1 00:00:05,080 --> 00:00:06,000 Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. 2 00:00:06,160 --> 00:00:10,200 Speaker 2: I'm Rashaan McDonald, the host of Money Making Conversations Masterclass, 3 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:13,320 Speaker 2: where we encourage people to stop reading other people's success 4 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:14,120 Speaker 2: stories and. 5 00:00:14,120 --> 00:00:15,440 Speaker 1: Start planning their own. 6 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:19,480 Speaker 2: Listen up as I interview entrepreneurs from around the country, 7 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:22,560 Speaker 2: talk to celebrities and ask them how they are running 8 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:25,479 Speaker 2: their companies, and speak with dog profits who are making 9 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:28,520 Speaker 2: a difference in their local communities. Now, sit back and 10 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:31,639 Speaker 2: listen as we unlock the secrets to their success on 11 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:36,239 Speaker 2: Money Making Conversations Masterclass. Hi, I'm Rashaan McDonald. I host 12 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:39,560 Speaker 2: this Money Making Conversation Master Class show. The interviews and 13 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:42,920 Speaker 2: information that this show provides off for everyone. It's time 14 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:45,800 Speaker 2: to stop reading other people's success stories and start living 15 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:48,240 Speaker 2: your own. For decades, my guest has used her a 16 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:52,479 Speaker 2: celebrity platform for mentoring, lecturing, giving concerts, and donating her 17 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 2: time and talents to causes across America and abroad on 18 00:00:56,200 --> 00:01:00,840 Speaker 2: behalf of organizations such as UNISEF, UNCF Congressional Like Harkers 19 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:04,000 Speaker 2: Against HIV AIDS and American Heart Association. 20 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:05,840 Speaker 1: She is amazing, she really is. 21 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:09,000 Speaker 2: In addition to her acting, she lends her voice work 22 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:11,720 Speaker 2: on such shows as Star Trek Lord Dex, and she 23 00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:15,960 Speaker 2: currently lends her voice to reoccurring characters on the Simpsons 24 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:19,920 Speaker 2: and Futurama. Please welcome the Money Making Conversations Masterclass, the 25 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 2: iconic and very very funny Don. 26 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:23,800 Speaker 1: Lewis how you doing? 27 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:24,080 Speaker 3: Don? 28 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:32,399 Speaker 1: What should I say? Tina Turner Mama's last. 29 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:35,119 Speaker 2: Time we talk, you know, Broadway, Tina Turner Mama doing 30 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:36,880 Speaker 2: your thing and you say you're having a great time, 31 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:38,680 Speaker 2: but you know your your your whole career. 32 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:39,720 Speaker 1: Thank you for coming on the show. 33 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:41,480 Speaker 4: First of all, my pleasure. Thanks for having me. 34 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:44,840 Speaker 2: Now you know you do I go back with you. 35 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 2: We're not talking about television. We first kind of met. 36 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:49,520 Speaker 2: I was manager Steve Harvey. You came into the radio 37 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:52,560 Speaker 2: studio and he was doing music. You was singing. So 38 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:55,160 Speaker 2: you had all these different lay layers in your life, 39 00:01:55,200 --> 00:02:02,360 Speaker 2: you know, actress, singer, voice over work, acting, philanthropists. Let's 40 00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:06,240 Speaker 2: start talking about dicing up these different levels. Okay, what 41 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:08,520 Speaker 2: came first, acting or singing? 42 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:13,640 Speaker 3: Between the two of those, singing came first, but between 43 00:02:13,919 --> 00:02:16,960 Speaker 3: singing and acting was dancing. I started singing it for 44 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:20,400 Speaker 3: dancing at seven, acting at eleven, and I've been doing 45 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:24,320 Speaker 3: all three professionally since I was about ten years old. 46 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:26,360 Speaker 2: So okay, so we got so you gave me the 47 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:28,720 Speaker 2: trivector right there, you go, CA, I didn't even say dancing. 48 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:33,799 Speaker 2: They're dancing, acting, singing, okay, So what jumped ot first? 49 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:35,600 Speaker 1: You know, I say, you know, there's always a talent 50 00:02:35,639 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 1: that leads the way. 51 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:39,639 Speaker 2: And then everybody started recognizing these other skill sets. 52 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:41,040 Speaker 4: It would be singing, okay. 53 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:42,440 Speaker 3: So I really thought I was going to be a 54 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:44,480 Speaker 3: recording artist. I was lead singer in a band by 55 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:48,000 Speaker 3: the time I was fourteen. I was a songwriter, so 56 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:50,760 Speaker 3: my music was getting recorded by other artists. 57 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:53,799 Speaker 4: I was a session singer, singing background. 58 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:57,680 Speaker 3: Vocals for different artists people everyone from Patrice Russian to 59 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 3: Vanessams not not at fourteen, and that was after I 60 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:03,480 Speaker 3: graduated from college. 61 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:05,560 Speaker 4: But before then, I was recording. 62 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:09,520 Speaker 3: I had my own single out, I was charting on Billboards. 63 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:11,440 Speaker 4: I was doing shows off and on Broadway. 64 00:03:11,919 --> 00:03:14,359 Speaker 3: I had done a couple of TV pilots, but none 65 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:16,880 Speaker 3: of them had gotten picked up. One of them had 66 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:20,520 Speaker 3: a release as a special holiday special. It was called 67 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 3: Crummy Movie Show. 68 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:23,480 Speaker 1: While I was in college. 69 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 3: And the movie was so bad you would turn channels 70 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:27,560 Speaker 3: to see the commercials and we were the quote unquote 71 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:31,440 Speaker 3: commercials sketches. So when I graduated college, I went back 72 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:33,239 Speaker 3: to doing theater off and on Broadway. 73 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:35,680 Speaker 4: Then the last Broadway tour I did. 74 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:38,120 Speaker 3: And I want to give a shout out because today 75 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:41,560 Speaker 3: was the star's birthday who recently passed, Hinton Battle, three 76 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 3: time Tony Award winner, Amazing performer, and that was the 77 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:48,040 Speaker 3: Tap Dance Kid with Harold Nicholas of the Nicholas Brothers. 78 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:51,240 Speaker 3: There you go, hint In Battle, Ben Harney, the original 79 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:55,440 Speaker 3: Curtis from Dreamgirls, Monica Page and Hint and Doulat Hill, 80 00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:57,080 Speaker 3: who was our ten year. 81 00:03:56,920 --> 00:03:58,240 Speaker 4: Old boy at the time. 82 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:01,240 Speaker 3: It was now into an amazing This is so at 83 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:03,280 Speaker 3: the time I was doing that. And then Hinton invited 84 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:05,320 Speaker 3: me to sing with him on his first solo album 85 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:07,160 Speaker 3: that was produced by Quincy Jones. 86 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:09,400 Speaker 4: Okay, so I'm doing that. We finished that. 87 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:12,000 Speaker 1: All these great names just dancing around. 88 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:15,520 Speaker 3: That has been my journey, blessing. I am so blessed 89 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 3: to have been in the company of these amazingly talented 90 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:21,200 Speaker 3: people that always encouraged me to do better and be better. 91 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:23,920 Speaker 4: And I was always the youngster in the group because 92 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:26,320 Speaker 4: I was sixteen when I started college. So all of 93 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:29,600 Speaker 4: this is happening before, I mean six, when I started college. 94 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:30,440 Speaker 4: I left New York. 95 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 3: I went to the High School of Music and Art 96 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:36,040 Speaker 3: of Fame Fame, graduated and they danced and sing. 97 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:36,920 Speaker 4: And doing all of it. 98 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:39,440 Speaker 3: And went down to the U and actually started my 99 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:43,320 Speaker 3: own degree program. I was singing opera, playing cello, acting 100 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:46,760 Speaker 3: and dancing. Okay, so the musical theater degree program that 101 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 3: now flourishes at the U. I'm the founder and first graduate. 102 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:52,600 Speaker 2: You know, when I hear a person like you, I 103 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:56,000 Speaker 2: remember a couple of times in Hollywood somebody slowed out. 104 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:57,560 Speaker 1: You're doing too much, you know. 105 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:00,159 Speaker 2: I remember my first agent, he said, you know, we 106 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:02,440 Speaker 2: got to keep you on the train tracks because you 107 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:04,640 Speaker 2: keep getting off the train tracks. You keep going to 108 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:08,200 Speaker 2: do this and that. Did you feel that people were 109 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:11,479 Speaker 2: boxing you in or people told you you were doing 110 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 2: too many things because you were talented at so many 111 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:14,640 Speaker 2: different things. 112 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:17,719 Speaker 3: You know, when I was coming up, I was always 113 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:20,039 Speaker 3: taught you had to be a triple threat in order 114 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:22,880 Speaker 3: to work in the industry and to survive in the industry, 115 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:26,359 Speaker 3: multiple incoming, multiple strings, whether and even if it was 116 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:27,920 Speaker 3: just one doing musical theater. 117 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 4: When you look back at old movies. 118 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:33,680 Speaker 3: Almost every major actor you can name sang, dance and act, 119 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:37,720 Speaker 3: everyone from Judy Garland to Frank Sinatra to Bing Crosby, 120 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:40,800 Speaker 3: Bob Hole. Everybody was doing everything. So that was what 121 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:43,440 Speaker 3: I was always taught. The journey was supposed to be, 122 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:47,000 Speaker 3: but I actually didn't start getting pigeonholed until I did 123 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:51,080 Speaker 3: a different world. So I moved from live performing into 124 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:52,680 Speaker 3: doing now this what would. 125 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:53,800 Speaker 1: Become that became most art. 126 00:05:54,640 --> 00:05:56,760 Speaker 3: I was just gonna say, but you talk about when 127 00:05:56,760 --> 00:05:58,880 Speaker 3: do people start telling you you're doing too much or 128 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:00,960 Speaker 3: your skill set is too and try to put you 129 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:03,839 Speaker 3: in a box. That was when it started, because I 130 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:09,440 Speaker 3: went from being able and open to be this multifaceted 131 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:12,839 Speaker 3: person to now I'm doing a TV series, which ended 132 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:15,560 Speaker 3: up being one of the most successful television. 133 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 4: Series then and now. 134 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:20,600 Speaker 3: But now you're, oh, well, now you're just an actress, 135 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:23,960 Speaker 3: or you're a comedic actress, or you're a sitcom actress. 136 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:26,160 Speaker 3: And then I went from being the youngest to play 137 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:29,200 Speaker 3: in the Oldest Person when I was actually younger than 138 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:31,600 Speaker 3: a lot of people around me. I was just taller 139 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:33,560 Speaker 3: than everybody playing the older person. 140 00:06:33,839 --> 00:06:36,840 Speaker 4: Huh about five seven, but I look long. I look 141 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:37,760 Speaker 4: taller because. 142 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:41,560 Speaker 3: I have long legs, and well, you know everybody, so 143 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:45,680 Speaker 3: you know. But that's when people started saying and when 144 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:48,520 Speaker 3: I when I got cast to do a different world. 145 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:51,320 Speaker 3: The musical director from The Cosby Show also knew me 146 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:54,240 Speaker 3: as as the singer, songwriter musician that I that I 147 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:56,760 Speaker 3: that I am, and he invited me to write the 148 00:06:56,760 --> 00:06:59,520 Speaker 3: theme song for the show. So that's how I ended 149 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:01,960 Speaker 3: up writing the theme song and being cast in the 150 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:05,000 Speaker 3: show because I wasn't in a box yet, so I 151 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:07,880 Speaker 3: was able to bring both those gifts and blessings to 152 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:10,600 Speaker 3: one show and they had no idea they had hired 153 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:11,360 Speaker 3: the same person. 154 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 2: Here's the funny part about it that I shouldn't say funny, 155 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:17,360 Speaker 2: you know, because you know, I met you when I 156 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 2: knew you as an actress, and I remember when you 157 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:22,160 Speaker 2: came into the studio. We're talking about the studio chief Howard, 158 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:24,520 Speaker 2: and I was doing the radio show in LA and 159 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:26,960 Speaker 2: you was promoting your music and I just looked at 160 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 2: you as an actress. 161 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:29,000 Speaker 1: I go, oh, she's trying to sing that. 162 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:31,720 Speaker 4: She's trying to sing that. That's one folk and that's 163 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:32,800 Speaker 4: what people do. 164 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:33,400 Speaker 1: You know. 165 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:36,600 Speaker 4: I am grateful for the blessing of how people came 166 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:38,560 Speaker 4: to know me. But it was just just. 167 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:42,920 Speaker 3: One small sorry, but it's okay. You wouldn't be the first. 168 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:45,200 Speaker 3: So there were some people who only know me as 169 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:47,640 Speaker 3: a singer and a musician who are wondering, how come 170 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:50,360 Speaker 3: you don't sing more? You know, But that's how the 171 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:54,000 Speaker 3: journey has gone. So now I still do concerts, I 172 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:57,800 Speaker 3: still compose. I got the honor. I received the honor 173 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 3: of being inducted into the Women's Songwriter Hall of Fame 174 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:06,680 Speaker 3: alongside people like Valerie Simpson, Bunny Hull, Mary Carpenter Chapin. 175 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:09,280 Speaker 4: I mean, it was just an honor. 176 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:09,480 Speaker 3: You know. 177 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:13,400 Speaker 2: You know, it's really interesting because you know you have that. 178 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:16,920 Speaker 2: You know, there's so many blessings that come your way, 179 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:20,720 Speaker 2: and sometimes in the world a lot of your success 180 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:24,840 Speaker 2: you're not seen as a writer, as a voice person 181 00:08:24,960 --> 00:08:28,240 Speaker 2: in animation, and then people can go what you been 182 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:29,600 Speaker 2: doing lately? 183 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:36,240 Speaker 4: I haven't stopped so gratefully, you know what. 184 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:39,040 Speaker 3: It may not have been in front of the camera, 185 00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:42,160 Speaker 3: but it's in so many facets around that allow me 186 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:45,720 Speaker 3: to keep being creative. To your point, animation, that's been 187 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:46,640 Speaker 3: a beautiful blessing. 188 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:49,080 Speaker 4: I've been doing it for more than thirty years animation. 189 00:08:49,280 --> 00:08:53,720 Speaker 2: Okay, now I can't do voices. Yeah, I'm barely doing 190 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:57,200 Speaker 2: this show. Okay, how you know? 191 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:00,360 Speaker 1: You know, can you imitate people or how do you 192 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:02,080 Speaker 1: get into that force? Then? How did you start? How 193 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:02,800 Speaker 1: did you I. 194 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:06,400 Speaker 3: Don't necessarily imitate people, although I have been hired to 195 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:11,000 Speaker 3: do what's called looping additional voices for a particular actor 196 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:14,600 Speaker 3: that I can sound similar to that can't come back 197 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:15,000 Speaker 3: in to. 198 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:16,000 Speaker 4: Do their own pickups. 199 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:18,920 Speaker 3: So they bring me in to do like little additional 200 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:22,520 Speaker 3: lines to cover certain actors that I can sound like. 201 00:09:26,559 --> 00:09:27,360 Speaker 1: Money Lewis. 202 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:31,760 Speaker 4: It's all possible and I can't share me check amen. 203 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:36,040 Speaker 3: But no. It started when Susanda pass of Motown fame 204 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:39,320 Speaker 3: and discovering the Jackson's and all of that. She was 205 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:42,560 Speaker 3: interested in managing me years ago, and that was before 206 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:44,040 Speaker 3: she got big into producing. 207 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:45,920 Speaker 1: So she got asked me because she was in my 208 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:48,400 Speaker 1: life on sister's sister. That's why she came into my life. 209 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:53,240 Speaker 3: She's a brilliant, brilliant and resourceful woman. 210 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:54,600 Speaker 4: So she asked me. 211 00:09:54,920 --> 00:09:58,160 Speaker 3: She got the opportunity to executive produce this new animated 212 00:09:58,240 --> 00:09:59,559 Speaker 3: series around. 213 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:00,120 Speaker 4: Kid and Play. 214 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:02,840 Speaker 3: Okay, so she asked me if big Kid and play 215 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:05,880 Speaker 3: the the Kidden play Chris and Chris so and asked 216 00:10:05,880 --> 00:10:07,440 Speaker 3: if I would come and do a voice So I 217 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:09,800 Speaker 3: came and said, all right, well, I've done jingles, I've 218 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:12,199 Speaker 3: done all kinds of success session work, so this will 219 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:14,600 Speaker 3: be my first time doing a TV series. 220 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:17,959 Speaker 4: So I just came and imitated my niece who was 221 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:19,720 Speaker 4: a child and talk like this all the time. 222 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:21,880 Speaker 3: I was like, a kid, come on, let's go in 223 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:23,920 Speaker 3: and do this routine and it's gonna be fun. 224 00:10:23,920 --> 00:10:25,920 Speaker 4: All right, come on five, six, seven eight. 225 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:29,320 Speaker 3: And that was my first gig and there aren't very 226 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:32,880 Speaker 3: many people of color in the animation world, particularly at 227 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:33,679 Speaker 3: that time, so the. 228 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:35,640 Speaker 4: Director was like, who are you? How come I never 229 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:36,360 Speaker 4: met you before? 230 00:10:37,080 --> 00:10:40,040 Speaker 3: And then my name just started getting passed around from 231 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:43,480 Speaker 3: gig to gig, director to director, shows like you know, 232 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:50,440 Speaker 3: Spider Man, Hulk, she Hulk, all of It, Batman and Robin. 233 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:52,360 Speaker 4: I've been doing voiceovers ever since. 234 00:10:52,440 --> 00:10:55,760 Speaker 2: So, okay, this is so funny because that's just one voice, 235 00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:57,720 Speaker 2: so you just can't come in there and do the 236 00:10:57,720 --> 00:11:02,280 Speaker 2: same voice for everything. So how does the castine sessions 237 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:06,120 Speaker 2: work when you're doing are your or your audition I'm 238 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:09,439 Speaker 2: sure your audition for this every now and then, yeh okay, excuse. 239 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:11,160 Speaker 1: Me, excuse your sister. 240 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:17,079 Speaker 2: Money, I said money, Okay, done, money Lewis Okay, Now. 241 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:18,720 Speaker 1: Will you do audition? 242 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:21,680 Speaker 2: Well, how does that prep work when you're just dealing 243 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:22,720 Speaker 2: with a voice? 244 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:25,320 Speaker 3: With it, when it's just a voice, You get an outline, 245 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:28,160 Speaker 3: You get what they call a breakdown of what the 246 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:30,240 Speaker 3: character is supposed to be. Is it a seventy year 247 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:32,760 Speaker 3: old Is it a seventy year old one woman? Is 248 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:35,920 Speaker 3: it a seven year old boy? Are you East African? 249 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:37,000 Speaker 3: Are you British? 250 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:37,439 Speaker 1: Okay? 251 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:41,280 Speaker 3: Are you a Caribbean? Are you a monster? Are you 252 00:11:41,320 --> 00:11:44,120 Speaker 3: an alien? Are you a witch or a warlock? 253 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:44,439 Speaker 4: No? 254 00:11:44,559 --> 00:11:47,520 Speaker 3: Seriously, So they give you the written outline, and every 255 00:11:47,559 --> 00:11:49,480 Speaker 3: now and then they have a visual idea of what 256 00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:51,520 Speaker 3: the character is going to look like, so you may 257 00:11:51,559 --> 00:11:54,640 Speaker 3: see an illustration. So when you combine all of that, 258 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:58,120 Speaker 3: you sit in your spirit and come up with something 259 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:01,760 Speaker 3: that you think would sound come out of this person's mouth. 260 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:04,520 Speaker 3: And then you collaborate with the director and you say, well, 261 00:12:04,520 --> 00:12:05,559 Speaker 3: what about this voice to go? 262 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:07,199 Speaker 4: No, try a little higher pitch. 263 00:12:07,280 --> 00:12:10,000 Speaker 3: Make them sound younger, make make them sound older, make 264 00:12:10,040 --> 00:12:12,600 Speaker 3: them sound broken down, and that's how you put the 265 00:12:12,640 --> 00:12:13,920 Speaker 3: elements together. 266 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:14,280 Speaker 1: Right, Okay? 267 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:17,160 Speaker 2: Figuring of Don Lewis, you know of Different World fame. 268 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:20,240 Speaker 2: You know, I've told her myself that when she came 269 00:12:20,280 --> 00:12:22,079 Speaker 2: and I met her the first time Steve Harve and 270 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:25,240 Speaker 2: I was on radio, I said, why is this actress 271 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:27,240 Speaker 2: trying to be a singer? And I've discovered she was 272 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:30,560 Speaker 2: a triple threat. Pride to being discovered on different world 273 00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:33,360 Speaker 2: and different World kind of boxed you in, like people 274 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:35,760 Speaker 2: will say, that's all you can do, right and then 275 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:39,960 Speaker 2: but you launched an animated career. You're a songwriter in 276 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:43,120 Speaker 2: the Hall of fame. Now where's the book or do 277 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:45,480 Speaker 2: you have you done a book on Don Money Lewis? 278 00:12:45,559 --> 00:12:48,200 Speaker 4: You know what, I have been tempted to write a book, 279 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:49,559 Speaker 4: and I start, what. 280 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:51,160 Speaker 1: Would the inspiration be behind the. 281 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:54,000 Speaker 4: Tempt the attempt? 282 00:12:54,160 --> 00:12:57,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, if you said writing a book. 283 00:12:56,640 --> 00:13:01,680 Speaker 3: But it would be the unlikely nie of somebody who 284 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:04,440 Speaker 3: was committed to having a journey, right, you know, because 285 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:07,680 Speaker 3: where I'm from, in Bedsty, you are not encouraged to 286 00:13:07,760 --> 00:13:11,520 Speaker 3: think big and to have big dreams and to dare 287 00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:13,960 Speaker 3: to think beyond your neighborhood. 288 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:16,720 Speaker 4: And I came up in the pub public school system, 289 00:13:16,760 --> 00:13:17,080 Speaker 4: so there. 290 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:21,400 Speaker 3: Weren't any special charters or scholarships or you know, inordinate 291 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:24,680 Speaker 3: amounts of money being funded into me, like when I 292 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:27,240 Speaker 3: wrote the theme song for a Different World. Like I said, 293 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:29,520 Speaker 3: I was sixteen when I left home, so all I 294 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:32,520 Speaker 3: was armed with was what I was taught in my house, 295 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:34,800 Speaker 3: was what my mom instilled in me. 296 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:36,360 Speaker 4: And you know, truth be told. 297 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:39,640 Speaker 3: As a teenager coming up, all it did was irritate me, 298 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:41,560 Speaker 3: and that was one of the reasons why I needed 299 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:43,559 Speaker 3: to get out of the house. But now you're out 300 00:13:43,559 --> 00:13:46,160 Speaker 3: of the house and you find yourself doing the exact 301 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:49,160 Speaker 3: things that your mom taught you to do and responding 302 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:52,240 Speaker 3: the way your mom taught you to respond, which is 303 00:13:52,520 --> 00:13:54,559 Speaker 3: and all of a sudden, you go, Okay, I guess 304 00:13:54,559 --> 00:13:55,320 Speaker 3: she wasn't as. 305 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:58,160 Speaker 4: Foolish after all, and gets it kind of made sense. 306 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:02,520 Speaker 3: But that was the big of me recognizing the power 307 00:14:03,040 --> 00:14:08,559 Speaker 3: of positive input into me and into my life. 308 00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:10,559 Speaker 4: Please don't go anywhere. 309 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:18,559 Speaker 5: We'll be right back with more Money Making Conversations Masterclass. 310 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:23,800 Speaker 5: Welcome back to the Money Making Conversations Masterclass hosted by 311 00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:30,040 Speaker 5: Rashaan McDonald. Money Making Conversations Masterclass continues online at Moneymakingconversations 312 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:34,360 Speaker 5: dot com and follow Money Making Conversations Masterclass on Facebook, 313 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:35,800 Speaker 5: Twitter and Instagram. 314 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:41,520 Speaker 1: Your character, yes, you know why did people gravitate to it? 315 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:45,640 Speaker 2: Because I gravitated to your character on Different World. 316 00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:51,840 Speaker 1: Why do you think people really were enamored? 317 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:53,800 Speaker 2: I want want to use the word you enamored because 318 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:57,440 Speaker 2: with your character, because it was a Let me not 319 00:14:57,480 --> 00:14:59,800 Speaker 2: give it away any hints and then I'll respond after. 320 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,800 Speaker 3: Okay, Well, I think people embrace the show that they 321 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:06,400 Speaker 3: weighed that they did because of the different facets of 322 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:09,960 Speaker 3: life and humanity that each of us represented. There was 323 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:14,160 Speaker 3: the bugy person, the geeky person, the seasoned citizen, and 324 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:17,200 Speaker 3: mister Gaines who didn't have a degree but was there 325 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:20,600 Speaker 3: to speak positivity and wisdom into each of the students. 326 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:25,000 Speaker 3: My character was someone who had decided she wasn't done yet. 327 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:27,760 Speaker 3: And where some people may chip it in, you know, 328 00:15:27,880 --> 00:15:30,600 Speaker 3: cash in their chips and say, well, look, I'm such 329 00:15:30,640 --> 00:15:33,560 Speaker 3: an age, this is all there is for me and 330 00:15:33,760 --> 00:15:37,520 Speaker 3: keep it moving as best as they can. But Jalisa decided, 331 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:39,480 Speaker 3: you know what, No, there's more I want to do 332 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:41,760 Speaker 3: and I'm going to get the tools I need in 333 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:43,960 Speaker 3: order to do it. And if it means going back 334 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:46,040 Speaker 3: to school. That's what I'm going to do because I, 335 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:48,680 Speaker 3: which is one of the things we say in our foundation, 336 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:52,760 Speaker 3: the New Day Foundation, is I am my best investment. 337 00:15:53,120 --> 00:15:56,400 Speaker 3: And that's what Lisa Jalisa chose. So I think a 338 00:15:56,480 --> 00:16:00,080 Speaker 3: lot of people see that in themselves or want to 339 00:15:59,840 --> 00:16:04,040 Speaker 3: see that in themselves. And besides that, it wasn't common 340 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:08,360 Speaker 3: to see a brown skin sis sister very comfortable in 341 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:11,920 Speaker 3: her own skin on television on a weekly basis. And 342 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:15,000 Speaker 3: then we got blessed by adding Charnelle Brown to the 343 00:16:15,120 --> 00:16:16,480 Speaker 3: cast that was even. 344 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:17,600 Speaker 4: Darker skin than I was. 345 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:20,160 Speaker 3: So all of those people who weren't accustomed because I 346 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:22,440 Speaker 3: know I wasn't everyone I used to see, whether it 347 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:26,480 Speaker 3: was commercials or television, was you know, fair skin, really thin, 348 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:29,040 Speaker 3: you know, all those things which are beautiful in itself. 349 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:33,760 Speaker 3: But I was there to reflect a group of women 350 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:38,920 Speaker 3: in particular, and for men who like brown sisters, you know, 351 00:16:39,160 --> 00:16:41,600 Speaker 3: to say, okay, we got some of this too, So 352 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:42,240 Speaker 3: we had some. 353 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:43,760 Speaker 4: Of everything on our show. 354 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:47,000 Speaker 3: So I am so grateful that, you know, people, as 355 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:51,640 Speaker 3: you said, were enever with me and my character as no. 356 00:16:52,920 --> 00:16:53,800 Speaker 4: As they are today. 357 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:57,960 Speaker 3: And people are still black, don't crack. We been just 358 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:03,120 Speaker 3: a teen ny. 359 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:06,600 Speaker 1: You're not breaking. You may not even even bended. 360 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:11,800 Speaker 2: Okay, you know because okay, your skin tone, that that 361 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:12,919 Speaker 2: that attracted me to you. 362 00:17:13,600 --> 00:17:15,840 Speaker 1: Your maturity, come on. 363 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:19,960 Speaker 4: Come on, and maturity. 364 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:26,560 Speaker 2: It was something different, you know on the show. And 365 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:30,159 Speaker 2: also your presence because when you came in the room, 366 00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:32,800 Speaker 2: it was you know, you had all these other characters 367 00:17:32,840 --> 00:17:36,280 Speaker 2: seemed like out of control because it was teenager mentality 368 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:39,200 Speaker 2: and you had a maturity about you that really resonated 369 00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:42,280 Speaker 2: I felt, and uh, it was needed in the show, 370 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:44,600 Speaker 2: and they did a good job of. 371 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:46,399 Speaker 1: Producing that your character. 372 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:50,040 Speaker 2: So I feel that's why I resonated for Rashawn McDonald, 373 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:51,920 Speaker 2: and I think it resonated to a lot of people. 374 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:54,920 Speaker 1: Plus it was a hot mama, okay, and we as 375 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:57,960 Speaker 1: young people, needed a hot mama looking at the TV. 376 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:02,680 Speaker 2: If I could just date her, if I can just 377 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:04,879 Speaker 2: fight her, nobody care about your need. 378 00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:06,240 Speaker 1: Friends tell you, boy, hit you in the back of 379 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:08,600 Speaker 1: the head, boy, shut up. She didn't even recognize you. 380 00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:11,080 Speaker 2: And so, but that's one of the things, the qualities 381 00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:12,720 Speaker 2: that you brought to the table, and. 382 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:14,119 Speaker 1: It lives today. 383 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:17,000 Speaker 2: But the blessing of the conversation is that you know, 384 00:18:17,359 --> 00:18:21,199 Speaker 2: animation has started thirty years ago, but now you're still 385 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:25,240 Speaker 2: in the heart of the Futurama, The Simpsons, you know. Uh, 386 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:27,200 Speaker 2: and now Star Trek, lawd Decks tell. 387 00:18:27,119 --> 00:18:27,720 Speaker 1: Us about that. 388 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:31,919 Speaker 3: Well, that journey continued, like you said, and gratefully. Now, 389 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:34,240 Speaker 3: in addition to the ones you mentioned, I'm on to 390 00:18:34,560 --> 00:18:39,080 Speaker 3: over a dozen TV series now, House Housebroken. 391 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:41,440 Speaker 4: Craig of the of the Creek. 392 00:18:41,280 --> 00:18:47,920 Speaker 3: Fairly Odd Parents, Apple and Onion, Fairly Odd Parents, Karma's World, 393 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:56,520 Speaker 3: Ludacris this series, Karma's World, and I play you know, yeah, Heartstone, Trolls, 394 00:18:56,640 --> 00:18:59,360 Speaker 3: I mean, all of it, Mortal Kombat, you know, and 395 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:03,680 Speaker 3: then some Yeah, I know, I know. It's it's fantastic 396 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:06,840 Speaker 3: because I get to voice and bring to life characters 397 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:09,800 Speaker 3: that you wouldn't hire me visually to play. You wouldn't 398 00:19:09,840 --> 00:19:12,080 Speaker 3: hire me to play a seven year old boy or 399 00:19:12,119 --> 00:19:13,640 Speaker 3: a ninety year old grandmother. 400 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:15,160 Speaker 1: Let me hear that seven year old boy boy? 401 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:18,920 Speaker 4: Oh no you no, you no, oh my, this is 402 00:19:19,040 --> 00:19:20,040 Speaker 4: second cool man. 403 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:21,720 Speaker 3: It is so fly. 404 00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:26,000 Speaker 4: Yeah. So anyway, so doing doing things like that. 405 00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:26,439 Speaker 3: Uh. 406 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:28,840 Speaker 4: And when I got Star Trek, I. 407 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:31,680 Speaker 1: Would never be bored with you. No, I would never 408 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:34,800 Speaker 1: never show leave me alone. 409 00:19:35,400 --> 00:19:38,040 Speaker 3: Of different languages and all kinds of different accents. 410 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:39,960 Speaker 4: You know, I would never tell you shut up and 411 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:45,480 Speaker 4: leave me alone, say what you're wearing today? Kind of sexty. 412 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:48,520 Speaker 4: My god, we get bored. 413 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:54,000 Speaker 2: You're talking, you know, And so the the Lord Deck, 414 00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:57,520 Speaker 2: you know, you pling Carol Freeman, right, was Carol just 415 00:19:57,600 --> 00:19:59,359 Speaker 2: very important to put the captain in front of that. 416 00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:01,560 Speaker 4: It shows leadership. 417 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:05,400 Speaker 3: And in the world of Star Trek in the franchise, 418 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:09,760 Speaker 3: it's me and Avery Brooks, yes as black captains, him 419 00:20:09,760 --> 00:20:13,360 Speaker 3: as male, him as me as the female black captain 420 00:20:13,560 --> 00:20:18,640 Speaker 3: in this legacy of excellence and diversity. And I've been 421 00:20:18,680 --> 00:20:21,680 Speaker 3: a fan of the show since the very first series 422 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:25,040 Speaker 3: came on with Captain Kirk and Spock and Sulu and 423 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:28,760 Speaker 3: all of those people. And to see Michelle Nichols on 424 00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:32,240 Speaker 3: camera as a child was made me hopeful that there 425 00:20:32,280 --> 00:20:35,080 Speaker 3: was hope for me because she was brown skinned and 426 00:20:35,119 --> 00:20:36,520 Speaker 3: she was excellent. 427 00:20:36,119 --> 00:20:39,439 Speaker 4: And she was she was fiery, she could hold her 428 00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:40,919 Speaker 4: own with anybody. 429 00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:44,520 Speaker 3: So she was my hero, especially in the sixties where 430 00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:46,840 Speaker 3: when you were watching the news, all you saw was 431 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:51,520 Speaker 3: people of color being beaten, holes, chased by dogs, marching, picketing. 432 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:53,800 Speaker 1: It was the the. 433 00:20:56,720 --> 00:21:02,560 Speaker 3: Just position of where diversity stood in Gene Roddenberry's world 434 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:05,920 Speaker 3: as opposed to the real world really made me hopeful 435 00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:11,360 Speaker 3: that we can do this. We can respect everyone's excellence, 436 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:14,919 Speaker 3: we can deal with each other with integrity and with 437 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:18,160 Speaker 3: inclusion and get it done and it'll be all right. 438 00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:19,280 Speaker 4: It really will. 439 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:22,520 Speaker 3: So now, all these years later, for Michelle to become 440 00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:25,679 Speaker 3: one of my dearest friends and mentors and get to 441 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:28,120 Speaker 3: meet some of these people that I grew up idolizing, 442 00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:31,600 Speaker 3: and I did not know that what I was auditioning 443 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:32,760 Speaker 3: for was Star. 444 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:34,800 Speaker 4: Trek because they changed the name. 445 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:38,040 Speaker 3: We had to sign NDA's And when they finally hired 446 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:39,760 Speaker 3: all of us and we get to the table read 447 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:41,200 Speaker 3: and turn our scripts. 448 00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:44,639 Speaker 4: Over, we all were like, whoa stop, what really Star 449 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:45,760 Speaker 4: Trek for real? 450 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:50,159 Speaker 3: And myself, Tawny Newsome the star of the show, Jack Quaid, 451 00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:55,960 Speaker 3: Eugene Cordero, Noel, Well, thank you, Fred Tatters. It's the 452 00:21:56,040 --> 00:21:59,640 Speaker 3: last season on Paramount Plus. That's what we like to say, 453 00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:02,960 Speaker 3: because our see there you go, but our hope and 454 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,760 Speaker 3: our desires that we will get picked up somewhere else 455 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:09,240 Speaker 3: because the people who watch our show absolutely love it, 456 00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:12,320 Speaker 3: and some people never watch Star Trek before. 457 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:14,440 Speaker 4: I do. 458 00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:17,679 Speaker 3: I do, and I get to meet and engage with 459 00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:20,000 Speaker 3: so many of the people that watch our show. It's 460 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:23,439 Speaker 3: insane the love that we get for our show and 461 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:25,400 Speaker 3: the people that say, if you've ever I'm not gonna 462 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:28,960 Speaker 3: give away too much. But on our show, myself and 463 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:33,600 Speaker 3: the star Tawny Newsome. Her character's name is Beckett, Beckett Mariner, 464 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:35,919 Speaker 3: and she and I do not get along. It's like 465 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:39,720 Speaker 3: any of the teenage mother and daughter kind of relationship. 466 00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:43,600 Speaker 3: But as the seasons go on, you watch changes and growth, 467 00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:46,960 Speaker 3: not in just our relationship but throughout the entire crew. 468 00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:48,639 Speaker 4: So no, I'm a different kind of captain. 469 00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:52,639 Speaker 2: You know, it's so fun. I was watching The Boys. Yes, okay, 470 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:54,880 Speaker 2: so I'm sitting up there watching the Boys. 471 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:56,480 Speaker 4: And there I am. 472 00:22:57,359 --> 00:23:07,840 Speaker 2: I like, first of all, you know, first of all, 473 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:10,840 Speaker 2: you know, I'm going like you know that, you know, 474 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:13,760 Speaker 2: you know, And then then you go through your credits, 475 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:17,760 Speaker 2: you read it, you go to the cat it's it's 476 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:21,800 Speaker 2: you know, it's fascinating to be a fan of someone 477 00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:24,760 Speaker 2: and then you see them in the show that you 478 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:25,920 Speaker 2: don't expect to see them the show. 479 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:26,880 Speaker 1: Not saying you can't do. 480 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:29,080 Speaker 2: That show, but when you was in it in that 481 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:32,080 Speaker 2: role that was playing and it was like that that. 482 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:35,080 Speaker 2: I'm just telling you, that's what you do to people. 483 00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:38,879 Speaker 2: You have a fan base that gets excited and roots 484 00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:42,360 Speaker 2: for you, loves to see you. And the fact that 485 00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:47,760 Speaker 2: being on my show allows people to understand a tremendous career. 486 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:52,600 Speaker 2: It's what a force you are and so many different levels. 487 00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:54,920 Speaker 1: As you started when you was a kid. You still 488 00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:57,840 Speaker 1: are a. 489 00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:59,720 Speaker 2: Quadruple threat now, you know, and to be able to 490 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:03,280 Speaker 2: I always talk about people with careers, you know, because 491 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:05,960 Speaker 2: you always can jump out in different world, different world? 492 00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:09,520 Speaker 1: Was your launching pad to right to the world right 493 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:12,040 Speaker 1: fast forward? Twenty years, thirty years? 494 00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:15,800 Speaker 2: What have you done? What has what's sustainable? And that's 495 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:17,920 Speaker 2: what I call a career. And you have a career, 496 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:20,440 Speaker 2: and you know what I'm talking about because you can 497 00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:23,359 Speaker 2: you can jump out there and it just stops. 498 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:26,120 Speaker 1: Right and you've been able to keep moving forward. Tell 499 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:27,240 Speaker 1: us about that journey. 500 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:32,680 Speaker 3: You know what, again, You've got to basically quiet than 501 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:35,639 Speaker 3: they sayers by just showing up and doing the work 502 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:40,080 Speaker 3: and being able to work with people and to bring 503 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:41,040 Speaker 3: excellence to it. 504 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:43,960 Speaker 4: And I do my best to always do my best. 505 00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:48,480 Speaker 3: So whether it's nine to one one, Gray's Anatomy, Veronica 506 00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:51,960 Speaker 3: Mars any day Now you know any of those shows, 507 00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:54,240 Speaker 3: recording with any of those people that I started to 508 00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:59,520 Speaker 3: mention before, whether it's you know, Patrice Russian, Everett Harp, 509 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:01,320 Speaker 3: you know, the list just goes on and on. 510 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:02,840 Speaker 4: Grover Washington Junior. 511 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:06,000 Speaker 3: I wrote and recorded for him and Nancy Wilson, as 512 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:08,919 Speaker 3: well as doing my own and independent CD. 513 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:12,320 Speaker 4: All of it is just grace to God that he. 514 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:15,439 Speaker 3: Keeps opening doors and giving me what I need to 515 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:18,840 Speaker 3: walk through them successfully. And then having people like you 516 00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:21,200 Speaker 3: who will jump up with a high pitched voice and say, 517 00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:24,720 Speaker 3: oh my God, that's right, that's her, and make room 518 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:28,200 Speaker 3: for everything that I do because only more is coming. 519 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:30,480 Speaker 2: Now we're gonna talk about a New Day Foundation. I 520 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:33,720 Speaker 2: made a donation, Yes you will, many years ago. Okay, 521 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:36,960 Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure that money spent well, long time, long time, So. 522 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:38,399 Speaker 1: That means that she's back. 523 00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:41,320 Speaker 2: If she's back, that means donation time out of Rushan 524 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:42,959 Speaker 2: say Donald, which is no problem. 525 00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:44,560 Speaker 1: Tell everybody about a New Day Foundation. 526 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:47,800 Speaker 3: A New Day Foundation is basically the ongoing work that 527 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:52,399 Speaker 3: I've been doing for almost fifteen for almost fifty years 528 00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:55,680 Speaker 3: since I graduated from elementary school. It has been important 529 00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:57,679 Speaker 3: to me to go back and give back cause, like 530 00:25:57,760 --> 00:25:59,960 Speaker 3: I said, my teachers poured into me when I was 531 00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:04,120 Speaker 3: young to help me find a brighter path for myself 532 00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:06,760 Speaker 3: and my talent. So that's always been important to me. 533 00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:10,800 Speaker 3: About eight nine years ago, I wanted to do national programs, 534 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:13,159 Speaker 3: and up until then I had been doing all of 535 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:16,440 Speaker 3: this on my own. So in order to get corporate support, 536 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:20,600 Speaker 3: public support, I had to form a nonprofit. So that 537 00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:22,840 Speaker 3: is a New Day Foundation, which is a play on 538 00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:26,280 Speaker 3: my name Dawn, a New Day where we want to 539 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:28,199 Speaker 3: be a new day of opportunity, so that where you 540 00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:31,200 Speaker 3: were yesterday is not where you have to end up today. 541 00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:32,200 Speaker 4: Nor be tomorrow. 542 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:36,440 Speaker 3: So we do programmatic services for teens, teen boys, mentors, 543 00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:38,480 Speaker 3: teen girls, sisters. 544 00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:40,600 Speaker 4: Hangout, and we do an annual conference called. 545 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:44,960 Speaker 3: Focused and fit FT which stands for Financially and technolo Knowlogy. 546 00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:46,320 Speaker 4: Informed for a different World. 547 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:50,000 Speaker 3: And at that conference we give out scholarships anywhere from 548 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:52,480 Speaker 3: six to twelve of two thousand dollars each in a 549 00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:55,520 Speaker 3: new laptop. That is for high school juniors and seniors 550 00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:58,360 Speaker 3: and their parents and college freshmen and sophomores. That four 551 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:04,280 Speaker 3: year demographic now we sponsor two year round school programs, 552 00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:08,840 Speaker 3: one called HBCU Hero, so for your HBCU audience that 553 00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:13,439 Speaker 3: is listening. We have monthly workshops where any HBCU student 554 00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:18,240 Speaker 3: can join in virtually with tools for entrepreneurship, career planning, 555 00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:23,520 Speaker 3: economic wisdom, and marketing skills. And then we have programs 556 00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:26,119 Speaker 3: in two middle schools and two high schools in Long 557 00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:29,399 Speaker 3: Beach and we partner with an organization called Inspiration fifty 558 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:33,520 Speaker 3: two to do that year round program. So in everything 559 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:37,120 Speaker 3: we do, which is why your support is really so crucial, 560 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:39,679 Speaker 3: all jokes side, it's because everything we do we do 561 00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:43,080 Speaker 3: free of charge. So all of our fundraising is to 562 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:46,760 Speaker 3: buy the workshop materials, to hire buses if we need 563 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:50,520 Speaker 3: to transport kids anywhere to any of these events, meals, 564 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:54,640 Speaker 3: workshop materials, admission costs, all of it. 565 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:55,840 Speaker 4: That's what it is. 566 00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:58,920 Speaker 1: It is for what's the website so people interested in. 567 00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:03,879 Speaker 3: Donating, The website is www dot a New Day Foundation 568 00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:09,480 Speaker 3: dot net. Www dot a New Day Foundation dot net 569 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:17,040 Speaker 3: and if you have any questions, just email us info. 570 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:20,280 Speaker 4: At a New Day Foundation. 571 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:24,040 Speaker 3: Dot net and all of that information comes directly to us. 572 00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:26,479 Speaker 3: So we all of our programs we can take it, 573 00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:29,800 Speaker 3: as you mentioned before, anywhere across the country, and we've 574 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:33,679 Speaker 3: supported programs and done programs as far away as Raunchi, 575 00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:37,520 Speaker 3: India and Guyana, South America, which is where my family 576 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:42,520 Speaker 3: is from, and New York, Chicago, Florida, Dallas, l A. 577 00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:45,520 Speaker 3: You name it. We have been there and are happy 578 00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:49,400 Speaker 3: to come back and create programs anywhere we are able. 579 00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:52,600 Speaker 2: Wow, I want to thank you for coming on Machell 580 00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:56,840 Speaker 2: Money Making Conversations Masterclass. We'll be making a contribution again 581 00:28:57,240 --> 00:28:59,600 Speaker 2: and I'm gona tell you them when you say this 582 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:02,840 Speaker 2: will come back. She tracked me down get my check 583 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:05,200 Speaker 2: that get my check which I did give my gift 584 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:06,520 Speaker 2: to check to it and it was kind of got 585 00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:08,840 Speaker 2: lost to the mail or something like that. But again 586 00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:11,400 Speaker 2: I I it's a blessing to actually sit down and 587 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:15,640 Speaker 2: talk to you in person. And you're special, but you 588 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:18,680 Speaker 2: know that you don't survive in this industry and then 589 00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:21,760 Speaker 2: have the relationship where people will call you for work 590 00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:25,560 Speaker 2: instead of auditioning for work as a reputation. And that's 591 00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:28,520 Speaker 2: something that people need to understand. This business and anything 592 00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:32,160 Speaker 2: in life is built on relationships and also relationships that 593 00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:35,320 Speaker 2: allow you to grow as a person and you've grown 594 00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:37,080 Speaker 2: tremendously before our eyes and. 595 00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:41,400 Speaker 1: She's a stop iconic. I did like iconic and she's 596 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:45,000 Speaker 1: team to turn to Mama. Thank you, my. 597 00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:47,320 Speaker 4: Pleasure, my pleasure, Thank you so much. 598 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:51,320 Speaker 2: This has been another edition of Money Making Conversation Masterclass 599 00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:54,520 Speaker 2: posted by me Rashawn McDonald. Thank you to our guests 600 00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:57,080 Speaker 2: on the show today and thank you. I'll listening to 601 00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,600 Speaker 2: audience now. If you want to listen to any episode 602 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:01,720 Speaker 2: I want to be a guest on the show, visit 603 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:06,760 Speaker 2: Moneymakingconversations dot com. Our social media handle is Moneymaking Conversation. 604 00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:09,560 Speaker 2: Join us next week and remember to always leave with 605 00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:10,200 Speaker 2: your gifts. 606 00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:11,120 Speaker 1: Keep winning.