Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. You are tuned into
Speaker 1: the Vitamin D with Dawn Day podcast and I am
Speaker 1: your host, Dawn Day, here to get you excited about
Speaker 1: your life so that you can live life on purpose
Speaker 1: and for a purpose. And this is your first time
Speaker 1: tuning in and welcome Vitamin D. It's upon all my name,
Speaker 1: My name is Dawn, and you get Vitamin D from
Speaker 1: the sun. So I'm here to shed light into your life.
Speaker 1: And I do this with inspirational insights and conversations with
Speaker 1: celebrities and everyday people like you and me, because if
Speaker 1: you want to be better and you want to do better,
Speaker 1: then you're going to have to be able to see better.
Speaker 1: So join me on this journey of living our best
Speaker 1: lives and understanding and realizing how you are your greatest
Speaker 1: stass act. What was on Instagram, which I usually am,
Speaker 1: and I came across this video I guess is A
Speaker 1: pastor's name is Brian and Bullock over at Union Church
Speaker 1: and Charlotte and he had this word where he was
Speaker 1: talking about cake. Well he was compared like cake like
Speaker 1: to the dream and vision like what we want and
Speaker 1: how God shows a that, but we gotta look at like, well,
Speaker 1: what are some of the main ingredients that you put
Speaker 1: together to make a cake? Where you got your eggs,
Speaker 1: you got your flour, you got your milk, you got
Speaker 1: your sugar, and each one of those ingredients. He compared
Speaker 1: it to a season in our lives. He said, one,
Speaker 1: you got your eggs. You know, that's the delicate that's
Speaker 1: where everything can break season. You gotta be careful, perhaps
Speaker 1: you even breaking out your comfort zone. Then he talked
Speaker 1: about you got the season of sugar, where everything is sweet,
Speaker 1: everything seems to be going how you wanted to go.
Speaker 1: You're happy, and this hold over your mold. Then he
Speaker 1: goes on and talk about some flour. He said, that's
Speaker 1: the season when it's dry. You ever felt like that,
Speaker 1: everybody that you thought you could lean on they kind
Speaker 1: of ghost at you. I like to correlate it to
Speaker 1: perhaps even a pruning season. You know, sometimes you gotta
Speaker 1: be isolating in order to elevate. Then you get in
Speaker 1: the season of milk, you know, abundance, where is everything
Speaker 1: in surplus. But you look back and you said, well, god,
Speaker 1: this ain't necessarily what you said you was gonna give me,
Speaker 1: because you said it's a cake. Well then pass the bullock.
Speaker 1: He says, well, take a look at it and see.
Speaker 1: God says, I'm not just in the cake making business.
Speaker 1: But rather, if you stay around long enough, meaning if
Speaker 1: you stay persistent, you stay consistent, and you keep going,
Speaker 1: you realize that all these seasons work together, and you
Speaker 1: just gotta have the persistence of dedication. You just gotta
Speaker 1: have the understanding the patients in the grace because then
Speaker 1: we're gonna mix all that up and guess what. Now
Speaker 1: you can bake your own Okay, not just one, but two,
Speaker 1: three in surplus exceedingly beyond it, and we get to
Speaker 1: a place we can start helping out other people. So
Speaker 1: I guess what I say to you, don't get discouraged.
Speaker 1: There's a reason for the season that you're in. Appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Always say eat the meat and spit out the bone.
Speaker 1: What I mean by that is get the value you in,
Speaker 1: the nourishment for where you are, from where you are
Speaker 1: right now, it's coming. God is a slow to keep
Speaker 1: his promise. God doesn't tease to take away. So that cake,
Speaker 1: that vision, that dream that you have for your life.
Speaker 1: The seasons are here, stand it, keep going, it's happening.
Speaker 1: Eat that cake. At of metaminy right with me and
Speaker 1: get excited. I got antime. People's in the building, can
Speaker 1: we get the rounds of applause? Jeremiah, I'm grateful you here.
Speaker 1: I'm so grateful to be here. First of all, I
Speaker 1: love the name of the show, Vitamin D with don't
Speaker 1: like that. I think that that is like, did I
Speaker 1: tell you the history behind that name? No, you have
Speaker 1: not tell me. Please tell me this, Okay, So you
Speaker 1: know vitamin Did you get Vitamin D from the sun?
Speaker 1: So I'm here to shed light into your life. And
Speaker 1: dawn means the break of day. And it started out
Speaker 1: using the lyrics of popular music because I would use
Speaker 1: the lyrics of music and intertwined it into a motivational message.
Speaker 1: And that's because music has always spoken to me in
Speaker 1: ways unimaginable. And I said, okay, I know my calling.
Speaker 1: My purpose is to inspire. And oftentimes people look at
Speaker 1: people that inspire them like, you know, at least when
Speaker 1: I was first introduced CEO s or like these reverence
Speaker 1: and preachers, it's like, oh, you can't relate to me,
Speaker 1: And it's like, well, why don't I get you something
Speaker 1: that you're already rock into. Let me get you some
Speaker 1: Vitamin D with something that you're rocking too, and then
Speaker 1: twisted and intertwined a motivational message. So I feel often
Speaker 1: times sometimes you gotta go where people are and then
Speaker 1: bring them when they need to be and it's expanded.
Speaker 1: And I always say about shedding light because you know
Speaker 1: you think of vitamin did you see dawn? Always so positive,
Speaker 1: so happy I am, But just like in the dawn,
Speaker 1: there's a dust, a yin and the yang. And when
Speaker 1: you talk about shed and light, it's on good in
Speaker 1: the back because I said, if you want to be
Speaker 1: better and you want to do better, you have to
Speaker 1: be able to see better. Every time I hear you speak,
Speaker 1: I just literally want to like close my eyes. I
Speaker 1: want to lay down and I want to just like
Speaker 1: manifest everything that you're giving out because it's just it
Speaker 1: feels like it feels like Vitamin D, feels like love,
Speaker 1: like joy like, it just feels good. And when I
Speaker 1: first met you, you remember when we first absolutely how
Speaker 1: do people first? So I went to my homeboys, um
Speaker 1: like opening for this this label that he started, and
Speaker 1: he had it at his studio, really cool studio downtown,
Speaker 1: and I went by myself and I was like walking around,
Speaker 1: you know, trying to like feel energy, and immediately I
Speaker 1: felt your energy and it was just like radiant before
Speaker 1: you even spoke words to me. And then I don't
Speaker 1: know what we said, the words that we exchanged to
Speaker 1: each other, but we said something and it was because
Speaker 1: you were over theregaint your dream. I don't know what
Speaker 1: it was, and you were like that was He was
Speaker 1: like hi, and I was like, you were like, I
Speaker 1: like your style. That's what it was. I peached your style.
Speaker 1: The style was crazy. The style was super dope. And
Speaker 1: then but I really wanted to say, like, your energy
Speaker 1: is so vibrant and it's so pure, but I didn't,
Speaker 1: you know, it's kind of hard to tell people that
Speaker 1: when you first meet them, you like, you know, freak
Speaker 1: them out a little bit. But so then that happened.
Speaker 1: I don't even think we exchanged information. It was just
Speaker 1: that and that was it. She left a mark on me.
Speaker 1: So fast forward the next weekend, I'm working out and
Speaker 1: it's like private kind of gym by my house and
Speaker 1: I see her, the same person working out and I
Speaker 1: was like, okay, this now we're going to connect, because
Speaker 1: this is divine intervention. This happened for a reason, and
Speaker 1: then she saved her number on my phone as vitamin deed.
Speaker 1: I was like, why with the sun emoji? I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: like she's she's special. I have to have her in
Speaker 1: my life. And then since then, like, um it really
Speaker 1: has been rocking. And I was just I was actually
Speaker 1: sharing with jere Mind and everybody with the podcast shortly
Speaker 1: before I met you guys. I feel like I have
Speaker 1: manifest as I said, I just want to meet like
Speaker 1: a different group of people and just expand my group
Speaker 1: of people that have more things in common with um
Speaker 1: as I'm working on expanding on my levels of vulnerability,
Speaker 1: making room for Dawn and seeing Dawn. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: right one time, it always is. Universe always works just
Speaker 1: as it it's opposed to. Just be patient, r just
Speaker 1: be patient. Do the work, hey, do the word the work.
Speaker 1: The work is important, but you know, be patient in
Speaker 1: that and enjoy the journey. You gotta find joy in
Speaker 1: the journey. My barber, Louis c Pal shout out to Little.
Speaker 1: He says, Dawn, the journey isn't the experience, and the
Speaker 1: experience is the journey. It's so true. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: hard to live that sometimes because we always want what
Speaker 1: we want when we want it, and then social media
Speaker 1: we see other people have it already until you compare yourself.
Speaker 1: But literally, if you just sit and be grateful and
Speaker 1: be thankful and sit in that, come on, that's how
Speaker 1: the universe opens it up even quicker, so you can manifest,
Speaker 1: you can get, you can grab whatever it is that
Speaker 1: you truly desire. Gratitude is everything. Gratitude And they say,
Speaker 1: the more grateful we are, the more things we have
Speaker 1: to group careful for. Come on, what are you grateful
Speaker 1: for everything? I'm grateful being in space with you. I'm
Speaker 1: grateful to just talk to a like minded soul like you.
Speaker 1: I'm grateful for my family family. Air cover was on here,
Speaker 1: she was out to aerical people shout out to it,
Speaker 1: and I'm so happy to have my people. And we
Speaker 1: all from Detroit, which is kind of crazy too in
Speaker 1: l A. Like, you know what I'm saying, Since you're
Speaker 1: talking about it from Detroit, tell us who you are,
Speaker 1: Tell the people who is this fine? Well, ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying that come all the way
Speaker 1: from Detroit, Michigan. No, I'm just a simple kid, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. I grew up actually in the
Speaker 1: suburbs of Detroit, a little small town called mar clements
Speaker 1: Um too incredibly gifted, beautiful and enlightened parents. They raised
Speaker 1: me like that is the reason why I am the
Speaker 1: man that I am is because of those two people.
Speaker 1: And I'm thankful for them and my sister, she's kind
Speaker 1: of like my third parents. I'm an artist. I'm a
Speaker 1: true artist. Like I love anything that has to do
Speaker 1: with our DJ I sing, I act, I produce, I write, um,
Speaker 1: I draw, like those things really just like fuel my fire. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I do all those things, do all those things. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love you know. I feel like I remember back
Speaker 1: back in the day when you had the real stars
Speaker 1: and they did everything like them like I really love
Speaker 1: like Dorothy Dandrid's for instance, and like the oh like
Speaker 1: filming the War stars and that's that's the really generation
Speaker 1: that I love to watch. And they did it all.
Speaker 1: And I think now it's coming back into that this
Speaker 1: new renaissance, you know, shout out to be ice. But
Speaker 1: but we were all but you know, all my folks
Speaker 1: my trial, we were talking about this new renaissance before
Speaker 1: she started speaking about it, which I love that she
Speaker 1: brought light to it. Yeah, we shed a light. And
Speaker 1: you know, it's about artistry right now, and if you
Speaker 1: have are you gotta share it. It's all about that
Speaker 1: and I believe fully in that and letting your life shine.
Speaker 1: You gotta be bold, Yeah, you gotta be because people
Speaker 1: are coming to critique the art. And it's like when
Speaker 1: Erica by dudes like, I'm an artist and I'm sensitive
Speaker 1: about my ship, and I think like we all have
Speaker 1: this tendency to be great and to create this beautiful art,
Speaker 1: but you gotta be bold step into the light. Here's
Speaker 1: the thing I think oftentimes we feel like we gotta
Speaker 1: show up as something already prepared in package, not realizing
Speaker 1: that we're living. We haven't just lived, so it's not
Speaker 1: done and that I energy process. Um, they're gonna be
Speaker 1: a fifth things that are imperfections, But what do they say?
Speaker 1: What allows the diamond to shine on the multitudes of
Speaker 1: cuts that have been placed within it? So if I
Speaker 1: said step into the light and oh I'm not great here,
Speaker 1: Oh I'm not great there, but I'm bold enough. I'm
Speaker 1: just reflection. Come on, and I'm just trying to be
Speaker 1: reflecting that greatness I'm reflecting. I'm reflecting the dawn light.
Speaker 1: You've been these some tweetable moments. You've been hitting them
Speaker 1: with the gems like since Nuggets. I mean, that's what
Speaker 1: happens when you're getting the presence of Anton people. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, So here we are, Like you said, uh,
Speaker 1: Detroit or suburbs. There you went to ds A Detroit
Speaker 1: School of performing final, performing arts, the Pharos, what's it?
Speaker 1: The Pharaohs? What's your mascot? I don't even know if
Speaker 1: we had one. We don't have any sports. It was
Speaker 1: all just performing arts. We had like a band. Um,
Speaker 1: but that was Yeah, that was it. You knew you
Speaker 1: wanted to act way back then. Knew I wanted to
Speaker 1: act when I was like the age of four. What
Speaker 1: were you doing? Um? I would always perform for my family. Um.
Speaker 1: And to be honest, like, I grew up with my sister.
Speaker 1: Knowing when you say sister, you have a few siblings, right,
Speaker 1: So I'm the last of twelve. I have six sisters
Speaker 1: and five brothers. So when you say sister, who, there's
Speaker 1: eleven other people you could be talking about. So Erica,
Speaker 1: people's the actress. So when she got into acting classes.
Speaker 1: My mom put her in anton classes and then she
Speaker 1: put me in as well, and I just wanted to
Speaker 1: do anything that my sister was doing Big sisters. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I think that's when I kind of really honed
Speaker 1: in on my talent. I was like, oh, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: pretty good at this, Like, this is something that I
Speaker 1: like to do. So I knew at the age of
Speaker 1: like four or five that you know, this is what
Speaker 1: I loved to do. One of the parts of my
Speaker 1: talent that I love to do. Well, you know, I
Speaker 1: want to be honest. I truly admire the relationship that
Speaker 1: you and Erica have. I have older sister, she's three
Speaker 1: years older than me. We bumped hats a lot, and
Speaker 1: she's a leo. You're supposed to get along very well.
Speaker 1: You don't know. We're bringing up the heat and where.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I think it's like love and no.
Speaker 1: Since you don't give up, you don't stop. But I
Speaker 1: when I see you guys, and I see how you
Speaker 1: guys and you know, move with each other and rock
Speaker 1: with each other, lean with each other. Um, I just
Speaker 1: want to thank you for being that example. And that's
Speaker 1: just something that's admirable and aspirational. Well I received that,
Speaker 1: and I appreciate you acknowledging that. But let me tell you,
Speaker 1: it's like we don't always all get along because we
Speaker 1: are very strong personalities. But the love outweighs the bad
Speaker 1: times for sure. You know, Like we get into it
Speaker 1: all the time because we just have disagreements and she
Speaker 1: thinks she's the leader. I think I'm the leader. So
Speaker 1: you've got two leaders. It's like when we work together,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, Like we have a few different projects
Speaker 1: were working on and it gets hot whom we disagree.
Speaker 1: But you know, I love her with all of my heart.
Speaker 1: I love her to life. I hate to say I
Speaker 1: love her to death, for you know, I love her life.
Speaker 1: People say like this is to die for. No, this
Speaker 1: is to live for, to live for? What does it
Speaker 1: mean to live though? Mm? To be free? What does
Speaker 1: that mean? To be free? Oh, to not have any
Speaker 1: restraints on anything you do, and to completely open yourself
Speaker 1: to any possibility, to not stop your thoughts from going
Speaker 1: anywhere other than positivity, light and love and happiness. That's
Speaker 1: what living for me is. Mm hmm, that's what living
Speaker 1: for me is. I mean, I think it's partially for
Speaker 1: me like what you're saying, what has on your tattoo?
Speaker 1: And these damn tattoos? God um no fear, And I
Speaker 1: guess the ultimate state of vulnerability. I think that's probably
Speaker 1: for me that ultimate freedom is. I think half the
Speaker 1: time if we do things or don't do things, or
Speaker 1: how we do things are based on what other people
Speaker 1: think or based on the judgment we've placed on ourselves,
Speaker 1: what we think that other people think about us. That part,
Speaker 1: that part, and the time you carrying all of that,
Speaker 1: I mean, but who cares at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: Like why do we care what other people think about
Speaker 1: It's like, what is the point? They don't play our bills,
Speaker 1: They really don't invest in us like that, And so
Speaker 1: you know, why do we hold so much weight on
Speaker 1: what other people think? Perhaps because for some reason, like
Speaker 1: we're all trying to fit in but not realizing that
Speaker 1: we're all meant to stand out. I don't want to
Speaker 1: fit in. I want to be different. I want to
Speaker 1: be that other. I want to be an indigo child.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, hell yes. My whole life I never fit in.
Speaker 1: I never fit in anywhere, never fit in any schools
Speaker 1: and went to I never fit in with the other kids.
Speaker 1: I never fit in and you're comfortable with like that? Absolutely?
Speaker 1: Really you never felt alone? Come on, yeah I felt alone? Sure?
Speaker 1: So how did you manage That's about to say like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be different. I'm okay with being by mysse out.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think you find other people that are
Speaker 1: different like you, and you also just know that there's
Speaker 1: something different about you, so it's special, you know. I
Speaker 1: think I always just knew it was something special about
Speaker 1: being different. There's nothing wrong with that. And then I
Speaker 1: would see other people on TV who are different, who
Speaker 1: were weirdos as well, and knows the people that I,
Speaker 1: you know, look up to. That's all I love it.
Speaker 1: I think like when you think about people that they
Speaker 1: say weirdos, it's like they're thinking outside of the norm.
Speaker 1: They're thinking outside of their mind, and it's like that's
Speaker 1: what the magic, that's what the creation process happened. So
Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, I do want it to be outside
Speaker 1: of my mind. I want to think exceedingly and beyond.
Speaker 1: And if you got faith and belief in anything, and
Speaker 1: if God says exceedingly and beyond far more than what
Speaker 1: you could have very imagined, and it's all working for
Speaker 1: your greater good. Stop playing with stop playing. That's it.
Speaker 1: That's it, that's all you need to know. It's but
Speaker 1: I don't know. Sometimes I feel like we were quick
Speaker 1: to forget that. I don't for some reason where our
Speaker 1: minds moved so quickly, so we forget everything, you know,
Speaker 1: we forget. For me personally, I forget the lessons that
Speaker 1: I just learned last week. And I'm like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: I don't need to think so much. Get out of
Speaker 1: your head, just be be present. You know, I have
Speaker 1: to remind myself this all the time. Isn't that so
Speaker 1: challenging as an artist? It's very challenging. It's very especially
Speaker 1: as an areas are because I'm already in my head
Speaker 1: a lot, you know, you ever know a lot of areas,
Speaker 1: Like we have big heads, yes, and we think too
Speaker 1: damn much, damn much to that much. We think too
Speaker 1: that much, don't get it done, and we're leaders um,
Speaker 1: and we have an aura about us, like you know,
Speaker 1: we're walking through We're powerful beings. Were very powerful. And
Speaker 1: I love the youthfulness and the joy that we have. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because we love fun, we love newness, and like we
Speaker 1: liked d a little bit so that that that keeps
Speaker 1: you from this because as a young adolescent or young people,
Speaker 1: they like to like explore and see what is this?
Speaker 1: You know, speaking time about adolescent. I can't believe I
Speaker 1: didn't run into you in Detroit, because not only did
Speaker 1: you go to ds A, but you were part of
Speaker 1: mosay I was. Do you remember to the slogan for Mosaic?
Speaker 1: Absolutely not, absolutely remember it? Okay, hit us with it,
Speaker 1: hit us with it. Mosaic is a multicultural arts organization
Speaker 1: whose mission has developed young performing artists to theatrical and
Speaker 1: musical training and to provide high quality performances for audiences
Speaker 1: of all ages. Do that day that fact? How long
Speaker 1: ago was it that you had to actually say that
Speaker 1: in mosa How long ago? With your Mosaic? Now you
Speaker 1: want how I am at least twenty something new? And
Speaker 1: you remember that they drilled it? I mean I've probably
Speaker 1: recited again when um Erica was here, but yes, and
Speaker 1: planted in my head. No, I was just looking at
Speaker 1: this program though, um how was the last program I
Speaker 1: was in was called Reality I think it was in
Speaker 1: two thousand three Reality Reality TV something like that, and
Speaker 1: I played Monica. I think my character was to Monica Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was way back then. But anyway, I was surprised
Speaker 1: I didn't run unto you there. Yeah, I was there
Speaker 1: in oh so I graduated or seven? So, but I
Speaker 1: didn't graduate there. I graduated in New York. I was there,
Speaker 1: oh five? Or you went to high school in New York.
Speaker 1: I finished high school in New York. Wait? What I
Speaker 1: did my freshman and sophomore year in Detroit? And then
Speaker 1: then where did you go? H New York? Went to
Speaker 1: UM Performing Art School in New York PPS? Was that
Speaker 1: stying for professional Performing Arts School? How did you find
Speaker 1: out about that? So? I went to go visit of
Speaker 1: my sister when she was in her third year of
Speaker 1: Juilliard for the summer, and I started to UM hang
Speaker 1: around her and her friends, and I got introduced to
Speaker 1: this music producer. He was like, Yo, you can't go
Speaker 1: back to Detroit, like you gotta, we gotta work with you.
Speaker 1: So I hit my mom my dad. My mom was like, well,
Speaker 1: you can stay if you get into a really good school.
Speaker 1: And so I auditioned for PPS and got into the
Speaker 1: musical theater department and I graduated from there. And where
Speaker 1: did you go to college? I did not go to college.
Speaker 1: I didn't go to college. I got accepted in the
Speaker 1: moor House and at the time, I was like, you
Speaker 1: know what, I kind of just want to stay in
Speaker 1: New York and I want to like live the dream
Speaker 1: and I want to audition, and I want to just
Speaker 1: work and figure out things and see what happens and
Speaker 1: just living this. So I didn't go WHOA, Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to even continue anything else right there, Let's
Speaker 1: figure out, or let's find out rather what happened, um
Speaker 1: Paul post high school in Anti's decision not to go
Speaker 1: to college. So when we come back, we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about your role on your fox Head show, The Mix.
Speaker 1: Also we're gonna talk about your cosmetic old company P
Speaker 1: forty four, oh, and your latest acting roles that you've
Speaker 1: got going on. All right, so we'll be right back.
Speaker 1: It's Vitamin David Dawntay. Hey, Hello, it's your girl Girl Supermodel.
Speaker 1: His lyrics cross representing all my curvy girls out there. Hey,
Speaker 1: what's up? Its j and you are teened into Vitamin
Speaker 1: D with down Day at guys. Welcome back. It's Vitamin
Speaker 1: d D Podcast. I have the one and only Anton
Speaker 1: People's in here with me in case you're just checking out,
Speaker 1: but I know you're not because you're been here. You know. Anton,
Speaker 1: He's from Clemens UM. He is an actor, a singer, producer,
Speaker 1: and DJ. He uh is handling from Detroit High School
Speaker 1: of Finding Performing Arts. But you also went to p
Speaker 1: p A and p p A S and New York UM.
Speaker 1: He started hbos and Secure b Ets, One Crazy Christmas, Voodoos,
Speaker 1: Mr Mom and c w's All American Homecoming. And that's
Speaker 1: just the name a few. Let me also make mention
Speaker 1: to you that he is the executive producer and one
Speaker 1: of the hosts of Fox Souls The Mix. It's a
Speaker 1: gen Z millennial talk show airing Tuesday nights on Fox Soul.
Speaker 1: And lastly, he is the founder and curator of PTO
Speaker 1: by Anton People's Um. It's an affordable luxury brand that
Speaker 1: sells cosmetic old blends for the body, scalp hair and blend.
Speaker 1: And he is in here right now with it want
Speaker 1: and my god, he's smelling and looking so good. You know,
Speaker 1: true story. That's one of the ways I had recognized
Speaker 1: you was your beard. Your beard game is official. You
Speaker 1: know people have told me. But first of all that
Speaker 1: intro that we we cannot just like skim over that.
Speaker 1: That intro was like crazy, I'm about to slice that
Speaker 1: up and use that and listen, thank you, I appreciate you,
Speaker 1: but thank you for that to that compliment. Yeah, that's why,
Speaker 1: you know, it's a true testament of of what you
Speaker 1: got going on. But we're gonna get to that and
Speaker 1: talk about four to four and but first up, I
Speaker 1: want to talk to you about um your says, UM,
Speaker 1: so you have started HBOS insecure, BT is one crazy
Speaker 1: Christmas voodos, Mr Mom and c ws all Americans coming. Damn?
Speaker 1: What have these roles taught to you? My brother all
Speaker 1: in the same Like, where are you pulling your inspiration from? Well,
Speaker 1: first of all, God is good all the time. And
Speaker 1: I'm truly thankful to be able to um have grace
Speaker 1: the screen in any type of way, because there's so
Speaker 1: many artists out here who haven't been able to be
Speaker 1: on TV or be in a movie and had any
Speaker 1: type of role. So I'm thankful for that first and foremost.
Speaker 1: And what is it taught me? It taught me that
Speaker 1: I needed dreams so much more bigger. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: very grateful. We're talking about this like I'm in a
Speaker 1: season of gratitude right now. But when you get on
Speaker 1: the set and you see there's levels to this. There's
Speaker 1: levels to like what type of role you can have,
Speaker 1: how many days you work, what your trailer looks like,
Speaker 1: and like, you know, having your name outside on the lot, Like,
Speaker 1: it's levels to this. So now it makes me realize
Speaker 1: that the dream has been realized. But I got so
Speaker 1: much more work to do, and I'm just like a sponge.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you talked about dreaming big because I had
Speaker 1: talked about on a recent episode and I was saying
Speaker 1: how important it is to dream big because if you
Speaker 1: have faith and God said far more than what you
Speaker 1: could ever imagine, how dare you not dreaming grmous? How
Speaker 1: dare you not dream something that seems impossible? And then guys,
Speaker 1: okay you put it down. I'm a double down that
Speaker 1: tenfold that what? Yep? It is this thing? I think
Speaker 1: some um posted it recently. They said, I had, you know,
Speaker 1: envisioned what I wanted my life to be, But God said,
Speaker 1: but this, but this, because you have no idea what
Speaker 1: he the universe, whatever you believe in the higher being
Speaker 1: has in store for you. You may want something all
Speaker 1: day long. But what He has really a store for
Speaker 1: you is bigger than you can ever imagine, ever imagine.
Speaker 1: That's what I live in. That's where my thoughts are.
Speaker 1: So I look at as a game. I'm going big.
Speaker 1: It's like, Okay, I'm tell I'm gonna be bigger than open.
Speaker 1: Because if if I can fathom, imagine what what? What
Speaker 1: that is? God? What you got for me? Can't you like?
Speaker 1: Can't you feel it? Like you can? Like you can?
Speaker 1: I When I manifest I realized that I am a
Speaker 1: master manifesto that like things that I really truly desire,
Speaker 1: I can truly make them happen and make them real.
Speaker 1: So when I when I want something, I feel it,
Speaker 1: I smell it, I can see it. I can close
Speaker 1: my eyes and I know what I'm gonna be wearing
Speaker 1: when I'm gonna be in it, or or when I
Speaker 1: taining it, like all of those things, Like I think
Speaker 1: that's so important to know what you want, And that's
Speaker 1: why it's also so important to make sure that your
Speaker 1: desires come from a real place. Hey what does that mean?
Speaker 1: That means not one with somebody else God just because
Speaker 1: it looks good, you know it's it's asking your spirit
Speaker 1: what aligns with this? What aligns with me? Is this
Speaker 1: something that I truly desire of? It's something that I
Speaker 1: just want because I see it and it looks good.
Speaker 1: And it's important to be honest about what we say
Speaker 1: about what we design we want, because I said, you
Speaker 1: ever really want to find out what it is that
Speaker 1: you design want out of life? It's based on your choice. See,
Speaker 1: I think oftentimes we get that confused and saying, oh,
Speaker 1: I want this, I want to do that? Do you
Speaker 1: really doing all day? You say you want to be fine?
Speaker 1: He's about to go there, But I'm just say to
Speaker 1: be honest and I'm saying, definitely have grace. But again,
Speaker 1: we have to make sure that we see what we
Speaker 1: seek and if it isn't aligning, we just need to
Speaker 1: to to to retract and adjust the positioning of it.
Speaker 1: That's all that. But yes, I I um, I can
Speaker 1: wholeheardly agree with you. I've had moments where it would
Speaker 1: just come down and rain and whatever reason. I'm just
Speaker 1: grateful and I haven't bursted in tears yet, but usually
Speaker 1: like I have a moment and it's so overwhelming, Like
Speaker 1: I'm not sad, but I literally can feel it in
Speaker 1: my chest, and like you said, I can see it,
Speaker 1: I can feel it, and it's like that whole thing,
Speaker 1: like faith without works is dead, will act as if
Speaker 1: you are. And so it is. If this is all
Speaker 1: a place of imagination where we can create, isn't that
Speaker 1: part of it being and doing because we're living? So
Speaker 1: I love what you said about that. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I just think it's powerful to know what really aligns
Speaker 1: with your spirit and to know if it's a desire
Speaker 1: or if it's a want. But how do you know
Speaker 1: if it aligns with you? I think it's a only
Speaker 1: you get. I don't know if necessarily you can describe
Speaker 1: what it is. What if? How does it make you feel?
Speaker 1: When you get something doesn't make you feel happy? Are
Speaker 1: you sad? Do you feel uncomfortable? Um? I think comfortability
Speaker 1: is important for me. Comfortability is important for you. Yes,
Speaker 1: I must feel comfortable. Get that you know? Recently Blue
Speaker 1: to loose my shout out to Blue, she said something
Speaker 1: recently and just making decisions not to make them in
Speaker 1: a sense of fog. It's an acronym acronym for fear,
Speaker 1: obligation or guilt because just like you win't driving flog
Speaker 1: fog without the proper equipment or making sure your visibility
Speaker 1: is there's what you exactly because you can't see. So
Speaker 1: if you are port inter fear direction, Hello, you have
Speaker 1: no direction, You're just driving aimlessly. So it has to
Speaker 1: feel good. I'm I'm I'm really trusting the feeling because
Speaker 1: they say, you know the truth by the way that
Speaker 1: it feels exactly. People can say what they want all day,
Speaker 1: but if you don't feel good relationships and type of relationships, love, family,
Speaker 1: like a pet, whatever, if it doesn't feel good your job,
Speaker 1: you know this isn't right. Is it's not aligned, it's
Speaker 1: not aligned with my spirit. Have you ever find out
Speaker 1: what you're going after rolls? I'm sorry, do you ever
Speaker 1: find that that comes your way when you're going after
Speaker 1: rolls about not being fulfilling your spirit? Absolutely? I mean
Speaker 1: I say no. I think there's so much more power
Speaker 1: than no than in anything. And you know my age
Speaker 1: is my rep is probably get annoyed, but I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: if it doesn't work, if it doesn't feel right, I'm
Speaker 1: saying no to it. Not based off of what you want,
Speaker 1: because at the end of the day, you don't live
Speaker 1: in my body. The only person that truly matters is me,
Speaker 1: and that's in anything in my life. That's the family
Speaker 1: wants me to do something. I say no so quick
Speaker 1: you can make your head spin and I will be
Speaker 1: okay with that because I have to feel good. My
Speaker 1: spirit never lies to me. I did too much work,
Speaker 1: I meantitate too much, I do too much prayer. Like
Speaker 1: my bear always tells me like, uh, this ain't gonna
Speaker 1: be something I gotta do. I'm sorry, I can't do
Speaker 1: it this time, but I say it. I love no.
Speaker 1: I don't working better at doing that. I found myself
Speaker 1: is that now. Before I saw a transition where I
Speaker 1: would prolong and like, okay, well let me see and
Speaker 1: go through this limbover back and forth doing damn well,
Speaker 1: I know off the bed what I should do or
Speaker 1: we don't want to do. We all do that. Um.
Speaker 1: But now I think, like how you said, my discernment
Speaker 1: has definitely heightened more up and the clarity is there
Speaker 1: because it's like it's that feeling, because it's like you
Speaker 1: know when you want something absolutely you know it. You
Speaker 1: know the moment when you meet somebody that instant feeling,
Speaker 1: oh they look off for damn they find the energy
Speaker 1: just feels right instant, but we don't go with that. Yes,
Speaker 1: we don't go with them. We'll be like, oh, my
Speaker 1: spirit is just telling me some things that you know,
Speaker 1: it doesn't mean, let me just still investigate it. Oh
Speaker 1: my God said, you'll be so uncomfortable. And I love
Speaker 1: this so much. Good We're gonna continue that part. But
Speaker 1: real quick, since we're talking about you're acting portfolio right now,
Speaker 1: you're on c W and you are Coach Low, tell
Speaker 1: us about your character, tell us about the series. Absolutely. So,
Speaker 1: this is actually the spin off of UM, the original
Speaker 1: All American on CW. It's like a huge hit. I
Speaker 1: think they're in like season five right now, and they
Speaker 1: just got renewed for another season. Yeah. So I'm blessed
Speaker 1: to be a part of a spinoff because it already
Speaker 1: has a fan base and it's about historically Black college
Speaker 1: and HBCU Brixton University, and I am one of the
Speaker 1: assistant baseball coaches and I get into it a lot
Speaker 1: with the head coach who is UM portrayed by Corey Hardwood,
Speaker 1: and he's a beast man. He's a beast of an actor.
Speaker 1: I learned so much from him working with him. UM
Speaker 1: just so much about like how to show up, how
Speaker 1: to always be hungry, how to learn from your other
Speaker 1: you know your other actors on set. He's just a
Speaker 1: cool guy too. But we were blessed enough to get
Speaker 1: renewed for a second season. So that's beautiful and we
Speaker 1: shall see. We shall see if I come back, because
Speaker 1: I can't I can't really reveal from people who haven't seen,
Speaker 1: who are not called. But you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: It made mean some thing, but it's but it's a blessing.
Speaker 1: Like it's so crazy because I used to like go
Speaker 1: to Warner Brothers lot. It's like manifesting. Hey, I just
Speaker 1: want to be here as an actor. I want to
Speaker 1: be working. And so like fast forward, I think like
Speaker 1: three years, I'm coming on a lot and working and
Speaker 1: it was nothing but a blessing. And I don't take
Speaker 1: that for granted at all. Such a beautiful experience that recently,
Speaker 1: I guess in ways I didn't know I was manifesting,
Speaker 1: but um, like my you pass jobs that I've had,
Speaker 1: like I was in the building there before I was
Speaker 1: actually working there, almost like God was giving me a
Speaker 1: glimpse of what was to come. Don't you love when
Speaker 1: those things that I'm just grateful, because sometimes we can
Speaker 1: get so distracted, and that's why I have to remind
Speaker 1: people just to walk in that gratitude because I'm sure
Speaker 1: you're living a day that you once praying for. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you real, real, quick quick story. I went
Speaker 1: to Atlanta to test for this show right on Tyler
Speaker 1: Perry Studios. And there were a bunch of us that
Speaker 1: got flown out to test for a multitude of shows
Speaker 1: that he was he had going on. And I ran
Speaker 1: into one of my home girls and she was there too,
Speaker 1: and it was a long day, long process. And afterwards,
Speaker 1: when we got on the bus to go back to
Speaker 1: our hotels, I was just like, this is a long process,
Speaker 1: you know, I hope it works out, you know whatever.
Speaker 1: Whatever her energy, she came to me. She said, no,
Speaker 1: this is a blessing. He said, do you know how
Speaker 1: amazing this is the fact that we got own to Atlanta.
Speaker 1: We're on Tyler pair of studios. We're in Georgia, Like
Speaker 1: he owns this lot. He's a black man on this studio.
Speaker 1: This is a blessing. She ends up booking the show
Speaker 1: she's on Sisters. Her name is Ashley Brown. I think
Speaker 1: she goes by Novi Brown. Now she want to leave, Yes,
Speaker 1: she want to leaves on the show. And I was
Speaker 1: like she had it was her energy. I've heard a
Speaker 1: couple of times through you guys here, super sweet, super sweet,
Speaker 1: and I'll never forget that. I was like, you know what,
Speaker 1: from that day and I will never not have gratitude
Speaker 1: no matter what's going on around me. And she was
Speaker 1: just so like, this is a blessing. It's like whatever happens,
Speaker 1: like we're blessed to even be a part of this
Speaker 1: journey right now. She ends up booking the show, so
Speaker 1: she knew she felt it. She felt into the spirit
Speaker 1: grated tod his that's powerful, really powerful, right, and it
Speaker 1: feels good, like expect great and it's like kind of
Speaker 1: like being in that moment of just saying because I
Speaker 1: think oftentimes when we fill ourselves up with disappointment, it's
Speaker 1: because we expected something, and it's like you put so
Speaker 1: much expectation whether than receive what it is. If I
Speaker 1: can just be right here and now I won't miss it,
Speaker 1: So whatever I thought was gonna happen, I got the
Speaker 1: pre clue because I'm right here. So I always like, well,
Speaker 1: can I get it in the now? It's a nerving
Speaker 1: but it's the best place to be. It's the best
Speaker 1: place to be. It's the most valuable place to be. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's vulnerable too. I mean that's vulnerability that worried we're
Speaker 1: gonna get fair. I'm gonna tell you right now. Um,
Speaker 1: if any moment you're like doing we're doing too much talking,
Speaker 1: I gotta go just say it. It's fine. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because I'm looking at like, Yo, we got like dart
Speaker 1: my minutes and Jeremiah like, don't let us in the clock.
Speaker 1: But I'm just saying, listen, I'm gonna talk to your host.
Speaker 1: This is what I do. This is like my show
Speaker 1: is on hiatus right now. So this is this is
Speaker 1: like joy to me. This is joy. I love it
Speaker 1: speaking of which, because that's why I was about to
Speaker 1: go next tell us about oh man, So I'm this
Speaker 1: is like one of my babies. I'm so excited about
Speaker 1: my show. It's a millennial gen Z talk show. Um,
Speaker 1: and it's on Fox Soul, which is under the Fox umbrella.
Speaker 1: And I am the co creator, executive producer, and one
Speaker 1: of the hosts of the show. Is me The Mix
Speaker 1: The Mix The Mix on Fox Soul. Uh it's me
Speaker 1: alongside Romeo Miller Zonique, who is Tipping Tiny's daughter. Um.
Speaker 1: We also have Jamie the Bows, who was the president
Speaker 1: of the network's daughter and Tammy Row's daughter Jazz Anderson.
Speaker 1: And it's uh, you know, multi gender talk show. We
Speaker 1: talked about everything from celebrity gossip to yeah, so men
Speaker 1: and women, men and moment on the show. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: know when you hear multi Jenny like, it isn't yeah,
Speaker 1: but men and women on the show. So, and it's
Speaker 1: been a lot of fun. Man, it has been, like
Speaker 1: truly one of the biggest blessed things in my life.
Speaker 1: So you created that, like what the world? So I
Speaker 1: kept like, I'm I love talk shows like that is
Speaker 1: my guilty pleasure, from the Talk to Chew the Real,
Speaker 1: like all of those talk shows, Wendy Williams, like I
Speaker 1: watched all of us. I was on three of those.
Speaker 1: I was supposed to wink no, it wasn't on No,
Speaker 1: come on, Okay, Well, clearly even doing some things as
Speaker 1: you were saying, um, So, I kept saying, like, there's
Speaker 1: there's things that are missing in this market. We need
Speaker 1: a show that represents people that look like me. Um,
Speaker 1: A younger demographic and let's put men and women together
Speaker 1: and let's have a talk show. So I came with
Speaker 1: the idea. I brought it to my agent Nick. Shout
Speaker 1: out to Nick Roses and Nick he's a beast, and
Speaker 1: he brought the idea to Tiny Harris, and she had
Speaker 1: some thoughts on how we could like bring other, you know,
Speaker 1: beautiful ideas, until vamped the show. And then he also
Speaker 1: brought it to our showrunner, Joe King, and so the
Speaker 1: three of us, so four of us really came together
Speaker 1: and created this incredible, dynamic show and we are going
Speaker 1: into our third season this fall. Wow, can we get
Speaker 1: a round with last Jeremiah? We gotta give yours? We don't.
Speaker 1: We don't give you your flowers while you do that. Man.
Speaker 1: It wasn't easy, though, I'll tell you it was a
Speaker 1: journey because I had never hosted before, and so I
Speaker 1: didn't even know how are these things happened? I had
Speaker 1: never hosted. How was this? You never hosted? You're literally
Speaker 1: just calling out these things and they happen. Yeah, I'm grateful,
Speaker 1: and I do the work, but I've never done it,
Speaker 1: and I always wanted to host, but every time I
Speaker 1: told my reps this is like from when I was
Speaker 1: sixteen to now, they always said, like, you can't be
Speaker 1: a host and be an actor. No one's gonna take
Speaker 1: you serious. You won't be able to do it. And
Speaker 1: in my mind, I always knew that I'd be great
Speaker 1: at it. Like I would watch like Terence J. And
Speaker 1: I watched um, what was the cat? The host from
Speaker 1: one or six in Park, Free and Free. I watched
Speaker 1: a J and like, now he's only going on the news.
Speaker 1: And I would always say, I want to do that.
Speaker 1: And so when they gave me the nick actually said
Speaker 1: you need to be one of the hosts, I was
Speaker 1: scared and I said, no, no, no, no no, no, I'm
Speaker 1: just creating this thing. I just want to Yeah, because
Speaker 1: I was scared. I was scared. I didn't you know
Speaker 1: it was gonna be. I was scared. So he was
Speaker 1: like no. So I had to go through the whole
Speaker 1: like testing and and you know, to be honest, nobody
Speaker 1: wanted me on the show. Nobody, nobody. They they wanted,
Speaker 1: they wanted someone famous, they wanted just someone different. And
Speaker 1: so I had to fight literally as we're filming it
Speaker 1: and I you know, was going through the season. I
Speaker 1: still had to fight because they through that because I
Speaker 1: think sometimes people think going after your dreams will be easy,
Speaker 1: understanding the work or the sweat equity, like building yourself,
Speaker 1: but then thinking about adversities such as that, because somebody
Speaker 1: could have easily said, well, I am about to do this.
Speaker 1: It was really tough. But I rise, why why did
Speaker 1: you keep fighting? I care fighting because I knew that
Speaker 1: I have a higher purpose and I knew that this
Speaker 1: was for me, and I knew I could do it,
Speaker 1: you know, And I also knew I wanted to do it.
Speaker 1: I really wanted to be sitting alongside those co hosts
Speaker 1: and living my dream and talking about different things and
Speaker 1: inviting different celebrities in and just like you know, given
Speaker 1: the heat, like I wanted it, and I just couldn't stop.
Speaker 1: Like once I have my mind and something, there's no
Speaker 1: way you're not going to allow me to win. And
Speaker 1: so like throughout that time, it was a lot of adversity,
Speaker 1: and the network didn't like me, and I had to
Speaker 1: continue to fight. I was on TV and they were
Speaker 1: still like trying to get other hosts to take my spot.
Speaker 1: Everybody else was filling in but me, yes, until hearing
Speaker 1: that was very tough. It was extremely tough, and eventually
Speaker 1: I just like, I got in my group. It took
Speaker 1: me like four or five months, and I found my voice.
Speaker 1: I found out who I was. I got in my
Speaker 1: group and I was rocking once I. Once I got
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, okay, this is what we're doing,
Speaker 1: this is okay, this is how I do it. And
Speaker 1: I just let go of the fear and let go
Speaker 1: of the fear, and I just was me. I was
Speaker 1: just open. This was open when I was stopped trying
Speaker 1: to be like someone else or what someone else wanted
Speaker 1: me to be, and I just allowed myself to be free.
Speaker 1: That's when I think I really shined, and that's when
Speaker 1: I really secured my spot. You know, it's so unnerving.
Speaker 1: It had so many emotions from me, um because I
Speaker 1: think oftentimes we're searching for things that's right there, kind
Speaker 1: of like when you think about the alchemist, he's on
Speaker 1: this journey and it's like it's right there underneath your head.
Speaker 1: And I think oftentimes we're searching a food to be
Speaker 1: and it's like, yeoh, what's right there inside of us?
Speaker 1: And when you said I was searching and trying or
Speaker 1: before it could, it looked like I was searching or
Speaker 1: was not searching to be anyone else. You said, I
Speaker 1: just allowed myself to be in me and I got
Speaker 1: in my group. You said, I was so free and
Speaker 1: I was open. That damn openness. That's key. That is key.
Speaker 1: That is where success lives. Success lives in freedom, vulnerability
Speaker 1: and openness and being able to take risks. You know,
Speaker 1: And I failed, and I'm okay with that. In the beginning,
Speaker 1: I failed, and failure is a great part of success.
Speaker 1: What does it look like to fail? What do you
Speaker 1: mean you failed? I failed, meaning like I wasn't good
Speaker 1: for a very long time, Like I was not I
Speaker 1: was not living in my truth. I was not being
Speaker 1: the greatest person that I could be or the best
Speaker 1: host I could be. I was failing. I was failing.
Speaker 1: Your real question, Yeah, so you um you did not
Speaker 1: go to college. Yeah, you were still have the opportunity
Speaker 1: to be on television shows and you have an agent.
Speaker 1: You had no hosting experience, and here you are, you
Speaker 1: know now your executive producer and creative your show. Did
Speaker 1: you have a moment that you did not have anything
Speaker 1: or were you were your Was your story different where
Speaker 1: you were able to provide for yourself for had means
Speaker 1: to absolutely not. When I was in New York living
Speaker 1: with my sister, we struggle hard. Um, there were years
Speaker 1: that I didn't have representation. There are years that I
Speaker 1: was on financial struggling. Yes, no money. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: she and I had to have a job when we
Speaker 1: were living in New York, but there are times we
Speaker 1: couldn't pare the rent. For sure. There were times where
Speaker 1: we got really really tough. She was in college, so
Speaker 1: she couldn't really work like that, and you know, I
Speaker 1: was in high school, so I get like a side,
Speaker 1: a little hustle. And at the time I'm parents had
Speaker 1: just divorced and they were going through their thing and
Speaker 1: they were trying to get on their fee. So yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: there were definitely moments of that. I think sometimes, you know,
Speaker 1: we just look at how one track minded of what
Speaker 1: a route looks like. And I think it's so important
Speaker 1: for people to understand that you're gonna go through adversities,
Speaker 1: whether you're financially trying to build up your dream or
Speaker 1: you're gonna have people trying to tell you what you
Speaker 1: cannot do, But it's something about that vision, some of
Speaker 1: that purpose. So here you are. You guys are on hiatus.
Speaker 1: So this is going into season four or you are
Speaker 1: just complete the season three? This is going into season three.
Speaker 1: We will film season three in the fall. Wow. Well,
Speaker 1: if you ever needed extra reporter, are just like a
Speaker 1: special news moment? Absolutely, it's here. I don't you know.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you what your name? Absolutely? The voice alone,
Speaker 1: the voice itself, milky and buttery. It is makes you
Speaker 1: want to come back to just listen, Yes, just make
Speaker 1: you want to spread on this more ways than one. Baby. So,
Speaker 1: as you were on your process of doing Fox al,
Speaker 1: is there something that you realize that it was needed
Speaker 1: to run a talk show that perhaps you didn't realize
Speaker 1: that you needed before. Yeah. Um, well for for the mass,
Speaker 1: for people or for myself both? Yeah, I think that
Speaker 1: and it is both. I think that young people, especially
Speaker 1: young people of color, needed to see young black people
Speaker 1: on TV on the screen doing the thing. Um. I
Speaker 1: had never seen a show like that before we came along.
Speaker 1: And I think that it really helped a lot of
Speaker 1: people see themselves in us and be inspired in us.
Speaker 1: Okay it we'll seeing yourself and be inspired in yourself
Speaker 1: and others. Is there such thing of sharing too much? Yes? Really? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I believe vulnerability. Vulnerability is key, but I think also
Speaker 1: holding a few things to yourself is also key as well.
Speaker 1: I don't think you want the world to know everything
Speaker 1: about you, and also the world doesn't deserve to everything
Speaker 1: about you. I think the world deserves to know what
Speaker 1: it is you want them to know. And that's okay.
Speaker 1: I don't want to know everything about everybody that we don't.
Speaker 1: I don't get that you don't get to know my
Speaker 1: deepest desires and you know what pains me the most.
Speaker 1: Why Why why am I able to share that with everyone?
Speaker 1: You don't deserve that. I love how you said you
Speaker 1: don't deserve that, but I guess I would like to
Speaker 1: or in my mind, I'm thinking walking to a realm
Speaker 1: of If you ask me, it doesn't matter. I wanted
Speaker 1: to be a sense I. What's your name on dawn?
Speaker 1: So regardless of what you think, it is what it is,
Speaker 1: and that is what it is. But see, for me,
Speaker 1: something's matter, like something's having certain information? Is that sacred
Speaker 1: to me should be sacred like some something's not everything,
Speaker 1: Some things I think are are sacred to me and
Speaker 1: my spirit and my heart that the world is necessarily
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be privy to not everything, but there
Speaker 1: are some things. So with that being saying, um, you
Speaker 1: know why it's so important to have like your personal
Speaker 1: your professional life. What's dating? Like dating? Like, what's up? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm in a I'm in a relationship right though. I'm
Speaker 1: in a relationship right now. And sorry, please try your
Speaker 1: calla goodbye? You know what. So interesting? So in the
Speaker 1: beginning when I was on my show, like, I definitely
Speaker 1: did not want to talk about I didn't want to
Speaker 1: talk about a few things. I didn't want to talk
Speaker 1: about my sexuality. I didn't want to talk about like
Speaker 1: my relationship. And I learned that if an audience is
Speaker 1: going to come watch you, you have to be open
Speaker 1: and honest because they like truth and they can read
Speaker 1: through bullshit so easily, and people don't right now. People
Speaker 1: want honesty and they want realness, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So I had a hard time with the monom becoming
Speaker 1: more comfortable with that. So how do you identify? Um,
Speaker 1: I hate labels. I don't like I feel like it'd
Speaker 1: be so corny with people like I hate labels, but
Speaker 1: like for real, I don't try to be putting me
Speaker 1: in old box. Yeah, I hate boxes and boxes. I've
Speaker 1: never ever been in a box. I like to say
Speaker 1: I like what I like when I like it. You know,
Speaker 1: it could be this that somebody saying that, Oh, that's
Speaker 1: just because you don't want to commit. No, I love
Speaker 1: to commit like I love committing for sure, But I
Speaker 1: also am a free spirit and I like a lot
Speaker 1: of things because it's like you, Okay, I don't know
Speaker 1: if you eat like beef and chicken, but let's just
Speaker 1: say you may not want beef every every day to
Speaker 1: day I said, I want some chicken, come on, and
Speaker 1: and then tomorm might want some fish. And then the
Speaker 1: next day I might want some yellowtail, you know what,
Speaker 1: and today I might want to come on, come on.
Speaker 1: I want it all. I want it all. And I
Speaker 1: think our generation, especially like we've made it okay for
Speaker 1: that to be okay? Did we? I think I feel
Speaker 1: like there's so many people like I just think about people,
Speaker 1: you know. I like the term um. I supposed to
Speaker 1: get him on. Didn't get him on yet, but shout
Speaker 1: out to David John's uh, amazing gentleman, amazing scholar. But
Speaker 1: how he identifies. He says the same gender loving, and
Speaker 1: I was like, I canna wrock with that because it
Speaker 1: isn't because he says, like, I guess if you identify
Speaker 1: as gay or bisexual or any other terms, it's more
Speaker 1: of a political you know, governance. That pretty much not Jeremiah,
Speaker 1: you need to jump in my ear if I say
Speaker 1: some off um at two point five second um, I guess.
Speaker 1: I don't want to say it benefits the white community.
Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm trying to say, but basically,
Speaker 1: it doesn't advance for people of color, doesn't um. But
Speaker 1: I think even for myself, that's what I'm saying. I
Speaker 1: have said I want to make around what I can
Speaker 1: make wrong because when you see me and I'm talking
Speaker 1: to you, and when I tell you about something Dawn
Speaker 1: se and you know me and I plan to be
Speaker 1: here for a long time. So but I think also
Speaker 1: that has caused me, or has charged me to sit
Speaker 1: back and make room for myself and to see myself,
Speaker 1: because I don't think you have the time. People take
Speaker 1: time to see themselves, so therefore they don't even know
Speaker 1: what they're showing up as or to show people who
Speaker 1: they are. Asked, you hit it right there. People don't
Speaker 1: see themselves, they don't know who they are so you
Speaker 1: can't see yourself. How the hell are you going to explain?
Speaker 1: But you cannot see shop, you cannot be. But I
Speaker 1: don't even know who this is. But I thank him,
Speaker 1: I thank her? Why she said, how can you be
Speaker 1: what you cannot say? It's true, It's very true. So
Speaker 1: now you show up and you you're open? And what
Speaker 1: does that mean when you said you're well, I think that,
Speaker 1: like right now I'm in a relationship and I'm talking
Speaker 1: to a dude right now. Um, But you know, before him,
Speaker 1: I was actually married to a woman. You're married? Wait
Speaker 1: what behind the current? What's happening to beautiful people's introviting?
Speaker 1: Thedeed with Don Day, I was married at the age
Speaker 1: for about a year and a half. Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: had no business being married at twenty four, Like no
Speaker 1: business being married. But you know, like that's like I'm
Speaker 1: an airy So I just go and I do and
Speaker 1: if it feels it's a passion, if it feels good
Speaker 1: in a moment, you know what I'm saying. I was
Speaker 1: in my twenties. That's what the twenties are about. You
Speaker 1: make mistakes and like you do bad things and then
Speaker 1: you figure the ship out, you know, I'm still making
Speaker 1: mistakes at thirty three, but you know, I still have
Speaker 1: very much a sexual attraction and a desire to women
Speaker 1: as well. And it's so interesting because a lot of
Speaker 1: people don't understand that for whatever reason, for black men,
Speaker 1: for black men especially, I feel like they try to
Speaker 1: put us in a box and they don't allow us
Speaker 1: to just be free and then just figure things out
Speaker 1: because they're there. I mean, it is real that you
Speaker 1: because I think it's like often times that they associate
Speaker 1: your sexuality with your masculinity, and I'm realized that there's
Speaker 1: two different things. You can be the most masculine dude
Speaker 1: and be completely in the same gender into the same sex,
Speaker 1: and you can be the most feminine guy and be
Speaker 1: in love with both men and women or just being
Speaker 1: loved with women. It's so interesting to me how like
Speaker 1: white men have it very different. They're they got they
Speaker 1: got a very easy, very easy. A white man can
Speaker 1: be like, you know, very feminine and still be straight
Speaker 1: and there's not an issue in the world. But if
Speaker 1: it's a black dude, they're like, oh, that gay um,
Speaker 1: And it's like, so what if he is, Yeah, like
Speaker 1: that would be awesome. It to be you know, nourishing
Speaker 1: an environment such as that, because it's like you're not
Speaker 1: hurting anybody else, you know, what's that Well, the thing
Speaker 1: that that's sad is the most is in the black community,
Speaker 1: Black men, we have this very hyper masculinity and it's
Speaker 1: so toxic. It's so toxic to the women the day,
Speaker 1: it's so toxic to the children they raise. It's just
Speaker 1: so toxic to us in general. It's like we have
Speaker 1: to be like super hard and super strong and not
Speaker 1: show emotion and not be connected emotionally, and I think
Speaker 1: that holds us back. And until we all get rid
Speaker 1: of this hyper masculinity and we allow ourselves to be free,
Speaker 1: just be free, would be so much better off. Get
Speaker 1: you realize, like even down to certain plants, like when
Speaker 1: you talk about sexuality or the organs that we have,
Speaker 1: like we contain boles. You can look at the ovaries
Speaker 1: and see how we can transform into symbol or you know, penis.
Speaker 1: It's like, I feel like once we get to that
Speaker 1: place of making that space, I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people will flourish a lot more because I think it
Speaker 1: stops a lot of people from doing what they need
Speaker 1: to do in this world where it's like we're thriving
Speaker 1: off of connection. If we can show up as we are,
Speaker 1: like my gosh, yes, that's the biggest thing. That we
Speaker 1: should just be able to show up as we are.
Speaker 1: We shouldn't have any labels or any boxes. Let us
Speaker 1: just be, let us be free, let us be easy
Speaker 1: and free. And I guess that's what I feel, like
Speaker 1: that's what loved us. And I guess that's why they
Speaker 1: say it's the strongest and the greatest force because a
Speaker 1: lot of people are should say a lot I feel.
Speaker 1: Let me work on my language, my usage. I feel
Speaker 1: for so long, my perception or how I felt that
Speaker 1: other people. You love is what you can hold onto,
Speaker 1: what you have acquired. But what I realized is what
Speaker 1: love allows, Especially when my mom transition, I realized sometimes
Speaker 1: the greatest form of love is letting go, and love
Speaker 1: is going to allow it to be free because exist transition. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when I was thank you so, and it was just
Speaker 1: at that moment that I realized that, you know, you
Speaker 1: can be selfish and trying to keep somebody in pain,
Speaker 1: selfish and trying to keep situations that don't work out,
Speaker 1: selfish and been battling yourself and not aiding yourself to
Speaker 1: the betterment of yourself. But where is the love of that?
Speaker 1: That's not loving that? So I thank you for sharing that.
Speaker 1: That's that's very vulnerable moment. Well I'm about to get
Speaker 1: even real vulnerable right now because you popped the hell
Speaker 1: out of me. So right here I was really popped.
Speaker 1: We've been teating here. You have a line that you're
Speaker 1: just established p. Forty four by Anton people P. Forty
Speaker 1: four My observation. You got the forty four because you
Speaker 1: would one on April four. That's right. Well, so P
Speaker 1: stands for people's I'm all about the angels, all about
Speaker 1: angel work and angel numbers, and you know I see
Speaker 1: them all the time. Forty four four four just angels
Speaker 1: in general. I see all of them ones, the twos, threes,
Speaker 1: and four the numbers you look at what the meaning
Speaker 1: and making sure that I'm cognizant of what my thought
Speaker 1: process because whatever is happening then you gotta manifest before
Speaker 1: is one of the most powerful numbers in all of numerology.
Speaker 1: Like the person that told me that is Beyonce's choreographer,
Speaker 1: Frank Gatson. He told me, he was like, what's your birthday?
Speaker 1: And I said to eight before he said, do you
Speaker 1: know how powerful the number four is? He said, Beyonce
Speaker 1: is number four, he said, jay z is for He said,
Speaker 1: four is one of the most powerful numbers that you
Speaker 1: can ever have, or make or be. I said what.
Speaker 1: So when he told me that, that's when I started
Speaker 1: to do the research and figure out, like BI was
Speaker 1: so powerful and the angel number forty four is means that,
Speaker 1: like blessings are coming to you, stay true in your journey.
Speaker 1: Everything is going to work out and it's going to
Speaker 1: be okay. So I had to include four in the
Speaker 1: name of my company. And I was born on the
Speaker 1: fourth day of the fourth month, so you know, there
Speaker 1: we go to p forty four. Yes, you know I'm
Speaker 1: putting someone right now, just so you know, I just
Speaker 1: put a little extra ry now, would you like I'm
Speaker 1: a love sign A little yeah? And when I tell
Speaker 1: you this smells, oh my god, you can put it everywhere, right,
Speaker 1: whatever you put on your body, and you put on
Speaker 1: your beer, you put on your lots, you can put
Speaker 1: on your hair. I put it everything. What is this?
Speaker 1: So it's an the central oil. And originally I wanted
Speaker 1: to smell so good, right, I wanted to create something
Speaker 1: that was good for my beard, because I was thank you.
Speaker 1: I was finding that all these products were like they
Speaker 1: smelt really bad or it weren't good for you, and
Speaker 1: they had a bunch of stuff in it that I
Speaker 1: couldn't pronounced um. So I said, you know, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: make it myself. So on the journey of making it,
Speaker 1: I just started researching what is good for the body
Speaker 1: for the heir, and I put um ho argon oil,
Speaker 1: almond oil, um coconut oil, all these beautiful enriched oils
Speaker 1: that are so great for everything. And so I was
Speaker 1: testing on some friends and they were like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: this is amazing. And a lot of my homegirls was like,
Speaker 1: I need some of this. So what I thought was
Speaker 1: just a beard oil was so much bigger than that.
Speaker 1: It's for the body. You can put it in your
Speaker 1: diffuser and it helps the libido, It promotes hair growth,
Speaker 1: it nourishes your skin. Yes, I put it on my feet.
Speaker 1: It helps with your cuticles, like, there's so many beautiful
Speaker 1: benefits for energies. Smells so good, so good. So this
Speaker 1: is my second venture my business owner now, which is incredible.
Speaker 1: I've always wanted to be a business owner because I
Speaker 1: believe in generational wealth, so trying to create something that
Speaker 1: I can pass down to my family and my kids,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So, and this is just
Speaker 1: the first product UM from P forty four by People.
Speaker 1: So I'm also gonna make a body butter, which I'm
Speaker 1: gonna launch this summer um with the same scent. Yeah,
Speaker 1: body butter, because I love body butters and it's all
Speaker 1: things that I really use, Like this is real stuff
Speaker 1: I ain't know you know, bs, And this is a
Speaker 1: true authenticity for me. And it's fun. Like I love
Speaker 1: like when I see somebody who buys my product or
Speaker 1: who I give it to and they're like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: like this smells good or it makes me feel good,
Speaker 1: like that ability to do that, it's just it tops
Speaker 1: off for me. So I'm truly excited that my baby,
Speaker 1: my P forty four baby is out for the world
Speaker 1: to like, you know, to see. And you can buy
Speaker 1: it um on the website P forty four by People's
Speaker 1: dot com or you can go to my Instagram. I
Speaker 1: got the link at antime People, so you can, you know,
Speaker 1: check it out, check it out, check it out. Oh
Speaker 1: I remember you asked me head could you come in
Speaker 1: to shoot some stuff for your produ Jack, and I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: and you were talking about you said the project had
Speaker 1: a lot to do with love. You say love, love, love,
Speaker 1: I mean even anybody that knows you. But in the
Speaker 1: first like minute and a half, you know this is
Speaker 1: bether gonna say something my love. It's gonna be your
Speaker 1: energy and love. I just love it. But it's real.
Speaker 1: You know. He's not the first person I met like this.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Darelle. I wish you met Durell. I
Speaker 1: don't know if he's in North Carolina, Tennessee or something
Speaker 1: like that, but he was all about love and the hearts. Like,
Speaker 1: oh man, it's so same line about it. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: live love for me, like the one constant thing, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I love love. I am a lover at heart. I
Speaker 1: was raised with love. Are you in love? Yes? What
Speaker 1: does it mean to me? In love? Oh no, it
Speaker 1: ain't it easy love. I'm not gonna say it is easy, um,
Speaker 1: But I think being in love is being um selfless
Speaker 1: and giving to someone and being there for that person
Speaker 1: when times are rough, times are great, being a constant
Speaker 1: person in their life that they can depend on. I
Speaker 1: think that is love. That's what it looks like for me,
Speaker 1: But what does it mean to be in love? See,
Speaker 1: I guess I got caught up. I felt so naked,
Speaker 1: I felt so vulnerable. We had our moment, we had
Speaker 1: an interview question. You said, have you ever been in love?
Speaker 1: And I think a part of me I was like,
Speaker 1: I was so embarrassed. I was so shocked. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I was feeling all these moments of being naked because
Speaker 1: I don't think I could ever say that I was
Speaker 1: in love and if I was in a situation we're
Speaker 1: dealing with somebody else that I wasn't like with them
Speaker 1: or felt like I loved them, but whether or not,
Speaker 1: but that was that mutual feeling like we're in it together.
Speaker 1: I can't say that I had, and it was so
Speaker 1: jarring for me. I don't know if I want to
Speaker 1: feel bad. I think part of me I probably do
Speaker 1: want to feel bad. But if that's my truth, that's yeah. No,
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, you know when I start getting
Speaker 1: come to stuff just started as you learned more about God. No,
Speaker 1: but it's a it's a it's definitely a feeling, you know,
Speaker 1: when you're in love. I've been in a relationship with
Speaker 1: where they were in love with me, and I was
Speaker 1: not in love. And I love them, but I wasn't
Speaker 1: in love. That's definitely a feeling that you have. So
Speaker 1: you can't be in love with somebody and not be
Speaker 1: in love with you, said I would. That's not true love,
Speaker 1: and that is not real love. But that is love.
Speaker 1: You know. It happens all the time, and people fell
Speaker 1: out of love too. People fell all love all the time.
Speaker 1: You know. I will say that I feel like I
Speaker 1: don't know when I recognize it, like when it's a
Speaker 1: it gravitates mutually, because I think it's like comfort, and
Speaker 1: it's that one thing that I'd say that now, whether
Speaker 1: it was a romantic in love, I guess that can
Speaker 1: be lovels to that ship. We ain't about to go there,
Speaker 1: but um, what permeates to me, and what you said
Speaker 1: is that it is a constant, like it doesn't stop,
Speaker 1: like you're always kind of the because love is not
Speaker 1: going to give up, you know, I guess. And I
Speaker 1: was just telling to somebody like the whole situation to
Speaker 1: happened with Kurt Franklin, his son, like you spot this
Speaker 1: whole debak all about him cursing going out when his
Speaker 1: son had to be billed out to jail. His daddy
Speaker 1: was there because love, they're gonna show up. Really yeah?
Speaker 1: Was he in jail recently? Yeah? Recently. I forget what
Speaker 1: the stent was. You didn't hear about what happened. My
Speaker 1: My friend just told me a couple of days ago,
Speaker 1: like something with a girl ended up deceased, And I
Speaker 1: don't know, maybe maybe I don't know the whole story.
Speaker 1: Maybe I don't know what. All I know was that
Speaker 1: it was a phone call. League Kirk was closing them all, Oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: that happened months ago. Yes, yes, yes, yes, that his
Speaker 1: son got locked up and Kirk was like, let me
Speaker 1: bring you out now. I don't know why. He means.
Speaker 1: That's love, love of your son, your offspring, that's real love.
Speaker 1: But you know some people don't even feel that love
Speaker 1: from their parents. That's crazy. Well, hey, oh, I'm judging
Speaker 1: you because you're judging, so we both judging. How wait wait,
Speaker 1: what made you What was that reaction about that? I
Speaker 1: mean because for me, I can I can never imagine
Speaker 1: my parents not loving me and not showing me that love.
Speaker 1: So when you said down, like, that's crazy a parent
Speaker 1: not loving their child and not even feeling it right,
Speaker 1: not even feel not even caring, or if your child
Speaker 1: doesn't feel it, because that's a whole another moment. It's
Speaker 1: a whole different situation, dynamic. Yeah, Like both of my
Speaker 1: parents are deceased, but I definitely might. My dad died
Speaker 1: when I was three months, so I never knew my dad.
Speaker 1: And it's interesting to me. Told how much you're like
Speaker 1: somebody that you've never met and looked like the entire life.
Speaker 1: His name is Don Deo and I'm Dawn d w
Speaker 1: An Like he proclaimed, like Dawn, You're going to be
Speaker 1: the star and all this kind of like a lot
Speaker 1: of things. My daddy was that guy. He had his
Speaker 1: own record label, he's a police officer, real estate like
Speaker 1: all that. How did he pass? He had a blood
Speaker 1: cloth that traveled to his um. It's hard. Man wasn't
Speaker 1: as hard on his lungs. I gotta find out. But yeah,
Speaker 1: before they were able to detect it. So he went
Speaker 1: in and it didn't expect that My mom had just
Speaker 1: had me. She go up to the doctor. She went
Speaker 1: to the hospital. He telling her, Janice, you know, go
Speaker 1: back to the baby. Me and I didn't make it out.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine I was like, oh my gosh. My
Speaker 1: mom was like with thirty five, Oh my gosh, a
Speaker 1: three months, Oh my gosh, and this is the love
Speaker 1: of her life was oh yes, battle cancer three times.
Speaker 1: Everything I am is because of my mom. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: you're right to not know what that love looks like
Speaker 1: or feels like. That's um, I want to say, Gregg right,
Speaker 1: But to think that that's some people's reality legit. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm so grateful. I'm so grateful that I've had
Speaker 1: the love shared from both my mother and Emma father.
Speaker 1: You know, that's nothing short of a blessing. And um,
Speaker 1: this love that you and Erica gut you guys have
Speaker 1: been gearing up, that you guys have been creating things
Speaker 1: together with that kind of love. Right man, Wait pause
Speaker 1: before we transfer that. Tell people I didn't get P
Speaker 1: forty four. Yeah, So you can purchase P forty four
Speaker 1: on the website it's uh P forty four by People's
Speaker 1: dot com. Or you can go to the instagram P
Speaker 1: forty four by People's on Instagram, or you can go
Speaker 1: to my Instagram which is at anti People's. Okay, we're
Speaker 1: gonna give you up here, he said, let me give
Speaker 1: you all of it wise, But Erica, y'all creating something now, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're creating a few things. Um, we always have been
Speaker 1: creative together. Like we used to put on plays when
Speaker 1: we were kids, put on spoken the word you came,
Speaker 1: you spent a little spoken word. We did an event
Speaker 1: at Soho House called Love Jones at Soho be came
Speaker 1: and Grace as you. So. First of all, I kept
Speaker 1: saying that, how it's like you are a poet. She's like, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not a poet. I said, you are a poet.
Speaker 1: I hear it in your voice. Please spit something. And
Speaker 1: she was one of the best poets that came that night.
Speaker 1: Ended up doing two poems, one that she had and
Speaker 1: then one that someone else wanted to read for them,
Speaker 1: and you killed it. Please do more of that. You're
Speaker 1: doing another event right, yeah, we're probably We're gonna try
Speaker 1: to do it like once a month. Yeah, once a month.
Speaker 1: But right now we are creating a show that's loosely
Speaker 1: based about our lives. So a little bit what I
Speaker 1: was talking about today when I moved in with her
Speaker 1: at Juilliard in New York, and how you know, love
Speaker 1: was the constant thing. A family was very strong and
Speaker 1: we just managed to. You know, they haven't thrived in
Speaker 1: a crazy city when I was sixteen and you know
Speaker 1: she was with twenty two gangs stuff. So we're creating
Speaker 1: that right now. We're almost finished writing and then we're
Speaker 1: gonna be shopping it and you know you will see
Speaker 1: it on your TVs. It's come into a TV soon now, Anton,
Speaker 1: I gotta transfer this over a bit. This segment was
Speaker 1: supposed to be done earlier, but we're gonna do it
Speaker 1: right now. It's called shed Light, shed Light on this. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I haven't recorded the but I need to get a
Speaker 1: jingle like that. Like it's gonna be like like that,
Speaker 1: because you know this this we're gonna do this in
Speaker 1: front of a live audience, so it's gonna be like that.
Speaker 1: That's going to be the fine. Oh yeah, we're gonna
Speaker 1: be sitting on the stage and how the people there,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be it. Then we're gonna be at people's
Speaker 1: homes and cooking and things like on the spot, traveling
Speaker 1: like yeah, so you know I do cook too, So listen,
Speaker 1: I already saw your I g I didn't have, so
Speaker 1: I got Aaron Jones. I'm coming over here. A love
Speaker 1: of all things good and so I would love to
Speaker 1: come food by people's just let me now, people, I
Speaker 1: like that, Okay, catch it. But this is shed light
Speaker 1: shed light on this. This a segment is called shed
Speaker 1: light on this. It's a like where you are giving
Speaker 1: a scenario with a character who is dealing with the
Speaker 1: situation they don't know how to handle. Your task is
Speaker 1: to come up with a solution that you believe will
Speaker 1: work best for the situation. Now, there is no right
Speaker 1: or wrong answer. Just give your advice from your knowledge
Speaker 1: and life experience. Ant peoples, are you ready, Let's get it.
Speaker 1: Andrew is an ambitious young man who wants to start
Speaker 1: a talk show series on YouTube. He wants to host
Speaker 1: it with people from different backgrounds, beliefs, and identities to
Speaker 1: make it as diverse and inclusive as possible. He has
Speaker 1: everything figured out for the structure of the show, but
Speaker 1: there is one big issue that he does not know
Speaker 1: how to handle. Andrew's best friend, Michael, wants to join
Speaker 1: as a host for this YouTube series. And Andrew doesn't
Speaker 1: want him on. Why well, because Michael has a tendency
Speaker 1: to communicate in a way that pushes people's buttons and
Speaker 1: instigates tension and almost every conversation he is a part of.
Speaker 1: Andrew does not want his talk show to be no
Speaker 1: for emotional arguments, but he fears what rejecting Michael will
Speaker 1: do to their tenure friendship. Got it, can you help?
Speaker 1: Said light? Said light on this, I will shed light,
Speaker 1: shed light on this. I think that Andrew needs to
Speaker 1: think a little bit more before he just cancels and
Speaker 1: closed the door on Michael becoming one of the hosts
Speaker 1: on his show. Two reasons. First being, Michael seems like
Speaker 1: he's interesting to watch, and Michael seems like he was
Speaker 1: gonna draw some members of the audience to view this show.
Speaker 1: And I think Michael is going to make this show
Speaker 1: a hit because people like a little confrontation, people like drama,
Speaker 1: So that may be something for him to consider. And second,
Speaker 1: I think that Andrew also needs to know that's a
Speaker 1: tenure friendship and friendships of teen years don't come off
Speaker 1: and so maybe you need to play with the idea
Speaker 1: of testing it out or say, hey, listen, maybe I
Speaker 1: can give you two shows. Let's see how it goes,
Speaker 1: Let's see if the flow works, and if not, we're
Speaker 1: still friends and we move on. If it works then hey,
Speaker 1: we gotta hit show. We're gonna work together. But I
Speaker 1: think that he definitely should think about that before just
Speaker 1: saying though, m hm for sure there, because it's a
Speaker 1: team that you gotta figure out. It's it's a it's
Speaker 1: a formula. It's a formula, but all at the same
Speaker 1: you know, play Devil's advocate. You know, you can't do
Speaker 1: business with everybody. You can't. You cannot go on business
Speaker 1: with every friend of yours. So you do need to
Speaker 1: tread lightly on that, but you have to try. You know,
Speaker 1: you never know what you try. Well, we shout some
Speaker 1: light on that on this. I'm because we got another
Speaker 1: little thing. Oh, let's do it. Let's do it. Okay,
Speaker 1: Oh you gotta box. This is a vital chess, honey, Okay, okay, chess.
Speaker 1: Some terms in here times that are based on your life,
Speaker 1: things you've done, things are all part of the Anton
Speaker 1: people's world. Now. The reason why this chess is so important,
Speaker 1: This chess is important because with these terms we have
Speaker 1: the out front or the blanketed definition. But I like
Speaker 1: for you to get inspirational on me, metaphysical, you know,
Speaker 1: tell me a different way I can receive this. What
Speaker 1: do I mean by that, Okay, you know, just say
Speaker 1: if you were playing basketball or you're a referee a
Speaker 1: basketball player and the time that you pulled out was pivot.
Speaker 1: What we know about paying basketball, A pivot is just
Speaker 1: to ad adjustment, maybe a turn. Well, sometimes you have
Speaker 1: to pivot in life, maybe pivot in the right direction
Speaker 1: and pivot to a new choice, a pivot onto something new.
Speaker 1: So anton people's are you understanding what the times means
Speaker 1: for the chess? Absolutely? And I'm ready for this. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: ready ship. All right, let me say shack check, say okay,
Speaker 1: here we go. One sore. So the word I have
Speaker 1: is pre production. So when I think of pre production,
Speaker 1: I think that you have to be prepared in order
Speaker 1: to produce, in order to go to that next step
Speaker 1: in your life, in order to move, in order to manifest,
Speaker 1: you have to prepare. Preparation means opportunity is everything. But
Speaker 1: the opportunity you get is not going to work out
Speaker 1: unless you are prepared. So you have to pre produce
Speaker 1: before you can get into the actual production of whatever
Speaker 1: you're doing in your life. You have to have it done.
Speaker 1: You have to prepare, you have to do the work.
Speaker 1: You have to be ready so that's my pre production.
Speaker 1: That's the meta for my pre production? Did I Did
Speaker 1: I do the game right? Yeah? Well the only thing
Speaker 1: you can just said what was pre production? But I
Speaker 1: mean they got it. Yeah, I guess I was thinking
Speaker 1: to myself and I was like, oh, I'm about to
Speaker 1: mess with the quote. What is it like? You plan
Speaker 1: to fail or you can fail if you if you
Speaker 1: fail to plan, you plan to fail. Absolutely, I've never
Speaker 1: heard that, but I like that if you fail to plan. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm learning that right now because you know, as I'm
Speaker 1: taking it to the next level and get my macro
Speaker 1: nutrients and putting my meals and stuff, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I gotta make sure I know what it is that
Speaker 1: I'm going to eat so I know where I'm going.
Speaker 1: That's that ball thing. If you have no no direction,
Speaker 1: you don't know where you're going, right, you know, you
Speaker 1: have no you have no destination. You're just going aimlessly.
Speaker 1: That's no fun. That's that's that's depression. Do you want
Speaker 1: to do another one? Yeah? Sex sake, shake that box bag,
Speaker 1: check that box bag? Good. So first, what's the word
Speaker 1: and what does it mean? And then how can you
Speaker 1: apply to your life? Okay, so remaster. I've actually never
Speaker 1: used this word a remaster, but I would imagine what
Speaker 1: the real definition first, what that is, um so remaster
Speaker 1: I would imagine too, it's a term, you know, they're
Speaker 1: remixing the Yeah, I never heard that phrase. Yeah, give
Speaker 1: me another one that was about the bullshit. A sequel,
Speaker 1: like a sequel to a movie, or a sequel too
Speaker 1: or something like that. Okay, okay, So a sequel, so
Speaker 1: it would be like a part two, um of a
Speaker 1: film or a show is the next going forward. How
Speaker 1: I think you can apply this to your life would
Speaker 1: be even when you get down, even when you fail,
Speaker 1: you can have a part two. A part two is
Speaker 1: more important and many times in the part one because
Speaker 1: in part two you can redeem yourself. You can come
Speaker 1: back stronger, you can come back better, you can come
Speaker 1: back greater. So that's how I think you can apply
Speaker 1: sequel to your life. You never counted out, you will
Speaker 1: never be done. You always got that part two, that sequel,
Speaker 1: it's the part two. I love that, and I guess
Speaker 1: it's also when I think of sequel, it's like there's
Speaker 1: more to come over. There's a process of reinventing, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it would be unfortunate if the caterpillars thought it
Speaker 1: was over on the sequel was to turn into a butterfly.
Speaker 1: And guess what, because if we're relying on that sequel,
Speaker 1: now we can take it to the new high Let's
Speaker 1: take it to the next This is my favorite one.
Speaker 1: Sequel was Yeah, sequel was sequel? Was that one? What's
Speaker 1: the what's the sequel? The sequel? What's gonna happen next? Well,
Speaker 1: I think that's right on target, because that's what I
Speaker 1: was about to act. Okay, what's happening there? What's happening?
Speaker 1: People know? Well, the next acting project I have believes,
Speaker 1: I'm going to believe. I finally get to work with
Speaker 1: my sister. We finally get to act together. And it's
Speaker 1: um a horror movie, which is interesting enough. It's a
Speaker 1: horror movie. We get to shoot in Brazil. Wow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, you gotta be saying believes it is believes,
Speaker 1: it's believes. Believes. I'm going to be I've never been
Speaker 1: there before. Yeah, So it's gonna be a beautiful, beautiful
Speaker 1: time this summer we're shooting. I can't give too many
Speaker 1: details on it, but I'm so, so so happy that
Speaker 1: I finally to work with my sister, like and I've
Speaker 1: been saying this for the longest, like when we're gonna
Speaker 1: work together, and I thought it would be when we
Speaker 1: created our show together. But this is even so much
Speaker 1: cooler and I've always wanted to be like in a
Speaker 1: horrific too. It's gonna be dope. Congratulations honey than you, shining, shining, shining, shining,
Speaker 1: my people. So I guess with that being said, awesome, congratulations,
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Um. Is there anything else anyways
Speaker 1: how we can support you? Yes? Um, well, I think
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Speaker 1: on the ground, follow me on the ground, see what
Speaker 1: I'm doing dayd You know, I think that what I want,
Speaker 1: what I aspire, is to just be happy, happiness, joy, joy.
Speaker 1: Well you know I can I who oh wow, what happened?
Speaker 1: Are you wondering what just happened? I'm glad you had.
Speaker 1: She she had like there were some things, there was
Speaker 1: some moments that she just experienced. Okay, because I'm learning
Speaker 1: to make it brown for myself, which is a result
Speaker 1: allowed me to see myself. So, as you were expressing
Speaker 1: how you felt, the Dawn Police is about to say,
Speaker 1: you can't say you want to experience happy. First off,
Speaker 1: let me make one for you to describe how you
Speaker 1: want to feel. Okay, before I come in with my
Speaker 1: thoughts on what I feel. As though you were gonna
Speaker 1: sta so you were gonna say happy. And what I've
Speaker 1: learned from improp shout out to the groundlings, um is
Speaker 1: that happy is um. It's fleeing. But more so, joy
Speaker 1: is a state of being. So we were sighed too.
Speaker 1: Or you can only be happy for a moment, But
Speaker 1: what is it that you want to reside? You know?
Speaker 1: Kirk Franklin said the same thing in this song Smile.
Speaker 1: I think he said, I don't want you to be
Speaker 1: happy because happiness, because to be happy you have to
Speaker 1: feel something. But joy, it's just it's just within you, boy,
Speaker 1: it's there. So yes, I want to experience the joy,
Speaker 1: more joy in my life, the most amount of jove
Speaker 1: I've ever had and just continue to just love what
Speaker 1: I do and have more things like this. Yes, well
Speaker 1: we know how power for your time? Yes? And you
Speaker 1: know what they said, life and death are on the
Speaker 1: power of the time. That's why I got life tatting
Speaker 1: in my mouth. Let me see where's that? You never
Speaker 1: show me this first tattoo? What did that feel like
Speaker 1: on your lip? Have you ever been the inside of
Speaker 1: your life? Damn, that's what it feels like. It's like annoyance,
Speaker 1: a little bite it It's like a little little bite
Speaker 1: just digging in. That is that your only tattoo? And Okay,
Speaker 1: did it hurt? Like those these hurt words? Yeah, the
Speaker 1: car they hurt. These joints a for real? But um
Speaker 1: this no, this bitch hard. This is a Chinese dragon
Speaker 1: is the same artist the angel right here. Everything on
Speaker 1: my body is like very spiritual, very like you know, beauty,
Speaker 1: like it's about love. And I got the Buddha here,
Speaker 1: like nothing is negative, nothing is just for the sake
Speaker 1: of advertage tattoo. I wanna right, this is a greater
Speaker 1: than equal to sign and this is my mom's signature, Jack,
Speaker 1: and it's like the moms of despair. If I look down.
Speaker 1: You know, I think of my mom and then I'm
Speaker 1: strong and stronger if anything that comes our way, and
Speaker 1: strong if not stronger the day before yesterday, and it
Speaker 1: really works, I'll be like, oh my gosh, I'm like
Speaker 1: oh and then I constantly speak live so and this
Speaker 1: is for me because I was like, I see making
Speaker 1: wrong for no I cared about what other people think.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, I can't get our tattoos on my
Speaker 1: body doing get whatever you want to get, whatever you
Speaker 1: want to get. I'm working, listening. Free, freedom is freedom
Speaker 1: is everything. So that was this. But I'm dope sleeves
Speaker 1: and let me get a sleep, especially because now that
Speaker 1: I'm releasing, you know, I say I'm releasing way because
Speaker 1: I'm not losing because I'm not trying to find it
Speaker 1: things to find them. Yo, that's get the come on,
Speaker 1: get the away. But yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: some sleeve joint. It's gonna be nice. I think you
Speaker 1: would look really dope with a sleeve too something. But
Speaker 1: I just asked something like ah, but I'm like, he's
Speaker 1: gonna lock me in, it's gonna stop. I don't know,
Speaker 1: we'll stop anything. I mean, look at Angelina Joe Lee.
Speaker 1: She's tatted up Ruby Rose, tat it up. She is
Speaker 1: so beautiful, she's everything just like her. Wait, which Rubro,
Speaker 1: was you talking about the actress the white girl? Oka? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I found it was another world was and I was like,
Speaker 1: oh no, no, no, yeah, that girl or something. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. She's super Australian ship bad. You're trying
Speaker 1: to be on Vitamin D doing day at dot com.
Speaker 1: All right, let's we stick at anti peoples on the
Speaker 1: show though. Um you said so sure, making sure you reside,
Speaker 1: enjoy and that people follow you on social media, which
Speaker 1: is at antime people, and then we also have P
Speaker 1: forty four by people. That's right, guys, make sure you
Speaker 1: follow on social media. Show me some love. Thank you
Speaker 1: for showing me some love by showing up to that.
Speaker 1: Thank you for having me on the show and being
Speaker 1: so gracious and like you're really good at what you do.
Speaker 1: Like I've been sitting here and like taking notes and
Speaker 1: like learning is like a master class for me. I
Speaker 1: received that thank you. Oh man, I want to say
Speaker 1: thank you as well, you know, shout out to lay Well.
Speaker 1: He didn't even know he was just being an instrument
Speaker 1: of conduit of connecting us. But you know, these past
Speaker 1: couple of months, I've really been transformation on my life
Speaker 1: and it started with you, with meeting you and then
Speaker 1: seeing how it was a lined up that we met
Speaker 1: at the gym and being able to be introduced to
Speaker 1: a hold of the realm of people and experience. Um,
Speaker 1: I think like the most social I tell the story off.
Speaker 1: I remember when we went out to what was it
Speaker 1: called somethbody to see the got dog at the place
Speaker 1: off of Fair Facts. We went to go get something
Speaker 1: to eat. That's all you gotta say. When we all
Speaker 1: went out to dinner, Yeah, oh my god. Yes, And
Speaker 1: that's all I want to say, is little Ethiopia. We
Speaker 1: don't live. Oh yeah, we didn't go to Ethiopian restaurant,
Speaker 1: went to Ghana. It was Ghana food. No, No, that
Speaker 1: night it was Gonna food. But it's different foods every month.
Speaker 1: But anyway, it don't matter. I want to eat on
Speaker 1: Fair Facts. I just want to say this part, God
Speaker 1: do getting distracted went out to eat. I was just
Speaker 1: trying to say great hanging out. You said something I
Speaker 1: was I was sharing with a friend recently, and I said,
Speaker 1: how and life is just so important to have experience.
Speaker 1: And the conversation even spewed just starting even with sex
Speaker 1: and having sex. And I'm saying, I know I'm going
Speaker 1: left to go right. Just check with um, And I said,
Speaker 1: because I think even as myself, I had was restrained
Speaker 1: from having sex because my best friends a guy, and
Speaker 1: he would always be like how he pimping on girls
Speaker 1: and all this kind of stuff, and I always like,
Speaker 1: I never wanted to be that girl. And I felt
Speaker 1: like for so long I missed ound the experience of
Speaker 1: just experiencing sex and life and seeing what I like
Speaker 1: and what I don't like. And I think oftentimes for
Speaker 1: so many women, we don't want to see to promiscuous.
Speaker 1: It's like you need to be out there to know
Speaker 1: what you like, that you have something to talk about.
Speaker 1: And I thought of you came into conversation because I
Speaker 1: went left to go right, and I said, you know,
Speaker 1: I was thinking about the time out to dinner, and
Speaker 1: I remember the gentleman that sat down at the table,
Speaker 1: and UM, I think we were asking, oh, what do
Speaker 1: you do. He's like, oh, I don't get out much,
Speaker 1: or he said, I don't get out much. I don't
Speaker 1: socialize money, and you must have asked like where does
Speaker 1: he where does he go? And he couldn't name a
Speaker 1: spot or a restaurant, and You're like, wow, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of like being I don't want to use the
Speaker 1: term socially disabled, socially handicap, socially behind, socially awkward. Thank you.
Speaker 1: And I think for so long like that could easily
Speaker 1: could have been me socially because all I did was work, work, work, work, work, all.
Speaker 1: That's all the things, the grind and finding a balance.
Speaker 1: So you know, within the past couple of months of
Speaker 1: like just getting out in balance and it's the most
Speaker 1: I've you know, done, so that oh my gosh, You're
Speaker 1: just opening up the opportunity to be like, hey, don
Speaker 1: let's go to the parlor. And it was like, okay,
Speaker 1: I did that night. I was like, do you want
Speaker 1: to just come with me? And day I'm DJ here.
Speaker 1: Then it was at the next spine and so and
Speaker 1: you come and support. That's what I love to you support.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be yo we out here. Yeah no, but
Speaker 1: I just want to say, and I don't know if
Speaker 1: I said it enough. And it's so interesting how you
Speaker 1: were the link that connected us, but often times we
Speaker 1: don't always talk on the phone all the time. So
Speaker 1: this is my moment to say that because I realized
Speaker 1: how important it is to stay connected, just to say so,
Speaker 1: I'm going to check in. So this is me verbally
Speaker 1: saying thank you, me letting you know that you made
Speaker 1: an impact on my life of when you came in
Speaker 1: so far as just me hanging out, meeting a new
Speaker 1: group of people embracing my sexuality, and how I show
Speaker 1: up creating a safe space with a lot of like
Speaker 1: minded people who are like me and who are hoping
Speaker 1: to share. I never had any community or anything like that,
Speaker 1: so um, and I would have never known that. I
Speaker 1: would have never have known that I'm learning to share
Speaker 1: and before I'm being munerable and ship it. Um. So
Speaker 1: thank you for telling me that, and thank you for
Speaker 1: being free enough to experience the experiences that you've had
Speaker 1: through me. And I'm glad that I was able to
Speaker 1: just like bring you in and say all right, play hey, play,
Speaker 1: just be free, be you because that's beautiful. You know,
Speaker 1: anytime that I can like, I feel like that's what
Speaker 1: we're here on earth to do. It's to connect people
Speaker 1: so we can have beautiful experiences and have more joy
Speaker 1: in life, you know. And I'm like, blows my spirit
Speaker 1: up in a beautiful way that I was able to
Speaker 1: help anything in your spirit, you know, and allow you
Speaker 1: to be free. That's love, you matter, Thank you, that's
Speaker 1: what's up. I love you? Oh man, so um well,
Speaker 1: I hope you're feeling inspired. I hope you feeling loved.
Speaker 1: I hope you understand how important it is to live
Speaker 1: life on purpose and for purpose, and that you open
Speaker 1: yourself up to meet people like Anton, people out there
Speaker 1: that may not have it all figured out right then
Speaker 1: and there, but they have themselves figured out. And when
Speaker 1: you're decide in yourself that you're gonna show up, that's
Speaker 1: when you give yourself the ability to show out. And
Speaker 1: then your ability to show out now you give other
Speaker 1: people the permission to shine. So let's shine together. And
Speaker 1: if you're trying to shine with me, because you might
Speaker 1: want to be on the podcast, or perhaps you've got
Speaker 1: an idea for the podcast, I want to encourage you
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Speaker 1: have my Vitamin D advice letters, So if you need
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Speaker 1: Shoot me an email now. Love you know I say
Speaker 1: this all the time. When you shoot me an email,
Speaker 1: know that I'm going to keep it real with you
Speaker 1: because if you want to be better and you want
Speaker 1: to do better, what do I say? You gotta be
Speaker 1: able to see better. Okay. I love you and I
Speaker 1: want that for you. So we're not holding anything back.
Speaker 1: It's just me loving on you. So shoot me the
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Speaker 1: for supporting my dream. Thank you for thinking that I'm
Speaker 1: possible and knowing that I'm possible, and deciding to do
Speaker 1: this journey with me so that it can become possible.
Speaker 1: I see you, and I appreciate you. Well, I'm about
Speaker 1: to get out of here. You know, I always say
Speaker 1: I'm in the business and making dreams come true, and
Speaker 1: I damn sure I ain't gonna forget about mine. So
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