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Actress Keshia Knight Pulliam talks "Tyler Perry's House of Payne," The Fearless Fund & her Kamp Kizzy Foundation · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: She's an industry decision maker, she's a celebrity. She's all
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Speaker 1: those things that you read about and more. Her name
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Speaker 1: is Keisha Knight Poeum. She's a graduate of an HBCU
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Speaker 1: spell One College and she did it with honors with
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Speaker 1: a BA in sociology and concentration in Film. She's an
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Speaker 1: fun she co founded with her business partner Arian Simone,
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Speaker 1: we wouldn't be doing. None of this interview is. It
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Speaker 1: wasn't about the acting, So we gotta get to watch.
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Speaker 1: She's really on the show as well. She started to
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Speaker 1: hit comedy series Tyler Perry's House of Pain, which is
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Speaker 1: How you doing, Sia, I'm great? How are you really really?
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Speaker 1: You know, just going through this whole bio. I want
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Speaker 1: to start with the HBCU experienced because I'm currently working
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Speaker 1: on a documentary called Black Excellence, and I definitely we've
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Speaker 1: already lined you. If you don't know it, we're definitely
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Speaker 1: gonna line you up for an interview because you are
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Speaker 1: Black Excellence, you know. And we saw in how HBCUs
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Speaker 1: just moved to the forefront of conversation and it's like
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Speaker 1: like White America just discovered hbc used for the very
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Speaker 1: first time. Now you're graduate, I believe in two thousand one,
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Speaker 1: you graduated from hbc You with honors, like I said earlier,
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Speaker 1: and you're minded with sociology. Tell us about your HBCU
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Speaker 1: experience and why is it important? Why is this important?
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Speaker 1: Actually the major with sociology with a concentration and film, um.
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Speaker 1: And I mean, I loved going to an HBCU. It
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Speaker 1: was definitely one of the best decisions that I've ever made.
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Speaker 1: And it's it's in my family. I have two brothers
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Speaker 1: who are more House graduates, and then my middle brother
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Speaker 1: he's an Auburn graduate, but we still love him. Um.
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Speaker 1: But it's it's definitely an experience like no like no
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Speaker 1: other sound grateful for sure. Well, you know the thing
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Speaker 1: about it is that the demodelble uh. You know about Hollywood,
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Speaker 1: you've been in Hollywood. Hollywood is dominated by HBCU graduates,
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Speaker 1: the camera. When I look at the talent like you
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Speaker 1: and you major the sociology and my minor is sociology.
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Speaker 1: When I graduated from college, my majors in wasn't uh
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Speaker 1: isn't I should say, you didn't walk away from a
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Speaker 1: degree of mathematics. But it changed my life, you know.
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Speaker 1: You know, you you realize what you didn't know? How
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Speaker 1: that as a degree? For man? Well, one thing I'll say,
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Speaker 1: States from America. Come on, come on. So what I
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Speaker 1: know is, you know the cremes della creme um in
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Speaker 1: a multitude of fields are ABC You graduate. Um. But
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Speaker 1: you know, getting back to sociology, you know, I've chose
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Speaker 1: that because I've I've always even though you know, I
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Speaker 1: went to college and I didn't Mylene, my I didn't
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Speaker 1: major in theater per se, but I did have a
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Speaker 1: concentration in mass common and communications. And the reason I
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Speaker 1: chose sociology is because my job as a filmmaker, my
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Speaker 1: also yourself. So, um, that's why I decided to do sociology. Actually,
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Speaker 1: my thesis my senior year was on images of African
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Speaker 1: American women and black ploitation film. So the film piece
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Speaker 1: has always been intertwined in everything that I do. Well.
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Speaker 1: The devices for that? The culinary world? What got you
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Speaker 1: into the culinary world? I love food. I love cooking, um,
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Speaker 1: and my whole family does. Actually so. I come from
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Speaker 1: we're an interesting bunch, but it's what family is. But
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Speaker 1: of them. Man Like when I tell you, um, it's
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Speaker 1: have a schedule like no other one we're shooting. However,
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Speaker 1: They're the importance part is that, you know. Also, let
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Speaker 1: It was? It take more recently in one Well, we
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Speaker 1: people laughing at this show and loving this show. But
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Speaker 1: I would be remiss if I don't talk about your
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Speaker 1: camp Kissey Foundation. Tell us about that. Why is important
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Speaker 1: that you are rallying behind that and the purpose? Well,
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Speaker 1: the Camp Kissi Foundation is truly my baby. Um, I'm
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Speaker 1: but you know, the Camp Kissi Foundation is absolutely my heart.
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Speaker 1: about empowerment and self esteem for youth. We do UM
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Speaker 1: the same time. I just, I just I love it.
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Speaker 1: we're not going to do in person last year we
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Speaker 1: next year for twenty two, we will be back in
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Speaker 1: person and we can't wait. Well, it's important that you
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Speaker 1: say that when I one of the main reasons I
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Speaker 1: wanted to bring you on the shows to tell your story.
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Speaker 1: Your story is an amazing story from the HBCU grad
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Speaker 1: with honors being an entrepreneur, being a I want to say,
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Speaker 1: with your foundation. In closing, any advice you want to
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Speaker 1: give them to any of my entrepreneurs, any tips of
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Speaker 1: success that you'd like to share with him. Um, you know,
24:56
Speaker 1: I feel like, follow your passion and the money will come.
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Speaker 1: So many people chase the money, and you have to
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Speaker 1: be dedicated and passionate about what you do and recognize
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Speaker 1: that we all have different purposes and everyone's not going
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Speaker 1: to see you know your divine um purpose in this lifetime.
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Speaker 1: But you gotta remember it wasn't a conference call. It
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Speaker 1: was given to you, So just keep pushing. It's it's
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Speaker 1: it's hard out there because so many people are like
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Speaker 1: I don't want to work to anybody else. I want
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Speaker 1: to work myself. But understand, when you're an entrepreneur, you
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Speaker 1: definitely work harder than but the differences you're sewing into
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Speaker 1: your dreams um, and I say, just go for it.
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