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Amanda Seales Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: to lead a balance life. I finally got on the show, y'all.
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Speaker 1: It's been a hunt. It's been a ten month hunt,
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Speaker 1: but I finally got my next guest on the show.
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Speaker 1: She is an American comedian. That's what I went to Wikipedia.
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Speaker 1: That's what they said, American comedian. That's like, you know, wi,
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Speaker 1: you know you got a Wikipedia intro when you say
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Speaker 1: American comedian, actress, this jockey, recording artist, producer, writing, writer,
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Speaker 1: and radio personality. Her career is on fire. If I've
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Speaker 1: been trying to get us since January, her career is
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Speaker 1: on fire. You may recognize as the character Tiffany from
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Speaker 1: the popular HBO series Insecure or HBO stand up special
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Speaker 1: I'll Be Knowing, or is the host of NBC stand
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Speaker 1: up comedy show Competition, Bringing the Funny. She is. She
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Speaker 1: has on the show today to talk about her new book,
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Speaker 1: Small Doses. Got it in my hands right now, Potent
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Speaker 1: Truth everyday use. The book engages in powers and enlightened
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Speaker 1: readers on how to find their truths whilst while still
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Speaker 1: finding the funny. Please, welcome to Money Making Conversations, Amanda
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Speaker 1: Seals Hi, thanks for having me. Well, first of all,
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Speaker 1: what you're not gonna do to me? Amanda? It was
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Speaker 1: that little, that little low key personnel. I've read this book,
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Speaker 1: I've seen you on stage, I gotta bring the fire
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Speaker 1: on my ship. Oh, it's the up it's the up story.
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Speaker 1: It's been the up story. Now let's talk about this
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Speaker 1: entire TV. Oh good, that means, it means you're you're
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Speaker 1: earning your money. And now we're gonna promote now this book.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna just tell you first of all, out of
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Speaker 1: the blue. Let me just talk about how you came
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Speaker 1: into my life. Okay, And um, I always kind of
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Speaker 1: knew about you. People have told me. I keep my
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Speaker 1: hand my tentacles out there about who's funny. But I'm
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Speaker 1: always searching for the funny female. This has a story
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Speaker 1: to talk. And so I'm sitting at the house just
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Speaker 1: going through, scanning through and just scanning. I always go
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Speaker 1: to five O one on Direct five or one is
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Speaker 1: HBO For some reason, I always go to five o one.
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Speaker 1: So on this night, five O one boom, I see
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Speaker 1: a young lady on stage. She has just a little
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Speaker 1: interesting clothes. She has on like a little striped lines
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Speaker 1: going up and down, and you know, and she's only
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Speaker 1: has her hair pulled back, and and she has a
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Speaker 1: crowd and and she's laughing and funny. And he was like,
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Speaker 1: can we stick around and just listen to what she
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Speaker 1: has to say. Dynamic. Uh, always she does. She she
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Speaker 1: does jokes, would never even think of doing. That's always
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Speaker 1: a testament that you're that you're doing something uniquely funny
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Speaker 1: and you're gifted. She she was doing humor that first
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Speaker 1: of all was female human, So I would never do
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Speaker 1: some of the joke for a female driven but again
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Speaker 1: the direction of thought, I would never do. And so
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Speaker 1: I started trying to get her on my show money
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Speaker 1: Making Conversations. So then Jessic Collins came up to my show.
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Speaker 1: He was promoting American Soul. Okay. During the middle of
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Speaker 1: his interview, I brought up your name Okay. And then
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Speaker 1: because at the end of the show, Jessic Collin's names
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Speaker 1: pops up Okay, So I knew here to connect with her.
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Speaker 1: So I suggested, I gotta get on my show Okay
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Speaker 1: with Sean, Okay with Sean nothing, nothing, nothing. So I'm
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Speaker 1: still on the search to get a man to seals
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Speaker 1: on myself. They all then all of a sudden, the
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Speaker 1: NBC competition show come out. I got people that know man,
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Speaker 1: NBC UNI. You know I'm a foller. I got people
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Speaker 1: in NBC UNI I called over there. I need to
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Speaker 1: get a man to seal over Sean, we've got your cover. Nothing. Nah,
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Speaker 1: finally a book come out. I should look, y'all. Amanda
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Speaker 1: Seals has a book coming out calls small doses, potent
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Speaker 1: truths for everyday. Use y'all. I'm fired people now. I'm
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Speaker 1: fired people now if I don't get a man on
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Speaker 1: my show. Just what if I knew I had to
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Speaker 1: threatening like that way back in January? We would need
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Speaker 1: to be having this conversation right now an welcome to
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Speaker 1: money making shall welcome to money making conversation. And I'm
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Speaker 1: your host, Roshan mcgohn. And how are you doing today,
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Speaker 1: Miss over work, miss on fire, miss funny, how are
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Speaker 1: you doing today? I'm great? Thank you, Rosan. I'm glad
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Speaker 1: we finally made the copping. I didn't realize there was
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Speaker 1: such a journey. Glad. I mean, your persistence is I
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Speaker 1: just I really am flattered by it, So thank you.
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Speaker 1: What the thing about it is that it's it's when
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Speaker 1: you see something special and you see something unique and
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Speaker 1: you see something groundbreaking. That's all those terms are associated
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Speaker 1: with you. Let's talk about their whole perspective on stand
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Speaker 1: up How did you get into being a stand up comic? Um?
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Speaker 1: In two thousand thirteen, I found myself at a cross roads,
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Speaker 1: and I talked about this in the book UM, where
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Speaker 1: I really had like I've been the MTV me Jay,
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Speaker 1: I've been uh pretty well known book and word poets.
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Speaker 1: I had been hosting different shows and doing the radio,
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Speaker 1: and so I had a lot under my belt in
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Speaker 1: terms of the different trajectories, and it kind of gotten
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Speaker 1: confusing for people where folks just didn't know how to
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Speaker 1: classify me, and you know, we just living that we
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Speaker 1: live in a world when people want to be able
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Speaker 1: to like pip you in a particular space, and so
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Speaker 1: it was like I felt that people were essentially considering
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Speaker 1: if somebody who does a lot, which kind of ends
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Speaker 1: up translating to like you do nothing, And that was
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Speaker 1: really problematic for me. And it just felt like I
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Speaker 1: wasn't doing the best economically with my time or my
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Speaker 1: money in the in continuing to go in that direction.
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Speaker 1: And so I started to consider like, Okay, well what
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Speaker 1: is the career that I want, you know, like if
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Speaker 1: if if if people can't find the label for me,
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Speaker 1: who do I feel like it's similar to me in
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Speaker 1: terms of their practice and in terms of their products
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Speaker 1: and what is the label that they have. And so
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Speaker 1: when I started looking at folks Um, the people that
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Speaker 1: really rang true for me were people like Chris Rock,
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Speaker 1: Chelsea Handler, Allen de Generous, simply because not because we
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Speaker 1: share the same voice, but because they had managed to
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Speaker 1: create multimedia mobile guns based on their unique points of view.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't necessarily based on them being producers or them
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Speaker 1: being writers or then being directors. No, it was specifically
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Speaker 1: based on first their point of view and then branching
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Speaker 1: out to do all of those things from that perspective.
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Speaker 1: And when I looked at all the things that they
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Speaker 1: were doing, writing, hosting, acting, the one thing they all
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Speaker 1: could do that I couldn't do with stand up comedy.
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Speaker 1: And so I realized in that in that exploration, in
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Speaker 1: that examination, that if I wanted to go into this
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Speaker 1: space that they were, if I wanted to achieve in
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Speaker 1: the way that they were, which is you know exactly
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Speaker 1: what I wanted, I needed to I needed to add
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Speaker 1: to stand up comedy to my repertoire, and it needed
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Speaker 1: to not be just like a plug and play. It
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Speaker 1: needed to be authentic, and I needed to be genuinely
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Speaker 1: good at it, and it was something I always knew
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Speaker 1: was within me, but I just kind of never had
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Speaker 1: really fully pursued it. And then once I put that
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Speaker 1: out into the universe, just like you, kind of just
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Speaker 1: manifested where. About six months later, um, I would ask
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Speaker 1: to be on the stand up show because the host
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Speaker 1: had thought I was already a stand up comedian. She
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Speaker 1: was a fan of mine from doing talking headstuff on
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Speaker 1: pH one. So I I, I just took the leap.
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Speaker 1: It was like you know, being caused at alt or
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Speaker 1: kind of situation, and I took the leap and I
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Speaker 1: did the show and it went well, thank goodness, and
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Speaker 1: so I stuck with it and and so I just
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Speaker 1: but I came up through the ranks and I didn't
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Speaker 1: skip sets. I may have spent them up, but I
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Speaker 1: didn't skip sets. You know. I took my I did
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Speaker 1: my my dudes terms open mics and I did open mics,
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Speaker 1: and I did my my kind of you know, struggling
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Speaker 1: on these showcases and having at bag and barter and
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Speaker 1: asked people to get on their cyminals and running around
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Speaker 1: New York all times the night in the cold, you know,
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Speaker 1: just trying to get five minutes here having to hang
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Speaker 1: out and hanging out, hanging out hoping that eventually they'll
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Speaker 1: get on stage. You know, maybe somebody will drop out,
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Speaker 1: or maybe somebody would keep, you know, cancel, or or
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Speaker 1: maybe somebody just um will be feeling benevolent that night
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Speaker 1: and say, hey, it's just wrong. And so I just
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Speaker 1: really liked dug in and and this thing that it
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Speaker 1: always been just found its tone. Well, you know, the
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Speaker 1: interesting thing about it is that I wanted you to
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Speaker 1: say that about your your your journey because of the
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Speaker 1: fact that let's let's always try to be honest in
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Speaker 1: the conversation what I'm talking to my guests, because you're
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Speaker 1: an attractive lady. And I've seen comedians or people who
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Speaker 1: want to be comedians they they see as a hook. Okay,
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Speaker 1: I'm a I'm a I'm a struggling actor or actress
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Speaker 1: who can't get in the gig. So I'm gonna I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna try my handed stand up comedy and and and
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Speaker 1: it's so shortsighted. And that's why I wanted to, you know,
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Speaker 1: and I was very honest in my attempts to get
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Speaker 1: you on the show because I just saw so much
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Speaker 1: I saw a special brand of your style that I
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Speaker 1: knew it was. It was well crafted because you're a storyteller.
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Speaker 1: And so if you have not seen her stand up comment,
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Speaker 1: she's a storyteller. You know when she starts breaking down stories,
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Speaker 1: you know she she pulls you into it. Even in
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Speaker 1: her book, you know when she talked about different scenarios
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Speaker 1: that we're gonna get into the next break because I
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Speaker 1: read your book and I want to bring out certain
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Speaker 1: chapters in certain moments that I think I felt related
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Speaker 1: to me, you know, because of the fact that the
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Speaker 1: book that is empowering to everybody who wants to be
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Speaker 1: motivated to success. That's what my takeaway from the book
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Speaker 1: that she has written called small doses potent truths for
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Speaker 1: everyday use. And I've had to make a comparison of
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Speaker 1: her to anybody in the comedic field, it would be
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Speaker 1: a Whoopi Goldberg. But Whoopi Goldberg was not a stand
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Speaker 1: up comic. That's that's a big difference. But she was.
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Speaker 1: But she could tell the story and she would call
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Speaker 1: or craft a story that wasn't always what you expect
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Speaker 1: to be funny, but it turned out to be funny.
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Speaker 1: That's her skill level. But she's a stand up comic,
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Speaker 1: and that gives her a step of both, which means
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Speaker 1: that she can turn it on. She can stand on
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Speaker 1: the corner and make you laugh for as long as
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Speaker 1: she feels like it, and she can make money in it.
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Speaker 1: That's why I did stand up. We'll be right back
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Speaker 1: with more my girl. She's on my show, A Man
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Speaker 1: to Seal, small doses, potent truths. You can buy that
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Speaker 1: for everyday use. You can buy that in the stores today.
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Speaker 1: We'll be right back to hear some of that, some
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Speaker 1: little juicy parts that I pulled out of the book. Hi,
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Speaker 1: this is ra Sean McDonald. You're listening to money making
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Speaker 1: conversations on the show. Um, she's been because she's on fire.
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Speaker 1: I'm fortunate to have her own money making conversations. She's
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Speaker 1: on the phone. Amanda Sales. Amanda. UM. We we talked
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Speaker 1: about your journey. We talked about I believe you said
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Speaker 1: twenties thirt team when you made a decision to, uh say,
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Speaker 1: you know some stand up comic. I want to do it.
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Speaker 1: I've been people have told me I'm funny. That's how
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Speaker 1: usually you get in the stand up comic people you
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Speaker 1: find you need to you sure, you don't tell jokes
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Speaker 1: for a living people. That's how you kind of get
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Speaker 1: into being a stand up come. You just don't suddenly
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Speaker 1: wake up and just start telling jokes. People have kind
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Speaker 1: of you. You know how to hold an audience, usually
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Speaker 1: your friends. Usually you're able to make your friends just
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Speaker 1: laugh because you know the little, the little trigger points
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Speaker 1: of your friends. You know certain certain character flaws they have,
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Speaker 1: so you know how to push that button to make
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Speaker 1: them laugh. The hard part about being a stand up
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Speaker 1: comic is that you're in the room full of strangers
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Speaker 1: and you don't know what day they had, you know
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Speaker 1: where they came from. You don't know if they're hungry,
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Speaker 1: you know if they're running late. You don't know if
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Speaker 1: they don't want to even be there watching you on stage.
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Speaker 1: And so to be a successful stand up comic, you
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Speaker 1: have to weave a story or relate sable story and
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Speaker 1: be confident at it because that does mean every joke
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Speaker 1: that you say is going to go over big. And
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Speaker 1: I always tell people, when you're looking at the room,
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Speaker 1: you start from the back and built to the front,
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Speaker 1: because in front of the artist you got, it's the
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Speaker 1: back of the room that you gotta win. Up first,
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Speaker 1: and when and if you win the back and and
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Speaker 1: that's even bigger when you start getting into arenas two thousand,
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Speaker 1: three thousand, ten thousand, I've I've been front of twenty
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Speaker 1: thou people. You have to go way upstairs and make
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Speaker 1: sure to acknowledge those people upstairs. Because you ignore those people,
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Speaker 1: they can turn your old home, your whole show left
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Speaker 1: or right, and you can never gain control of it.
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Speaker 1: When I look at when I looked at your special
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Speaker 1: on HBO, I saw I started storytellers. Tell us about
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Speaker 1: that whole concept of how you are so confident to
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Speaker 1: tell stories when you're on stage. M hm um. It's
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Speaker 1: interesting that you say that because I used to run
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Speaker 1: from that in my comedy. Originally, I used to feel
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Speaker 1: like it was like I was almost like just telling stories.
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Speaker 1: And I think in hindsight that was because it was
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Speaker 1: so easy for me to tell stories that I thought
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Speaker 1: maybe like this ain't the thing, And it took other
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Speaker 1: comics to tell me like like what are you talking about? No,
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Speaker 1: because I think sometimes too, it's like, you know, you
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Speaker 1: look at other like companies just have some of these styles,
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Speaker 1: right you fo folks that are very like punchline comics
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Speaker 1: was they very set up punch hit, you know, and
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Speaker 1: then even within like the traditional black comedy rooms, like
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Speaker 1: you're sexy to have a joke every well second absolutely
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Speaker 1: fifty seconds second out yes, And so for me it
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Speaker 1: was like, well than you know, my style is kind
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Speaker 1: of it's a little bit more, uh, like I gotta
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Speaker 1: chicking on a journey, and I need to get the
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Speaker 1: audience a run with me on that journey. And it
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Speaker 1: felt like I just wasn't. It felt like I needed
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Speaker 1: to do more in order to do that than I
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Speaker 1: was already doing. And so I just took my fellow
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Speaker 1: in comics to like recognize in me and like tell me, like, no,
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Speaker 1: it's not that, it's just that you need to find
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Speaker 1: those punts in your story. Like it's not that you
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Speaker 1: need to not tell the stories. It's just those prints
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Speaker 1: are in your stories, and you do it with already
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Speaker 1: even thinking, so imagine when you're actually thinking about it.
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Speaker 1: And so now like in terms of telling story, like, um,
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Speaker 1: I'm the person that you can come to like, Okay,
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Speaker 1: where's the funny in this story? You know? And like
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Speaker 1: I have friends and will bring me their scripts who
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Speaker 1: are not necessarily you know, they're funny, but they're not
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Speaker 1: necessarily comedian, you know, and I'll be able to look
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Speaker 1: at their scripts and be like, no, I see right here,
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Speaker 1: there's a joke. Yes see right here, there's a joke
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Speaker 1: right here. And I know that from me developing my
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Speaker 1: confidence in being able to tell stories that are not
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Speaker 1: only a longer joke that's going to land, but that
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Speaker 1: have jokes within throughout the throughout the past that I
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Speaker 1: enjoyed talking you because you you know a lot of
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Speaker 1: people understand this about stand ups is that we're just
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Speaker 1: keen observers and we just see stuff and then we
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Speaker 1: was to you bend it. The whole key to a
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Speaker 1: really good joke is how far can you bend the
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Speaker 1: reality of that joke? And when you've been the reality
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Speaker 1: of that joke, that's gonna be responsed of what you're
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Speaker 1: gonna get back. Now. The reason that reason she's she's
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Speaker 1: different from me. She's a she's a story teller. I
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Speaker 1: was kind of like a kind of close to her,
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Speaker 1: but I was afraid of silence. I had to get
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Speaker 1: to that seconds fast. That's why she's That's why she
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Speaker 1: could act. She she's an actress. And when you have
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Speaker 1: the mentality of the actors. You understand there's a scene
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Speaker 1: and so so she's an actress at a stand up comedian,
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Speaker 1: so she has both gifts master So I couldn't act,
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Speaker 1: So all I to do with jelly jokes because I
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Speaker 1: wasn't if I could be, if I could act, I
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Speaker 1: probably hung hungting longer for this the telling other stories.
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Speaker 1: And so it was a couple of quotes that it
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Speaker 1: was one quote when I was reading your book, the
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Speaker 1: book we're discussing this, and I'm interviewing a man that
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Speaker 1: sales her book a small doses potent truths for everyday use.
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Speaker 1: That really got to me. It was, I'm gonna read
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Speaker 1: a quote to you. I no longer a dressed based
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Speaker 1: on how I want folks to see me, but how
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Speaker 1: I want to see myself as art. Elevate the vibrance
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Speaker 1: in the room, and that and that and that. That
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Speaker 1: whole reference to you came from the person who's styling you,
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Speaker 1: because you didn't understand where they were coming with these clothes,
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Speaker 1: and they go on your clothes and they walk out
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Speaker 1: with this look that you would have never figured out.
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Speaker 1: And I felt that that's how I I dressed for
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Speaker 1: rijand mcgonald. I don't. I don't know how you if
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Speaker 1: you compliment me, cool, but this is how I felt
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Speaker 1: like walking out of the house today. Work with that. Okay,
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Speaker 1: Now I know where mirrors are, so I know how
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Speaker 1: to look in the mirror whore I leave, so I
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Speaker 1: know it's not crazy. But this is how I look.
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Speaker 1: And so when I read that quote, it hits so
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Speaker 1: harme with me because of the fact that so many
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Speaker 1: people are trying to be or look like something that
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Speaker 1: they really aren't or what people expect them to be.
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Speaker 1: But now you Amanda or who you are, and you're
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Speaker 1: proud of it and you're confident in that step. Correct. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean I think so much of that, And just
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Speaker 1: like maturity, you know, and growth, and just like time,
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Speaker 1: this just taking time to explore my heart, to explore myself,
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Speaker 1: to explore how the two intertwine. UM, And I think
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Speaker 1: a lot of us don't necessarily start to do that
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Speaker 1: because we're really so ambition driven and it can feel
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Speaker 1: like if I'm not consistently driving towards the goal, UM,
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Speaker 1: that I'm like being lazy or I'm not on point,
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Speaker 1: or I'm not focused. And then sometimes but you kind
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Speaker 1: of realize at a certain point, like me looking inwards
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Speaker 1: is also me driving towards the goal, right, And I
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Speaker 1: think a lot of us like continue to look outwards
18:50
Speaker 1: and so like when it comes to style and when
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Speaker 1: the kings to like me to developed in my style
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Speaker 1: and howing to really like learn how to just stand
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Speaker 1: there and life. I'm not I'm not trying to get
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Speaker 1: people to think a certain thing about me anymore. That
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Speaker 1: actually does scare people, by the way, when people feel
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Speaker 1: like you're not trying to gain their favors, it does.
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Speaker 1: It really does bother people. Like I know, it really
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Speaker 1: bothers people that I am so unwavering about certain things
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Speaker 1: that I really don't care about their opinions, you know,
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Speaker 1: And so it makes folks feel like they don't matter.
19:25
Speaker 1: You'd have to say that they don't matter. It's just
19:28
Speaker 1: to say that their insight and their input has to
19:32
Speaker 1: be earned. You had to be hard to date, well,
19:37
Speaker 1: you were hard to date your guys. You guys struggle
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Speaker 1: with that with that personality that you know that trying
19:43
Speaker 1: to figure you out with a smart, independent woman who
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Speaker 1: knows herselves, and they've been looking to be lead and guided.
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Speaker 1: I don't I love. I love her. I love her.
19:52
Speaker 1: I mean, if that's it what you're referring to, I'm
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Speaker 1: hard to every I'm hard to anybody who doesn't understand
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Speaker 1: how to be secure in themselves at the same time
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Speaker 1: as being selfless to someone else. And that's that that's you,
20:05
Speaker 1: and that's that's the point. That's what I see on stage,
20:07
Speaker 1: that's what I see. Come and tell you something. Six
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Speaker 1: years for roughly six years, that path and this journey
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Speaker 1: that you've achieved as a stand up in six years,
20:15
Speaker 1: it's phenomenal. It's phenomenal. Thank you, and I and I
20:19
Speaker 1: am I am so like appreciated that just I mean,
20:23
Speaker 1: it's in in stand up time, it's a meteor crackt
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Speaker 1: absolutely like because standard time is much longer. Like, for
20:32
Speaker 1: for what it's worth, like, I am very aware and
20:35
Speaker 1: I do not take it for granted there at all,
20:36
Speaker 1: that I've been so blessed in stand up so quickly.
20:40
Speaker 1: I think a lot of it is because by the
20:41
Speaker 1: time I got to stand up, I had already developed
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Speaker 1: my voice. I was already comfortable with the stage and
20:46
Speaker 1: with the mic. So a lot of times like that's
20:49
Speaker 1: a big part of your development as a standard you know,
20:51
Speaker 1: just being able to be comfortable on stage, being able
20:53
Speaker 1: to know how to feel a crowd. And because of
20:55
Speaker 1: my years hosting and d Jays already had that stage
20:59
Speaker 1: presence built in. Yeah, and that's really key when you
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Speaker 1: walk on the stage and you were able to examine
21:05
Speaker 1: the crowd. And that's really key when you work on
21:06
Speaker 1: the stage not bothered by the lights that can that
21:09
Speaker 1: can uh block and you united nothing to intimidates you.
21:12
Speaker 1: That stage president is the key to how fast you
21:15
Speaker 1: would rise as a stand up if you're not a
21:17
Speaker 1: gimmick act. Now, if you're a gimmick and you got
21:19
Speaker 1: some little character you're trying to pull off, No, she's
21:21
Speaker 1: going on stage being herself when she walks on stage.
21:24
Speaker 1: I love. I like to believe the person I saw
21:27
Speaker 1: telling little jokes is the person I'm gonna say hello
21:29
Speaker 1: when I walk on stage, and that that ability to
21:33
Speaker 1: be able to do that as fast as she's done
21:35
Speaker 1: it is phenomenal. It's really impressive. It's a very funny book, Amanda.
21:39
Speaker 1: I you know, I I hope I can get you
21:41
Speaker 1: back on the show. I'm running out of time. I
21:44
Speaker 1: wanted to break down very I got so many pages
21:47
Speaker 1: folded in this book, you know, like like I know you,
21:51
Speaker 1: you got a lot of answers. Now, that's why I can't.
21:53
Speaker 1: That's why I can't. That's why I can't go in
21:55
Speaker 1: just like white people stop doing this, Black people stop
21:57
Speaker 1: doing this. Friends need to keep the dry. You know.
22:00
Speaker 1: It's uh the story about the guy who took you
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Speaker 1: to the hotel room and you know, and and and
22:05
Speaker 1: you woke up and you knew y'all had had sex,
22:07
Speaker 1: and he didn't talk to you for a couple of
22:08
Speaker 1: weeks and then you text him. Didn't he had the attitude.
22:11
Speaker 1: It's so many great stories in this book that I
22:13
Speaker 1: want to talk to you about it. First of all,
22:20
Speaker 1: I really really appreciate that you really read this. Thank
22:23
Speaker 1: you well. I read the book because guess what your talent.
22:25
Speaker 1: And it's a book. It's funny, it's it's a it's
22:29
Speaker 1: a book like I've never read. I've been fortunate in
22:31
Speaker 1: my life to have taken books to number one. I've
22:34
Speaker 1: been fortunate my life to read books on the regular
22:36
Speaker 1: basis on my show Money Making Conversation for the last
22:38
Speaker 1: two years. This is a must read. It's a it's
22:40
Speaker 1: a colorful book, it has has graphics, and it's a
22:43
Speaker 1: book like it's pages of pink, pages are brown. It's
22:46
Speaker 1: a book that you cannot go to a restaurant and
22:48
Speaker 1: read it. You have to read it in your house
22:51
Speaker 1: and enjoyed. And It's daylight is funny. But more importantly,
22:55
Speaker 1: you keep winning a man that thank you for taking
22:56
Speaker 1: the time to do my show. Know that Rashan McDonald
22:59
Speaker 1: is a fan of yours. If you ever want to
23:01
Speaker 1: promote anything, come back on the show, send me a
23:03
Speaker 1: social media post and I will support you that. So
23:08
Speaker 1: I just really appreciate you and thank you again for
23:10
Speaker 1: working so hard. They're bringing me to the show and
23:13
Speaker 1: really stick a way because I mean that that that
23:15
Speaker 1: is noteworthy in itself, So thank you again. Better and
23:18
Speaker 1: keeping that that that that sole sister that tells the truth. Okay,