Speaker 1: Coming up on Keep It Positive, Sweetie.
Speaker 2: I played Sheila on the Jamie Fox Show one of this,
Speaker 2: and we're best of friends because we worked together on
Speaker 2: Jamie Fox and somebody came on and they had done
Speaker 2: like a couple of lines. Now I was a recurring
Speaker 2: on the show because I made Jamie laugh.
Speaker 3: He kept bringing me.
Speaker 2: Back and she was comic and she said this to me.
Speaker 2: She said, girl, you know you good on here. But
Speaker 2: everybody talk and they said, you know, you must have
Speaker 2: slept with Jamie to be on this show, like you know,
Speaker 2: like they're trying to protect me, and it.
Speaker 3: Hurts feeling so bad because I was like, I worked
Speaker 3: for this.
Speaker 1: Hi, I'm christophernee Hazley, and this is the Keep It Positive,
Speaker 1: Sweetish show, a safe face to heal, laugh, grow, and love.
Speaker 1: Today's show has me all in my feelings and it's crazy. Guys,
Speaker 1: we're just getting started. I'm having a one on one
Speaker 1: with the one and only Sherry Shepherd. I'm so excited
Speaker 1: to grab some gems from the talk show queen, and
Speaker 1: I know it's going to be a really special time
Speaker 1: for us and for you as well, whether it be
Speaker 1: television or movies, comedy stages or daytime talk. Sherry Shepherd
Speaker 1: is the master of all mediums. Her journey through the
Speaker 1: entertainment industry has been anything but linear.
Speaker 3: And she's the epitome of waiting.
Speaker 1: Your turn, Well, her turn, and her time is now,
Speaker 1: and it's now time for us to get together and
Speaker 1: get the real of her journey up the entertainment ladder
Speaker 1: and much more. I'm here on my couch and she
Speaker 1: is checking in from her dressing room on set. Cherry,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for coming on today. How are
Speaker 1: you feeling?
Speaker 2: I am great. My grandmother I always said I lived
Speaker 2: seeing another day.
Speaker 1: An mar Ga might say, if the Lord will and
Speaker 1: the KRK don't rise, I'll see you tomorrow.
Speaker 2: See right now, that's too many words, but I agree
Speaker 2: with your grandmother.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, well, I just want to first all say
Speaker 1: congratulations on your third season of the Sherry Shepherd Show.
Speaker 1: How does it feel?
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, girl, I'm just like Jesus Lord, thank
Speaker 2: you so much. A third season like this is when
Speaker 2: when talk shows get canceled after the first season. To
Speaker 2: know that I'm connecting with people, to know that they're
Speaker 2: enjoying my brand of silliness and human crystal.
Speaker 3: When I tell you.
Speaker 2: I'm so thankful girl, I'd be wanting to go into
Speaker 2: a praise shout.
Speaker 1: I know that's right, Listen, I'm so proud of you,
Speaker 1: like you've gained so many accolades, denominations. Have you had
Speaker 1: time to just really sit in it? Because I know
Speaker 1: you're so busy. When do you find time to just
Speaker 1: be like, wow, this is my life right now.
Speaker 3: When I come out and sit in my chair, I the.
Speaker 2: Door opens and I see all of these faces that
Speaker 2: are clapping, that are smiling, and it's not because the
Speaker 2: DJ has prompted.
Speaker 3: You know, people to do it.
Speaker 1: I see what.
Speaker 2: God's assignment is when I'm walking out and I'm always
Speaker 2: walking out going lord wow, or when I walk down
Speaker 2: the hallways and see you know my name and I go,
Speaker 2: this is what I dreamed about. Or when you know,
Speaker 2: like people send me a picture like I'm on my
Speaker 2: pictures on the billboard outside and I go, oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: that's like that's mine, that's me. Yes, my boys get
Speaker 2: all high, that's Jerry. So that is when when I'm
Speaker 2: here and I see it, or when people come and
Speaker 2: tell me, you know, my husband he passed away and
Speaker 2: we used to watch it together or my mom and
Speaker 2: I watch it together, or you know, they just tell
Speaker 2: me what the show means to them, and I just go,
Speaker 2: thank you, Lord, and.
Speaker 3: Then I start crying.
Speaker 1: I love that. That's beautiful. I'm happy that you actually
Speaker 1: find time, because sometimes I can be so busy and
Speaker 1: pass us by. We look up and like, wait, I
Speaker 1: accomplished all these things, but I didn't really get to
Speaker 1: sit in it. So I'm happy that you daily can
Speaker 1: sit in it and find time to just be grateful.
Speaker 1: That's so beautiful.
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I get to like you know it,
Speaker 2: take breaks or anything, but I guess it's just I
Speaker 2: wanted to dream for so long, so sitting in it
Speaker 2: and seeing that I was at Howard University yesterday when
Speaker 2: all of the young people kept coming up and hugging me, go,
Speaker 2: miss Sherry, I want my own talk show. I got
Speaker 2: to sit in it by seeing I'm a living embodiment
Speaker 2: of what you were dreaming about. So touch me, hug me,
Speaker 2: talk to me. And that's when I go, Lord, Oh
Speaker 2: my god, oh my god, oh you you helped you
Speaker 2: blessed me with this.
Speaker 1: Oh that is beautiful. Something that reads with me is
Speaker 1: your new series it's never too late. I was thirty
Speaker 1: eight when my career took off, and share it when
Speaker 1: I tell you, I looked around the room and I
Speaker 1: was like, everybody is either like ten years younger than me,
Speaker 1: twelve years younger than me. And there were so many
Speaker 1: moments where I felt like I was late to the party.
Speaker 1: And as I gained my footing, I realized, you know what,
Speaker 1: you're right on time because everything that I gained, the
Speaker 1: knowledge that I learned during the waiting period, it really
Speaker 1: like it just equips me for everything that I was
Speaker 1: stepping into. What did you do to maintain the waiting
Speaker 1: phase to like really get to where you wanted to
Speaker 1: get to?
Speaker 2: You know, it's so funny when I first met you, Crystal,
Speaker 2: and you came on the show and you told that story,
Speaker 2: I so is so resonated with me because it's like,
Speaker 2: now you go, You're right where you supposed to be
Speaker 2: at the time you were supposed to be there because
Speaker 2: you were ready. He could trust you with this assignment.
Speaker 2: And I remember I was at a church one time
Speaker 2: in the pastor said, some of us have not had
Speaker 2: our dream come true, but sometimes you have to mature
Speaker 2: into the reality of that dream because if something happens
Speaker 2: or there's a crash or burn, if you haven't matured
Speaker 2: into it, you're gonna crash and burn. You're not gonna
Speaker 2: know how to get back up. So I think a
Speaker 2: lot of times when people have this, you know, success
Speaker 2: too quickly, and they don't have anything up under them going.
Speaker 2: I can keep pushing because I know God hadn't done
Speaker 2: this for me when this happened.
Speaker 3: I know this has been happening.
Speaker 2: I know I have this experience, and you are right
Speaker 2: where you're supposed to be.
Speaker 1: An mmm.
Speaker 2: He has seasoned you up so that when you when
Speaker 2: you come out and people adore you and appreciate you,
Speaker 2: it's because they can relate to all that life experience
Speaker 2: you are bringing into your character.
Speaker 3: It is right when I.
Speaker 2: Tell you, girl, I sit on my couch and I
Speaker 2: mean my talk to your couch, and I'm like, Lord,
Speaker 2: why you gave me this talk show fifty four years?
Speaker 3: So you know I'm you know, I ain't got no stamina. Lord,
Speaker 3: who is this person sitting there?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you that one time Lorenz Tate he
Speaker 2: came on the show and he was sitting across from me,
Speaker 2: and I said Okay, who is this? I know I
Speaker 2: know him, but his name slipped from my mind. Yes,
Speaker 2: Lorenz Tay, you you watching this. I know who you are,
Speaker 2: like everything he had ever done, old dog, you know,
Speaker 2: like everything. And I was like, but I can't remember
Speaker 2: his name. And we talking and I was like, and
Speaker 2: then God just gave it to me. I mean Janet
Speaker 2: Jackson came. I jumped up and I said, I think
Speaker 2: I didn't. I think I got to go to the bathroom.
Speaker 3: Like it's I go. Why you give it to me now?
Speaker 2: When I you know, I can't run out there and
Speaker 2: be dropping it like it's hide and running up and
Speaker 2: down the stairs.
Speaker 3: And cause He's like, cause I need you to be settled.
Speaker 1: That's why.
Speaker 2: Because if I gave it to you in your twenties,
Speaker 2: you be all out in the streets. You'd be going
Speaker 2: to these clubs. You wouldn't be home and getting sleep
Speaker 2: when you're supposed to.
Speaker 3: You wouldn't be.
Speaker 2: You'd be feeling yourself. Angels wouldn't be able to do
Speaker 2: nothing with you, because they like, she in the club,
Speaker 2: she had.
Speaker 3: Some kind of party.
Speaker 1: She ain't.
Speaker 3: So that's why we were supposed to be. I forgot
Speaker 3: what you asked me.
Speaker 1: No the insident. Yeah, Like I asked you, like, what
Speaker 1: did you do in that waiting phase in Yeah.
Speaker 3: Crystal, in the waiting phase. Everything that I.
Speaker 2: Did, I am able to use in this talk show space.
Speaker 2: I just, you know, when it didn't happen for me
Speaker 2: in the talk show round, I really got back to
Speaker 2: my stand up and stand up is what I do.
Speaker 3: When I first sit in my chair, I do stand up.
Speaker 2: I was you know, I'm able to talk for ninety
Speaker 2: minutes on the stage, so I can do, you know,
Speaker 2: nineteen twenty minutes in that chair. So that worked together.
Speaker 2: When I was on the view, I learned how to
Speaker 2: read a prompter. You know, I do that every day.
Speaker 2: When I was a co host on the show Dish Nation,
Speaker 2: I was by myself in the studio in La while
Speaker 2: De Brad and everybody in Headcrack were in Atlanta. So
Speaker 2: I had to pretend look in that camera and pretend
Speaker 2: like we were all together. So that's how I talk
Speaker 2: to my audience, even though I'm reading words on the prompter.
Speaker 2: I talked to them like We're all in the room together.
Speaker 2: So all of that experience that I had, I took
Speaker 2: it and.
Speaker 3: I used it for what I am doing right now.
Speaker 3: So it is you know, you got to look at
Speaker 3: everything you're doing. How is it?
Speaker 2: How are you going to be able to use it
Speaker 2: for what you are doing right now, which is what
Speaker 2: you were able to do.
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Absolutely, No, I'm hearing you talking. I'm like, it's a
Speaker 1: mirror of my journey. Literally, And there were so many
Speaker 1: times where I questioned. I like to question God, but
Speaker 1: there are so many moments I'm like, Lord, what am
Speaker 1: I doing? Why do you have me doing this? I
Speaker 1: just didn't understand the steps that he was ordering for me.
Speaker 1: And I always pray God order myselfs but then sometimes like,
Speaker 1: this is.
Speaker 2: Really the step you want me to take? Absolutely, but
Speaker 2: it makes sense. It's so funny when he it does
Speaker 2: make sense. When when I was a co host on
Speaker 2: The View, I'm like, Lord, I don't even know as
Speaker 2: much as these women.
Speaker 3: When I said, tell you how many times I fell
Speaker 3: on that show, fell and failed show going, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I thought I was gonna get up on that show like.
Speaker 2: One need to buy them and be given a deep
Speaker 2: word every day and explaining the people what politics is.
Speaker 3: I didn't know none of that.
Speaker 2: I made so many mistakes but I needed to in
Speaker 2: order for me to be who I am today, I
Speaker 2: needed to make a bunch of mistakes.
Speaker 3: And learn and learn how to course correct.
Speaker 2: I needed to learn how to deal with, you know,
Speaker 2: social media people when they get on their thing and
Speaker 2: they be hating on you. Now, don't bother me. He
Speaker 2: get on there, say whatever you want. I know how
Speaker 2: to swipe. I ain't even got to answer you back,
Speaker 2: you know, I know not to. I learned how not
Speaker 2: to give people my energy. I learned how to you know,
Speaker 2: know that when I open up my mouth, it's just
Speaker 2: people that's not gonna agree with me, and that's okay.
Speaker 2: So it's like everything what's that scripture Roman's a twenty
Speaker 2: eight All things to get All things work together for
Speaker 2: the good of them who loved the Lord and too
Speaker 2: the call to according to his purpose. So it's like,
Speaker 2: I know everything that I have done up until this
Speaker 2: point is working together for me to do this show.
Speaker 1: Yes, I love that. It is so good because I
Speaker 1: definitely resonate with you on that one thing that I
Speaker 1: noticed when I come to your show. I was telling
Speaker 1: my line producer this. I was like, every time I
Speaker 1: go to a serious show, I feel so seen. I
Speaker 1: love the way that you know, seriously, the way you
Speaker 1: come out and hug on us. And I remember one
Speaker 1: time you didn't see me before the show and you
Speaker 1: came to I didn't see you before, let me give
Speaker 1: you a hug. Like the fact that you even remembered,
Speaker 1: like I didn't see Crystal, and I was like, this
Speaker 1: woman has so much going on and to remember little
Speaker 1: o me, you know, it just meant so much. And
Speaker 1: every time I leave, the conversations that we have on
Speaker 1: your show just leave me so full, and I just
Speaker 1: feel so seen. I just want to thank you for that,
Speaker 1: because oh you don't it feels like just okay, interview next,
Speaker 1: you know, but you do not make me feel like that.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much. And I was looking for you
Speaker 3: all day.
Speaker 2: I was like, well, I saw everybody, and I said
Speaker 2: I got you to said Christal.
Speaker 3: Was coming, and I don't know where you were see you.
Speaker 2: When I walked in and I didn't get to come upstairs,
Speaker 2: but I was looking for you and then you were
Speaker 2: there and I was like, okay, you here. But I
Speaker 2: always knew how I wanted my show to be. I've
Speaker 2: been dreaming about a talk show since I saw Oprah
Speaker 2: Winfrey doing hers and I've been I've been a guest
Speaker 2: on a lot of talk shows, and I knew experiences
Speaker 2: that I liked that made me feel full and seen,
Speaker 2: and experiences that I didn't like. Crystal, and I loved
Speaker 2: it when the hosts would come and acknowledge me even
Speaker 2: if they had never met me before, and put me
Speaker 2: at ease about being on their show. And I said,
Speaker 2: I want to be able to do that. I want
Speaker 2: to be able to hug people.
Speaker 3: And really let them know this is a safe space.
Speaker 1: You are.
Speaker 2: I promise you we're gonna have fun. You have nothing
Speaker 2: to worry about with me.
Speaker 3: And that I know you. I've watched, you know, episodes
Speaker 3: of what you've done. I follow you. I'm I'm completely
Speaker 3: blessed that you're here. So thank you for that, girl.
Speaker 1: Yes, no, I'm telling you. I was like, I literally
Speaker 1: feel seeing every time I walk out. So thank you, because,
Speaker 1: like we both experienced, it can be the complete opposite sometimes, yes,
Speaker 1: and seeing that showed me how I need to move forward.
Speaker 1: I learned so much from so many people that I
Speaker 1: look up to, and that's definitely something I took away
Speaker 1: from you when I left your show.
Speaker 3: Thank you, girl, when you have yours, so.
Speaker 1: Then we thank you. You are so multi talented. You
Speaker 1: do comedy, you do movies, television, now you have your
Speaker 1: own talk show. You and I have something coming. We
Speaker 1: both haven't worked with the incomparable Tyler Perry. Listen, Honey,
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you. I got a sneak peek of Straw.
Speaker 1: Are you there, Cherry Cherry?
Speaker 3: My series going off going?
Speaker 1: Uh huh Baby. You embodied the character so beautifully. It
Speaker 1: was so grounded. The dance that you in Taraji did
Speaker 1: in your scenes. I was blown away. When the credits rolled,
Speaker 1: we were like, oh my gosh, and like Daval was there.
Speaker 1: It was so many people in the room and we
Speaker 1: were both like, Sherry killed it. And I just want
Speaker 1: to give you your flowers and ask you what was
Speaker 1: it like working with Tiller? Because I know what it's
Speaker 1: been like working with him and the amazing things that
Speaker 1: he has instilled in me as an actor, But what
Speaker 1: was that experience like for you?
Speaker 2: It was so funny because Tyler will text me and
Speaker 2: he'll say, Sherry, I had a screening and this was
Speaker 2: so good, and you know you were so good, or
Speaker 2: he'll text me like after the screening he'll say, you know,
Speaker 2: what did y'all think about Sherry Shepard? And he'll send
Speaker 2: me the video and then you can hear him go Okay,
Speaker 2: don't say nothing more because I don't want to get
Speaker 2: a big head, which makes me laugh. And we were
Speaker 2: talking about it, and I don't take come from very well.
Speaker 2: So he was telling me how much he liked me
Speaker 2: and how I was doing it, and I just totally
Speaker 2: skipped over. I said, I love what Taraji did and
Speaker 2: Tiyana and you know you and had sindbad and so
Speaker 2: he said.
Speaker 3: In all caps, he said, in all.
Speaker 2: Caps, accepted what I'm saying to you, and hold on
Speaker 2: cause I'm gonna get this right because I mean he said,
Speaker 2: he said, you did that all caps accepted.
Speaker 1: I said received.
Speaker 2: And I said, well, the movie was well done. You
Speaker 2: pulled on my heartstrings. And he said, why is you
Speaker 2: talking about the movie and not you?
Speaker 1: You killed it?
Speaker 3: He said, get off my phone to you accept their reality.
Speaker 2: That was a couple of weeks ago, and I said, well,
Speaker 2: I ain't gonna text you because it's hard for me
Speaker 2: to accept compliments. So we I guess we're gonna be
Speaker 2: talking for a minute. So why is it compliments. Why
Speaker 2: is that, you know, because it's just like, because I know,
Speaker 2: it's just not about.
Speaker 3: Me and I and I've worked so hard.
Speaker 2: I guess I've been disappointed so many times and had
Speaker 2: so many people say no. And I've had so many
Speaker 2: people tell me you're not good enough, you too you
Speaker 2: too this, you too that, you too short, you're not
Speaker 2: pretty enough, you too fat, you to this.
Speaker 3: I've heard that my entire career.
Speaker 2: It's almost like in a be an abused woman that
Speaker 2: when you finally do get a nice man, you don't
Speaker 2: know how to accept it. So I tend to gloss
Speaker 2: over the flowers. Yeah, you have to step back and
Speaker 2: say thank you. So when Tyler does it, it's too much.
Speaker 2: I'm thankful that I got to.
Speaker 3: Work with him. How was it working with him?
Speaker 1: Girl? Was?
Speaker 2: It was the most chaotic process I ever my dad
Speaker 2: gone life. I know, I ain't never worked like I said,
Speaker 2: I said, I've never worked like this before. I was
Speaker 2: clutching my pearls every y'all from the scene there was,
Speaker 2: you know, and I was like, we did one very
Speaker 2: emotional scene and he goes all right, And that's why
Speaker 2: you know she an't even talk show hosts and I
Speaker 2: was like.
Speaker 3: He was like, moving on, and I go, wait a minute.
Speaker 2: What we only did one time? Yes, I do it
Speaker 2: like twelve more times. He was like, no, I got
Speaker 2: what I need. I was like, but I didn't give
Speaker 2: you what I'm supposed to get. I'm supposed to break
Speaker 2: down into tears. And he said, I don't need all
Speaker 2: of that, and then he kept this is.
Speaker 3: What he kept doing.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to keep this is a drama. This movie
Speaker 2: with Tianna Taylor, Taraji Henson and me. It's a drama.
Speaker 2: So I don't get to do a lot of dramas, Chrystal,
Speaker 2: I do a lot of And he named my character
Speaker 2: number one Henrietta. So I said, hey, mister Perry, why
Speaker 2: everybody else got a young name? Why why am I Henrietta?
Speaker 2: When I take our bug that man every day? And
Speaker 2: he said, what do you want that. I don't give
Speaker 2: a damn Genisha Keing Taba, Teresa Nicoll.
Speaker 3: I can't do no Henrietta. I'm single. I'm gonna tell
Speaker 3: some man I'm playing Henrietta. So he let me.
Speaker 2: He let me change the name. But I was to
Speaker 2: do I was supposed to walk to the bank. I
Speaker 2: guess to do a scene where I open the door.
Speaker 3: He goes, cut, why are you walking like Beyonce?
Speaker 2: This was a pivotal scene. I got my emotions. I'm
Speaker 2: just like you know, cause I do a drum.
Speaker 3: I'm like this.
Speaker 2: And he goes what And then everybody started laughing. He's like,
Speaker 2: I don't need the sex. That's why I named Joe,
Speaker 2: asked Henrietta.
Speaker 3: And I said I'm not.
Speaker 2: And then there was one scene. Girl, what I had
Speaker 2: to say, I don't know. I had to say, Taraji,
Speaker 2: I want to go home. He goes cut, what's with
Speaker 2: the sexy talk?
Speaker 1: Oh my god?
Speaker 3: And I'm coxhausted.
Speaker 1: That was that whole situation was exhausting.
Speaker 2: When I tell you, I was like, what do you
Speaker 2: I'm not talking sexy, that's desperation and he goes, no,
Speaker 2: it's sexual.
Speaker 3: So working with Tyler, I loved it. And in the
Speaker 3: middle of it and let me Taraji is a beast
Speaker 3: of an actress, Yes, and she was.
Speaker 2: She was filming Fight Night at the same time with
Speaker 2: Kevin Hart and then in this movie.
Speaker 3: But in the middle of so she.
Speaker 2: Can cry at will Chris, I don't do dramas, I
Speaker 2: gotta talk.
Speaker 1: She was.
Speaker 3: I don't be. I don't have to cry all the time.
Speaker 2: It takes me three days to get into my crying
Speaker 2: and then I gotta hold on to it.
Speaker 3: Yes, right, you got so I'm in.
Speaker 2: The middle of crying and all of a sudden, Taraji goes, so, Tyler,
Speaker 2: how many times you've been on Share every show? I've
Speaker 2: been on Shavvy show twice. Then Tyler goes, well, I've
Speaker 2: been on once, but I'm going back and I go,
Speaker 2: what are you?
Speaker 1: How are y'all doing this?
Speaker 3: Stay in it. I clutched my pearls. I said, I
Speaker 3: never worked like this in my life.
Speaker 2: But you know what it's it's everybody's going to enjoy it.
Speaker 1: Yes they are.
Speaker 3: I love working with Tyler. He just he encourages me.
Speaker 2: He he just and you you know this, He's so uplifting.
Speaker 2: He will those calls when I have a question, when
Speaker 2: I'm down, when I need advice.
Speaker 3: He ain't gave me no money.
Speaker 2: Yet, He ain't gave me no car yet.
Speaker 3: Lists of people I know he didn't buy.
Speaker 2: Some cars for Yes, but you be mining cars for
Speaker 2: comics Lessen.
Speaker 1: Hello, Tyler, you have to get scarry a car?
Speaker 3: Car or can I just stay in a wing at
Speaker 3: his estate.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, Sherry, Why did I tell him? One day?
Speaker 1: I was like, I could just like live here, you
Speaker 1: would never know I was here. He was like no,
Speaker 1: I said, Or I could build on your land.
Speaker 3: You would never know I'm here.
Speaker 2: He was like no, Maybe I need to say something
Speaker 2: different because I was like, can I take my clothes off?
Speaker 3: And goes, He goes, He goes, why is everything about
Speaker 3: sex with you? And I said, Tyler, this house is
Speaker 3: calling for me to be naked. I'm supposed to run,
Speaker 3: but ass naked through this house. And I said, honey, honest.
Speaker 3: She was like, yeah, we gotta do this.
Speaker 2: And I was like, I'm telling you, like, I'm supposed
Speaker 2: to go swim in all these pools.
Speaker 3: Right, I need? I ran through that.
Speaker 2: I was like, it's just it costs for me to
Speaker 2: take my clothes off. I was the last one to leave,
Speaker 2: and I said, I thought we were spending the night.
Speaker 2: He said, you know you gotta go home.
Speaker 1: Listen, that's his favorite line. All right, so y'all ready,
Speaker 1: by y'all.
Speaker 3: He's standing on that stairs for a minute to see
Speaker 3: you through.
Speaker 2: And I was like, drop me off here because I'm
Speaker 2: about to go back I'm about to sneak back into
Speaker 2: this house till I found out that Tyler got wild
Speaker 2: boar and rafts and all kinds of stuff that will
Speaker 2: eat a black lady. Absolutely, yes, I got back into
Speaker 2: that car and I left.
Speaker 3: So there. I love Tyler.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Everybody loves town. He's just amazing and
Speaker 1: I'm glad you got to experience. And one thing I
Speaker 1: do say after working with him, you look around, You're like,
Speaker 1: why is everybody moving so slow? Like, come on, let's
Speaker 1: move it because we know it's done faster. And I
Speaker 1: have to catch myself to kind of just slow down
Speaker 1: because I'm so used to running circles around everybody, because
Speaker 1: I worked with him from a pa all the way
Speaker 1: to an actor. Yes, so I've been used to that
Speaker 1: fast pace for so long that I have to even
Speaker 1: catch myself sometimes say okay, Chris, so slow down. You
Speaker 1: can breathe enjoy it for a little bit. But I
Speaker 1: know what you mean.
Speaker 2: His favorite saying is what is taking so long?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, what is going on?
Speaker 2: Yep?
Speaker 1: That is his favorite line. I can hear it in
Speaker 1: my sleep. It's like it hants me sometimes, Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Sometimes he'd be like, because we'd have outside since he'd
Speaker 2: be like, Sherry, I can hear him on the megaphone, Sherry,
Speaker 2: what is taking so long? I'm like, because I'm getting
Speaker 2: into character and now you'd have took me out of character.
Speaker 1: Now I got it.
Speaker 3: I need ten minutes.
Speaker 1: Yes, No, seriously, what did you do to prepare for
Speaker 1: that role?
Speaker 2: It was literally I played astrae about a Taraji. I
Speaker 2: don't remember the name of her character, but she just
Speaker 2: she's just trying to make ends meet for her and
Speaker 2: her daughter, and she's trying to, you know, survive, and
Speaker 2: she gets caught up in more than she can handle
Speaker 2: and tries to go to the bank. And I'm the
Speaker 2: bank manager, Nicole, and I think that she is robbing.
Speaker 3: It's a bank robbery.
Speaker 2: Tiana Taylor is the hostage negotiator, and so the hostages
Speaker 2: in the bank and we all think that Taragi is
Speaker 2: robbing this bank, and how our relationship Taraji and I
Speaker 2: we get closer, and then we really get to see
Speaker 2: who she is, including Tiana and Taragi, and I memorized,
Speaker 2: this is something I wasn't used to, Crystal. I was
Speaker 2: thirty six scenes. I spoke in twenty three of them.
Speaker 2: I memorized it in three days, wow, three days. And
Speaker 2: there was one point with Tyana we it was so
Speaker 2: much going on, girl, and Tianna looks at me as
Speaker 2: a hostage negotiator cause I said, Taraji, I don't remember
Speaker 2: her character's name. She not coming out, and Taragi.
Speaker 1: Goes, do you what's my line? Do you know my line?
Speaker 2: I go your line? When I say no, I don't
Speaker 2: know your lie, and so we go back. She was like, well,
Speaker 2: I think I say this. It's not well, I don't
Speaker 2: know what you say. Because when you got to say
Speaker 2: your thing for me to.
Speaker 3: Say my thing, now here you go. What is what
Speaker 3: is going on? Back there? Sianna Sherry, what is going on?
Speaker 2: We jumped and I would do it all again.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I love it. Well, congratulations and I cannot
Speaker 1: wait for it to come out. I'm telling you the
Speaker 1: audience is gonna have the like our jaw is on
Speaker 1: the floor. So I'm excited for it. And congratulations again
Speaker 1: on that. Personally, you worked with some of your close friends.
Speaker 1: I work with some of my close friends. What is
Speaker 1: it like working with close friends? And then also setting
Speaker 1: boundaries because as you've climbed, you've taken people along with you.
Speaker 1: What is that journey.
Speaker 2: I love working with my close friends, and I become
Speaker 2: close friends from working with people that I just love
Speaker 2: and like Devo Oh my gosh, yes, oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: He and Kadeen.
Speaker 2: When I tell you for life, I keep saying to you,
Speaker 2: we got to get together because there's something about you
Speaker 2: my spirit just connect with.
Speaker 3: Like, we'll have a good time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Shamas, if you invite me over to your house
Speaker 2: to spend the night live.
Speaker 3: I love about you. You you you, you showed the couch.
Speaker 3: I will have you on will yes, I love I
Speaker 3: will come on over.
Speaker 1: I got wine. That's the Jolas. We can watch movies.
Speaker 1: What's your favorite movie?
Speaker 3: Oh man, I really want to see Cooley High again?
Speaker 3: Like that's see.
Speaker 2: We can have a cooly high night like an old
Speaker 2: school night. And and and what's that one that Ryan
Speaker 2: Reynolds was in and he like?
Speaker 3: I like romantic? I love romantic.
Speaker 2: I don't want nothing scared with nobody breaking in the
Speaker 2: house and killing you and all of that. None of that.
Speaker 2: So just those kinds of movies. But so it's just
Speaker 2: like meeting people in my life, you know, newer people.
Speaker 2: I love connecting, but I love working with friends because
Speaker 2: you just got a chemistry. You got a chemistry that
Speaker 2: you can work with. And it shows when you have chemistry.
Speaker 2: The hardest thing is to work with somebody. And I
Speaker 2: have worked with people that I can't stand, can't dud
Speaker 2: you know when you have to manufacture that chemistry, so
Speaker 2: you know, so it's great, set the setting the boundaries.
Speaker 2: I have learned at this age. I can't take the
Speaker 2: weight of everybody on my shoulders.
Speaker 3: I just can't.
Speaker 2: It's too hard. Life is too short. I got to
Speaker 2: make sure my son is taken care of. He's on
Speaker 2: the spectrum, and I got to make sure you know
Speaker 2: he's taken care of. And you know a lot of
Speaker 2: people I've had to everybody can't go on the journey
Speaker 2: with you.
Speaker 3: And it's not usually you who changes, it's the way
Speaker 3: they look at you.
Speaker 2: Now, I can't buy all y'all Beyonce tickets.
Speaker 3: I had to buy my tickets.
Speaker 2: Not everybody mad at me because we ain't going to
Speaker 2: the Beyonce concert together. It's like you've learned to say no,
Speaker 2: yes that I can't be the support system for everybody
Speaker 2: because it's dragging me down and I'm having palpitations in
Speaker 2: my heart. So I have learned to Sometimes you have
Speaker 2: to distance yourself for your mental sanity, which I have
Speaker 2: learned to do. And so there's my boundaries, and I've
Speaker 2: learned to say no. I say no a lot, and
Speaker 2: it's no with a period.
Speaker 3: It's no. I wish I could, but I can't. I
Speaker 3: can't do it, yes, which really means I won't do it.
Speaker 1: Come on, that's my favorite word. No, my friends, you
Speaker 1: say no so easily.
Speaker 3: Yes, no, yes, no.
Speaker 2: Exactly because people read, they get on the internet and
Speaker 2: they start reading these dumb ass sights. How much is
Speaker 2: this celebrity worth? And if you go on that site,
Speaker 2: it looked like I'm making enough money to take.
Speaker 3: Care of the world. Right, I don't know what they're
Speaker 3: talking about.
Speaker 2: No, so a lot of As soon as I hear
Speaker 2: the phone, can you accept the collect call from this cousin?
Speaker 3: M No, ma'am, no, sir. Yeah.
Speaker 1: No money yeah, no.
Speaker 3: Money for books, putting on the books. Can't do it.
Speaker 2: Old boyfriends coming back, old friends coming back that I
Speaker 2: know when I was in second grade, and so second
Speaker 2: grade not second grade where we could just like shoot
Speaker 2: the breeze and talk about what we do and where
Speaker 2: we're at second grade?
Speaker 3: Will we shoot the breeze?
Speaker 2: And as I go, okay, what's good talking to you? Well,
Speaker 2: hold on, wait a minute, Sherry, you girl, you know,
Speaker 2: here we go.
Speaker 1: Here we go? Anything I learned to say no, yes.
Speaker 1: I love that you spoke on letting certain people go
Speaker 1: and like they can't everybody can't come along with you.
Speaker 1: What are some things that you've had to shed as
Speaker 1: you continue to ascend?
Speaker 2: What are some things that I've had to shed or
Speaker 2: people or things that you had to realize?
Speaker 1: I can't, this can't come with me.
Speaker 3: I realized because some people are not able to accept
Speaker 3: where you have gotten now, and they wanted to stay
Speaker 3: the same. And things don't stay the same. Things are
Speaker 3: constantly changing, things are constantly moving. And you know, those
Speaker 3: people who want to, you know, stay the same, it's
Speaker 3: hard to bring them along because you don't want to
Speaker 3: stay the same. You want to ascend.
Speaker 2: Like the prime example, Nisi Nash and I have been
Speaker 2: friends for close to thirty years. Wow, that's my ride
Speaker 2: or die. We there are times we've talked for three
Speaker 2: four hours. Early in the morning, she called me before
Speaker 2: I got to talk to show I can't talk there
Speaker 2: early and I'm in an the time zone.
Speaker 3: In the morning and we would just talk.
Speaker 2: I've been with her through the hard times. She's been
Speaker 2: with me through the hard times, and we celebrated things together.
Speaker 2: She's very busy right now. She's winning awards, she's at
Speaker 2: awards shows, She's doing a lot of stuff.
Speaker 3: I'm very busy.
Speaker 2: But she's now in the company of people that we
Speaker 2: can only dream about meeting. She's in those rooms now,
Speaker 2: and those people she's got that personality.
Speaker 3: They love her, and so now.
Speaker 2: She's doing things with people who are I've never even
Speaker 2: met them, you know, But I'm not jealous.
Speaker 3: I'm so happy to see her in those spaces now.
Speaker 3: She can't invite me to.
Speaker 2: The super Bowl with Travis or whatever Kelsey she working
Speaker 2: with on her show. It's the same way Taylor Swift
Speaker 2: invited Ice Spice. She gonna be over there with Taylor
Speaker 2: Swift and all of the Kelsey family. I want that inventire.
Speaker 2: I know she's taken and taking her her husband, but
Speaker 2: it's like, when I look at her, I'm so happy
Speaker 2: that you're in front of these people, and I don't
Speaker 2: expect you to be I'm never in there going.
Speaker 3: With telling them like me, I'm an actress too. Why
Speaker 3: don't you talk to so and so and tell them
Speaker 3: I'm looking.
Speaker 2: I don't do that. I don't put that pressure on her.
Speaker 2: Go be because I know where I'm at in her life.
Speaker 2: When you need the real deal and you gotta talk
Speaker 2: and you gotta get that girl. Are we gonna go
Speaker 2: over to uh? You know when she says me, we're
Speaker 2: gonna go over to his house and we're gonna freaking
Speaker 2: break a window. She gonna call Sherry when she got
Speaker 2: to talk about the deep stuff and the stuff that's
Speaker 2: just like behind the smile, behind the red carpet stuff,
Speaker 2: that's Sherry. Yeah, you know, so I And that's the
Speaker 2: one thing I thought of. It's like our friendship has
Speaker 2: endured because I'm when you know, NISI got three pilots
Speaker 2: to do a talk show, and I was on a
Speaker 2: guest on her pilots because I have one thing I
Speaker 2: know how to be a guests on a pilot. You
Speaker 2: think that was hard for me because I wanted that,
Speaker 2: but my friend was getting the blessing and I kept saying, well,
Speaker 2: if she get a talk show, that opened up the
Speaker 2: room for.
Speaker 1: Me, that's so good.
Speaker 3: And she's that way with me, like she can cheer
Speaker 3: me on even when she's not working. There was a
Speaker 3: period of time Nisi wasn't working and.
Speaker 2: I was booking all the jobs, you know, And so
Speaker 2: we've just had this enduring friendship where we know it
Speaker 2: doesn't matter who is in our life. It doesn't matter
Speaker 2: that you know, somebody recognizes one. Sometimes people recognize Nissi,
Speaker 2: they don't even know who I am. But then sometimes
Speaker 2: we somewhere and they recognize me. They don't know who
Speaker 2: Nissi is. And then one time we was in New York,
Speaker 2: we got lost. They thought Nissi was Nini Leaks and
Speaker 2: they thought I was Star Jones. They recognize me one
Speaker 2: of us, So it's it's and we.
Speaker 3: Laughed all night.
Speaker 1: Oh I love that.
Speaker 2: So you have to be around people I feel who
Speaker 2: are secure, who know oh you know, who know who
Speaker 2: they are in your life. You have to And Tyler
Speaker 2: said this to me, Because I said, Tyler, I asked
Speaker 2: him about boundaries, and he said, here, you got to
Speaker 2: be friends with people that if you don't talk to
Speaker 2: them for six months, you can pick that phone back
Speaker 2: up and y'all can carry on where you left off.
Speaker 3: They ain't going you won't never call me. Why you
Speaker 3: don't invite me to nothing? That's what I was dealing with.
Speaker 3: Why can't go here with you? How come you telling
Speaker 3: them you not?
Speaker 1: I couldn't.
Speaker 2: I was going, and so I started having to go, Okay,
Speaker 2: you're you're not a person I can take with me
Speaker 2: m place. I have to put you on the in
Speaker 2: the outer.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's it. I've dealt with the same thing as
Speaker 1: I've gained fame and just navigating friendships. So it's good
Speaker 1: to know that you were able to like find good
Speaker 1: people like Needcy that you could do life with. And
Speaker 1: it's something part I have friends like that too, where
Speaker 1: I can call her six months. It's never like hmm,
Speaker 1: you didn't acting brand new, nothing like that. It's like, hey,
Speaker 1: let's catch up, like literally didn't skip a Beat's.
Speaker 2: Not acting, not acting brand new, but knowing you're busy. Yes,
Speaker 2: you're busy, and I understand you're busy, but it's not
Speaker 2: going to affect our friendship because I'm gonna be here
Speaker 2: so I can tell you what's going on in my
Speaker 2: life and you can tell me and well, and then.
Speaker 3: I understand you can't talk for hours like you used to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta go having people in your life, because
Speaker 2: I have other people in my life that I talk
Speaker 2: to and they're busy, you know, they got to be
Speaker 2: on a set or they got to go and do something,
Speaker 2: and I.
Speaker 3: Go, okay, but I know you know I love you.
Speaker 2: And I know you love me, and it's just a
Speaker 2: very quick but we check in with each other. So
Speaker 2: the people in my life, they don't resent, and I'm
Speaker 2: grateful for that.
Speaker 1: That's beautiful. I love that you touched on mental health.
Speaker 1: What are some things Do you have a therapist? What
Speaker 1: are some things that you do to really just keep
Speaker 1: your mental health strong with everything that you have going on?
Speaker 1: So I know, for me, I dealt with my first
Speaker 1: anxiety attack last year, just the waiting of it all
Speaker 1: and worried about how I'm I supposed to keep all
Speaker 1: this up, and what if it doesn't last, what the
Speaker 1: show gets canceled, all these different thoughts. Crept in and
Speaker 1: literally had my first panic attack. And that's when I
Speaker 1: really got a therapist and really started talking through things
Speaker 1: and realized that if I'm grounded in my faith, what
Speaker 1: am I worried about? Yeh flipping ins four and six,
Speaker 1: but I wanted to know what are some practices that
Speaker 1: you do just to really keep your mental health strong.
Speaker 2: I hate that you went through that. If you ever
Speaker 2: go through that, call me girl, because I'm good.
Speaker 1: I'm a good listener and.
Speaker 2: I'm a good you know, having gone through that, having
Speaker 2: attacks of I'm not worthy?
Speaker 3: Why do I have it?
Speaker 2: And other people I feel a more talent to me
Speaker 2: why they don't have it? And I'll be in tears,
Speaker 2: can't breathe, you know, just like what if they find
Speaker 2: out I'm a fraud that I can't do this? Do
Speaker 2: I deserve it? Because I don't have the degree that
Speaker 2: they have. You know that this came to me. Somebody
Speaker 2: said why I didn't when I used to play Sheila
Speaker 2: on the Jamie Fox show.
Speaker 1: One of this.
Speaker 2: And we're best of friends because we worked together on
Speaker 2: Jamie Fox. And somebody came on and they had done
Speaker 2: like a couple of lines. Now I was a recurring
Speaker 2: on the show because I made Jamie laugh. He kept
Speaker 2: bringing me back and she was comic and she said
Speaker 2: this to me. She said, girl, you know you good
Speaker 2: on here. But everybody talk and they said, you know,
Speaker 2: you must have slept with Jamie to be on this
Speaker 2: show like you know, like they're trying to protect me.
Speaker 3: And it hurts feeling so bad because I was like
Speaker 3: I worked for this. I mean, you know you good,
Speaker 3: but you ain't that good.
Speaker 2: And it just really hurt my feelings and I would
Speaker 2: go to these panic attacks like I don't deserve this
Speaker 2: because there's people funnier than me. Why I'm I on
Speaker 2: the view, it's people who have more knowledge than me.
Speaker 2: It just in this season of my life, like maybe
Speaker 2: before the talk show, I realized, you know what, if
Speaker 2: God gave you the assignment, it's something that you have
Speaker 2: that he wants to use to touch people and whatever
Speaker 2: he gave, Like when I walk through that, when that
Speaker 2: door opens and it says, welcome, Cherry Shepherd. After I
Speaker 2: pray where I am weak, you are strong, fresh mercy,
Speaker 2: fresh grace, fresh energy, and fresh jokes. I already know,
Speaker 2: walk into what God has already written. And God wrote
Speaker 2: it for this to be Cherry show. And I know
Speaker 2: you got to know who you are to crystal everything
Speaker 2: that He's given to you, all of the gifts he's using,
Speaker 2: and who I am. You could take me off this
Speaker 2: show and you could try to put somebody in my
Speaker 2: place who is.
Speaker 3: Really good but they're not gonna give you what I
Speaker 3: give you. We are all unique and.
Speaker 2: Have our own gifting that is so different from somebody else.
Speaker 2: I cannot I watch Taraji and straw love to be
Speaker 2: at that level that she is. I gotta do the
Speaker 2: work that girl could hold her head, she'd be every
Speaker 2: time I looked around, she was crying, yes, and laughing
Speaker 2: and crying.
Speaker 3: And I can't go to the bathroom Tyler start to crying.
Speaker 3: I'm on the floor.
Speaker 2: Gotta do a whole hour of storytelling in my mind
Speaker 2: to get the tears. But I said, God is calling
Speaker 2: to Raji to do what Touraji does, but he's calling
Speaker 2: me to do what nobody can do. I'm the one
Speaker 2: that I'll have Tyler on the floor cracking up when
Speaker 2: we talk. I'm the one that he comes to far
Speaker 2: to feel good and be able to let go and laugh.
Speaker 3: That's what I do trying to be that person. I'm
Speaker 3: not trying to be Oprah. I'm not you know.
Speaker 2: I want to emulate, but I am myself and I
Speaker 2: think you have to be cool with who God made
Speaker 2: you to be. I don't want anybody other I don't
Speaker 2: want anybody's.
Speaker 3: Path but mine. As if I want to walk in.
Speaker 2: Your shoes, Crystal, I gotta go through what you'd have
Speaker 2: been through, and that may be a little bit.
Speaker 3: Too overwhelming for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm gonna definitely tell you if you want
Speaker 2: my blessings.
Speaker 1: What come on? I try to tell people that I'm like,
Speaker 1: be careful what you asked for, careful what you asked for?
Speaker 2: But I I have Yeah, I definitely therapy. You must
Speaker 2: if you are able to get therapy. I think it's
Speaker 2: so important to be able to talk to a person
Speaker 2: who's impartial, who can help you course correct and help
Speaker 2: you realize what is it that is blocking that flow?
Speaker 3: Yes, how do I let go?
Speaker 2: How do I you know, I'm definitely I missed my
Speaker 2: therapy upoint me yesterday.
Speaker 3: I'm in a position.
Speaker 1: Listen. I know I have to stay on top of
Speaker 1: that because it's so important. Thank you for sharing that.
Speaker 2: But you are doing you know what you were doing
Speaker 2: at the level you're doing it, Chrystal. You have to
Speaker 2: be at peace. You have to because you know to
Speaker 2: whom much is given, much is required. Yes, So in
Speaker 2: every nobody has something that they're supposed to do to
Speaker 2: change the world.
Speaker 3: I believe that.
Speaker 2: But sometimes there are some people who are out there
Speaker 2: in public and have to deal with a lot of
Speaker 2: different things, and for you to be able to deal
Speaker 2: with it, it can get overwhelming. Like you're you're a star,
Speaker 2: so that can be so overwhelming. Then you get people
Speaker 2: who just they don't like you because they're scared to
Speaker 2: try to do what you do. It's a lot of fear,
Speaker 2: and that's whe they're coming from. Fear and resentment because
Speaker 2: they don't have enough courage to step out of their
Speaker 2: comfort zone and do what you do. Ask they don't
Speaker 2: have enough, you know, they don't they want to be you,
Speaker 2: but they don't want to do the work of what
Speaker 2: it takes to be.
Speaker 3: It takes to be you.
Speaker 2: And so I always also I ask God, show me
Speaker 2: that person the way you see them, because you love everybody,
Speaker 2: but show me that person the way you see them.
Speaker 2: And God shows me a lot people on social media.
Speaker 2: They're hurting, they're you know, they are lonely, they're living
Speaker 2: vicariously through and they're resentful because they are scared. And
Speaker 2: it gives me a different kind of compassion with like
Speaker 2: I'm not even gonna answer you back, I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: get mad, I'm gonna just swipe and delete and pray
Speaker 2: that God will touch you and give you the courage
Speaker 2: to step out of your comfort zone. Yes, I find
Speaker 2: myself praying for people more. And then it makes me laugh.
Speaker 2: They come in me, you think you cute, that's what
Speaker 2: you think you cute? You ain't cute, you ain't And
Speaker 2: I go, oh, cour God, God bless you, bless them.
Speaker 1: Yep, that's it. That makes me like, wait what they
Speaker 1: start to feeling. Then they start looking and we're like, wait,
Speaker 1: am iver, Yes, you need to stop doing that.
Speaker 2: Seriously, I'm gonna just pray for you. If you don't
Speaker 2: like the show, why you so loud?
Speaker 3: Why you do this?
Speaker 2: Why you totally If that's all you got from my show,
Speaker 2: God bless you. Yeah, something else is better for you.
Speaker 2: And I said, but go support the other black women
Speaker 2: who have a show, because maybe they exactly.
Speaker 1: Maybe you can get some what you need from somewhere else.
Speaker 2: But that's for me and my household. Jeffrey's fine, Jeffrey's laughing.
Speaker 3: I'm good. Share you act so thirsty all the time
Speaker 3: with these men? Why you act so thirsty? I'm good.
Speaker 2: If you can't get a joke right, well, God blessed
Speaker 2: me and mine. I'm good over here. He waiting, he waiting.
Speaker 1: I ain't thirsty. I know that's right, me and mine.
Speaker 1: I love that. Speaking of your son, how do you
Speaker 1: balance motherhood and everything else you have going on? Because
Speaker 1: I can imagine that's a lot. And you spoke on
Speaker 1: him being autistic? How is that managing that?
Speaker 3: I always have to go God, I give you everything.
Speaker 2: I give you my career, my relationships or a relationship
Speaker 2: that I would like to be in. I give you,
Speaker 2: you know, Jeffrey, give me back what you want me
Speaker 2: to have. So I've already given it to him, and
Speaker 2: so he gives me that. If I'm not able, I
Speaker 2: say no to a lot of stuff. Movie role come up,
Speaker 2: and it's just like, no, I know I can't do that.
Speaker 2: I've done a talk show all, you know for eight months,
Speaker 2: these four I got. I cannot go and do a movie,
Speaker 2: you know, So I have to say no. But I
Speaker 2: know God will give it back to me in some
Speaker 2: other way. So that's my prayer in the mornings. And also,
Speaker 2: somebody once told me there's gonna be a lot of
Speaker 2: spinning wheels in your life. Make sure Jeffrey's not one
Speaker 2: of them. So he's definitely priority, and if it affects him,
Speaker 2: then I go. My first assignment is.
Speaker 3: I'm a mother.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't be out if you know, I come
Speaker 2: out to out there with you are Chrystal, and You're like,
Speaker 2: we're gonna go here, We're gonna go there. I'm like, no,
Speaker 2: cause I gotta called Jeffrey. I I got a parent
Speaker 2: teacher conference. Zoom, I gotta do. I can't go out
Speaker 2: with you. So he's priority, and then everything else goes
Speaker 2: after that. So you gotta know what your priorities are,
Speaker 2: and you have to know if you're fulfilling the first
Speaker 2: assignment God gave you, he gonna bring everything back around.
Speaker 2: So for people thinking, you know, oh I got it,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna lose out on mcause he said he calls
Speaker 2: you to take care of that.
Speaker 3: Which he gave to you.
Speaker 2: So if you're a mother and he gave you a
Speaker 2: child and you feel like I'm missing out, my time
Speaker 2: is going by, they gonna see me. Oh yeah, if
Speaker 2: you're doing that first assignment, he gonna bring it back around.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's good. I love that. Something that you and
Speaker 1: I both connected over was our fitness journeys and you
Speaker 1: have a girl fifty and I'm fit over forty.
Speaker 3: There we gonna fit over the decades that.
Speaker 1: Over, yes, And you know I feel like after that
Speaker 1: forty hit, it got hard. We talked about this on
Speaker 1: your show. It was hard and harder to get the
Speaker 1: weight off. What really pushed you to like start this
Speaker 1: fitness journey? And you're on it, like you're so committed,
Speaker 1: and there's days I fall off and I see you know,
Speaker 1: I'm like, let me get up.
Speaker 2: We all fall off, girl, this say no, you know
Speaker 2: you get to this age, Crystal, and you know this.
Speaker 2: It's like when we were in our twenties, we could
Speaker 2: eat a bunch of cheese burger.
Speaker 3: Stomach still be like lil you know, but now.
Speaker 2: You see that cheeseburger you ate you Perry menopause and menopause.
Speaker 3: I'm bloating all the time, you know.
Speaker 2: But I have to say what started me to working
Speaker 2: out was Jeffrey because he's on the spectrum. I'm like,
Speaker 2: I what I can do to control my weight, I'm
Speaker 2: going to do and I want to be here. I
Speaker 2: want to be here when my son, you know, gets married,
Speaker 2: if he chooses to get married. I want to be
Speaker 2: here for those pivotal times in his life. I want
Speaker 2: to be here for him to be able to filter
Speaker 2: out what's coming to him, win an election season where
Speaker 2: it's crazy, and you know, trying to help my son
Speaker 2: navigate through this.
Speaker 3: I need to be here and I need to be healthy.
Speaker 2: That's what really It changes as you as you get
Speaker 2: to a certain age. You know, it's trying to fit
Speaker 2: into a bikini or booty shorts.
Speaker 3: Now I'm trying to be healthy. That other stuff comes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2: That's what really got me into weight training and you know,
Speaker 2: eating right because I live an amazing life. The second
Speaker 2: chapter of my life. Because I'm in the second chapter
Speaker 2: of my life, I want to I want to be healthy.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's so important. It is. They say the health
Speaker 1: is wealth, but it really is. Oh my god, we
Speaker 1: put wealth in so many different categories and we overlook
Speaker 1: the health part.
Speaker 2: That is like one of the main things. Absolutely, And
Speaker 2: that's the thing. Somebody said, you either gonna be spend
Speaker 2: a bunch of money trying to get better because you sick,
Speaker 2: or you're gonna spend the money trying to be ahead
Speaker 2: of it so that you don't get sick, which is
Speaker 2: the way your energy gonna flow because and that's what
Speaker 2: I think about too a lot.
Speaker 3: I'm like, Sherry, what's it gonna look like if you
Speaker 3: got sick? You know?
Speaker 2: And so that's what keeps me, that's what keeps me
Speaker 2: on that track of Okay, I'm gonna get up and
Speaker 2: work out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, going to benefit me in that long run.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, Yes, I love that and keep going because you're
Speaker 1: not only inspiring so many other people, you're inspiring me too.
Speaker 1: So thank you for doing that and putting it out
Speaker 1: there because we need to see that, especially in our community.
Speaker 1: There's so many health issues that they need to see
Speaker 1: people like us who are on TV in their homes
Speaker 1: every day saying oh this is important, Oh let me
Speaker 1: do that. If it's working for Shared, it's working for Crystal,
Speaker 1: this is something we can practice as well. So yeah, Keith,
Speaker 1: that us says, I'm proud of you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm proud of you. Tube girl, Thank you.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Before we close, you know that
Speaker 1: I also aspire one day to have my own talk show.
Speaker 1: What is one thing that you, as an accomplished talk
Speaker 1: show host, would give advice to me? Just someone who
Speaker 1: wants to do that one.
Speaker 2: Day, You're doing it you are doing it, so you
Speaker 2: are preparing yourself so that when that opportunity comes.
Speaker 3: You are there.
Speaker 2: You're ready and you're ready to walk into it. It's
Speaker 2: the faith with out works is dead, so you are
Speaker 2: operating in it now. You said for me, I couldn't
Speaker 2: get a talk show, and somebody says, start a podcast.
Speaker 2: Stop asking for permission to get a talk show from them.
Speaker 2: And I started a podcast to NAACP Image Awards later
Speaker 2: and then the talk show came. So I slipped out
Speaker 2: on faith and did my own thing.
Speaker 3: That is how you do it.
Speaker 2: The advice I will give you, keep doing what you're
Speaker 2: doing and show people what you do, and that person
Speaker 2: is going to so that you feel completely prepared when
Speaker 2: that opportunity comes, because it will.
Speaker 1: Yes, thank you so much, all right, girl, it was
Speaker 1: an honor. I'm telling you, I haven't. I had Tyler
Speaker 1: on this couch and I wasn't as nervous as when
Speaker 1: I knew I was interviewing you today. I said, girl Shepherd,
Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, we're.
Speaker 3: Gonna have a good time when you invite video house.
Speaker 3: I can't wait for you.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to have you over when you're in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: Please let me know. So I went together to have
Speaker 1: a good girl's night and watch Coolie High.
Speaker 2: I will, girl, I sure will. I love you girl,
Speaker 2: have a good day.
Speaker 1: I love you.
Speaker 3: Bye bye bye.
Speaker 1: My conversation with Cherry was everything I needed and everything
Speaker 1: I hope for much more. We unpacked so much, but
Speaker 1: what really resonated with me was what you do in
Speaker 1: the meantime while you're waiting for your dream to come
Speaker 1: to pass. A Lot of times, I know for me,
Speaker 1: I felt like I was behind the mark or I
Speaker 1: was late to the party. But what I realized as
Speaker 1: I gained footing and living out my passion and my
Speaker 1: dreams was that I was right on time and everything
Speaker 1: I was learning along the way equipped me to handle
Speaker 1: where I am today. So just remember, no matter where
Speaker 1: you are in your journey, make sure you pay attention
Speaker 1: and learn all the lessons that you need to learn
Speaker 1: for when you get to where you're going. Thank you
Speaker 1: all so much for spending time with me today, and
Speaker 1: a huge thank you to Sherry Shepherd for all she
Speaker 1: poured into this show and me. I hope my conversation
Speaker 1: with Sherry inspires you and encourages you to keep pushing
Speaker 1: towards your dreams. Guys. You can follow me on all
Speaker 1: social media platforms at love Chris Orinee, and you can
Speaker 1: also follow our show at keep It Positive Sweetie. If
Speaker 1: you want to write into our Positive Outcomes listener letter,
Speaker 1: you can send us an email at keep it Positive
Speaker 1: Sweete at gmail dot com. In the meantime, in between
Speaker 1: time you know what to do. Keep it Positive, Sweetie.
Speaker 1: See you guys next time.