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

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

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

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Speaker 1: for acting. LaToya previously recurred on one of my favorite shows,

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Speaker 1: Owns green Leaf for three seasons. Love that show. She's

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Speaker 1: also appeared in the recurring roles in Fox, Rosewood and

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

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Speaker 1: with My bar Morris Chestnut, Okay over there and Rosewood

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

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Speaker 1: in the new season of Power Book three, Raising Canaan

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

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

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Speaker 1: show which I love, the death Leave it to LaToya

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Speaker 1: Please Working to Money Making Conversations master Class, the one

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Speaker 1: in the own LaToya Lucky How you doing? I'm good?

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Speaker 1: How are you? First to get to you? I had

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Speaker 1: a lot to say, which is good, which is good.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, because that means you've had

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Speaker 1: a career, which means that this because when we talk

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Speaker 1: about this business, you know. And I'm a fan of

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Speaker 1: your YouTube channel because it tells I think if anybody

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Speaker 1: in the industry wants to know how this industry work,

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Speaker 1: because there's no guarantees in this industry, and you are

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Speaker 1: an entrepreneur. A lot of people don't know when you

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Speaker 1: You're going from gig the gig. People they're walk in

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Speaker 1: a room auditions and you don't know if they like

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Speaker 1: you. You You know, you might have killed you know. We

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

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Speaker 1: We want to go to gel with the silly laugh.

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Speaker 1: But what about LaToya? She killed it? Nah, I think

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Speaker 1: I wanna she good? She good, but I'd like to

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

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

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Speaker 1: then the world we live in. But you've been able

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

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Speaker 1: I mean, I can honestly tell you I as a

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Speaker 1: matter of fact, I just came off of the audition

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Speaker 1: the test is. Um. I was so excited about the

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Speaker 1: roles and I just as a matter of fact, I

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Speaker 1: and you know, test deal is done, is done. And

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Speaker 1: then you get the news it didn't go your way

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Speaker 1: and like, wait, what did I do? What did you know?

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Speaker 1: And you just you start to realize the old saying

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

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

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Speaker 1: but I felt like this was this was mine. You

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Speaker 1: know he would go with the protection again. I have

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Speaker 1: to get through that. But you know it comes with it,

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: keep going. It isn't the people around you, your support

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

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Speaker 1: when I've talked like this. I'm not talking in the

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Speaker 1: negative manner. Just your man has had a brilliant career

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

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

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Speaker 1: not easy, baby, And you do need a tribe. You

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: you back in the room when you want when you're done,

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Speaker 1: when you're kicking and screaming. UM. It is not something

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Speaker 1: that's easy. That's something that you can I just think

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Speaker 1: is interesting because, like I said, my my degrees in

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Speaker 1: the Hip Hop Comedy Stop. And it was hot. I

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Speaker 1: mean people were aligned around the block. It was hot,

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Speaker 1: You know, but you know the thing about it is

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Speaker 1: Stars has created this little power universe, like you know,

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Speaker 1: how do I where do I fit? Even even with

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Speaker 1: I was having a trouble with seeing why she made

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Speaker 1: I'm talking to LaToya luck At, the star of so

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Speaker 1: many series of incredible singer launched your career many years

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