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Towanda Braxton Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: My next guest is known to the world as an
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Speaker 1: internationally acclaimed singer, actress, entrepreneur, and executive television producer, best
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Speaker 1: known for her current role as the start of we
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Speaker 1: TVs hit series Braxton Family Values. She's also an entrepreneur
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Speaker 1: the money making conversation, my friend. To wind up, Braxton,
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Speaker 1: thank you for having you. Know, Tonta, I want to
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Speaker 1: just tell you, thank you for doing the show. And
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Speaker 1: the first time I want I was sitting in a
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Speaker 1: screening room and uh, it was a Misguided Behavior movie
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Speaker 1: makes I was screening that movie with a good friend
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Speaker 1: of my Sharon Thomlinson. It's a very good friend of mine.
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Speaker 1: Pray for her every day. And uh and so and
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Speaker 1: I said, who's that? Who's that? She says, Because I
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Speaker 1: don't look at reality shows all the time, I said, Now,
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Speaker 1: I formerly managed Steve Harvey, and I remember you guys
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Speaker 1: came into our studios in Atlanta and we interviewed you
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Speaker 1: guys as a group. We had all stacked up, some
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Speaker 1: of y'all in from all on the back road. So
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Speaker 1: I met you then, Okay, and so if I have
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Speaker 1: a little physical history of meeting you, and I go,
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Speaker 1: she said. I told her that I know. I told her,
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Speaker 1: just an acting debut, you need me on the stage
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Speaker 1: doing your things out there. So so you talk about that,
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Speaker 1: that's a love that I saw in you, a skill
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Speaker 1: I saw in you that surprised me. And and you know,
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Speaker 1: I'm a guy always looking for new talent, always looking
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Speaker 1: for different ways to to bring people to the forefront
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Speaker 1: of their their dreams. That's all I'm assuming acting, there's
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Speaker 1: a dream of yours. Talk about that the whole acting background,
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Speaker 1: because you get caught up in that reality the world
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Speaker 1: and people think that's all you want to do, that's
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Speaker 1: all you can't do because you're already known as a
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Speaker 1: notable singer. We'll just talking about the love for acting
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Speaker 1: to wander. Okay. So like back in the day when
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Speaker 1: I was a child, I used to always be in
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Speaker 1: all the elementary school plays. And then when I got
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Speaker 1: to junior high school, I was in all the plays then. Um,
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Speaker 1: and then you know, I always made sure I went
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Speaker 1: I didn't go against the grain when they came to
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Speaker 1: my family because singing with the family's business. Um. So
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Speaker 1: when when I went to college, I, UM, we did
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Speaker 1: what we said university. You talk about that so um,
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Speaker 1: and we did off Broadway show called String Girls, and
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Speaker 1: I played Larrell Um and this was in Maryland. And
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Speaker 1: then the director was also a professor at Howard University
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Speaker 1: UM and he was also a personal friend of the families.
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Speaker 1: And he never knew that I really wanted to act.
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Speaker 1: So when you know, he as the director, he always
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Speaker 1: called me by my character named Laurel. Did you did
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Speaker 1: you take any acting classes? And I was like, no, sir,
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Speaker 1: I never took any. He was like, are you kiddingly?
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Speaker 1: And I was like, sir. And all the actors that
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Speaker 1: he had in the play outside of me and my
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Speaker 1: sisters were from Howard University UM, and they were just
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Speaker 1: amaze that I never took any classes. He was like,
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Speaker 1: you have a raw talent. He said, Um, I want
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Speaker 1: to give you a theater scholarship at Howard University. And
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Speaker 1: I didn't take it. I turned it down because for one,
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Speaker 1: like I said, I was in the family's business. In
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Speaker 1: the family's businesses singing, although my passion and my love
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Speaker 1: was acting. Always you have a talent for thank you,
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Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. So I went ahead and did
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Speaker 1: the family thing. You know, we me, Tamar and Trina
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Speaker 1: signed with Air Airs. I'm sorry, I'm Atlantic Records. And
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Speaker 1: we tried. We we toured with muth of vans Ross
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Speaker 1: in al sitter Tony. So, I mean we had some
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Speaker 1: moderate success eat the overseas. Um. But I still really
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Speaker 1: wanted to act, so I took some I started taking
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Speaker 1: some acting class um in Atlanta. I mean, I was
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Speaker 1: really trying to own into my craft. Um. And then
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Speaker 1: I was accepted into a Leie Straussburg acting classes in
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Speaker 1: l A. Um, you can act okay when you arrest
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Speaker 1: that dude right there for a person and that right.
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Speaker 1: So I was really I was so excited that I
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Speaker 1: was a depted into that school. So I'm a good
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Speaker 1: friend of mine. He's like a brother, He's like one
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Speaker 1: of my male best friends in the business. Carl Payne.
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Speaker 1: He said yes, he said, come on see I got
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Speaker 1: this movie. I want you to be in this movie.
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Speaker 1: And um, I was like cool. And then and then
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Speaker 1: what I love about having friends like like Carl is
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Speaker 1: he didn't just have me in the movie just because
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Speaker 1: I was his friends, you know what I mean. I
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Speaker 1: had to I mean I had to work towards you know,
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Speaker 1: because but may being his friend and he was just
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Speaker 1: doing it as my friend. He would have made me
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Speaker 1: in the laite and he was like, no, this is
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Speaker 1: what you're gonna do. So he gave me a part
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Speaker 1: in the movie. Um. When I earned a part in
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Speaker 1: the movie, you get the time, right, earned, right? I
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Speaker 1: earned a part in the movie. And I was so
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Speaker 1: super super happy. Um, that was my That was the
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Speaker 1: first time that I've really got my feet wet um
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Speaker 1: as being an actor in the in the movie. When
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Speaker 1: I when I always talk about people on the show
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Speaker 1: about entertainment entrepreneurship, and I always tell people to value
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Speaker 1: and the importance of relationships. Okay, and this is this
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Speaker 1: is what I speak of when I say relationships because again,
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Speaker 1: you know we were talented, well get you so far?
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Speaker 1: I would tell relationships will keep you in the game. Okay. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and this is what you could talk about the value
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Speaker 1: relationship not only just the opportunity you got with you know,
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Speaker 1: calling this movie, but also in the industry overall. How
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Speaker 1: to help you having been having a relation you shaver
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Speaker 1: having talent and extending you and giving you a career
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Speaker 1: in this business. Absolutely yes, So you know what, it's
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Speaker 1: one thing about just having the the um, I guess
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Speaker 1: the gift of where whether it's singing, act and producing
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Speaker 1: is one thing. Just to have that gift of being
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Speaker 1: able to do those things is another thing of how
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Speaker 1: you perceive yourself in front of individuals. And I always
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Speaker 1: say that the sto the toes that you step on
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Speaker 1: today may be connected to the ask you have to
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Speaker 1: kiss tomorrow. So you have to be extremely careful how
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Speaker 1: you treat people. You just have to, you know, I
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Speaker 1: know in in in the entertainment industry, people get on
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Speaker 1: your nerves. Everybody isn't always on the up and up
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Speaker 1: and people there are a lot of users, not just
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Speaker 1: an entertainment industry but across the board in the world. Um,
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Speaker 1: So you have to be careful. Um and you have
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Speaker 1: to be shocked as well. So it's very important to
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Speaker 1: maintain relationships. Just be nice to people. It doesn't take nothing,
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Speaker 1: just to smile and just to say thank you, um
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Speaker 1: and and those things will take you a long way.
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Speaker 1: Like um and it took me to another situation where
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Speaker 1: I've been. I'm very close friends with Terry Vaughan and
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Speaker 1: Cast Figgers, who who's an incredible writer. She's written Yes,
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Speaker 1: Yes and she and and Terry is she's an incredible
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Speaker 1: or phenomenal actor and she's a phenomenal director. Um so
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Speaker 1: I was able. I was able to um have an
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Speaker 1: opportunity to be in another movie and it was a
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Speaker 1: Christmas movie with David and Tammela. Man keep bragging. Really
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Speaker 1: embraced in the fact that this is something that I love.
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Speaker 1: So I get excited about you know. I mean I
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Speaker 1: talked about my music and I talked about singing with
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Speaker 1: my family, but I mean that's like second nature. That's
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Speaker 1: like greeting, you know, and that's something that was the
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Speaker 1: family's business, which is important, which is important, It's so important,
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Speaker 1: and that's why that's that's why I wanted to bring
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Speaker 1: that out because a lot of a lot of times
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Speaker 1: people they want to just label you on what they
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Speaker 1: know about you. And when I try to get money
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Speaker 1: making conversations allow my guests to have a conversation and
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Speaker 1: also to talk about the things that excite them because
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Speaker 1: like you know, I got my degree in mathematics, I
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Speaker 1: want to work for I bel it's just like you say,
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Speaker 1: you know, you know, family business singing, but that doesn't
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Speaker 1: necessarily Man, I was going to be working at ibing
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Speaker 1: for the rest of my life. So now you know,
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Speaker 1: it's time to explore what makes me happy, what motivates
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Speaker 1: me to get out of bed, and you have to
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Speaker 1: take rest. They're no, they're no guarantees. Now it's guarantee
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Speaker 1: you go on that stage and hit a note not
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Speaker 1: to wander. There's no guarantee you I'm saying. You know
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Nothing, that's a that's a gift, But
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Speaker 1: a gift doesn't necessarily mean that's your passion, right, you
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Speaker 1: you die, before you before you give up hope, at
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Speaker 1: least try to participating what you really wanted to do.
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Speaker 1: And so so when I saw you a miss guy
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Speaker 1: to behavior, I started smile as I said, yeah, I
11:49
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Speaker 1: you there because because to me, reality shows it what
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Speaker 1: they all their their reality. You know what I'm saying
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Speaker 1: there there some of the ways are improvised and some
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Speaker 1: of them over arched. I'm not saying your show, but
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Speaker 1: something in general and so so. But that's not acting.
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Speaker 1: And so when I say a naturally talented person skilled
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Speaker 1: listening to money making conversations. I'm interviewing one of the
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Speaker 1: you know, stars of the series of Braxton Family Values.
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Speaker 1: But also she's an entrepreneur. But I did in order
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Speaker 1: to have a path to success, you've got to create
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Speaker 1: a resume. We talked about in the first half about
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Speaker 1: her love for acting. We got excited and we joked about.
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Speaker 1: We talked about relationships, but more importantly it's about family.
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Speaker 1: And she's also as an HBCU. She went to HBCU
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Speaker 1: school Booie State and I always talk I would like
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Speaker 1: to stop the show for a minute because I'm an advocate.
15:43
Speaker 1: I did not go to an hbc U, but that
15:45
Speaker 1: doesn't stop me from being an advocate and promoting HBCU
15:48
Speaker 1: is because of the fact that the contributions that they
15:51
Speaker 1: bring to us that a lot of people don't recognize
15:53
Speaker 1: on the regular basis. Please tell us about attending HBCU.
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Speaker 1: Why you recommend you know, individual used to go to
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Speaker 1: Black and White male female to go to HBCUs. Well,
16:06
Speaker 1: you know what, first of all, um, when I was
16:08
Speaker 1: growing up and I went to in my secondary schools,
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Speaker 1: it was predominantly white. And I have to say it that, Um,
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Speaker 1: I know this is gonna sound bad to say, but culturally, um,
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Speaker 1: it was a cultural shock for me to even go
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Speaker 1: to Boois State University because I saw so many of
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Speaker 1: my people. But I think it's so important, um, for
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Speaker 1: us to embrace HBCUs, to support hbc USED, because that's
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Speaker 1: how we learn. We learned from other individuals, that's in
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Speaker 1: our own culture, you know. And that I learned so
16:42
Speaker 1: much stuff that I didn't learn when I was in
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Speaker 1: school because of course they don't teach everything. And you
16:48
Speaker 1: know your secondary schools. I mean I learned about the
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Speaker 1: isis paper. I learned. I mean, I just started reading
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Speaker 1: stuff I had no idea about, um, and then just
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Speaker 1: culturally read blas. Black people were party different we speak differently,
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Speaker 1: we support differently. And I just think that that's so
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Speaker 1: important to go to an HBCU and I pledged. I'm
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Speaker 1: a data and I'm a sick a sweetheart. Yeah nine member, Okay,
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Speaker 1: you're talking to man right now, right, so right, I
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Speaker 1: think we're going for and then and then the reason
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Speaker 1: that I even pledged data UM is because I went
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Speaker 1: to this UM. I went to this nonprofit dinner and
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Speaker 1: I had no idea that was sponsored by the Bloom
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Speaker 1: White family, that Nickolasburg and m Mayor Barry was there.
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Speaker 1: I mean, there was so many prominent people there because
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Speaker 1: I'm from the DNB area, UM and the dinner was
17:49
Speaker 1: NBC and baby Face despot. You just went because of
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Speaker 1: baby Face was performing. I got tickets, you know, and
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Speaker 1: he get to the table. So baby Face was performing.
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Speaker 1: After seven was there, Cavan and um Eldar there was performing.
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Speaker 1: And then they started talking about a lot of a
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Speaker 1: lot of men with high pitched voices were performing. That's
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Speaker 1: all talking about or you know how Lasky kids in
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Speaker 1: the board of Babies and all of that. And I
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Speaker 1: had no idea that the Blue and White Family was
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Speaker 1: connected to those organizations. And I was like wow. And
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Speaker 1: I'm not a person who really brags about everything that
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Speaker 1: I do or you know, I don't always want to
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Speaker 1: paddle my back for supporting or helping someone, and that
18:34
Speaker 1: was more of my personality. So I was like, oh
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Speaker 1: my god, I want to join the organization. And I
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Speaker 1: became Zeta and a single sweetheart. Congratulations. I always tell people,
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Speaker 1: you know, when I talk about hbc obcus across the
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Speaker 1: country and the only a role of the African American student,
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Speaker 1: and despite constitute only three percent for your colleges in
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Speaker 1: the country, HBC used produced eight of the black judges,
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Speaker 1: of the black lawyers, of the black doctors, of the
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Speaker 1: black engineers, of the black members of converenation, percent of
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Speaker 1: all black STEM graduates, and of the black CEOs in America.
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Speaker 1: That is why I needed to hear your story of Towanda,
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Speaker 1: because it's in that mix that we need to keep
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Speaker 1: telling people when every year talking about we need to
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Speaker 1: why we funding h b c us, Do you know
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Speaker 1: how you have to? What else do we have? Really? Um?
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Speaker 1: And then another thing is I don't agree with like
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Speaker 1: some of these acus, like why are they falling apart?
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Speaker 1: Why are they falling by the wayside? Because even Boi
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Speaker 1: State University, who was the first teacher's college in Maryland
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Speaker 1: might add black, sorry, the first black now it is
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Speaker 1: under the University of Maryland system, and I'm like, how
19:48
Speaker 1: did it happens? Right? Well, you know I think that
19:51
Speaker 1: that's why I'm really promoting, and I got some things
19:53
Speaker 1: on the work said, I'm gonna be announcing in the
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Speaker 1: month of August just to shine more light. And it's
19:59
Speaker 1: like anything you know, you don't know about Ohio State,
20:01
Speaker 1: you don't know a boy Marylands because people's promoted and
20:05
Speaker 1: this brand has to be promoted and signed the light
20:08
Speaker 1: of success. Like those numbers that I'm talking about, they
20:11
Speaker 1: need to be shinned on a regular basis, not only
20:14
Speaker 1: just the African Americans, but to the world and people go, really,
20:17
Speaker 1: what kind of education that they're doing over there, education
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Speaker 1: that your kids can go to, your kids can go
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Speaker 1: through because it's a it's the it's HBCUs are tied
20:25
Speaker 1: to diversity, and that's something that a lot of people
20:29
Speaker 1: don't admit to happening. And so and so in twenty
20:32
Speaker 1: eleven when when they was like a really strategized campaign
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Speaker 1: to try to diminish the accomplishments of HBCUs and hurt HBCUs.
20:42
Speaker 1: And so my motivation now is like, okay with Sean,
20:46
Speaker 1: you know this is what you do. You're marking in
20:48
Speaker 1: brain and so whenever I have a fantastic person who's
20:51
Speaker 1: attending an HPCU like you, I always just like carve
20:54
Speaker 1: out a moment in the show. Do you think you're
20:56
Speaker 1: tap dance ball? Come on, do you think they're th
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Speaker 1: HBC moment? What's sure about to do with that? I'm
21:01
Speaker 1: gonna set aside my time for h B C U
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Speaker 1: S and it's gonna get bigg to wander now that
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Speaker 1: I know, Now that I know, blue and white, blue white,
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Speaker 1: you can. You can be here from your boy. But
21:15
Speaker 1: before we get out here, I'll be remiss. What I
21:18
Speaker 1: if I don't talk about your entrepreneurship and if let's
21:21
Speaker 1: let's let's talk about first of all, um, you know
21:24
Speaker 1: we talked about acting. Now we're gonna talk about Ladybug skincare. Yeah,
21:30
Speaker 1: let's let's let's set to to Wanda's deemed itself as
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Speaker 1: responsible for you know, okay, acne, dull skin and other
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Speaker 1: skin impurities. It's a new cosmetic cosmetic line. What inspired
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Speaker 1: you to do this? Because you're naturally attractive, You got
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Speaker 1: good skin, like they said, God gave it to you. Okay,
21:48
Speaker 1: I didn't have to work hard. You're the women that
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Speaker 1: don't have to work hard for our face. Okay, wake
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Speaker 1: our face all good? Okay, But everybody not like you
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Speaker 1: okay to Wanda, exactly exact free. Um. You know, I've
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Speaker 1: always been a person who didn't really drink water. I
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Speaker 1: don't like drinking. Oh my god, bless your heart. It
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Speaker 1: tastes like askering to But I always wanted my skin
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Speaker 1: to look amazing. Um. So I met with Miss Charlotte Wilson,
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Speaker 1: who is the skin god. Like she's incredible with skin,
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Speaker 1: like she does Porsche skin. She does. Um, Um, what'sn't
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Speaker 1: a black China skin who's entire skin is impaccable. Um,
22:30
Speaker 1: she does Lisa Ray skin. Her skin is like most
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Speaker 1: tallest uh Cynthia Billy. I mean she does everybody's skin.
22:39
Speaker 1: And then I met up with Miss Charlotte and I
22:42
Speaker 1: was like, I want my skin to look like like
22:45
Speaker 1: I don't have any makeup and I don't want to
22:46
Speaker 1: wear makeup like that anymore. And she was like, I
22:49
Speaker 1: got you. Um, and she was like, to Wanta, do
22:51
Speaker 1: you have good skin? Because all, like I said, I've
22:53
Speaker 1: always been into skin, and I have skin and be
22:56
Speaker 1: like most women when you go to when you see
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Speaker 1: a woman who has beautiful skin, you all is compliment her, like,
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Speaker 1: oh my god, just skin, it's beautiful. Um. So she
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Speaker 1: said let's do a line together. And I was like,
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Speaker 1: oh my god. I felt so honored that she was
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Speaker 1: willing to do a line with me, because, like I said,
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Speaker 1: she's a skin guy. Like that's amazing. Everybody wants to
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Speaker 1: do a line with Miss Charlotte. Um so Um. She
23:17
Speaker 1: sent me some samples of different soaps and different combinations
23:20
Speaker 1: of things, and um, we we came up with um
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Speaker 1: Ages Timeless. So it's a it's an anti aging um
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Speaker 1: skin care line. And I'm I'm a woman of a
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Speaker 1: particular age. Now I'm past forty. So I used to
23:37
Speaker 1: have I used to I used to look like a
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Speaker 1: panda bear, like without bake up. I used to have
23:43
Speaker 1: dark circles gonna make my eyes. And I thought it
23:45
Speaker 1: was because I wasn't ctricular enough water, wasn't get enough rest.
23:48
Speaker 1: But it was because my pigmentation and a little of
23:51
Speaker 1: it is that her freditary. So my dad used to
23:53
Speaker 1: have it. When he started using the Ladybug skin here,
23:55
Speaker 1: he doesn't have dark circles anymore. That's my curse right there,
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Speaker 1: dark circle, you're telling me telling i'n get mad at
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Speaker 1: you because you're buying. I'm gonna gonna make purchase I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna make a purchase. You say that ladybugs can't care,
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Speaker 1: can give rid the dark circles, dark circles, Okay, okay,
24:18
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Circles and and and then it get rid
24:21
Speaker 1: of some of the fine lines and wrinkles, doesn't around
24:24
Speaker 1: your eyes. That happens after you become a particular age
24:28
Speaker 1: um and then it were you and nat and it
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Speaker 1: restores and it takes away a layer of the dead
24:32
Speaker 1: skin that you've been carrying around for so long that
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Speaker 1: you did not know that you were carrying around because
24:37
Speaker 1: you you know, you were exfoliating, but you weren't exfoliating
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Speaker 1: properly with the right ingredients. Again, the lady bucks can't
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Speaker 1: here is all natural? Yeah, because you know I used mirror.
24:46
Speaker 1: I used mirror, and you know when I used you know,
24:50
Speaker 1: so you know, and that's expensive. Okay, So it's not
24:52
Speaker 1: a portion of it. It's not a question of money
24:54
Speaker 1: with me. It's right getting the right product that that
24:57
Speaker 1: you know, just kind of hold back some days. I
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Speaker 1: gets just hold back some days off my face. That's all.
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Speaker 1: I was just trying to hold back some days. That's
25:04
Speaker 1: all you want, Okay, And you're telling me I'm talking
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Speaker 1: to the queen. Ladybugs came there. I just talking just
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Speaker 1: we're gonna do. First of all, I'm gonna make an order.
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Speaker 1: But but I got to get the word out. I'm
25:16
Speaker 1: not saying you don't have the word. Okay. I do
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Speaker 1: news every Friday, goes out at nine a m. Every
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Speaker 1: Friday to ninety thousand of my fans. Every every Friday,
25:28
Speaker 1: Like last week, I had Yolanda Adams Huskin loads and
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Speaker 1: Venus and Venus Williams her beauty line. I had Kelly Rowlands,
25:35
Speaker 1: and I had Erica Campbell her wig line in there.
25:38
Speaker 1: So every four every week I feature four you know,
25:41
Speaker 1: it's free. First of all, it's free. Let me just
25:43
Speaker 1: lay and I feature four entrepreneurs. That's for my shots
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Speaker 1: about you know, entrepreneurship and entertainment and so and so.
25:50
Speaker 1: I thought it would be cool to put you know,
25:52
Speaker 1: friends of mine, other people I didn't know. But your
25:54
Speaker 1: product is worth being it's the story being told out there.
25:58
Speaker 1: And so if you can get to me banner and
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Speaker 1: a in a link or whatever you want to drive
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Speaker 1: it to, if you want to do, if you want
26:06
Speaker 1: to say, or whatever you want to do, I would
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Speaker 1: put it in my newsletter. No charge has never been
26:11
Speaker 1: a charge. It's not tied to a charge because Ladybugs
26:16
Speaker 1: can't care. First of all, has me as a customer
26:18
Speaker 1: right now. Okay, we'll just change them to wander. I
26:22
Speaker 1: want them foolish people. Okay, when I like something, okay,
26:25
Speaker 1: I my wife forgot. Well, we just stop buying stuff. Hey,
26:31
Speaker 1: I like what I like? Okay, it's gonna love it.
26:35
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I have so many success stories and
26:38
Speaker 1: it makes me smile because that's just doing your skin.
26:42
Speaker 1: That's one thing that you can take by yourself and
26:45
Speaker 1: what you're being the largest organ of your body and
26:48
Speaker 1: it just happens to be on the outside of your body.
26:50
Speaker 1: Why not make that one organ beautiful? You know, I'm
26:55
Speaker 1: so excited about Ladybugs skint care. Um, I use it,
26:58
Speaker 1: my family uses it. Tmarus it, you know, and you
27:03
Speaker 1: already know Tamar the type person. Let me think the
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Speaker 1: country behind everybody don't know how country. Well, I'm gonna
27:11
Speaker 1: just tell you this to one. You owe me a banner.
27:14
Speaker 1: You got me as a customer album. I just want to,
27:18
Speaker 1: first of all, thank you for coming on my show.
27:20
Speaker 1: Because everybody's doing my show. I feel so blessed that
27:24
Speaker 1: I get a person like you on my show and
27:26
Speaker 1: other talent that's coming on my show and hearing about
27:30
Speaker 1: my brand and hearing how I want to just tell
27:32
Speaker 1: that story, but but also promote their brands and promote
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Speaker 1: what they're doing with their life. Besides the story that
27:37
Speaker 1: everybody knows you have an open bank. You are an
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27:48
Speaker 1: You are an entrepreneur, lady books, Think Care, and more importantly,
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27:58
Speaker 1: having you amazing. I mean, you know what that means.
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