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Loni Love Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: My next guest, she's on the phone. Uh. She's an
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  Speaker 1: HBCU graduate, Uh preview A and M with a degree
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  Speaker 1: in engineering. My dereers in mathematics, so I I can. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: She's kind of like she's a little bit more advanced
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  Speaker 1: than me because she has to take physics and physics
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  Speaker 1: shut me down, Shut me down, can get past physics now.
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  Speaker 1: She's a popular stand up comedian, film star, amy winning
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  Speaker 1: television co host on The Reel, and this past summer,
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  Speaker 1: she was the first woman to host the SS Festival
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  Speaker 1: in New Orleans, Louisiana. She's on the show to talk
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  Speaker 1: about her talk show The Real, her new book, talk
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  Speaker 1: about Cafe Mocha, and her new holiday Ashley Stewart fashion line.
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  Speaker 1: Please welcome to money making Conversations, Lonnie Love. Just love her.
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  Speaker 1: This O tell you something before we get started, Lonnie Love,
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna be talking dead serious and she's gonna make
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  Speaker 1: you laugh. I've saw a lot of gifted people. I
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  Speaker 1: was watching The Real other day. They have to keep
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  Speaker 1: The Realist to talk show that she's a co host on.
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  Speaker 1: They have to keep a camera on you because your
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  Speaker 1: physical your physical gestures, your your your uh, your your
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  Speaker 1: side comments are just hysterical. We try to keep levity,
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  Speaker 1: and you know we try to do that well you
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  Speaker 1: you you bring it. You bring it because the reason
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  Speaker 1: I like, I love it and I'm happy you was
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  Speaker 1: able to do my show because sometimes individuals like you
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  Speaker 1: that are so talented, I just like, I just want
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  Speaker 1: to just tell you how good you are personally and
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  Speaker 1: uh and you know there's some people say I care
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  Speaker 1: a little weight in the industry. You know, my what
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  Speaker 1: I say really helps out people and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying I'm not trying to help you out
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  Speaker 1: because you're being helped by your own talents that God
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  Speaker 1: gave you and you've been and you're tied to hard work. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the fun part about this conversation is that you started
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  Speaker 1: doing stand up and pray of you, which is right
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  Speaker 1: outside of Houston, Texas, because you're Detroit girl. Correct, Yeah, exactly,
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  Speaker 1: that's right. So so now tell me about this whole transition,
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  Speaker 1: because you know you kind of like me in a
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  Speaker 1: way because you know, I wur for i BM. I
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  Speaker 1: got a mad degree and I was doing stand up
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  Speaker 1: comedy at night and then I eventually IBM to pursue
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  Speaker 1: a career stand up. Tell us your background. How all
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  Speaker 1: got started? Well, best UM or really? I got a UM.
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  Speaker 1: I'm front of Brewster projects, didn't handle money, and then
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  Speaker 1: one day I ended up going to UM. I got
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  Speaker 1: a scholarship to go down to Preview and University and UM.
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  Speaker 1: One day, I just even though I had the scholarship,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have any spending money. I was in a
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  Speaker 1: bad one day and it was like, well, we'll give
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  Speaker 1: somebody fifty dollars for the best story, and I needed
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  Speaker 1: that money. So I just got a fancy of the story.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what I said. I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: the story. I just made up something and got the
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  Speaker 1: fifty dollars. And that made me realize that people actually
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  Speaker 1: pay people to tell stories. I was like, this is
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  Speaker 1: this is this is nice. But I decided to go
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  Speaker 1: ahead and get my degree since I was already down there,
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  Speaker 1: got a job. I got a job in UM in
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  Speaker 1: Los Angeles at zer Rocks and then UM. I worked
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  Speaker 1: there and I never really thought i'd be a stand up,
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  Speaker 1: but then one day I was like depressed. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: know what I wanted to do in my life. I
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  Speaker 1: just knew I wasn't happy. I didn't want to be married. Um,
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  Speaker 1: I had had boyfriend and all that kind of stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, and you know, you get a nice
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  Speaker 1: job and all this kind of stuff. Is happy to
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  Speaker 1: make the fishes in your life. But I just wasn't happy.
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  Speaker 1: And one day I went to the comedy store and
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  Speaker 1: I saw all these men doing stand up and I
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  Speaker 1: only saw one woman, and I was like, wow, that's interesting.
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  Speaker 1: It's just one woman. And she was talking on kind
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  Speaker 1: of stuff, you know how you know, back then, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and in the nineties that stuff. So that's what I
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  Speaker 1: started getting back in it. I started getting back in
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  Speaker 1: the stand up. I built up my career and one
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  Speaker 1: day we had a layoff at my job and I
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  Speaker 1: went to my boss. I said, you know, save the
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  Speaker 1: job to lay me off because I was I was
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  Speaker 1: the worst engineer. And not a says nothing right because
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  Speaker 1: first of all, you would not that's not what you
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  Speaker 1: wanted to do. It's just like IBM, I don't care.
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  Speaker 1: I as good as job as they said I was doing.
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  Speaker 1: My heart was not in the job. That was not
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  Speaker 1: your passion. Your gift was someplace else. And that's why
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  Speaker 1: I bring individuals like you're on the show, because there
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  Speaker 1: are a lot of people out there doing jobs right now.
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  Speaker 1: They're afraid to change, they're afraid to transition. How did
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  Speaker 1: you overcome that fear? Well, I overcome the fear by
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  Speaker 1: making a plan. I need something. First of all, I
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  Speaker 1: had faith, and then I had faith that I knew
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  Speaker 1: that God was gonna, you know, show me the way.
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  Speaker 1: And then um, I had to make a plan. And
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  Speaker 1: my plan was basically, what was I gonna do? So
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  Speaker 1: I tell anybody, no matter what, you know, maybe you
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  Speaker 1: want to open up daycare, you want to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: open up a restaurant, you want to do a catering business.
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  Speaker 1: You know, any whatever is you're trying to do, study it.
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  Speaker 1: And that's one thing I like about engineering. Engineering taught
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  Speaker 1: me how to study and actually it teaches you how
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  Speaker 1: to solve problems. For the problem was I wasn't happy
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  Speaker 1: and I wanted to get out of my current situation.
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  Speaker 1: For I studied, and I just started studying comedy and
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  Speaker 1: and and understanding you know, what was a joke, what
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  Speaker 1: was funny? What wasn't funny? And people say, you can't
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  Speaker 1: you you could be naturally funny. You have to have
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  Speaker 1: that talent. But there's also mechanics to understanding comedy, and
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  Speaker 1: so that's what I did. I studied, and then once
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  Speaker 1: I saw that, you know, the sign for me was
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  Speaker 1: that layoff when I was like, oh, everybody was crying,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, this is my time to get up
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  Speaker 1: and get out. Because the layoff you got severance package,
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  Speaker 1: you know. So that gave me a little cushion, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And then I had already started developing some contacts in
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  Speaker 1: the common of the world, so it was it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: an easy transition, but at least it wasn't like I know,
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  Speaker 1: some people they said, I'm gonna do comedy for six months.
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  Speaker 1: Comedy is not a six month thing. You when you
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  Speaker 1: get in it, you gotta get in it, and it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be for a lifetime, you know. It's really funny.
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  Speaker 1: Just just I've never spoken to a comedian with a
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  Speaker 1: with an engineering degree, and it's the same lonic that
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  Speaker 1: I have in math, and I'm hearing a person talked
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  Speaker 1: similar to me. Because it's a plan through the whole process.
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  Speaker 1: The plan I went out there I had. I would
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  Speaker 1: go into the clubs and give people like, uh, you
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  Speaker 1: evaluated by comedy performance, and I would put it in
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  Speaker 1: the foldero get my sheet. They look at me, going,
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  Speaker 1: what are you talking about, saying, it's a it's a
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  Speaker 1: form just check off what you think of me in
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  Speaker 1: and you can mail it in later, and I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: use this to get me bookings at other clubs. They wait, oh, okay, okay,
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  Speaker 1: We've never had anybody to do this before. I said, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm this is how I've been trained for my BM.
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  Speaker 1: You do a job, you give, evaluate evaluated by, and
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  Speaker 1: people will pay you based on your evaluation and just
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  Speaker 1: hearing your jick. It's all in the same place. It's like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: I see these layoffs. Here's an opportunity to let me
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  Speaker 1: take the severs pay. But you also know there's no guarantee.
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  Speaker 1: But you also know that, hey, you you know you
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  Speaker 1: gotta work. It's a it's a long run, and that's
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  Speaker 1: where people start falling off. Mm. Yeah, There's been so
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  Speaker 1: many comics that I know that I've tried to transition,
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  Speaker 1: Like you know, I knew I needed to be in someplace,
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  Speaker 1: either Los Angeles or New York if you really want
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  Speaker 1: to be in the business. I know some comics they
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  Speaker 1: be like, well, you know, I saved up enough money
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  Speaker 1: six months and I'm gonna make it. And it's like, dude,
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  Speaker 1: you're not gonna make it in six months. You know,
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  Speaker 1: It's just it, don't It doesn't work like that. So
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  Speaker 1: I tell anybody, no matter what type of transition you're
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  Speaker 1: trying to make, you gotta have a plan, you um,
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  Speaker 1: And there's nothing I think people feel like, well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes I don't have to have a security net. Nothing's
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  Speaker 1: wrong to me. Nothing's wrong with having a security net.
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  Speaker 1: I knew that if it didn't work, I could always
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  Speaker 1: do something else. I could teach after that. And that's
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  Speaker 1: another thing. You have your plan, but also have like
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  Speaker 1: a little backup plan. And the backup plan doesn't mean
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  Speaker 1: that you're gonna fail. Is to me, it's just something
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  Speaker 1: in your subconscious that you know you'll be all right,
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  Speaker 1: you know, instead of having nothing at all, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know, have a plan. This is the great thing
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  Speaker 1: about this, you know I'm talking about because I gotta
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  Speaker 1: I gotta make this. I made it announcement in your
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  Speaker 1: credits about hosting Essence music festivals called Estence Festival now
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  Speaker 1: and walking on the stage, you know, it can be
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  Speaker 1: as a minute, seventy thousand people in front of you, okay,
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  Speaker 1: and then knowing where you started. You know, you knowing
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  Speaker 1: because when you when you start making these transition, telling
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  Speaker 1: people you're telling jokes. They wait, girls, don't you have
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  Speaker 1: a degree in engineering? The people a doubt, you know,
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  Speaker 1: your family members of question, how are you gonna get paid?
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  Speaker 1: How are you gonna get paid? Well? Where's the regular
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  Speaker 1: check at? Now? You you're leaving something good here? You
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  Speaker 1: sure you? Sure you sure? So in that transition, you
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  Speaker 1: have to start surrounding yourself with people who think like
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  Speaker 1: you and have your same passion. Otherwise you won't make
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  Speaker 1: it through the whole process. And to go and to
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  Speaker 1: go from that to be on the stage walking out there.
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  Speaker 1: Talk talk about first of all getting the opportunity of
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  Speaker 1: getting the call to do that, and then walking out
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  Speaker 1: on stage the first time at Essence Festival. Well, the
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  Speaker 1: thing is what people have to realize is number one,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of times everybody's not gonna be happy for you.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of that doubt that they that they that
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  Speaker 1: they sincerely they're they're trying to act like they're since
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  Speaker 1: here and they're worrying and caring about you is their
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  Speaker 1: own fear is that they don't believe that you can
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  Speaker 1: do what you say you're out to do. UM. So
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  Speaker 1: I tell people that you have to believe in yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Is nobody else believes that you believe in yourself. But
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  Speaker 1: with me being the first woman to host as SUS
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  Speaker 1: Festival UM with seventy thousand people, UM to to be
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  Speaker 1: the host to introduce UM l Obama, the first date
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  Speaker 1: United States, that just doesn't come overnight. I've been in
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  Speaker 1: this for twenty years. And the thing is is that
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  Speaker 1: you know, UM, the thing is is that that was
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  Speaker 1: all part of my plan too. It's many nights on
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  Speaker 1: the road. It's it's UM many hours on the road
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  Speaker 1: doing stand up, doing stand up all over the world
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  Speaker 1: and understanding what everyone likes, what makes me different, what
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  Speaker 1: makes me funny, what worked from me? And so when
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  Speaker 1: I kind of got the opportunity and they asked me
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  Speaker 1: Richard new Dennis and Ms. Shelley Banks Um, the CEO
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  Speaker 1: and the owner of Essence, I was ready. I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: you know when they say be ready to you don't
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  Speaker 1: have to get ready. I was ready and I was
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  Speaker 1: you know, everybody was kind of surprised about why there
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  Speaker 1: wasn't ever a female to host. You've been that Rashan,
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  Speaker 1: You know how how how hard it is. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you know, being a performer, it's not something you have
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  Speaker 1: to captivate the people. But you also you're in charge
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  Speaker 1: of the show. You have to move along. You have
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  Speaker 1: to if they need to stretch, if they need it's
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  Speaker 1: it's not easy. You make it look easy because the performer,
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  Speaker 1: but it's not. And you know I was. I was
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  Speaker 1: happy to be able to get it done. Well. You
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  Speaker 1: know the beautiful thing about it. First of all, it
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  Speaker 1: was your time. You know, being on the reel allowed
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  Speaker 1: your brand to be a recognizable brand. So when you
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  Speaker 1: walked out on that stage, it was that time. And
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  Speaker 1: also you set the groundwork because I remember not last year,
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  Speaker 1: but a couple of years ago when I ran into
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  Speaker 1: your d C when you was welcoming in the new
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  Speaker 1: owner of Essence magazine and Michelle Ebanks, and so that
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  Speaker 1: was like setting the stage of your brand because you
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  Speaker 1: were so funny, you were so professional, you're so articulate.
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  Speaker 1: You you were the ball. Yeah, I was looking at
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  Speaker 1: was you know. I I have a younger brother that
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  Speaker 1: went he said, you know how I said, girl, I
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  Speaker 1: said that girl right there and come along and she's
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  Speaker 1: out of she stopped, I stopped. You know, Roushan, I
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  Speaker 1: really have to say that out of a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people that have inspired me, you have really inspired me.
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  Speaker 1: And I think you and I have talked about it
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  Speaker 1: on several occasions because of the fact that you always,
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  Speaker 1: um give me some encouraging words. You always gonna tell
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  Speaker 1: me what I need to do to get to the
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  Speaker 1: next step, to the next level. Even when doing this podcast,
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  Speaker 1: this is a wealth of information for people because you know,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of times like I didn't know anybody in Hollywood.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have you know, I didn't have an uncle
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  Speaker 1: or a cousin to hook me up. I know, I
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  Speaker 1: knew nobody. And and that's the thing is that you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's easy for when people say why are you so
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  Speaker 1: passionate about helping inspiring other people, It's because I know
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  Speaker 1: what it's like to not know anybody and to be
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  Speaker 1: able to get your foot in the door. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's people like you that helped me to inspire me
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  Speaker 1: and get me the connections that I need it and
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  Speaker 1: you know, and let me know if I'm doing something wrong,
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  Speaker 1: if I'm doing something right, um, you know, and what
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  Speaker 1: what I need to work and that's and I have
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  Speaker 1: to thank you for that. I appreciate because I remember
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  Speaker 1: when she did u appearance on Boris Cold on His Wife.
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  Speaker 1: I was there watching her and she said, girl, I
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  Speaker 1: knew you doing this show. I had to come check
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  Speaker 1: you out. And then Boris Code Joe and I was.
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  Speaker 1: I was there. There was a premier episode. They said,
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  Speaker 1: why are you here? I said, hey, man, I'm just here.
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  Speaker 1: I flew into town just to tell you I got
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  Speaker 1: you back. And they were like stunt and and that's
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  Speaker 1: just a quality side of me that I respect. I
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  Speaker 1: know how hard it isn't get these moments. So when
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  Speaker 1: we come back, I'm gonna talk to my friend Lonnie
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  Speaker 1: Love about her. We're gonna talk about the real little
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  Speaker 1: but she got a book coming out and she has
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  Speaker 1: a clothing line that's on that right now you can
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  Speaker 1: go on line and buy. And I'm gonna ask she
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  Speaker 1: could she be a part of Rashard McDonald's Cyber Monday.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be back with more money making conversations with the
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  Speaker 1: incredible Lonnie Love. My guess he's a popular stand up comedian,
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  Speaker 1: film star, I mean, winning television co host on the
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  Speaker 1: Reel the Talk show on the reel and this past
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  Speaker 1: summer we just talked about it, the first female host
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  Speaker 1: of SAS Festival in New Orleans and that whole weekend.
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  Speaker 1: It's probably about anywhere from a half million to six
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  Speaker 1: hundred thousand people attend that festival every year in New Orleans.
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  Speaker 1: So the power to put that on your resume is amazing.
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  Speaker 1: But the thing I love about Learning Love is that
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  Speaker 1: she understands multiple levels of income. She learns about divers
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  Speaker 1: in her chest. She want to be sleep sometimes when
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  Speaker 1: the when the money come in the mailbox. Well, that's
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  Speaker 1: what she's working on in and that's what she's working
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  Speaker 1: on right now. Let's talk about this clothing line. I
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  Speaker 1: got the website up right now. I'm looking at the
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  Speaker 1: clothing line. You actually are modeling some of the clothes,
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: which is awesome to talk about the whole creation of
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  Speaker 1: Lonnie Love and Ashley Stewart, the brand UM. You know
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  Speaker 1: that actually it really helps women in our community, especially
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  Speaker 1: in the African American community. And what happened. They had
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  Speaker 1: hired me to um M see um a scholarship packet
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  Speaker 1: called Finding Ms Ashley Stewart, and I've done it two
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  Speaker 1: years in the row and from that the CEO James Reef,
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  Speaker 1: which UM, I would employ you to have him come
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  Speaker 1: on your show. UM. He Basically we started talking and
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  Speaker 1: I told him, I said, you know plus size brand, UM,
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  Speaker 1: we really don't have. And and there's and I caused
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  Speaker 1: controversy by saying this, I said that there aren't any
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  Speaker 1: When I was growing up, I didn't know of any
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  Speaker 1: plus size icons that had a clothing line. Now, when
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  Speaker 1: we say someone like Queen Latifa, Queen Atifa had a
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  Speaker 1: makeup line, UM, Oprah never had a clothing line where
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  Speaker 1: you never saw her modeling Gucci. You never saw her,
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  Speaker 1: you know, It's just it just wasn't there. And so
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  Speaker 1: what I want to do is now you do have
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  Speaker 1: plus five models, but we steel UM in the plus
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  Speaker 1: five community don't have the type of UM coverage I
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  Speaker 1: believe that we should have. So when I started working
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  Speaker 1: with Ashley Stewart, they said, well, let's just let's just
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  Speaker 1: test some something out. And so this is like a
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  Speaker 1: holiday collection that I actually curated and it's been flying
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  Speaker 1: off to the shelves. I actually model the clothes. I
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  Speaker 1: have to also model the clothes, and it's been it's
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  Speaker 1: been doing so great. It's ten pieces, and um, the
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  Speaker 1: reason why I picked the Ashley Stewart and I always
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  Speaker 1: tell people be careful when you pick these brands. But
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  Speaker 1: they get back to our community. They put scholarships in
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  Speaker 1: my name for HBCU, and um, they give scholarships to
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  Speaker 1: our women, they give jobs to our women in our communities.
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  Speaker 1: And these are the type of brands that I want
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  Speaker 1: to work with. But also, you know, we all want
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  Speaker 1: to look good and we should be able to look
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  Speaker 1: good at an affordable price. So these pieces are something
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  Speaker 1: that I curated. Um, they'll be there. Um if you
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  Speaker 1: go to as Steward dot com, you can see the pieces,
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  Speaker 1: you can order them. And UM, I'm just probably be
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  Speaker 1: working with a brand that supports us, and I think
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: that's so important. It really is is uh as Steward
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  Speaker 1: dot com Forward slash Trends, Forward Slash, Lonnie Dash Love
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  Speaker 1: Dash Looks Again, that's Ashley Stewart dot com. Forward Slash Trends,
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: Forward Slass, Lonnie Dash Love. That's Looks Because I'm on
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: the site right now and it's a holiday collection. First
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: of all, you look fantastic. Second, I love the fact
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  Speaker 1: that you're modeling, which makes it authentic, you know, you're
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: not pointing over there. So by this because I'm looking
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  Speaker 1: at you on this green, this green, beautiful red carpet
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  Speaker 1: type dress that you can be And then I got
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  Speaker 1: you got this a little pants suit on and you
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  Speaker 1: got this flooring dress on you. You have to have
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  Speaker 1: fun because this is like you know, the thing not
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  Speaker 1: the thing I took away from these photos is that
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  Speaker 1: it was like it was like a visual empowerment. Well,
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: you're going I look good, I look good and I
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  Speaker 1: feel good. So just talk about that whole the whole
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  Speaker 1: process of selecting the right look for the brand that
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: you want to put out In this limited edition for
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: Ashley Stewart, well, what I wanted with something because of
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  Speaker 1: the holidays, I wanted um pieces that you could wear
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  Speaker 1: at certain times. So for New Year's Eve, I have
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: a sequence black dress that it's great for New Year's
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  Speaker 1: leve that you could celebrate it. I also have a
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: jolly set where if you wanted to, you know, when
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: you want to go over to Grandma's you know, christ Morning.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: I love it. I love that brand of love across
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  Speaker 1: the chest. That is so smart that you was able
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: to get your brand in like that, Lonnie. That's so smartly.
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  Speaker 1: And then I have sweat addresses that are very comfortable
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  Speaker 1: where you can wear at the office or you can wear,
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  Speaker 1: you know, after work. There's a beautiful lime green sweater
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  Speaker 1: dress and cape dress. And I have a red and
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  Speaker 1: a blue um sweater dress so you can wear with
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: some boots. You can add something to it. I also
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  Speaker 1: have a red uh it's a chaffon type you can
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  Speaker 1: wear to church on Christmas morning that Christmas red and
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: things so um. And then I have a lot of black.
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  Speaker 1: I have a black leather suit. I have a real
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: black leather suit and um. Those are things that you
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  Speaker 1: can wear maybe at night if you want to go
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: out to the club. A lot of holiday parties and
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: you want to feel good and you want to look good.
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  Speaker 1: And like I said, what I stressed more than anything
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: is that they make us look good. They fit the
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  Speaker 1: right way, they cut the right way, and they're affordable.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Every woman should be able to feel beautiful. And that's
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: what this stuff right now. You're going on everything right
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: now because that's the competition out there. I was in
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Macy's the other day buying and went online and everything
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: is discounted online, and so you're being competitive. I just
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: love this blue jean, this blue denim dress, belted denim dress.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: This looks awesome. Yeah, this is thank you. Yeah, you
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: strugging your stuff. You're strugging your stuff. And that red
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: turning neck dress. Girl. Come on now, stop talking to me,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Mr Troy, Stop talking to baby. You didn't come up,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: you didn't come up. Yeah. Yeah, but these are the
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: curated ones and then we're gonna one and actually I'm
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: doing some other pieces um with with the actual Stewart.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: And like I said, this salad is comfortable. We just
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: wanted to give it a tribe that's so happy that
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: people are being so accepted to it. Okay, okay, never Sean,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: come in and help out to Okay, my followers on
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: social media are female. Okay, so I want to post
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: a weekly post of your fashion and the announced on
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: MCGONN for my followers who don't know that you are
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: got his fashion Aston Stewart at this count of pricing. Also,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: I got a fan club of over two nion thousand
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: fan club members. Okay, I'm gonna do a Cyber Monday
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: in two weeks. I want to put you your your
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: clothing line as a part of that, a part of
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: that launch I'm doing a couple of everything is about
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: people I know, people I care about as a young
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: man who has a beard company. You know, it's called
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Rugged Evolution. I want to put in there. I want
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: to put this in there, and I also want to
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: put in your book on preseller. I want to make
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: that transition because I definitely want to talk about that book.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: You start getting the word out, because I know pre
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: marketing is really key. So that book could be number
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: one best selling when it drops, because it could be
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: a number one best seller based on your pre sale
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: or that first week. So let's talk about this book
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: that you got out here. Okay, UM, this is my
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: second book. It's called I Tried to Change But You
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Don't Have. It's a memoir and it's called True Life
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Lessons and Um. Each chapter has a lesson that I learned,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: and it starts from the beginning to when I when
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: I was in the booster projects that you know, how
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: my influences were Diana Ross and and people like that,
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: all the way up until you know, I got to
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: the real I talk about everything about how I got
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: to the real. I talk about how I got my
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: first development deal. I talked about how I survived the
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: crack era, Um, how I got into college. Um, everything
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: is in this book. And there's so many lessons and
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: the reason why I wanted to write a memoir because
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: people are always asking me, you know, how did you
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: make it, what happened? What did you learn in life?
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: And so this is just a perfect time to do it.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: And um, you know, I think it's important for us.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: I always tell everybody journal your life. I don't care
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: who you are or where you are in your life.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: You know, even every day or even every week, just
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: write something. You know, get your book and keep a
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: journal of what is happening in your life. Because there's
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: gonna be times they're gonna look back and you're gonna
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: be like, wow, I did that, I did that, or
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: you know they're happy times, a sad times. It's important
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: to journal. And so this one is something that, um,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: I never thought being growing up as little girl in Detroit,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: I would be an Emmy winner. People need to understand
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: anything is possible in this country. And I say people
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: like you, Rashan McDonald, where you worked hard and you
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: cracked the code in Hollywood, being a major player in Hollywood.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: It's like those are the type of lessons that we
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: need to understand and know about because we're very smart people,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: were very creative people, and we just like to share
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: our creativity with people. So this is what it's called.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: I tried to change so you don't have to. You
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: can pre order it at Lonnie love Book dot com.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Lonnie love Book dot com. Again, that's gonna be in
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: my cyber drop. Also give me a banner or some
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: man to the executive producers shows right now, all this
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: down because I know it takes a team to be
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: able to push success, and I'm part of your team,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: and so I acknowledge that. Now I want to make
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: a quick announcement that because The Real has been renewed. Correct,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: The Real to Talk Show has been renewed. Yeah, how
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: many seasons? This is season sick and it's been renewed
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: for two more seasons. I congratulations, congratulations. You know the
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: thing about it, and you know, it's really interesting. I
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: look at my life and I looked at so many
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: different levels of success, and I'm so happy with what
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: I'm doing now because I'm actually doing what I want
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: to do. You know, you can somewhere in life allow
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: the process, even though there's massive amount of success. You're
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: really doing what the process is telling you to do.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: And and when I watch you, I'm always smiling. I'm
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: always you can the radio show are you know? There's
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: so many different levels that you allowed to communicate your
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: brand and the thing I want to just tell you this,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: when you talked about Ashley Stewart opportunity that has happening
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: now you hosted the show. Okay, when you talk about
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: hosting Essence Festival for the first time, I saw you
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: on that stage hosting that event, and you were incredible.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: You were funny, you were irreverent, you know, you were
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: all those all those things. But then again you came
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: back to be the professional host that you are because
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: you can throw out aside Joe crack up the room,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: and then you just come back so cool, like like,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: why y'all laughing? Why y'all laughing? We're serious. Hit your
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: stupid behind is why we're laughing. You just stopping, And
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: I just want I just want to let you know
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: that that that that that talent. You know, the book
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: comes out officially, um upcoming book I tried to change
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: so you don't have two comes out officially May fifth again,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: where can they go and buy the book on pre
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: sale right now, Lonnie Lonnie Love Books dot Com. Lonnie
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Love Books, come cool, and you're gonna get some ad
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: banners to me so we can start promoting your fashion line,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: the holiday special that's going on right now, holiday season
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: fashion line, the Loney Love with the Aston Steward. You're
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: gonna get that. So We've been promoted on my My,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: my social media format and my cyber money. Lonny. You know,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: I love you because I love you because of who
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: you represent. I love you because of the authenticity of
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: what you do on television, and you stay true to
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: who you are. Keep winning. Okay, please and thank you
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: for calling my show. I appreciate you. Rashan, take care, okay,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Happy holiday, Happy holidays, Thank you, Bye bye