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Interview of the Week: Melody Holt stars on two hit OWN Series, “Love & Marriage: Huntsville,” and “Behind Every Man” · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: one of my favorite Melody Hope. She's a producer and
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  Speaker 1: started own series Love and Marriage Hunt Field entrepreneur. She's
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  Speaker 1: a home builder that this series follows three power couples
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  Speaker 1: longtime friends, I don't know if they're long time friends
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  Speaker 1: no more. Melody and Martel Hope, fire doctor, part a
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  Speaker 1: girl plitician and also that's my friend brother and Kimmy
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  Speaker 1: and Maurice, I don't know Kimmy and my board. More
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  Speaker 1: recent he tried to be a businessman in the Huntsfield
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, and love and Marriage and Husbield. But
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  Speaker 1: she has also hosted one of my favorite shows, behind
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  Speaker 1: every Man, which is also on the own. Please work
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  Speaker 1: in the melody for them about to say her name,
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  Speaker 1: Please work with the money Making Conversations, my friend Melody Hope.
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  Speaker 1: How you doing, Melody? Hey, I'm doing great. How are you?
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's always just a pleasure being able to
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  Speaker 1: be a part of your show. You are so phenomenal,
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  Speaker 1: so inspiring and encouraging. So I'm just very thankful for
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity. Well, you know, it's really interesting about your
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  Speaker 1: whole career and just go track it, you know, like
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  Speaker 1: you came into my life and the first aid of
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  Speaker 1: you I did on Money Making Conversation with you and Martel,
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  Speaker 1: and it was a it was an inspirational interview out
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  Speaker 1: a couple that work their way through high school and
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  Speaker 1: beautiful kids. And then the second time I got you
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  Speaker 1: on the show, used by yourself. And now the third
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  Speaker 1: time I have you on the show. I saw the episode,
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  Speaker 1: the premiere episode of I would after the episode, you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna really be by yourself? After that three episode, you
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  Speaker 1: buy yourself down. You ain't kind of by yourself. You
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  Speaker 1: buy yourself ain't trying to change. Well, I understand because
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  Speaker 1: you know, if you're fans of the show, I'm a
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  Speaker 1: fan of the show, and you brought me into the series,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and my boy Carlos came. He created his
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  Speaker 1: that could produce to the series very talent the ep
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  Speaker 1: of docuseries type dramas. Here's another series on on on
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  Speaker 1: called Bell Collective. But we're talking about love and marriage
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  Speaker 1: Huntsville and the question. You know, this ain't a messy show.
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  Speaker 1: This is a show about watching an entrepreneur, watching a
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  Speaker 1: young lady. I just still consume you very young, an entrepreneur,
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  Speaker 1: minded and almost side. It almost took like a serious
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  Speaker 1: where I got to see you grow as a woman
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  Speaker 1: as a mom, and then the other half of you
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  Speaker 1: do want to see that same growth? Am I correct?
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  Speaker 1: So you know, what I will say is definitely being
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  Speaker 1: a part of UM the Kingdom Raine family and being
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  Speaker 1: a part of Love of Marriage, Huntspill. You know, you're
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  Speaker 1: absolutely correct in terms of the growth that you've seen.
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  Speaker 1: And that's really because you know, as you go through
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  Speaker 1: things in life and you experience certain things, those are
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  Speaker 1: really the things that help shape and mold you to
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  Speaker 1: be who you are and um, who you're supposed to be.
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  Speaker 1: And that's really what my viewers have been able to
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  Speaker 1: witness the past few seasons. UM. Is me really going
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  Speaker 1: through one of life's biggest challenges, UM, when one of
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  Speaker 1: the you know, supposed to be strongest buns UM is
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  Speaker 1: broken and disconnected and what it looks like to maneuver
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  Speaker 1: through those type of waters. And so that is how
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  Speaker 1: you guys have been able to really, you know, as
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  Speaker 1: you say, have seen me grow because you want me
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  Speaker 1: go through, UM, something that a lot of people can't
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  Speaker 1: even go through behind closed doors, and I've had to
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  Speaker 1: live it out loud publicly, so it's been a little
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  Speaker 1: bit different. UM. What I will say, UM, you know
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to u X about my you know
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  Speaker 1: Martel and that supporting that growth, what I will say
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  Speaker 1: is that there was a time in our marriage, in
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  Speaker 1: our life. You know, I'm not gonna sit here and
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  Speaker 1: at like we had a whole bunch of years of
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  Speaker 1: some terrible marriage, because that's just not the case. Um.
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  Speaker 1: We had a beautiful, beautiful union, beautiful time, UM, beautiful
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  Speaker 1: you know, family, children, UM, a real friendship definitely. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we were definitely great friends. And so I was saying
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  Speaker 1: that there was a time when he definitely pushed me
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  Speaker 1: and m motivated me, and really you know stood, you know,
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  Speaker 1: kind of stood with me with some of the things
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to do. UM. But sometimes in life, people
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  Speaker 1: just start kind of going different ways and things change.
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  Speaker 1: I did an interview earlier and I shared with them that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, studies show that people change every five to
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  Speaker 1: seven years, and you know that's just real. No one's
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  Speaker 1: gonna stay the same, you know, I really, um, because
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  Speaker 1: because I care about you a lot. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: have six sisters, so I consider you one of them.
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  Speaker 1: Six uh two and pass away. So I'm asking you
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  Speaker 1: to feel in one of those slots in my life
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  Speaker 1: because I I believe in you. And when I watched
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  Speaker 1: the show, especially premiere episode this season, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: was I was pained a little bit because I could
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're watching you on TV play out some emotions,
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  Speaker 1: especially when Martell talked about he going to the custody
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  Speaker 1: of the children and you really, you really live up
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  Speaker 1: the room because you weren't gonna let this act like
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  Speaker 1: this even sense of a possibility. These are four beautiful
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  Speaker 1: kids that you've delivered to the world. And then all
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  Speaker 1: earlier in the episodes, by the way she showed off
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  Speaker 1: her little body, by the way she showed off her
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  Speaker 1: little body, just embarrassing everybody in the nation. She did
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  Speaker 1: and dropped four kids come around the corners like looking
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  Speaker 1: gin she's like a fresh out of high school body.
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  Speaker 1: So we're gonna talk about that. Let's go back today's emotionally.
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  Speaker 1: I just had to throw that out there and like
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  Speaker 1: step on her because that was unfair. That was unfair. Melandine,
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  Speaker 1: like you have seen a little bit more than I
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  Speaker 1: have seen. Just know that, well, I don't care. I saw.
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  Speaker 1: I said she come out of pol Destiny. She like
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  Speaker 1: just dropped one to destinely, whoa my goodness, girl? Where
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  Speaker 1: you know what? Can I say? It's time for me
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  Speaker 1: to show the where what's going on with melody, Hell, okay,
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  Speaker 1: and then we go forward. You know you're back, and
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  Speaker 1: you know because you was in a land with your
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  Speaker 1: brother hanging out in the back, you know, drinking a
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  Speaker 1: little wine and didn't get your act together for two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: And then now the reality is back. You're in the
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  Speaker 1: house with a man who, let's say, you don't trust,
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  Speaker 1: you need with children that you love that you're born.
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  Speaker 1: Like you said, you're not here to talk about like
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  Speaker 1: this relationship was a bad relationship. But when he says
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  Speaker 1: the possibility that he wants to get full cost of
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  Speaker 1: their kids, you lost it. Yeah, yeah, you know. UM
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  Speaker 1: it's one of those things where I think for most
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  Speaker 1: parents when it comes to your children, that's just that's
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  Speaker 1: one thing you just really don't play about, no matter
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  Speaker 1: who it is, obviously UM. And so we all have
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  Speaker 1: those triggers, certain things that trigger us. And unfortunately a
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  Speaker 1: lot of times people know what your are UM. And
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  Speaker 1: so for me, when it comes to being a you know,
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  Speaker 1: a woman of many hats, being an entrepreneur, being a mom,
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  Speaker 1: being a wife, all of those things, you know, me
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  Speaker 1: being able to um fully engage in all of those
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  Speaker 1: roles was one of the things that was a problem,
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  Speaker 1: um in the marriage, and one of those things that
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  Speaker 1: was somewhat trying. You know, I would say he tried
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  Speaker 1: to use against me at times, um, and that was
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  Speaker 1: when it came to the kids. And so for him
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  Speaker 1: to make a statement like that despite no deep down
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  Speaker 1: that I'm really wearing all these hats very well, like
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  Speaker 1: there's my kids are very well taken care of. We
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  Speaker 1: do vaccaitions, we do chips. They've been out of the country. Hell,
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  Speaker 1: I hadn't even been out of the country when I
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  Speaker 1: was their age. Okay, Um, So it's like, don't play
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  Speaker 1: with me like that and in your show. But but
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  Speaker 1: the series as as I see, because you know, I
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  Speaker 1: can't wait till this the next episode and the next
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  Speaker 1: episode out there, because really it's about watching the I
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  Speaker 1: on this shows about motivation. It's about people overcoming furious
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  Speaker 1: pope of walking in the darkness, walking into that known
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  Speaker 1: and you. And that's why I'm standing on this a
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  Speaker 1: little bit because I want a lot of people to
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  Speaker 1: hear this, because a lot of people don't go to
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  Speaker 1: the next level of life because they fear change, They
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  Speaker 1: fear the unknown, they fear what ilf what if it's
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  Speaker 1: not something I expect and you're doing a courageous thing
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  Speaker 1: with your life because this is not This is bigger
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  Speaker 1: than the television show to me, because it's about you.
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  Speaker 1: Because when the lights go down and cut off, you
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  Speaker 1: really live in the life that we're just getting little
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  Speaker 1: bits and pieces. Is all. With that being said, what's
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  Speaker 1: the next path for Melody? What's the next what now?
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  Speaker 1: Path for you? In career? Playing in because you know
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  Speaker 1: I call you sometimes you said, we show I got
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  Speaker 1: people in l A, I got people in Huntsville. I
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  Speaker 1: got a team around you because you know, I'll be
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  Speaker 1: talking to Union every time I talk to you. Know,
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  Speaker 1: it's more advancement in the in the various business ventures,
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  Speaker 1: more opportunity that you want to engage in, and you
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  Speaker 1: surround yourself with a much stronger team that allows you
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  Speaker 1: to win. So talk about that. And you know what,
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  Speaker 1: it's so funny that you mentioned a team and just
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  Speaker 1: you know, the people that you have around you. I
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  Speaker 1: feel like, you know, you can't do anything alone in
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  Speaker 1: life period. You've got to have a team, a team
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  Speaker 1: who believes in you, that supports you, um that pushes
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  Speaker 1: you even on the days when you barely can push yourself.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm so thankful and blessed that I have been surrounded. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, God just placed the right people in my
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  Speaker 1: life at the right time. You know. I can speak
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  Speaker 1: all the way you know to my management team. As
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  Speaker 1: you said, you I have, you know, a team in
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  Speaker 1: l A. I have a team in Atlanta. Um. And
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  Speaker 1: when I look at the time that they came into
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  Speaker 1: my life, and they're older than me. And that's another thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of crazy because it's like, I'm thirty five,
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  Speaker 1: but God has surrounded me with people who are older
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  Speaker 1: than me and who have so much wisdom, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and that wisdom comes from their own life experiences. So
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  Speaker 1: when I hear their stories of things they've experienced and
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  Speaker 1: that they went through early on in life and what
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  Speaker 1: I'm going through right now, I know that it was
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  Speaker 1: a divine connection and meant for them to be in
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  Speaker 1: my life. And so, um, you know, we're we're always
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  Speaker 1: working on things. And I hope that's what people also.
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  Speaker 1: You know, of course all reality show you have a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of drama. But I hope that people really
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  Speaker 1: get to uh tune in and pick up and understand
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  Speaker 1: and see that, you know, the sky really, you know,
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  Speaker 1: is the limit. It doesn't matter what what you go through,
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  Speaker 1: what you experienced. I wake up every day and I
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  Speaker 1: put a smile on my face and I'm hey, good morning,
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  Speaker 1: how are you. Positive affirmations all period um. And from
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  Speaker 1: there it has just really allowed us to move into
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  Speaker 1: some different areas. I have music that I'm working on.
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  Speaker 1: I can't wait. I've teased my fans a little bit
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  Speaker 1: um with my song by dropping it on social media
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  Speaker 1: pieces here and there. UM. So I have music I'm
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  Speaker 1: working on. I'm actually about to go in the student
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  Speaker 1: and record the second song because I'm done with the
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  Speaker 1: first one. Um. And then of course also I have
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  Speaker 1: my acting career um that I'm working on as well.
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  Speaker 1: I actually just finished doing some acting stuff. I've been
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  Speaker 1: in Atlanta doing a movie um the past week. So
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  Speaker 1: just moving, shaking and trying to fully um being the
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  Speaker 1: purpose and my God given purpose. Because life is so short.
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  Speaker 1: You have to wake up every day. You have to
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  Speaker 1: make it count. You have to make every hour, every
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  Speaker 1: minute and every secle don't you ever, Because even in
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  Speaker 1: this series, I gotta mad at you because you know
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  Speaker 1: I'm based in the lat He was in the lab
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  Speaker 1: for two weeks, Okay, then in the interview right back
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  Speaker 1: where I just got back from l A. I mean
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  Speaker 1: for Atlanta. You know, I just got that from no call,
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  Speaker 1: no text, because you know, no no something something that
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  Speaker 1: no no, no, no, no up whatever. She had d
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  Speaker 1: hear me in a minute, Hey, Richelle, how you doing well?
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  Speaker 1: This is one thing I love about her. And I
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  Speaker 1: responded back to her, I said, look, she would recommend
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  Speaker 1: people to be on my show. I mean and uh,
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  Speaker 1: and she's supportive. That's not I laugh at her in
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  Speaker 1: a good way. It's not a bad lad because here
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  Speaker 1: she is. You know, she's out there trying to make
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  Speaker 1: her career work. She's trying to be a good person
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  Speaker 1: because she is a good person. But she will not
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  Speaker 1: hesitate connecting somebody for an opportunity, and that's a quality there.
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  Speaker 1: When you said, Richard, why do you like Meloday Hope?
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  Speaker 1: Why do you Why are you always champion her? Because
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  Speaker 1: she's so busy champion other people. She's not about to
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people in competition because it is competition.
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  Speaker 1: They fear I ain't gonna learn nobody get my hookop.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna anybody get my connection. And that's not
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  Speaker 1: you talk to us about their personality at all. You know.
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  Speaker 1: Let me tell you so, I am big on making connections.
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  Speaker 1: I will be honest, I'm that person who and I'm
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  Speaker 1: not gonna be like, oh, i've seen you the number.
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  Speaker 1: Later if we're having a conversation and I know someone
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  Speaker 1: who can maybe help catapults you to the next level,
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  Speaker 1: take you to the next level in your life or
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  Speaker 1: goals career wise, whatever it is, Oh, I'm gonna be like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'm testing. I'm sending you the number right now. You
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  Speaker 1: want to call him right now? Like, That's what I
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  Speaker 1: love and I love to do that. That's just a
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  Speaker 1: genuine part of me, um, because I feel that you
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  Speaker 1: never know what someone else can do, whether it's a
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  Speaker 1: simple word, whether it's you know, a simple connection that
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  Speaker 1: can just really change someone's entire life. And I have
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  Speaker 1: to believe that, Um, through that goodness of my heart
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  Speaker 1: and purity of all of my intentions, that that is
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  Speaker 1: why God has continue to bless me, and he has
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  Speaker 1: continued to look over me and put me, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in the paths of the right people, because I'm always
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  Speaker 1: looking to find a way to bring people together on
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  Speaker 1: the same path. You know, there's enough out here for
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  Speaker 1: everyone and if we stopped being so selfish and we
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  Speaker 1: become more selfless. Man, let me tell you, we learned
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  Speaker 1: how to come together. And I don't say it's always easy,
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  Speaker 1: because it's not. But if we can learn how to
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  Speaker 1: come together, there's just so much that we can do.
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  Speaker 1: So Yes, I love connecting people and you do a
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  Speaker 1: great job of it. Now, before I go on to
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  Speaker 1: the series Behind every Man, I want to talk about
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  Speaker 1: other characters on the show that I shouldn't said character,
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  Speaker 1: other other couples, other people, because it's gotten more expansive
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  Speaker 1: on the show. You know, we see more on this season.
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  Speaker 1: We see more of a Kimmy and uh Maurice's son
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  Speaker 1: and then of course a team shirt they got the
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  Speaker 1: cigar Places Black that they're building out this season. Give
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  Speaker 1: us a little sneak preview of what's coming up up
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  Speaker 1: on this season because of the fact that uh My,
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  Speaker 1: but I tell people to watch the show because I'm
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  Speaker 1: a fan of love and marriage. Huntville's because their individuals
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  Speaker 1: who are black individuals in a town like Huntsville that
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  Speaker 1: have big city problems. And that's I think all the couples,
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  Speaker 1: in some shape form or fashion, um bring a great
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  Speaker 1: dynamic to the show, and I feel that, you know, um,
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  Speaker 1: this season, you guys are going to be able to
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  Speaker 1: see more business moves taking place, which is something I'm
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  Speaker 1: very proud of because you know, I don't think anyone
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  Speaker 1: goes into reality reality TV hoping that there will be
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  Speaker 1: Druma's just kind of one of those things that that
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  Speaker 1: can end up happening because life and you know, so
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  Speaker 1: when you imagine being put in situations where maybe you
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  Speaker 1: would have avoided that person for another month or two
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  Speaker 1: because you know you kind of ain't feeling them right now,
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  Speaker 1: then you see them instead in a day, so sometimes
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  Speaker 1: those emotions may still be up. So you know that
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  Speaker 1: just that's the piece that brings the drama in. But um,
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to our audience really seeing um, you know,
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  Speaker 1: especially with the climate of the economy and where we
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  Speaker 1: are as a culture, as people, where we are as
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  Speaker 1: a country right now, they was important to show unity
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  Speaker 1: and how despite differences, despite um, you know, difficulties within
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  Speaker 1: the friendships or the relationships, at some point in time,
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  Speaker 1: you guys are going to see, you know, some of
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  Speaker 1: us come together and be able to do some great
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  Speaker 1: things and and actually be able to be in the
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  Speaker 1: same room pushing for a positive purpose or a positive cause.
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  Speaker 1: paid UM as they complete those work orders and so um.
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  Speaker 1: I you know, it was, like you said, born out
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  Speaker 1: and it has been phenomenal, phenomenal. I'm very thankful to
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  Speaker 1: God for you know, for that whole avenue being opened
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  Speaker 1: to talk, because you've ben talk. That's why you to me.
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  Speaker 1: You know you always teach you about that. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you just you don't know, man, Melody, we'll be talking
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  Speaker 1: and all that girl give me your number till all
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: this a DM and back because just DM me like
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: texting her. So though that you say that because earlier,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, I did an interview earlier today and
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  Speaker 1: they said to me, they said, oh yeah, your manager said,
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  Speaker 1: Now here you go, and that that that's why I
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  Speaker 1: love talking to you, because you know there's a journey
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  Speaker 1: and I will never ever stop you from your dreams.
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  Speaker 1: I will always encourage you. I always will support you.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: I always will push you to the next low because
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: I know there are only greater opportunities you're at the
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: right age and start discovering yourself and pushing those dreams.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Because a lot of people wait till they farty fifty,
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  Speaker 1: or I'll wait to my kids graduate, or I'll wait
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: till I wait to get out of college. All that weight,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: all that weight, all that weight, and that's not your DNA.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: And that's what I love about talking to you, and
• 21:39
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• 21:41
  Speaker 1: when I get a person on the air, like you,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: listen to what she's saying. Listen, you know there are
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: setbacks in her in her life there and she don't
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: let that. Become a champion talk about that, you know,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: I will say that. You know, so I got married
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: when I was twenty two, and you have this whole
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: old thing planned out of what you think your life
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: will be. I don't think anyone gets married um expecting
• 22:05
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• 22:08
  Speaker 1: that's your forever, and you think that that is how
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  Speaker 1: your life will be. And so for me, I went
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: from feeling like I had everything together. I had these
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: beautiful children. I had anything I wanted to get. I
• 22:21
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• 22:28
  Speaker 1: we're being able to travel and go whenever we want to.
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  Speaker 1: And then boom, just like that, there's a change. And
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  Speaker 1: so at first, you know, of course, you you know,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: the heartbreak and the disappointment and the tears and the
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: depression and all of those things that come with um,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: you know, something as major's infidelity hitting your marriage. I
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: went through all of that, and UM, I went through
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: a lot of different layers of it. So um for me,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: you know, going through those things and experiencing such a
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: big change in life. And then I didn't know that
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: I was gonna have to play it out on national television.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Even so, that was another thing, you know what I'm saying.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: When we started filming the first season, UM, I had
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: just recently found out about you know, what had been occurring. However,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: I thought everything was done over and we were good.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Well right when we started shooting, I find out, oh,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: it ain't done and over, we ain't good. So that's
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: when people got you know what I'm saying kind of
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: got all the other um, and so all the other
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: emotions and other sides of Melody, the angry side. Um.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: But you know, I didn't expect that that was something
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: that was gonna be played out on TV. I didn't
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: think that was gonna be continue to be a part
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: of my life story, my marriage story. UM. And so
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: now here I am, you know, going through a divorce
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: with four children, um, and trying to make sure that
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: I'm taking care of me and keeping myself together, but
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: then also making sure that I'm you know, there for
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: my kids and helping them to keep it together too. Um.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: And at the same time, still refusing to allow the
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: choices of someone else to affect my purpose and the
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: goals that I have set for myself. So it's a lot.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: It's a lot, and it's a lot of moving pieces.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: But let me tell you, I just get up every
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: single day and I start moving those pieces absolutely. You know,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: on Saturday night you can see her series. All right,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna call it your series Loving Marriage Hunt Fell.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: That's that's why I watch. I'm just doing on Saturday.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: I'm not just watching everyboun show. I watched a girl
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  Speaker 1: Melody Now guess what it's gonna be this Saturday. Gonna
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  Speaker 1: be back to back melody, Hope, melody, hope, hid to night.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we're gonna up to our block. Behind every Man,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just later everybody know she Carlos King makes me mad?
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Now this is this series? Right? Is this car? She
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  Speaker 1: got me? He got me mad? See because see I
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: watched this series that you're hosting, and I'm mad. I'm
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: going to like he thought of this song because it's
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: such a beautiful series, because I got six sisters. So
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: why did I think of this? Because you know you
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: have you have more Kurt Franklin and his wife Tammy
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: on the show. You have the wife of white Cliff
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: John on the show. You have the wife. I didn't
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: even know that uh Neil was married. Seriously, I didn't
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: know he was married. And that the only he's on
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: He's on the show, and it's it's like DJ Envy
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: and his wife, but it's the wife's who are the
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: stars of the show. Behind every Man? How did you
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: become a part of this series? And I'm just about
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: one thing I'm gonna tell you the truth about. This
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: is an engaging series. Well done. The women you get
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: a personal journey about them. It's not as serious that
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: if they're trying to hook you in with a famous husband. No, no, no,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: it's about these women. How they have survived physical drama,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: sometimes abuse, sometimes, near life death experiences sometimes and each
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: one of them have survived and they've coming to the
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: lives of these famous men helped them to be successful
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: along the way, and they have sustained longevity in their
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: marriage and blossom to a loving relationship. How did you
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: give a volva Behind every Man? Well, you know that's
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: why it's so important, um, to speak out loud your
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: goals and your dreams and speak those things into existence. UM.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: And so you know, I shared with Carlos a long
• 26:43
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• 26:46
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• 26:49
  Speaker 1: when the opportunity came, and you know, he was awarded
• 26:52
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• 26:55
  Speaker 1: reached out to me. He said, hey, so guess what,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: And I'm like what And he was like, we're gonna
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: do another show. This is what's gonna call and we
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: want you to host. I'm like, what, really, are you serious?
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: And so you know it went from there and um,
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: it was another again, something filmed during the pandemic, So
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: of course we had different parameters. Of course, we would
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: have loved to have had it where you know, I
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: could have flown into different places and actually sat down
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: in person with these individuals, but we've got to be safe.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: So we still made it happen and made it you know,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: made it work. Um, and for me when he called
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: me that day, I'll never forget. And he had his
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: other producer, Angela on the phone as well. I teared
• 27:40
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• 27:44
  Speaker 1: would be about. And here's why. Um, you know, I'm
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: big on women empowerment. I'm big on strong women and women,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: you know, just being coming together and really pushing one
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: another and being able to be then tick and transparent
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: and share your journey, share those you know, we love
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: the glamour, we love the show off, the Rose Royce,
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: the Lamborghinis and all this thing. However, right, being able
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: to show the times that weren't so good and talk
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: about that, which is what really helped you move to
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: the next level. I love when people can be transparent.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: I think that's the reason that a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: connect with me on Love and Marriage Himesville. So when
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  Speaker 1: he shared that with me and I heard what it
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: would be about, I just literally teared up. I said, wow, Wow.
• 28:34
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• 28:41
  Speaker 1: just something within me that was like, Yes, this right
• 28:45
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• 28:50
  Speaker 1: was experiencing in my marriage and knowing that, you know,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: it wasn't going to be too much longer before it
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: wasn't you know, I wasn't married anymore. It wasn't about that.
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  Speaker 1: It was about what I love to do, shine a
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: light on other women, like you know I do my
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Mamoss with Melody event Um, I always award women Women
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• 29:13
  Speaker 1: of the Year and all these different things. And so
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: any way that I can, um just really shine a
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  Speaker 1: what I love to do. And so this was just
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, this was perfect and it was truly an
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  Speaker 1: amazing experience. Well, I'm gonna tell you, I'm a fan.
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  Speaker 1: I get to see you back to back, the back
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: to back to back. I know that Melanie. I want
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  Speaker 1: back Melanie whole Saturday on Network because you're gonna do it.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna do it, because we all over here. Oh
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: there you go, there you go. The thing about it
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: is that I'm so proud of you, and uh, I
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: watched this journey, you know when I said that, I'm
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: sincere and I know you do a lot of interviews
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: and watching you grow and like and so I've seen
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: this journey play out. And when you come on my show,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: we can have honest conversations. And the only thing only
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: negative in your little book is you come to Atlanta
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: and you don't come see your board. Okay, because I
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: bought a new building. That happen again, I bought a
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: little bit. I gotta show y'all. I gotta, I gotta,
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: I gotta you gotta take a picture by my new
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: business sign all that stuff. I gotta. I gotta get
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: some of your shine on my building. Okay, let's do it.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Let's do it, absolutely well. I will to hold you
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: but again, thank you again again. You know, any time
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  Speaker 1: your flyer come out, I gotta promote you this weekend
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: and uh, you know your Siroty remember and all that
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: good stuff. And uh, girl, you know, keep winning and
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  Speaker 1: keep I got your support and your brother. You can
• 30:41
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• 30:43
  Speaker 1: behind here in Atlanta as himself. You know, he got
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: nothing to do absolutely, so that would be great, you know.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: And I love you already know. I love you. Thank
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: you for you know, you're always opening your doors and
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: opening you know, but just being welcoming with me coming
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: in on the show. I appreciate that so much. It's
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: kind of like like you said, sometimes they're just those
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: God given connections. And I feel like from the first interview,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: we've just always You've been what you're saying that you are.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: You've been encouraging. UM. You let me know multiple times
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: that I have your support, and I really appreciate that, UM,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: and I love you know. We have to pull strength
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  Speaker 1: from one another, especially when we're going through different, you know,
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: difficult times. It's so important for us to pull strength
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: from one another. And you, my fans, the viewers of
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Love and Marriage Huntsville, everyone has been my family, my
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: management team. Everyone has just been so amazing and I
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: know I wouldn't be where I am right now if
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: it wasn't for all of you. Awesome. Well, she's the
• 31:42
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  Speaker 1: Huntsville and um you know behind every Man. Wow, that's
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: my show. She's the star, Melody Holte Melody, thank you
• 31:53
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