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Speaker 1: Welcome to money Making Conversations. It's to show that she

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Speaker 1: has the secrets of success experience firsthand by marketing and

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Speaker 1: Brandon expert Rashan McDonald. I will know he's given me

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Speaker 1: hear from my man, Rashan McDonald money making Conversations. Here

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Speaker 1: we come. My guest is Benny Pew. He's a music

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Speaker 1: Well respected in the entertainment industry, he is a veteran

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Speaker 1: indelible mark on the music industry, holding executive roles at Motown,

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Speaker 1: him at Epic Records, m c A Records, you know,

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Speaker 1: just chronicling a career and culminated with the ultimate position

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Speaker 1: in twenty four teen, a dramatic accident and the current

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Speaker 1: in Bennie's life. I'm bringing him on the show for

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Speaker 1: that reason and it is chronicle in his book on Impact.

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Speaker 1: Without further ado, let's listen to the man himself tell

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Speaker 1: his story and why we should understand that when it

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Speaker 1: seems dark, there's always light. Welcome to Money Making Conversations

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Speaker 1: Master Class, Bannie People. Yes, sir, yes, sir, yes, sir. Listen.

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Speaker 1: Let me say this to you, Umshan and I'm listening

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Speaker 1: to you and I was like, wow, who is that right?

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Speaker 1: And then while listening to you and watching looking at

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Speaker 1: it almost feels like one of the mega churches, you know,

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Speaker 1: the wall is the truth, Bro. The wall is what's

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Speaker 1: you for bringing me on here. Man, Thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for your friendship. Thank you so much for your time. Man,

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Speaker 1: and I appreciate it. Well, you know the thing, you know,

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Speaker 1: celebrating five years and money Making Conversation masterclass this month,

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Speaker 1: and so I felt it was just fantastic to bring

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Speaker 1: met Steve Harveying. I was doing local radio the Beat

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Speaker 1: that that we're gonna revisit that story, because I mean,

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Speaker 1: and we got this idea. We got this concept right on.

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Speaker 1: And the first one is the key to building mentor relationships.

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Speaker 1: she taught me about the discipline, She talked me about

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Speaker 1: foundation so now, and she taught me about spirituality so

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Speaker 1: or God. Spirituality is that loose term. We believed in

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Speaker 1: jaw God, in Jesus Christ. Right. So, Um, when I

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Speaker 1: got into music, I never let go my fundamentals to

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Speaker 1: the reason why I last thirty years is because I

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Speaker 1: didn't rush the process. You know, I didn't get invited

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Speaker 1: to every party. I didn't get invited on every boat.

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Speaker 1: I didn't go to every event. But you know what

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Speaker 1: people knew when they came and they sat with me,

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Speaker 1: They need what I said because I was rooted in

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Speaker 1: what I was rooted in the truth. So therefore, you

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Speaker 1: know what they felt comfortable. People recognize, you know, like

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Speaker 1: they say game recognized games, we all recognized real So ultimately,

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Speaker 1: at the end of all of those conversations, cats knew

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Speaker 1: I was gonna be like, Hey, can I get your number?

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Speaker 1: You know? You know, can I come over? Um? You know,

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Speaker 1: you know, what's your little brother doing? What's his number?

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Speaker 1: You know? All of that stuff is about the business.

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Speaker 1: So I always kept it business. And then they had

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Speaker 1: the opportunity whether they wanted to invite me in their life.

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Speaker 1: I was never about trying to be in their life

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Speaker 1: doing business. Well, he wants to invite you into his

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Speaker 1: life with a book called on Impact. Understand the value

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Speaker 1: he brings to the table. When I throw out these names,

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Speaker 1: and I don't casually throw them out. You know him,

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Speaker 1: jay Z, you know her? Rihanna, you know him? Kanye West,

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Speaker 1: do you know him? Travis Scott, Future Tune one, Savage.

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Speaker 1: These names are important in our interestry and they become iconic.

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Speaker 1: The things that bennyp has done behind the scenes are iconic.

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Speaker 1: That's why it's important. If you want to pick up

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Speaker 1: a great read. It's not number one on Amazon by accident.

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Speaker 1: It's number one on Amazon because it's a necessary read.

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Speaker 1: It's a necessary motivational tool. It's a necessary book that

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Speaker 1: would enable you to change your life because we all

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Speaker 1: have dark sides in our life and that dark side

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Speaker 1: is turned by unknown, and unknown should never stop you

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Speaker 1: from reaching your dreams being a peer. As we close

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Speaker 1: this interview, the reason you work. You wrote on Impact

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Speaker 1: was why I wasn't a near death car accident and

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Speaker 1: bulging disc in my back, lacerated liver which led me

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Speaker 1: to lose half my blood supply, and we have to

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Speaker 1: treat so hard that is severed two feet of my

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Speaker 1: small intestine. And in that moment, God put a book

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Speaker 1: inside me called on Impact. An impact is an acronym

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Speaker 1: that stands for intuition, masterly, pivot, authenticity, connection, and teamwork.

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Speaker 1: Those are the pillars of my life. And at the

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Speaker 1: end of each chapter, I put together a hit list

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Speaker 1: of takeaways from from the chapter that people can subscribe to.

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Speaker 1: And at the end of the day, I feel that

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Speaker 1: I can meet every morning where they're at because you know,

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Speaker 1: I've gone from intern to CEO so I feel that

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Speaker 1: I'm the person that you can relate to and also

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Speaker 1: guess what you can learn from just because I've been

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Speaker 1: where you are, my man, bet people, thank you for

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Speaker 1: coming on Money Making Conversation master Class. Let's keep this

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Speaker 1: book number one. Okay, let's Stewart brother. I love it

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Speaker 1: and talk to you soon. All right, We'll be right

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Speaker 1: back with more Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald.

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Speaker 1: You are now tuned into the Money Making Conversations Minute

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Speaker 1: of Inspiration with Rashan McDonald. Hi, I'm Rashan McDonald for

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Speaker 1: Money Making Conversation Masterclass teacher Daily Minute of Inspiration. Recently,

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Speaker 1: I spoke with one of the hosts of HDTVs Marriage

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Speaker 1: Real Estate, Egypt Sharad. She explains to fulfillment that comes

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Speaker 1: with being ourselves in black media. Questions come up even

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Speaker 1: in advisory if you know what I mean? You know what?

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Speaker 1: Do we need to change anything to appeal to the masses?

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Speaker 1: For us the blessing in this entire experience, as no

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Speaker 1: one has asked us to change a thing like I

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Speaker 1: was on the Today Show this morning. In Dreadlocks, I

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Speaker 1: shot a commercial for the Intercontinental Exchange RICE Stock Market

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Speaker 1: and no one asked me to tone down anything on

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Speaker 1: our show. That's very much who we are and our

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Speaker 1: network h G TV loves it just as you are.

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Speaker 1: If you want to listen to this, full interview with

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Speaker 1: Egypt Gerard is available on money Making Conversations dot com.

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Speaker 1: Now let's return to Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rashan McDonald.

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Speaker 1: My guest today is LaToya Luckett. She broke in the

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Speaker 1: industry and saying, you know, I gotta go back on

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Speaker 1: this because you know, we got a little history, my

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Speaker 1: history with her, you know, backing with the iconic girl

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Speaker 1: group that's the child. But I love her for acting.

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Speaker 1: LaToya previously recurring on one of my favorite shows, Owns

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Speaker 1: green Leaf for three seasons. Love this show. She's also

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Speaker 1: a period in recurring roles in Fox Rosewood and HBO's Ballers,

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Speaker 1: another two of my favorite shows. And start with my

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Speaker 1: bar Morris Chestnut, Okay over there and rose Wood and

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Speaker 1: now LaToya luck at Stars as Ken your peers in

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Speaker 1: the newer season of Power Book three, Raising Canaan Aaron

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Speaker 1: Sunday at nine pm Eastern on Stars Plus. I want

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Speaker 1: to get into it with her new YouTube channel show,

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Speaker 1: which I love to death. Leave it to LaToya please

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Speaker 1: working to Money Making Conversations master Class, the one in

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Speaker 1: the owned LaToya Lucky. How you doing, I'm good? How

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Speaker 1: are you first to get to you had a lot

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Speaker 1: to say, which is good? Which is good? You know

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying, because that means you've had a career,

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Speaker 1: which means that this because when we talk about this business,

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Speaker 1: you know, and I'm a fan of your YouTube channel

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Speaker 1: because it tells I think if anybody in the industry

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Speaker 1: wants to know, how does industry work? Because there's no

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Speaker 1: guarantees in this industry and you are an entrepreneur. A

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Speaker 1: lot of people don't know when you become an actor,

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Speaker 1: you basically an entrepreneur because yourself employed. You're going from

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Speaker 1: gig gig people they walk in a room audition, and

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Speaker 1: you don't know if they like you. You You know, you

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Speaker 1: might have killed They said, you know, we want to

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Speaker 1: go with this skinny chick. You know, we want to

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Speaker 1: go with the light of complexion. We want to go

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Speaker 1: with the gel with the long hair, the straight hair,

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Speaker 1: we want to go to go with the silly laugh.

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Speaker 1: But what about Latoria? She killed it? Man. I think

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Speaker 1: I wannach good chick good, but I'd like to do

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Speaker 1: with it. How do you how do you deal with

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Speaker 1: that level of challenges because it's every day and the

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Speaker 1: world we live in, but you've been able to rise

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Speaker 1: above it and build a successful career. I mean, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I can honestly tell you I, as a matter of fact,

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Speaker 1: I just came off of the audition of tests and

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Speaker 1: if you're an actor, you know what the test is. UM.

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Speaker 1: I was so excited about the role and I just

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Speaker 1: as a matter of fact, I was trying out for

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Speaker 1: two roles because I felt like, Okay, I think they

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Speaker 1: really want me to be a part of this because

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Speaker 1: they got me auditioning for two roles and you know,

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Speaker 1: test deal is done, it is done, And then you

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Speaker 1: get the news it didn't go your way, and like wait,

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Speaker 1: what did I do? What did you know? And you

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Speaker 1: just you start to realize the old saying everybody gonna

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Speaker 1: say it was for you? As for you, um, And

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Speaker 1: as much I want to believe that, you know, you

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Speaker 1: still have those moments of disappointment where it's like, but

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Speaker 1: I felt like this was this was mine right? You know,

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Speaker 1: he would go with the tection again. I have to

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Speaker 1: get through that but you know what comes with it,

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Speaker 1: you know, you know, you know, like in football, you're

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Speaker 1: gonna get hit right right right. I think that, Um,

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Speaker 1: you know once once the sting goes away, Uh, you

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Speaker 1: just keep going. You just keep going up and you

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Speaker 1: keep going. It is it the people around you, your

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Speaker 1: support group that has enabled you to sustain the career.

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Speaker 1: And when I've talked like this, I'm not talking in

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Speaker 1: the negative manner. Just young man has had a brilliant

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Speaker 1: career and it will continue to have a brilliant career.

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Speaker 1: But I was just telling that everybody who wants to

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Speaker 1: jump out there and being an actor or sing girl,

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Speaker 1: it's not easy, baby, And you do need a tribe,

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Speaker 1: and you need a whole tribe of folks to believe

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Speaker 1: in you and will continue to continue to encourage you

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Speaker 1: and lift you up when you feel down, and you know,

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Speaker 1: push you back in the room when you want when

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Speaker 1: you're done, when you're kicking and screaming. Um. It is

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Speaker 1: not something that's easy. That's something that you can I

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Speaker 1: just think it's gonna be easy money, it's not. Um.

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Speaker 1: So you know, if the passion is there, if the

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Speaker 1: um work, your work ethic, if it's there, and to

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Speaker 1: be resilient, you have to you have to have all that. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: a good group of folks talk some sense and to

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Speaker 1: you when you're ready done with it. Um. But it's

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Speaker 1: not easy at all, but it's reporting. The payoff is beautiful,

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Speaker 1: beautiful beauty when life is interesting. Because, like I said,

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Speaker 1: my all my degrees in mathematics minor and sociology left

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Speaker 1: IBM pursuing the crowd thought are gonna be the next set?

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Speaker 1: And Murphy definitely the next Richard Prior and I made

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Speaker 1: great headway into the comedic industry as a stand up comedian,

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Speaker 1: and I too was in l A doing my thing,

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Speaker 1: and I decided to move back to Houston to say,

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Speaker 1: you know something, I'm going to be the big fish

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Speaker 1: in the small palm as used and Uh. I opened

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Speaker 1: a comedy club called the Hip Hop Comedy Stop. And

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Speaker 1: it was hot. I mean people were lines around the block.

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Speaker 1: It was hot, it was pop. And that's when I

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Speaker 1: had the first time. Because Matthew knows that they ran

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Speaker 1: into me at the hotels. I got this new singing

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Speaker 1: group they I said, okay, he said, can they come

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Speaker 1: open to your spot? And that's when I had the

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Speaker 1: first pleasure of meeting this talent of the young lady

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Speaker 1: and her friends on that stage, and even then, you know,

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Speaker 1: the politeness and the innocence of being young. There was

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Speaker 1: a unique talent about you that still out there that

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Speaker 1: that resonates today. But you came into the industry the

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Speaker 1: toy as a singer when in your mind you felt

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Speaker 1: I could do more. Um, you know what, I feel

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Speaker 1: like that was a God moment because I remember being

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Speaker 1: asked to come and meet with an agency in New York. Um.

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Speaker 1: I hadn't really done any acting outside of school plays

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Speaker 1: and and they asked me, you know, to uh come

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Speaker 1: down and take a meeting. They sent me on my pcation.

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Speaker 1: I went, I didn't know how to read script I've

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Speaker 1: been on the stage play, but stage plays are very

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Speaker 1: different from on screen. Yeah, and so I especially scripted,

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Speaker 1: and so you know, I just I just said yes,

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Speaker 1: I jumped and when I offered me to do that thing,

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Speaker 1: I did it. And I ended up being cast as

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Speaker 1: the lead in this movie called Preacher's Kid. And that

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Speaker 1: was my first act. So God says lead when he says, go,

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Speaker 1: Baby go, And that was that was the MTV. That

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Speaker 1: was MTV E T and a few other things, because

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Speaker 1: I whole Vidcom family, you know. But you know, the

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Speaker 1: thing about it is that one of the interesting things

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Speaker 1: of me wanting to get you on the show, not

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Speaker 1: only just to promote your role on this hot new

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Speaker 1: series on Stars and Stars, has created this little power universe,

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Speaker 1: like you know, the Marvel Universe and the d C

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Speaker 1: Universe or you have the Power Universe, and now you're

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Speaker 1: part of that power universe. You you know, different than this,

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Speaker 1: you know than the you know, Black Widow. You know,

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Speaker 1: you want of these characters now that they brought into

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Speaker 1: that family, and to know that you're in this power

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Speaker 1: universe that has a certain cashade to it, doesn't it?

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Speaker 1: I think it does. Um. I mean, first of all,

641
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Speaker 1: I'm a huge fan of the show, even before some

642
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Speaker 1: part of Raising Kane, and I was like, oh my god,

643
00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:56,200
Speaker 1: the body of work, the cast what it was a

644
00:34:56,239 --> 00:34:59,879
Speaker 1: little stating um the first season and going okay, how

645
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Speaker 1: where do I fit even even what your body worked

646
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Speaker 1: now you can say casually because you gotta you gotta

647
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Speaker 1: resume now as an actress, Okay, but even still watching,

648
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Speaker 1: you know, watching them in these roles, I was just

649
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Speaker 1: kind of like, Wow, this is outstanding work. And it

650
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Speaker 1: was a period piece of UM, which is my favorite

651
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Speaker 1: favorite era. Come in and buckle down and give everything

652
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Speaker 1: that I had at the time to this character. And

653
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:39,719
Speaker 1: because she has such a complex story to tell, I

654
00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:43,080
Speaker 1: felt like her story was one that people would in

655
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Speaker 1: some ways be able to relate to be quick to judge,

656
00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:51,560
Speaker 1: um and also UM that you know, I was having

657
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:55,319
Speaker 1: a trouble with seeing why she made the decisions that

658
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Speaker 1: she made, especially as a mother too, and her being

659
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Speaker 1: a mom that abandoned her daughter right. And one of

660
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Speaker 1: the it was the singer wanted to pursue a singing career,

661
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Speaker 1: you know, I mean for singing career, you know, a

662
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:12,080
Speaker 1: lot of levels, but on more, you know, on on

663
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Speaker 1: other levels, we just didn't get it. Um. But I

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Speaker 1: just I still felt like even with all of that,

665
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Speaker 1: her story deserved to be told in a very special

666
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Speaker 1: way and amongst beautiful a beautiful cast. UM. So being

667
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Speaker 1: a part of the Power universe is some something that

668
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:36,879
Speaker 1: I can say I am truly proud of and excited about. Well,

669
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Speaker 1: when they gave you a character that has a lot

670
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Speaker 1: of levels, you said that you know, you know, and

671
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Speaker 1: then let me just explain to everybody about when you

672
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Speaker 1: see a lot of levels. Okay, the character abandoned its child, Okay,

673
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Speaker 1: abandons child. That right there, you hear the word selfish. Okay, selfish.

674
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Speaker 1: Then the character comes back into the city, ignores the child,

675
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Speaker 1: then cares a life of a religious flavor, as they say,

676
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:09,520
Speaker 1: found God, but not flavor. I would say flavor because

677
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm gonna say, flavor Latoria because of

678
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Speaker 1: the fact that we know your past. So I don't

679
00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:20,920
Speaker 1: think you can find God without about acknowledging what you've done.

680
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Speaker 1: But that's the that's the layers of your character, which

681
00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:26,440
Speaker 1: I love. And so because you know and then knowing

682
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Speaker 1: who you are from Houston, Texas, southern here going up

683
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Speaker 1: to New York and get that accent right, talk to

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Speaker 1: us about that if that was that was one thing

685
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Speaker 1: that I struggle that I had this um coach and

686
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:46,759
Speaker 1: um he was very with me, and I was like,

687
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Speaker 1: this is such a big piece of her. I cannot um,

688
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:55,960
Speaker 1: I cannot allow that to be swept under the rug.

689
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Speaker 1: This has to be this has to be great, you know,

690
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:07,239
Speaker 1: distract distraction from her character. And so they were like, no, no,

691
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Speaker 1: what is suddenly you're a come from now, don't you know?

692
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 1: I'm so glad um that I was able to nail

693
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Speaker 1: that down a bit and also made it fun. You know,

694
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Speaker 1: it also made it fun. We'll be right back with

695
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:28,600
Speaker 1: more Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald. Now, let's

696
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Speaker 1: return to Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rashan McDonald. What

697
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Speaker 1: the thing about is, uh, you have to use your authenticity,

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Speaker 1: you know. And one thing about New Yorkers don't don't

699
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Speaker 1: play with don't play with them folks up there, Okay,

700
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Speaker 1: don't play don't don't you start getting on them Burrows,

701
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Speaker 1: the Brooklyn queens and Bronks and and you acting like

702
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Speaker 1: you you're talking with a half of accent or non accent.

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Speaker 1: They will strike you down the place to play with

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Speaker 1: anything Like if if I was, you know, in New

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Speaker 1: York could come in to play a Southerner, we might

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Speaker 1: give a little growths that, you know, we're just a

707
00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:09,600
Speaker 1: little warmer down here, right right right. But I do

708
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Speaker 1: going into this that I had to get that particular

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Speaker 1: accent right. They didn't. They trold you. They will trolly.

710
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:21,680
Speaker 1: I lived in New York twice, so I know exactly

711
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Speaker 1: how hard they would have trolled you. I'm talking to

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Speaker 1: LaToya luck At, the star of so many series of

713
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:29,440
Speaker 1: incredible singer launched your career many years ago back in

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Speaker 1: the city of Houston, Texas. I was fortunate to be

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Speaker 1: there to see her in the early stages of greatness

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Speaker 1: and then watch her over the years. And it's the

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00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:38,560
Speaker 1: first time I'm interviewing that. So I feel like, you know,

718
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:40,839
Speaker 1: everything's life is like that. It gives you a chance

719
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:44,600
Speaker 1: to see people and then to say congratulations because when

720
00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:48,080
Speaker 1: you have a career that she has has succeeded, because

721
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Speaker 1: you know, everybody want to be some form of you.

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Speaker 1: And that's why I started the conversation about the the

723
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Speaker 1: the You can get these one off, you might start

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Speaker 1: one series, you might get this five and under, you

725
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Speaker 1: might get this commercial, but you have a career, Dolata. People,

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Speaker 1: when I say that, you know, who do you think

727
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Speaker 1: the most? Who do I think the most? Oh man,

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Speaker 1: there's so many people to think. I would first say

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Speaker 1: thanks to God. Period um he I mean, I've been

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Speaker 1: showing out when I tell you, showing up enough blows

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Speaker 1: my mind consistently every day my mom for her to

732
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Speaker 1: be a woman of faith and to have the courage

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Speaker 1: to almost get out of the way in a low

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Speaker 1: and get out of the way, and not put her

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Speaker 1: beliefs or what she thought I should be, and just

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Speaker 1: allow me to be young age. I've started to pursue

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Speaker 1: my career at twelve. I left home at you know,

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Speaker 1: to to pursue my career and traveling on the road

739
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Speaker 1: with des shall at well. So, Um, that takes a

740
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Speaker 1: very that's a that's a different kind of faith. Um.

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Speaker 1: So I'm so grateful to her. The tribe that God

742
00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:17,759
Speaker 1: has put around me of wonderful people who are of

743
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Speaker 1: my heart, who on a daily literally lift me up

744
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:27,320
Speaker 1: in prayer, send an encouraging word. Um, I am so blessed.

745
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:34,200
Speaker 1: But these phenomenal people around me, who I mean, stay

746
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:39,120
Speaker 1: on me and for just beautiful experiences that God has

747
00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:44,040
Speaker 1: allowed me to have, um good and bad, um which

748
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:49,000
Speaker 1: all ended up working for my good. Oh yeah, She's

749
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Speaker 1: starting in the Power Book three raising Kanan Aaron Sunday's

750
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:56,000
Speaker 1: at nine pm Eastern Standard Time. Not only that, but

751
00:41:56,120 --> 00:42:01,680
Speaker 1: she's also starring in her own production of honesty, a

752
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:07,480
Speaker 1: motivation of of lifting information called Leave It to LaToya.

753
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:10,239
Speaker 1: It's a YouTube series got roughly by the hundred and

754
00:42:10,280 --> 00:42:13,880
Speaker 1: twenty six thousand subscribers and growing. If you want to subscribe,

755
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:17,000
Speaker 1: please go to the channel right now and subscribe. And

756
00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:19,399
Speaker 1: so when I when I look at this, first of all,

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Speaker 1: I want to know my first question is gonna be

758
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Speaker 1: before I get into any questions, why did you do this?

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00:42:25,719 --> 00:42:27,919
Speaker 1: I didn't because I feel like people need a safe

760
00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:32,200
Speaker 1: space to come and feel like they're not alone, that

761
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:35,000
Speaker 1: there's someone out there who has been through something like

762
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:44,279
Speaker 1: what's there UM and didn't give up. I am a divorced,

763
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Speaker 1: single mom of two UM who comes from a divorced

764
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:58,360
Speaker 1: family in a very complex industry and still remain positive

765
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:04,360
Speaker 1: and humble and UM still wanting to believe the good

766
00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:09,440
Speaker 1: and everything. So I feel like the show allows me

767
00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:11,680
Speaker 1: a space is very therapist feutic for me by the

768
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Speaker 1: way UM allows me to be me, allows people to

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Speaker 1: see me for me and UM just to just be.

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Speaker 1: But you know, to me, you know, I'm with it

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Speaker 1: and the laugh abouself some time and cry And do

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Speaker 1: you do a lot of crying? Now? You do a

773
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Speaker 1: lot of crying that I'm a lot of my crying.

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Speaker 1: You cried again, girl, cried again. But you look good

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Speaker 1: when you cried. You have a good looking cry. I'm

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Speaker 1: an ugly cry. I'm an ugly cry. I forgot to

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Speaker 1: ask this one question. I gotta go back to the

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Speaker 1: raising kanan playing a playing a series this gangster guns,

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00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:52,239
Speaker 1: people dying, people getting killed. Now, you've never done that

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00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:54,520
Speaker 1: on TV before, at least I never, so I think

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00:43:54,560 --> 00:43:58,160
Speaker 1: I've watched everything you've done. How did that? How did that?

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00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:02,480
Speaker 1: How did that whole approached to coming into a series

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00:44:02,560 --> 00:44:06,200
Speaker 1: that's tied to violence? How did they how did they

784
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:10,040
Speaker 1: sink into your mind? That was a lot because I

785
00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:13,160
Speaker 1: normally don't do well with shows like that and watching

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Speaker 1: them because I'm a very sensitive person. Even that's the

787
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:22,279
Speaker 1: first season, I was like, oh no, um, but I

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Speaker 1: you know what I watched. I heard as I was

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Speaker 1: as traumatized as I thought I would be really enjoying

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00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:36,960
Speaker 1: the show. Um, and it was something different for me.

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Speaker 1: It was very different for me. Like you said, I'm

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Speaker 1: a soft and fuss, I'm a busy you know, rom

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Speaker 1: com I want you on the wrong camp. But I

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Speaker 1: watched the Netflix got me. Netflix got me on the

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Speaker 1: romantic comedy. I watched them all the time. Now that

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Speaker 1: the reason I'm gonna telling everybody I cheated a little

797
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Speaker 1: bit on this interview everybody because she I went to

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Speaker 1: her series and then one of the episodes called high

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Speaker 1: Landing My Highlight My Powerful New Role is an episode,

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Speaker 1: and so some of the questions I got were not

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Speaker 1: the questions they sent me or from what she openly

802
00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:19,759
Speaker 1: and honestly talked about her career, the trusting, the process, uh,

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Speaker 1: sometimes losing faith and realizing the faith they left you.

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00:45:23,520 --> 00:45:28,000
Speaker 1: You left faith, okay, um, realizing that just because you

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00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:31,520
Speaker 1: got something that me is guaranteed. All this is in

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Speaker 1: this one less than twelve minute interview. You know this,

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Speaker 1: this confessional, this twilve minutes. This usually getting this in

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00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:42,319
Speaker 1: an hour. She cried, she laughed, She talked about losing

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Speaker 1: one of the best friends. This is what I'm talking about.

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Speaker 1: If this is like must see YouTube television and this

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Speaker 1: is one episode, it's like she does a combination of

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00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:56,719
Speaker 1: five levels. She guys these jad whoop ear rings on,

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Speaker 1: and she keeps fiddling with him because one goes this way,

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Speaker 1: she puts an in to go the other way. It's

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Speaker 1: just it's just I'm telling I watched one thing. I

816
00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:08,000
Speaker 1: don't do LaToya when people come to this show. I

817
00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:10,759
Speaker 1: don't ask these generic questions because I think it's offensive.

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00:46:11,440 --> 00:46:13,960
Speaker 1: I want everybody to know that I'm just honored for

819
00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:16,680
Speaker 1: a talent of your caliper coming on my show. So

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Speaker 1: I have to be the most respectful part and let

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Speaker 1: them know that I respected so much that I'm going

822
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Speaker 1: to give my time to have a clear understanding of

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Speaker 1: what you're doing in your life. And this whole YouTube

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00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:31,719
Speaker 1: channel called leave It to LaToya so YouTube and the

825
00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:35,080
Speaker 1: honest journey that you go through each episode, it's incredible,

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Speaker 1: you know, confronting my absent father, having a conversation with

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Speaker 1: my ex. Wow, you for real, LaToya. It's a lot.

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Speaker 1: It's a lot. It's it's a lot. Yeah, But I

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Speaker 1: feel it's necessary in order for us to grow and

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Speaker 1: and living our truth, are honest to God truth. M

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Speaker 1: that it takes some stretching, It takes getting uncomfortable, It

832
00:47:01,719 --> 00:47:07,839
Speaker 1: takes you know, asking those very um complicated questions um

833
00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:11,880
Speaker 1: that you might not be ready for the answer for um.

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Speaker 1: It takes all of that in order for us to grow. Right.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I feel it's necessary. Okay, now, because I

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Speaker 1: love reading comments, you know, and I think that that

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00:47:23,120 --> 00:47:25,640
Speaker 1: that you know, that that drives why you should do

838
00:47:25,719 --> 00:47:29,800
Speaker 1: things that you're also tells you what people are really

839
00:47:30,080 --> 00:47:34,000
Speaker 1: motivated about when you do that. And so in reading

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00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:37,200
Speaker 1: these comments, I've realized how much you know your fan

841
00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:40,360
Speaker 1: but you have such a Laurel fan base first of all. Secondly,

842
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:44,799
Speaker 1: how much you know that I'm not telling you nothing.

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00:47:44,840 --> 00:47:47,960
Speaker 1: You know. The one thing about you know the social media,

844
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Speaker 1: and I see I respect even to subscribe as a

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00:47:51,040 --> 00:47:53,480
Speaker 1: little bit more on social media, because that's a clearly

846
00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:57,319
Speaker 1: commitment when people subscribe on YouTube or subscribe to a

847
00:47:57,320 --> 00:47:59,960
Speaker 1: fan club. Because sometimes you can just like a Hamburg

848
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:03,000
Speaker 1: or not really mean they like you, or like a flower,

849
00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:05,280
Speaker 1: like you in a bikini, or like you in a trip.

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Speaker 1: They don't mean they really like you, They're just like

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Speaker 1: that moment. And so so when I'm reading YouTube, it

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Speaker 1: really gives me an honest sense of who cares about you,

853
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Speaker 1: and I think that's really important and how you're affecting people.

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Speaker 1: So what is the future of leave it to your LaToya? Well,

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Speaker 1: we're working on season two right now. I'm super excited

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Speaker 1: about that. I think it's one of the things that

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Speaker 1: will um just file. It's a legacy moment for me,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Either earth, that content will

859
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Speaker 1: still be here and people will get to hear me,

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Speaker 1: see me, get to know me UM, and I think

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Speaker 1: that that's important. I think it's a part of leaving

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Speaker 1: my mark. Uh So we're working on UM season two.

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Speaker 1: You said we Okay, now you say the word we

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Speaker 1: assuming like I know or who is the week there

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Speaker 1: we go about people you know, they know you, but

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Speaker 1: we we use your cousin that the village. That's what

867
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Speaker 1: I say awesome because again, you know, when I look

868
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Speaker 1: at the shows, I when I was watching the episode

869
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Speaker 1: a boy confronting my absent father, I have to wear

870
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Speaker 1: ask one question. Well, the big question is why, and

871
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Speaker 1: then the second big question is what did you get

872
00:49:24,080 --> 00:49:27,200
Speaker 1: out of it personally? Because I know it's a message

873
00:49:27,200 --> 00:49:30,360
Speaker 1: to understand some form of forgiveness or some formal understand,

874
00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:33,080
Speaker 1: some form of closure that people have to have in

875
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Speaker 1: their life. But for you to take on that responsibility,

876
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Speaker 1: you know, this is not no, no, big daytime talk show.

877
00:49:40,680 --> 00:49:43,160
Speaker 1: This is an intimate moment where you said, you know something.

878
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Speaker 1: All right, I'm going out of my way because that's

879
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Speaker 1: what Because this is decision. Nobody's pitching in the room here.

880
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Speaker 1: You know something. We got this hot daytime talking show.

881
00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:52,279
Speaker 1: We want to bring your dad. They on, No, this

882
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Speaker 1: is something you decided you wanted to do. Why I

883
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Speaker 1: I needed that more than ever. Um. I got a

884
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Speaker 1: lot of questions answered. There was so much helling in

885
00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:13,600
Speaker 1: that moment um, and we both came with open hearts

886
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Speaker 1: and a listening to here. Um the accountability was there.

887
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Speaker 1: Um the UM. I feel like the transparency on my

888
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Speaker 1: father's side and me really getting to kind of go

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Speaker 1: back in time too, when he was twenty four and

890
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Speaker 1: having to make some real adult decisions. Although you know,

891
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Speaker 1: yes he was a father and he was a husband,

892
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Speaker 1: he was also still coming into his own and so

893
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Speaker 1: did he make the best decisions Maybe not, but for

894
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Speaker 1: a person his age, I just feel like I had

895
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Speaker 1: to show him some grace. I had to understanding, you know,

896
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Speaker 1: I had to present some understanding as to why my

897
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Speaker 1: father made some of the decisions that he made. But

898
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Speaker 1: I think because he was so open and so transparent

899
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Speaker 1: and so, you know, he was just showing up with

900
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Speaker 1: all this accountability. The wall of of I did what

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Speaker 1: I did and get over it was down, you know,

902
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Speaker 1: he I there was some trust developed there because he

903
00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:33,359
Speaker 1: was being so honest in that moment um, and I

904
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Speaker 1: just felt it was necessary. I felt there's so many

905
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Speaker 1: people out there that have this built up unforgiveness, bitterness

906
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:45,040
Speaker 1: towards people in their lives or in their experience, that

907
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Speaker 1: if they just would have an honest conversation, UM, and

908
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Speaker 1: hopefully a mature conversation, that they would get the answers

909
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Speaker 1: they need and you know, be able to push forward

910
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Speaker 1: and move on um and not hope that bitterness because

911
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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, that's killing us, you

912
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Speaker 1: know what I mean, that the weight of that is

913
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Speaker 1: killing us. And I just was hoping that through my

914
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Speaker 1: conversation somebody would be bold enough and you know, have

915
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Speaker 1: the courage to finally have the conversation that needed to

916
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Speaker 1: take place between themselves and their loved one. Well, ladies

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Speaker 1: and gentlemen, I had the fortunate opportunity to see h

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Speaker 1: a rose starting to bloom, and over the years I've

919
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Speaker 1: seen it bro and it's become a garden, a gardener showcase,

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Speaker 1: She's from Houston, Texas, but she talks like a New Yorker.

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Speaker 1: Ken your pears and I want to thank you for

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Speaker 1: coming on my show, money Making Conversation masks wonderful interview.

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Speaker 1: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed it,

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Speaker 1: because you are truly, truly talented. H thank you so

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Speaker 1: much and thank you for your time. It's so good

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Speaker 1: to see you. Awesome. We talked soon. Anytime you need me,

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