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Vanessa Bell-Calloway, Kathleen Bertrand, Priscilla Shirer & Tasha Cobbs Leonard · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversations. It's the show that she
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Speaker 1: we come. It's always nice to be introd and uh,
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Speaker 1: good thing said about you though by what you're trying
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Speaker 1: created a show for you. I created a show to
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Speaker 1: give you information, help you digest I guess, um, navigate
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Speaker 1: through the different opportunities that are available to you to
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Speaker 1: be successful. My next guest, so I'm about to bring
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Speaker 1: up on my first guest on the show, is a
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Speaker 1: dear friend in the entertainment business. Um. Wow, she's interviewed me.
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Speaker 1: It's the first time I'm actually interview you and her.
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Speaker 1: I've been on her panels. It's been a great relationship
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Speaker 1: over the years. Sinciety, when I first brought the Neighborhood
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Speaker 1: Awards to Atlanta, Georgia back in when we first really
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Speaker 1: really started establishing our relationship. My next guest is the
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Speaker 1: founder of the Bronze Lens Film Festival of Atlanta, Georgia,
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Speaker 1: is a nonprofit organization founded in two thousand nine that
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Speaker 1: is dedicated to bring in national and worldwide attention to
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Speaker 1: Atlanta as a center for film and film production for
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Speaker 1: people of color. She has received the Spiritual Enlightenment Award
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Speaker 1: from the Trumpets Awards and was honored at P and
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Speaker 1: C Bank celebrates Atlanta's African American creative community. Please welcome
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Speaker 1: to Money Making Conversation. Kathleen Bertrand, good morning, Good morning
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Speaker 1: my friend. How you doing wonderful? So good to hear
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Speaker 1: your boy to be talking to one of my favorite
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Speaker 1: people in the whole world. Well, I appreciate that we've
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Speaker 1: we've I've been fortunate it to be a part of
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Speaker 1: your film festival. I believe I just recently were there
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Speaker 1: with Miss Guy to Behavior, which was at film Festival.
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Speaker 1: I did that with Sharon Thomlinson, a really great project
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Speaker 1: to receive a lot of good reviews and responses, very
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Speaker 1: emotional about bullying in school and that's a big topic.
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Speaker 1: And then I also I believe I had Steve Harvey's
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Speaker 1: uh stand up piece that we shot at Las Vegas. Yah. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: allowed us to present that at a special midnight screening
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Speaker 1: that was at the Absolutely tell us the whole concept.
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Speaker 1: Why an award show this year? Tell us about it? Well,
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Speaker 1: we've actually had an awards show, Rashawn for nine of
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Speaker 1: our years. The first year, um, we get our awards
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Speaker 1: show at a club and we name the winners and
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Speaker 1: called up. But by that second year, we knew we
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Speaker 1: had something special and we needed to honor these people
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Speaker 1: in in the in the correct setting. But it has
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Speaker 1: really he's grown every every year since we've been at
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Speaker 1: dad show. We've been at the High Museum, and this
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Speaker 1: year we're at the Carter Center in the day Auditorium
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Speaker 1: And UH just so tremendously excited about it because it's
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Speaker 1: a concept this year that I've wanted since we started,
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Speaker 1: which was to have that kind of setting kind of
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Speaker 1: like the SAG Awards, where there's some tables that are
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Speaker 1: you know, people are sitting around the tables and then
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Speaker 1: there are others where their seats around them, and so
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Speaker 1: we actually will have that kind of look to the
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Speaker 1: awards this year. And you started off with our filmmakers
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Speaker 1: arriving and getting a chance to encounter Jonathan Slocum. Oh
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Speaker 1: my god, he's such a funny guy, good friend originally
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Speaker 1: Flum Atlanta and a friend of ours for many years.
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Speaker 1: And when our filmmakers arrived on the on the bronze carpet,
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Speaker 1: we make them feel special that this is your night,
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Speaker 1: and h our videography team and our social media team
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Speaker 1: is they're taking their pictures and recording it for social media,
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Speaker 1: and then they go in and we will announce over
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Speaker 1: the course of the night the winner of the Best Feature,
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Speaker 1: the winner of the Best Short. By the way, the
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Speaker 1: winner of the Best Short award will have the opportunity
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Speaker 1: to apply to the Oscars to be in their short
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Speaker 1: Film competition because Bronze Lens is now an OSCAR qualifying
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Speaker 1: film festival for the Short Film award. We will also
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Speaker 1: announce the best doc. Let's let's let's not go past
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Speaker 1: that real fast, Kathleen, Kathleen, Let's not go fast day
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Speaker 1: And you know, okay, that's why you have people like
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Speaker 1: we're sean to slow down when you say great things. Okay,
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Speaker 1: we're Oscar qualifying now people need to hear that. Yes,
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Speaker 1: so we are. We are use our third year as
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Speaker 1: an the Qualifying Film Festival with a Short Film Award,
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Speaker 1: and actually the Bronze Lens a short film winner last
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Speaker 1: year made it into the short list for the Oscars
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Speaker 1: Short Film Award. This past year they made it into
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Speaker 1: the top ten out of forty entries from around the country.
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Speaker 1: So we were very excited about that filmmaker and we're
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Speaker 1: hopefully hopefully this year our winner will will go just
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Speaker 1: as far. Because that's that's that's beautiful, because it's like
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Speaker 1: letting people know that they have because everybody wants to
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Speaker 1: know how they can participate, how they can get in,
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Speaker 1: how they can get their their talents showcase. And you're
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Speaker 1: telling them right now, if you have a short film,
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Speaker 1: you can enter into Bronze Lens Film Festival, and if
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Speaker 1: you win, you qualified to be on the Oscar List.
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Speaker 1: You can qualify to submit to the because that's the
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Speaker 1: only way you can get on it. You can't just
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Speaker 1: well I want to send my you you have to
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Speaker 1: come to one of the one of the approved portals,
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Speaker 1: which Bronze Lens is one of those, one of only
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Speaker 1: two in the state of Georgia. Okay, so this is
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Speaker 1: happening Saturday, August twenty four and hosted by Rodney Perry.
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Speaker 1: Good funny guy, very good actor. You know. So you've
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Speaker 1: got comedy on the red carpet and you've got comedy
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Speaker 1: on your stage. So you're gonna so you're gonna keep
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Speaker 1: everything moving along with energy, that's what you're saying. And
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Speaker 1: we want everybody to feel good. I mean, the awards
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Speaker 1: is the culmination of all the work that a filmmaker
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Speaker 1: has done to even submit. They may have submitted as
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Speaker 1: early as last November, and then they got past the
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Speaker 1: initial screening and made it to the official selections list,
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Speaker 1: and then they got passed that to make it to
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Speaker 1: the being a nominee. So this is the culmination of
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Speaker 1: their Bronze Lens experiences to come to the Bronze Lens Awards.
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Speaker 1: And we are being dressed, uh for than sheep in
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Speaker 1: Black time. So this body is going to be very elegant,
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Speaker 1: you know. Here, that's right, that's right. Now, here's the
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Speaker 1: elegance in the in the cachet of talent. Just keeps growing.
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Speaker 1: Regina Hall. A conversation with Regina Hall again. He has
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Speaker 1: comedian host Kim Cole's comedian Mira J from from the Agent,
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Speaker 1: from the from the Tom John The Morning Show, Fairy
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Speaker 1: talent writer comedian Mira j and Kim Cole again more levity,
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Speaker 1: more energy. Uh, tell us about the conversation with Regina
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Speaker 1: that's happening on Friday, auguste. That's right on Friday there
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Speaker 1: we will have the Women's Superstars Luncheon. This is our
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Speaker 1: signature events for the festival. It's a fundraiser for us
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Speaker 1: and every year, in addition to having a group of
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Speaker 1: amazing honorees like Ava Duvernet or Lynn Woodfield and Margaret
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Speaker 1: Avery who've all been honored by Bronze who lives in
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Speaker 1: the past, we also started about three years ago a
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Speaker 1: conversation with one of those persons that we thought could
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Speaker 1: really pique the interest of the audience. And so this
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Speaker 1: year it is this Regina Hall, most recently of Little
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Speaker 1: and we just have loved her for many years. She
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Speaker 1: actually came to Bronze Lens back in twenty twelve or
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Speaker 1: when we showed Best Man Holiday as our closing sound.
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Speaker 1: Don't forget that. My two movies, my two movies Thinking
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Speaker 1: Like a Man, Thinking Like Man too. Yeah, that's right,
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Speaker 1: thought my love accomplishments under the She's talented. She's one
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Speaker 1: of my favorite people. I'm just letting everybody know. Her
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Speaker 1: resume is extensive. You know, she's been Uh she's at
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Speaker 1: the forefront of what I think. Uh, just just just
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Speaker 1: seeing her talent and just natural. She's you know, talk
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Speaker 1: shows with me. I brought her on the guests and
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Speaker 1: to have a conversation with her. Anybody who's interested in
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Speaker 1: the business, you should go. Because it's about longevity. It's
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Speaker 1: about showing the versatility and and and her acting portfolio.
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Speaker 1: It's what she's gonna what's gonna be revealed. That's Regina Hall.
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Speaker 1: I had a twice in two of my movies that
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Speaker 1: was based on Steve Harvey's book Act Like a Lady,
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Speaker 1: Think Like a Man, and worldwide solo with two hundred
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Speaker 1: million dollars at the box office. That's amazing. I didn't
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Speaker 1: even realize your numbers were like that. Come on, man,
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Speaker 1: come on, you know we land all right. I'm with success.
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Speaker 1: You're celebrating ten years because of the relationship. That's why
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Speaker 1: you're out there at the forefront of being able to
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Speaker 1: promote of uh you know, projects of people of color
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Speaker 1: getting there, to get the ideas out there, because if
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Speaker 1: we carry a major value at the box office. You know,
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Speaker 1: people know that African Americans or minorities watch TV, but
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Speaker 1: at the box office we are a force because when
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Speaker 1: you go to the box office, Mojo or deadlines there
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Speaker 1: breakdown the percentage of people uh ethnicity they go to movies,
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Speaker 1: they said, like, was af Caucasian white, or they said
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Speaker 1: was African Americans. So they do play up. They do
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Speaker 1: understand the value of who watches certain types of movies,
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Speaker 1: and that's why it's important. What you're doing is amazing
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Speaker 1: and so Regina Hall is on Thursday. On Friday, August
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Speaker 1: twenty thirties, Women's Superstars launching It's a big fund raising
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Speaker 1: for you. On on Saturday as the tint annual Bronzel
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Speaker 1: As a War Show hosted by my Man Rodney Pay
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Speaker 1: with Johnason slogan on the red carpet. Then on Wednesday,
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Speaker 1: I will be there opening night film Don't Let Go
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Speaker 1: tell us about the Oscar winner that will be there. Well,
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Speaker 1: David or Yellow Row will be with us for his
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Speaker 1: brand new film which has not been in the theaters yet.
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Speaker 1: So this is a an Atlanta premier. Uh don't let go.
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Speaker 1: Co stars David and also Storm Read the young lady
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Speaker 1: that was the lead in Ava du Berns Wrinkle in Time,
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Speaker 1: and we're so excited to have this opportunity to open
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Speaker 1: up the festival with a studio film. Every now and
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Speaker 1: then we get we kind of you know, the stars
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Speaker 1: aligne and we get a chance to open with a
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Speaker 1: studio film, and so this is that film for us,
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Speaker 1: will be at Landmarks Midtown Theater and we're just very
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Speaker 1: excited because having a star like David who has done
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Speaker 1: so much work, and he's going to be receiving an
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Speaker 1: award from Bronze Lens, our Trailblazer Award on his path
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Speaker 1: as a classically trained actor who has just done so
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Speaker 1: much and inspired so many of us with his career choices.
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Speaker 1: film success in it, I guess we have to see
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Speaker 1: that I am in my natural self, created in the
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Speaker 1: image of God, which means I don't have to chemically
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Speaker 1: alter myself to fit in with the paradigm of sameness
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Speaker 1: that is celebrated in our culture as a standard of beauty.
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Speaker 1: And and in other words, that was my struggle my hair.
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Speaker 1: But I kind of opened that up than the question
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Speaker 1: to the reader what's your story, because all of us
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Speaker 1: have in our physicality and in our personality something that
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Speaker 1: maybe the culture hasn't celebrated, or where we have felt
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Speaker 1: rejected or teased because we don't look a certain way,
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Speaker 1: is more broad than another, and we wanted to be different.
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Speaker 1: And so I just talked about how we are literally
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Speaker 1: created in the image of God, and that every aspect
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Speaker 1: of our uniqueness is intentionally designed to reflect God in
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Speaker 1: a way to our sphere of influence, in a way
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Speaker 1: that can't be done unless we just go ahead and
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Speaker 1: be ourselves. So God intended for us to look this way.
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Speaker 1: And so the book again is designed for a young
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Speaker 1: woman to be able to grab hold of it, read it,
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Speaker 1: and enjoy seeing herself in everything single chapter. That's important
20:56
Speaker 1: because of the fact that I constly talked to my
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Speaker 1: daughter about who she is and what she can be about,
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Speaker 1: never never um talking about her physical appearance, uh, never
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Speaker 1: engaging it as a point. You know that she should
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Speaker 1: be concerned about how how she needs to look. You know,
21:15
Speaker 1: I talked about being a professional, how she needs to
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Speaker 1: show up for work when she goes to work, she
21:20
Speaker 1: needs to show up for an interview, when she goes
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Speaker 1: to church. But her everyday life should be her own path.
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Speaker 1: And so when I hear you talk talk about the
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Speaker 1: importance of allowing young ladies with proper guidance to be
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Speaker 1: young ladies, absolutely well Again centers in on really having
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Speaker 1: a discussion with the Lord over the course of your life,
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Speaker 1: to say, Lord, on a consistent basis, Lord, what is
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Speaker 1: it that are your priorities for me in this season
21:47
Speaker 1: of life? And then to be tender enough to just
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Speaker 1: kind of take counsel with that inner conviction. I mean,
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Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit speaking to us all the time. If
21:55
Speaker 1: we'll pay attention, there are little things of conviction. When
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Speaker 1: we're headed in a direction that don't feel right. There
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Speaker 1: are little um nuances of peace even when we're you know,
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Speaker 1: headed in a direction that other people don't applaud, but
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Speaker 1: it just settles well on the inside of us and
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Speaker 1: aligns with His word. If won't pay attention, we'll find
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Speaker 1: that he is guiding us into the direction of God's
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Speaker 1: be women who and men who choose to continually ask
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Speaker 1: God Today, Lord, I'm surrendered to you in this season
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Speaker 1: of my life, like for your daughter in my college career. Lord,
22:28
Speaker 1: I'm surrendered to you. So I'm gonna keep touching base
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Speaker 1: with you to let you know that I've surrendered my
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Speaker 1: full self, my mind, my body, my emotions, my ambitions.
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Speaker 1: I've surrendered them to you for your purposes. And then
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Speaker 1: I'm going to take a moment to pause and check
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Speaker 1: the direction of the Holy Spirit on the inside of
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Speaker 1: me as you lead and guide me into your will
22:48
Speaker 1: for my life. Okay. Now, so, um, I need to
22:53
Speaker 1: put you on tape so I can just pay you
22:56
Speaker 1: back like you know once a more, you know, so
22:58
Speaker 1: you just keep you going. I'm gonna put you I
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Speaker 1: my little you know, my little inspiration because you're you
23:06
Speaker 1: are an inspiration. You know, we're with It's it's amazing
23:08
Speaker 1: we've you've come on my show. We've talked about the
23:11
Speaker 1: movie Overcomer, which was coming out this month and the
23:14
Speaker 1: month of August on the twenty three must see movie.
23:17
Speaker 1: The movie there moved me and I uh and I
23:20
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23:23
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23:32
Speaker 1: the people were taking their time to come on my show.
23:35
Speaker 1: And when I watched things like that, movies that affect
23:38
Speaker 1: me as I go through because I'm not I don't
23:40
Speaker 1: even I don't have any reviews on this movie, you know,
23:43
Speaker 1: and quite frankly, I may not know all the actors
23:45
Speaker 1: and actors because these level of movies. You know you're
23:47
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23:49
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23:51
Speaker 1: gonna see you know, Mad Damon in these movies. That's that.
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Speaker 1: That's these movies on budgeted like that, these budgets at
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Speaker 1: a certain level, the quality is amazing. The storyteller telling
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Speaker 1: way this book radiant. I didn't even see this from coming.
24:09
Speaker 1: And it impacts young women today who with social media
24:14
Speaker 1: can be so easily damaged by a post, be bullied
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Speaker 1: by post to be, their lives can be, a video
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24:26
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24:28
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24:34
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24:38
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24:43
Speaker 1: growth and her emotional growth or physical growth, and more
24:47
Speaker 1: importantly her spiritual growth. Well, man, I sure do hope.
24:51
Speaker 1: So I have prayed to that end that the Lord
24:53
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24:56
Speaker 1: a woman that's coming along up behind me. Awesome, what
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25:03
Speaker 1: we're about absolutely, it should be anywhere books are sold.
25:06
Speaker 1: But you know, our ministry is going beyond ministry, so
25:10
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25:12
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25:16
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25:38
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25:40
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25:43
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25:45
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25:48
Speaker 1: love the diversity in this film that you're going to
25:50
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25:54
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25:56
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26:03
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26:05
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26:09
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26:12
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29:04
Speaker 1: it's important to be a businesswoman as well as a talent.
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Speaker 1: Because a lot of people, I think the really uh
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Speaker 1: that old you know statement that you know, we're just
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Speaker 1: in here for the art has changed. We're in here
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Speaker 1: for the business and the art. Yeah, and it has
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Speaker 1: social media changed that it was just always there, but
29:23
Speaker 1: social media just helped to get there faster. You know what.
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Speaker 1: I I believe both. I believe it was always there.
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Speaker 1: I've always been. My brother used to have his own
29:33
Speaker 1: going joke when I was I was very young, and
29:36
Speaker 1: he would saying, you are the richest person I've ever
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Speaker 1: seen with no job. But I always found a way,
29:43
Speaker 1: even when I was younger, you know, to to make
29:46
Speaker 1: a means for myself outside of what my parents provided.
29:50
Speaker 1: I felt that it was very important, um, that I
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Speaker 1: do something to provide for myself. And it started at
29:57
Speaker 1: a very young age. But I will say this, um
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Speaker 1: with social media, back when I released my first independent
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Speaker 1: project that a lot of people still asked about to
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Speaker 1: this day. Honestly, you know, I did it all. I
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Speaker 1: started my own website, I put my own record on
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Speaker 1: tune Core. You know, I did all of the groundwork
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Speaker 1: and I will forever um respect those days. I believe
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Speaker 1: that I am able to do what I do now
30:26
Speaker 1: because I did the groundwork then. And so I put
30:29
Speaker 1: that album out on my face. At the time, it
30:33
Speaker 1: was my Space, YouTube and iTunes, and that album just
30:38
Speaker 1: really blew my mind. I didn't think so many people
30:40
Speaker 1: would respond, and so honestly, yes, it's it's dual. I am.
30:44
Speaker 1: I've always had like this entreprepreneurs thing on me, but
30:48
Speaker 1: also social media helped me to push and to market
30:51
Speaker 1: my brand. It's really interesting because a lot of people
30:56
Speaker 1: used to worry a blessing us faith or going out
30:59
Speaker 1: on faith. But it's also about effort and also believe
31:03
Speaker 1: it in yourself and this is your vision because a
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Speaker 1: lot of people can tell you you're wasting your time.
31:09
Speaker 1: And I know I've heard that a lot of my career.
31:11
Speaker 1: And I'm sure if people have told you you you
31:13
Speaker 1: looked this way, nothing's gonna happen for you, you talked
31:17
Speaker 1: this way, nothing's gonna happen for you. And why you
31:19
Speaker 1: put that on my space? Don't abody know you? Don't
31:21
Speaker 1: nobody know you? And so and so. Isn't it amazing
31:26
Speaker 1: that you you you put your music? You're not known artists,
31:30
Speaker 1: and hustle got it out there called on favors? And
31:34
Speaker 1: what did happen when you start seeing the views the plays?
31:38
Speaker 1: What was that? What was running through your mind when
31:40
Speaker 1: that was happening? You know what? And I think I
31:44
Speaker 1: have to go back to something you said, because that
31:46
Speaker 1: is so true about having faith. Yes we have faith,
31:48
Speaker 1: for the Bible also said that faith without works is dead.
31:53
Speaker 1: You can't have faith all day, but if you don't
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Speaker 1: get up and do something it's so. I appreciate you
32:00
Speaker 1: for saying that. But when I started seeing more and
32:03
Speaker 1: more people purchased the album, be interested in the album
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Speaker 1: post about the album, it actually gave me more courage
32:10
Speaker 1: to do more. You know. When I started seeing people
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Speaker 1: and how they were being blessed by what they heard
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Speaker 1: or you know, what they saw for me, it gave
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Speaker 1: me all of the ammunition I needed to say, Oh,
32:22
Speaker 1: I need to get up and do a little bit more,
32:24
Speaker 1: because I'm the kind of person you know, when I
32:26
Speaker 1: read that scripture that says faith was our works is dead.
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Speaker 1: To me, that says get up and do something. So
32:32
Speaker 1: the more I see the faith working for me, the
32:34
Speaker 1: more I want to do. That's the kind of person
32:36
Speaker 1: I am. So I you know, they used to say
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Speaker 1: this thing in church back in the day, Um, you
32:42
Speaker 1: take one step and God to take two. So I'm
32:44
Speaker 1: always about taking that first step and letting him do
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Speaker 1: what he does, you know, after he sees me operating
32:50
Speaker 1: my faith. So that's just the way I think. So
32:53
Speaker 1: my response to people, um being blessed by my album
32:56
Speaker 1: at first when it was it gave me all that
32:59
Speaker 1: I need you to keep doing more work. And I
33:01
Speaker 1: think that's important for you to say that because I
33:03
Speaker 1: always tell people that. First of all, you're absolutely correct
33:06
Speaker 1: when you say by doing it yourself, you understand how
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Speaker 1: far you're willing to push yourselves and also how far
33:13
Speaker 1: you want to challenge the people who say they want
33:15
Speaker 1: to do the same thing for you. You know what
33:17
Speaker 1: I'm saying, because you have to get out the way personality.
33:21
Speaker 1: Excuse me, I do that. Don't worry about it. That's
33:25
Speaker 1: how first you're gonna move. That's how first you're gonna move. Okay, cool,
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Speaker 1: I got this, I got this, I got this. And
33:30
Speaker 1: that's important because it gives you the conference to say,
33:33
Speaker 1: I know how this is, the how this is done.
33:36
Speaker 1: I know how much effort needs to be put in
33:37
Speaker 1: it for me to be happy. Now, if you're not
33:39
Speaker 1: gonna put effort in to make me happy, that means
33:42
Speaker 1: that you satisfy and you reach your satisfied, satisfying point
33:46
Speaker 1: in your life, then guess what I'm done with you
33:50
Speaker 1: somebody that's coming in the room, because that allows that
33:53
Speaker 1: that business had of yours to come on board. And
33:55
Speaker 1: I let me tell you, sometimes I always admire people
33:59
Speaker 1: like you who who get it at such an early age.
34:02
Speaker 1: You know, and I admit that I am talented. I
34:05
Speaker 1: will admit that I see things uniquely, Uh do a
34:09
Speaker 1: unique mirror or glass or a window, and and and
34:13
Speaker 1: I'm able to figure out things a lot faster than
34:16
Speaker 1: most people. But I didn't understand who I was an
34:20
Speaker 1: early age. I just knew people just people just told
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Speaker 1: me I was talented. And people just told me that, hey,
34:26
Speaker 1: stopped doing that. You're gonna be better than that. Stop that,
34:28
Speaker 1: stop being stupid, stop that. You know you're going to
34:31
Speaker 1: be better than that. People just protected me and told
34:34
Speaker 1: me just you know, it just kept me in live.
34:37
Speaker 1: And then but your brother said, hey, he knew you,
34:41
Speaker 1: he knew you had a passion to be different. Absolutely,
34:46
Speaker 1: who pushed you? What? Well? Under this? I know it's
34:48
Speaker 1: all starts with the parents, But did you see something
34:50
Speaker 1: when you're inspired by something? What what drove you? Wow?
34:55
Speaker 1: I actually came from a family of just ambitious p
35:00
Speaker 1: for you know, they're very talented. My entire family things
35:03
Speaker 1: that play instruments. You know, they're educators. They believe in
35:09
Speaker 1: education and doing what you're calling to do. So I
35:12
Speaker 1: had a family. It's good to have a family unit
35:15
Speaker 1: of people. And then that doesn't necessarily have to be blood,
35:18
Speaker 1: but surrock tell people all the time, surround your people,
35:21
Speaker 1: yourself around people. Some of them may know who you
35:24
Speaker 1: are before you know who you are. And I always
35:27
Speaker 1: want to surround my people, myself around people who know
35:30
Speaker 1: more than me. If somebody told me the other day,
35:32
Speaker 1: if if you know the most in your circle of friends,
35:35
Speaker 1: and you need to get some new friends, because you
35:38
Speaker 1: have to have people in your life who are always
35:40
Speaker 1: sharpening you, always pushing you to be greater, always stretching
35:43
Speaker 1: you to do more. And if you don't have that
35:45
Speaker 1: person in your life, you know, you kind of hit
35:48
Speaker 1: a glass ceiling. You are a business woman. If you
35:50
Speaker 1: didn't do gospel music, you you're so where You're gonna
35:53
Speaker 1: be somewhere successful. You always shut it down. I don't
35:59
Speaker 1: care if i'd be am real estate uh broker. You
36:03
Speaker 1: gotta do because you you got that, you got a
36:05
Speaker 1: sense of the work ethic. You know, and then and
36:08
Speaker 1: then I also you understand relationships. You also understand that
36:11
Speaker 1: I will not walk into the room and be the
36:13
Speaker 1: smartest person by something I don't know. Yes, correct, you
36:17
Speaker 1: have to sometimes you gotta learn to be quiet and listen,
36:20
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes we just try to talk too much
36:22
Speaker 1: and prove how smart we are. But sometimes you need
36:25
Speaker 1: to walk in the room and be quiet and listen.
36:27
Speaker 1: I'm gonna they used to call me, even at my labels,
36:29
Speaker 1: they say she's like a sponge. I will sit down
36:32
Speaker 1: and soak everything up, you know, to see how it's
36:34
Speaker 1: gonna help me become who I'm supposed to be. Happened.
36:37
Speaker 1: But he said this the other day. I'm gonna leave
36:39
Speaker 1: this or having done everything I was supposed to do,
36:42
Speaker 1: I am. That's me right there, ra Sean McDonald with
36:45
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36:48
Speaker 1: We're gonna be gray by grade, baby, and we're gonna
36:51
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37:00
Speaker 1: about this next. I got six sisters. I want I'm
37:03
Speaker 1: passed away, but I always have six sisters. They look curvy,
37:06
Speaker 1: they look curvya. I love that look curving, you know,
37:10
Speaker 1: And so you got this live for curves. So so what,
37:15
Speaker 1: okay do you don't know? If I gotta ask you
37:17
Speaker 1: this question to develop an ethletic line. Do you work out?
37:22
Speaker 1: I absolutely do. I have a trainer, I sure do.
37:24
Speaker 1: I know people don't believe big girls workout, but we
37:26
Speaker 1: can be healthy too. That's what I'm I'm wanting to push.
37:30
Speaker 1: I want I've seen so many curvy girls because I
37:34
Speaker 1: released this line. They have the courage now to stand
37:37
Speaker 1: up and say, yeah, I work out. You know, yes,
37:41
Speaker 1: you know I do. I eat healthy. But sometimes some
37:43
Speaker 1: of us say used to say this back in the day,
37:45
Speaker 1: some of us just big bone girls. Absolutely absolutely, but
37:48
Speaker 1: I believe you can be healthy. You can ask my
37:50
Speaker 1: doctor right now. I have no health issues whatsoever. I'm
37:54
Speaker 1: a curvy girl and I believe and eat it right.
37:56
Speaker 1: You know, I'm gonna eat me a piece of cake
37:58
Speaker 1: every now and then. But for the most part, you
38:00
Speaker 1: gotta stay with your regiment. You gotta make sure that
38:03
Speaker 1: you're taking care of your temple. God gave us one body,
38:06
Speaker 1: you know, He gave us one one life to live,
38:09
Speaker 1: and you have to make sure you're taken care of it.
38:11
Speaker 1: And in terb athletics. I wanted to push that. You know.
38:15
Speaker 1: The the the honest story behind this is I was
38:18
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38:24
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38:27
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43:07
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43:10
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43:13
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43:38
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Speaker 1: Bill Callaway, Hey, good morning, how are you awesome? Awesome?
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Speaker 1: Thank you for coming on the show today. UH So,
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Speaker 1: it's a lot to talk about and we're gonna jump
44:15
Speaker 1: right into the h The Saints and Center's showed that
44:18
Speaker 1: uh has been what's this the fourth season? Correct? The
44:21
Speaker 1: fourth season on Bounce TV yes Sundays at nine pm,
44:25
Speaker 1: eight Central Time. If you haven't seen it, you could
44:28
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44:31
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44:36
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44:38
Speaker 1: on Hulu right when it ends. But I see on
44:42
Speaker 1: Sunday nights at Bounce. But I tell you you don't
44:44
Speaker 1: want to miss this show. It is something else is
44:46
Speaker 1: quite a rise. Now you play the mayor. You play
44:49
Speaker 1: the mayor, and which is ronic? You know it's a
44:51
Speaker 1: Georgia mayor and Gose, the mayor of Atlanta is also
44:54
Speaker 1: a female mayor. Do do anyway? You know? I know
44:57
Speaker 1: that's that's because it feels timely. That feels like, you know,
45:00
Speaker 1: like you guys saw the future with this particular show.
45:03
Speaker 1: Uh when you when you realize that that that that's
45:05
Speaker 1: a real life relationship, does it affect how you play
45:08
Speaker 1: the role on TV? No? Oh no, not at all.
45:11
Speaker 1: But I'm so glad that you don't. Mar Keisha is there.
45:14
Speaker 1: But uh, actually, my character Lady Ella started out being
45:17
Speaker 1: the first lady of Greater Hope Baptist Church and in
45:21
Speaker 1: our very first episode of our very first season, my husband,
45:25
Speaker 1: which was played by Richard Lawson, was murdered, so it
45:27
Speaker 1: became a who've done it? And then lady Ella is
45:30
Speaker 1: very greedy. I don't. She just has a lot of
45:34
Speaker 1: a lot of goals. She was three, Like you were
45:36
Speaker 1: just talking about Rashane, about you know, being your best,
45:38
Speaker 1: your fullest potential, reaching your goals. It's about relationships. Well,
45:42
Speaker 1: she has a lot of great relationships, but the difference
45:45
Speaker 1: with her and she's kind of squeezes those relationships to
45:48
Speaker 1: get what she needs, couping people and to progress her career.
45:52
Speaker 1: So she wasn't quite satisfied with being just the first lady.
45:55
Speaker 1: She had her i on being mayor and now in
45:58
Speaker 1: season four, she has her eye on being senator. She's
46:01
Speaker 1: trying to be a senator. So I said, if the
46:03
Speaker 1: show keeps going by season six, who homes I might
46:06
Speaker 1: be the president of you Now you go there, you
46:08
Speaker 1: go there, You're gonna do? Okay? Uh that I love
46:13
Speaker 1: the fact. First of all, I love the energy and
46:15
Speaker 1: your voice when you start talking about arc because obviously
46:17
Speaker 1: you're having a lot of fun playing this character. Oh
46:20
Speaker 1: she's deliciously wicked. I mean, you know, as an actress,
46:24
Speaker 1: you only pray for fun rows like this you get,
46:27
Speaker 1: you know, and it's nice to play multi fascinating characters
46:30
Speaker 1: and Lady Ellen definitely falls in that category. He's just
46:34
Speaker 1: not one note. You know, she's a mother, and she's
46:37
Speaker 1: a wife, and she's you know, of course brother the city.
46:40
Speaker 1: But she's got a lot of not going on, a
46:42
Speaker 1: lot of demons. So you know that's fun because you
46:45
Speaker 1: get a chance to think your teeth into something and
46:47
Speaker 1: just um, just that fun with it, you know, right,
46:50
Speaker 1: And so when you're when you're doing when you look
46:53
Speaker 1: at the ratings and I was sent me the press
46:56
Speaker 1: kid and everything and saying how good the show is
46:58
Speaker 1: doing up against this compet Tiian And that's really a
47:01
Speaker 1: testament to the characters on the show, the script's development,
47:06
Speaker 1: and also the brand and the marketing. And so because
47:10
Speaker 1: you know, you know, Bounce is not a upper tier
47:12
Speaker 1: network and that syndicated. So to be able to compete,
47:17
Speaker 1: how does that make you feel about you being a
47:20
Speaker 1: person on the show and then able to to be
47:22
Speaker 1: able to develop a brand that people are just resonating
47:25
Speaker 1: with the viewers out there. Well, you know, I think
47:29
Speaker 1: that it says a lot of things also, just like
47:31
Speaker 1: you said, and also says that you know, because in
47:34
Speaker 1: the African American you know, in our community, yes, we
47:38
Speaker 1: are like very high rated in our time slot from
47:42
Speaker 1: eighteen to forty five. And that's also a wide range
47:45
Speaker 1: of people watching our shows eighteen to five, a lot
47:48
Speaker 1: of different ages like that show, and um, you know,
47:52
Speaker 1: this is our fourth season and we kind of came
47:54
Speaker 1: out to the ground running even Yeah, we were getting
47:57
Speaker 1: very very good numbers. So that tells you that black
48:00
Speaker 1: folks we want to see us. They're tired of looking at,
48:03
Speaker 1: you know, shows where they don't have no black friends.
48:06
Speaker 1: And although things have changed in the TV sectum, you know,
48:10
Speaker 1: things have changed and we have more programming now and
48:12
Speaker 1: more UH channels and more TV shows, but still the
48:15
Speaker 1: folks want to see them, you know. So it's a
48:18
Speaker 1: lot three tid especially since there is so much more
48:20
Speaker 1: programming now for them. I find I call us a
48:22
Speaker 1: little enginet, could we just because you're right, Bolence are small,
48:26
Speaker 1: it's not a big station. Then you gotta find it
48:29
Speaker 1: so that that's really a compliment because you gotta want
48:31
Speaker 1: to see us too, you know. You gotta want to say,
48:34
Speaker 1: and a lot of people don't have it says a
48:36
Speaker 1: lot of things about the economy as well. A lot
48:39
Speaker 1: of people are getting rid of the hbos and the
48:40
Speaker 1: showtimes and all that because they can't afford those cable
48:43
Speaker 1: packages anymore. My mother is going through that right now.
48:46
Speaker 1: She's trying to find a better way watch TV because
48:50
Speaker 1: she can't as a scene, and she can't afford almost
48:52
Speaker 1: two hundred dollars a month, you know, between her internet,
48:55
Speaker 1: her phone bill and okay, well she can't afford that.
48:57
Speaker 1: So it says a lot right now about people are
49:00
Speaker 1: finding our show because it's economically, you know, easy for
49:04
Speaker 1: them to find it. So the entertainment is what they
49:06
Speaker 1: want to see. You know, it has something for all
49:10
Speaker 1: the ages and they you know, and they like it's
49:14
Speaker 1: a compliment the Bounce. They like the product a Bounce
49:16
Speaker 1: was putting out. So it feels really good. And yes,
49:18
Speaker 1: the cast was good. You know, I'm leading the cat
49:21
Speaker 1: and I think we do a great job and we
49:23
Speaker 1: have a great time on set where we work. So
49:25
Speaker 1: it's it's saying a lot right now, and we're very
49:29
Speaker 1: proud of the show and we just want to see
49:30
Speaker 1: if it grows. And if you want to see season five,
49:32
Speaker 1: I got let bound because we don't know if we're
49:34
Speaker 1: coming back yet, of course, so if anybody out, if
49:37
Speaker 1: you want to season five, you need to let Bounce. No,
49:40
Speaker 1: come on, then we're gonna let that. We're talking. I'm
49:41
Speaker 1: talking to a very talented Vanessa Bell Calloway, the star
49:45
Speaker 1: of Bounce TV Saints and Centers, where she plays uh
49:49
Speaker 1: Mayor Ella Johnson. She elevated from the first lady. Now
49:52
Speaker 1: she's the mayor. Now she's gonna run for state senators.
49:55
Speaker 1: So we want to get to season six when she
49:57
Speaker 1: pursues and kicks Trump out of the White House. There
50:03
Speaker 1: you go. I want to sit it out there for that.
50:06
Speaker 1: So I would say out there because you know, because
50:11
Speaker 1: you know your your life is about being balanced, about
50:13
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50:18
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50:21
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50:23
Speaker 1: didn't see it coming. Does anybody here see bad news coming?
50:27
Speaker 1: First of all? And when when you when it comes
50:29
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50:31
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50:37
Speaker 1: and so I didn't understand. I had to understand how
50:39
Speaker 1: does this type of news fit in that? Unfortunately, Uh,
50:43
Speaker 1: you know, UH had the surgery and everything. He's successful
50:47
Speaker 1: and and do my checkups every year, and I'm in remission.
50:50
Speaker 1: It's not only about cancer, you know, we're talking about
50:52
Speaker 1: you know, AIDS and diabetes and heart disease. We're gonna
50:56
Speaker 1: cover all things healthy because it all comes and it
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Speaker 1: all links. Canceling all this some links together, you know,
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51:05
Speaker 1: the doctors on a regular basis in our community, learning
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Speaker 1: how to value back going to see your physicians regularly,
51:11
Speaker 1: Like right now, when I finished with you, Randy refinished
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51:17
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Speaker 1: just called I'm on my way to my general practitioner.
51:22
Speaker 1: And then later on I'm saying one of my camper's doctors,
51:25
Speaker 1: I've already had my Mama gram this year. You know,
51:27
Speaker 1: I go in August. For me, this is when I
51:30
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51:32
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51:35
Speaker 1: people like to do on their birthdays or whatever works
51:37
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51:40
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51:42
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51:44
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51:49
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51:51
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51:53
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51:55
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51:58
Speaker 1: have seen all my doctors. I'm done. I can have
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52:03
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52:06
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52:10
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52:12
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52:25
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52:31
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52:36
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52:42
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52:54
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52:56
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53:08
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53:09
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53:13
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53:16
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53:19
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53:21
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53:30
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53:39
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53:43
Speaker 1: I want to just I know we've got one minute left,
53:45
Speaker 1: and I want to make sure we are in the
53:47
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53:50
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53:52
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53:54
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