Speaker 1: Welcome to PM mood then No Talking Points, no Bullshit
Speaker 1: podcast that takes you behind the curtain, off the red carpet,
Speaker 1: and to the front lines of progress with change makers
Speaker 1: and innovators that are doing the work to shift our
Speaker 1: culture and expand their social impact. I am so excited
Speaker 1: to welcome to PM mood friend of mine and friend
Speaker 1: of the show, Angelica Ross, who is a actress, writer, producer,
Speaker 1: all around amazing badass. My god, I don't even know
Speaker 1: how long I've been following your career now, but it's
Speaker 1: been it's been a delight to see your trajectory, Angelica,
Speaker 1: Like honestly, it warms my heart on a day to
Speaker 1: day basis. But you know, we've been changing up how
Speaker 1: we start PM Moods because we're in the midst of
Speaker 1: a global pandemic. And when I had started this show,
Speaker 1: it was supposed to be lighthearted talking to folks about
Speaker 1: how you're utilizing your platforms to increase your social impact,
Speaker 1: which you have done all the time, um, you know,
Speaker 1: since the beginning of your work. But just talk to
Speaker 1: talk to us about where you are right now, where
Speaker 1: you are quarantined and how are you doing well. First
Speaker 1: of all, I am blessed and highly favored. Um as
Speaker 1: my grandmother who would say, UM, but yes, I right now,
Speaker 1: I am really focused on all of the blessings and
Speaker 1: being grateful for everything that is going right right now. UM,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to um. You know, it's difficult for everyone,
Speaker 1: but in many many of us can look at our circumstances,
Speaker 1: I think and say, things could be worse, you know,
Speaker 1: And so I'm definitely, uh, just grateful for what I
Speaker 1: can be grateful for, which is my new home that
Speaker 1: I bought here in Georgia, thank you very much. So
Speaker 1: it was I'm a first time home buyer and um,
Speaker 1: so that was you know, I have to be honest,
Speaker 1: like it was such a big milestone for me to
Speaker 1: purchase a home. It meant so many things to me
Speaker 1: as a black trans woman to sort of start putting
Speaker 1: these roots down and you know, getting I guess, a
Speaker 1: piece of the American dream. Um. You know. But the
Speaker 1: thing is is that, like I'm like, how do I
Speaker 1: feel irresponsible when I not only put aside months of
Speaker 1: you know, reserves for all of my bills or whatever,
Speaker 1: but I also saved for my down payment. I also
Speaker 1: not only had you know, my one main job of
Speaker 1: you know, filming an American horror story lined up, but
Speaker 1: I also had, you know, just speaking engagements, personal appearances,
Speaker 1: a lot of different things, you know, to add up
Speaker 1: to whatever keeping me busy and keeping the bills paid
Speaker 1: and all of that. All of it got completely shut down.
Speaker 1: And so you know, I'm fortunate enough to I took
Speaker 1: advantage of every program that was out there, as far
Speaker 1: as like delay my mortgage for months, delay my car
Speaker 1: payments for a few months. You know, I'm just doing
Speaker 1: everything I can to sort of brace for this moment.
Speaker 1: But I also realize, um, you know, I talk spirits speaking.
Speaker 1: You know, I feel like these challenges come up for
Speaker 1: a reason, and they come up for a certain time,
Speaker 1: and you know, America has the reckoning that is just
Speaker 1: we've been like putting all for trying to put off,
Speaker 1: for trying to pretend with things and with drugs and
Speaker 1: with just distractions or whatever. But you know, we're getting
Speaker 1: to a place where it's not letting us distract be distracted,
Speaker 1: because guess what, you got to sit with yourself half
Speaker 1: the time in the house. So whatever it is that
Speaker 1: you're not dealing with, whatever excuses you're making for you know, situations,
Speaker 1: whatever things you've taken for granted, people, you've taken for
Speaker 1: granted relationships. Um, I mean just I think this is
Speaker 1: a time to reevaluate everything everything. What are you doing
Speaker 1: right now? I mean I would assume that this is
Speaker 1: probably the first time, and god knows how long that
Speaker 1: you've probably been sitting still, right, I mean you've been
Speaker 1: You've been filming pos, you work then you know American
Speaker 1: Horror Story, all the projects that you have in between,
Speaker 1: trans tech, the speaking engagement. So what are you know?
Speaker 1: How does it feel, I should say, first to sit
Speaker 1: still in your new home and actually be in your
Speaker 1: in your place and make and make a home because
Speaker 1: you know you're you are an incredible Hollywood hustler right
Speaker 1: then doing the month. So so what does it feel
Speaker 1: like to be home, to be to be stationary. I'm
Speaker 1: so grateful again for my Buddhist practice because it keeps
Speaker 1: bringing me back to this perspective of duality of you know,
Speaker 1: the good and the bad, you know the advantage of
Speaker 1: the disadvantage, And so I feel like I'm constantly just
Speaker 1: in a heightened state of awareness around that. So being
Speaker 1: in my house, man, what an accomplishment? What? Um? What
Speaker 1: um a reflection because I always believe, again from my
Speaker 1: spiritual practice, that your immediate external environment is a reflection
Speaker 1: of your internal environment, and it takes a lot of
Speaker 1: work to get those things to, you know, kind of
Speaker 1: reflect how you wanted to reflect. And so I look
Speaker 1: around in my house and you know, I think about
Speaker 1: the words of your home rising up to greet you
Speaker 1: and all of those things, and I'm in the process
Speaker 1: of making all of that happen. And at the same time, Wow,
Speaker 1: I just have such mixed feelings of just my privilege,
Speaker 1: you know, in the situation, but then my privilege being
Speaker 1: so thinly veiled that I'm one foot away from, you know,
Speaker 1: a disaster myself, you know. So it's it's it's it's
Speaker 1: I'm alive. And I say that in ways of saying
Speaker 1: both I'm grateful I'm alive, but also like I think,
Speaker 1: you know, I remember seeing Vanessa Williams on the celebrity
Speaker 1: RuPaul Drag Race and she was just talking about like
Speaker 1: just being back in that time and how you know,
Speaker 1: a new challenge sometimes makes you feel alive, you know,
Speaker 1: And I'm just like, you know, I feel alive in
Speaker 1: these ways where I'm not in a state where I
Speaker 1: can sort of kick back room and true truly rest. Yes,
Speaker 1: this is a time to rest. I think this is
Speaker 1: also just a time to reflect and very just just
Speaker 1: to reflect, and I'm really holding myself to the fire
Speaker 1: to sort of take advantage of this time and think
Speaker 1: about also the concept to who much has given, much
Speaker 1: is expected. And so as I put into place all
Speaker 1: the things to protect myself and my family and my
Speaker 1: circumstances in my home, I'm blessed and I realize those things.
Speaker 1: And so if things go well and I can get myself,
Speaker 1: you know, taken care of and solidified, then my focus
Speaker 1: is always to go back to the beginning, which is service.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm someone who believes that success always begins
Speaker 1: with service. That's it began with trans Tach, it began
Speaker 1: before trans Tech, with the trans Life Center that I
Speaker 1: worked at. It began before that doing HIV, you know, educate,
Speaker 1: peer education in high school, whatever the things is. Is
Speaker 1: having this heart of service. We now have to kind
Speaker 1: of divert our attention and that's what I'm just doing
Speaker 1: right now. And it's just really diverting my attention on
Speaker 1: from all the things that maybe don't matter as much
Speaker 1: in this moment and trying to show up and matter
Speaker 1: more in this moment in ways that truly matter. How
Speaker 1: have you found you know, because we we what we
Speaker 1: are learning, right and what you're talking about, this reckoning
Speaker 1: that America is experienced, right, the world is experiencing. We
Speaker 1: have abused this planet, We have abuse one another. We
Speaker 1: are seeing the manifestation right of it of what it
Speaker 1: means to be selfish and neglectual, and we are we
Speaker 1: are seeing which vulnerable populations are are most affected right.
Speaker 1: Those that we have been dismissive of and have believed
Speaker 1: them to be expendable have largely been people of color,
Speaker 1: and we know that within our community, within the lgbt
Speaker 1: QI community, that those are some of the most vulnerable people,
Speaker 1: trans women of color being some of the most vulnerable people.
Speaker 1: What have you been hearing with regard to how folks
Speaker 1: in the lgbtq I community are faring in this moment?
Speaker 1: Because we're talking about the economic and health vulnerabilities of
Speaker 1: black people of Latin X people, but we haven't done
Speaker 1: deep dives into other marginalized communities. So what have you
Speaker 1: been hearing and what do you know to be true
Speaker 1: that we should Frankly, as you have been a leader
Speaker 1: and an activist for quite some time, what do you
Speaker 1: think we should be talking about in this moment with
Speaker 1: regard to our community to day? Well, I definitely have
Speaker 1: been hearing about a lot of struggle financially speaking, as
Speaker 1: well as mental health struggles, because you know, you thought
Speaker 1: people were struggling before with anxiety and depression and all
Speaker 1: of the things that are triggered by things. So take
Speaker 1: a situation like COVID nineteen and that just really exacerbates
Speaker 1: many folks situation. And so I'm definitely hearing that. What
Speaker 1: I'm also hearing and seeing is community taking care of
Speaker 1: each other, because that's always been the moo, especially when
Speaker 1: you're talking about black trains and queer folks. We've always
Speaker 1: had to take care of each other when the system
Speaker 1: has not taken care of us. And so that has
Speaker 1: really just only further kind of gone into play. And
Speaker 1: you know, I I sometimes am feeling quite um dysphoric,
Speaker 1: and not in my gender identity. Um, I'm feeling so
Speaker 1: such a dysphoria being in this country and turning on
Speaker 1: the TV and watching people we're supposed to trust lie
Speaker 1: to our faces, um avoid accountability UM and or speak
Speaker 1: half truth in favor of personal and UM professional or
Speaker 1: corporate interests, you know, UM and so you really can't
Speaker 1: my my, my, my antennas are so heightened right now
Speaker 1: because I know how people slip things in It's just
Speaker 1: like the how our government makes a bill and then
Speaker 1: slip things in there while you're not looking, or are
Speaker 1: things that you don't quite understand. And so to be
Speaker 1: in an environment where you can't trust your leaders, and
Speaker 1: you can't trust the system, and you can't trust the
Speaker 1: people who are meant to protect you, it is inevitable.
Speaker 1: It is of critical importance that these marginalized community create
Speaker 1: their own systems. And that's really the call of Black
Speaker 1: Lives Matter. You know, I feel like I'm continually standing
Speaker 1: behind that Moniker to make it true for all of us,
Speaker 1: to make it true for our entire community. And you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's just unfortunate because these community, these these most
Speaker 1: marginalized communities, don't have a lot to give. But they
Speaker 1: are the communities that I see giving the most when
Speaker 1: it comes to this. They're the communities that I see
Speaker 1: speaking up the vote most and putting themselves in the
Speaker 1: line of fire when they have the least amount of
Speaker 1: protections and the least amount of privilege in the situation. So, um,
Speaker 1: you know what we need to be doing in this
Speaker 1: situation is if we are tired of looking and scrolling
Speaker 1: on social media and looking at another damn video of
Speaker 1: you know, police brutalizing black bodies, or see another hashtag
Speaker 1: come up? You know, um, is it Brianna Taylor? Ye?
Speaker 1: And you know, and and even with Brianna Taylor, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna name another one, Nina Pop Yeah, you know, a
Speaker 1: black trans woman. And for some reason we don't understand
Speaker 1: that your humanity's off when you can rally a one
Speaker 1: around one and not all three of those people right
Speaker 1: around a mod around Brianna and around Nina. And those
Speaker 1: are just the three most recent, all murdered within weeks
Speaker 1: of each other, right but why well, well yes, maybe
Speaker 1: in the sense of, you know, the sad part about
Speaker 1: Brianna Taylor's story is we're hearing about this now. This
Speaker 1: happened actually back in March, right, and a mod we
Speaker 1: heard about now, and that happened in February. Oh exactly,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, So likely within you know,
Speaker 1: within weeks, meaning of them being taken. But then how
Speaker 1: we learn about it? Right, Like, why not in that moment?
Speaker 1: How that's the that's how are we learning about it?
Speaker 1: And the reality is we're learning about it from who
Speaker 1: each other yep. And so we are the we are
Speaker 1: the news source that we trust, we are the pharmaceutical
Speaker 1: companies that we trust, we are all of the different
Speaker 1: level of authorities that we trust. And I think that
Speaker 1: we need to take it just like those days of
Speaker 1: Black Panther, where we got to take it to mean
Speaker 1: about protecting, educating, and you know, all these taking responsibility
Speaker 1: for everyone in the flock, regardless of identity, sexual orientation.
Speaker 1: We have to be willing to confront this misogyny and
Speaker 1: patriarchy and that for right now, that's a really hard
Speaker 1: part point for us. Right now, we can I can
Speaker 1: see it in social media. I see it in so
Speaker 1: many places that that's like a sticking place for us.
Speaker 1: And so what's going to help us get beyond that
Speaker 1: is every single last one of you brilliant black cists
Speaker 1: women are going to really have to stand up and
Speaker 1: stand next to your LGBTQ plus black folks and together
Speaker 1: the resound a message that is almost that is louder
Speaker 1: than the NABLEACP that is louder than these things that
Speaker 1: because the LEACP. Right now, I'm like, I'm I'm to
Speaker 1: being keeping one hundred like I'm mad. I'm mad because
Speaker 1: I've been in your zone. I've been at some meetings.
Speaker 1: You called me into your space and you I basically
Speaker 1: almost was there for a photo ops. How I feel
Speaker 1: right because I you know, at this town hall, we're
Speaker 1: talking about real things, and we talk about certain things,
Speaker 1: and I'm trying to get meetings, and I can see
Speaker 1: it's an internal struggle with who with the older black
Speaker 1: folks in the community who are in the older leadership.
Speaker 1: So either we're going to really do this work or
Speaker 1: it's going to be a struggle. Because I'm I'm I'm
Speaker 1: actually a little worried at this point because there's a
Speaker 1: lot of real facts and things that are happening right
Speaker 1: now that just add up to things that people are
Speaker 1: just want turning it. They're not wanting to add it
Speaker 1: up because if they do, that means you'll have to
Speaker 1: do something about it. You'll paying attention, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Paying attention to things, right, paying attention. There's
Speaker 1: a price to it because if you're gonna if you're
Speaker 1: going to provide a necessary spotlight on an issue on
Speaker 1: a people, right then it's going to force you to
Speaker 1: do something about it. Recognition is only part of the
Speaker 1: pathway to justice. Right Like, so we can recognize the
Speaker 1: fact that certain people Pole's deaths are upheld and are
Speaker 1: discussed and our headlines while others are not right they are.
Speaker 1: The sad thing is that our oppression and our deaths
Speaker 1: are entertainment for white America. So any movies they want
Speaker 1: to award or green lit like have to do right
Speaker 1: our oppression and the murder of our bodies. They have
Speaker 1: to do a certain narrative. And I, you know, there's
Speaker 1: certain movies I just can't watch them anymore because I
Speaker 1: refuse to see all this diversity in Into the Woods
Speaker 1: and motherfucking creek scars use my language and all these
Speaker 1: creatures that they can imagine in these stories, but they
Speaker 1: can't imagine Black people in those stories. They can't imagine, um,
Speaker 1: you know, create anything other than our oppression and are
Speaker 1: killing us. And not only that, like, it pisces me
Speaker 1: off that folks look yes, creating entertainment and storytelling definitely
Speaker 1: changing hearts and minds is part of it. Well, when
Speaker 1: we're talking about going up and against the system where
Speaker 1: they don't give a damn, and when I'm telling you
Speaker 1: don't give a damn. Listen, Jay Love, Listen, love you
Speaker 1: Jeff Qute performance at the Super Bowl Girl, But like
Speaker 1: that wasn't in alignment with the front that we was
Speaker 1: putting up. You understand, I'm saying, with all the all
Speaker 1: the black artists and major artists, Rihanna, everybody else, you
Speaker 1: saw the stances they were taking. So then you try
Speaker 1: to make a statement and then put children in cages
Speaker 1: on the stage, and that went over all the white
Speaker 1: people's heads. Under what I'm saying that that didn't change
Speaker 1: the damn thing about the situation. So, like you know,
Speaker 1: we have got to get to a place where we're
Speaker 1: really prepared for what's happening. They're lying to our faces,
Speaker 1: they're making the laws and breaking them. At the same time,
Speaker 1: you have white people who are busting into state buildings,
Speaker 1: buildings with arms armed. If black people dared, we know
Speaker 1: what happens when we dare to be our full and
Speaker 1: complete cells right and show up as full and complete
Speaker 1: humans right that are not asking permission to exist, but
Speaker 1: just existing on our own accord. We know what happens, right,
Speaker 1: But the thing is, we're not going to be able
Speaker 1: to disarm because the moment you say, um about disarming America,
Speaker 1: then the white people go get very loud and crazy
Speaker 1: about the right to bear arms. Yes, but here's here's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Sometimes when folks abuse things, those rights
Speaker 1: should be taken Those rights should be taken away. Meaning
Speaker 1: like America, our stats aren't doing well for us in
Speaker 1: the sense of mass shootings, in the sense of violence
Speaker 1: and all these different things. Maybe the right to bear
Speaker 1: arms needs to be earned. Maybe there's you know some okay,
Speaker 1: like you can do this, but we got to now
Speaker 1: earn this right back by showing what are the reasons
Speaker 1: for you to even have these sort of weapons, you know,
Speaker 1: And there's certain weapons that just don't need to be
Speaker 1: in everybody, in the everyday person's hands. So there's there's
Speaker 1: a conversation we're not willing to have because people are like, oh,
Speaker 1: right to bear arms. So okay, I'm a Buddhist and
Speaker 1: I'm trying to stay away from the violence and the
Speaker 1: things as much as possible, But we also have to
Speaker 1: recognize the playing field and environment we are in, and
Speaker 1: so as non white America. You know, um, I don't
Speaker 1: know if it makes that much sense to keep allowing
Speaker 1: white people to stop pile weapons like this and we're not. So,
Speaker 1: you know, that's funny because this conversation that has now
Speaker 1: come up on my political podcast Woke f on a
Speaker 1: regular basis, which is that many of us who believe
Speaker 1: in progressivism, believe in gun control, believe you know it
Speaker 1: to some extent. I have never had full belief in
Speaker 1: the Second Amendment. The Second Amendment was created in a
Speaker 1: time when AAR fifteens and machine guns and all these
Speaker 1: things didn't created for white people, the safe so that
Speaker 1: the negroes didn't overthrow their stuff so they can protect
Speaker 1: their property, and that's where the police came from too.
Speaker 1: So so so it's like it was never meant for us,
Speaker 1: and it was never meant for the current type of
Speaker 1: system that society that we're living in. But on the
Speaker 1: flip of that, I'm saying, when I see these pictures
Speaker 1: of these militia, these white Trump militia, storm in these
Speaker 1: government buildings, right going into a Starbucks with a bazooka
Speaker 1: on your back, what is the what the point of
Speaker 1: that is intimidation, the point the point of that is oppression.
Speaker 1: And so at what point do black people say, you
Speaker 1: know what, they're killing us any fucking way, right like
Speaker 1: they are doing the most anyway. Maybe it's time that
Speaker 1: we begin to exercise our rights. And you saw that
Speaker 1: after the two men in the Ahmad Augury murder were arrested.
Speaker 1: We saw black militia now are guarding his home, where
Speaker 1: where his family is, and they have the same weaponry
Speaker 1: on and the cops were afraid to come down the
Speaker 1: street stay your ass at day. Then you weren't. You
Speaker 1: weren't nowhere for the last two months. Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: and I think the biggest rule that I heard come
Speaker 1: out of somewhere from someone that said something, was about
Speaker 1: the fact that you should not be policing a neighborhood
Speaker 1: you're scared of. Like if you don't know how to
Speaker 1: talk to the people you're serving and protecting, you have
Speaker 1: no right to be serving and protecting that environment. If
Speaker 1: you're shaking, you know, people are just our skin tone
Speaker 1: is a threat to you, just at one, you know.
Speaker 1: So I do believe, I do believe unfort you know,
Speaker 1: I hate I just I hate to say it because
Speaker 1: you know, that's just not that's not it's not where
Speaker 1: I live. But at the same time, UM, I know
Speaker 1: one thing. I love me. Let me tell you something.
Speaker 1: I know one thing. The higher that I move up
Speaker 1: and the more things I do, the more I want
Speaker 1: to keep somebody with me and around me. Do you
Speaker 1: understand I'm saying the one The more I need to
Speaker 1: keep certain folks around me that can make sure don't
Speaker 1: nothing pop off. Right, I'm a black trans woman, I
Speaker 1: know so instead you know, so I just you know, Um,
Speaker 1: I'm a prayer. I'm praying about it. I'm praying stronger
Speaker 1: about it, and I'm trying to show up in my
Speaker 1: leadership in certain ways. But that's what I mean. Is that. So,
Speaker 1: whether it's me doing trans tech, whether it's me building, um,
Speaker 1: you know, an army of black LGBTQ plus creatives to
Speaker 1: sort of re claim the narratives that have been told
Speaker 1: as well as like sort of filling the gaps that
Speaker 1: are missing. Um, you know, in both non scripted and
Speaker 1: scripted television. I'm doing my part. I'm doing what I
Speaker 1: know how to do, whether it's hitting that stage and
Speaker 1: talking to you know, college students, who are about to
Speaker 1: start off and and really need some like a spark
Speaker 1: to understand their purpose beyond some degree, or whether it's
Speaker 1: talking to people in a boardroom and getting them to
Speaker 1: recognize their power and responsibility on making sure that their
Speaker 1: corporation and their brand is making the right kind of
Speaker 1: footprint or you know, fingerprint on our planet and on
Speaker 1: our society. I'm doing every any and all the things
Speaker 1: like I can do. And part of doing it, or
Speaker 1: part of being what they would call a level five leader,
Speaker 1: is leaders who create other leaders, that's all. So I'm
Speaker 1: not just trying to create a bunch of people following me.
Speaker 1: And that's what the damn I feel like it's happening
Speaker 1: on the side, on the right or with everything is
Speaker 1: about just follow me blindly, without checking, without fact checking,
Speaker 1: without anything. Because if you took two seconds to fact
Speaker 1: check one thing you would see that our president is,
Speaker 1: which is a would unravel. It would it would unravel?
Speaker 1: You know? That's that's that's that's the fact. You know
Speaker 1: what do you think, um Angelica, because you have again
Speaker 1: you have been an activist, you have worn that hat
Speaker 1: since the beginning of your Hollywood career. Do you think
Speaker 1: that is it a personal responsibility that each each person
Speaker 1: has to make for themselves. Or do you think that
Speaker 1: when you work yourself into these positions, into these large
Speaker 1: platforms where you have, you know, hundreds of thousands of
Speaker 1: followers and millions of people watching your shows, do you
Speaker 1: think that more actors, more actresses, more people of prominence
Speaker 1: should really be taking on the position of activists as well,
Speaker 1: because it's you know, in this space, government clearly it
Speaker 1: will under Trump is the problem, but what is you know,
Speaker 1: what do you think the responsibility of other folks in
Speaker 1: outside industries in Hollywood is to help usher in the
Speaker 1: change we really want to see. So I will answer
Speaker 1: that by first by saying, like, I've learned an alternative
Speaker 1: sort of definition for the word responsibility, and that is
Speaker 1: to have the ability to respond. And so I think
Speaker 1: that I am working as hard as I can to
Speaker 1: stay away from the should and telling people what they
Speaker 1: should and shouldn't be doing. However, I would encourage people
Speaker 1: to take responsibility for their platforms and if that's the
Speaker 1: least that you can do is take responsibility for your platform.
Speaker 1: So when Amanda seals, I think kind of read justin
Speaker 1: Timberlake for posting about amand but closing the common closing
Speaker 1: his comments because the comments are racist. But so you're
Speaker 1: not taking responsibility, and I'm not. This is not about
Speaker 1: taking blame. This is about taking responsibility, which is taking
Speaker 1: your ability to respond because guess what, white man in
Speaker 1: your castle, you have some ability. You got some time
Speaker 1: to respond, and so should could you know? Those are
Speaker 1: all the different things. But I think that another thing
Speaker 1: I wanted to address when what you were saying is like,
Speaker 1: you know, when you work yourself into these positions, And
Speaker 1: I want to like cycle that back a second, because
Speaker 1: I know for my own self, like, yep, I work
Speaker 1: my ass off. But to be real, when we're talking
Speaker 1: about this, this this spot, like when we're talking about
Speaker 1: this platform, I didn't do this by myself. And so
Speaker 1: it is a responsibility to your fans, to each and
Speaker 1: every single one of your fans, because I am a celebrity.
Speaker 1: And when I say that now, that's because I have
Speaker 1: reconciled with that initially being a four letter dirty word
Speaker 1: to me because of who and what celebrities were known
Speaker 1: to be and known for. But in one of my books,
Speaker 1: I have the Heart of the Load of Suture, one
Speaker 1: of my Buddhist books. It says that it says tells
Speaker 1: me to become a celebrity of the mystic Law. So
Speaker 1: that and what that means is basically, in the Mystic Law,
Speaker 1: we just talk about the fact that no matter who
Speaker 1: you are, what your challenges are, what your identities are,
Speaker 1: you two can sort of blossom into this amazing thing
Speaker 1: of overcoming all of your challenges. And so it says
Speaker 1: become a celebrity of that mystic law, which means I
Speaker 1: am a celebrated example of what it means to profoundly
Speaker 1: overcome challenges. That's why Angelica Ross is celebrated so hard.
Speaker 1: That's why people stay me so hard, not just because
Speaker 1: I'm pretty, not because you know of these certain things
Speaker 1: those who stand me or if you know. And so
Speaker 1: that's where I want to make sure that, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: own I'm a celebrity. But what am I celebrated for? Oh? Oh,
Speaker 1: I love that I am. I taking responsibility for my platform? Right? Right?
Speaker 1: Do I deserve to be celebrated? M And those are
Speaker 1: just questions I think that we as fans going forward
Speaker 1: should ask ourselves, correct, should we be celebrating this? Dude?
Speaker 1: I don't know? Right? Should they should they be should
Speaker 1: they be bestowed the honor that we are giving them? Right? Right?
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's very deep. That is the yes.
Speaker 1: That's the question that celebrities need to be asking themselves,
Speaker 1: and we need to be asking of the people that
Speaker 1: we are presenting with the honor and elevating. The last
Speaker 1: question that I will ask you is the question that
Speaker 1: I ask everyone who joins me on PM mood, which is,
Speaker 1: how do you get in the mood to change the world?
Speaker 1: How do you get into that space? I mean, well,
Speaker 1: that's easy obviously for me. It is my chanting practice
Speaker 1: because I chant every morning somewhere around seven am, and
Speaker 1: I chant every evening at six pm. So every day,
Speaker 1: basically what I'm doing is I'm looking myself in the
Speaker 1: mirror and I'm taking a very profoundly deep assessment of
Speaker 1: the reflection, both in the morning and when I've taken
Speaker 1: on all the drama and everything that I've taken on
Speaker 1: to face in the world, to clearly see what those
Speaker 1: things are not to sort of bring that into my
Speaker 1: evening or bring that into my night. So how I
Speaker 1: prepare myself is chanting. That if the practice of chanting
Speaker 1: for other people it's meditation, you know, it can be
Speaker 1: various things, but I would say the more specific you are,
Speaker 1: just like smart goals, you know are specific and that's
Speaker 1: what makes them, you know, great goals. So the more
Speaker 1: specific I am about my preparation, the more that I
Speaker 1: also reflect to myself that I'm not just doing this
Speaker 1: for myself. This is not just about me accomplishing my
Speaker 1: own selfish desires and needs and what have you, But
Speaker 1: this is also about me being there for other people
Speaker 1: and being able to recognize when is it time to
Speaker 1: snap out yourself, snap out of your own circumstances and
Speaker 1: see somebody next to you just need your shoulder, or
Speaker 1: needs your um guidance, or needs a word, or needs
Speaker 1: some some kind of support that you absolutely have the
Speaker 1: capacity to give in this moment. Beautiful Angelica Ross, you
Speaker 1: are a treasure and you you you deserve every bit
Speaker 1: of celebration, um and and spotlight because you you are
Speaker 1: doing so much to educate as well as entertained, and
Speaker 1: it is it's remarkable to see and edertainment and I
Speaker 1: can I stand and have for many years and will
Speaker 1: continue to thank you, appreciate you. Stay safe all right,
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