Speaker 1: Hey, guys, welcome to this episode.
Speaker 2: To keep it positive, sweetie, Today I have the beautiful,
Speaker 2: the talented, the funny, Pretty V. We are talking about
Speaker 2: all things pretty confident with Pretty V.
Speaker 1: What's up saying what they do?
Speaker 2: Said, Oh my.
Speaker 3: Goodness, thank you so much for having me. I'm so
Speaker 3: happy for me to be here. Your energy is always
Speaker 3: like ten, but just in a way of just grace,
Speaker 3: you're poise, just the love for just us as influencers
Speaker 3: and just just supporting me. It was it's always warm
Speaker 3: when I met you at Shilows.
Speaker 2: Yes, just thank you for having me, you know, thank
Speaker 2: you for coming. Seriously. I like to start the show
Speaker 2: with a quote or song, and I had this quote
Speaker 2: that I want to read because this morning you called
Speaker 2: me said, hey, Sis, I'm not wording, I'll makeup period.
Speaker 2: And I was like, all right, we should like either
Speaker 2: let's do it, you know, in solidarity together. And I
Speaker 2: found this quote and it made me think of what
Speaker 2: we're doing today and just being ourselves, raw and unfiltered.
Speaker 2: And it says everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Speaker 2: Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty
Speaker 2: is God's handwriting. The beauty of a woman is not
Speaker 2: in a facial mode, but the true beauty of a
Speaker 2: woman is reflected in her soul.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: And I saw that and I was like, that reminds
Speaker 2: me of what we're bodying today.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, no makeup on when I say nothing
Speaker 3: like we can right, look when it can be just
Speaker 3: like yes.
Speaker 2: I love it. So thank you for helping me to
Speaker 2: just embrace that today.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And I wanted to do that because I felt like,
Speaker 3: like I said, my makeup art is here with me,
Speaker 3: but we usually do these little little touchups with concealers
Speaker 3: and stuff like that. But I was like, you know what,
Speaker 3: I just want to at this point, I'm running late,
Speaker 3: you know, you.
Speaker 1: Know, I don't want to like drive the time.
Speaker 3: So I'm like, my skin is doing better because I
Speaker 3: always break out, like it depends on what I eat,
Speaker 3: and so I'm like, you know what, my skin is
Speaker 3: doing good. Let's just work out.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure Crystal understand.
Speaker 2: So, honey, you actually made my morning. I was like, look,
Speaker 2: that's one last thing I gotta do.
Speaker 1: That's right. Look, So to that, I say, thank you. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's period.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. So we mentioned that you met me.
Speaker 2: We met each other at Shiloh High School. We did
Speaker 2: a panel together speaking to young women in high school
Speaker 2: kids just about life and things that they need to
Speaker 2: look out for and how to help them navigate because
Speaker 2: things are a lot different than when we were growing up. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's just changed so much with social media at a
Speaker 2: very young age.
Speaker 1: And when I met you, I was like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: she's so cool, Like.
Speaker 2: She's a girl's girl, super supportive, grounded in your faith.
Speaker 2: And immediately like, okay, let's connect, like stay in contact
Speaker 2: and you send me devotionals very regularly, and I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: So I just want to say thank you for that.
Speaker 2: So let's take it back to the beginning when you
Speaker 2: were born in the church, a preacher's kid.
Speaker 1: What was that like my whole life. M let's be
Speaker 1: very clear.
Speaker 3: My mama has been praying down in the closet in
Speaker 3: the car right, don't care where she at, she gonna
Speaker 3: speak out loud. I love it. I watched my mom
Speaker 3: faith heightened over the years, you know, especially with my brother.
Speaker 3: When my brother got into a big motorcycle accident and
Speaker 3: a doctor said, honey, your son has.
Speaker 1: Seventy two hours to live.
Speaker 3: So Mama said, why I got seventy two hours fast?
Speaker 3: I know, you know, so just for her to believe
Speaker 3: in someone that's not here, but his spirit is here,
Speaker 3: we have to keep that faith. Yeah. So my mom
Speaker 3: been ordained for like uh ten years, right, But my
Speaker 3: whole life she's been in the Word and been a
Speaker 3: leader you know, for God too. So I just admire
Speaker 3: that about her. So growing up, of course I'm Jamaican,
Speaker 3: So yeah, it was very strict both parents. Yes, you know,
Speaker 3: you gotta be something, you gotta do this. You can't
Speaker 3: depend on this person. No, man, it was a whole
Speaker 3: shing digging since it is day, you know, just growing
Speaker 3: up it's so hard because you want to make your
Speaker 3: parents proud, you know, you want to make sure they
Speaker 3: they're happy with your decisions. So it was, it was,
Speaker 3: it was hard, but it was I love what how
Speaker 3: I've been, how I was raised. I love how my
Speaker 3: parents raised me because I'm here, I'm I'm I'm quick
Speaker 3: to spie out when people not don't like me.
Speaker 1: I'm a kid, a spot up.
Speaker 3: My discernment is always on one hundred, you know. So
Speaker 3: but that's been taught, you know, So I didn't have
Speaker 3: no issue. It's just like it's just always let me
Speaker 3: do this. Mom was like, well no, because you can't
Speaker 3: do what they do.
Speaker 1: You know, and.
Speaker 3: Right, so right, So I grew up and says trying
Speaker 3: to do my thing with no one like I have
Speaker 3: a mother that sees and gets it.
Speaker 1: And I used to always feel like.
Speaker 3: If I if my mother said don't do this, and
Speaker 3: it's like, well, this is what makes me happy, you know,
Speaker 3: and I want to do this, but she sees something
Speaker 3: that I don't see.
Speaker 1: But sometimes we try it and.
Speaker 3: She like, well you you, I broke up what I
Speaker 3: told you.
Speaker 1: It wasn't for you, Like.
Speaker 3: We want to move on that, but not knowing like
Speaker 3: they have discernment too, you know, and sometimes we're not
Speaker 3: using our gift.
Speaker 1: We just want to make fleshy decisions.
Speaker 3: So it's a little hard to this day, especially when
Speaker 3: it's industry Like, it's tough because you want to make
Speaker 3: those moves and make those moments happen, and your mother
Speaker 3: voices in your head like IM, get up off that
Speaker 3: man couch, don't need to be there. So it's those moments.
Speaker 3: But I've gotten better with moving with my own discernment
Speaker 3: and moving with my own spirit, because my mom is
Speaker 3: gonna love me regardless. She's gonna say I told you
Speaker 3: so when you go out there, just call me back
Speaker 3: when it you know.
Speaker 1: So that's how she is, you know.
Speaker 2: So speaking of that mother's voice, I know for me
Speaker 2: being in this industry as well and being a child
Speaker 2: that was raising the church. My mother's a pastor as well,
Speaker 2: and that's right, yes, And it was one of those
Speaker 2: things where like now I still struggle with certain scenes.
Speaker 1: Mm ooh yeah, you know skit right.
Speaker 2: So I want to ask you what is that like
Speaker 2: for you? Because I know for me, like I actually
Speaker 2: had to have a conversation with my parents and with
Speaker 2: my pastors, you know, about certain spiritual conflicts that I
Speaker 2: was having. It started to arise, especially as I began
Speaker 2: to like strengthen my own walk with God. Yeah, certain
Speaker 2: things were like, Okay, this is not who you are,
Speaker 2: but this is what you're portraying. Yeah, and I'm like,
Speaker 2: what am I wrong for portraying this? So do you
Speaker 2: ever have like instances where you hear your mom's voice
Speaker 2: or where you're conflicted with like should I do this kid?
Speaker 2: Or should I do this role? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean my mua could tell you cause that's like
Speaker 3: my sister, like all day every day, cause it's always
Speaker 3: we all as creators, we're always thinking about something over
Speaker 3: the top. Yes, that's someone in doing So if we're
Speaker 3: gonna do, are gonna walck a g string and walk
Speaker 3: around the street, then that's what we gonna walk around
Speaker 3: cauld We want to get them hits. You know, we
Speaker 3: want people to look at us when people to laugh.
Speaker 3: You just wanna you just want to be bold and
Speaker 3: daring like we are. But we gotta understand, like, let's
Speaker 3: pull back, cause you do represent something, Yes, you do
Speaker 3: represent grace, you do represent Oh, a woman in this
Speaker 3: industry is trying to break through. I don't wanna be
Speaker 3: just a skit girl. That's why I've vered off and
Speaker 3: did the TV hosting ver it off and do the
Speaker 3: red carpet hosting in movies. But I still have a
Speaker 3: love for what I do, and that's skits because I
Speaker 3: do have a fan base on social media that wants
Speaker 3: to see me in that element on the table playing
Speaker 3: characters doing this. So I I used to send my
Speaker 3: mom the videos like mam no, go my page cause
Speaker 3: I got me and Dancy just fall in the street
Speaker 3: and he doesn't you know I done ran him over? Yes,
Speaker 3: don't text me time, I don't watch this and you
Speaker 3: gotta you know, so if that's not good in y'all spirit,
Speaker 3: don't post it, you know. So, So then they hit
Speaker 3: it like that and I'm like, yeah, so it makes
Speaker 3: me feel like okay, like what.
Speaker 1: I'm doing is it good?
Speaker 3: Is it?
Speaker 1: This?
Speaker 3: Is it that? Then I have to sit it with
Speaker 3: myself and say, no, your call to do that. You
Speaker 3: just gotta know how to.
Speaker 2: Balance that it's good.
Speaker 3: You gotta know what's gonna be bothering you at night.
Speaker 3: If that's bothering you, take it down or how do
Speaker 3: you need to just change it up to make it
Speaker 3: make sense for you? So you don't have to have
Speaker 3: that in your spirit or in your heart like what
Speaker 3: am I supposed to do? Am I doing something right?
Speaker 1: Or I'm not?
Speaker 3: So I just try to just like move with my
Speaker 3: own spirited, own discernment. So if it's bad, I know,
Speaker 3: like I could take it down like that's not good.
Speaker 3: But if it's something that I know like okay, this
Speaker 3: is cool, Like it's bad, but it's still like okay,
Speaker 3: they gonna get it, you know, because it's something to
Speaker 3: elevate like I can't me and dess ain't gonna be
Speaker 3: pulling my hand in a street like this is twenty
Speaker 3: twenty four. We did that twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen,
Speaker 3: just for those moments to see that we are a
Speaker 3: relatable brand.
Speaker 1: You know, that's what goes on in the hood.
Speaker 3: You know, girls fighting, they baby daddy and yelling and
Speaker 3: doing all that. So I've taught what we portray is
Speaker 3: what we speak into existence. Because when I had COVID,
Speaker 3: I just told this to yesterday. When I had COVID,
Speaker 3: well before I had COVID, we need to skit at McDonald's.
Speaker 3: And I was he was like, man, I said, well,
Speaker 3: y'all to ask at He was like, he was like
Speaker 3: and he said something like I'm home, and I said why,
Speaker 3: I'm positive. Two weeks later I got COVID.
Speaker 1: Wow, that was down.
Speaker 3: Back the power of the time. So I'm like, I
Speaker 3: have to really speak life into what I do, but
Speaker 3: still be creative, still do your thing, but know that
Speaker 3: you gotta move a little different. They still gonna catch it.
Speaker 1: You funny. That's not gonna change, absolutely right.
Speaker 3: It's gonna catch it, but kind of move a little
Speaker 3: different because what you didn't back then you can't do
Speaker 3: now because you elevating.
Speaker 2: That is so true. Yeah, I found that even as
Speaker 2: I began to elevate, and the friends that we have
Speaker 2: around us, yeah, who don't understand sometimes like we can't
Speaker 2: do what we used to do, you know, because they
Speaker 2: they don't understand that you're moving at a different page. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and like even like posting, like while we're out, we
Speaker 2: can't post in real time. We can't do certain things.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, because everybody's watching and they want to
Speaker 3: know where you're at.
Speaker 1: And for me, I.
Speaker 3: Play characters, right, I have peanup mom, was a single mother, bobo,
Speaker 3: ghetto girl, Sharon, all these different characters and sometimes too
Speaker 3: people to understand with the mind. You have to know
Speaker 3: how to control those things, right, you have to. So
Speaker 3: I can't always be like, well, i'm'a post this skid
Speaker 3: and think this. No, I have to really sit with
Speaker 3: myself to know, like do I wanna bring this character out?
Speaker 1: You know, because those are outlets.
Speaker 3: I've watched Tyler Perry's documentary and talked about him creating
Speaker 3: these moments, and the greatest thing about creators we have
Speaker 3: to learn how to get out of those moments because
Speaker 3: some people stay in those characters. Some people really be
Speaker 3: acting like share on all day and it's like, maybe
Speaker 3: that's just for thirty seconds of my time, right, But
Speaker 3: I have to understand too, if I wanna bring these
Speaker 3: characters alive on stage, then it's gonna be every day.
Speaker 3: It's a five city tour tensity to you dont have
Speaker 3: to master that. So I'm in a space of mastering
Speaker 3: those skits, mastering my characters, but also putting them on
Speaker 3: a stage where they belong because we give in social
Speaker 3: media free content, right, and so it's time for my
Speaker 3: time to be wrapped around those lines and those buildings,
Speaker 3: for them to see me and Meyer Tyler period, because
Speaker 3: that's what my characters one day will be, you know,
Speaker 3: like on those women shows, those those big life stage
Speaker 3: because it's it's it's time. Yeah, So I'm moving room
Speaker 3: for those moments to enter in because I could do
Speaker 3: get a girl skits all day, I could dance for
Speaker 3: y'all's work for y'all, do all that stuff because it's
Speaker 3: not gonna stop. But it's time to say, you know, what,
Speaker 3: what are you gonna do with these four or five characters?
Speaker 3: That you have and how are you going to you know,
Speaker 3: monetize the right way and turn the funny into money,
Speaker 3: you know, which I have. But it's more now, like,
Speaker 3: let's use these characters so people can see me on
Speaker 3: the you know, on the live stage.
Speaker 1: So yeah, you're ready for it. Yes, I'm excited for it.
Speaker 1: It's happening. Yeah, that's excited.
Speaker 2: So many young girls look up to us. So what
Speaker 2: are you and just talking about how you're looking to
Speaker 2: the next level? What are you doing to separate pretty
Speaker 2: v and how people can't differentiate your different characters?
Speaker 1: Let me see you like, oh be so on to
Speaker 1: can you be this?
Speaker 2: Oh lord all day? Right, because I'm like, I'm not Fatima.
Speaker 3: Look come on, you know I'm as act eat and
Speaker 3: I don't want to be Bubba.
Speaker 2: Right hello, come on? How do you differentiate and how
Speaker 2: do you also set an example for young girls?
Speaker 1: Like what is it?
Speaker 2: Because I know for me, I have like I am
Speaker 2: very particular about making sure that women see me in
Speaker 2: a certain light off camera, you know, in my everyday
Speaker 2: life and try to inspire them in certain ways, whether
Speaker 2: it's my daily Bible reader and daily journaling or working
Speaker 2: out things that can help them be better. What do
Speaker 2: you do to kind of balance that out?
Speaker 1: Well, my life is.
Speaker 3: God want you know that's that's that's and some people
Speaker 3: don't understand your shape. Your faith could be shaky some days. Right,
Speaker 3: So because you, like God, you done did this for
Speaker 3: me for the last four five years. This year shaky, Now,
Speaker 3: God didn't do I need to change my prayers up
Speaker 3: a little bit?
Speaker 1: Am I saying? Am I saying the same things?
Speaker 3: Not?
Speaker 1: You know? So I am.
Speaker 3: All my friends can tell you I am godfaring women
Speaker 3: do our fall short? I do. But outside of Pretty
Speaker 3: v outside of what you guys see, I'm a uh,
Speaker 3: a female that loves to help souls. Yeah, I'm a
Speaker 3: a girl that's gonna pray down for you, that's gonna
Speaker 3: send you devotionals, that's gonna FaceTime you randomly. That's gonna
Speaker 3: be speaking life into a teenage girl that I see
Speaker 3: on the street or even some someone. Because I have
Speaker 3: a organization called the Pretty Victory where I speak to
Speaker 3: young girls and young kids all over. We done did
Speaker 3: like four or five schools. One was in Seattle, one
Speaker 3: was out here in Georgia, and the other ones was
Speaker 3: all over the other place. But I do that outside
Speaker 3: of what you guys see. Ye, and I I posted
Speaker 3: it two times on my page and i'm'a s i'm'a
Speaker 3: do that more often so they could see, like this
Speaker 3: girl have range. It's not just what you guys see.
Speaker 3: And yeah, the acculates, but this gets. But this is
Speaker 3: what I'm passionate about because I really do have a
Speaker 3: community of women who helped me when I fall short. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but for refer I really take the time to say
Speaker 3: what everybody needs you do. Yeah, like what's yeah I
Speaker 3: got going on In the morning, I'm on FaceTime with
Speaker 3: all my girls, were praying down just speaking life and
Speaker 3: yeah no period, Like you have to like speaking life
Speaker 3: into them because I know that the mind is a
Speaker 3: battlefield and if we do not treat it as such,
Speaker 3: you will be wandering all over this world. Look without leadership,
Speaker 3: and I don't want to be out here with no leadership.
Speaker 1: I have to have God with me all.
Speaker 3: Throughout the day, even when I don't understand. Sometimes I'm
Speaker 3: gonna still say his name because I know he's hearing.
Speaker 1: So that's what I do.
Speaker 3: Outside of all the noise and commotion, I'm giving back,
Speaker 3: you know, and just really focusing on like, Hey, I'm
Speaker 3: this age, So what do I do now in this
Speaker 3: big age?
Speaker 1: Like what do I have going on?
Speaker 3: And how is this gonna help me and benefit me
Speaker 3: and balance my life? I work out, I write, I read,
Speaker 3: I play all day. I'm calling everybody you know, and
Speaker 3: I'm working on my internal because that's what matters.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I love that. And I heard you say, have you
Speaker 2: have your nonprofit and organization that you reach out to
Speaker 2: younger kids? I love that. And I know a lot
Speaker 2: of times when it's your heart work, you don't post
Speaker 2: about it. Yep, but it is good for people to
Speaker 2: see it, you know, so they can maybe be inspired,
Speaker 2: like oh I need to do that, or maybe I
Speaker 2: can call her to come to my school. So you
Speaker 2: guys heard it here, make sure you hit her up
Speaker 2: because I love that.
Speaker 3: Yes, and it's been and people don't understand. You can't
Speaker 3: speak life unless you okay too. But my thing is,
Speaker 3: I don't suppoke the kids. When I wasn't feeling good,
Speaker 3: I didn't have anxiety. I've been depressed. I ain't even
Speaker 3: I ain't sleep in like months. This was like back
Speaker 3: in twenty sixteen when the enemy was just fighting, right,
Speaker 3: And sometimes we don't have good days, but we still
Speaker 3: get up, we do and speak life because me speaking
Speaker 3: life helps me too, because now I'm in my purpose.
Speaker 3: Now I'm standing in authority. So now I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 3: I got this. You know, I'm this is what I'm
Speaker 3: called to do. But back in twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen,
Speaker 3: before I came into the industry, I was I ain't
Speaker 3: know what anxiety was. It was just my body was
Speaker 3: just hurting depression. My mom un let's open his window,
Speaker 3: still in the door every year so we could pray
Speaker 3: that out. But God had sometimes, God give put you
Speaker 3: through a process before the promise, and that's what I
Speaker 3: was going through then. So I I'm able to share
Speaker 3: my story and do I have days for sure. But
Speaker 3: when I know that I'm called to do something bigger
Speaker 3: than me, I just gotta be like, alright, this is
Speaker 3: this is this, that's just the enemy God, come on me.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So what was that transition from two thousand, fifteen
Speaker 2: sixteen to is that when you really decided, hey, I
Speaker 2: wanna take this serious? M What really helped you get
Speaker 2: out of that moment?
Speaker 3: Well? For me, well, one, God did, But I when
Speaker 3: I was in college, I've always wanted to be in
Speaker 3: the entertainment industry, like I've always wanted to be like
Speaker 3: La Lah on the radio and Ludacris and Angie Martinez
Speaker 3: and we do him cause my passion was radio. And
Speaker 3: I went to sitt in aug and Raleigh and I
Speaker 3: did all four years and I have my own radio
Speaker 3: show called.
Speaker 1: Lounge twenty two.
Speaker 3: Well we've played nothing with the eighties, nineties, and to days.
Speaker 3: We did all of that, but I was still like, Okay,
Speaker 3: what's the plan after Yeah, because you already know how
Speaker 3: when you graduate from college, there's no plan. Yeah, it's
Speaker 3: hard for me to get into the door. So I
Speaker 3: was like, well, I'm not gonna start my own show.
Speaker 2: So I did.
Speaker 3: And I was with the net station in Charlotte, North Carolina,
Speaker 3: and I stopped doing that and I was working in
Speaker 3: a building and it was playing so much noise. I
Speaker 3: was like, who is playing this music?
Speaker 1: I don't wanna know.
Speaker 3: So come to find out, now he's the Baby, but
Speaker 3: back then he was called Baby Jesus, And I was like,
Speaker 3: I wanna work for whoever this person?
Speaker 2: He was on the radio.
Speaker 1: No, he was in the building where the radio station
Speaker 1: played that music.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and there's whoever was playing the music out South
Speaker 3: Coast Music Group at the time. They were like just
Speaker 3: playing music in there, and I was like, who the.
Speaker 1: Heck is it?
Speaker 3: Cause I just wanna be an entertainment issue, you know.
Speaker 1: So I fell in love.
Speaker 3: With them, and I got hired, and I was working
Speaker 3: for the Baby doing his admin and Arnold Taylor and
Speaker 3: just having a great time. But I was still broke
Speaker 3: right though. That money wasn't helping me pay my bills. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it wasn't doing what I need to do. But I
Speaker 3: know I had faith, and I know how a gift.
Speaker 3: So I know gift gonna make some d doors shake
Speaker 3: and some doors open for me and some rooms walking in.
Speaker 3: So I'm like, all right, let me just get it done.
Speaker 3: So after that, I got fired from that job and
Speaker 3: then I just began to walk in faith and I
Speaker 3: did one skit that got me.
Speaker 1: Viral and now we're here.
Speaker 3: But in the midst of that, though, depression came before that,
Speaker 3: like my anxiety was before all of this though. So
Speaker 3: but my mom already told me God said in middle
Speaker 3: school that you're gonna be in an art I thought
Speaker 3: I was gonna be a painter, my mama said, I
Speaker 3: said what the arts me?
Speaker 1: And then I thought about it.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, she's talking about performance artists, entertainment, this, that,
Speaker 3: And I carry that for a long time and I
Speaker 3: still to this day when I get weary because I
Speaker 3: know what I'm called to do. But before it all,
Speaker 3: I was in a space of like what do I do?
Speaker 3: I didn't got these words over my life when it's
Speaker 3: at you know, not knowing that. We had to go
Speaker 3: through a process, and God led me to fight myself
Speaker 3: in the street do something funny. And then I got
Speaker 3: viral and still was broke. I was working at fil
Speaker 3: for Marriott, I was working all these jobs doing that.
Speaker 3: But Faith kicked in and said, you know what, I
Speaker 3: gotta I gotta leave this.
Speaker 1: Alone if I want this door to open. So I
Speaker 1: don't have a plan B. You know, my plan A
Speaker 1: gonna work.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I love that. Yeah, And I love for
Speaker 2: people to hear the journey because they think they just
Speaker 2: see where you are now, yeah, and they don't know
Speaker 2: all that you went through and all the steps that
Speaker 2: it took, what led to you even getting to this point.
Speaker 2: You know, Job after job, yeah, same.
Speaker 3: Look, nose after nose, you know, but that one, yes,
Speaker 3: you know, made me be like, Okay, here we are
Speaker 3: and sometimes too we we we can't depend on and
Speaker 3: you know, like I said, our mothers and our parents
Speaker 3: are pks my father's but my mom is.
Speaker 1: And what tend to call them for everything?
Speaker 3: You know, tell me or you read this thing or
Speaker 3: not knowing that our attention span gotta be on God,
Speaker 3: you know, so I just be like, you know, let
Speaker 3: me focus on Him, call my mom when it's done
Speaker 3: or when I'm when I'm in a little space of confusion.
Speaker 1: So we don't.
Speaker 3: People don't understand like it's a process. It is a
Speaker 3: process because you got to build your own laying and
Speaker 3: build your own faith.
Speaker 1: You do, you do all right?
Speaker 2: So raised in the church and your mom just opened
Speaker 2: up a church here in Georgia.
Speaker 1: Mm hm, tell us about that.
Speaker 3: Guys were deemon tempoo, I know, pastor ge uh. Like
Speaker 3: I said, my mom's h have been in in in
Speaker 3: church since I was a kid, you know, since I
Speaker 3: done popped out. So I've heard the yelling and scream.
Speaker 3: We didn't know what's going on, speaking in tongues. Are
Speaker 3: we doing hispanic? Are we spinings while we're doing right?
Speaker 3: I didn't know where she was talking until she broke
Speaker 3: it down and said, I was speaking in tongues, you know. So,
Speaker 3: like I said, she's been so grounded in her faith.
Speaker 1: For a long time. And my mom before everything, she
Speaker 1: was she's a counselor too.
Speaker 2: Oh wow.
Speaker 3: So when she was a third grade teacher BEFO, when
Speaker 3: I came into this industry, she was teaching uh high school,
Speaker 3: and then when she went out to elementary school, so
Speaker 3: she was always in that space of serving. And then
Speaker 3: before her church, she was working in her counseling building,
Speaker 3: her counseling building, something happened to the building. The guy
Speaker 3: didn't pay the bill, the the the ten tendant whatever
Speaker 3: it w it was, and they would say, you're you
Speaker 3: gotta go. So my mom was now precing out of
Speaker 3: her home recently. So the February seconds, February third, and
Speaker 3: February fourth was when her launch defication happened. And she
Speaker 3: is just like so happy and so delighted, and she's
Speaker 3: so ready to save these souls because again, like I said,
Speaker 3: she's been doing this for a long time. But now
Speaker 3: you have a home where people could come in. So
Speaker 3: atl Honey, you are in the Georgia area, come out
Speaker 3: to the gods are doing tenpoint, it's not too far.
Speaker 3: Juman Yeah, where was bard? Six eight two five? U? Yes,
Speaker 3: six two five? Jummi called boulevard. So my mom is
Speaker 3: so excited now she has a place that she calls
Speaker 3: her own. And God's gonna just continue to do the
Speaker 3: rest will Yeah.
Speaker 1: So and that's the thing too.
Speaker 3: It's like being the comedian and having my mom as
Speaker 3: a pastor. You know, is some things you'll be like,
Speaker 3: I wanna tell everybody. I'm telling everybody, and you know,
Speaker 3: when we get to post and I gotta watch how
Speaker 3: I I can't just.
Speaker 2: Follow up with that.
Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm read, look, I said, see real what
Speaker 3: And then it's like, well, come on down and God,
Speaker 3: you know, so I gotta balance that thing y, y'all.
Speaker 3: We gotta separate the thing and thing and we could
Speaker 3: put the thing on that thing.
Speaker 2: But if he was working on Saturday, right, still coming
Speaker 2: to Sunday, what we're doing now?
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I'm happy.
Speaker 3: For she is a beautiful soul and she's deserving of
Speaker 3: it all. Yeah, I'm just I'm so happy for what
Speaker 3: she's about to do. Because she did not want to
Speaker 3: come to Georgia. She was like.
Speaker 1: Because then you know, she was in Miami.
Speaker 3: She was like, I ain't coming out to Georgia.
Speaker 1: It's just too nuts. People are just weird.
Speaker 2: The thug what made her like be like I do
Speaker 2: want to do Georgia? Did she come down here and
Speaker 2: visit me? It was you?
Speaker 3: It was me the covering that I needed. I was
Speaker 3: doing this thing for a long time by myself. And
Speaker 3: she was like no, and she actually liked her principal
Speaker 3: and said I'm coming.
Speaker 1: He was.
Speaker 3: She was like, I gotta leave, and Principle was like,
Speaker 3: why are you leaving?
Speaker 1: Mom?
Speaker 3: And said I made up something. And what she made
Speaker 3: up was I gotta go help me up mm and
Speaker 3: helping me led to her being here, being over my
Speaker 3: finances but also starting her church.
Speaker 1: So it was a call here.
Speaker 3: You know, she just didn't see it yet, Like when
Speaker 3: God gave her the name God would have been temple.
Speaker 1: What am I using this name for?
Speaker 3: But again, she had to go through a process before
Speaker 3: her promise, so, oh it has a word?
Speaker 2: Can we get that process she had to.
Speaker 1: Get there's a process before the promise. Okay, so she
Speaker 1: had to go through all that.
Speaker 3: You know, she didn't know.
Speaker 1: No one knows. We do things and be like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, now it adds up time. It always works
Speaker 1: like it's like we.
Speaker 3: Don't know what we be doing, you know, and again
Speaker 3: I met you at shallow high and now we're here,
Speaker 3: you know. But someone has to say, hey, let's connect.
Speaker 3: We don't know where it's gonna go, you know, because
Speaker 3: we can't do this thing alone.
Speaker 1: We can we cannot do this thing alone.
Speaker 3: I think I'll be like, I'm myus, I'm chilling, I'm good,
Speaker 3: and next minute you need somebody to talk to we
Speaker 3: get it and understand without judgment, you know, because people
Speaker 3: like to judge and they want you to tell them
Speaker 3: the issues because they're like, oh, this girl's media, she's
Speaker 3: so pretty, she's all together, but let me hear her business.
Speaker 3: Once they know that, then it's like, yeah, yeah, that's
Speaker 3: My circle is very small.
Speaker 1: I don't play the same I don't either. I don't
Speaker 1: play those games.
Speaker 3: I'd be like, nope, my lips to see it until
Speaker 3: I want you to know what's going.
Speaker 1: On exactly, intel it on your own terms.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's good, you know, excited, Yeah all, I
Speaker 3: love it.
Speaker 2: At what point did you say I want to be
Speaker 2: a comedian, Like, how did we get there was it
Speaker 2: was it the skid that made you think, oh, I'm
Speaker 2: actually funny, let me do this. The was it the
Speaker 2: response that you got that made you say, I got
Speaker 2: something here, let me do this. Girl.
Speaker 1: No elementary school, Bence's right, elementary school like elementary school,
Speaker 1: middle school, class clown.
Speaker 3: I got most dramatic, you know, most funny.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, best stress.
Speaker 3: Like I literally was in everything in college and Raleigh,
Speaker 3: Like I was in every curricula, whatever activity, activity board,
Speaker 3: hosting everything on campus thinking I'm pledging, like I'm everything
Speaker 3: on campus. Like it was a shame dig with me.
Speaker 3: So I knew it was something special for elementar. Just
Speaker 3: going to school, high school, in college, I.
Speaker 1: Didn't have to find my lane.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So when I left college the process began. Mm. You know,
Speaker 3: the the faith had to build.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3: So that's when I was in that kitchen, reving up,
Speaker 3: not knowing the spirit was doing that. Oo come on, mm,
Speaker 3: the spirit was doing that. I ain't know what was
Speaker 3: going on at that time. See people think anxiety, depression
Speaker 3: and going through things like oh, you're losing your mind.
Speaker 3: But God's like, well I'm gonna give you this, honey,
Speaker 3: to get your faith together.
Speaker 1: Yes that is people be.
Speaker 3: Thinking, Oh, it's so bad and something's going on. It's like, no,
Speaker 3: God is trying to get you, right, He trying to
Speaker 3: get your attention, trying to get your attention. So whatever
Speaker 3: he needs to do for you to call my name
Speaker 3: through this, you better call it.
Speaker 1: Listen. And I did that.
Speaker 3: I did so gosh. And after that I went to
Speaker 3: Miami and then uh mm, came back and with my
Speaker 3: best friend Anika, and she was like, do this skit,
Speaker 3: fight yourself in the street.
Speaker 1: And here we go.
Speaker 3: It led there. My cousin Tolke told me when she
Speaker 3: was in Virginia. We was at her booking and she
Speaker 3: was like, go on Instagram do your things. Everyone's in
Speaker 3: the famous off of it. And I was like, okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: I know. I'm funny.
Speaker 1: I just needed a platform to put it on there.
Speaker 1: You go, wow, yeah that is amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love it. So now you and Daisy are
Speaker 2: doing Oh my god, y'all have amazing funny.
Speaker 1: I love he is amazing.
Speaker 3: You gotta bring him here because he had his whole
Speaker 3: house turned up. Okay period, you know, and you should
Speaker 3: have everybody here. I think the Simons I think, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: funny Marco, because it's all of the minds.
Speaker 1: We all have different minds.
Speaker 3: And we carry things so special. But I love funny Marco.
Speaker 3: I love these young fly I love I hit him.
Speaker 2: I actually talked to him at the game.
Speaker 3: I was like, I need you, Yesmanes Celeris.
Speaker 1: We're all doing our thing, and.
Speaker 3: We're doing it so gracefully, you know, and we're still
Speaker 3: the talk of the town. You know. It's like there's
Speaker 3: no other Simon, there's no other prettiest, there's no all
Speaker 3: the just hilarious. There's no DC or Deasy and the
Speaker 3: list goes on and on. But we just we just
Speaker 3: I just love my peers. I just love them so much,
Speaker 3: and they they just became my brothers and sisters do
Speaker 3: it along the way.
Speaker 2: I love that you mentioned be Smoe, which is my
Speaker 2: sis love.
Speaker 1: I was with her last night.
Speaker 2: I love her.
Speaker 1: I saw y'all live the other day. Yes, I'm silly.
Speaker 3: When I say, I'm like, b why would you why
Speaker 3: would you call the boy?
Speaker 1: And act?
Speaker 3: I mean I get her to ask. I'm like, how
Speaker 3: y'all number zo? But when he said that, I ain't
Speaker 3: know how did got my number? Like the eye cloud
Speaker 3: was just clouded and I had to actually till this
Speaker 3: day this morning, it's actually turned off. I said, I
Speaker 3: gotta go to antc whatever. When I leave her, I
Speaker 3: have to. I gotta get the fifteen.
Speaker 1: Something got to happen.
Speaker 3: Bandon, Folks, don't call me not look seriously, I love it.
Speaker 2: But mentioning those women that are in the same realm
Speaker 2: as you, and see how you guys forward each other. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because I know be personally, she's such a girl's girl.
Speaker 2: You're a girl's girl. I don't know Jess personally, but
Speaker 2: same thing. Yes, how is that with other ones? You're
Speaker 2: on wild'n out? You're I know, you're in other circles
Speaker 2: where it may not be as hey girl? Yeah, so
Speaker 2: how do you manage that? And then how is it
Speaker 2: in the comedian world? Like are the women as embracing
Speaker 2: as they are in the acting world? I wasn't sure,
Speaker 2: Like how that goes for you?
Speaker 3: To me, it just depends on how you control.
Speaker 1: The room, right.
Speaker 3: I've been in rooms where it's like not so pleasing,
Speaker 3: and I've been in rooms.
Speaker 1: Where's like, what's up, grandma?
Speaker 3: F you know, So I think for me, I take
Speaker 3: whatever it is, honey, because when you know you that
Speaker 3: girl and you walking in, I'm gonna say, what's not y'all?
Speaker 1: Look, dressing room's.
Speaker 3: Gonna be loud with my name on it, because I
Speaker 3: want people to know, like whatever they're going on with
Speaker 3: or whatever's happening internally, I could shift that, you know,
Speaker 3: just by energy, just by grace, just by the smile,
Speaker 3: just like how you move in your sauciness.
Speaker 1: So I think comedically, I.
Speaker 3: Love all of them, Like I haven't met a lot
Speaker 3: of other legends yet, but I know, like there there
Speaker 3: have been supporters of mine, So I can't wait to
Speaker 3: like meet s like some more and Monique and you.
Speaker 1: Know, and even like Jim Carrey, you know, forget who
Speaker 1: all that.
Speaker 3: I loved Jim carry He's like one of my favorites,
Speaker 3: you know, so out right. So like the Kevin like
Speaker 3: me and Kevin mad and like Tommy Davison, but you know,
Speaker 3: just different people like that. But like for the women,
Speaker 3: like it's just for me. It just depends on how
Speaker 3: you just control you and everything else is gonna be
Speaker 3: a magnet when you stinking nasty and they'll be like,
Speaker 3: oh what a girl think she she is? But when
Speaker 3: you like not sweating what they got going on, and
Speaker 3: you be you, that's when you attract just the good vibes.
Speaker 3: So I haven't really had any issues. I love Ray, Yes,
Speaker 3: I love Isa, you know, and I just love the
Speaker 3: women that just have helped me through along the way,
Speaker 3: you know, to she, you know, Arnold, like, oh my god,
Speaker 3: like it's just amazing, amazing woman, amazing people.
Speaker 2: That's amazing. Speaking of Issa, all the amazing things she's
Speaker 2: doing and how she is working tirelessly to make sure
Speaker 2: that our stories are told that.
Speaker 3: Shirley Ralph was the first person when I went to college.
Speaker 3: I was telling me someone the story someone stole my laptop, right,
Speaker 3: and we said, have you know when you go to HBCU,
Speaker 3: people come on in, they gotta speak at your commencement
Speaker 3: and all that good stuff. So Shirley Roth came on
Speaker 3: campus and I was like a freshman, I think, and
Speaker 3: I was so mad. I was like, somebody stole my
Speaker 3: laptop and my head was like down like this, and
Speaker 3: I was so sad. You know, if y'all don't know
Speaker 3: who Shereley Roff is, she's the mother of Moesha. And
Speaker 3: I literally my head was like down, and she was like.
Speaker 1: You pick your head up. And I looked and I'm.
Speaker 3: Like, who the heck is talking to me? So I
Speaker 3: was like, oh my god. I was like she was like,
Speaker 3: I said, well, she's like what's wrong with you? And
Speaker 3: I was like, somebody stole my laptop? And she was like, okay,
Speaker 3: something whatever what she talked about. And then I went
Speaker 3: to church and she was there, you know, on campus
Speaker 3: because it was a freshman thing you had to do
Speaker 3: and go through. And then she said, somebody stole this
Speaker 3: young lady's laptop.
Speaker 1: You better give it back to her. That that girl
Speaker 1: walked upstairs.
Speaker 3: So the Weston Hall dorm, and my laptop was sitting.
Speaker 1: Right there on that table. But even women like.
Speaker 3: That that I hold still deer, you know. And I
Speaker 3: haven't seen her since then, but even those women like
Speaker 3: just really don't know what the impact will be. Yeah,
Speaker 3: jamaking as well to you know, a lot of women
Speaker 3: just have embraced me, and I'm just excited for who
Speaker 3: else to meet, like my teeth like working with them,
Speaker 3: you know, Like I love Missy me and her is
Speaker 3: really cool. And she's pointed out to me before it
Speaker 3: all like you're gonna be a star. You are where
Speaker 3: you supposed to be. You know, so just people in
Speaker 3: different eras of this business is just everything to me.
Speaker 2: That is beautiful.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I love that you've had that experience because a lot
Speaker 2: of people can't say they have.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, so beautiful.
Speaker 2: Ain't encouraging?
Speaker 3: So encouraging, oh lord, and just so inspiring to to
Speaker 3: know to hear their story and to know like we
Speaker 3: are actually like the millennials trying to do they walk,
Speaker 3: but walk, they walk, But we just got two different
Speaker 3: pair of shoes.
Speaker 1: Yes, you know, I can't wear your size.
Speaker 3: Queen, but I know that I'm on my way to
Speaker 3: get there. You know. Like Taraji, she's embraced me so much.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I love.
Speaker 2: She's a Girl's a girl.
Speaker 1: She would connect dot Halee and Chloe like. They all
Speaker 1: been so nice. I've been I've been meeting a few
Speaker 1: of these ladies.
Speaker 3: They even dope. Yes, I'm so excited.
Speaker 2: You did You're interacting now you had a movie? Was
Speaker 2: it something hot? What movie was it that you just did?
Speaker 1: The movie I just did? Was is a Christmas movie
Speaker 1: that we did in December?
Speaker 3: Before that was Pretty Stone, and then I did Around
Speaker 3: the Hood Story. Then I didn't Hip Hop Christmas. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so you know, just trying to build that resume. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it was amazing. I played lead in Pretty Stone, so
Speaker 3: that was amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was like, honey, God will put you in places
Speaker 3: and you'd be like you not even feel like you
Speaker 3: confident for it.
Speaker 2: Look, and everybody else is like, how as as Kellen says,
Speaker 2: God did, he.
Speaker 3: Would do what to confound the wise baby, He would
Speaker 3: put some somebody in a place so people could understand
Speaker 3: this is you have no resume, you don't even have
Speaker 3: the criteria, you don't have none of that, but God
Speaker 3: will put you there. Yes, so the mouth that spoke
Speaker 3: to around you would say, oh Lord, how she did that? Yeah?
Speaker 3: So I I I I was so excited cause I
Speaker 3: was God a god trust me, you know with that,
Speaker 3: you know, right when he could trust.
Speaker 1: You and you haven't sold him out. Listen, yeah, listen it.
Speaker 3: It was it. That was a beautiful moment for me.
Speaker 3: And that was a great moment for my career because
Speaker 3: now that could go to directors and say, like, she
Speaker 3: could lead a movie, you know, and people don't understand,
Speaker 3: like directors and like producers, we're so talented. On social media,
Speaker 3: all people gotta do is just say here's a script
Speaker 3: and read, you know, because sometimes when people do these
Speaker 3: self tapes, it's cool, but you don't really see the passion.
Speaker 3: You know. I think COVID stopped a lot of stuff,
Speaker 3: but it's just like people just got to see how
Speaker 3: passion we are when it comes to what we love
Speaker 3: to do, and our minds are.
Speaker 1: So creative, you know.
Speaker 3: And yeah, I can't wait till those moments happen when
Speaker 3: all my friends and peers just say, you know, I
Speaker 3: just I did it, you know, and I got it,
Speaker 3: you know from just a comp God will make you
Speaker 3: have a conversation with Lee Daniels and Tyler Perry and
Speaker 3: they just love your energy their phone or you Hi,
Speaker 3: that's what we wanted lyracles like that.
Speaker 1: Yes, you know, but it ain't. It don't happen.
Speaker 3: But we just say we want those type of Americans
Speaker 3: because you know, when you're passionate of something, all people
Speaker 3: got to hear it is in your tongue, you know.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm building that resume with acting because that's
Speaker 3: the that's the goal, you know, to be one of
Speaker 3: those ones that names are in Hollywood on Star you know,
Speaker 3: got pretty mean, you got Crystal in the star, Are.
Speaker 1: You walking back? You taking pictures? Come on? Say you know.
Speaker 3: But the other thing is like having my own production,
Speaker 3: putting on my live performances with my characters. So just
Speaker 3: a lot goes through my mind, a lot gets written down,
Speaker 3: but a lot get executed, you know, we see. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so I'm excited about it.
Speaker 2: Awesome. Yeah, a lot of people know, and I can
Speaker 2: attest in our industry, there's highs and lows, and there's
Speaker 2: up moments and there's down moments. Recently, you were on
Speaker 2: Rap Shit and then the show got canceled. Yeah, what
Speaker 2: did that feel like when you got the call? Like,
Speaker 2: can you just give us that play by play and
Speaker 2: like how you took it? Yeah, because a lot of
Speaker 2: times we see like the highlights, but we don't see
Speaker 2: like dang.
Speaker 3: Like Well, for me, I got an email saying staying up,
Speaker 3: and I text Lisa and I told her thank you,
Speaker 3: and s Rita as well, and I text them and
Speaker 3: I said, thank you, you know, because you didn't have to.
Speaker 3: You know, some people, like I said, these directors and
Speaker 3: producers just take people who have you know, who are
Speaker 3: seasoned in in in the acting business.
Speaker 1: So easy took a chance on me.
Speaker 3: So I feel like she deserved a call, she deserved
Speaker 3: a text, and she deserved it publicly, and that's what
Speaker 3: I did on my page, on my story, and I
Speaker 3: said thank you so so much. But it didn't really
Speaker 3: bother me because I know what's next cause wherever, cause
Speaker 3: wherever its to go, I go, you know. And I
Speaker 3: saw it at I was like, wherever you go, I go,
Speaker 3: And you know, she's she's always so pleasant and so graceful,
Speaker 3: She's like for sure, So I didn't really feel away.
Speaker 3: I just know there's another home for that, you know,
Speaker 3: and maybe it wasn't supposed to be there too long,
Speaker 3: and God gonna make some shifts and changes.
Speaker 1: I feel like people love that show.
Speaker 3: They love they love it for that's the end.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not.
Speaker 3: I think they're gonna be like, oh my God, like
Speaker 3: because people have to there. They wasn't so they didn't
Speaker 3: know it at first, you know. And season one came, Okay,
Speaker 3: it's cute show, y'all on it, But I think the
Speaker 3: hype came when season two came.
Speaker 1: So I feel like once they get.
Speaker 3: There that moment and get people who really believe it,
Speaker 3: because all you need is a believer besides you, you know,
Speaker 3: you don't got to be like, oh, I'm this person, No,
Speaker 3: I believe in you, and then they'll take your thing
Speaker 3: and run with it. Sosa's gonna be fine. Oh okay,
Speaker 3: come on, god, you know like she gonna be good. Yes,
Speaker 3: she's always making something happen, you know, and a black
Speaker 3: woman in the business doing her thing, you know, and
Speaker 3: there's always rooting for us, everybody black.
Speaker 1: So you know, I didn't feel away.
Speaker 3: I just said, you know, we wait for the next call,
Speaker 3: but we keep creating in the midst of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what you gotta do.
Speaker 3: People just people think that when stuff get canceled, our
Speaker 3: shows get this, and that it's like we gotta just
Speaker 3: wait for that call. It's like, no, create what you're doing. Yes,
Speaker 3: you're creating, Like there's.
Speaker 2: A vision with this what I'm saying something else? Yes, yeah,
Speaker 2: and we are seeing it now when you start getting
Speaker 2: the calls, have you ever thought about, Oh, like that's
Speaker 2: what's heart.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm riding that's in my mom. Yeah, you're just confirming. Yeah,
Speaker 3: this is you're creating a world. Yeah for us, your friends,
Speaker 3: people who love look up to you to sit with
Speaker 3: you and have these conversations like This is amazing.
Speaker 1: It really is.
Speaker 3: And I want to tell you too. You don't even
Speaker 3: have to like because I know that we come from
Speaker 3: p k's right and parents are that and like I said,
Speaker 3: it could be very much like like what like these
Speaker 3: roles come in and be like how can I figure
Speaker 3: it out? And man, I want to disappoint y'all, but
Speaker 3: I have to tap into fateam of times ten. Yeah
Speaker 3: you know, so I want you to know that you
Speaker 3: can balance that.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you figured it out. So it's like, and how
Speaker 3: did you figure that out?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you one. I talked to my dad
Speaker 2: and your dad as a minister. No, no, it's your mom.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, okay.
Speaker 2: I was like Dad, I was like, I got these
Speaker 2: scenes and he was like, honey, that's a character. Because
Speaker 2: I was telling like certain stuff you just can't watch,
Speaker 2: like like hey, turn turn your head, it's coming up
Speaker 2: because some things just pop up like oh. He was
Speaker 2: like no, he's like you're playing a character. I get it.
Speaker 2: And then I talked about pastor Pastor Shamika Daniels and
Speaker 2: Pastor Darius Daniels.
Speaker 1: Have changed yes, okay at.
Speaker 2: Church and they were like, it's a character you know,
Speaker 2: and what you're doing outside of that is bringing people
Speaker 2: to God Jesus. Yes, it's really just a platform.
Speaker 1: And I notice.
Speaker 2: More have you noticed the trend of more and more
Speaker 2: people turn their life over to Christ that have a
Speaker 2: huge platform girls almost like God was like, I trust
Speaker 2: you because I know I'm taking you because all this
Speaker 2: is gonna come back to me.
Speaker 1: Like I'm like these people have like.
Speaker 3: I want to put my pink and to can do
Speaker 3: it right now? I see what's just like no, seriously,
Speaker 3: because it's happening. But I struggle with that sometimes because
Speaker 3: sometimes I'd be like, all right, my pastors would tell
Speaker 3: me because my mom got her pastors, which is my
Speaker 3: pastors too, pastor roads, my mom and gods were even temple,
Speaker 3: what's up mom? And also just like my friends that
Speaker 3: have grown spiritually, yeah, they'll tell me like oh no,
Speaker 3: it's a character right. And then it's a moment where
Speaker 3: you be like, well, you know, you got to change
Speaker 3: some things up.
Speaker 1: So it sounds like it bothers me.
Speaker 3: It's like is it like do it or are changing
Speaker 3: it up?
Speaker 2: But then it's not you can't be free as an artist.
Speaker 2: Oh I know no, cause it's like it's a part
Speaker 2: of the artist, and there's I do have boundaries, of course,
Speaker 2: you know, there are certain things I won't do, but
Speaker 2: I wanna be free in the art and not feel like,
Speaker 2: oh gods, like I'm gonna be this.
Speaker 1: That's the thing.
Speaker 3: We just don't want to feel that way, because one,
Speaker 3: you just don't want to tap into spaces where you know, like,
Speaker 3: we know it's okay, we feel that, But then you
Speaker 3: have someone that's spirit more spiritually inclined and saying, well,
Speaker 3: that ain't what it was. And then sometimes people don't
Speaker 3: understand the opportunities that we take hinders the next thing
Speaker 3: you be waiting for that blessing to come be like,
Speaker 3: but will let me sit back and and we'll see
Speaker 3: what I did what caused this booking and this opportunity
Speaker 3: in these shows and these deals not to really come through.
Speaker 3: But what I go bias A delay is never denial. Ever,
Speaker 3: what's for me gonna be for me, and it's just delayed,
Speaker 3: it ain't denied. But sometimes I do struggle with that
Speaker 3: to know, like, okay, like it's a character, it's a character.
Speaker 1: It is a character.
Speaker 3: Being as a character, It's like, but I don't want
Speaker 3: to be on different shows and you know, talk about
Speaker 3: well let's do this.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know, it's just be weird.
Speaker 3: So I'll be like, all right, let me just just
Speaker 3: go to God and then he'll show you what you
Speaker 3: need to do.
Speaker 1: So I just want to know, like, how did you? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I know I had conversations with people I really cared about. Yeah,
Speaker 2: who's who I knew could kind of guide me through
Speaker 2: that because I was struggling with it just as of
Speaker 2: last year. M Yeah, and I had been Fatima for
Speaker 2: three years. Wow, still trying to figure out.
Speaker 3: Ooh is this well that was your spirit of your
Speaker 3: discermine to ask questions? Yes, yeah, before it keep you
Speaker 3: up and you'll be like what do I need to do?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So because mothers could be very hard because they
Speaker 3: see different things in the other world they had us. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so they're like, well, what you want to do because
Speaker 3: I want to make sure this is alignment?
Speaker 1: What we what we got going on?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: But not knowing my mom always tell me. She told me,
Speaker 3: she said, you can balance it all. You know, it's
Speaker 3: a character, but you don't want to be dropping it
Speaker 3: like it's hot now it's just too much pounding, Like
Speaker 3: you're gonna have to just come on, come on out
Speaker 3: of that. That ain't what it is now, get up,
Speaker 3: get up off that. So I get it, you know,
Speaker 3: So we gotta just watch what we do, you know,
Speaker 3: but still have fun because you want to create and
Speaker 3: you want to be free while you create. You don't
Speaker 3: want to be in your role and you're like, well,
Speaker 3: I don't want to do this cause you know.
Speaker 1: No. I needed to have that lifted off me.
Speaker 2: I needed to know that my parents are cool, and
Speaker 2: if y'all cool, I don't care about nothing else. But
Speaker 2: then my own discernment and my own struggle started to
Speaker 2: kick in. I was like, oh gosh, let me talk
Speaker 2: to somebody else about this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, cause they can say yes. And
Speaker 3: then you're like you still like oh yeah right, You're
Speaker 3: still like, okay, well let me talk to some one
Speaker 3: more person.
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 3: I'm happy that because we all people, even that's not
Speaker 3: even in the spiritual rim, they struggle with.
Speaker 1: That too, they do, they really do.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So we know that you want to produce, you
Speaker 2: want to take your acting cred to the next level,
Speaker 2: your platform to the next level. Yeah, you're a host,
Speaker 2: you do all these things. What else is there that
Speaker 2: we want that you have the world to know that
Speaker 2: is up for you that you want to do next?
Speaker 2: M Is there anything you haven't touched on that.
Speaker 3: I can share One thing I'm sharing everything, which is
Speaker 3: one thing. I want to create a direct more like
Speaker 3: I really you know, I'm such a visionary, Like I
Speaker 3: could create music videos in my head plays you know,
Speaker 3: just see people outfits and by baby you could change that,
Speaker 3: you know, Like that's me just just with even working
Speaker 3: with big brands, like really creative directing these brands to
Speaker 3: go big with their brand. So I think I'm gonna
Speaker 3: tap into that. Yeah, that's what I want to do.
Speaker 3: That's one thing I would want to tap into. I
Speaker 3: do it with my friends now, but you know, I
Speaker 3: want to do it with my friends now. I want
Speaker 3: to do different companies because they take me serious, you know,
Speaker 3: like I'm really passionate about like really reforming and rewiring
Speaker 3: what you already have going on.
Speaker 1: So it's something like that.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what I would love to do.
Speaker 3: Because everything else like giving back philanthropy and all that
Speaker 3: great stuff like I do, but like really taking the
Speaker 3: time and taking the time out of my time to
Speaker 3: serve somebody else could be a bit much. But I
Speaker 3: love it though, because I like to see like me
Speaker 3: in control of that moment, because I know like it's
Speaker 3: gonna beautiful because I'm not gonna fail nobody. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: thank you so much, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2: So we are to the end of the show, and
Speaker 2: this is my favorite part is where their listeners write
Speaker 2: into us. It's called positive outcomes, okay, and they write
Speaker 2: into us and we give them advice. Okay, all right,
Speaker 2: So this young.
Speaker 1: Lady said, Hey, Crystal.
Speaker 2: First things first, thank you for being authenticity never looks
Speaker 2: so good. I love your work and appreciate your decision
Speaker 2: to share us the world who God is simply by
Speaker 2: being yourself priceless. I'm a forty five year old love
Speaker 2: Jesus mom, fine tech professional, single and bored with my
Speaker 2: nine to five inside hustle. Truth be told, I never
Speaker 2: get comfortable in any air of my life. I always
Speaker 2: look for my next and while decisions made in my
Speaker 2: thirties got me to where I am since I am bored,
Speaker 2: God has always directed my life. So while pivoting is
Speaker 2: my jam, as he has always taken me higher and
Speaker 2: made me better. But lately the thought of making a
Speaker 2: change is sky diving exciting and bullet trained offor reil scary.
Speaker 2: Ooh girl. All right, yes, that's where I am. The
Speaker 2: thing is in this particular headspace. I usually thrive but
Speaker 2: like a parachute or emergency airlift on standby. But this
Speaker 2: time it's different. To be honest, my forties are real
Speaker 2: cute right now, and I'm enjoying the journey. But the
Speaker 2: moment I felt the shaking it to pivot. Instead of
Speaker 2: my usual I chose reckless abandon I moved, chop my
Speaker 2: hair off, put up the neon leopard print do not
Speaker 2: disturb sign, and I'm out here on this tight.
Speaker 1: Rope like, okay, Jesus, what are we doing?
Speaker 2: Any exponential advice on how to navigate this reckless abandoned
Speaker 2: new level pivot transition?
Speaker 1: All right, I said, a whole thing.
Speaker 2: She said, a whole thing, A whole thing. Well, one
Speaker 2: thing is the forties is real cute. I gotta agree
Speaker 2: with that. And you're enjoying the journey, that's the most
Speaker 2: important part, even though you're feeling a little shaky and
Speaker 2: a little inch to pivot and feeling like I don't
Speaker 2: know if I should do this or not. You're enjoying
Speaker 2: it and that's the most important part.
Speaker 1: And you said you.
Speaker 2: Chose reckless abandon you moved, you chopped your hair off.
Speaker 2: I do feel like it's a little impulsive because I
Speaker 2: used to do that all the time. Every time I
Speaker 2: had a breakup, I would cut my hair off. It
Speaker 2: was like I was cutting off like Dad Wade, Wow,
Speaker 2: so good.
Speaker 1: So I can see.
Speaker 2: I know what you're doing right here, like you're trying
Speaker 2: to get into something. You're trying to run from something.
Speaker 2: So what I would tell you is to be still
Speaker 2: for a minute. I feel like you've been impulsive. You've
Speaker 2: moved really fast. You made a lot of rash decisions
Speaker 2: in a short amount of time. So I would say,
Speaker 2: just be still and try to hear the voice of
Speaker 2: God because he'll help you decide which way to go.
Speaker 2: Because if you're feeling a little hesitant, that means you
Speaker 2: need to take a second to listen to God.
Speaker 1: That's what I would say. I'm the same too.
Speaker 3: I hate I hate the word still. Be still. Well,
Speaker 3: I mean be thinking that if I'm still, you know,
Speaker 3: But like Chrystal said, definitely be still and just hear
Speaker 3: from God. We hear from him in all of our places, cars, room,
Speaker 3: cleaning up, all that good stuff.
Speaker 1: So just.
Speaker 3: I know sometimes the intake of breathing and outwardly is
Speaker 3: stressful because of reading. It ain't working. But just take
Speaker 3: a second, you know, and like Christ, be still.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So we didn't get your name, but I hope this helps.
Speaker 2: And the next thing we're gonna do is what I'm
Speaker 2: going through and what I'm growing through. Yeah, to do
Speaker 2: this just because in different seasons of your life it
Speaker 2: maybe this you may be going through the same thing
Speaker 2: and still learning it. But for me, I feel like
Speaker 2: right now I am growing through. I'm going through seeing
Speaker 2: the signs of.
Speaker 1: Patterns.
Speaker 2: So like you know how like you'll go through something
Speaker 2: like that, Okay, I know what that is, and then
Speaker 2: it comes up again and instead of like making it
Speaker 2: just like maybe it's gonna be different this time, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm learning now to like, no, I've seen this before. Stop,
Speaker 2: this isn't gonna be any different. Let's not go again,
Speaker 2: because girl, I would go through the same thing over
Speaker 2: and over and over again over again.
Speaker 1: Is that in relationships?
Speaker 2: Is that with just life, just people anything, just always
Speaker 2: being an impath and trying to give people the benefit
Speaker 2: of the doubt and even like business choices, just making
Speaker 2: sure that like okay.
Speaker 1: Too nice, Yeah, like you know, too nice, you know,
Speaker 1: and staying on business business.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I think that's what I'm going through. I'm going through.
Speaker 2: I'm getting better at it where I'm listening to that
Speaker 2: boundaries yes and saying, oh, yep, been here before. We're
Speaker 2: not going to keep learning this lesson and sometimes like
Speaker 2: God tests us to see if we've learned the lesson
Speaker 2: before he can take us to the next level.
Speaker 1: Yep, that's something good for you.
Speaker 2: But I'm just saying, if you're gonna keep following for
Speaker 2: this right.
Speaker 3: And keep saying to the same company, yes, yes I
Speaker 3: do it, I don't know, I don't need it, And
Speaker 3: the next minute we complain with we get there, we
Speaker 3: need it, you know, then we became that divash and
Speaker 3: this definitely it'd be a whole cycle, a big cycle.
Speaker 3: I love this little game. Did you just say what
Speaker 3: you was what you're growing through? Did you say what
Speaker 3: you you said patterns?
Speaker 2: Yeah, what I'm going through and growing through. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 2: so that's pretty much what I'm all in one. I'm
Speaker 2: going through that and growing through it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think for me what I'm going through is.
Speaker 3: Uh just the the balance of it all, you know,
Speaker 3: I think because like I said, and I'm such a
Speaker 3: creative person and my mind is my superpowers because that's
Speaker 3: how I create. And knowing that there's the world, there's me,
Speaker 3: there's the business, there's this, it's life. Take a second,
Speaker 3: because I too can go through the cycle every minute.
Speaker 3: Your hair hurt, now, your chest hurt. You're like this then,
Speaker 3: and there are you trying to figure out why you're not.
Speaker 3: But just like you went through the same thing three
Speaker 3: weeks ago, you went through the same thing a year ago.
Speaker 3: You didn't find the formula yet. So when you're in
Speaker 3: your quiet place now you want to add up. You
Speaker 3: want to be you want us to be still and
Speaker 3: you want to add Now your hair hurt, and you
Speaker 3: gonna take all these taitenols. Because so for me, how
Speaker 3: I'm growing through it's knowing who I am in God.
Speaker 3: You know, when you know who you are in God,
Speaker 3: those cycles become so like oh my God, my new
Speaker 3: Like that's a brush off the shoulder, like, oh my God,
Speaker 3: I'm good now I was able to like make a
Speaker 3: decision and not like like or make a decision or
Speaker 3: be somewhere and not feel like, Okay, I'm doing the
Speaker 3: most or just taking that moment, because the cycles are
Speaker 3: very hard to get out of if you just don't
Speaker 3: know who you are and social When you know who
Speaker 3: you are, you're like, oh, I can get out of
Speaker 3: that because I've been here before. This is a familiar
Speaker 3: place for me, So let's get unfamiliar. And that's what
Speaker 3: I'm doing. So I'm balancing, balancing knowing that I'm good,
Speaker 3: but knowing like I'm growing through God. So I have
Speaker 3: to go back through those cycles and just depending just
Speaker 3: in your mind so much and just like going through
Speaker 3: those overthinking space. This space, that space is something going on,
Speaker 3: something wrong or what you think is it you got?
Speaker 3: Then you google your best friend and you're the word
Speaker 3: it's your best friend, is you know? Because what we
Speaker 3: go through is in the word it's just ya, you know.
Speaker 3: So I'm I'm in that space knowing like I gotta
Speaker 3: live godly, yeah, cause my understanding it ain't work in child,
Speaker 3: I understanding over watching Moesha and Cheetos all day hair,
Speaker 3: you know, So now it's sounding like, all right, girl,
Speaker 3: she's what you gotta do. What you're doing, it's working, yep,
Speaker 3: and that's all that matters.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I love Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for coming by.
Speaker 1: I'm serious, Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 3: And I just cannot wait to God just do his
Speaker 3: big one on you, continually to do his big one
Speaker 3: because you're so deserving of it.
Speaker 1: How many kids do you want? Oh? I understand how
Speaker 1: many kids you want? I under stand because I I
Speaker 1: want to Kisse you want too? I used to say, too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm getting older.
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to figure out.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I literally was.
Speaker 1: Looking at you.
Speaker 3: I was like, she's gonna let me tell you something.
Speaker 3: I was like, she's gonna have two kids, right, and
Speaker 3: I was like, she's gonna have a husband that's gonna
Speaker 3: be so like I want to say, like a foot
Speaker 3: ill player or athlete. But he has to have that
Speaker 3: demeanor because you're like a you're like a sports mom.
Speaker 1: I am, oh my gosh, and I love sports.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're like a sports mom. Like you're like ooh,
Speaker 3: like a Leila Lee, you know, like her demeanor. It's
Speaker 3: like you have to have somebody in your lane to
Speaker 3: just like lead and like take charge and be that
Speaker 3: person because you're gonna be the one that's picked up
Speaker 3: soccer balls and footballs and every things. I can see
Speaker 3: with too. I can see with a dominant man, you
Speaker 3: gotta dominant.
Speaker 1: He cannot be less.
Speaker 2: Because I would run all over anything else. Girl, what
Speaker 2: because I feel like, because I run so much in
Speaker 2: my life, I need someone that can like tell me
Speaker 2: what to do.
Speaker 1: But yeah, he's coming. He's literally coming.
Speaker 2: He's on the way.
Speaker 1: Because I could see that. I was looking at you talking.
Speaker 3: I was like, hmmm, she've got two kids. Yeah, man,
Speaker 3: and it's gonna be taller and as all chocolatettle mixed
Speaker 3: with a little caramel chocolate.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I appreciate this conversation. I really do.
Speaker 3: And like I said, I'm so excited for what's to come.
Speaker 3: And thank you again for just opening up your doors
Speaker 3: and having me come and just you know, have this
Speaker 3: great conversation, you know, in your home because this is
Speaker 3: this is your secret place, you know, so it is
Speaker 3: very it's very you know serious when he comes to
Speaker 3: somebody doors. And my sister today teach was like I said,
Speaker 3: she said, I use the reshman. I said, we'll go
Speaker 3: on there as she was like, nel, get somebody home.
Speaker 1: But I get it, you know. So it is very
Speaker 1: important that you keep yourself.
Speaker 3: Covered through every storm, every up, down, side to side,
Speaker 3: whatever it is, because we have those days, yes, and
Speaker 3: especially when're coming home, because you don't know what dropping energy.
Speaker 1: Yes, honey, that's why I'm very particular about who I like.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, everybody's been on this sofa is someone
Speaker 2: that I trust, I love and that I know is
Speaker 2: going to bring good energy and not leave any residue.
Speaker 1: And come on.
Speaker 3: Because today when I was getting hand I said, God,
Speaker 3: whatever this hairstyle is coming in with I asked that
Speaker 3: you throw it at this got what I've gotten asleep.
Speaker 1: I'm very asked my team.
Speaker 3: I'll be like, uh uh, let's get that right.
Speaker 2: So thank you again, you guys, thank you so much
Speaker 2: for tuning into this episode of Keep It Positive. Sweetie.
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Speaker 2: stopping by for you. You are going places, thank you,
Speaker 2: and I cannot to see where you go so so much.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Oh my gosh.