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Ally Brooke on her New Book "Finding Your Harmony" & Nickelodeon Animated Series "The Casagrandes" · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Ali Brooks, is a native of San Antonio, Texas. I'm
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  Speaker 1: from Houston, Texas, so it's gonna be a good call.
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  Speaker 1: All my calls are great, but when I get a
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  Speaker 1: texting on the call like, I'm even more special. She's
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  Speaker 1: a multi platinum singer, songwriter, dancer, so with Dancing with Stars, actress,
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  Speaker 1: and author of the newly released memoir which I have read,
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  Speaker 1: Finding Your Harmony, Dream Big, have faith and achieved more
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  Speaker 1: than you can imagine. She's a former member of the
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  Speaker 1: girl group Fifth Harmony, which kicked off her music career
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  Speaker 1: when the group was formed during the second season of
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  Speaker 1: the American singing competition The X Factor in twelve. She's
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  Speaker 1: not pursuing her solo career. Alis on the show to
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  Speaker 1: talk about the inspiration behind the book Finding Your Harmy
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  Speaker 1: and the process of putting this book together, the messages
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  Speaker 1: about faith, how positive approach to life and determination she
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  Speaker 1: is sharing with her story and being a remote and
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  Speaker 1: being a role model. I tell you for young people,
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  Speaker 1: please working to money making conversations. My dear friend Texan
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  Speaker 1: Ali Brooks. Hello, is such an awesome intro. I am
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  Speaker 1: so happy to be on your show today. Thank you,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. I really appreciate you taking the time to
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  Speaker 1: be on the show because you're young. People young, but
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  Speaker 1: you're talking like an old person in this book, which
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  Speaker 1: is a good thing because that means it's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of maturity. It's a lot of maturity. Like you said,
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  Speaker 1: the old spirit you was, he was premature born, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And and when I was reading in the book, and
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  Speaker 1: they was saying that the number one fear is the lungs,
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  Speaker 1: the lungs camp. But your lungs were strong, your strong LANs.
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  Speaker 1: So let's talk about you as an individual, because I
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  Speaker 1: always find out when a young person writes a book,
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  Speaker 1: I go, what they're gonna talk about? What they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: talk about life? Okay? And then but you hear a
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  Speaker 1: lot of life, starting with you being a PREMI and
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  Speaker 1: let's let's talk about that. And and your parents. Your
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  Speaker 1: brother Brandon had already been born and living his life.
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  Speaker 1: I think he was four years four years older than
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  Speaker 1: you're correct, yes, and uh. And you came out screaming
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  Speaker 1: your parents, uh, and your san Antonio. So I love
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  Speaker 1: the fact that your father can cook. So tell us
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  Speaker 1: about your father, because I have a daughter. So my daughter,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a you know, daddy's girl. I got the impression
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  Speaker 1: that your father, you know, the dad's great bond relationship
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  Speaker 1: father daughter relationships. Tell us about your dad. Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: Well I love my dad so my to me, my
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  Speaker 1: parents are are my everything. And yes so I yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so even though I'm I'm super young, you can tell
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  Speaker 1: I've lived a lot of life. I've had so much
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  Speaker 1: to come my way, and I've learned a lot of lessons.
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  Speaker 1: My faith has been tested but also strengthened in such
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  Speaker 1: extraordinary ways and through me sharing my story, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just like similar to you, I have a purpose and
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  Speaker 1: and plan and just hope to bring inspiration to people,
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  Speaker 1: to bring hope to them, to bring um positivity, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in such a crazy world. Um, but one of my
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  Speaker 1: foundations are my my parents and my dad. He's so awesome.
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  Speaker 1: He's the life of the party. He loves to you know,
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  Speaker 1: talk to everyone and be everyone friends. But he's also
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  Speaker 1: such a hard worker and has a heart of golds.
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  Speaker 1: And um, both him and my mom sacrifice so much
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  Speaker 1: for me to live out my dreams as you as
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  Speaker 1: you've read in the book, and I've overcome so much together.
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  Speaker 1: And my dad he can cook. He makes come dor
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  Speaker 1: see us right there right there, Like when you said
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  Speaker 1: flower tortillas in the book. Now. See see my wife
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  Speaker 1: and I were getting the arguments all the time because
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  Speaker 1: you know, you know, we're we're based in Houston. She
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  Speaker 1: loves meal. I can care less about meal flower tortillas, don't, girl.
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you when you're talking about he made the
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  Speaker 1: best in the world. So you kind of made me
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  Speaker 1: mad that a little bit, because see I love flower
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  Speaker 1: tortillas and I'm going, like, what could he be doing
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  Speaker 1: ali that we're making them the best in the where
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  Speaker 1: it's I just love talk family talk. Can your dad
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  Speaker 1: really throw down with the flower tortillas like that? Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Yes you can. I like, seriously, he just knows how
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  Speaker 1: to make them. He makes them handmade from scratch. They're
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  Speaker 1: the best or seas in the world. And aging every time.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, I like seven or probably can just
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  Speaker 1: kidding just a lot. Put the warm off the goal
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  Speaker 1: and then you put butter on. Life changing. Okay, Now,
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  Speaker 1: can I ask you? Of course? Can you cook? Though
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  Speaker 1: I can so I'm not you paused though, see see
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  Speaker 1: you're paused though. See see that's always strategic. I thought
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  Speaker 1: that question. Now I've been listening for the boldness you've
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  Speaker 1: been bold is entire interview. Then I ask you, can
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  Speaker 1: you cook you with Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah I could.
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  Speaker 1: I can cook. I can throw down. I made I
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  Speaker 1: finally learned how to make. I was ideas during quarantine
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  Speaker 1: and they are so good and not my dad's okay
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  Speaker 1: like Moore so bake, but I could make pa, I
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  Speaker 1: can make. Let's stop. Let's stop all this right now
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  Speaker 1: because because you just don't even know who you're talking
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  Speaker 1: to when you used when you say the worry bake,
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  Speaker 1: I am an award winning baker. Okay, absolutely, see see
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  Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying. You need to do no hard
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  Speaker 1: work on your boy. Here, your boy in love with you?
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  Speaker 1: You got. I'll read your book. I know it backwards,
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  Speaker 1: it falls. I know your family member, I know about
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  Speaker 1: your cat Bobby, I know my name. But did you
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  Speaker 1: throw out the word bake? Didn't realize you coming over
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  Speaker 1: in my territory? Territory? Now you're right, you totally roasted
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  Speaker 1: me right now, absolutely because it's a good roast. But
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  Speaker 1: I'm just letting you know before you throw out that
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  Speaker 1: worried base. I'm just let your daddy. I'm just let
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  Speaker 1: your dad with the flower tortillas. See what did you
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  Speaker 1: just say I can, but just not not not not
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  Speaker 1: as good as my daddy though. So you have to
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  Speaker 1: realize that you're talking to Rashaan and award winning baker.
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  Speaker 1: So you can continue your conversation and brand to your
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  Speaker 1: fans and everything. But no, you're talking to that. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: continue with your beautiful interview. You know what, You're so right,
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  Speaker 1: I apologize. Wait, I have to make a trip that
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  Speaker 1: your award winning Well, you know I can. I can
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  Speaker 1: do anything I can do. Uh, I can do uh.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm a Southern guy, So I do the
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  Speaker 1: peach cob was the Germans chocolate cakes, that apple turn able,
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  Speaker 1: the peach turnovers. I'm a big cheesecake person. I'm a
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  Speaker 1: big cheesecake person, you know. So I can do the
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  Speaker 1: apple stuffed the cheesecake with apple on top, with light layers,
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  Speaker 1: lined with pecans, and put caramel on top. I put
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  Speaker 1: cherry strawberry. You know, so cheesecake because you know Texas
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  Speaker 1: love cheesecakes. So I got the cheesecakes right there downpat,
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  Speaker 1: So you came, that's when we on cheesecake. And then
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  Speaker 1: I throw it out with the apple pies and I
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  Speaker 1: throw it out with the peach cobbles, A good, good
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  Speaker 1: Southern stuff and so so I that's where I've come.
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  Speaker 1: I come from the Southern Texas side of the table. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so now I've thrown out my little baity menu. I
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  Speaker 1: just threw out bout six items. A boy can do
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  Speaker 1: more because I got an Apple eighty recipes. Okay, let's
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  Speaker 1: you know that. Okay, now, oh my god, Okay, So
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  Speaker 1: what's gonna happen is I'm gonna go home in Texas
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  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna make a trip to you, and you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna baitm nominal problem. I come out there, we were
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  Speaker 1: you based in l A. I'm making hopefully so that's cool.
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  Speaker 1: So because I come out there l A my girl
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  Speaker 1: or Kelly Clarkson. Last year, I did an entire Thanksgiving
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  Speaker 1: spread for Kelly Clarkson and her staff because I know
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  Speaker 1: everybody Alex do the EPs. I do all of them.
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  Speaker 1: And I did a shocked up. She couldn't really, she
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  Speaker 1: wasn't even gonna come over it, and she was I did.
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  Speaker 1: I did four turkeys, I did fifteen desserts, all all
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  Speaker 1: the trimmings, potato salad, peeing onion salad, uh sweeper, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: everything and we're not talking about those torteoo dorito that
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  Speaker 1: you're ate in the back of the bus. You know,
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  Speaker 1: when you was frustrated too, I would just keep dropping
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  Speaker 1: a little nuggets on you. Let you know. I read
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  Speaker 1: your book when you when you picked up that twenty
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  Speaker 1: pounds and you said, you know, in the five foot frame,
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  Speaker 1: five twenty pounds really show really, show man. You literally
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  Speaker 1: deserve a medal for all of the notes you're taking. You,
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  Speaker 1: my dear wonderful cat Bobby, where the first of all
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  Speaker 1: your book was engaging, let's let's go, and we're joking around.
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  Speaker 1: But but I joke around because I'm fascinated by a
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  Speaker 1: young mind being able to understand her value and why
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  Speaker 1: she had to write this book, because it's inspirational faith,
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  Speaker 1: you know, being able to not not be um uh sex,
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  Speaker 1: not being convinced that sex has to be the way.
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  Speaker 1: You're write a passage for womanhood. Because I have a
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  Speaker 1: year old daughter. She is just like you. She's saving
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  Speaker 1: herselves for her marriage. And so I was really I
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  Speaker 1: really wanted to let you know that, you know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and like I said, my daughter isn't dorted the unique,
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  Speaker 1: She's not trying to win a medal. It's just here,
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  Speaker 1: that's something she's chosen to do and not allowed it
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  Speaker 1: to be forced. As that's what you have to do
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  Speaker 1: that you have to have sex, you have to have
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  Speaker 1: to be part of if you want to be a woman.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about that part because it's important to young
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  Speaker 1: women young men too, because they feel sometimes that's the
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  Speaker 1: only way they can gain manhood is by having a
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  Speaker 1: relationship like that with a woman. Talk about that, Ali,
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  Speaker 1: It's so true, and that's awesome of your daughter's shout
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  Speaker 1: out to her. She we're not alone. Um, But for me, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's true. You know a lot of people feel like
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  Speaker 1: they have to do that, um, you know, sometimes to
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  Speaker 1: get someone or whatever. And for me, that was something
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  Speaker 1: that as you you know my books, you've read everything.
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  Speaker 1: You probably memorize it, you don't yere. So when I
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  Speaker 1: was eighteen, I had asked my parents for a true
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  Speaker 1: Love Wakes ring and I just decided to to keep
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  Speaker 1: that vow in that promise. And again, like I would
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  Speaker 1: never judge anybody who's made any different choice, that's just
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  Speaker 1: something that I chose to share. And it's awesome to
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  Speaker 1: receive so much support and love from people who have
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  Speaker 1: made that same decision and people who haven't. You know,
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  Speaker 1: just to be able to own my truth and to
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  Speaker 1: be vulnerable with my fans and to have them support
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  Speaker 1: me has been so awesome. And I just want to
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  Speaker 1: encourage people out there, no matter who you are, no
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  Speaker 1: matter how old you are, just to own your own story,
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  Speaker 1: whatever that means to you, and your own truth, and
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  Speaker 1: to to up be proud you know of yourself really,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what this book is about yourself, being yourself
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  Speaker 1: or standing up for who you are, your own personal dream.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking to Ali Brook Farmer now. She has a
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  Speaker 1: solo career, fifth Fifth Harmony, member of Fifth Harmony group
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  Speaker 1: Finding Your Harmony. It was just appropriately named book that
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  Speaker 1: she has out right now dream big, half faith and
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  Speaker 1: achieved more than you can imagine. When I when when
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  Speaker 1: I read that title, and I think about a young
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  Speaker 1: lady who along the way, you had your teacher, Miss Meryll,
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  Speaker 1: Miss Merrill, and then you had had the coach, and
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  Speaker 1: then you had to coach and had Dana so each one.
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  Speaker 1: And I always tell people and people always asking me
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  Speaker 1: about my life, they I call those people bumps. You know,
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  Speaker 1: people come into your life and they just they just
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  Speaker 1: feel they need to push you in the direction because
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  Speaker 1: you don't see what the gift that you have. And
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  Speaker 1: and that's why I really, I really impressed with you,
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  Speaker 1: because I always tell people, despite all the success I've
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  Speaker 1: had in my life up to that point, it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: until I was in my forties that I really appreciate
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  Speaker 1: it and understood who I was because the fact that
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  Speaker 1: I was riding on those statements ali you know, right place,
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  Speaker 1: right time, you know, knock on wood, you know, all
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  Speaker 1: those cliches that had nothing to do with faith, had
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  Speaker 1: nothing to do with the talent that God gave you,
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  Speaker 1: had nothing to do with the inspiration and your purpose.
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  Speaker 1: And this book is about if you have found your purpose.
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  Speaker 1: You've always known your purpose, but people had to push you,
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  Speaker 1: like your teacher, like the coach, like Dana. So let's
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  Speaker 1: start with the teacher and how she shaped your life,
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  Speaker 1: and then we're gonna go to the coach, and then
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna go to Dana who got you to l A. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: let's go through the stamach. Wow. Well, thank you again
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  Speaker 1: so much for taking your time to to do the
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  Speaker 1: research and to really um grab my book and to
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  Speaker 1: cherish each in every moment and character and story that
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  Speaker 1: means the world to me. Sir, I really want to
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  Speaker 1: say thank you, because no one has done this amount
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  Speaker 1: of um research and and and care about my book
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  Speaker 1: as you have, so God bless you, and I just
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  Speaker 1: thank you, sir um. But also yes, so third grade,
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  Speaker 1: I was singing in recess and then my teacher just
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  Speaker 1: just just just just just like that. I think, don't don't,
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  Speaker 1: don't tell that. I get baked that but I can't sing. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you can leave that to me. She changed my life.
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  Speaker 1: And she asked my mom if I could sing in
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  Speaker 1: chapel and my mom was like, oh my gosh. Of
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  Speaker 1: course she was so excited and flattered, but she didn't
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  Speaker 1: really think anything of it until she saw me in
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  Speaker 1: chapel and my you know, her and my parents her
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  Speaker 1: my dad were amazed and Mrs Merrill said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you need to nurture her gifts, and UM changed my life.
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  Speaker 1: If it wasn't for Mrs Merrill, I may not have
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  Speaker 1: ever really pursued singing. You know, my parents may not
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  Speaker 1: have ever really seen oh, you know, our daughter has
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  Speaker 1: a void. And from then I my parents put me
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  Speaker 1: into a local organization in San Antonio called Network for
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  Speaker 1: Young Artists, and this wonderful man named Coach, another person
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  Speaker 1: to changed my life. He ran this this UH performing
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  Speaker 1: arts program and you had an audition to get in,
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  Speaker 1: and he welcomed me with open arms. He solved the
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  Speaker 1: talent in me. I was super shy at that age,
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  Speaker 1: and he encouraged me and pushed me to say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, You're awesome, you have a gift. You
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  Speaker 1: can do this, but you have to work on your shyness.
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  Speaker 1: And he gave me that chance to perform UM around
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  Speaker 1: my hometown and you know, all over Texas. I went
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  Speaker 1: to McAllen and Austin and other other place is and
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  Speaker 1: you know, again, Coach gave me that opportunity to truly
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  Speaker 1: perform for the very first time. And then it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: until I went on this audition years later UM with
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  Speaker 1: my friend. It wasn't even my audition. I went with
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  Speaker 1: her to this talent show and she auditioned. I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: going to them. Somehow, I crazily enough ended up singing
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  Speaker 1: and UH. An actress named Dana Baron, who was the
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  Speaker 1: very first audrey in National Lampoon's Vacation, was there and
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  Speaker 1: she pulled me aside, you know she and she was like, listen,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a part of this, uh this talent show.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just filling in. But you moved me and you
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  Speaker 1: brought tears to my eyes. You're you're so incredible. I
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  Speaker 1: know that sounds crazy, mom, you know, mom and dad,
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  Speaker 1: but I would love to take your daughter to l
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  Speaker 1: A and introduced her to all these agents passing directors.
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  Speaker 1: I promised, this is real, legitimate it and then my
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  Speaker 1: parents prayed about it and we're so thankful. And I
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  Speaker 1: couldn't believe they were meeting her because they were a fan. Um.
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  Speaker 1: And then they said yes, and I, at twelve years old,
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  Speaker 1: packed up and went back and forth in San Antonio
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  Speaker 1: to Los Angeles to pursue a dream. And Dana Baron
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  Speaker 1: got me to l A and that changed my life forever.
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  Speaker 1: Was we just she was going back and forth because
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  Speaker 1: she had to get back for Christmas to get those Tomali's. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: that's right, you know, you know, I mean our house.
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  Speaker 1: It's not Christmas about them. Come on, come on, that
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  Speaker 1: girl they called me put that little you know, something
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  Speaker 1: like the Tomorrow's And a lot of people don't know
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  Speaker 1: about Tomorrow's you know you that's really a text mix
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  Speaker 1: come down the Texas area with Tomoral's room. Absolutely, really,
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  Speaker 1: it's really the simplest thing in the world to make. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: well actually it's yes, So the ingredients are simple, but
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  Speaker 1: the process it's hard. Hard. But I was checking your
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  Speaker 1: just checking you wouldn't like your sper do myself. I
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  Speaker 1: gotta check you now on the food. Not singing. You
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  Speaker 1: got me all day long, but on that food. I'm
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  Speaker 1: always checking if you're eater or maker. You know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying. You are more of an eater to me,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: you know, but you're good watching. I should eat like
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: literally forty in one sitting, no joke. Okay, okay, let's
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: get to get these numbers right, twelve flower to forty
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: to the fifty to item five foot singing genius is eating.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: So God, listen up, now, listen up. The girl can eat.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: Don't let the frame fool you. You heard it, You
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: heard it on my main conversation. Okay, she puts the
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: butter on the flower? Did she go to work? Continue?
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: That's why she had to come back and texts you.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: I'm just living. Parents. They were there, Brandon, the brother
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: was there. Grandma was there, Grandpaul, Grandpa was there too,
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: But it was them doing to malus. Put a little
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: meat and put a little pork in between that cornmeal.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: You've you've closed it up. Then you wrap it up
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: in that little that little sale. Then you're dropping standing
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: on one end into this pot. You kind of like
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: the steaming. You steam them and then you pull them
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: out and you put a little sausa on top of
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: green or red, whatever you prefer. Or if you're crazy,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: you put a little chili on top of them too.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Some people do that. I don't do that. I don't
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: do that. I don't do that. I don't want to
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: mess up a good to my that's new change. Now,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: come on, you weren't ready for this interview, Alick, you
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: weren't really ready. I don't know why they puts you
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: on this phone with me. Yeah. Yeah, Actually you're having
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: a good time talking to a stranger. That's what you're doing.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: I think this is down interview I've ever done. I
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: am talking to Ali Brook from San Antonio. Listen up, guys,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: she's five ft tall. She can sing, but boy, you
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: put a knife in full in front of her, you're
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: gonna get a beast and if it's some tomlus lord
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Ha Mercy gonna knock you out the way because she's
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: a beautiful person like that. I know, you know, because
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: of the competition. Just what I love about your book?
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: What I love about you? See, I knew I was
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: gonna get along good with you because at the very
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: start of her book, you know, she's thanks her mom
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: since she's such a blessing. Then she thanks her dad,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: and about a few more pages in after she you know,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: talks about her being a premium. Did she get to
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: her dad and talks about everything he can cook. He's
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: the best cooking. That's all I mean, Like it almost
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: turns into it like a cookbook, that really does. I
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: was home on that page. I got home grab This
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: girl can eat. She loves food. She has a passion.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: She might have a passion for singing, but she loves
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: good food and text mix. I'm gonna tell you something,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Ah Blanco, that was your Blanco Blanco? What's her name
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: of the restaurant? I'm for you? You get a metal
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: you know everything about this book. I know something I'm
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: tired of. I'm tired of like you know, front, I'm
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: I'm just a stalker. I'm just a stalker. Was stalking
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: for talented people who like to Molly's and flowers. Oh
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: my god, you know, you know, let's just get back
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: to this book. And actually we've been talking about the
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: book because she I told him too when she's coming
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: back and forward. It's mentioned in the book to Molly's
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: for Christmas. That's why I know about that. So that's
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: why she's laughing. She can't believe I pulled that out.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: And when I pulled the restaurant name out, she can't
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: believe I put the restaurant name. That really messed up.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: That messed up really bad. Right there, she said, he
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: knew the name of my favorite restaurant. That is so obscure.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: It's only mentioned one time. What that you knew about
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: the Dorito's in the back of the bus. He knew
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: about that. You're eating? About that? Okay? In how it
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: all started, you know you didn't want to audition your
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Mom's is a funny part of this book. Her dad, Dad,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: he's a great champion. Whenever he came around and he
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: saw an opportunity to get his daughter to the next left,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: he asked her to sing on the spot. Come on, baby,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: saying Alison Alice said, that made me so mad. My
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: dad and I sing, girl, let the do gods work.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Come on, do gods work, do God's work. Come on.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, Dad, I had all these unprepared. I
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: knew what he was up to. But you know what,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: you got to crush the man because bad he got me.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: I just laughed. That made me laugh so hard, he said.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Every time my dad he did have me sing on
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: the spot. I could be a Danny's restaurant. You need
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: care corner. He's my dad's singer. Let's do the Lord's work,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: do God's work, right in front of everybody. Come on,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: come on that right now? Yes, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, okay,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: let's let's get back to your wonderful book. That's also
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: in the book. By the way, everything I'm talking about
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: she's laughing so hard, but everything I'm talking about is
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: in this book is an amazing inspirational book. She's laughing
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: so hard. She's never heard anybody, you know, because she's famous.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: You know, that's the beauty of famous people like and
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: and a lot of people want to interview because they're
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: famous and and and then but they don't do they
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: don't look inside and realize why this person is special.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: And Ali Brooks Alie brook scuse me, is an amazing person. Uh.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: We just kind of keep saying Ali something that once
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: on apology because a brother inspired her name because of
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Ali and so that she said he knew that too. Okay,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: I'm done with him. I'm done with him. I love
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: that you have permissioned to be like the Godfather about you. No,
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: I'm gona tell you, I tell you thank you now.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: I will be read there for you to Like I said, uh, uh,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: this is the thing about what I love about it
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: was it was a sad moment in the book when
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: it comes to uh, one of my all time favorite
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: singers and that's Selena is tragically murdered at the age
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: of three years old. And was it has been an
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: inspiration for your career. Reason I know because her to well,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: because at the Houston Livestock Show a Rod video she
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: said a record because on Sunday Night was like Hispanic
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: night on Sunday Night and it all and it was
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: always the biggest crowd every year has always been Sunday
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Night at the Eastern Livestock Show Rodeo and she came
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: down there and and look great, finest all get up.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: But she was she was she was a crossover act.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: That's what I loved about. She was crossed because she
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: appealed to me her talents, her graciousness, and let's talk
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: a little bit. Even today in Houston, they had some
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: I think some some uh Selena candles. Uh. They sold
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: out in the hour. You know, T shirt, They sell
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: out any type of memory barrewer is always, always sells
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: out strongly in the UH community. So she has been
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: inspiration to you at a young age. She died when
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: she was twenty three years old, and now you've been
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: inspiration now for women today. And I just think that's
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: hand in hand that that you're carrying on her legacy,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: not only from from who you are, and also from
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: the fact that because she was born in the area
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: where you're, where you're from, and just talking about her
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: as an inspirational person and your message that you're trying
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: to deliver from this fantastic book that I had such
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: a great tyrine finding your harmony. Bo oh my gosh, Well,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: thank you so much for that. That means man, more
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: than I could ever say. I just I just loved
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Felina so much. I have since I was literally in diapers.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: And what I loved about her the most was her beautiful,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: just radiant spirit. She shined so much light and love
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: to her friends, to her family. She made people believed
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: that they could shape their dreams. And for me, you know,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: even a young Mexican American little girl, seeing someone who
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: looked like me, who was able to in a way
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: reach her dreams was so beautiful and powerful for me.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: And her voice, her message she was She was a
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: positive role model for so many people. And I can
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: just go on and on about why I love her,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: and again, it's just all about her extraordinary spirit. She
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: just shines so bright and it still makes me so sad.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: But at the same time, I know that her legacy
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: is being carried on generation after generation, and that's what
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: I felt. You know, when I was young, I always said,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: I want to honor her wherever I can, and I sing,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: you know, her songs and pay tribute to her whenever
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: I can. And the fact that I can write about
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: her in my book is an honor um and it's
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: it's it's just incredible because recently last year I got
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: to become friends with Suzeki, Dania and her family, you
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: know Selena's family, and that was just a highlight of
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: my whole life. Um. But that's my goal, is to
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: just continue to spread her beautiful legacy for as long
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: as I live, because she was that incredible of a human. Well,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: I'm showing you are incredible to such a fun time.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: My time is up. I don't want to you know,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: we in our relationship, it's over. It's alex Alec. Look,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: you know you probably need to go well, you know,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Los Angeles, so you can't do anything there. But the
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: tomores are in San Antonio and the food of flower
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: to tears in San Antonio. But you can't make something.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: But the beauty of why I brought you on the
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: show is to let people know beyond singing, because a
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: lot of people just see people as a singer for
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: the gift that they know, and I just wanted people
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: to know how fun you are, how relatable you are,
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: and how you have such a tremendous passion to change lives.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: That's what you get when you read this book. You
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: I I found it at the detail. I found the
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: you know that I'm just gonna break it down. You
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: know she was she was she was a premy okay,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: and um, we know the mortality rate on that for girls,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: they are stronger than boys. Just written in the book,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: I'm just doing you know. Um. You know she's from
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: a Hispanic community, like I'm from a black community. A
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: lot of people tell us we ain't gonna make it,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: and they tell us who what we can be in
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: the stay in that lane. And our parents didn't do that.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Her parents didn't believe that, and uh, and and and
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: so and even you know when she when she was
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: blessed to get on the show X Factor and become
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: a part of Fifth Harmony, she realized that wasn't her dream,
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: you know, and she living her dream now realized that's
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: so much that it called her to gain weight, It
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: called her to to uh as they say, you redirect
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: her pain as you reread her pain to eating, and
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: she overcame that. So you have you have a discussion
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: about that in the book, which is relatable to a
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: lot of young people, male and female. And then she
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: talks about you know, going out on faith and going
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: out there and when you go out on faith or
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: you go out there and you're unknown, a lot of
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: people don't because they the unknown is what it is.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: You know, you have to trust yourself. You have to
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: have people around you, and you've done that. Your parents
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: around you, wheels around, your charms around you. You know,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: all these people have been around you, and I just
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: I want you much success. Now. I've home in Houston
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: and my headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. So if you ever
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: get to Atlanta, I mean a mesta. Right now, I'm
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: feeling my very first movie. That's correct, my headquarters right
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: here in Atlanta, right right in Atlanta. So I did,
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: like I said, I've got to get your information and
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: we've got to make them to happen because you are
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: so awesome. I'm so blessed that even just talk to you,
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: and the fact that you cherish and value my story
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: and what matters to me and my family and those
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: who who paved the way for me. It's it's it's
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: a real blessing, sir. Just just thank you from the
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: bottom of my heart for for knowing, um what's important
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: to me and for sharing that with your audience and
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: and understanding my heart. You know, it's not about oh,
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: just a singer. No, it's about the heart and the
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: spirit and the story. So I thank you for valuing that.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: And we have to keep in touch and stay in touch,
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: so you gotta get me your info. Okay, well let
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: me say goodboute. Everybody hold on and we're spreading info
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: after that. Okay, this has been money Making Conversations with
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: my fantastic guests, Ali Brook. That's Brooke, Where to eat
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Eat and finding your harmony. She's fantastic, dream big, have faith,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: which is very important. She's had has had it all
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: in her family is tied to faith. Um is amazing
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: to achieve more than you can imagine. That's important part
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: of this conversation because you know, we tend to limit
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: our dreams based on where we come from. And that's
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: what that line is saying, achieved more than you can imagine.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: And if you have faith and you dream big, you
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: can find your own harmony. I want to thank everybody
• 32:47
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