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Grammy Award-Winning artist, Tamela Mann talks new album, family support & filming during pandemic · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: is tam La Man. She's a Grammy Award winner, b
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Speaker 1: ET Award winner, bill Board Music Award winner in Double A,
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Speaker 1: CP Image Award winner, Gospel Music Stell Award winner, g
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Speaker 1: m A Dove Award winner, song writer, producer, and businesswoman.
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Speaker 1: As an actress, she stars in Tyler Pears Assistant Living
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Speaker 1: on b ET. Tyler Pears Assistant Living is the number
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Speaker 1: one new scripted series for African America's eighteen to forty
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Speaker 1: nine two and I'm Not Through y'all. Tamla's on the
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Speaker 1: show to talk about her career and her new gospel
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Speaker 1: album Overcome or a compelling collection of songs that takes
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Speaker 1: the listener on the journey Tamla has been traveling in
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Speaker 1: the past few years. Please welcome. We always have a
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Speaker 1: good time. She puts a smile on my face and
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Speaker 1: she inspires my viewers and my listeners, Tamla man to
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Speaker 1: money making conversations, Tamla, what's going on? Hey are you?
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Speaker 1: I'm doing fantastic And I always got a lot to say.
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Speaker 1: When you come on the show, you look fantastic. I
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Speaker 1: see awards behind you. Are they blessings? You know? People
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Speaker 1: always say you know you're you're achieve a certain level.
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Speaker 1: It can be a blessing and a curse. Talk about
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Speaker 1: that experience of being successful talent of Land. Well, I
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Speaker 1: won't say it's a curse, but sometimes you're not gonna please.
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Speaker 1: The thing how I've learned is you're not gonna please everybody,
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Speaker 1: so I enjoy it. I mean, I'm just living, as
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Speaker 1: the kids say, now, I'm living my best life, and
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Speaker 1: I really thank God for the favor that he's giving me.
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Speaker 1: But I mean thank God for the awards. But I
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Speaker 1: don't try not to get caught up into all of that.
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Speaker 1: I just like certain. I just love certain. We're not
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Speaker 1: Look at Tom Brady when he wanted the super Bowl.
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Speaker 1: You know, he said he wanted to win another super Bowl.
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Speaker 1: And that's and I think that's that's what we have
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Speaker 1: to understand that don't hold on what sometimes to what
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Speaker 1: you've accomplished. Look at what you can do. And I've
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Speaker 1: always thought that about you. Know, you know, I love David.
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Speaker 1: Your husbands are deaf. And today I got you by
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Speaker 1: yourself today to talk about the things you're doing for
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Speaker 1: your career, because it always seems that sometimes when you
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Speaker 1: are married, you can get caught up and people just
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Speaker 1: think you can only do things as a pair, you
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Speaker 1: don't have a life. But I've always seen you as
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Speaker 1: an individual and saw him as a successful individual. Talk
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Speaker 1: about that relationship as a couple and then defining yourself
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Speaker 1: as tambla man. As a couple, I can say for myself,
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Speaker 1: I look at us as being a powerful couple because
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Speaker 1: of us believing in supporting one another. And we just
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Speaker 1: try to be examples for other people to see that
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Speaker 1: you can't work together and you know, be some shakers
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Speaker 1: and be some movers to get some things done because
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Speaker 1: we're just really sent to be encourages and as individuals,
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Speaker 1: it works for us because we we're not jealous of
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Speaker 1: each other. We're in each other's corners. We have each
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Speaker 1: other's best interested hard and making whatever that gold is
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Speaker 1: or desire that you have, we want to make it
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Speaker 1: come to pass. For each other, like now David got
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Speaker 1: my career often going, and now I want him. I
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Speaker 1: told him, let's do it. Let's go do whatever you
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Speaker 1: need to do, we want to do. Let's make that happen.
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Speaker 1: And we're just used to allowing each other to have
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Speaker 1: that light. If it's it's time to be in the light,
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Speaker 1: I'm cool with just standing in the background, sharing them
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Speaker 1: on and vice versa. For me, well, the beauty of
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Speaker 1: being in the background. You really ain't in the background, tamer, Okay,
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Speaker 1: you know you're so much. You're in front of me.
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Speaker 1: You're from a lot of people, girl, especially they gospel world,
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Speaker 1: and that's a beautiful thing because we don't know the
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Speaker 1: journeys that we see. We always do is wake up
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Speaker 1: in the morning. We feel blessed because God aloud us.
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Speaker 1: I way tell be A long clock doesn't wake me
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Speaker 1: up God, you know, LO just have to be some
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Speaker 1: physical tool that reminds me that I can get up
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Speaker 1: at a certain time. But I get up. But I
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Speaker 1: look at your schedule and let me just tell y'all
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Speaker 1: something about tell the man when they this hard working
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Speaker 1: should be her middle name. Hard working should be David
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Speaker 1: Mane mid while working on the album Overcome. She filmed
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Speaker 1: two movies, So Sata and the new Tyler Parish movie
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Speaker 1: Mdeal because remember Tyler said he wasn't gonna do Madal
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Speaker 1: no more. Okay, but they roll that check in front
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Speaker 1: of you, make you do a lot of things, make
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Speaker 1: you do a lot of things. Okay. You know what
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Speaker 1: he wanted to bring laughter two And we've been going
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Speaker 1: through so much. She was like, yeah, I just wanted
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Speaker 1: us to get together and made people laugh at me.
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Speaker 1: So he's really this movie is Homecoming, is gonna make
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Speaker 1: y'all la. I'm telling you it's some funny jump going
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Speaker 1: on in this movie. And when y'all see what's going on,
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Speaker 1: Mr Brown, I tell you it's hilarious. I can see.
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Speaker 1: I can see Tyler Perry at the Netflix office right,
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Speaker 1: I ain't ever gonna do uh madea no more then
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Speaker 1: that man said wrote some numbers times. He probably broke
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Speaker 1: out the madea right there? Which I want? Which I want? Girl?
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Speaker 1: Which start calling y'all from Netflix, girl, Mr Brooke, get
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Speaker 1: Mr Browser from get them close out that closet. Mdia
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Speaker 1: is back in the filmmaking business right right. I love it.
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Speaker 1: I love it. Tell us about Soul Santa now, because
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Speaker 1: I mean and that that's the whole soul. Santa is
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Speaker 1: gonna be something really different for us as a couple.
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Speaker 1: We still as a couple, but we have some disagreements
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Speaker 1: going on here. But it's serious. You know, it's a
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Speaker 1: drummer um. Normally, you know we have comedy, uh and drama,
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Speaker 1: but this time it's just more drummer and David is
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Speaker 1: you get to see him in a different light. And
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Speaker 1: I really believe it's a really really cute, loving Christmas movie.
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Speaker 1: It's just gonna put you in a Christmas sphere. Well,
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Speaker 1: you know the thing about that when I talked about
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Speaker 1: like I always look at Kevin Hard and I always
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Speaker 1: telling people Kevin Hodg's gonna win Oscar because you can
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Speaker 1: really act. He's a He structured his career where you
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Speaker 1: can accept him as a comedian and now you can
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Speaker 1: accept him as a serious actor. And and I've always
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Speaker 1: seen David and because he's he's he's he's a person.
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Speaker 1: When you said out and talked to him, you can
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Speaker 1: just see that other side of him because he's not
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Speaker 1: a guy who has to be owned all the time
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Speaker 1: to entertain you. And that allows me to let him
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Speaker 1: know that he can cross over and be serious, he
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Speaker 1: can cross over, be focused, he can he the role.
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Speaker 1: So so when you start seeing him and the script
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Speaker 1: came to you, what were your thoughts of the opportunity
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Speaker 1: and what was his thoughts that he shared with you
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Speaker 1: when he saw he had to do a more serious role.
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Speaker 1: He was He was serious and he was serious of
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Speaker 1: happy about it. And for him to be serious, I
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Speaker 1: mean it was hard on Like when we were recording
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Speaker 1: of Feminine, you know, some things he wanted to bring
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Speaker 1: in some comedy, but he had to really structure himself
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Speaker 1: to just be straight. And um, Terry Vaughan was out
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Speaker 1: directed ball. When I tell you she was working with it.
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Speaker 1: She was like, no, we're not doing anything like sitcoms.
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Speaker 1: It's straight. I don't want no laughter right here. So
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Speaker 1: it was really challenging, but a great challenge for him.
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Speaker 1: And even to the extent that him. You know, he
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Speaker 1: was a drinker in the movie, so he had to
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Speaker 1: be drunk, so that was something totally different from him.
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Speaker 1: So it's crazy, it's really crazy, but he did it.
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Speaker 1: So now that's we got the two movies. We got
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Speaker 1: two seasons. I'll tell my sheep being tam oh Man
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Speaker 1: shot two season of Tyler Peers Assistant Living. Whoa girl? Okay? Uh?
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Speaker 1: How you interview with me? Why you ain't tied? I
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Speaker 1: was tired. I took I took a few breaks breaks,
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Speaker 1: but and then to working on the music. But you
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Speaker 1: You have to just keep going why you can because
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Speaker 1: people don't play, then you play, a lot of people
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Speaker 1: don't do that. They put restrictions on what they can do.
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Speaker 1: I do say, they'll say something like I do it later,
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Speaker 1: or that opportunity they're gonna come back around, and it's
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Speaker 1: not always true. That's not it's not and so that
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Speaker 1: it's not true that it's gonna come back, they may
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Speaker 1: go get somebody else. And that I love about you
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Speaker 1: because I always talk about you being a businesswoman. Was
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Speaker 1: the launch of your clothing line, the Tambla Man Collection,
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Speaker 1: because to me, you know, because you know, I I
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Speaker 1: love seeing talent, I love seeing gifted people, but some
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Speaker 1: people just can see you in that lane and think
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Speaker 1: that's all you can do, And that's all I always
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Speaker 1: champion of you every time I talk to you. We
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Speaker 1: talked business to talk about that whole the Tamla Man Collection.
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Speaker 1: How did it get started and what motivated you to
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Speaker 1: do it? What motivated me to do it was trying
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Speaker 1: to go find some nice things for plus size because
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Speaker 1: you know, a lot of times when it comes to
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Speaker 1: our fabrice, you know, they have some stuff that look
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Speaker 1: like table cloths, and we don't want to look like
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Speaker 1: a table cloth. Don't know, we may be thick. You
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Speaker 1: don't wanna look like we want to look cute too,
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Speaker 1: So I was really tuned in on like the plus
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Speaker 1: size thick ladies. I don't you know, I hate. I
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Speaker 1: don't even like the word plus size. I say thick,
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Speaker 1: you know, nice with our curves everywhere. But whoever we
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Speaker 1: got wherever your curves are, I like that, that's we're thick.
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Speaker 1: So size is two up thirty two. It was for
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Speaker 1: your everyday woman. Something nice and comfortable is what we
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Speaker 1: were aiming for. And the quality it was all. It's
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Speaker 1: all about Templeman collection with the quality of work and
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Speaker 1: how well it's put together. So when I'm talking to
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Speaker 1: my of my young managers, which is my daughter law
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Speaker 1: that runs it and the other lady that helps us
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Speaker 1: with distribution, I'm all about cushing the fabrics that we choose.
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Speaker 1: My daughter helps, my daughter and my daughter and we
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Speaker 1: all three of us and they're younger, so we're trying
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Speaker 1: to help for my age group and the younger age
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Speaker 1: group so we can have something for everybody. So we
15:21
Speaker 1: try to, you know, dress up. I want to be cute,
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Speaker 1: comfortable where it's you can do do your errands, actually
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Speaker 1: work out in it. Those comfortable clothes you just throw
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Speaker 1: on and throw and go and get worried about ironing
15:36
Speaker 1: it things like that. That's how that came about. It's
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Speaker 1: something comfortable and cute for our thick legs. So till
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Speaker 1: David to do the same thing for me, because when
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Speaker 1: I get out of these suits, I just want some
15:49
Speaker 1: comfortable stuff that I can just go out in the yard,
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Speaker 1: or I can just go to the store and go
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Speaker 1: to home deep or go to the Krogers or whatever.
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Speaker 1: Comfortable but look good though I still I have my
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Speaker 1: little style on me, you know, now my flavor. That's
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Speaker 1: what you're saying. Your clothing line is you can look comfortable,
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Speaker 1: you can feel comfortable, but you still look good and cute.
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Speaker 1: The Channel collection, that's what we talked about. Now that
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Speaker 1: now this leads to the song. He did it for me.
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Speaker 1: Now when I when I heard that title, he did
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Speaker 1: it for me. That that that resonated with me because
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Speaker 1: I'm not a person that I'm not I'm telling the
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Speaker 1: straight up for I'm not the Church Gore. I'm not
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Speaker 1: a person can recite quotes from the Bible. You know,
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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna even say that, but that my faith.
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Speaker 1: You cannot question that because I am strong in my faith.
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Speaker 1: I'm strong in my belief that I'm blessed to be here.
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Speaker 1: I wake up because of the mercy of God. My
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Speaker 1: family is here because of the blessings that He had
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Speaker 1: provide for me to be able to take care of them,
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Speaker 1: and the fact that I come home every day. It's
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Speaker 1: tied to his blessings. So when I hear he did
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Speaker 1: it from me, what did it resonate to you? Because
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Speaker 1: you created the song, you've seen the song he did
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Speaker 1: it for me comes from a place I had did this.
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Speaker 1: I had did um an interview and then I heard
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Speaker 1: I got back of someone saying, you know that I'm
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Speaker 1: doing a lot of things and a lot of doors
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Speaker 1: are open it for me, and why is she getting
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Speaker 1: all these things? And it really hurt me to the core,
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Speaker 1: honestly where it brought me to tears where I'm not
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Speaker 1: out here, no one has handing me anything. We're working for.
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Speaker 1: We've worked for everything that we have, and I just
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Speaker 1: I was talking to the producer, which was Phil Briant
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Speaker 1: at the time, and I was like, man, this don't
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Speaker 1: come easy, the gifts that we have, and I just
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Speaker 1: didn't understand why the words were being saying, why is
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Speaker 1: everything coming to her? Why? Like it's I guess it
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Speaker 1: looks easy, but it's not easy for me, and I
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Speaker 1: just don't. I just really I just really didn't understand, honestly.
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Speaker 1: So I was like, it was God did this for me.
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Speaker 1: I didn't do it for myself. It was a favor
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Speaker 1: that He's placed upon my life with the work that
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Speaker 1: I've put in, and that's how he did it for me.
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Speaker 1: Came about that. It's no goodness of my own, but
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Speaker 1: the Lord saw fit to bless me. You know. The thing,
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Speaker 1: The interesting thing about it is that I look at
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Speaker 1: I look at my life, you know, and and I
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Speaker 1: look at your life too, because you know, we've known
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Speaker 1: each other a long time. And when when you're young,
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Speaker 1: you know, when you're young, you're twenties, and third, you
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Speaker 1: don't see forties and fifties. You just don't see it.
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Speaker 1: And then and then I look at young people being
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Speaker 1: successful when their twenties and thirties, and I often think,
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Speaker 1: do they understand how much it takes to get to
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20:52
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21:24
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Speaker 1: have money issues every day. And so you have money, surgery,
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Speaker 1: you that makes you comfortable to talk about it today. Okay, Well,
21:36
Speaker 1: that's how Overcoming came about. The last five or six years,
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Speaker 1: in so much pain, and you know, once but while
21:52
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21:58
Speaker 1: will be hurting me so bad. And after going through
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22:23
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22:33
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Speaker 1: want to complete and finish that that I started. And
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22:49
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22:51
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22:57
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Speaker 1: want to be even though I'm fifty, in my fifties,
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23:16
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23:48
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23:51
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23:55
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23:57
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26:03
Speaker 1: Well if you chold somebody you wrote this with they
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Speaker 1: what they look at you and just pacify you. But
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26:14
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Speaker 1: my exact out as a as a song, right, it's
26:20
Speaker 1: this gonna make sense? I don't know, and I mean
26:23
Speaker 1: me and my daughter was sitting with the producer and
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Speaker 1: he really helped me on. He did it for me.
26:30
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Speaker 1: my words and even with Travis Green, he wrote Finished.
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Speaker 1: hour of what I wanted to talk about it. He
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Speaker 1: took all my words and put them into Finished and
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Speaker 1: the same thing that he did it for me with
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Speaker 1: feel and all of us just working together. It's like
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Speaker 1: he helped my confidence come alive, you know, like dealing
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Speaker 1: with sometimes you know, it takes you switching up and
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Speaker 1: doing some with somebody else to see to stir up
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Speaker 1: the gift in you, you know. And that's what's happened
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Speaker 1: on this album, that I realized that my words can
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Speaker 1: be good, and that that they are important, and that
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Speaker 1: they're not too small, that they can be that they
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Speaker 1: can be used. Absolutely. You know that when she said phil,
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Speaker 1: Franklin knows on the al Travis Green, who I love.
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Speaker 1: the Church Outlaw Todd. The lady tell him Outlaw, that
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Speaker 1: outlaw all your album? Church girl? Huh? Overcome cons He
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Speaker 1: did it for me. I called Ted and I said, Todd,
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Speaker 1: I wanted to talk about finishing. I said, I wanted
27:54
Speaker 1: to talk about the work that we've begun and the
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Speaker 1: of me back, and I was it was a scratch
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Speaker 1: of him playing on the piano, and I said, man,
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Speaker 1: I said, this is it. But we wound up going
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Speaker 1: to Chicago with his band and singers and recording it
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Speaker 1: live with his producer, and man, I tell you, it
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Speaker 1: was so it was like a heavenly experience. And he
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Speaker 1: was in a in a sanctu where with just us
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Speaker 1: and just a very few people that work at the church.
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Speaker 1: But when I tell you, it was like the Lord
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Speaker 1: met us there. And I'm I'm so excited because it's
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Speaker 1: like another side of me that no one's seen or
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Speaker 1: heard on finished work. And I'm just I'm just geet
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Speaker 1: and nervous forever. You know, of course, when you come
28:48
Speaker 1: with new music, you don't know what people gonna receive
28:50
Speaker 1: and all that. But I just believe in my heart
28:53
Speaker 1: that that God has given me it's gonna really be
28:56
Speaker 1: able to bless the people. And that's my goal is
28:58
Speaker 1: to bring hope. It's a ration and let people know
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Speaker 1: that the mercies of God still exist on this earth
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Speaker 1: and everybody is not out to get us, and that
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Speaker 1: we can accomplish those things that God has begun on us.
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Speaker 1: He's a healer that he can heal us of all
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Speaker 1: manner of diseases that's going on in the world. We
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Speaker 1: don't have to walk in fear. If we do, we
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Speaker 1: need to do and do what we're supposed to do.
29:21
Speaker 1: We're gonna work at it. We're gonna be fun Tamla.
29:23
Speaker 1: You know I I Rita Franklin, one of our time favorites,
29:26
Speaker 1: and when she did the amazing Grace and i'mna be
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Speaker 1: honest with you. Um, every time I see you, I
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Speaker 1: see I see that moment. There's gonna be a moment
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Speaker 1: when you're gonna just settle into understanding all your blessings.
29:41
Speaker 1: Like that's why this album is special. Overcome or because
29:43
Speaker 1: you you finally step past the things that said my
29:46
Speaker 1: words have value, you know you can write it down
29:50
Speaker 1: and it can mean something to somebody else because it
29:52
Speaker 1: means something to meet next to that journey you went
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Speaker 1: up to Chicago and get with Tom. The next time,
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Speaker 1: in the room, Philip Bryan gonna, kimbro gonna be in
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Speaker 1: the room with you. And it's gonna be about you
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Speaker 1: telling everybody you know about the King, about he did
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Speaker 1: it for me, talk about the Conqueror, talking about all
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Speaker 1: these journeys that means something. And I just want to
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Speaker 1: let you know this, this album is a blessing for
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Speaker 1: you because finally, I think that's the final step. Because
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Speaker 1: you know, every time I interview you, I'm always I
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Speaker 1: love David, I'm always stepping into you because I know
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Speaker 1: you a person, had all these great talents, you kind
30:36
Speaker 1: of background in a little bit, and David has pushed
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Speaker 1: you out there and finally you fill the annointment of
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Speaker 1: who and what you can be. I just I'm just
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Speaker 1: so happy for you. I am so happy for you.
30:47
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. You look you bring it to me.
30:54
Speaker 1: You know, I know then and then you know, every
30:56
Speaker 1: time I come on this shock, I'll talk about the
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Speaker 1: family because you mentioned your daughter earlier, and you know,
31:01
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Speaker 1: before the pandemic, which all in the country doing there
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Speaker 1: the telling man entertainment to him talk about the family
31:10
Speaker 1: all coming together, how they how they how they went
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Speaker 1: through the pandemic and all that good stuff. Just just
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Speaker 1: talk about the journey that you and your husband are
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Speaker 1: putting together in the future that you're gonna have for us,
31:19
Speaker 1: because we already know you got movies coming out, TV
31:21
Speaker 1: shows coming out, Alvin Overcoma coming out, what's coming out
31:25
Speaker 1: with you in the hood. But I gotta go back
31:26
Speaker 1: to the family or not. And my daughter till the
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Speaker 1: youngest one vocal produced me in the album. She had
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Speaker 1: her hand and everything. Uh and her her boyfriend name
31:38
Speaker 1: is Justin Pearson. They're actually sitting right here with me
31:40
Speaker 1: right now, and it's amazing how they were able to help.
31:45
Speaker 1: They took a relief off of David SR. And they
31:50
Speaker 1: were they stepped into the role, and I mean they
31:52
Speaker 1: really stepped into the role to help me with this thing.
31:55
Speaker 1: And it's been incredible. Just to see her develop and
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32:03
Speaker 1: of us to see that this hidden and fear that
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Speaker 1: into her own And you know, even like everybody, you know,
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32:29
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32:31
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32:34
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32:42
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Speaker 1: stand in our lane to make this thing brow because
32:48
Speaker 1: even as individuals, they have great talents of their own
32:52
Speaker 1: that I really appreciate and thank God for the Lord
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32:58
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33:11
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33:15
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33:19
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