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Vanessa Bell-Calloway Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: My next guest is on the phone right now. I
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Speaker 1: won't hold up in the logo. Long time since I've
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Speaker 1: actually physically seen her in l A. Um, she's actually
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Speaker 1: one of my favorite people. UM. My next guest is
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Speaker 1: an Inn Double, a CP Image Award winning actress, director, producer,
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Speaker 1: star Bounce TVs, Saints and Centers, and most importantly, a
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Speaker 1: breast cancer survivor. Please welcome to Money Making Conversation Vanessa
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Speaker 1: Bill Callaway, Hey, good morning, How are awesome? Awesome? Thank
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Speaker 1: you for coming on the show today. Uh. So there's
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Speaker 1: a lot to talk about and we're gonna jump right
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Speaker 1: into the Uh. The Saints and Center's showed that uh
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Speaker 1: has been What's this the fourth season? Correct? The fourth
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Speaker 1: season on Bounce TV yes Sundays at nine pm eight
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Speaker 1: Central Time. If you haven't seen it, you could catch
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Speaker 1: up seasons one, two, three on Hulu and then you
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Speaker 1: can see the show after the airs on brown Sugar
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Speaker 1: dot com of it, you know, like an app like Netflix,
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Speaker 1: or you can just wait and it's gonna be on
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Speaker 1: Hulu right when it ends. But seeing on Sunday nights
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Speaker 1: at bound, when I tell you you don't want to
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Speaker 1: miss this show, it is something else is quite a rise.
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Speaker 1: Now you played the mayor. You played the mayor and
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Speaker 1: what ron you know it's a Georgia mayor. And because
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Speaker 1: the mayor of Atlanta is also a female mayor, do
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Speaker 1: do anyway? You know? I know that's that's because it
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Speaker 1: feels timely, that feels like, you know, like you guys
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Speaker 1: saw the future with this particular show. Uh when you
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Speaker 1: when you realize that that that that's a real life relationship,
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Speaker 1: does it affect how you played the role on TV? No?
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Speaker 1: Oh no, not at all. But I'm so glad that
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Speaker 1: you don't. Mayor Keisha is there. But uh, actually, my character,
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Speaker 1: Lady Ella started out being the first lady of Greater
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Speaker 1: Hope Baptist Church, right and in our very first episode
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Speaker 1: of our very first season, my husband, which was played
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Speaker 1: by Richard Lawson, was murdered, so it became a who've
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Speaker 1: done it? And then Lady Ella was very greedy. He
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Speaker 1: just has a lot of a lot of goals. She
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Speaker 1: was three, like you were just talking about Rashan about
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Speaker 1: you know, being your best, your fullest potential, reaching your goals.
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Speaker 1: It's a relationships. Well, she has a lot of great relationships,
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Speaker 1: but the difference of hers, and she's kind of squeezes
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Speaker 1: those relationships to get what she needs touping people and
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Speaker 1: to progress her career. So she wasn't quite satisfied with
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Speaker 1: being just the first lady. She had her i on
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Speaker 1: being mayor, and now in season four, she has her
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Speaker 1: eye on being senator, and she's trying to be a senator.
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Speaker 1: So I said, if the show keeps going by season six,
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Speaker 1: who knows, I might be the president of you Now
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Speaker 1: you go, do you go? There? You're gonna do? Okay? Uh?
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Speaker 1: I love the fact. First of all, I love the
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Speaker 1: energy in your voice when you start talking about Karry,
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Speaker 1: because obviously you're having a lot of fun playing this character. Oh,
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Speaker 1: she's deliciously wicked. I mean, you know, as an actress,
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Speaker 1: you only pray for fun rows like this you get,
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Speaker 1: you know, and it's nice to play multi fascinating characters,
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Speaker 1: and Lady Ellen definitely falls in that category. He's just
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Speaker 1: not one note. You know, she's a mother, she's a wife,
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Speaker 1: and she's you know, of course runs in the city,
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Speaker 1: but she's got a lot of not going on, a
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Speaker 1: lot of demons. So you know, that's fun because you
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Speaker 1: get a chance to think your teeth into something and
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Speaker 1: just um, just that fun with it, you know, right,
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Speaker 1: And so when you're when you're doing when you look
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Speaker 1: at the ratings and I was sent me the press
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Speaker 1: kid and everything and saying how good the show is
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Speaker 1: doing up against its competition. And that's really a testament
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Speaker 1: to the characters on the show, the script's development, and
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Speaker 1: also the brand and the marketing and so because you know,
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Speaker 1: you know, you know, Bounce is not an upper tier
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Speaker 1: network and that fact is syndicated the mat So to
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Speaker 1: be able to competre, how does that make you feel
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Speaker 1: about you being a person on the show and then
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Speaker 1: able to to be able to develop a brand that
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Speaker 1: people are just resonating with the viewers out there. Well,
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Speaker 1: you know, I think that it says a lot of
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Speaker 1: things also, just like you said, and also says that,
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Speaker 1: you know, because in the African American you know, in
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Speaker 1: our community, yes, we are like very high rated in
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Speaker 1: our time slot from eighteen to forty five, and that's
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Speaker 1: also a wide range of people watching our shows eighteen
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Speaker 1: to forty five, a lot of different ages like that show.
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Speaker 1: And um, you know, this is our fourth season and
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Speaker 1: we kind of came out to the ground running, even
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Speaker 1: though we were getting very very good numbers. So that
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Speaker 1: tells you that black folks we want to see us,
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Speaker 1: stay tired of looking at, you know, shows where they
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Speaker 1: don't have no black friends. And although things have changed
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Speaker 1: in the TV sector, you know, things have changed and
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Speaker 1: we have more programming now and more UH channels and
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Speaker 1: more TV shows, but still the folks want to see them,
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Speaker 1: you know. So it's a lot three tad especially since
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Speaker 1: there is so much more programming now. For then, I
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Speaker 1: find I call us a little engine that could we
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Speaker 1: just because you're right, violence are small. It's not a
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Speaker 1: big station that you gotta find it, so that that's
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Speaker 1: really a compliment because you gotta want to see us too,
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Speaker 1: you know, you gotta want to says and a lot
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Speaker 1: of people don't have it. Says a lot of things
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Speaker 1: about the economy as well. A lot of people are
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Speaker 1: getting rid of the hbos in the show times and
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Speaker 1: that because they can't afford those cable packages anymore. My
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Speaker 1: mother is going through that right now. She's trying to
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Speaker 1: find a better way watch TV because she can't as
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Speaker 1: a scene and she can't afford almost two hundred dollars
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Speaker 1: a month, you know, between her internet, her phone bill
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Speaker 1: and Okay, well she can't afford that. So it says
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Speaker 1: a lot right now about why people are finding our
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Speaker 1: show because it's economically, you know, easy for them to
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Speaker 1: find it. The entertainment is what they want to see.
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Speaker 1: You know, it has something for all the ages, and
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Speaker 1: they you know, and they like it's a compliment to Bounce.
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Speaker 1: They like the product the Bounce was putting out. So
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Speaker 1: it feels really good. And yes, the cast is good.
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm leaving the cat and I think we
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Speaker 1: do a great job and we have a great time
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Speaker 1: on set when we work. So it's it's saying a
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Speaker 1: lot right now, and we're very proud of the show
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Speaker 1: and we just want to see if it grows. And
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Speaker 1: if you want to see season five, I got let
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Speaker 1: bound for them because we don't know if we're coming
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Speaker 1: back yet of course, So if on anybody, if you
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Speaker 1: want to season five, you need to let Bounce, No
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Speaker 1: come on that, We're gonna let that. Were I'm talking
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Speaker 1: to h very talented Vanessa Bell Calloway, the star of
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Speaker 1: a Bounce TV Saints and Centers, where she plays uh
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Speaker 1: Mayor Ella Johnson. She elevated from the First Lady now
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Speaker 1: she's the mayor. Now she's gonna run for state senators.
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Speaker 1: So we want to get to season six when she
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Speaker 1: pursues and kicks Trump out of the White House. There,
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Speaker 1: you don't I want to sit it out there for that.
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Speaker 1: I obviously to that there because you know, because you
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Speaker 1: know your your life is about being balanced, about being challenged.
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Speaker 1: You know, when I was reading through your credits, uh,
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Speaker 1: when I was announced that I had thyra cancer, and
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Speaker 1: it quite frankly, it's stunned me, you know, because I
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Speaker 1: didn't see it coming. Does anybody here see bad news coming?
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Speaker 1: First of all? And when when you when it comes
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Speaker 1: to you, you have to realize how do you handle that?
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Speaker 1: Because my career was it was still I think, very successful,
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Speaker 1: and so I didn't understand. I had to understand how
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Speaker 1: does this type of news fit in that? Unfortunately, Uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, UH had the surgery and everything's successful and
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Speaker 1: and um do my checkups every year and I'm in remission.
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Speaker 1: So when you are announced that you had press cancer,
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Speaker 1: how did you handle that? Were you ready to tell
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Speaker 1: the world or were you fearful of telling the world
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Speaker 1: about your condition? Well, you know, it wasn't fear necessarily
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Speaker 1: fearful telling the world. I'm just a private person. So
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Speaker 1: for me, it was like, um, I can't share my
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Speaker 1: experience with anybody until I know what I'm sharing. So UM,
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Speaker 1: I kind of like needed, uh, I need a beginning, middle,
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Speaker 1: and end. You know, I'm kind of like a very
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Speaker 1: practical person, you know, Um, I kind of I need
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Speaker 1: nations and I didn't have enough information. So I didn't
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Speaker 1: want to just talk about something that I didn't know
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Speaker 1: what I was talking about yet, because I don't know
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Speaker 1: what was going on yet. I needed to to kind of,
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Speaker 1: you know, decipher what was going on and to absorb
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Speaker 1: my own my own issues in my own process before
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Speaker 1: I shared it. So no, I just kind of confided
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Speaker 1: in My husband, of course, is an anesthe biologist, and
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Speaker 1: he was very instrumental in finding all the right doctors
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Speaker 1: for me because he has a network of friends who
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Speaker 1: do a variety of medical things, and that was just
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Speaker 1: invaluable to have him number one on my team because
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Speaker 1: he's the one who really plotted everything out for me,
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Speaker 1: So that was invaluable. But you know, I told him.
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Speaker 1: Of course, I didn't even tell my children and my mother,
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Speaker 1: my mother in law, and my father in law and
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Speaker 1: several of my friends. First I didn't tell any of
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Speaker 1: them because I was trying to deal with it by myself,
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Speaker 1: hoping that I could, um, you know, figure out and
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Speaker 1: do anything done and then share with them after it
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Speaker 1: was over with. But unfortunately, you know, God has a
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Speaker 1: funny way of like, oh, missing, you think you've got
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Speaker 1: control of this, Now you ain't got control of it.
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Speaker 1: And I got this, so you kind of put me
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Speaker 1: in my place real quick. And I, uh, as I
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Speaker 1: realized that two lumpectomies, we're not going to save my breast,
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Speaker 1: and I needed to affect me as I was told initially, Um,
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Speaker 1: I had to share with my family. Um. And we
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Speaker 1: had a family meeting and I had to tell my
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Speaker 1: children and my mother and told my parents, you know,
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Speaker 1: my my husband's parents, my mother and father in law,
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Speaker 1: and uh you know my sister of course, she was
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Speaker 1: there from day one with me. So I mean it
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Speaker 1: was it was a process. And then I once I
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Speaker 1: wrapped my mind around what was going on and what
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Speaker 1: I needed to do, and I had a couple of
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Speaker 1: down days because you know, you when you could news
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Speaker 1: like that, it takes a minute to to adjust and
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Speaker 1: to absorb it. And take that information and you know,
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Speaker 1: to figure out what you're gonna do with this soce
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Speaker 1: I once I got past that stage of like, oh, I'm,
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Speaker 1: you know, thinking about a breast, my husband looked at me,
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Speaker 1: siphoness is the breast, Let it go. I don't care
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Speaker 1: about that breath. We got we got we got daughters,
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Speaker 1: we got graduations, and we got weddings. At that FID
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Speaker 1: my daughter was my little one was a sophomore in
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Speaker 1: high school and my oldest one was a sophomore expellment.
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Speaker 1: So you know, he's like, we got graduations, we got wedding,
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Speaker 1: we got like about that dreat, you know, And my
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Speaker 1: sister looked at me as a breathlet they go. So
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Speaker 1: you know, once I looked at their faces and they
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Speaker 1: were like, snap out of this, what are you talking about?
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Speaker 1: I was like, oh, yeah, they're right. And from that
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Speaker 1: point I went into active hold you know, what are
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Speaker 1: we gonna do about this? Let me make it right.
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Speaker 1: So then from that point on, I just started doing
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Speaker 1: I had to do to get myself back to healthy,
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Speaker 1: which included from me on effected me and reconstruction. I
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Speaker 1: have what you call the last for Sean. It was
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Speaker 1: where they take a little fat out of your stomach
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Speaker 1: and they make a breath, so you using your own
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Speaker 1: body tissue, which I'm so glad I did, and that
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Speaker 1: I didn't do the um the what you call it
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Speaker 1: the I can't think of the name of it right now,
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Speaker 1: but you know when they put the breasts in a
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Speaker 1: little a little pot. The name escaped me right now.
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Speaker 1: But anyway, I'm so glad I didn't have to do that,
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Speaker 1: and I was going to use my own breath tissues.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's quite a surgery. Though it's quite a surgery.
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Speaker 1: You know that that's infort that you were to be
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Speaker 1: able to share this story. Because of the fact that
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Speaker 1: I've been able to share my story or my show
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Speaker 1: and the and the people understand that you can't come back,
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Speaker 1: you can't be strong, but it's a support system to
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Speaker 1: get you there. You gotta have the support system to
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Speaker 1: get to there. We'll be back with more Vanessa Bell
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Speaker 1: callaway because you all like all the great things I
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Speaker 1: also want to talk about there see Susan b Coom
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Speaker 1: when uh production uh that you are that you're cold
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Speaker 1: doing with them, as well as your live talk show,
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Speaker 1: your friends show. All these things We'll be back with more.
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Speaker 1: Vanessa Bell calloway. Hi, this Rashan McDonald. You're listening to
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Speaker 1: money making conversations and I'm enjoying a great interview with
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Speaker 1: a friend this person hasn't saw in a long time
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Speaker 1: in Hollywood. Um, she's joined much success and enjoined much
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Speaker 1: success on the show Saints and Centers in his fourth
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Speaker 1: season on Bounce TV, a show that ratings went on
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Speaker 1: Sunday night, beating this competition it's called she says, a
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Speaker 1: little engine, a little train that could going up that
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Speaker 1: hill and it's making waves. And we're gonna get up
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Speaker 1: to the sixth season, the sixth season when she's gonna
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Speaker 1: run for president. This season she's running for a state
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Speaker 1: senate and so we're gonna get there. Welcome back to
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Speaker 1: the show, and that's how are you doing? You'll give
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Speaker 1: me to the presidency? Season five, season six, I promise
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Speaker 1: I'll be president. I know you will be. I know
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Speaker 1: you will be. And I just love the fact with
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Speaker 1: this character, the energy you lead characters. It's a real character,
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Speaker 1: you know, you know because you see female African American
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Speaker 1: male mayors across the country now and it used to
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Speaker 1: be would that be a possibility several years ago. And
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Speaker 1: so your character is a realistic characters are doable characters
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Speaker 1: you see African American state senators. And also, you know,
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Speaker 1: people are even questioning whether or not why shouldn't Michelle
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Speaker 1: Obama run for the president of the United States. What's
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Speaker 1: stopping her? Why she's standing in the shadow. So everything
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Speaker 1: you're doing and saying in this show and projecting the show,
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Speaker 1: it's real, and it's happening every day. It's happening every day, right,
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Speaker 1: and that's really helping you be real about to care,
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Speaker 1: you know. But like you said, it's a little you know,
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Speaker 1: the character has a little, you know, a little long,
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Speaker 1: telacious side of her and gets in and she knows
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Speaker 1: how to manipulate characters. That's all about telling person she
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Speaker 1: got she got personality issues. She gotta keep personality. Okay, okay,
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Speaker 1: you called it tell us about a couple of personality
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Speaker 1: issues that you actually have developed. Come on, But gret
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Speaker 1: gret greet would be her figgest one. Uh, she has, no,
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Speaker 1: she does. I don't think she knows I spelled the
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Speaker 1: word empathy or sympathy. I don't think that's in her vocabulary. Um,
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Speaker 1: you know, she will step over anybody to get what
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Speaker 1: she wants. Call a little bit narcissistic. Yes, yes, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: got a she got a few issues, but you know
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Speaker 1: she's working it out. Well, well, it's good because of
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Speaker 1: the fact that you're helping work out that character. Now,
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Speaker 1: when we was wrapping up the interview, in the first point,
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Speaker 1: we was talking about, you know, the whole breast cancer
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Speaker 1: Survivor and you announced the production deal with season Susan G. G.
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Speaker 1: Coleman amplified to know your Girls campaign? What exactly is that? Okay, well, um,
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Speaker 1: knowing your Girls campaign it's something that the ad Council
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Speaker 1: created and I'm the spokesperson in the voice. I don't
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you've seen those commercials, they're beautiful.
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Speaker 1: Uh they show all these different black women in different
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Speaker 1: scenarios of life. And the whole thing is like, do
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Speaker 1: you know your girls? You know, we know our girls,
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Speaker 1: we know our girlfriends, we know our our mothers, we're sisters,
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Speaker 1: were daughters, where we have sobers and we know all
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Speaker 1: these people. We celebrate life, we have weddings, we have babies,
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Speaker 1: we have were you has. We celebrate all these things
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Speaker 1: with our girls. But do you know the girls that
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Speaker 1: you carry around every day, the girls on your body,
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Speaker 1: you know, because women always refer to our breasts as
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Speaker 1: our girlfriends, right, so do you know these girls you know?
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Speaker 1: And and even in your circle of girls, do you
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Speaker 1: guys help each other reminding each other to go to
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Speaker 1: the doctors to um, you know, when's your last man bagram,
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Speaker 1: when's your last pepsim? Or do you go to the doctor.
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Speaker 1: So knowing your girls, the girls in your life, but
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Speaker 1: knowing the girls on your body as well as you
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Speaker 1: know the girls in your life. So it's a beautiful campaign.
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Speaker 1: So I've been partnering up with Susan G. Coleman. In
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Speaker 1: two thousand and six, I created a show called In
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Speaker 1: the Company of Friends that aired on TV one as
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Speaker 1: a TV special and it had um, I'm a gourmet cooks.
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Speaker 1: I cooked and I had all my some of my
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Speaker 1: famous friends over and we said at the table and
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Speaker 1: we chopped it up and just ate and had a
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Speaker 1: good time. At that time, Kenny Latimar Shawntemore, they were buried.
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Speaker 1: They sang on the show said that with their Kim Whitley,
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Speaker 1: I had just you know, uh the group particularly show
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Speaker 1: and we all sat around and chopped it up at
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Speaker 1: my table and it was a special on TV One.
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Speaker 1: Then about seven years ago, I rebranded it for a
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Speaker 1: web series and I had two seasons. I had a
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Speaker 1: dinner party season, and I had a Ladies t season,
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Speaker 1: and I had from Loretta Divine to Live a Cup
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Speaker 1: Fox just Shinola Hampton to Winnie Quel Robinson and that's Williams,
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Speaker 1: Sandy Um Richards and Whittville and DeAndre Whitfels. I had
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Speaker 1: like another group of my friends on these two seasons
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Speaker 1: where once again we were eating and drinking the real
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Speaker 1: and just laughing and chopping it up. You for real.
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Speaker 1: I like that. I heard that. I heard that. Now
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Speaker 1: we were drinking and were drinking, but the end of
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Speaker 1: the show we was really loose. So but this this year,
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Speaker 1: what I did is I was starting like last year,
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Speaker 1: actually we started uh A filming. I took my my
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Speaker 1: same show in the Company of Friends, and we rebranded
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Speaker 1: it to All Things Healthy and partnership with Susan G. Coleman.
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Speaker 1: So now there are a series of like ten minute
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Speaker 1: talk shows where I interviewed not only my famous friends
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Speaker 1: but interfe real life cancer survivors. We talked about breast cancer.
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Speaker 1: Of course, we talked about everything from stem research reads
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Speaker 1: a stem cell research, to other kinds of research, medical
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Speaker 1: research to AIDS to um you know, health and wellness
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Speaker 1: of fitness. Food, we have, we have cooking segments, we
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Speaker 1: do workout segments, we have I have my professional people on,
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Speaker 1: even my doctors who uh did my surgeries, they interviewed them,
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Speaker 1: and we have um other professionals on. So it's about
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Speaker 1: a ten minute talk show that will start airing this Monday,
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Speaker 1: August nineteenth, and the air every other Monday, twice a month.
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Speaker 1: You'll see a show and then it'll be archives. So
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Speaker 1: of course if you missed that, you can go back
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Speaker 1: if you need to go back and see it, and
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Speaker 1: we're gonna do that. Um it's been going on for
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Speaker 1: quite some time. And you'll be able to see it
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Speaker 1: on the Instagram you know channel, You'll be able to
17:24
Speaker 1: see it on your AMP channel. You've be able to
17:26
Speaker 1: see it on my website and the Company of Friends
17:29
Speaker 1: dot tv. You'll be able to see it on YouTube,
17:31
Speaker 1: Susan G. Coleman. You know. So it's gonna be the
17:33
Speaker 1: shows and they're gonna come out and we're gonna see
17:35
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen and we're hoping that it becomes even
17:38
Speaker 1: something bigger and we could do a bigger shows on
17:41
Speaker 1: another platform even so, um it's called in the Company
17:44
Speaker 1: of Friends All Things Healthy, and you'll be able to
17:47
Speaker 1: access it from ww dot in the Company of Friends
17:50
Speaker 1: dot TV and at Vanessaville Callaway on Instagram and then
17:55
Speaker 1: on YouTube in the Company of Friends, and yeah, it's
17:59
Speaker 1: gonna be great. So now you have you but I
18:01
Speaker 1: know your cancer survivor shout, You're gonna have to have
18:04
Speaker 1: you on absolutely, and I appreciate the invite and I
18:06
Speaker 1: will be there and let you know that I support you.
18:09
Speaker 1: Now I'm just looking at social media is allowing you
18:12
Speaker 1: to control your brand, And isn't it great that that
18:15
Speaker 1: outlet is being made available because I'm talking about because
18:18
Speaker 1: I'm looking at your bio and the note they sent
18:21
Speaker 1: over because September. In September, are you supposed to have
18:23
Speaker 1: a Facebook live? And that's in for instance, that different
18:26
Speaker 1: from what you just well, we're gonna do something live,
18:29
Speaker 1: you know, like, uh, won't be every Wednesdays, but we're
18:32
Speaker 1: gonna you know, we'll let you know what Whennesday, will
18:34
Speaker 1: publicize it and what people can call it and just
18:37
Speaker 1: you know, talk with the live and they can ask
18:39
Speaker 1: questions that we can talk um, you know. And one
18:41
Speaker 1: of the things that we don't have right now on
18:44
Speaker 1: the site, but that we're gonna build, We're gonna build
18:47
Speaker 1: it with Susan G. Combas. So you'll be able to
18:49
Speaker 1: go on the site and you'll be able to say,
18:50
Speaker 1: you know what, what's a doctor in my area that
18:53
Speaker 1: I could go see and to the g COMA will
18:55
Speaker 1: be able to to uh help refer you to a
18:59
Speaker 1: cancer doctor in your area because maybe you don't really know,
19:03
Speaker 1: you know, some people like because I get a lot
19:05
Speaker 1: of people calling me like I think you know I
19:08
Speaker 1: had a mammogram or I'm doing this, or do you
19:10
Speaker 1: have a doctor? Refer because people need him, they need
19:12
Speaker 1: that they weren't referral sometimes that everybody has great doctors.
19:16
Speaker 1: You know, I'm looking into a system, but not everybody is.
19:19
Speaker 1: So one of the things we're gonna definitely have on
19:22
Speaker 1: the site is where you could go on You'll be
19:24
Speaker 1: able to go in and come your friends and you'll
19:26
Speaker 1: be able to go to a link and it will
19:29
Speaker 1: it will kind of go onto a database and once
19:32
Speaker 1: you put in your your zip code. Susan G. Coleman
19:34
Speaker 1: will send you back doctors in your area and you'll
19:38
Speaker 1: be able to, you know, call these people and make appointments.
19:41
Speaker 1: You know, you need it personal, that they know that
19:44
Speaker 1: that they work with you know. But like I said,
19:46
Speaker 1: we're not gonna be It's not only about cancer, you know,
19:48
Speaker 1: we're talking about you know, AIDS and diabetes and heart disease.
19:52
Speaker 1: We're gonna cover all things healthy because it all comes
19:55
Speaker 1: and it all links cancer. All this stuff links together,
19:58
Speaker 1: you know, it all links as the help is us
20:01
Speaker 1: going to the doctors on a regular basis in our community,
20:04
Speaker 1: learning how to value back going to see your physicians regularly.
20:08
Speaker 1: Like right now, when I finished with you, Randy refinished
20:11
Speaker 1: with you to think my doctor's name is Randy Sean.
20:13
Speaker 1: When I finished with you today and like got just called,
20:16
Speaker 1: I'm on my way to my general practitioner. And then
20:19
Speaker 1: later on I'm saying one of my camps doctors, I've
20:21
Speaker 1: already had my mamogram this year. You know, I go
20:24
Speaker 1: in August. For me, this is when I see all
20:27
Speaker 1: of my doctors. And I always tell people find the
20:29
Speaker 1: time of year that works for you from people like
20:31
Speaker 1: to do on their birthdays or whatever works for you.
20:34
Speaker 1: I do it in August because my industry is a
20:36
Speaker 1: little slower, and so if I do it as another time,
20:39
Speaker 1: I might have to cancel on my appointment because I
20:41
Speaker 1: might have to suddenly go out of town and work,
20:43
Speaker 1: you know. So I do it in August, and I
20:46
Speaker 1: got like between this week, Like last week, I had
20:48
Speaker 1: my mamogram, I had another doctors pointment, I got point
20:50
Speaker 1: of today. I'm going to a doctoral fract between my
20:53
Speaker 1: next next Wednesday, I would have seen all my doctors.
20:56
Speaker 1: I'm done. I had my teeth clean last week, and
20:58
Speaker 1: that's just right. I do my new December. I do
21:01
Speaker 1: my do my dental, I do my general general practitioner visit,
21:06
Speaker 1: and then I do my blood test. All that's in December.
21:08
Speaker 1: So so you put it, you put it on your
21:10
Speaker 1: calendar fet your schedule, and you gotta do it every
21:12
Speaker 1: year and you get and you just get it all done.
21:15
Speaker 1: And I just get it all done at once, Like
21:17
Speaker 1: I'm getting blood work done today, you know, because I
21:19
Speaker 1: have two doctors a pointment today. I'm getting blood work
21:21
Speaker 1: done today. I've see my on colleges on Monday because
21:24
Speaker 1: she needs the blood work. You know, Wednesday, I would
21:27
Speaker 1: be done with everything for the year. I even get
21:30
Speaker 1: my eye vision show. I need to get my eyes check.
21:32
Speaker 1: I can follow her around, I can follow her around
21:35
Speaker 1: everything tis you get the mamogram. And then I did
21:38
Speaker 1: going every I can't going everyone. Now you know what sean,
21:42
Speaker 1: men get breast. I know that though men have to
21:45
Speaker 1: be men have to check their breast too, because this
21:47
Speaker 1: flushed you too. You know you got breath, you can
21:49
Speaker 1: get cancer. That's the only the only three represent for
21:52
Speaker 1: breast campers is that you have breast. And some men
21:54
Speaker 1: have more tissue in their breast than other men. And
21:58
Speaker 1: those men I actually one on colleges that I was
22:01
Speaker 1: interviewing at the time when I was going through my
22:03
Speaker 1: UH procedure trying to faire out who was going to
22:05
Speaker 1: be my own colleges after my surgery. He was a man.
22:09
Speaker 1: He was a white male doctor, and he was a
22:12
Speaker 1: breast cancer survivor. And he's the one who told me
22:15
Speaker 1: about the flap. He said, the only thing I'm gonna
22:17
Speaker 1: tell you, even if you don't select me as your oncologist,
22:21
Speaker 1: make sure when you get your reconstruction. Because I hadn't
22:24
Speaker 1: had anything done yet. I was just in the beginning
22:26
Speaker 1: stages of getting everything done. He said, when you have
22:29
Speaker 1: you have your mammigrants. If you miss acted me, he said,
22:32
Speaker 1: made sure that you use your own body tissue for reconstruction.
22:36
Speaker 1: He's the one who told me about the flap. Okay, yeah,
22:40
Speaker 1: I want to just I know we've got one minute left,
22:42
Speaker 1: and I want to make sure we are in the
22:43
Speaker 1: show talking about this great series that you're appearing in
22:47
Speaker 1: every Sunday night. So I want you to give us
22:49
Speaker 1: a great shout out, a great push to wrap this
22:51
Speaker 1: interview up is the fourth season Saints and Centers is
22:54
Speaker 1: on Bounce TV. Siners out that door. Everybody please watch
22:58
Speaker 1: Safean Centers on bouncey be nine o'clock, eight o'clock Central time.
23:02
Speaker 1: Watch that crazy Mary Mayor Ella and see what that
23:06
Speaker 1: fool was up to the last episode. She just might
23:09
Speaker 1: get her just do I don't know,