WEBVTT - ASHLEY EVERETT - Self Love Soup

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<v Speaker 1>Hey, guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm your host, Coleen Witt, and today we have very

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<v Speaker 1>special guests. World renowned dancer in the Building and founder

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<v Speaker 1>owner of wellness brand be Greater Than in the Building,

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<v Speaker 1>Ashley Everett. Yeah, yes, thanks for having me girl. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I was here. I was excited. I was on a

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<v Speaker 1>phone call with a friend and he was like, have

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<v Speaker 1>you had Ashley on the show? And I was like, actually,

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<v Speaker 1>what what? And then I heard a little bit of

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<v Speaker 1>Beehi was involved. I said, yes, we gotta have her.

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<v Speaker 1>We gotta find out what your story is. I think

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<v Speaker 1>just saying you started with Beyonce. Yeah, we should never

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<v Speaker 1>ever scratch that narrative that never doesn't exist wild right.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, but seventeen at seventeen seventeen.

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

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<v Speaker 1>But before we get into the story, I must know

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<v Speaker 1>what you're gonna have me eating today.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh my gosh, girl, we are making iconic ramen noodles iconic. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>but it's elevated.

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

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<v Speaker 1>ramen on the show. We are anti ramen. After what

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

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<v Speaker 1>beyond package. I literally send an email back like no, no, no, no,

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

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<v Speaker 1>So what are you doing to elevate your ramen.

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

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<v Speaker 2>skill it, skill it up. And then we're gonna add

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<v Speaker 2>a harboiled egg if you like eggs. I like to

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<v Speaker 2>add a little green and they're a little vegetable of

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<v Speaker 2>some soor either cabbage or spinach. And then we have

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<v Speaker 2>some corn. I love corn. I hear there's no benefits

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<v Speaker 2>to it, but I love corn.

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<v Speaker 1>I absolutely love corn. And every time someone tries to

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<v Speaker 1>tell me how terrible corn is and how it doesn't benefit.

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

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<v Speaker 2>So either it's not good, not bad, and just I.

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

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<v Speaker 1>but or the whatever, not that we want to think

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<v Speaker 1>about that right now. But I will say that after

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<v Speaker 1>living in La, the way LA does corn is very unique.

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<v Speaker 1>I remember the first time someone did the corn with

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<v Speaker 1>the mao and the butter and the parmesan cheese. I

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

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<v Speaker 1>I know, I get another one.

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<v Speaker 2>I know. And it's so popular out here. It's so popular.

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<v Speaker 1>I literally like there would be days where I'll be

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<v Speaker 1>driving through the streets like where are you? Where are yo?

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<v Speaker 2>Yo?

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<v Speaker 1>And I always tell people like never to haggle the

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<v Speaker 1>street vendors, because if you do the research on those

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<v Speaker 1>street vendors, they're not even making like one hundred dollars

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<v Speaker 1>iron profit, Like they're really struggling.

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<v Speaker 2>I know. So I'm always looking it for the passion

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<v Speaker 2>and yeah, should I get started?

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

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<v Speaker 1>elevated ramen, take me back to either when you was

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<v Speaker 1>eating ramen before it became elevated, you know, before you

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<v Speaker 1>became the chef of you know, I've had ramen so

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<v Speaker 1>many times I gotta elevate it. Take me back to

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<v Speaker 1>what was going on then.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh my gosh, well, I mean I've been eating ramen

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

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<v Speaker 2>dancers before like anything, you're an entrepreneur before model, actor,

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<v Speaker 2>any of that.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm a dancer. I evehancer since I was two.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. See. And you know the reason why we're doing

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<v Speaker 2>ramen is because a lot of people think, like when

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<v Speaker 2>you're on tour with a superstar and like life is

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<v Speaker 2>like all this glitz and glam and luxury all the time.

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<v Speaker 1>That's what I'd be thinking. I'd be like, what should

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<v Speaker 1>mean natal show? But like they give you like a

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<v Speaker 1>don't they give you what do they call it? The

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<v Speaker 1>little budget?

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<v Speaker 2>Every day? Oh?

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<v Speaker 1>Per dimn per dim? Yeah, do you get those?

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<v Speaker 2>But you but it's like that's for breakfast, lunch and

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<v Speaker 2>dinner for you to feed yourself every day. So you know,

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<v Speaker 2>it's like depending on where you are, like a norm

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<v Speaker 2>p dem is like seventy five to maybe one hundred,

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<v Speaker 2>maybe one hundred and fifty if you're like overseas somewhere

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<v Speaker 2>a day, you know, so breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

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<v Speaker 1>So they're like simple meals.

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<v Speaker 2>You know. Everything else is on your own. And we

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<v Speaker 2>eat a lot of ramen. We're on tour buses a lot.

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<v Speaker 2>We're like backstage a lot, but we like live on

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<v Speaker 2>the tour bus on the roads.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh my gosh. And you're limited there, girl.

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<v Speaker 2>We don't have all this. We don't have a stove,

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<v Speaker 2>We only got the microwave, and like, you know, whatever

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<v Speaker 2>couldie get into the fridge, you know all that. So

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<v Speaker 2>I ate a lot of Ramen noodles in my early

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<v Speaker 2>tour days. Wow. So and then as we got older

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<v Speaker 2>and all that, Like once we got home, I still

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

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<v Speaker 2>to meal line. But we learned how to like elevate it. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>started adding the kitchen of course. Of course I love

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<v Speaker 2>hearing people's remakes on ramen.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah. So you started dancing at the age of two.

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<v Speaker 1>I started when I was too. I'm guessing your mom

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<v Speaker 1>or who who was the one that was like, we're

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<v Speaker 1>gonna put your little booty in ballet.

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<v Speaker 2>My mom yep, put me in ballet at two two

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<v Speaker 2>and a half. And she like comes from the art

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<v Speaker 2>she I say, she like vicariously lives through me. She's

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

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<v Speaker 2>She's gonna be all over reposting everything like she's I

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<v Speaker 2>love that. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, So are you an only childer?

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<v Speaker 2>No, I'm the only girl though, okay, and I'm the

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

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<v Speaker 2>you know, Okay, but yeah, so she put me in

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<v Speaker 2>dance because she always like wanted to dance and wanted

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<v Speaker 2>to sing, dance, act all of that. I took her

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<v Speaker 2>to the Michael Jackson musical, which is here.

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<v Speaker 1>In La Shall see It? Is it really good?

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<v Speaker 2>It's so good, girl, and she loved and she was like,

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<v Speaker 2>if I could do this right now at my age,

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<v Speaker 2>I would get up there and sing and dance in

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<v Speaker 2>this ensemble.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm like, oh, I love Dang. I don't even know

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<v Speaker 1>that's happened. I'm gonna look. I'm gonna look it up now.

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

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<v Speaker 1>Should I start with this? Yeah, go ahead, start start

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

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<v Speaker 1>We're just we're cooking. We're like too homegirls. Yeah, hang,

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<v Speaker 1>is this on? I don't know did you turn it on?

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<v Speaker 2>I did turn it on.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, it's for me. It's electric, it's I know, I

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

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<v Speaker 1>This was originally when we designed the table, I thought

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<v Speaker 1>we were just gonna pop up on people's backyards with

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<v Speaker 1>the table and shoot at they houses and stuff. I

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<v Speaker 1>didn't really have a full plan on how we're gonna

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<v Speaker 1>do eating while broke. I just knew we needed a

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<v Speaker 1>cook top, and uh, that's how we did that. But

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<v Speaker 1>we're making it work. So your mom's having you do

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<v Speaker 1>all the arty things.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah. She put me in dance when I was young,

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<v Speaker 2>and I just like fell in love with it. I

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<v Speaker 2>started with ballet, and I was like that quiet girl,

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<v Speaker 2>the student, just like focused, you know, paying attention, like

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<v Speaker 2>wanting to learn. I loved it, and I think I naturally,

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<v Speaker 2>like was decent at it. And then when I was

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<v Speaker 2>like when did I start traveling around like thirteen, No,

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<v Speaker 2>maybe it was a little younger, like twelve, I started

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<v Speaker 2>doing summer intensives and that it's like really in ballet

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<v Speaker 2>or in ballet modern. I did competitions like growing up too,

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<v Speaker 2>So that was like where the hip hop and the

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<v Speaker 2>jazz and the tap and all the other styles came in.

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<v Speaker 2>So I would do nutcrackers during the winter and competitions

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<v Speaker 2>during the spring, and that was like my dance life,

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<v Speaker 2>like reality, you know, it was like my job as

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<v Speaker 2>a kid.

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<v Speaker 1>And your mom was fully invested in taking you around and.

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<v Speaker 2>From that Yep, to stay at home mom just in it.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, she was in it. She was invested invested.

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<v Speaker 1>Was it ever hard on you dealing with a mom

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<v Speaker 1>that was like really that in it?

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<v Speaker 2>No, she was never like a crazy dance mom like

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<v Speaker 2>the abby knees and all that. Yeah, she was never

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<v Speaker 2>crazy like that. Okay, I'm gonna do just like a

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<v Speaker 2>few little pieces, okay are.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah you could it for both of us.

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

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<v Speaker 2>You might be like vegan or something grown now on

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<v Speaker 2>the one egg so well, that's what I say.

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<v Speaker 1>It's that hard boiled egg. So I've pre boiled that

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<v Speaker 1>right before you came to I was trying to help

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<v Speaker 1>you out. But no, I get to rate the it's

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<v Speaker 1>just this, oh lord, yeah, not rating. It's funny because

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<v Speaker 1>I look at I have a two year old daughter,

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<v Speaker 1>and I know her little best friend at school does ballet,

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<v Speaker 1>and I'm like, are they old enough to really understand

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<v Speaker 1>it that age what they're doing? Yeah, at ballet, you know.

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<v Speaker 1>But it's interesting you started.

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<v Speaker 2>It teaches you like discipline, you know, and like how

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<v Speaker 2>to follow, and like I just think, yeah, I just

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<v Speaker 2>think it teaches yah, that's what you know. I have

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<v Speaker 2>this conversation a lot because I have nieces and nephews.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't have any children, but nieces and nephews, and

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<v Speaker 2>I feel like they're older. They're like in their teens

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<v Speaker 2>and stuff like seventeen fifteen, and I feel like they

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<v Speaker 2>don't They're like if they're not into anything, they're like,

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<v Speaker 2>it's it's crazy, girl, Like they need to be involved

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<v Speaker 2>in something, you know, so like I already here to

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<v Speaker 2>tell me that at the other day early or like

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<v Speaker 2>a sport or whatever teaches them discipline, like and then

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<v Speaker 2>once them. I feel like that that's why I'm so disciplined,

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<v Speaker 2>Like and I can like I know how to like

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<v Speaker 2>make myself disciplined or like, you know, I'm a hard worker,

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<v Speaker 2>like I will work hard and blood, sweat, tears, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>like all of that.

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<v Speaker 1>So I didn't know, did you did you ask your

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<v Speaker 1>mom like was it like she saw you dancing? I

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<v Speaker 1>know I'm getting all stuck into the details, but I'm

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<v Speaker 1>genuinely curious. Did she notice you were into like music

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<v Speaker 1>and then she puts you in or was it like.

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<v Speaker 2>No, I want to just put me in it, Okay,

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<v Speaker 2>Hoping I liked it okay, and I did awesome.

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<v Speaker 1>You know. So you're doing all these competitions and you're

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<v Speaker 1>doing different types of dance.

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<v Speaker 2>Yep, this is like all in my younger years, is there?

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<v Speaker 1>And were you watching the like, say the Last Dance,

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<v Speaker 1>Oh my god, all that because those boys would make

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<v Speaker 1>you want to dance, right.

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

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<v Speaker 2>So I don't know if you know this, but I

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<v Speaker 2>was about to go to Juilliard. Julia was like a

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<v Speaker 2>dream of mine, and that's like the story of Save

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<v Speaker 2>the Last Dance. She like wants to go to Julliard,

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<v Speaker 2>but then like starts doing hip hop and like all

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<v Speaker 2>this was like a ballet girl. And I'm like that

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<v Speaker 2>was me because I was like a ballet girl. But

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<v Speaker 2>then I like would do hip hop. Two and I

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<v Speaker 2>went to Juilliard summer intensive when I was sixteen.

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<v Speaker 1>I auditioned for the college.

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<v Speaker 2>When I was seventeen, I got accepted, and then I

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<v Speaker 2>auditioned for Beyonce's tour and went on tour at seventeen

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<v Speaker 2>and I was like, oh, okay, so we still in

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<v Speaker 2>high school. I was still in high school. I went

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<v Speaker 2>to high school in New York City called Professional Children's

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<v Speaker 2>School that like it was all professional children like ice skaters, actors,

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<v Speaker 2>ballet dancers, you know, musicians, and they like allowed us

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<v Speaker 2>to leave school to work. And so I got that

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<v Speaker 2>job and it was like alignment, girl, like boo picked alignment.

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<v Speaker 1>Did you have the job before you went to the

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<v Speaker 1>school or did y'all?

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<v Speaker 2>I moved to New York at sixteen. My parents put

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<v Speaker 2>me in private school for the first time ever. Professional

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<v Speaker 2>children at school, well made them want to move. You.

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<v Speaker 2>They saw my potential and they took when they moved,

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<v Speaker 2>the whole family. Yeah, my well, my parents are in

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<v Speaker 2>real estate, so just my mom and I moved. My

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<v Speaker 2>dad like came with us, set us up, and then

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<v Speaker 2>he moved back home and like kept raising my brother

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<v Speaker 2>who was eighteen but just had like graduated from high

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<v Speaker 2>school and stuff. Okay when I was sixteen, And so

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<v Speaker 2>it was like the sacrifice of the family for my career.

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<v Speaker 1>And they really believed in you. Did you feel any

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<v Speaker 1>type of pressure with that level of belief in you?

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<v Speaker 2>You know, I don't think I realized I did, but

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<v Speaker 2>maybe I did now looking back, you know, And that's

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<v Speaker 2>why I like phil like if these kids now I'm like,

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<v Speaker 2>y'all need to be in something. Don't you want to

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<v Speaker 2>make us proud? Like, yeah, they wanted to make my

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<v Speaker 2>parents proud because they believed in me so much. And

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<v Speaker 2>now that we're having this conversation, I'm like, oh, maybe

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<v Speaker 2>I was like pressuring myself. Even still, I'm like, I

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<v Speaker 2>owe them so much.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, are you getting a most rye? You're now like

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<v Speaker 1>I can't watch people die. That's the way because I

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<v Speaker 1>thought about parents growl be like I waited so much

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<v Speaker 1>for me. That's so sweet.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, cooking and crying, this isn't it. This is a

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<v Speaker 2>show girl cooking cry.

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<v Speaker 1>I love when it sounds terrible, but I love when

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<v Speaker 1>people cry on the show because I think there's it's

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<v Speaker 1>like you're taking it because you said it before, and

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<v Speaker 1>I was like, but I think it's because you're like

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<v Speaker 1>the cool thing about the whole eating while broke experience.

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<v Speaker 1>It's like, I'm trying to get you back into that

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<v Speaker 1>like seat of the beginning you are. Really here's a

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<v Speaker 1>little tissue.

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<v Speaker 2>I know, girl, I know I started to thank you

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<v Speaker 2>so when you started.

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<v Speaker 1>So you get into this school, your parents get you

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<v Speaker 1>into the school, A team effort gets you into the school. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>and they and a book Beyonce. Uh, how what year

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<v Speaker 1>was that? What what Beyonce album was going on at

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<v Speaker 1>that time?

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<v Speaker 2>Because I this is the B Day album. That's like

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<v Speaker 2>when I that was.

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<v Speaker 1>The whole to the Left to the Left, No, then

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<v Speaker 1>the box is irreplaceable. It was. Yeah, I think there

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<v Speaker 1>was a bunch of great records.

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<v Speaker 2>It was.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm a diehard jay Z fan. So and my twin

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<v Speaker 1>sister is a die hard Beyonce fan, which is kind

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<v Speaker 1>of weird because they're together now, but like, I was

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<v Speaker 1>always a diehard Jane and then he gets with Beyonce

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<v Speaker 1>and now she's like, you ain't listening to Beyonce record.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm like, you ain't listen to day Z record?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah? Did you guys go to on the Run?

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<v Speaker 1>On the Run? No, I mean I've only been to

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<v Speaker 1>one jay Z concert. That's it. I mean, I'll be

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<v Speaker 1>having money. My money is always funny.

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<v Speaker 2>Girl. One of the things that I like love the

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<v Speaker 2>brag about is like I can say I was a

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<v Speaker 2>jay Z dancer, Like that's.

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<v Speaker 1>Cool to me because hell, yeah, you.

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<v Speaker 2>Have one of the coolest people. I named my dog

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<v Speaker 2>after him, like his name is so really Yeah, I

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<v Speaker 2>think it's like one of the coolest people ever really,

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<v Speaker 2>so yeah, he's like just so smart too, and like

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<v Speaker 2>really nice, like a really nice guy.

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<v Speaker 1>So yeah. Yeah, and always like been consistent consistent you

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<v Speaker 1>mean consistent in character. Yeah, and like with me to

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<v Speaker 1>me personally, because really speaking personally. But yeah, you know

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<v Speaker 1>I have I brag about I say this on almost

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<v Speaker 1>every episode, but I have an original, one of a

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<v Speaker 1>kind painting of jay Z in the lobby, oh my

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<v Speaker 1>little tiny lobby. You'll look at it afterwards be like, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>that's true. I got it customized. I got it custom

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<v Speaker 1>made when I was like twenty four. Yeah, it's huge

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<v Speaker 1>by who my mom. I was like, Mom, I'll pay

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<v Speaker 1>you whatever if you can make this painting on a

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<v Speaker 1>five foot canvas for me. And then she didn't ship

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<v Speaker 1>it to me till like four years later after I

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<v Speaker 1>bought my first house. Oh my gosh. Yeah, so shout

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<v Speaker 1>outs it's it's one of a kind. She always calls me,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, Jay would buy it. I'm like, Mom, this

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<v Speaker 1>is I don't even got real quick. Yeah, yeah, you

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<v Speaker 1>fast with it.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm only doing that amount of chicken how much you

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<v Speaker 2>want you want some none of I.

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<v Speaker 1>Mean it's okay. It's okay because you know what we're

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<v Speaker 1>going to be hearing your story. You got you. It

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<v Speaker 1>sounds like you have a lot of stories.

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<v Speaker 2>I'll be like, what are YOUULTI tasking girls? Sometimes I'd

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<v Speaker 2>be like, scatter right.

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<v Speaker 1>Where are you when you find out that you? First

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<v Speaker 1>of all, where are you when you I want to

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<v Speaker 1>know what's going on in your head when you're auditioning,

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<v Speaker 1>But I also want to know where you were when

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<v Speaker 1>you found out you booked it.

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<v Speaker 2>I was at home when I found out I booked

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<v Speaker 2>at home meeting in New York because I had moved

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<v Speaker 2>to New yor sixteen end of six I'm.

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<v Speaker 1>And they knew you were a seventeen year old.

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<v Speaker 2>They eventually knew I was seventeen year old. I don't

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<v Speaker 2>think like when I was first auditioning, they knew once

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<v Speaker 2>they like wanted to book me and stuff. They like

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<v Speaker 2>asked me how old I was, and like, you know

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<v Speaker 2>what my situation was because I lived in New York

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<v Speaker 2>and they first they asked me to fly to LA

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<v Speaker 2>and shoot a bunch of music videos and that was

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<v Speaker 2>the B Day album, my first music video ever in

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<v Speaker 2>my first job, like with her was they Get Me

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<v Speaker 2>Bodied music video O Kaind of that song.

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<v Speaker 1>How does It Go?

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<v Speaker 2>Oh? Were doing me tonight?

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<v Speaker 1>I never hurt nobody. I remember that video.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, yeah, So I'm in that video. And then

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<v Speaker 2>like two days later, I shot the green Light music

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<v Speaker 2>video and they put me like right next to her,

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<v Speaker 2>and I remember on set everybody kept just saying, like,

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<v Speaker 2>you guys really like resemble each other. Our hair was

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<v Speaker 2>slicked back in a bun and were like standing like

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<v Speaker 2>at side by side, like or like in a line profile,

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<v Speaker 2>and everybody was like, you guys just resemble each other,

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<v Speaker 2>Like are you related? And said whatever and so, and

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<v Speaker 2>I remember her mom saying that she was like on

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<v Speaker 2>set that was when she was doing wardrobe and stuff

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<v Speaker 2>like that. And yeah, I just remember them my saying

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<v Speaker 2>yeah about me on that set. And so after those

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<v Speaker 2>music videos, I went back to New York and got

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<v Speaker 2>a call to be a part of the tour. That's

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<v Speaker 2>like how the tour stuff like started. And then I

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<v Speaker 2>went on tour. This is at the top of seven,

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<v Speaker 2>my senior year of high school. But I went to

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<v Speaker 2>the professional children's school that allowed me to like leave

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<v Speaker 2>school and work and go on tour. I came back

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<v Speaker 2>in June. I graduated, walked in my class, caught up

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<v Speaker 2>on my school work, went back on tour, and then

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<v Speaker 2>dropped out of my dream college because tour.

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<v Speaker 1>Was oh dream college of Juilliard.

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<v Speaker 2>Juilliard, Yeah, get.

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<v Speaker 1>The freak out.

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<v Speaker 2>Dropped out because I was enrolled, girl, I was enrolled.

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<v Speaker 2>I was supposed to start like September seventh or something.

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<v Speaker 2>I remember like very vividly, and I dropped out like

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<v Speaker 2>the first, like literally a week before. I'm not mad

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<v Speaker 2>because the spot actually went to a friend of mine

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<v Speaker 2>who also was another dancer in New York, and I

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<v Speaker 2>was like, great, that's cool. She is also black. I

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<v Speaker 2>was like okay, because that's only like one of us

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<v Speaker 2>at the time. It's always like one little token. And

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<v Speaker 2>then I went back on tour for like a month

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<v Speaker 2>and then was like, now what with my career? Now?

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<v Speaker 2>What do you do? Oh?

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<v Speaker 1>What were your parents saying too? When you're like, were

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<v Speaker 1>they involved in the discussion of you possibly leaving Juilliard?

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<v Speaker 2>And yes they were, you know, and that was like

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<v Speaker 2>my first like adult decision. They were like, we support

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<v Speaker 2>you either way. We're here for you. You know, whatever

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<v Speaker 2>you want to do, we support you, you know. Juilliard

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<v Speaker 2>is great, great option, Beyonce, you want to keep touring

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<v Speaker 2>and start your career also great? Eh.

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<v Speaker 1>And let's go back to that first. So your first

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<v Speaker 1>time working with her, what are you? What are your

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<v Speaker 1>thoughts when you're standing next to her? Are you nervous

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<v Speaker 1>at all? You just like I got this in a bag, Like, oh.

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<v Speaker 2>My gosh, the first time working with her, I mean

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<v Speaker 2>I was just like so green and like didn't know

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<v Speaker 2>anything about the industry a but also like coming from

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<v Speaker 2>the ballet, we're all very like, you know, like discipline,

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<v Speaker 2>so like.

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<v Speaker 1>Ballet requires a lot of discipline. Huh my god.

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<v Speaker 2>What girl, maybe like hitting you with rulers and stuff

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<v Speaker 2>and you're like like tighten up, you know, like it's

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<v Speaker 2>very like okay, like Russians and stuff.

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<v Speaker 1>So yeah, and when you were going to ballet and

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<v Speaker 1>all that stuff where they're kids that look like you.

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<v Speaker 1>When I say that black and you know, you know

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<v Speaker 1>what I'm trying to say, No, are you her mixed? Right?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 1>What are you? Black and white? Black and white? Okay?

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

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<v Speaker 1>I have a white father.

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<v Speaker 2>I have a white dad too, Okay, okay, cool, which

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<v Speaker 2>is like it's very rare. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>I always get the opposite.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah yeah, if there was a little I would put

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<v Speaker 2>a lid on.

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<v Speaker 1>But there's a lid in the back. But it's okay,

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<v Speaker 1>it's okay.

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<v Speaker 2>So just gonna let her simmer down on This is

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<v Speaker 2>so funny because I know when you're like not cooking

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<v Speaker 2>in your kitchen, everything's a little different.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah yeah, and you're you're trying to keep it like

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<v Speaker 1>tidy and all that, and it's not. It's going all

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<v Speaker 1>over the place. Look at me, see Okay, so you're

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<v Speaker 1>so take me back to the first time you're working

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<v Speaker 1>alongside her, like what are your thoughts? Clearly you're very

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<v Speaker 1>your posture and everything's on point. Actually, and you did

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<v Speaker 1>practice before, like they make you practice a lot before.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, okay, yeah, we do a lot of rehearsals. And

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<v Speaker 2>she this is back like in the beginning of her like.

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<v Speaker 1>Branching off from the Destiny Chong.

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<v Speaker 2>Chow and all that. So she was like involved and

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<v Speaker 2>included in a lot, you know, like always in rehearsals,

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<v Speaker 2>like there all day with us, just like involved a

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<v Speaker 2>lot and even taking you back a little bit further

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<v Speaker 2>before I even auditioned. I was training at Alvin Ailey,

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<v Speaker 2>if to Alvin Ailey before. It's a modern company, like

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<v Speaker 2>black modern company New York. It's one of the most

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<v Speaker 2>famous ones. And I was that's the school I was

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<v Speaker 2>like dancing at, and I thought I was going to

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<v Speaker 2>be like in the company there. I thought they were

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<v Speaker 2>going to recruit me while I was like before I

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<v Speaker 2>graduated high school or whatever. And Beyonce was rehearsing at

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<v Speaker 2>the studio because it was one of the nicest, most beautiful,

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<v Speaker 2>like bigger studios in New York for people to rent

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<v Speaker 2>out and rehearse at. And she was rehearsing for some

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<v Speaker 2>awards show at Radio City in New York, and her

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<v Speaker 2>choreographer was outside of the rehearsal room and he stopped me,

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<v Speaker 2>like just based on my looks. I was in a

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<v Speaker 2>leotardan tights, girl bun whatever. But everybody had heard like

0:20:45.280 --> 0:20:48.040
<v Speaker 2>Beyonce was there. Yeah, there was a security guard standing

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<v Speaker 2>out like you know where gets around, especially like a

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<v Speaker 2>dance studio or whatever. So everybody was like kind of

0:20:53.400 --> 0:20:55.679
<v Speaker 2>like whispering. I had like a class down there, so

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<v Speaker 2>I was kind of just like, oh whatever, and the

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<v Speaker 2>choreographer stops me and it's like, excuse me, Can I

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<v Speaker 2>talk to you for a second. I'm like yes, And

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<v Speaker 2>he's like, you're very beautiful, Like do you do more

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<v Speaker 2>than ballet? I see you do ballet. I'm like, yes,

0:21:08.000 --> 0:21:11.800
<v Speaker 2>I do ballet of monter, jazz, hip hop, tap, you know, lyracle,

0:21:11.960 --> 0:21:12.760
<v Speaker 2>everything I'm training.

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<v Speaker 1>You're like, here's my whole rest man. I'm like, what

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<v Speaker 1>do you want?

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<v Speaker 2>And he invited me into the rehearsal space and that

0:21:20.680 --> 0:21:24.439
<v Speaker 2>was like my first time meeting her ever. And she

0:21:24.440 --> 0:21:27.080
<v Speaker 2>she was so sweet, so sweet and so like just

0:21:27.800 --> 0:21:31.320
<v Speaker 2>humble and like she looked like a dancer, you know.

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<v Speaker 2>Her hair was down and big, and she had no

0:21:33.840 --> 0:21:36.080
<v Speaker 2>makeup on, she had no shoes on, she was barefoot,

0:21:36.560 --> 0:21:40.360
<v Speaker 2>just like regular rehearsal clothes and sweating and just working

0:21:41.320 --> 0:21:44.400
<v Speaker 2>like all of us in that studio, you know, and

0:21:44.960 --> 0:21:47.000
<v Speaker 2>it was just beautiful. That was like my first like

0:21:47.240 --> 0:21:50.520
<v Speaker 2>actual meeting with her. And I was like, oh, this

0:21:50.600 --> 0:21:53.679
<v Speaker 2>is so nice, you know. And then he took my

0:21:53.720 --> 0:21:55.480
<v Speaker 2>information and told me he would call me and never

0:21:55.520 --> 0:21:58.639
<v Speaker 2>call me, very like my introduction to the NDAA. I

0:21:58.680 --> 0:22:00.080
<v Speaker 2>was like, ah, this is what it's like.

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<v Speaker 1>What was he? I hate to ask this, But do

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<v Speaker 1>you think he was like trying to holliway low key

0:22:04.800 --> 0:22:06.320
<v Speaker 1>or was he just like a professional?

0:22:06.359 --> 0:22:08.480
<v Speaker 2>No? No, no, I think he was actually like genuine

0:22:08.560 --> 0:22:10.960
<v Speaker 2>because he is like known in this industry for kind

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<v Speaker 2>of finding and discovering talent.

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<v Speaker 1>Wow.

0:22:14.840 --> 0:22:17.840
<v Speaker 2>He is still I say, like responsible for discovering me

0:22:17.880 --> 0:22:19.359
<v Speaker 2>because he's like a mentor of mine.

0:22:19.720 --> 0:22:22.800
<v Speaker 1>Kandfather came full circle in the end. Oh wow.

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<v Speaker 2>So I the like months later, they're having open call

0:22:27.000 --> 0:22:29.639
<v Speaker 2>auditions and like all my friends are like, oh, let's go,

0:22:29.720 --> 0:22:32.399
<v Speaker 2>let's go Beyonce auditions whatever. And the line is literally

0:22:32.440 --> 0:22:34.960
<v Speaker 2>like down the block, round the corner. This is in

0:22:34.960 --> 0:22:37.560
<v Speaker 2>New York City, Yeah, six blocks, you know, and this

0:22:37.600 --> 0:22:39.120
<v Speaker 2>is in November. It's freezing.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm like, I'm not standing in this line, Like I'm

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<v Speaker 2>not doing it. My mom's like my biggest thing.

0:22:44.000 --> 0:22:45.560
<v Speaker 1>She like, you all stand in his line. We got

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<v Speaker 1>the hook.

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<v Speaker 2>She's like, girl, we didn't move all the way to

0:22:47.720 --> 0:22:49.360
<v Speaker 2>New York for you not to stand in this line,

0:22:49.480 --> 0:22:51.560
<v Speaker 2>So you go ahead and go and stand in this

0:22:51.680 --> 0:22:53.720
<v Speaker 2>line like whatever. She always would say, what do you

0:22:53.720 --> 0:22:56.240
<v Speaker 2>have to lose? And I still tell myself that to

0:22:56.440 --> 0:22:58.719
<v Speaker 2>this day, like anytime I like, am wanting to do

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<v Speaker 2>something or like taking your risk or like a little scared,

0:23:01.400 --> 0:23:02.879
<v Speaker 2>and it's like what do you have to lose?

0:23:02.960 --> 0:23:03.280
<v Speaker 1>Yeah?

0:23:03.359 --> 0:23:05.959
<v Speaker 2>Nothing, you know, if you have nothing to lose, then go.

0:23:06.280 --> 0:23:06.760
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>So I went. I help with some friends stun line

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<v Speaker 2>for three hours. Still girl freezing. But when I got

0:23:28.440 --> 0:23:32.320
<v Speaker 2>in there, he Frank Gatson, the choreographer, recognized me from

0:23:32.320 --> 0:23:34.960
<v Speaker 2>that time in the dance studio. Oh wow, and he

0:23:35.080 --> 0:23:37.560
<v Speaker 2>was like I know you, and like he's that guy

0:23:37.600 --> 0:23:40.720
<v Speaker 2>he remembers faces, he like remembers people and all of that,

0:23:40.800 --> 0:23:42.520
<v Speaker 2>and he's like he kept me to the end. Everybody

0:23:42.520 --> 0:23:44.800
<v Speaker 2>else was getting cut left and right. Girl like bye.

0:23:44.840 --> 0:23:46.280
<v Speaker 2>Think it because it was an open call. It was

0:23:46.320 --> 0:23:49.240
<v Speaker 2>like people off the street like beyoncely audition, Okay, I

0:23:49.320 --> 0:23:52.120
<v Speaker 2>want to go, like you know, like Grandma's like.

0:23:52.160 --> 0:23:54.200
<v Speaker 1>Let me tell you, I tried dancing for like one

0:23:54.359 --> 0:23:56.160
<v Speaker 1>I tried dancing out. It was like I was going

0:23:56.200 --> 0:23:57.440
<v Speaker 1>through a break and I was like, I'm gonna try

0:23:57.480 --> 0:23:59.040
<v Speaker 1>all the things that I was always interested in that

0:23:59.119 --> 0:24:03.760
<v Speaker 1>my parents couldn't have. And uh, let's just say dancing

0:24:03.920 --> 0:24:06.920
<v Speaker 1>is is just you? Definitely, I don't know. It's maybe

0:24:07.000 --> 0:24:11.040
<v Speaker 1>built for some and not for all, but then you're terrible.

0:24:11.560 --> 0:24:14.680
<v Speaker 1>This looks like you gotta start at the kindergarten level.

0:24:14.720 --> 0:24:19.080
<v Speaker 2>And I mean, you know, it can definitely be taught though,

0:24:19.200 --> 0:24:21.240
<v Speaker 2>but yeah, I get it. Some people are naturals. And

0:24:21.240 --> 0:24:22.320
<v Speaker 2>then somebody knew it.

0:24:22.520 --> 0:24:25.200
<v Speaker 1>Was some girls that was killing it, and I said, oh,

0:24:25.320 --> 0:24:28.199
<v Speaker 1>but I couldn't remember stuff. My memory was bad. Uh.

0:24:28.520 --> 0:24:28.720
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

0:24:29.000 --> 0:24:30.879
<v Speaker 1>A lot of people ask that, like how do you

0:24:30.960 --> 0:24:35.040
<v Speaker 1>remember all the steps? It's a muscle in it memory,

0:24:35.520 --> 0:24:37.560
<v Speaker 1>is it. And then I think you also have to

0:24:37.560 --> 0:24:40.680
<v Speaker 1>be very comfortable in your body because I'm like always like,

0:24:40.720 --> 0:24:42.440
<v Speaker 1>even when I see girls do squats and they stick

0:24:42.440 --> 0:24:44.800
<v Speaker 1>their asshole out, I'm like, I don't know if I'm

0:24:44.800 --> 0:24:45.800
<v Speaker 1>comfortable doing.

0:24:45.640 --> 0:24:48.520
<v Speaker 2>It, being like all the way right for the position

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<v Speaker 2>to go to the squad?

0:24:49.800 --> 0:24:53.359
<v Speaker 1>Do you hit the squad right? You thought was right form, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>But when I see girls do it and I'd be

0:24:54.960 --> 0:24:56.840
<v Speaker 1>like I try to do it, I'm like, yeah, I'm

0:24:56.840 --> 0:24:58.159
<v Speaker 1>not doing that. I'm not doing that.

0:24:58.400 --> 0:25:01.199
<v Speaker 2>I feel it, but I feel like this is like

0:25:01.280 --> 0:25:03.919
<v Speaker 2>kind of okay, Okay, I know, looks raggedy, give me

0:25:03.960 --> 0:25:05.400
<v Speaker 2>your ball, okay, a little bit.

0:25:06.359 --> 0:25:08.520
<v Speaker 1>So you so you so you make it to the

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<v Speaker 1>end of the audition, then what happens?

0:25:10.480 --> 0:25:12.760
<v Speaker 2>And then I get that call to come to LA

0:25:13.119 --> 0:25:16.800
<v Speaker 2>and do a bunch of music videos or like you know,

0:25:17.359 --> 0:25:20.560
<v Speaker 2>basically audition. It was like a big audition in LA

0:25:20.600 --> 0:25:24.000
<v Speaker 2>of like fifty dancers and she was shooting ten music

0:25:24.080 --> 0:25:25.800
<v Speaker 2>videos and they didn't know who they were using for what,

0:25:26.320 --> 0:25:28.960
<v Speaker 2>so like that's what it was like. I came and

0:25:29.000 --> 0:25:31.320
<v Speaker 2>I stayed for like a week, and we did a

0:25:31.359 --> 0:25:34.359
<v Speaker 2>bunch of rehearsals and I shot two music videos.

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<v Speaker 1>And then and when you're doing this, is your parents

0:25:37.400 --> 0:25:39.359
<v Speaker 1>have to pay out of their own pocket or is

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<v Speaker 1>it like on their time? At this point?

0:25:41.520 --> 0:25:46.199
<v Speaker 2>At that point, I think I think they did ask me. No.

0:25:46.359 --> 0:25:49.720
<v Speaker 2>I actually think they flew a group of us from

0:25:49.840 --> 0:25:52.200
<v Speaker 2>New York out and we stayed at a hotel. Yeah, okay,

0:25:52.320 --> 0:25:54.639
<v Speaker 2>I stayed with I met this other girl. She was

0:25:54.680 --> 0:25:56.960
<v Speaker 2>in New York too, have like a roommate and all

0:25:57.000 --> 0:25:59.120
<v Speaker 2>of that. But a lot of times they will ask

0:25:59.160 --> 0:26:01.399
<v Speaker 2>you if you're willing to to come out as a local,

0:26:01.480 --> 0:26:05.440
<v Speaker 2>which means okay, yeah wow, And and when you're.

0:26:05.320 --> 0:26:08.720
<v Speaker 1>You better serve yourself a plot too, Yes I am,

0:26:09.040 --> 0:26:09.520
<v Speaker 1>I am.

0:26:09.800 --> 0:26:12.080
<v Speaker 2>And then we have like other like siracha if you

0:26:12.119 --> 0:26:15.119
<v Speaker 2>want to add who spice? And then the garlic pace also,

0:26:15.200 --> 0:26:18.639
<v Speaker 2>that's something I got from the restaurants. Okay, at a

0:26:18.640 --> 0:26:20.119
<v Speaker 2>little garlic in there, isn't it be.

0:26:20.760 --> 0:26:25.200
<v Speaker 1>Mm hmm bomb? So you uh so, after you make

0:26:25.600 --> 0:26:28.520
<v Speaker 1>let's let's skip forward to like your after the tour

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<v Speaker 1>ends for a month. I hate to skip around on y'all,

0:26:30.560 --> 0:26:34.800
<v Speaker 1>but we're gonna do it. After you're on tour, you've

0:26:34.800 --> 0:26:39.840
<v Speaker 1>done the videos, you bail out on Juilliard, you're off tour,

0:26:39.960 --> 0:26:45.920
<v Speaker 1>You're sitting there like, what's next, chicken? Uh So tell

0:26:45.960 --> 0:26:47.159
<v Speaker 1>me what happens next?

0:26:47.800 --> 0:26:50.320
<v Speaker 2>So then I'm like real life, you know, like here

0:26:50.359 --> 0:26:54.760
<v Speaker 2>we are, like what do we do now? Because like,

0:26:55.800 --> 0:26:58.120
<v Speaker 2>tour doesn't mean you're guaranteed a full time job.

0:26:58.160 --> 0:27:00.520
<v Speaker 1>You're you know, but they didn't tell you. Did they

0:27:00.560 --> 0:27:01.760
<v Speaker 1>tell you it was only going to be a month?

0:27:02.040 --> 0:27:04.520
<v Speaker 2>Yeah? They said I was getting extended for like another month,

0:27:04.640 --> 0:27:08.040
<v Speaker 2>and I was like, okay, I'm willing to take that risk.

0:27:08.200 --> 0:27:10.040
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Yeah.

0:27:10.080 --> 0:27:14.040
<v Speaker 2>So after that, girl, I mean, I like, I'm very

0:27:14.080 --> 0:27:19.080
<v Speaker 2>blessed and grateful because I have had a great career

0:27:19.240 --> 0:27:25.359
<v Speaker 2>of a dance career, especially of consistently working.

0:27:25.560 --> 0:27:29.040
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and you've worked for a lot. So what happens

0:27:29.119 --> 0:27:30.160
<v Speaker 1>after the tour ends?

0:27:30.280 --> 0:27:33.760
<v Speaker 2>So after the tour ends, I'm back in New York.

0:27:34.000 --> 0:27:35.679
<v Speaker 1>I go home.

0:27:37.560 --> 0:27:40.920
<v Speaker 2>And I think, I think I'm like auditioning for stuff again,

0:27:41.160 --> 0:27:43.280
<v Speaker 2>just like back to you know.

0:27:43.400 --> 0:27:46.639
<v Speaker 1>But now you have Beyonce on your record. I'm on

0:27:46.640 --> 0:27:48.040
<v Speaker 1>your resume, sorry record.

0:27:48.440 --> 0:27:51.239
<v Speaker 2>So now my agents, now I get I'm starting to

0:27:51.560 --> 0:27:53.680
<v Speaker 2>get a little dose of what it's like to get

0:27:53.680 --> 0:27:56.920
<v Speaker 2>a direct book, you know, and not have to audition.

0:27:57.000 --> 0:27:58.840
<v Speaker 2>They're like, oh, we want her in the music video

0:27:58.880 --> 0:28:01.720
<v Speaker 2>because we recognize her for Beyonce. Okay, that kind of thing.

0:28:01.960 --> 0:28:04.240
<v Speaker 1>And then you're saying agents and managers. So at this

0:28:04.280 --> 0:28:06.600
<v Speaker 1>point after her you get an agent and a manager.

0:28:06.359 --> 0:28:08.280
<v Speaker 2>Before, Yeah, because I didn't have an agent before.

0:28:08.359 --> 0:28:10.399
<v Speaker 1>Okay. And then how did they get How did they

0:28:10.440 --> 0:28:12.320
<v Speaker 1>find you? They just from the video. They just reach

0:28:12.359 --> 0:28:12.919
<v Speaker 1>out and say, hey, I.

0:28:12.960 --> 0:28:16.000
<v Speaker 2>Went to them. I said, I just got off tour

0:28:16.280 --> 0:28:21.720
<v Speaker 2>with Beyonce. I need I need representation, you know whatever. Actually,

0:28:21.760 --> 0:28:23.600
<v Speaker 2>I think I got an agent like while I was

0:28:23.640 --> 0:28:26.960
<v Speaker 2>on tour, more than for them to make sure everything

0:28:27.040 --> 0:28:29.280
<v Speaker 2>was right, because you know, we were doing DVD deals

0:28:29.400 --> 0:28:33.320
<v Speaker 2>stuff like that. We needed like just people professionals who

0:28:33.359 --> 0:28:35.160
<v Speaker 2>knew what they were doing. That's what I learned as

0:28:35.200 --> 0:28:37.399
<v Speaker 2>I got in the industry. I was very thrown in

0:28:37.440 --> 0:28:40.640
<v Speaker 2>the industry. You know. I didn't know about agencies and

0:28:40.760 --> 0:28:42.920
<v Speaker 2>auditions and all that. Like clearly I went to an

0:28:42.920 --> 0:28:45.880
<v Speaker 2>open call audition. I needn't go to an invited call.

0:28:46.200 --> 0:28:46.600
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

0:28:46.640 --> 0:28:53.120
<v Speaker 2>So yeah, I learned by just being in it. But yeah,

0:28:53.160 --> 0:28:55.920
<v Speaker 2>after tour, girl, So after that first tour, I'm in

0:28:55.960 --> 0:28:59.160
<v Speaker 2>the grind now, like learning about these other jobs.

0:28:59.200 --> 0:29:01.480
<v Speaker 1>I'm still living in New York at the time, so.

0:29:01.640 --> 0:29:05.280
<v Speaker 2>I think I actually after that first tour, the year

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<v Speaker 2>after I did the Radio City Rockets, I was back

0:29:07.840 --> 0:29:08.320
<v Speaker 2>at Have.

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<v Speaker 1>You ever seen that show?

0:29:09.520 --> 0:29:09.600
<v Speaker 2>No?

0:29:09.840 --> 0:29:11.360
<v Speaker 1>But I feel like I need to I need to

0:29:12.040 --> 0:29:14.880
<v Speaker 1>stay in tune with all the shows with here's a

0:29:14.920 --> 0:29:16.680
<v Speaker 1>list of all the things you need to check out.

0:29:16.960 --> 0:29:19.840
<v Speaker 2>Okay, the Rockets are the girls who do the kick lines?

0:29:19.920 --> 0:29:21.600
<v Speaker 1>Oh oh yeah.

0:29:21.520 --> 0:29:26.720
<v Speaker 2>Women okay yeah, yeah, like Candy Cane kick Yeah, people

0:29:26.880 --> 0:29:27.520
<v Speaker 2>like refer to that.

0:29:28.280 --> 0:29:28.520
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

0:29:28.520 --> 0:29:30.160
<v Speaker 2>So I did that for one year and I still

0:29:30.160 --> 0:29:31.760
<v Speaker 2>to this day say that is like one of the

0:29:31.760 --> 0:29:33.000
<v Speaker 2>hardest jobs of my life.

0:29:33.280 --> 0:29:34.240
<v Speaker 1>Really, why is it?

0:29:34.240 --> 0:29:36.840
<v Speaker 2>Because of the rehearsals, the rehearsals and the shows. We

0:29:36.840 --> 0:29:39.920
<v Speaker 2>were doing four shows max, four shows a day, four

0:29:40.320 --> 0:29:41.080
<v Speaker 2>four and night.

0:29:41.480 --> 0:29:43.760
<v Speaker 1>Oh my gosh in one the first one. And were

0:29:43.800 --> 0:29:45.360
<v Speaker 1>you eating Ramen Journey these days too?

0:29:45.560 --> 0:29:45.800
<v Speaker 2>Yeah?

0:29:45.920 --> 0:29:50.480
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, that's crazy. So there's like, that's crazy because

0:29:50.480 --> 0:29:53.120
<v Speaker 1>you have this crazy workout ethic, but are you really

0:29:53.120 --> 0:29:55.240
<v Speaker 1>fueling your body at the level that No?

0:29:55.520 --> 0:29:59.320
<v Speaker 2>I mean most like athletes, dancers, you know, especially dancers,

0:29:59.360 --> 0:30:02.800
<v Speaker 2>Like maybe athletes probably take better care of themselves. Yeah,

0:30:02.840 --> 0:30:05.120
<v Speaker 2>so like because they got like coaches and stuff, like

0:30:05.160 --> 0:30:05.640
<v Speaker 2>we don't.

0:30:05.680 --> 0:30:11.600
<v Speaker 1>We just be making it work, you know, stretching. And

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<v Speaker 1>I'm curious in regards to By the way, out of

0:30:15.240 --> 0:30:18.920
<v Speaker 1>all the dishes on this show, this by far looks

0:30:18.960 --> 0:30:22.440
<v Speaker 1>more the most restaurant, doesn't it look at that? I

0:30:22.440 --> 0:30:24.720
<v Speaker 1>don't know if the cameras I try to like give

0:30:24.760 --> 0:30:28.160
<v Speaker 1>it a little seat, like literally with all the I

0:30:28.200 --> 0:30:29.680
<v Speaker 1>don't know what's going on with my mic By the way,

0:30:29.720 --> 0:30:32.400
<v Speaker 1>it's like looking like it wants to fight me. But

0:30:32.480 --> 0:30:35.360
<v Speaker 1>this dish looks like you could bite at a restaurant.

0:30:35.800 --> 0:30:37.960
<v Speaker 1>I don't know. It's so pretty. It's got the green,

0:30:38.440 --> 0:30:41.640
<v Speaker 1>the yellow, the chicken looks all seasoned. I can't wait

0:30:41.680 --> 0:30:46.120
<v Speaker 1>to try this. I feel like I'm loving your story,

0:30:46.360 --> 0:30:50.320
<v Speaker 1>like absolutely, like live for stories like this because it's

0:30:50.320 --> 0:30:52.760
<v Speaker 1>like you're carrying me through it. There's a million and

0:30:52.800 --> 0:30:56.120
<v Speaker 1>one questions I can ask, and yeah, I will trust me.

0:30:56.400 --> 0:30:57.520
<v Speaker 1>I love it though, I will.

0:30:58.160 --> 0:31:01.480
<v Speaker 2>We did, we've even gotten anywhere. I know, we're like

0:31:01.560 --> 0:31:02.520
<v Speaker 2>twenty twenty.

0:31:03.480 --> 0:31:05.000
<v Speaker 1>I can't wait. I can't wait.

0:31:05.400 --> 0:31:05.760
<v Speaker 2>All right?

0:31:06.040 --> 0:31:09.200
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, so let's try this amazing looking dish. It

0:31:09.240 --> 0:31:12.600
<v Speaker 1>looks good. Let's see if it tastes good. Know what

0:31:12.600 --> 0:31:17.040
<v Speaker 1>it's gonna like. Yeah, this is not my kitchen. I'm

0:31:17.040 --> 0:31:19.800
<v Speaker 1>gonna hate a little bit. Yeah, okay, it tastes great.

0:31:19.920 --> 0:31:22.760
<v Speaker 1>I than the corn. I fucking love corn. I don't

0:31:22.760 --> 0:31:24.479
<v Speaker 1>know why I don't add corn. So all my dishes

0:31:24.840 --> 0:31:27.680
<v Speaker 1>with the spinach works. Okay, you over cook the noodle.

0:31:28.000 --> 0:31:29.680
<v Speaker 1>I know I left them in, but that's because I

0:31:29.720 --> 0:31:30.720
<v Speaker 1>was talking to you.

0:31:31.160 --> 0:31:33.240
<v Speaker 2>I looked over and I was like, these noodles, they

0:31:33.280 --> 0:31:34.360
<v Speaker 2>soaked up all the water.

0:31:35.000 --> 0:31:38.280
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, you didn't even dream, right, you know. Yeah,

0:31:38.480 --> 0:31:40.480
<v Speaker 1>let me tell you some noodles are definitely overcooked. The

0:31:40.560 --> 0:31:43.920
<v Speaker 1>spinach in the corn. Now that corn has that little crunch.

0:31:44.160 --> 0:31:47.400
<v Speaker 1>The spinach too. It's just I'm gonna take like two

0:31:47.400 --> 0:31:49.880
<v Speaker 1>more bites and I can question you a lot. I

0:31:49.920 --> 0:31:50.960
<v Speaker 1>want to try the chicken.

0:31:50.760 --> 0:31:54.240
<v Speaker 2>Too, see, And you know, normally we'd be adding like

0:31:54.680 --> 0:31:57.040
<v Speaker 2>a lot more season hangs and things and there.

0:31:57.080 --> 0:31:59.520
<v Speaker 1>But you know, I love when you kept it's simple today.

0:32:00.360 --> 0:32:03.120
<v Speaker 1>I promise you Guess will come on the show, oh

0:32:03.160 --> 0:32:05.760
<v Speaker 1>and they'll start questioning like they're cooking skills. And sometimes

0:32:05.760 --> 0:32:09.040
<v Speaker 1>it's really good, like this is really good. But Ramen, Yeah,

0:32:09.040 --> 0:32:12.400
<v Speaker 1>I mean it's like elevated. It's not just some noodles

0:32:12.480 --> 0:32:16.040
<v Speaker 1>chicken you dig right know you know what saltmn pepper

0:32:16.080 --> 0:32:17.120
<v Speaker 1>on chittiness in that band.

0:32:17.600 --> 0:32:20.920
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, especially if you're trying to be healthier. So and

0:32:21.000 --> 0:32:23.280
<v Speaker 2>on his longer pieces like this, that's it's not even

0:32:23.280 --> 0:32:24.960
<v Speaker 2>al I can kill this whole dish. I'm not la.

0:32:26.240 --> 0:32:28.640
<v Speaker 2>I'm so glad you like it.

0:32:28.840 --> 0:32:31.720
<v Speaker 1>Seecram well, now you know how to make it. That

0:32:31.840 --> 0:32:36.040
<v Speaker 1>is a great way to make ramen. Chicken thinly slice

0:32:36.280 --> 0:32:39.920
<v Speaker 1>salt pepper, you used alibol and vegetable that used olive oil.

0:32:41.280 --> 0:32:43.600
<v Speaker 1>Hands down, amazing Ramen ten out of ten.

0:32:43.760 --> 0:32:44.160
<v Speaker 2>Thanks.

0:32:45.280 --> 0:32:48.000
<v Speaker 1>Even noodles as long as I did the spinach I

0:32:48.000 --> 0:32:49.640
<v Speaker 1>think really adds to it. I don't know why. I

0:32:49.680 --> 0:32:51.160
<v Speaker 1>never thought of that, and you just put the spinach

0:32:51.200 --> 0:32:53.280
<v Speaker 1>in the water while I was boiling. Awesome. I thought

0:32:53.280 --> 0:32:54.960
<v Speaker 1>you were gonna sell tape for some strange reason.

0:32:55.120 --> 0:32:57.960
<v Speaker 2>I actually was thinking you would saute and it would

0:32:58.000 --> 0:33:01.280
<v Speaker 2>already be saute in here, so you know, I don't had.

0:33:01.080 --> 0:33:03.280
<v Speaker 1>It in But you know, the only help you got

0:33:03.280 --> 0:33:05.240
<v Speaker 1>from me he was boiling that one egg. I don't

0:33:05.240 --> 0:33:05.680
<v Speaker 1>know why I.

0:33:05.600 --> 0:33:07.400
<v Speaker 2>Thought stuff was gonna be like prepped and I just

0:33:07.440 --> 0:33:10.640
<v Speaker 2>like put it in the plate. No, we're gonna be like, no,

0:33:10.880 --> 0:33:11.800
<v Speaker 2>you gotta cook a girl.

0:33:14.040 --> 0:33:18.080
<v Speaker 1>I'll like it. I'm gonna try to stop eating. Those

0:33:18.120 --> 0:33:20.200
<v Speaker 1>people get annoyed and were like smacking on the mic,

0:33:20.240 --> 0:33:22.640
<v Speaker 1>but I know I'll be trying. I don't know why

0:33:22.680 --> 0:33:25.120
<v Speaker 1>it's so delicious. Doesn't it feel delicious to you?

0:33:25.200 --> 0:33:27.080
<v Speaker 2>It does, and it's like am I starving?

0:33:27.160 --> 0:33:28.720
<v Speaker 1>Or is it really delicious? I don't know.

0:33:28.760 --> 0:33:30.840
<v Speaker 2>I think it's like the weather all too, and it's

0:33:30.880 --> 0:33:31.520
<v Speaker 2>just like it's.

0:33:31.400 --> 0:33:36.880
<v Speaker 1>Perfect, great dish. It looks like restaurant quality, amazing upgrade

0:33:36.920 --> 0:33:39.480
<v Speaker 1>on the ramen. All right, now, let's go back to

0:33:39.520 --> 0:33:42.880
<v Speaker 1>your story. I wanted to ask, actually, so when you're

0:33:43.080 --> 0:33:45.800
<v Speaker 1>you were talking about you were doing the not the Candygate,

0:33:45.880 --> 0:33:48.800
<v Speaker 1>the radio, the radio City rickets. Yeah, and that was

0:33:48.840 --> 0:33:51.720
<v Speaker 1>the hardest soul. What is your money looking like while

0:33:51.720 --> 0:33:53.120
<v Speaker 1>you're doing all these projects?

0:33:54.200 --> 0:33:57.680
<v Speaker 2>Well, girl, I mean, first of all, like my first tour,

0:33:57.880 --> 0:34:00.920
<v Speaker 2>like I said, I had no representation. I went to

0:34:00.920 --> 0:34:04.280
<v Speaker 2>an open call, like I didn't have anything to compare to.

0:34:04.560 --> 0:34:07.560
<v Speaker 2>So my first like tour rate was much lower than

0:34:07.640 --> 0:34:09.080
<v Speaker 2>what it ever should have been.

0:34:09.160 --> 0:34:11.640
<v Speaker 1>But I didn't know that, you know, But I was

0:34:11.680 --> 0:34:14.800
<v Speaker 1>so new, Like you know, do they do tears like

0:34:14.840 --> 0:34:16.879
<v Speaker 1>the newer you are versus the older you are? Yeah?

0:34:16.960 --> 0:34:20.560
<v Speaker 2>Like as as I came like dance Captain, and like

0:34:20.719 --> 0:34:24.239
<v Speaker 2>you know, by my last year or whatever, I was

0:34:24.239 --> 0:34:27.919
<v Speaker 2>at like my highest rate awesome and like highest paid

0:34:28.040 --> 0:34:30.799
<v Speaker 2>dancer because I've been there the longest or whatever. You know,

0:34:31.560 --> 0:34:33.760
<v Speaker 2>But you gotta fight for the money, girl, every little.

0:34:34.200 --> 0:34:37.239
<v Speaker 1>Do you have to fight for it? Every little now? Yes? Now,

0:34:37.280 --> 0:34:38.640
<v Speaker 1>do you go to your team and tell them to

0:34:38.640 --> 0:34:40.000
<v Speaker 1>push back or do you.

0:34:40.400 --> 0:34:42.520
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, damn, that's what the agents are for.

0:34:42.719 --> 0:34:44.160
<v Speaker 1>You ask them.

0:34:44.239 --> 0:34:49.040
<v Speaker 2>But you know, as I developed a personal relationship, I

0:34:49.080 --> 0:34:54.279
<v Speaker 2>guess and say it could be in conversation with the

0:34:54.360 --> 0:34:56.759
<v Speaker 2>right people, but you know, that's what the agents are for.

0:34:57.080 --> 0:35:00.520
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, because I've seen some be your managers and agents

0:35:00.600 --> 0:35:05.359
<v Speaker 1>to be brutally honest, Like I feel like some of them,

0:35:05.520 --> 0:35:06.759
<v Speaker 1>I don't want to get caught up in this one

0:35:06.880 --> 0:35:08.960
<v Speaker 1>carefully worded. Some of them kind of just take the

0:35:08.960 --> 0:35:11.120
<v Speaker 1>first offer, and I'm like, you're lucky to have this offer,

0:35:11.200 --> 0:35:12.080
<v Speaker 1>so we're gonna take it.

0:35:12.680 --> 0:35:12.879
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

0:35:12.960 --> 0:35:14.640
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, So I've seen that side.

0:35:14.400 --> 0:35:16.440
<v Speaker 2>And I have too. I have too, and I've been

0:35:16.440 --> 0:35:19.080
<v Speaker 2>told that, and I have been that. I've been the

0:35:19.719 --> 0:35:21.080
<v Speaker 2>grateful I'll do it for free.

0:35:21.200 --> 0:35:23.520
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's how I am still to this dam. I'm like, oh,

0:35:23.560 --> 0:35:26.600
<v Speaker 1>you're gonna okay, thank you Jesus. I know I kissed

0:35:26.560 --> 0:35:27.560
<v Speaker 1>the pinky ring.

0:35:27.719 --> 0:35:29.719
<v Speaker 2>I know. It's like we're like traumatized a little bit

0:35:29.760 --> 0:35:32.319
<v Speaker 2>from the way that we were taught to always like

0:35:32.400 --> 0:35:36.600
<v Speaker 2>be grateful. You're replaceable. You should you know, like yeah,

0:35:36.640 --> 0:35:39.520
<v Speaker 2>like you are replaceable. That's what I was definitely taught,

0:35:39.600 --> 0:35:43.040
<v Speaker 2>especially as a dancer, Like you are replaceable. So don't

0:35:43.080 --> 0:35:45.239
<v Speaker 2>you step out of your line, you know, like shit,

0:35:45.360 --> 0:35:47.200
<v Speaker 2>we will replace you in a heartbeat, and if you

0:35:47.400 --> 0:35:49.400
<v Speaker 2>don't take this rate, we'll find somebody who does.

0:35:49.520 --> 0:35:52.160
<v Speaker 1>Like yeah, kidding. I feel like that's the industry. That's

0:35:52.160 --> 0:35:55.160
<v Speaker 1>how the industry moves. Yeah, but you know, I don't

0:35:55.160 --> 0:35:57.200
<v Speaker 1>know if you saw that thing with Taraji where she

0:35:57.440 --> 0:36:00.759
<v Speaker 1>was like crying, Yeah, I was great, but I didn't.

0:36:00.800 --> 0:36:03.160
<v Speaker 1>Gabrielle Union was saying it long before her, like how

0:36:03.200 --> 0:36:06.480
<v Speaker 1>they starting to just collab on text like we're all

0:36:06.520 --> 0:36:08.319
<v Speaker 1>a group, stick to this ring.

0:36:08.480 --> 0:36:11.240
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and its Ray always says, like, you know, you gotta.

0:36:11.920 --> 0:36:14.360
<v Speaker 2>We always are like trying to like work with people

0:36:14.360 --> 0:36:16.319
<v Speaker 2>who are like up here, up here from us. We

0:36:16.400 --> 0:36:19.680
<v Speaker 2>have to like collab across you know, across the table

0:36:19.680 --> 0:36:22.840
<v Speaker 2>instead of like trying to work with Jeff Bezos and

0:36:22.880 --> 0:36:25.440
<v Speaker 2>stuff like he's not We're sitting here together, so we

0:36:25.440 --> 0:36:27.319
<v Speaker 2>should be working together, you know what I mean, Like

0:36:27.760 --> 0:36:29.480
<v Speaker 2>you gotta collab across the table.

0:36:29.719 --> 0:36:32.640
<v Speaker 1>When did you realize that you had to start using

0:36:32.640 --> 0:36:36.080
<v Speaker 1>your voice when it came to like your money and

0:36:36.120 --> 0:36:37.520
<v Speaker 1>like saying I want more?

0:36:38.120 --> 0:36:39.040
<v Speaker 2>Oh my gosh.

0:36:38.920 --> 0:36:40.680
<v Speaker 1>When when was that moment when you did it?

0:36:41.040 --> 0:36:45.600
<v Speaker 2>Like I mean, way more recently than what it should

0:36:45.640 --> 0:36:49.799
<v Speaker 2>have been, honestly, Like you know, honestly, but I would

0:36:49.880 --> 0:36:53.239
<v Speaker 2>say more so like during the pandemic, I really like

0:36:53.600 --> 0:37:02.640
<v Speaker 2>started owning my my what my rate should be you know,

0:37:02.960 --> 0:37:06.120
<v Speaker 2>like and learning that people will pay it, you know,

0:37:06.840 --> 0:37:07.839
<v Speaker 2>the right people will pay it.

0:37:08.320 --> 0:37:11.000
<v Speaker 1>So, yeah, are in the pandemic. The pandemic wasn't everything

0:37:11.040 --> 0:37:11.920
<v Speaker 1>like shut down for you.

0:37:12.320 --> 0:37:16.359
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, but that's like when I, like, I started doing

0:37:16.360 --> 0:37:20.280
<v Speaker 2>a lot more social media stuff during the pandemic, and yeah,

0:37:20.400 --> 0:37:24.839
<v Speaker 2>I just was paid my rate. Like that's like when

0:37:24.880 --> 0:37:27.920
<v Speaker 2>I started learning like that my rate could be better

0:37:28.120 --> 0:37:29.239
<v Speaker 2>in situations.

0:37:29.280 --> 0:37:32.160
<v Speaker 1>You know, it was like, oh, what did your parents

0:37:32.200 --> 0:37:34.840
<v Speaker 1>say when you had the epiphany that, like you wanted more?

0:37:36.320 --> 0:37:38.480
<v Speaker 2>Well, my parents, I mean when I wanted more. I

0:37:38.520 --> 0:37:42.560
<v Speaker 2>think I've always just wanted more. You know. I've always said,

0:37:42.600 --> 0:37:44.320
<v Speaker 2>like I don't want to be a dancer forever. I

0:37:44.320 --> 0:37:46.560
<v Speaker 2>don't want to only be a dancer. I don't want

0:37:46.600 --> 0:37:49.640
<v Speaker 2>to you know. So my parents have always been supportive

0:37:49.680 --> 0:37:53.200
<v Speaker 2>through like everything. I'm very grateful for their support. They're

0:37:53.239 --> 0:37:57.000
<v Speaker 2>still married, I take it, okay. Yeah, Yeah, the few

0:37:57.040 --> 0:37:59.799
<v Speaker 2>that made it, I know they're hanging in there. They are.

0:38:00.120 --> 0:38:03.120
<v Speaker 2>Not that it's been easy, but they are my whole

0:38:03.160 --> 0:38:06.080
<v Speaker 2>life too. It's been great. They're a great example for sure.

0:38:06.640 --> 0:38:09.040
<v Speaker 2>Definitely want that. Yeah, you know, I think we call

0:38:09.200 --> 0:38:09.560
<v Speaker 2>want it.

0:38:09.920 --> 0:38:12.000
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I don't know if it's really gonna happen in

0:38:12.040 --> 0:38:13.920
<v Speaker 1>the New Age, because I feel like the New agees

0:38:14.320 --> 0:38:15.040
<v Speaker 1>I know for it.

0:38:15.239 --> 0:38:17.480
<v Speaker 2>I know, And I'm like, are we like leaning more

0:38:17.480 --> 0:38:20.000
<v Speaker 2>into like the never get married era?

0:38:20.200 --> 0:38:22.160
<v Speaker 1>That's what I think. I tell my twin. I'm like,

0:38:22.160 --> 0:38:24.920
<v Speaker 1>by the time our kids are old enough, marriage is

0:38:24.920 --> 0:38:27.000
<v Speaker 1>gonna be Do you have a twin? I have a twin. Yeah,

0:38:27.160 --> 0:38:29.319
<v Speaker 1>that's why I said. I said. She likes Beyonce and

0:38:29.360 --> 0:38:32.239
<v Speaker 1>I like Jay and it's weird because we band it

0:38:32.320 --> 0:38:36.880
<v Speaker 1>up together. That's so cool. But uh so sorry, I

0:38:36.880 --> 0:38:40.560
<v Speaker 1>don't mean to bounce around your story. So let's go

0:38:40.680 --> 0:38:43.239
<v Speaker 1>back to when you're doing the Rockets. Yeah, okay, so

0:38:43.280 --> 0:38:46.600
<v Speaker 1>you're on this strenuous schedule at this point. What's your

0:38:46.719 --> 0:38:47.720
<v Speaker 1>next biggest play?

0:38:48.840 --> 0:38:51.359
<v Speaker 2>Well, okay, so I did the Rockets. I did one

0:38:51.400 --> 0:38:53.840
<v Speaker 2>tour with Beyonce. I did the Rockets Tour, and that

0:38:53.920 --> 0:38:58.360
<v Speaker 2>gave me like a very diverse resume. You know, It's like,

0:38:58.360 --> 0:39:00.240
<v Speaker 2>oh wow, she can do a lot of different things.

0:39:00.320 --> 0:39:03.000
<v Speaker 2>So that was great, a great look for me, I

0:39:03.040 --> 0:39:08.160
<v Speaker 2>feel like. But yeah, money was always coming and going,

0:39:08.200 --> 0:39:10.879
<v Speaker 2>you know, because the projects come and they're they're great,

0:39:10.920 --> 0:39:12.560
<v Speaker 2>but they only last so long. And then you're like,

0:39:13.239 --> 0:39:14.239
<v Speaker 2>where's it coming from next?

0:39:14.360 --> 0:39:17.200
<v Speaker 1>You know, are you budgeting, living like a budget life,

0:39:17.320 --> 0:39:19.760
<v Speaker 1>or are your parents just kind of helping the offset?

0:39:19.800 --> 0:39:20.480
<v Speaker 1>What's going on?

0:39:20.560 --> 0:39:22.840
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, my parents were in real estate, so the place

0:39:22.880 --> 0:39:24.560
<v Speaker 2>I was living in at the time, I didn't have

0:39:24.680 --> 0:39:26.480
<v Speaker 2>to I didn't have to pay rent, you know, so

0:39:26.600 --> 0:39:29.239
<v Speaker 2>that was a huge thing. I didn't start paying rent

0:39:29.320 --> 0:39:31.319
<v Speaker 2>until I moved to LA at twenty one.

0:39:31.640 --> 0:39:36.239
<v Speaker 1>Okay, damn, you're all so young. Geez damn, you're making

0:39:36.280 --> 0:39:38.439
<v Speaker 1>moves for twenty one. You done been around the block

0:39:38.480 --> 0:39:39.080
<v Speaker 1>at this point.

0:39:39.320 --> 0:39:41.839
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, yeah, I did. I mean, yeah, I'm so

0:39:41.920 --> 0:39:44.480
<v Speaker 2>grateful that, like, like I said, my parents support and

0:39:44.520 --> 0:39:49.040
<v Speaker 2>then like being able to support me in that way,

0:39:49.280 --> 0:39:52.080
<v Speaker 2>you know, and so I could save because I was

0:39:52.200 --> 0:39:54.279
<v Speaker 2>actually my first door. I was really good girl. I

0:39:54.360 --> 0:39:56.960
<v Speaker 2>used to have like a stack of that pretteem like

0:39:57.080 --> 0:39:58.279
<v Speaker 2>could they used to could stap it?

0:39:58.560 --> 0:39:58.680
<v Speaker 1>Oh?

0:39:58.800 --> 0:40:01.920
<v Speaker 2>Yes, I love having Like I was young, I was

0:40:02.040 --> 0:40:04.480
<v Speaker 2>like I was seventeen, but this is my first like

0:40:04.640 --> 0:40:05.120
<v Speaker 2>real job.

0:40:05.160 --> 0:40:07.080
<v Speaker 1>You're like, I live off ten dollars a day.

0:40:07.080 --> 0:40:09.359
<v Speaker 2>I got this Literally, I'm like, I'm just gonna use

0:40:09.400 --> 0:40:11.239
<v Speaker 2>my card when I need it, and I'm going to

0:40:11.280 --> 0:40:13.600
<v Speaker 2>collect this cash. I came home and brought my family

0:40:13.680 --> 0:40:15.040
<v Speaker 2>like a stack of my I'm like, look at the

0:40:15.400 --> 0:40:17.560
<v Speaker 2>cash that I accumulate. This is the extra. And they

0:40:17.600 --> 0:40:20.160
<v Speaker 2>were like, you're so good at saving. Great job. And

0:40:20.280 --> 0:40:22.560
<v Speaker 2>then as you, like, you know, time goes on, then

0:40:22.600 --> 0:40:25.520
<v Speaker 2>you're like, I guess I'll buy this bag. I deserve it.

0:40:25.600 --> 0:40:27.880
<v Speaker 2>I've been working hard, you know, and start treating yourself

0:40:27.880 --> 0:40:30.040
<v Speaker 2>a little better. You get your nails done, you know whatever,

0:40:30.239 --> 0:40:32.160
<v Speaker 2>and you grow up and then you spend your money.

0:40:32.320 --> 0:40:34.960
<v Speaker 1>So yeah, you realized and you realize you're not really.

0:40:34.800 --> 0:40:37.880
<v Speaker 2>Getting paid that much. You're like, hold on, your bills

0:40:37.920 --> 0:40:42.080
<v Speaker 2>get higher, everything is and you're like, wait a minute now, Yeah,

0:40:42.400 --> 0:40:46.440
<v Speaker 2>so it all one in La. I moved to La

0:40:46.480 --> 0:40:48.359
<v Speaker 2>when I was twenty one. This is after I did

0:40:48.760 --> 0:40:51.640
<v Speaker 2>I did Beyonce Tour, I did Rocket Tour, and then

0:40:51.680 --> 0:40:55.640
<v Speaker 2>I shot actually while I was on tour with the Rockets.

0:40:55.680 --> 0:40:57.000
<v Speaker 1>It's so crazy, So.

0:40:57.239 --> 0:41:01.440
<v Speaker 2>Right before I went, this is the thing people don't realize,

0:41:01.520 --> 0:41:05.800
<v Speaker 2>like the the sacrifices and the like crazy shit that

0:41:05.840 --> 0:41:08.319
<v Speaker 2>you have to do sometimes in order to make your

0:41:08.400 --> 0:41:10.920
<v Speaker 2>career work. So like when I was about to do

0:41:11.040 --> 0:41:15.680
<v Speaker 2>the Rockets, I I was we were getting ready to

0:41:15.719 --> 0:41:17.439
<v Speaker 2>shoot the single Ladies music video.

0:41:17.560 --> 0:41:20.240
<v Speaker 1>Okay, oh yeah, famous thing, infamous.

0:41:19.880 --> 0:41:22.399
<v Speaker 2>Single Ladies music video. But I was like a part

0:41:22.600 --> 0:41:27.080
<v Speaker 2>of like the creative, you know, workshop process of the video.

0:41:27.200 --> 0:41:28.480
<v Speaker 2>I didn't know I was going to be in it.

0:41:28.680 --> 0:41:31.320
<v Speaker 2>I like basically kind of auditioned a little bit like

0:41:31.480 --> 0:41:34.000
<v Speaker 2>the rest of them. Like I I like, well, we

0:41:34.120 --> 0:41:36.880
<v Speaker 2>were like auditioning people that could match me and her,

0:41:37.400 --> 0:41:38.719
<v Speaker 2>and then if it didn't work, they were gonna go

0:41:38.760 --> 0:41:40.719
<v Speaker 2>with short girls and I was gonna be out. So

0:41:40.840 --> 0:41:42.799
<v Speaker 2>I was like, Okay, well hopefully a tall girl comes along.

0:41:42.880 --> 0:41:46.240
<v Speaker 2>That makes sense, you know. And so once they decided

0:41:46.280 --> 0:41:47.759
<v Speaker 2>on another tall girl and that I was going to

0:41:47.800 --> 0:41:51.239
<v Speaker 2>be in the video, I had to pretend like I

0:41:51.400 --> 0:41:54.680
<v Speaker 2>was sick girl for the Rockets because I missed like

0:41:54.840 --> 0:41:56.320
<v Speaker 2>the first three days of rehearsal.

0:41:56.440 --> 0:41:58.560
<v Speaker 1>And the Rockets do not play like they're.

0:41:58.480 --> 0:42:02.200
<v Speaker 2>Like, oh it's you drop out, you can never come back,

0:42:02.360 --> 0:42:04.160
<v Speaker 2>you will X, Y and Z. So I literally had

0:42:04.200 --> 0:42:06.120
<v Speaker 2>to play like Beyonce was in on it. I've told

0:42:06.160 --> 0:42:08.120
<v Speaker 2>this story before, so we.

0:42:08.160 --> 0:42:09.400
<v Speaker 1>Want to hear he told us it.

0:42:09.640 --> 0:42:12.440
<v Speaker 2>I know it's crazy though, because like I know the Rockets.

0:42:12.480 --> 0:42:13.880
<v Speaker 1>If you said Beyonce was in on it.

0:42:13.960 --> 0:42:15.880
<v Speaker 2>Beyonce was in on it. Like I would get calls

0:42:15.960 --> 0:42:19.120
<v Speaker 2>while we were rehearsing for single Ladies, and I knew

0:42:19.120 --> 0:42:21.000
<v Speaker 2>that it was like radio city people calling and I'd

0:42:21.000 --> 0:42:23.080
<v Speaker 2>be like, you guys, it's STEMP and they and Frank

0:42:23.239 --> 0:42:25.600
<v Speaker 2>like had a doctor, like write me a note and

0:42:25.680 --> 0:42:26.600
<v Speaker 2>all that, and they would like.

0:42:26.640 --> 0:42:27.200
<v Speaker 1>Go take the call.

0:42:27.560 --> 0:42:29.120
<v Speaker 2>Take the call. They cut off all the music and

0:42:29.200 --> 0:42:31.120
<v Speaker 2>I pretend like I was sick in bed and I'd

0:42:31.120 --> 0:42:33.719
<v Speaker 2>be like, hey, yeah, and I think I'll be able

0:42:33.760 --> 0:42:35.600
<v Speaker 2>to come in a day or two. Like the girl

0:42:35.760 --> 0:42:36.160
<v Speaker 2>was crazy.

0:42:36.280 --> 0:42:36.880
<v Speaker 1>It was crazy.

0:42:36.960 --> 0:42:39.359
<v Speaker 2>And then as soon as we wrapped that music video,

0:42:39.840 --> 0:42:41.640
<v Speaker 2>the single Ladies' music video, it was like a twenty

0:42:41.680 --> 0:42:44.000
<v Speaker 2>hour shoot. It was like three in the morning or

0:42:44.080 --> 0:42:46.879
<v Speaker 2>something when we wrapped and I got in a car,

0:42:47.320 --> 0:42:50.600
<v Speaker 2>went straight to like Pennsylvania or wherever we were rehearsing

0:42:50.719 --> 0:42:52.520
<v Speaker 2>somewhere on the East Coast, but not in New York,

0:42:53.160 --> 0:42:57.120
<v Speaker 2>and started rocket rehearsal the next day. And everybody thought

0:42:57.160 --> 0:43:00.319
<v Speaker 2>I was like recovering from an illness, and I was like, yeah,

0:43:00.640 --> 0:43:03.400
<v Speaker 2>m hm. I was exhausted because I just shot the

0:43:03.520 --> 0:43:05.600
<v Speaker 2>music video, the single ads music video of the night

0:43:05.640 --> 0:43:08.200
<v Speaker 2>before and then like cut to like a month or

0:43:08.280 --> 0:43:10.719
<v Speaker 2>something later. The video comes out while I'm touring with

0:43:10.800 --> 0:43:13.320
<v Speaker 2>the Rockets, and everybody's like, is that you with Beyonce?

0:43:13.800 --> 0:43:15.279
<v Speaker 2>And I was like, oh yeah, we shot that a

0:43:15.320 --> 0:43:19.640
<v Speaker 2>while ago. Yeah. I was like, oh yeah, it's crazy. Yeah.

0:43:20.400 --> 0:43:21.400
<v Speaker 1>They're like, when did you shoot that?

0:43:21.440 --> 0:43:24.200
<v Speaker 2>I'm like right before, like you know, like a while before.

0:43:25.040 --> 0:43:28.200
<v Speaker 2>Here crazy, that's funny.

0:43:28.400 --> 0:43:28.600
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

0:43:28.840 --> 0:43:30.920
<v Speaker 2>So that iconic video came out while I was on

0:43:31.200 --> 0:43:33.879
<v Speaker 2>Rockets tour, and then after Rockets we go straight into

0:43:34.040 --> 0:43:38.080
<v Speaker 2>another tour rehearsal because she dropped the song single Ladies,

0:43:38.200 --> 0:43:41.880
<v Speaker 2>she dropped other singles and then the album I Am

0:43:42.000 --> 0:43:43.160
<v Speaker 2>Sasha fears Wow.

0:43:43.239 --> 0:43:45.600
<v Speaker 1>So we got another tour and then I moved to

0:43:45.719 --> 0:43:48.520
<v Speaker 1>LA after that tour. Okay, and at this point you

0:43:48.920 --> 0:43:52.319
<v Speaker 1>and her camp are like just obviously family at this point.

0:43:52.600 --> 0:43:55.000
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Well, that like second tour that I did, that's

0:43:55.040 --> 0:43:57.360
<v Speaker 2>when I got like promoted to dance Captain. That was

0:43:57.440 --> 0:43:59.280
<v Speaker 2>like my first little like money promotion.

0:43:59.520 --> 0:44:02.120
<v Speaker 1>And what is dance camptain mean as dance just for

0:44:02.440 --> 0:44:03.520
<v Speaker 1>people like met I don't know.

0:44:03.760 --> 0:44:05.880
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, well, like the dance captain is kind of like

0:44:06.080 --> 0:44:09.120
<v Speaker 2>the the leader of the dancers.

0:44:09.200 --> 0:44:11.000
<v Speaker 1>Like if he the one with the ruler kind of

0:44:11.239 --> 0:44:13.200
<v Speaker 1>the rule, you know what I'm saying, Like, you know, yeah,

0:44:13.239 --> 0:44:14.359
<v Speaker 1>but man, I get that step right.

0:44:14.560 --> 0:44:16.960
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. I make sure everybody's like on their p's and

0:44:17.000 --> 0:44:19.120
<v Speaker 2>q's while we're on the road, because people can get

0:44:19.160 --> 0:44:20.960
<v Speaker 2>lazy or like do their own thing or you know,

0:44:21.120 --> 0:44:23.960
<v Speaker 2>like change it up, like do what the job is,

0:44:24.120 --> 0:44:26.800
<v Speaker 2>you know. But also like if there's any issues, like

0:44:27.000 --> 0:44:29.480
<v Speaker 2>the voice for the dancers, like oh, okay, come to

0:44:29.600 --> 0:44:32.120
<v Speaker 2>me and we'll I'll go to management or like, you

0:44:32.239 --> 0:44:34.839
<v Speaker 2>know anything if management needs to talk to me, your

0:44:34.920 --> 0:44:37.680
<v Speaker 2>dancers need to X y Z, you know, like the voice,

0:44:37.800 --> 0:44:40.400
<v Speaker 2>because it's a lot it became a lot of dancers.

0:44:40.480 --> 0:44:43.000
<v Speaker 1>As time went on, it was like low was the

0:44:43.080 --> 0:44:44.959
<v Speaker 1>best part of being on the road.

0:44:45.719 --> 0:44:50.400
<v Speaker 2>Mmm. I mean I would say, just like the fans

0:44:50.560 --> 0:44:54.880
<v Speaker 2>and like the performances, you know, the crowds and the

0:44:55.400 --> 0:44:58.960
<v Speaker 2>travel experiences. Like I love being in different cities and

0:44:59.040 --> 0:45:02.040
<v Speaker 2>experiencing the culture and exploring you know, the vibes of

0:45:02.080 --> 0:45:05.799
<v Speaker 2>the city. So I love that. But the crowds, girl,

0:45:05.960 --> 0:45:07.640
<v Speaker 2>are like insane. There's nothing like.

0:45:07.960 --> 0:45:10.360
<v Speaker 1>Is there ever any drama on the road of course,

0:45:11.040 --> 0:45:13.080
<v Speaker 1>like do people like cook.

0:45:12.960 --> 0:45:15.480
<v Speaker 2>Up and yeah, Oh my god, there's all tour mances.

0:45:15.719 --> 0:45:22.080
<v Speaker 2>There's tour mancesances, that's what it's called tour mances. There's fights,

0:45:22.120 --> 0:45:24.840
<v Speaker 2>there's arguments, there's people who don't get along.

0:45:24.800 --> 0:45:26.239
<v Speaker 1>You know, like whatever, freak out.

0:45:26.400 --> 0:45:31.440
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's like college, that's what it feels like. It's like, yes, something,

0:45:32.200 --> 0:45:34.919
<v Speaker 2>I know. I'm like, I cannot believe a reality show

0:45:34.960 --> 0:45:38.120
<v Speaker 2>has not shot a tour, Like, I can't crazy because

0:45:38.200 --> 0:45:41.640
<v Speaker 2>no one wants to expose like the Honestly.

0:45:41.440 --> 0:45:45.000
<v Speaker 1>I do like that. Beyonce has been releasing these first

0:45:45.040 --> 0:45:46.920
<v Speaker 1>of all, I want to say, she's like one of

0:45:46.960 --> 0:45:48.560
<v Speaker 1>the first to do it, like where she's doing, like

0:45:48.680 --> 0:45:51.320
<v Speaker 1>the visuals, the visuals behind. I haven't been able to

0:45:51.360 --> 0:45:52.560
<v Speaker 1>see The Renaissance one yet.

0:45:53.320 --> 0:45:55.520
<v Speaker 2>I haven't seen the film either, but I went in

0:45:55.640 --> 0:45:57.759
<v Speaker 2>at the concert Yeah, and she shouted me out. She

0:45:57.920 --> 0:46:00.400
<v Speaker 2>was like Ashley, Hey, Gary, we love you, Ashley, and

0:46:00.480 --> 0:46:03.080
<v Speaker 2>you were like I was like hey, and everybody who

0:46:03.120 --> 0:46:06.640
<v Speaker 2>thinks there's drama, there's not, so there you go. Yeah,

0:46:06.880 --> 0:46:09.080
<v Speaker 2>because everybody thought there was drama, girl, and I didn't

0:46:09.120 --> 0:46:12.480
<v Speaker 2>do this tour. They were like, you got fired and

0:46:12.600 --> 0:46:14.239
<v Speaker 2>even Beyonce, Beyonce hates you.

0:46:14.480 --> 0:46:18.080
<v Speaker 1>I'm like, do you I have this sick thing like

0:46:18.200 --> 0:46:22.399
<v Speaker 1>if people comment negative stuff for whatever reason, I look

0:46:22.440 --> 0:46:24.680
<v Speaker 1>at it like I feed off the negative. And then

0:46:24.760 --> 0:46:26.840
<v Speaker 1>like if someone says, like nice stuff, I'm like whatever,

0:46:27.600 --> 0:46:28.760
<v Speaker 1>but like negative.

0:46:28.640 --> 0:46:29.640
<v Speaker 2>Does it like drive you?

0:46:29.800 --> 0:46:32.680
<v Speaker 1>Like you comment back? I don't comment back. I just

0:46:33.160 --> 0:46:36.239
<v Speaker 1>kind of chuckle because you know, no, I mean goative too,

0:46:36.360 --> 0:46:39.280
<v Speaker 1>because they don't know nothing nothing.

0:46:39.480 --> 0:46:41.320
<v Speaker 2>They don't know nothing. I know how to laugh it

0:46:41.400 --> 0:46:58.520
<v Speaker 2>off too, But girl, it can get wild. So take

0:46:58.600 --> 0:47:01.680
<v Speaker 2>me back to all right, so you moved to LA.

0:47:02.760 --> 0:47:04.759
<v Speaker 2>Moved to La. Yeah, and that's when I was like.

0:47:04.880 --> 0:47:07.920
<v Speaker 1>Okay, really, and your parents aren't with you at this now?

0:47:08.000 --> 0:47:09.839
<v Speaker 2>My parents aren't with me. But girl, when I first

0:47:09.880 --> 0:47:12.320
<v Speaker 2>went on tour, like at eighteen, once I turned eighteen,

0:47:12.400 --> 0:47:15.000
<v Speaker 2>my mom moved back to California with her husband and

0:47:15.360 --> 0:47:17.080
<v Speaker 2>her other kids. You know, she was like, I'm going

0:47:17.120 --> 0:47:19.239
<v Speaker 2>back home. So I was in New York like those

0:47:19.520 --> 0:47:22.640
<v Speaker 2>last couple of years by myself. You must have liked that, Yeah, yeah,

0:47:22.680 --> 0:47:23.120
<v Speaker 2>it was nice.

0:47:23.200 --> 0:47:25.000
<v Speaker 1>I like grew into an adult out there.

0:47:25.120 --> 0:47:25.279
<v Speaker 2>You know.

0:47:25.800 --> 0:47:29.680
<v Speaker 1>So you're out here twenty one in Calli at this

0:47:29.760 --> 0:47:33.759
<v Speaker 1>point in Kelly, We're gonna go over time. Jared and

0:47:33.920 --> 0:47:35.959
<v Speaker 1>we had even got halfway to the store. I'm so sorry,

0:47:36.760 --> 0:47:39.399
<v Speaker 1>but but yeah, twenty one moved here.

0:47:39.560 --> 0:47:42.800
<v Speaker 2>That's like really when I really like started expanding, because

0:47:42.920 --> 0:47:44.759
<v Speaker 2>at first I thought I was gonna move out here, girl,

0:47:45.040 --> 0:47:47.520
<v Speaker 2>and I was like, I'm gonna be Bi Colstal. I'm

0:47:47.560 --> 0:47:49.759
<v Speaker 2>gonna still have my New York place, and I'm gonna

0:47:49.760 --> 0:47:52.400
<v Speaker 2>come to La like when work needs me, girl. I

0:47:52.520 --> 0:47:54.279
<v Speaker 2>never I never went back to New York. I like

0:47:54.400 --> 0:47:55.960
<v Speaker 2>work kept me out here. I was like, oh, I

0:47:56.000 --> 0:47:58.760
<v Speaker 2>guess this is where I'm gonna be living. So eventually,

0:47:58.920 --> 0:48:01.160
<v Speaker 2>like I told you, my family owned the condo in.

0:48:01.840 --> 0:48:03.520
<v Speaker 1>New York, Yeah, they sailed it.

0:48:03.760 --> 0:48:05.920
<v Speaker 2>Oh shoot, so was sad because now I wish we

0:48:06.040 --> 0:48:08.399
<v Speaker 2>still had it. I'm like I would use it now. Yeah,

0:48:08.560 --> 0:48:11.200
<v Speaker 2>but I was ungrateful when I was twenty one, you know,

0:48:12.680 --> 0:48:13.919
<v Speaker 2>and I was stuck out here. I was working.

0:48:14.000 --> 0:48:16.320
<v Speaker 1>I was a workaholic. Girls, and you're taking care of yourself,

0:48:16.400 --> 0:48:18.960
<v Speaker 1>no parents help, You're living on budgets. I'm assuming yeah,

0:48:19.160 --> 0:48:21.560
<v Speaker 1>and yeah, I mean I kind of wasn't really living

0:48:21.600 --> 0:48:22.080
<v Speaker 1>on budgets.

0:48:22.120 --> 0:48:24.600
<v Speaker 2>I did a good job, like saving you know, I

0:48:24.680 --> 0:48:27.640
<v Speaker 2>had did a couple of good tours and back then,

0:48:27.840 --> 0:48:30.520
<v Speaker 2>like touring was where you do save your money, and

0:48:30.640 --> 0:48:32.040
<v Speaker 2>that's like the biggest.

0:48:31.840 --> 0:48:33.880
<v Speaker 1>Thing, oh, because on the road you're not really spending

0:48:33.960 --> 0:48:34.680
<v Speaker 1>your money.

0:48:34.520 --> 0:48:36.960
<v Speaker 2>Right yeah, And I didn't have like I wasn't like

0:48:37.080 --> 0:48:39.440
<v Speaker 2>paying rent or anything, so like, yeah, you could just

0:48:39.600 --> 0:48:42.799
<v Speaker 2>save save, okay, and then if you save your pretty

0:48:42.920 --> 0:48:45.400
<v Speaker 2>m you can spend that he has your little extra stuff.

0:48:45.880 --> 0:48:48.160
<v Speaker 2>But you spend your money easily on the road because

0:48:48.200 --> 0:48:50.080
<v Speaker 2>you want to like whine and die in yourself and

0:48:50.320 --> 0:48:53.040
<v Speaker 2>shop in the different cities and stuff like that. But

0:48:53.320 --> 0:48:55.200
<v Speaker 2>when I was very young, I was better at saving

0:48:55.239 --> 0:48:58.120
<v Speaker 2>more money because I was like stingy, yeah you know,

0:48:59.719 --> 0:49:02.120
<v Speaker 2>but I wasn't. I still really wasn't making a lot.

0:49:02.160 --> 0:49:06.680
<v Speaker 2>I just was saving better. Yeah, moved out here, wasn't

0:49:06.760 --> 0:49:09.000
<v Speaker 2>really budgeting like that, you know. I was kind of

0:49:09.120 --> 0:49:11.520
<v Speaker 2>like enjoying my life.

0:49:12.640 --> 0:49:13.520
<v Speaker 1>And I started.

0:49:13.760 --> 0:49:15.600
<v Speaker 2>I had worked with like a bunch of different artists

0:49:15.680 --> 0:49:20.640
<v Speaker 2>out here, worked with like Neo, toured with him, Usher,

0:49:20.800 --> 0:49:24.880
<v Speaker 2>another artist, I toured with Sierra, and then every other

0:49:25.000 --> 0:49:27.360
<v Speaker 2>year basically I was going on tour with Beyonce. So

0:49:27.880 --> 0:49:31.720
<v Speaker 2>again like on the road, not home, you know whatever,

0:49:32.920 --> 0:49:37.280
<v Speaker 2>And that was my reality girl up until twenty eighteen.

0:49:38.120 --> 0:49:39.840
<v Speaker 1>Okay, and then what happened in twenty eighteen.

0:49:40.320 --> 0:49:43.840
<v Speaker 2>Twenty eighteen was the last tour that I did, and

0:49:43.920 --> 0:49:47.680
<v Speaker 2>then twenty nineteen was I wasn't on tour. I worked

0:49:47.719 --> 0:49:51.320
<v Speaker 2>on TV shows and other personal things.

0:49:51.600 --> 0:49:53.320
<v Speaker 1>And then when you're say TV shows, what were you

0:49:53.400 --> 0:49:54.360
<v Speaker 1>doing on the TV shows?

0:49:54.600 --> 0:49:57.680
<v Speaker 2>I did a TV show called Hit the Floor acting.

0:49:58.320 --> 0:50:00.440
<v Speaker 2>I was like acting and dancing. Yeah, I had a

0:50:00.560 --> 0:50:02.839
<v Speaker 2>role called Peyton, but I was a dancer on the show.

0:50:04.600 --> 0:50:07.200
<v Speaker 2>And then I think I did like Dancing with the Stars,

0:50:07.600 --> 0:50:11.479
<v Speaker 2>and you know, just other award shows or like TV

0:50:12.560 --> 0:50:18.000
<v Speaker 2>appearances like what is this that the Morning Show? I

0:50:18.120 --> 0:50:21.680
<v Speaker 2>shot an episode of that, like just televised stuff that

0:50:21.840 --> 0:50:22.640
<v Speaker 2>requires dancing.

0:50:22.840 --> 0:50:24.680
<v Speaker 1>You know, That's what I do.

0:50:24.800 --> 0:50:26.879
<v Speaker 2>When I'm like when I wasn't on tour, it would

0:50:26.880 --> 0:50:28.680
<v Speaker 2>be like a year on tour and then a year

0:50:29.280 --> 0:50:33.440
<v Speaker 2>at home doing like TV commercial films.

0:50:33.719 --> 0:50:35.520
<v Speaker 1>Are you able to have like a dating life or

0:50:35.520 --> 0:50:36.360
<v Speaker 1>a personal life or.

0:50:36.360 --> 0:50:38.440
<v Speaker 2>Is that I you know, I have always kind of

0:50:38.520 --> 0:50:42.319
<v Speaker 2>been in a relationship actually, so yeah, from like when

0:50:42.360 --> 0:50:44.440
<v Speaker 2>I moved to LA I got in a relationship pretty

0:50:44.480 --> 0:50:47.480
<v Speaker 2>much right away, and that was until twenty eighteen.

0:50:48.320 --> 0:50:50.759
<v Speaker 1>And then in twenty nineteen I turned thirty so I

0:50:50.840 --> 0:50:52.479
<v Speaker 1>was like, can't bring damn girl thirty.

0:50:52.760 --> 0:50:55.120
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you're good, all right, god go think I was

0:50:55.200 --> 0:50:55.960
<v Speaker 2>trying to figure out.

0:50:56.440 --> 0:50:58.239
<v Speaker 1>I wonder I'm like, how old is?

0:50:58.719 --> 0:50:59.239
<v Speaker 2>I know? It?

0:50:59.400 --> 0:51:02.319
<v Speaker 1>Just like all right, even away, No, that's good. I'm

0:51:02.360 --> 0:51:03.120
<v Speaker 1>approaching forty.

0:51:03.400 --> 0:51:05.360
<v Speaker 2>Oh I don't know nothing like it.

0:51:05.640 --> 0:51:07.719
<v Speaker 1>It's because the braids, man, they just pull your head

0:51:07.760 --> 0:51:09.400
<v Speaker 1>back a little bit, snatch it all up.

0:51:09.400 --> 0:51:13.919
<v Speaker 2>I know. Same at the bun give me life, pull

0:51:13.960 --> 0:51:14.279
<v Speaker 2>it back.

0:51:14.560 --> 0:51:18.800
<v Speaker 1>Yeah all right. So you so then twenty and twenty

0:51:19.040 --> 0:51:21.000
<v Speaker 1>or what have you? Were we at two.

0:51:20.880 --> 0:51:23.080
<v Speaker 2>Thousand, yeah, twenty eighteen or something?

0:51:23.160 --> 0:51:23.560
<v Speaker 1>Yeah?

0:51:23.760 --> 0:51:26.560
<v Speaker 2>Well actually okay, so let me give you this little tea.

0:51:26.880 --> 0:51:31.080
<v Speaker 2>In twenty sixteen, that relationship I was in, he jumped

0:51:31.120 --> 0:51:31.680
<v Speaker 2>on stage.

0:51:31.800 --> 0:51:33.560
<v Speaker 1>Girl. You can look it up if you just type

0:51:33.760 --> 0:51:37.960
<v Speaker 1>Beyonce proposal. I think I remember that, gone, that was me.

0:51:38.480 --> 0:51:41.080
<v Speaker 1>Oh he proposed to you on stage. I remember that.

0:51:41.200 --> 0:51:43.120
<v Speaker 1>I saw it a couple of times. What you talk about?

0:51:43.160 --> 0:51:43.680
<v Speaker 2>That was you?

0:51:44.000 --> 0:51:44.200
<v Speaker 3>Yeah?

0:51:44.280 --> 0:51:45.760
<v Speaker 1>Okay, So what happened to day.

0:51:45.600 --> 0:51:47.640
<v Speaker 2>And then we broke up in twenty eighteen? Girl? Oh yeah,

0:51:47.640 --> 0:51:51.000
<v Speaker 2>because that whole proposal I mean in general, he did

0:51:51.080 --> 0:51:53.560
<v Speaker 2>that for him, not for me, Like I'm not even

0:51:53.600 --> 0:51:55.200
<v Speaker 2>that kind of girl who wants that kind of attention.

0:51:55.360 --> 0:51:58.320
<v Speaker 2>You know, he was desperate times called for desperate measures.

0:51:58.400 --> 0:52:00.759
<v Speaker 2>I guess, you know, it very for him. What was

0:52:00.800 --> 0:52:01.160
<v Speaker 2>the beginning?

0:52:01.360 --> 0:52:03.360
<v Speaker 1>Was it like when I was like when Opset jumps

0:52:03.400 --> 0:52:05.400
<v Speaker 1>on stage recorded me and does the grand and she's like,

0:52:06.719 --> 0:52:10.200
<v Speaker 1>was he like retrying to coop a mess up or

0:52:10.200 --> 0:52:11.399
<v Speaker 1>something like trying to make up.

0:52:11.320 --> 0:52:15.320
<v Speaker 2>For I think he was just trying to get attention,

0:52:15.880 --> 0:52:18.920
<v Speaker 2>Like Okay, Literally as soon as it happened.

0:52:18.640 --> 0:52:20.680
<v Speaker 1>He was like, we went viral. We got to capitalize

0:52:20.680 --> 0:52:22.759
<v Speaker 1>off this. I said, Oh, that's what you want to

0:52:23.200 --> 0:52:23.520
<v Speaker 1>got it?

0:52:23.920 --> 0:52:24.080
<v Speaker 2>Oh?

0:52:24.320 --> 0:52:24.600
<v Speaker 1>Shit?

0:52:24.880 --> 0:52:27.279
<v Speaker 2>Yeah? So it was like that, like you know, and

0:52:27.360 --> 0:52:29.360
<v Speaker 2>then it was like the next year, everybody was like

0:52:29.440 --> 0:52:32.680
<v Speaker 2>when's the date? And I was like, I can't even

0:52:32.840 --> 0:52:36.200
<v Speaker 2>envision myself setting one. So wow, it was very much

0:52:36.239 --> 0:52:38.040
<v Speaker 2>the beginning of the end, but it was the best,

0:52:38.239 --> 0:52:40.640
<v Speaker 2>Like I needed that, needed that for it to end

0:52:40.800 --> 0:52:44.200
<v Speaker 2>that relationship. Because then the next year, like I said,

0:52:44.200 --> 0:52:45.000
<v Speaker 2>I was turning thirty.

0:52:45.120 --> 0:52:47.279
<v Speaker 1>That was like the year I poured into myself and

0:52:47.719 --> 0:52:50.360
<v Speaker 1>did you do the whole like love yourself thing? Yes? Girl?

0:52:50.480 --> 0:52:51.239
<v Speaker 1>Like was it hard?

0:52:51.280 --> 0:52:54.000
<v Speaker 2>And nineteen was like the year of transition for me.

0:52:54.560 --> 0:52:56.279
<v Speaker 2>It was great though I needed it. And then twenty

0:52:56.360 --> 0:52:58.759
<v Speaker 2>twenty I the pandemic hit and I loved it. I

0:52:58.880 --> 0:53:01.400
<v Speaker 2>was like, yes, we could stay at Oh, it's amazing.

0:53:01.480 --> 0:53:03.680
<v Speaker 2>And then I just poured more into myself and I

0:53:03.800 --> 0:53:04.360
<v Speaker 2>was like, I love it.

0:53:04.520 --> 0:53:06.080
<v Speaker 1>I love it here and I love it here.

0:53:06.239 --> 0:53:06.439
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

0:53:07.280 --> 0:53:11.319
<v Speaker 1>I think it's like the self love thing. I even

0:53:11.440 --> 0:53:13.759
<v Speaker 1>paid this. This is really embarrassing, but I remember I

0:53:13.920 --> 0:53:16.400
<v Speaker 1>actually paid for her course online. They never said it

0:53:16.440 --> 0:53:17.400
<v Speaker 1>to me on like how to.

0:53:17.440 --> 0:53:18.240
<v Speaker 2>Do self loving?

0:53:18.600 --> 0:53:22.799
<v Speaker 1>That's how ghetto. I was desperateirl, So my brand being

0:53:22.840 --> 0:53:26.520
<v Speaker 1>greater than yay, look at that pivot go on, please period,

0:53:27.560 --> 0:53:30.880
<v Speaker 1>We're gonna bring it fold. So this is how God works,

0:53:30.960 --> 0:53:33.480
<v Speaker 1>because I literally I promise you I paid. I don't

0:53:33.680 --> 0:53:36.439
<v Speaker 1>I paid. There was like a self love course. I said,

0:53:37.440 --> 0:53:39.360
<v Speaker 1>I gotta pay for that because I don't. I'm studying

0:53:39.440 --> 0:53:40.120
<v Speaker 1>this and I don't.

0:53:40.040 --> 0:53:40.920
<v Speaker 2>Know coming how to do it.

0:53:41.600 --> 0:53:42.600
<v Speaker 1>March, we're doing.

0:53:44.280 --> 0:53:49.080
<v Speaker 2>Yeak. We did a soft launch in November Girl in Atlanta,

0:53:49.640 --> 0:53:52.200
<v Speaker 2>and it went over like better than we could have

0:53:52.400 --> 0:53:56.120
<v Speaker 2>ever envisioned. You know. Ever, imagine like people were like

0:53:56.239 --> 0:53:58.760
<v Speaker 2>I didn't know how bad I needed this, Like when's

0:53:58.800 --> 0:53:59.480
<v Speaker 2>the next one.

0:53:59.400 --> 0:54:01.920
<v Speaker 1>Where can we more so, what can people expect for

0:54:02.120 --> 0:54:05.160
<v Speaker 1>be greater than? And like what was the thing that

0:54:05.880 --> 0:54:07.040
<v Speaker 1>made you create it?

0:54:07.800 --> 0:54:10.040
<v Speaker 2>The thing that made us create it. So it's three

0:54:10.120 --> 0:54:13.200
<v Speaker 2>of us, three friends who were all on this like

0:54:13.360 --> 0:54:14.880
<v Speaker 2>self love journey. You know.

0:54:15.680 --> 0:54:17.040
<v Speaker 1>Oh I love that you guys were all on the

0:54:17.040 --> 0:54:17.760
<v Speaker 1>same boat together.

0:54:18.080 --> 0:54:20.759
<v Speaker 2>Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, and everyone's like timing was a

0:54:20.760 --> 0:54:23.360
<v Speaker 2>little different. I feel like I started it like before

0:54:23.440 --> 0:54:26.680
<v Speaker 2>everybody else, and then they saw some things change in

0:54:26.760 --> 0:54:28.920
<v Speaker 2>my life and like how great it looked. And then

0:54:28.920 --> 0:54:30.600
<v Speaker 2>they were like I need to love on myself more,

0:54:30.680 --> 0:54:33.239
<v Speaker 2>you know, and like it inspired other friends and these

0:54:33.320 --> 0:54:35.280
<v Speaker 2>these are like close friends of mine who are like family,

0:54:35.320 --> 0:54:38.520
<v Speaker 2>you know. So once they jumped on their self love journey,

0:54:38.560 --> 0:54:40.960
<v Speaker 2>I was like, yes, I'm so proud of you guys.

0:54:41.440 --> 0:54:43.719
<v Speaker 2>And that's like really where the idea started from. The

0:54:44.480 --> 0:54:47.960
<v Speaker 2>Jazzmine Harper, she's like another founder, one of the other founders,

0:54:48.000 --> 0:54:50.600
<v Speaker 2>and Randy Bonds is the other one. But Jazz is

0:54:50.640 --> 0:54:52.839
<v Speaker 2>like a little sister of mine. We dance with Beyonce together.

0:54:52.960 --> 0:54:54.399
<v Speaker 2>She danced on So you think you can dance?

0:54:54.480 --> 0:54:57.920
<v Speaker 1>Actually? Oh okay, Oh that's okay, So that's okay.

0:54:58.239 --> 0:55:01.759
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, b grand then yeah, yeah, yeah,

0:55:02.120 --> 0:55:05.160
<v Speaker 2>she yeah, so she was from the show she We

0:55:05.239 --> 0:55:08.160
<v Speaker 2>did Beyonce together, like have been through a lot together,

0:55:08.239 --> 0:55:10.520
<v Speaker 2>you know, and she was like, I really want to

0:55:10.600 --> 0:55:14.160
<v Speaker 2>do something for myself, like something that I own, something

0:55:14.239 --> 0:55:16.200
<v Speaker 2>that I am a creator of, the founder of Da

0:55:16.280 --> 0:55:17.799
<v Speaker 2>Da Da Da. And she's like, I know, I can't

0:55:17.840 --> 0:55:19.960
<v Speaker 2>do it alone, like I need I need you, like

0:55:20.040 --> 0:55:21.040
<v Speaker 2>I need your help whatever.

0:55:21.400 --> 0:55:22.520
<v Speaker 1>I was like, I'm with you.

0:55:22.680 --> 0:55:24.640
<v Speaker 2>Let's do it, and then we just started exploring. I

0:55:24.680 --> 0:55:27.120
<v Speaker 2>brought in Randy. He's a publicist. He's been a friend

0:55:27.160 --> 0:55:30.760
<v Speaker 2>of mine since the beginning of my Beyonce days since

0:55:31.320 --> 0:55:33.640
<v Speaker 2>nine basically it's when we started working together. We were

0:55:33.680 --> 0:55:36.360
<v Speaker 2>both nineteen. He found me on Facebook and he was like,

0:55:36.480 --> 0:55:41.200
<v Speaker 2>I see like your stardom as not just a dancer

0:55:41.360 --> 0:55:42.840
<v Speaker 2>and he was like, I want to do pr for

0:55:42.920 --> 0:55:45.560
<v Speaker 2>you and I yeah, okay. And so I've had a

0:55:45.600 --> 0:55:48.279
<v Speaker 2>publicist also. That's been like something very different about me

0:55:48.320 --> 0:55:50.640
<v Speaker 2>than like most dancers. I've had like a publicist or

0:55:50.719 --> 0:55:54.480
<v Speaker 2>like a manager, you know, most of my dance career,

0:55:54.680 --> 0:55:58.600
<v Speaker 2>and that has put me in like magazines or like

0:55:58.760 --> 0:56:03.160
<v Speaker 2>in people's faces that most dancers wouldn't be in their face,

0:56:03.280 --> 0:56:08.160
<v Speaker 2>you know, like allure or you know, I can't even

0:56:08.160 --> 0:56:10.480
<v Speaker 2>think of these the magazine's essence and you know, just

0:56:10.600 --> 0:56:14.040
<v Speaker 2>like tons of outlets, tons and tons of outlets. So

0:56:14.800 --> 0:56:17.800
<v Speaker 2>that's been like very helpful, I think, and for my

0:56:17.920 --> 0:56:21.239
<v Speaker 2>career as well and getting my name out there. Where

0:56:21.400 --> 0:56:21.560
<v Speaker 2>was I?

0:56:21.760 --> 0:56:24.839
<v Speaker 1>So we were talking about the inception of be Greater

0:56:24.960 --> 0:56:26.840
<v Speaker 1>Than Yeah, I'm so curious now, you know, it might

0:56:26.880 --> 0:56:28.720
<v Speaker 1>have to be like a hundred questions, but yeah.

0:56:28.800 --> 0:56:31.160
<v Speaker 2>So me and Jasmine, she she brought it to me,

0:56:31.239 --> 0:56:32.960
<v Speaker 2>and I was like, let's bring Randy in. He's on

0:56:33.040 --> 0:56:35.680
<v Speaker 2>this journey too, Let's talk ideas. He's publicist, blah blah.

0:56:36.280 --> 0:56:39.120
<v Speaker 2>And so the three of us like just explored and

0:56:40.160 --> 0:56:44.920
<v Speaker 2>you know, talked ideas, and it was it was going

0:56:45.000 --> 0:56:47.960
<v Speaker 2>to be called be Greater Than Humble because we were always,

0:56:48.160 --> 0:56:51.320
<v Speaker 2>you know, talking about how we are told to be humble,

0:56:51.400 --> 0:56:52.919
<v Speaker 2>and we looked up the definition of humble.

0:56:52.960 --> 0:56:54.160
<v Speaker 1>Have you ever looked up deaf?

0:56:54.320 --> 0:56:54.880
<v Speaker 2>No? What is it?

0:56:55.440 --> 0:56:57.520
<v Speaker 1>I feel like Kanye talked about it at some point.

0:56:57.400 --> 0:57:00.239
<v Speaker 2>But yeah, other like rappers and stuff have because it's

0:57:00.280 --> 0:57:03.719
<v Speaker 2>like technically not like something that should be praised. It

0:57:03.920 --> 0:57:07.600
<v Speaker 2>almost it's basically saying to make yourself less than for

0:57:07.800 --> 0:57:09.719
<v Speaker 2>others to feel better about them.

0:57:09.880 --> 0:57:10.759
<v Speaker 1>Is that what humble is?

0:57:10.920 --> 0:57:15.720
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, And it's like so you can feel comfortable.

0:57:15.840 --> 0:57:17.520
<v Speaker 1>Basically I used to do that, to be honest, when

0:57:18.200 --> 0:57:20.360
<v Speaker 1>for a long a long time, even being a twin.

0:57:20.440 --> 0:57:22.760
<v Speaker 1>To be honest, I'm just sure it's like, you know,

0:57:22.920 --> 0:57:26.240
<v Speaker 1>you want to make everyone feel comfortable, so you know,

0:57:26.360 --> 0:57:29.200
<v Speaker 1>And I started doing it in relationships guys, would you?

0:57:29.400 --> 0:57:33.440
<v Speaker 1>I would like plaques, shoe story And I remember the

0:57:33.560 --> 0:57:37.720
<v Speaker 1>guy we were engaged, and I just knew he started

0:57:37.760 --> 0:57:39.000
<v Speaker 1>to hate my accomplishments.

0:57:39.040 --> 0:57:41.680
<v Speaker 2>That's why we moved engaged in relationship was too.

0:57:41.680 --> 0:57:45.320
<v Speaker 1>Girl and I started to be like anytime there was

0:57:45.360 --> 0:57:47.640
<v Speaker 1>a plaque or an award, I would literally there was

0:57:47.680 --> 0:57:49.720
<v Speaker 1>a closet and I would hide it and I just

0:57:49.760 --> 0:57:52.440
<v Speaker 1>got in yeah, And I remember throwing out all my

0:57:52.640 --> 0:57:55.560
<v Speaker 1>like like my dad started saying like, you need to

0:57:55.600 --> 0:57:57.400
<v Speaker 1>start putting your stuff on your wall because you seem

0:57:57.440 --> 0:57:59.920
<v Speaker 1>to forget all your milestones and I have big posters.

0:58:00.080 --> 0:58:02.640
<v Speaker 1>And I remember just throwing him in the trash and

0:58:02.680 --> 0:58:04.120
<v Speaker 1>his brother being like, why are you doing this? And

0:58:04.200 --> 0:58:07.360
<v Speaker 1>I just remember being like, well, clearly, it's starting to

0:58:07.400 --> 0:58:09.280
<v Speaker 1>become a problem. In my relationship, so I would I

0:58:09.360 --> 0:58:11.720
<v Speaker 1>got in the practice of dimming my life. Well after that,

0:58:11.800 --> 0:58:14.360
<v Speaker 1>I was like an next relationship, Man, I just want

0:58:14.400 --> 0:58:16.160
<v Speaker 1>to be me. I just want to be able to

0:58:16.200 --> 0:58:17.240
<v Speaker 1>be like this is who I am.

0:58:18.080 --> 0:58:21.280
<v Speaker 2>Like, you know, it should celebrate, Yeah, it should heighten that,

0:58:21.800 --> 0:58:25.120
<v Speaker 2>you know, and like brighten my light, not dimn it.

0:58:25.920 --> 0:58:29.280
<v Speaker 1>So you guys were looking like you got girl. I'm wet.

0:58:29.400 --> 0:58:33.920
<v Speaker 1>I'm still learning, but I remember, just I remember there

0:58:34.040 --> 0:58:35.840
<v Speaker 1>was a I did something for nick Can and I

0:58:35.920 --> 0:58:38.040
<v Speaker 1>did the whild out like booklet that went into all

0:58:38.080 --> 0:58:42.040
<v Speaker 1>the CDs or stores, and I remember just hiding it

0:58:42.080 --> 0:58:44.840
<v Speaker 1>from him. I remember asking for the sea looking at it,

0:58:45.520 --> 0:58:47.240
<v Speaker 1>and like when he came home, I threw it in

0:58:47.320 --> 0:58:49.000
<v Speaker 1>the trash. I was still mad to this day that

0:58:49.040 --> 0:58:51.120
<v Speaker 1>I threw it out. But I was so scared of

0:58:51.360 --> 0:58:56.080
<v Speaker 1>him seeing these accomplishment. Yeah, because it just became ub Yeah,

0:58:56.200 --> 0:59:00.680
<v Speaker 1>of my relationship. That's crazy. Sorry, Yeah, but I love

0:59:00.760 --> 0:59:02.959
<v Speaker 1>the fact that you guys took the initiative to even

0:59:03.040 --> 0:59:05.320
<v Speaker 1>look up be greater than because when you first said

0:59:05.360 --> 0:59:07.320
<v Speaker 1>it be greater than be's like be greater than what?

0:59:07.480 --> 0:59:09.400
<v Speaker 1>But I love that you eliminated humble.

0:59:09.560 --> 0:59:12.840
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's like, be greater than your insecurities, be greater

0:59:12.920 --> 0:59:16.120
<v Speaker 2>than your traumas, be greater than your childhood, be greater

0:59:16.200 --> 0:59:19.320
<v Speaker 2>than your mistakes, be greater than yesterday, be greater than anything,

0:59:19.640 --> 0:59:23.440
<v Speaker 2>you know, like anything, it's limitless. So yeah, and that's

0:59:23.480 --> 0:59:26.760
<v Speaker 2>the brand. It's a lifestyle brand. What you can expect

0:59:26.920 --> 0:59:30.960
<v Speaker 2>at So far, we've only had one soft launch live activation,

0:59:31.840 --> 0:59:34.400
<v Speaker 2>so they're Me and Jasmine. Since we come from the

0:59:34.480 --> 0:59:37.360
<v Speaker 2>dance world, we did a little like dance moment, but

0:59:37.440 --> 0:59:40.880
<v Speaker 2>it wasn't even like four dancers. It was more so

0:59:41.560 --> 0:59:44.160
<v Speaker 2>so you can build your confidence and you know, learn

0:59:44.240 --> 0:59:46.280
<v Speaker 2>how to like hold your shoulders back and stay with

0:59:46.360 --> 0:59:48.880
<v Speaker 2>your chest out and be proud, you know, like more

0:59:48.920 --> 0:59:52.640
<v Speaker 2>of like self confidence Mooster. We had a guy come

0:59:52.680 --> 0:59:55.080
<v Speaker 2>in who's like a martial arts specialist who taught people

0:59:55.120 --> 0:59:57.200
<v Speaker 2>how to like break through your traumas. And they kept

0:59:57.800 --> 1:00:01.320
<v Speaker 2>pounding on this thing until they released their traumas. They

1:00:01.360 --> 1:00:03.800
<v Speaker 2>had to repeat a saying. I don't know what they

1:00:03.840 --> 1:00:05.560
<v Speaker 2>were saying. I was we were teaching the dance class

1:00:05.560 --> 1:00:07.200
<v Speaker 2>at the same time he was doing that, so I

1:00:07.240 --> 1:00:08.760
<v Speaker 2>don't remember what they were saying, but they had to

1:00:08.880 --> 1:00:11.760
<v Speaker 2>keep saying it, and everybody girl, people were breaking down crying, like,

1:00:12.200 --> 1:00:13.720
<v Speaker 2>you know, in a great way. They were just like,

1:00:13.800 --> 1:00:14.720
<v Speaker 2>oh my god, I felt so.

1:00:14.800 --> 1:00:16.160
<v Speaker 1>Good, Like I needed that.

1:00:16.520 --> 1:00:18.760
<v Speaker 2>We had a woman come in who led us through

1:00:18.800 --> 1:00:20.840
<v Speaker 2>breath work and taught us about the importance of just

1:00:21.080 --> 1:00:24.760
<v Speaker 2>breathing and remembering to intentionally breathe. You know, we just

1:00:24.840 --> 1:00:27.479
<v Speaker 2>sit around and like, see, like, I think that's really great, girl.

1:00:27.880 --> 1:00:28.360
<v Speaker 1>I love it.

1:00:28.840 --> 1:00:32.640
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, thank you, same because it's so important, and you know,

1:00:33.080 --> 1:00:34.000
<v Speaker 2>we really started this.

1:00:34.200 --> 1:00:34.720
<v Speaker 1>I love that.

1:00:35.560 --> 1:00:38.280
<v Speaker 2>I can't see people crying girl either, because that makes

1:00:38.320 --> 1:00:41.800
<v Speaker 2>me go. But like we started this because we pour

1:00:42.080 --> 1:00:46.480
<v Speaker 2>so much of ourselves into our jobs, our careers, other people.

1:00:46.880 --> 1:00:50.400
<v Speaker 2>We forget about ourselves. We forget about ourselves, and it's like,

1:00:51.040 --> 1:00:53.959
<v Speaker 2>don't forget to pour into you. We have the power,

1:00:54.040 --> 1:00:57.720
<v Speaker 2>We possess it all whatever we want. And I'm sorry

1:00:57.760 --> 1:00:59.280
<v Speaker 2>this episode people are gonna be like, we can't even

1:00:59.400 --> 1:01:02.000
<v Speaker 2>understand you. Stop getting here each other.

1:01:03.240 --> 1:01:03.560
<v Speaker 1>Thank you.

1:01:04.640 --> 1:01:09.760
<v Speaker 2>But yeah, don't worry about yourself, you know, quarantine you. Yeah.

1:01:10.560 --> 1:01:13.160
<v Speaker 1>So they So that's some of the stuff. And you

1:01:13.240 --> 1:01:18.480
<v Speaker 1>guys thought through every different angle from traumas to confidence.

1:01:18.160 --> 1:01:24.640
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, self confidence to breathing to feeding yourself from the inside.

1:01:24.640 --> 1:01:26.920
<v Speaker 2>Out with healthy things. We had a girl's share her

1:01:27.040 --> 1:01:29.880
<v Speaker 2>juices and her recipes and the reason why she's vegan,

1:01:30.000 --> 1:01:32.240
<v Speaker 2>and you know why we should go on fast every

1:01:32.320 --> 1:01:34.720
<v Speaker 2>now and then and just take breaks from meats or

1:01:34.840 --> 1:01:38.240
<v Speaker 2>you know, processed foods or whatever. Just education, you know,

1:01:38.920 --> 1:01:44.200
<v Speaker 2>and inspiration and relatable people like just people, you know,

1:01:44.520 --> 1:01:47.400
<v Speaker 2>not somebody who we like look up to and feel

1:01:47.440 --> 1:01:48.400
<v Speaker 2>like we can never get to.

1:01:48.440 --> 1:01:50.800
<v Speaker 1>That level, you know, just like every like.

1:01:51.720 --> 1:01:54.880
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so it is it a couple of days or

1:01:54.960 --> 1:01:58.080
<v Speaker 2>how it was one day? The one in March we're

1:01:58.120 --> 1:02:00.160
<v Speaker 2>planning for one day as well. It was like an

1:02:00.160 --> 1:02:03.240
<v Speaker 2>eleven to five o'clock kind of thing, I'll.

1:02:03.160 --> 1:02:06.480
<v Speaker 1>Know, And how do people sign up for it? We're

1:02:06.520 --> 1:02:08.280
<v Speaker 1>gonna I want gonna be I'm gonna be on the list.

1:02:08.480 --> 1:02:10.120
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you're gonna be on the list. But we're gonna

1:02:10.160 --> 1:02:10.880
<v Speaker 2>sell some tickets.

1:02:11.000 --> 1:02:13.200
<v Speaker 1>Yeah you know, no, no, no, I'll to buy a ticket.

1:02:13.480 --> 1:02:15.760
<v Speaker 1>I just make sure I get to buy one before

1:02:15.800 --> 1:02:16.439
<v Speaker 1>it sells out.

1:02:16.680 --> 1:02:18.960
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, we got you, grown, But yeah, we want we

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<v Speaker 2>want people to be able to like have access to

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<v Speaker 2>this and pour into themselves and you know, remember the

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<v Speaker 2>importance of that. And it's a community, you know, and

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<v Speaker 2>we'll continue to hold each other accountable and our other

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<v Speaker 2>dreams and all of that, and same with holding each

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<v Speaker 2>other accountable, you know, be greater than once to eventually

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<v Speaker 2>expand into like clothing and you know, like online courses

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<v Speaker 2>and stuff like that too, but one thing at a

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<v Speaker 2>time because it's a lot.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, so yeah, that's awesome. And then so the next

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<v Speaker 1>one will be probably in March.

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<v Speaker 2>In La yep, yep in La mm hmm, and we're

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<v Speaker 2>doing it in women's history months, so it's gonna be

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<v Speaker 2>for the.

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<v Speaker 1>Women, but everyone. Now, have you gotten sponsors that have

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<v Speaker 1>tried to get be a part of it or.

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<v Speaker 2>We have not yet? Girl, because we did that stops

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<v Speaker 2>watch just like we were like, we'll just invite like

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<v Speaker 2>ten people, and then like because we like knew some people,

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<v Speaker 2>it became maybe like twenty, but it was great. And

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<v Speaker 2>then we have like press and stuff. So now we're

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<v Speaker 2>going to like get put it out there. But we

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<v Speaker 2>have not gotten sponsors yet, but we plan on yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>plan on it. Yeah, and I think that people will.

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<v Speaker 1>Align with it. Is it is it going to be

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<v Speaker 1>just for women or is it going to be for

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<v Speaker 1>It's for everybody? And we eventually want to do it

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<v Speaker 1>for kids or like.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, yeah, I think it's a start early, right,

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<v Speaker 2>we need this, Like I feel like we're all learning

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<v Speaker 2>this too late, you know, like if we were doing

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<v Speaker 2>this in our twenties, Like, yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>I realized, like I I'm very rarely ever single, you

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<v Speaker 1>know what I'm saying. Like, I'm like, I think the

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<v Speaker 1>longest I was ever single was like barely made it

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<v Speaker 1>a year, and that was me going I was still

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<v Speaker 1>technically dating pub this is lose. We don't have the title. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I could make it a year, but yeah, it's like

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<v Speaker 1>you're constantly distracting yourself from yourself in a way when

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<v Speaker 1>you're in these relationships or you're taking on some you know,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't drink or smoke or do any of that stuff.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not saying it's bad or anything. I just it

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<v Speaker 1>doesn't do anything for me. Never has. Yeah, But I'm like,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, maybe this is this scape that's not benefiting

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<v Speaker 1>me at all at this point. Maybe I need to

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<v Speaker 1>like me myself and I so and that's kind of

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<v Speaker 1>the road you came to, right Yeah, Yeah, yeah, definitely.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, yeah, I was in long relationships and yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>God in relate felling them, you know, like that's how

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<v Speaker 2>it turned into yeah or whatever. So by when I

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<v Speaker 2>was turning thirty, girl, I was like, I need to

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<v Speaker 2>pour in to me, like self love first. Whoever doesn't

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<v Speaker 2>align with me loving on me gotta go. Okay, you

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<v Speaker 2>know like literally my whole circle of friends changed.

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<v Speaker 1>Even your friends changed. Uh huh yeah, I'll my whole

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<v Speaker 1>sirg Now, did you ever struggle with boundaries or anything?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah? Of course, okay, of course, I'm I still work.

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<v Speaker 1>On I'm like, uh, my producer shout out to him,

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<v Speaker 1>like he's reading books. I don't mean to put your

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<v Speaker 1>business out there. I love my team. Yeah, but yeah

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<v Speaker 1>he's like reading books and I'll be, oh, let me

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<v Speaker 1>you know, like yeah, I'll let you trick it out afterwards.

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<v Speaker 1>But like I love that he's at his age, like

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<v Speaker 1>even reading books on boundaries of stuff and like just

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<v Speaker 1>even learning that word. Yeah yeah yeah. And I heard

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<v Speaker 1>with little kids when they're little, you have to be

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<v Speaker 1>careful because kids organically have boundaries. But then we as

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<v Speaker 1>adults who are like, well, no, allowed this or share

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<v Speaker 1>this or did it and just like really shouldn't do

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<v Speaker 1>that with with their they got their little voice. Even

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<v Speaker 1>though we're looking out for them. But that's kind of

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<v Speaker 1>where the boundaries start.

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<v Speaker 2>Little starts a childhood and then we have to like

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<v Speaker 2>reteach ourselves everything in our adulthood.

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<v Speaker 1>And it's that's why it's called a journey, you know.

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<v Speaker 1>It's constant, girl, constant. Your journey was constant. So take

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<v Speaker 1>me back to the pandem So you enter the pandemic single.

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<v Speaker 2>Technically, actually no, okay, So twenty eighteen, I left that

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<v Speaker 2>relationship where it was at twenty nineteen, I'm pouring into me.

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<v Speaker 2>Part of pouring into me is personal training, and I'm

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<v Speaker 2>now in the gym. I'm working out fall in love

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<v Speaker 2>with fitness, and then.

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<v Speaker 1>I actually can't fall in love with fitness. I keep

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<v Speaker 1>trying to convince myself that, but gone.

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<v Speaker 2>I think you can, Yeah, you definitely can. And you know,

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<v Speaker 2>for me, I feel like it was really like the

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<v Speaker 2>mental benefits, Like it put me in such a better space,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, and it made me make better choices throughout

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<v Speaker 2>the rest of the day, you know, and just have

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<v Speaker 2>more inspiration because it was me pouring into me, you know.

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<v Speaker 2>And then everything else from there helped remind me to

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<v Speaker 2>pour into me, you know. But during that I met

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<v Speaker 2>my current boyfriend now because he's a personal trainer. Okay,

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<v Speaker 2>so it's crazy because he was so professional too. I

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<v Speaker 2>like we were like literally just client and and trainer

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<v Speaker 2>for so long. And then I would like ask him,

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<v Speaker 2>like what do you do out here? Like do you

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<v Speaker 2>have friends?

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<v Speaker 1>Do you hang out? Do you have fun?

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<v Speaker 2>Do you do anything at night? You know? You want

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<v Speaker 2>to come out with me and my friends? Like whatever?

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<v Speaker 2>So I like had to drag him out. Basically, I

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<v Speaker 2>invite him out like three times he always turned me down,

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<v Speaker 2>and finally, like that third he came and hung out

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<v Speaker 2>and like that's when we like started our friendship, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>and then.

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<v Speaker 1>Eventually it became a relationship.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, nice, but he you know, he's I feel like

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<v Speaker 2>he was like sent to me because yeah, he helped

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<v Speaker 2>me the timing and everything, and he has always been

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<v Speaker 2>like an advocate of me, pouring into me. You know,

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<v Speaker 2>it's nice. I like it. I like that.

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<v Speaker 1>And then and now we take you up to here

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<v Speaker 1>where you're writing this be greater.

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<v Speaker 2>Then be greater than company business.

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<v Speaker 1>Now are you are you still dipping your toe every

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<v Speaker 1>once in a while into Dan still or yeah?

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<v Speaker 2>I am, I am, But I pick and choose where

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<v Speaker 2>you know, Unfortunately, I still feel like dancers are like

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<v Speaker 2>the like lowest paid and the least respected in this industry.

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<v Speaker 1>So it's.

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<v Speaker 2>Hard, like you know, like sets and stuff sometimes that

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<v Speaker 2>we have to be in our situations that it just

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<v Speaker 2>makes it hard for me to be like, yeah, I

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<v Speaker 2>want to go do that. Now I've done it also.

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<v Speaker 1>Bajillion times of the negative side, yeah, I mean like

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<v Speaker 1>just like, how did you see that interview recently where

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<v Speaker 1>the cast of The Color Purple was talking about and

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<v Speaker 1>co signing with Taraji about how they didn't have like

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<v Speaker 1>dressing rooms or anywhere to like sit down, and they

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<v Speaker 1>were like that like where they had to like she

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<v Speaker 1>had to ask them for like a ride to set

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<v Speaker 1>or some.

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<v Speaker 2>Food or whatever, like we don't have any food in

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<v Speaker 2>our rooms?

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<v Speaker 1>Can we get snacks?

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<v Speaker 2>You know?

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<v Speaker 1>And you're on set, locked it on all day, you

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<v Speaker 1>can't leave, right, Yeah, Dancers get treated like that a lot.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, we don't have if we have a holding room,

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<v Speaker 2>there's no chairs where we're just on a dusty, dirty floor.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, there's no snacks, where's the water we're dancing,

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<v Speaker 2>we're sweating, you.

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<v Speaker 1>Know, like wow? And then are they usually contractors so

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<v Speaker 1>there's no like labor laws or anything, right because it's

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<v Speaker 1>contract work. Get the freak.

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<v Speaker 2>That's why television, that's why I started falling in love

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<v Speaker 2>with that too, because that's sag. There's a union, there's

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<v Speaker 2>a representation, you know, like people look after you, there's rules,

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<v Speaker 2>there's you can't if you work overtime, you're paid for it.

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<v Speaker 2>You know.

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<v Speaker 1>Like but now when you're a dancer and you're on

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<v Speaker 1>contract and you have rehearsal, do they consider the rehearsal?

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<v Speaker 1>Do they help nothing?

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<v Speaker 2>Is it?

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<v Speaker 1>Like it's scary out there because you look at these

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<v Speaker 1>dancers in the videos and you look at them on

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<v Speaker 1>tour and you're like, that's amazing, what an amazing opportunity.

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<v Speaker 3>But you don't think them like sitting in a room, yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>just starving to daddy of be eating one thing or

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<v Speaker 3>like yeah I'm not drinking water or freezing maybe all

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<v Speaker 3>day or something like depending on the settings.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's crazy.

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<v Speaker 2>And then yeah, it's all based on like those kind

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<v Speaker 2>of contracts if they're not a set like music video rate,

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<v Speaker 2>like rehearsal rate is this, and then the shoot rate

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<v Speaker 2>is that, and the eye out is that you can

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<v Speaker 2>negotiate whatever. You know, if it's a tour rate and

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<v Speaker 2>you're like I want three thousand a week, like you

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<v Speaker 2>can negotiate that. But a lot of times they're like

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<v Speaker 2>we only have X, yeah, and it's either take it

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<v Speaker 2>or leave it, you know. So the industry is crazy.

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<v Speaker 2>It's crazy, and a lot of times they'll take that

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<v Speaker 2>main rate and cut it in half for rehearsals like that.

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<v Speaker 2>Then that's your rate, weekly rate, no, well like daily, yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>you rate.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah. So I'm going that people are starting to speak

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<v Speaker 1>out about it because it's starting to like humanize, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>the industry for all these people that are on looking

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<v Speaker 1>like you're a turagi or you're you're.

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<v Speaker 2>No, yeah, And that's why like even me myself, like

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<v Speaker 2>I'm like I'm in the working smarter not harder era,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, Like I've been a dancer for professional dancer

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<v Speaker 2>for like twenty years almost and I've done literally everything,

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<v Speaker 2>worked very hard for it, and like we shouldn't have

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<v Speaker 2>to always work that hard, Like we should be taken

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<v Speaker 2>care of. We shouldn't have to beg for water, we

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<v Speaker 2>shouldn't have to beg for you know, certain things or

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<v Speaker 2>like a seat or a cushion or like not dance

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<v Speaker 2>on concrete or something, you know, like, but it happens

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<v Speaker 2>all the time. And then like social media comes around,

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<v Speaker 2>and you know, the rates are crazy and brands are

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<v Speaker 2>paying influencers crazy hundreds of crazy amount of money, treating

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<v Speaker 2>them like superstars, flying them out to this place in

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<v Speaker 2>that place, and it's like, wow, we can't even like

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<v Speaker 2>get that in the industry.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, I got some friends that are influencers in

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<v Speaker 1>the money they make is crazy.

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<v Speaker 2>I make more as an influencer than a dancer or

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<v Speaker 2>an actor or wow.

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<v Speaker 1>Wow. Yeah, the world has definitely flipped. Yeah, it's definitely flipped.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>Crazy. That's a big reason why I didn't go on

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<v Speaker 1>this tour. Yeah yeah, you know, it's like work smarter,

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<v Speaker 1>not harder, guys, It's not always and I think too

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<v Speaker 1>in this age, like people are getting caught up in

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<v Speaker 1>the likes and the followers. It's like, oh, I have

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<v Speaker 1>three hundred thousand. It's weird. It's like some people don't

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<v Speaker 1>even have that much in their bank account and they're like,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm a superstar because I have fifteen thousand followers. Like, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I wouldn't say humble yourself, but do live in reality.

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<v Speaker 2>Do live in reality, Yes, and be aware and yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>have a sense of humility.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, but definite in reality. I always tell people

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<v Speaker 1>before you look at your likes and your followers, like,

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<v Speaker 1>also assess. Also assess your bank account along with it. Yeah, sorry,

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<v Speaker 1>because you have to.

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<v Speaker 3>You have to.

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<v Speaker 1>Your bank account still matters at the end of the day.

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<v Speaker 2>It does, and you have to be smart. Like rich

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<v Speaker 2>people are where they're at because they were smart with

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<v Speaker 2>their money. You know, a lot of them, Yeah, unless they.

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<v Speaker 1>It was just this is kind of random, but I'm

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<v Speaker 1>I'm deathly curious. Do you read a lot? I know

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<v Speaker 1>we're almost done. I don't know if they're that's not

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<v Speaker 1>even for us, But uh, what books do you read?

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<v Speaker 1>Are you a reader?

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<v Speaker 2>You know, I am not a big reader, but I

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<v Speaker 2>am trying to be so if you have recommendations, I'm

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<v Speaker 2>a reader because I'm that's the era I'm in now.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm like, I need to learn, and like you know,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm always telling people be a sponge, like always learn learn,

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<v Speaker 2>learn from everyone, So please, I'm a booker.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm a booker. But well, i'll tell you off camera.

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<v Speaker 1>But there's a couple of favorite books I have. But yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I definitely like to read if I have an opportunity

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<v Speaker 1>now that I have a two year old. Every time

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<v Speaker 1>I open a book, she like rips it out of

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<v Speaker 1>my hand and she's like reading. I'm like, that's for me,

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<v Speaker 1>and then it's like the rip war and so she

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<v Speaker 1>wants to read it. Yeah, so unless it's like the

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<v Speaker 1>bear and the squirrel get along, like I basically have

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<v Speaker 1>to hide my books.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you like a physical book too. I like the

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<v Speaker 2>audible love physical.

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<v Speaker 1>I've been getting into audio lately with her because otherwise

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<v Speaker 1>there won't be that much reading. But I've been doing

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<v Speaker 1>more of a like it's you know, I used to

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<v Speaker 1>be all into business books, but now I'm all into

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<v Speaker 1>like self help, please save me from myself, well and your.

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<v Speaker 2>Mom, you know, And that's you know. Jasmine also has

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<v Speaker 2>a two year old who I'm her godmom, and that's

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<v Speaker 2>what made her pour into her was having to prioritize

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<v Speaker 2>her daughter and herself better and not be like a

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<v Speaker 2>dancer who's just like jumping around from rehearsal rehearsal at

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<v Speaker 2>someone else's time whenever they asked for you. Like, she

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<v Speaker 2>had to like prioritize her daughter and like work different,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, and like so she was like, I want

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<v Speaker 2>to create something that makes sense for me as a mom.

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<v Speaker 2>You know.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I remember I try to get all these like

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<v Speaker 1>books on like stay at home mom work or how

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<v Speaker 1>to balance your schedule. But I think having I was

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<v Speaker 1>married going through a divorce, but one of the things

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<v Speaker 1>I learned was like I was taking care of everyone

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<v Speaker 1>but me, and like I was always the last. It

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<v Speaker 1>got to the point where I'm making my daughter's lunch

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<v Speaker 1>and I make it like psycho level. I'm that parent

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<v Speaker 1>that's fruit, vegetables, snack.

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<v Speaker 2>Cheese like layers.

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<v Speaker 1>They open the lunch box and they're like, your daughter,

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<v Speaker 1>for one, doesn't eat out of this stuff. But I'm like,

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<v Speaker 1>you never know what mood she's gonna be. Yeah, but

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<v Speaker 1>then I'll have all these healthy options for her. Right

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<v Speaker 1>And as many times as I do her thurrows chips

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<v Speaker 1>and I'm eating none of this stuff that's in the house,

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<v Speaker 1>and I'm like, do you know what I mean? Like

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<v Speaker 1>what about you? Like why can't you eat a blueberry

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<v Speaker 1>or BlackBerry or cutting out eat some of the apples

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<v Speaker 1>you're cutting? Yeah, you know, And I realized that I'm

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<v Speaker 1>everybody else and I'll work thirteen million jobs to make

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<v Speaker 1>sure that every bill is taking care of and everyone's comfortable.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, not only sucky addiction kind of is I

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<v Speaker 1>like to drive nice cars, like my only thing. That's like,

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<v Speaker 1>but you know, once she's okay, yeah, but.

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<v Speaker 2>They all have that's not a bad one.

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<v Speaker 1>It's literally the only thing. Like I switched them out

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<v Speaker 1>like every three years. But I will say that, like,

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<v Speaker 1>it's still not enough to just be like, Okay, I

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<v Speaker 1>got the car that I want for the next three

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<v Speaker 1>years or however long you know, the new one comes out.

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<v Speaker 1>But that's not really enough to say I'm taking care

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<v Speaker 1>of myself. That's just like, that's just that's a.

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<v Speaker 2>Nice luxury thing girl that you just that's like it's

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<v Speaker 2>like like like you deserve that, you know.

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<v Speaker 1>But but where can people keep up with? Be greater

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<v Speaker 1>than and and shout out how people can keep up

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<v Speaker 1>with Ashley.

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<v Speaker 2>Be greater than is on Instagram, be greater than Underscore

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<v Speaker 2>and then myself Ashley C M. Everett Yeah, on all

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<v Speaker 2>social media platforms.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, So guys, if you want to keep up

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<v Speaker 1>with Ashley, go ahead, and thanks for listening to another

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