WEBVTT - "Failure Is A Part of Success" (w/ Anton Peeples) 0:00:01.480 --> 0:00:05.240 Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. You are tuned into 0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:07.600 the Vitamin D with Dawn Day podcast and I am 0:00:07.640 --> 0:00:10.240 your host, Dawn Day, here to get you excited about 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:12.160 your life so that you can live life on purpose 0:00:12.200 --> 0:00:14.240 and for a purpose. And this is your first time 0:00:14.320 --> 0:00:17.600 tuning in and welcome Vitamin D. It's upon all my name, 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:19.840 My name is Dawn, and you get Vitamin D from 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:21.960 the sun. So I'm here to shed light into your life. 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:25.560 And I do this with inspirational insights and conversations with 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:28.600 celebrities and everyday people like you and me, because if 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:30.520 you want to be better and you want to do better, 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:33.320 then you're going to have to be able to see better. 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:36.320 So join me on this journey of living our best 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:40.240 lives and understanding and realizing how you are your greatest 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:43.280 stass act. What was on Instagram, which I usually am, 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:45.760 and I came across this video I guess is A 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:49.600 pastor's name is Brian and Bullock over at Union Church 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:53.559 and Charlotte and he had this word where he was 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:57.000 talking about cake. Well he was compared like cake like 0:00:57.040 --> 0:00:59.080 to the dream and vision like what we want and 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:02.120 how God shows a that, but we gotta look at like, well, 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:04.200 what are some of the main ingredients that you put 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:06.039 together to make a cake? Where you got your eggs, 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:07.679 you got your flour, you got your milk, you got 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:11.360 your sugar, and each one of those ingredients. He compared 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:13.959 it to a season in our lives. He said, one, 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:16.479 you got your eggs. You know, that's the delicate that's 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:19.039 where everything can break season. You gotta be careful, perhaps 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:21.640 you even breaking out your comfort zone. Then he talked 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:23.959 about you got the season of sugar, where everything is sweet, 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:26.800 everything seems to be going how you wanted to go. 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:30.039 You're happy, and this hold over your mold. Then he 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:32.560 goes on and talk about some flour. He said, that's 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:35.120 the season when it's dry. You ever felt like that, 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:38.200 everybody that you thought you could lean on they kind 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:40.560 of ghost at you. I like to correlate it to 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:43.520 perhaps even a pruning season. You know, sometimes you gotta 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:46.640 be isolating in order to elevate. Then you get in 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:50.080 the season of milk, you know, abundance, where is everything 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:52.840 in surplus. But you look back and you said, well, god, 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:57.320 this ain't necessarily what you said you was gonna give me, 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:02.320 because you said it's a cake. Well then pass the bullock. 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:05.760 He says, well, take a look at it and see. 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:09.240 God says, I'm not just in the cake making business. 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:13.079 But rather, if you stay around long enough, meaning if 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:16.680 you stay persistent, you stay consistent, and you keep going, 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:23.120 you realize that all these seasons work together, and you 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:26.360 just gotta have the persistence of dedication. You just gotta 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:29.480 have the understanding the patients in the grace because then 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:32.760 we're gonna mix all that up and guess what. Now 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:35.960 you can bake your own Okay, not just one, but two, 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:38.720 three in surplus exceedingly beyond it, and we get to 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:41.800 a place we can start helping out other people. So 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:46.400 I guess what I say to you, don't get discouraged. 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:52.160 There's a reason for the season that you're in. Appreciate it. 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:56.400 Always say eat the meat and spit out the bone. 0:02:57.200 --> 0:03:00.200 What I mean by that is get the value you in, 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:03.799 the nourishment for where you are, from where you are 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:09.480 right now, it's coming. God is a slow to keep 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:13.360 his promise. God doesn't tease to take away. So that cake, 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:16.560 that vision, that dream that you have for your life. 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:23.320 The seasons are here, stand it, keep going, it's happening. 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:29.880 Eat that cake. At of metaminy right with me and 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:37.280 get excited. I got antime. People's in the building, can 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:43.839 we get the rounds of applause? Jeremiah, I'm grateful you here. 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:47.720 I'm so grateful to be here. First of all, I 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:51.080 love the name of the show, Vitamin D with don't 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:52.520 like that. I think that that is like, did I 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:54.200 tell you the history behind that name? No, you have 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:56.240 not tell me. Please tell me this, Okay, So you 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:58.240 know vitamin Did you get Vitamin D from the sun? 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:00.400 So I'm here to shed light into your life. And 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:04.000 dawn means the break of day. And it started out 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:06.480 using the lyrics of popular music because I would use 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:09.680 the lyrics of music and intertwined it into a motivational message. 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:12.840 And that's because music has always spoken to me in 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:17.000 ways unimaginable. And I said, okay, I know my calling. 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:20.880 My purpose is to inspire. And oftentimes people look at 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:23.520 people that inspire them like, you know, at least when 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:27.960 I was first introduced CEO s or like these reverence 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:30.200 and preachers, it's like, oh, you can't relate to me, 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:31.800 And it's like, well, why don't I get you something 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:34.520 that you're already rock into. Let me get you some 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:37.720 Vitamin D with something that you're rocking too, and then 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:41.080 twisted and intertwined a motivational message. So I feel often 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:43.200 times sometimes you gotta go where people are and then 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:46.240 bring them when they need to be and it's expanded. 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:49.800 And I always say about shedding light because you know 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:52.239 you think of vitamin did you see dawn? Always so positive, 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:55.320 so happy I am, But just like in the dawn, 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:57.920 there's a dust, a yin and the yang. And when 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:00.320 you talk about shed and light, it's on good in 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:02.320 the back because I said, if you want to be 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:04.479 better and you want to do better, you have to 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:06.720 be able to see better. Every time I hear you speak, 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:10.080 I just literally want to like close my eyes. I 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:12.360 want to lay down and I want to just like 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:16.200 manifest everything that you're giving out because it's just it 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:19.240 feels like it feels like Vitamin D, feels like love, 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:23.039 like joy like, it just feels good. And when I 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:26.480 first met you, you remember when we first absolutely how 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:30.320 do people first? So I went to my homeboys, um 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:33.479 like opening for this this label that he started, and 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:36.280 he had it at his studio, really cool studio downtown, 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:40.080 and I went by myself and I was like walking around, 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:43.960 you know, trying to like feel energy, and immediately I 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:46.919 felt your energy and it was just like radiant before 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:49.680 you even spoke words to me. And then I don't 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:52.040 know what we said, the words that we exchanged to 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:55.040 each other, but we said something and it was because 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:58.120 you were over theregaint your dream. I don't know what 0:05:58.160 --> 0:06:00.359 it was, and you were like that was He was 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:02.000 like hi, and I was like, you were like, I 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:04.480 like your style. That's what it was. I peached your style. 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:07.760 The style was crazy. The style was super dope. And 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:09.960 then but I really wanted to say, like, your energy 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:13.840 is so vibrant and it's so pure, but I didn't, 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:15.320 you know, it's kind of hard to tell people that 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:17.839 when you first meet them, you like, you know, freak 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:21.039 them out a little bit. But so then that happened. 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:24.400 I don't even think we exchanged information. It was just 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:26.600 that and that was it. She left a mark on me. 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:30.000 So fast forward the next weekend, I'm working out and 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:33.520 it's like private kind of gym by my house and 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:36.279 I see her, the same person working out and I 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:38.960 was like, okay, this now we're going to connect, because 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:41.800 this is divine intervention. This happened for a reason, and 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:44.839 then she saved her number on my phone as vitamin deed. 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:50.080 I was like, why with the sun emoji? I was like, okay, 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:52.039 like she's she's special. I have to have her in 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:55.400 my life. And then since then, like, um it really 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:57.919 has been rocking. And I was just I was actually 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:00.440 sharing with jere Mind and everybody with the podcast shortly 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:02.800 before I met you guys. I feel like I have 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:04.760 manifest as I said, I just want to meet like 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:07.279 a different group of people and just expand my group 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:10.440 of people that have more things in common with um 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:13.480 as I'm working on expanding on my levels of vulnerability, 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:15.960 making room for Dawn and seeing Dawn. And I'm like, 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:20.680 right one time, it always is. Universe always works just 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:23.160 as it it's opposed to. Just be patient, r just 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:27.040 be patient. Do the work, hey, do the word the work. 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:29.640 The work is important, but you know, be patient in 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:32.760 that and enjoy the journey. You gotta find joy in 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:35.920 the journey. My barber, Louis c Pal shout out to Little. 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:39.920 He says, Dawn, the journey isn't the experience, and the 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:43.640 experience is the journey. It's so true. I mean, it's 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:47.000 hard to live that sometimes because we always want what 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:49.960 we want when we want it, and then social media 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:53.120 we see other people have it already until you compare yourself. 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:55.880 But literally, if you just sit and be grateful and 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:59.000 be thankful and sit in that, come on, that's how 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:02.320 the universe opens it up even quicker, so you can manifest, 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:04.400 you can get, you can grab whatever it is that 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:08.640 you truly desire. Gratitude is everything. Gratitude And they say, 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:10.480 the more grateful we are, the more things we have 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:12.760 to group careful for. Come on, what are you grateful 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:17.640 for everything? I'm grateful being in space with you. I'm 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:20.160 grateful to just talk to a like minded soul like you. 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:24.480 I'm grateful for my family family. Air cover was on here, 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:28.440 she was out to aerical people shout out to it, 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:31.880 and I'm so happy to have my people. And we 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:34.080 all from Detroit, which is kind of crazy too in 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:37.160 l A. Like, you know what I'm saying, Since you're 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:39.480 talking about it from Detroit, tell us who you are, 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:46.760 Tell the people who is this fine? Well, ladies and gentlemen, 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:48.200 you know what I'm saying that come all the way 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:52.719 from Detroit, Michigan. No, I'm just a simple kid, you 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:54.200 know what I mean. I grew up actually in the 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:57.760 suburbs of Detroit, a little small town called mar clements 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:03.720 Um too incredibly gifted, beautiful and enlightened parents. They raised 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:06.480 me like that is the reason why I am the 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:08.560 man that I am is because of those two people. 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:11.520 And I'm thankful for them and my sister, she's kind 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:15.760 of like my third parents. I'm an artist. I'm a 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:18.480 true artist. Like I love anything that has to do 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:25.280 with our DJ I sing, I act, I produce, I write, um, 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:33.079 I draw, like those things really just like fuel my fire. Yeah, 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:36.000 I do all those things, do all those things. Yeah, 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:38.719 I love you know. I feel like I remember back 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:40.560 back in the day when you had the real stars 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:47.360 and they did everything like them like I really love 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:51.960 like Dorothy Dandrid's for instance, and like the oh like 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:54.960 filming the War stars and that's that's the really generation 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:57.720 that I love to watch. And they did it all. 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:01.200 And I think now it's coming back into that this 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:06.920 new renaissance, you know, shout out to be ice. But 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:09.200 but we were all but you know, all my folks 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:11.560 my trial, we were talking about this new renaissance before 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:13.960 she started speaking about it, which I love that she 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:17.480 brought light to it. Yeah, we shed a light. And 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:20.040 you know, it's about artistry right now, and if you 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:23.000 have are you gotta share it. It's all about that 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:26.400 and I believe fully in that and letting your life shine. 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:30.199 You gotta be bold, Yeah, you gotta be because people 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:33.480 are coming to critique the art. And it's like when 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:37.320 Erica by dudes like, I'm an artist and I'm sensitive 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:40.640 about my ship, and I think like we all have 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:43.560 this tendency to be great and to create this beautiful art, 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:47.320 but you gotta be bold step into the light. Here's 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:50.120 the thing I think oftentimes we feel like we gotta 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:53.440 show up as something already prepared in package, not realizing 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:55.960 that we're living. We haven't just lived, so it's not 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:59.599 done and that I energy process. Um, they're gonna be 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:02.520 a fifth things that are imperfections, But what do they say? 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:04.640 What allows the diamond to shine on the multitudes of 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:06.880 cuts that have been placed within it? So if I 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:09.079 said step into the light and oh I'm not great here, 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:11.760 Oh I'm not great there, but I'm bold enough. I'm 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:14.000 just reflection. Come on, and I'm just trying to be 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:18.040 reflecting that greatness I'm reflecting. I'm reflecting the dawn light. 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:22.120 You've been these some tweetable moments. You've been hitting them 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:26.520 with the gems like since Nuggets. I mean, that's what 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:30.880 happens when you're getting the presence of Anton people. Yes, 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:35.960 I'm just saying, So here we are, Like you said, uh, 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:41.280 Detroit or suburbs. There you went to ds A Detroit 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:45.800 School of performing final, performing arts, the Pharos, what's it? 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:48.520 The Pharaohs? What's your mascot? I don't even know if 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:51.920 we had one. We don't have any sports. It was 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:56.200 all just performing arts. We had like a band. Um, 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:58.400 but that was Yeah, that was it. You knew you 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:00.520 wanted to act way back then. Knew I wanted to 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:02.960 act when I was like the age of four. What 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:07.000 were you doing? Um? I would always perform for my family. Um. 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:09.000 And to be honest, like, I grew up with my sister. 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:12.400 Knowing when you say sister, you have a few siblings, right, 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:16.520 So I'm the last of twelve. I have six sisters 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:20.520 and five brothers. So when you say sister, who, there's 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:26.160 eleven other people you could be talking about. So Erica, 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:31.720 people's the actress. So when she got into acting classes. 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:33.720 My mom put her in anton classes and then she 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:35.800 put me in as well, and I just wanted to 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:39.080 do anything that my sister was doing Big sisters. Yeah, 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:41.040 So I think that's when I kind of really honed 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:44.280 in on my talent. I was like, oh, I'm I'm 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:46.200 pretty good at this, Like, this is something that I 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:48.520 like to do. So I knew at the age of 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:51.080 like four or five that you know, this is what 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:54.120 I loved to do. One of the parts of my 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:56.560 talent that I love to do. Well, you know, I 0:12:56.559 --> 0:13:00.040 want to be honest. I truly admire the relationship that 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:03.520 you and Erica have. I have older sister, she's three 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:08.280 years older than me. We bumped hats a lot, and 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:11.400 she's a leo. You're supposed to get along very well. 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:14.000 You don't know. We're bringing up the heat and where. 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:16.760 I don't know, but I think it's like love and no. 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:18.520 Since you don't give up, you don't stop. But I 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:20.640 when I see you guys, and I see how you 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:23.120 guys and you know, move with each other and rock 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:26.800 with each other, lean with each other. Um, I just 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:28.640 want to thank you for being that example. And that's 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:32.440 just something that's admirable and aspirational. Well I received that, 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:35.360 and I appreciate you acknowledging that. But let me tell you, 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:39.360 it's like we don't always all get along because we 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:43.760 are very strong personalities. But the love outweighs the bad 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:46.280 times for sure. You know, Like we get into it 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:49.360 all the time because we just have disagreements and she 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:52.560 thinks she's the leader. I think I'm the leader. So 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:55.320 you've got two leaders. It's like when we work together, 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:58.040 oh my gosh, Like we have a few different projects 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:01.040 were working on and it gets hot whom we disagree. 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:03.959 But you know, I love her with all of my heart. 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:06.680 I love her to life. I hate to say I 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:11.439 love her to death, for you know, I love her life. 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:14.120 People say like this is to die for. No, this 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:16.960 is to live for, to live for? What does it 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:20.480 mean to live though? Mm? To be free? What does 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:24.160 that mean? To be free? Oh, to not have any 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:29.560 restraints on anything you do, and to completely open yourself 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:33.920 to any possibility, to not stop your thoughts from going 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:39.480 anywhere other than positivity, light and love and happiness. That's 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:43.560 what living for me is. Mm hmm, that's what living 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:46.240 for me is. I mean, I think it's partially for 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:47.880 me like what you're saying, what has on your tattoo? 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:54.560 And these damn tattoos? God um no fear, And I 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:57.600 guess the ultimate state of vulnerability. I think that's probably 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:01.000 for me that ultimate freedom is. I think half the 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:02.680 time if we do things or don't do things, or 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:04.320 how we do things are based on what other people 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:06.880 think or based on the judgment we've placed on ourselves, 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:09.160 what we think that other people think about us. That part, 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:11.960 that part, and the time you carrying all of that, 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:14.120 I mean, but who cares at the end of the day, 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:16.640 Like why do we care what other people think about 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:18.800 It's like, what is the point? They don't play our bills, 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:23.760 They really don't invest in us like that, And so 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:26.400 you know, why do we hold so much weight on 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:29.920 what other people think? Perhaps because for some reason, like 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:32.640 we're all trying to fit in but not realizing that 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:35.800 we're all meant to stand out. I don't want to 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:38.200 fit in. I want to be different. I want to 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:39.920 be that other. I want to be an indigo child. 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:43.520 Yeah yeah, hell yes. My whole life I never fit in. 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:45.560 I never fit in anywhere, never fit in any schools 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:47.320 and went to I never fit in with the other kids. 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:50.720 I never fit in and you're comfortable with like that? Absolutely? 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:55.640 Really you never felt alone? Come on, yeah I felt alone? Sure? 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:58.000 So how did you manage That's about to say like, oh, 0:15:58.040 --> 0:15:59.880 I'm gonna be different. I'm okay with being by mysse out. 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.240 I mean, I think you find other people that are 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:05.400 different like you, and you also just know that there's 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:08.920 something different about you, so it's special, you know. I 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:11.720 think I always just knew it was something special about 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:14.720 being different. There's nothing wrong with that. And then I 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:17.520 would see other people on TV who are different, who 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:22.520 were weirdos as well, and knows the people that I, 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:24.920 you know, look up to. That's all I love it. 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:27.040 I think like when you think about people that they 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:30.800 say weirdos, it's like they're thinking outside of the norm. 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:33.240 They're thinking outside of their mind, and it's like that's 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:35.880 what the magic, that's what the creation process happened. So 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:38.280 it's like, yeah, I do want it to be outside 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:40.720 of my mind. I want to think exceedingly and beyond. 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:44.040 And if you got faith and belief in anything, and 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:47.840 if God says exceedingly and beyond far more than what 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:50.440 you could have very imagined, and it's all working for 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:54.680 your greater good. Stop playing with stop playing. That's it. 0:16:55.040 --> 0:17:00.240 That's it, that's all you need to know. It's but 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:02.280 I don't know. Sometimes I feel like we were quick 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:04.560 to forget that. I don't for some reason where our 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:06.960 minds moved so quickly, so we forget everything, you know, 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:10.520 we forget. For me personally, I forget the lessons that 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:13.320 I just learned last week. And I'm like, oh, okay, 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:15.159 I don't need to think so much. Get out of 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:17.720 your head, just be be present. You know, I have 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:21.520 to remind myself this all the time. Isn't that so 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:25.360 challenging as an artist? It's very challenging. It's very especially 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:27.919 as an areas are because I'm already in my head 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:30.840 a lot, you know, you ever know a lot of areas, 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:39.440 Like we have big heads, yes, and we think too 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:42.880 damn much, damn much to that much. We think too 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:47.240 that much, don't get it done, and we're leaders um, 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:48.919 and we have an aura about us, like you know, 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:53.119 we're walking through We're powerful beings. Were very powerful. And 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:56.920 I love the youthfulness and the joy that we have. Yeah, 0:17:56.960 --> 0:17:59.520 because we love fun, we love newness, and like we 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:02.320 liked d a little bit so that that that keeps 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:05.920 you from this because as a young adolescent or young people, 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:08.600 they like to like explore and see what is this? 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:12.280 You know, speaking time about adolescent. I can't believe I 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:15.000 didn't run into you in Detroit, because not only did 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:16.399 you go to ds A, but you were part of 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:19.800 mosay I was. Do you remember to the slogan for Mosaic? 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:27.879 Absolutely not, absolutely remember it? Okay, hit us with it, 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:31.359 hit us with it. Mosaic is a multicultural arts organization 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:34.320 whose mission has developed young performing artists to theatrical and 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:38.280 musical training and to provide high quality performances for audiences 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:44.400 of all ages. Do that day that fact? How long 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:46.920 ago was it that you had to actually say that 0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:50.440 in mosa How long ago? With your Mosaic? Now you 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:56.240 want how I am at least twenty something new? And 0:18:56.359 --> 0:19:00.879 you remember that they drilled it? I mean I've probably 0:19:00.880 --> 0:19:02.960 recited again when um Erica was here, but yes, and 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:08.479 planted in my head. No, I was just looking at 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:11.719 this program though, um how was the last program I 0:19:11.800 --> 0:19:14.840 was in was called Reality I think it was in 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:19.240 two thousand three Reality Reality TV something like that, and 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:23.640 I played Monica. I think my character was to Monica Yeah, 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:26.080 that was way back then. But anyway, I was surprised 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:29.600 I didn't run unto you there. Yeah, I was there 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:34.840 in oh so I graduated or seven? So, but I 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:37.600 didn't graduate there. I graduated in New York. I was there, 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:40.320 oh five? Or you went to high school in New York. 0:19:40.359 --> 0:19:42.639 I finished high school in New York. Wait? What I 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:46.440 did my freshman and sophomore year in Detroit? And then 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:48.879 then where did you go? H New York? Went to 0:19:49.320 --> 0:19:52.359 UM Performing Art School in New York PPS? Was that 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:56.560 stying for professional Performing Arts School? How did you find 0:19:56.560 --> 0:20:00.080 out about that? So? I went to go visit of 0:20:00.119 --> 0:20:02.520 my sister when she was in her third year of 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:07.160 Juilliard for the summer, and I started to UM hang 0:20:07.240 --> 0:20:09.359 around her and her friends, and I got introduced to 0:20:09.400 --> 0:20:11.879 this music producer. He was like, Yo, you can't go 0:20:11.880 --> 0:20:13.720 back to Detroit, like you gotta, we gotta work with you. 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:16.520 So I hit my mom my dad. My mom was like, well, 0:20:16.520 --> 0:20:18.960 you can stay if you get into a really good school. 0:20:19.480 --> 0:20:23.080 And so I auditioned for PPS and got into the 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:28.280 musical theater department and I graduated from there. And where 0:20:28.280 --> 0:20:30.600 did you go to college? I did not go to college. 0:20:31.520 --> 0:20:33.800 I didn't go to college. I got accepted in the 0:20:33.840 --> 0:20:37.199 moor House and at the time, I was like, you 0:20:37.200 --> 0:20:39.359 know what, I kind of just want to stay in 0:20:39.400 --> 0:20:42.080 New York and I want to like live the dream 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:43.760 and I want to audition, and I want to just 0:20:44.200 --> 0:20:47.320 work and figure out things and see what happens and 0:20:47.359 --> 0:20:51.880 just living this. So I didn't go WHOA, Okay, I'm 0:20:51.880 --> 0:20:55.320 not going to even continue anything else right there, Let's 0:20:55.359 --> 0:20:59.520 figure out, or let's find out rather what happened, um 0:20:59.720 --> 0:21:03.159 Paul post high school in Anti's decision not to go 0:21:03.240 --> 0:21:06.040 to college. 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