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Judge Rhonda Wills, Host of Relative Justice reality court show discusses dreams being possible · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Judge Runda Wills. Since forming a law firm nearly two
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  Speaker 1: decades ago, Judge Wills has recovered over one hundred million
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  Speaker 1: dollars fighting for the rights of everyday Americans and they
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  Speaker 1: applied against corporate giants. She uses her expertise and intellect
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  Speaker 1: to give vorce to those who need her most. The
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  Speaker 1: worker who has been wronged by their employer, a person
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  Speaker 1: who has been discriminated against, sexual ass and sexual assaulted,
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  Speaker 1: and those who have suffered catastrophic physical injuries. She is
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  Speaker 1: now making a mark on TV. Come on that Starve.
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  Speaker 1: Our new court show, Relative Justice with Judge Runda Wills
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  Speaker 1: is a new arbitration based reality court show which centers
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  Speaker 1: on solving inter family legal just we gotta find out
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  Speaker 1: what that's all about. Really digested with Judge Runda Wills
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  Speaker 1: for meals in September and it's been cleared in eighty
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  Speaker 1: percent of the country. That's a lot for a new show.
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  Speaker 1: I'm here that's pretty impressive. And when once once everybody
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  Speaker 1: your local listening because you should watch this show. Judge
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  Speaker 1: will Runder Wills is on the show to talk about
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  Speaker 1: her career and building her dream please work into money
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  Speaker 1: making conversations for the very first time, but not the
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  Speaker 1: last time, Judge Runda Wills, how you doing there very soon?
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  Speaker 1: How are you? It's great to be with you. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I hope I got enough information about you out there,
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  Speaker 1: you know, because you you perked up a little bit
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  Speaker 1: when I was talking about you. So I'm assuming a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people don't tell your story when they're doing
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  Speaker 1: these interviews. Well, you know, a lot of people do,
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  Speaker 1: but there are always a lot of other things I
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  Speaker 1: want people to know about me. But I think you
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  Speaker 1: cover most of this good because you know, when when
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  Speaker 1: we look at let's let's be out, when you look
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  Speaker 1: at a person, you're attractive, and some people tend to
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  Speaker 1: just feel that way and they forget the fact that
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  Speaker 1: there's a journey for anybody no matter how they look.
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  Speaker 1: So tell us how I know your Texas girl, because
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  Speaker 1: I'm a Texas boy, okay, and I know you live
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  Speaker 1: in Houston. I'm from Houston, so we're already hitting it
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  Speaker 1: off of you over there by the Tyler Rose Country
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  Speaker 1: in East Texas. That's where he was born and raised.
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  Speaker 1: Cabral Country. She's an e cabl Country, but she's raising
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  Speaker 1: herself and a family and and delivering the level of
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  Speaker 1: success in Houston, Texas. Let's talk about how you got
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  Speaker 1: started in the law business and what attracted you to that.
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  Speaker 1: Because it might show money making conversations. I try to
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  Speaker 1: give people that you can do it too, and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people stop and feel they have to be
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  Speaker 1: born in a certain family of living in a certain
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  Speaker 1: part of the country. But you come from a small,
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  Speaker 1: very focus, small smith You're born and raised, but that
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  Speaker 1: didn't stop you from going to a big school like
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  Speaker 1: the University of Texas. Talk about your journey in early years.
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  Speaker 1: Judge Wills, So, first of all, I wish thank you
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  Speaker 1: so much for having me on your podcast. This is amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I've been watching your podcast. You're doing great things, and
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  Speaker 1: so I'm excited to be here. Uh. My story is
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  Speaker 1: one of very humble beginnings from this little bitty town
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  Speaker 1: called Winona. Uh. It's in East Texas, right outside of Tyler.
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  Speaker 1: I'm one of five children. I was raised by a
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  Speaker 1: single mother and my grandmother. Uh, and was was just
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  Speaker 1: raised in a you know, a really really frankly poor family,
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  Speaker 1: and I always knew that there was a lot of
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  Speaker 1: injustice in the world, and I always wanted to be
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  Speaker 1: someone who could right those wrongs and help people. And
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  Speaker 1: I was just very fortunate that I went to the
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  Speaker 1: University of Texas undergrad on a full scholarship. I got
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  Speaker 1: an international business degree, and then I went on to
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  Speaker 1: the University of Texas and got a law degree, again
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  Speaker 1: on a full scholarship, and started my law practice. And
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  Speaker 1: I started out working for a really, really really big
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  Speaker 1: law firm, and that wasn't what I wanted to do.
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  Speaker 1: My passion was with helping people, um and that's what
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to do, was to help people. Uh So
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  Speaker 1: I started my own law firm and I have focused
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  Speaker 1: my law practice for the last two decades on helping people,
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  Speaker 1: just everyday Americans, to fight corporate giants, because in many
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  Speaker 1: of the cases that I take, if I didn't speak
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  Speaker 1: for them, if I was not their voice, they wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have a voice. And when really bad things happened to people,
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  Speaker 1: be being sexually assaulted or sexually harassed in the workplace,
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  Speaker 1: being discriminated against on the basis of your race, your gender,
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  Speaker 1: your sexual orientation, um, any of those things. Surviving a
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  Speaker 1: catastrophic personal injury without someone to come in and help
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  Speaker 1: you to get economic justice, a lot of people would
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  Speaker 1: have no justice and would have no way to start
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  Speaker 1: extremely tragic. So I always knew that I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: be a person who would go out there and fight
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  Speaker 1: for the voiceless and fight for people that really, really
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  Speaker 1: really wouldn't have a voice unless I stood up. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I represent people all over the country. UM. And one
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  Speaker 1: who's going to represent you and be passionate about representing you.
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  Speaker 1: I never ever stopped fighting for my clients, no matter
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  Speaker 1: what um. I have gone up against some of the
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  Speaker 1: I got a twenty million dollar settlement against Wells Fargo
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  Speaker 1: in a class action case. I've represent a lot of people.
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  Speaker 1: I've had a lot of class action cases where, for example,
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  Speaker 1: a group of African Americans that were being paid less
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  Speaker 1: than their white counterparts. M I have, you know, represented
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  Speaker 1: people that weren't paid all their wages. So for a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people, they just don't get it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they think, Okay, well, you only got paid for forty
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  Speaker 1: hours instead of fifty hours you work fifty hours. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I was raised by a single mother. Sometimes my mother
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  Speaker 1: had to work two and three jobs in order to
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  Speaker 1: take care of us. So I know what it means
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  Speaker 1: when somebody doesn't get paid when they work fifty hours
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  Speaker 1: as opposed to forty hours, and those ten hours that
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  Speaker 1: they didn't get paid for that can mean the difference
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  Speaker 1: between food on the table or food not being on
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  Speaker 1: the table. So, because of my humble background, I know
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  Speaker 1: what it means for everyday people to struggle to fight.
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  Speaker 1: And when I see these big corporations that put profits
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  Speaker 1: over people, that makes me angry and that makes me fight.
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  Speaker 1: I've had to fight cases all the way to the U. S.
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  Speaker 1: Supreme Court. I'm licensed before the U. S. Supreme Court,
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  Speaker 1: So I will fight no matter how long, how hard
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  Speaker 1: it requires, I will fight. In that case that had
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  Speaker 1: before the U. S. Supreme Court, I want a five
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  Speaker 1: point two million dollar judgment for my client who had
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  Speaker 1: his throat slashed at work by a co worker. I
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  Speaker 1: want a five point two million dollar verdict against that company.
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  Speaker 1: And they fought me all the way to the U. S.
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  Speaker 1: Supreme Court, and I fought them in one. Wow. Now,
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  Speaker 1: you know you you didn't get into this business to
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  Speaker 1: be on TV. Everybody you know you got into the
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  Speaker 1: business because of you know, you're smart enough to get
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  Speaker 1: scholarships both undergraduate and graduate and then you launch. You you
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  Speaker 1: you went to a big firm and then because guess what,
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  Speaker 1: your academics allowed you to be recruited and you said yes,
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  Speaker 1: and then you said, you know something that's not me,
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  Speaker 1: which is always a fear that people have. So there's
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  Speaker 1: so many people out there listening to the show. They're
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  Speaker 1: going through life, stuck in relationships, stuck at jobs that
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  Speaker 1: they shouldn't be because they fear, fearful of making that
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  Speaker 1: first step. How are you conscious from a common standpoint
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  Speaker 1: or did you turn to other people when you deciety
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  Speaker 1: to say you know that, I know this check is
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  Speaker 1: nice and it's regularly got help benefits, but it's not me.
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  Speaker 1: What what pushed you to that next level to say
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna ride and die with Randa Wills, Well,
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  Speaker 1: there was one case I had in particular, I had
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  Speaker 1: a trial and the person on the I represented a
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  Speaker 1: big corporation and the person on the other side of
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  Speaker 1: that case was a black man. And this black man
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  Speaker 1: um was denied a contract, a multimillion dollar contract, and
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  Speaker 1: I had to go in court and fight against this
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  Speaker 1: black man who had beat his own business, had worked hard,
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  Speaker 1: and my job was to go in and break this
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  Speaker 1: man down and destroy him. And we tried the case
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  Speaker 1: and ultimately we beat him, and my mother came and
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  Speaker 1: she watched me in that trial. And at the end
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  Speaker 1: of that trial, my mother looked at me and she said, baby,
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  Speaker 1: you did a great job, and that poor little man
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  Speaker 1: over there, you're gonna beat him. But she said, are
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  Speaker 1: you really on the right side of this? Just because
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  Speaker 1: in do something doesn't mean you should be doing that.
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  Speaker 1: And I think you need to look at yourself in
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  Speaker 1: the mirror and ask yourself, is this really what I
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  Speaker 1: went to law school for. And so when my mother
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  Speaker 1: broke that down to me like that, I realized, no,
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  Speaker 1: this is not what I went to law school for.
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  Speaker 1: I went to law school to represent people like the
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  Speaker 1: man that I just broke down and beat in court.
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  Speaker 1: And that was my wake up call. We know that
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna take a minute on that, because that was
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  Speaker 1: pretty powerful because sometimes in life money doesn't mean any
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  Speaker 1: I always tell people I'm not in the game for
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  Speaker 1: the money. I'm in the game for the opportunity, if
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  Speaker 1: the opportunity to present yourself that's something that I feel
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  Speaker 1: personally benefit me and the people around me. Did not
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  Speaker 1: move forward on that, and that's the case. I think
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  Speaker 1: what's happening there. The money brought you the opportunity, but
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  Speaker 1: the opportunities wasn't what you wanted to pursue long term.
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  Speaker 1: And so when you when That's why parents are great
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  Speaker 1: because they can look over the other side and go, child,
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  Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about. That's what I'm talking about. Now,
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  Speaker 1: girl to Judge Ronda Wills coming out there. Yes, why
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  Speaker 1: did you because you say you have a great family
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  Speaker 1: and great mom. Why are you in the why are
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  Speaker 1: you getting the TV business like this with this show,
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  Speaker 1: which is a wonderful show, by the way, Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: So first of all, before I did Relative Justice, I
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  Speaker 1: had another show on WE TV called Sisters in Law
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  Speaker 1: and it was a reality based TV show based in
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  Speaker 1: of got me into thinking about TV is something that
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  Speaker 1: thought about it. When this opportunity came along, it seemed
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  Speaker 1: perfect for me because I'm from a huge family. I
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  Speaker 1: have four kids of my own. I'm one of five kids.
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  Speaker 1: My grandmother had ten kids and I got more than
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  Speaker 1: fifty first cousins. So I'm a huge family. So what
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  Speaker 1: makes this show, my show Relative Justice with Judge Ronda Wills.
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  Speaker 1: What makes it different from the other court TV shows
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  Speaker 1: is that we folk us only on disputes between family members.
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  Speaker 1: So everyone that comes on my show, every litigant that
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  Speaker 1: you see, they're related by blood or marriage for children. Right.
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  Speaker 1: So that's what made this fascinating for me because it's
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  Speaker 1: different from every other core TV show. Right when you know,
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  Speaker 1: you tobody out, you know, uh and family girl that
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  Speaker 1: can be ugly. Now, Yeah, I was just thinking because
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  Speaker 1: you know, because you set up there make me funny
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  Speaker 1: I come from six sister, two brothers, So I'm about
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  Speaker 1: to kill that little big family theory that you pitched
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  Speaker 1: out there. You know I was I was number five.
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  Speaker 1: You just only had five, Okay, you running right, So
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  Speaker 1: we're just gonna kill that little big family when you're
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  Speaker 1: talking to me. And my aunt had sixteen kids, so
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  Speaker 1: we don't kill out the story. Okay. So so but
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  Speaker 1: that's my fun part of just talking to you. But
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: when you get into these what made you pay? First
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  Speaker 1: of all, you take in the l a where's it
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  Speaker 1: take that the show's the show has taken in Lexington, Kentucky,
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  Speaker 1: which for me was great because I'm a small town
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  Speaker 1: girl and I'm a Southern girl, so it was like
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  Speaker 1: going home for me to be filming in Lexington. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's beautiful because they do have their white picket fish
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  Speaker 1: when you go around and drive those Kentucky Hart Ranges.
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  Speaker 1: Just beautiful Kentucky. So I've been up there. Now now
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  Speaker 1: when you're putting this show together, like so you have
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  Speaker 1: to stand on reality TV. And I always tell people
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  Speaker 1: when I interview people who do reality t V, why
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  Speaker 1: you told us an opportunity to come and do your
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  Speaker 1: own show, Relative Justice with Judge Randa Wills, and you're
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  Speaker 1: taking it in Kentucky. But you live in Houston, and
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  Speaker 1: then you have you still have a successful law firm.
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  Speaker 1: Why I have to ask the question why? And that's
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  Speaker 1: that's a positive. Why it's not a negative? Why when
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  Speaker 1: run with it. So when this opportunity was brought to
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  Speaker 1: There's no other Core TV show out there like this
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  Speaker 1: one because we only focus on families. Now. When they
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  Speaker 1: come into my courtroom, it's a money dispute, and I
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  Speaker 1: resolved the money dispute. But above and beyond that money dispute,
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  Speaker 1: because these are families that you're dealing with, I try
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  Speaker 1: to bring the families back together again. There are some
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  Speaker 1: cases in my courtroom where sisters get into a dispute
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  Speaker 1: about money and they haven't spoken for years, and they
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  Speaker 1: come into my courtroom. I have to resolve this money
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  Speaker 1: issue and then try to get them back to being
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  Speaker 1: sisters again. I had one case where a mother had
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  Speaker 1: She had taken out our restraining order against her daughter
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  Speaker 1: in law, so they had fine waivers just to be
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  Speaker 1: her daughter in law. That's how broken down this family was.
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  Speaker 1: At the end of this episode. At the end of
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  Speaker 1: and the son are all crying and hugging and are
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  Speaker 1: have committed to building their relationship again and being a
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  Speaker 1: family again. So it's things like that that made me
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  Speaker 1: feel like I'm really really making a difference. I got
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  Speaker 1: into the practice of law to make a difference, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing this TV show to make a difference. And
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  Speaker 1: the other thing with Seawan that you're gonna see about
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  Speaker 1: my show Relative Justice, that's different from other shows. So
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  Speaker 1: oftentimes a lot of these family dramas, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: it um it's not just something that people can work
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  Speaker 1: through on their own. And I refer people for counseling
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  Speaker 1: it's drug counseling, sometimes it's trauma therapy. But I we
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  Speaker 1: also had a therapist on staff who is there and
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  Speaker 1: I would refer some of the families to sit down
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  Speaker 1: and meet with the therapist because there's so much stigma
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  Speaker 1: attached to getting therapy and getting counseling, and oftentimes, especially
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  Speaker 1: with families, there's a money dis you here, But that's
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  Speaker 1: just the surface, and when you scratch underneath the surface,
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  Speaker 1: there's something much deeper and much more dramatic going on,
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes you need the help of a therapist, a
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  Speaker 1: family therapist in particular, to help you as a family
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  Speaker 1: work through it. Well, you know, I'm talking. I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: to Judge Randa. Since it has a new show. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: people understand in syndication, which which is a very competitive market,
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  Speaker 1: and you know you're presiding over the show through they
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  Speaker 1: say you're show compassion and tough love, resolved litans, legal disputes,
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  Speaker 1: but to work towards, like you said, bringing families back
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  Speaker 1: together in the process. We all know that that that
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  Speaker 1: that's the end goal. But happened. I know you're early
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  Speaker 1: in your judge career in this TV format. Has anything
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  Speaker 1: shocked you yet You're going, I can't believe they just
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  Speaker 1: couldn't understand like you just talked about like you just
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  Speaker 1: talked about the restraining order and for the daughter in law,
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  Speaker 1: and it's just so many things that are going on
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  Speaker 1: out there's anything really went Wow, that's crazy, So Rashan
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  Speaker 1: like every day that's crazy. It's something. But I can
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  Speaker 1: tell you the amazing thing about relative justice. People who
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  Speaker 1: want to tune in every day, because every day is different.
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  Speaker 1: Some days where with some cases, I'm laughing so hard
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  Speaker 1: that i can barely get my ruling out because I'm falling.
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  Speaker 1: I'm about to fall from And there are other cases
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  Speaker 1: where it's just so sad, I'm crying. I'm almost crying.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody in the audience is crying. To live against a crying.
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  Speaker 1: And then there are other cases where people do something
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  Speaker 1: that's so wrong, so toxic, getting so terrible that I
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  Speaker 1: have to tell them. I have to tell them you're
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  Speaker 1: wrong and you need to change and you need to
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  Speaker 1: do better, and I have to actually go in on them.
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  Speaker 1: So every single day is different. We have experts that
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  Speaker 1: come in, we have demonstrations. Okay, so once there you go.
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  Speaker 1: We have we have a pull dancer. One of the
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  Speaker 1: litigants is a dancer, and you don't want to miss
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  Speaker 1: the episode with the dancer, Like my mouth was, ball
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna just tell you, you know, just watching your energy,
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  Speaker 1: you're amazing. I'm gonna compliment you on that and I'm
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  Speaker 1: the Wills in this interview, because sometimes we can get
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  Speaker 1: stiff and just trying to deliver information. And hopefully my
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