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Meagan Good Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: is a very very popular film and television actress. You've
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Speaker 1: seen here in movies like Thinking Like a Man, Think
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Speaker 1: Like a Man Too, The Intruder and Shazam of next year,
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Speaker 1: Starr and Sony's Monster Hunter, which will be released hopefully
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Speaker 1: this year and when the pandemic years. So every thing's
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Speaker 1: kind of odd, but this movie Monster Harner's Everybody's waiting
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Speaker 1: to see that movie that she's starting in. She was
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Speaker 1: recently seen on owns new series of Girlfriends check in.
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Speaker 1: I checked it out myself. She wrote a game chamming
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Speaker 1: relationship book with her husband entitled The Weight At Powerful
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Speaker 1: Practice for finding the Love of your Life and the
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Speaker 1: Life you Love, which I love that title. She's a philanthropist,
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Speaker 1: started the Greater the Greater Good Foundation with her sister
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Speaker 1: and an entrepreneur. Were Good Girl raps a boy making good.
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Speaker 1: They're a multi multifunctional hair accessory that could be warm
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Speaker 1: when you're out and about, work out a bedtime. Look,
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Speaker 1: I am going to buy that for my daughter. Please,
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Speaker 1: working with money, making conversations making good. Uh, it's so
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Speaker 1: funny to make. And I saw the raps right, and
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Speaker 1: so because I was, I said, my daughter was upsjested.
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Speaker 1: I said, I said, that name is christ Christie. How
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Speaker 1: to get out here? I gotta show your something. I
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Speaker 1: gotta show you something simple. You know, she's twined two
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Speaker 1: senior in college. I think I finally found something because
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Speaker 1: she comes down here with these things on her hair. Megan,
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Speaker 1: I'll be like, I'll just be staring on this is
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Speaker 1: not We do have money, baby, we do have a
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Speaker 1: little money. You can do better than that. And so
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Speaker 1: I showed her this and she said, uh, Dad, she
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Speaker 1: picked out like three different options that we're gonna buy it.
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Speaker 1: Just tell us about the whole concert. I'm just letting
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Speaker 1: you know as a man, I saw it, our dad,
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Speaker 1: I saw it. I fell in love when my daughter
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Speaker 1: picked out three of them, and I think they're just beautiful.
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Speaker 1: You can we can you know when you go to
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Speaker 1: the store. She can wear them. When she goes to
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Speaker 1: the gym, she can work out in him. She can,
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Speaker 1: thank God, she can go to sleep and wake up.
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Speaker 1: And I'm not terrified when she comes into the kitchen.
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Speaker 1: Well I don't know what she got on her head, Megan,
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Speaker 1: but at least when she comes to the kitchen now
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Speaker 1: with your your half your hair wrap, I'll be excited
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Speaker 1: and thankful that she's my daughter. I gotta tell you
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Speaker 1: the truth. Now I'll be struggling with the head wrap
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Speaker 1: that I don't know. You know, we, like I said,
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Speaker 1: we had a little success making in that life. But
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Speaker 1: the good Year rap that you have produced all my
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Speaker 1: favorites now okay, oh yeah, yeah, I was like super
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Speaker 1: excited to create them because you know, um from one
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Speaker 1: of my stylists, Um, I have two Nfia Oliver and
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Speaker 1: carry and we created the Goddess locks the dreadlocks look together. Um.
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Speaker 1: And so what happened was I was wearing the style
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Speaker 1: so much and I was going to the gym gym
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Speaker 1: and trying to work out, and everything I did my
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Speaker 1: hair was flipping my face and then I'd be trying
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Speaker 1: to wash my face and I couldn't sleep comfortably and
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Speaker 1: images like the whole thing. And so we developed this
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Speaker 1: rap and it literally was like a lifesaver. And then
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Speaker 1: the more I mean, we're at workout videos, people would
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Speaker 1: ask like, well, where did you get that? And what
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Speaker 1: is that? And I was like, you know what, I
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Speaker 1: just need to create a line and make them available
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Speaker 1: and also just make it so people can choose their
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Speaker 1: different styles and look better fits like you know, how
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Speaker 1: they want wanted to be. So that's really how it
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Speaker 1: came about. And uh and it did really really well.
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Speaker 1: The first day we sold out on the collection and
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Speaker 1: congratulations from the second collection, thank you, And so we're
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Speaker 1: getting ready to start the third collection now. And the
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Speaker 1: cool thing is like, you know, I'm able to see
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Speaker 1: people's input like oh, I would really like to see
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Speaker 1: more of this kind of color, that kind of color,
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Speaker 1: more printed whatever, so that's that's the full thing is
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Speaker 1: like every collection, I really take people input into account
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Speaker 1: and try to create something that all women feel good
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Speaker 1: and comfortable with and even some men are able to
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Speaker 1: wear them as well. So I saw that, I saw
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Speaker 1: some photos, you know, and of course you know if
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Speaker 1: you have dreadlocks and things like that, and you know,
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Speaker 1: they definitely will be perfect for that. And I thought
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Speaker 1: that were just all I know is that when I
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Speaker 1: saw it, I immediately liked it and I felt this
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Speaker 1: was a natural, comfortable look. It could be jazz. So
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Speaker 1: you can wear them out, you know, to a restaurant,
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Speaker 1: you can wear you know, you we out to if
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Speaker 1: you depending on the look that you buy, I want
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Speaker 1: to feel well, you can go out to a party
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Speaker 1: with I'm wearing it. So I really felt comfortable with
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Speaker 1: the look, and I just I was excited about you
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Speaker 1: coming on my shoulder discuss it, and because as an entrepreneur, no,
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Speaker 1: we all have great ideas, and so how you know,
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Speaker 1: you talked about the journey about it, you know, because
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Speaker 1: it was just your idea. What made it real though,
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Speaker 1: what made it like, okay, well let's do this. Because
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Speaker 1: a lot of people stopped at the idea because they
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Speaker 1: don't think nobody's gonna buy it, or nobody's gonna even
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Speaker 1: want to show them how to produce it, right. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I was already working um with another company. I was
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Speaker 1: creating a line of flannels because you know, I'm an
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Speaker 1: eighties baby, so in the nineties, you know, and flannels
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Speaker 1: was always like a stable part of your outfit. So
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Speaker 1: I was already creating a flannel line with my sister,
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Speaker 1: and where the money that we were raising through the
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Speaker 1: flannel line was going to our foundations, and so I
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Speaker 1: already had the relationship. And what I realized is, you know,
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Speaker 1: once I was wearing my wrap, if people just kept
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Speaker 1: asking for a year, the question never stopped and people
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Speaker 1: were always interested. So I was like, all right, it's
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Speaker 1: been a consistent thing. People are into it. I think
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Speaker 1: they'll buy it. Let's just you know, give it a
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Speaker 1: run and we'll see what happens. And um, and people
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Speaker 1: really took to other really well. So I was like, okay, well,
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Speaker 1: let's you know, create even more. And so it's it's been.
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Speaker 1: It's been really great. Because I know, as a woman,
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Speaker 1: whether you have dread twists, bread, big curly hair that
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Speaker 1: you don't want to wash and style every day or
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Speaker 1: whatever it is. Like, I know for a fact that
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Speaker 1: this is the product that I would use and I
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Speaker 1: wish I had earlier, And that made me feel confident
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Speaker 1: that somebody's going to get some great use out of this.
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Speaker 1: So congratulations again. You know, when I look at you,
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Speaker 1: when I look at your career, like when I was
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Speaker 1: managing Steve Harvard when we started together back in two thousand,
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Speaker 1: the first time I really got to see you and
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Speaker 1: introduce myself to you was the movie You Got Served,
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Speaker 1: And uh, that's way you know, it's way back then,
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Speaker 1: way back then. Just to talk about your your body
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Speaker 1: of work, because you begin starting in commercial at the
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Speaker 1: age of four, and I've done over sixty thousand, sixty
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Speaker 1: sixty national TV commercial in an untold number of films
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Speaker 1: and television shows. I just only missed a small my
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Speaker 1: of your success. In fact, I didn't even mention any
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Speaker 1: of the television series that you've started very successful on.
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Speaker 1: So how what has helped you to make that transition
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Speaker 1: from a child star to an adult star, because that's
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Speaker 1: a hard make sometimes because you're so cute to qute see,
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Speaker 1: and when you become an adult people don't buy the
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Speaker 1: cute cute see, or you don't mature correctly, or you
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Speaker 1: don't have the support system. What has helped you, megan? Um?
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Speaker 1: I think you know. The first thing was like prayer.
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Speaker 1: You know, when I was nineteen, I was I was struggling.
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Speaker 1: I still looked fifteen sixteen, And it was the first
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Speaker 1: time in my life I was like, Okay, I'm seeing
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Speaker 1: people around me getting work and I'm not getting work.
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Speaker 1: So the first time I prayed, I was like, all right, God,
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Speaker 1: is this what I'm supposed to be doing. And here's
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Speaker 1: the thing. I'm gonna just put it on the altar
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Speaker 1: and say, I want what you want for me more
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Speaker 1: than what I think I want for myself. One more time.
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Speaker 1: Now there's like in church, and I say that one
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Speaker 1: more time. Come on later, I want what you want
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Speaker 1: for me more than what I think I want for myself.
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Speaker 1: There you go. Um. And so I was the first
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Speaker 1: time I had gotten confirmation that this is the business
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Speaker 1: that I should be in. But that's it's bigger than
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Speaker 1: than you know, being able to do something that I
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Speaker 1: love and I'm passionate about. It's bigger than being in
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Speaker 1: an industry. People consider you celebrity or whatever it is.
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Speaker 1: It's bigger than all that. It's really about using the
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Speaker 1: platform that God has given you as an ability to
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Speaker 1: as an opportunity to build the kingdom, and to really
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Speaker 1: be used in whatever way He wants to use me.
9:24
Speaker 1: So once I got that confirmation, that gave me the
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Speaker 1: confidence to know that, like, okay, so I'm gonna be
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Speaker 1: okay because this is bigger than me anyways. And I
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Speaker 1: just kept trucking along and trying to make smart decisions
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Speaker 1: um and and you know, show however I could like okay,
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Speaker 1: I'm becoming a woman now and trying to watch that
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Speaker 1: that balance because you know, at that time, there was
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Speaker 1: all the men's magazines and I did a bunch of them,
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Speaker 1: but I made Yeah, when I did it, it it was
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Speaker 1: like okay, so no baby, when you did them, we're
9:56
Speaker 1: talking about the king magazines and all those type of
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Speaker 1: magazines and were were but they said a bad message
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Speaker 1: or the incorrect message of who your or what your
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Speaker 1: brand or who you represented. Don't you think? No, I don't,
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Speaker 1: because I think at that time that is who I was,
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Speaker 1: you know. And my thing is like I've you know,
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Speaker 1: I've I've come under fire a lot about saying like,
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Speaker 1: as a Christian, I don't mind being sexy, and I
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Speaker 1: own that part of myself. I love that part of myself.
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Speaker 1: Um and what I realized, you know, my my journey
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Speaker 1: has been unique to you know, I didn't grow up
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Speaker 1: in the church, but my mother was always read your Bible,
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Speaker 1: get to know God, have a relationship, not a religion
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Speaker 1: with Him. And so as I pursued a relationship with God,
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Speaker 1: I got saved when I was twelve. I got three
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Speaker 1: baptized when I was nineteen on my own. So at
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Speaker 1: that time and I was doing the King magazines, a
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Speaker 1: Black Man or whatever it was, and I was three,
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Speaker 1: my feeling was like, I'm gonna own who I am
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Speaker 1: and be comfortable with who I am. But what I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna do is I'm gonna go into a place that
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Speaker 1: some would consider dark and I'm gonna spread light. So
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Speaker 1: if you look at each one of those interviews, not
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Speaker 1: only did I not wear you know, lingerie or bathing suits,
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Speaker 1: or do any backshots or anything that was too suggested
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Speaker 1: that item feel comfortable in my spirit about, but I
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Speaker 1: also every single interview I talked about God. I talked
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Speaker 1: about my relationship with that I talked about being a Christians.
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Speaker 1: I talked about there's a there's a way to still
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Speaker 1: be comfortable with your sexuality without overtly, you know, doing
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Speaker 1: things that are really about look at me, look at
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Speaker 1: me versus I love me. I embraced me, And so
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Speaker 1: for me, it was it was walking a line of
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Speaker 1: like what feels right in my spirit that I'm not
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Speaker 1: lying to myself. I'm being honest, like whatever God places
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Speaker 1: in my spirit, I'm owning that. But I'm also not
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Speaker 1: conforming to what people say a Christians should be because
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Speaker 1: I know my heart and I know who I am
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Speaker 1: at the core, and God knows me and we talk.
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Speaker 1: So at the end of the day, I can do
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Speaker 1: religious and I can do what people think I should
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Speaker 1: do and who they think I should be, or I
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Speaker 1: can own who I am and every season and allow
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Speaker 1: me and allow Him to guide me. And so that's
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Speaker 1: what I did. And so I think my my journey
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Speaker 1: has definitely been an interesting one, but I've always been
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Speaker 1: with God do all of it. That's beautiful, and that's beautiful,
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Speaker 1: and I'm glad you're saying that. That's why I'm kind
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Speaker 1: of like being quiet. Let you say your conversation because
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Speaker 1: people need to hear without interruption, the message you're trying
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Speaker 1: to deliver. And that's important because of the fact that
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Speaker 1: you know, we we we we have preconceived notions of
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Speaker 1: who people are just how they look or just how
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Speaker 1: they dress. And that's what you're saying, Okay, I embrace
12:28
Speaker 1: who I am, but that doesn't mean I can't embrace
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Speaker 1: my love of God or the respect that I had
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Speaker 1: for him. And if you want to read something differently,
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Speaker 1: but whilere you looking at that photo, read the article.
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Speaker 1: How about that, read the story, opened the book, okay,
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Speaker 1: and and go through, go through the messages. I'm trying
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Speaker 1: to tell the consistent values I'm trying to say. And
12:47
Speaker 1: I think for young people that that's important because especially
12:51
Speaker 1: with social media today, we can get caught up and
12:53
Speaker 1: likes and getting caught up and and trying to we
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Speaker 1: look in a certain way and pose a certain way
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Speaker 1: in order to grow our and base. And you're saying that, honestly, honestly,
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Speaker 1: what yourself is the key to that. That's what you're saying, Like, yeah, transparency.
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Speaker 1: What people are gonna respond to is you not trying
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Speaker 1: to be anybody else, but being yourself. The honest people
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Speaker 1: who are gonna like you, dig you, that are going
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Speaker 1: to be your tribe and support you, are going to
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Speaker 1: support the truest version of you. So I'm comfortable with
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Speaker 1: knowing that at ten years old, I was doing off
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Speaker 1: Broadway shows with drag Queens, and I'm still a Christian.
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Speaker 1: So the way I see the world, the way I
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Speaker 1: perceived drag Queens, the way I perceive a lot of
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Speaker 1: things may be different than some other Christians, but I
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Speaker 1: know that God allowed me to have that experience and
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Speaker 1: the mindset that I have. When we talk about what's
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Speaker 1: appropriate or with modest, well, my different my version of
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Speaker 1: modest is gonna be different than yours based on my upbringing.
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Speaker 1: So as long as I own that and I lean
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Speaker 1: into like God, what do you say as it pertains
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Speaker 1: to me, that's the only thing I have to do.
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Speaker 1: And I try to encourage other people, especially young people
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Speaker 1: to do that as well, because they think that if
13:59
Speaker 1: you don't fit into a and box, you can't. You
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Speaker 1: have to choose to do that box. And having a
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Speaker 1: relationship without or not having a relationship with do you
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Speaker 1: have a podcast because you have a partner? Come tell
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Speaker 1: you some girl, you I'm tell you, you know, I
14:11
Speaker 1: like to believe I recognize talent. Okay, you got you
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Speaker 1: got the acting down path, but your motivational skill and
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Speaker 1: your own point about what young people need to hear
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Speaker 1: and old people need to get people in general, male
14:22
Speaker 1: and female, everybody, because your your conversation is welcoming to everybody.
14:27
Speaker 1: And if you have thought about doing a podcast, start
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Speaker 1: if you have thought, because I feel that your message
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Speaker 1: and then you know it needs to be heard if
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Speaker 1: you just just think about it, like you said, if
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Speaker 1: you never, I'm sure you've heard this before, just like
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Speaker 1: the wraps. You know, people kept telling you, girl, I
14:44
Speaker 1: need that, I need it. I need that when McDonald's
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Speaker 1: come along. You know something, um excuse me. You need
14:51
Speaker 1: to be worldwide on your own platform or your message
14:55
Speaker 1: won't be interrupted and you can share and get other
14:58
Speaker 1: like minded people who look like or don't look like you,
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Speaker 1: and be able to you know, this is about love,
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Speaker 1: your message about love. It is so clean. When I
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Speaker 1: hear you talk, Megan, it's amazing. It's just like it's
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Speaker 1: like drinking a good cold glass of water on a
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Speaker 1: hot sunny day. Oh it feels good, Oh it feels good.
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Speaker 1: Don't it. Oh my god, you go, oh, I feel
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Speaker 1: good and that's what. Then you're talking so clean, there's
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Speaker 1: no stuttering, there's no there's no pause about no revelation. Well,
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Speaker 1: let me think about it. It's just like I said, well,
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Speaker 1: do you think that was against your bread? No? No,
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Speaker 1: it was not you. You did not like you didn't
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Speaker 1: like hesitate, Rachal. I know who I am, and that
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Speaker 1: is important when people get caught up, get caught up
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Speaker 1: in decipher bullying, get caught up and should I look
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Speaker 1: this way? Should A dressed this way? And you're saying
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Speaker 1: God defines you, believe in him, believe in yourself and
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Speaker 1: don't don't. Let's they say, um, veer left or rock
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Speaker 1: and that's what you're saying, beautiful, beautiful, And think it's
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Speaker 1: important that we that we have a relationship with God
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Speaker 1: where we hear from Him for ourselves. I want to
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Speaker 1: be in a position where someone comes up to me
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Speaker 1: and they say I have a word from God. I
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Speaker 1: can say, yes, I received that, my spirit agrees, or
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Speaker 1: no you don't. I don't. I don't feel your spirit
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Speaker 1: that's for me is not from God. And then have
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Speaker 1: that type of confidence. I feel like that's how in
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Speaker 1: true God we have to be. And when you're in that,
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Speaker 1: when you're that in tune, it doesn't matter that some
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Speaker 1: people are not going to understand you because they're coming
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Speaker 1: from a different place. You know, when you're talking out there,
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Speaker 1: I'm sure you do public speaking. Are they passing the plate?
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Speaker 1: to run by. But I gotta talk about Shazam. Okay
18:48
Speaker 1: one um, you made an appearance in that, but it's
18:51
Speaker 1: one of my favorite movies. In fact, when you when
18:54
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Speaker 1: the kids making the appearance, it's one of my favorite
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19:02
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19:06
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19:11
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19:15
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19:17
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19:20
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19:23
Speaker 1: talent that she has. Talk about that whole what I'm
19:26
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19:30
Speaker 1: He says, Shazam is a little fitting your ball and
19:31
Speaker 1: he becomes this adult superhero care character were a long way.
19:36
Speaker 1: You know, there's these kids at this foster home and
19:39
Speaker 1: you play your your childlike characters. Was one of these kids.
19:43
Speaker 1: And you eventually in the in the movie at the
19:45
Speaker 1: end said shas Am, and you became an adult version
19:48
Speaker 1: of your childlike character, but you still had those childlike
19:51
Speaker 1: characters characteristics talking talking to us about that maintaining that
19:55
Speaker 1: little reaching its side and hold holding onto that little
19:59
Speaker 1: baby man. Well, baby Megan has always in there, you know. Um.
20:05
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20:08
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20:11
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20:13
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20:17
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20:19
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20:22
Speaker 1: of one gear. Was like, yeah, that's the side of me,
20:24
Speaker 1: you know, but there's so much more. And so the
20:26
Speaker 1: cool thing about Shazam was like I have started my
20:29
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20:32
Speaker 1: years before that, because I told Devon, I said, they
20:35
Speaker 1: really want to be a superhero like I want to
20:37
Speaker 1: do like DC or Marvel. And he was like, that's great, honey,
20:40
Speaker 1: what are you doing to meet got halfway and I said,
20:43
Speaker 1: what in my mind? You I had my glass of
20:44
Speaker 1: wine in my hand. I'm watching my Scandal or something.
20:48
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20:50
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20:54
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20:56
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20:59
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21:01
Speaker 1: five times a week for about a year and a half.
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Speaker 1: And then I got this audition for Shazam. I didn't
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Speaker 1: even know what it was. I had no idea it
21:09
Speaker 1: was a superhero movie. I was just going in there
21:11
Speaker 1: and being a seven year old and then I get
21:14
Speaker 1: the call that I got the part, and I was like, so,
21:16
Speaker 1: what is it. They're like Shazamn. I was like, oh,
21:18
Speaker 1: Kazam was like shocked back in the day. They're like, no,
21:20
Speaker 1: shazamne and I looked it up and I was like, wait,
21:22
Speaker 1: what these superhero movies? And I like, I kid you not.
21:28
Speaker 1: I bust out crying. I was like in the middle
21:30
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21:33
Speaker 1: I was like on crying outside of like a nutrition store,
21:37
Speaker 1: like ran in and told like the lady behind the
21:39
Speaker 1: count was like I just got a movie, and she's like, oh, forgot.
21:41
Speaker 1: I mean, it's like and it was crazy because it
21:43
Speaker 1: was the perfect thing for me, because you know this
21:46
Speaker 1: type of superhero where where we actually our children that
21:49
Speaker 1: hasn't been done and it's a it's a very fresh
21:52
Speaker 1: take and it's something that I can do. I've been
21:54
Speaker 1: doing little kid voices like my whole life. People just
21:56
Speaker 1: don't always see that side of me. So it was
21:58
Speaker 1: like the perfect purfect super earp for me, in perfect
22:01
Speaker 1: kind of blessing from God and also a testimony, a
22:04
Speaker 1: testament for like meeting God half way in him saying Okay,
22:07
Speaker 1: here you go do the work and I and I
22:09
Speaker 1: provide the way and the opportunity, and you people, you'll
22:12
Speaker 1: be ready for the opportunity. You know. I'm gonna just
22:14
Speaker 1: tell you that I've seen Soxam at least six times.
22:18
Speaker 1: I'm just a guy. I've seen that ending probably about
22:21
Speaker 1: ten times because it's just so cute and when you
22:23
Speaker 1: and all the characters recognize that they go to adulthood
22:26
Speaker 1: and when you for somehow it works so perfectly for
22:30
Speaker 1: you and you just you gotta downpay congratulations. I just
22:33
Speaker 1: want to just tell you that just congratulated. It's it's
22:36
Speaker 1: it's believable. It's very cute. It makes me smile even
22:40
Speaker 1: when I'm talking to you about right now. I'm smiling
22:43
Speaker 1: because it's just one of my favorite parts of the movie.
22:45
Speaker 1: And I can't wait to Sxam too, because I know
22:48
Speaker 1: that character is gonna be fleshed out a little bit
22:49
Speaker 1: more and we'll see it a lot earlier than the
22:52
Speaker 1: movie instead of the end of the movie. And I
22:53
Speaker 1: don't feel i'm giving away the movie. If anybody has
22:55
Speaker 1: not seen it, maybe you'll watch it now, because when
22:58
Speaker 1: you get to that part of the movie, you'll be smiling,
23:00
Speaker 1: just like ri Shan McDonald. I want to make a tan.
23:02
Speaker 1: I want to give a transition to you, to you,
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Speaker 1: you and your husband on the cover of the book
23:06
Speaker 1: to Wait. First of all, compliments to both of you guys.
23:11
Speaker 1: Very attractive couple. Y'all look fantastic. It's called The Way,
23:15
Speaker 1: a powerful practice for finding the love of your life
23:19
Speaker 1: and the life you love. Why did you write this
23:23
Speaker 1: book with him? Um? It's interesting because the short version is,
23:29
Speaker 1: you know, when Devone and I got together, Um, I
23:32
Speaker 1: just came out of a kind of a verbally abusive
23:36
Speaker 1: relationship and it wasn't just the other person. It was
23:38
Speaker 1: both of us. We were not good for each other.
23:39
Speaker 1: But I literally said, Lord, what am I supposed to
23:43
Speaker 1: be doing? And he told me three things. He said,
23:46
Speaker 1: get out of that relationship. I need you to be sulibant.
23:50
Speaker 1: And Devon is your husband, and I said divine. And
23:54
Speaker 1: I was like wait, and I'm like, what am I
23:56
Speaker 1: supposed to do? And God was just like nothing, just
23:58
Speaker 1: work on yourself. So from that point forward, I worked
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Speaker 1: on becoming celibant. I wasn't you know, successful immediately, but
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Speaker 1: ultimately I was. And about a few months into it,
24:07
Speaker 1: about five months into getting that revelation, I told a
24:10
Speaker 1: friend of mine that Divan was my husband and she said, oh, girl,
24:13
Speaker 1: she's you know he's a preacher, right. I said no,
24:15
Speaker 1: and I said, well, I thought would have scared me away,
24:18
Speaker 1: but I know what God told me, so it's okay.
24:20
Speaker 1: And I said and I said, and you know, um,
24:22
Speaker 1: she said, you know that he's celibate, right And I said, well,
24:24
Speaker 1: I'm celiban too. She said no, girl, he's for real selebant.
24:27
Speaker 1: And wait, yes, so because he was preaching, he had
24:33
Speaker 1: been celibant for years. Um. And she was like yeah,
24:37
Speaker 1: you and you you're few muth girl, yeah whatever, you know. Anyways,
24:40
Speaker 1: and so um, when Divine and I got together, it
24:43
Speaker 1: was like you know, it was we were sublevant for
24:46
Speaker 1: that for our our year together before we got married.
24:49
Speaker 1: And it was the best experience of my life because
24:51
Speaker 1: I got to know him the way that it's like
24:54
Speaker 1: I got to know him in like four months, the
24:56
Speaker 1: way it took me to get to know someone in
24:58
Speaker 1: four years. And that because there was no it was
25:02
Speaker 1: intimacy in terms of like emotion and spiritually, but there
25:06
Speaker 1: was no physical intimacy. It that way. So really all
25:09
Speaker 1: I had to do was besides, do I like you
25:11
Speaker 1: as a human being? Do I enjoy being with you?
25:13
Speaker 1: Do I want to spend a lifetime with you? Are you?
25:15
Speaker 1: Are you about the same thing as in life? Are
25:17
Speaker 1: we going to the same place? We complement each other
25:20
Speaker 1: in their purpose? So all that stuff was so clear
25:22
Speaker 1: because there was no distractions. That the reason we ended
25:25
Speaker 1: up writing the book is because people kept asking us
25:27
Speaker 1: about it, and you know, we would tell me the
25:30
Speaker 1: story whatever, and they were like, we really would love
25:32
Speaker 1: to have a book about this. So men were like,
25:34
Speaker 1: I guess we just will write a book not to
25:36
Speaker 1: be preachy, And I tell people to do, but to
25:38
Speaker 1: tell them what our experience was and just just to
25:40
Speaker 1: be transparent about that and if it helps someone and
25:43
Speaker 1: bless you someone great, you know, And well I wasn't
25:46
Speaker 1: even helping a lot of people. There's two things I
25:48
Speaker 1: want to bring out about the book. The way. It's
25:50
Speaker 1: doubt about sex, but it begins with sex. It's a
25:53
Speaker 1: book about relationships. And one of my favorite lines in
25:56
Speaker 1: the book is this, um, the way the way you
26:00
Speaker 1: stop is okay, in your book, the way you stop
26:04
Speaker 1: stop picking and choosing which parts of the Bible you
26:07
Speaker 1: will follow. I read that and I just bought out laughing,
26:11
Speaker 1: because not only do is does that line apply to me,
26:14
Speaker 1: but so many people we go, we'll do this. It's
26:17
Speaker 1: too much work to do everything. So I'm gonna follow
26:20
Speaker 1: this over here. But as you say, you can't part
26:23
Speaker 1: time follow God. Yeah that's what you're saying, right, Yeah, yeah,
26:29
Speaker 1: I mean I think that's the biggest thing is that
26:31
Speaker 1: I think we do tend to pick and choose, and
26:33
Speaker 1: especially as it pertains to sex, because we feel like, well,
26:37
Speaker 1: you lord, you have to understand this part you gave us.
26:40
Speaker 1: You know, you don't want to do it, you know,
26:42
Speaker 1: all the Christians and things is doing it now? Come
26:44
Speaker 1: on right? You know, just like when I when I
26:48
Speaker 1: first left my virginity, I you know, I said I'll
26:50
Speaker 1: wait till I'm gonna get married. I lost my virginity
26:52
Speaker 1: at nineteen, and it was later than most of my friends.
26:55
Speaker 1: But it was also like I was like, well, this
26:57
Speaker 1: is my first love. I'm gonna marry himself. You know,
26:58
Speaker 1: it's my husband anyways. And it wasn't um but I realized,
27:02
Speaker 1: you know, I lived my life like every times where
27:05
Speaker 1: I felt bad and I would like repent and I
27:08
Speaker 1: would not have sex for months, and then you know,
27:10
Speaker 1: and it just I realized that I was really picking
27:12
Speaker 1: and choosing and giving myself license instead of saying, let
27:16
Speaker 1: me just try to do the hardest thing that there
27:18
Speaker 1: is to do in terms of the commandments, and let's
27:21
Speaker 1: see how that goes. And what I realized is the
27:23
Speaker 1: once I conquered that and I found that discipline within
27:27
Speaker 1: myself for the laid gratification and to not pick and choose,
27:31
Speaker 1: it gave me the freedom and the power to have
27:35
Speaker 1: more self control over so many areas. I hated working out,
27:39
Speaker 1: and you know, it was never gonna happen because of
27:42
Speaker 1: the discipline I learned from the weight is why I
27:44
Speaker 1: was able to work out, which ultimately resulted in Shazam
27:47
Speaker 1: and ultimately resulted in me about to be thirty nine.
27:50
Speaker 1: I'm in the best shape of my life because my
27:52
Speaker 1: lifestyle changed because of my discipline, change because of the way.
27:55
Speaker 1: So it's not just relationships, it's it's across the board
27:59
Speaker 1: to change my live because because you guys got were married, correct,
28:06
Speaker 1: And I have to say I have to say, like
28:08
Speaker 1: I said, I'm a fan of yours. I have to
28:10
Speaker 1: say that period between and now, I have to say,
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Speaker 1: it's been the most the best part of your career.
28:18
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28:20
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28:26
Speaker 1: your your ability, your luck. You glow. You know, when
28:30
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28:34
Speaker 1: to discipline and honesty with yourself. And that is my
28:38
Speaker 1: That is one of the takeaways that I had with
28:40
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29:49
Speaker 1: clearly are happy with yourself, and you're a beautiful person.
29:53
Speaker 1: That's that's a that's awesome. Congratulations. Wow, that blessed me. Thanks,
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Speaker 1: thank you, thank you for that. You know, I have
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30:11
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