown
Nowadays it's just outdated. This is not it. It's so beautiful and so much powerful living that kind of life. So if you would pray for us just to cover that in a way in our programs, and also for them to feel touched, to live this life and not only watch it on TV. Yeah, that would be a blessing.
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Unknown
Yeah. We will be praying for you. Thank you.
