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Ananda Lewis Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: Are While You Are Out is back and is bigger
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Speaker 1: One spouse is sent away for a fun weekend while
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Speaker 1: and ten thousand dollars each. The pressure is on. The
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Speaker 1: host is one of my favorite people. She really is.
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Speaker 1: She has reinvented herself from the former BT teen summitch
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Speaker 1: star and television host to a do it yourself expert.
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Speaker 1: Please welcome to money making conversation. One of my favorite
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Speaker 1: people are Nanda Lewis. I'm trapping for myself and for you, well, listen,
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Speaker 1: thank you for having me. And can I just say
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Speaker 1: I'm so proud of you for how you've reinvented yourself.
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Speaker 1: It's such an inspiration and I'm really excited for you
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Speaker 1: for this show. And I just want to say congratulations
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Speaker 1: and thank you for having the conversations we need to
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Speaker 1: be having. Well, I appreciate the compliment because of the
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Speaker 1: fact that I'm in a good place in my life,
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Speaker 1: because of the fact that I'm I'm doing something that
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Speaker 1: I want to have seen happened. There's something I actually
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Speaker 1: I always tell people when when you reach a certain age,
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Speaker 1: whether your third is your fort is, and you can
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Speaker 1: and you don't want to know what to do with
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Speaker 1: your life just looking back, look back when you were
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Speaker 1: in your early twenties, look back in those years, because
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Speaker 1: those are years with designed or driven by passion, with
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Speaker 1: driven by emotion and actually driven by what you really
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Speaker 1: wanted to do. But what happens is what happens as
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Speaker 1: you get older, different things started shape in your direction.
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Speaker 1: It could be a relationship, it could be education, it
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Speaker 1: could be a job, it could be a child, it
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Speaker 1: could be a children, and that will get you off course.
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Speaker 1: And so you reach a point in life you goo,
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Speaker 1: what do I want to do? Just go back? Don't
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Speaker 1: look at that curb? What hapen? So so you let
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Speaker 1: let's let's talk about you first. You know, first of all,
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Speaker 1: um uh teen, BT was the face of Black America TV,
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Speaker 1: and you basically were the face of a younger generation,
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Speaker 1: a generation of you gave a voice, a millennial voice,
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Speaker 1: and use pre social media too. You know you are social.
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Speaker 1: You know you might might not be talking to me
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Speaker 1: if you have social media, because you might have a
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Speaker 1: fifteen million followers. Because style viewers, television viewers and website
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Speaker 1: yes no, not even really even have websites. Early on,
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Speaker 1: I mean that that evolved. Yeah, television viewers were wherever
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Speaker 1: that phone calls like a good old fashioned phone call
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Speaker 1: like we're doing now. I was like a phone call.
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Speaker 1: I would love to be a phone call. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's not a text, it's not app you know, it's
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Speaker 1: really nice. When you was getting that early success on
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Speaker 1: BT that led you to your own talk show, What
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Speaker 1: what what? What was driving you? Would producers driving you?
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Speaker 1: Or did you have your own point of view? So
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Speaker 1: it's funny you say, uh, you were talking before I
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Speaker 1: actually came on. But I was listening to you said
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Speaker 1: you couldn't figure it out. You didn't have a group
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Speaker 1: of people around you. You protected you. So when you
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Speaker 1: were making all this money and you were kind of
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Speaker 1: in the middle of everything, when you when you look back,
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Speaker 1: you probably say, I could have made anything happen had
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Speaker 1: I had these resources. I looked back at that time
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Speaker 1: where I first went to BT and kind of that
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Speaker 1: whole I could say five to seven year window around BT.
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Speaker 1: I look at that in the same way I went
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Speaker 1: into an industry that I didn't expect to be in
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Speaker 1: and didn't really know a whole lot about and what
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Speaker 1: I did. I always like to get what I did wrong,
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Speaker 1: because it's not to sit and blame or guilt. That's
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Speaker 1: not But what it is to do is to to
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Speaker 1: have a helpful look back at what you didn't do right,
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Speaker 1: so you know what to do right now, because now
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Speaker 1: the only time we can affect. So I look back
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Speaker 1: and I go, had I known what I know now,
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Speaker 1: here's what I would have done differently. And what I
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Speaker 1: would have done differently was really understood my position and
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Speaker 1: the business of me right. I didn't understand myself as
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Speaker 1: a business. I didn't understand myself at UM as a brand,
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Speaker 1: and I gained a lot of popularity from just being
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Speaker 1: myself and kind of following the things that came up
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Speaker 1: and listening to my intuition. Though they are all really
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Speaker 1: important things to do, listen to your intuition. That's how
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Speaker 1: I made it to a team someone I was doing
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Speaker 1: youth work, and those youths um led me to that
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Speaker 1: job because I told them about it and I was like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do that. You guys just TV. I'm
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Speaker 1: not interested in TV. And they're like, what you just
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Speaker 1: said here for a summer telling us how life brings
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Speaker 1: you opportunities. You have to be aware, you have to
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Speaker 1: stay open, and now you're not going to be open.
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Speaker 1: I was like, oh, yeah, that's a bit hypocritical, so
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Speaker 1: let me go ahead and tie. And you know, it
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Speaker 1: was a beautiful entry into something that was completely unexpected
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Speaker 1: for my life, and yet it also did things to
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Speaker 1: my life that were unexpected, and because I wasn't prepared
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Speaker 1: for them and didn't have the people around me that
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Speaker 1: could help me prepare for them, they ran me over
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Speaker 1: like it was too much. I felt like almost blew
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Speaker 1: a gasket of my soul, you know, in in those
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Speaker 1: seventy five or seven years now, it was also a
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Speaker 1: really exciting time in my life, my early twenties. My
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Speaker 1: you know, I'm making money, I'm young, I'm cute like
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Speaker 1: a lot of superstar. But I couldn't take advantage of
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Speaker 1: it in the way that looking back, I realized I
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Speaker 1: could have had I've been paying attention, no harm, no foul,
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Speaker 1: I still got all that stuff going for me. And
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Speaker 1: and I want to say that this is not a
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Speaker 1: negative comment. This is about why I created this show
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Speaker 1: because people need to understand it. You can get called
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Speaker 1: in a whirlwind, and and for you an athlete, you
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Speaker 1: could be an athlete. A lot of times it happen.
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Speaker 1: We see it happened to them all time, right, and
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Speaker 1: so but a lot of times when you're when you're
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Speaker 1: a talent, because you have to know the place she
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Speaker 1: was at because of the fact that the b et
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Speaker 1: was to network it work, you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 1: And you know, if you wanted to be a star,
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Speaker 1: you want to be a videos played you turned to
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Speaker 1: be et and and then here you were this beautiful,
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Speaker 1: articular young lady. You're going like wow, you know from
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Speaker 1: my standpoint, I'm going, why ain't I managing her? Because
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Speaker 1: of the fact that the two I probably I probably
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Speaker 1: could have done change the world right back then if
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Speaker 1: I had managing But you know, but is that thank you,
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Speaker 1: the thing that you did, the thing that I was
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Speaker 1: just looking at you? But I always know that that
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Speaker 1: That's why I was asking that question. At some point
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Speaker 1: along the line, people don't even know you, and they
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Speaker 1: start making decisions for you, and they start telling you
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Speaker 1: this is what you should do, and and Steve tell
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Speaker 1: you whenever I asked any talent that I worked with,
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Speaker 1: it is Kevin hard h to Roger p Henson or
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Speaker 1: the Maori Twins, always asking what they want to do.
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Speaker 1: That's what you want, I said, said, it's because I
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Speaker 1: gotta make it work for you long term, because short
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Speaker 1: term I can, I can, I can duct tape you
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Speaker 1: into situation. But one day you're gonna wake up and
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Speaker 1: go on bored or why am I doing this? This
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Speaker 1: is crazy? And are you start rebelling from the foremat
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Speaker 1: and so so I was watching you backtly what happened
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Speaker 1: to me Rashan exactly? I started rebelling from the from
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Speaker 1: the same and rebelling from the unhappiness that created in
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Speaker 1: my life. I felt scared a lot of the time.
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Speaker 1: I had a lot of stalkers. I had people over
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Speaker 1: me all the time, and I didn't know who to trust.
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Speaker 1: And I asked my you know, certain family members to
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Speaker 1: come manage me, help me out, let me figure this out,
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Speaker 1: and they were all, you know, they're doing their own lives.
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Speaker 1: That's not what they wanted to do. And I you
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Speaker 1: can't force people to do what they want to do.
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Speaker 1: So I felt, you know completely, I mean to a
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Speaker 1: certain extent, isolated and alone. I mean, I'm from California,
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Speaker 1: I was living in d C. I've gone to school there,
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Speaker 1: so of course I knew people. But it's different when
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Speaker 1: you have like your family around you, um and people
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Speaker 1: who know what they're doing in a particular industry. So
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Speaker 1: exactly what you said is what happened to me. And
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Speaker 1: I I was supporting people in my family that I
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Speaker 1: cared about, wanted to see you well. But I wasn't
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Speaker 1: investing money right and I was, you know, I never
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Speaker 1: spent a lot of money. I made a good amount
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Speaker 1: of money and I and I used my money wisely
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Speaker 1: in ways that I felt were good. But I didn't
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Speaker 1: have that advice that I needed, and I didn't know
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Speaker 1: what I wanted. So when you say you the first
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Speaker 1: thing you asked them is what do you want? I
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Speaker 1: don't even know what I would have how I would
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Speaker 1: have answered that question my my twenty five or twenty
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Speaker 1: six year old self. I don't know how I would
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Speaker 1: have answered that question. It certainly would be a different
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Speaker 1: answer than it is today. And today I know it's
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Speaker 1: the truth. And so I needed the maturity that life brings.
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Speaker 1: I needed to go through the things I went through.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes you're not ready for the opportunities that come your
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Speaker 1: way to really maximize them the way you could. I
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Speaker 1: had a great time, I did beautiful work. I'm proud
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Speaker 1: of my career, but I was never happy with it.
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Speaker 1: And and now I finally get to understand those kind
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Speaker 1: of full context of that be thing I built back
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Speaker 1: then that you know, I'm so grateful that people still
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Speaker 1: love and support me. They're like, where are you? Definitely
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Speaker 1: definitely you know what I mean. That's a gift. And
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Speaker 1: I built that with my hard work, not even knowing
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Speaker 1: what I was building. Um, But now I know what
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Speaker 1: I want to do, and it's a completely different feeling.
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Speaker 1: I feel joyful when I go to work now, you know,
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Speaker 1: I feel happy about like even doing promotion for the one.
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Speaker 1: And that's that's funny because a lot of people don't
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Speaker 1: understand that money doesn't it truly does not make you happy.
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Speaker 1: And it can get your things. You can get your things,
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Speaker 1: and can get you places and get you indoors and
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Speaker 1: get you in college. You don't playing. But the thing
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Speaker 1: that that the thing that I like about where you
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Speaker 1: at now. And I've read your great your bio and
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Speaker 1: that was all I talked about earlier, about going back
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Speaker 1: in your past and you can find out exactly and
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Speaker 1: it talks about who influenced you in this direction, about
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Speaker 1: being a taking care of yourself, fixing things yourself, talk
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Speaker 1: about that relationship. So my grandma was this strong, just
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Speaker 1: renaissance woman from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Originally she moved out to
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Speaker 1: San Diego with my grandfather at the time they eloped
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Speaker 1: and she built her life there, had two daughters, and
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Speaker 1: and uh, you know, when my mom had my sister nine,
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Speaker 1: then my her marriage with my dad fell apart. She
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Speaker 1: tried to go different places and you know, like all
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Speaker 1: single moms do, you try to make it work. She
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Speaker 1: was so fortunate to be able to go back home
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Speaker 1: and to go to my grandma's house, and she was
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Speaker 1: so blessed we all were to have my grandma there
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Speaker 1: with open arms saying, yeah, you can come, of course
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Speaker 1: you can come here. Of course you know, be here.
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Speaker 1: And so my grandma really took us in and and
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Speaker 1: and and raised my sister and I and through that
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Speaker 1: process of her raising me with the kind of woman
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Speaker 1: she was. When things broke in her house, she picked
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Speaker 1: up a tool and fixed it. She didn't call somebody,
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Speaker 1: She didn't wait unless it was some really major repair.
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Speaker 1: But she grew up, you know, growing her own food
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Speaker 1: and having animals and doing her own fixing floors in
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Speaker 1: the house. And she was little. Are our ancestors are
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Speaker 1: even not even that many generations back, And then we're
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Speaker 1: talking to my grandma. So my grandmother and her parents,
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Speaker 1: they were in black law streets and tuls Oklahoma, making
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Speaker 1: their lives happen. She remembers hiding under the floor planks
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Speaker 1: during the Tulsa race riots, um that a white friend
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Speaker 1: of bears came and rescued them from the house and
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Speaker 1: hid them under the floorboards in his house and that's
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Speaker 1: how she survived it as a five six year old.
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Speaker 1: So my grandmother's history and her toughness was always real
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Speaker 1: in my house. And she wasn't you know, if I
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Speaker 1: broke something, she was like, you're gonna fix that. We're
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Speaker 1: not gonna go buy another one of those. We're not
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Speaker 1: wasting money on on that. We're not gonna pay somebody
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Speaker 1: to come fix it. You need to figure out how
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Speaker 1: to fix it. Let me show you how. And so
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Speaker 1: from an early age, she was putting a drill in
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Speaker 1: my hand. You know, I'd break the table legs to
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Speaker 1: make me go get a screw and screw it. Back
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Speaker 1: in I was learning how things worked, and I was
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Speaker 1: learning how to be self sufficient, and kind of with
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Speaker 1: all lessons you learned as a child, you don't even
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Speaker 1: know the lessons you're getting into a year and adult
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Speaker 1: my own. Yeah, we're here with my good friend Anandalures.
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Speaker 1: You can catch her new show on h G TV
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Speaker 1: and TLC every Saturday night, Wow, following the premiere of
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Speaker 1: Trading Spaces. So they got you behind the hot slot.
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Speaker 1: We'll be right back with my friend annder Lewis, and
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Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about the show breaking down and find
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Speaker 1: out what she's drilling and what she's knocking down in
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Speaker 1: this new season. Okay, richand MD just Rashan McDonald. I
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Speaker 1: think in between break we were broken like two deals
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Speaker 1: in between breaks a nunder line. She's the host of
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Speaker 1: Nanda Lewis. It's the host of While You Were Out.
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Speaker 1: The hit series is back and bigger than ever h
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Speaker 1: G TV, TLC every Saturday night. She's back, and she
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Speaker 1: was telling us about the whole journey of learning her
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Speaker 1: skill set with with her grandmother, who was a kind
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Speaker 1: of a game changer. Came out of when when she
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Speaker 1: said total okahome, all I can think was cowboard boots,
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Speaker 1: you know, and rough riders and things like that. But
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Speaker 1: she's part of Black Wall Street. If anybody knows their
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Speaker 1: history should go back and and read about that, because
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Speaker 1: you know, hatred and racism destroyed that whole community and
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Speaker 1: burn it down basically and destroyed. Uh race. I have
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Speaker 1: to say a race. It's kind of like to used
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Speaker 1: to war genocide in the way they wiped out a
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Speaker 1: whole community and kind of like removed them from history
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Speaker 1: based on the intellectual and financial move they were making
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Speaker 1: in little Old Tousso, Oklahoma. Now my friend, you are
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Speaker 1: doing a show and this is not your first do
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Speaker 1: it yourself show that you did because I saw a
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Speaker 1: pilot go out. I think like last summer or last
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Speaker 1: year of you doing did change my space on HDTV,
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Speaker 1: and you know, I have a passion show that I
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Speaker 1: can't talk about yet, but I was trying to get
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Speaker 1: that passion show done and um, it was the compromise.
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Speaker 1: It was because you know, my passion show is is
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Speaker 1: very is very specific, and they were like, ah, that's
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Speaker 1: probably not for us, so but they wanted to do
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Speaker 1: something with me. They loved what I was trying to do,
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Speaker 1: and so we tried it. You know, pilots don't make it.
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Speaker 1: But it was a great introduction back into this world
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Speaker 1: for me, and in in terms of the first introduction
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Speaker 1: to the world of construction, which I've been doing but
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Speaker 1: people didn't know. So I think, you know that I'm
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Speaker 1: sure led to this. And when HDTV and TLC kind
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Speaker 1: of joined joined forces and were bought by Scripts and
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Speaker 1: became kind of sister channels, Uh, they were like, hey,
14:16
Speaker 1: can we use your talent and they were like yeah,
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Speaker 1: And so CLC caught me about this show and it
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Speaker 1: made so much sense. To me, I used to love
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Speaker 1: while you were out. In fact, I watched it with
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Speaker 1: my grandma when I when I left the talk show,
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Speaker 1: I went home to San Diego to take care of
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Speaker 1: my grandmother the last two years of her life. Now
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Speaker 1: we didn't know it would be the last two years
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Speaker 1: of the life, but it ended up being that, and
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Speaker 1: it was the best two years ever. I got to
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Speaker 1: kind of repay her for everything she poured into me
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Speaker 1: as a child. I got to give it back, you
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Speaker 1: know what I mean. We did a renovation on my
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Speaker 1: mom's kitchen when she was eighty five years old. My
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Speaker 1: grandma was eighty five years old, lying on her back.
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Speaker 1: She couldn't walk, and so but she said, I can
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Speaker 1: get on the ground. He lied on her back, he
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Speaker 1: lifted up the sync with her feet so I could
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Speaker 1: calk around the base. And I mean, like it was unbelievable.
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Speaker 1: I got some of that on tape to like, I know,
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Speaker 1: I have footage of that because I filmed her doing it.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, um so, my love of it came from her.
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Speaker 1: And this show is such a great combination of what
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Speaker 1: I'm good at, which is hosting, and what I love,
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Speaker 1: which is carpentry and building, and so I'm just so
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Speaker 1: grateful to be doing it. We have all star design
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Speaker 1: teams from TLC and HDTV, and like you mentioned, the
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Speaker 1: show is coming back, but this time they've up the
15:21
Speaker 1: budget to ten thousand dollars from two thousands. You could
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Speaker 1: do so you can do you would do a lot with.
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Speaker 1: Now you can make a room look very different. Man. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: for one role, we're flipping it like these rooms are
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Speaker 1: going to be awesome. And and I mean, you know,
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Speaker 1: the forty eight hours is a real significant absolutely absolutely,
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Speaker 1: it's not the show. Do you show the experience that
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Speaker 1: the person the spouses away for the weekend? Do you
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Speaker 1: show a little bit of their experience or is just
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Speaker 1: we we showed so they think they're being a part
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Speaker 1: of some like in some cases they think they're being
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Speaker 1: a part of a documentary or they think they're, you know,
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Speaker 1: doing some advertisement for the place where they are. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: we're following them the whole time. We have a secret
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Speaker 1: shooter away with them, and we're getting all the blow
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Speaker 1: by blows. Now you know what happens. I know you're married,
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Speaker 1: so you know if you disappeared for a weekend, your
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Speaker 1: wife is not going to be where are you at
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Speaker 1: Why are you gone? What are you doing? Baine being
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Speaker 1: sent away for a weekend and you can't reach your
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Speaker 1: spouse happened, and that's part of the drama too. It's like, um,
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Speaker 1: that's that's cool. I like that. I like because when
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Speaker 1: that person comes back, it's a little extra, a little extra,
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Speaker 1: a little extra. We'll say nothing the grit and their teeth. Okay, yeah,
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Speaker 1: oh this is why you weren't answering my face time. Okay, okay,
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Speaker 1: I mean I like my room at all, but don't
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Speaker 1: you ever ignore my car? Absolutely? Absolutely so. So now
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Speaker 1: just do you get together all these all stars? How
16:52
Speaker 1: do you play a roller? Do you ever pick up
16:54
Speaker 1: a hammer? Do you ever knocked on the wall? Do
16:55
Speaker 1: you ever put that? Talk about that? Yeah? Well so
17:00
Speaker 1: we we have. Let me just tell you who the
17:01
Speaker 1: designers are sold Trading Spaces. Um, we took all their designers.
17:05
Speaker 1: We have Kahi and Doug killd and Ti Frank and Vernon,
17:08
Speaker 1: Sabrina and Carter and those are you know, the Trading
17:10
Speaker 1: Spaces veterans. And then we have the ht HDTV stars
17:15
Speaker 1: Hillary and David from Love It or List That, Mina
17:17
Speaker 1: and Karen from Good Bones. We have Bristol in Our
17:19
Speaker 1: Aubrey from Flipper Flop Vegas and the Cole from Rehab
17:22
Speaker 1: Addict and Robs and the Vanilla Ice projects. So all
17:25
Speaker 1: these designers, you know, two are four on each show,
17:28
Speaker 1: two in each house, are together working trying to create
17:32
Speaker 1: a design together, where most of them are just used
17:35
Speaker 1: to either doing their own thing or working on separate teams,
17:37
Speaker 1: like the designers from Trading Spaces. So that brings in
17:40
Speaker 1: another dynamic because they're like, Nope, don't like it, We're
17:43
Speaker 1: not doing that, and this one's like yet we are,
17:44
Speaker 1: and they'll start doing something we I don't want to
17:46
Speaker 1: tear it down. I mean, it gets it's nuts. So
17:49
Speaker 1: my job to answer your question is to be the
17:51
Speaker 1: traffic police, to kind of keep everybody on target for budget,
17:55
Speaker 1: target for time because that clock is always ticking. And
17:58
Speaker 1: also to really I felt like a parent a lot
18:00
Speaker 1: of times, like I'm breaking up fight, but I did stop,
18:03
Speaker 1: stop arguing, let's make uh. And then to really connect
18:06
Speaker 1: with the homeowners and to understand why they want to
18:09
Speaker 1: do this um wonderful renovation surprise for their spouse. And
18:12
Speaker 1: you know, most of those stories are tear jerkying, heartfelt
18:16
Speaker 1: stories that you just feel good about. So we're a
18:18
Speaker 1: combination of a lot of great things, a surprise element
18:20
Speaker 1: of the design surprise. We have a great designer to
18:23
Speaker 1: inspire you with their creativity. We have families that you're
18:26
Speaker 1: learning um to love and you're learning the stories behind
18:29
Speaker 1: why they want to do what they're doing. And then
18:32
Speaker 1: I play the host that kind of manages all that.
18:34
Speaker 1: And yes, I also get to do a little bit
18:36
Speaker 1: of my carpentry. I get to show those skills. And
18:38
Speaker 1: my grandmother also taught me how to sew, and so
18:41
Speaker 1: I get to do some some sewing as well. So
18:43
Speaker 1: I'm kind of bringing the Renaissance woman back in the
18:45
Speaker 1: spirit of my grandma watching me, like do that girl
18:50
Speaker 1: obviously getting over your your grandmother hold enough to sink
18:53
Speaker 1: with her feet, obviously. Yeah, I mean it's such a
18:58
Speaker 1: vivid image in my mind, and it was years of
19:00
Speaker 1: over I'm like, look at you. I mean, she was
19:02
Speaker 1: she had had open hearts, so you know, I mean,
19:04
Speaker 1: she she was just an amazing woman. She was amazing,
19:06
Speaker 1: and I come from that now, but I'm I'm like,
19:11
Speaker 1: there's nothing I can't do. Right. This is what I
19:13
Speaker 1: really like about your energy. First of all you saw
19:15
Speaker 1: very happy, very happy. You feel like you're doing. You're
19:19
Speaker 1: around stars, and I always tell you stars need to
19:22
Speaker 1: be around stars. And I love that fact because I
19:26
Speaker 1: thought they shoo me the trailers and I was watching you,
19:29
Speaker 1: you know, just walking the energy that the hair was flowing.
19:31
Speaker 1: You know, she she had a different host, y'all. She
19:34
Speaker 1: looked like Beyonce coming up going down to the side
19:36
Speaker 1: rock because that look curly hair she got. You know,
19:40
Speaker 1: it's all of our shoulders if we back, y'all bigger
19:44
Speaker 1: than that. Where's the music? Where's the music? Where's Beyonce?
19:48
Speaker 1: Come walking through the living room? Bad bad to left
19:56
Speaker 1: and left and left, moved the table. I'm just so
20:04
Speaker 1: happy to see that, just to year your story and
20:07
Speaker 1: to see that, you know, and the thing about it,
20:09
Speaker 1: this is just one layer. I know that when Rashaan
20:12
Speaker 1: is talking to you, this is just one layer because
20:14
Speaker 1: you got on my radar. One I because the person
20:17
Speaker 1: who did the pilot with UH last year as a
20:21
Speaker 1: producer friend of mine, and so she sent this, Yes,
20:24
Speaker 1: she sent it to me, and she sent it to me.
20:27
Speaker 1: She helped me promoted and so and I will promote one,
20:31
Speaker 1: she said. Nando Luis said, nothing, what you're doing, she said,
20:36
Speaker 1: she does. You know, she's a she does makeover. She
20:39
Speaker 1: she carpentry and go Ananda Nanda, Luis b et ornand
20:44
Speaker 1: Luis pretty or no. I had to go there pretty
20:48
Speaker 1: or not getting dirt. And then she sent me the video. Go,
20:51
Speaker 1: oh my god. You know we're like that, because that's
20:58
Speaker 1: why it's really cool, because of the fact that you
21:00
Speaker 1: are finally doing you. And now because you're doing you,
21:04
Speaker 1: everything else that follows is going to be you. It's
21:07
Speaker 1: gonna take you because you know exactly what you want
21:11
Speaker 1: to do. Now you're right, it's a completely different ballgame
21:15
Speaker 1: for me and I you know what's funny to me,
21:17
Speaker 1: it makes me so much more grateful. I feel like
21:21
Speaker 1: I look back and I go, God, you had a
21:22
Speaker 1: lot of really amazing things going for you, and you
21:24
Speaker 1: were unhappy and you were ungrateful, and you know, it's
21:27
Speaker 1: a chicken or the egg, I don't know, but having
21:29
Speaker 1: the things that I want to do in front of
21:30
Speaker 1: me has made me so much great more grateful, and
21:33
Speaker 1: being more grateful has brought more things than to the
21:35
Speaker 1: forefront that I want to do. So it's this beautiful cycle,
21:39
Speaker 1: you know, it's this beautiful kind of reciprocity that's happening,
21:42
Speaker 1: and I'm watching it unfold and I really, I mean,
21:44
Speaker 1: it's just I'm in the best time of my life
21:47
Speaker 1: and I'm so grateful for it. So I know you
21:50
Speaker 1: had other projects coming up, and uh, and this is
21:52
Speaker 1: just one. The show is taped, is already take What
21:55
Speaker 1: did you shoot the show? Well, you're a different part
21:57
Speaker 1: of the country in the Anna. Yeah, we were in Atlanta.
22:03
Speaker 1: We were in the suburbs. Yeah, And as a homeschooling mom,
22:05
Speaker 1: I had to figure out how to take my child
22:06
Speaker 1: with me because there was no way I was leaving
22:08
Speaker 1: him anywhere, because I've never left him anywhere, right, And
22:12
Speaker 1: so I rented an RV and TLC was so accommodating
22:16
Speaker 1: and understood by the position that a lot of you know,
22:18
Speaker 1: moms are in when they want to work, but they
22:21
Speaker 1: want to be with their kids still, and they really
22:23
Speaker 1: understood that. We're like, yeah, you can absolutely bring that
22:26
Speaker 1: r V. We'll let you park it across the street.
22:27
Speaker 1: So I was able to hire a nanny, which was
22:29
Speaker 1: the first time I ever had in nanny, which was amazing.
22:31
Speaker 1: I'm why didn't I do this earlier? You mean I
22:35
Speaker 1: can actually leave and go do something and come back
22:37
Speaker 1: and he's okay, yeah, okay, And um, I spent all
22:40
Speaker 1: my breaks with him. I spent my lunch breaks with him.
22:42
Speaker 1: He wasn't allowed on set because of the oceanas with
22:45
Speaker 1: you know, construction going on. He was right there and
22:48
Speaker 1: it just it made it possible for me to take
22:50
Speaker 1: this job and really be able to do a wonderful
22:53
Speaker 1: job and have a good time because my baby was
22:55
Speaker 1: right there and I didn't have to worry about it.
22:56
Speaker 1: So I'm really grateful for that too. But you know,
22:58
Speaker 1: it's like when you really want to do something, you
23:01
Speaker 1: figure out how to make it happen. Made me step
23:04
Speaker 1: up and have to do you know, it's because she
23:06
Speaker 1: was courageous enough to say, I can't do unless this happens.
23:10
Speaker 1: That's called a batter's life. And that's what I was
23:12
Speaker 1: talking about the beginning, learning how to be honest about
23:14
Speaker 1: yourself and doing it your way, but doing it your
23:17
Speaker 1: way to make you happy long term and happy your
23:19
Speaker 1: priorities and starting your party well. Ms. Ms Lewis, while
23:23
Speaker 1: you're out this Saturday, March uh following the premiere of
23:28
Speaker 1: the hit show Trading spaces Um Energy I'm so happy
23:33
Speaker 1: you did my show. I want you back on my show.
23:35
Speaker 1: Of course, you know me and you between breaks, we're
23:38
Speaker 1: gonna talk about some other stuff. Okay, because because you
23:41
Speaker 1: need to text me, we need to have a meeting.
23:43
Speaker 1: Well we will because because of the fact that it's
23:45
Speaker 1: just time. It's just time in my life, it's time
23:47
Speaker 1: in your life. We're both very happy, and I say
23:49
Speaker 1: we were happy. We weren't happy in the past, but
23:51
Speaker 1: we're doing what we want to do now and let's
23:53
Speaker 1: keep winning together. Okay, thank you so much for having me, Rasan.
23:56
Speaker 1: I'm so proud of you and I'm so happy to
23:58
Speaker 1: know you know sharing that's my girl. I love heard thought.
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