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Speaker 1: Hey, guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Coleen Witt, and today we have very

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Speaker 1: special guests. World renowned dancer in the Building and founder

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Speaker 1: owner of wellness brand be Greater Than in the Building,

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Speaker 1: Ashley Everett. Yeah, yes, thanks for having me girl. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I was here. I was excited. I was on a

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Speaker 1: phone call with a friend and he was like, have

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Speaker 1: you had Ashley on the show? And I was like, actually,

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Speaker 1: what what? And then I heard a little bit of

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Speaker 1: Beehi was involved. I said, yes, we gotta have her.

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Speaker 1: We gotta find out what your story is. I think

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Speaker 1: just saying you started with Beyonce. Yeah, we should never

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Speaker 1: ever scratch that narrative that never doesn't exist wild right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but seventeen at seventeen seventeen.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god. I can't wait to get into this story.

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Speaker 1: But before we get into the story, I must know

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Speaker 1: what you're gonna have me eating today.

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, girl, we are making iconic ramen noodles iconic. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: but it's elevated.

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Speaker 1: It's elevated, yeah, because you know, we don't allow just

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Speaker 1: ramen on the show. We are anti ramen. After what

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Speaker 1: seventy five episodes. No, you can't just submit ramen and

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Speaker 1: beyond package. I literally send an email back like no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: what are you doing to the rock? Yeah, we're elevating,

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Speaker 1: So what are you doing to elevate your ramen.

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Speaker 2: We're adding some chicken. We're gonna like, grill it up, well,

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Speaker 2: skill it, skill it up. And then we're gonna add

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Speaker 2: a harboiled egg if you like eggs. I like to

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Speaker 2: add a little green and they're a little vegetable of

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Speaker 2: some soor either cabbage or spinach. And then we have

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Speaker 2: some corn. I love corn. I hear there's no benefits

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Speaker 2: to it, but I love corn.

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Speaker 1: I absolutely love corn. And every time someone tries to

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Speaker 1: tell me how terrible corn is and how it doesn't benefit.

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Speaker 2: Us and do anything, first, it's not bad for us.

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Speaker 2: So either it's not good, not bad, and just I.

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Speaker 1: Guess it's good. It goes in and out the same way,

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Speaker 1: but or the whatever, not that we want to think

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Speaker 1: about that right now. But I will say that after

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Speaker 1: living in La, the way LA does corn is very unique.

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Speaker 1: I remember the first time someone did the corn with

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Speaker 1: the mao and the butter and the parmesan cheese. I

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Speaker 1: was like, y'all crazy. I took one bite and I say, well, Craig,

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Speaker 1: I know, I get another one.

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Speaker 2: I know. And it's so popular out here. It's so popular.

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Speaker 1: I literally like there would be days where I'll be

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Speaker 1: driving through the streets like where are you? Where are yo?

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Speaker 2: Yo?

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Speaker 1: And I always tell people like never to haggle the

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Speaker 1: street vendors, because if you do the research on those

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Speaker 1: street vendors, they're not even making like one hundred dollars

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Speaker 1: iron profit, Like they're really struggling.

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Speaker 2: I know. So I'm always looking it for the passion

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Speaker 2: and yeah, should I get started?

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Speaker 1: Yes? Started? Okay, got started. So while you're making this

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Speaker 1: elevated ramen, take me back to either when you was

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Speaker 1: eating ramen before it became elevated, you know, before you

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Speaker 1: became the chef of you know, I've had ramen so

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Speaker 1: many times I gotta elevate it. Take me back to

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Speaker 1: what was going on then.

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, well, I mean I've been eating ramen

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Speaker 2: noodles probably like my entire life. You know, I'm a

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Speaker 2: dancers before like anything, you're an entrepreneur before model, actor,

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Speaker 2: any of that.

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Speaker 1: I'm a dancer. I evehancer since I was two.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. See. And you know the reason why we're doing

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Speaker 2: ramen is because a lot of people think, like when

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Speaker 2: you're on tour with a superstar and like life is

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Speaker 2: like all this glitz and glam and luxury all the time.

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Speaker 1: That's what I'd be thinking. I'd be like, what should

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Speaker 1: mean natal show? But like they give you like a

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Speaker 1: don't they give you what do they call it? The

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Speaker 1: little budget?

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Speaker 2: Every day? Oh?

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Speaker 1: Per dimn per dim? Yeah, do you get those?

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Speaker 2: But you but it's like that's for breakfast, lunch and

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Speaker 2: dinner for you to feed yourself every day. So you know,

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Speaker 2: it's like depending on where you are, like a norm

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Speaker 2: a day, you know, so breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

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Speaker 1: So they're like simple meals.

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Speaker 2: You know. Everything else is on your own. And we

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Speaker 2: eat a lot of ramen. We're on tour buses a lot.

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Speaker 2: We're like backstage a lot, but we like live on

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. And you're limited there, girl.

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Speaker 2: We don't have all this. We don't have a stove,

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Speaker 2: We only got the microwave, and like, you know, whatever

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Speaker 2: I ate a lot of Ramen noodles in my early

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Speaker 2: tour days. Wow. So and then as we got older

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Speaker 2: and all that, Like once we got home, I still

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Speaker 2: liked Ramen noodles. You know, that's like a quick go

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Speaker 2: to meal line. But we learned how to like elevate it. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: started adding the kitchen of course. Of course I love

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Speaker 2: hearing people's remakes on ramen.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So you started dancing at the age of two.

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Speaker 1: I started when I was too. I'm guessing your mom

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Speaker 1: or who who was the one that was like, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna put your little booty in ballet.

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Speaker 2: My mom yep, put me in ballet at two two

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Speaker 2: and a half. And she like comes from the art

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Speaker 2: she I say, she like vicariously lives through me. She's

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Speaker 2: like my biggest fan. She's gonna start following you after this.

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Speaker 2: She's gonna be all over reposting everything like she's I

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Speaker 2: love that. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So are you an only childer?

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Speaker 2: No, I'm the only girl though, okay, and I'm the

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Speaker 2: baby okay, Okay. That's also like why I'm a little tomboyish,

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Speaker 2: you know, Okay, but yeah, so she put me in

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Speaker 2: dance because she always like wanted to dance and wanted

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Speaker 2: to sing, dance, act all of that. I took her

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Speaker 2: to the Michael Jackson musical, which is here.

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Speaker 1: In La Shall see It? Is it really good?

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Speaker 2: It's so good, girl, and she loved and she was like,

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Speaker 2: if I could do this right now at my age,

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Speaker 2: I would get up there and sing and dance in

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Speaker 2: this ensemble.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, I love Dang. I don't even know

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Speaker 1: that's happened. I'm gonna look. I'm gonna look it up now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta go see a girl, it's so good.

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Speaker 1: Should I start with this? Yeah, go ahead, start start

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Speaker 1: with the chicken. And I'm yeah, you guys, we're just cooking.

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Speaker 1: We're just we're cooking. We're like too homegirls. Yeah, hang,

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Speaker 1: is this on? I don't know did you turn it on?

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Speaker 2: I did turn it on.

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Speaker 1: Okay, it's for me. It's electric, it's I know, I

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Speaker 1: don't have that fire girl. Yeah, that's the fans stuff.

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Speaker 1: This was originally when we designed the table, I thought

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Speaker 1: didn't really have a full plan on how we're gonna

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Speaker 1: do eating while broke. I just knew we needed a

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Speaker 1: cook top, and uh, that's how we did that. But

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Speaker 1: all the arty things.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. She put me in dance when I was young,

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Speaker 2: and I just like fell in love with it. I

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Speaker 2: started with ballet, and I was like that quiet girl,

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Speaker 2: wanting to learn. I loved it, and I think I naturally,

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Speaker 2: doing summer intensives and that it's like really in ballet

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Speaker 2: So I would do nutcrackers during the winter and competitions

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Speaker 1: And your mom was fully invested in taking you around and.

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Speaker 2: From that Yep, to stay at home mom just in it.

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Speaker 1: You know, she was in it. She was invested invested.

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Speaker 1: Was it ever hard on you dealing with a mom

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Speaker 2: No, she was never like a crazy dance mom like

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Speaker 2: the abby knees and all that. Yeah, she was never

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Speaker 2: crazy like that. Okay, I'm gonna do just like a

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Speaker 2: few little pieces, okay are.

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Speaker 1: Yeah you could it for both of us.

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Speaker 2: They didn't tell you. Yeah, yeah, I mean I don't know.

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Speaker 2: You might be like vegan or something grown now on

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Speaker 2: the one egg so well, that's what I say.

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Speaker 1: It's that hard boiled egg. So I've pre boiled that

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Speaker 1: and I'm like, are they old enough to really understand

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Speaker 1: But it's interesting you started.

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Speaker 2: It teaches you like discipline, you know, and like how

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Speaker 2: I don't have any children, but nieces and nephews, and

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Speaker 2: I feel like they're older. They're like in their teens

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Speaker 2: it's it's crazy, girl, Like they need to be involved

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Speaker 1: So I didn't know, did you did you ask your

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Speaker 1: mom like was it like she saw you dancing? I

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Speaker 1: know I'm getting all stuck into the details, but I'm

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Speaker 1: genuinely curious. Did she notice you were into like music

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Speaker 1: and then she puts you in or was it like.

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Speaker 2: No, I want to just put me in it, Okay,

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Speaker 2: Hoping I liked it okay, and I did awesome.

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Speaker 1: You know. So you're doing all these competitions and you're

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Speaker 1: doing different types of dance.

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Speaker 2: Yep, this is like all in my younger years, is there?

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Speaker 1: And were you watching the like, say the Last Dance,

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, all that because those boys would make

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Speaker 1: you want to dance, right.

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Speaker 2: Save the Last Dance was like wanted, like I that's why.

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Speaker 2: So I don't know if you know this, but I

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Speaker 2: was about to go to Juilliard. Julia was like a

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Speaker 2: dream of mine, and that's like the story of Save

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Speaker 2: the Last Dance. She like wants to go to Julliard,

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Speaker 2: but then like starts doing hip hop and like all

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Speaker 2: this was like a ballet girl. And I'm like that

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Speaker 2: was me because I was like a ballet girl. But

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Speaker 2: then I like would do hip hop. Two and I

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Speaker 1: What are you? Black and white? Black and white? Okay?

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Speaker 1: I'm black and white, do you? Oh? I'm Josh and Jamaican.

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Speaker 1: I have a white father.

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Speaker 2: lot and even taking you back a little bit further

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00:19:55,880 --> 00:19:59,240
Speaker 2: before I even auditioned. I was training at Alvin Ailey,

435
00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:03,040
Speaker 2: if to Alvin Ailey before. It's a modern company, like

436
00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:06,880
Speaker 2: black modern company New York. It's one of the most

437
00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:11,240
Speaker 2: famous ones. And I was that's the school I was

438
00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:13,240
Speaker 2: like dancing at, and I thought I was going to

439
00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:15,239
Speaker 2: be like in the company there. I thought they were

440
00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:17,600
Speaker 2: going to recruit me while I was like before I

441
00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:21,520
Speaker 2: graduated high school or whatever. And Beyonce was rehearsing at

442
00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:24,399
Speaker 2: the studio because it was one of the nicest, most beautiful,

443
00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:27,399
Speaker 2: like bigger studios in New York for people to rent

444
00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:30,280
Speaker 2: out and rehearse at. And she was rehearsing for some

445
00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:34,360
Speaker 2: awards show at Radio City in New York, and her

446
00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:37,719
Speaker 2: choreographer was outside of the rehearsal room and he stopped me,

447
00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:39,800
Speaker 2: like just based on my looks. I was in a

448
00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:45,000
Speaker 2: leotardan tights, girl bun whatever. But everybody had heard like

449
00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:48,040
Speaker 2: Beyonce was there. Yeah, there was a security guard standing

450
00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:50,359
Speaker 2: out like you know where gets around, especially like a

451
00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:53,359
Speaker 2: dance studio or whatever. So everybody was like kind of

452
00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:55,679
Speaker 2: like whispering. I had like a class down there, so

453
00:20:55,760 --> 00:20:58,159
Speaker 2: I was kind of just like, oh whatever, and the

454
00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:00,320
Speaker 2: choreographer stops me and it's like, excuse me, Can I

455
00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:03,680
Speaker 2: talk to you for a second. I'm like yes, And

456
00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:06,000
Speaker 2: he's like, you're very beautiful, Like do you do more

457
00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:08,000
Speaker 2: than ballet? I see you do ballet. I'm like, yes,

458
00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:11,800
Speaker 2: I do ballet of monter, jazz, hip hop, tap, you know, lyracle,

459
00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:12,760
Speaker 2: everything I'm training.

460
00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:17,000
Speaker 1: You're like, here's my whole rest man. I'm like, what

461
00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:17,480
Speaker 1: do you want?

462
00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:20,600
Speaker 2: And he invited me into the rehearsal space and that

463
00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:24,439
Speaker 2: was like my first time meeting her ever. And she

464
00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:27,080
Speaker 2: she was so sweet, so sweet and so like just

465
00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:31,320
Speaker 2: humble and like she looked like a dancer, you know.

466
00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:33,800
Speaker 2: Her hair was down and big, and she had no

467
00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:36,080
Speaker 2: makeup on, she had no shoes on, she was barefoot,

468
00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:40,360
Speaker 2: just like regular rehearsal clothes and sweating and just working

469
00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:44,400
Speaker 2: like all of us in that studio, you know, and

470
00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:47,000
Speaker 2: it was just beautiful. That was like my first like

471
00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:50,520
Speaker 2: actual meeting with her. And I was like, oh, this

472
00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:53,679
Speaker 2: is so nice, you know. And then he took my

473
00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:55,480
Speaker 2: information and told me he would call me and never

474
00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:58,639
Speaker 2: call me, very like my introduction to the NDAA. I

475
00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:00,080
Speaker 2: was like, ah, this is what it's like.

476
00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:03,199
Speaker 1: What was he? I hate to ask this, But do

477
00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:04,720
Speaker 1: you think he was like trying to holliway low key

478
00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:06,320
Speaker 1: or was he just like a professional?

479
00:22:06,359 --> 00:22:08,480
Speaker 2: No? No, no, I think he was actually like genuine

480
00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:10,960
Speaker 2: because he is like known in this industry for kind

481
00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:14,320
Speaker 2: of finding and discovering talent.

482
00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:14,760
Speaker 1: Wow.

483
00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:17,840
Speaker 2: He is still I say, like responsible for discovering me

484
00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:19,359
Speaker 2: because he's like a mentor of mine.

485
00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:22,800
Speaker 1: Kandfather came full circle in the end. Oh wow.

486
00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:26,920
Speaker 2: So I the like months later, they're having open call

487
00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:29,639
Speaker 2: auditions and like all my friends are like, oh, let's go,

488
00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:32,399
Speaker 2: let's go Beyonce auditions whatever. And the line is literally

489
00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:34,960
Speaker 2: like down the block, round the corner. This is in

490
00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:37,560
Speaker 2: New York City, Yeah, six blocks, you know, and this

491
00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:39,120
Speaker 2: is in November. It's freezing.

492
00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:39,520
Speaker 1: Yeah.

493
00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:41,400
Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm not standing in this line, Like I'm

494
00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:43,680
Speaker 2: not doing it. My mom's like my biggest thing.

495
00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:45,560
Speaker 1: She like, you all stand in his line. We got

496
00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:46,040
Speaker 1: the hook.

497
00:22:46,359 --> 00:22:47,720
Speaker 2: She's like, girl, we didn't move all the way to

498
00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:49,360
Speaker 2: New York for you not to stand in this line,

499
00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:51,560
Speaker 2: So you go ahead and go and stand in this

500
00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:53,720
Speaker 2: line like whatever. She always would say, what do you

501
00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:56,240
Speaker 2: have to lose? And I still tell myself that to

502
00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:58,719
Speaker 2: this day, like anytime I like, am wanting to do

503
00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:01,399
Speaker 2: something or like taking your risk or like a little scared,

504
00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:02,879
Speaker 2: and it's like what do you have to lose?

505
00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:03,280
Speaker 1: Yeah?

506
00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:05,959
Speaker 2: Nothing, you know, if you have nothing to lose, then go.

507
00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:06,760
Speaker 1: Yeah.

508
00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:25,200
Speaker 2: So I went. I help with some friends stun line

509
00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:28,440
Speaker 2: for three hours. Still girl freezing. But when I got

510
00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:32,320
Speaker 2: in there, he Frank Gatson, the choreographer, recognized me from

511
00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:34,960
Speaker 2: that time in the dance studio. Oh wow, and he

512
00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:37,560
Speaker 2: was like I know you, and like he's that guy

513
00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:40,720
Speaker 2: he remembers faces, he like remembers people and all of that,

514
00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:42,520
Speaker 2: and he's like he kept me to the end. Everybody

515
00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:44,800
Speaker 2: else was getting cut left and right. Girl like bye.

516
00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:46,280
Speaker 2: Think it because it was an open call. It was

517
00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:49,240
Speaker 2: like people off the street like beyoncely audition, Okay, I

518
00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:52,120
Speaker 2: want to go, like you know, like Grandma's like.

519
00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:54,200
Speaker 1: Let me tell you, I tried dancing for like one

520
00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:56,160
Speaker 1: I tried dancing out. It was like I was going

521
00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:57,440
Speaker 1: through a break and I was like, I'm gonna try

522
00:23:57,480 --> 00:23:59,040
Speaker 1: all the things that I was always interested in that

523
00:23:59,119 --> 00:24:03,760
Speaker 1: my parents couldn't have. And uh, let's just say dancing

524
00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:06,920
Speaker 1: is is just you? Definitely, I don't know. It's maybe

525
00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:11,040
Speaker 1: built for some and not for all, but then you're terrible.

526
00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:14,680
Speaker 1: This looks like you gotta start at the kindergarten level.

527
00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:19,080
Speaker 2: And I mean, you know, it can definitely be taught though,

528
00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:21,240
Speaker 2: but yeah, I get it. Some people are naturals. And

529
00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:22,320
Speaker 2: then somebody knew it.

530
00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:25,200
Speaker 1: Was some girls that was killing it, and I said, oh,

531
00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:28,199
Speaker 1: but I couldn't remember stuff. My memory was bad. Uh.

532
00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:28,720
Speaker 2: Yeah.

533
00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:30,879
Speaker 1: A lot of people ask that, like how do you

534
00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:35,040
Speaker 1: remember all the steps? It's a muscle in it memory,

535
00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:37,560
Speaker 1: is it. And then I think you also have to

536
00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:40,680
Speaker 1: be very comfortable in your body because I'm like always like,

537
00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:42,440
Speaker 1: even when I see girls do squats and they stick

538
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:44,800
Speaker 1: their asshole out, I'm like, I don't know if I'm

539
00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:45,800
Speaker 1: comfortable doing.

540
00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:48,520
Speaker 2: It, being like all the way right for the position

541
00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:49,679
Speaker 2: to go to the squad?

542
00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:53,359
Speaker 1: Do you hit the squad right? You thought was right form, Yeah,

543
00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:54,919
Speaker 1: But when I see girls do it and I'd be

544
00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:56,840
Speaker 1: like I try to do it, I'm like, yeah, I'm

545
00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:58,159
Speaker 1: not doing that. I'm not doing that.

546
00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:01,199
Speaker 2: I feel it, but I feel like this is like

547
00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:03,919
Speaker 2: kind of okay, Okay, I know, looks raggedy, give me

548
00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:05,400
Speaker 2: your ball, okay, a little bit.

549
00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:08,520
Speaker 1: So you so you so you make it to the

550
00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:10,240
Speaker 1: end of the audition, then what happens?

551
00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:12,760
Speaker 2: And then I get that call to come to LA

552
00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:16,800
Speaker 2: and do a bunch of music videos or like you know,

553
00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:20,560
Speaker 2: basically audition. It was like a big audition in LA

554
00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:24,000
Speaker 2: of like fifty dancers and she was shooting ten music

555
00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:25,800
Speaker 2: videos and they didn't know who they were using for what,

556
00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:28,960
Speaker 2: so like that's what it was like. I came and

557
00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,320
Speaker 2: I stayed for like a week, and we did a

558
00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:34,359
Speaker 2: bunch of rehearsals and I shot two music videos.

559
00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:37,320
Speaker 1: And then and when you're doing this, is your parents

560
00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:39,359
Speaker 1: have to pay out of their own pocket or is

561
00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:41,240
Speaker 1: it like on their time? At this point?

562
00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:46,199
Speaker 2: At that point, I think I think they did ask me. No.

563
00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:49,720
Speaker 2: I actually think they flew a group of us from

564
00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:52,200
Speaker 2: New York out and we stayed at a hotel. Yeah, okay,

565
00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:54,639
Speaker 2: I stayed with I met this other girl. She was

566
00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:56,960
Speaker 2: in New York too, have like a roommate and all

567
00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,120
Speaker 2: of that. But a lot of times they will ask

568
00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:01,399
Speaker 2: you if you're willing to to come out as a local,

569
00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:05,440
Speaker 2: which means okay, yeah wow, And and when you're.

570
00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:08,720
Speaker 1: You better serve yourself a plot too, Yes I am,

571
00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:09,520
Speaker 1: I am.

572
00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:12,080
Speaker 2: And then we have like other like siracha if you

573
00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:15,119
Speaker 2: want to add who spice? And then the garlic pace also,

574
00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:18,639
Speaker 2: that's something I got from the restaurants. Okay, at a

575
00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:20,119
Speaker 2: little garlic in there, isn't it be.

576
00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:25,200
Speaker 1: Mm hmm bomb? So you uh so, after you make

577
00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:28,520
Speaker 1: let's let's skip forward to like your after the tour

578
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:30,560
Speaker 1: ends for a month. I hate to skip around on y'all,

579
00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:34,800
Speaker 1: but we're gonna do it. After you're on tour, you've

580
00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:39,840
Speaker 1: done the videos, you bail out on Juilliard, you're off tour,

581
00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:45,920
Speaker 1: You're sitting there like, what's next, chicken? Uh So tell

582
00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:47,159
Speaker 1: me what happens next?

583
00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:50,320
Speaker 2: So then I'm like real life, you know, like here

584
00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:54,760
Speaker 2: we are, like what do we do now? Because like,

585
00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:58,120
Speaker 2: tour doesn't mean you're guaranteed a full time job.

586
00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:00,520
Speaker 1: You're you know, but they didn't tell you. Did they

587
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:01,760
Speaker 1: tell you it was only going to be a month?

588
00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:04,520
Speaker 2: Yeah? They said I was getting extended for like another month,

589
00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:08,040
Speaker 2: and I was like, okay, I'm willing to take that risk.

590
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:10,040
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.

591
00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:14,040
Speaker 2: So after that, girl, I mean, I like, I'm very

592
00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:19,080
Speaker 2: blessed and grateful because I have had a great career

593
00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:25,359
Speaker 2: of a dance career, especially of consistently working.

594
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:29,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you've worked for a lot. So what happens

595
00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:30,160
Speaker 1: after the tour ends?

596
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:33,760
Speaker 2: So after the tour ends, I'm back in New York.

597
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:35,679
Speaker 1: I go home.

598
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:40,920
Speaker 2: And I think, I think I'm like auditioning for stuff again,

599
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:43,280
Speaker 2: just like back to you know.

600
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:46,639
Speaker 1: But now you have Beyonce on your record. I'm on

601
00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 1: your resume, sorry record.

602
00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:51,239
Speaker 2: So now my agents, now I get I'm starting to

603
00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:53,680
Speaker 2: get a little dose of what it's like to get

604
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:56,920
Speaker 2: a direct book, you know, and not have to audition.

605
00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:58,840
Speaker 2: They're like, oh, we want her in the music video

606
00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:01,720
Speaker 2: because we recognize her for Beyonce. Okay, that kind of thing.

607
00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:04,240
Speaker 1: And then you're saying agents and managers. So at this

608
00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:06,600
Speaker 1: point after her you get an agent and a manager.

609
00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:08,280
Speaker 2: Before, Yeah, because I didn't have an agent before.

610
00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:10,399
Speaker 1: Okay. And then how did they get How did they

611
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:12,320
Speaker 1: find you? They just from the video. They just reach

612
00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:12,919
Speaker 1: out and say, hey, I.

613
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:16,000
Speaker 2: Went to them. I said, I just got off tour

614
00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:21,720
Speaker 2: with Beyonce. I need I need representation, you know whatever. Actually,

615
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:23,600
Speaker 2: I think I got an agent like while I was

616
00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:26,960
Speaker 2: on tour, more than for them to make sure everything

617
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:29,280
Speaker 2: was right, because you know, we were doing DVD deals

618
00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:33,320
Speaker 2: stuff like that. We needed like just people professionals who

619
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:35,160
Speaker 2: knew what they were doing. That's what I learned as

620
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:37,399
Speaker 2: I got in the industry. I was very thrown in

621
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 2: the industry. You know. I didn't know about agencies and

622
00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:42,920
Speaker 2: auditions and all that. Like clearly I went to an

623
00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:45,880
Speaker 2: open call audition. I needn't go to an invited call.

624
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:46,600
Speaker 1: Yeah.

625
00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:53,120
Speaker 2: So yeah, I learned by just being in it. But yeah,

626
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:55,920
Speaker 2: after tour, girl, So after that first tour, I'm in

627
00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:59,160
Speaker 2: the grind now, like learning about these other jobs.

628
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:01,480
Speaker 1: I'm still living in New York at the time, so.

629
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:05,280
Speaker 2: I think I actually after that first tour, the year

630
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:07,800
Speaker 2: after I did the Radio City Rockets, I was back

631
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:08,320
Speaker 2: at Have.

632
00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 1: You ever seen that show?

633
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:09,600
Speaker 2: No?

634
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:11,360
Speaker 1: But I feel like I need to I need to

635
00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:14,880
Speaker 1: stay in tune with all the shows with here's a

636
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:16,680
Speaker 1: list of all the things you need to check out.

637
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:19,840
Speaker 2: Okay, the Rockets are the girls who do the kick lines?

638
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:21,600
Speaker 1: Oh oh yeah.

639
00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:26,720
Speaker 2: Women okay yeah, yeah, like Candy Cane kick Yeah, people

640
00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:27,520
Speaker 2: like refer to that.

641
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:28,520
Speaker 1: Yeah.

642
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:30,160
Speaker 2: So I did that for one year and I still

643
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:31,760
Speaker 2: to this day say that is like one of the

644
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:33,000
Speaker 2: hardest jobs of my life.

645
00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:34,240
Speaker 1: Really, why is it?

646
00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:36,840
Speaker 2: Because of the rehearsals, the rehearsals and the shows. We

647
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 2: were doing four shows max, four shows a day, four

648
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:41,080
Speaker 2: four and night.

649
00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh in one the first one. And were

650
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:45,360
Speaker 1: you eating Ramen Journey these days too?

651
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:45,800
Speaker 2: Yeah?

652
00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:50,480
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's crazy. So there's like, that's crazy because

653
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:53,120
Speaker 1: you have this crazy workout ethic, but are you really

654
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:55,240
Speaker 1: fueling your body at the level that No?

655
00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:59,320
Speaker 2: I mean most like athletes, dancers, you know, especially dancers,

656
00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:02,800
Speaker 2: Like maybe athletes probably take better care of themselves. Yeah,

657
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:05,120
Speaker 2: so like because they got like coaches and stuff, like

658
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:05,640
Speaker 2: we don't.

659
00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:11,600
Speaker 1: We just be making it work, you know, stretching. And

660
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Speaker 1: I'm curious in regards to By the way, out of

661
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:18,920
Speaker 1: all the dishes on this show, this by far looks

662
00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:22,440
Speaker 1: more the most restaurant, doesn't it look at that? I

663
00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:24,720
Speaker 1: don't know if the cameras I try to like give

664
00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:28,160
Speaker 1: it a little seat, like literally with all the I

665
00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:29,680
Speaker 1: don't know what's going on with my mic By the way,

666
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:32,400
Speaker 1: it's like looking like it wants to fight me. But

667
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:35,360
Speaker 1: this dish looks like you could bite at a restaurant.

668
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:37,960
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's so pretty. It's got the green,

669
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:41,640
Speaker 1: the yellow, the chicken looks all seasoned. I can't wait

670
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:46,120
Speaker 1: to try this. I feel like I'm loving your story,

671
00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:50,320
Speaker 1: like absolutely, like live for stories like this because it's

672
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:52,760
Speaker 1: like you're carrying me through it. There's a million and

673
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:56,120
Speaker 1: one questions I can ask, and yeah, I will trust me.

674
00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:57,520
Speaker 1: I love it though, I will.

675
00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:01,480
Speaker 2: We did, we've even gotten anywhere. I know, we're like

676
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:02,520
Speaker 2: twenty twenty.

677
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:05,000
Speaker 1: I can't wait. I can't wait.

678
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:05,760
Speaker 2: All right?

679
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:09,200
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so let's try this amazing looking dish. It

680
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:12,600
Speaker 1: looks good. Let's see if it tastes good. Know what

681
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:17,040
Speaker 1: it's gonna like. Yeah, this is not my kitchen. I'm

682
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:19,800
Speaker 1: gonna hate a little bit. Yeah, okay, it tastes great.

683
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:22,760
Speaker 1: I than the corn. I fucking love corn. I don't

684
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:24,479
Speaker 1: know why I don't add corn. So all my dishes

685
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:27,680
Speaker 1: with the spinach works. Okay, you over cook the noodle.

686
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 1: I know I left them in, but that's because I

687
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:30,720
Speaker 1: was talking to you.

688
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:33,240
Speaker 2: I looked over and I was like, these noodles, they

689
00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:34,360
Speaker 2: soaked up all the water.

690
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:38,280
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you didn't even dream, right, you know. Yeah,

691
00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:40,480
Speaker 1: let me tell you some noodles are definitely overcooked. The

692
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 1: spinach in the corn. Now that corn has that little crunch.

693
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 1: The spinach too. It's just I'm gonna take like two

694
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:49,880
Speaker 1: more bites and I can question you a lot. I

695
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:50,960
Speaker 1: want to try the chicken.

696
00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:54,240
Speaker 2: Too, see, And you know, normally we'd be adding like

697
00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:57,040
Speaker 2: a lot more season hangs and things and there.

698
00:31:57,080 --> 00:31:59,520
Speaker 1: But you know, I love when you kept it's simple today.

699
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:03,120
Speaker 1: I promise you Guess will come on the show, oh

700
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:05,760
Speaker 1: and they'll start questioning like they're cooking skills. And sometimes

701
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:09,040
Speaker 1: it's really good, like this is really good. But Ramen, Yeah,

702
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:12,400
Speaker 1: I mean it's like elevated. It's not just some noodles

703
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:16,040
Speaker 1: chicken you dig right know you know what saltmn pepper

704
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 1: on chittiness in that band.

705
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:20,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, especially if you're trying to be healthier. So and

706
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 2: on his longer pieces like this, that's it's not even

707
00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 2: al I can kill this whole dish. I'm not la.

708
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:28,640
Speaker 2: I'm so glad you like it.

709
00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 1: Seecram well, now you know how to make it. That

710
00:32:31,840 --> 00:32:36,040
Speaker 1: is a great way to make ramen. Chicken thinly slice

711
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 1: salt pepper, you used alibol and vegetable that used olive oil.

712
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:43,600
Speaker 1: Hands down, amazing Ramen ten out of ten.

713
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:44,160
Speaker 2: Thanks.

714
00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:48,000
Speaker 1: Even noodles as long as I did the spinach I

715
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:49,640
Speaker 1: think really adds to it. I don't know why. I

716
00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:51,160
Speaker 1: never thought of that, and you just put the spinach

717
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:53,280
Speaker 1: in the water while I was boiling. Awesome. I thought

718
00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:54,960
Speaker 1: you were gonna sell tape for some strange reason.

719
00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 2: I actually was thinking you would saute and it would

720
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:01,280
Speaker 2: already be saute in here, so you know, I don't had.

721
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:03,280
Speaker 1: It in But you know, the only help you got

722
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 1: from me he was boiling that one egg. I don't

723
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:05,680
Speaker 1: know why I.

724
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:07,400
Speaker 2: Thought stuff was gonna be like prepped and I just

725
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:10,640
Speaker 2: like put it in the plate. No, we're gonna be like, no,

726
00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:11,800
Speaker 2: you gotta cook a girl.

727
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:18,080
Speaker 1: I'll like it. I'm gonna try to stop eating. Those

728
00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:20,200
Speaker 1: people get annoyed and were like smacking on the mic,

729
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:22,640
Speaker 1: but I know I'll be trying. I don't know why

730
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:25,120
Speaker 1: it's so delicious. Doesn't it feel delicious to you?

731
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 2: It does, and it's like am I starving?

732
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:28,720
Speaker 1: Or is it really delicious? I don't know.

733
00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:30,840
Speaker 2: I think it's like the weather all too, and it's

734
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:31,520
Speaker 2: just like it's.

735
00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:36,880
Speaker 1: Perfect, great dish. It looks like restaurant quality, amazing upgrade

736
00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:39,480
Speaker 1: on the ramen. All right, now, let's go back to

737
00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:42,880
Speaker 1: your story. I wanted to ask, actually, so when you're

738
00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:45,800
Speaker 1: you were talking about you were doing the not the Candygate,

739
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 1: the radio, the radio City rickets. Yeah, and that was

740
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:51,720
Speaker 1: the hardest soul. What is your money looking like while

741
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:53,120
Speaker 1: you're doing all these projects?

742
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:57,680
Speaker 2: Well, girl, I mean, first of all, like my first tour,

743
00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:00,920
Speaker 2: like I said, I had no representation. I went to

744
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 2: an open call, like I didn't have anything to compare to.

745
00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 2: So my first like tour rate was much lower than

746
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 2: what it ever should have been.

747
00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 1: But I didn't know that, you know, But I was

748
00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:14,800
Speaker 1: so new, Like you know, do they do tears like

749
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:16,879
Speaker 1: the newer you are versus the older you are? Yeah?

750
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:20,560
Speaker 2: Like as as I came like dance Captain, and like

751
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:24,239
Speaker 2: you know, by my last year or whatever, I was

752
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:27,919
Speaker 2: at like my highest rate awesome and like highest paid

753
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:30,799
Speaker 2: dancer because I've been there the longest or whatever. You know,

754
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:33,760
Speaker 2: But you gotta fight for the money, girl, every little.

755
00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:37,239
Speaker 1: Do you have to fight for it? Every little now? Yes? Now,

756
00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:38,640
Speaker 1: do you go to your team and tell them to

757
00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:40,000
Speaker 1: push back or do you.

758
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:42,520
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, damn, that's what the agents are for.

759
00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:44,160
Speaker 1: You ask them.

760
00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:49,040
Speaker 2: But you know, as I developed a personal relationship, I

761
00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:54,279
Speaker 2: guess and say it could be in conversation with the

762
00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:56,759
Speaker 2: right people, but you know, that's what the agents are for.

763
00:34:57,080 --> 00:35:00,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I've seen some be your managers and agents

764
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:05,359
Speaker 1: to be brutally honest, Like I feel like some of them,

765
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:06,759
Speaker 1: I don't want to get caught up in this one

766
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:08,960
Speaker 1: carefully worded. Some of them kind of just take the

767
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:11,120
Speaker 1: first offer, and I'm like, you're lucky to have this offer,

768
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:12,080
Speaker 1: so we're gonna take it.

769
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:12,879
Speaker 2: Yeah.

770
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:14,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I've seen that side.

771
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:16,440
Speaker 2: And I have too. I have too, and I've been

772
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:19,080
Speaker 2: told that, and I have been that. I've been the

773
00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:21,080
Speaker 2: grateful I'll do it for free.

774
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:23,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's how I am still to this dam. I'm like, oh,

775
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:26,600
Speaker 1: you're gonna okay, thank you Jesus. I know I kissed

776
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:27,560
Speaker 1: the pinky ring.

777
00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:29,719
Speaker 2: I know. It's like we're like traumatized a little bit

778
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:32,319
Speaker 2: from the way that we were taught to always like

779
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:36,600
Speaker 2: be grateful. You're replaceable. You should you know, like yeah,

780
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:39,520
Speaker 2: like you are replaceable. That's what I was definitely taught,

781
00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:43,040
Speaker 2: especially as a dancer, Like you are replaceable. So don't

782
00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:45,239
Speaker 2: you step out of your line, you know, like shit,

783
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:47,200
Speaker 2: we will replace you in a heartbeat, and if you

784
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:49,400
Speaker 2: don't take this rate, we'll find somebody who does.

785
00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:52,160
Speaker 1: Like yeah, kidding. I feel like that's the industry. That's

786
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 1: how the industry moves. Yeah, but you know, I don't

787
00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:57,200
Speaker 1: know if you saw that thing with Taraji where she

788
00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:00,759
Speaker 1: was like crying, Yeah, I was great, but I didn't.

789
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:03,160
Speaker 1: Gabrielle Union was saying it long before her, like how

790
00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:06,480
Speaker 1: they starting to just collab on text like we're all

791
00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:08,319
Speaker 1: a group, stick to this ring.

792
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:11,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, and its Ray always says, like, you know, you gotta.

793
00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:14,360
Speaker 2: We always are like trying to like work with people

794
00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:16,319
Speaker 2: who are like up here, up here from us. We

795
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:19,680
Speaker 2: have to like collab across you know, across the table

796
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:22,840
Speaker 2: instead of like trying to work with Jeff Bezos and

797
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:25,440
Speaker 2: stuff like he's not We're sitting here together, so we

798
00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:27,319
Speaker 2: should be working together, you know what I mean, Like

799
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:29,480
Speaker 2: you gotta collab across the table.

800
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 1: When did you realize that you had to start using

801
00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:36,080
Speaker 1: your voice when it came to like your money and

802
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:37,520
Speaker 1: like saying I want more?

803
00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.

804
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 1: When when was that moment when you did it?

805
00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:45,600
Speaker 2: Like I mean, way more recently than what it should

806
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:49,799
Speaker 2: have been, honestly, Like you know, honestly, but I would

807
00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:53,239
Speaker 2: say more so like during the pandemic, I really like

808
00:36:53,600 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 2: started owning my my what my rate should be you know,

809
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:06,120
Speaker 2: like and learning that people will pay it, you know,

810
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:07,839
Speaker 2: the right people will pay it.

811
00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 1: So, yeah, are in the pandemic. The pandemic wasn't everything

812
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:11,920
Speaker 1: like shut down for you.

813
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:16,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's like when I, like, I started doing

814
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:20,280
Speaker 2: a lot more social media stuff during the pandemic, and yeah,

815
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:24,839
Speaker 2: I just was paid my rate. Like that's like when

816
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:27,920
Speaker 2: I started learning like that my rate could be better

817
00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:29,239
Speaker 2: in situations.

818
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:32,160
Speaker 1: You know, it was like, oh, what did your parents

819
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:34,840
Speaker 1: say when you had the epiphany that, like you wanted more?

820
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:38,480
Speaker 2: Well, my parents, I mean when I wanted more. I

821
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:42,560
Speaker 2: think I've always just wanted more. You know. I've always said,

822
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:44,320
Speaker 2: like I don't want to be a dancer forever. I

823
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 2: don't want to only be a dancer. I don't want

824
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:49,640
Speaker 2: to you know. So my parents have always been supportive

825
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:53,200
Speaker 2: through like everything. I'm very grateful for their support. They're

826
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:57,000
Speaker 2: still married, I take it, okay. Yeah, Yeah, the few

827
00:37:57,040 --> 00:37:59,799
Speaker 2: that made it, I know they're hanging in there. They are.

828
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:03,120
Speaker 2: Not that it's been easy, but they are my whole

829
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:06,080
Speaker 2: life too. It's been great. They're a great example for sure.

830
00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:09,040
Speaker 2: Definitely want that. Yeah, you know, I think we call

831
00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:09,560
Speaker 2: want it.

832
00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:12,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know if it's really gonna happen in

833
00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:13,920
Speaker 1: the New Age, because I feel like the New agees

834
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:15,040
Speaker 1: I know for it.

835
00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:17,480
Speaker 2: I know, And I'm like, are we like leaning more

836
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:20,000
Speaker 2: into like the never get married era?

837
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:22,160
Speaker 1: That's what I think. I tell my twin. I'm like,

838
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:24,920
Speaker 1: by the time our kids are old enough, marriage is

839
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:27,000
Speaker 1: gonna be Do you have a twin? I have a twin. Yeah,

840
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:29,319
Speaker 1: that's why I said. I said. She likes Beyonce and

841
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:32,239
Speaker 1: I like Jay and it's weird because we band it

842
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:36,880
Speaker 1: up together. That's so cool. But uh so sorry, I

843
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:40,560
Speaker 1: don't mean to bounce around your story. So let's go

844
00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:43,239
Speaker 1: back to when you're doing the Rockets. Yeah, okay, so

845
00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:46,600
Speaker 1: you're on this strenuous schedule at this point. What's your

846
00:38:46,719 --> 00:38:47,720
Speaker 1: next biggest play?

847
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:51,359
Speaker 2: Well, okay, so I did the Rockets. I did one

848
00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:53,840
Speaker 2: tour with Beyonce. I did the Rockets Tour, and that

849
00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:58,360
Speaker 2: gave me like a very diverse resume. You know, It's like,

850
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:00,240
Speaker 2: oh wow, she can do a lot of different things.

851
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:03,000
Speaker 2: So that was great, a great look for me, I

852
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:08,160
Speaker 2: feel like. But yeah, money was always coming and going,

853
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:10,879
Speaker 2: you know, because the projects come and they're they're great,

854
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:12,560
Speaker 2: but they only last so long. And then you're like,

855
00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:14,239
Speaker 2: where's it coming from next?

856
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 1: You know, are you budgeting, living like a budget life,

857
00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:19,760
Speaker 1: or are your parents just kind of helping the offset?

858
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:20,480
Speaker 1: What's going on?

859
00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:22,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, my parents were in real estate, so the place

860
00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:24,560
Speaker 2: I was living in at the time, I didn't have

861
00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:26,480
Speaker 2: to I didn't have to pay rent, you know, so

862
00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:29,239
Speaker 2: that was a huge thing. I didn't start paying rent

863
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:31,319
Speaker 2: until I moved to LA at twenty one.

864
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:36,239
Speaker 1: Okay, damn, you're all so young. Geez damn, you're making

865
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:38,439
Speaker 1: moves for twenty one. You done been around the block

866
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:39,080
Speaker 1: at this point.

867
00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:41,839
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I did. I mean, yeah, I'm so

868
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 2: grateful that, like, like I said, my parents support and

869
00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:49,040
Speaker 2: then like being able to support me in that way,

870
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:52,080
Speaker 2: you know, and so I could save because I was

871
00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:54,279
Speaker 2: actually my first door. I was really good girl. I

872
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:56,960
Speaker 2: used to have like a stack of that pretteem like

873
00:39:57,080 --> 00:39:58,279
Speaker 2: could they used to could stap it?

874
00:39:58,560 --> 00:39:58,680
Speaker 1: Oh?

875
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:01,920
Speaker 2: Yes, I love having Like I was young, I was

876
00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:04,480
Speaker 2: like I was seventeen, but this is my first like

877
00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:05,120
Speaker 2: real job.

878
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 1: You're like, I live off ten dollars a day.

879
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:09,359
Speaker 2: I got this Literally, I'm like, I'm just gonna use

880
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:11,239
Speaker 2: my card when I need it, and I'm going to

881
00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:13,600
Speaker 2: collect this cash. I came home and brought my family

882
00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:15,040
Speaker 2: like a stack of my I'm like, look at the

883
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 2: cash that I accumulate. This is the extra. And they

884
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:20,160
Speaker 2: were like, you're so good at saving. Great job. And

885
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:22,560
Speaker 2: then as you, like, you know, time goes on, then

886
00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:25,520
Speaker 2: you're like, I guess I'll buy this bag. I deserve it.

887
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:27,880
Speaker 2: I've been working hard, you know, and start treating yourself

888
00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:30,040
Speaker 2: a little better. You get your nails done, you know whatever,

889
00:40:30,239 --> 00:40:32,160
Speaker 2: and you grow up and then you spend your money.

890
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:34,960
Speaker 1: So yeah, you realized and you realize you're not really.

891
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:37,880
Speaker 2: Getting paid that much. You're like, hold on, your bills

892
00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:42,080
Speaker 2: get higher, everything is and you're like, wait a minute now, Yeah,

893
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:46,440
Speaker 2: so it all one in La. I moved to La

894
00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:48,359
Speaker 2: when I was twenty one. This is after I did

895
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 2: I did Beyonce Tour, I did Rocket Tour, and then

896
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:55,640
Speaker 2: I shot actually while I was on tour with the Rockets.

897
00:40:55,680 --> 00:40:57,000
Speaker 1: It's so crazy, So.

898
00:40:57,239 --> 00:41:01,440
Speaker 2: Right before I went, this is the thing people don't realize,

899
00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:05,800
Speaker 2: like the the sacrifices and the like crazy shit that

900
00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:08,319
Speaker 2: you have to do sometimes in order to make your

901
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:10,920
Speaker 2: career work. So like when I was about to do

902
00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:15,680
Speaker 2: the Rockets, I I was we were getting ready to

903
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:17,439
Speaker 2: shoot the single Ladies music video.

904
00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:20,240
Speaker 1: Okay, oh yeah, famous thing, infamous.

905
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:22,399
Speaker 2: Single Ladies music video. But I was like a part

906
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:27,080
Speaker 2: of like the creative, you know, workshop process of the video.

907
00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:28,480
Speaker 2: I didn't know I was going to be in it.

908
00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:31,320
Speaker 2: I like basically kind of auditioned a little bit like

909
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:34,000
Speaker 2: the rest of them. Like I I like, well, we

910
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:36,880
Speaker 2: were like auditioning people that could match me and her,

911
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:38,719
Speaker 2: and then if it didn't work, they were gonna go

912
00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:40,719
Speaker 2: with short girls and I was gonna be out. So

913
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:42,799
Speaker 2: I was like, Okay, well hopefully a tall girl comes along.

914
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:46,240
Speaker 2: That makes sense, you know. And so once they decided

915
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:47,759
Speaker 2: on another tall girl and that I was going to

916
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:51,239
Speaker 2: be in the video, I had to pretend like I

917
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:54,680
Speaker 2: was sick girl for the Rockets because I missed like

918
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:56,320
Speaker 2: the first three days of rehearsal.

919
00:41:56,440 --> 00:41:58,560
Speaker 1: And the Rockets do not play like they're.

920
00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:02,200
Speaker 2: Like, oh it's you drop out, you can never come back,

921
00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:04,160
Speaker 2: you will X, Y and Z. So I literally had

922
00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:06,120
Speaker 2: to play like Beyonce was in on it. I've told

923
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:08,120
Speaker 2: this story before, so we.

924
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:09,400
Speaker 1: Want to hear he told us it.

925
00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:12,440
Speaker 2: I know it's crazy though, because like I know the Rockets.

926
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:13,880
Speaker 1: If you said Beyonce was in on it.

927
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:15,880
Speaker 2: Beyonce was in on it. Like I would get calls

928
00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:19,120
Speaker 2: while we were rehearsing for single Ladies, and I knew

929
00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:21,000
Speaker 2: that it was like radio city people calling and I'd

930
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:23,080
Speaker 2: be like, you guys, it's STEMP and they and Frank

931
00:42:23,239 --> 00:42:25,600
Speaker 2: like had a doctor, like write me a note and

932
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:26,600
Speaker 2: all that, and they would like.

933
00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:27,200
Speaker 1: Go take the call.

934
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:29,120
Speaker 2: Take the call. They cut off all the music and

935
00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 2: I pretend like I was sick in bed and I'd

936
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:33,719
Speaker 2: be like, hey, yeah, and I think I'll be able

937
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:35,600
Speaker 2: to come in a day or two. Like the girl

938
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:36,160
Speaker 2: was crazy.

939
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:36,880
Speaker 1: It was crazy.

940
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:39,359
Speaker 2: And then as soon as we wrapped that music video,

941
00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:41,640
Speaker 2: the single Ladies' music video, it was like a twenty

942
00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:44,000
Speaker 2: hour shoot. It was like three in the morning or

943
00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:46,879
Speaker 2: something when we wrapped and I got in a car,

944
00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:50,600
Speaker 2: went straight to like Pennsylvania or wherever we were rehearsing

945
00:42:50,719 --> 00:42:52,520
Speaker 2: somewhere on the East Coast, but not in New York,

946
00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:57,120
Speaker 2: and started rocket rehearsal the next day. And everybody thought

947
00:42:57,160 --> 00:43:00,319
Speaker 2: I was like recovering from an illness, and I was like, yeah,

948
00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:03,400
Speaker 2: m hm. I was exhausted because I just shot the

949
00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:05,600
Speaker 2: music video, the single ads music video of the night

950
00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:08,200
Speaker 2: before and then like cut to like a month or

951
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:10,719
Speaker 2: something later. The video comes out while I'm touring with

952
00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:13,320
Speaker 2: the Rockets, and everybody's like, is that you with Beyonce?

953
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:15,279
Speaker 2: And I was like, oh yeah, we shot that a

954
00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:19,640
Speaker 2: while ago. Yeah. I was like, oh yeah, it's crazy. Yeah.

955
00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:21,400
Speaker 1: They're like, when did you shoot that?

956
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:24,200
Speaker 2: I'm like right before, like you know, like a while before.

957
00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:28,200
Speaker 2: Here crazy, that's funny.

958
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:28,600
Speaker 1: Yeah.

959
00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:30,920
Speaker 2: So that iconic video came out while I was on

960
00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:33,879
Speaker 2: Rockets tour, and then after Rockets we go straight into

961
00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:38,080
Speaker 2: another tour rehearsal because she dropped the song single Ladies,

962
00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:41,880
Speaker 2: she dropped other singles and then the album I Am

963
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:43,160
Speaker 2: Sasha fears Wow.

964
00:43:43,239 --> 00:43:45,600
Speaker 1: So we got another tour and then I moved to

965
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:48,520
Speaker 1: LA after that tour. Okay, and at this point you

966
00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:52,319
Speaker 1: and her camp are like just obviously family at this point.

967
00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:55,000
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, that like second tour that I did, that's

968
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:57,360
Speaker 2: when I got like promoted to dance Captain. That was

969
00:43:57,440 --> 00:43:59,280
Speaker 2: like my first little like money promotion.

970
00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:02,120
Speaker 1: And what is dance camptain mean as dance just for

971
00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:03,520
Speaker 1: people like met I don't know.

972
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:05,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, like the dance captain is kind of like

973
00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:09,120
Speaker 2: the the leader of the dancers.

974
00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:11,000
Speaker 1: Like if he the one with the ruler kind of

975
00:44:11,239 --> 00:44:13,200
Speaker 1: the rule, you know what I'm saying, Like, you know, yeah,

976
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:14,359
Speaker 1: but man, I get that step right.

977
00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:16,960
Speaker 2: Yeah. I make sure everybody's like on their p's and

978
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:19,120
Speaker 2: q's while we're on the road, because people can get

979
00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:20,960
Speaker 2: lazy or like do their own thing or you know,

980
00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:23,960
Speaker 2: like change it up, like do what the job is,

981
00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:26,800
Speaker 2: you know. But also like if there's any issues, like

982
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:29,480
Speaker 2: the voice for the dancers, like oh, okay, come to

983
00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:32,120
Speaker 2: me and we'll I'll go to management or like, you

984
00:44:32,239 --> 00:44:34,839
Speaker 2: know anything if management needs to talk to me, your

985
00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:37,680
Speaker 2: dancers need to X y Z, you know, like the voice,

986
00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:40,400
Speaker 2: because it's a lot it became a lot of dancers.

987
00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:43,000
Speaker 1: As time went on, it was like low was the

988
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:44,959
Speaker 1: best part of being on the road.

989
00:44:45,719 --> 00:44:50,400
Speaker 2: Mmm. I mean I would say, just like the fans

990
00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:54,880
Speaker 2: and like the performances, you know, the crowds and the

991
00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:58,960
Speaker 2: travel experiences. Like I love being in different cities and

992
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:02,040
Speaker 2: experiencing the culture and exploring you know, the vibes of

993
00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:05,799
Speaker 2: the city. So I love that. But the crowds, girl,

994
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:07,640
Speaker 2: are like insane. There's nothing like.

995
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:10,360
Speaker 1: Is there ever any drama on the road of course,

996
00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:13,080
Speaker 1: like do people like cook.

997
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:15,480
Speaker 2: Up and yeah, Oh my god, there's all tour mances.

998
00:45:15,719 --> 00:45:22,080
Speaker 2: There's tour mancesances, that's what it's called tour mances. There's fights,

999
00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:24,840
Speaker 2: there's arguments, there's people who don't get along.

1000
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:26,239
Speaker 1: You know, like whatever, freak out.

1001
00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:31,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like college, that's what it feels like. It's like, yes, something,

1002
00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:34,919
Speaker 2: I know. I'm like, I cannot believe a reality show

1003
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:38,120
Speaker 2: has not shot a tour, Like, I can't crazy because

1004
00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:41,640
Speaker 2: no one wants to expose like the Honestly.

1005
00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:45,000
Speaker 1: I do like that. Beyonce has been releasing these first

1006
00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:46,920
Speaker 1: of all, I want to say, she's like one of

1007
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:48,560
Speaker 1: the first to do it, like where she's doing, like

1008
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:51,320
Speaker 1: the visuals, the visuals behind. I haven't been able to

1009
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:52,560
Speaker 1: see The Renaissance one yet.

1010
00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:55,520
Speaker 2: I haven't seen the film either, but I went in

1011
00:45:55,640 --> 00:45:57,759
Speaker 2: at the concert Yeah, and she shouted me out. She

1012
00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:00,400
Speaker 2: was like Ashley, Hey, Gary, we love you, Ashley, and

1013
00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:03,080
Speaker 2: you were like I was like hey, and everybody who

1014
00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:06,640
Speaker 2: thinks there's drama, there's not, so there you go. Yeah,

1015
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:09,080
Speaker 2: because everybody thought there was drama, girl, and I didn't

1016
00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:12,480
Speaker 2: do this tour. They were like, you got fired and

1017
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:14,239
Speaker 2: even Beyonce, Beyonce hates you.

1018
00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 1: I'm like, do you I have this sick thing like

1019
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:22,399
Speaker 1: if people comment negative stuff for whatever reason, I look

1020
00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:24,680
Speaker 1: at it like I feed off the negative. And then

1021
00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:26,840
Speaker 1: like if someone says, like nice stuff, I'm like whatever,

1022
00:46:27,600 --> 00:46:28,760
Speaker 1: but like negative.

1023
00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:29,640
Speaker 2: Does it like drive you?

1024
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:32,680
Speaker 1: Like you comment back? I don't comment back. I just

1025
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:36,239
Speaker 1: kind of chuckle because you know, no, I mean goative too,

1026
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:39,280
Speaker 1: because they don't know nothing nothing.

1027
00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:41,320
Speaker 2: They don't know nothing. I know how to laugh it

1028
00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:58,520
Speaker 2: off too, But girl, it can get wild. So take

1029
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:01,680
Speaker 2: me back to all right, so you moved to LA.

1030
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:04,759
Speaker 2: Moved to La. Yeah, and that's when I was like.

1031
00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:07,920
Speaker 1: Okay, really, and your parents aren't with you at this now?

1032
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:09,839
Speaker 2: My parents aren't with me. But girl, when I first

1033
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:12,320
Speaker 2: went on tour, like at eighteen, once I turned eighteen,

1034
00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:15,000
Speaker 2: my mom moved back to California with her husband and

1035
00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:17,080
Speaker 2: her other kids. You know, she was like, I'm going

1036
00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:19,239
Speaker 2: back home. So I was in New York like those

1037
00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:22,640
Speaker 2: last couple of years by myself. You must have liked that, Yeah, yeah,

1038
00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:23,120
Speaker 2: it was nice.

1039
00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:25,000
Speaker 1: I like grew into an adult out there.

1040
00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:25,279
Speaker 2: You know.

1041
00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:29,680
Speaker 1: So you're out here twenty one in Calli at this

1042
00:47:29,760 --> 00:47:33,759
Speaker 1: point in Kelly, We're gonna go over time. Jared and

1043
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:35,959
Speaker 1: we had even got halfway to the store. I'm so sorry,

1044
00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:39,399
Speaker 1: but but yeah, twenty one moved here.

1045
00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:42,800
Speaker 2: That's like really when I really like started expanding, because

1046
00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:44,759
Speaker 2: at first I thought I was gonna move out here, girl,

1047
00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:47,520
Speaker 2: and I was like, I'm gonna be Bi Colstal. I'm

1048
00:47:47,560 --> 00:47:49,759
Speaker 2: gonna still have my New York place, and I'm gonna

1049
00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:52,400
Speaker 2: come to La like when work needs me, girl. I

1050
00:47:52,520 --> 00:47:54,279
Speaker 2: never I never went back to New York. I like

1051
00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:55,960
Speaker 2: work kept me out here. I was like, oh, I

1052
00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:58,760
Speaker 2: guess this is where I'm gonna be living. So eventually,

1053
00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:01,160
Speaker 2: like I told you, my family owned the condo in.

1054
00:48:01,840 --> 00:48:03,520
Speaker 1: New York, Yeah, they sailed it.

1055
00:48:03,760 --> 00:48:05,920
Speaker 2: Oh shoot, so was sad because now I wish we

1056
00:48:06,040 --> 00:48:08,399
Speaker 2: still had it. I'm like I would use it now. Yeah,

1057
00:48:08,560 --> 00:48:11,200
Speaker 2: but I was ungrateful when I was twenty one, you know,

1058
00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:13,919
Speaker 2: and I was stuck out here. I was working.

1059
00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:16,320
Speaker 1: I was a workaholic. Girls, and you're taking care of yourself,

1060
00:48:16,400 --> 00:48:18,960
Speaker 1: no parents help, You're living on budgets. I'm assuming yeah,

1061
00:48:19,160 --> 00:48:21,560
Speaker 1: and yeah, I mean I kind of wasn't really living

1062
00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:22,080
Speaker 1: on budgets.

1063
00:48:22,120 --> 00:48:24,600
Speaker 2: I did a good job, like saving you know, I

1064
00:48:24,680 --> 00:48:27,640
Speaker 2: had did a couple of good tours and back then,

1065
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:30,520
Speaker 2: like touring was where you do save your money, and

1066
00:48:30,640 --> 00:48:32,040
Speaker 2: that's like the biggest.

1067
00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:33,880
Speaker 1: Thing, oh, because on the road you're not really spending

1068
00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:34,680
Speaker 1: your money.

1069
00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:36,960
Speaker 2: Right yeah, And I didn't have like I wasn't like

1070
00:48:37,080 --> 00:48:39,440
Speaker 2: paying rent or anything, so like, yeah, you could just

1071
00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:42,799
Speaker 2: save save, okay, and then if you save your pretty

1072
00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:45,400
Speaker 2: m you can spend that he has your little extra stuff.

1073
00:48:45,880 --> 00:48:48,160
Speaker 2: But you spend your money easily on the road because

1074
00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:50,080
Speaker 2: you want to like whine and die in yourself and

1075
00:48:50,320 --> 00:48:53,040
Speaker 2: shop in the different cities and stuff like that. But

1076
00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:55,200
Speaker 2: when I was very young, I was better at saving

1077
00:48:55,239 --> 00:48:58,120
Speaker 2: more money because I was like stingy, yeah you know,

1078
00:48:59,719 --> 00:49:02,120
Speaker 2: but I wasn't. I still really wasn't making a lot.

1079
00:49:02,160 --> 00:49:06,680
Speaker 2: I just was saving better. Yeah, moved out here, wasn't

1080
00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:09,000
Speaker 2: really budgeting like that, you know. I was kind of

1081
00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:11,520
Speaker 2: like enjoying my life.

1082
00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:13,520
Speaker 1: And I started.

1083
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:15,600
Speaker 2: I had worked with like a bunch of different artists

1084
00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:20,640
Speaker 2: out here, worked with like Neo, toured with him, Usher,

1085
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:24,880
Speaker 2: another artist, I toured with Sierra, and then every other

1086
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:27,360
Speaker 2: year basically I was going on tour with Beyonce. So

1087
00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:31,720
Speaker 2: again like on the road, not home, you know whatever,

1088
00:49:32,920 --> 00:49:37,280
Speaker 2: And that was my reality girl up until twenty eighteen.

1089
00:49:38,120 --> 00:49:39,840
Speaker 1: Okay, and then what happened in twenty eighteen.

1090
00:49:40,320 --> 00:49:43,840
Speaker 2: Twenty eighteen was the last tour that I did, and

1091
00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:47,680
Speaker 2: then twenty nineteen was I wasn't on tour. I worked

1092
00:49:47,719 --> 00:49:51,320
Speaker 2: on TV shows and other personal things.

1093
00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:53,320
Speaker 1: And then when you're say TV shows, what were you

1094
00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:54,360
Speaker 1: doing on the TV shows?

1095
00:49:54,600 --> 00:49:57,680
Speaker 2: I did a TV show called Hit the Floor acting.

1096
00:49:58,320 --> 00:50:00,440
Speaker 2: I was like acting and dancing. Yeah, I had a

1097
00:50:00,560 --> 00:50:02,839
Speaker 2: role called Peyton, but I was a dancer on the show.

1098
00:50:04,600 --> 00:50:07,200
Speaker 2: And then I think I did like Dancing with the Stars,

1099
00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:11,479
Speaker 2: and you know, just other award shows or like TV

1100
00:50:12,560 --> 00:50:18,000
Speaker 2: appearances like what is this that the Morning Show? I

1101
00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:21,680
Speaker 2: shot an episode of that, like just televised stuff that

1102
00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:22,640
Speaker 2: requires dancing.

1103
00:50:22,840 --> 00:50:24,680
Speaker 1: You know, That's what I do.

1104
00:50:24,800 --> 00:50:26,879
Speaker 2: When I'm like when I wasn't on tour, it would

1105
00:50:26,880 --> 00:50:28,680
Speaker 2: be like a year on tour and then a year

1106
00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:33,440
Speaker 2: at home doing like TV commercial films.

1107
00:50:33,719 --> 00:50:35,520
Speaker 1: Are you able to have like a dating life or

1108
00:50:35,520 --> 00:50:36,360
Speaker 1: a personal life or.

1109
00:50:36,360 --> 00:50:38,440
Speaker 2: Is that I you know, I have always kind of

1110
00:50:38,520 --> 00:50:42,319
Speaker 2: been in a relationship actually, so yeah, from like when

1111
00:50:42,360 --> 00:50:44,440
Speaker 2: I moved to LA I got in a relationship pretty

1112
00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:47,480
Speaker 2: much right away, and that was until twenty eighteen.

1113
00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:50,759
Speaker 1: And then in twenty nineteen I turned thirty so I

1114
00:50:50,840 --> 00:50:52,479
Speaker 1: was like, can't bring damn girl thirty.

1115
00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:55,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're good, all right, god go think I was

1116
00:50:55,200 --> 00:50:55,960
Speaker 2: trying to figure out.

1117
00:50:56,440 --> 00:50:58,239
Speaker 1: I wonder I'm like, how old is?

1118
00:50:58,719 --> 00:50:59,239
Speaker 2: I know? It?

1119
00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:02,319
Speaker 1: Just like all right, even away, No, that's good. I'm

1120
00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:03,120
Speaker 1: approaching forty.

1121
00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:05,360
Speaker 2: Oh I don't know nothing like it.

1122
00:51:05,640 --> 00:51:07,719
Speaker 1: It's because the braids, man, they just pull your head

1123
00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:09,400
Speaker 1: back a little bit, snatch it all up.

1124
00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:13,919
Speaker 2: I know. Same at the bun give me life, pull

1125
00:51:13,960 --> 00:51:14,279
Speaker 2: it back.

1126
00:51:14,560 --> 00:51:18,800
Speaker 1: Yeah all right. So you so then twenty and twenty

1127
00:51:19,040 --> 00:51:21,000
Speaker 1: or what have you? Were we at two.

1128
00:51:20,880 --> 00:51:23,080
Speaker 2: Thousand, yeah, twenty eighteen or something?

1129
00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:23,560
Speaker 1: Yeah?

1130
00:51:23,760 --> 00:51:26,560
Speaker 2: Well actually okay, so let me give you this little tea.

1131
00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:31,080
Speaker 2: In twenty sixteen, that relationship I was in, he jumped

1132
00:51:31,120 --> 00:51:31,680
Speaker 2: on stage.

1133
00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:33,560
Speaker 1: Girl. You can look it up if you just type

1134
00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:37,960
Speaker 1: Beyonce proposal. I think I remember that, gone, that was me.

1135
00:51:38,480 --> 00:51:41,080
Speaker 1: Oh he proposed to you on stage. I remember that.

1136
00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:43,120
Speaker 1: I saw it a couple of times. What you talk about?

1137
00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:43,680
Speaker 2: That was you?

1138
00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:44,200
Speaker 3: Yeah?

1139
00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:45,760
Speaker 1: Okay, So what happened to day.

1140
00:51:45,600 --> 00:51:47,640
Speaker 2: And then we broke up in twenty eighteen? Girl? Oh yeah,

1141
00:51:47,640 --> 00:51:51,000
Speaker 2: because that whole proposal I mean in general, he did

1142
00:51:51,080 --> 00:51:53,560
Speaker 2: that for him, not for me, Like I'm not even

1143
00:51:53,600 --> 00:51:55,200
Speaker 2: that kind of girl who wants that kind of attention.

1144
00:51:55,360 --> 00:51:58,320
Speaker 2: You know, he was desperate times called for desperate measures.

1145
00:51:58,400 --> 00:52:00,759
Speaker 2: I guess, you know, it very for him. What was

1146
00:52:00,800 --> 00:52:01,160
Speaker 2: the beginning?

1147
00:52:01,360 --> 00:52:03,360
Speaker 1: Was it like when I was like when Opset jumps

1148
00:52:03,400 --> 00:52:05,400
Speaker 1: on stage recorded me and does the grand and she's like,

1149
00:52:06,719 --> 00:52:10,200
Speaker 1: was he like retrying to coop a mess up or

1150
00:52:10,200 --> 00:52:11,399
Speaker 1: something like trying to make up.

1151
00:52:11,320 --> 00:52:15,320
Speaker 2: For I think he was just trying to get attention,

1152
00:52:15,880 --> 00:52:18,920
Speaker 2: Like Okay, Literally as soon as it happened.

1153
00:52:18,640 --> 00:52:20,680
Speaker 1: He was like, we went viral. We got to capitalize

1154
00:52:20,680 --> 00:52:22,759
Speaker 1: off this. I said, Oh, that's what you want to

1155
00:52:23,200 --> 00:52:23,520
Speaker 1: got it?

1156
00:52:23,920 --> 00:52:24,080
Speaker 2: Oh?

1157
00:52:24,320 --> 00:52:24,600
Speaker 1: Shit?

1158
00:52:24,880 --> 00:52:27,279
Speaker 2: Yeah? So it was like that, like you know, and

1159
00:52:27,360 --> 00:52:29,360
Speaker 2: then it was like the next year, everybody was like

1160
00:52:29,440 --> 00:52:32,680
Speaker 2: when's the date? And I was like, I can't even

1161
00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:36,200
Speaker 2: envision myself setting one. So wow, it was very much

1162
00:52:36,239 --> 00:52:38,040
Speaker 2: the beginning of the end, but it was the best,

1163
00:52:38,239 --> 00:52:40,640
Speaker 2: Like I needed that, needed that for it to end

1164
00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:44,200
Speaker 2: that relationship. Because then the next year, like I said,

1165
00:52:44,200 --> 00:52:45,000
Speaker 2: I was turning thirty.

1166
00:52:45,120 --> 00:52:47,279
Speaker 1: That was like the year I poured into myself and

1167
00:52:47,719 --> 00:52:50,360
Speaker 1: did you do the whole like love yourself thing? Yes? Girl?

1168
00:52:50,480 --> 00:52:51,239
Speaker 1: Like was it hard?

1169
00:52:51,280 --> 00:52:54,000
Speaker 2: And nineteen was like the year of transition for me.

1170
00:52:54,560 --> 00:52:56,279
Speaker 2: It was great though I needed it. And then twenty

1171
00:52:56,360 --> 00:52:58,759
Speaker 2: twenty I the pandemic hit and I loved it. I

1172
00:52:58,880 --> 00:53:01,400
Speaker 2: was like, yes, we could stay at Oh, it's amazing.

1173
00:53:01,480 --> 00:53:03,680
Speaker 2: And then I just poured more into myself and I

1174
00:53:03,800 --> 00:53:04,360
Speaker 2: was like, I love it.

1175
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:06,080
Speaker 1: I love it here and I love it here.

1176
00:53:06,239 --> 00:53:06,439
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1177
00:53:07,280 --> 00:53:11,319
Speaker 1: I think it's like the self love thing. I even

1178
00:53:11,440 --> 00:53:13,759
Speaker 1: paid this. This is really embarrassing, but I remember I

1179
00:53:13,920 --> 00:53:16,400
Speaker 1: actually paid for her course online. They never said it

1180
00:53:16,440 --> 00:53:17,400
Speaker 1: to me on like how to.

1181
00:53:17,440 --> 00:53:18,240
Speaker 2: Do self loving?

1182
00:53:18,600 --> 00:53:22,799
Speaker 1: That's how ghetto. I was desperateirl, So my brand being

1183
00:53:22,840 --> 00:53:26,520
Speaker 1: greater than yay, look at that pivot go on, please period,

1184
00:53:27,560 --> 00:53:30,880
Speaker 1: We're gonna bring it fold. So this is how God works,

1185
00:53:30,960 --> 00:53:33,480
Speaker 1: because I literally I promise you I paid. I don't

1186
00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:36,439
Speaker 1: I paid. There was like a self love course. I said,

1187
00:53:37,440 --> 00:53:39,360
Speaker 1: I gotta pay for that because I don't. I'm studying

1188
00:53:39,440 --> 00:53:40,120
Speaker 1: this and I don't.

1189
00:53:40,040 --> 00:53:40,920
Speaker 2: Know coming how to do it.

1190
00:53:41,600 --> 00:53:42,600
Speaker 1: March, we're doing.

1191
00:53:44,280 --> 00:53:49,080
Speaker 2: Yeak. We did a soft launch in November Girl in Atlanta,

1192
00:53:49,640 --> 00:53:52,200
Speaker 2: and it went over like better than we could have

1193
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:56,120
Speaker 2: ever envisioned. You know. Ever, imagine like people were like

1194
00:53:56,239 --> 00:53:58,760
Speaker 2: I didn't know how bad I needed this, Like when's

1195
00:53:58,800 --> 00:53:59,480
Speaker 2: the next one.

1196
00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:01,920
Speaker 1: Where can we more so, what can people expect for

1197
00:54:02,120 --> 00:54:05,160
Speaker 1: be greater than? And like what was the thing that

1198
00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:07,040
Speaker 1: made you create it?

1199
00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:10,040
Speaker 2: The thing that made us create it. So it's three

1200
00:54:10,120 --> 00:54:13,200
Speaker 2: of us, three friends who were all on this like

1201
00:54:13,360 --> 00:54:14,880
Speaker 2: self love journey. You know.

1202
00:54:15,680 --> 00:54:17,040
Speaker 1: Oh I love that you guys were all on the

1203
00:54:17,040 --> 00:54:17,760
Speaker 1: same boat together.

1204
00:54:18,080 --> 00:54:20,759
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, and everyone's like timing was a

1205
00:54:20,760 --> 00:54:23,360
Speaker 2: little different. I feel like I started it like before

1206
00:54:23,440 --> 00:54:26,680
Speaker 2: everybody else, and then they saw some things change in

1207
00:54:26,760 --> 00:54:28,920
Speaker 2: my life and like how great it looked. And then

1208
00:54:28,920 --> 00:54:30,600
Speaker 2: they were like I need to love on myself more,

1209
00:54:30,680 --> 00:54:33,239
Speaker 2: you know, and like it inspired other friends and these

1210
00:54:33,320 --> 00:54:35,280
Speaker 2: these are like close friends of mine who are like family,

1211
00:54:35,320 --> 00:54:38,520
Speaker 2: you know. So once they jumped on their self love journey,

1212
00:54:38,560 --> 00:54:40,960
Speaker 2: I was like, yes, I'm so proud of you guys.

1213
00:54:41,440 --> 00:54:43,719
Speaker 2: And that's like really where the idea started from. The

1214
00:54:44,480 --> 00:54:47,960
Speaker 2: Jazzmine Harper, she's like another founder, one of the other founders,

1215
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:50,600
Speaker 2: and Randy Bonds is the other one. But Jazz is

1216
00:54:50,640 --> 00:54:52,839
Speaker 2: like a little sister of mine. We dance with Beyonce together.

1217
00:54:52,960 --> 00:54:54,399
Speaker 2: She danced on So you think you can dance?

1218
00:54:54,480 --> 00:54:57,920
Speaker 1: Actually? Oh okay, Oh that's okay, So that's okay.

1219
00:54:58,239 --> 00:55:01,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, b grand then yeah, yeah, yeah,

1220
00:55:02,120 --> 00:55:05,160
Speaker 2: she yeah, so she was from the show she We

1221
00:55:05,239 --> 00:55:08,160
Speaker 2: did Beyonce together, like have been through a lot together,

1222
00:55:08,239 --> 00:55:10,520
Speaker 2: you know, and she was like, I really want to

1223
00:55:10,600 --> 00:55:14,160
Speaker 2: do something for myself, like something that I own, something

1224
00:55:14,239 --> 00:55:16,200
Speaker 2: that I am a creator of, the founder of Da

1225
00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:17,799
Speaker 2: Da Da Da. And she's like, I know, I can't

1226
00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:19,960
Speaker 2: do it alone, like I need I need you, like

1227
00:55:20,040 --> 00:55:21,040
Speaker 2: I need your help whatever.

1228
00:55:21,400 --> 00:55:22,520
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm with you.

1229
00:55:22,680 --> 00:55:24,640
Speaker 2: Let's do it, and then we just started exploring. I

1230
00:55:24,680 --> 00:55:27,120
Speaker 2: brought in Randy. He's a publicist. He's been a friend

1231
00:55:27,160 --> 00:55:30,760
Speaker 2: of mine since the beginning of my Beyonce days since

1232
00:55:31,320 --> 00:55:33,640
Speaker 2: nine basically it's when we started working together. We were

1233
00:55:33,680 --> 00:55:36,360
Speaker 2: both nineteen. He found me on Facebook and he was like,

1234
00:55:36,480 --> 00:55:41,200
Speaker 2: I see like your stardom as not just a dancer

1235
00:55:41,360 --> 00:55:42,840
Speaker 2: and he was like, I want to do pr for

1236
00:55:42,920 --> 00:55:45,560
Speaker 2: you and I yeah, okay. And so I've had a

1237
00:55:45,600 --> 00:55:48,279
Speaker 2: publicist also. That's been like something very different about me

1238
00:55:48,320 --> 00:55:50,640
Speaker 2: than like most dancers. I've had like a publicist or

1239
00:55:50,719 --> 00:55:54,480
Speaker 2: like a manager, you know, most of my dance career,

1240
00:55:54,680 --> 00:55:58,600
Speaker 2: and that has put me in like magazines or like

1241
00:55:58,760 --> 00:56:03,160
Speaker 2: in people's faces that most dancers wouldn't be in their face,

1242
00:56:03,280 --> 00:56:08,160
Speaker 2: you know, like allure or you know, I can't even

1243
00:56:08,160 --> 00:56:10,480
Speaker 2: think of these the magazine's essence and you know, just

1244
00:56:10,600 --> 00:56:14,040
Speaker 2: like tons of outlets, tons and tons of outlets. So

1245
00:56:14,800 --> 00:56:17,800
Speaker 2: that's been like very helpful, I think, and for my

1246
00:56:17,920 --> 00:56:21,239
Speaker 2: career as well and getting my name out there. Where

1247
00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:21,560
Speaker 2: was I?

1248
00:56:21,760 --> 00:56:24,839
Speaker 1: So we were talking about the inception of be Greater

1249
00:56:24,960 --> 00:56:26,840
Speaker 1: Than Yeah, I'm so curious now, you know, it might

1250
00:56:26,880 --> 00:56:28,720
Speaker 1: have to be like a hundred questions, but yeah.

1251
00:56:28,800 --> 00:56:31,160
Speaker 2: So me and Jasmine, she she brought it to me,

1252
00:56:31,239 --> 00:56:32,960
Speaker 2: and I was like, let's bring Randy in. He's on

1253
00:56:33,040 --> 00:56:35,680
Speaker 2: this journey too, Let's talk ideas. He's publicist, blah blah.

1254
00:56:36,280 --> 00:56:39,120
Speaker 2: And so the three of us like just explored and

1255
00:56:40,160 --> 00:56:44,920
Speaker 2: you know, talked ideas, and it was it was going

1256
00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:47,960
Speaker 2: to be called be Greater Than Humble because we were always,

1257
00:56:48,160 --> 00:56:51,320
Speaker 2: you know, talking about how we are told to be humble,

1258
00:56:51,400 --> 00:56:52,919
Speaker 2: and we looked up the definition of humble.

1259
00:56:52,960 --> 00:56:54,160
Speaker 1: Have you ever looked up deaf?

1260
00:56:54,320 --> 00:56:54,880
Speaker 2: No? What is it?

1261
00:56:55,440 --> 00:56:57,520
Speaker 1: I feel like Kanye talked about it at some point.

1262
00:56:57,400 --> 00:57:00,239
Speaker 2: But yeah, other like rappers and stuff have because it's

1263
00:57:00,280 --> 00:57:03,719
Speaker 2: like technically not like something that should be praised. It

1264
00:57:03,920 --> 00:57:07,600
Speaker 2: almost it's basically saying to make yourself less than for

1265
00:57:07,800 --> 00:57:09,719
Speaker 2: others to feel better about them.

1266
00:57:09,880 --> 00:57:10,759
Speaker 1: Is that what humble is?

1267
00:57:10,920 --> 00:57:15,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's like so you can feel comfortable.

1268
00:57:15,840 --> 00:57:17,520
Speaker 1: Basically I used to do that, to be honest, when

1269
00:57:18,200 --> 00:57:20,360
Speaker 1: for a long a long time, even being a twin.

1270
00:57:20,440 --> 00:57:22,760
Speaker 1: To be honest, I'm just sure it's like, you know,

1271
00:57:22,920 --> 00:57:26,240
Speaker 1: you want to make everyone feel comfortable, so you know,

1272
00:57:26,360 --> 00:57:29,200
Speaker 1: And I started doing it in relationships guys, would you?

1273
00:57:29,400 --> 00:57:33,440
Speaker 1: I would like plaques, shoe story And I remember the

1274
00:57:33,560 --> 00:57:37,720
Speaker 1: guy we were engaged, and I just knew he started

1275
00:57:37,760 --> 00:57:39,000
Speaker 1: to hate my accomplishments.

1276
00:57:39,040 --> 00:57:41,680
Speaker 2: That's why we moved engaged in relationship was too.

1277
00:57:41,680 --> 00:57:45,320
Speaker 1: Girl and I started to be like anytime there was

1278
00:57:45,360 --> 00:57:47,640
Speaker 1: a plaque or an award, I would literally there was

1279
00:57:47,680 --> 00:57:49,720
Speaker 1: a closet and I would hide it and I just

1280
00:57:49,760 --> 00:57:52,440
Speaker 1: got in yeah, And I remember throwing out all my

1281
00:57:52,640 --> 00:57:55,560
Speaker 1: like like my dad started saying like, you need to

1282
00:57:55,600 --> 00:57:57,400
Speaker 1: start putting your stuff on your wall because you seem

1283
00:57:57,440 --> 00:57:59,920
Speaker 1: to forget all your milestones and I have big posters.

1284
00:58:00,080 --> 00:58:02,640
Speaker 1: And I remember just throwing him in the trash and

1285
00:58:02,680 --> 00:58:04,120
Speaker 1: his brother being like, why are you doing this? And

1286
00:58:04,200 --> 00:58:07,360
Speaker 1: I just remember being like, well, clearly, it's starting to

1287
00:58:07,400 --> 00:58:09,280
Speaker 1: become a problem. In my relationship, so I would I

1288
00:58:09,360 --> 00:58:11,720
Speaker 1: got in the practice of dimming my life. Well after that,

1289
00:58:11,800 --> 00:58:14,360
Speaker 1: I was like an next relationship, Man, I just want

1290
00:58:14,400 --> 00:58:16,160
Speaker 1: to be me. I just want to be able to

1291
00:58:16,200 --> 00:58:17,240
Speaker 1: be like this is who I am.

1292
00:58:18,080 --> 00:58:21,280
Speaker 2: Like, you know, it should celebrate, Yeah, it should heighten that,

1293
00:58:21,800 --> 00:58:25,120
Speaker 2: you know, and like brighten my light, not dimn it.

1294
00:58:25,920 --> 00:58:29,280
Speaker 1: So you guys were looking like you got girl. I'm wet.

1295
00:58:29,400 --> 00:58:33,920
Speaker 1: I'm still learning, but I remember, just I remember there

1296
00:58:34,040 --> 00:58:35,840
Speaker 1: was a I did something for nick Can and I

1297
00:58:35,920 --> 00:58:38,040
Speaker 1: did the whild out like booklet that went into all

1298
00:58:38,080 --> 00:58:42,040
Speaker 1: the CDs or stores, and I remember just hiding it

1299
00:58:42,080 --> 00:58:44,840
Speaker 1: from him. I remember asking for the sea looking at it,

1300
00:58:45,520 --> 00:58:47,240
Speaker 1: and like when he came home, I threw it in

1301
00:58:47,320 --> 00:58:49,000
Speaker 1: the trash. I was still mad to this day that

1302
00:58:49,040 --> 00:58:51,120
Speaker 1: I threw it out. But I was so scared of

1303
00:58:51,360 --> 00:58:56,080
Speaker 1: him seeing these accomplishment. Yeah, because it just became ub Yeah,

1304
00:58:56,200 --> 00:59:00,680
Speaker 1: of my relationship. That's crazy. Sorry, Yeah, but I love

1305
00:59:00,760 --> 00:59:02,959
Speaker 1: the fact that you guys took the initiative to even

1306
00:59:03,040 --> 00:59:05,320
Speaker 1: look up be greater than because when you first said

1307
00:59:05,360 --> 00:59:07,320
Speaker 1: it be greater than be's like be greater than what?

1308
00:59:07,480 --> 00:59:09,400
Speaker 1: But I love that you eliminated humble.

1309
00:59:09,560 --> 00:59:12,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like, be greater than your insecurities, be greater

1310
00:59:12,920 --> 00:59:16,120
Speaker 2: than your traumas, be greater than your childhood, be greater

1311
00:59:16,200 --> 00:59:19,320
Speaker 2: than your mistakes, be greater than yesterday, be greater than anything,

1312
00:59:19,640 --> 00:59:23,440
Speaker 2: you know, like anything, it's limitless. So yeah, and that's

1313
00:59:23,480 --> 00:59:26,760
Speaker 2: the brand. It's a lifestyle brand. What you can expect

1314
00:59:26,920 --> 00:59:30,960
Speaker 2: at So far, we've only had one soft launch live activation,

1315
00:59:31,840 --> 00:59:34,400
Speaker 2: so they're Me and Jasmine. Since we come from the

1316
00:59:34,480 --> 00:59:37,360
Speaker 2: dance world, we did a little like dance moment, but

1317
00:59:37,440 --> 00:59:40,880
Speaker 2: it wasn't even like four dancers. It was more so

1318
00:59:41,560 --> 00:59:44,160
Speaker 2: so you can build your confidence and you know, learn

1319
00:59:44,240 --> 00:59:46,280
Speaker 2: how to like hold your shoulders back and stay with

1320
00:59:46,360 --> 00:59:48,880
Speaker 2: your chest out and be proud, you know, like more

1321
00:59:48,920 --> 00:59:52,640
Speaker 2: of like self confidence Mooster. We had a guy come

1322
00:59:52,680 --> 00:59:55,080
Speaker 2: in who's like a martial arts specialist who taught people

1323
00:59:55,120 --> 00:59:57,200
Speaker 2: how to like break through your traumas. And they kept

1324
00:59:57,800 --> 01:00:01,320
Speaker 2: pounding on this thing until they released their traumas. They

1325
01:00:01,360 --> 01:00:03,800
Speaker 2: had to repeat a saying. I don't know what they

1326
01:00:03,840 --> 01:00:05,560
Speaker 2: were saying. I was we were teaching the dance class

1327
01:00:05,560 --> 01:00:07,200
Speaker 2: at the same time he was doing that, so I

1328
01:00:07,240 --> 01:00:08,760
Speaker 2: don't remember what they were saying, but they had to

1329
01:00:08,880 --> 01:00:11,760
Speaker 2: keep saying it, and everybody girl, people were breaking down crying, like,

1330
01:00:12,200 --> 01:00:13,720
Speaker 2: you know, in a great way. They were just like,

1331
01:00:13,800 --> 01:00:14,720
Speaker 2: oh my god, I felt so.

1332
01:00:14,800 --> 01:00:16,160
Speaker 1: Good, Like I needed that.

1333
01:00:16,520 --> 01:00:18,760
Speaker 2: We had a woman come in who led us through

1334
01:00:18,800 --> 01:00:20,840
Speaker 2: breath work and taught us about the importance of just

1335
01:00:21,080 --> 01:00:24,760
Speaker 2: breathing and remembering to intentionally breathe. You know, we just

1336
01:00:24,840 --> 01:00:27,479
Speaker 2: sit around and like, see, like, I think that's really great, girl.

1337
01:00:27,880 --> 01:00:28,360
Speaker 1: I love it.

1338
01:00:28,840 --> 01:00:32,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you, same because it's so important, and you know,

1339
01:00:33,080 --> 01:00:34,000
Speaker 2: we really started this.

1340
01:00:34,200 --> 01:00:34,720
Speaker 1: I love that.

1341
01:00:35,560 --> 01:00:38,280
Speaker 2: I can't see people crying girl either, because that makes

1342
01:00:38,320 --> 01:00:41,800
Speaker 2: me go. But like we started this because we pour

1343
01:00:42,080 --> 01:00:46,480
Speaker 2: so much of ourselves into our jobs, our careers, other people.

1344
01:00:46,880 --> 01:00:50,400
Speaker 2: We forget about ourselves. We forget about ourselves, and it's like,

1345
01:00:51,040 --> 01:00:53,959
Speaker 2: don't forget to pour into you. We have the power,

1346
01:00:54,040 --> 01:00:57,720
Speaker 2: We possess it all whatever we want. And I'm sorry

1347
01:00:57,760 --> 01:00:59,280
Speaker 2: this episode people are gonna be like, we can't even

1348
01:00:59,400 --> 01:01:02,000
Speaker 2: understand you. Stop getting here each other.

1349
01:01:03,240 --> 01:01:03,560
Speaker 1: Thank you.

1350
01:01:04,640 --> 01:01:09,760
Speaker 2: But yeah, don't worry about yourself, you know, quarantine you. Yeah.

1351
01:01:10,560 --> 01:01:13,160
Speaker 1: So they So that's some of the stuff. And you

1352
01:01:13,240 --> 01:01:18,480
Speaker 1: guys thought through every different angle from traumas to confidence.

1353
01:01:18,160 --> 01:01:24,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, self confidence to breathing to feeding yourself from the inside.

1354
01:01:24,640 --> 01:01:26,920
Speaker 2: Out with healthy things. We had a girl's share her

1355
01:01:27,040 --> 01:01:29,880
Speaker 2: juices and her recipes and the reason why she's vegan,

1356
01:01:30,000 --> 01:01:32,240
Speaker 2: and you know why we should go on fast every

1357
01:01:32,320 --> 01:01:34,720
Speaker 2: now and then and just take breaks from meats or

1358
01:01:34,840 --> 01:01:38,240
Speaker 2: you know, processed foods or whatever. Just education, you know,

1359
01:01:38,920 --> 01:01:44,200
Speaker 2: and inspiration and relatable people like just people, you know,

1360
01:01:44,520 --> 01:01:47,400
Speaker 2: not somebody who we like look up to and feel

1361
01:01:47,440 --> 01:01:48,400
Speaker 2: like we can never get to.

1362
01:01:48,440 --> 01:01:50,800
Speaker 1: That level, you know, just like every like.

1363
01:01:51,720 --> 01:01:54,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it is it a couple of days or

1364
01:01:54,960 --> 01:01:58,080
Speaker 2: how it was one day? The one in March we're

1365
01:01:58,120 --> 01:02:00,160
Speaker 2: planning for one day as well. It was like an

1366
01:02:00,160 --> 01:02:03,240
Speaker 2: eleven to five o'clock kind of thing, I'll.

1367
01:02:03,160 --> 01:02:06,480
Speaker 1: Know, And how do people sign up for it? We're

1368
01:02:06,520 --> 01:02:08,280
Speaker 1: gonna I want gonna be I'm gonna be on the list.

1369
01:02:08,480 --> 01:02:10,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're gonna be on the list. But we're gonna

1370
01:02:10,160 --> 01:02:10,880
Speaker 2: sell some tickets.

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01:02:11,000 --> 01:02:13,200
Speaker 1: Yeah you know, no, no, no, I'll to buy a ticket.

1372
01:02:13,480 --> 01:02:15,760
Speaker 1: I just make sure I get to buy one before

1373
01:02:15,800 --> 01:02:16,439
Speaker 1: it sells out.

1374
01:02:16,680 --> 01:02:18,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, we got you, grown, But yeah, we want we

1375
01:02:19,080 --> 01:02:21,520
Speaker 2: want people to be able to like have access to

1376
01:02:21,640 --> 01:02:24,800
Speaker 2: this and pour into themselves and you know, remember the

1377
01:02:24,880 --> 01:02:28,080
Speaker 2: importance of that. And it's a community, you know, and

1378
01:02:28,360 --> 01:02:30,600
Speaker 2: we'll continue to hold each other accountable and our other

1379
01:02:30,720 --> 01:02:34,480
Speaker 2: dreams and all of that, and same with holding each

1380
01:02:34,480 --> 01:02:37,240
Speaker 2: other accountable, you know, be greater than once to eventually

1381
01:02:37,320 --> 01:02:42,240
Speaker 2: expand into like clothing and you know, like online courses

1382
01:02:42,280 --> 01:02:44,440
Speaker 2: and stuff like that too, but one thing at a

1383
01:02:44,480 --> 01:02:45,760
Speaker 2: time because it's a lot.

1384
01:02:46,200 --> 01:02:46,439
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1385
01:02:46,760 --> 01:02:49,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah, that's awesome. And then so the next

1386
01:02:49,720 --> 01:02:51,120
Speaker 1: one will be probably in March.

1387
01:02:51,240 --> 01:02:54,160
Speaker 2: In La yep, yep in La mm hmm, and we're

1388
01:02:54,200 --> 01:02:56,400
Speaker 2: doing it in women's history months, so it's gonna be

1389
01:02:57,240 --> 01:02:57,560
Speaker 2: for the.

1390
01:02:57,600 --> 01:03:01,960
Speaker 1: Women, but everyone. Now, have you gotten sponsors that have

1391
01:03:02,160 --> 01:03:03,800
Speaker 1: tried to get be a part of it or.

1392
01:03:03,920 --> 01:03:06,000
Speaker 2: We have not yet? Girl, because we did that stops

1393
01:03:06,040 --> 01:03:07,880
Speaker 2: watch just like we were like, we'll just invite like

1394
01:03:07,960 --> 01:03:11,680
Speaker 2: ten people, and then like because we like knew some people,

1395
01:03:11,760 --> 01:03:16,360
Speaker 2: it became maybe like twenty, but it was great. And

1396
01:03:16,440 --> 01:03:19,400
Speaker 2: then we have like press and stuff. So now we're

1397
01:03:19,480 --> 01:03:21,760
Speaker 2: going to like get put it out there. But we

1398
01:03:22,000 --> 01:03:24,640
Speaker 2: have not gotten sponsors yet, but we plan on yeah,

1399
01:03:24,800 --> 01:03:27,320
Speaker 2: plan on it. Yeah, and I think that people will.

1400
01:03:27,120 --> 01:03:29,240
Speaker 1: Align with it. Is it is it going to be

1401
01:03:29,360 --> 01:03:30,760
Speaker 1: just for women or is it going to be for

1402
01:03:31,240 --> 01:03:33,560
Speaker 1: It's for everybody? And we eventually want to do it

1403
01:03:33,640 --> 01:03:34,720
Speaker 1: for kids or like.

1404
01:03:34,960 --> 01:03:36,920
Speaker 2: You know, yeah, I think it's a start early, right,

1405
01:03:37,680 --> 01:03:39,760
Speaker 2: we need this, Like I feel like we're all learning

1406
01:03:39,840 --> 01:03:42,440
Speaker 2: this too late, you know, like if we were doing

1407
01:03:42,520 --> 01:03:44,640
Speaker 2: this in our twenties, Like, yeah.

1408
01:03:44,680 --> 01:03:51,840
Speaker 1: I realized, like I I'm very rarely ever single, you

1409
01:03:51,920 --> 01:03:54,320
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Like, I'm like, I think the

1410
01:03:54,360 --> 01:03:56,360
Speaker 1: longest I was ever single was like barely made it

1411
01:03:56,400 --> 01:03:58,600
Speaker 1: a year, and that was me going I was still

1412
01:03:58,680 --> 01:04:01,200
Speaker 1: technically dating pub this is lose. We don't have the title. Yeah,

1413
01:04:01,240 --> 01:04:03,480
Speaker 1: I could make it a year, but yeah, it's like

1414
01:04:03,560 --> 01:04:07,800
Speaker 1: you're constantly distracting yourself from yourself in a way when

1415
01:04:07,840 --> 01:04:10,920
Speaker 1: you're in these relationships or you're taking on some you know,

1416
01:04:11,000 --> 01:04:13,360
Speaker 1: I don't drink or smoke or do any of that stuff.

1417
01:04:13,360 --> 01:04:15,080
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's bad or anything. I just it

1418
01:04:15,160 --> 01:04:18,080
Speaker 1: doesn't do anything for me. Never has. Yeah, But I'm like,

1419
01:04:19,040 --> 01:04:22,360
Speaker 1: you know, maybe this is this scape that's not benefiting

1420
01:04:22,400 --> 01:04:24,360
Speaker 1: me at all at this point. Maybe I need to

1421
01:04:24,520 --> 01:04:28,440
Speaker 1: like me myself and I so and that's kind of

1422
01:04:28,480 --> 01:04:31,600
Speaker 1: the road you came to, right Yeah, Yeah, yeah, definitely.

1423
01:04:31,800 --> 01:04:36,320
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, I was in long relationships and yeah,

1424
01:04:36,600 --> 01:04:39,040
Speaker 2: God in relate felling them, you know, like that's how

1425
01:04:39,120 --> 01:04:43,640
Speaker 2: it turned into yeah or whatever. So by when I

1426
01:04:43,720 --> 01:04:45,520
Speaker 2: was turning thirty, girl, I was like, I need to

1427
01:04:45,920 --> 01:04:50,680
Speaker 2: pour in to me, like self love first. Whoever doesn't

1428
01:04:50,680 --> 01:04:53,800
Speaker 2: align with me loving on me gotta go. Okay, you

1429
01:04:53,880 --> 01:04:57,080
Speaker 2: know like literally my whole circle of friends changed.

1430
01:04:57,720 --> 01:05:00,760
Speaker 1: Even your friends changed. Uh huh yeah, I'll my whole

1431
01:05:00,800 --> 01:05:03,360
Speaker 1: sirg Now, did you ever struggle with boundaries or anything?

1432
01:05:03,680 --> 01:05:06,600
Speaker 2: Yeah? Of course, okay, of course, I'm I still work.

1433
01:05:06,440 --> 01:05:10,080
Speaker 1: On I'm like, uh, my producer shout out to him,

1434
01:05:10,160 --> 01:05:12,120
Speaker 1: like he's reading books. I don't mean to put your

1435
01:05:12,200 --> 01:05:15,400
Speaker 1: business out there. I love my team. Yeah, but yeah

1436
01:05:15,520 --> 01:05:17,720
Speaker 1: he's like reading books and I'll be, oh, let me

1437
01:05:17,760 --> 01:05:19,960
Speaker 1: you know, like yeah, I'll let you trick it out afterwards.

1438
01:05:20,000 --> 01:05:22,280
Speaker 1: But like I love that he's at his age, like

1439
01:05:22,360 --> 01:05:24,760
Speaker 1: even reading books on boundaries of stuff and like just

1440
01:05:24,840 --> 01:05:28,120
Speaker 1: even learning that word. Yeah yeah yeah. And I heard

1441
01:05:28,160 --> 01:05:30,080
Speaker 1: with little kids when they're little, you have to be

1442
01:05:30,200 --> 01:05:35,000
Speaker 1: careful because kids organically have boundaries. But then we as

1443
01:05:35,040 --> 01:05:37,240
Speaker 1: adults who are like, well, no, allowed this or share

1444
01:05:37,320 --> 01:05:39,320
Speaker 1: this or did it and just like really shouldn't do

1445
01:05:39,400 --> 01:05:42,720
Speaker 1: that with with their they got their little voice. Even

1446
01:05:42,800 --> 01:05:44,520
Speaker 1: though we're looking out for them. But that's kind of

1447
01:05:44,560 --> 01:05:46,160
Speaker 1: where the boundaries start.

1448
01:05:47,400 --> 01:05:49,200
Speaker 2: Little starts a childhood and then we have to like

1449
01:05:49,320 --> 01:05:52,000
Speaker 2: reteach ourselves everything in our adulthood.

1450
01:05:52,600 --> 01:05:54,760
Speaker 1: And it's that's why it's called a journey, you know.

1451
01:05:54,960 --> 01:05:59,120
Speaker 1: It's constant, girl, constant. Your journey was constant. So take

1452
01:05:59,160 --> 01:06:02,440
Speaker 1: me back to the pandem So you enter the pandemic single.

1453
01:06:03,520 --> 01:06:11,000
Speaker 2: Technically, actually no, okay, So twenty eighteen, I left that

1454
01:06:11,280 --> 01:06:15,040
Speaker 2: relationship where it was at twenty nineteen, I'm pouring into me.

1455
01:06:15,640 --> 01:06:20,640
Speaker 2: Part of pouring into me is personal training, and I'm

1456
01:06:21,080 --> 01:06:23,439
Speaker 2: now in the gym. I'm working out fall in love

1457
01:06:23,480 --> 01:06:25,240
Speaker 2: with fitness, and then.

1458
01:06:25,160 --> 01:06:26,960
Speaker 1: I actually can't fall in love with fitness. I keep

1459
01:06:26,960 --> 01:06:28,600
Speaker 1: trying to convince myself that, but gone.

1460
01:06:28,520 --> 01:06:31,440
Speaker 2: I think you can, Yeah, you definitely can. And you know,

1461
01:06:31,560 --> 01:06:33,040
Speaker 2: for me, I feel like it was really like the

1462
01:06:33,160 --> 01:06:37,520
Speaker 2: mental benefits, Like it put me in such a better space,

1463
01:06:37,680 --> 01:06:40,360
Speaker 2: you know, and it made me make better choices throughout

1464
01:06:40,440 --> 01:06:42,640
Speaker 2: the rest of the day, you know, and just have

1465
01:06:43,080 --> 01:06:46,800
Speaker 2: more inspiration because it was me pouring into me, you know.

1466
01:06:46,960 --> 01:06:50,240
Speaker 2: And then everything else from there helped remind me to

1467
01:06:50,320 --> 01:06:54,080
Speaker 2: pour into me, you know. But during that I met

1468
01:06:54,280 --> 01:06:57,560
Speaker 2: my current boyfriend now because he's a personal trainer. Okay,

1469
01:06:57,720 --> 01:07:00,160
Speaker 2: so it's crazy because he was so professional too. I

1470
01:07:00,320 --> 01:07:04,640
Speaker 2: like we were like literally just client and and trainer

1471
01:07:04,800 --> 01:07:06,640
Speaker 2: for so long. And then I would like ask him,

1472
01:07:06,720 --> 01:07:08,280
Speaker 2: like what do you do out here? Like do you

1473
01:07:08,440 --> 01:07:08,920
Speaker 2: have friends?

1474
01:07:08,960 --> 01:07:10,240
Speaker 1: Do you hang out? Do you have fun?

1475
01:07:10,360 --> 01:07:12,000
Speaker 2: Do you do anything at night? You know? You want

1476
01:07:12,040 --> 01:07:13,920
Speaker 2: to come out with me and my friends? Like whatever?

1477
01:07:14,280 --> 01:07:15,960
Speaker 2: So I like had to drag him out. Basically, I

1478
01:07:16,040 --> 01:07:18,400
Speaker 2: invite him out like three times he always turned me down,

1479
01:07:18,960 --> 01:07:21,160
Speaker 2: and finally, like that third he came and hung out

1480
01:07:21,200 --> 01:07:23,800
Speaker 2: and like that's when we like started our friendship, you know,

1481
01:07:24,280 --> 01:07:24,680
Speaker 2: and then.

1482
01:07:24,720 --> 01:07:26,520
Speaker 1: Eventually it became a relationship.

1483
01:07:26,680 --> 01:07:30,440
Speaker 2: Okay, nice, but he you know, he's I feel like

1484
01:07:30,520 --> 01:07:34,480
Speaker 2: he was like sent to me because yeah, he helped

1485
01:07:34,480 --> 01:07:37,840
Speaker 2: me the timing and everything, and he has always been

1486
01:07:38,040 --> 01:07:40,880
Speaker 2: like an advocate of me, pouring into me. You know,

1487
01:07:41,040 --> 01:07:43,360
Speaker 2: it's nice. I like it. I like that.

1488
01:07:43,560 --> 01:07:45,680
Speaker 1: And then and now we take you up to here

1489
01:07:45,880 --> 01:07:48,960
Speaker 1: where you're writing this be greater.

1490
01:07:48,840 --> 01:07:51,480
Speaker 2: Then be greater than company business.

1491
01:07:51,760 --> 01:07:54,840
Speaker 1: Now are you are you still dipping your toe every

1492
01:07:54,840 --> 01:07:56,800
Speaker 1: once in a while into Dan still or yeah?

1493
01:07:57,000 --> 01:07:59,600
Speaker 2: I am, I am, But I pick and choose where

1494
01:07:59,720 --> 01:08:03,120
Speaker 2: you know, Unfortunately, I still feel like dancers are like

1495
01:08:03,360 --> 01:08:07,160
Speaker 2: the like lowest paid and the least respected in this industry.

1496
01:08:07,360 --> 01:08:08,200
Speaker 1: So it's.

1497
01:08:09,800 --> 01:08:15,320
Speaker 2: Hard, like you know, like sets and stuff sometimes that

1498
01:08:15,360 --> 01:08:17,400
Speaker 2: we have to be in our situations that it just

1499
01:08:17,720 --> 01:08:19,360
Speaker 2: makes it hard for me to be like, yeah, I

1500
01:08:19,439 --> 01:08:21,880
Speaker 2: want to go do that. Now I've done it also.

1501
01:08:23,200 --> 01:08:26,080
Speaker 1: Bajillion times of the negative side, yeah, I mean like

1502
01:08:26,960 --> 01:08:29,960
Speaker 1: just like, how did you see that interview recently where

1503
01:08:30,160 --> 01:08:33,400
Speaker 1: the cast of The Color Purple was talking about and

1504
01:08:33,520 --> 01:08:36,200
Speaker 1: co signing with Taraji about how they didn't have like

1505
01:08:36,320 --> 01:08:38,840
Speaker 1: dressing rooms or anywhere to like sit down, and they

1506
01:08:38,920 --> 01:08:41,519
Speaker 1: were like that like where they had to like she

1507
01:08:41,680 --> 01:08:43,639
Speaker 1: had to ask them for like a ride to set

1508
01:08:43,800 --> 01:08:44,040
Speaker 1: or some.

1509
01:08:44,120 --> 01:08:46,280
Speaker 2: Food or whatever, like we don't have any food in

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01:08:46,360 --> 01:08:46,840
Speaker 2: our rooms?

1511
01:08:46,920 --> 01:08:47,879
Speaker 1: Can we get snacks?

1512
01:08:47,960 --> 01:08:48,080
Speaker 2: You know?

1513
01:08:48,520 --> 01:08:50,880
Speaker 1: And you're on set, locked it on all day, you

1514
01:08:50,960 --> 01:08:53,679
Speaker 1: can't leave, right, Yeah, Dancers get treated like that a lot.

1515
01:08:53,800 --> 01:08:56,000
Speaker 2: You know, we don't have if we have a holding room,

1516
01:08:56,160 --> 01:08:59,240
Speaker 2: there's no chairs where we're just on a dusty, dirty floor.

1517
01:08:59,840 --> 01:09:02,679
Speaker 2: You know, there's no snacks, where's the water we're dancing,

1518
01:09:02,840 --> 01:09:03,720
Speaker 2: we're sweating, you.

1519
01:09:03,800 --> 01:09:07,000
Speaker 1: Know, like wow? And then are they usually contractors so

1520
01:09:07,080 --> 01:09:10,400
Speaker 1: there's no like labor laws or anything, right because it's

1521
01:09:10,479 --> 01:09:12,479
Speaker 1: contract work. Get the freak.

1522
01:09:12,600 --> 01:09:15,280
Speaker 2: That's why television, that's why I started falling in love

1523
01:09:15,320 --> 01:09:18,240
Speaker 2: with that too, because that's sag. There's a union, there's

1524
01:09:18,240 --> 01:09:22,599
Speaker 2: a representation, you know, like people look after you, there's rules,

1525
01:09:22,680 --> 01:09:26,080
Speaker 2: there's you can't if you work overtime, you're paid for it.

1526
01:09:26,680 --> 01:09:26,880
Speaker 2: You know.

1527
01:09:27,120 --> 01:09:29,680
Speaker 1: Like but now when you're a dancer and you're on

1528
01:09:29,800 --> 01:09:32,400
Speaker 1: contract and you have rehearsal, do they consider the rehearsal?

1529
01:09:33,360 --> 01:09:34,960
Speaker 1: Do they help nothing?

1530
01:09:35,240 --> 01:09:35,360
Speaker 2: Is it?

1531
01:09:35,560 --> 01:09:38,280
Speaker 1: Like it's scary out there because you look at these

1532
01:09:38,360 --> 01:09:40,040
Speaker 1: dancers in the videos and you look at them on

1533
01:09:40,200 --> 01:09:42,439
Speaker 1: tour and you're like, that's amazing, what an amazing opportunity.

1534
01:09:42,479 --> 01:09:44,960
Speaker 3: But you don't think them like sitting in a room, yeah,

1535
01:09:45,280 --> 01:09:47,720
Speaker 3: just starving to daddy of be eating one thing or

1536
01:09:47,880 --> 01:09:50,800
Speaker 3: like yeah I'm not drinking water or freezing maybe all

1537
01:09:50,880 --> 01:09:53,000
Speaker 3: day or something like depending on the settings.

1538
01:09:53,520 --> 01:09:54,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's crazy.

1539
01:09:54,400 --> 01:09:57,680
Speaker 2: And then yeah, it's all based on like those kind

1540
01:09:57,720 --> 01:10:01,240
Speaker 2: of contracts if they're not a set like music video rate,

1541
01:10:01,320 --> 01:10:03,080
Speaker 2: like rehearsal rate is this, and then the shoot rate

1542
01:10:03,200 --> 01:10:05,439
Speaker 2: is that, and the eye out is that you can

1543
01:10:05,560 --> 01:10:08,200
Speaker 2: negotiate whatever. You know, if it's a tour rate and

1544
01:10:08,200 --> 01:10:11,200
Speaker 2: you're like I want three thousand a week, like you

1545
01:10:11,280 --> 01:10:13,880
Speaker 2: can negotiate that. But a lot of times they're like

1546
01:10:13,960 --> 01:10:16,800
Speaker 2: we only have X, yeah, and it's either take it

1547
01:10:16,880 --> 01:10:20,400
Speaker 2: or leave it, you know. So the industry is crazy.

1548
01:10:20,560 --> 01:10:22,640
Speaker 2: It's crazy, and a lot of times they'll take that

1549
01:10:23,000 --> 01:10:26,920
Speaker 2: main rate and cut it in half for rehearsals like that.

1550
01:10:27,200 --> 01:10:32,360
Speaker 2: Then that's your rate, weekly rate, no, well like daily, yeah,

1551
01:10:33,000 --> 01:10:34,200
Speaker 2: you rate.

1552
01:10:34,360 --> 01:10:36,679
Speaker 1: Yeah. So I'm going that people are starting to speak

1553
01:10:36,720 --> 01:10:40,120
Speaker 1: out about it because it's starting to like humanize, Yeah,

1554
01:10:40,200 --> 01:10:42,120
Speaker 1: the industry for all these people that are on looking

1555
01:10:42,160 --> 01:10:43,759
Speaker 1: like you're a turagi or you're you're.

1556
01:10:43,640 --> 01:10:46,880
Speaker 2: No, yeah, And that's why like even me myself, like

1557
01:10:47,040 --> 01:10:50,160
Speaker 2: I'm like I'm in the working smarter not harder era,

1558
01:10:50,400 --> 01:10:54,840
Speaker 2: you know, Like I've been a dancer for professional dancer

1559
01:10:54,960 --> 01:10:59,040
Speaker 2: for like twenty years almost and I've done literally everything,

1560
01:10:59,200 --> 01:11:04,240
Speaker 2: worked very hard for it, and like we shouldn't have

1561
01:11:04,680 --> 01:11:07,760
Speaker 2: to always work that hard, Like we should be taken

1562
01:11:07,800 --> 01:11:10,080
Speaker 2: care of. We shouldn't have to beg for water, we

1563
01:11:10,120 --> 01:11:12,920
Speaker 2: shouldn't have to beg for you know, certain things or

1564
01:11:13,040 --> 01:11:16,400
Speaker 2: like a seat or a cushion or like not dance

1565
01:11:16,479 --> 01:11:19,320
Speaker 2: on concrete or something, you know, like, but it happens

1566
01:11:19,560 --> 01:11:23,280
Speaker 2: all the time. And then like social media comes around,

1567
01:11:23,400 --> 01:11:26,720
Speaker 2: and you know, the rates are crazy and brands are

1568
01:11:26,760 --> 01:11:31,080
Speaker 2: paying influencers crazy hundreds of crazy amount of money, treating

1569
01:11:31,120 --> 01:11:34,200
Speaker 2: them like superstars, flying them out to this place in

1570
01:11:34,280 --> 01:11:36,439
Speaker 2: that place, and it's like, wow, we can't even like

1571
01:11:36,640 --> 01:11:38,000
Speaker 2: get that in the industry.

1572
01:11:38,520 --> 01:11:41,439
Speaker 1: You know, I got some friends that are influencers in

1573
01:11:41,479 --> 01:11:42,679
Speaker 1: the money they make is crazy.

1574
01:11:43,040 --> 01:11:45,800
Speaker 2: I make more as an influencer than a dancer or

1575
01:11:45,960 --> 01:11:47,599
Speaker 2: an actor or wow.

1576
01:11:48,720 --> 01:11:52,599
Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, the world has definitely flipped. Yeah, it's definitely flipped.

1577
01:11:52,880 --> 01:11:53,040
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1578
01:11:53,280 --> 01:11:55,360
Speaker 1: Crazy. That's a big reason why I didn't go on

1579
01:11:55,439 --> 01:11:59,719
Speaker 1: this tour. Yeah yeah, you know, it's like work smarter,

1580
01:11:59,840 --> 01:12:03,400
Speaker 1: not harder, guys, It's not always and I think too

1581
01:12:03,520 --> 01:12:05,439
Speaker 1: in this age, like people are getting caught up in

1582
01:12:05,479 --> 01:12:07,240
Speaker 1: the likes and the followers. It's like, oh, I have

1583
01:12:07,360 --> 01:12:10,760
Speaker 1: three hundred thousand. It's weird. It's like some people don't

1584
01:12:10,760 --> 01:12:12,960
Speaker 1: even have that much in their bank account and they're like,

1585
01:12:13,040 --> 01:12:15,960
Speaker 1: I'm a superstar because I have fifteen thousand followers. Like, yeah,

1586
01:12:16,240 --> 01:12:19,320
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say humble yourself, but do live in reality.

1587
01:12:19,040 --> 01:12:23,040
Speaker 2: Do live in reality, Yes, and be aware and yeah,

1588
01:12:23,880 --> 01:12:26,480
Speaker 2: have a sense of humility.

1589
01:12:26,439 --> 01:12:29,320
Speaker 1: You know, but definite in reality. I always tell people

1590
01:12:29,320 --> 01:12:30,960
Speaker 1: before you look at your likes and your followers, like,

1591
01:12:31,280 --> 01:12:35,880
Speaker 1: also assess. Also assess your bank account along with it. Yeah, sorry,

1592
01:12:36,000 --> 01:12:37,519
Speaker 1: because you have to.

1593
01:12:37,680 --> 01:12:38,240
Speaker 3: You have to.

1594
01:12:38,720 --> 01:12:41,040
Speaker 1: Your bank account still matters at the end of the day.

1595
01:12:41,200 --> 01:12:44,000
Speaker 2: It does, and you have to be smart. Like rich

1596
01:12:44,080 --> 01:12:46,720
Speaker 2: people are where they're at because they were smart with

1597
01:12:46,840 --> 01:12:49,599
Speaker 2: their money. You know, a lot of them, Yeah, unless they.

1598
01:12:50,360 --> 01:12:52,720
Speaker 1: It was just this is kind of random, but I'm

1599
01:12:52,920 --> 01:12:55,000
Speaker 1: I'm deathly curious. Do you read a lot? I know

1600
01:12:55,160 --> 01:12:57,280
Speaker 1: we're almost done. I don't know if they're that's not

1601
01:12:57,360 --> 01:13:00,479
Speaker 1: even for us, But uh, what books do you read?

1602
01:13:00,560 --> 01:13:01,160
Speaker 1: Are you a reader?

1603
01:13:01,320 --> 01:13:04,240
Speaker 2: You know, I am not a big reader, but I

1604
01:13:04,400 --> 01:13:07,280
Speaker 2: am trying to be so if you have recommendations, I'm

1605
01:13:07,280 --> 01:13:10,920
Speaker 2: a reader because I'm that's the era I'm in now.

1606
01:13:10,960 --> 01:13:13,160
Speaker 2: I'm like, I need to learn, and like you know,

1607
01:13:13,280 --> 01:13:17,000
Speaker 2: I'm always telling people be a sponge, like always learn learn,

1608
01:13:17,120 --> 01:13:19,960
Speaker 2: learn from everyone, So please, I'm a booker.

1609
01:13:20,120 --> 01:13:25,519
Speaker 1: I'm a booker. But well, i'll tell you off camera.

1610
01:13:25,680 --> 01:13:28,840
Speaker 1: But there's a couple of favorite books I have. But yeah,

1611
01:13:28,840 --> 01:13:31,440
Speaker 1: I definitely like to read if I have an opportunity

1612
01:13:31,600 --> 01:13:33,240
Speaker 1: now that I have a two year old. Every time

1613
01:13:33,280 --> 01:13:36,040
Speaker 1: I open a book, she like rips it out of

1614
01:13:36,120 --> 01:13:38,439
Speaker 1: my hand and she's like reading. I'm like, that's for me,

1615
01:13:38,520 --> 01:13:40,560
Speaker 1: and then it's like the rip war and so she

1616
01:13:40,680 --> 01:13:43,200
Speaker 1: wants to read it. Yeah, so unless it's like the

1617
01:13:43,280 --> 01:13:46,120
Speaker 1: bear and the squirrel get along, like I basically have

1618
01:13:46,200 --> 01:13:46,960
Speaker 1: to hide my books.

1619
01:13:47,120 --> 01:13:49,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, you like a physical book too. I like the

1620
01:13:49,479 --> 01:13:50,799
Speaker 2: audible love physical.

1621
01:13:50,880 --> 01:13:54,479
Speaker 1: I've been getting into audio lately with her because otherwise

1622
01:13:54,520 --> 01:13:56,960
Speaker 1: there won't be that much reading. But I've been doing

1623
01:13:57,080 --> 01:13:59,280
Speaker 1: more of a like it's you know, I used to

1624
01:13:59,280 --> 01:14:01,000
Speaker 1: be all into business books, but now I'm all into

1625
01:14:01,120 --> 01:14:05,400
Speaker 1: like self help, please save me from myself, well and your.

1626
01:14:05,360 --> 01:14:08,960
Speaker 2: Mom, you know, And that's you know. Jasmine also has

1627
01:14:09,160 --> 01:14:13,040
Speaker 2: a two year old who I'm her godmom, and that's

1628
01:14:13,120 --> 01:14:17,080
Speaker 2: what made her pour into her was having to prioritize

1629
01:14:17,160 --> 01:14:20,800
Speaker 2: her daughter and herself better and not be like a

1630
01:14:20,960 --> 01:14:24,360
Speaker 2: dancer who's just like jumping around from rehearsal rehearsal at

1631
01:14:24,479 --> 01:14:27,040
Speaker 2: someone else's time whenever they asked for you. Like, she

1632
01:14:27,160 --> 01:14:30,960
Speaker 2: had to like prioritize her daughter and like work different,

1633
01:14:31,160 --> 01:14:32,960
Speaker 2: you know, and like so she was like, I want

1634
01:14:33,000 --> 01:14:35,400
Speaker 2: to create something that makes sense for me as a mom.

1635
01:14:35,680 --> 01:14:35,840
Speaker 2: You know.

1636
01:14:36,520 --> 01:14:38,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember I try to get all these like

1637
01:14:39,040 --> 01:14:42,240
Speaker 1: books on like stay at home mom work or how

1638
01:14:42,280 --> 01:14:45,600
Speaker 1: to balance your schedule. But I think having I was

1639
01:14:46,000 --> 01:14:49,639
Speaker 1: married going through a divorce, but one of the things

1640
01:14:49,760 --> 01:14:52,439
Speaker 1: I learned was like I was taking care of everyone

1641
01:14:52,640 --> 01:14:55,120
Speaker 1: but me, and like I was always the last. It

1642
01:14:55,240 --> 01:14:57,280
Speaker 1: got to the point where I'm making my daughter's lunch

1643
01:14:57,320 --> 01:14:59,679
Speaker 1: and I make it like psycho level. I'm that parent

1644
01:14:59,760 --> 01:15:02,080
Speaker 1: that's fruit, vegetables, snack.

1645
01:15:02,080 --> 01:15:03,600
Speaker 2: Cheese like layers.

1646
01:15:04,720 --> 01:15:06,720
Speaker 1: They open the lunch box and they're like, your daughter,

1647
01:15:06,880 --> 01:15:09,200
Speaker 1: for one, doesn't eat out of this stuff. But I'm like,

1648
01:15:09,280 --> 01:15:11,000
Speaker 1: you never know what mood she's gonna be. Yeah, but

1649
01:15:11,120 --> 01:15:13,639
Speaker 1: then I'll have all these healthy options for her. Right

1650
01:15:13,920 --> 01:15:16,360
Speaker 1: And as many times as I do her thurrows chips

1651
01:15:16,560 --> 01:15:19,000
Speaker 1: and I'm eating none of this stuff that's in the house,

1652
01:15:19,040 --> 01:15:21,439
Speaker 1: and I'm like, do you know what I mean? Like

1653
01:15:21,520 --> 01:15:24,360
Speaker 1: what about you? Like why can't you eat a blueberry

1654
01:15:24,479 --> 01:15:26,639
Speaker 1: or BlackBerry or cutting out eat some of the apples

1655
01:15:26,640 --> 01:15:29,320
Speaker 1: you're cutting? Yeah, you know, And I realized that I'm

1656
01:15:30,240 --> 01:15:33,640
Speaker 1: everybody else and I'll work thirteen million jobs to make

1657
01:15:33,680 --> 01:15:36,160
Speaker 1: sure that every bill is taking care of and everyone's comfortable.

1658
01:15:36,640 --> 01:15:41,640
Speaker 1: I mean, not only sucky addiction kind of is I

1659
01:15:41,800 --> 01:15:44,439
Speaker 1: like to drive nice cars, like my only thing. That's like,

1660
01:15:44,840 --> 01:15:46,640
Speaker 1: but you know, once she's okay, yeah, but.

1661
01:15:46,760 --> 01:15:48,639
Speaker 2: They all have that's not a bad one.

1662
01:15:49,280 --> 01:15:51,080
Speaker 1: It's literally the only thing. Like I switched them out

1663
01:15:51,120 --> 01:15:53,200
Speaker 1: like every three years. But I will say that, like,

1664
01:15:53,520 --> 01:15:55,720
Speaker 1: it's still not enough to just be like, Okay, I

1665
01:15:55,800 --> 01:15:57,639
Speaker 1: got the car that I want for the next three

1666
01:15:57,720 --> 01:16:01,559
Speaker 1: years or however long you know, the new one comes out.

1667
01:16:01,640 --> 01:16:03,880
Speaker 1: But that's not really enough to say I'm taking care

1668
01:16:03,880 --> 01:16:06,240
Speaker 1: of myself. That's just like, that's just that's a.

1669
01:16:06,360 --> 01:16:08,840
Speaker 2: Nice luxury thing girl that you just that's like it's

1670
01:16:08,840 --> 01:16:11,880
Speaker 2: like like like you deserve that, you know.

1671
01:16:12,280 --> 01:16:16,120
Speaker 1: But but where can people keep up with? Be greater

1672
01:16:16,240 --> 01:16:18,680
Speaker 1: than and and shout out how people can keep up

1673
01:16:18,720 --> 01:16:19,560
Speaker 1: with Ashley.

1674
01:16:19,439 --> 01:16:23,120
Speaker 2: Be greater than is on Instagram, be greater than Underscore

1675
01:16:24,520 --> 01:16:29,640
Speaker 2: and then myself Ashley C M. Everett Yeah, on all

1676
01:16:29,680 --> 01:16:31,000
Speaker 2: social media platforms.

1677
01:16:31,880 --> 01:16:33,880
Speaker 1: All right, So guys, if you want to keep up

1678
01:16:33,920 --> 01:16:36,880
Speaker 1: with Ashley, go ahead, and thanks for listening to another

1679
01:16:37,000 --> 01:16:59,920
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