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Brian McKnight, Kym Whitley, Raheem DeVaughn & Melody Holt · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: be one of my favorite actors because, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: when I cast him for a Learned series on the
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  Speaker 1: then popular Sitcom System System, that's my man right there.
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  Speaker 1: But you know him as a singer. Can't take that
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  Speaker 1: away from he's sexy. He's a singer. Over the course
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  Speaker 1: of his career, he SOLDO with twenty five million albums worldwide,
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  Speaker 1: four top ten albums on the Billboard two hundred album chart,
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  Speaker 1: sixteen Grammy nominations, nine BT Award nomination, American Music Awards,
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  Speaker 1: MTV Video Award nominations, and n double a cp Immage
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  Speaker 1: Award for Outstanding Mail Artists, and a Soul Trained Music
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  Speaker 1: Award for Best R and B Soul Mail Artists. Platinum
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  Speaker 1: and double platinum for That Any Time one of my
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  Speaker 1: favorite singer in eighteen eighty seven, and triple platinum for
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  Speaker 1: Back at One. Oh watch still remember that our plane?
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  Speaker 1: Oh Wowtification, Now that's fat far to twenty twining because
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking to him to day. The year that he's
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  Speaker 1: dropping his twentieth album, The appropriate name Exodus, is released
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  Speaker 1: via the so No Recording Group. Please work with the
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  Speaker 1: the money making conversations. My man, you'm laughing in the background,
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  Speaker 1: Brian mcknights. Do you're messing me up? Brian? I was
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  Speaker 1: supposed to not at all. You know, it's not often
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  Speaker 1: that you hear all the things you've done in one mouthfull.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I think we know anach other long
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  Speaker 1: and if I don't, I don't dwell on any of
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  Speaker 1: those things. Thing. But it is nice to hear and
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  Speaker 1: nice to hear from from someone that I respect so
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  Speaker 1: much in this business. And uh, it's just it's fun.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for having me. Thank you. We know something.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like you. I'm a type of person where I
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  Speaker 1: tend to like, um, move on. We're too quick. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: people are like, man, dude, be could people have to
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  Speaker 1: remind me of who I am? Sometimes they have to
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  Speaker 1: remind me what I've done Sometimes times and so and
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  Speaker 1: so when I when I'm doing these intros for a lot,
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  Speaker 1: and I consider your friend in the business as well
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  Speaker 1: as somebody we sit down, we need lunch of breakfast
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  Speaker 1: and dinner together because we've had some times together where
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  Speaker 1: we've we said about just smile and talk and so
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  Speaker 1: we I want to talk about that a little bit, Brian,
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  Speaker 1: because that's why I brought it up, because sometimes we
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  Speaker 1: moved too fast in life, and sometimes that could be
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  Speaker 1: that could lead to you thinking you hadn't done anything.
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  Speaker 1: You're thinking that, hey, I got I gotta do more,
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  Speaker 1: and dude, your your body of work is there. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not saying you think like that, but sometimes you have
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  Speaker 1: to catch yourself, don't you. Yes and no. See, I
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  Speaker 1: made the mistake of thinking that way after my very
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  Speaker 1: first album, and after that first record sold two millions,
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  Speaker 1: I thought in my twenty four year old mind that
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  Speaker 1: success was a foregone conclusion, that I had made it.
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  Speaker 1: At every record that I did after that was going
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  Speaker 1: to be at least as good or better. So I
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  Speaker 1: was really resting on one last cry and resting on
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  Speaker 1: you know, love is and those hits that I had
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  Speaker 1: from that first album. And when the second album wasn't
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  Speaker 1: as successful from a monetary standpoint, it made me really
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  Speaker 1: go back in and look at living my life, at
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  Speaker 1: least professionally day to day not thinking about yesterday. It's
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  Speaker 1: about today and tomorrow. So that I never felt that
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  Speaker 1: that feeling of of of not of having an unrealistic expectation.
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  Speaker 1: I think always giving your best, always doing the best
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  Speaker 1: I possibly can, and then letting the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: take care of itself. So it's not that we forget
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  Speaker 1: about the successes that we have, but you're always looking
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  Speaker 1: for more success. And I think that maybe a good
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  Speaker 1: thing or a bad thing, depending upon which side we are,
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  Speaker 1: you happen to fall on. Well, so many success it
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  Speaker 1: has come your way. And I'm gonna going back. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have fun a little bit here back And sister,
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  Speaker 1: sister man, you know, I'm a fan of Felicia Henderson,
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  Speaker 1: one of the top directors and in the industry. She's
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  Speaker 1: a tremendous fan of Brian McKnight. And uh, I just
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  Speaker 1: I'm just mad because I don't see you in no drama.
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  Speaker 1: I don't see you started no movies and Felicia not.
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  Speaker 1: We just knew we discovered the next black hot chocolate.
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  Speaker 1: Come on that chocolate drop out there, come on the
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  Speaker 1: acting game. Yeah. You know what's interesting if the interesting
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  Speaker 1: part of that is that that would have been a
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  Speaker 1: great time seeing what you guys saw on me that
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even see. Um was something that I didn't
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  Speaker 1: even think was real. I thought, because again you, the
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  Speaker 1: two of you, Felicia and yourself, were the first one
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  Speaker 1: that cast me in a role that wasn't me playing myself, right,
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  Speaker 1: that was the first role I've ever I've ever had. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I've done some others yip times, I've done some other
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  Speaker 1: things where it was a guest appearance. I think one
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  Speaker 1: of the things that derailed my acting career in some
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  Speaker 1: way was the success at any Time and the success
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  Speaker 1: of Back at Once, because it made it so that
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have time to really do anything else. Um,
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  Speaker 1: it was world tours. It was you know, it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: the time that I could go He's like venue, He's
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  Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, you know it was. It was tough
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  Speaker 1: now looking back at that. That should have been the
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  Speaker 1: thing that catapult to that side of things, But I
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  Speaker 1: was all I always thought that, you know, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: a musician, I'm a songwriter, That's what I do. First
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  Speaker 1: I was I was kind of you know, not thinking
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  Speaker 1: in the way things happen now where because of this
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  Speaker 1: music career, it can catapult so many other things. The
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  Speaker 1: right happens now, I really wasn't thinking that way in
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  Speaker 1: the macro sense when I should have been. Well, you
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  Speaker 1: know the thing about it, first of all, and it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't just one episode. He did a series for us,
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  Speaker 1: because yeah, you know we we we Brice. We just
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  Speaker 1: sit down with Braco and and it really was funny
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  Speaker 1: because we were so believed in you. And first of all,
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  Speaker 1: just what you did musically wasn't even in the conversation
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  Speaker 1: because you didn't sing on you just added and we
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  Speaker 1: went to devil b said we want to do a
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  Speaker 1: series of episodes with Brian McKnight. He said the singer
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  Speaker 1: that yes, you know, because usually what happens is they
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  Speaker 1: do stoadcasting and they bring a singer in one time
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  Speaker 1: and use less singer or sing on that episode to
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  Speaker 1: find some way to sing on that episode, and then
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  Speaker 1: that's it. And but we really felt that your talents
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  Speaker 1: and and and and thinking back and watching you and evolving,
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  Speaker 1: and it's really as a time when you look at people,
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  Speaker 1: they can see some things in you that you don't
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  Speaker 1: see or didn't plan on sin And then when you
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  Speaker 1: look back at the shar I should have I should
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  Speaker 1: have followed that thought a little bit longer when when
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  Speaker 1: you said that earlier. But all I want to know
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  Speaker 1: is tell you this is that my man, you're incredibly talent.
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  Speaker 1: That was some of the most fun moments for me
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  Speaker 1: personally just to watch you as an artist, because you
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  Speaker 1: are a superstar. You still are a superstar, don't don't
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  Speaker 1: get it wrong in the music game. When we ask
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  Speaker 1: you to humble yourself and play on a sitcom and
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  Speaker 1: you said, this is not what I do with Sean,
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  Speaker 1: Yes you can't, Yes you do. So to just think
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  Speaker 1: about that process that we asked you to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in some ways make you uncomfortable, right, Yeah, And I
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  Speaker 1: think that's the part that you it's hard when you're
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  Speaker 1: successful to go read for a part and then not
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  Speaker 1: even get a call back. It's a it's a tough
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  Speaker 1: thing to get your mind around that you aren't good
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  Speaker 1: enough at that moment to to even get a consideration,
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  Speaker 1: and that that was tough to deal with at a
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  Speaker 1: time when I was having the biggest records of my
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  Speaker 1: career post sister sister. So I think when you do
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  Speaker 1: a couple of those and you have your agent having
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  Speaker 1: you go read er things and you have an acting
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  Speaker 1: coach and you think you're doing it well and then
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  Speaker 1: you don't get those call backs. I think it becomes
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  Speaker 1: discouraging if it's not something that was your dream to
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  Speaker 1: be doing with um. So that was the tough thing
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  Speaker 1: for me to make it into an acting career where
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  Speaker 1: I've sen a few of my contemporaries where they may
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  Speaker 1: have had a director that took them under their wing
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  Speaker 1: and then they did three or four things and then
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  Speaker 1: catapulted there acting career. You know. Once I wasn't on
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  Speaker 1: sister system and I didn't really have that right in
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  Speaker 1: a sense. Uh, And it made it very discouraging to
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  Speaker 1: walk into a casting director's office and reef somewhere right.
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  Speaker 1: Let me just slow it down here. But Rashaw McDonald
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  Speaker 1: hasn't went anywhere, okay, And this is like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: how how you reconnect? You know what I'm saying, out
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  Speaker 1: of sight, out of mind, Well you're back in Rashaw's
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  Speaker 1: mind and you're not out of sight no more. And
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  Speaker 1: I have a lot of projects coming up, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna contact your people, man, because I just feel you're
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  Speaker 1: a special guy to me. Man, your personality because we
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  Speaker 1: met many times corporate gigs, you know, Steve show, you
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  Speaker 1: came in, did some live performances and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: So our relationship is is a long term and done
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  Speaker 1: a lot of things for the Hoodie Awards and all
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  Speaker 1: those things. You've always been there. When I picked up
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  Speaker 1: the phone to say, hey man, could you do a
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  Speaker 1: favor for us? Can you do something for charity? And
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  Speaker 1: but more importantly, I just felt that, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: just want to I just want to recapture something I
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  Speaker 1: saw many years ago to be a very spell for
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  Speaker 1: that talent has not went away, my friend. You still
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  Speaker 1: it's still it's still burying that buried in that heart.
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  Speaker 1: It's still buried inside. It's funny that you say that,
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  Speaker 1: because watching the meteor drive to Steve and you right
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  Speaker 1: there with him, it did cross my mind that had
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  Speaker 1: we kept that relationship the way it was, that who
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  Speaker 1: knows what could have happened through through me trying to
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  Speaker 1: do a talk show and things of that nature. To
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  Speaker 1: have somebody like you instead of the people that I
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  Speaker 1: did have around me at the time, would have would
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  Speaker 1: have really well, brother, Just you know that's it. It's funny.
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  Speaker 1: That's a funny thing. We know, we we were together again,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, we're together because we talked about about your life,
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  Speaker 1: your music, and that's what has been the story of
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  Speaker 1: your life, you know, your music, and so tell us
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  Speaker 1: about your music today the Exodus and we're talking about
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  Speaker 1: some of the things you're talking about, but it just
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  Speaker 1: walkers forward. I just wanted to walk down memory ain't
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  Speaker 1: a little bit with you, Brian, because of the fact
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  Speaker 1: that I love you, dude, I love you. Know it
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  Speaker 1: on the sidelines and I stopped managing Steven six trying
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  Speaker 1: to find my voice, you know, trying to find what
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to do. I managing bitch, Steve Nay Smith
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  Speaker 1: and now he's the highest paid personal ESPN and salary wise,
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  Speaker 1: and we got some great things happening. But I'm reconnected
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  Speaker 1: with people. Over the years, I felt that, hey man,
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  Speaker 1: that God gifts that God gave them, and I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to kind of like stimulate them. But the gift that
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  Speaker 1: God gave you that's always been at the forefront has
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  Speaker 1: been your music. Tell us about what you had right now?
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  Speaker 1: Well right now, you know, I met I met my
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  Speaker 1: wife back in twelve and one of the things I
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  Speaker 1: think that disconnected about me was that I never had
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  Speaker 1: a subject for any of that music earlier on. I
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  Speaker 1: never even liked anyone, let alone love them, and nobody
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  Speaker 1: ever did it for me in the way that my
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  Speaker 1: music would have suggested until I met my wife, And
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  Speaker 1: every song that I've written since the day we met
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  Speaker 1: has been about heard about our love. So it's it's
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  Speaker 1: the story of finding that thing that everybody wants that
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  Speaker 1: very few people have that when you look at our
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  Speaker 1: at my Instagram and I the love that we have,
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  Speaker 1: it is so real and so pure, and we lived
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  Speaker 1: this love every day and it is a reflection of
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  Speaker 1: the music. I spent the first, you know, twenty years
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  Speaker 1: of my career trying to figure out how to put
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  Speaker 1: this many this many syllables with this many notes, and
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  Speaker 1: try to to imitate Stevie Wonder and imitate this guy
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  Speaker 1: and irritate that guy. But by the time I met Leilani,
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  Speaker 1: you know, music, now he's coming from my heart. She
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  Speaker 1: is the endless source of inspiration that I have found,
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  Speaker 1: and I am the man that I never could have
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  Speaker 1: been had she not been in my life, and the
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  Speaker 1: best time I could ever possibly be because of her,
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  Speaker 1: So better. Three records ago was the beginning of all
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  Speaker 1: the music that she's inspired. Genesis was the second part
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  Speaker 1: of that, and our exodus is another love letter to
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  Speaker 1: my wife. Because I am happier and I'm listen the
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  Speaker 1: happiness that I have. I'm sure you can here. It
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Sean McDonald. Well, you know I feel
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  Speaker 1: that first of all, you have to stabilize yourself emotionally,
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  Speaker 1: and then when you wake up, you have a reason
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  Speaker 1: for waking up. That's what we're talking about right now.
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  Speaker 1: Because everything has to be gold orient, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: so go orient and so so so so the the
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  Speaker 1: the songs that you put together on this particular CD,
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  Speaker 1: and what is the you know, we all want to
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  Speaker 1: sell a lot of CDs, but also there's a message
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  Speaker 1: we all we want to sell. Because I'm gonna shift
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  Speaker 1: after this question to go to the Kobe Bryant tribute
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  Speaker 1: song because you know you your music. What I love
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  Speaker 1: about it? It always made me sit down and think.
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  Speaker 1: It always made me I would tell that's that's great
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  Speaker 1: music to me. It's it's it's songs that you can
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  Speaker 1: play of yours. I know exactly where I was at, Brian.
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  Speaker 1: I know exactly what I was doing, or who I
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  Speaker 1: was dating, or what I was eating. All that. That's
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  Speaker 1: really powerful, man. That that's a tribute to your gift.
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  Speaker 1: Oh thank you. But that's the thing, you know, all
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  Speaker 1: those songs that you're talking about from back in the
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  Speaker 1: day were the songs that I wrote for everyone else.
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  Speaker 1: I had to think about what does what do my
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  Speaker 1: fans want? What are they going through? But can I
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  Speaker 1: write here that I have no idea because I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have a heart till I met le RANI
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  Speaker 1: I mean, how do I transfer that to this music?
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  Speaker 1: And now all of these songs are about us and
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: hopefully people And this is what we get from the
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: comments that we see and the d ms that we receive,
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: that people finally have hope that they can find at
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: least a semblance of what we have. And that's this
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: music is all about. I mean, these songs on exist,
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: I mean from Bad, which is the day we met
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: and I wanted to speak with her and she was
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: not having it. To stay on your mind, which is
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: completely about the first we actually did make love to nobody,
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: which is you know uh to me, the greatest love
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: song I've ever written, because I'm saying and feeling all
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: those things that say but that I'm not gonna hold
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: anybody's hand or kissing anybody. I'm not gonna think about
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: anyone else. There is nobody else in this whole world
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: for me but you. I've never made statements like that.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: I've never made statements about you know. I always wrote
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: everything very on the surface because I didn't feel anything.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: But there was nothing to write about, so I left
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: it open because that's all there was. But now it's
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: so much deeper, and that's what I'm talking about on
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: this album. Now you go from those songs to the
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Kobe Brant tribute that I did now he referred to
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: because this year has been crazy. This this has been
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: unlike anything in my fifty one years that I've ever seen. Um.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: To see Kobe go down the way that he did
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: in the whole world, I like it to when Elvis
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: passed in seventies and seventies. I was young, but the
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: whole world were you nothing that you know, this Kobe thing,
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: because that the sad part, the really sad part about
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: Kobe's death is that you found out so much about
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: him right after he died. You found out he was
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: such a humble cat, and you just saw him as
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: this incredible athlete on the court, but you realize the
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: conversation off the court was equally as hall of famous.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: If that is a work, and you know, you know
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: people the way that I do that, it's very difficult
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: for really successful people to turn off that drive that
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: they had. He was able to be and have that
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: drive that no one could touch on the court, but
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: the minute the step off the court, he could be
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: something else. He didn't have to be that guy he
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: was on the court. Off the court, he could channel
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: that energy in another way. And it's tough for people
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: to do that for boxes, for comedians. Comedians, you know,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: they always have to be on right way in just
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: a regular conversation. It was tough for them to not be,
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: you know. And it's it was great to be around
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: him to see that he could be that well around
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: it now. So so talk about putting this song together
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: because this guy's multi talented and you found that this
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: is post stuff. I I'm an industry so I knew
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: about Kobe, but you found out how great a father
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: he was. You found out he was an Oscar wrarunner.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: You found out he was a stupid businessman. He thought
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: he traveled in different countries and China and he really
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: had his hands. So his transition from the sport, you go, hey,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: what is he gonna do? He had already planned that
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: exit because he was an entrepreneur. And with all those things,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: how did it come about putting this song together, the
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Kobe Trippute song in his Owner? You know, I really
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: just looked at how the whole world came together. Even
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: people who weren't basketball fans were affected by this man's
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: life and ultimately his death. And it was really that
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: feeling in my own Hig was UM having to one
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: teenager and one um child as twenty one who really
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: didn't get to see him play and really understand that
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: they were affected, which really blew my mind. UM waking
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: up every day really in disbelief that he was gone.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Um to my wife and I would just sit there
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: and really just couldn't grasp the concept that he wasn't here. Um.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: I grabbed my guitar and literally, from the conversations we
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: have wrote this song because I wanted to to give
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: some relief to those folks who were heard in so badly.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: You know, it's really interesting because, like you said, this
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: has been a crazy year because those two African American
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: men who passed away to stop this world. The first
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: of course, that was done unfortunate. Both of passing was
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: unfortunate because one they were shocking to us. And when
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: I to hear the news of Kobe Bryant Dane and
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: helicopter crash with his daughter, you know, and and I
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: have a I'm a parent and I have a thing
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: daughter that that was just devastating for me. Knowing that
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: his daughter was with him his death for Lung was
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: devastating the fact that his daughter that was a more
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: equally devastating. And then the George Floyd's situation which stopped
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: the world and has has galvanized people, and uh, it's
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: time to change the Black Lives Matter music. You're an
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: emotional guy, your leader, You're in that whole world of
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: change and and and galvanizing people emotionally with with the
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant and then the George Floyd. What do your
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: comments on this? And then we're gonna slide over to
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: the pandemic. If we have talked about the pandemic yet
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm a I'm a forward thinker the Sean
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: and it's it's really sucks that something so tragic had
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: to happen for this conversation to start again. Um, being
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: as old as I am, and I think as old
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: as you are, remembering what like in the sixties and
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: the seventies, and seeing that there has been some progress,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: we both realized that we had not overcome yet. As
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: good as things may have been, it's unfortunate that once
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: again it took something this tragic took this conversations tied again.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: The question is where do we go from here? And
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: it's it's a good thing that this that all of
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: this awareness is is coming to light of people. And
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: the thing that is great is and not that there
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: is a great thing about it, if you can take
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: somebody from it, the people who some of the people
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: who are protesting, people who are at the forefront of
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: this aren't of color. And this is something that I've
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: never seen in my lifetime that people who aren't black are,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: you know, championing this cause. And I think that's one
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: of the good things that comes from this. And Hopefully
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: this conversation happens, we can have it uncomfortably and then
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: we never have to have it again. That's my hope.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: And that's and that's that's a great hope. And I
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: think that when you when you because and this this
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: year and uh, and I'm not trying to get into politics.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: It's just life, you know that we're talking about. And
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: you're you're tremendous musical audience and your emotion and things
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: that you sing about tapping into what we you know,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: you've made me crying, you maybe laugh, you maybe dance. Okay, right, okay,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: let's be real not you know, I've been in concerts
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: in the l A watching you understanding up going yeah,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: you know you remember that I'm in the concert. I
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: want you had that silhouette. You just come out with
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: a silhouette. Remember that I go back with your baby,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: I go back with you, and so and and and
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: and so. When you when then you look at the
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: pandemic and and you realize that African Americans are and
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: people of color or dying overtly of this of this uh,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: this worldwide that some people call little plague, and and
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: it just forced me to change my value system and
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: how I approach the and how communicate things to people
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: and some ways I've become a pandemic expert on how
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: the handling your finances and how you live your life socially.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: And then you have a family, you this is home now,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: you know, how how did you deal with And I'll
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: just tell you my short story when I I'm comfortable
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: with it, Brian. But initially, man, I had problems going
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: out in the streets. I didn't know what to do.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: They have gloves put the still, so I put the
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: mask on. I really was struggling, and it was in
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: somewhat way it's fearful of this, and I'm not saying
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: I'm not afraid of it now, but I'm much more
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: comfortable because, like they said, this is the new normal,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: and you learn to adjust to the new normal. Yeah.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: You know what's funny about that is my wife has
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: been preaching distancing way before the way before it is
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: this happened. You know, she germs and touching people and
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: shaking hands. I shake hands after every show and she
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: was like, just you know, before you touch me, you
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: better go over there and get your hands real, real
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: clean and everything. You know. So we have been really looking,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: you know, to be this way for quite some time,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: so there hasn't been a lot of of of adjustments
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: necessarily for home bodies anyway. Um, there's two things. One,
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: I hadn't taken a break from doing shows and probably
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: fifteen years, so I'm sure that my voice, my body,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: my mind needed a bit of a break anyway that
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: I probably wouldn't be taken. Uh So that's a good thing.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: And we've actually been able to spend time just together
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: the family. Our parents were here, we were having family
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: dinner every night, being together where we normally wouldn't be
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: unless we was a holiday. So is that part of
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: it's been good as well. So again we try to
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: find that silver lining and otherwise tough situation, but hopefully
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: this is educating people that you know, we all need
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: to be cleaner, we all need to sanitize all the
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: things that we need to sanitize, and just you know,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: be cognizant when you're sneezing, when you're coughing. We've been
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: on airplanes or someone behind us just sneezing all over
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: the place, off and all over the plane. You know,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: these are things that people are now hopefully are being
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: more cognizant about but as you go out to the
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: grocery store and go out the places, not everyone is
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: that hearing to this, and that's the part that can
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: be very frustrated. Absolutely, Now the twenty album extra this,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: uh tell us, UH tell us the whole story about
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: getting the album, getting the singles? What what can I do?
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: What can I do? I got social media too? You
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: know you're shrying to built his own brand now, I
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: gotta I got a mailing list of ninety three thousand
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: going out this Wednesday. I got almost a million social
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: media followers on the Rashaan McDonald money making conversations. What
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: can I do for my good friend Brian McKnight, I
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: tell you just just talking to you now and knowing
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: that you're still in my corner after all these years. Man,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: it's it's a conversation that we can have because we
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: all need that, because everybody's on social media. Because because
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: of that, everyone becomes a celebrity of some notes. How
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: do you make how do you make your noise be
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: seen and be heard by people that are all over
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: the place. Anybody you would think, oh wow, now I
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: can just sell directly to my fans. Well, it's not
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: quite that easy because everybody has something to say. Everybody
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: has you know, it's tough to make your way and
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: navigate through this sea of people, um and the three.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: You really need to lean on someone several someone's who
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: knew how to navigate that several of the great. Yeah,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: it's another great reason to be back in contact with
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: you because I've seen the things you've done. I mean,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: I watch Stephen every day, watch his watch his meteoric rise,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: and you know, it can't it can't be a coincidence
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: that you're standing next to all of these people who
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: have had the New York rides. And now that I
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: look back and say, man, he was in my quarterback
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: in the day, and I could have had that thing.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: I'm still in your corner. So let's stop on that mat,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: stop on that man. It's just that, you know, I
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: tell everybody just that, I just I just sat down
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: on myself and just figure out who Sean McDonald wall was,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: and like you, in the pandemic. This has been a
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: good thing for me as well, because from my from us,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: from a spiritual, from us social, from a family standpoint,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: I really it's a it's a crisis, an on going crisis.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: But my whole life has been dealing with some type
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: of crisis, but building other people's careers and and things
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: like that. Now that I set back and I look
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: at what I can accomplish for myself, I know I
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: can do more for others who trust me, who really
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: trusts me, and and and when I look at your
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: music and I look at the times we you know say,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: I'm one of these guys. But you might not say
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: hello to me or by to me, but I'm watching,
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  Speaker 1: I can do some right things for people that I love,
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  Speaker 1: I respect, And you want to hear at the top
• 28:38
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• 28:44
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• 28:48
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• 28:52
  Speaker 1: my my my fans on the money Making Conversation platform.
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  Speaker 1: That's all. It's a funny thing because I'm one of
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  Speaker 1: those people too. I probably would have never picked up
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: the phone and calls myself and said, hey, can you
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: look at this and tell me how I can do that?
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: Because watching you work, it's hard to know that you're
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: watching because you've seen very you know, a student about
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: what you're actually doing. And now hearing you say that
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: you were still watching it, it makes me feel good
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: because I was like, man, Ma Sean, you know he
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: he's doing all this, you know, he I wonder if
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: you could do something for me, but I don't want
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: to ask because he's dealing with somebody who's bigger than me.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Right now, Really get that that that thing about you
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: that says, you know, maybe not ra Sean, maybe there's
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: somebody else, but you know what, why not do with
• 29:38
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• 29:39
  Speaker 1: you go, there you go. Hey be man, thank you
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: for calling the show man. And again we will talk soon.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: I gotta wrap up some scenes in the month of
• 29:47
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• 29:50
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• 29:53
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  Speaker 1: to and reintroduced myself to friends and say, hey man,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: this ain't by the contract. This is not even by
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  Speaker 1: for you, by love for an individual who has just
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  Speaker 1: do You're a game changer. Okay, Bryan, forget that. The
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• 30:24
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  Speaker 1: in Soudane. That's the first time I I've read I've
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: had on the show and known her for over twenty years.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: That's the first time I've ever known that little negged
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: about her, so we will definitely be talking about that.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: She's easily recognized from our frequent appearances on Curb Your Enthusiasm,
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: developed called Following an Ice Cubes hit movie Next Friday,
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: had the all of the show on their own network network,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: and many many many television appearance where she's co star
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: star and made special appearances. She is on the show
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: to discuss her weight loss campaign with weight Watchers. Weight
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: Watchers Oprahtta Opraghotta now weight Watcher. Weight Watchers offers a
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: scientifically proven program for weight loss and wellness with digital
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: studio and personal coaching solutions to help you meet your
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: weight loss goal. She's doing it with a crew called
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: the Post That's How Crew That's gonna guide y'all to
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: weight loss weight loss Heaven. Please walk with the money
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: making conversation. My friend Kim Whitley, do you know I
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: am over here holding my mouth. I am cracking up.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: I was like, what an introduction weight loss having baby?
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: We're going to weight loss Heaven. You're hear me, Kim Whitley. Okay,
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: what you're talking about? Let's talk about Look on your
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: long time, kimp Okay, long time. Okay, you fine, you fine, Okay?
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: If we get up there, you know I would tell
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: people I lost weight, I lost twenty pounds because I
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: would tell you, ain't nobody paying me to tackle nobody.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: Ain't nobody paying me to hit nobody? Why am I
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: walking around with these extra twenty parts? When I lost
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: that weight, I am a better person. I had to
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: change a lot of clothes because they were bagging loose
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: on me. But I brag about the fact that I
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: am not to seventeen. I am like, I'll go between
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: one night five and one seven on the daily daily
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: basis depending on what I eat the night before. So
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: I get up every morning that way myself. So I know,
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: and I've gotten I got an image of where I
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: got down to one eighty nine. I went a holo,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: holo holder, that's way too low, Okay, I got like
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: you can see my toes on the scale, one eight
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: nine I went. I got down to one eight nine,
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: one eighty nine and and uh and so I know
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: the value of weight control are the value of uh
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: feeling different and then setting a goal and then achieving
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: a goal. And that's why I just said up at
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: the top of the show, I've known you a long time.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: You're a beautiful woman. In fact, I recently saw your
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: the reaver Us charity event that you threw in your
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: back and you look beautiful there too. Now what led
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: us to this point weight Watchers and getting involved with
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: the weight Watchers Before we get to the posse, let's
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: talk about your first your personal journey. About the weight
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Watchers content. Well, you know, uh, you know they've rebranded it.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: It's called WW when it was weight Watchers, uh back
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: in the day. You know, I'm being honest with You've
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: never done it before. I've never been a Weight Watchers person. Um.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: When they started saying, you know, w W, it's all news,
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: it's it's brand. You know, it's Brandon. I know that
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: I have and trying. You know, I'm always trying to
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: lose this weight. I think we're always trying to be
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: a better version of ourselves. And I'm telling you what, Sean,
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: when this pandemic hit, I said, the first thing I
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: said is Okay, we're about to be locked down. I
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: want to come out a better person than I went in, Like,
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: I don't want this thing to come out and I
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: bust out and I look like I've been in jail
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: lifting weight. Like you don't lock down, but you can
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: come out better, right, Like I just came off the yard,
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: right right, As long as you got no dreads, Okay, no, no, no,
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: car Rolls, You're gonna be good. Car Rolls. You really
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: look like I will be good, you know. And you
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: know it's just been a mother of a nine year
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: old boy who have a lot of energy and just saying,
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: you know we like you've always asked me questions like
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: what's your next five years look like? Where's the next
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: ten years look like? And if I really look back,
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, I've done things, but have I really
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: made a significant change? Um? I could be funny, I
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: can keep moving on, but really, what is the next
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: the one thing I can control is what I put
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: in my mouth and what I do with my body.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: Anything else and a lot of things you know other
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: people can control. But if you can't control yourself, that
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: what what what are you doing? So you know that's
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: how I would say how it started, that the one
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: thing I can control will give me, um the confidence
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: to do other things. Because I can't control this, I
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: can make the outcome better and be stronger and and
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: um just healthier. So I think that's what it was.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: You know, Um, I've been what I look at it
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: as weight loss and a diet. It never worked, it
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: always came back. But with w W I have, I've
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: learned to be healthy. I make better choices, and I
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: can cook for me and Joshua. So that's what I
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: was messing up with. I was making food for him
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: and I was trying to make food for me. Then
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: I'm going through this, you know, just eating and this
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: it was just out of control. And I'll be honest
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: with you for Sean, what I tell people, and not
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: just weight lost, but in life, go back and look
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: at your pictures because what we do is we take
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: a lot of pictures. We take a lot of pictures.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: We used to front of out, which was better, and
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: we never looked out. But if you go back and
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: look at your pictures and see where you were or
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: how you're doing, it makes you accountable. And so I
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: looked back on some pictures. I was like, oh lord,
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: I was big and it was it was working with
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: it though, it was working with I have a picture
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: of me when I went the Emmies, I was bragging
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: about and then and then my staff went, boy, look
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: at those fat cheeks. You know who was on the
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: zoom call. I went, what you're talking about? Boy? He
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: was doing Chucky back in the day. That's my biggy Emmy.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: I was on stage and Mario lope As. I thought
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: I was looking good. My suit was fine. But I
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: was two hundred and seventeen pounds when I won that Emmy,
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: turning in seventeen pounds. Now I'm one namey seven. That's
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: a difference. That's a different look, that's a different commitment.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: And you know my waistline thirty six. So I'm just
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: saying to letting everybody, I'm an advocate of what you're
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: doing with w W. You know, we know we're all
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: our basis being a comedian. We're gonna be funny, but
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: when you move all funny aside, it's about how do
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: you feel and how do you look at What are
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: you most proud of. I brag about the fact that
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: I've lost twenty pounds and and that's important. You know.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: The person who got me moving in that direction was
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: Morris Chestnuting. He got me moving in that direction to
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: look at weight loss and considering it and say, you
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: know you can I saw high good, he looked in
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: that that that that that that part two or best man.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: I went, dude, what did you do? And he told
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: me he lost weight? Went okay, cool. So when I
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: looked at when I when I heard about this, I
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: immediately had to get you on the phone to re
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: interview you about this because, in fact, you know, I'm
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: proud of your acting, I'm proud of the comedy, I'm
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: proud of the fact that your mother, But I'm mostly
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: proud of this new commitment to yourself because sometimes we
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: have to sit back and make a commitment to ourselves.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: And that's what I see the w W program is about.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: It's a selfish moment for you to be able to
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: say you know something, Uh, I got to do something different,
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: and it's not cheating on myself. It's not looking sideways
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: in the mirror so I can find the best angle
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: that I look good. You know, we all got that angle,
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: you know. I call that that that mirror look where
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: you can just turn your head and you look a
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: little younger if you could just hold that look. But
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: guess what, you can't hold that look that look, hold
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: that look the whole that look. But w W is
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: trying to give you that twenty for an hour look though,
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: Well you don't have to hold nothing now, so I
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: don't even I don't even have to wear thanks anymore.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: I was literally wearing all kind of girdles and thanks,
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: and then finally I wouldn't did this game show and
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: I realized I didn't have to put it on. I
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: was like, oh wow, it makes light a little easier.
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: And we're not talking a whole lot of weight. Uh
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: I am now like twenty six pounds down, um, And
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: it makes a difference, just like you said. It just
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: it makes me moved. I'm accountable because you know, if
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: I didn't say, oh I gotta work out, at least
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: get on the elliptical treadmill, right you know, and I'm
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: not talking to big workout, not like forty minutes fifteen
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: in the morning, me and you on the same page.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: See see what you're not gonna do to Roushan is
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: act like I'm suddenly gonna be on a sportunator. Okay,
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: I'm in there just pumping on that that pumping iron.
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: It ever happened at rashane If. Steve Harb used to
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: always laugh at me when I when I told him
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: what I did in the gym, You go, really, I
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: go in there, I do twenty powder curl twenty per curvel,
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: doing like real quick, thirty third one third or I'm done.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: He said, well, what are you doing? I said, I'm done.
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: I'm done. And so so that's now. Another thing I've
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: done is I'm stretching. Now. That has been something I've
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: found to be such a blessing for me. Now. I
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: never stretched in my life, and I realized that Kim
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: I was losing my swag, my stride. I was making
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: a conscious elf, conscious effort to be cool, you know,
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: because you know, as you get older, your your stride
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: gets shorter and your muscles gets started contracting. Okay, and
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: so that means that if. And that's why you see
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: people start taking those little bitty staffs to start bending
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: over the lot, or or they make a conscious effort
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: to reach out for something, or they walk or they
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: reach out real short. That's because people are not stretching.
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: And so now see see right there. See so now
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: you're twenty six pounds down and now you're stretching. Tell
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: everybody on the w W program, which Oprah Winfrey Ball
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: changing from Weight Watchers made WW tell us that next step,
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: how you feeling right now? Because we're gonna get into
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: the posse next. But I wanted to start the interview
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: Kim about your new journey because it has to be
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: a commitment. A lot of people want to. They want
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: to they want to just think losing weight is it's
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: something automatic. But see if you want to stay off,
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: like I said, I lost the weight, I lost this
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: weight in so I'm in and I kept it off, okay,
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: and and so and so even I'm gonna just tell
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: you this. In December, I was at nine and I
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: and I went whoa, whoa, and I ran over the
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: Golden Corral. I wanted the Golden Corral and and and hey, hey,
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: hey hey, and got crazy for a couple of days
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: in a row to get back up to one ninety five.
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: And so I'd like to say I jumped between one
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: ninty five and one ninty seven on the daily basis,
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: and I'm happy. So, but talk about that commitment of
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: being able to get on the w W program. And
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: also and then we would slide right on the end
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: of the posse that those ladies of twenty two queens
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: out there with you on this ride. Yeah, yeah, you
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: know it's um, I'm telling you. I was so excited
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: for the opportunity, uh, because I did not understand what
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: w W was about. And when I was presented with
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: the opportunity, it was a perfect time. Like I said, um,
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: and it just worked for me, like the first week,
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: you know. But you know, my friends, as we was
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: going to talk about, I needed to be accountable. So
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: you know, once they give you a coach, you're accountable
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: to them, you know, because you you they talk to
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: you that. Like you said, you wear yourself every day.
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: I weighed myself once a week because every day I
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: would be bad. Um, I will admit I weigh myself
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: every day. I get up at four o'clock I staggered
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: down the stairs to the basement and foll five. I
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: step on that scale now. And so I've committed to it.
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: And I'm just letting you know. That's just what shawns
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: ramp and don't don't work for you. No, You're right,
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: because it does keep you to check yourself. I have
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: some friends on w W and that does make you go, oh,
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: I gotta really drinkable water today or I gotta work out.
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: But I love it because the program is customized for me.
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: Uh and and once you're feel in all your what
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: you like and you know, I'm on the purple team.
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: And that's what I love about that. It actually helped me.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: They accountable, put my weight in, drink my water. It
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: has a tracking system. But the app, the w W app,
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: is the most incredible thing that has ever been made.
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: This app, I call it my genie in the pocket.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: It's like I can grub when it will come out.
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: It'll give me a workout, it tells me how many
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: points I have left. It'll give me free foods, which
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: sometimes when I'm too close to ending on my points,
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: it'll say, oh, eat this, eat that. I eat all
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: kind of fruits and vegetables, which has what he is
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: doing is training me on how to eat. When all
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: this is over and I go back on the road,
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: I might not grab that bag of cheeto. Instead, I
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: might just say, you know what, I'm gonna eat two
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: apples or whatever the case. But that's what it has
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: done for me. It really has uh kept me accountable.
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: And and it's not hard that I thought it was
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: gonna be hard. It it's so easy. And that's why
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: I want everyone to be on it because it's not
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: only about losing weight. It's just about a lifestyle and
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: being healthy and being able to cook healthy meals. And
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: we're not talking about masty meals with about good meals.
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: I made some uh some chili, some bean chili the
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: other day. The real point done it ship come on
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: So it has all kind of recipes in it. And
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: say I wanted to work out, like you said of stretches,
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: I put in a little app. I'd like to stretch today.
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: A little app shows me a little person. They come up,
• 48:12
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  Speaker 1: making conversations. I'm your host, Sean McDonald. Now, okay, now,
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: and may the posse which is now up to twenty
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: two women filled with family members, friends, colleagues and comedians. Okay,
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: because it's almost like, you know, you gotta grab people
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: your love first, you know, and then everybody get on board.
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: That's how the possit grows, you know, because she, you know,
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: she started out with convincing all the friends. Girl. You know,
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: you know you need to be on this with me.
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: That's that look girl, you know conversation you had with
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: a couple of girl. You know, if I'm doing this,
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: you need to be doing this too. Come on now.
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: So that was the start of the posse. Now it
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: started in May with ten members. Now it has grown
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: to twenty two. So tell me how the posse works
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: right now, okay, And what's so crazy is the posse
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: started with all women, like you said, but now we
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: got three men of four men. Hold hold, hold hold on,
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: hold on okay, now now okay, now you mean I
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: could be a member of your posse? Yeah, so you
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: didn't tell me that you Okay, now you keep talking here.
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: You might need now now you might need to brut
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: You put your boy in there. Now, you put your
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: boy in the now because like I said, I got
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: bad eating habits because I'm not working with anybody. Okay,
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: my wife, she go out there with the dog. She
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: walked around the yard for an hour, come back in
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: the house. You know that's the schedule. I'm not walking
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: the dog with hug I'm not doing that. The poor dog,
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: he in so good shape. Is ridiculous to me. That dog,
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: that dog coming to how it's going. Okay, dude, okay,
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: can you help me? Okay, because I that muscles. I
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: don't need walking walking with your wife. Okay. So so
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: now I'm just telling you truth. I'm talking to Kim
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: with We're talking about the w W programs. I gotta
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: stay focused with her because we're gonna mess Rock tell
• 51:18
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  Speaker 1: with my program. Okay, you want to look like that
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: you what your boy doing. So so you started with Tim.
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  Speaker 1: Now you're up to twenty two. You got three guys
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: on the program. Tell us how how you how the
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  Speaker 1: program started and how you start gathering ten and how
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: you grew to twenty two because I'm assuming that you
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: want to just keep growing your posse right, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know if my coach Alicia
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: can handle it. The policy, especially when you have comedians
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  Speaker 1: they on there's cracking Joe. But what happened and be
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: honest with you. People started seeing the results. So we
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: had kins and like you know, say buddy, I invited buddies.
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: There's some friends I did invite Rashana and they were
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: like no, I'm good. Now They're like, uh, you think
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: I can get on that. I'm like what. So what
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: happens is they start seeing the results. There's those people
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: they come in there like oh wow, oh that really works.
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: So I said, you want to join us because you
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: do need you need support. And on the w W
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: app they have a connect uh community on that, which
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: is great because it's all a whole bunch of people.
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: It's like Facebook for ww you connect. We have our
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: own private group because it's my posse that we talked,
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: and we have a text chat that we talked because
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: we share recipes, we share ideas. Sometimes I will say,
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: know a game two pounds, I don't feel good. I
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: need to get better, and they're like, no, you can
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: do it, Kim. And they'll say, try this recipe this week,
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: do this, do that, And that has been absolutely amazing.
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: So the post that keeps growing because once I was
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: at eighteen pounds, everybody's like, oh wait a minute, people
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: saw me. Then I got to twenty something pounds. Now
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: I'm at twenty six pounds. So every time they see me,
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: people are like, what are you doing. I'm like, I'm
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: on ww And it works and it works. I have
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: never done anything that's been so simple, Like usually I'm hungry,
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: I'm not hungry, like I eat real food. I've eaten
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: fruit and vegetables like I've never done before because now
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: they taste good. Um. You know, it's all the different
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: recipes and ways. And then in the app it has restaurants.
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: So like to say, if I went to my Dinhouse,
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: Carls Junior, wherever I stopped, I would look in the
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: apt first, because if I buying it and then look
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: at it, I'm in trouble. But I look at and
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: I say, okay, I got so many points left. What
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: do I want? And they'll say, grier, you can get
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: a grilled chicken fans. I'm like, oh, okay, I get that,
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: and I put it in there and it's tracked and
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: I feel my points left. But what happens is wherever
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: I go, Cheesecake Factor anywhere, I can put it in
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: the app so I can live or you know, like
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: so it makes it nice. And then guess what, we
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: fall down the postive looking only be like, girl, I
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: used a nice cream. I uce really I was really up,
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: a surprised I had a birthday. Probably we ate, but
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: then we say, okay, we had a fun, let's get
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: back on it. And that's what's so great about that.
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: And that's why having someone doing it with you and
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: people like minded was shine. Like I was like, oh,
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: I need you in my life more. When you have
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: like minded people, it motivates you. You know, it makes
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: you do what what you're trying to do and what
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: you're trying to coptic. You've got people who are like
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: here have these donuts here, let's lay around and let's
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: do this and that. No, but I guess you might say,
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: hey girl, you wanna go for a walk? Hey girl,
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: you know I'm gonna make a nice salad. Like minded people,
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: you move in the right direction. And that's why the
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: post has been so very important um um to me,
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: you know. And there's a lot of moms and you know,
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's arranged. Which here's the deal, everybody,
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: we don't everybody needs to look better, feel better, wake
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: up and realize that they're giving themselves an opportunity to
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: have a better life. And that's that starts with you physically.
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: You know, we have mental depression, we can have physical
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: depression too, because when we look in the mirror, we
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: can keep lying to ourselves, keep lying to ourselves. But
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: sometimes that back ache is tied to too much weight.
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: Sometimes that back ache is tied to bad eating habits.
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: And oh and then during the pandemic, we found that
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: African Americans, people of color are you know, overtly or susceptible,
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: took over their team hospitalizations and unfortunately sometimes that so
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: I feel that what you're presenting right now with W
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: W W. I know they're not promoting that as part
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: of the cause, but our eating habits have to change.
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: And I say our I'm talking about leading the campaign
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: for African Americans. We all brag about fried chicken, We
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: all brag about, you know, eating that that colar greens
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: with that hog, modern chip linens and corn bread and
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: all that good stuff. But guess what that can lead
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: you to an early grade, especially with the COVID ninteen
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: and Dr Anthony Fauci has stated that COVID nineteen is
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: not going anywhere because with anything, nothing's going to ever
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: be a one. Even the flu vaccine is only forty
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: of a cure or of effectiveness. It's forty, but they
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: have to put it out there. That's why when some
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: people get the flu vaccine they get shocked when they
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: get the flu anyway, well it's on the okay, So
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: when they release a vaccine for COVID nteen, it's not
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: gonna be a d percent either. So right now, what
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: you're dealing with with w W is an opportunity to
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: be able to change people's lives and also when they
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: wake up feel better. Do you do? Don't you feel
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: a lot better when you wake up him. Oh my god,
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: I feel I can run up the steps. Before I
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: was hanging on the wall, hanging on the banister. I
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: feel much better. I have more energy. My daughter, she's laughing. Okay, Dad, Okay, Uh, really,
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: you're breathing hard just coming up the steps. Hey, leaving alone,
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: leaving alone. I'm just walking up steps. You swear I
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: was on a bike, riding hard sometimes walking up those steps. Now,
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: they are some fun things that in the group chats
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: that I want to talk about because I want to
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: let everybody know I'm talking to Kim Whitley. She's part
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: of this amazing w W campaign. Well, she's part of
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: a group. It's called the Posse. It's twenty two members
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: right now, and May it was only ten. She got
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: men involved. So men out there listening to this interview,
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: you can be part of the Kim Posse. All I
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: want to know is that I'm gonna drop this into
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: my newsletter on Wednesday to any thousand my fans, and
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: I'm being encouraging people. So if you get a sudden
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: uh interest and people wanted to join your posse, I'm
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: just gonna let you know, Kim, it's because of Rushan
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: McDonald because I want you to have a hundred. I
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: want you to have a two thousand. People want to
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: be part of your group because I know as a personality,
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: all your life as an entertainer, you know, that's what
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: we've done. We've entertained and we've shared, and it's a
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: responsibility to make people feel good. Now. I look at
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: you as a as a health entertainer. Now that's why
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: I'm feaching it. You are a health entertainer and because
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: you're out there now trying to make people feel good
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: about themselves and making that smile comes with longerity. That
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: smile comes because not only because you're making them feel good,
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: but they're feeling good about theirselves now. They have some
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: challenges that are in this track, like the Squad challenge
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: Drink Water, push Up. Just tell us about the squad
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: challenge because that sounds funny already, because I know where
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: the squad is and it can really make a man
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: or a woman out of if you if you're not
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: doing it right. And we gotta keep each other time
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: we're like, no, no, no, you gotta send that video.
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: So no, no, the video on our little group set. No, no,
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: you're gonna somebody I hit my squat. No, no, we're
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: gonna watch them and count them. So it's just to
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: get people moving and the group. So we always make
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: up like the day, like some days it was like okay, Tuesday, Thursday,
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: no smack day, you know, So we do things like that.
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: And really, I mean, if you think about it, with
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: all of us, we've lost the total of two hundred
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: and seventy seven pounds collectively, so everyone has lost something,
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: others need to lose more, something only needed to lose ten.
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: But we have all done something together and it's made
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: us better for it, and we've become a family um
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: during this time. So it's it's just been fantastic. And
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: I encourage everyone, uh they want to join and and
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: get healthier. Uh. And and we don't say, well thirty pounds,
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: We say a pound of time or two pounds or
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: you know, maybe ten pounds of pounds, because when you say, oh,
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: I want to lose thirty pounds, it's just overwhelming. Like
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: this week, I was like, Okay, I just want to
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: get the five pounds, that's all, you know. Please join
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  Speaker 1: me at ww dot com flash Kim Whitley And that's
• 1:00:07
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• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: because we always put everyone else first and then you know,
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: try to help ourselves. Well. You know, I know this
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: about myself and losing twenty pounds is that you can
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: fall off that wagon. Real you can fall off and
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: you board your boys. See a little ice creams, you
• 1:00:29
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• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: just not enough to eat just two, Okay, I gotta
• 1:00:37
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• 1:00:39
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• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: Just say that's all right, come on back, come on back.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: Because see that's what the w W program does for you.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: It makes you. It gives you a program and you
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: can consistently win with And that's what it is. It's
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: like like you, like you said, like I told you earlier.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: I can remember right februaryen I lost are lost twenty pounds,
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: twenty pounds. Now now in the some August, I'm still
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: at that twenty pound mark. That's because I had to
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: figure out myself. I had to figure out. Okay, Rashwan,
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: you're eating late at night. You can't eat like that
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: in the morning. You can't you can't put that on you.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: You know, you can't r Sean look here now and
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: and and a lot of people don't realize that ice
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: cream is cool just a lot of not just a
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: lot of ice cream, you know. And so diets really
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: give a bad um a statement about what you really
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: can't eat, because it all comes down to portions. It
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: all comes down to being a sensible person, being mindful
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: of exercise, not a not ax. You're not trying to
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: win when the Olympics. You're not trying to compute with
• 1:01:50
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• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: while you're watching the morning news, you know, fifteen twenty minutes,
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: get yourself, are trying to touch your toes, you know,
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: doing high steps so you can do some stomach crunches.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: All this stuff I had to figure out so I
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: can be happy about myself. And so that's all you're
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: trying to do right now. That's it. I'm just trying
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: to be happy and I want to feel better. That's
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: the thing that people that understand you chest want to
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: feel better. That's it. So, Kim, can we follow this
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: on your social media and on your social media? We
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: can follow this on your social media, Yes, yes, yes.
• 1:02:33
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• 1:02:40
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• 1:02:43
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• 1:02:46
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• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: you know that people can see me, you know. And
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: we have some other ambassadors on there. But have you
• 1:02:57
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• 1:03:03
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• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: first one to make the announcement that she was an
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: ambassador for w W. So I gotta bring her on
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• 1:03:18
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• 1:03:24
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• 1:03:29
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• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: keep your in the chair watching going he hitting every
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: note and then put your understory groove into the beat.
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: How the significance of the live performers and talked to
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: us about that, man, because that is always to me,
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: been a signature of Orahin. Yeah, I think that that's
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: one of the things that regardless of you know who
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: the manager is at the time, what label you on,
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: you know, how successful or on the rise you are.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: That that connection that you make um as a live
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: performer with the audience is just something that it's especially experience,
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: you know, it's a spiritual thing. It's it's a it's
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: a connection. Um. You know that that if you if
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: you successfully make it and you connect with that with
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: that individual or those groups of individuals, um, they become fans,
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: they become you know, uh, supporters of your movement hopefully
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: you know uh exactly you know, and come and coming
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: from an independent background and grassroots background, that was something
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: earlier that I just connected with and understood. They're like, hey,
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: like if you're gonna be if you know, if you're
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: pursuing this, then this is something that this is this
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: is the area where you need to really like horn
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: in or making records. That's cool. You go find records,
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: you can go create the wreckords, you can go create um,
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: the marketing, you can go create these things. But that
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: that connection again that you make with the audience is
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: a direct thing, you know, um doing them. I've always
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: been that guy who was doing like the meeting greets
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: and stuff, you know, so Um, in terms of my
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: background and starting out how I started out in the
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: U Street area, you know, Northwest BC and doing the
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: open mix I learned earlier. I realized that I needed
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: to have a tangible item that you know, that the
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: ladies and a felers can take home with them, you
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: know what I mean, and something they could play. Hey,
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: I like that tune. Where can I get it? You know,
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: this is before the digital wage and able to just
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: kind of pull it up on your phone or you know,
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: uploading to your digital platform where they can get you know,
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: absorb it. So that's just became part of my quote
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: unquote hustle. Like just it just became. It just became
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: law that, Hey, whether it's one person in the room
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: or you got fifty thou people in the you know,
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: in the arena, that everybody deserves the same show, everybody
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: deserves the same energy, you know. And um, it's just
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: that it's just the connection, man, It's it's kind of
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: for me. It's it's really becomes second nature, the second
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: nature thing. Um. But I never really I tried that
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: to never take it for grant or at the same time,
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: and that makes sense, well, I never I never felt
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: that way and knowing you, you know, or I should
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: run you. Whenever Steve Harvey I was ever in d C.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: I I couldn't get you on air enough. You know,
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: come on, come on, man, sit in there with us,
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: sitting in with us, man, because I was just a
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: firm belief of you. But you know you. I made
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: note of your incredible live performing skills. I'm speaking to Rouvon,
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: you know, to the DC area, but global talent, singer, performer, poet.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: I'd like to believe um the pandemic hit. You know,
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: Comedic friends of mine couldn't tour, Musical friends of minds
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: couldn't tour because you make your money performing live. And
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: how did that? How did that handle? How did it
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: affect you? And then your bandmates? How did that? How
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: did you? How did that? How does that situation played
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: out when it first shut down the country and playing
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: out now, I'll be honest with you, like I kind
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: of you know you always heard the whispers of these times,
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: you know, the times that we live in, you know,
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: other it's from the biblical standpoint or just a common
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: sense standpoint. So from me personally, I hit the ground running.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: I kind of I've always been Um, I've been an
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: independent artist for the chen years and make it look easy,
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: you know, if it's if it's if it's a situation
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: where I've had to spend my last to kind of
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: flip or to make to make it work. You know. Uh,
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: it's pretty much like my from conception like the music
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: to what happens on stage. Um and having a very
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: small team and individuals that I trust they can you know,
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: that can help me bring my vision a light of course.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: But you know when this happened, I just really I
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: started to kind of educating myself. Okay, well what are
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: the digital platforms? What how? The first thing I had
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: to ask myself is how I'm prepared my How I'm prepared?
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: Am I for this moment right now? Meaning like you know,
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: if if I could, if I couldn't leave this house.
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: You know, I got my studio set up, They've got
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: my DSL lines, who I happen? You know, that's technology
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: that you know, the internet, uh provider can service provider
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: can provide you know. UM. So so I kind of
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: like jumped into that, uh, into that arena, and you know,
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: and I quickly realized, like you need to upraise some
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: things you know you've been too depending on certain things.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: And yeah, so I so I really dug into with that.
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: I mean, of course, like definitely taking a huge uh
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: financial hit on the shows and the concerts, um and
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: the touring and stuff for that nature. But I just
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: I just really remain organic and and and and creating
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: activities for myself. Um the love the Love King Quarantine,
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: I'll call it um And definitely for that for that
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: first eight weeks, like I mean, I put myself on
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: the schedule and the regiment and just you know and
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: really connected with the fans and you know, around taking
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: care of the day to day things that you know,
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: dealing with the fan and the adjustment of it all.
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: And and it kind of gave me something that even
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: now gives me something to uh to look forward to,
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: you know and to because you gotta keep that audience going.
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: You gotta keep you, you gotta keep the connection going.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: It is a job, you know, as much as I
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: love what I do, and you have to maintain you
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: create this brand and then out the blue they tell
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: you you can't step on stages anymore. Just the list
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: of things that we that we kind of restricted and
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: constricted June so I had to. I had to do,
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: you know, creatives. I think that that's where you know,
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: the hustler comes in. Um that, the ambition of h
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: and the curiosity. You know, it's it's a it's a
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: it's a it's a trying time. But I try to
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: find a good and everything. Absolutely, and all these programs
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: are you know that program protection pro payroll protection program
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: did that was any of that stuff an asset are
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 1: available to an independent artist like you who had a
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: traveling band and made you you know, you're living via
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: live and all of a sudden the American said shut
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: down was any of those? Definitely? Definitely, I mean being transparent.
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: You know, I got some issues and I'm sorting out
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: with you know, of course I RS but it's it's
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: definitely it's been beneficial. Um but but but I also
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: try to make sure that it's not something that I
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: make myself like live. You know, my friend, look look
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: the cut your shot. Okay, you know I told all
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: my comedic friends. So they got a six hundred dollar
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: a week check. Go get it. Okay, you gotta go
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: get it. You gotta go get you gotta go get it.
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: They make it available to you. But you know, I
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 1: applied for the payroll protection program. Okay, yeah, because it
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: guess what the second quarter? What no income coming. They
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: cut down advertising, media, sales and everything. You couldn't do
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: live events, you couldn't even advertise because we're no advertised advertising. Okay,
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: so you know, ence shut down. A lot of major
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: events were and second and early third and so now
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: we're looking at the at the at the one as
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: a possibility. And then you hear about the Football's Pack
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: five and the Power five talking about the may shift
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: all their games to the spring. So it's so much uncertainty.
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: And then but Jen, you still have to be right,
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: You still have to be the Poe. You still have
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: to you know, stand forward and stand straight and be
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: a leader during these pandemic times. And when I say that,
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: you you you know, this has been an amazing years
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: for as incredible deaths. I consider the death of the
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: sudden death of Kobe Bryant to be, you know, world shattering,
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: and then the the the basic murder of George Floyd
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: in front of the nation's eyes. And eight minutes, ever lower,
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: eight minutes, how has that, how has that affected you
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: as a musical artist, as a family man, you know,
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: a leader in this country and being a man of color.
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: It's just sexually fremendously. I mean the good, the good
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: in it is that my my way, My mind works
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: in the way and wired like it's it's you know,
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: every day wake up trying to thinking, you know, thuls
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: being thankful, And I say, what are trying to be
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: alive with the time to being you know when I
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: say that, um, it's kind of like you know what
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: a trying to be in love with the things that
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: you love, you know, whether that's my spiritual aspect um,
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: still being in tune with what your art. You know.
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: I heard some artists like the interviews or like saying
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: like like slat out, like they can't even create right.
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: It's been a total of you know what I mean,
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: Like I got records coming out, my new single which
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: Marvin used to say it's old, and Marvin Gaye is
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: speaking about everything that I've seen, you know, in my
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: in my journey you know, uh after things that we
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: see now, you know, it's a lot going on just
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: just in my city, you know, in d c Um
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: this past Saturday they had a drive block where almost
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: thirty people were shot. It's people dying like daily, like
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Um, just just on top
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: of everything else going on in the middle of a
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: pandemic um you know, understanding where the economy is. It's
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: kind of like it's like, wow, these are the things
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: that Marvin talked about, you know, and it's amazing, amazing. Yeah,
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: there's far too many of of you dying, you know. Yeah, yeah,
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: and it's it's but yeah, and it's deep because you know,
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: I'm one of those people that feel like history repeats
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: it so I just really repeat itself right before our
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: eyes and so so. So you said you're single. Is
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: it out now? It actually drops on for this moment. Okay, okay, okay,
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: now let's go down. Now you gotta come to me now. Okay, Now,
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: social media goes out. You know I got a million
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: social media followers. I'll drop it on Friday, you know
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: that Friday PM, and then I put it in my
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: newsletter that goes out on win to the name three
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: thousand followers. That sounds good. So that's what the Independent's
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: gotta do. Independence gotta I gotta stay with the relationships
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 1: they believe in them. Okay, Yeah, this is a reconnect
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: you and I okay, because you know I love okay. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: talk about that single. Let's talk about this single. You
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: know you mentioned Marvin Gaye. You meant, you know, you
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: know that mercy, mercy, what's going on? Uh? Those those
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: those songs resonate today. There was about the Vietnam War
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: that he did the talking about you still talk about
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: the injustice in the streets all that period. You had
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: John Carlos and Tommy Smith. You know, just seeing now
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: these marches and then like you're talking about, then then
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: these out of control levels of violence and just not
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: just in Chicago, but happening all over this country. And
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: guess who'll becoming a victim? African Americans? Yeah, you sit
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 1: down right, hei, what comes out of you? What? What
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: just the direction of your What message are you trying
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: to say in your music? Now? Man? So you know,
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: of course, like the mother used to say, record is coming,
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's it's more old to you know,
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: speaking on you know, whether you're talking about COVID nineteen.
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: You talk about um the climate of you know, where
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: it is to be a black man in this country
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 1: after you know, all out of all and women, the
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: things that we've accomplished, you know, on this planet in
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: a very short amount of time. You know that I've
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 1: been here, that we've been here, you know, and it's
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: still see um how prevalent um and detrimental um white
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: supremacy is and also a social classic supremacy, you know
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: what I mean, because you know, like the ministers says
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  Speaker 1: Fai Kime said, you know, and peous um times when
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  Speaker 1: he's spoken, is that like you know, all black folks
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: ain't good, All white folks ain't bad, you know what
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  Speaker 1: I mean? And you know what I mean. So it's
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  Speaker 1: like when you really when you really, when you really pinpointed,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and I just kind of feel like the
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• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: just have two sets of people. You've got people that
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: are loving. You've got people that are uh carry that
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: um that want to see change and you know, across
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: the gamut you know, and and and and do their
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: part um. And then you have people that absolutely give
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: zero you know, as you don't. I don't want to
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: use fanis Union show, but they really give zero percent
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: concerned to the things that are going on, you know,
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: very true. And when you say that, so you know
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: we're talking about you Love Life Foundation, that's when they started, correct, Yeah, yeah, exactly.
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: I had been called on to do a number of
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: different things, primarily in the domestic violence sector in the past,
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: feeding the homeless, um, any number of things that affect
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 1: us as people lack and brown color, you know, first
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: and foremost in the in the cities. And I decided
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: around fourteen and to start my start my foundation and
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: Love Life Foundation. UM. Some of the most recent work.
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: I mean, when Kobe broke out, UM, I had an
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: opportunity to to to even serve being a service to
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 1: the to the first responders, UM, the nurses and the doctors,
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 1: you know, providing home cook meals for them, you know,
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: as they worked around the clock to fight COVID. So
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: that was one of one of the campaigns that we
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: did over the you know, the first um nine weeks. Uh.
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: Then of course, when you know, after the after the murder,
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: uh um a brother, and and and and the and
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: the uprisings that were taking place, we had to kind
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 1: of slow down on that because in certain places just
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: wasn't safe. UM and and what was dope. I mean
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: we had women like on the front line and we're
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 1: cooking the food, delivering it, you know, risking their life
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: to deliver it, UM to the hospitals. Want to give
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: a big shout out to h Alma's Catering and some
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: of our other you know partners with the Love Life
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: Foundation here in the city. But if it's Baltimore, DC, Virginia,
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: we over the last man ten weeks, we serviced um
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: any number of like first responders, nurses, doctors, people at
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: the testing sites you know, UM as well as as
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: well as those are this place right now because it's
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 1: you know, we're doing food banks most recently UM as well,
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: you know, trying to just provide fresh fruits and vegetables
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: for local families and stuff here with some of the
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: farmers and partner with them. So farmers just local Yeah,
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: just local farmers. They want to lend a hand. Um.
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  Speaker 1: You know. Prior to COVID, UH, there was a school
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  Speaker 1: in Southeast it's a really cool experience. Things like that
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  Speaker 1: I missed, you know what I mean, because of course,
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  Speaker 1: So when I hear you talk about your love life foundation,
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  Speaker 1: we're constantly taking donations. Um, And like I said, with
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  Speaker 1: in fighting domestic violence. I'm heavily involved and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to fight against sex trafficking, you know, and because that's
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 1: kind of gets sex track of the you know, domestic
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  Speaker 1: it's it's quietly a billion dollars business, you know what
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  Speaker 1: of continues to happen and go under the radar, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And um, so we have to definitely, as you know,
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  Speaker 1: as individuals, as men, as black men, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: have to you know, you have to do a better
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  Speaker 1: job of protecting our women, I children, you know, um,
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  Speaker 1: not only in this country but on the planet. Me personally,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like black women is the most disrespecting on
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  Speaker 1: the planet, like period. Uh, you know, and and and
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  Speaker 1: you know, so I've always, um tell my best to
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  Speaker 1: do my part, you know, lyrically on the record. You know,
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  Speaker 1: that's a conscious decision to make a record like Woman,
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  Speaker 1: you know, when everybody else is going against the grain
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  Speaker 1: and calling the women are different kind of other things
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  Speaker 1: in the records, you know, which is really really really incredible.
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  Speaker 1: Now I'm shifting gears because I'm going back to this
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  Speaker 1: song that's you're dropping on August now because I'm here
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  Speaker 1: all this community involvement. I'm here all this time. I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure you got pictures. I'm sure you got video. Is
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  Speaker 1: that gonna be part of the video that's gonna drop
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  Speaker 1: with it? Or you've got something else playing with that? Yeah? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: right now, I see that, right, you know, I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: been on the fence about getting footage and then putting
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  Speaker 1: out the video you know, in the in the weeks
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  Speaker 1: to follow, which I may go that route. Um. Ironically,
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  Speaker 1: night that I was doing because I'm also a part
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  Speaker 1: yourself if the blessing just comes from actually like pointing
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  Speaker 1: and uh so you know they brought me on board. Um,
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  Speaker 1: You know, recently on last Saturday's episode, you guys got
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  Speaker 1: to see our team right, and so on one side
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  Speaker 1: of the table you had three people from L A M.
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  Speaker 1: Who are part of our branding team. And on another
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  Speaker 1: side of the table, you had Alabama natives who are
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 1: based right here out of Birmingham and they're part of
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  Speaker 1: our branding team. So we have people you know, who
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  Speaker 1: believe in us, who's worked with us for a while now,
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 1: and who are pushing for it to make sure that
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  Speaker 1: we get to the girls who we're trying to get to.
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  Speaker 1: So when it comes to branding, UM, it's all about
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 1: having the right team and the right people in your corner.
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  Speaker 1: Hands down, we know, like that's that's important because like
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  Speaker 1: my name is on the usual Rashan Rashan McDonald's my name,
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  Speaker 1: and so when when people say it, you know, always
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  Speaker 1: always get a kick out of it. Because of the
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  Speaker 1: fact that that means that my message is getting out
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  Speaker 1: there about me. But more importantly when you say you
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  Speaker 1: have a team in l a which I love, and
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  Speaker 1: then you have a team in Alabama, which means that
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  Speaker 1: that keeps it more authentic because they kind of know
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  Speaker 1: the lifestyle because everybody. I hate when people come in
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  Speaker 1: the room and go, I know, you know you don't
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  Speaker 1: you just seen me on TV Fact Fact and like
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  Speaker 1: you're saying, you know, those the people who understand, those
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  Speaker 1: grass roots, who understand Alabama history, Alabama heritage, and how
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  Speaker 1: you can pull those things in together. And then some
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  Speaker 1: of my team, like I said, they're, you know, right
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  Speaker 1: from Birmingham, So in terms of that whole piece of
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  Speaker 1: history when it comes to the civil rights, when it
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 1: comes to UM Birmingham Staffle, I mean all of that,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm being able to find ways to pull me
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  Speaker 1: in with that. I mean, it's been amazing. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: so thankful. I thank God every day for the amazing
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 1: people He's put around me. For sure. Now let's talk
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 1: about that, because you said something interesting. This is I'm
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  Speaker 1: really you know something. I love talking to you because
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 1: the energy is there and I know you're hidden in
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 1: the direction that you have a plan for. Like you said, Rishan,
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  Speaker 1: this didn't start with with with this this reality show.
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  Speaker 1: I was hitting down this direction all along, and I
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 1: just this is really accelerated it absolutely absolutely, So what
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  Speaker 1: is your brain? What brand are you trying to design?
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 1: Like I said earlier, let me just say what I said.
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  Speaker 1: I said the wife mother for entrepreneur, uh master classes
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  Speaker 1: on Instagram and cloud, social media influencer. What is your brain?
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  Speaker 1: If you're trying to be yes and all of that
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 1: is a part of my brand. You know who I am, UM,
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  Speaker 1: what I pushed for, what I advocate for, UM, being
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  Speaker 1: a mom, being a wife, being UM, still being able
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  Speaker 1: to be a boss and at the same time time
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  Speaker 1: empowering others, UM, specifically for me as women, UM, finding
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  Speaker 1: ways to empower others. So you know, I have my
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  Speaker 1: massive class that I do where I'm actually right now
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 1: doing live series where I'm getting free knowledge and free
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 1: information by bringing on guests who reached certain amounts of
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 1: success and their careers and their lives. Then of course
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 1: i have my massive class with Melody Hope Preservation Academy,
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 1: where I'm helping people get into this multibillion dollar industry
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 1: called property preservation. So I have and it mostly consistent women.
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  Speaker 1: So I have women who I've helped in terms of
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 1: getting their e I N setting up lcs, getting business
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 1: checking accounts, and then ultimately getting contacts and getting work
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 1: orders that they're able to complete and make money. So um,
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 1: you know, it's one of those things where for me,
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 1: my brand consists of you know, business. I'm a home builder,
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 1: so being a being in business, but also being a wife,
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 1: being a mom, and also helping others and bringing them
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 1: along on their journey. Now, this is really important that
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 1: we are the reason I wanted to bring on the
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 1: show because we all know TV, they get in the
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 1: editing room, they tell a story they want to take
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 1: off for ratings. You know it can it could be annoying.
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 1: It could be a very annoying to you Saturday night
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 1: after the air. So it could be they said, because
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 1: you know that can reflect on what people think. Okay,
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 1: and live in the reflection. Okay, you are an attractive
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 1: or beautiful woman and you are in ma. You need
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 1: to stop, you need to stop. You know you you
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 1: know you you know you got it going over four kids,
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 1: don't look like you have one child? I'm gonna stop
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  Speaker 1: stop stop, and so so and so and then and
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 1: then the reason when I saw the when I saw
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  Speaker 1: the series, the master Class series, that's the side that
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  Speaker 1: I'm bringing it on the show to talk about, you know,
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  Speaker 1: not any any picture because of the fact that you
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 1: know your your your your attractiveness, and the reality show
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 1: who you really are can get lost and you're lost
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 1: in your gain and knowing you is that you are
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 1: an empowering person. You bought uplifting people, and you're about
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 1: allowing women, especially entrepreneur why women an opportunity to be successful?
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, And that's important. It's about and
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  Speaker 1: that's why I wanted to bring your class. So let's
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 1: talk about Let's go back to the first, you know,
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 1: fingering their file before we get to the skincare and
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 1: these other things. Okay, let's you know home, because you
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  Speaker 1: do about I'm gonna Last time I was talking to you,
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 1: you wasn't talking this fast. You had that you had
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 1: that little southern drawl down pat. Now you all New York,
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 1: New York, kissing everything, talking fast and just everyone. No,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not I'm gonna yes, you know, I'm let me
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 1: tell you I have had to learn to talk. Let's
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  Speaker 1: go down. Then I have learned to talk fast only
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  Speaker 1: because I'm always doing a million different things, right, so
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 1: I'm used to getting in and getting it out. Let's go,
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  Speaker 1: let's move okay, and what's net So you know what,
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate that. So almost slow it down? How about
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 1: slow down? Slow it down? Slow it down to the
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 1: don't slow it down because I'm to yourself, if I'm
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 1: in a Ferrari, I don't want to drive in the
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 1: volks what. I don't want Volkswagen speed and I want
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 1: Ferrari speed because you're a Ferrari right now. You know
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 1: I met you you as a port Now you're a Ferrari.
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 1: You know you out you don't get you, You're Ferrari. Now,
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 1: now let's talk about this Ferrari, this masterclass. How did
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 1: this idea come up? And each one? That's what I love.
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 1: See Sometimes I get mad at you. I go, what
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 1: a great idea? Because right there, because right there you
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 1: have the title of what that class is about, under
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 1: each each each date in the photo. Now let's talk
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 1: about this because you talk about you have a team
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 1: in Atlanta, a team and in Alabama in the South
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  Speaker 1: and the West, you got Hollywood West and the southeast.
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  Speaker 1: You got all this going on, got good food, you
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 1: got your your budding story. Can't go on the grocery
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 1: store with our people. Look thank god for facial mask
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 1: because now you can go on the grocery store and
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 1: shop girls on the day. So let's let's talk about this,
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 1: the incubating and the development period of the master class
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  Speaker 1: that's on your Instagram account. Absolutely So let me tell
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 1: you again, this goes back to having an amazing team. Right.
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 1: So my graphic person who's a part my team, has
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 1: been working with for sometime now. You know he handles
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 1: my website, handles my flyers, um, all of that, and
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 1: everyone who's around me or works with me knows. Look,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not one of those people who feel like I
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 1: know everything. I make it clear to them. If y'all
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  Speaker 1: have an idea, if you have a suggestion, or if
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 1: I'm giving out an idea that you just think it's
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 1: crap and no good, like, feel free to talk to
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  Speaker 1: me like we we just have all of us have
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  Speaker 1: that kind of open to me. You have some people
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  Speaker 1: who are in charge who don't think anybody can tell
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 1: them any saying, or they don't want anybody to go
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 1: against what they say. My team knows that's not me,
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  Speaker 1: so they are all very comfortable with sharing ideas with me. Right.
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  Speaker 1: So one story short, UM, my graphic person, UM, we
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 1: were working on something that he was like, you know what,
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 1: he was like, what do you think about? UM? I
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 1: think it would be a good opportunity for you to
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  Speaker 1: do something where you're actually doing like a class. So
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 1: it started from there. Um, we went into conversation. Then
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 1: they go to a what am I an exfort in? Well,
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 1: I'm an expert in what I've been doing the past
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  Speaker 1: ten years. What I've been doing the past teen years
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  Speaker 1: as being in this what has been a male dominated SRA,
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 1: white male dominated industry for a very long time called
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 1: property preservation. And that's what I've been able to do
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 1: for ten years. That's what allowed me to resign from
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 1: teaching UM after three years and has ultimately allowed me
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 1: to be a sole entrepreneur UM so as my only
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 1: source of income. So I say, so entrepreneurs. So you know,
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 1: it's one of those things where it was like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: that's what I'm an expert in, and that's the game
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 1: I'm about to teach. So hence came the Master Class
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 1: with Melody or Whole Preservation Academy idea. And so under
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 1: Master Class with Melody, you have the Whole Preservation Academy,
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 1: which is where I teach about property preservation. I've had
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 1: about fifty students go through my class so far. UM.
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  Speaker 1: It has been amazing. They all get a personal touch
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 1: for me, have Zoom meetings. I have one tonight. I
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 1: have Zoom meetings with them on Monday night. UM usually
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 1: last an hour to an hour and a half. They
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 1: all get my personal cell number, so I'm communicating with
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 1: them through the week via text, via phone UM. And
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 1: it's definitely very personable, very personal, and very one on one.
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 1: So I've got about Like I said, I'm on my
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  Speaker 1: second class right now. So I've had a total about
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 1: fifty students go through my class. And then UM, I
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 1: decided from there, I wanted to do something UM that
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 1: was kind of more regular and for anybody who's interested
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 1: in anything about business, not just property preservation. So I
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 1: put together this Instagram life series. So we've had Mr
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 1: Donahue Baker and Donahue Baker he was with me last week.
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 1: We discussed, um, you know, different ways to get funding,
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 1: how to own UM multiple he has like over five
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 1: hundred units that he that he owns, so you know,
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 1: just different ways that you can make money and use
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 1: money to capitalize and make more money. UM. Then we've
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 1: got Mr O'Neill Parker who's coming in on tomorrow, twenty
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 1: six years old, owns over two million and in real
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 1: estate UM and it's being on investing, so we've got
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 1: him coming in. Then we've got Duane Youl Wilkerson who's
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 1: going to talk about turning your talent into profits. UM.
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 1: Cassidy Shepherd UM who's also part of my PR team.
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 1: She's going to come in and talk about your business
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 1: is your brand? So giving tips and things for people
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 1: who are trying to build a brand. And then we
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 1: have Misterical Harwell, who is the guru when it comes
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 1: to business credit and personal credit. She's going to come
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 1: in and talk about that. So again free information, free knowledge,
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 1: free gyms being dropped for people you know who are
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 1: trying to still make twenty twenty. Make sure we're still
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 1: sharpening our vision in twenty to fight all the upset
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 1: that we've had this year. Okay, now is this gonna
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 1: become a YouTube channel? Because that's where I feel it
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 1: should go. You know that's what you feel was you
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 1: know why? Um I like that idea, So you dropped
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 1: an idea on me. I'm just telling you just the
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 1: beauty of what you're doing. Okay. First of all, you know,
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 1: you know you have a style. You know the fashion
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 1: line companies. It's like, I'm just coming because I'm looking
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 1: at this. I'm looking at this. Uh the little bird
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 1: he has you know what I'm saying. They have the
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 1: scarf in the pocket. You know what I'm saying. You
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 1: know this, this is this is dropping knowledge with with
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 1: with was was styped what I'm saying. You know, you
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 1: know you're like, there's like the Steave Harvey, you know,
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 1: a visionary for that generation right there that you know
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 1: he's passed, but you're about to pick him up and
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 1: take it on to the Finnish slide and throw that
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 1: touchdown shoulder because style, because this is what I love
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 1: about you. Okay. First of all, you do not deny
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 1: that your mom and you're committed to being a mom. Okay.
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 1: And that's what and that's where the modern day, especially
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 1: black women need to see that. Guess what, And that's
• 1:51:45
  Speaker 1: why I wanted you on the show to tell your story.
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no no. This is start with
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 1: loving marriage Huntsville. That was part of the mission. Okay,
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 1: that was part of the plan. She loved Marriage Huntsville
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 1: is just part of It's more like, you know, you
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 1: you look at your chart and you have all these
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 1: options of what you can do, and you put this
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 1: on the sheriff as an opportunity. It happened, and you're
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 1: gonna move forward because of the fact that you you've
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 1: told me Richard, when you're not gonna get together, because
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 1: of the fact that you know there are the other
• 1:52:13
  Speaker 1: options that you want to do besides that. You I
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 1: see talk show and I go, okay, if you're preparing
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 1: with this Instagram Instagram, people can't find that. But you
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 1: can do this on a YouTube channel and you can
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 1: build subscribers and then you become a phenomenon. And that's
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 1: why I want to take that out of I wanted
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 1: That's what I had to do with my Money Making
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 1: Conversation platform. I was all on social media and then
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 1: when I opened my Money Making Conversation YouTube channel, it
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 1: really showed me who I was. And because a lot
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 1: of people think I'm a baker. They see all those
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 1: cakes and everything, but when they go over their money
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 1: making conversation, that's who I am and they respect that. Now,
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 1: when I see you doing these master classes, if you
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 1: start setting up your YouTube channel, when they go over there,
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 1: they know that has nothing nothing to do with with
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 1: with with anything else but making people better, and especially
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 1: women of color, they can be better if they follow
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 1: your advice. And that's why I recommended each one of
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 1: these classes should be put over there, because what happens
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 1: is as you start building momentum and YouTube, every time
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 1: you upload a new show, and alert goes out to
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 1: your fan base that's on YouTube, and you should do that.
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 1: You gotta do that. You gotta do that. And so
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 1: this is just a shortly a short five week series, right, Um, yes,
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 1: well it's it's actually two weeks, so it's not a
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 1: personal week. I've got two people coming on this week,
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 1: two people coming on next week, and then I'm going
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 1: to launch another series with another, um you know, different guests.
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 1: But I appreciate and I'm thankful for everything you said,
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 1: and I'll definitely take that to my team. UM, I
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 1: do have a YouTube channel already. I just haven't been
• 1:53:48
  Speaker 1: uploading this content to it, UM, but I appreciate that
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 1: because that's an amazing idea. UM. And I think that
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 1: one thing I want to harphone that you mentioned was
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 1: about being able to do a lot even though your mom. Um.
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 1: That's one thing, to be honest that I want people
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 1: to know is that, you know, mom, you can still
• 1:54:06
  Speaker 1: be an awesome mom and still go after your dreams
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 1: and goes at the same time too. Is it gonna
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 1: be easy? No, it is does make it a little
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 1: more difficult, but it's possible. I literally just had my
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 1: baby in my hand and my phone in the other hand,
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 1: in my laptop sending my lap Yeah, I mean, if
• 1:54:24
  Speaker 1: you're right. So you know, it's kind of one of
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 1: those things where you just do what you have to do,
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 1: UM and make no excuses, because there there are no excuses.
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 1: Even with all my kids. You know, I can remember, um,
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 1: my first daughter, Mariah, because we kept her at home
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 1: for like a year before we actually put her in daycare,
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 1: and so I can remember taking her to the office
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 1: with me, UM, having a playpen. There's an office for her. Like,
• 1:54:47
  Speaker 1: you just make it happen, you know, you do what
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 1: you have to do. To make it happen. So you know,
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 1: to all the moms out there, the hard working moms,
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 1: I want you guys to know, like, hey, keep pushing.
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 1: You can do it. Um, So what if you don't,
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 1: if you don't have a big support system, So what
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 1: don't let that be an excuse. Figure it out, make
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 1: it happen. And that's what I'm all about, is making
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 1: it happen. She is a former middle school teacher and
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 1: entrepreneurs sought after speaker. You just heard the talk, man.
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  Speaker 1: it's not my source. God is my source. God is
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  Speaker 1: But you know that that's why, that's why it's important,
• 1:57:59
  Speaker 1: Melody that you I'm telling because because you're my feet
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 1: on my on my Instagram. So I popped you your
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 1: pop photo pop up and go, you're just doing it.
• 1:58:08
  Speaker 1: Look at you. She is over there just posing and
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 1: just just leaving people. Your your engagement and you become
• 1:58:14
  Speaker 1: a social media for now, we're gonna get back to
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 1: the embraced. Don't worry about that. You know, but but
• 1:58:19
  Speaker 1: but but embraced is tied to the brand that you created,
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 1: especially in social media. I got the I got the
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 1: you know, the love and the Love and Marriage hunt
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 1: Field Show. But did you expect the engagement and the
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 1: growth and social media that you've gotten? Um? I don't
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 1: feel like I had any expectations when it came to
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 1: the you know, because I wasn't doing it. The things
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 1: that I've done, I wasn't doing them, um thinking of like,
• 1:58:49
  Speaker 1: oh is this gonna makes me more popular? Of this?
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 1: I just believe in doing what I feel like it's
• 1:58:53
  Speaker 1: my purpose and whatever happens happened. So I tell people
• 1:58:56
  Speaker 1: I never have been one of the chase for celebrity. However,
• 1:58:59
  Speaker 1: is celebrity ends up with my purpose, then so be it.
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 1: Um So for me, it was always me chasing my vision,
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 1: my purpose, and my goals. Um So, definitely that's a
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 1: plus now that I do have. It has allowed me
• 1:59:11
  Speaker 1: to be able to reach more people, to have a
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 1: bigger audience, and ultimately be able to share my story
• 1:59:16
  Speaker 1: and my life experiences while encouraging people along the way.
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 1: That's a major plus for me. But it was never
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 1: the end goal for me, if that makes sense. Absolutely.
• 1:59:24
  Speaker 1: What I like about you is that you know you
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 1: you learned to pivot. You see an opportunity, you flesh
• 1:59:30
  Speaker 1: it out, and you you seize it. But he sees
• 1:59:33
  Speaker 1: with a plan that way that that the like you
• 1:59:36
  Speaker 1: told earlier in the conversation, you usually limited roar. I failed,
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 1: you know, but I don't let that fair stop me
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 1: from being successful. I learned from it. So now so
• 1:59:45
  Speaker 1: now let's get back to Embrace. Because I pulled up
• 1:59:46
  Speaker 1: the website. See see I had to get I got
• 1:59:49
  Speaker 1: I used get a little conversation right there. So I
• 1:59:50
  Speaker 1: get back ahead of the creer with this conversation about
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 1: the embraced, embraced, beauty foam, embraced beauty, toner body, butter,
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 1: beauty body. Oh a moisturizer comming to the body coming
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 1: and a little private comming to let's talk about this embracetion.
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 1: You're beautiful. I love this. You're beautiful, embrace it come
• 2:00:10
  Speaker 1: on absolutely, so you know, UM, thank you so much.
• 2:00:14
  Speaker 1: I mean, I just a wow. I appreciate you allow
• 2:00:16
  Speaker 1: me to share, you know, my info on your platform.
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for that. Um. So really was
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 1: when I was growing up, I suffered from something called
• 2:00:24
  Speaker 1: pitty riots is rosation, which is pretty much just a
• 2:00:27
  Speaker 1: dry rash. So um, you know, it was something I
• 2:00:30
  Speaker 1: used to complain about and so my actually my great
• 2:00:32
  Speaker 1: grandmother share with me a secret um of something to
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 1: use to help me. UM when I would have these breakouts,
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 1: usually during the fall months with this petty rice is rosation.
• 2:00:42
  Speaker 1: So what I decided to do is, I um wanted
• 2:00:45
  Speaker 1: to create a skincare line that incorporated that for people
• 2:00:49
  Speaker 1: who have that kind of an issue or issues with
• 2:00:52
  Speaker 1: dry skins. So I do have and of course I
• 2:00:55
  Speaker 1: do aligne so I'm always having to have my face
• 2:00:59
  Speaker 1: beat and makeup on. However, I've always been adamant on
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 1: making sure that underneath that that my skin is still glowing,
• 2:01:06
  Speaker 1: that my skin is still healthy, because your skin is
• 2:01:09
  Speaker 1: the largest piece of your body, so you got to
• 2:01:10
  Speaker 1: take care of it. Um. So for me, for me,
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 1: I UM just definitely said, you know, I want to
• 2:01:16
  Speaker 1: put these things together along with the things my great
• 2:01:18
  Speaker 1: grandmother has shared with me and put it into a product.
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 1: So I have a cleanser. Um. It's really um, to
• 2:01:23
  Speaker 1: be honest, it's what. It's a everyday regiment that you
• 2:01:26
  Speaker 1: can use as a cleanser, a toner moisturizer than a
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 1: lip primer, which of course you would put your lip
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 1: primer on before you put on your you know, lip
• 2:01:33
  Speaker 1: gloss or lipstick or things of that nature. Um. And
• 2:01:36
  Speaker 1: so that has been amazing. UM. I actually premiered it
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 1: on the show earlier. We filmed it, I think the
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 1: first part in the January, right before the pandemic. UM.
• 2:01:46
  Speaker 1: And then for me being pregnant, of course, when you're pregnant,
• 2:01:50
  Speaker 1: you have if your skin, you have dry skin and
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 1: things like that. So when I was pregnant, I went
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 1: ahead and got with my chemists, which I'm using a
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 1: black chemist out of Dallas, Texas, who I work with.
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 1: I actually met her through Marquell because she and Martell
• 2:02:02
  Speaker 1: went to high school together. But she has a very
• 2:02:05
  Speaker 1: very successful natural hair care line. So I got with
• 2:02:08
  Speaker 1: her and um, we came up together and put this
• 2:02:12
  Speaker 1: put my products together, and you know, worked for really
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 1: almost two years just making sure that it was the
• 2:02:16
  Speaker 1: way I wanted it to be. Two years too, because
• 2:02:19
  Speaker 1: in between of everything else that I'm doing, of course,
• 2:02:21
  Speaker 1: I'm always doing so many different things. So it was
• 2:02:23
  Speaker 1: about two years that we put in getting it the
• 2:02:25
  Speaker 1: way I wanted it. Um. Because I'm big on again branding.
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 1: Everything reflects my brand, so I gotta make sure everything
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 1: is top notch. We're not gonna short change things, right. Um.
• 2:02:35
  Speaker 1: So when I was pregnant, I came up with the
• 2:02:37
  Speaker 1: body lotion, the body oil, and the body but her
• 2:02:40
  Speaker 1: um and so that's what that's what Embrace currently consists of.
• 2:02:44
  Speaker 1: And I'm actually going to be having a live event
• 2:02:47
  Speaker 1: on social media when I'm actually gonna open the website
• 2:02:50
  Speaker 1: up for sales, Well, that's gonna be happening. I was
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 1: planning to do that by the time the episode aired
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 1: for the skin care line, but then the pandemic happened,
• 2:02:58
  Speaker 1: so things got pushed back, and you know, and then
• 2:03:00
  Speaker 1: of course I also have you know, my divorce happening
• 2:03:03
  Speaker 1: as well. THO was one of those things where I
• 2:03:05
  Speaker 1: just was like, okay, just hold up, let's stop for
• 2:03:07
  Speaker 1: a second. Um, But I'm actually going to have a
• 2:03:09
  Speaker 1: live event very soon. I'm going to open the site up.
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 1: People have the messaging me. They're waiting for it. They
• 2:03:13
  Speaker 1: want to get Sonna open it up and allow of
• 2:03:15
  Speaker 1: people to start purchasing. Well, first of all, you know,
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 1: there was a there was a moment of silence out
• 2:03:22
  Speaker 1: of respect of what you're doing. Okay, you already said
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 1: you you're gonna You've already gonna do a live event. Okay,
• 2:03:31
  Speaker 1: So that's what I'm saying. These these master classes are
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 1: preparing you for that live event. So what what what
• 2:03:38
  Speaker 1: do we get a sense of? You're gonna be like
• 2:03:40
  Speaker 1: a story like environment? Can people buy product online immediately
• 2:03:44
  Speaker 1: when you go to that live event? It will be
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 1: that's right? And when is the date? You have we
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 1: locked the date yet No, I don't have the day
• 2:03:51
  Speaker 1: d and yet it will probably be more in the
• 2:03:53
  Speaker 1: first of October range. How you know things are starting
• 2:03:56
  Speaker 1: to Yep, things are starting to move a little bit
• 2:03:58
  Speaker 1: better with COVID and the packaging and things like that,
• 2:04:02
  Speaker 1: because of course most of the packaging, as you know,
• 2:04:04
  Speaker 1: come from China or at least pieces of it, and
• 2:04:06
  Speaker 1: so it's just a big thing. And I didn't want
• 2:04:07
  Speaker 1: to be honest, I'm kind of picky, like I could
• 2:04:10
  Speaker 1: have changed up. To be honest, I should have changed
• 2:04:12
  Speaker 1: up my packaging and did a different but I'm like, no,
• 2:04:14
  Speaker 1: I want exactly the way I want it and that's
• 2:04:17
  Speaker 1: just what it is. Um So, so yeah, this is
• 2:04:20
  Speaker 1: what I want to give to my consumer and ain't
• 2:04:22
  Speaker 1: changing it. So we just don't wait, you know, it
• 2:04:24
  Speaker 1: was one of those things. Hello, hello, meloy, Hello, you're
• 2:04:28
  Speaker 1: all good? Did you win? Ain't changing it? Come on now,
• 2:04:31
  Speaker 1: how this beautiful articulate business woman ain't changing it? Ain't changing?
• 2:04:36
  Speaker 1: But don't body did my grandmama butter, y'all didn't stop
• 2:04:40
  Speaker 1: talking to me. Yeah, because I can do all of it.
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 1: I can. I can be all of those this is
• 2:04:46
  Speaker 1: you gotta keep be in the loop on that. We
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna change self numbers when it's called in.
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 1: But because I gotta still in touch with you. Now,
• 2:04:53
  Speaker 1: this this, this, this slogan of this name of your
• 2:04:56
  Speaker 1: beautiful embrace it embraced absolutely that so because we know
• 2:05:00
  Speaker 1: the M is for your first name, Melody, and then
• 2:05:04
  Speaker 1: so that how did that title, how did that slogan
• 2:05:07
  Speaker 1: come up? And how did the name of the Beauty
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 1: Premier skin care line come up? Man, this is so funny.
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 1: So one day I was literally getting my makeup done. Um,
• 2:05:15
  Speaker 1: I was going somewhere my makeup artists. Um, he's been
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 1: a makeup artists for a few years now. He was
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 1: on my makeup and I was telling him about my
• 2:05:21
  Speaker 1: skin care line and what I was working on and
• 2:05:23
  Speaker 1: what my plans were, and so we just started talking
• 2:05:26
  Speaker 1: and in that conversation we were just saying, you know, yeah, people,
• 2:05:29
  Speaker 1: you know, they should be able to embrace you know,
• 2:05:32
  Speaker 1: who they are and their skin and there. And I
• 2:05:34
  Speaker 1: was like, yeah, oh, you know, listen at us, you
• 2:05:38
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. And we were just literally just
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 1: having conversations. And so, of course, all of my family's name,
• 2:05:45
  Speaker 1: the kids, my husband, me, we all start with an M.
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 1: So we always play on the M word, like there
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 1: did we call them the eminem kids. We always play
• 2:05:52
  Speaker 1: on and so um, it was just like and I
• 2:05:57
  Speaker 1: can play with this embrace and make this m capital
• 2:06:00
  Speaker 1: the lies and make this all flow the way I
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 1: use the life of stuff to flow. And it just
• 2:06:03
  Speaker 1: went from there and you know, and so it was
• 2:06:06
  Speaker 1: really a conversation and us talking about it, me sharing
• 2:06:08
  Speaker 1: my idea of my skin care line and putting it out,
• 2:06:11
  Speaker 1: and we're talking about how important it is for people,
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 1: especially you know, especially women because again, we do have
• 2:06:16
  Speaker 1: times when we have to be made up and look
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 1: to the tea and we're affected to look like a
• 2:06:20
  Speaker 1: pen all the time. But what do you look like
• 2:06:22
  Speaker 1: when you take that makeup off of your faith? And um,
• 2:06:25
  Speaker 1: so yeah, now you know, I gotta I gotta wrap
• 2:06:29
  Speaker 1: up here because I can't. I can't ruin my reputation.
• 2:06:31
  Speaker 1: But I wanted to talk about just you know, just
• 2:06:34
  Speaker 1: get your you know, when we look at what you're doing. Uh,
• 2:06:36
  Speaker 1: and we's so many black women are doing. We are
• 2:06:38
  Speaker 1: in a political season and you know, I'm encouraging everybody
• 2:06:42
  Speaker 1: to register to vote. You know. Uh, we we know
• 2:06:45
  Speaker 1: what's going on out there, but we gotta make a
• 2:06:47
  Speaker 1: difference and we'll see the Democratic nomin need be a
• 2:06:50
  Speaker 1: woman of color Kamala Harris, what are your thoughts and uh,
• 2:06:54
  Speaker 1: you know, and what what what are what are your
• 2:06:55
  Speaker 1: goals and expectations for what you're trying to do to
• 2:06:58
  Speaker 1: motivate the community to vote. Oh man, let me tell
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 1: you first of all, I think that this is amazing.
• 2:07:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, I shared this on an interview the other day.
• 2:07:06
  Speaker 1: I still remember when Obama got elected and how excited
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 1: I felt, and I felt like, wow, I can't do
• 2:07:11
  Speaker 1: anything despite the color of my skin. I remember being
• 2:07:13
  Speaker 1: even more excited when he got re elected, saying no,
• 2:07:16
  Speaker 1: waiting for them both and valid and stuff to come
• 2:07:18
  Speaker 1: on in and look with those numbers gonna be like
• 2:07:20
  Speaker 1: and he won again and it was like, oh my gosh, right,
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 1: that whole excitement and that feeling that a piece of
• 2:07:27
  Speaker 1: inspiration and encouragement. It was just so um, that's the
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 1: same way I feel right now, like I feel like
• 2:07:34
  Speaker 1: and this time because it's a woman, so even more so.
• 2:07:37
  Speaker 1: You know, we're spending so much time trying to break
• 2:07:39
  Speaker 1: that glass feeling, trying to remove certain barriers, and you know,
• 2:07:43
  Speaker 1: first to have for us to have a black woman
• 2:07:46
  Speaker 1: who has the opportunity to have the second highest position
• 2:07:49
  Speaker 1: in this nation, I think that is what's up and
• 2:07:51
  Speaker 1: that is amazing, um, you know, charring. And so what
• 2:07:56
  Speaker 1: I'm doing, I have certain things that I'm working on.
• 2:07:58
  Speaker 1: One of them, um and you guys to be seeing
• 2:08:01
  Speaker 1: that soon. I can't give too much information, but one
• 2:08:03
  Speaker 1: thing that I'm doing, I'm actually partnering with the city
• 2:08:06
  Speaker 1: UM here in Alabama in terms of UM increasing of
• 2:08:10
  Speaker 1: the census registration and working to get people out to
• 2:08:14
  Speaker 1: vote and working to have people making sure they're filling
• 2:08:16
  Speaker 1: out this sensus so we don't lose seats, you know. UM.
• 2:08:19
  Speaker 1: And it's just I think all of us have to
• 2:08:21
  Speaker 1: be willing to do our part, especially if you've been
• 2:08:23
  Speaker 1: blessed with a platform, you have to be willing to
• 2:08:26
  Speaker 1: do your part um when it comes to the political
• 2:08:29
  Speaker 1: piece as well. So those are things I've worked when
• 2:08:33
  Speaker 1: I work on a lot of stuff behind closed doors
• 2:08:35
  Speaker 1: that people don't see or don't know about. But it's
• 2:08:37
  Speaker 1: about the work that's the most important. With my friend, Uh,
• 2:08:41
  Speaker 1: you know what, you know what I love about this interview,
• 2:08:43
  Speaker 1: you know, and you've come back from we've covered we
• 2:08:46
  Speaker 1: we've covered everything, but we didn't even talk about the
• 2:08:49
  Speaker 1: TV show And that just lets because I wanted everybody
• 2:08:54
  Speaker 1: to know your brain and you as as a as
• 2:08:56
  Speaker 1: a as a visionary, you as an educator, you as
• 2:09:00
  Speaker 1: an uplift And I want to make sure all the
• 2:09:03
  Speaker 1: all those little things got laid out correctly. And then
• 2:09:06
  Speaker 1: we come back later and talk about the show. But
• 2:09:09
  Speaker 1: this first interview me and you had to be about
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 1: be letting everybody know this is who y'all see on
• 2:09:14
  Speaker 1: TV every Saturday night. This don't not all the time. Now,
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 1: it depends now because I let me tell you now.
• 2:09:21
  Speaker 1: Sometimes you know you rubbed me around with scorpio all
• 2:09:23
  Speaker 1: days to run me ruining. You know another ny, don't
• 2:09:26
  Speaker 1: worry about the Pisces. I calm you down. I calm
• 2:09:28
  Speaker 1: you down. You know Pisces is gonna be or we
• 2:09:30
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