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Rushion interviews Sherri Shepherd. She overcame being fired from The View, divorced, and industry rejections to host the #1 new daytime talk show, Sherri and Melody Brown, from slime producer on Double Dare to Associate Vice President of Consumer Media Content at Blavity, Inc · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: She's the new Queen of daytime Talk Sherry and nac
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  Speaker 1: Image Award winning show one this year Outstanding talk show
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  Speaker 1: number one new nationalist syndicated daytime talker for two years
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  Speaker 1: through twenty twenty four. Twenty twenty five, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: be discussing her career. She co hosted the daytime talk
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  Speaker 1: show as you remember the view being on Dancing with
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  Speaker 1: Stars This Nation, and I cast her way back when
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  Speaker 1: on the Damie Fox Jamie Fox Show as an actress
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  Speaker 1: when I was the core executive producer. Now she's whole
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  Speaker 1: co hosting something else. If you don't know about this,
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  Speaker 1: an n w ACP Image Award winning podcast called Two
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  Speaker 1: Funny Mamas with comedian and as Kim Whitley. They will
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  Speaker 1: Masterclass the daytime. The award winned the number one Queen
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  Speaker 1: of Talk Show comedian actress author Sherry Shephard. How are
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  Speaker 1: you doing? Cherry rest on Hyry? She was saying so
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  Speaker 1: much lesgo, she gonna say, I'm done. You say everything, Rachelle,
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  Speaker 1: I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. That's what I was thinking.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have to do anything. Sarry, you are amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for taking the time to call my show.
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  Speaker 1: You know we we broadcast live every Tuesday on w
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  Speaker 1: c OKA and Atlanta, Georgia and the syndicates nationally on
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  Speaker 1: HBCU stations in nationwide as well as my podcast. But
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  Speaker 1: more importantly, when I get a talent like you who
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  Speaker 1: understands that the journey, you know, journey I mentioned when
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  Speaker 1: we first met. We're back when on the Jamie Foxx Show.
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  Speaker 1: But it's been a journey. Talk about let's start now
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  Speaker 1: presently the excitement that's happening the podcast to talk show.
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  Speaker 1: How did the talk show come about? Because you were
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  Speaker 1: guesting series on it, and then also that the talk
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  Speaker 1: show was given, It was you giving the opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: do it. Can you walk it through that process emotionally
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  Speaker 1: and physically? Oh yeah, I've always wanted to do have
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  Speaker 1: a talk show of my own. This started back eighteen
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  Speaker 1: years ago. I had actually done a pilot for a
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  Speaker 1: talk show for ABC Disney. I did it on the
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  Speaker 1: set of Regis and Kelly and and it went, you
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  Speaker 1: know what, it was okay. Like they came and saw me,
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  Speaker 1: the Disney people doing stand up at the Last Factory Rishaun,
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  Speaker 1: and they liked me, and they did this pilot and
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  Speaker 1: they tried to do a sidekick and it didn't work.
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  Speaker 1: Um you know with the chemistry testing with all of
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  Speaker 1: the major stars that you hear about now, and it
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  Speaker 1: didn't work. So they did it for me by myself
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  Speaker 1: and it was okay. And the reason why it was
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  Speaker 1: okay it was because they kept coming to me the
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  Speaker 1: executive thing, we want to see that thing that you
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  Speaker 1: do on stage. And I didn't know what that thing
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  Speaker 1: was that they were talking about. All I knew was
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  Speaker 1: that I was grateful to God for the opportunity. I
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  Speaker 1: just wanted to make people laugh. My voice wasn't even
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  Speaker 1: as deep. It pretty much was like, hey, everybody, how
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  Speaker 1: you doing. Welcome to my home show, right, And it
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  Speaker 1: didn't work then eighteen years ago, because I didn't know
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  Speaker 1: who I was. I didn't know really who my audience was.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know, I excuse me, what I would do,
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  Speaker 1: what I wouldn't do. If you told me to stand
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  Speaker 1: on my head, I would have done it as long
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  Speaker 1: as it made people laugh. So fast forward. It didn't go,
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  Speaker 1: of course it didn't, and so I got the opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: I went back to acting, still having that dream, and
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  Speaker 1: I was doing a movie called Who's Your Caddie? And
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  Speaker 1: they asked me to co host on the View like
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  Speaker 1: a guest. Well, I got that job, and you know
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  Speaker 1: that was like really my training ground for t show.
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  Speaker 1: And in the meantime, I've done a lot of guests,
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  Speaker 1: you know, where I was sitting on the couch and
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  Speaker 1: I was a guest. So I learned how to do
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  Speaker 1: talk shows and what I like. From that end, I
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  Speaker 1: did the View, got let go, got fired from the View,
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  Speaker 1: and I went and pitched a talk Let's let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about that, because you know, I know I've had some
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  Speaker 1: dark moments in Hollywood, because you know, when it happens
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  Speaker 1: in public like that, you know, it's not like working
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  Speaker 1: at IBM. It's not like working at the post office
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  Speaker 1: at burber Key. You know, you just walk home and
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  Speaker 1: go and tell your loved ones you don't have a job.
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  Speaker 1: When it happens in public, that really takes a twofold.
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  Speaker 1: It's takes the ego hit, it takes a personal hit,
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  Speaker 1: and then you also wonder, oh, you're gonna get another shot?
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  Speaker 1: How did you overcome that moment? Well, I knew I
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  Speaker 1: couldn't be too upset when they released me from the
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  Speaker 1: View because God had told me and I have to
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  Speaker 1: go spiritual in my career because that is the number
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  Speaker 1: one who has made it happen. But God had said
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  Speaker 1: to me very clearly that last year of the View,
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  Speaker 1: it's time to go. It's time to move. And when
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  Speaker 1: I told my people, my team that I was going
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  Speaker 1: to quit the View, everybody went into an uproar. Oh
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  Speaker 1: my god, you won't be able to get a talk show.
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  Speaker 1: It takes a year to develop. You're making amazing money,
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  Speaker 1: and I was, you're making all of this money, You're
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  Speaker 1: not gonna nobody in Hollywood knows you. No, No, no,
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  Speaker 1: you can't, you can't, And I said no, God was
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  Speaker 1: very clear it's time for me to go. It was
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  Speaker 1: the year that Barbara Walters was retiring. And then once
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  Speaker 1: I was clear on that, they kept trying to give
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  Speaker 1: me more money at the View to keep me, and
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  Speaker 1: I kept I continued saying no. And then Rashaun, once
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  Speaker 1: it happened that I thought I was going to go
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  Speaker 1: through a very messy divorce, I got scared and I said, oh,
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  Speaker 1: this is gonna be expensive and messy. I'm gonna stay
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  Speaker 1: at the View and take the big old Stalary raise
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  Speaker 1: they gave me. Well, do you know when God says
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  Speaker 1: it's time to go, if you don't do it, he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna push you out of it. Because he said it
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  Speaker 1: was time to go. And so they released They did
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  Speaker 1: not renew Jenny McCarthy's contract. They let go of a
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  Speaker 1: Barbara Walker's co creator, Bill Getty. It was a number
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  Speaker 1: of people that they were letting go. And I'm I'm
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  Speaker 1: praying with everybody. I'm like, you know what, Jenny is
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  Speaker 1: gonna be? Okay, God gonna give you something better. You
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  Speaker 1: know what Bill Getty is, don't be okay. And then
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  Speaker 1: they called me in the office. They said, Sarychever, we
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  Speaker 1: need to see you. And I was like, for what.
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  Speaker 1: I went in there and they said, um. They said,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna release you from your contract now when you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna do what? And they said, we're not gonna renew
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  Speaker 1: your contract. And I said, but you get you just
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  Speaker 1: were trying to give me a big salary bump. And
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  Speaker 1: they said, no, things are different now and we're not
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  Speaker 1: going to renew. And I remember I was sitting in
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  Speaker 1: my dressing room in front of the mirror, and I said, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: I'm about to go through this divorce. I got a
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  Speaker 1: child with special needs, his therapy, his schooling. Did I
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  Speaker 1: tell you I'm about to get divorced? And this is
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  Speaker 1: gonna cost me a lot of money? And it was
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  Speaker 1: so still the voice of God saying I told you
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  Speaker 1: it was time to go. So if I got to
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  Speaker 1: push you out, it's time to go. And I said, well,
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  Speaker 1: then what am I supposed to do? God, because I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if I told you I'm getting a divorce.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes you've been talking to God but he didn't hear you.
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  Speaker 1: And I just felt God say, do you trust me?
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  Speaker 1: And I said, not really. I just I got this much,
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  Speaker 1: this ends of trust and it was like I felt
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  Speaker 1: like God saying that's all I need and that was it.
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  Speaker 1: But resigned literally two weeks later. I don't even think
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  Speaker 1: it was two weeks. Will Packer called me and he said, hey, lady,
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  Speaker 1: but if I was two in the morning, I got
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  Speaker 1: a role for you and right along too. Would you
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  Speaker 1: play this part? I say yes. A week before that,
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  Speaker 1: Sinderella on Broadway called and said, we want you to
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  Speaker 1: play the evil stepmother Keiki Palmers playing Cinderella. You were
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  Speaker 1: the first black evil stepmother on Broadway. I said, I
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  Speaker 1: can't sing. They said, what don't work? We took away
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  Speaker 1: all your solo You're just gonna sing with Kiki and
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  Speaker 1: the other in your step daughters. I said, yes, I
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  Speaker 1: did a month's run, got to stay in a big penhouse.
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  Speaker 1: They paid me a lot of money to be on
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  Speaker 1: Broadway and went through a very extensive divorce. But God
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  Speaker 1: always provided, So that's how yes it was. It was
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  Speaker 1: a little embarrassing, but I knew behind it right there
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  Speaker 1: was a reason why they let me go. So sometimes
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  Speaker 1: I think we look at things like, oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: what am I gonna do. This is horrible. How am
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  Speaker 1: I going to bounce back? But if God says it's
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  Speaker 1: time to go, then there's something else that he has.
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  Speaker 1: So with that, I went again around to Hollywood pitching
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  Speaker 1: a talk show and everybody said no. Resigned absolutely. Let
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  Speaker 1: everybody know. I'm talking to the one and only Sherry Shepherd.
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  Speaker 1: She's talking about her history, but she now is the
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  Speaker 1: new queen of daytime talk. If you haven't seen the show,
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  Speaker 1: it's called Sherry in Image Award winning show that one
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  Speaker 1: this year, and now she's telling us her journey. Her
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  Speaker 1: journey is one of I said early, if you have
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  Speaker 1: a gift, leave with your gift. And that's what she's doing.
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  Speaker 1: And when people told her, her friends, her family, the
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  Speaker 1: whole co workers told her to stay on the view,
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  Speaker 1: she knew it was time to do to leave. That's
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  Speaker 1: why I say, if you have a plan, you have
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  Speaker 1: a dream, stick with it. And that's what she telling us.
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  Speaker 1: Now continue the story. Well, I was pitching the talk show.
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  Speaker 1: I had the vision in my head and everybody was
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  Speaker 1: not interested. Everybody said no. They kept saying no, So
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  Speaker 1: I said, well, what am I supposed to do? I
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  Speaker 1: kept acting, but I kept honing my skills. I would go.
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  Speaker 1: I was on talk shows and again be a guest
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  Speaker 1: right so that I get hold no skills. And I
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  Speaker 1: think after that I just started doing like game shows.
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  Speaker 1: I was hosting the new Libay Game. I was hosting
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  Speaker 1: another game show where I got to hone my skills,
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  Speaker 1: and just like being able to improv and talk to people,
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  Speaker 1: I kept doing stand up. All of these things really
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  Speaker 1: prepped me for being able to do a talk show
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  Speaker 1: stand up. I said, on stage for forty five minutes,
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  Speaker 1: you know you you handle stand up absolutely. I saw
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  Speaker 1: you when you was open for Kim that Kim tour,
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  Speaker 1: which was selling when I was opening for Kim and
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  Speaker 1: baby Face. When you stand on stage, you have to
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  Speaker 1: talk for forty five minutes. And I always tell people
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  Speaker 1: stand up comics make the best talk show homes because
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  Speaker 1: we know how to create magic where there is none.
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  Speaker 1: There's no death space with the stand up comic. We're
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  Speaker 1: used to improving, we're used to making things funny, and
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  Speaker 1: everybody is continued to say no. I continue. My acting
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  Speaker 1: career flourished, and after that what happened was I think
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  Speaker 1: around two thousand, two thousand and nine Wendy Williams was
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  Speaker 1: in We knew that she was sick, but we didn't
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  Speaker 1: know she was in rehab. And I was as summing
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  Speaker 1: a movie with Acon Crockett and DC and the Wendy
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  Speaker 1: Williams show called Now. I ha been a guest on
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  Speaker 1: her show. There's even a clip of me on YouTube
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  Speaker 1: of Wendy saying what do you want to do? And
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  Speaker 1: I said, Wendy, I'm want my own talk show. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: we could go. Oh, Sherry that on YouTube? Wow to existence,
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  Speaker 1: I'm running on the couch and I go, maybe we
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  Speaker 1: go with Sherry. She laughed. And so they called me
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  Speaker 1: to be when the people were filling in for Wendy,
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  Speaker 1: they had panels of comics. Now this in two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and nine. This in two thousand and nine, two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and nine, and they wanted you to be a part
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  Speaker 1: of a panel. And I remember Michael Yo and different
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  Speaker 1: comics were filling in at one time for Wendy, kind
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  Speaker 1: of like a view light panel. And so when they
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  Speaker 1: called me, something inside of me said say no, And
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  Speaker 1: I said no, I will I will host if you
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  Speaker 1: let me do it by myself, and give me two
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  Speaker 1: days Monday and Tuesday, because Monday is your highest rated day,
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: because so much stuff happens over the weekend and people
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  Speaker 1: want to see what you're gonna say. And they said,
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  Speaker 1: absolutely not, You'll be a part of a panel. And
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  Speaker 1: I said no, and I walked away, and I remember saying,
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  Speaker 1: acon I hope I did the right thing, but I
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  Speaker 1: know I came from doing the view, so I know
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  Speaker 1: I could do it by myself. It's been my dream.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't call me for about two or three weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Heki Palmer hosted it by herself. There are only four
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  Speaker 1: people that did it. Michael Rapp Report hosted it by himself,
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  Speaker 1: Jerry O'Connell hosted it by himself, and me, And they
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  Speaker 1: called me back and they said, we'll let you host
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  Speaker 1: it for two days by yourself, Monday and Tuesday. And
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  Speaker 1: I was so nervous, but when I tell you, the
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  Speaker 1: ratings were amazing. When I hosted it. They called me
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  Speaker 1: really before I had even left New York, and they said,
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  Speaker 1: can you host again the entire week. By the time
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  Speaker 1: I got back to my hotel to change, they had
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  Speaker 1: canceled it. They canceled me hosting. They showed reruns. But
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  Speaker 1: what they did do is Debmar Mercury offered me a
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  Speaker 1: talk show back in two thousand and nine, and it
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  Speaker 1: didn't happen. When I tell you, Rashaun, I literally was like, God,
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  Speaker 1: what is going on? Two thousand not We negotiated the salary,
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  Speaker 1: we had everything together. I knew what I would do
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  Speaker 1: with this talk show that my Mercury had, and it
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  Speaker 1: just they pulled the contract literally before I was supposed
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  Speaker 1: to sign it. And I'm going, what in the world,
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  Speaker 1: ugly cries not running down my nose. My ratings were
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  Speaker 1: amazing for those two days, no reason, my team just goes.
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  Speaker 1: They just pulled the contract. They resended the offer. So
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  Speaker 1: I go again to Hollywood pitching is my demo reel
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  Speaker 1: was me filling in for Wendy and I took it
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  Speaker 1: around and one lady even said, a big casting director,
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  Speaker 1: there's a big talk show in the air now that
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  Speaker 1: they produced. She looked at me and she said, I said,
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  Speaker 1: I got the sizzle reel because it kind of shows
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  Speaker 1: what I want to do from my own time. She
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  Speaker 1: said I don't need to see it, and I said,
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  Speaker 1: but I really need you to see if she goes,
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  Speaker 1: I don't and she did her hand like dismissing dismission.
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  Speaker 1: I don't. Very dismissingly, she said, I don't need to
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  Speaker 1: see it, and she proceeded to tell me about a
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  Speaker 1: new talk show they had picked up, and if they
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: had picked up this other talk show with a singer
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  Speaker 1: from a music show and it was amazing and you know,
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  Speaker 1: and she was like, maybe I could put you on
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  Speaker 1: a talk show where it's four three cooks and you
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  Speaker 1: learn how to America with the And I'm like, I
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  Speaker 1: don't that is very true. It's Sherry O that thought.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna be right back because I'm telling you you
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  Speaker 1: want to hear about the too funny Mamma's tour that podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Want to hear about all her opportunities. More importantly, Sherry,
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  Speaker 1: you following your dreams. You're live in your dream That's
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  Speaker 1: what you show money, money making conversations, masterclasses all the time,
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  Speaker 1: letting people that in your darkest moment, would keep dreaming,
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  Speaker 1: in your darkest moment, would keep winning because people out
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  Speaker 1: there will find you because they believe in you, and
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  Speaker 1: God has blessed you because you willing to put in
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  Speaker 1: the work. Be right back more money making conversations, masterclass.
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  Speaker 1: Don't don't go nowhere. Sharry Shepherd be right back. Please
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  Speaker 1: don't go anywhere. We'll be right back with more money
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  Speaker 1: making conversation. It's masterclass. You are now tuned into the
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  Speaker 1: of success with no signs of slowing down, he explains
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  Speaker 1: why he's so passionate about creating opportunities for others. It's
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  Speaker 1: people opportunities. It's about opening doors and sharing the knowledge,
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  Speaker 1: wealth and wisdom that I've obtained with everyone else. I mean,
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: you know, obviously I'm still in school. Hopefully you know,
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: I'll be able to you know, Hu Howard University. I
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: want to go all the way. I'm getting my masters,
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: want to go to my doctorate and eventually be a
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: professor and teach the things that I've picked up along
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: the way. But it's all about the community, whether it's teaching,
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: whether it's entertaining, whether it's investing into us. If you
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: want to listen to this four interview with Nick Cannon,
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: It's available on money Making Conversations dot com. Welcome back
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: to the Money Making Conversations Masterclass hosted by Rashaun McDonald.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: Welcome back to Rushan McDonald. I'm an interview. I'm interviewing
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  Speaker 1: Sherry Sheep, a day new queen of Daytime Talk. It's
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: not something that thought that she just thought of last week.
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  Speaker 1: It's something that's been hit on mine for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: You know, always to be able to Can a dream
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: come true? Yes, if you put the work in Can
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: a dream come true? Yes? If you believe in it, yes,
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: if you keep telling people this is something you want
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: to do. Sherry, there was a daughter's there was people
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: who questioned you. At what point did you and yourself
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: realize you know something. I'm gonna trust me. I'm gonna
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: trust Sherry Shep. You know at what point? I just
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: I believed always, even when I got let go from
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: the view, I knew I had something to offer. I
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: just knew I needed one person to believe in me,
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: and no matter that I kept getting no. Yes, it hurts, yes,
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: I cried, but I knew that God didn't put this
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: dream inside of me and have me and me being
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: so good at it that it would fall to the wayside,
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: and I knew I had to hold on to that
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: dream despite what it looked like, because, like I said,
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: when I ran around this the last time in Hollywood
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: and everybody was saying no Rashawn, there was one network
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: that I went to and the woman said to me
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: she was ahead of the network and they didn't have
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: any talk shows, and she said, I got chills watching
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: you still in for Wendy in two thousand and nine.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: She said, I loved the civil real I'm the one
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: that makes the decision, and I knew before I walked
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: out of the room that I had to deal for
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: my own talk show. Do you know six weeks later
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: they called my team and they said, Nope, we're gonna
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: go with another woman. We think she's amazing, and we're
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: not gonna do seriously. And I got what happened to
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: the ladies. She got killed. Right when I say that
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: was when I set out and I cried again, and
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: I said, I said, Lord, this is too painful, this dream.
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  Speaker 1: I can see it in my mind of what I
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: want to do, and it's so painful. The knows that
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna focus on my acting and let
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: you bring this back to me. Um, you know, because
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: I just don't want to. I don't want to think
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: about it, which bat you're telling anybody. You didn't just
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: sit around. And so because you didn't sit around and
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: going oh this is this is the end of the road.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Because you and I were talking all the time, you know,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: because at the time twenty twelve to twenty fifty sixteen,
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: you know, Steve Harve and I was up in Chicago.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: We would invite you onto the show as a gas
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: and we talked about the acting opportunities, and you will,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: you were staying focused. You were letting the good in you,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: the success and you to keep moving you forward and
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: not waddling around into what else. No, I didn't And
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: I remember doing um um, the Steve Harvey Show, and
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: I remember you guys will follow me out there, and
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: I remember you would be so encouraging to me, and
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: you would tell me how good I was. The one
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: thing I know I was. I'm a great guest. Yes
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: you are. Yes, you are the mark of a gree
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: I guess you don't have the talk show host don't
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: have to do any work. They can literally sit back
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: and enjoy you. And that's one of the things that
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: I knew as soon as I stepped out on a
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: couch and somebody had to interview me, just Jabe Kauai
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: to let me go and enjoy the show, and I
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: just started. I really, my acting took off. I was
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: a regular and sitcoms and doing the movies and critically
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: acclaimed movies. And what happened was out of the blue,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: when I tell you, out of the blue, I got
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: a call. Not only was I co hosting, they asked
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: me back to co host for a week the View.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: I hadn't been on the View for three years and
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: they called me and they said, becauld you just sit
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: in for an entire week? So that was amazing. I
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: got to sit in for an entire week and I
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: got a phone call from jeb My Mercury and they said,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: could you fill in for a week now. At the time, oh,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: I didn't even say this. I had gone to desinate
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: should They wanted me to be a co host in Atlanta,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: and I said, no, I'm not moving to Atlanta. I'm
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: thinking if you'll if you'll let me do it in
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: La I'll think about it. And I met with the
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: the deitionation Folks, which is owned by five by Fox
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: absolutely Fox Enter Payments, Steve Brown over their Fox Steve Brown.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: And I remember being in the meeting Rishan and We're talking, talking, talking,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: and I said to them, with my ultimate goal, I
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: you know, being a co host is great, but my
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: ultimate goal is I want my own talk show. And
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: they said to me, They go, well, Nick Cannon has
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: a show face, and I go, Nick Cannon, Now this
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: is the reason why Nick Cannon and we love each
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: other out. Nick Cannon, well, I said it was because
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: the people who who filled in from Wendy by themselves,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: they all got a show. He Key Palmer went on
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: to co host with Michael Strahan. She got that gig,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: and right after filling in Lindy, Michael Rappaport got, I
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: think he did a pilot, uh for a talk show.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: It didn't go. Jerry O'Connell did a six week test run,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: remember his talk show. Those three they all had to
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: say it was like and so Nick Cannon also he
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: still didn't by himself, still with five of us. So
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: when they said Nick Cannon had and so I was like,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: everybody who feels it ain't got something. And literally I went,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: They said, yeah, Nick Cannon's his show's coming out, so
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: we don't really have the space for another talk show,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: and but we want you to be on Dish. Now
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: I accept the destination. Thank goodness, because as soon as
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: I accepted it, uh quarantine, it happened. So they had
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: already right. But when they said Nick Cannon, and it
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: just it was a representative of everything that, like, I
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: could see my dream. But I'm gonna Lord, everybody else's
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: getting it but me. And I went downstairs in the
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: parking lot and I started crying again, and my manager
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: started crying too, And I looked at him and I go,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: what are you crying for? Our crying crew? You're making
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: me cry? And I go with this. I don't like
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: I'm doing like Rich white Man. I don't like to
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: seeing cry. And I go, you just want me to
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: be crying. You're getting commission. You're fine. So after that happened,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: I stayed on this nation, which prepared me again. Then
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: I was at home by myself, reading a prompter, and
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: also once we got back in the studio, reading a
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: prompter by myself. But you would think that I was
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: really um interacting with the Atlanta crew, bratt and head
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: cracking all of them. So reading that prompter helped me
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: tell a story like a bunch of people are in
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: the room. So that prepared me. So when the when
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: the offer came from the Debt Mar for me to
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: fill in, I was on the View guest co hosting,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: and they called Jeb mar Mercury and said could you
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: fill in for a week. I ended up filling in
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: for a week and then kept asking me to come
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: back for another week. This nation was getting mad and
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: they were saying they, hey, wait a minute, hold don't
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: they said no. I said, Lord, you gotta work it out.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: If this is from you, then you will work it out.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Then all of a sudden, dish Nation would say go
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: ahead and do another couple of weeks. Ellen called me.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: I hadn't been on The Ellen Show in twelve years.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: And then she called and she said, I want you
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: to come back for my last season. And then but
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: then I was supposed to sit in for a week
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: with Jeb Mar Mercury who did the Wendy Show. And
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: they said absolutely not because we've had you to sit in.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: And I said, Lord, if this is what I'm supposed
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: to do, you'll work out both Rashaan do you know
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: they worked it out so I was able to do Ellen.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: I hadn't set in her seat for twelve years, and
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: I still was able to go to New York and
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: my ratings were so high when I filled in for
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Wendsy and and I said, Lord, I'm just gonna leave
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: it to you. I'm not gonna think about it. I'm
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: just gonna do what she created me to do. And
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: then they came through with the offer for me to
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: have my own talk show. Congratulation, same offer to day
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: come back within two thousand and nine, more money, money.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: You gotta know your words and number one number one.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: I know you do. We text each other all the time.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: You text me. Look at this, I'm number one the
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: women and then number one talking today to talk show.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: And but that doesn't stop you. I'm just telling you
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: something about her. You know, she has a movie she's
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: gonna do this summer. But more importantly, she's doing a
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: comedy tour with the incredibly funny actress Kim Whitley, who
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: I also have known for many many years. To two.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Funny Mamma's podcast was started basically on the Tim Join
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: the Show correct that's when you guys got together as
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: a duo and now you're turning into the podcast. It
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: has one back to back in ACP Awards for an
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Image Award for Outstanding Podcasts. So what's this? What's this tour?
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Y'all doing? Stand up? What are y'all doing out there?
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: We decided to It took me three years to get
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: this girl to do a podcast with me, and she
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: finally said yes, and we were doing that during the quarantine.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: We just want to make people laugh and it's been
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: so successful and we've won the NAACP Image Awards. I'll say, Ken,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: we got to take this on the road because I
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: don't know any duo that can get on stage and
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: stand there for an hour and talk to each other.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: And she said yes. So we're doing some test days
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: to see how it goes, if we can stand each
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: other for three consecutive weekends, and if we do that,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: we will continue this tour. And so where you can
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: go to Cherry Show tv dot com to find out
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: where we're gonna be. We're gonna be in New Brunswick,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: New Jersey, Ben Salem, Pennsylvania, and Wilmington, Delaware, and so
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Cherry SHOWTV dot com to find out exactly where the
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: theaters are, and we're just doing stand up and we
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: bowed our stand up comments who we love doing stand
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: up so to be able to go out there and
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: take this experience live to folks, those Shenanigan, I'm so excited. Well,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: I just I gotta ask this because both of you
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: do a brilliant improv y'all Do y'all do any of that?
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Do y'all come back on stage together? Or just one
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: doesn't said and then the other doesn't said? How does
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: that work? As far as stand up? Risaunt? When I said,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: we've been doing the improv and we get on stage
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: and we get up, and we did a live stream
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: during quarantine, and you know, so people could see it.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: We did almost ninety minutes improv on stage together just talking. Now,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: what we do is we come on stage together for
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: about fifteen minutes, and we really got to be strict
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: because Kim and I can talk for two days. Right,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: come on for about fifteen minutes, him, I leave. I
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: introduced Kim. She does stand up for about twenty thirty minutes.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: I come back and I do usually about twenty or
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: thirty minutes as well. Then we do a Q and
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: A together, and we're on stage. Probably we're on stage
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: and today's stay. This is a Union theater. Absolutely we were.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: We were just talk together and we take questions from
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: the audience and it's just a really great night. We'll
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: tell us again, how can we find out about the dates?
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: And give us the three dates again that right now?
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Tell everybody this is an initial start of a great
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: stand up comedy tours stand up comedy. Both of them
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: are doing a live stand up comedy tour. It's called
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Two Funny Mamas starring Jerry Shepherd and Kim Widley. Tell
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: us those dates, tell us where we can go and
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: look get more information about tickets. May nineteenth, we are
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: in New Brunswood, New Jersey. May twentieth, we're ben Salem, Pennsylvania.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: May twenty first, we are in Wilmington, Delaware. You can
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: go to Cherry showtv dot com and buy a ticket.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: And this weekend I'm at the City Winery in Chelsea
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Piers in New York. If you're in New York March
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: thirty first and May fourth, I'm also at the City
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Winery in New York. What did I say? Or May
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: fourth if you're in town. So those are the standard dates.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: But can I just thank you for when I got
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: to stalk show course now that I have it, when
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: they offered a simpy and they said yes, I was like, reside,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: they gave a simpy, you know, and I'm thankful you
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: said to me, who is your audience? Who are you?
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Who are you talking to? And it really made me
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: sit down and go who am I? And that is
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: that is informed every decision I make because remember I
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: said I didn't know what I was doing eighteen years ago.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Today I know how I can say no, I know
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: who I'm talking to, who my audience is. We're number
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: two we tired with Doctor Phil for women twenty five
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  Speaker 1: to fifty four, right behind Kelly and m Ryan and
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: number one new talk show. So I know from you
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: saying Sherry, who are you? Who are you talking to?
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: I'm a single mom, I'm an entrepreneur, i am divorced,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: I was married one. I'm a woman who came up,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: who went, who was down and got back up. That's
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: who I'm talking to. I'm a woman in her fifties.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: I'm talking to women also who are trying to redo
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: their life and reinvent themselves. That's who I'm talking to.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: So I know when when somebody comes to me with
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: old Cockamami, I did twenty one year old girl, poor
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: beer over her friend. That's not me, Absolutely show that
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: is that you. She's the incredible With Sherry Shepherd, you
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: know your friend, and you know I love you to death,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: and I know we text back and forth the good
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: times and the bad times that we've had in our career.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: But right now it's the good times and congratulations and
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: you know I'm going to help you own that comedy
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: tour because guess what the world needs to see Two
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: funny mammas starring Kim Whitley and the incredible Sherry Shepherd.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Thank you for calling my show, Sherry. I love your Ashan,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: appreciate you and we talk soon. Okay, all right? By
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  Speaker 1: She's on the show to discuss how she drives that
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: revenue in the ever changing world that we live in.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Please work with the money making Conversation Masterclass, Melodie Brown.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: How you doing, Melodie Hayler sign, It's so great to
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: be here. I'm really excited about this conversation. I mean,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: following Cherry, I'm hyped. Well, you know, Sherry, I was said,
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: I think Cherry will keep talking, but I got Melodie
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: on hole. It's so worried. No, no, you know because
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: if I feel fortunate to have not only her on
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: the show, but you on the show, because of the
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: fact that you drive a different medium in this business
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: is and we're always talking about what kind of business
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: can what kind of careers can our children have of color?
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: And then we know in this industry there's general tendency
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: to believe that we only do a certain type of
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: career choices. And when you when when we discuss what
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: you're doing. I wanted to do first explain to everybody
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: what you do, and then we're gonna talk about how
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: did you get there? Yeah? Absolutely, thank you so much
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: for Sean. I'm currently, as you mentioned, the associated vice
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: president of consumer Media at Blackty. So what does that mean.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: That means basically, I leave all of the content strategy
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: for our commerce and when you're talking about shoppable content,
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: things that you see online on our website, as well
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: as content that includes lifestyle trending topical stories for our brands,
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: which include travel, New Hours, that's our vacation brand twenty
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: one ninety, which is like our lifestyle, beauty um wellness brand,
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: and then our newest brand, which just launched two months ago,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Home and Texture, which is our home to core inspiration brand.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: So that's my role there at Blavity. Okay, that's your
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: role there at blavity. But we know you one of
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: these people. You you you just just as worse. I
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: would say worse because it's a compliment when you develop
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: multiple strange of income because not only that, but you're
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: you're also involved in slime. I feel like, who's the
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: leasing the secrets? Well, you know, come on, you know
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: the title of the show money Making Conversation Masterclass. I
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: bring on people who can tell you how you can
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: sit up here and say what do I do with
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: twenty four hours? You listen to my show and you
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: hear people tell you what you do with your twenty
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: four hours? So tell us about this slime in your life. Yeah,
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: so this is a slime that kind of started my life,
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: if you will. So years and years ago, I graduated
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: from the University of Central Florida, which is based in
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: Orlando where I live right and got an internship at
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Nickelodeon Studios, which was based here at the time, and
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: they did a reboot for those back in the days
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: who remember Double Bear, which was like this kid's game
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: show that was messy like slides, gooeyiness, et cetera. And
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: part of my responsibilities as a intern starting out besidecraft
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: services that basically is like today's door Dash and we eat.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: For those who don't know, I had to make slime
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: for the show. Okay, you know you had to make slime.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: You see. I always tell people, like my first job,
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: my first job was unloading drugs. I tell people uloading trucks.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: I realized that once they put me on the back
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: of a truck head at one thousand int twos or
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: fifty pounds each. After that job, right there, I realized,
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: that's not my goer, that's not my er. Now you
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: were doing making slime. How old do you make slime? Listen?
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: I don't know if I can reveal all the things,
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: but I will say it's all edible. And there are
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: two different versions at that time that they were using.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: One was kind of a pudding base and one almost
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: like the thick apple sauce base and other ingredients to
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: you know, make sit together and it would go on
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: different slides and different cyber foam toys, etc. For the game.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: But that was, yeah, that was starting out. And I
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: will say, like when you start out in a career
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: in an industry, sometimes you know, like the phone, go
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: start from the bottom and I will hear it. Sometimes
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: you have to get your foot in the door. And honestly,
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: it was such a cool, fun time to be in
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: that environment fresh out of college. I enjoyed it. But
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: one you didn't have to travel across country to get
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: into the Hollywood you were involved in in the early
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: stages of creativity. You see where Okay, this is how
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: people create content, this is how people reach a certain audience.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: That was a very strong and powerful learning curve for you,
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: because you know, there was reaching a certain audience with
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: this show. Absolutely, absolutely, and I think, you know, it's
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: so interesting you say that. That was kind of my
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: first makings of like media. But then my career as
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: far as starting out my full time gig, did kind
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: of a parallel pivot. I started out full time in
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: TV news. So I started as an associate producer at
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: the ABC station here in Orlando, which means I was writing,
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: I was editing for various newscasts. Sometimes my shifts would
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: be early in the morning talking about the crocodile and
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: I have to get in at three am. Then sometimes
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: I would have to fill in at night. And then
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: you know, worked my ranks up. Transitioned to the NBC
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: station in Georgia, where I worked up the ranks to
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: executive producer and basically that's the person who's in charge
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: of all of the newscasts, creating content and storytelling. And
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: after about ten years into that, Rashaun, you know, I
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: got to the point where I loved storytelling, but I
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: was over breaking news time and destruction content love storytelling,
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: but that was no longer for me after doing it
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: for ten years, and so then opportunity presented itself for
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: me to enter this well known hospitality company to create
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: content from a publishing perspective, doing their digital magazines, video
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: content and marketing campaigns. And I did that for self
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: years and then that brings me to Blavity several months.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: Let me just Melody now I'm talking to Melodies, associated
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: vice President of Continuity Media Content and Blavity. Okay, we
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: talked about slam because you know, I gotta bring everybody
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: up to speed. Anybody just rolled into this conversation. Slime,
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: slime and an ice machine, some story like that. We're
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: talking and you know what was your degree in. It
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: was in radio TV Communications. That was my degree from
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: the University of Central Florida. Okay, so but now you're
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: talking about you. When you was talking about marketing, you
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: was talking about news. So these were areas where where
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: they would you say, they would tie to you a
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: degree or you were just taking the opportunity and making
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: the best of it. TENA News was definitely tied to
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: my degree. You know, during my college years back in
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: the day, we would do kind of a you know,
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: on campus newscast, and so at the time of shown,
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: I was like, I want to be on air. I
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: want to be a reporter. I want to be an
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: anchor and work through that. And when the Nickelodeon's position
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: opportunity came for intern, I was like, oh, well, this
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: is another avenue to venture out. But it wasn't until
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: I got the position, you know, my first full time
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: gig as an associate producer, where I was like, you
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: know what, I like this writing thing. I like being
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: able to put news casts together, to put shows together,
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: to lead teams. So it changed for me. You know,
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: I will say one of the things for anybody who's
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: fresh out of college or who's either doing a trade
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: or looking to get into an industry, being open minded,
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: because here's the thing, the position or the role you
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: think you may want, try things out, and you may
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: surprise yourself and actually find out you're actually better and
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: blessed in another area. Right, And I've learned that, you know,
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: people always talk about how I do a lot of
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: different things. I've done a lot of different things in
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: my life, and I will do a lot of things
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: in my life. I always tell people that I give
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: one hundred percent when the opportunities being presented to me,
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: and I will pivot when an opportunity feels very comfortable
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: and enjoyable because I'm always intrigued. I'm always ready to
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: accept the challenge. And it seems to be a path
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: in your life. You know, you're not timidated by change,
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: and a lot of people are. Absolutely I think you
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: have to kind of go with your gut. Same reason
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: I said, you know after TV News love storytelling, but
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: I'm like, you know, this is not the type of
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: stories I want to tell. And then moved to hospitality
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: and then several months ago I foun an opportunity at Bravity.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: Ain't that interests me? And even more so the fact
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: that the company is all in, Rashan, all in when
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: it comes to black and multicultural customers. You know that
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: sid out to me because in my twenty year career,
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: I've never ever worked for a company where diversity, equity
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: inclusion goes beyond like HR policies or social injustice moments.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: That's literally Blavity's brand and it just jumps out at me,
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: and you know, I leased at the opportunity. I was
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: glad that they had me. So, as you said, you know,
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: my career has had different you know, paths and parallels,
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: all in communication or storytelling to some degree. But it's
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: so broad and I'm just so excited about what's still
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: to come with my time here at Bravity. We know,
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: it's really interesting because Blavity, you know, as a industry medium,
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: and that has a voice for us, you know, because
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: we realize today how important that voice plays out because
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: so many people are trying to shift a narrative of
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: what really is black culture or black history. Now, what
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: is the importance of your role? I know you're involved
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: in you know, different brands and different scales at Blavity.
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: What is your role when you're talking about storytelling it,
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: making it or think and making it accurate? I think
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: so my role is like listening to our customers, see
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: what's resonating with them, see where they are in the journey.
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: I think, for example, our newest brand, Home and Texture.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: Sometimes we're trying what people think about millennials. So like
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: all they are these young kids in their twenties. No,
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: millennials are straight up mid thirties plus early forties. They're
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: setting up roots, they're becoming entrepreneurs, they're buying homes, they're traveling,
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: they're interested about their health and wellness. And so those
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: are the pieces of content and the storytelling that I
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: want to tell for our audience, Like where are they
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: in the various funnels of journey. Also, black and multicultural folks,
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: We're not monolithic, We're not the same. There's some folks.
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: Even when you talk about home right home ownership, that
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: can be a condo, that could be a remodeled home,
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: that could be a new spec home, that can be
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: an apartment. Like there's different variables and variations to what
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: it means to set up routes in your home. And
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: those are the stories who want to tap into. Absolutely
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: when we come back, I want to talk about more
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: in the travel aspect because I think that's where the
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: African American community has grown so much and travel because
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: any know, I grew up in the era you know
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: you're hopping the back of the car with mom music,
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: go down to your cousins in the next state, and
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: that was your vacation or that was your extent of traveling. Well,
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: we're world travelers now in the African American community of
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: community of color. We'll come back. We'll asked Melanie about that,
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: and we also talk about the home and texture why
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: that brand is so special. Be right back with more
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: money Making Conversations Masterclass with the Queen. I had the
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: Queen of talk show. Now I got the Queen of Blavity,
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: Melanie the Princess. But we'll be right back with the
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: Princess O Blavity Melanie Brown. Please don't go anywhere. We'll
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: be right back with more money Making Conversations Masterclass. Let
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: me tell you about the host of Money Making Conversations,
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: Rushan McDonald. He's a social media influencer. Eighty percent of
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: his one million plus social media followers are female. Rushawn's
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: a two time Emmy Award winner, three time in Double
• 44:46
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• 44:50
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• 44:54
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• 44:58
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• 45:01
  Speaker 1: in your career that you can only hear in the
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: Money Making Conversations Masterclass show. Welcome back to the Money
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: Making Conversations Masterclass hosted by Rashan Sean McDonald. Welcome back
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: to Money Making Conversation Masterclass. You know, oh, you know,
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: they always try to hype yourself off, trying to hype
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: your show off, trying to make it, you know, as
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: big as as possible. So I got the Queen and
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: the Princess on my show today. The Queen of Daytime
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: talks the Princess of Levity. Now, when I talk about
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: the Levity, I'm talking about an e commerce brand that
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: is totally focused on the African American community from the
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: standpoint of travel as far as Home and Texture. Talk
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: to us about that brand and what makes that so special,
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: and then we're going to go back to travel, Okay, sure, sure,
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: So in talking about Home and Texture, you know, it's
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: about our community. The brand launched two months ago, and
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: we know the home buying and designing industry generates millions
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: rashan upon millions of dollars, but none of that goes
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: really all in for us, right, So when we're talking
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: about homeowners, home seekers and designers and that demographic is
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: setting up roots. It's one of the reasons we chose
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: to have the Homo Texture launch party event and it
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: landed at the Garden Room last month. When you talk
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: about the black home buying journey, the ATAIL is one
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: of the city's experiencing significant growth. Plus, not only is
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: this branch here information that's really unique to our community.
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: So whether it's disparities and mortgage lending, how to embrace
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: your personal file and culture, you know, and bring light
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: to your space, but also given a platform to entrepreneurs
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: in this space. So Rashan Will, we're talking about real
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: estate agents and designers. Matter of fact, today we just
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: launched our social first series called Homo Texture House Tours,
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: which is so amazing. It features four fabulous designers from
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: the Memphis area showcasing their homes and so for listeners
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: listening who want to check that out, go to Homo
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: Texture dot com. But what I'm excited about this brand
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: is that it's showing how we are building equity as
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: a community. Wow. You know, I tend to believe like
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: I've been in the person who has been been in
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: the home buying industry. I've been out there trying to
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: buy the right furniture, trying to get to the right
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: as contractor trying to But then when you look at
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: TV these uh do it yourself shows our vision of
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: our colors and always showcase what what what what role?
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: And why is That's why there's such a popularity, there's
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: such a need for what you We launched just two
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: months ago. Yes, we saw that it was definitely an
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: empty space. You know, we talk about Blavity, the Queen
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: of Blavity. She'd probably you know, disagree with me, but
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: I think she is is morted to bond our CEO.
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: She is so forthinking as well as our executives about
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: where can we spread our blravity ache influence right. And
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: we saw the need um. You know, I mentioned earlier
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: for those destroying the conversation that when you're talking about millennials,
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: they're not babies. These are folks who are making money,
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: good money right, who are looking to buy homes, who
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: are looking to even buy second homes, right investment homes.
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: And we feel like there needs to be an avenue
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: in a vehicle to them or vehicle for them, and
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: not just how they design their home, but even the
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: nuances of insurance. You know, one of the stories I tell,
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: you know, my team members is like when me and
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: my husband bought our home. You know, it's little things.
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: We had all of these windows. I'm like, oh, we
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: need curtains and window treatments, like the defense from large
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: to insurance and lending to kind of those you know,
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: smaller things that you don't speak about, and we're trying
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: to fill that space because there's obviously a need for
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: it with this demographic. Well, you know, it's really interesting
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: because you know, you learned so much about home buying
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: and you know, like all African Americans, I started in
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: my little apartment. I remember our very first apartment. It
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: was kind of like a studio, had their little wall.
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: It wasn't really one bid room because if you looked around,
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: the wall didn't have a door. But I was happy
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: in my little seven hundred graph feed them. I was
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: I was rocking and rolling in there was doors, it
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: was mine. It was mine, you know, technically in rent
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: it was mine. And then what did you realize is
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: that we are renting all the time. And really, when
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: you do the math and you take care of your credit,
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: then you can become take that rent and turn it
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: into a mortgage and then you have equity. And that's
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: the part of the conversation that I really love about
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: when you talk about home and texture, because it educates
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: a process to you that you may not be thinking about.
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: And it's also when you talk about millennials. I think
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: the media has has time time trapped millennials to some
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: twenty five that's twenty seven year old person who who
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: wants to skip the line and wants to wants to what,
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: don't want to work hard. That's what the millennials have
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: been trapped into. That world. Like you said, excuse me,
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: that's not us. That's not us. With homebuyers, you know,
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: we buy stock. We were about our retirement and we
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: make a contribution to society. And that's that's the stereotype
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: that you're denouncing right now, and you're doing a very
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: good job of it. But another stereotype that you're denouncing,
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: it's the whole travel concept because people like me. I'm
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: older than you, so I know the traditional travel that
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: we used to do. And in the Europe travel wasn't
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: part of my mantra. Going out of town, the Cancoon
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: wasn't part of the Jamaica wasn't part of it. But
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: now it's part of the regular routine. What excites you
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: about that growing or very explosive component of your brand.
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: You know, I think everything I mean in full transparency
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  Speaker 1: was Shawn like our vacations where at the time I
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  Speaker 1: lived in New York was taking a road trip down
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  Speaker 1: South South Carolina to visit family, which you know I
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  Speaker 1: loved at the time. But now when you look at travel, yes,
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  Speaker 1: people want these international experiences, especially now post COVID people
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  Speaker 1: are trying to fly and get away. But also what
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  Speaker 1: we're finding out with our blivity audience, particularly for travel
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  Speaker 1: new are for that brand, is that they also want
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  Speaker 1: unique experiences where they don't feel like a tourist. Right,
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  Speaker 1: So when somebody's traveling, whether it's going to DC, they
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  Speaker 1: don't want to go to eight chain restaurants. They want
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  Speaker 1: to have that localized experience where they feel like they're
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  Speaker 1: really being part of the community there. Yes, they like luxury,
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  Speaker 1: they like the finer things. And even when those who
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  Speaker 1: want to road trip, like I said, black and multicultural
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  Speaker 1: are demographic's not monolithic. So one of the franchises that
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  Speaker 1: we're looking at is hidden Jams. So these are those
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  Speaker 1: unique destinations, whether it's going to New Mexico going up
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  Speaker 1: to Montana, that are very unique and also where black
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  Speaker 1: and multiculturals feel they can be their authentic self. You know,
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  Speaker 1: The interesting thing about when I hear you talk about travel,
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  Speaker 1: and this is a little note about me. I used
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  Speaker 1: to be I should do stand up and lets you
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  Speaker 1: just stand up on cruise ships. I've done performing the
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  Speaker 1: problem eight different cruise ships, eighty different eighty different cruise ships.
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  Speaker 1: And it was always funny because from from like September
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  Speaker 1: to April, the audience I had performing in front was white.
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  Speaker 1: When it got made to September, the cruise ship was
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  Speaker 1: predominantly black. I don't care if it was I don't
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  Speaker 1: care where Cruise Live was Norwegian, it was Raw Caribbean
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  Speaker 1: that those are the two out dominantly performed on. But
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  Speaker 1: it was always let me know that the black culture
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  Speaker 1: was very seasonal, very summer oriented when we did our
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: vacation and with Blavity, you're starting to open up those
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  Speaker 1: change as we wrapped this interview, and I want to
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: tell you thank you for coming on the show. How
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: can we get in touch with you? How can we
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  Speaker 1: learn more about and give us some websites of Blavity
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  Speaker 1: that we can that we can go and start adding
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: to that amazing website traffic did y'all have every month? Yes? Absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: So for let's start with Home and Text our news brand.
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  Speaker 1: You can follow us at Home and Texture also our
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: website hom and Texture dot com. Same handles for Travel
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  Speaker 1: NEWIR Vacation brand at Travel Newir and at twenty one ninety.
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  Speaker 1: For me, just pook me up, hit me up on LinkedIn,
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: Melody Boxtic Brown, you can find me there. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just excited about what to calm with Blavity and
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: it's house of brands because again Blavity Inc. Has dozens
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: of brands in the lifestyle space from travel to home,
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: to court, to beauty to newse the information to politics
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: to entertainment, where we're serving up the content that we
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: know our audience craves and needs. Well, you know, if
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: someone's coming. So I'm going to reach out back to you,
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: miss Melody Bostick Brown, and we're gonna talk about travel
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  Speaker 1: and we're gonna Call'm gonna call you the Princess and
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: get you the right title. I'm bringing the Princess back
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: on the show from Blavity and we're gonna have a
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: lot more fun. But again, thank you for coming on
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