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Yolanda Adams (3rd Appearance) Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: next guest is a person who has been with me
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  Speaker 1: from the beginning, live in studio phone calls around the world.
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  Speaker 1: She is a five time Grammy Award winning artists who
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  Speaker 1: believes that her music heals, encourages, and inspires others to
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  Speaker 1: trust more than themselves. She is triumphantly carried the torch
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  Speaker 1: for Contemporary Gospel and Inspirational Music for your thirteen glorious albums.
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  Speaker 1: She is an incredible single mom, an amazing entrepreneur, a
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  Speaker 1: mentor who is filled with the spirit and blessed with
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  Speaker 1: one of the most powerful voices in any music format.
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  Speaker 1: This used used to Native. I gotta say houstonative because
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  Speaker 1: I'm a Houston native and one time school teacher has
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  Speaker 1: been a stately beacon of God's life. Please working with
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  Speaker 1: the money making conversation. My good friend LANDA. Adams. Hello,
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  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. You know it's always find that happen.
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  Speaker 1: You're on the show. You're like my emotional check up.
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  Speaker 1: You know you I would I would tell people the
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  Speaker 1: other you when you want to be successful. You you
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  Speaker 1: don't want to be the smartest person in the room.
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  Speaker 1: And my compliment to her is that it's not the
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  Speaker 1: ego on me. Is that she allows me to understand
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  Speaker 1: the value and listening and accepting new information, and so
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  Speaker 1: that's important in any circle that you roll into. So
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  Speaker 1: when she comes on my show, we meet in person,
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  Speaker 1: there's always a genuine love and a clear understanding of
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  Speaker 1: her value that she gives not only to me to
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  Speaker 1: listen to advice on it. If you don't follow, you
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  Speaker 1: should follow her on social media. A post, an inspirational hood,
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  Speaker 1: a smile, iss joyous, joyous, And then when you listen
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  Speaker 1: to her thing, you're inspired and sometimes brought the tears
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  Speaker 1: because the emotion that she taps into inside. I know
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  Speaker 1: God gave you that talent, Ms Adams, but what allows
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  Speaker 1: you to promote that talent. Well, here's one of the
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  Speaker 1: things that I say about the voice. It's um It's
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  Speaker 1: fueled by experience and triumph. So I know exactly what
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  Speaker 1: I'm singing. I know exactly uh the emotion that went
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  Speaker 1: into overcoming And sometimes people want the easy way out
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to life, whether it's business, relationship, family,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter we want the easy way, but the
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  Speaker 1: easy way is not the teachable way. Everything you do
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  Speaker 1: in your life is going to cost you something. But
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  Speaker 1: here's the deal. The cost is far less than the
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  Speaker 1: glory afterwards. And so you know that that voice cost
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  Speaker 1: me something. It cost me some people. It cost me
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  Speaker 1: uh you know, you know recently, it cost me some family.
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  Speaker 1: Remember you know, through you know, um, through death in um.
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  Speaker 1: It costs some um, some friends. It costs time, It
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  Speaker 1: costs rehearsals, it costs a lot that people really don't uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they don't added up. They think that, oh,
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  Speaker 1: you just wake up and you sound like that. No,
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  Speaker 1: I wake up and I do sound like that. But
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  Speaker 1: that's years of being able to do what I do.
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  Speaker 1: And then I don't take the privilege lightly. I look
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  Speaker 1: at it as a privilege. I told someone yesterday. If
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  Speaker 1: you are working in a place or a situation and
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  Speaker 1: you don't feel joy, that is not your assignment. You're
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  Speaker 1: just going to work. You know, it's really important that
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  Speaker 1: or time, I think, and the whole balanced life conversation
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  Speaker 1: I always try to bring to my guests on the
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  Speaker 1: show so they can tell me how they deal with it.
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  Speaker 1: Because she's a very powerful and accomplished single mom. And
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  Speaker 1: so when that's where the time comes in right there,
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  Speaker 1: and being that she's famous, it can intrude onto her
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  Speaker 1: daughter's life. And that's very important that people understand it.
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  Speaker 1: Like a lot of people they don't understand. There's so
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  Speaker 1: many layers to being famous. There's so many layers to
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  Speaker 1: having especially with social media, having your life exposed to
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  Speaker 1: millions and millions of people can like you or I
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  Speaker 1: have a comment about how you look or what you're
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  Speaker 1: doing and why are you doing it? And so your
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  Speaker 1: daughter now is at Howard University. I know there was
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  Speaker 1: much stress, much stress. Well what I told you before,
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  Speaker 1: they have to go back to your podcast that we
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  Speaker 1: did uh um in in Houston where uh we talked
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  Speaker 1: about that, and I told you, no, I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 1: be stressed. I have capital police. You know. The first
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  Speaker 1: couple of the first couple of weeks, you know, being
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  Speaker 1: in the house by myself and around missing you know,
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  Speaker 1: making those fruit plates at night. Uh, it taught me
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  Speaker 1: a lot about myself and it taught me, uh to
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  Speaker 1: relaxing what I had nurtured her to become m we
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting because you know, might I have
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  Speaker 1: a daughter. She's twenty one, and she always says she
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  Speaker 1: calls me, and if she don't call me for a
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  Speaker 1: couple of days, she knows, hey, okay, I call her, said, okay,
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  Speaker 1: what's going on there? You know, you know, your dad
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  Speaker 1: gotta hear from you, what's going on in your life.
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  Speaker 1: And she's doing amazing in colleges with the academic she's
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  Speaker 1: on the A roll. So she's doing she's living life right.
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  Speaker 1: But it's still as a parent, you know, you you know,
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  Speaker 1: you just want to make sure your your child has
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  Speaker 1: a better life than you have, and also you want
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  Speaker 1: them to be secure. You don't want anything to happen
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  Speaker 1: to him. And I know that that when you when
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  Speaker 1: we joke and talk about these things. But it's all
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  Speaker 1: part of being a good parent, and a good parent
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  Speaker 1: will always care, you know, and all you wanna do.
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  Speaker 1: All I want to do is my daughter to have
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  Speaker 1: a better life than I have, and I don't want
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  Speaker 1: her to I'll live my life exactly. Well, that does
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  Speaker 1: not mean that we don't FaceTime. I give her her space,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah we're gonna be FaceTime. Oh good. So let's
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  Speaker 1: let's get to this entrepreneurship. Young lady, you know, stot
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  Speaker 1: there making that money while you're sleeping. Now, that's that's
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  Speaker 1: the beauty of what you're doing. Absolutely, So talk about
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  Speaker 1: these are y a handbacks that are affordable, classy, elegant
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  Speaker 1: for your lifestyle and soulo online. And first of all,
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting little mad with you because now I've not
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  Speaker 1: gotten any banners and you know, almost got a million
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  Speaker 1: followers over that's a Ricky Anderson thing. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: got Look, we got your banners coming because because you
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  Speaker 1: know the thing about it, you know especially, I want
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  Speaker 1: to do it this week because Mother's Day it's Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: So I like to get those banners up on my
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  Speaker 1: site this weekend. Then I got a newsletter coming out.
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  Speaker 1: It's coming out, and so I wanted I want to
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  Speaker 1: put in the newsletter. I put you in the subject line.
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  Speaker 1: I put you in the subject line. That sounds good
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  Speaker 1: to me. We'll look. As soon as I get off
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  Speaker 1: the phone with you, I am going to talk to Ricky.
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  Speaker 1: I've got good friend Ricky, absolutely, because that's what it's about,
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  Speaker 1: relationships and being being an entrepreneur. And so as that
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  Speaker 1: as that title grows in your life, and tell us
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  Speaker 1: about these handbags, while uh, you know, I am so
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  Speaker 1: fortunate to be able to um to to create what
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  Speaker 1: I love. And I know people ask me all the time, rashan,
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  Speaker 1: what are you wearing? Who are you carrying? Who does
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  Speaker 1: your makeup? What kind of makeup? So I started thinking, low,
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  Speaker 1: if a hundred people everywhere I go ask me the
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  Speaker 1: same question, I have probably ten million women somewhere, who
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  Speaker 1: would uh pick up whatever I am? You know what
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  Speaker 1: I whatever I have on, whatever I'm carrying. And so
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  Speaker 1: Ricky and I started talking about accessories because you know,
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  Speaker 1: with accessories, there's no um there's no size, so you
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  Speaker 1: don't have a lot of returns. Because that's always my thing.
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  Speaker 1: What's going to give me the best return on my investment,
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  Speaker 1: which will also be applauded by my audience, so they
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  Speaker 1: don't return it and say, oh I didn't like this
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  Speaker 1: or it didn't fit me. Scars, handbags, belts, those kinds
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  Speaker 1: of things are so universal. Every woman needs accessories, and
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  Speaker 1: then every man needs to know, well, what can I
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  Speaker 1: buy my wife or my girlfriend or my mom that's
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  Speaker 1: not going to you know, cost me a grip, as
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  Speaker 1: they say. And I worked with the same guy, the
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  Speaker 1: same manufacturing company that provides bags for um burged Off
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  Speaker 1: and good Men, also for Bloomingdale's and all of these places.
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  Speaker 1: But it is a direct to consumer um uh situation.
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  Speaker 1: So you don't have the middleman, you don't have the
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  Speaker 1: stock fees, you don't have all of this kind of stuff,
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  Speaker 1: which made a whole lot of sense to me because
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  Speaker 1: you you know, being in business, that stock fees can
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  Speaker 1: go all the way up to a hundred a hundred
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  Speaker 1: fifty dollars according to what you're stocking. Absolutely, absolutely, absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: so I said, let's cut out the middleman. Let's be
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  Speaker 1: our own direct store. And the persons have been flying
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  Speaker 1: when I tell you, flying out of the warehouse, mm hmm,
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  Speaker 1: and I see, I see. You know what, I can't
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  Speaker 1: take no credit for that. I'm gonna if I had
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  Speaker 1: had a bad I could be there. You know that
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  Speaker 1: part part of that flying, Well, I gotta get that
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  Speaker 1: back in because because Mother's Day coming up, so I
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  Speaker 1: gotta be part of this just flying out the door action.
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  Speaker 1: Attorney Ricky Anderson, hed better hear from you today. So
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  Speaker 1: I get these batteries because that's part of relationships, and
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  Speaker 1: we talked about that all the time. When you come
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  Speaker 1: on on our show money making Conversations. I'm speaking to
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  Speaker 1: you a lot of Adams, one of the true great voices.
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  Speaker 1: And uh, when I say I would say we we
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  Speaker 1: say gospel. But you know, you get called on, You'll
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  Speaker 1: be on the Grammage, You'll be on American Idol. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you you different formats, and so when you cross over
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  Speaker 1: to those different formats and seeing I would say, what
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  Speaker 1: the non gospel music? How do how do your fans
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  Speaker 1: react to that? Well, my true fans are always excited
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  Speaker 1: that God. You know that God takes me into areas
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  Speaker 1: that are so uncommon for other folks. Number one, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know how it goes. There's an aesthetic that people
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  Speaker 1: are looking for. I fit that aesthetic. I'm tall, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm lean. I love clothing, you know, so I look
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  Speaker 1: the part. I look like I can be on television representing,
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  Speaker 1: so they don't have a problem with that. And then
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  Speaker 1: I love music. And most of the people that they
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  Speaker 1: asked me to um to represent are people that are
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  Speaker 1: my friends or that I love, you know, at case
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  Speaker 1: and Point, Anita Baker, you know, she's been a friend
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  Speaker 1: of mine forever and I love her dearly. Also Linel
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  Speaker 1: Ritchie uh, you know, uh, of course, you know the
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  Speaker 1: Whitney tributes, all of the tribute, the Shaka kN tributes.
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  Speaker 1: These are actual friends of mine, so I get a
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  Speaker 1: chance to do those, and it is you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: only those people who think that they know who I
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  Speaker 1: am or assume what Christian people are able to do.
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  Speaker 1: Because most of the people who make the comments of
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  Speaker 1: folks who don't even go to church or don't even
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  Speaker 1: claim to be Christian. Why how can a Christian woman
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  Speaker 1: get up and think I got drop drop dup On
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  Speaker 1: the phone with London Adams of we're talking about a career,
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  Speaker 1: talking about talking about being a fantastic single mom, also
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  Speaker 1: talking about her being an entrepreneur. When we come back,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about her foundation. And also I always
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  Speaker 1: like to go back to the school teacher days because
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  Speaker 1: she always just grinding and get a grip. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's a school teacher talking right there. Back for more
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  Speaker 1: money making conversations. Okay, ro Sean McDonald, you're back. I'm bad.
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  Speaker 1: I'm happy to be back. I'm happy to be on
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  Speaker 1: my podcast, happy to be on Serious ex M, have
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  Speaker 1: to be live in Atlanta, Chargia, happy to be syndicated,
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  Speaker 1: into North Carolina and that means my brand is growing
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  Speaker 1: outside of And I always tell people, follow your dreams,
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  Speaker 1: follow your opportunities. Started as a stand up comedy comic, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: then branched out as a sitcom writer were all of
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  Speaker 1: the show executive producer, then managed one of the most
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  Speaker 1: powerful talents and media today and Steve Harvey, and decided
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  Speaker 1: to take a step back because I didn't have a
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  Speaker 1: balanced life. And I said that important. Sometimes you take
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  Speaker 1: a step and a balanced life, it can affect you.
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  Speaker 1: Not having a balant can affect your pocketbook. But guess what,
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  Speaker 1: if you believe in the process and you believe in
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  Speaker 1: the what you're doing is right for you and your family,
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  Speaker 1: then it's all going to become very very good for
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  Speaker 1: you in the long run. And that's what's happened to
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  Speaker 1: me on the phone is a line of the atoms. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: She's a inspiration in the community and her family, and
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  Speaker 1: she's touched me many many years, many many years. We
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  Speaker 1: should do celebration of gospel. So I've been doing her
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  Speaker 1: a long time, long time, long time. And Uh, but
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  Speaker 1: you know that that smile, girl, that smile, if it's
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  Speaker 1: always made me um attracted to your personality just you know,
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  Speaker 1: even though like on Facebook, Yeah, I think I think
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  Speaker 1: your Facebook or Twitter, you're standing there with that. I
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  Speaker 1: think that the pastel, a flowery dress and you're just
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  Speaker 1: smiling and we're going like, look at this. If you're
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  Speaker 1: not if you're not attracted to, if that doesn't gravity,
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  Speaker 1: if that doesn't pull you in into a positive environment,
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  Speaker 1: it lets you know that your life is good, and
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  Speaker 1: your life is really really good, isn't your Landa? It
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  Speaker 1: really is. Look, you know the love of my life,
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  Speaker 1: my little Taylor, she's doing well. She's an adult now,
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  Speaker 1: so she's doing very well. We have all the products
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  Speaker 1: that we were just talking about, the y A bags,
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  Speaker 1: we have the simply Landa. We have to wake up
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  Speaker 1: with the Landa coffee. There's so many things that we're doing.
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  Speaker 1: We're in the studio right now for new music. So
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you can go to my website, Yolanda Adams Live,
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  Speaker 1: or you can follow me on face I mean on
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  Speaker 1: Twitter at uh Yolanda atoms with the blue check. I
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  Speaker 1: have a million plus people following me. So don't don't
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  Speaker 1: fall for the ones that say two thousand, because those
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  Speaker 1: are fake pages right right right, annoying you. That's two
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  Speaker 1: thousands should have been on your million. That makes me mad.
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  Speaker 1: I know, whn't that's something. Now, let's you went through
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  Speaker 1: a real fast on those are simply let's let's low
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  Speaker 1: down what exactly is simply land Knows the skin care line.
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  Speaker 1: I've actolutely used that product and given to my my daughter.
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  Speaker 1: She actually does it in college at the University of Houston,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm very familiar with that. So explain to everybody
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  Speaker 1: else what's going on. Simply, Yeah, simply a Landa is
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  Speaker 1: my bath and body line that incorporates so many good
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  Speaker 1: oils back into your skin without stripping them. We have
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  Speaker 1: the the shower uh and and and body I mean
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  Speaker 1: shower and bath Uh. Soap, well, it's not really soap,
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  Speaker 1: it's like a gel. And then we also have the
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  Speaker 1: Soufle which is our lotion. It is it's like triple whipped. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: You Once you shower and then you put that lotion
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  Speaker 1: on you, you can forget about any kind of moisturizer
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  Speaker 1: for the rest of the day. And it's for the
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  Speaker 1: it's for the body. We are working right now with
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  Speaker 1: our chemists on something for the the actual face that
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  Speaker 1: will do the same thing. But I wanted to give
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  Speaker 1: our listeners something that would uh not cost them an
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  Speaker 1: arm and a leg, because there are a lot of
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  Speaker 1: great products out there, but some of them have irritants
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  Speaker 1: like alcohol and things like that in them, and I,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you know me, I'm a natural girl, and
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  Speaker 1: I wanted something that would you know, that would give
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  Speaker 1: them the moisture that they needed because as I got older,
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  Speaker 1: I saw my skin getting drier, and you know, I
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  Speaker 1: drink tons of water, but I'm like, something's changing. So
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  Speaker 1: when the cellular part of you is changing, you can
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  Speaker 1: help it rejuvenate and turn over in a positive way
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  Speaker 1: and then you know, you get that great skin that
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  Speaker 1: you're always looking for. And of course we already talked
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  Speaker 1: about the white handbags my new baby. I absolutely love it.
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  Speaker 1: That's also on Yalong to Adams Live and the Wake
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  Speaker 1: Up with Yolanda Coffee. That's also on Yolanda Adams Live
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  Speaker 1: dot com, my website. Everybody can follow me on Yolanda Adams,
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  Speaker 1: on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, all of that and on Instagram.
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  Speaker 1: I give my uh a few seconds of inspiration. Absolutely
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  Speaker 1: I got her and I'm following her, so you know,
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  Speaker 1: she got me in so many ways. I got. When
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  Speaker 1: I'm feeling bad, I just go over there and looking
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  Speaker 1: at her a smile. She got me back. Now, let's
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about the little thing that that the school
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  Speaker 1: teacher days that you still you still mentor you know
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  Speaker 1: on profit Voice of an Angel, where you're focused on
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  Speaker 1: mentoring high school students nationwide in order to help them
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  Speaker 1: find a career in education. Yes, because I think that's important.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, being able to be a teacher for
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  Speaker 1: seven years really did transform and change my life. Because
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  Speaker 1: my degree was in radio TV journalism. So I graduated
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  Speaker 1: from tex the Southern University with that degree, went to
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  Speaker 1: Channel eleven. Uh, they fired all of us week I
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  Speaker 1: got there. After I bought that cool firebird. I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: oh my god, what am I gonna do? My mama
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  Speaker 1: long term substitute. So I went and did a long
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  Speaker 1: she said, Okay, go back get your certification. It's real easy.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not just gonna let you get your certification. You
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  Speaker 1: that and uh started teaching for seven years. And I
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  Speaker 1: am so glad I did that because I know what
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  Speaker 1: every kid in America is going through. I've dealt with
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  Speaker 1: everything from kids being in foster care, kids being abandoned,
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  Speaker 1: kids not having food after school. I mean, there's so
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  Speaker 1: many issues that happened with our children. So the Voice
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  Speaker 1: of an Angel Foundation was really like a springboard from
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  Speaker 1: from that, because I wanted to make sure that once
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  Speaker 1: kids got out of high school that they were nurtured, mentored,
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  Speaker 1: and really followed to be their best selves, because I
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  Speaker 1: people better. And you are. You're making people a whole
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  Speaker 1: lot better and through your inspiration in your words. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I'll be remissed you said it earlier. Coming this year,
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  Speaker 1: new music with some amazing collaborations. Can you give us
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  Speaker 1: a sneak peek? Oh my god, Jimmy, jam Terry Lewis,
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  Speaker 1: Donald Lawrence Israel Houghton, Rockney Jerkins. Oh, let huh these
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  Speaker 1: are legendary names. Yes, these are legendary names. Rodney East
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  Speaker 1: my music director. You know, we are now Tony nominated
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  Speaker 1: for our our song on the SpongeBob's uh SpongeBob SquarePants
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  Speaker 1: Broadway Musical. So you know, now let's just go throw
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  Speaker 1: that out there. I have to throw that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because because I always have to, uh always acknowledge you
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  Speaker 1: as Emmy winning producers. So now I am Tony Award nominated.
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  Speaker 1: Adams praise the Lord for that, uh Grammy and then
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  Speaker 1: Tony Award. No, I'm gonna go. We're gonna go and
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  Speaker 1: get these blessings out there on a big way. Here
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  Speaker 1: we are. So that's so funny because I'm a big
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  Speaker 1: fan of SpongeBob. I'm a big SpongeBob SquarePants. I'll tell you,
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  Speaker 1: krusty Patties, I'm telling you, don't give me deep on
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  Speaker 1: its not okay, yeah, crap check that's I don't find
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  Speaker 1: my SpongeBob. So so, so when you get it far
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  Speaker 1: off with something like at how does it come to you?
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  Speaker 1: And how do creatively do you do? You do? You
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  Speaker 1: all guess you know, dissect opportunity to thing we always
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  Speaker 1: you and I have always been big on relationships. Relationships
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  Speaker 1: do not just have to be in your circle. What
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  Speaker 1: I found is that people who admire the music admire
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  Speaker 1: me for a whole lot of things. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a writer. I'm a Grammy Award winning writer. I
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  Speaker 1: also am a New York Best Times h New York
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  Speaker 1: these gentlemen um at Electric Records who are now at Nickelodeon.
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  Speaker 1: Dot Cone is actually one of the vps at Nickelodeon,
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  Speaker 1: and he said, um, you know, they were in a
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  Speaker 1: meeting about SpongeBob, the Broadway musical, and Tina Landau who
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  Speaker 1: is she is opt Broadway, She's worked on everything, and
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  Speaker 1: they said, we need a gospel like tune for SpongeBob,
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  Speaker 1: and Tina and Doug looked at each other in uh.
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  Speaker 1: In the meeting at the same time, Ylanda Adams came
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  Speaker 1: out of their mouths and who knew, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: always pray for greater doors, opening more opportunities, all of that,
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  Speaker 1: and and the opportunity came and I called my music director,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, uh, Rottney, we need this a s A P.
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  Speaker 1: Here's my idea. I'm gonna sing it for you. You
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