1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,000 Speaker 1: I want to make timeless music. I want to sell 2 00:00:02,040 --> 00:00:04,720 Speaker 1: out arenas. I want to travel and connect with people 3 00:00:04,720 --> 00:00:05,960 Speaker 1: that are connecting with the music. 4 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:08,039 Speaker 2: What advice would you give to women who are constantly 5 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:09,560 Speaker 2: being told like you're too much, or you've got too 6 00:00:09,640 --> 00:00:12,800 Speaker 2: much energy, or too much of this too much for 7 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:17,560 Speaker 2: Naika is a French Haitian global artist. She exudes confidence, femininity, 8 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:21,280 Speaker 2: and power. Her music celebrates identity, freedom and self expression, 9 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:24,759 Speaker 2: and she has been on my Spotify playlist every single day. 10 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:29,240 Speaker 1: I love that journey of tapping into my femininity, my woman. 11 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:32,520 Speaker 1: It's something that has always fascinated to me. Female sensuality 12 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:35,320 Speaker 1: is something that I always loved and connected with from 13 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:37,680 Speaker 1: a very young age. I think also, we live in 14 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:40,400 Speaker 1: a world that wants to dim that and make us 15 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:43,200 Speaker 1: feel embarrassed or too much. When I'm at my shows 16 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:45,200 Speaker 1: and I see the audience and I see the people, 17 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:47,880 Speaker 1: and it's such a diverse crowd, and people from all 18 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:51,120 Speaker 1: walks of life, from all different cultures like religions racist, 19 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:54,160 Speaker 1: to me, that's such a big accomplishment. 20 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:56,680 Speaker 2: What do you feel like your definition of lovers or 21 00:00:56,680 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 2: your expectations of what a relationship for you feels like 22 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:04,679 Speaker 2: I'm Rasi Wukah and on my podcast A Really Good Cry, 23 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:08,559 Speaker 2: we embrace the messy and the beautiful, providing a space 24 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 2: for raw, un filtered conversations that celebrate vulnerability and allow 25 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:17,319 Speaker 2: you to tune in to learn, connect and find comfort together. Naiga, 26 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:20,200 Speaker 2: I am so so excited. Don't think you understand how 27 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:22,399 Speaker 2: excited I am that you are sitting on the sofa 28 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:22,880 Speaker 2: right now. 29 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:24,240 Speaker 3: I feel like I'm. 30 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:26,720 Speaker 1: Honored by the way I watched you and Jay's videos 31 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 1: all the time, oh the time. 32 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:29,440 Speaker 3: That makes me so happy. 33 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:32,600 Speaker 2: I feel like we definitely manifested this because I have 34 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:34,959 Speaker 2: been listening to your music every single day since I 35 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:36,920 Speaker 2: heard about you, so that's at least over a year, 36 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:40,080 Speaker 2: and you were on my Spotify rap. 37 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:43,000 Speaker 3: So really, yes, of course you were. Are you kidding? 38 00:01:43,080 --> 00:01:44,640 Speaker 3: I'm not joking when I say I'm obsessed. 39 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:47,440 Speaker 2: I just admire you so much, not just your music, 40 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:50,280 Speaker 2: but honestly the way that you are. You show up 41 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:54,680 Speaker 2: with confidence and femininity and lean into that so beautifully. 42 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:55,280 Speaker 3: I felt. 43 00:01:55,280 --> 00:01:57,800 Speaker 2: That's why, honestly, I wanted to have you on, because 44 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:01,400 Speaker 2: there's such an incredible conversation to be had around how 45 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:03,560 Speaker 2: to lean into your feminine and make it something that's 46 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:06,360 Speaker 2: so powerful. And every time I watch you perform, and 47 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:09,080 Speaker 2: every time that I see you on stage, and I 48 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:12,519 Speaker 2: mean I saw you yesterday and you were absolutely incredible, 49 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:14,880 Speaker 2: but you make other women feel that way about themselves. 50 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:18,200 Speaker 2: So yeah, I want to start off by asking you 51 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 2: tell me how it all started. We always musical, We 52 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:22,680 Speaker 2: always interested in what you do. 53 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:22,959 Speaker 3: Now. 54 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:26,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's been my obsessions since I was a kid. Really, yeah, 55 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:28,960 Speaker 1: my mom used to seem to me to do anything 56 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:31,280 Speaker 1: as a baby, you know, for me to shower, for you, 57 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:35,320 Speaker 1: for me to do anything. And she told me that 58 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:37,600 Speaker 1: the first time that they saw me smile was after 59 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:40,360 Speaker 1: she gave birth to me and they were in the 60 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:42,960 Speaker 1: car and they put the radio on and then the 61 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:45,280 Speaker 1: music started playing and then I smiled for the first time. 62 00:02:45,720 --> 00:02:50,440 Speaker 1: So it's always been my big love. And I just 63 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:52,959 Speaker 1: feel so grateful that I get to do this today, 64 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:55,000 Speaker 1: even though there was no other way, because I was like, 65 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:57,799 Speaker 1: this is right, this is what I'm meant to do, 66 00:02:57,880 --> 00:02:59,239 Speaker 1: so pushed through. 67 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:02,079 Speaker 2: Until Yeah, how are your parents in this whole journey 68 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:04,760 Speaker 2: watching you become who you are now? Like, were they 69 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:07,080 Speaker 2: always really confident about it or you know, did they 70 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:07,959 Speaker 2: have the reservations. 71 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:11,800 Speaker 1: No, they definitely had reservation They definitely had reservations. My dad, 72 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:15,480 Speaker 1: my dad loves music. My mom My mom sings or lot. 73 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:19,520 Speaker 1: She expresses herself with music. My dad loves like he 74 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 1: used to play guitar when I was a kid, and 75 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:23,600 Speaker 1: he would sing to me. And sometimes I wouldn't go 76 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:26,000 Speaker 1: to sleep without him playing and singing to me, you know. 77 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:32,400 Speaker 1: But it definitely took them a minute to trust this path, 78 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 1: and I had to. I had to swim against the 79 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:40,320 Speaker 1: current for a while, you know, and eventually, I think 80 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:44,080 Speaker 1: it's like now, like two years or yeah, two years ago, 81 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:46,480 Speaker 1: my mom started being like, Okay, it's working. 82 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:47,520 Speaker 3: It's very fine. 83 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:49,040 Speaker 1: Okay, fine, you can. 84 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:50,840 Speaker 2: Do this, even though they had no choice in it. 85 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:53,200 Speaker 2: But now that you can do it. So where have 86 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:55,760 Speaker 2: you lived all your life? Where were you born? And 87 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:57,560 Speaker 2: what brought you to where you are now? 88 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:00,960 Speaker 1: Yeah? So I grew up very like normal lifestyle. For 89 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:04,400 Speaker 1: my dad's job, so every four years we had to move, 90 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:10,280 Speaker 1: change countries for his work. So I had a privilege 91 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:13,280 Speaker 1: to grow up, you know, in different corners of the world. 92 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:16,040 Speaker 1: When I was born, my parents were living in the Caribbean, 93 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:19,320 Speaker 1: in Guadaloupe, but my mom gave birth to me in Miami, 94 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:23,120 Speaker 1: and then I lived in guadaloup until I was two 95 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:26,400 Speaker 1: years old. Then we moved to this little island called 96 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:29,360 Speaker 1: Vanuatu in the South Pacific and I lived there for 97 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:31,920 Speaker 1: four years, and I moved to Nairobi in Kenya for 98 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:36,240 Speaker 1: four years. I lived in France for three years and 99 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:40,080 Speaker 1: then South Africa for another three years, and then my 100 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:43,520 Speaker 1: dad really unexpectedly lost his job. So my parents were, 101 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:48,279 Speaker 1: you know, like our whole lives dependent on my dad's jobs. 102 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:52,000 Speaker 1: So when that happened, my parents decided to start their 103 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:54,960 Speaker 1: life over in the US, so they moved to Miami 104 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:57,880 Speaker 1: and then I finished my high school in the United States. 105 00:04:58,040 --> 00:04:58,600 Speaker 3: Oh my gosh. 106 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:01,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, my parents actually born and raised in Uganda. Wow, 107 00:05:02,320 --> 00:05:06,840 Speaker 2: I've got so much African influence in Swahili in the house, 108 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:11,479 Speaker 2: and yeah, African influencing the food that we ate as well. 109 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:11,960 Speaker 1: Wow. 110 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:14,479 Speaker 2: Do you feel like your culture and your tradition, like 111 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:16,240 Speaker 2: how much of a role does it play and what 112 00:05:16,279 --> 00:05:17,839 Speaker 2: you do and the music that you create. 113 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:21,359 Speaker 1: I think that's been a big internal struggle for me, 114 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 1: is finding my place in the world and where I belong. 115 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:28,159 Speaker 1: And it's something that is like a very push and pull, 116 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:30,360 Speaker 1: you know, like sometimes I feel really whole in the 117 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:34,200 Speaker 1: fact that I am a piece of multiple different things, 118 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:38,240 Speaker 1: and then sometimes it's a bit ostracizing, I guess, you know, 119 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:42,200 Speaker 1: to feel like you're never fully one thing and accepted 120 00:05:42,279 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 1: in one place. But I think embracing the multi cultural 121 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:52,279 Speaker 1: and multifaceted you know, yeah. 122 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:53,680 Speaker 3: All the different parts of yeah, yeah. 123 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:57,160 Speaker 1: And I think what's brought me so much comfort too 124 00:05:57,320 --> 00:06:01,280 Speaker 1: is seeing how many peop will relate to that. And 125 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:05,400 Speaker 1: I dropped a song called Layers last year, and the 126 00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:09,479 Speaker 1: response to that song brought me so much like warmth 127 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:12,680 Speaker 1: to see how many people relate. And I think there's 128 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:15,680 Speaker 1: so many of us out there that feel, you know, 129 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:18,640 Speaker 1: in between, and feel like we're not fully accepted or 130 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:22,559 Speaker 1: belonging anywhere. I always feel like my sense of home 131 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 1: is in other people, you know, and as well, like scattered, 132 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:30,400 Speaker 1: and I think there's a lot of beauty behind that too, 133 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:34,160 Speaker 1: And it's like everything there's like good and bad about it. 134 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:37,880 Speaker 2: So I feel like most people in the world, whether 135 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:41,320 Speaker 2: they're even part of one culture or not, there's always 136 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:43,560 Speaker 2: a part of you that feels like you don't belong. Yeah, 137 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 2: Like whether it's in friends, circles, whether it's in culture, 138 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:48,840 Speaker 2: whether it's in the place that you used to live 139 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:51,560 Speaker 2: and don't live anymore, Like so many of us feel 140 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:51,920 Speaker 2: like we. 141 00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:53,839 Speaker 3: Don't belong in so many different circles. 142 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:58,000 Speaker 2: But having the ability to use that and create something 143 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:00,720 Speaker 2: like you have created your music that helps people feel 144 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:01,320 Speaker 2: like they belong. 145 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:02,760 Speaker 1: So I hope. 146 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:04,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, I really do think you do that. 147 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:07,240 Speaker 2: I actually was asking my friend who loves you, and 148 00:07:07,279 --> 00:07:08,880 Speaker 2: she was like, I asked her, what would you want 149 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:10,080 Speaker 2: to know and what would you want me to ask? 150 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:13,000 Speaker 2: And she said that she is also from different backgrounds, 151 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:15,400 Speaker 2: and how do you manage not feeling like you belong? 152 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:18,240 Speaker 2: So I feel like that really resonates with so many people. 153 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, you have to see like the the perks of it, 154 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:25,600 Speaker 1: you know, Like I think people that have this experience 155 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:28,559 Speaker 1: were very adaptable, We get along with so many different 156 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:32,560 Speaker 1: types of people, were not like closed off, and we're 157 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:33,520 Speaker 1: very open minded. 158 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:34,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. 159 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:36,920 Speaker 1: She's beautiful and I think that brings a lot of 160 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:37,800 Speaker 1: healing to the world. 161 00:07:38,080 --> 00:07:38,600 Speaker 3: It does. 162 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:42,320 Speaker 2: Do you feel like you carried a lot of values 163 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:44,920 Speaker 2: and things from your parents into the way that you 164 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:47,240 Speaker 2: live now. I'd love to hear were you raised from 165 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:51,720 Speaker 2: in a specific religion or yeah, what did your parents 166 00:07:51,720 --> 00:07:53,200 Speaker 2: follow as you as you were growing up. 167 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:57,120 Speaker 1: My parents are very like free spirited. 168 00:07:57,880 --> 00:07:59,040 Speaker 3: My mom is. 169 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:03,480 Speaker 1: My mom is a character like really, I can't wait 170 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:08,280 Speaker 1: on counter? Yeah we should, it's incredible. And obviously my 171 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:11,960 Speaker 1: dad too. She's just inspired me so much in so 172 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:16,200 Speaker 1: many different ways. And I didn't grow up necessarily religious, 173 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:19,200 Speaker 1: even though like sometimes I went to Catholic schools and 174 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:23,960 Speaker 1: I grew up you know, with like experience, going to 175 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:25,760 Speaker 1: maths and stuff like that. But I didn't grow up 176 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:31,240 Speaker 1: in like a very like religious structure. But I did 177 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:35,320 Speaker 1: grow up with spirituality through my mom. My dad is atheist, 178 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:39,680 Speaker 1: he doesn't believe in anything. But my mom is very 179 00:08:39,880 --> 00:08:45,920 Speaker 1: connected to a higher power that she has always transmitted 180 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:47,760 Speaker 1: to me as a kid, and I feel very connected 181 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:52,080 Speaker 1: to the universe and to that energy. So yeah, so 182 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:54,960 Speaker 1: I have that connection through my mom. 183 00:08:55,640 --> 00:08:58,160 Speaker 2: I feel like when we carry different parts of our 184 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:00,959 Speaker 2: parents through what we do, it's just it carries you 185 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:03,679 Speaker 2: in a different way. It's like they're literally passing you. 186 00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:05,040 Speaker 2: You don't realize how much of them that. 187 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:06,160 Speaker 3: You carry it through what you do. 188 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:07,440 Speaker 1: Yeah, of course, do. 189 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:10,520 Speaker 2: You feel like people romanticize parts of your journey or 190 00:09:10,559 --> 00:09:13,040 Speaker 2: your life after obviously being in the public eye and 191 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:16,079 Speaker 2: you obviously see how much hard work it takes and 192 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:18,480 Speaker 2: all the things that you have to do in the background. 193 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:21,400 Speaker 2: Do you feel since you've been in the public eye 194 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:23,840 Speaker 2: and since you've been doing this has been difficult to 195 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:26,720 Speaker 2: kind of manage that judgment all the way that people 196 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:27,240 Speaker 2: perceive you. 197 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:31,400 Speaker 1: It's so weird when people have an opinion of you 198 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:33,839 Speaker 1: and they don't know you. Yeah, it's crazy. And when 199 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:36,439 Speaker 1: that started happening to me, I was like I had 200 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:38,920 Speaker 1: my clauset. I was ready to try and be like wait, what, 201 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:43,040 Speaker 1: like you don't know me like that? But yeah, having 202 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:46,920 Speaker 1: to navigate, you know, just letting that be and it's like, Okay, 203 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:49,280 Speaker 1: these people don't know you, you know, and so you 204 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:52,640 Speaker 1: can't say to heart the different opinions or full on 205 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:56,200 Speaker 1: stories that people will make up about you. So that's 206 00:09:56,200 --> 00:10:00,000 Speaker 1: been interesting and navigating that has been interesting. The first 207 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:01,319 Speaker 1: time it happened to me was when I had a 208 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:03,880 Speaker 1: viral video for this verse that I did on Don't 209 00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:07,480 Speaker 1: Rush in twenty twenty during pandemic, And that's when I 210 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:10,200 Speaker 1: like really first started putting myself out there in the 211 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:13,080 Speaker 1: Internet and stuff and that video went really really viral. 212 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:15,280 Speaker 1: Like I was kind of having anxiety when this was 213 00:10:15,280 --> 00:10:16,920 Speaker 1: happening because I'm like, from one day to the next, 214 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:21,120 Speaker 1: there's two million people one video and so many opinions, 215 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:25,520 Speaker 1: you know, And but yeah, I mean it's just something 216 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:28,040 Speaker 1: you have to Yeah. I used to be around yourself 217 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:32,000 Speaker 1: and just just like let it be the Yeah. 218 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:33,640 Speaker 2: I used to be one of those online warriors where 219 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:35,640 Speaker 2: I would just want to respond back to everything. 220 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:36,559 Speaker 1: Yeah. Same. 221 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:39,000 Speaker 2: I then you just realize it is just like you 222 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:40,200 Speaker 2: drop in the ocean, you know. 223 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:43,840 Speaker 1: And you know what, I would never take the time 224 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:47,200 Speaker 1: to like type something out to bring someone else down. 225 00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:50,440 Speaker 1: That's like trying to make something out of themselves. So 226 00:10:50,520 --> 00:10:53,920 Speaker 1: the minute that you're a person that does that, I 227 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:57,600 Speaker 1: have no, You're just not even my type of person, 228 00:10:57,800 --> 00:10:59,160 Speaker 1: you know. So it's like I'm not even going to 229 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:00,000 Speaker 1: give you that type of energy. 230 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:02,880 Speaker 2: It also valutes your energy, Like when you're coming from 231 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:07,040 Speaker 2: a place of creativity and expansion and trying to build 232 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:10,160 Speaker 2: and then you're you're channeling into the energy of someone 233 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:14,319 Speaker 2: who's trying to bring you down, it's a completely different frequency. 234 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:15,400 Speaker 3: That you're tuning into. 235 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:19,080 Speaker 2: So it's so great that you've realized that in your 236 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:21,680 Speaker 2: journey already rather than trying to Ye. 237 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:25,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, sometimes I'm like about to cuss people out and 238 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:28,400 Speaker 1: then I'm like, you know what, let me for a second, swimmer, 239 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:30,000 Speaker 1: and then I'm like, no, I'm not going to do it. 240 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:32,439 Speaker 2: Do you feel like your idea of you know, you've 241 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:34,280 Speaker 2: been in this world for such a long time. Do 242 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:36,240 Speaker 2: you feel like your idea of what success looks like 243 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:40,880 Speaker 2: for you has changed from when you started being seasoned 244 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:41,880 Speaker 2: in it for a while now. 245 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:52,640 Speaker 1: M No, because I guess I I'm very ambitious and 246 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:55,200 Speaker 1: I know what I want to build, but I also 247 00:11:55,480 --> 00:11:59,480 Speaker 1: am very aware that, like where I am up to 248 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:01,199 Speaker 1: this point, even though I know where I want to 249 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:03,840 Speaker 1: take it, I'm already successful in what I've built and 250 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:06,520 Speaker 1: what I've done and to be able to me, there's 251 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:09,000 Speaker 1: different ways of looking at success. Obviously, there's like the 252 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:12,440 Speaker 1: numbers and the accolades or whatever, and the recognition, but 253 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:15,719 Speaker 1: there's also like, I'm successful because I get to do 254 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:18,400 Speaker 1: what I love and even if it's something that's seen 255 00:12:18,480 --> 00:12:21,080 Speaker 1: by the world, or if it's something that's seen by 256 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:24,920 Speaker 1: small community people, as long as I can put food 257 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:28,800 Speaker 1: on my plate doing what I love. To me that's 258 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:31,920 Speaker 1: so I'm rich. You know, what's the dream? 259 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:34,040 Speaker 2: Like? What is if we were all out here wanting 260 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:37,400 Speaker 2: to manifest your dream life all year and the dream of. 261 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:39,920 Speaker 3: What all of this could become. What is that for you? Like? 262 00:12:39,960 --> 00:12:41,320 Speaker 3: What do you dream about every day? 263 00:12:41,559 --> 00:12:46,400 Speaker 1: I want my music to reach the world. I want to. 264 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:48,720 Speaker 1: I really want to get a Grammy one day. 265 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:51,200 Speaker 3: Yes, it's Grammy season. 266 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:51,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. 267 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:53,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, we're thinking about it. 268 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:57,559 Speaker 1: And that's something that's on my vision board. Just unlike, yeah, 269 00:12:57,679 --> 00:13:00,760 Speaker 1: this is like a big I made it moment. Yeah, Gray, 270 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:03,840 Speaker 1: I want to make timeless music, music that will stay 271 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:08,960 Speaker 1: through that doesn't age. You know, that's a big one. 272 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:11,320 Speaker 1: I want to sell out arenas. I want to travel 273 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:14,960 Speaker 1: and connect with people that are connecting with the music. 274 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:17,240 Speaker 1: And I think a big one too is just bringing 275 00:13:17,280 --> 00:13:19,840 Speaker 1: people together. Like when I'm at my shows and I 276 00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:22,520 Speaker 1: see the audience and I see the people and it's 277 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:25,440 Speaker 1: such a diverse crowd and people from all walks of life, 278 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:29,320 Speaker 1: from all different cultures like religions, races. To me, that's 279 00:13:29,360 --> 00:13:33,400 Speaker 1: such a big accomplishment. It's not an accomplishment, but like 280 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:37,679 Speaker 1: it brings me a lot of joy and makes me 281 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:40,760 Speaker 1: This is why I do it, Yeah, and bringing people 282 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:43,000 Speaker 1: together in that way is something that is really special 283 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:46,200 Speaker 1: to me, Like it's something that is very relevant in 284 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:49,080 Speaker 1: my life. You know. I have a very diverse group 285 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:51,360 Speaker 1: of friends, Like I have family from so many places 286 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:54,080 Speaker 1: around the world, you know, and that's just like my 287 00:13:54,559 --> 00:13:58,120 Speaker 1: life is made up of that. And for it to 288 00:13:58,160 --> 00:14:00,240 Speaker 1: show up like that in my career and the music 289 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:02,160 Speaker 1: that I make is really special to me. 290 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:04,480 Speaker 2: It is an accomplishment because if you think about the 291 00:14:04,480 --> 00:14:07,920 Speaker 2: world is so divisive, like everything in the world ends 292 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:10,480 Speaker 2: up being so divisive. So to have a talent that 293 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:14,400 Speaker 2: can actually create unity and harmony between people. And I 294 00:14:14,440 --> 00:14:16,280 Speaker 2: was thinking that yesterday when we came to a show. 295 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:19,640 Speaker 2: There was just people from so many different places and 296 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:22,520 Speaker 2: you could tell that they definitely live different types of lives. 297 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:23,560 Speaker 3: And I was looking around. 298 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:25,120 Speaker 2: When we were waiting in the queue, and I was like, Wow, 299 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:28,280 Speaker 2: it must feel so surreal coming out and when you 300 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:30,680 Speaker 2: came out to meet people and thinking, gosh, all these 301 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:34,160 Speaker 2: people from completely different walks of life are connecting to 302 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:37,680 Speaker 2: my music, Like it is such a superpower and it 303 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:39,000 Speaker 2: is a beautiful accomplishment. 304 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:42,000 Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Yeah, I feel Yeah, it makes 305 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:44,520 Speaker 1: it makes my heart superful. It's really happy. 306 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:47,960 Speaker 2: I feel like your music is so emotionally intimate, like 307 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:50,480 Speaker 2: you feel your emotions through when you sing. How do 308 00:14:50,560 --> 00:14:53,400 Speaker 2: you kind of choose between and what you share of 309 00:14:53,440 --> 00:14:56,520 Speaker 2: yourself and what you keep close to you or are 310 00:14:56,560 --> 00:14:57,960 Speaker 2: you someone who just kind of feels like you have 311 00:14:58,000 --> 00:14:59,440 Speaker 2: to spill it all through your music? 312 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:01,960 Speaker 1: To me, it's how I express myself. Yeah, the way 313 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:03,800 Speaker 1: you see me now and like doing interviews and stuff. 314 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:06,840 Speaker 1: It's it's new for me to be able to not 315 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:09,880 Speaker 1: have that blockage. I feel like I was. I am 316 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:16,000 Speaker 1: now unpacking my communication blockages, if you will. And music 317 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:20,640 Speaker 1: has always been my safety in the way I express myself. 318 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:24,560 Speaker 1: So I am very vulnerable in my music and it's 319 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:28,440 Speaker 1: where I get to fully be me and express myself. 320 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:30,440 Speaker 2: What do you feel like all the songs that you've done, 321 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:32,120 Speaker 2: what was the hardest one to write? All the one 322 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:36,040 Speaker 2: that felt the most, the most exposing of yourself or 323 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:36,800 Speaker 2: of your inner world. 324 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:38,120 Speaker 1: There's different answers to that. 325 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:42,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't have to be one. We can get 326 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:50,360 Speaker 2: through them all. Let's go through the. 327 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:49,360 Speaker 1: There's a song on No Let Me Start. I think 328 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:50,920 Speaker 1: the first one that came to mind when you asked 329 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:52,920 Speaker 1: me this maybe it's not an evident one, but it's 330 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:56,560 Speaker 1: a song that is all in Frenchhi's called Bell. And 331 00:15:56,800 --> 00:15:59,480 Speaker 1: the reason why that song made me very emotional when 332 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:03,360 Speaker 1: writing it because that song is it talks about the 333 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:08,240 Speaker 1: relationship women have to experience with beauty and how so 334 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:11,600 Speaker 1: much of our worth is dependent on how we look. 335 00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:16,480 Speaker 1: And that song has made me cry, even though it's 336 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:19,920 Speaker 1: a beautiful song, it's very uplifting and everything, but it 337 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:25,000 Speaker 1: came out of that frustration of that pressure that we're faced, 338 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:28,640 Speaker 1: you know, and this like competition off of something that 339 00:16:28,680 --> 00:16:32,080 Speaker 1: we don't have control over, and that should you know, 340 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:36,080 Speaker 1: what matters should be who we are inside. So that 341 00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:38,920 Speaker 1: one and there's a song on the album called what 342 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:44,600 Speaker 1: a Day where I talk about different world topics that 343 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:47,200 Speaker 1: frustrate me and like it just injustice in the world, 344 00:16:47,880 --> 00:16:50,000 Speaker 1: and I love that song. And that one was a 345 00:16:50,040 --> 00:16:53,120 Speaker 1: bit not that it was challenging to write, but there's 346 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:54,720 Speaker 1: just so much going on in the world and to 347 00:16:54,760 --> 00:16:58,040 Speaker 1: fit every you know, we had to like be intentional 348 00:16:58,120 --> 00:17:03,280 Speaker 1: with what. You can't fit all of the troubles in 349 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:05,359 Speaker 1: the world in a song, you know, And so in 350 00:17:05,359 --> 00:17:08,280 Speaker 1: that sense it was a bit tricky because if you're like, damn, 351 00:17:08,320 --> 00:17:09,919 Speaker 1: I'm leaving this out. I'm leaving this out, And I 352 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:12,199 Speaker 1: honestly the song could keep going on for hours, you know, 353 00:17:13,640 --> 00:17:17,440 Speaker 1: but I loved I'm excited for the world to hear. 354 00:17:18,040 --> 00:17:19,320 Speaker 3: What's your creative process? 355 00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:21,280 Speaker 2: I'm seve intrigued, Like, do you ever feel like you 356 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:22,280 Speaker 2: run out of inspiration? 357 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:23,879 Speaker 3: Do you ever feel like you get a block? 358 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:26,840 Speaker 2: And in those times, for anyone who's creative, what do 359 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:29,080 Speaker 2: you do to get yourself out of that? 360 00:17:29,359 --> 00:17:32,800 Speaker 1: Twenty twenty three was a really weird year for me 361 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:37,680 Speaker 1: because I found myself having to restructure my whole team, 362 00:17:38,440 --> 00:17:42,480 Speaker 1: so I ended up basically teamless. It's funny because the 363 00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:44,840 Speaker 1: EP that came out just before that period of time, 364 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:48,040 Speaker 1: it's called Transitions, and I dropped and I named it 365 00:17:48,080 --> 00:17:50,639 Speaker 1: Transitions because I knew that it was going to be 366 00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:53,040 Speaker 1: a moment in my life where I transitioned from like 367 00:17:53,760 --> 00:17:56,480 Speaker 1: the beginnings of like dropping EPs too. I knew that 368 00:17:56,480 --> 00:17:58,840 Speaker 1: after that project, I was going to drop my album, 369 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:00,520 Speaker 1: and I had a feeling that this was going to 370 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:02,919 Speaker 1: be like a moment. Also in that project, I'm like 371 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:05,600 Speaker 1: exploring different sounds in different worlds and stuff like that, 372 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:07,399 Speaker 1: and so I had a feeling that it was going 373 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:09,520 Speaker 1: to be a transition period of my life. But I 374 00:18:09,560 --> 00:18:12,840 Speaker 1: had God was like, oh, you wanted to unders be. 375 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:17,560 Speaker 1: So that year was it was weird for me because 376 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:19,199 Speaker 1: I was creating a lot. I was making a lot 377 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:21,720 Speaker 1: of music, but nothing that I was connected to, nothing 378 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:23,680 Speaker 1: that I wanted to put out. And then I found 379 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:29,600 Speaker 1: myself without a team and having to fully restructure my 380 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:32,640 Speaker 1: life and my business and everything. So when you asked 381 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:34,640 Speaker 1: me that, I think that's the first thing that comes 382 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:37,359 Speaker 1: up is that year when there was and I dropped 383 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:42,000 Speaker 1: some songs. I managed to stay you know, putting myself 384 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:45,440 Speaker 1: out there. But but yeah, no, of course I think. 385 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:49,080 Speaker 1: I think it's normal to go through ebs and flows 386 00:18:49,119 --> 00:18:52,680 Speaker 1: and creative process. But my creative process I love melodies. 387 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:54,760 Speaker 1: So when I go into the studio and I play 388 00:18:55,040 --> 00:18:57,480 Speaker 1: like either a beat or an instrument or whatever, I'll 389 00:18:57,560 --> 00:19:01,000 Speaker 1: usually lead with melodies right and see what feels good 390 00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:03,719 Speaker 1: and what sits right. But sometimes I do come in 391 00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:05,600 Speaker 1: with like a topic or something that I want to 392 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:10,000 Speaker 1: talk about, or like a lyric or even a song title. 393 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:16,320 Speaker 1: But usually I'm a melody. I love hearing it before you. 394 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:18,600 Speaker 1: I just if you don't stop me, I'll just keep 395 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:21,760 Speaker 1: going going on. I love spinning out melodies and freestyling 396 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:22,240 Speaker 1: in that way. 397 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:24,440 Speaker 3: Where do you get your confidence from? 398 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:26,879 Speaker 2: I really need to ee this because I feel like 399 00:19:26,920 --> 00:19:30,320 Speaker 2: that's something I admire about you so much. And mixture 400 00:19:30,359 --> 00:19:33,040 Speaker 2: between your confidence and also have you always felt that 401 00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:35,399 Speaker 2: you can be as in your feminine as you are? 402 00:19:35,480 --> 00:19:36,720 Speaker 3: Have you always been that way. 403 00:19:37,320 --> 00:19:40,160 Speaker 1: Throughout my life in ebbs and flows. I think when 404 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:42,919 Speaker 1: I reached when I got to college, I had a 405 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:46,600 Speaker 1: period where I was like so out of touch with 406 00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:52,359 Speaker 1: myself and very lost and very insecure and yager. I 407 00:19:52,359 --> 00:19:55,040 Speaker 1: remember I was completely like out of touch with my 408 00:19:55,119 --> 00:19:59,720 Speaker 1: body and my just extremely anxious. And I think also 409 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:02,199 Speaker 1: in that I was facing a lot of questions about 410 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:05,719 Speaker 1: my identity and who I am and very confused about 411 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:08,080 Speaker 1: like we were saying, where I fit into the world. 412 00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:15,280 Speaker 1: And I think for me, it's been about strengthening my 413 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:18,920 Speaker 1: relationship with myself. And I think that's the best thing 414 00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:22,160 Speaker 1: we can do, is like get to know ourselves really 415 00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:27,320 Speaker 1: to a tea And it's not a linear journey, you know, 416 00:20:28,080 --> 00:20:31,399 Speaker 1: just becoming besties with yourself, yeah, and knowing that you 417 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:34,560 Speaker 1: you got your own back, I think is the most 418 00:20:34,560 --> 00:20:36,639 Speaker 1: powerful thing you can do. Definitely. 419 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:39,960 Speaker 2: I feel like sometimes people have a stage person where 420 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:42,199 Speaker 2: they feel so confident on stage, and then when they 421 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:43,960 Speaker 2: come off stage it's a different person. But I feel 422 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:46,720 Speaker 2: like you carry it through who you are when you 423 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:49,720 Speaker 2: meet you like this and on stage as well, which 424 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:53,120 Speaker 2: I think takes so much of like you said, getting 425 00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:53,960 Speaker 2: to know yourself, it takes. 426 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:57,320 Speaker 3: Yeah, you have to love yourself deeply and then love 427 00:20:57,359 --> 00:20:57,719 Speaker 3: to do that. 428 00:20:57,760 --> 00:20:59,639 Speaker 1: It's of yourself, the perston that you don't understand, like 429 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:01,840 Speaker 1: you have to. You have to be comfortable with being 430 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:04,840 Speaker 1: alone and not run away from that, and you have 431 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:07,960 Speaker 1: to learn to love being alone, and yeah, getting to 432 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:08,840 Speaker 1: know yourself fully. 433 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:10,320 Speaker 3: What does your day look like? 434 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:11,960 Speaker 2: Do you have any daily practices that you do that 435 00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:15,720 Speaker 2: you love doing morning tonight? Is anything that stays consistent 436 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:21,119 Speaker 2: in your day apart from singing and finding melodies in 437 00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:21,520 Speaker 2: your mind? 438 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:25,440 Speaker 1: No, my days are not consistent. I don't have a routine, 439 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:31,400 Speaker 1: which is probably not the most like inspiring thing to share, 440 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:35,080 Speaker 1: but I don't have a routine. I have a lot 441 00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:37,199 Speaker 1: of I know that you're a morning person and that 442 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:39,680 Speaker 1: you're really good with your morning routines. 443 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:41,960 Speaker 2: Now I am, but I used to love a sporadi. 444 00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:44,080 Speaker 2: I used to love a spontaneous day. I used to 445 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:46,680 Speaker 2: live in spontaneity until I kind of had to create 446 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:47,680 Speaker 2: structure in my life. 447 00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:53,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, I thrive on that, on spontaneity. It depends on 448 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:55,159 Speaker 1: the day and what I have to do. Yeah, but 449 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:58,560 Speaker 1: I'm really happy when I get to wake up late. 450 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:03,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, you're like you are you a late sleeper as well? 451 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:05,560 Speaker 1: Do you drive in the evening so much? 452 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:08,160 Speaker 2: I'm such a night so many creatives I like that 453 00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:10,480 Speaker 2: where you get so much of your inspiration at night. 454 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:13,639 Speaker 1: Girl, you can catch me deep cleaning my house up 455 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:17,280 Speaker 1: four it. I love like the nighttime for some reason. 456 00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:20,040 Speaker 1: It brings me a lot of energy. The morning, on 457 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:22,720 Speaker 1: the other hands, like a slow morning. 458 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:24,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, but I do. 459 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:26,280 Speaker 1: Appreciate it when I wake up early and I have 460 00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:31,200 Speaker 1: the whole day and you know, but I prefer sleeping in. Yeah, fair, Yeah, 461 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:33,359 Speaker 1: we like that. Yeah. Maybe it's soon, like in a 462 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:36,520 Speaker 1: couple of years, I'll have a more you know, structured routine. 463 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:39,280 Speaker 1: But as of right now, I'm not gonna lie. I don't. 464 00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:40,160 Speaker 1: I feel like for a. 465 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:42,480 Speaker 2: Lot of creatives and artists as well. Though, when you're traveling, 466 00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:44,760 Speaker 2: you have to be on such a schedule that when 467 00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:47,520 Speaker 2: you don't have that, you kind of need that space 468 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:49,439 Speaker 2: and time to Like, I get that when I go 469 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:50,439 Speaker 2: back home, I'm like, I don't want to. 470 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:52,239 Speaker 3: Look at a clock. Yeah, I don't want to know 471 00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:52,919 Speaker 3: what time it is. 472 00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:55,919 Speaker 2: I don't want to have appointments and plans because you 473 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:58,280 Speaker 2: need that in your life after having structure. 474 00:22:58,320 --> 00:22:59,760 Speaker 3: If you're on tour and things like that. 475 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:02,400 Speaker 1: It feels good too, it does. 476 00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:03,320 Speaker 3: It was so good. 477 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:03,760 Speaker 1: I'm like that. 478 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:05,439 Speaker 2: When I go back to my mum's I sleep like 479 00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:09,600 Speaker 2: I have never slept before. Yeah, I am a full 480 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:12,200 Speaker 2: bear when I go back, just hibernate in. 481 00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:13,480 Speaker 3: The same room that I grew up in. 482 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:17,520 Speaker 2: It's just yes, it's a different but like different feeling when. 483 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:19,560 Speaker 1: You get back in the same room that you grew the. 484 00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:21,480 Speaker 3: Same room that I grew up in, same house. 485 00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:24,199 Speaker 1: That's something that I wish I had. Oh yeah, the 486 00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:27,199 Speaker 1: same room and the same house that I grew up in. 487 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:27,880 Speaker 1: That's so cute. 488 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:29,520 Speaker 3: But now you go back to Miami, right for where 489 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:32,520 Speaker 3: your family's based. Yeah, yeah, I know it is. 490 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:34,240 Speaker 2: It's but you know what, it makes you go back 491 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:36,080 Speaker 2: to your childhood so much. I feel like a child 492 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:38,160 Speaker 2: when I go back to that room. Yeah, yeah, it's good. 493 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:40,600 Speaker 2: I wanted to ask you what your inspiration is in 494 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:42,600 Speaker 2: terms of artists, Who do you listen to right now 495 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:44,119 Speaker 2: or what did you grow up listening to. 496 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:49,760 Speaker 1: I grew up listening to very varied music at home. 497 00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:54,439 Speaker 1: My parents listen to like world music, depending on like 498 00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:56,400 Speaker 1: when we lived in South Africa, we listened to Maria 499 00:23:56,400 --> 00:24:01,159 Speaker 1: i'm ok At, Brenda Facie and discovering different artists from 500 00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:04,399 Speaker 1: from the regions. Listen to obviously a lot of like 501 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:08,040 Speaker 1: Haitian music. I grew up on on on On Kompai 502 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:10,720 Speaker 1: and on the sounds from Haiti and the West Indies, 503 00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:15,000 Speaker 1: and also Latin music, a lot of cave Verdian music 504 00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:18,879 Speaker 1: as well. My mom really loved listening to cave Verdian music. 505 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:21,399 Speaker 1: And then I grew up on Sesaia Ivora, who's one 506 00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:23,320 Speaker 1: of my favorite artists and she's an artist out of 507 00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:26,760 Speaker 1: out of Cape Verdi. But I discovered my love for 508 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:29,040 Speaker 1: pop music at seven years old. 509 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:32,760 Speaker 2: Oh really, and it changed my life. Okay, who was it? 510 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:36,040 Speaker 2: Brittany Yeah, legend icon. 511 00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:39,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, big time. I just wanted to be Britney Spears 512 00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:42,200 Speaker 1: when I was a kid, and and Beyonce as well 513 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:45,720 Speaker 1: Shakira too. Yeah. My parents would put me like, think 514 00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:47,639 Speaker 1: I'm asleep, and I would be in my room, like 515 00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:49,320 Speaker 1: I put my pajamas like this, and I showed my 516 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:54,000 Speaker 1: stomach and I was like practicing, you know. So those 517 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:58,880 Speaker 1: were my like as a kid. These women just completely 518 00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:02,439 Speaker 1: changed my brain chemistry, you know, and I wanted to 519 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:08,480 Speaker 1: be like them and so yeah, I discovered that WORLDS 520 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:10,960 Speaker 1: and R and B as well when I was around 521 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:12,359 Speaker 1: seven years old. Yeah. 522 00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:14,120 Speaker 2: The great thing is that when you're saying all these people, 523 00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:16,520 Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, I feel little drops of all these 524 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:17,960 Speaker 2: people in the music that you're doing. 525 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:19,080 Speaker 1: Thank you all of that. 526 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:20,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's so great. 527 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:22,879 Speaker 2: What would you say throughout your journey and all the 528 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:26,040 Speaker 2: things that you've been through, what's been the hardest lesson 529 00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:26,760 Speaker 2: you've had to learn? 530 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:28,320 Speaker 3: And the best lesson? 531 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:33,160 Speaker 1: Girl, that's a great question. I take your time. Let 532 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:37,239 Speaker 1: me start with maybe the best. The best lesson I 533 00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:44,440 Speaker 1: think is perseverance and whatever you do and staying a students. Yeah, 534 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:47,480 Speaker 1: I think it is so vital and perseverance and always 535 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:50,400 Speaker 1: try to grow and evolve while staying authentic to yourself, 536 00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:55,280 Speaker 1: you know, always staying rooted and trying to honor who 537 00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:57,600 Speaker 1: you are and not trying to be someone that you're not. 538 00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:05,640 Speaker 1: The hardest lesson that I had to learn. I guess 539 00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:07,520 Speaker 1: not to trust everyone. 540 00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:10,040 Speaker 2: Such a hard lesson to learn, isn't it, especially when 541 00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:13,080 Speaker 2: you want you to keep your heart open to everyone 542 00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:13,640 Speaker 2: and everything. 543 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:15,840 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, especially when you have a lot of hope 544 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:19,800 Speaker 1: and faith in people. So I think, yeah, you can't 545 00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:22,959 Speaker 1: trust you can't. You have to be careful with who 546 00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:23,440 Speaker 1: you trust. 547 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:26,719 Speaker 2: Yeah, what advice would you give to women who are 548 00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:28,560 Speaker 2: constantly being told like you're too much or you've got 549 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:30,840 Speaker 2: too much energy or too much of this? And what 550 00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:32,920 Speaker 2: kind of advice would you give to girls that feel 551 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:35,840 Speaker 2: that way or that are being told that too. 552 00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:36,400 Speaker 1: Much for who? 553 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:38,880 Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly too much for her? 554 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:41,360 Speaker 1: For who? You're just around the wrong person if they're 555 00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:43,520 Speaker 1: telling you too much. But I will say, also, it's 556 00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:46,000 Speaker 1: good to like I'm a person that I'm very open 557 00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:49,000 Speaker 1: to feedback and criticism because I'm always trying to do better. 558 00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:51,359 Speaker 1: You know, I need the best version of myself. Yeah, 559 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:54,080 Speaker 1: So if I get feedback or criticism or whatever, I 560 00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:57,240 Speaker 1: don't take it in a way that it breaks me 561 00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:01,439 Speaker 1: or destabilizes me. I'm like, Okay, what if this is true. 562 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:04,359 Speaker 1: What is for sure not that I know is like 563 00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:08,080 Speaker 1: just somebody else maybe is projecting onto me, and it's 564 00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:10,199 Speaker 1: it's good. It's important to always grow and try to 565 00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:13,000 Speaker 1: strive to be the best version of yourself and take 566 00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:15,159 Speaker 1: things with a grain of salt, but also yeah too 567 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:15,800 Speaker 1: much for who. 568 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:19,200 Speaker 2: Have you dealt with disappointment and in places in your life, 569 00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:23,600 Speaker 2: whether it's in your personal life or in professional life, 570 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:26,800 Speaker 2: have you found it difficult to keep moving forward or 571 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:29,760 Speaker 2: is it something that you've really managed to deal with 572 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:30,800 Speaker 2: quite quite well. 573 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:32,680 Speaker 1: I'm very stubborn. 574 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:35,320 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, wait, what's your star sign? 575 00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:38,000 Speaker 1: I'm a price okay, yeah, yeah. 576 00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:40,920 Speaker 3: That's nice. That's you know, a creative emotions. 577 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:43,760 Speaker 1: Very pricey, very emotional. But I'm very stubborn and when 578 00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:46,679 Speaker 1: I want something, I will won't stop until I get it. 579 00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:54,000 Speaker 1: I take it like a passing wave. I suk. Yeah, 580 00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:57,360 Speaker 1: I definitely feel it. I'm very emotional. Sometimes I wish 581 00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:01,560 Speaker 1: I wasn't so feel a lot more. That's stressful, but 582 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:06,520 Speaker 1: I feel it. I let myself feel it. I process it, 583 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:08,760 Speaker 1: but I don't let it define me. I don't let 584 00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:13,680 Speaker 1: it define my career, my life, and I figure out 585 00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:16,760 Speaker 1: how to what's the best way to move past it? 586 00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:21,080 Speaker 1: And again, I think when when you have your own back, yeah, 587 00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:25,320 Speaker 1: it helps you a lot because you're you're like, okay, 588 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:30,840 Speaker 1: let's go. Yeah, how do we move forward? So yeah, 589 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:31,960 Speaker 1: just just pushing through. 590 00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:35,160 Speaker 2: I also think if you know exactly what you want 591 00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:37,200 Speaker 2: in your life and you have this I always called 592 00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:40,120 Speaker 2: it delusional optimism, like you are sure that this is 593 00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:41,840 Speaker 2: what's going to happen in your life and you're going 594 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:44,760 Speaker 2: to make it happen. Every disappointment, Yeah, you feel it, 595 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:45,960 Speaker 2: and of course you're gonna. 596 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:47,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, you feel it, but you also know that it's 597 00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:51,040 Speaker 1: part of it. Exactly everything can go smoothly. You have 598 00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:53,600 Speaker 1: to face these challenges, you know, but you have to 599 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:56,640 Speaker 1: know that that's part of the bigger plan, the bigger plan, 600 00:28:56,680 --> 00:29:00,280 Speaker 1: and it's literally there is part of it. And I 601 00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:03,960 Speaker 1: think I've always known that, even when I've experienced failure 602 00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:08,160 Speaker 1: or setback or criticism or whatever, I know that it's 603 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:10,000 Speaker 1: part of the journey that I'm on. I know that 604 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:13,920 Speaker 1: it's it doesn't exist without these hurdles, you know, or obstacles. 605 00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:16,320 Speaker 1: So I don't take it. I don't take it as 606 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:18,520 Speaker 1: a block. I take it as something that I have 607 00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:20,520 Speaker 1: to part of the process, part of the process that 608 00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:21,680 Speaker 1: I have to overcome, you know. 609 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:25,000 Speaker 2: I feel like that's also where this feeling of something 610 00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:27,840 Speaker 2: higher than yourself comes in, where you know that there 611 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:32,040 Speaker 2: is something bigger than you that's also creating that path 612 00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:34,480 Speaker 2: for you, Like it sees your desires, it sees your intention, 613 00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:38,360 Speaker 2: and you have this trust in something that you may 614 00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:40,400 Speaker 2: not be able to control, but you believe that your 615 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:41,320 Speaker 2: desires are being had. 616 00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:45,600 Speaker 1: That was in Porton And I think also having you know, 617 00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:48,440 Speaker 1: family and friends around you and a good support system 618 00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:49,400 Speaker 1: is everything. 619 00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:52,920 Speaker 2: You've Obviously we're in some beautiful love songs. One plus 620 00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:56,080 Speaker 2: one such a beautiful song. What do you feel like 621 00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:59,840 Speaker 2: your definition of lover is or your expectations of what 622 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:00,840 Speaker 2: relationship for you? 623 00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:07,400 Speaker 1: Feels like my definition of love includes sacrifice and compromise, 624 00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:12,760 Speaker 1: And I think it's like putting yourself aside for the 625 00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:16,640 Speaker 1: other person, being able to be there for the other 626 00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:18,680 Speaker 1: person in the good and in the bad. 627 00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:22,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like navigating relationships are already so difficult, 628 00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:26,040 Speaker 2: But then obviously sometimes if you're someone who's in the 629 00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:29,240 Speaker 2: public eye, trying to navigate a relationship with all eyes 630 00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:32,360 Speaker 2: on you is even so much harder, Like, did you 631 00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:37,200 Speaker 2: find the balance of trying to do what you want 632 00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:42,480 Speaker 2: in a relationship versus having other people's opinions or obsessions 633 00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:45,160 Speaker 2: with your relationship difficult to balance at all? 634 00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:47,160 Speaker 1: I don't think so. 635 00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:48,000 Speaker 3: Yeah. 636 00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:50,920 Speaker 1: I think it was healthy as healthy as it could 637 00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:53,800 Speaker 1: have been. Yeah. And it was also a really beautiful 638 00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:57,720 Speaker 1: the way that people you know supported Yeah, they really did, 639 00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:01,040 Speaker 1: And like I found it really touchy. And I think 640 00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:04,520 Speaker 1: we did a good job at you know, keeping our 641 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:09,000 Speaker 1: world to ourselves and our connection and what we had 642 00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:11,920 Speaker 1: to ourselves and the balance in the way that we 643 00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:16,880 Speaker 1: kept our privacy but also what was shown so the 644 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:20,560 Speaker 1: public I think was a healthy balance too. But it's 645 00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:23,240 Speaker 1: not like we were trying to be different people or 646 00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:24,520 Speaker 1: we were just doing our things. 647 00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:25,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, totally. 648 00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:27,560 Speaker 2: And if we felt that you felt like you were 649 00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:31,280 Speaker 2: who you were in that and he was who he was, 650 00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:33,560 Speaker 2: but you really felt the connection there too. 651 00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:34,360 Speaker 3: Yeah. 652 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:38,560 Speaker 2: Sometimes I find it so it's interesting when people are 653 00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:41,120 Speaker 2: also romanticizing a relationship and putting it on a pedestal 654 00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:42,600 Speaker 2: sometimes of feeling. 655 00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:44,360 Speaker 3: Like this is exactly what I want. 656 00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:48,760 Speaker 2: And I've experienced that with Jay sometimes where I'm like, Okay, 657 00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:50,640 Speaker 2: this sometimes feels like a lot. 658 00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:53,080 Speaker 3: Yeah, and it feels like I'm like, I need you 659 00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:54,360 Speaker 3: guys to know that we fight. 660 00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:55,560 Speaker 2: And I need you guys to know that it's not 661 00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:58,840 Speaker 2: all amazing. But I also think it just comes with 662 00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:01,560 Speaker 2: the territory. If they love you, they're gonna love your 663 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:02,160 Speaker 2: love as well. 664 00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:05,320 Speaker 1: At the same time, and it was really sweet, really sweet, 665 00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:08,600 Speaker 1: and yeah, overall it was it was beautiful. 666 00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:12,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, it really was. Did you with your femininity? I 667 00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:14,560 Speaker 2: have to ask you some more questions about this, because 668 00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:16,280 Speaker 2: whenever I was asking my friends, I were like, can 669 00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:18,880 Speaker 2: you ask how she does that? How is she so 670 00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:21,560 Speaker 2: in her feminine? How does she lean into that so deeply? 671 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,120 Speaker 2: And is that something that just comes naturally to you 672 00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:27,240 Speaker 2: or do you feel like you really nature that side 673 00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:28,160 Speaker 2: of you? 674 00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:32,400 Speaker 1: You know, It's something that I got connected with within 675 00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:35,920 Speaker 1: myself at a very young age, and I think when 676 00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:41,840 Speaker 1: I was growing into like a young adult, like like 677 00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:45,880 Speaker 1: I said, in college or in my late teens, I 678 00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:52,120 Speaker 1: definitely lost touch with myself and my femininity, and it 679 00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:58,320 Speaker 1: was something that I really wanted to nurture and rediscover 680 00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:02,360 Speaker 1: and connect with because she was there when I was 681 00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:05,840 Speaker 1: younger growing up, and it's something that I felt very 682 00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:09,960 Speaker 1: free in and connected with. I lost her for a 683 00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:13,200 Speaker 1: bit in my in a period of time. I feel 684 00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:17,720 Speaker 1: like with the years and the work that I've done 685 00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:20,200 Speaker 1: on myself to be the woman that i want to be, 686 00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:21,120 Speaker 1: do you feel. 687 00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:24,080 Speaker 2: Like a movement has helped in that? Because I feel 688 00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:25,680 Speaker 2: like when I you know, whenever I do that, I'm 689 00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:27,840 Speaker 2: not a great answer, But whenever I do dance, I 690 00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:30,840 Speaker 2: feel like, oh, yeah, there's so much that is unlocked 691 00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:32,880 Speaker 2: and unleash when you move your body. 692 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:36,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's true. I think as women too, we have 693 00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:41,959 Speaker 1: so much women. I'm in awe of women. I just 694 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:46,720 Speaker 1: think that women are just pure works of art and 695 00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:52,560 Speaker 1: so much to explore, so much grace, so much power, 696 00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:54,760 Speaker 1: so much. 697 00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:58,200 Speaker 3: Just so much, that much, not too much, that much. 698 00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:05,200 Speaker 1: So and yeah, I love that journey of tapping into 699 00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:09,400 Speaker 1: my femininity in my womanhood and something that has always 700 00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:13,680 Speaker 1: fascinated to me, like female sensuality is something that I 701 00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:17,320 Speaker 1: always loved and connected with from a very young age. 702 00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:20,680 Speaker 1: And I think also we live in a world that 703 00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:24,880 Speaker 1: wants to dim that and make us feel embarrassed or 704 00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:26,280 Speaker 1: or too much. 705 00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:29,160 Speaker 2: When you're feeling anxious, when you're feeling low, when you're 706 00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:31,360 Speaker 2: feeling you know, any negative emotions do you have, like 707 00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:33,440 Speaker 2: something in your head that you say to yourself, like 708 00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:38,080 Speaker 2: other words of encouragement that you just have in the 709 00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:39,759 Speaker 2: back of your mind, or like a mantra that you say, 710 00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:42,200 Speaker 2: where where you to get yourself and get yourself up 711 00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:44,640 Speaker 2: and out of that even before you get on stage. 712 00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:48,000 Speaker 1: I feel like, yeah, stages is different. For stage, I 713 00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:51,000 Speaker 1: do like I always do a prayer, and I do 714 00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:53,640 Speaker 1: one by myself. I do one with my with my band, 715 00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:56,759 Speaker 1: with the team. My intention is always for people to 716 00:34:56,880 --> 00:35:00,440 Speaker 1: live with their cup full and feeling you know, andized 717 00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:05,920 Speaker 1: that you know, moved by the frequencies and energy that 718 00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:11,520 Speaker 1: only music can can bring. Yeah, but girl, I'm anxious 719 00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:13,759 Speaker 1: all the time. Oh yeah, I're gonna lie to you. 720 00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:17,799 Speaker 1: I'm a very anxious person. But I found, like I 721 00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:21,600 Speaker 1: was saying this recently in interview, like I found that 722 00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:25,560 Speaker 1: journaling has helped me a lot to clear my thoughts. 723 00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:31,000 Speaker 1: I'm trying to be more intentional with meditation and take 724 00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:36,200 Speaker 1: like I recently discovered the concept of having like our 725 00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:39,360 Speaker 1: inner childs and connecting with our inner child And I 726 00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:42,560 Speaker 1: find that so beautiful because we all have the baby 727 00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:45,600 Speaker 1: versions of ourselves that still exists within us, and a 728 00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:48,200 Speaker 1: lot of times, like anxiety or stress or fear is 729 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:52,840 Speaker 1: that baby version of you that's scared. So you know, 730 00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:56,920 Speaker 1: taking a second and connecting with that version of you 731 00:35:57,040 --> 00:36:00,480 Speaker 1: and letting it know that you got there back and 732 00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:03,360 Speaker 1: everything is going to be okay. It's something that I've 733 00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:06,960 Speaker 1: been putting into practice, and just taking a moment to 734 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:10,800 Speaker 1: meditate and be still and breathe has been really helpful. 735 00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:13,520 Speaker 2: Yeah. I've started doing a lot of journaling in the 736 00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:15,960 Speaker 2: morning too, because I wake up randomly with a lot 737 00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:18,520 Speaker 2: of anxiety, and so doing that early in the morning 738 00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:20,560 Speaker 2: to just get everything out. Yeah, because I'll be in 739 00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:23,120 Speaker 2: my meditation I'm thinking about all these other things and 740 00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:24,680 Speaker 2: instead of it just staying in my head, I just 741 00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:26,759 Speaker 2: keep a pen and paper next to me, yeah, and 742 00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:29,120 Speaker 2: just write down the randomest things that come out. 743 00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:29,680 Speaker 1: It helps. 744 00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:31,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, when I look at it after, I'm. 745 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:33,400 Speaker 2: Like, how was I thinking about all those different things 746 00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:36,520 Speaker 2: within the last five minutes. It's but it makes such 747 00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:38,640 Speaker 2: a difference because your mind tries to hold onto so 748 00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:41,560 Speaker 2: much and when you put pen to paper, there's something 749 00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:43,960 Speaker 2: about just the release of it, just getting it out. 750 00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:46,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, and you can clearly, you know, put your thoughts 751 00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:51,239 Speaker 1: in order. Yeah, in your head, it's like everywhere. Yeah, 752 00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:52,840 Speaker 1: it's all at once. It's very overwarming. 753 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,000 Speaker 3: I'm going to ask you some quick five questions. 754 00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:56,040 Speaker 1: Okay, okay. 755 00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:58,520 Speaker 3: What makes you feel the most confident? 756 00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:02,120 Speaker 1: My first think this is to say when I listen 757 00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:05,840 Speaker 1: to music that makes me feel confident? And then also, 758 00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:07,759 Speaker 1: I don't know when I look good? 759 00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:11,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, favorite song right now apart from you, right. 760 00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:14,840 Speaker 1: My favorite song right now? Can I look at my Spotify? 761 00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:17,080 Speaker 3: Yeah? Oh my god? Can you? Actually that's a good question. 762 00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:22,319 Speaker 2: What is on your most recently played Spotify lest right now? 763 00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:25,280 Speaker 1: Okay, right now? Let alone the one you love Olivia 764 00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:30,400 Speaker 1: Dean let her Man by Justin Bieber Samson and Delilah 765 00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:37,360 Speaker 1: Cke and Maira and Married Girl by Sincerely Suave Brothers 766 00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:45,640 Speaker 1: shout Outs and some zen music and then Freedom by 767 00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:47,440 Speaker 1: Dum Dumb and George Smith. 768 00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:49,680 Speaker 3: Okay, oh yeah, oh great artists. 769 00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:54,239 Speaker 2: I like that your favorite makeup product right now that 770 00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:59,359 Speaker 2: you're using every day lipstains amazing everything I know. 771 00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:00,680 Speaker 1: I can't get an for me too. 772 00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:02,480 Speaker 3: What are you. 773 00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:05,799 Speaker 2: Most looking forward to in this year twenty twenty six? 774 00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:07,640 Speaker 2: Were at the start of it, so much coming It's 775 00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:08,440 Speaker 2: the Year of the Horse. 776 00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:10,480 Speaker 3: Yes, it is. We've got things to be doing. 777 00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:13,360 Speaker 1: Friends were like, whoo whole year. I'm like, it's the 778 00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:17,360 Speaker 1: Year of the Horse. Baby, my album coming out, my 779 00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:19,600 Speaker 1: debut album, and then the tour tour. 780 00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:23,759 Speaker 3: Everyone Nika is coming on tour. If you have not 781 00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:25,040 Speaker 3: got your tickets. 782 00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:27,759 Speaker 2: Get them now if they're available, because she's selling out 783 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:30,320 Speaker 2: every time she posts something, it's selling out fast. 784 00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:31,799 Speaker 3: So I'm going to be there. 785 00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:33,040 Speaker 1: I know I can wait for this. 786 00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:34,680 Speaker 3: I will be hopefully. 787 00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:36,640 Speaker 2: Every every concert. I will somehow find a way I'll 788 00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:37,400 Speaker 2: be that super. 789 00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:38,279 Speaker 1: Behind the buzz with us. 790 00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:41,080 Speaker 3: Yes, let me say that. I'll pack my bag right now. 791 00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:42,760 Speaker 1: It will be fun. 792 00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:46,319 Speaker 2: Thanks Nika, Thank you so lovely getting to know you 793 00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:49,000 Speaker 2: like this. We actually have not spent time together. This 794 00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:51,040 Speaker 2: is I always find such a beautiful way to spend 795 00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:53,920 Speaker 2: time together because I get to ask questions that I 796 00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:55,560 Speaker 2: don't know. We get to have a hot heart connection 797 00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:58,440 Speaker 2: and conversation. So thank you for sharing everything you have, 798 00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:00,600 Speaker 2: you think and thanks for your me. I told you 799 00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:02,520 Speaker 2: this already, but get lost in your eyes. 800 00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:05,439 Speaker 3: Oh my god, does what makes you shy? 801 00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:07,200 Speaker 1: By the way, what makes me shy? 802 00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:09,600 Speaker 2: That was gonna all my other questions. Is there anything 803 00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:11,800 Speaker 2: that makes you feel shy? 804 00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:14,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, I have my shy sides. I think when I'm 805 00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:17,279 Speaker 1: first getting to know people, I'm a little bit shy. Yeah, sometimes, 806 00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:19,480 Speaker 1: but also I don't know, sometimes I'm not at all. 807 00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:21,919 Speaker 1: I used to be more shy as a kid. 808 00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:24,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like they may just come into yourself. Anyway, 809 00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:25,879 Speaker 3: back to it, thank you so much. 810 00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:29,200 Speaker 2: I appreciate you, love you, and so excited to continue 811 00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:31,360 Speaker 2: this friendship and adoration that I have for you. 812 00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:34,600 Speaker 1: My Kay. Likewise, thank you