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Kiana Dancie (2nd Appearance) Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: she's here. Don't say nothing, don't say no. I'm holding
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Speaker 1: the hand because she's his studio. She's one of these people.
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Speaker 1: Only I've never yet let her call in because she
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Speaker 1: would be talking and but I got my hand. It's
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Speaker 1: like that old parent move, you know, you you you know,
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Speaker 1: not saying she's my daughter, you know, but she's a
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Speaker 1: she's like my daughter, and she's because she's my niece.
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Speaker 1: Let's go to nice level because I don't want to
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Speaker 1: claim on like my dog, claiming because she crazy. He
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Speaker 1: took your hand off. I mean I can speak. My
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Speaker 1: next dancing is a comedian go Ho dv One's sister
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Speaker 1: circle line, what else? Which she told me that, oh,
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Speaker 1: let me get you on the show. Let me get
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Speaker 1: your gotta bring some people the cakes and the pies
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Speaker 1: and the cookies. But you ain't finished running down my accolade.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm gonna finish because I sold
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Speaker 1: I sold a sheriff to nor He's been on it
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Speaker 1: like fifteen times and uh. In fact, he posted on
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Speaker 1: social media that he was on there today. He did
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Speaker 1: check me out at new for my July for special.
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Speaker 1: But this is what we're gonna do. We're gonna get
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Speaker 1: you down to the circle. And I absolutely think that
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Speaker 1: you should be because you have a lot of things
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Speaker 1: to discuss. You you bake, you're making money, You're down here,
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Speaker 1: you you got you got commercials? Are you're gonna tell
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Speaker 1: the first of all? You didn't even tell people her name.
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Speaker 1: I'll do it, don't worry. Hey, y'all did your girl
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Speaker 1: kinda dancing? I am in the studio with my ru
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Speaker 1: Sean McDonald. He cain't staying me when I came to
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Speaker 1: take over. Believe me, you have not taking Let's go straight,
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Speaker 1: and I just gave you a moment to excel yourself
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Speaker 1: because that's what. That's the whole relationship. I try to
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Speaker 1: teach you how to build your brand. You are brand
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Speaker 1: you are. I'm a brand builder. So at times, you know,
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Speaker 1: you gotta know when to step in from of the leader.
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Sometimes people step in front
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Speaker 1: of the leader. Get shot, baby case. Okay, okay, you
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Speaker 1: have to know when to step in front the leader.
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Speaker 1: I knew the coach was clear when you stepped in
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Speaker 1: front of me. So I always know that your boy
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Speaker 1: just set you up. Thank you, because you're great on
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Speaker 1: the radio. You articulate what the minute? Who? Who does that?
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Speaker 1: You're grant on the radio, You're articulate. Well, I would
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Speaker 1: holp Southside. I'm I'm on television every day. My mother
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Speaker 1: put a lot of good money into me so that
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Speaker 1: I can be able to speak like you. Let's talk
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Speaker 1: about that education. Yes, what type of education do you
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Speaker 1: have because a lot of people to think of comedian
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Speaker 1: is like, you know, yeah, because I know I got
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Speaker 1: a degree of mathematics for IBM. When I tell people that,
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Speaker 1: they go a little a little side of they face
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Speaker 1: kind of changes a little bit. So, but you also
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Speaker 1: pursued a college education, got your degree. Absolutely, I did.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you something. My mother did not give
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Speaker 1: me a choice whether or not I was going to school.
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Speaker 1: To school, it was where you were going to school.
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Speaker 1: So I went to Georgia Southern University. I am a
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Speaker 1: sorry ego. You know, Ego sore. We fly with the
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Speaker 1: best and we fly high. I ain't saying I'm looking
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Speaker 1: down on it, but it's a people, a couple of people.
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Speaker 1: I gotta look down alone. No Southern University. Graduated with
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Speaker 1: a b s. In marketing. I went to work for Sony.
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Speaker 1: From Sony, I went to work for Samsung, and then
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Speaker 1: I actually decided I wanted to go to law school.
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Speaker 1: I took the ls AD and decided in the meantime
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Speaker 1: while I'm text studying for the l SAD and then
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Speaker 1: I want to go take the test. I was like,
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Speaker 1: oh Lord, this ain't for me. That's why I said,
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Speaker 1: I just did that come about because that's a long
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Speaker 1: A lot of people when they take that journey, they
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Speaker 1: just they committed to it because they put so much time.
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Speaker 1: And how did you say this is not for me?
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Speaker 1: I know I've given a lot of my life in
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Speaker 1: that direction, but I'm willing to courageously shift yes, well,
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Speaker 1: you know, because I did not have a pre law
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Speaker 1: um you know background. I didn't take the pre law classes.
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Speaker 1: I just when I already always knew that I wanted
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Speaker 1: to be greater than I was, like, meaning, I wanted
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Speaker 1: to be educated. I wanted to be more articulate. I
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Speaker 1: wanted to make my mother proud. My mother was pushing
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Speaker 1: me to be a c I s. Major, which is
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Speaker 1: a computer information science degree. Let me tell you something.
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Speaker 1: My mother has that degree, and I don't think like
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Speaker 1: she does, right, so I don't have your mind version.
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Speaker 1: I was like, I'm never tell you something. I'm not
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Speaker 1: that smart. So I did the marketing degree because I
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Speaker 1: was actually ready to get out of school and I
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Speaker 1: knew that I could. I'm really good at debating. I'm
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Speaker 1: real good. And listen when I tell you I can
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Speaker 1: debate my argument down. So I was like, I would
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Speaker 1: be a good lawyer. And then you know, my cousin,
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Speaker 1: she actually went to Georgetown University in d C. And
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Speaker 1: I spent some time with her, even a higher academics
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Speaker 1: and you know, after going through the process of studying
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Speaker 1: for the else that and you know, learning what a
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Speaker 1: lawyer does in a day to day life, I just
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Speaker 1: felt like it wasn't for me. So I mean it
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Speaker 1: was a hard transition because well, actually, I'll take that back.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't so much hard. It wasn't a hard transition
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Speaker 1: because I knew I wanted to be happy and I
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Speaker 1: wanted to do something for me, and I wouldn't have
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Speaker 1: been pursuing a j D based on what my mother
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Speaker 1: wanted me to do or what other people thought I should.
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Speaker 1: It's a lot of people do that. Yes, a lot
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Speaker 1: of people have loans they can't pay back, and in
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Speaker 1: pursuit and the academic plans that can't deliver the income
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Speaker 1: to pay it back. Right, And I don't disagree with that.
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Speaker 1: I think if you're gonna if you're gonna invest in anything,
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Speaker 1: it should be your education. You know, people out here
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Speaker 1: will finance a car, they'll go ahead and they'll put
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Speaker 1: shoes and persons on layer way. Did you know the
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Speaker 1: people can put good handbags on the laylway. I didn't
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Speaker 1: know what. Okay, I didn't know that you could put
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Speaker 1: shoes and handbags and jeans and all these kind of things.
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Speaker 1: People will finance all these different things, but won't financial No, no, no,
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Speaker 1: I get it. But when we have you heard somebody
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Speaker 1: actually go put your good Jordan's people, my first cold
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Speaker 1: leather jacket cold cold. I don't know when that was,
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Speaker 1: but I'm gonna tell you right now. I'm gonna tell
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Speaker 1: you right now the people and look at talking to people.
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Speaker 1: Cold has nothing to do with the weather. I know
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Speaker 1: you said, you think you so cold, like you you
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Speaker 1: slick like it was. It was. It was chocolate brown
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Speaker 1: stch It was stitched. Okay, it had no lining was
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Speaker 1: the first mistake. And buying a leather jacket, Come on, now,
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Speaker 1: no lining because when they got cold, you was cold, right,
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Speaker 1: you're telling your age you call that that's cold, baby?
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Speaker 1: It was cold. But what I'm saying is, you know
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Speaker 1: there are people out here who will financed rims for
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Speaker 1: their cars, but won't put that same type of effort
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Speaker 1: or money into their education. So I don't run from that.
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Speaker 1: I did. I got some scholarships with some of the
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Speaker 1: money's I did have to get student loans. And I
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Speaker 1: encourage people, if you're listening, if you don't have all
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Speaker 1: the money to get education, do not let that deter you.
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Speaker 1: You use that everything every avenue and every opportunity you
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Speaker 1: have to go to school because even though you may
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Speaker 1: or may not use your education, but it's nothing more
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Speaker 1: feared than an educated person. You know why when you
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Speaker 1: come on my show, you've got a lot to say.
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Speaker 1: I do now, I'll I can count the words. I
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Speaker 1: count the words, and that's what the people say. Huh.
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Speaker 1: You know it's when you got you're wearing me out.
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Speaker 1: You'll be wearing me. I'll be like tied just watching
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Speaker 1: you talk on my I'm coming in here. I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: be here. What are you gonna be here again? So
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Speaker 1: I don't come here. I'm gonna talking to the general manager.
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Speaker 1: As you told me, he limits your pearances up here. No,
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Speaker 1: he did based my authority. Where is the Don't worry
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Speaker 1: about that. Don't worry about that. Let's take about this
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Speaker 1: transition of going from a corporate person to a real
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Speaker 1: estate We can talk about the ryal state. Now, where
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Speaker 1: did the rual estate license play into that? So I
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Speaker 1: moved to Houston, Texas. I was there absolutely. I went
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Speaker 1: to Houston to work for Samsung, and I could not
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Speaker 1: see myself living in an apartment forever. So my first
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Speaker 1: lease was fifteen months. My second lease was for six months,
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Speaker 1: and I knew that I wanted to buy a home.
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Speaker 1: I lived downtown on Sabine Street. I was paying an
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Speaker 1: astronomical amount of money for a one room loft, you
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Speaker 1: hear me. And I did that on purpose because I
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Speaker 1: wanted to see could I get acclimated to pay a mortgage.
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Speaker 1: So my my rent was like almost two thousand dollars
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Speaker 1: for a one room loft. And then in that means
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Speaker 1: and that in that time frame, I got my real
9:30
Speaker 1: estate license because I knew that I was gonna buy
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Speaker 1: myself a house. And not only was I gonna buy
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Speaker 1: me a house, I was gonna sell my house to myself.
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Speaker 1: So I got my real estate license to sell me
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Speaker 1: my my own home. That's where it came from. That.
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Speaker 1: We're just the process in getting a real estate. Like
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Speaker 1: I know a difference in different states. In Texas, you said,
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Speaker 1: would you have to take a test? How do you
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Speaker 1: get you to get a test? In the real est?
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Speaker 1: In any state, you have to take the educational classes,
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Speaker 1: So it depends. Sometimes it's six or eight weeks, sometimes
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Speaker 1: it's four weeks to put it on where you are
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Speaker 1: you take the test, and I mean you take the
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Speaker 1: classes and then you have to take tests to pass
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Speaker 1: each class, and then from there you take the state exam.
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Speaker 1: And then I took the state exam. Now I ain't
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Speaker 1: gonna say I passed it on the very first try, honey,
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Speaker 1: because the test is hard. I did pass it um eventually,
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Speaker 1: don't you know what, don't throw no shade. First of
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Speaker 1: all the real estate classes, you have to yourself because
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Speaker 1: you are not kept selling me, No, you and you
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Speaker 1: just lost. No, you have to pass the exam with
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Speaker 1: a certain amount of percentage. And then so the thing
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Speaker 1: is if you had to pass it with the eighty
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Speaker 1: nine or eighty or whatever it was, for some reason,
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Speaker 1: the people just didn't want to give me that extra point.
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Speaker 1: It was always seven and nine seven nine. But that knowledge,
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Speaker 1: I've used that knowledge to buy and sell my own home.
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Speaker 1: And so you kept the commission. I did keep that check.
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Speaker 1: I wanted all the bags, and I do it still.
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Speaker 1: Now I'm licensing to states, and so what was the
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Speaker 1: difference between the I'm assuming Georgia. Well, there's not a
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Speaker 1: different there. And I get the fancy word that they use,
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Speaker 1: uh start with an R. It's a fancy word that
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Speaker 1: if the states are kind of like sister states, you
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Speaker 1: can just get um. You take the test. So I
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Speaker 1: took the state exam to get my license here in Georgia.
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Speaker 1: I didn't have to go through all the educational parks. Okay.
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Speaker 1: So so basically it's like almost I think it's yes,
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Speaker 1: I'm smart. I just had to think. Okay, now let's talk.
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Speaker 1: Let's get back to stand up. Yes, okay, I didn't
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Speaker 1: know you're in Houston. You did not fortunate, honey, because
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, I could have made I
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Speaker 1: could have put some money in your pocket because Steve
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Speaker 1: Harvey was putting a lot of fancy your shirt for
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Speaker 1: like money. Okay, go ahead, Well you're sitting next to
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11:46
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Speaker 1: I know my listeners, I know what they expect. You know,
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying that I'm out there trying to be
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Speaker 1: my hard work and my plans and my or the
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Speaker 1: It's to me too. Panel where we address a lot
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Speaker 1: of issues that are going on in the entertainment, you
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Speaker 1: you have in your life. So you have to make
14:41
Speaker 1: a decision whether you're gonna pick them up or drop them.
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Speaker 1: And I've decided to drop my bags, and I discussed
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Speaker 1: in the book how I used laughing to heal myself whole.
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Speaker 1: So it's a lot of people, including you and myself
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Speaker 1: and people in this room, who have some sort of baggage.
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Speaker 1: Whatever it is, whatever your baggage is, but it's a
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Speaker 1: the relationships too long. They have jobs in there, they're
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Speaker 1: there right now. They actually should go. But I always chell,
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Speaker 1: people don't let that job go before you get the
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Speaker 1: other job. Come on now, now, I'm gonna say this
15:21
Speaker 1: because we are I am speaking on the me Too
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Speaker 1: platform panel. But I do discuss the fact that I
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Speaker 1: walked away from a ten year relationship. I do discuss
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Speaker 1: the fact that I walked away from six figures in
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Speaker 1: the you know, corporate America, and I never looked back.
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Speaker 1: So when I went from making six figures they laid
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Speaker 1: me off, the average person will be crying in the corner.
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Speaker 1: Did they lay you off or did you walk away?
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Speaker 1: They laid me off walking away a nice package. They
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Speaker 1: laid me off with a good just get your version
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Speaker 1: lay off. No, I'll walk away. I went in there,
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Speaker 1: so I'm out. No, I got laid off. But here's
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Speaker 1: the thing. There was other opportunities for me to go
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Speaker 1: back to work in corporate America. They do. They listen,
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Speaker 1: and I want you to hear me clearly. When Samsung
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Speaker 1: laid me off, okay, I said, okay, I see you
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Speaker 1: give me my money. I'm gonna go. But then other
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Speaker 1: companies came calling. Because I'm good at what I do.
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Speaker 1: I was managing the team. Fourth Largist, fourth Largist territory
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Speaker 1: in the country boy. Samsung and other companies called me
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Speaker 1: and they were like, hey, we would like to, you know,
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Speaker 1: talk to you about bringing you on. No, you won't
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Speaker 1: because I was already in my mind, had already made
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Speaker 1: up in my mind that I'm funny. I can make
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Speaker 1: some money at this. And that's what I did. I
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Speaker 1: went to l A, packed my bags and my car, honey,
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Speaker 1: and went to l A looking pretty in active. Funny.
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Speaker 1: That's what I did, and I left. But I left
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Speaker 1: what I didn't really have a plan. You don't have
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Speaker 1: a plan, you know, because I just thought funny and
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Speaker 1: I had dates, like comedy dates. But that's not really
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Speaker 1: a plan, you know. I had a plane, I thought.
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Speaker 1: But again, entertainment is kind of interesting. It is because
16:48
Speaker 1: there are no rules to it. It's like it's not
16:50
Speaker 1: working to Samsung. Is not the working that IBM or
16:52
Speaker 1: work in the general Electric. You can go there and said, look,
16:55
Speaker 1: I want to be a supervisor. I want to I
16:57
Speaker 1: want to transfer to another state. You can't do that.
17:00
Speaker 1: Entertainment is a twenty four hour emotional emotional roller. Coaches. Sometimes,
17:07
Speaker 1: when when you're your happiest, you're the most frustrating and
17:10
Speaker 1: sometimes when you're having your biggest moment, it made not last.
17:13
Speaker 1: And then when sometimes when you're surrounding around by a
17:17
Speaker 1: lot of people, you're still lonely. So it's just every
17:20
Speaker 1: it's always something. Everybody have a different story to tell
17:22
Speaker 1: when you're in the entertainment. And that's why people always
17:25
Speaker 1: wonder why comedians aren't funny off stage. You know, they
17:28
Speaker 1: want us to be just just a jester performing and
17:32
Speaker 1: that's not gonna happen. That's gonna happen. So we made
17:35
Speaker 1: that nice transition to what I'm excited to talk about.
17:38
Speaker 1: What you want to talk to the people about Montreal
17:41
Speaker 1: Comedy Festival that you will be making appearance and July
17:45
Speaker 1: Twitter fifth July is big for you? Is yep? So
17:51
Speaker 1: I'm you're still hosting production is still in place with
17:54
Speaker 1: the circle. Yeah, I'm not listen, let me tell you something.
17:58
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not giving up my seat. So for
18:01
Speaker 1: all those who are voluing for that on shooting for
18:04
Speaker 1: standing down, so I would be in Montreal for comedy,
18:07
Speaker 1: for the Montreal Comedy Festival, It's gonna be amazing. I'm
18:10
Speaker 1: actually gonna be I was invited by Kevin Hart laugh
18:12
Speaker 1: alloud Kevin Hard I think I know that. I think
18:15
Speaker 1: you're not that man. So um, he's bringing me up
18:18
Speaker 1: there to to do me to have a good time,
18:20
Speaker 1: and he has a new network called laugh aut Looud.
18:22
Speaker 1: So I'm super excited because I've been trying to um
18:26
Speaker 1: make this transition into the Montreal Comedy Festival for a
18:29
Speaker 1: long time. It is one of the longest comedy festivals
18:32
Speaker 1: in the world and one of the biggest comedy festivals,
18:34
Speaker 1: so to be affiliated with this is awesome. I'm gonna
18:37
Speaker 1: just give people a little history to Montreal Comedy Comedy
18:40
Speaker 1: Festival because it is long. You go up there as
18:43
Speaker 1: an industry uh. Now they have an aspen, they got
18:45
Speaker 1: a lot of people kind of have bidden off that
18:47
Speaker 1: that version of it. But you will go up there
18:49
Speaker 1: as a talent, comedic talent and uh, industry executive managers,
18:54
Speaker 1: agencies will all come up there looking for fresh talent,
18:57
Speaker 1: whether they can put them in sitcoms or whether they
18:59
Speaker 1: can say I want to manage you have star appeal.
19:02
Speaker 1: So it's a big opportunity because Steve Harvey, that's how
19:06
Speaker 1: he got his first ABC TV show, Come Out and
19:09
Speaker 1: the Parents in two at the Montreal Comedy festival, and
19:14
Speaker 1: so I know it works. And that's just one a minute.
19:17
Speaker 1: And I'm just saying just and that's we're back at
19:19
Speaker 1: eighty two. So when you said it's been around a
19:21
Speaker 1: long time, that lets people let people know that's that.
19:24
Speaker 1: You know, that's a long it's legit. And so what
19:26
Speaker 1: you been there and you getting the opportunity? What what
19:29
Speaker 1: are you expecting for yourself? I don't want you to
19:31
Speaker 1: get so high because I know the agents are going
19:33
Speaker 1: to be there, the managers is going to be their television,
19:36
Speaker 1: Netflix up, you know, Amazon, Digital formats. What are you
19:40
Speaker 1: trying to accomplish at the Montreal Comedy Fest? Well, a
19:43
Speaker 1: couple of things I'm trying to accomplish. First of all,
19:45
Speaker 1: I need an agent. I want an agent that can
19:47
Speaker 1: see me for all that I am, whether that's television,
19:51
Speaker 1: you know, Netflix opportunities. I would like to walk away
19:53
Speaker 1: with a relationship with Netflix, and I would like a
19:55
Speaker 1: one hour special. I would also like to just have
19:58
Speaker 1: a you know, begin a conversation about my own on sitcom.
20:00
Speaker 1: I have a lot to offer in reference to that movies. Honey,
20:04
Speaker 1: she got a lot to discuss. Um. Maybe even someone
20:07
Speaker 1: to you know, say hey, I want to put you
20:08
Speaker 1: on tour, So let's do that too. I have a tour,
20:10
Speaker 1: but I need a big tour. I need an old,
20:12
Speaker 1: big money grip tour. I need an old, nice, nasty
20:15
Speaker 1: hundred city tour. I need somebody got some money, cut
20:17
Speaker 1: a big old chat. Come on, I need that kind
20:20
Speaker 1: of tool in again. I got things to do with
20:22
Speaker 1: my life. I just wanted to say, you need to
20:26
Speaker 1: understand it's about Rashawn now. Whatever our part time bill brands. See,
20:32
Speaker 1: that's like our relationship, your part time brand builder. For me,
20:35
Speaker 1: I can't give you no more because I gotta give whatever.
20:40
Speaker 1: So when I got a deal like they'd like to
20:42
Speaker 1: get paid, ain't nobody worried about the deal. It's all
20:44
Speaker 1: about me. But listen, I expected when I go to
20:51
Speaker 1: my plans and they don't care what I know they do.
20:56
Speaker 1: So my goal to when I go to Montreal Comedy Festival,
20:59
Speaker 1: it's really to come back with something, you know, an agent,
21:02
Speaker 1: a deal, an opportunity. I'm not going up there just
21:05
Speaker 1: for exposure, although exposure is absolutely what I want to
21:10
Speaker 1: three times, three times on three different stages. So how
21:13
Speaker 1: much time, how much eight minutes each should be different? Um? Well,
21:19
Speaker 1: you know that's what that's for discussion. I've been told
21:22
Speaker 1: to keep it three sets of the same because the
21:24
Speaker 1: audience do change. But I'm not sure, so I need
21:28
Speaker 1: to talk to un about that and see what's Every
21:31
Speaker 1: comedian reach their crowd, they read the energy. You know,
21:35
Speaker 1: it might be somebody sitting on the front row you
21:37
Speaker 1: might say hi to because change the direction. But I
21:40
Speaker 1: always tell people go up practice that eight minutes just
21:43
Speaker 1: in case that eight minutes may not go as well
21:46
Speaker 1: as you want to and if you don't practice it,
21:48
Speaker 1: that eight minutes can easily become three minutes. Okay, I've
21:51
Speaker 1: been there. I've looked around during a forty five minutes said,
21:54
Speaker 1: and I'm a twenty five minutes and I've done the
21:56
Speaker 1: forty five minutes right. You're going through it right, right,
22:00
Speaker 1: because because I didn't, I just blew through and didn't
22:03
Speaker 1: didn't have faith in the material. So you know it's
22:06
Speaker 1: really important, all right, So this week we're gonna get
22:08
Speaker 1: together twice, look at your said, and get you ready
22:11
Speaker 1: because I think it's important that I'm proud of you.
22:13
Speaker 1: Thank you first of all, thank you for coming back
22:15
Speaker 1: on the show. And you're a talent, young lady. Don't
22:19
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong. We're gonna joke back and forth,
22:21
Speaker 1: but you are a pal of talent and I'm blessed
22:23
Speaker 1: to be able to bring you on my show and
22:25
Speaker 1: also to promote your brain. And they can't know how
22:27
Speaker 1: good you are. So you're gonna tell the people I
22:29
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22:32
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