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

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Speaker 1: one of my favorite Melody Hope. She's a producer and
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Speaker 1: started own series Love and Marriage Hunt Field entrepreneur. She's
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Speaker 1: a home builder that this series follows three power couples
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Speaker 1: longtime friends, I don't know if they're long time friends
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Speaker 1: no more. Melody and Martel Hope, fire doctor, part a
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Speaker 1: girl plitician and also that's my friend brother and Kimmy
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Speaker 1: and Maurice, I don't know Kimmy and my board. More
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Speaker 1: recent he tried to be a businessman in the Huntsfield
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Speaker 1: I don't know, and love and Marriage and Husbield. But
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Speaker 1: she has also hosted one of my favorite shows, behind
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Speaker 1: every Man, which is also on the own. Please work
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Speaker 1: in the melody for them about to say her name,
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Speaker 1: Please work with the money Making Conversations, my friend Melody Hope.
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Speaker 1: How you doing, Melody? Hey, I'm doing great. How are you?
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Speaker 1: You know, it's always just a pleasure being able to
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Speaker 1: be a part of your show. You are so phenomenal,
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Speaker 1: so inspiring and encouraging. So I'm just very thankful for
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Speaker 1: the opportunity. Well, you know, it's really interesting about your
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Speaker 1: whole career and just go track it, you know, like
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Speaker 1: you came into my life and the first aid of
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Speaker 1: you I did on Money Making Conversation with you and Martel,
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Speaker 1: and it was a it was an inspirational interview out
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Speaker 1: a couple that work their way through high school and
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Speaker 1: beautiful kids. And then the second time I got you
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Speaker 1: on the show, used by yourself. And now the third
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Speaker 1: time I have you on the show. I saw the episode,
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Speaker 1: the premiere episode of I would after the episode, you're
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Speaker 1: gonna really be by yourself? After that three episode, you
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Speaker 1: buy yourself down. You ain't kind of by yourself. You
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Speaker 1: buy yourself ain't trying to change. Well, I understand because
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Speaker 1: you know, if you're fans of the show, I'm a
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Speaker 1: fan of the show, and you brought me into the series,
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Speaker 1: you know, and my boy Carlos came. He created his
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Speaker 1: that could produce to the series very talent the ep
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Speaker 1: of docuseries type dramas. Here's another series on on on
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Speaker 1: called Bell Collective. But we're talking about love and marriage
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Speaker 1: Huntsville and the question. You know, this ain't a messy show.
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Speaker 1: This is a show about watching an entrepreneur, watching a
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Speaker 1: young lady. I just still consume you very young, an entrepreneur,
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Speaker 1: minded and almost side. It almost took like a serious
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Speaker 1: where I got to see you grow as a woman
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Speaker 1: as a mom, and then the other half of you
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Speaker 1: do want to see that same growth? Am I correct?
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Speaker 1: So you know, what I will say is definitely being
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Speaker 1: a part of UM the Kingdom Raine family and being
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Speaker 1: a part of Love of Marriage, Huntspill. You know, you're
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Speaker 1: absolutely correct in terms of the growth that you've seen.
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Speaker 1: And that's really because you know, as you go through
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Speaker 1: things in life and you experience certain things, those are
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Speaker 1: really the things that help shape and mold you to
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Speaker 1: be who you are and um, who you're supposed to be.
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Speaker 1: And that's really what my viewers have been able to
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Speaker 1: witness the past few seasons. UM. Is me really going
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Speaker 1: through one of life's biggest challenges, UM, when one of
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Speaker 1: the you know, supposed to be strongest buns UM is
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Speaker 1: broken and disconnected and what it looks like to maneuver
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Speaker 1: through those type of waters. And so that is how
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Speaker 1: you guys have been able to really, you know, as
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Speaker 1: you say, have seen me grow because you want me
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Speaker 1: go through, UM, something that a lot of people can't
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Speaker 1: even go through behind closed doors, and I've had to
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Speaker 1: live it out loud publicly, so it's been a little
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Speaker 1: bit different. UM. What I will say, UM, you know
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Speaker 1: when it comes to u X about my you know
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Speaker 1: Martel and that supporting that growth, what I will say
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Speaker 1: is that there was a time in our marriage, in
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Speaker 1: our life. You know, I'm not gonna sit here and
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Speaker 1: at like we had a whole bunch of years of
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Speaker 1: some terrible marriage, because that's just not the case. Um.
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Speaker 1: We had a beautiful, beautiful union, beautiful time, UM, beautiful
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Speaker 1: you know, family, children, UM, a real friendship definitely. You know,
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Speaker 1: we were definitely great friends. And so I was saying
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Speaker 1: that there was a time when he definitely pushed me
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Speaker 1: and m motivated me, and really you know stood, you know,
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Speaker 1: kind of stood with me with some of the things
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Speaker 1: I wanted to do. UM. But sometimes in life, people
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Speaker 1: just start kind of going different ways and things change.
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Speaker 1: I did an interview earlier and I shared with them that,
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Speaker 1: you know, studies show that people change every five to
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Speaker 1: seven years, and you know that's just real. No one's
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Speaker 1: gonna stay the same, you know, I really, um, because
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Speaker 1: because I care about you a lot. You know, I
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Speaker 1: have six sisters, so I consider you one of them.
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Speaker 1: Six uh two and pass away. So I'm asking you
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Speaker 1: to feel in one of those slots in my life
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Speaker 1: because I I believe in you. And when I watched
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Speaker 1: the show, especially premiere episode this season, you know, I
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Speaker 1: was I was pained a little bit because I could
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Speaker 1: you know, we're watching you on TV play out some emotions,
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Speaker 1: especially when Martell talked about he going to the custody
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Speaker 1: of the children and you really, you really live up
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Speaker 1: the room because you weren't gonna let this act like
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Speaker 1: this even sense of a possibility. These are four beautiful
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Speaker 1: kids that you've delivered to the world. And then all
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Speaker 1: earlier in the episodes, by the way she showed off
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Speaker 1: her little body, by the way she showed off her
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Speaker 1: little body, just embarrassing everybody in the nation. She did
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Speaker 1: and dropped four kids come around the corners like looking
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Speaker 1: gin she's like a fresh out of high school body.
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Speaker 1: So we're gonna talk about that. Let's go back today's emotionally.
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Speaker 1: I just had to throw that out there and like
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Speaker 1: step on her because that was unfair. That was unfair. Melandine,
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Speaker 1: like you have seen a little bit more than I
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Speaker 1: have seen. Just know that, well, I don't care. I saw.
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Speaker 1: I said she come out of pol Destiny. She like
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Speaker 1: just dropped one to destinely, whoa my goodness, girl? Where
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Speaker 1: you know what? Can I say? It's time for me
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Speaker 1: to show the where what's going on with melody, Hell, okay,
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Speaker 1: and then we go forward. You know you're back, and
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Speaker 1: you know because you was in a land with your
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Speaker 1: brother hanging out in the back, you know, drinking a
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Speaker 1: little wine and didn't get your act together for two weeks.
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Speaker 1: And then now the reality is back. You're in the
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Speaker 1: house with a man who, let's say, you don't trust,
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Speaker 1: you need with children that you love that you're born.
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Speaker 1: Like you said, you're not here to talk about like
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Speaker 1: this relationship was a bad relationship. But when he says
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Speaker 1: the possibility that he wants to get full cost of
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Speaker 1: their kids, you lost it. Yeah, yeah, you know. UM
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Speaker 1: it's one of those things where I think for most
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Speaker 1: parents when it comes to your children, that's just that's
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Speaker 1: one thing you just really don't play about, no matter
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Speaker 1: who it is, obviously UM. And so we all have
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Speaker 1: those triggers, certain things that trigger us. And unfortunately a
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Speaker 1: lot of times people know what your are UM. And
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Speaker 1: so for me, when it comes to being a you know,
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Speaker 1: a woman of many hats, being an entrepreneur, being a mom,
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Speaker 1: being a wife, all of those things, you know, me
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Speaker 1: being able to um fully engage in all of those
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Speaker 1: roles was one of the things that was a problem,
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Speaker 1: um in the marriage, and one of those things that
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Speaker 1: was somewhat trying. You know, I would say he tried
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Speaker 1: to use against me at times, um, and that was
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Speaker 1: when it came to the kids. And so for him
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Speaker 1: to make a statement like that despite no deep down
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Speaker 1: that I'm really wearing all these hats very well, like
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Speaker 1: there's my kids are very well taken care of. We
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Speaker 1: do vaccaitions, we do chips. They've been out of the country. Hell,
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Speaker 1: I hadn't even been out of the country when I
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Speaker 1: was their age. Okay, Um, So it's like, don't play
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Speaker 1: with me like that and in your show. But but
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Speaker 1: the series as as I see, because you know, I
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Speaker 1: can't wait till this the next episode and the next
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Speaker 1: episode out there, because really it's about watching the I
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Speaker 1: on this shows about motivation. It's about people overcoming furious
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Speaker 1: pope of walking in the darkness, walking into that known
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Speaker 1: and you. And that's why I'm standing on this a
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Speaker 1: little bit because I want a lot of people to
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Speaker 1: hear this, because a lot of people don't go to
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Speaker 1: the next level of life because they fear change, They
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Speaker 1: fear the unknown, they fear what ilf what if it's
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Speaker 1: not something I expect and you're doing a courageous thing
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Speaker 1: with your life because this is not This is bigger
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Speaker 1: than the television show to me, because it's about you.
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Speaker 1: Because when the lights go down and cut off, you
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Speaker 1: really live in the life that we're just getting little
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Speaker 1: bits and pieces. Is all. With that being said, what's
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Speaker 1: the next path for Melody? What's the next what now?
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Speaker 1: Path for you? In career? Playing in because you know
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Speaker 1: I call you sometimes you said, we show I got
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Speaker 1: people in l A, I got people in Huntsville. I
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Speaker 1: got a team around you because you know, I'll be
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Speaker 1: talking to Union every time I talk to you. Know,
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Speaker 1: it's more advancement in the in the various business ventures,
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Speaker 1: more opportunity that you want to engage in, and you
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Speaker 1: surround yourself with a much stronger team that allows you
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Speaker 1: to win. So talk about that. And you know what,
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Speaker 1: it's so funny that you mentioned a team and just
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Speaker 1: you know, the people that you have around you. I
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Speaker 1: feel like, you know, you can't do anything alone in
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Speaker 1: life period. You've got to have a team, a team
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Speaker 1: who believes in you, that supports you, um that pushes
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Speaker 1: you even on the days when you barely can push yourself.
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Speaker 1: And I'm so thankful and blessed that I have been surrounded. Um,
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Speaker 1: you know, God just placed the right people in my
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Speaker 1: life at the right time. You know. I can speak
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Speaker 1: all the way you know to my management team. As
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Speaker 1: you said, you I have, you know, a team in
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Speaker 1: l A. I have a team in Atlanta. Um. And
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Speaker 1: when I look at the time that they came into
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Speaker 1: my life, and they're older than me. And that's another thing.
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Speaker 1: It's kind of crazy because it's like, I'm thirty five,
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Speaker 1: but God has surrounded me with people who are older
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Speaker 1: than me and who have so much wisdom, you know,
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Speaker 1: and that wisdom comes from their own life experiences. So
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Speaker 1: when I hear their stories of things they've experienced and
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Speaker 1: that they went through early on in life and what
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Speaker 1: I'm going through right now, I know that it was
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Speaker 1: a divine connection and meant for them to be in
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Speaker 1: my life. And so, um, you know, we're we're always
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Speaker 1: working on things. And I hope that's what people also.
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Speaker 1: You know, of course all reality show you have a
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Speaker 1: little bit of drama. But I hope that people really
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Speaker 1: get to uh tune in and pick up and understand
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Speaker 1: and see that, you know, the sky really, you know,
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Speaker 1: is the limit. It doesn't matter what what you go through,
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Speaker 1: what you experienced. I wake up every day and I
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Speaker 1: put a smile on my face and I'm hey, good morning,
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Speaker 1: how are you. Positive affirmations all period um. And from
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Speaker 1: there it has just really allowed us to move into
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Speaker 1: some different areas. I have music that I'm working on.
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Speaker 1: I can't wait. I've teased my fans a little bit
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Speaker 1: um with my song by dropping it on social media
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Speaker 1: pieces here and there. UM. So I have music I'm
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Speaker 1: working on. I'm actually about to go in the student
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Speaker 1: and record the second song because I'm done with the
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Speaker 1: first one. Um. And then of course also I have
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Speaker 1: my acting career um that I'm working on as well.
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Speaker 1: I actually just finished doing some acting stuff. I've been
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Speaker 1: in Atlanta doing a movie um the past week. So
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Speaker 1: just moving, shaking and trying to fully um being the
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Speaker 1: purpose and my God given purpose. Because life is so short.
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Speaker 1: You have to wake up every day. You have to
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Speaker 1: make it count. You have to make every hour, every
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Speaker 1: minute and every secle don't you ever, Because even in
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Speaker 1: this series, I gotta mad at you because you know
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Speaker 1: I'm based in the lat He was in the lab
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Speaker 1: for two weeks, Okay, then in the interview right back
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Speaker 1: where I just got back from l A. I mean
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Speaker 1: for Atlanta. You know, I just got that from no call,
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Speaker 1: no text, because you know, no no something something that
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Speaker 1: no no, no, no, no up whatever. She had d
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Speaker 1: hear me in a minute, Hey, Richelle, how you doing well?
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Speaker 1: This is one thing I love about her. And I
12:20
Speaker 1: responded back to her, I said, look, she would recommend
12:23
Speaker 1: people to be on my show. I mean and uh,
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Speaker 1: and she's supportive. That's not I laugh at her in
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Speaker 1: a good way. It's not a bad lad because here
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Speaker 1: she is. You know, she's out there trying to make
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Speaker 1: her career work. She's trying to be a good person
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Speaker 1: because she is a good person. But she will not
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Speaker 1: hesitate connecting somebody for an opportunity, and that's a quality there.
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Speaker 1: When you said, Richard, why do you like Meloday Hope?
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Speaker 1: Why do you Why are you always champion her? Because
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Speaker 1: she's so busy champion other people. She's not about to
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Speaker 1: a lot of people in competition because it is competition.
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Speaker 1: They fear I ain't gonna learn nobody get my hookop.
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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna anybody get my connection. And that's not
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Speaker 1: you talk to us about their personality at all. You know.
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Speaker 1: Let me tell you so, I am big on making connections.
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Speaker 1: I will be honest, I'm that person who and I'm
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Speaker 1: not gonna be like, oh, i've seen you the number.
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Speaker 1: Later if we're having a conversation and I know someone
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Speaker 1: who can maybe help catapults you to the next level,
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Speaker 1: take you to the next level in your life or
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Speaker 1: goals career wise, whatever it is, Oh, I'm gonna be like, Okay,
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Speaker 1: I'm testing. I'm sending you the number right now. You
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Speaker 1: want to call him right now? Like, That's what I
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Speaker 1: love and I love to do that. That's just a
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Speaker 1: genuine part of me, um, because I feel that you
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Speaker 1: never know what someone else can do, whether it's a
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Speaker 1: simple word, whether it's you know, a simple connection that
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Speaker 1: can just really change someone's entire life. And I have
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Speaker 1: to believe that, Um, through that goodness of my heart
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Speaker 1: and purity of all of my intentions, that that is
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Speaker 1: why God has continue to bless me, and he has
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Speaker 1: continued to look over me and put me, you know,
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Speaker 1: in the paths of the right people, because I'm always
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Speaker 1: the same path. You know, there's enough out here for everyone,
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Speaker 1: the other couples of the people, because it's gotten more
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Speaker 1: expansive on the show. You know, we see more on
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Speaker 1: this season. We see more of a Kimmy and uh
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Speaker 1: Maurice's son and then of course a team shirt they
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Speaker 1: this season give us a little sneak preview of what's
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Speaker 1: coming up on this season because of the fact that
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Speaker 1: uh My, but I tell people to watch the show
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Speaker 1: because I'm a fan of love and marriage. Huntsville is
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Speaker 1: because their individuals, who are black individuals in in a
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Speaker 1: town like Huntsville, they have big city problems and that's
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Speaker 1: the fun. I think all the couples, in some shape,
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Speaker 1: form or fashion, UM bring a great dynamic to the show.
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Speaker 1: And I feel that, you know, um, this season, you
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Speaker 1: guys are going to be able to see more business
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Speaker 1: moves taking place, which is something I'm very proud of
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Speaker 1: because you know, I don't think anyone goes into rally
17:35
Speaker 1: reality TV hoping that there will be drama. It's just
17:38
Speaker 1: kind of one of those things that that can end
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Speaker 1: up happening because life and you know, so when you
17:43
Speaker 1: imagine being put in situations where maybe you would have
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Speaker 1: avoided that person for another month or two because you
17:49
Speaker 1: know you kind of ain't feeling them right now, then
17:51
Speaker 1: you see them instead in a day, so sometimes those
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Speaker 1: emotions may still be up. So you know that just
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Speaker 1: that's the piece that brings the drama in. But I'm
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Speaker 1: looking forward to our audience really seeing, um, you know,
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Speaker 1: especially with the climate of the economy and where we
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Speaker 1: are as a culture, as people, where we are as
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Speaker 1: a country right now, it was important to show unity
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Speaker 1: and how despite differences, despite um, you know, difficulties within
18:22
Speaker 1: the friendships or the relationships, at some point in time,
18:26
Speaker 1: you guys are going to see, you know, some of
18:28
Speaker 1: us come together and be able to do some great
18:31
Speaker 1: things and and actually be able to be in the
18:33
Speaker 1: same room pushing for a positive purpose or a positive cause.
18:37
Speaker 1: You're gonna see businesses, you know, excelling and growing in
18:41
Speaker 1: you know, individuals figuring out different paths of entrepreneurship. Um.
18:46
Speaker 1: And so those are the things that I'm really looking
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Speaker 1: forward to being displayed and showing to see it and
18:52
Speaker 1: showing a lot the great thing about it. Now, your masterclass,
18:56
Speaker 1: which I saw kind of like boring out of COVID.
18:59
Speaker 1: COVIDW TEENA create a lot of creative approaches to us
19:03
Speaker 1: tell about the master classes. So HP a Hold Preservation Academy. Um,
19:10
Speaker 1: that is my baby. Matter of fact, I have a
19:12
Speaker 1: class tonight. So UM, what I do is I've had
19:15
Speaker 1: the UM. You know, I just say it's a complete
19:18
Speaker 1: blessing then opportunity to actually now it's about a hundred
19:22
Speaker 1: and eighties since June, about a hundred and eighty individuals. Um,
19:27
Speaker 1: I've been able to help them become entrepreneurs and start
19:29
Speaker 1: businesses in property preservation, which is a multibillion dollar industry
19:34
Speaker 1: that has been a white male dominated industry for a
19:37
Speaker 1: very long time. Most of my students, however, have been
19:41
Speaker 1: African American women. And so what I have been doing is,
19:45
Speaker 1: you know, having um weekly meetings with them, one on
19:49
Speaker 1: one cost with them, helping them set up their LLCs,
19:52
Speaker 1: their business checking, teaching them the game about this industry,
19:55
Speaker 1: and helping them get contracts. Meaning when they get contracts,
20:00
Speaker 1: they start receiving work from the banks and they get
20:02
Speaker 1: paid um as they complete those work orders and so um.
20:07
Speaker 1: I you know, it was, like you said, born out
20:09
Speaker 1: of covid um. My first class started in June of
20:14
Speaker 1: and it has been phenomenal, phenomenal. I'm very thankful to
20:19
Speaker 1: God for you know, for that whole avenue being opened
20:22
Speaker 1: for me. We know when God gave you his ability
20:25
Speaker 1: to talk, because you've ben talk. That's why you to me.
20:27
Speaker 1: You know you always teach you about that, you know,
20:29
Speaker 1: you just you don't know, man, melody, we'll be talking
20:32
Speaker 1: to me. We'll be talking in that little direct DM
20:34
Speaker 1: and all that girl give me your number till all
20:37
Speaker 1: this a DM and back because just DM me like
20:40
Speaker 1: texting her. So though that you say that because earlier,
20:45
Speaker 1: like I said, I did an interview earlier today and
20:47
Speaker 1: they said to me, they said, oh yeah, your manager said,
20:50
Speaker 1: we're gonna enjoy our interview. We all enjoy because you
20:53
Speaker 1: love the talk. I said, oh, I sound like she
20:56
Speaker 1: tried to throw a little side jam up in there.
20:58
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make sure I called on when we get done.
21:01
Speaker 1: Now here you go, and that that that's why I
21:09
Speaker 1: love talking to you, because you know, there's a journey
21:12
Speaker 1: and I will never ever stop you from your dreams.
21:16
Speaker 1: I will always encourage you, I always will support you,
21:18
Speaker 1: I always will push you to the next low because
21:21
Speaker 1: I know there are only greater opportunities. You're at the
21:24
Speaker 1: right age and start discovering yourself and pushing those dreams.
21:26
Speaker 1: Because a lot of people wait till they farty fifty,
21:29
Speaker 1: or I'll wait to my kids graduate, or I'll wait
21:31
Speaker 1: till I wait to get out of college. All that weight,
21:34
Speaker 1: all that weight, all that weight, and that's not your DNA.
21:36
Speaker 1: And that's what I love about talking to you, and
21:39
Speaker 1: I encourage people who listen to these shows. When you
21:41
Speaker 1: when I get a person on the air, like you,
21:44
Speaker 1: listen to what she's saying. Listen, you know there are
21:46
Speaker 1: setbacks in her in her life there and she don't
21:49
Speaker 1: let that. Become a champion talk about that, you know,
21:54
Speaker 1: I will say that. You know, So I got married
21:57
Speaker 1: when I was twenty two, and you have this whole
22:00
Speaker 1: old thing planned out of what you think your life
22:02
Speaker 1: will be. I don't think anyone gets married um expecting
22:05
Speaker 1: or hoping for a divorce to happen. You think that
22:08
Speaker 1: that's your forever, and you think that that is how
22:11
Speaker 1: your life will be. And so For me, I went
22:13
Speaker 1: from feeling like I had everything together. I had these
22:18
Speaker 1: beautiful children, I had anything I wanted to get. I
22:21
Speaker 1: could go get when I wanted to. You know, I
22:24
Speaker 1: had my husband, We had these businesses. You know, we're
22:28
Speaker 1: we're being able to travel and go whenever we want to,
22:31
Speaker 1: and then boom, just like that, there's a change. And
22:37
Speaker 1: so at first, you know, of course, you you know,
22:41
Speaker 1: the heartbreak and the disappointment and the tears and the
22:45
Speaker 1: depression and all of those things that come with um,
22:48
Speaker 1: you know, something as major's infidelity hitting your marriage. I
22:52
Speaker 1: went through all of that, and UM, I went through
22:56
Speaker 1: a lot of different layers of it. So UM for me,
23:01
Speaker 1: you know, going through those things and experiencing such a
23:05
Speaker 1: big change in life. And then I didn't know that
23:07
Speaker 1: I was gonna have to play it out on national television.
23:10
Speaker 1: Even so, that was another thing, you know what I'm saying.
23:14
Speaker 1: When we started filming the first season, UM, I had
23:19
Speaker 1: just recently found out about, you know, what had been occurring. However,
23:24
Speaker 1: I thought everything was done over and we were good.
23:27
Speaker 1: Well right when we started shooting, I find out, oh,
23:30
Speaker 1: it ain't done and over we ain't good. So that's
23:33
Speaker 1: when people got you know what I'm saying, kind of
23:35
Speaker 1: got all the other um, and so all the other
23:39
Speaker 1: emotions and other sides of melody, the angry side. Um.
23:42
Speaker 1: But you know, I didn't expect that that was something
23:45
Speaker 1: that was gonna be played out on TV. I didn't
23:47
Speaker 1: think that was gonna be continue to be a part
23:49
Speaker 1: of my life story, my marriage story. UM. And so
23:53
Speaker 1: now here I am, you know, going through a divorce
23:56
Speaker 1: with four children, um and trying to make sure that
24:00
Speaker 1: I'm taking care of me and keeping myself together, but
24:02
Speaker 1: then also making sure that I'm you know, there for
24:05
Speaker 1: my kids and helping them to keep it together too. Um.
24:08
Speaker 1: And at the same time, still refusing to allow the
24:11
Speaker 1: choices of someone else to affect my purpose and the
24:17
Speaker 1: goals that I have set for myself. So it's a lot.
24:21
Speaker 1: It's a lot, and it's a lot of moving pieces.
24:24
Speaker 1: But let me tell you, I just get up every
24:26
Speaker 1: single day and I start moving those pieces absolutely. You know,
24:32
Speaker 1: on Saturday night you can see her series. All right,
24:36
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call it your series Loving Marriage Hunt Fell.
24:38
Speaker 1: That's That's why I watch. I'm just doing on Saturday.
24:42
Speaker 1: I'm not just watching everyboun show. I watched a girl Melody. Now,
24:46
Speaker 1: guess what it's gonna be this Saturday. Gonna be back
24:49
Speaker 1: to back melody, Hope melody, Hope, hid to night. That's
24:54
Speaker 1: what we're gonna up to our block. Behind every Man,
24:59
Speaker 1: I'm just later everybody know she Carlos King makes me mad? Now?
25:02
Speaker 1: This is this series? Right? Is this car? She got me?
25:05
Speaker 1: He got me mad? See because see I watched this
25:08
Speaker 1: series that you're hosting, and I'm mad. I'm going to
25:11
Speaker 1: like he thought of this song because it's such a
25:15
Speaker 1: beautiful series, because I got six sisters. So why did
25:19
Speaker 1: I think of this? Because you know you have you
25:21
Speaker 1: have more Kurt Franklin and his wife Tammy on the show.
25:24
Speaker 1: You have the wife of white Cliff John on the show.
25:28
Speaker 1: You have the wife. I didn't even know that uh
25:32
Speaker 1: Neil was married. Seriously, I didn't know he was married.
25:35
Speaker 1: And that the only he's on He's on the show,
25:38
Speaker 1: and it's it's like DJ Envy and his wife, but
25:42
Speaker 1: it's the wife's who are the stars of the show.
25:45
Speaker 1: Behind every Man? How did you become a part of
25:48
Speaker 1: this series? And I'm just about one thing I'm gonna
25:50
Speaker 1: tell you the truth about this is an engaging series.
25:54
Speaker 1: Well done. The women, you get a personal journey about them.
26:00
Speaker 1: It's not as serious that if they're trying to hook
26:02
Speaker 1: you in with a famous husband. No, no, no, it's
26:05
Speaker 1: about these women. How they have survived physical drama, sometimes abuse, sometimes,
26:12
Speaker 1: near life death experiences sometimes and each one of them
26:15
Speaker 1: have survived and they've coming to the lives of these
26:19
Speaker 1: famous men helped them to be successful along the way,
26:23
Speaker 1: and they have sustained longevity in their marriage and blossom
26:27
Speaker 1: to a loving relationship. How did you give a volva
26:30
Speaker 1: Behind every Man? Well, you know that's why it's so important, um,
26:35
Speaker 1: to speak out loud your goals and your dreams and
26:38
Speaker 1: speak those things into existence. UM. And so you know,
26:42
Speaker 1: I shared with Carlos a long time ago, you know,
26:45
Speaker 1: my goals in terms of hosting and acting and things
26:47
Speaker 1: like that. And so when the when the opportunity came,
26:51
Speaker 1: and you know, he was awarded the opportunity to do
26:53
Speaker 1: Behind every Man, you know, he reached out to me.
26:56
Speaker 1: He said, hey, so guess what, And I'm like what
27:00
Speaker 1: And he was like, We're gonna do another show. This
27:02
Speaker 1: is what's gonna call and we want you to host.
27:05
Speaker 1: I'm like, what, really are you serious, and so you know,
27:09
Speaker 1: it went from there and um it was another again,
27:13
Speaker 1: something filmed during the pandemic, so of course we had
27:16
Speaker 1: different parameters. Of course, we would have loved to have
27:18
Speaker 1: had it where you know, I could have flown into
27:21
Speaker 1: different places and actually sat down in person with these individuals,
27:25
Speaker 1: but we've got to be safe. So we still made
27:27
Speaker 1: it happen and made it, you know, made it work. Um,
27:30
Speaker 1: and for me, when he called me that day, I'll
27:33
Speaker 1: never forget. And he had his other producer, Angela on
27:38
Speaker 1: the phone as well. I teared up when he shared
27:42
Speaker 1: with me what Behind every Man would be about. And
27:45
Speaker 1: here's why. Um, you know, I'm big on women empowerment.
27:50
Speaker 1: I'm big on strong women and women, you know, just
27:55
Speaker 1: being coming together and really pushing one another and being
27:59
Speaker 1: able to be then tick and transparent and share your journey,
28:04
Speaker 1: share those you know, we love the glamour, we love
28:07
Speaker 1: the show off, the Rose Royce, the Lamborghinis and all
28:10
Speaker 1: this thing. However, right, being able to show the times
28:14
Speaker 1: that weren't so good and talk about that, which is
28:17
Speaker 1: what really helped you move to the next level. I
28:20
Speaker 1: love when people can be transparent. I think that's the
28:23
Speaker 1: reason that a lot of people connect with me on
28:25
Speaker 1: love and marriage Himesville. So when he shared that with
28:28
Speaker 1: me and I heard what it would be about, I
28:30
Speaker 1: just literally teared up. I said, wow, Wow. It was
28:34
Speaker 1: just something within me. And I'm big on intuition and
28:39
Speaker 1: being led by the spirit, and there was just something
28:41
Speaker 1: within me that was like, Yes, this right here is
28:45
Speaker 1: God sent for you. The experiencing what I was experiencing
28:51
Speaker 1: in my marriage and knowing that, you know, it wasn't
28:53
Speaker 1: going to be too much longer before it wasn't you know,
28:56
Speaker 1: I wasn't married anymore. It wasn't about that. It was
28:59
Speaker 1: about what I love to do, shine a light on
29:03
Speaker 1: other women, like you know I do my Mamoss with
29:05
Speaker 1: Melody event Um, I always award women Women on Woman
29:09
Speaker 1: on Purpose, award, Um still I Thrive Woman of the
29:13
Speaker 1: Year and all these different things. And so any way
29:15
Speaker 1: that I can, um just really shine a light on
29:19
Speaker 1: women who are doing some amazing things, That's what I
29:21
Speaker 1: love to do. And so this was just I mean,
29:23
Speaker 1: this was perfect and it was truly an amazing experience. Well,
29:29
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you, I'm a fan. I get to
29:31
Speaker 1: see you back to back, the back to back to back.
29:34
Speaker 1: I know that, Melanie. I want to I wanna. I
29:37
Speaker 1: want to back the back the back Melanie whole Saturday
29:42
Speaker 1: on Network because you're gonna do it. You're gonna do it,
29:45
Speaker 1: because we all over here. Oh there you go, there
29:49
Speaker 1: you go. The thing about it is that I'm so
29:51
Speaker 1: proud of you, and uh, I watched this journey, you
29:54
Speaker 1: know when I said that I'm sincere, and I know
29:56
Speaker 1: you do a lot of interviews and watching you grow
29:59
Speaker 1: and like and so I've seen this journey play out.
30:01
Speaker 1: And when you come on my show, we can have
30:03
Speaker 1: honest conversations. And the only thing only negative in your
30:06
Speaker 1: little book is you come to Atlanta and you don't
30:09
Speaker 1: come see your board. Okay, because I bought a new building.
30:11
Speaker 1: That happen again. I bought a little bit. I gotta
30:14
Speaker 1: show y'all. I gotta, I gotta, I gotta you gotta
30:16
Speaker 1: take a picture by my new business sign all that stuff.
30:18
Speaker 1: I gotta. I gotta get some of your shine on
30:20
Speaker 1: my building. Okay, let's do it. Let's do it absolutely well.
30:25
Speaker 1: I will to hold you but again, thank you again again.
30:29
Speaker 1: You know, any time your flyer come out, I gotta
30:32
Speaker 1: promote you. This weekend and uh, you know your Siroty
30:34
Speaker 1: remember and all that good stuff, and uh, girl, you know,
30:37
Speaker 1: keep winning and keep I got your support and your brother.
30:41
Speaker 1: You can tell your brother to call me with a
30:42
Speaker 1: little time behind here in Atlanta as himself. You know,
30:46
Speaker 1: he got nothing to do, absolutely so that would be great,
30:49
Speaker 1: you know. And I love you already know. I love you.
30:51
Speaker 1: Thank you for you know, you're always opening your doors
30:54
Speaker 1: and opening you know, but just being welcoming with me
30:56
Speaker 1: coming in on the show. I appreciate that so much.
30:59
Speaker 1: It's kind of like like you said, sometimes they're just
31:01
Speaker 1: those God given connections. And I feel like from the
31:04
Speaker 1: first interview, we've just always You've been what you're saying
31:07
Speaker 1: that you are. You've been encouraging. UM. You let me
31:10
Speaker 1: know multiple times that I have your support, and I
31:13
Speaker 1: really appreciate that, UM, and I love you know. We
31:17
Speaker 1: have to pull strength from one another, especially when we're
31:21
Speaker 1: going through different, you know, difficult times. It's so important
31:23
Speaker 1: for us to pull strength from one another. And you,
31:28
Speaker 1: my fans, the viewers of Love and Marriage Huntsville, everyone
31:32
Speaker 1: has been my family, my management team, everyone has just
31:35
Speaker 1: been so amazing and I know I wouldn't be where
31:38
Speaker 1: I am right now. If it wasn't for all of
31:40
Speaker 1: you awesome. Well, she's the star of a Saturday night
31:44
Speaker 1: on the Own Network, Loving Marriage, Huntsville and um you
31:48
Speaker 1: know behind every Man. Wow, that's my show. She's the star,
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