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Jody Watley Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversations. I am your host with
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  Speaker 1: Sean McDonald. I recognized that we all have different definitions
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  Speaker 1: of success. For some insercisable paycheck. Mine is helping people
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  Speaker 1: wake up and inspiring them to accomplish their goals and
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  Speaker 1: live their very best life. These are my passions and
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  Speaker 1: that's what I'm going to do for you. I want
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  Speaker 1: you to stop tripping over small challenges and prepare to
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  Speaker 1: rise above the bigger obstacles that life will present to you.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we do with Money Making Conversations. Welcome to
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  Speaker 1: the ride. My guest, Jody Watley, Miss Jodie Rockley is
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  Speaker 1: a Grammy winning, trend setting, pioneering music, video, fashion, and style.
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  Speaker 1: Jody is listening on Billboard's Top sixty Hot one hundred
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  Speaker 1: Female Artists of all time. She's top twenty five dance
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  Speaker 1: artists of all time. She became the first artist to
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  Speaker 1: release a million selling video, Dance to Fitness, which had
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  Speaker 1: not been achieved by black woman or musician. She was
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  Speaker 1: the first woman of color to play Rizzo on Broadway
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  Speaker 1: and to hit musical Greece. She's an entrepreneur. She has produced,
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  Speaker 1: She's releasing her own music. She's on the show to
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  Speaker 1: talk about being an artist during the pandemic time and
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  Speaker 1: coping with the work stopics. Miss Jordie Watty is finding
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  Speaker 1: her sanctuary. That's what I found this on the I
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  Speaker 1: was just doing our research and found it. And Miss
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  Speaker 1: Jodie Watty finding her sanct You were in the kitchen, amiss,
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  Speaker 1: all these uncertain pandemic times. She out there, she out
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  Speaker 1: there clicking dishes and pots and payers and over a
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  Speaker 1: hot stove, you know, like like she in the South
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  Speaker 1: or somewhere. Please walk with the money made conversation, Miss Jody?
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  Speaker 1: What hey? Where is introduction? You know? After that, I
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  Speaker 1: feel like a boxer about to go in the ring.
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  Speaker 1: Hey Jody, you know, here's a funny point about Jody.
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  Speaker 1: And she was laughing so low. She was just laughing
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  Speaker 1: so low, and then she just opening this middle interview,
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  Speaker 1: She's gonna start laughing. Introduction's gonna just laughing at the store.
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  Speaker 1: I love to thank you, and I'm so excited to
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  Speaker 1: be talking to you. Well, I'm excited to be talking
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  Speaker 1: to you off court. You know, a fan of your music,
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  Speaker 1: fan of your talent. You're a beautiful person and uh
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  Speaker 1: that watch you and danced dance with you so many
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  Speaker 1: years on the dance floor, so this feels like okay,
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  Speaker 1: you know, okay, you know the music is still great, Jody,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, music back in the day, I can
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  Speaker 1: remember exactly where I was at on certain songs and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and that's where I can get kind of
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  Speaker 1: missing the day because you know, you're throwing the music
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  Speaker 1: videos in there, so you kind of go back to
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  Speaker 1: the video before you go back to the moment when
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  Speaker 1: you was on that in that in that basement party,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just getting sweat, not enough like to see
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  Speaker 1: when you're dancing with you know, but you're they're just dancing,
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  Speaker 1: you know that. And that is something about music, and
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  Speaker 1: it's true. It's so associated with growing up and memories
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  Speaker 1: and you know, just in so many ways and you know,
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  Speaker 1: good time, bad time, uh and and between times and
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  Speaker 1: so you know, my music, uh, it is a blessing
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  Speaker 1: because it spans so you know, continuing on. But you
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  Speaker 1: know it represents um, you know, always a good time
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  Speaker 1: for people and that makes me happy. But what makes
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  Speaker 1: me happy is that she and a person who you know,
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  Speaker 1: has has to sustain career relevance in this entertainment business
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  Speaker 1: because I've been in it, you know, for a long time,
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  Speaker 1: and being in it, you know, trying to stay because
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  Speaker 1: it's such a hard business because you can get and
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  Speaker 1: the discrimination happens, or ages and happens, sexism happens, and
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  Speaker 1: you know all those things, well you know, who is
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  Speaker 1: she or what has she done later? What has he
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  Speaker 1: done later? What have they done lately? That really permeates
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  Speaker 1: really big in the entertainment game. It's kind of sad
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  Speaker 1: because of the fact that there's so much uncertainty in entertainment.
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  Speaker 1: How did mentally from a mental standpoint, how have you
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  Speaker 1: been able to cope with that? Jody? You know, I
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  Speaker 1: think throughout my life I'm very focused. I've always been
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  Speaker 1: a person that UM has tried to have balance in
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  Speaker 1: my life, which is very important in any profession. And UM,
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  Speaker 1: you know, never get too highs at the highs and
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  Speaker 1: too low at the lows. And you know, it's always
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  Speaker 1: been important for me to UM, to be authentic and
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  Speaker 1: what I do, uh, to learn the business because I
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  Speaker 1: think a lot of people get messed up getting in
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  Speaker 1: the entertainment industry and I did started as a teenager.
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  Speaker 1: But I've always been business minded. I mean when I
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  Speaker 1: was in junior high school. Um, I would I had
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  Speaker 1: I call him side hustles. I was so close for people,
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  Speaker 1: I'd make pillows at my dad's church, or fry fish
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  Speaker 1: and and bake cupcakes to make money. We're gonna chicken
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  Speaker 1: and all that little bit later. Don't behind this stuff earlier,
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  Speaker 1: So I understand. So my journey has always been and
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  Speaker 1: I think that really has helped me sustain in this business.
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  Speaker 1: The uncertainty is because I've never been afraid of the work,
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  Speaker 1: never been afraid to say no, um, and very meticulous
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  Speaker 1: about what I do. And so if someone has I'm
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  Speaker 1: not just enough, I'm not that enough, it never really
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  Speaker 1: faces me. And I think it's important in life that
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  Speaker 1: you have to believe when no one else believes, and
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  Speaker 1: to keep doing the work in find ways to get
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  Speaker 1: it done. If if doors, I mean doors have closed
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  Speaker 1: on me, and I've opened new doors for myself because
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  Speaker 1: I'm continuing to do the work, you know, um, And
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  Speaker 1: it's very important and it really is important because really,
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  Speaker 1: when I look at your career, you know, because you've
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  Speaker 1: had success in a group okay Salama, and then you've
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  Speaker 1: had tremendous success as an individual artist talk about working
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  Speaker 1: with people and then the burden of being a solo artist.
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  Speaker 1: There are different different things. That's a task when you
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  Speaker 1: buy yourself and you don't have nothing that nobody to
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  Speaker 1: lean on but yourself, and the decision and the appearances
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  Speaker 1: all on you. So talk about the success in a
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  Speaker 1: group and the success as a solo artists just from
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  Speaker 1: an entertainment standpoint, so people can understand the difference. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, being in a group, being the only girl
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  Speaker 1: in the group and not actually being protected was very
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  Speaker 1: challenging for me, and you know it made me um.
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  Speaker 1: You know, again, I had to be tough, I had
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  Speaker 1: to carry myself in a certain way being a woman
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  Speaker 1: in the business. If you're not kind of flighty or whatever,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you get labeled things that aren't always very flattering.
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  Speaker 1: But again it's like I know who I am and
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  Speaker 1: I learned learned from it. So going solo actually has
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  Speaker 1: never been a burden. Actually it's been such a blessing
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  Speaker 1: because I get to do I get to own it
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  Speaker 1: and to be in control of it and take people
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  Speaker 1: to work with and not just do what I'm told,
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  Speaker 1: but to really craft. I've been able to really craft,
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  Speaker 1: uh my own niche as an artist. For you know,
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  Speaker 1: I've been a solo artist now for over thirty five years,
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  Speaker 1: um and seven years before that and Shalo Marso I've
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  Speaker 1: been you know, on this, on this journey. But then
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  Speaker 1: a solo I like, I like running my own business,
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  Speaker 1: I really do, and so it's a joy. It's like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's a lot of responsibility picking you know,
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  Speaker 1: musicians and producers and um, but I'm about the business
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  Speaker 1: and so so I enjoy all the aspects of this.
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  Speaker 1: But you're live performer, and we know the value of
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  Speaker 1: being a live performer. And the downside was the pandemic
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  Speaker 1: they are nobody saw our comming. I knew. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: see it coming, and not to the extreme when they
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  Speaker 1: talk about shut down, you know, because that really doesn't
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  Speaker 1: hit you what they're talking about until it actually happened.
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  Speaker 1: What does that mean shut down when you're talking about
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  Speaker 1: venus or close? Was they're talking about, you know, restaurant
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  Speaker 1: your clothes? And how did that whole process in your mind?
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  Speaker 1: How was it starting the process as being just what
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  Speaker 1: they're talking about shutting Now? How did that whole process
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  Speaker 1: work for you? Because I'm jiousing it freaked me out. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's it had to freak all of us out,
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  Speaker 1: and I think, you know, at first, actually, to be
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  Speaker 1: honest with you, one of the first things that I
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  Speaker 1: thought about was, I'm glad I've always lived below my
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  Speaker 1: means and above my means because you know, I'm glad
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  Speaker 1: that I'm a songwriter. And I thought, you know, God,
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  Speaker 1: thank god I'm a songwriter, because I'm really going to
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  Speaker 1: be living off my royalities now because there's not gonna
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  Speaker 1: be any concerts. And you know, two months into it,
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  Speaker 1: I went through a moment where I felt kind of that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, because I like to hustle bus I love
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  Speaker 1: performing and just you know, having this moment of pause.
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  Speaker 1: I've always taken time off here there, but to actually
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  Speaker 1: be forced into it um and so we're trying. What
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  Speaker 1: I've really done is trying to find new ways to
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  Speaker 1: keep myself busy, create some new revenue streams for myself.
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  Speaker 1: And it's very important to again is not be defeated
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  Speaker 1: by the situation, to find ways to make things happen.
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  Speaker 1: And so you know, that's what I've been doing. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, not to understanding that you have some facial masks,
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  Speaker 1: are they out now they're coming out. Yeah, I have well,
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  Speaker 1: I've had an online bouchique for about twenty years now
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  Speaker 1: and uh I have you know, different merchandise coming in
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  Speaker 1: all the time. And facial masks are one of the
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  Speaker 1: new items. Um and um you know those came as
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  Speaker 1: a result of the pandemic. You know, you gotta jump
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  Speaker 1: on stuff. I give a portion of the proceeds defeating America,
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  Speaker 1: so it's for a good cause. Um. You know I've
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  Speaker 1: got sanctuary candles and uh room stray man um and
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  Speaker 1: you know, and then the music. My current song is
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  Speaker 1: the Healing and it's a timely song. Um. I got
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  Speaker 1: Jodi Whitley coopering, so you know, okay, what you ain't
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  Speaker 1: gonna do take on my show. Now, I started with
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  Speaker 1: the facial man. Now you have to WHOOPI read now
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  Speaker 1: it's it's a it's a method to this madnic when
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  Speaker 1: you come on money and make conversation. We got to
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  Speaker 1: talk about each one so it could be clearly heard.
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  Speaker 1: Miss wait, I see, I see right now. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have a great relationship, but we're gonna learn to make
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  Speaker 1: money roushan wait okay, slow and effectively, Okay, because what
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna do. First, we're gonna you know, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: put the mask out right now, are yeah? Okay, cool?
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  Speaker 1: They are, they are available, Okay cool. So what we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna do is we gonna get a little post a
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  Speaker 1: picture with you with the mask, and we're gonna put
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  Speaker 1: it on my social media this week. Okay, put that
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  Speaker 1: it was over to me, okay, because I got eight
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  Speaker 1: hundred Facebook following and any percent of my women Okay,
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  Speaker 1: because my bacon don't ain't because they love me. They
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  Speaker 1: just love those cakes. I'll be bo. So so so
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna put that in. Then next Wednesday, my newsletter
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  Speaker 1: comes out and then there's ninety thousand fan club subscribers
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  Speaker 1: to that. So we're gonna drop the facial facial mask
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  Speaker 1: in that. Okay, So we're gonna so that's the face.
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  Speaker 1: That's how that's how you do business. When you come
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  Speaker 1: on money making conversations, we ain't no hurry to make money,
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  Speaker 1: which about relationships. That's how we lasted this long because
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  Speaker 1: the relationship the about five and dead people that ain't us,
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  Speaker 1: that ain't a we're long we're long term, long term.
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  Speaker 1: So so then you then you talked about these candles.
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  Speaker 1: Talk about these candle come tears them. Are these the
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  Speaker 1: big fat candles that you can put it in your
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  Speaker 1: in your bathroom while you're taking up a bathroom when
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  Speaker 1: you outside reading the book? What type of countles are they?
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  Speaker 1: So the sanctuary can't be the glass the big candles
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  Speaker 1: those sold out. So the new shipment of candles are trumps,
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  Speaker 1: their tens, travel tens. So you know it's very compact, uh,
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  Speaker 1: the luxury soy candles, but they are they're not the
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  Speaker 1: big oversized glass one this one because these are easier
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  Speaker 1: to ship right. Well okay, so now that's sold out,
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  Speaker 1: you say, right, the new travel tens those just arrived today. Okay, cool.
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  Speaker 1: So so so we can put that on social media too, yeah, okay, cool.
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  Speaker 1: So you old me every time. I don't think you're
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  Speaker 1: calling money make conversation just to have a money make conversation.
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  Speaker 1: You're not making their money because you got you know
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  Speaker 1: what say to miss miss Jody Whiteley. You was saying
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  Speaker 1: miss r Whiteley. So so we got there, we got
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  Speaker 1: the facial mask. We just got a new shipment of
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  Speaker 1: sanctuary candles in gott to do a banner for that.
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  Speaker 1: So this Talco have we gotten to the be arranging,
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  Speaker 1: then got today yet right, no, I'm flowing down. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: learned quick learner, and you know you gotta listen to people. Okay. Now,
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  Speaker 1: so now let's talk about the music song Healing. Let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about that. What you know, I know, you have
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  Speaker 1: a racial unrest, pandemic is over the avertly affecting the
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  Speaker 1: African American community. We have an election here that uh,
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  Speaker 1: it's just emotionally charging this The country in the world
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  Speaker 1: is watching. And so when I hear a song called healing,
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  Speaker 1: tell us what the story behind it and what you're
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  Speaker 1: trying to achieve with what your music, who you're trying
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  Speaker 1: to reach with the healing? I mean, you know, because
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  Speaker 1: my music has progressed so much over the years, and
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  Speaker 1: I wrote this song before the pandemic came out, came about,
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  Speaker 1: and really I wanted to do a song to remind
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  Speaker 1: people to no matter what's going on in the world,
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  Speaker 1: never let anyone jim your life, your wattag, the wattage
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  Speaker 1: lived within you, and to encourage people to live in
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  Speaker 1: and now because now it's what we have and what
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  Speaker 1: we make of life. And it's a dance room because
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  Speaker 1: I know people like Ms Jodie. Part of my brand
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  Speaker 1: is the dancing, but it's an inspirational song and it
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  Speaker 1: just so happened that the pandemic hit and then you
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  Speaker 1: know a black Lives Matter and everything, and so it
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  Speaker 1: was one of those things to me, the universe had
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  Speaker 1: the ultimate timing, uh in me putting it out. And
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  Speaker 1: when you how does the how is the music being
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  Speaker 1: distributed to streaming and work work work platforms. It's on
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  Speaker 1: all digital platforms and streaming services, so you can download
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  Speaker 1: it from iTunes or you can stream it listen to
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  Speaker 1: it on Spotify, Apple Music. And also you know YouTube
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  Speaker 1: of course, and and I do have a Jodie Whitley
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  Speaker 1: YouTube channel. No, no, I don't know that channel. I
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  Speaker 1: know a Miss Jodie Watterley YouTube channel. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: Jodie Wattley YouTube child. That must be that must be
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  Speaker 1: like a knockoff. That must be a knocker because I'm
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  Speaker 1: saying I only talking to Miss Jodi wat This is
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  Speaker 1: Miss Jordi Watley YouTube channel line I'm promoted in now
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  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna throw the miss in front. That's how
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  Speaker 1: I met you. That's how I met you. I love
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  Speaker 1: talking about you now let's get to the hoop ear
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  Speaker 1: ring rings. Now, who thought of this idea? And it
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  Speaker 1: sounds so much fun? Talk about the hoop the rings, Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know it's a Jodie Whitley signature. The jumbo hoo
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  Speaker 1: bearings have been since my so little debut for a
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  Speaker 1: New Love and people, Yeah, a journey. If you saw
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  Speaker 1: me doing some bad dance and moves, you know that
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  Speaker 1: the old man moved. You know, I really think I've
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  Speaker 1: still got it going on. But obviously if you saw me,
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  Speaker 1: you go, Okay, stop, you really need to stop trying
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  Speaker 1: to dance to that something like that. I just had
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  Speaker 1: to let you know that I was doing some bad
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  Speaker 1: things over here, acting like I still had the skill set.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't so the hoopiere rings because it's not
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  Speaker 1: so much fun. First of all, Miss Joy. Yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 1: enjoying this anyway because your energy is just on fire.
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  Speaker 1: And and and we let me just tell you something.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we we live in a stressed time because
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  Speaker 1: of the fact that we um and I said that earlier,
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  Speaker 1: we are talking about the election coming up, and it's
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  Speaker 1: just great fear, you know, as as a black man,
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  Speaker 1: you know, as a black person in general, but the
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  Speaker 1: police has not been uh throughout our lives, not something recently.
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  Speaker 1: We've always had concerns when we got pulled over, especially
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  Speaker 1: at night. And so unfortunately for George Floyd, like white
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  Speaker 1: well see it for the first time or acknowledge it
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  Speaker 1: being stunned. Okay, yeah, and really it was eight minutes.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't stopped because I like it when I see
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  Speaker 1: white people out there protesting for for my carse yes,
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  Speaker 1: I and I agree with you because I think that
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  Speaker 1: will make the ultimate difference because like you said, we
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  Speaker 1: were used to this unfortunately, but it's gonna take white people,
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  Speaker 1: um to get involved. So seeing them out there protesting
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  Speaker 1: and you know, I mean, you know, painting Black Lives
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  Speaker 1: Matter on their cars and businesses and everything. But we
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  Speaker 1: really do need um some change here, and um you know,
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  Speaker 1: but they that was a big difference because I've never
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  Speaker 1: seen that many um you know, that diversity and so
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  Speaker 1: that yeah, I was I was stunning myself. Okay, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you know when you when you see it march, you know, okay,
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  Speaker 1: white people, white people walking by the camera, white people,
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  Speaker 1: white people, black white people, white people, black black white people,
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  Speaker 1: white people. We need this. We need this because because
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  Speaker 1: because of the fact that it's not it doesn't become
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  Speaker 1: like these horrible black people out here tearing up our cities.
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  Speaker 1: These horrible black people, you know, you have to be
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  Speaker 1: fearful of them. You know, lock your doors, don't let
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  Speaker 1: them in your neighborhood. They're going to tear up your city.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what that's what was gonna happen without their participation.
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  Speaker 1: And so because I because I could, I can see
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  Speaker 1: you an iconic individual because of the fact that when
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  Speaker 1: you these hoop ear rings, when you can take a
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  Speaker 1: signature piece like a hoop ear ring, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: then and then the people recognize as a style and
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  Speaker 1: then you said, you know, I'm gonna make this a
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  Speaker 1: fashion moment and then people buy it. How does that
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  Speaker 1: make you feel? I mean, I feel very empowered by that.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: And um, you know, as a black woman, it's you know,
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: um to the part of you know, other black artists
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: that trans that really transmitt being on the music and
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: so to be in that category of style icon or
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: you know, things of that nature. Um, it's a good
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: ceiling because it's like it's it's me. It's a part
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: of who I am and bringing great style and class
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: has been always very important to me. Now, let's let's
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: get the real deal. Now. When I've been waiting on
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: the kitchen talk, she dropped a little you know, when
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: I was in junior high. You know, fry fish, she
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: makes some cupcakes and all that stuff. She she was
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: just setting us up that she didn't just start cooking
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: last week, or she didn't just start cooking during the pandemic,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: just like act like she don't have nothing to do.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: I've been cooking to the middle school. Yeah, okay, cool.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: So uh you know, I'm If anybody knows anything about me,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Joda is that I'm a foodie. I love food. I
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: will eat my dessert for I eat my meal in public?
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Are you taking to the fine out and strong? I go,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: excuse me, excuse me, give me my desert. Men and
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: people have looked at me strange and go or you
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: did that stuff. I needs to know what I'm gonna
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: get right now, and so so talk about this whole
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: the early stages of cooking and then cooking. Now you
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: know and how does how does it? Is it a
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: calm the calming effect for your life, for your career?
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: And um, you know because you know, because you know
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: your fitness person, wool, you probably eat a little bit
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: different than me because I I'll make you mad. Jody
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: be going because I make a lot of people mad. People,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: How does he stay like that and eat like that?
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: I get there a lot for people. You make me sick.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: I get a lot of You make me sick with Sean,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: you get on my nerves, get out my face. You know,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: I eat a double King burger with relish double cheese,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: uh with large fat fries and a large strawberry shake,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: and won't miss a beat if that's a fat that's
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: a fat burger for people who knew. She knew exactly
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: what I was talking about. I did. In fact, it's
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: funny you should mention fat burger because the original uh well,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: used to the popular one used to be in l
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: a last end in the kind of the Beverly Hills area,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: and it used to be the spot people would go
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: there and parked out there on the weekend. Mean it
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: was the best. Uh So, yeah, I know about that burger.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: She didn't break. She didn't break. Try when I started
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: rattling off that men, Yeah, yeah, that's a king Bourbon,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: that's double king right there. Yeah, Yeah, come a large
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: fat She said, he ye he talking about he talking
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: about fat burger right there, Lord strawberry shake yeppy, Yeah,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: he really on point when everything he said right there,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: he has not stun He is truly a guy who's
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: been in fat burgers. And I you know, I love
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: I love food. Um, you know, I started cooking and
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: junior high the necessity initially because my mom and dad
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: split up and when I was did with my dad, um,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: somebody had to do the cooking. So my mom was
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: a good so I just kind of remember things that
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: she made and uh and so you know, growing up,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: I've always enjoyed cooking. It's relaxing, um, you know, like
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: since I've been in entertainment for you know, most of
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: my life since a teenager. So it's always a treat
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: to make a home cook meal being home and people
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: look at me and say, oh, she probably can't cook. Absolutely.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: You know, you're attractive, you know everything. Yeah, everybody don't
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: know you have to you know, you don't look like
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: you did have bad days. You know for people look
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: people looking at they make assessments of you. You know
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: what you didn't cook? Look at that. You know, the
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: second time around, you know what I'm saying. That's right,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: you know, you know she has somebody because of h
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: But I love to cook, cook, and I love to bake.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: One of my favorite things to bake my kids. I
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: have a daughter and a son their young adults now,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: but Thankgiving, I do uh tiny butter rolls and from
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: scratch with the yeast that rises that take three hours
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: and the whole bit. But it's always love. So I
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: think I love you could love into cooking like so,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: I understand your passion. And and food is a thing
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: like music. It makes people happy too, doesn't happen? Well,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: it made me happy. And I know I'm having a
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: fantastic time, you know, talking to you about just life
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: in general, because of the fact that you know, first
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: of all, you're an entrepreneur and your independent thinker and
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: uh and the part about success, I know that and
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: I tell people all the time, you know, being successful
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: in the entertainment business rough because everybody sees your can
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: see you. Okay, you know you've been successful it IBM,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: nobody sees you. I'm not saying this name, but nobody
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: sees you. But when you're entertainment, they see you. They
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: know they might know how much money you're making. They
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: can they know the ticket prices, they know the size
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: of the venues you play, and so that takes a
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: mental toll on what people can perceive you being a
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: wanting to be a capable of producing and so so
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: it's important that these relationships. And I'm just gonna let
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: you know, Jody, I'm in your life now. Okay, So
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: so you know you you got stuff dropping, don't you
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: don't don't do don't you got no world? Said when
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: we shot, I forgot about you said it's gonna be
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: a problem between me and you, Miss Jodie Wide. I'm
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: just let you know, you know, around trying to shut
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: down your YouTube channel. That's what I'm gonna be doing that.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: You know. You know this bru Shawn's trolling Jody while
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: on on social media. He's crazy, man, he's crazy. Is
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: he a sick o? Joe? I only did one interview
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: with I don't know what's wrong with the dude. I
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: just do want any of you to do. He've been
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: trolling Mirror because somebody's stop him. No, I'm just know
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: it's a joy. It's a complete joy because I wanted
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: to meet you and you're a person that because even
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: though you're behind the scenes, I want to tell you
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: I'm the kind of person like I like researching people
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: like well, who especially successful people as well? Who's on
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: this team? Who you know? And then again it goes
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: back to when I was middle and I used to
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: read about four models and I was like, I wonder
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: who who runs for my models? And I went to
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: the library and looked up I leaning forward. So I
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: like to know about people. So I've been knowing about
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: you for a long time. Thank you, And I have
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: so much respect for you. So you control me all
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: you like. Well, but before we go, I I don't
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: want to. I can't be you know, I kind of
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: you know, people get mad. Well, you're starting talking about
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: the kitchen. Didn't you just stop talking? So let's talk
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: about that the kitchen. What you're doing now? What's some
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: of your favorite meals? And because you mentioned you mentioned
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: some good Southern starters fry fishing, cupcakes. To get some
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: good black people rolling right there, right there, right there
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: talking about you talking about skills. Well, you know what,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: one thing I encourage people that follow me, I do
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: meatless Monday. Um. Last week I did a black eyed
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: tea and um. So I, you know, gave the recipe
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: and everything, and I had it with a chale salad
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: because I in this pandemic. Also everybody can be always
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: felt and have a double double. Are you trying to
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: hit at me? Are you trying to hit at me?
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: I'm the only person on talking about a double double
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: double meat double t Stop nicking up. So I share
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: healthy recipes and um, and then you know, my cheat days,
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: my indulgences and everything. Because also being a woman, it's
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: like people would look at different. So I try to
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: stay in shape, but I let people know you can
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: have robust, the wealth season, great healthy food and then
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: you can have your cheat days where you can have
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: your fried chickens and you know, with extra hot sauce
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: on it and greens with me. But you can also
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: have the greens without me, so you know, I so
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: I mixed it up and you know, and to inspire others, okay, cool,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: let me asine U. These are like short videos or
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: or that you can upload and stuff like that or huh.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: They just you shoot them live and that's where they
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: live on your social media. I put them on my website.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Dye Whitley got net do a blog. I don't feel
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: them yet, well not true, I do feel them, okay,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: if you feel them. And it's short version to me
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: and I put on my Saturday because I always you know,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: I had tim tim ARII just recent relationships or all that.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: I would love to post some of your work. If
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: you have photos, if you have photos, food that you've
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: cooked and just the recipe, I post that. Let's let's
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: do that, let's have let's have some fun with this,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: and let's have some fun with two photos and some recipes.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: I start posting it on Saturday, just just you know,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: just having fun, just showing people another great side of
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: your your brand, your career, what you're doing out there.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: But more important than just having fun in life, you know,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: because people need to see that, and it's it's just amazing.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: So so let's tell everybody about social media girl and
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: your websites. And you know it's it's thirty minutes now.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: You know we've been talking for thirty minutes. You know that, Jody,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: it just went so quick. I've known you all my life.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: We're just friends out If you're thirty minutes now, I'm
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: just gonna let you know. It's so funny people are
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: talking to Shine. I go, hey, dude, it's thirty minutes.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: We really need to stop. So people get there a
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: lot to go. Wow, that's it. That's it cool. So
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: tell about your social and your website, and you owe
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: me before we can show you that you owe me. Um,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: you know the facial mask. You'll meet candles and you'll
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: me some and you'll meet some photos of food along
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: with the recipes. And I swear to you, Jody, I
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: will post and I swear to you, I put it
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: I I I don't ever get on this. And if
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: you're talking about something, I want to I've committed to
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: your success, continued success, let me say it straight. Your
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: continued success and just being able to share another side
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: of you as an entrepreneur and a home or home body.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: That's what I call people cook at the own whole bodies.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: You know, entrepreneur is the is the sanctuary candles and
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: the facial mass. That's the entrepreneur side of you. And
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: when you're and now my headquarters is in Atlanta. I
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: have in my office my building. I bought a building.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna brag a little bit. I bought a
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: big build here and so and so I have a
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: full or full kitchen in my building. When you come
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: to Atlanta, invite you to come by and we're gonna
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: cook in the kitchen, and were don't videotape it. Okay,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: we're gonna put that on social media. Okay, you know
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: we're gonna no, but just we're gonna do, Jody, We're
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: gonna argue in the kitchen. That's gonna be fun. Okay,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: because what you're gonna do is come my kids to
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: tell me what to do. I can I can tell that,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: but I'm a lively time ms. Joe Rochan tell us
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: about your social media website, Joe that you've been so
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: much fun. Let's let's get it out there. Okay, all
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: my socials are verified Joey Watley j O d y
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: W A T l Y because you know some people
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: still can't spell. Website is Jodi Watley dot net and
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: it links to all my socials, my boutique and everything.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: So I'm very accessible and holler at your girl, Ill
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: at you girl. I hollowized your girl for thirty minutes
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: and it's been awesome. And you know you you have
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: called blast to come on my show again. In the future.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: Because what we're gonna do when you get near Chris Smith,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: like November, wanta come on back? Promote stuff that you know,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: the Hoopie rank and all that stuff I so people
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: can buy for Christmas. President get that hype rolling. And
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: then I always do like a Black Monday, and I
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: dropped all of my friends stuff in there and I
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: put it out on social media. Does really well. So
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: know that that the rushawn got you already lined up
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: for for some addition, as they say, mailbox money, Joey,
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: I love you girl, Thank you, thank you for coming
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: to Money Making Conversations. Okay, we talked soon. Alright, bye
• 31:30
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