Speaker 1: Welcome to Checking In with Michelle Williams, a production of
Speaker 1: My Heart Radio and The Black Effect. She's a rising
Speaker 1: star in an amazing new role and run the world,
Speaker 1: and she's stopping by to check in with me. Next,
Speaker 1: Bricia Webb says, God will guide you if you ask him.
Speaker 1: And if you have been following me for a number
Speaker 1: of years, you'll remember that. One of my favorite scriptures
Speaker 1: is in Proverbs Proverbs three and six. I says, in
Speaker 1: all thy ways, acknowledge him, and he will direct your path.
Speaker 1: And um, there's also passages in my book where I
Speaker 1: talk about really leaning into your gut instinct, which is
Speaker 1: and I'm respecting all cultures and respecting all beliefs, but
Speaker 1: there is something insidey of you that speaks to you
Speaker 1: that is meant to guide you. And what's meant to
Speaker 1: guide you is also meant to protect you. So I
Speaker 1: am just excited for us to dig into this statement
Speaker 1: that God will guide you. God certainly will, so I'm excited. Y'all.
Speaker 1: Come on, get your coffee cups or get your favorite
Speaker 1: chips or whatever it is that you do when you
Speaker 1: are listening to episodes of Checking In, and come in
Speaker 1: with an open heart. Come on, let's check in, y'all.
Speaker 1: I'm excited every single week because I feel like the
Speaker 1: guests we get get better and better or just so uplifting,
Speaker 1: so much humor, so much love. And y'all have seen
Speaker 1: her start on major shows on e R. Private Practice
Speaker 1: right along, and now she's starting in the hit Amazon
Speaker 1: series Run the World as the sassy Renee Ross. Listen,
Speaker 1: please welcome the talented, beautiful Risha Webb. Hello. Hello, I
Speaker 1: mean so nice to like virtually check out. You know,
Speaker 1: I feel like I know you. Kelly talks about you
Speaker 1: often and she's like Michelle, you have to meet her.
Speaker 1: She's a joy of a jewel to work with. So
Speaker 1: I feel like I know you because of Kelly, and
Speaker 1: same here. She talks about you all the time, about
Speaker 1: me to FaceTime her in a minute, guess who I'm
Speaker 1: talking to today. She's gonna lose. How you're doing, How
Speaker 1: you're doing, let's check in with you? How are you? Girl?
Speaker 1: I'm blessed and highly favored and just so happy. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm in between places. I'm at my house and
Speaker 1: white sounds kind of echoing here, and uh, I'm with
Speaker 1: my fiancee as well, so you know. So, I mean,
Speaker 1: uh yes, So I was like, I had a moment.
Speaker 1: I was like, let me, I could do it here,
Speaker 1: it could be okay. So I'm so pretty the loving
Speaker 1: that the wallpaper and the photo behind you giving us
Speaker 1: um glamour. Yes, you know it's good, old old Hollywood glamour.
Speaker 1: You're satin ones, you know, a little amazing thing. Come on,
Speaker 1: push it up, push it up. Yes. I am so
Speaker 1: happy for you. When you said that you are blessed
Speaker 1: and highly favored. I see it on you, and I
Speaker 1: know you two have been blessed and highly favored even
Speaker 1: when the lights weren't necessarily on. We are still blessed
Speaker 1: and highly favored, regardless that we have thousands of people
Speaker 1: yelling our names. But I feel like you're living in
Speaker 1: the overflow or the manifestation of what it really means
Speaker 1: to be walking in something that you've dreamed of and
Speaker 1: something you have always wanted to do in the area
Speaker 1: of acting. So congratulations to you. And you know, our
Speaker 1: producer Angela was just speaking so highly of you, was
Speaker 1: just saying how lovely you were to work with on set.
Speaker 1: Isn't that just so good to know? Like, first of all,
Speaker 1: you're like, wait a minute, that should be a compliment.
Speaker 1: Everybody should be nice. Yes, but it's it's uh, it's
Speaker 1: more frequent than not, um, that you'll run across people
Speaker 1: that forget the blessing that it is to do what
Speaker 1: you love. You know, um, and that you've been chosen
Speaker 1: to do what you love. I've worked really hard to
Speaker 1: get here, so I'm grateful that I've been able to
Speaker 1: take the stairs to my success, um and not the elevator,
Speaker 1: you know. And I know every single step and every
Speaker 1: single stare of person that has been there to guide
Speaker 1: me where I'm going. So I live in you know,
Speaker 1: continual gratitude to my friends, to people that have helped me,
Speaker 1: the people that have made it difficult for me. I'm
Speaker 1: in gratitude for it all because I know who I
Speaker 1: want to be, to the person that I'm helping, you know,
Speaker 1: So it does matter. And so you know, when you're
Speaker 1: chosen and you know your purpose and why you're at
Speaker 1: certain places, you can influence those people that aren't having
Speaker 1: a good day and that are not living in gratitude.
Speaker 1: You remind them, you know, just by walking and your
Speaker 1: purpose and who you are. You know, and I say,
Speaker 1: and I have a thing. It's like, sometimes I have
Speaker 1: bad days, you know, and today has been kind of crazy.
Speaker 1: But you know, I'll say I'm blessed and how the
Speaker 1: favorite as a declaration to remind myself, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: so you have to run mind yourself. You're blessed and
Speaker 1: highly favored, so you can see it you don't feel
Speaker 1: like it. Yeah, when you don't feel like it, or
Speaker 1: when environment around you don't look so blessed or highly favorite,
Speaker 1: like you said, it's something that you declare daily. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's so good. That's so good. And you also said,
Speaker 1: um that you you're glad that you're taking the steps
Speaker 1: versus the elevator, and would you agree that are you
Speaker 1: seeing like that you will have longevity with that formula
Speaker 1: versus shooting to the top with the elevator and then
Speaker 1: fighting your way to stay on top. Yes, I feel
Speaker 1: like for And you know, I've been blessed to have
Speaker 1: so many different friends and so many different arenas and
Speaker 1: you know you who have been going up with me
Speaker 1: and who have had that elevator success, And it's all good.
Speaker 1: It's just about who you have in front of you
Speaker 1: and who you're looking to, who actually decides you know
Speaker 1: how you react to it. But yeah, I feel like
Speaker 1: it's just kind of the knowing of who you are
Speaker 1: and what you want to do. You can have some flow.
Speaker 1: Like I started in drama and then I got into
Speaker 1: comedy and loved comedy, and now I'm going back in
Speaker 1: the drama. You know, in drama, so you know, I
Speaker 1: want to do theater. It's just like so many things
Speaker 1: you can stretch yourself and be able to do. And
Speaker 1: when you take an elevator to some things, and that's
Speaker 1: you're letting people tell you what you are. And sometimes
Speaker 1: and you get in your head and you're just like
Speaker 1: who am I? And all these all this type stuff
Speaker 1: I've already gone through that, you know, I've already had
Speaker 1: to prove and prove to myself that I want to
Speaker 1: be more than what people think I am. You are
Speaker 1: from Baltimore, Baltimore me, and did you get your start
Speaker 1: in like creative and performing art. I want people, the
Speaker 1: folks that are listening, so that they can know, you
Speaker 1: know they Okay, you might feel like you just up
Speaker 1: as taw Her on TV one day, give us a
Speaker 1: snapshot of the journey. Oh yeah, Well, I was born
Speaker 1: and raised in Baltimore City. Um, I started doing theater there, Yes, theater.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I started doing theater there. I went to
Speaker 1: Baltimore School for the Yards. Uh. They have a tweets
Speaker 1: program which is centered around children and like getting them
Speaker 1: into the arts, and you have the audition. Uh so
Speaker 1: that was awesome. I went to Baltimore School for the
Speaker 1: Arts that were Tupac and Jada Pinkett and Tracy Tom's
Speaker 1: you know, like all of those people. So it was
Speaker 1: our own fame school, if you will. And that kind
Speaker 1: of cultivated me into being the artist that I am. Uh,
Speaker 1: taking dance and all kinds of stuff. My mom was
Speaker 1: a classically trained dancer and my dad was a gospel
Speaker 1: singer and uh so I just was always in the
Speaker 1: arts and because of that, they always supported me in it.
Speaker 1: So whether I wanted to dance or do musical theater,
Speaker 1: they didn't say, like, go get a regular job. They
Speaker 1: just asked me to go to college. And so I
Speaker 1: went to cal Arts. I graduated from high school and
Speaker 1: went to cal Arts and uh, I tried to talk
Speaker 1: myself into being normal one year and was like acting
Speaker 1: looks really hard, Like I don't want to live in
Speaker 1: my car and be broke, you know, like that looks
Speaker 1: really difficult, but I tried it, and I wanted to die.
Speaker 1: And so I went to cal Arts and went fullhead
Speaker 1: and and got my degree, got my b f A.
Speaker 1: And I had a job within the end of the week.
Speaker 1: So that doesn't happen for everybody. That does not happen,
Speaker 1: but it happened. But like you said, and you your journeys.
Speaker 1: You went to school, you went to college, You were
Speaker 1: in the creative and performing arts um throughout your childhood
Speaker 1: teenage years, and so you have built an incredible an
Speaker 1: incredible foundation that a lot of people that we look
Speaker 1: up to in the arts as far especially in theater,
Speaker 1: have kind of taken on that same path. Um. I
Speaker 1: know you mentioned that Jada Pinkett was someone that you
Speaker 1: looked up to as far as representation that you could
Speaker 1: see and say she made it out of Baltimore, So
Speaker 1: can I because you felt like, ain't nobody gonna make
Speaker 1: it out of balls? No, No, not where I was from. No.
Speaker 1: So representation definitely does matter, you know, does matter and
Speaker 1: hold weight. You know, seeing Tracy Tom's and she was
Speaker 1: on Broadway like she did Rent and she was on
Speaker 1: Cold Case like to have representation like that around me
Speaker 1: was so important for me to you know, grasp, you know,
Speaker 1: for me to say who I wanted to work with
Speaker 1: and get to meet them and work with them. I
Speaker 1: used to be obsessed and I still am. With Angela Bassett.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, if I could be
Speaker 1: an actress like Angela Bassett, She's incredible. And then I
Speaker 1: look up four years later and I'm working with her
Speaker 1: on the yard and I was like, you know what, good?
Speaker 1: I just I thank you, you know. And so it was,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's a journey and it's you checking
Speaker 1: in and manifesting and praying, and yeah, yes, it's all that.
Speaker 1: So I was gonna ask you when you said something
Speaker 1: like I'm one day I love Angela b Acid were
Speaker 1: you intentional when you were saying it, like there's there's
Speaker 1: something that I spoken. I just felt I was speaking
Speaker 1: out the side of my mouth, but it actually happened.
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, I need to be a
Speaker 1: little more intentional because if I can speak that and
Speaker 1: it happened, imagine the other things that I can speak
Speaker 1: and it can happen. You know what I say this
Speaker 1: to me, I have like I literally said this to
Speaker 1: myself last night. I have to remind myself of the
Speaker 1: power of my words. I remember when I used to
Speaker 1: in high school. Everybody used to think I was crazy,
Speaker 1: even though like I knew I was gonna be actress
Speaker 1: and all that. To say that in Baltimore and say
Speaker 1: you had dreams that actually being on television was kind
Speaker 1: of still like what are you talking about? But yeah.
Speaker 1: I used to cut out these pictures that I would
Speaker 1: see an Essence and Jet you know, with Carrie Washington,
Speaker 1: and I mean this is like this is years ago,
Speaker 1: you know. And I used to love Best Man and
Speaker 1: I would cut out those pictures of Sanaia Lathan and
Speaker 1: all of these women that Regina Hall, Regina King, Queen Latifa,
Speaker 1: like when they would take these beautiful pictures and I
Speaker 1: would cut them out and I didn't even know what
Speaker 1: a vision board was, but I would put them over
Speaker 1: my bed, like right above my head. And it was
Speaker 1: purposeful because I would pray to them, like I would go, God,
Speaker 1: I want to work with these women. I wanna be
Speaker 1: like these women when I grow up, Like this is
Speaker 1: where I'm going. And I didn't even know what I
Speaker 1: was doing. And so to see myself now and to
Speaker 1: see that I'm working on a series where I used
Speaker 1: to stay. Just three years ago. I was like, I
Speaker 1: want to be on a Sex in the City show.
Speaker 1: I was like, I want to be sexy. I want
Speaker 1: to dress up. I love fashion, I love hair, I
Speaker 1: love all of this stuff, and I want to be
Speaker 1: able to do my comedy in that way, Like why
Speaker 1: do I have to be somebody's mom all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you know, like because I'm funny, Like I want to
Speaker 1: do something still young and youthful and tell my experience
Speaker 1: that I can identify with and then run the world comes,
Speaker 1: you know, and stars is there and they're like, we
Speaker 1: want to do black women Sex in the City and
Speaker 1: we're working with Patricia Fields, who did the costume design
Speaker 1: for Sex in the City. You know. So it's just
Speaker 1: like you have the control of your mouth. God says,
Speaker 1: you know the power of life, and you know death
Speaker 1: lives in the power of your tongue. So it's like
Speaker 1: it's so true. You know. I used to say I
Speaker 1: would lay on my couch and I would say, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get married. I'm getting married. Where's my husband he's coming.
Speaker 1: It's not where he's coming. I'm just waiting for him
Speaker 1: to be done. He's not done yet. Where is he ready?
Speaker 1: You know? That's what that's what you think. Come on, somebody, Yes,
Speaker 1: and we're going to get there. But yes, ma'am, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you have like and when he shows up,
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, I said you was coming, you know.
Speaker 1: So you really have to act as if it's already done,
Speaker 1: because it is already done. It's just time God's timing
Speaker 1: when it happened. So Risha, come on, come on, come
Speaker 1: on now. This is probably the ten, twelve or twentieth
Speaker 1: interview I've said this on But you literally have spoken
Speaker 1: or written your future because the definition of future is
Speaker 1: the time or period of time following the moment of
Speaker 1: speaking or writing. And a friend of mine told me
Speaker 1: that a couple of months ago. He was like, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, I just read the definition of the word future,
Speaker 1: and I was like, you crazy. If you I'm accorded
Speaker 1: and you just now know what the word youtually mean.
Speaker 1: I know what it means. But when that man said
Speaker 1: the time or period of time I'm following the moment
Speaker 1: of speaking or writing, Like that's in the Oxford Dictionary.
Speaker 1: You don't even have to believe in scripture. That's just
Speaker 1: an addictionary dictionary. Whoever came up with that definition must
Speaker 1: have experienced future telling, telling your own future writing your
Speaker 1: own Also, that's the definition of the word past. Something
Speaker 1: you spoke or wrote. Now I don't there's parts of
Speaker 1: that where I'm like, I don't know, because a lot
Speaker 1: of us could have been hurt or abused in our past.
Speaker 1: I didn't speak, but there are certain things like, so
Speaker 1: for you, you knew your husband was coming for me.
Speaker 1: When I was engaged, I used to speak things like
Speaker 1: we're never going to make it down the aisle. I
Speaker 1: spoke that. I spoke that, so I'm thankful for you,
Speaker 1: And I'm like, I don't know if it's a thirty day,
Speaker 1: sixty day, or ninety day exercise. Were the listeners of
Speaker 1: this particular episode put into practice this auto suggestion put
Speaker 1: into practice start speaking positive, or start speaking as if
Speaker 1: it's already here and done. Yeah, and just see what happened?
Speaker 1: She was, maybe, just see what happened. You have nothing
Speaker 1: to lose but a few seconds of air or breath
Speaker 1: that you used to speak it. You have nothing to
Speaker 1: lose but some ink in a pin that you wrote
Speaker 1: it down with And since we are here talking about
Speaker 1: you speaking of your husband, congratulations on your engagement than congratulations.
Speaker 1: Now is it true that the Reals co host Lonnie
Speaker 1: Love kind of had a hand in that she played Cuba?
Speaker 1: And his name is Nick Jones, Nick Jones j Nick
Speaker 1: Jones Jr. And Kelly is a part of our love
Speaker 1: story too. I saw that like she was at your
Speaker 1: she was active engagement the engagement party, but did she
Speaker 1: help with ring shots? Okay, so it's it's crazy. So
Speaker 1: I held us that I will tell you the love story.
Speaker 1: Last year I went in to do Marry Little Christmas
Speaker 1: Too and Mary Little wedding and so we had, you know,
Speaker 1: because of COVID, we went into quarantine in Canada, in Vancouver,
Speaker 1: and so I had literally talked to my best girlfriend
Speaker 1: and Megan Good on our podcast um and so we
Speaker 1: were talking about stuff and I was like, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm ready for my husband. I'm sticking it. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm sticking this. I wanted my husband. And so you know, Megan,
Speaker 1: being deep as she is, she said, well are you ready?
Speaker 1: Are you doing your work? And you know, are you ready?
Speaker 1: You know, I was like, I'm going to tooth therapists
Speaker 1: right now. I'm good. She was like, are you ready
Speaker 1: to be celibate? You know, because you know, having all
Speaker 1: of those conversations, she said, she gave me some work
Speaker 1: to do for myself. She's like, well, you're you're going
Speaker 1: into quarantine for fourteen days. Do this while you're there.
Speaker 1: So I did the things, went off all of the apps.
Speaker 1: I don't even know why I was there. I was
Speaker 1: bored and went into prayer, was doing all the things,
Speaker 1: and literally I got a text from Wannie, a d
Speaker 1: M actually saying, Hey, I have a friend. Would you
Speaker 1: be interested in going to coffee with him? And I
Speaker 1: was like, I'm actually in quarantine right now, so I'm
Speaker 1: available on face time, but you know, you know, let
Speaker 1: me see. So I went on his page. He was
Speaker 1: super cute and I was like, why he looks familiar.
Speaker 1: Turns out Michelle, I met him. Tell us. I met
Speaker 1: Nick five years ago at a comedy show where I
Speaker 1: was doing stand up. So I was doing stand up
Speaker 1: and I always asked God, I said, you know what
Speaker 1: is this? I don't want to play with these people. Okay,
Speaker 1: let my husband meet me on stage, let him meet
Speaker 1: my real self. You know because me on stage is
Speaker 1: I'm bulger. You know, I'm Christian, but I'm also very
Speaker 1: open and very loose and all of that, and I
Speaker 1: don't want to lie to you know, and be a
Speaker 1: representative of myself. And then he see me on stage
Speaker 1: and he's like what Rue like, I'm loud and I'm
Speaker 1: I'm bold and I say what I think. And so
Speaker 1: he saw me on stage and I met him and
Speaker 1: hung out with him and my friends the entire night
Speaker 1: five years ago, and so we started talking. I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, that is where I know you. And
Speaker 1: it was on since that day. So I came out
Speaker 1: of Quarantine to start the movie already in love and
Speaker 1: they were like, and Kelly was like, what you went
Speaker 1: in single? We were talking about the work you were
Speaker 1: gonna do. I was like, I know, And now I've
Speaker 1: been I'm like in love, What the hell is going on?
Speaker 1: And yeah, So Lonnie Love set it up, and Lonnie Love,
Speaker 1: Kelly Rowland, and Megan Good all involved in this setup.
Speaker 1: Now I know y'all listeners, some of some of y'all
Speaker 1: are like, I wish you had women, but I want
Speaker 1: you all to also do this. This is a little
Speaker 1: bit of homework, probably the first time I've given you,
Speaker 1: guys some homework, meaning even prey on the people in
Speaker 1: your life that might know someone that could be good
Speaker 1: for you, but to put in good friends who are
Speaker 1: also gonna hold you accountable. That's also gonna say, Like
Speaker 1: Megan said to Precia, wait a minute, are you ready?
Speaker 1: Are you doing the work? I'm Precia if you don't
Speaker 1: mind share with us when you say you did the work,
Speaker 1: because we say that a lot loosely. I I did
Speaker 1: the work. What did some of the work look like
Speaker 1: for you? I can tell you emptying trash. There's trash
Speaker 1: and baggage that you carry along being a single woman,
Speaker 1: and you involve, you invite energies into your life. I
Speaker 1: had made a conscious decision to block those energies and
Speaker 1: to empty out my trash. I was like, I'm not
Speaker 1: I don't need this anymore. Doing the work of people, relationships,
Speaker 1: friendships that weren't giving anything um because you don't taking that.
Speaker 1: You made you made way. I mean I made space,
Speaker 1: you know, and I had to clear my mind. I
Speaker 1: went to therapy, you know. I had to forgive myself
Speaker 1: and forgive others. You know, in my past relationships and
Speaker 1: the past hurt. Even though I had been single for
Speaker 1: a while, I still was carrying some things, and I
Speaker 1: was scared and fearful, and I was making decisions out
Speaker 1: of that place. So when I started talking to him, yes,
Speaker 1: I was very aggressive and very bold. What's your credits for?
Speaker 1: What's this? What's that? What's this? So you said that
Speaker 1: you did conversation? Girl, listen, so cruffled dollar, matter of fact,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna send it. I'm gonna send it to you reeling.
Speaker 1: He had these questions like what's your credit school? How
Speaker 1: are you when you're angry? Do you only like to
Speaker 1: bathe at What do you say do you like to bathe?
Speaker 1: Because some people only bathe at night. It was all
Speaker 1: these questions. So you had no shame in asking the
Speaker 1: questions because the first conversation. Don't waste my time because
Speaker 1: I know what I bring to the table. My table
Speaker 1: is already set. I have my own house. I'm fine.
Speaker 1: I want a companion you don't need. I don't need.
Speaker 1: Is that what you're gonna saying? It's true. I mean
Speaker 1: when you are at a place where it's like, let me,
Speaker 1: how was your table set? As they say, talk yo
Speaker 1: is exactly. I'm good. You know. I listened to my music,
Speaker 1: I got my own friends, I got my own life style.
Speaker 1: I would like the company of a man and I
Speaker 1: would like that, and he has to have these things. Now,
Speaker 1: if you don't have these things, that's fine. Maybe we
Speaker 1: can I make the choice. I know what category to
Speaker 1: put you in. But right now, in this space, I'm
Speaker 1: looking for my husband that will bring because God promised
Speaker 1: me God's gonna give me what I want. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I'm talking about. This is so good, this
Speaker 1: is so so, so so rich. Now, I'm sure we've
Speaker 1: had some some protective women around you, and as far
Speaker 1: as the man being able to handle who you are,
Speaker 1: it's important. You can't be a woman doing what we
Speaker 1: do and not have a man become comfortable and confident
Speaker 1: and happy and with space he's in. And that was
Speaker 1: my prayer. I said, God, send me your best. If
Speaker 1: it ain't your best for me, I don't want it.
Speaker 1: If God don't do it, it won't get done. And
Speaker 1: what that means in my life is I need a
Speaker 1: man that's happy and confident and secure in himself. Now
Speaker 1: we can work on all that other stuff, you know,
Speaker 1: like if you know because we all we all ain't perfect.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, you got to
Speaker 1: be happy with what you do. You got to be
Speaker 1: He was with where you are. So remember there was
Speaker 1: this thing going around where women were saying, I want
Speaker 1: the prayer that Sierra pray. But now we can also say,
Speaker 1: you said something so profound. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: realize how powerful it is. Your prayer was, God, give
Speaker 1: me your best. Yeah, give me your best. Ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: you can pray it. Pray that a prayer. And now listen,
Speaker 1: Checking In is not a religious podcast, But y'all, y'all
Speaker 1: know where I stand on my faith. You know where
Speaker 1: I stand on what I believe. You know where I
Speaker 1: stand when it comes to prayer. So we can all pray.
Speaker 1: God give me your very best, not only in relationships,
Speaker 1: but God give me your very best and opportunity and resources.
Speaker 1: Give me your best. Where did this faith come from?
Speaker 1: I mean it's deacon and Deaconess Garfield and Sharing Webb.
Speaker 1: You know, I was raised in the church. You know,
Speaker 1: my parents met on their choir and I was raised
Speaker 1: with a choir going to churches. So I was raised
Speaker 1: in church culture like I and and then it's strengthened.
Speaker 1: My faith strengthen even more when I had to actually
Speaker 1: walk in faith and come out here and do what
Speaker 1: I dreamed dreamt of doing. And the only thing I
Speaker 1: could lean on, only the only place I could lean
Speaker 1: on was the rocks. So I had to find that
Speaker 1: and myself, which is even better. So I'm grateful that
Speaker 1: my parents lead the foundation. Um so I had somewhere
Speaker 1: tuning because it's scary. I ain't gonna say it's not.
Speaker 1: You know, when you don't have guidance and you just
Speaker 1: out here, you don't know who to talk to, you
Speaker 1: don't have friends, you don't My first trip to l
Speaker 1: A or California was my first day of school and
Speaker 1: I came from Baltimore City and so my school, cal Arts,
Speaker 1: I was the only black student. I was the only
Speaker 1: black woman. I wore a roll of set, you know,
Speaker 1: like I was a black Chinese slippers. But for our clips,
Speaker 1: we're talking, oh jeez, ione to my age. But if
Speaker 1: we're talking back in the tooth thousands, okay, so I
Speaker 1: was you know, low Wayne, Oh that was you know,
Speaker 1: I was Baltimore Hood and coming to l A. And
Speaker 1: it was a culture shock and seeing how other people
Speaker 1: lived and seeing what it was. You know, it was
Speaker 1: an adventure, but that's where my faith had to really
Speaker 1: kick in for me to find myself. Absolutely, absolutely, you
Speaker 1: feel like you know, you know, because when you're at home,
Speaker 1: I know, I grew up in church, and so when
Speaker 1: I'm at home and so I can act like I
Speaker 1: got faith, mom and Daddy taking me to church and
Speaker 1: in the choir and praise worship team, frying chicken, doing
Speaker 1: all this stuff. That it wasn't until I left home
Speaker 1: that I really had to activate my faith and developed
Speaker 1: my own actually my own personal faith, my own personal
Speaker 1: relationship with God. When you talked about moving from Baltimore
Speaker 1: to California, knowing that you've got about fifty acting credits
Speaker 1: to date, and you were talking about how you are black,
Speaker 1: You're unapologetic, loud, comedic, sensual, did you ever feel like
Speaker 1: you had to change any of that to sustain being
Speaker 1: being in Hollywood. Um, it's a weird thing. I feel
Speaker 1: like I had to come back to being or really
Speaker 1: become who Bricia Webb is, you know, because for me,
Speaker 1: being an actress is being a chameleon and becoming so
Speaker 1: many different things that you become whoever the role is.
Speaker 1: Uh So, at one point it was you know, the
Speaker 1: girl next door. You know, I could throw on a
Speaker 1: wig and be like, on you know, how how I
Speaker 1: met your mom and date the black you know, date
Speaker 1: the white guy or something like that, and I would
Speaker 1: have to put on this air or which is also
Speaker 1: a part of me, you know, it's also a very
Speaker 1: part of me. But I would be this thing. And
Speaker 1: it wasn't until and you know, and I love Tiffany,
Speaker 1: She's my sister. But Tiffany has really made me realize
Speaker 1: me being me is enough. I don't need more than enough.
Speaker 1: I don't need to apologize for who I am and
Speaker 1: all these different facets of myself who I am on stage.
Speaker 1: Because when I'm on stage and I'm doing my one
Speaker 1: woman show, I'm in my genius and I'm doing my
Speaker 1: music and I'm doing my characters, and I'm doing what
Speaker 1: I do, and I'm doing on my set, and I'm
Speaker 1: doing my shows, and I'm doing all of this. When
Speaker 1: I come home, I can be breach it and I
Speaker 1: can be Breach and all of these other avenues too.
Speaker 1: And when I'm interviewing, I don't have to put on anything.
Speaker 1: I can just be myself and that has been so
Speaker 1: rewarding to me because it's made me tap into who
Speaker 1: I was when I first got here and honor that
Speaker 1: and honor the shift of who I've become and find
Speaker 1: a happy medium, you know. And I feel like that's
Speaker 1: what's brought me to this place of just being bre
Speaker 1: Sha full fully. I can be, you know, on a
Speaker 1: sitcom and you know, maybe not see any representation of
Speaker 1: myself and be like, I'm cool here because I'm Precia
Speaker 1: and you hired Grecia. You didn't hire an idea, you Brecia,
Speaker 1: and she's going to represent. She's going to represent. I
Speaker 1: don't have to be this thing, you know, and so
Speaker 1: Brecia is the thing. So it's it's kind of all
Speaker 1: come together making me realize I did change. I just
Speaker 1: changed into who Brecia really is and owning who Grecia
Speaker 1: really is. So that's the only change I did, is
Speaker 1: just honoring all the fact that's all the parts of
Speaker 1: me and marrying them into one and truly loving every
Speaker 1: single part about me. So so so so good. And
Speaker 1: how are you balancing like life with all of your success?
Speaker 1: Deep breaths, deep breath, Yeah, something as simple has taken
Speaker 1: a deep breath and living in gratitude, you know, because
Speaker 1: there's so many things that we could complain about that
Speaker 1: didn't go right or whatever. But as much as I
Speaker 1: take a deep breath and I just thank God for
Speaker 1: the breath and then realign and just just taking deep breaths,
Speaker 1: because sometimes I'm when you stirn your church or your
Speaker 1: ministry and your spiritual house or something, I'm coming. I'm there.
Speaker 1: A lot of women in Christ have raised me. So
Speaker 1: I will not give that, but I will direct whoever
Speaker 1: to whomever, because I am grateful to my sisters in
Speaker 1: Christ who have raised me and who have shout them out.
Speaker 1: Give us a few, give us a few, want sure,
Speaker 1: fine Watkins Uh, Diana Karina, Um, Marquita Bradley, Angels thankfully,
Speaker 1: Angel Aquita Moore who just left. Uh have so many
Speaker 1: amazing essence acting. Um, my best friend Whitney Evans, Karima,
Speaker 1: like I have such amazing women who have raised me.
Speaker 1: And my best friend Victor who lives right here. Uh
Speaker 1: so yeah, so awesome, so awesome. And you have named
Speaker 1: women and I was telling someone like, you know, women,
Speaker 1: we have to know that there's room for all of us,
Speaker 1: because it feels concentrated when you get to a certain
Speaker 1: level that only one role is for a certain black woman.
Speaker 1: And so we want to hoard everything, we want to
Speaker 1: hoard opportunities. But you just name so many women who
Speaker 1: have groomed you, nurture and and let's not forget Kelly.
Speaker 1: Kelly has been such a blessing and this whole process,
Speaker 1: isn't she like? I mean, I've I've learned to give
Speaker 1: because of Kelly. I've been a giver, but she has
Speaker 1: She gives times a thousands and gives her time, her love. Now,
Speaker 1: depending on what day you catch your if people like girl,
Speaker 1: I like them, every girl, girl, she'll take them off
Speaker 1: and give them to you. To the point where Tim,
Speaker 1: her husband, Tim, be worried. He'd be worried, like am
Speaker 1: I gonna have a home to come back to? Because
Speaker 1: she depended on what day you can she about give
Speaker 1: you your home. A matter of fact, he said on
Speaker 1: the interview, I think she had given away some Jordans
Speaker 1: or some or some shoes to somebody. She gives. But
Speaker 1: I'm so thankful that you named all these amazing, uh
Speaker 1: strong women. We need each other, we need each other,
Speaker 1: We so need each other, and I kind of want
Speaker 1: to get back to what you're doing right now in
Speaker 1: your thanks. First of all, thank you for the conversation.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. And I don't think I'm like, she
Speaker 1: probably had an idea. She's just gonna come on here
Speaker 1: and promote because Williams on tamping in. I love God.
Speaker 1: I kind of want this to be the only episode
Speaker 1: that plays for the rest of the year. It's so loaded.
Speaker 1: It is so loaded, and it is the spirit of
Speaker 1: why we created this podcast. And I can't wait to
Speaker 1: I just want to hug you and hang out with you.
Speaker 1: I live in Atlanta. I don't know if you're gonna
Speaker 1: be here. I am, I'll be there. I don't take
Speaker 1: Kelly's friends, but Kelly, you're gonna have to share. We
Speaker 1: can all hang out there. Let me see. Let me see.
Speaker 1: She's probably kidding. Let me I'm about gonna this is
Speaker 1: this is after norm But let me see if she
Speaker 1: if she y'all, I'm face timing her right now in
Speaker 1: the middle of this interview because I'm going to tell
Speaker 1: her right now since you gotta share a breaches, you
Speaker 1: don't talk to her up so much. But ain't no
Speaker 1: telling what she up? How she in the booth are
Speaker 1: to look. Hold up, look Kelly. So I'm I'm talking
Speaker 1: to breaching and I said, you know, Kelly, now well
Speaker 1: we have our own friends, but you're gonna have to share.
Speaker 1: We're gonna let you go. We just I said, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna call Kelly right now and love on her too
Speaker 1: and tell her she got to share. Okay, we love
Speaker 1: you all right bye? Listen. She was in the studio,
Speaker 1: y'all listen. That was our sister ms. Kelly wrote, roro listen.
Speaker 1: But you know, I'm a homebody, right and so I'm
Speaker 1: learning I have to get out and connect with other humans.
Speaker 1: Like she's the go go go. She has dragging me,
Speaker 1: you know, and I do probably miss on other great
Speaker 1: human connection because I literally like watching Judge Judy. That's
Speaker 1: all I want to do. I love that. I don't
Speaker 1: want to do anything else and do my podcast and
Speaker 1: do my speaking engagements here in there. But you please,
Speaker 1: I mean, I was thinking, what was that a word? Finger?
Speaker 1: You'll be fine. I was thinking that the other day.
Speaker 1: I'm here for the rest because I used to I'm
Speaker 1: here for your rasp Oh, I have a very raspy voice.
Speaker 1: I am here for I am here for it. Not
Speaker 1: only am I here just for this conversation. I'm here
Speaker 1: for the glow up. I'm here for every prayer that
Speaker 1: you prayed that has been answered is going to be answered.
Speaker 1: And like you said, it's already done. What are we
Speaker 1: looking forward to next? I know you've got run the world.
Speaker 1: You got married is Marry Little Baby. I thought it's
Speaker 1: gonna be married. It's Mary little Baby, Very Little Babies. No,
Speaker 1: that comes out November on Lifetime. Um, we haven't gotten
Speaker 1: an air date for Angela's movie, and listen, I haven't
Speaker 1: looked at that and so long. I haven't forgot the
Speaker 1: name of the movie, but I think that will be
Speaker 1: don't worry on on, um, come on, we don't want
Speaker 1: to miss anything that you've got going. And I am
Speaker 1: sure I don't know if your wedding plan yes, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: So we're excited for you and we cannot wait. Do
Speaker 1: it your way, do it your way, do it your way.
Speaker 1: I'm learning thank you, do it do it your way, preach.
Speaker 1: I'm so thankful for you. I'm glad that you chose
Speaker 1: to check in with us. Um. I don't ask every
Speaker 1: guest to do this, but I'm just wondering to the
Speaker 1: listener who might be feeling like you know, their dreams
Speaker 1: aren't gonna come true. Take us out in some hope
Speaker 1: and inspiration for the listener. Wow, well, I can tell
Speaker 1: you that that's a lie. Your dreams are already coming
Speaker 1: true because you're listening to this podcast. And hopefully if
Speaker 1: you listen, you can see that the power of life
Speaker 1: and death lives in your tongue. So please speak and
Speaker 1: and profess and manifest and pray over yourself and say
Speaker 1: what you want. You write your future, you dream your future,
Speaker 1: dream your future, and be amazed and be an expectation
Speaker 1: of what God is going to do, because he will
Speaker 1: do it. But he needs you to have faith in
Speaker 1: yourself and to believe in what He's going to do.
Speaker 1: I receive that, and so just believe in yourself and
Speaker 1: be nice to yourself. Take deep breaths and be nice
Speaker 1: to yourself. Be generous to yourself. It doesn't take a
Speaker 1: lot of time to just tell yourself that you love yourself,
Speaker 1: and then from their love on others and let it
Speaker 1: be sewn back into you. So keep dreaming. Your dreams
Speaker 1: will come true. Living proof. Y'all heard it from here
Speaker 1: from Brecia, Brescia, thank you for checking in and wait
Speaker 1: to hang out with you. And we're gonna go out
Speaker 1: that Yes we are, we are going to go outside. Brescia.
Speaker 1: You are so loved and appreciate it. Thank you again.
Speaker 1: All right, lady, but a little how all right? By wow?
Speaker 1: How awesome, how adorable, how impactful, and how positive was
Speaker 1: the conversation with Brecia Webb. I mean it, y'all. I
Speaker 1: told Kelly, I know that's your friend, but you gotta
Speaker 1: share Brecia. Brecia was talking that talk, y'all, know that
Speaker 1: talk that I talk about belief and faith and how
Speaker 1: you just need a little bit of faith to move
Speaker 1: those big mountains. I love how we were able to tat.
Speaker 1: I've been briefly about Breacha's upbringing and how she was
Speaker 1: born in Baltimore and how tons of people in art
Speaker 1: and media or in sports, some did not grow up
Speaker 1: with the silver spoon in their mouth. Everybody didn't grow
Speaker 1: up in Beverly Hills with Mercedes Bins and rolls Royces.
Speaker 1: Folks really really grew up in some environments in which
Speaker 1: when you look around, it's almost created for you to fail,
Speaker 1: or definitely not created for you to have any more
Speaker 1: success than to be able to go to work and
Speaker 1: pay your bills. How many people literally just go to
Speaker 1: work to pay the bills. They don't work to be
Speaker 1: able to really live a great quality of life, to travel,
Speaker 1: and so I was really excited that Breccia talked about
Speaker 1: being one of the ones from Baltimore, Maryland to really
Speaker 1: be living her dreams. It reminds me of this little
Speaker 1: girl from Rockford, Illinois. Okay, okay, okay, I'm talking about
Speaker 1: myself that really believed and was talking that talk as
Speaker 1: a young girl. But I didn't know what I was
Speaker 1: talking about. But there are things that I spoke that
Speaker 1: I'm actually living now. It just takes practice of actually
Speaker 1: being intentional about the things that you say. So, y'all,
Speaker 1: I'm so happy we had we had Brescia. On here.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna read a excerpt from a book called The
Speaker 1: Belief of a Nation by my friend David Emontier, and
Speaker 1: one of the excerpts says, is fear of failure keeping
Speaker 1: you from going to that next level. Taking to consideration
Speaker 1: the difference between most champions and other people. They are
Speaker 1: aware of how much better they can be and are
Speaker 1: willing to work for it they tackle their personal challenge
Speaker 1: with no fear. Kobe Bryant once said, if you think
Speaker 1: you're going to fail, you probably will fail reaching that
Speaker 1: next dream, the car or house. What if you could
Speaker 1: change that belief in an instant. You've got to stay
Speaker 1: in the game. I can't take those steps for you.
Speaker 1: It must start with you. Repeat empowering beliefs over and
Speaker 1: over and retrain your mind. Know that there is no average.
Speaker 1: Believe that you are more and that there is more
Speaker 1: for you. Most people think that they are not enough,
Speaker 1: that they are average. You may accept average, but you
Speaker 1: were not created to be average. To believe you are
Speaker 1: not good enough is to steal from your life. Believe
Speaker 1: that you are not average. The only way to not
Speaker 1: have regret is to go all out. Rise up to
Speaker 1: who you are meant to be. Take one giant step
Speaker 1: forward with the fear that may be holding you back.
Speaker 1: Don't walk away before the breakthrough happens. That blessed me.
Speaker 1: Thank y'all so much for tuning in to this episode
Speaker 1: of Checking In, and I hope that you walk away
Speaker 1: and that you have an extra pep in your step
Speaker 1: and know that there are some people that believe eve
Speaker 1: in you I'm one of them, and I'm sure Brescia
Speaker 1: is to love you. Checking In with Michelle Williams is
Speaker 1: a production of I Heart Radio and The Black Effect.
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