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Troy & Tommi Vincent, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Malinda Williams & Lydia Evans · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: Shan show now, but next years. That's so a long time, okay,
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Speaker 1: my sitcom world. When I was writing back there, Jamie five, Sister, Sister,
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Speaker 1: the Parker, all that good stuff back then before I
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Speaker 1: started managing my man. But next day is a two
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Speaker 1: time in double a CP Image Award nominated actress, producer,
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Speaker 1: Entrepreneurs He is entrepreneur. Having the ability to portray characters
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Speaker 1: ranging from a sophisticated young entrepreneur to a mentally challenged teenager,
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Speaker 1: has branded her as one of the entertainment industry's most
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Speaker 1: well respected actresses. She recently launched shop She's Got a
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Speaker 1: habit dot com, a retail marketplace. I went online and
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Speaker 1: checked it out. And an extension of this is living
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Speaker 1: dot com, a traveling lifestyle website and an e commerce
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Speaker 1: platform that she co founded with her husband, Terek Walker.
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Speaker 1: Please welcome for the very first time I had a
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Speaker 1: drum roll the money making conversations, Melinda Williams anute. First
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Speaker 1: of all, can I get again? I'm gonna work on
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Speaker 1: your rule. It's the funny point of but I never
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Speaker 1: tell my staff, uh, saying who's my point of my
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Speaker 1: producers that I'm gonna do it? Because not consistently. So
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Speaker 1: he's always back to scramming. And when I decide out
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Speaker 1: of my he had to say, drum gonna please, would
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Speaker 1: you just tell me? Brother? Would you just tell me brother?
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Speaker 1: But I'm doing great and you just said that you
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Speaker 1: just left Hot Atlanta before we got on the A.
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Speaker 1: I did. I just left Hot latter we Uh, we
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Speaker 1: were down there for my husband, Terk and I were
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Speaker 1: down there for the Wide Conference, which is rolling out
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Speaker 1: Magazine's conference as well as the Sisters in Business Expo.
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Speaker 1: So we were down there very busy running around in
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Speaker 1: the hot city. But really just you know, having a
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Speaker 1: good time and building our brands in the process. That's key.
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Speaker 1: I like what you said, building brands, that's important. We
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Speaker 1: hear people talking about it all the time. What when
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Speaker 1: you say building your brand, what does that mean in general? Well,
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Speaker 1: here's the thing. You know, we know we're all potential brands,
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Speaker 1: right um. You know, and with the onset of social media,
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Speaker 1: we all have begun to, you know, take branding ourselves
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Speaker 1: a bit more seriously. And you know, as an actress,
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Speaker 1: it's interesting because sometimes people separate them the world of
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Speaker 1: acting or the world the entertainment industry from entrepreneurial um
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Speaker 1: um efforts. As an actress, I've always been an entrepreneur.
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Speaker 1: I've always basically worked for myself, been in business for myself.
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Speaker 1: Now I've been contracted by studios, I've been contracted by producers,
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Speaker 1: but I've always been my own business. And so as
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Speaker 1: an actress, I've always understood that I have to market myself.
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Speaker 1: I have to brand myself because there is no there
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Speaker 1: isn't necessarily a company behind me. I am the company
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Speaker 1: um and so in building everything that I build, all
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Speaker 1: the businesses that I that I have. In the last
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Speaker 1: twelve months, I've launched three businesses and and those businesses
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Speaker 1: are all extensions of who I am, what my personal
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Speaker 1: life is, and you know what I enjoy doing on
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Speaker 1: a daily basis that I would be doing anyway. I've
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Speaker 1: just found ways to turn them into businesses and monetize
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Speaker 1: them so that my lifestyle becomes, um, you know, the
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Speaker 1: way I lived become the way I earn a living,
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Speaker 1: right right. There's there's an interesting thing about it because
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Speaker 1: you're you're, you know, still out there doing your acting
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Speaker 1: things as well as being an entrepreneurs. Have a twenty
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Speaker 1: two year daughter, and I saw the movie and I
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Speaker 1: got to sit down and see the movie that you
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Speaker 1: did on the TV one Love to Death and uh,
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Speaker 1: because you know, I don't know she's out there. I'm
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Speaker 1: hoping she's making all the right decisions, hoping that she's
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Speaker 1: going to meet the right people. When you do a
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Speaker 1: movie like that, does it what impact does it have
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Speaker 1: on you personally? And then people who watched the movie,
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Speaker 1: how do they receive what you're the message you've delivered
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Speaker 1: on the screen. Mm hmm, thank you for that question.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting because, as I said earlier, everything
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Speaker 1: that I do in my businesses is an extension of
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Speaker 1: who I am. I don't make any moves in business
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Speaker 1: that don't uh in, have it in some way or
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Speaker 1: will not in some way impact me personally. At the
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Speaker 1: end of the day, I'm a storyteller, right. I share
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Speaker 1: my stories, my personal stories, my business stories, and I
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Speaker 1: do that through the characters that I play as well
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Speaker 1: as the products that I put out. You know, anything
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Speaker 1: that is an extension of me as part of it
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Speaker 1: is personal to me. Um so. So. Having said that,
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Speaker 1: I took this role because yes, I had had my
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Speaker 1: own experiences with um domestic violence and intimate partner abuse
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Speaker 1: personally as well as you know, one in three women
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Speaker 1: will be abused in her lifetime. You know, Sorry and
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Speaker 1: sad to say it, but um so, I so, almost
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Speaker 1: everyone that I know has either been Every woman that
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Speaker 1: I know has either been abused or has known someone
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Speaker 1: close to them who has been abused. So as as
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Speaker 1: someone who's in the industry, and I feel qualified to
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Speaker 1: play the role, qualified because it came into my experience,
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Speaker 1: as well as qualified because it's what I do, um
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Speaker 1: um as a as an artist, I felt the responsibility
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Speaker 1: to tell the story and and bring a certain authentication
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Speaker 1: to it because of my personal experience. That's really important.
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Speaker 1: And that's why I wanted to at least point that
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Speaker 1: out from a from a personal side, because a lot
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Speaker 1: of times, you know, we just see roles that individuals
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Speaker 1: do and whether they whether they reach to get that
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Speaker 1: emotion where they reach to get a foundation of reality
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Speaker 1: for that to become authentic on the screen. And also
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Speaker 1: in things like that, you know, especially domestic violence. You know,
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Speaker 1: we say one out of three, but that's one of
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Speaker 1: the three that's been reported, all right, and that's that's
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Speaker 1: the scary number. That's the scary number that we have
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Speaker 1: to talk about. But I always want to bring out
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Speaker 1: a group of six sisters and I anything that allows
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Speaker 1: me to communicate a value system of uplifting level of
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Speaker 1: communication about women, I will do it on this show.
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Speaker 1: And I had to bring that out as part of
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Speaker 1: my conversations with you and continue do amazing work like
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Speaker 1: that in the future. Now, thank you, I will thank you.
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Speaker 1: Good good. Now Now okay, now here's your boy. Okay,
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Speaker 1: I am a guy from going with switching gears, going
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Speaker 1: over to the yoga Okay, now, okay, okay, going over
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Speaker 1: to yoga. Okay, Now, what exactly is yoka? What exactly.
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Speaker 1: Oh Man, Yoka is interesting that it's it's it's a lifestyle,
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Speaker 1: it's a practice, it's an ongoing practice. A lot of
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Speaker 1: people when they think of yoga, they think of poses,
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Speaker 1: to think of exercising, They think of you know, great
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Speaker 1: abs and you know and and beautiful arms. But yoga
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Speaker 1: really is a mind, body and soul practice. So you
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Speaker 1: have the mind's part where you are quieting your mind.
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Speaker 1: Still in your mind, you're able to focus um and
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Speaker 1: and and for for us, it's about really focusing so
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Speaker 1: that we can manifest what it is we want to
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Speaker 1: happen in our lives. There's the spiritual part of it.
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Speaker 1: The spiritual practice this where we're recognizing in the world
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Speaker 1: um and trying to be a more loving individual to others,
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Speaker 1: and we're looking to recognize love in in other individuals
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Speaker 1: as well, which obviously that's not the whole of it. UM.
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Speaker 1: And then there's a physical obviously obviously the posing and
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Speaker 1: that's a discipline that, yes, there's a there's a wonderful
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Speaker 1: result in that, you know, you wind up with a
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Speaker 1: with a beautiful, strong, physical um body and presence. But
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Speaker 1: there's so much more to the physical practice of yoga.
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Speaker 1: Than people really truly understand unless they are they are
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Speaker 1: engaging in the practice itself. Now, you started a oneness
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Speaker 1: yoga studios in New Jersey with one of your what
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Speaker 1: your sisters are? One of your sisters. I have two
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Speaker 1: sisters and we're all we're a triangle. We're a partner,
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Speaker 1: just stretching out hot yoga that I hear about the
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Speaker 1: hot yoga too. You've heard about the hot yoga, yes,
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Speaker 1: you know ideally, you know, nobody wants to really practice
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Speaker 1: yoga in the cold, so some of it is practiced
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Speaker 1: at different temperatures. Ours isn't quite like the super hot
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Speaker 1: hot heating like become yoga, but we definitely practice it
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Speaker 1: in a warm studio because it's important for your muscles
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Speaker 1: to be warmed, um, so that you don't injure yourself
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Speaker 1: while you're practicing. Now, let's talk about the website. There's
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Speaker 1: an extension of this is leaving. Yes, that's Shops. She's
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Speaker 1: got a habit and it's and it's really right now,
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Speaker 1: it's it's my baby, right, um, you know, like if
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Speaker 1: this is leaving is my firstborn, Um, my new baby
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Speaker 1: is Shops. She's got to happen and it's really a
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Speaker 1: fashion and lifestyle extension of this is leaving. It's really
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Speaker 1: also a wellness but the emphasis is on women, UM
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Speaker 1: particularly of targeting women of color, because I feel like
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of sites out there who target everyone
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Speaker 1: else and and sort of consider women of color and
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Speaker 1: afterthought like, oh, you can get something here, you can
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Speaker 1: find something. I agree with you because of the fact
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Speaker 1: commerce portals that you're creating, you allowed because one of
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Speaker 1: the questions they sent over to me was talking about
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Speaker 1: using your following into your network to build UH network
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Speaker 1: and uh empowering others to do the same. Now, that's
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Speaker 1: that's a very unselfish statement for you to make. Where
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Speaker 1: does that come from? What does what? What? What? What
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Speaker 1: causes you to make a statement like that about helping
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Speaker 1: other people? My parents, I mean, at the end of
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Speaker 1: the day, my family. It's a reflection of the family
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Speaker 1: that I the way I was raised. I was raised
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Speaker 1: with two sisters, and my father always told us there's
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Speaker 1: nothing more important than your sisters. And so essentially I
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Speaker 1: have an affinity for for for sisterhood, for women and
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Speaker 1: for women of color. And it's a great time for
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Speaker 1: women right now, in particularly for women of color. And again,
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Speaker 1: the way that technology has evolved, it's gotten us to
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Speaker 1: able to do so and and grow ourselves strong. Um together,
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Speaker 1: there you go with Linda Williams. Thank you for coming
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Speaker 1: on my show, Very Powerful. Now I'm gonna being um
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Speaker 1: off to college, I went off to Hampton University because
19:51
Speaker 1: I got a scholarship there for pre mad and I
19:54
Speaker 1: ended up getting gross out when it was time for
19:56
Speaker 1: lab time in my sophomore year and changed my major.
20:00
Speaker 1: When I changed my major it parallel. I actually ended
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Speaker 1: up getting homesick because I had found out there were
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Speaker 1: some new babies in my family. Everyone was sending me
20:09
Speaker 1: pictures and I was like, no, I want to go home.
20:11
Speaker 1: And I ended up transferring into University of Houston, one
20:14
Speaker 1: of the best decisions I ever made. And I am
20:16
Speaker 1: a bona fide coud so I graduated with the I
20:20
Speaker 1: actually switched over to the polar opposite, which was public
20:24
Speaker 1: relations advertising, because I just did not want to see
20:27
Speaker 1: blood and juts anymore. Yeah, but did thing about it
20:33
Speaker 1: is that you switched over. But when I look at
20:35
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20:39
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20:43
Speaker 1: Isn't that crazy? How you just come full circle? I
20:45
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20:48
Speaker 1: and I just laughed at it all the time, Like, boy,
20:51
Speaker 1: you could run, but you cannot hide from your call.
20:54
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you that much. Well, I always tell
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21:00
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21:01
Speaker 1: people that what you these decisions you make in your
21:04
Speaker 1: early twenties, especially in that twenty one twenty to age range,
21:07
Speaker 1: when you when you have that desire to be who
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Speaker 1: you are, your dreams and your visions, that passion of
21:13
Speaker 1: that desire is really I always tell people, don't it's
21:16
Speaker 1: not the resume that you sometimes are working on now
21:19
Speaker 1: or creating now. It's what you wanted to do in
21:21
Speaker 1: your early twenties and when you came out of high
21:24
Speaker 1: school you had this desire to be special and unique,
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Speaker 1: that that that's what you're gonna make money on in
21:29
Speaker 1: your forties and fifties. As you get older, and you're
21:31
Speaker 1: the prime example of that, you're saying that you went
21:34
Speaker 1: to Hampton on those scholarship made and then you you
21:37
Speaker 1: transfer the universe us. But guess what you're doing now, right?
21:41
Speaker 1: I know? And that's so crazy. I'm I'm actually going
21:44
Speaker 1: to be speaking at this conference coming up called the
21:46
Speaker 1: Boss Doctors Conference when I'm speaking on product development of
21:49
Speaker 1: the doctors there and I just last I said, Lord
21:52
Speaker 1: Have mercy, you are so funny. Well, you know that's
21:54
Speaker 1: that that's the beauty of what I try to do
21:56
Speaker 1: with the show. And you're and when I when I
21:58
Speaker 1: you know, I did my little extra digging own individual.
22:00
Speaker 1: They give me the portal with information and I started
22:03
Speaker 1: doing my research. And and then one of my producers,
22:06
Speaker 1: executive producers the show, she's a Hampton grad, so you know,
22:09
Speaker 1: she quick she's quickly the point at that little HBC relationship.
22:13
Speaker 1: You know, that's Samantha Taylor, you know, and so and
22:18
Speaker 1: so it's all a boy menu. It's all about menu. Okay,
22:25
Speaker 1: don't don't go to that Southern chilm just went too
22:27
Speaker 1: far right there. Now, Now when you went to the
22:32
Speaker 1: University Houston, now you said that what exactly is advertising
22:36
Speaker 1: slash pr relationship from the universe Houston? What exactly is that? Okay? Well,
22:40
Speaker 1: advertising relations is more of the forefront of marketing. So
22:44
Speaker 1: marketing is the back in science um communing, you know,
22:48
Speaker 1: like mindset, the numbers and all the rest of that.
22:51
Speaker 1: Whereas with advertising public relations, that's the front end, that's
22:54
Speaker 1: the face of the brand. Um. That's where the ideas
22:57
Speaker 1: that are conceived in marketing come to life. Uh, in
23:00
Speaker 1: a tangible ad or anything like that. Um um, you know,
23:05
Speaker 1: like a like a advertisement, a a campaign, um, a
23:10
Speaker 1: press release. So it's just so funny. How coming full
23:15
Speaker 1: circle as an entrepreneur, Like how detrimental that is to
23:18
Speaker 1: the growth of a brand. And it's the core of
23:20
Speaker 1: my studies and it has helped me a lot when
23:23
Speaker 1: it comes to business. Now here's here's the other layers,
23:26
Speaker 1: because she has so many layers. Remember she went to
23:28
Speaker 1: Hamptons you know, medical scholar ship ready to go out
23:31
Speaker 1: then just heal people. Then she goes your Ris Houston, okay,
23:35
Speaker 1: advertising public relations. Then she gets licensed at the acclaimed
23:39
Speaker 1: Institute of Cosmic Cosmetology and Aesthetics. Why did you make
23:44
Speaker 1: that ship? Because that's the shift it really made you
23:46
Speaker 1: three sixty correct, Yes it is Sean. Actually what happened
23:51
Speaker 1: was all my life suffered from exema um, and then
23:54
Speaker 1: as I got older, what I thought was excellent and
23:56
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23:59
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24:05
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24:18
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24:21
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24:24
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24:27
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24:29
Speaker 1: eczema and then in my scalp aphoriasis. So I just
24:31
Speaker 1: started making my own products while I was working full
24:34
Speaker 1: time in my degree area, which was advertising UM. And
24:38
Speaker 1: so it just kind of I used to hide my
24:41
Speaker 1: arms and legs and stuff all the time. And after
24:43
Speaker 1: I start using my products, I started showing a little
24:46
Speaker 1: bit more skin at works, like wear short sleeve shirts,
24:49
Speaker 1: wear skirts to the knee, um, And my coworkers just
24:52
Speaker 1: kind of took note like okay, letty okay, And I'm like, girl, whatever,
24:57
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25:00
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25:04
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25:06
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25:08
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25:18
Speaker 1: I didn't even know it was right under my nose. Now,
25:20
Speaker 1: miss Evans, Okay, now let's talk about this. You just
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25:47
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25:51
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25:54
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Speaker 1: welcome back to Money Making Conversations. My people t t V.
28:31
Speaker 1: Otherwise try and tell me. I'll ask you boy, it's
28:41
Speaker 1: it's TV. We're back there, hey man, Let's get this
28:46
Speaker 1: out the way right now. Troy Stephen a smith man,
28:50
Speaker 1: go call me up and just start throwing your name
28:53
Speaker 1: out because he's trying to do that to me. You know,
28:55
Speaker 1: like I don't know nobody, you know, and he's gonna
28:57
Speaker 1: throw out your name left and right. I have to
28:59
Speaker 1: stop in middle, I say, I said, that's my boy too. Anyway,
29:03
Speaker 1: you know, you know. Troy said, hey, come on, you
29:04
Speaker 1: need to stop, man, You do you really need to start.
29:07
Speaker 1: We came into the industry together. Come on now and
29:12
Speaker 1: Philly both Philly. I know Philly Rays and Bread, but
29:16
Speaker 1: like you, I can't know you though, and I just
29:19
Speaker 1: check it down. I checked the Troy, I checked, I checked.
29:22
Speaker 1: Thank you. I'm gonna sending this little drop to him,
29:25
Speaker 1: let him know I know Troy now, I also know Tom.
29:30
Speaker 1: We're not vin un Okay, Okay, okay, Tom, Okay, Troy.
29:39
Speaker 1: I'm gonna just change this. Why aren't you five hundred pounds?
29:42
Speaker 1: Because I know who you're sitting next to? Okay, she
29:44
Speaker 1: could cook? What are you doing? Or you portion get
29:48
Speaker 1: me to be on get come on air and talk
29:50
Speaker 1: about the food that my wife cooked. Right, it's not healthy, Okay,
29:55
Speaker 1: the food, the food that she makes, she's not you're
29:57
Speaker 1: not gonna have us. We have pound couple. I say
29:59
Speaker 1: that the food we're not healthy. We not the power
30:01
Speaker 1: company anymo. I'm gonna be on my own. I'm gonna
30:02
Speaker 1: be so loo. But it is healthy. Oh my god. Okay, okay,
30:08
Speaker 1: let's let's back it up there. Let's back it up there.
30:11
Speaker 1: The food that she's eating healthy, but it looks so good.
30:17
Speaker 1: Let me back up. Okay. Now see the food she's
30:19
Speaker 1: always shown me, though I always look like it's restaurant quality.
30:24
Speaker 1: Now is she throwing down that like that for you?
30:27
Speaker 1: Trolling the kids like that too? Chef Tommy V. Sometimes
30:33
Speaker 1: you let me call her Tommy. I mean it just
30:38
Speaker 1: has to be. I mean we isn't. She cooked for everybody,
30:40
Speaker 1: so I mean put that on record. So she cooks
30:42
Speaker 1: for not only myself. She cooks for our children are
30:45
Speaker 1: still at home. She cooks for our grands and we're
30:48
Speaker 1: always having friends and families, family members over. So she
30:51
Speaker 1: cooked for for everybody. The food always the only thing
30:55
Speaker 1: that she didn't got a little pricky a little bit
30:57
Speaker 1: in a little later years in our lives. And I
30:59
Speaker 1: relate ship where we said and grabbed the food with
31:03
Speaker 1: our hands and stuff, right, right right now, everything has
31:06
Speaker 1: to be on the plate with the napkin, with the
31:10
Speaker 1: nice I just want to eat. That makes me. My
31:13
Speaker 1: wife does that too. I was, okay, when did the
31:15
Speaker 1: rules change? I've been grabbing for chicken for years now.
31:19
Speaker 1: I can't just grab for chicken no more. What we'reself
31:23
Speaker 1: time before you eat. We gotta make sure we're taking pictures.
31:26
Speaker 1: And I don't know about lifting my head up. I
31:29
Speaker 1: got some cromebs on the side of my mouth and
31:31
Speaker 1: wipe them with the pis you. I got a camera
31:34
Speaker 1: in front of me or somebody videotape. I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
31:38
Speaker 1: We gotta stop all this. Oh my god, now this
31:41
Speaker 1: this this this comedian who's on the phone right now
31:44
Speaker 1: really is an executive for the NFL. He played in
31:47
Speaker 1: the NFL for fifteen years, a corner back for the
31:51
Speaker 1: Eggs for the egg Now who he's talking about is
31:55
Speaker 1: the queid of the family. Her name is Tommy with
31:59
Speaker 1: an I. No k She cooked, but she gives all
32:03
Speaker 1: there's too she can give off. I met her and
32:05
Speaker 1: she was on the me around. You know, how do
32:07
Speaker 1: you meet somebody, Troy, how do you meet somebody who
32:10
Speaker 1: invites you to lunch and you said, there going. I
32:13
Speaker 1: don't know her that well. She's telling me what to do,
32:18
Speaker 1: but she does it. It's such a uh I don't
32:21
Speaker 1: maybe you can't have me your brother, but she tells me.
32:23
Speaker 1: It's such a weight. I feel like I gotta do it,
32:26
Speaker 1: though you gotta do it or something wrong? Right? Right?
32:29
Speaker 1: Did she give you that look like I'm not gonna
32:31
Speaker 1: get no more in those seconds? Okay? All right, Okay,
32:36
Speaker 1: that makes sense what you're saying. I love it. Okay,
32:39
Speaker 1: now she is not said one word yet. Has he
32:41
Speaker 1: spoken yet? Okay, we spoke for six minutes, so it's
32:44
Speaker 1: time to introduce the queen, the head coach, the head
32:55
Speaker 1: coach of the coach. Okay, she called all the plays
32:59
Speaker 1: you quarterback, sneaks, office and defense special teams. Please welcome
33:06
Speaker 1: to money making Conversation, Tommy Fencing. I was just letting.
33:14
Speaker 1: I was just letting y'all talk, letting y'all do y'all
33:17
Speaker 1: things so I can hear all y'all little jokes and
33:20
Speaker 1: your little nan again. But let me just back it
33:22
Speaker 1: up and tell you why as your wife deserved your
33:27
Speaker 1: food up on the plate, because we desire to make
33:32
Speaker 1: sure you guys are treated with the best care possible
33:36
Speaker 1: because y'all make stuff happen. What can what can and
33:44
Speaker 1: I say now she articulated like that, all we can
33:48
Speaker 1: say is can I get more? Can I get them?
33:54
Speaker 1: You got to make sure you're all good and we're
33:56
Speaker 1: all good. And the thing about it and she's she's
33:59
Speaker 1: she's kind of like getting one of my producers, Tracy Logan,
34:02
Speaker 1: because every time Tracy is around that she's taking photos.
34:05
Speaker 1: Tracy has been to one of her retreats. Tracy was
34:07
Speaker 1: recently up into in New York where a lot of
34:10
Speaker 1: the food neckworks came by and to see her display,
34:14
Speaker 1: because you know, this is this is this is a
34:16
Speaker 1: power couple and uh and I we choked, Troy and
34:20
Speaker 1: I joke, but as a her skills in the kitchen
34:25
Speaker 1: are pretty impressive. And h what she doesn't do that
34:28
Speaker 1: makes you mad. She doesn't do it enough. And social
34:31
Speaker 1: media she doesn't post enough. And we don't talk about
34:34
Speaker 1: that or air, you know, because you know we're talking
34:35
Speaker 1: about business on air. You know. Because Troy he played
34:39
Speaker 1: fifteen years in the NFL, so he still has muscles.
34:42
Speaker 1: I saw him at the Super Bowl in Houston getting
34:45
Speaker 1: over on the wall. He could probably still at tackle
34:47
Speaker 1: somebody and put a little hurting over ra Sean Rashaan.
34:50
Speaker 1: They never played I'm a I'm a TV all pro.
34:54
Speaker 1: I am that I am an NFL Hall of Fame
34:56
Speaker 1: couch potato. I can complain by hits. Why you didn't
35:02
Speaker 1: hear him that hard? But part of some of these
35:04
Speaker 1: hits they've given these days hurt me watching TV. The
35:08
Speaker 1: new YouTube show stay awhile tell me tell me about that?
35:12
Speaker 1: This is funny boy, So say a while is um
35:17
Speaker 1: We just launched it UM three, but I think it
35:20
Speaker 1: was three weeks ago, and it is a YouTube show
35:23
Speaker 1: and it is an open invitation for people to come
35:26
Speaker 1: and have a seat at our dinner table having an experience.
35:31
Speaker 1: But what'd you say with Sean? I said, Wow, that's hot.
35:34
Speaker 1: I need to get that link. Can you can you
35:36
Speaker 1: share me with a link so when it does happen,
35:38
Speaker 1: so I can just let my my my my followers
35:41
Speaker 1: are always well, because that sounds like something that we
35:43
Speaker 1: can like build momentum on. Correct. Absolutely, it's it's myself
35:49
Speaker 1: hosting along with guests. Are our launched video in the
35:53
Speaker 1: series is actually me and Troy cooking some barbecue beef
35:57
Speaker 1: sandwiches and we had and I'm putting it down. I'm sorry,
36:05
Speaker 1: you heard it, Troy. Troy has to learn how to
36:14
Speaker 1: cook because I need him to serve me as well.
36:17
Speaker 1: This ain't no one side of relationships in the marriage.
36:20
Speaker 1: You gotta make sure that he does for you and
36:23
Speaker 1: you do for him. We do things together. So if
36:26
Speaker 1: he don't know something, ladies tell him. Don't just complain
36:30
Speaker 1: and don't just mumble and grumble. Let him know what
36:33
Speaker 1: your needs are. And I need my man to cook
36:34
Speaker 1: for me, so I had to show him how to
36:36
Speaker 1: put it down in the kitchen. But anyway, so on
36:40
Speaker 1: the on the show, it's myself hosting and then I'm
36:43
Speaker 1: in the kitchen with Troy, and then some episodes with
36:47
Speaker 1: friends and the kids or we're going over and teaching
36:51
Speaker 1: recipes along with also incorporating some nuggets of some invaluable
36:57
Speaker 1: life lessons and keep fragments of words that you can
37:02
Speaker 1: take away and apply to your life today to find
37:05
Speaker 1: success where you are. Wow, that's what what? What was
37:10
Speaker 1: the drive to do this type of show? Tommy? You know,
37:16
Speaker 1: it's really important when when you have a platform of
37:20
Speaker 1: any time in my opinion that you use it in
37:23
Speaker 1: a way that has a positive social impact and also
37:27
Speaker 1: show people that they can do things in a positive
37:30
Speaker 1: way and you can have a lot of fun doing it.
37:32
Speaker 1: There's this misconception that somehow wholesome living equates to you're
37:37
Speaker 1: not fun, it's not exciting, you're not having a good time.
37:40
Speaker 1: But that's a lie. There's there's pure and genuine joy
37:44
Speaker 1: and fun in this situation. And any time the family
37:47
Speaker 1: comes together and you've got all those different personalities, you're
37:50
Speaker 1: having a ball. And that's what we're doing. We are
37:53
Speaker 1: having a ball together and just loving on each other
37:56
Speaker 1: and just infuse and hope in one another. I feel
38:00
Speaker 1: you gots are part of my life and on the problem,
38:02
Speaker 1: I just gotta introduced my wife into this relationship so
38:04
Speaker 1: we can all have fun and start laughing together publicly.
38:07
Speaker 1: You know. She just an abstract person over there, you know.
38:09
Speaker 1: And she she texts me after the after the interview, Well,
38:12
Speaker 1: when I'm gonna meet him, you're talking about it on
38:18
Speaker 1: the rady. When When when we're gonna get the Philly
38:20
Speaker 1: wherever they are, When we're gonna meet him? You know?
38:23
Speaker 1: Any time? In closing it's football season, you know, how
38:27
Speaker 1: does the house change doing football season. Well, listen, football
38:36
Speaker 1: is who we are. It's been. Troy and I were
38:39
Speaker 1: raised up in in the NFL. I was nineteen, he
38:43
Speaker 1: was twenty four when we got married, and he was
38:45
Speaker 1: just in the league. Here we go, go ahead, this
38:53
Speaker 1: football football family. Go ahead you fake news, fake news,
39:03
Speaker 1: the money making conversations. This is what we do. Other
39:07
Speaker 1: people news take news, fake news. Will you continue, Tommy.
39:15
Speaker 1: So we have a son that plays high school football,
39:18
Speaker 1: and we have two sons that played college football, and
39:20
Speaker 1: then you've got Troy with you know, the NFL on Sundays,
39:24
Speaker 1: Mondays and Thursdays, and so it's a great time for
39:29
Speaker 1: us to continue that fellowship around food, doing tailgates, and
39:32
Speaker 1: so we're able to travel to different cities. We have
39:37
Speaker 1: RV that we UM utilized to go to the games,
39:43
Speaker 1: and we have the ability to cook our food and
39:47
Speaker 1: eat it on the road and hang out having a
39:49
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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for having me. Good talking abou Where
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Speaker 1: And and uh tell me about what the yet right now,
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Speaker 1: I'm born and raised in Miami, Florida, which is where
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Speaker 1: the suburb of the metropolitan area. And UM, it's about
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Speaker 1: a young man, David, who is just lost his best friend,
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Speaker 1: his closest friend, and is trying to navigate his home
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Speaker 1: life and his rise at a very prominent Magnet school
46:27
Speaker 1: in Miami. UM. So it takes place in the in
46:29
Speaker 1: the in the outer world and the inner world of
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Speaker 1: this fourteen year old black boy on on Wednesdays. Well,
46:36
Speaker 1: you know, it's really interesting. So they're just from a
46:39
Speaker 1: business perspective, Now do you by by taking the show
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Speaker 1: and shooting a movie in Florida or their tax breaks
46:45
Speaker 1: for productions of film and television productions in Florida. No,
46:49
Speaker 1: there used to be there used to be incentives in
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Speaker 1: Florida for filming in Florida as a state. UM, and
46:55
Speaker 1: now there are different municipalities that have taken on trying
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Speaker 1: to make sure that production stay. So Tampa, I know,
47:02
Speaker 1: is trying to make sure that there is UM there.
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Speaker 1: There's a sentence for filming in Orlando, which has Universal
47:08
Speaker 1: Studios and other studios UM Disney for example, try to
47:12
Speaker 1: make sure that when filming happens in the in the
47:15
Speaker 1: area that it is as gentivized. But now we lost
47:17
Speaker 1: that tax break thanks to some wonderful leadership in the
47:21
Speaker 1: government and UM and we we lost a lot of production.
47:25
Speaker 1: So filming in Florida can be costly. But one of
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Speaker 1: the ways in which we UM engaged that is that
47:32
Speaker 1: we hired locally. UM. We had an incredible producer, Wayne Morris,
47:37
Speaker 1: and an incredible crew UM designers and production and crew
47:42
Speaker 1: in Orlando that helped us UM at Universal Studios and
47:45
Speaker 1: off in and around the area. We shot a lot
47:48
Speaker 1: of it on Dr. Phillips High School, which is right
47:51
Speaker 1: there in the middle of Orlando, and we got UM
47:54
Speaker 1: we were able to you know, maintain a budget and
47:56
Speaker 1: some a really great show. But UM it was important
47:59
Speaker 1: to film in Orleans. It was an important film in
48:01
Speaker 1: Florida because one that's where the that's where the piece
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Speaker 1: is set uh and to you know, if if someone
48:08
Speaker 1: doesn't start bringing the business back there, then no one will.
48:11
Speaker 1: And so we what we wanted to do a show
48:12
Speaker 1: folks that there is a cost effective way to bring
48:15
Speaker 1: business back to an area that is really great and
48:18
Speaker 1: probably one of the best places to film. I mean,
48:21
Speaker 1: the weather year round here is incredible. Um. In fact,
48:25
Speaker 1: our current president was trying to start a film, a
48:30
Speaker 1: film company, a film a lot here in Homestead, Florida. Well,
48:34
Speaker 1: I don't know how a lot of that got derailed,
48:36
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48:40
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Speaker 1: To And so you are considered what type of writer?
49:05
Speaker 1: And what of my what kind of writer? And yesterda
49:08
Speaker 1: we drama? Are you just you know, do your screenplays
49:12
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49:15
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49:17
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49:20
Speaker 1: this is a drama that you have on own? Correct?
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Speaker 1: That is correct? Okay? Cool? And now just a series
49:27
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49:35
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49:45
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Speaker 1: the path after you took off. Other individuals schooling successful
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Speaker 1: right people? Which one? Moonlight? Moonlight, Black Boys Look Blue?
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Speaker 1: So in the moon So I wrote in Moonlight when
50:20
Speaker 1: I was twenty two years old. I just graduated undergrad
50:24
Speaker 1: from DePaul University. My mother had died of age related complications,
50:28
Speaker 1: and so I wrote that script, um, because I wanted
50:31
Speaker 1: to make a film or kind of visual depiction of
50:34
Speaker 1: what UM it was like growing up UH in Liberty City, UM,
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Speaker 1: which is where the film takes place, and it was
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Speaker 1: for a very long time. I went on to the
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Speaker 1: Yale School of Drama UM to study UH playwriting and
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Speaker 1: screenwriting and UM. I graduated from there and wrote about
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Speaker 1: six or seven plays UM, and I think I was
51:01
Speaker 1: on my way to UM. I'd come back to Miami
51:05
Speaker 1: and shot a couple of short films that I've written
51:07
Speaker 1: UM with a group called the Borsch Film Festival. Then
51:10
Speaker 1: a man named Andrew Heavier told me about a young
51:13
Speaker 1: young man who also grew up in Liberty City, not
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Speaker 1: three or four blocks away from me, UM, named Barry Jenkins.
51:20
Speaker 1: And Barry had gone on to become a filmmaker as
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Speaker 1: well a creative as well, and he had graduated from
51:27
Speaker 1: Florida State Film UH from the film school at Florida
51:30
Speaker 1: State UM and was in San Francisco making a few films.
51:34
Speaker 1: That had made a film UH recently with Borsch called
51:38
Speaker 1: chlorophill UM that was based in Miami and one of
51:41
Speaker 1: one of the things that Bosch really wanted and similarly
51:43
Speaker 1: to what we talked about with David Msman is that
51:46
Speaker 1: coming back to the city and making h making film
51:49
Speaker 1: and making work there makes you know, bills an industry.
51:52
Speaker 1: And so they had brought Barry back to making film.
51:54
Speaker 1: They've also brought myself back. And while we were here,
51:57
Speaker 1: we didn't talk to we didn't get a chance to
51:59
Speaker 1: meet but um, but through the internet we exchanged scripts. Um.
52:05
Speaker 1: And so Barry had Moonlight for about you know, about
52:09
Speaker 1: a year, and then he reached out to me and said,
52:12
Speaker 1: you know, I think I want to make this into
52:13
Speaker 1: him film. I said, I said, that's great. So that's
52:16
Speaker 1: how that happened. Wow. And so when when when did
52:21
Speaker 1: when he said who want to make this into a movie?
52:24
Speaker 1: Did money run through your mind? The opportunity? What? What
52:28
Speaker 1: were you having any control over the script? Would you
52:30
Speaker 1: be would you be pushed out of the project? What
52:32
Speaker 1: were the thoughts that ran through your mind as a
52:34
Speaker 1: as a as the person who who wrote the script? Um?
52:38
Speaker 1: None of those thoughts were in my mind. In fact,
52:40
Speaker 1: I think maybe naively, I was just I trusted Barry's
52:46
Speaker 1: integrity um, and which you know he has its face,
52:49
Speaker 1: and so none of those things ran through my mind.
52:51
Speaker 1: I thought, you know, here is a feature film that
52:54
Speaker 1: is about a young man coming of age in Liberty City. UM,
52:59
Speaker 1: in the artists of poverty. And people don't even know
53:02
Speaker 1: where Liberty City is. Um. If you told them that
53:04
Speaker 1: was in Miami, half of the people who you asked
53:06
Speaker 1: wouldn't even believe you. Um. And so you know, the
53:11
Speaker 1: venture of it was certainly coming from a personally very
53:13
Speaker 1: personal place. UM. And and the end result there too.
53:17
Speaker 1: And very finally UM, you know, sort of redrafted the
53:21
Speaker 1: script and showed it to me. I was like, this
53:23
Speaker 1: is amazing. It's exactly what we started with and um,
53:26
Speaker 1: it takes that and we've weaves together in a feature
53:29
Speaker 1: length version what we what the voice of the pieces
53:33
Speaker 1: and when we finally shot it, even seeing it, I
53:36
Speaker 1: was like, this is a film that's very much of
53:37
Speaker 1: love letters to the place we grew up. So none
53:39
Speaker 1: of none of the ideas of money and you know,
53:42
Speaker 1: losing losing control ever sort of came came over me.
53:47
Speaker 1: I would tell you this, Uh, your show David makes
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