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Actress Keshia Knight Pulliam talks "Tyler Perry's House of Payne," The Fearless Fund & her Kamp Kizzy Foundation · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Her name is Keisha night Poem. She's a graduate of
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  Speaker 1: an HBCU spell One College and she did it with
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  Speaker 1: honors with a BA in sociology and concentration in film.
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  Speaker 1: She's an Emmy nominated actress, runs the Camp Kidzie Foundation,
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  Speaker 1: She's really on the show as well. She's starting to
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  Speaker 1: hit comedy series Tyler Perry's House of Pain, which is
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  Speaker 1: How you doing, Keisha great? How are you really really
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  Speaker 1: you know, just going through this whole bio. I want
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  Speaker 1: to start with the HBC you experienced because I'm currently
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  Speaker 1: working on a documentary called Black Excellence, and I definitely
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  Speaker 1: we've already lined you. If you don't know it, we're
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  Speaker 1: definitely gonna line you up for an interview because you
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  Speaker 1: are Black Excellence, you know. And we saw in twenty
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  Speaker 1: how HBC US just moved to the forefront of conversation
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  Speaker 1: and it's like like White America just discovered HBC used
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  Speaker 1: for the very first time. Now you're graduate, I believe
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  Speaker 1: in two thousand one. You graduated from HBC with honors,
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  Speaker 1: like I said earlier, and you're minded with sociology. Tell
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  Speaker 1: us about your HBC you experience and why it's important.
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  Speaker 1: Why is this import actually the major with sociology with
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  Speaker 1: a concentration and film um And I mean I loved
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  Speaker 1: going to an HBCU. It was definitely one of the
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  Speaker 1: best decisions that I've ever made. And it's it's in
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  Speaker 1: my family. I have two brothers who are more House graduates,
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  Speaker 1: and then my middle brother he's an Auburn graduate, but
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  Speaker 1: we still love him. Um. But it's it's definitely an
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  Speaker 1: experience like no one, like no other. Sound grateful for sure. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know the thing about it is that the moodelible.
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  Speaker 1: Uh you know about Hollywood. You've been in Hollywood. Hollywood
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  Speaker 1: is dominated by HBCU graduates, not only just in front
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  Speaker 1: at the talent like you and you major in sociology
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  Speaker 1: and my minor is sociology. When I graduated from college,
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  Speaker 1: my major was in wasn't uh isn't I should say?
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  Speaker 1: You didn't walk away from a degree of mathematics. But
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  Speaker 1: it changed my life, you know. African American studies and
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  Speaker 1: sociologists opened my eyes and really let me see that
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  Speaker 1: my whole life information has and counseled you know, you
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  Speaker 1: impact you and why did you choose that as a degree?
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  Speaker 1: For man? Well, one thing I'll say, is not just
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  Speaker 1: our vice President of the United States of America. Come on,
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  Speaker 1: cremes della creme um in a multitude of fields are
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  Speaker 1: HBC you graduate um. But you know, getting back to sociology,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I chose that because I've always even though
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  Speaker 1: you know, I went to college and I didn't mylene,
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  Speaker 1: my I didn't major in theater per se, but I
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  Speaker 1: did have a concentration in mass common and communications. And
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  Speaker 1: the reason I chose sociology is because my job as
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  Speaker 1: around that whole Sunday dinner field. And that's how it
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: was and is in in my family. UM. So with
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: that and my love to cook, I was like, you know,
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: this is a lane that I don't again see anyone
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: else who looks like me. And so I decided to
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: to to do cacious kitchen. Um. It was just simply,
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: you know, so many of my friends, like they always
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: joked for like, oh, she's like I'm like the black
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: heart Steward, Like even I was the one people were
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: coming over, you know, cooking up dinners for all my friends. Um.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: But I realized that, you know, in this age of
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: Uber and all of these diff uber eats or you know,
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: just all of these fast delivery services, people fully cook anymore.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: All they have to do is order it and it
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: shows up at their house. So that kind of the
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: joy of it had been gone. And I know a
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: lot of the joy of it is not knowing what
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: to do, like how do I what do I put on? What?
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: How does it work? So that's how I, you know,
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: made it really really simple. I have a poultry and
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: meat and all purpose season um. And the reality is
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: they work good on those categories of things, but they
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: also are amazing and vegetables and potatoes and and you
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: name it so fish. Um. So that's really just how
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: it came about. Well, you know the thing about it,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: Like I said, potatoes, I love. I can't get enough
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: of baked potatoes. I love vegetables, and so just having that,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: So this multipurpose season and all purpose season for that
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: is a blessing. And also have a deal with while
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: all Alaskan sound where they? So I when you said fish,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: I leaned forward. That's what I gotta use you. Now?
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Do you now if I go online right now, can
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: I buy it? Or how does it working? Right now?
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: You're definitely have our word running a sale. Um, we
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: have our poultry as well as our all purpose on
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: Keisha's Kitchen dot com. Right now, our meat, I'm sorry,
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: on our purpose our poultry is sold out. However, we
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: are are coming back soon. Um. We will be fully
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: stopped shortly. And we're also adding a new spice called
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: in Spice. It's my first m delve into kind of
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: the sweet world. Everything else is savory. But they will
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: be up shortly, will be fully stopped. But you know,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Covid has hit the supply chain I think for everyone's business.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, Now let's go back to sugar and spice now.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: Because my I'm a award winning baker. So now you
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: you kind of kind of glossed over a little bit
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: you said, you get into that sweet chain to talk
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: about that a little bit more, because I do. I
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: do baking. Uh, because my my on my show, Reshaun's Kitchen,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: I always open with a baking element. And my baker,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: she is based in New York. And then my cook
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: he's based in Alabama, and I'm based in my office
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: kitchen in Atlanta, Georgia. So I zoomed to the kitchens
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: and deferent locations. So if you got some sweetness going
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: on there, I love to put it in her kitchen
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: and make it happen there. So let's talk about that.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Oh well, it really came down to like one of
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: my one of my family's um favorite things that I make,
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: UM is my peach cobb one of my candy an
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: there you go. What I did was I created a
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: spice that you can use for those things. But coincidentally,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: as I was creating it, I realized and testing on
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: it on different things, I was like, Oh, this taste
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: good on French toes, this taste goed on popcorn. Um,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: There's so many different but you can just have a
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: big sweet potato and just sprinkle it on. UM. It's
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: just the perfect combination of you know your favorite, your cinnamon,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: your nutmeg, your your your sugar, um that goes on
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: those sorts of well, you know, nutmeg is my favorite
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: spice that you put nut You're coming and kitchen you
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: smell on nutmeg, you and the desserts on with me now,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: I don't want to. I know we talked about a
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: lot of the things. I brought you to the show
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: to talk about Tyler's Paris House of Pain, the eight season,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: which I'm which I'm excited about. A big fan of Tyler,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: of course, and a big tan fan of a lot
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: of people you have on the show. Talk about your
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: experience and just working with this cast who, in some
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: way I can say, their their foods like crazy people.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: There's out of control over the time. It's family. That's
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: what family looks like. I genuinely love working with this cast.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: I love each and every one of them. We have
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: been doing this for a really long time, and it's
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: a joy. It's a joy to be able to be
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: in people's home every week, of people to be able
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: to come to sit with us, to laugh, to enjoy
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: our journey and just have that moment to just kind
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: of escape everything that may be going on. In the
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: world outside and just have some fun with us. So yeah,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: we're we're an interesting bunch, but it's what family is.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: But you won't let you won't let Van dress you,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: you know, because Cassie can't dress him, and so you
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: have to remain you. You have to maintain your style.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: You have to maintain you who you are and when
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: you when you do these different levels of comedy and
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: this is a multi more of over the top. Sometimes
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: I could say, because I yea it is, it's very
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: own you know brand comedy it is, but it's you.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: You can't say is you can't watch it? Not lack.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: I did not say that that I want that My
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: girl Castaid Davis, who I've been knowing for twenty five years.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: She's also some Cassie. I love me some of them.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: And like when I tell you, um, it's it's awesome.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Like we worked really hard. We do. We have a
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: schedule like no other when we're shooting. However, what makes
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: it amazing is the people who we spend it with,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: not just the cast, but the crew. You know, a
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: lot of us from some of the cameramen have been
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: you know, the people that we worked with for the
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: past decade, you know, before when we were doing House
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: of Pain, before we took a little bit of a hiatus.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: So I'm just I'm grateful that I get to go
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: to work and do what I do and do it
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: with a group of people that I love. Well, They're
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: importance part is that, you know also Cassie, she's also
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: an HBCU graduates well Cassie Davis as well, So you
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: surrounded with all that HBC you love. But the show
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: comes on every Tuesday on BT, and that the popularity
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: of working the show. I'm showing you take this during
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: the COVID UH restrictions and the COVID shutdown wasn't taped
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: doing that process. It was taped more recently in twenty one. Well,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: we actually fulfilmed to a couple of projects during COVID lockdown.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: One was a Lifetime movie in Vancouver, and then we
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: also did do the House of Pain. And with that
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: it was you know, interesting because we were quarantined and um,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: you know, we had to do what was necessary to
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: be safe and and we were able to do that. Well,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: let me just tell you if you know what thinks.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Like we said earlier, she said, Sean, whatever you're saying
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: by Tyler Parris's House of Pain, We're funny. It's the
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: number one community series on Cable for African Americans age eighteen,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: four and four. Basically all black people in all black
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: people laughing at this show and loving this show. But
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: I would be remiss if I don't talk about your
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: your foundation. I wanted to get that in before we
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Camp Kissi Foundation tell us about that. Why is important
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: that you are rallying behind that and the purpose? Well,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: the camp Kissi Foundation is truly my baby. Um. I'm
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: sorry if you hear, because you know, doing these things
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: at home can be interesting, but Don has decided to
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: like do a whole I don't know what's happening in that,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: but um, you know, the Campissie Foundation is absolutely my heart.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: I started it over a decade ago and it's all
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: about empowerment and self esteem for youth. We do UM
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: programming throughout the year, but our signature program is um
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: is a free camp for girls eleven to sixteen in
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: the same time. I just I just I love it.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: And what I know is you don't know the dream
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: and if you don't know what exists, so a big
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: portion of it is a very holistic approach to empowerment
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: and self esteem, and a lot of it is also
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: about exposure. And you know, I'm really excited this year
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: we're not going to do in person last year we
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: had to do it virtually this year as well. But
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: next year for twenty two, we will be back in
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: person and you can't wait. Well, it's important that you
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: say that when I but one of the main reasons
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: I wanted to bring you on the shows to tell
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: your story, your stories and the amazing story from the
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: HBC you grab what honors being an entrepreneur, being a
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: I want to say, a mentor or leader in the
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: fearless fun and also with your foundation. In closing, any
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: advice you want to give them to any of my entrepreneurs,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: any tips of success that you'd like to share with him. Um,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: you know, I feel like, follow your passion and the
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: money will come. So many people chase the money and
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: you have to be dedicated and passionate about what you
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: do and recognize that we all have different purposes and
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: everyone's not going to see you know your divine um
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: purpose in this lifetime. But you gotta remember it wasn't
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: a conference call. It was given to you, so just
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: keep pushing. It's it's it's hard out there because so
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: many people are like I don't want to work to
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: anybody else. I want to work myself. But understand, when
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: you're an entrepreneur, you definitely work harder than a nine.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: But the differences you're sewing into your dreams um and
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: I say, just go for it. It only takes one love.
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