WEBVTT - Pretty Confident with Pretty Vee 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:10.960 Hey, guys, welcome to this episode. 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:14.040 To keep it positive, sweetie, Today I have the beautiful, 0:00:14.120 --> 0:00:17.360 the talented, the funny, Pretty V. We are talking about 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:19.320 all things pretty confident with Pretty V. 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:21.239 What's up saying what they do? 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:23.520 Said, Oh my. 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:25.840 Goodness, thank you so much for having me. I'm so 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:28.760 happy for me to be here. Your energy is always 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:32.240 like ten, but just in a way of just grace, 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:37.239 you're poise, just the love for just us as influencers 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:40.520 and just just supporting me. It was it's always warm 0:00:40.520 --> 0:00:41.720 when I met you at Shilows. 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:44.000 Yes, just thank you for having me, you know, thank 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:47.200 you for coming. Seriously. I like to start the show 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:51.280 with a quote or song, and I had this quote 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:53.199 that I want to read because this morning you called 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:55.640 me said, hey, Sis, I'm not wording, I'll makeup period. 0:00:55.640 --> 0:00:57.720 And I was like, all right, we should like either 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:02.120 let's do it, you know, in solidarity together. And I 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:04.840 found this quote and it made me think of what 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:08.600 we're doing today and just being ourselves, raw and unfiltered. 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:11.959 And it says everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:15.839 Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:18.800 is God's handwriting. The beauty of a woman is not 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:21.280 in a facial mode, but the true beauty of a 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:23.080 woman is reflected in her soul. 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:23.880 Wow. 0:01:24.040 --> 0:01:26.080 And I saw that and I was like, that reminds 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:27.559 me of what we're bodying today. 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:31.120 Yeah, you know, no makeup on when I say nothing 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:34.000 like we can right, look when it can be just 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:36.199 like yes. 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:38.600 I love it. So thank you for helping me to 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:39.600 just embrace that today. 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:39.880 Yeah. 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:42.000 And I wanted to do that because I felt like, 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:43.480 like I said, my makeup art is here with me, 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:47.400 but we usually do these little little touchups with concealers 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:49.760 and stuff like that. But I was like, you know what, 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:51.840 I just want to at this point, I'm running late, 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:52.920 you know, you. 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:55.200 Know, I don't want to like drive the time. 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:57.840 So I'm like, my skin is doing better because I 0:01:57.840 --> 0:01:59.680 always break out, like it depends on what I eat, 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:02.240 and so I'm like, you know what, my skin is 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:03.760 doing good. Let's just work out. 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:05.240 I'm pretty sure Crystal understand. 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:07.440 So, honey, you actually made my morning. I was like, look, 0:02:07.600 --> 0:02:08.760 that's one last thing I gotta do. 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:12.600 That's right. Look, So to that, I say, thank you. Yeah, yeah, 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:13.240 it's period. 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:15.280 Oh my goodness. So we mentioned that you met me. 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:17.720 We met each other at Shiloh High School. We did 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:21.280 a panel together speaking to young women in high school 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:25.160 kids just about life and things that they need to 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:27.400 look out for and how to help them navigate because 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:29.720 things are a lot different than when we were growing up. Yeah, 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:32.720 it's just changed so much with social media at a 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:33.880 very young age. 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:36.040 And when I met you, I was like, oh my gosh, 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:37.520 she's so cool, Like. 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:41.440 She's a girl's girl, super supportive, grounded in your faith. 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:45.080 And immediately like, okay, let's connect, like stay in contact 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:48.880 and you send me devotionals very regularly, and I appreciate that. 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:50.400 So I just want to say thank you for that. 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:55.240 So let's take it back to the beginning when you 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:57.560 were born in the church, a preacher's kid. 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:02.520 What was that like my whole life. M let's be 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:02.959 very clear. 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:06.680 My mama has been praying down in the closet in 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:10.160 the car right, don't care where she at, she gonna 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:12.600 speak out loud. I love it. I watched my mom 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:18.000 faith heightened over the years, you know, especially with my brother. 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:20.920 When my brother got into a big motorcycle accident and 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:22.520 a doctor said, honey, your son has. 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:23.240 Seventy two hours to live. 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:25.280 So Mama said, why I got seventy two hours fast? 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:29.399 I know, you know, so just for her to believe 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:33.679 in someone that's not here, but his spirit is here, 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:36.400 we have to keep that faith. Yeah. So my mom 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:40.320 been ordained for like uh ten years, right, But my 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:43.720 whole life she's been in the Word and been a 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:46.960 leader you know, for God too. So I just admire 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:49.280 that about her. So growing up, of course I'm Jamaican, 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:52.440 So yeah, it was very strict both parents. Yes, you know, 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:54.760 you gotta be something, you gotta do this. You can't 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:57.960 depend on this person. No, man, it was a whole 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:00.520 shing digging since it is day, you know, just growing 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:02.440 up it's so hard because you want to make your 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:05.080 parents proud, you know, you want to make sure they 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:08.240 they're happy with your decisions. So it was, it was, 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:10.320 it was hard, but it was I love what how 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:12.560 I've been, how I was raised. I love how my 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:15.680 parents raised me because I'm here, I'm I'm I'm quick 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:17.280 to spie out when people not don't like me. 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:18.240 I'm a kid, a spot up. 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:20.960 My discernment is always on one hundred, you know. So 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:24.400 but that's been taught, you know, So I didn't have 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:27.080 no issue. It's just like it's just always let me 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:28.960 do this. Mom was like, well no, because you can't 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:29.920 do what they do. 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:30.960 You know, and. 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:37.360 Right, so right, So I grew up and says trying 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:39.440 to do my thing with no one like I have 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:41.880 a mother that sees and gets it. 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:43.520 And I used to always feel like. 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:46.960 If I if my mother said don't do this, and 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:49.919 it's like, well, this is what makes me happy, you know, 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:54.280 and I want to do this, but she sees something 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:55.360 that I don't see. 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:57.360 But sometimes we try it and. 0:04:57.279 --> 0:04:59.360 She like, well you you, I broke up what I 0:04:59.360 --> 0:04:59.680 told you. 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:01.160 It wasn't for you, Like. 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:03.200 We want to move on that, but not knowing like 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:06.680 they have discernment too, you know, and sometimes we're not 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:07.440 using our gift. 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:09.200 We just want to make fleshy decisions. 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:12.840 So it's a little hard to this day, especially when 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:16.440 it's industry Like, it's tough because you want to make 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:19.520 those moves and make those moments happen, and your mother 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:22.279 voices in your head like IM, get up off that 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:28.040 man couch, don't need to be there. So it's those moments. 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:31.880 But I've gotten better with moving with my own discernment 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:35.960 and moving with my own spirit, because my mom is 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:38.680 gonna love me regardless. She's gonna say I told you 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:40.840 so when you go out there, just call me back 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:41.479 when it you know. 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:43.520 So that's how she is, you know. 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:47.599 So speaking of that mother's voice, I know for me 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:49.960 being in this industry as well and being a child 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:53.680 that was raising the church. My mother's a pastor as well, 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:58.960 and that's right, yes, And it was one of those 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:01.919 things where like now I still struggle with certain scenes. 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:06.560 Mm ooh yeah, you know skit right. 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:07.839 So I want to ask you what is that like 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:09.839 for you? Because I know for me, like I actually 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:11.960 had to have a conversation with my parents and with 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:15.080 my pastors, you know, about certain spiritual conflicts that I 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:18.080 was having. It started to arise, especially as I began 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:20.800 to like strengthen my own walk with God. Yeah, certain 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:22.840 things were like, Okay, this is not who you are, 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:25.080 but this is what you're portraying. Yeah, and I'm like, 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:27.359 what am I wrong for portraying this? So do you 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:29.680 ever have like instances where you hear your mom's voice 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:32.159 or where you're conflicted with like should I do this kid? 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:33.680 Or should I do this role? Yeah? 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:37.320 I mean my mua could tell you cause that's like 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:41.560 my sister, like all day every day, cause it's always 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:45.000 we all as creators, we're always thinking about something over 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:47.440 the top. Yes, that's someone in doing So if we're 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:49.800 gonna do, are gonna walck a g string and walk 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:52.160 around the street, then that's what we gonna walk around 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:53.400 cauld We want to get them hits. You know, we 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:55.039 want people to look at us when people to laugh. 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:57.280 You just wanna you just want to be bold and 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:00.800 daring like we are. But we gotta understand, like, let's 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:03.839 pull back, cause you do represent something, Yes, you do 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:07.240 represent grace, you do represent Oh, a woman in this 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:09.520 industry is trying to break through. I don't wanna be 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:12.360 just a skit girl. That's why I've vered off and 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:14.480 did the TV hosting ver it off and do the 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:17.360 red carpet hosting in movies. But I still have a 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:19.920 love for what I do, and that's skits because I 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:22.360 do have a fan base on social media that wants 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:24.840 to see me in that element on the table playing 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:28.800 characters doing this. So I I used to send my 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:31.280 mom the videos like mam no, go my page cause 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:34.120 I got me and Dancy just fall in the street 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:36.760 and he doesn't you know I done ran him over? Yes, 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:39.280 don't text me time, I don't watch this and you 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:42.320 gotta you know, so if that's not good in y'all spirit, 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:45.120 don't post it, you know. So, So then they hit 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:48.320 it like that and I'm like, yeah, so it makes 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:49.400 me feel like okay, like what. 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:51.000 I'm doing is it good? 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:51.440 Is it? 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:51.720 This? 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:53.480 Is it that? Then I have to sit it with 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:55.720 myself and say, no, your call to do that. You 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:56.560 just gotta know how to. 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:57.560 Balance that it's good. 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:01.720 You gotta know what's gonna be bothering you at night. 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:04.680 If that's bothering you, take it down or how do 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:06.800 you need to just change it up to make it 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:08.720 make sense for you? So you don't have to have 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:11.040 that in your spirit or in your heart like what 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:12.760 am I supposed to do? Am I doing something right? 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:13.200 Or I'm not? 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:15.520 So I just try to just like move with my 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:18.680 own spirited, own discernment. So if it's bad, I know, 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:20.200 like I could take it down like that's not good. 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:22.120 But if it's something that I know like okay, this 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:24.920 is cool, Like it's bad, but it's still like okay, 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:27.160 they gonna get it, you know, because it's something to 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:30.160 elevate like I can't me and dess ain't gonna be 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:31.920 pulling my hand in a street like this is twenty 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:35.280 twenty four. We did that twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:37.560 just for those moments to see that we are a 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:38.640 relatable brand. 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:40.880 You know, that's what goes on in the hood. 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:43.960 You know, girls fighting, they baby daddy and yelling and 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:47.800 doing all that. So I've taught what we portray is 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:51.520 what we speak into existence. Because when I had COVID, 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:53.319 I just told this to yesterday. When I had COVID, 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:56.679 well before I had COVID, we need to skit at McDonald's. 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:58.240 And I was he was like, man, I said, well, 0:08:58.320 --> 0:08:59.880 y'all to ask at He was like, he was like 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:02.160 and he said something like I'm home, and I said why, 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:05.240 I'm positive. Two weeks later I got COVID. 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:06.520 Wow, that was down. 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:10.760 Back the power of the time. So I'm like, I 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:13.480 have to really speak life into what I do, but 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:16.520 still be creative, still do your thing, but know that 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:19.600 you gotta move a little different. They still gonna catch it. 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:22.040 You funny. That's not gonna change, absolutely right. 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:23.720 It's gonna catch it, but kind of move a little 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:26.360 different because what you didn't back then you can't do 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:28.040 now because you elevating. 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:32.120 That is so true. Yeah, I found that even as 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:34.320 I began to elevate, and the friends that we have 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:37.680 around us, yeah, who don't understand sometimes like we can't 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:39.920 do what we used to do, you know, because they 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:42.560 they don't understand that you're moving at a different page. Yeah, 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:44.680 and like even like posting, like while we're out, we 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:47.600 can't post in real time. We can't do certain things. 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:52.520 Yeah, you know, because everybody's watching and they want to 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:53.240 know where you're at. 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:54.320 And for me, I. 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:58.560 Play characters, right, I have peanup mom, was a single mother, bobo, 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:02.800 ghetto girl, Sharon, all these different characters and sometimes too 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:05.960 people to understand with the mind. You have to know 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:08.960 how to control those things, right, you have to. So 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:12.240 I can't always be like, well, i'm'a post this skid 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:13.920 and think this. No, I have to really sit with 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:16.400 myself to know, like do I wanna bring this character out? 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:18.120 You know, because those are outlets. 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:21.720 I've watched Tyler Perry's documentary and talked about him creating 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:24.680 these moments, and the greatest thing about creators we have 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:26.800 to learn how to get out of those moments because 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:28.920 some people stay in those characters. Some people really be 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:32.640 acting like share on all day and it's like, maybe 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:35.400 that's just for thirty seconds of my time, right, But 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:37.160 I have to understand too, if I wanna bring these 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:40.080 characters alive on stage, then it's gonna be every day. 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:42.480 It's a five city tour tensity to you dont have 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:45.520 to master that. So I'm in a space of mastering 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:48.840 those skits, mastering my characters, but also putting them on 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:51.520 a stage where they belong because we give in social 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:56.560 media free content, right, and so it's time for my 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:59.000 time to be wrapped around those lines and those buildings, 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:01.880 for them to see me and Meyer Tyler period, because 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:05.000 that's what my characters one day will be, you know, 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:08.640 like on those women shows, those those big life stage 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:12.680 because it's it's it's time. Yeah, So I'm moving room 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:14.720 for those moments to enter in because I could do 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:16.719 get a girl skits all day, I could dance for 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:18.840 y'all's work for y'all, do all that stuff because it's 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:21.800 not gonna stop. But it's time to say, you know, what, 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:23.760 what are you gonna do with these four or five characters? 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:26.880 That you have and how are you going to you know, 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:31.520 monetize the right way and turn the funny into money, 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:33.960 you know, which I have. But it's more now, like, 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:36.679 let's use these characters so people can see me on 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:38.320 the you know, on the live stage. 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:41.680 So yeah, you're ready for it. Yes, I'm excited for it. 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:43.600 It's happening. Yeah, that's excited. 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:46.680 So many young girls look up to us. So what 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:49.880 are you and just talking about how you're looking to 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:53.240 the next level? What are you doing to separate pretty 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:56.319 v and how people can't differentiate your different characters? 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:58.520 Let me see you like, oh be so on to 0:11:58.840 --> 0:11:59.240 can you be this? 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:02.680 Oh lord all day? Right, because I'm like, I'm not Fatima. 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:05.679 Look come on, you know I'm as act eat and 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:06.840 I don't want to be Bubba. 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:09.839 Right hello, come on? How do you differentiate and how 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:13.040 do you also set an example for young girls? 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:13.480 Like what is it? 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:15.360 Because I know for me, I have like I am 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:18.680 very particular about making sure that women see me in 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:21.880 a certain light off camera, you know, in my everyday 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:25.040 life and try to inspire them in certain ways, whether 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:28.040 it's my daily Bible reader and daily journaling or working 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:30.560 out things that can help them be better. What do 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:32.599 you do to kind of balance that out? 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:35.000 Well, my life is. 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:41.000 God want you know that's that's that's and some people 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:43.920 don't understand your shape. Your faith could be shaky some days. Right, 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:45.840 So because you, like God, you done did this for 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:49.880 me for the last four five years. This year shaky, Now, 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:51.480 God didn't do I need to change my prayers up 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:51.880 a little bit? 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:55.200 Am I saying? Am I saying the same things? 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:55.400 Not? 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:58.400 You know? So I am. 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:00.920 All my friends can tell you I am godfaring women 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:04.520 do our fall short? I do. But outside of Pretty 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:08.880 v outside of what you guys see, I'm a uh, 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:12.960 a female that loves to help souls. Yeah, I'm a 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:15.520 a girl that's gonna pray down for you, that's gonna 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:19.160 send you devotionals, that's gonna FaceTime you randomly. That's gonna 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:21.560 be speaking life into a teenage girl that I see 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:24.160 on the street or even some someone. Because I have 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:26.800 a organization called the Pretty Victory where I speak to 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:29.120 young girls and young kids all over. We done did 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:31.600 like four or five schools. One was in Seattle, one 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:33.240 was out here in Georgia, and the other ones was 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:36.080 all over the other place. But I do that outside 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:38.600 of what you guys see. Ye, and I I posted 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:40.520 it two times on my page and i'm'a s i'm'a 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:42.640 do that more often so they could see, like this 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:45.880 girl have range. It's not just what you guys see. 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:48.880 And yeah, the acculates, but this gets. But this is 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:51.319 what I'm passionate about because I really do have a 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:54.760 community of women who helped me when I fall short. Yeah, 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:57.640 but for refer I really take the time to say 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:00.240 what everybody needs you do. Yeah, like what's yeah I 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:02.079 got going on In the morning, I'm on FaceTime with 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:04.680 all my girls, were praying down just speaking life and 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:08.559 yeah no period, Like you have to like speaking life 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:12.080 into them because I know that the mind is a 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:17.199 battlefield and if we do not treat it as such, 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:22.239 you will be wandering all over this world. Look without leadership, 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:24.720 and I don't want to be out here with no leadership. 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:26.920 I have to have God with me all. 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:29.840 Throughout the day, even when I don't understand. Sometimes I'm 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:32.000 gonna still say his name because I know he's hearing. 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:33.120 So that's what I do. 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:37.440 Outside of all the noise and commotion, I'm giving back, 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:41.080 you know, and just really focusing on like, Hey, I'm 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:43.840 this age, So what do I do now in this 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:44.720 big age? 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:46.080 Like what do I have going on? 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:48.480 And how is this gonna help me and benefit me 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:52.200 and balance my life? I work out, I write, I read, 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:55.520 I play all day. I'm calling everybody you know, and 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:58.200 I'm working on my internal because that's what matters. 0:14:58.920 --> 0:14:59.080 Yeah. 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:02.040 I love that. And I heard you say, have you 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:05.200 have your nonprofit and organization that you reach out to 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:07.960 younger kids? I love that. And I know a lot 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:09.800 of times when it's your heart work, you don't post 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:11.560 about it. Yep, but it is good for people to 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:13.720 see it, you know, so they can maybe be inspired, 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:15.840 like oh I need to do that, or maybe I 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:17.640 can call her to come to my school. So you 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:20.080 guys heard it here, make sure you hit her up 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:21.720 because I love that. 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:24.440 Yes, and it's been and people don't understand. You can't 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:27.120 speak life unless you okay too. But my thing is, 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:29.120 I don't suppoke the kids. When I wasn't feeling good, 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:31.840 I didn't have anxiety. I've been depressed. I ain't even 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:34.080 I ain't sleep in like months. This was like back 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:37.160 in twenty sixteen when the enemy was just fighting, right, 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:39.560 And sometimes we don't have good days, but we still 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:42.560 get up, we do and speak life because me speaking 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:44.880 life helps me too, because now I'm in my purpose. 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:48.320 Now I'm standing in authority. So now I'm like, Okay, 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:51.040 I got this. You know, I'm this is what I'm 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:53.880 called to do. But back in twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen, 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:57.360 before I came into the industry, I was I ain't 0:15:57.360 --> 0:15:59.360 know what anxiety was. It was just my body was 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:02.720 just hurting depression. My mom un let's open his window, 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:04.880 still in the door every year so we could pray 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:08.720 that out. But God had sometimes, God give put you 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:11.600 through a process before the promise, and that's what I 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:13.360 was going through then. So I I'm able to share 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:16.000 my story and do I have days for sure. But 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:18.680 when I know that I'm called to do something bigger 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:20.960 than me, I just gotta be like, alright, this is 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:23.440 this is this, that's just the enemy God, come on me. 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:24.440 Yes. 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:27.640 Yeah. So what was that transition from two thousand, fifteen 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:30.240 sixteen to is that when you really decided, hey, I 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:32.760 wanna take this serious? M What really helped you get 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:33.480 out of that moment? 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:37.760 Well? For me, well, one, God did, But I when 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:39.560 I was in college, I've always wanted to be in 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:42.560 the entertainment industry, like I've always wanted to be like 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:46.680 La Lah on the radio and Ludacris and Angie Martinez 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:49.040 and we do him cause my passion was radio. And 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:50.600 I went to sitt in aug and Raleigh and I 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:52.200 did all four years and I have my own radio 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:52.720 show called. 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:53.280 Lounge twenty two. 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:55.560 Well we've played nothing with the eighties, nineties, and to days. 0:16:57.440 --> 0:17:00.000 We did all of that, but I was still like, Okay, 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:01.840 what's the plan after Yeah, because you already know how 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:04.400 when you graduate from college, there's no plan. Yeah, it's 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:06.320 hard for me to get into the door. So I 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:08.120 was like, well, I'm not gonna start my own show. 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:08.720 So I did. 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:11.160 And I was with the net station in Charlotte, North Carolina, 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:13.240 and I stopped doing that and I was working in 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:15.560 a building and it was playing so much noise. I 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:16.879 was like, who is playing this music? 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:17.600 I don't wanna know. 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:20.000 So come to find out, now he's the Baby, but 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:24.199 back then he was called Baby Jesus, And I was like, 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:25.760