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My next guest 37 00:02:03,320 --> 00:02:05,400 Speaker 1: is on the phone. She is an actress. You have 38 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:08,320 Speaker 1: seen her in the following movies. I'm leaving out a few, 39 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:10,680 Speaker 1: but I just want to mention these movies. House Party, 40 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:14,680 Speaker 1: skin deep think weill sister acting baby Boy. She's a 41 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:20,120 Speaker 1: TV producer, life coach, fitness guru. I need that conversation, Philan. 42 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:25,280 Speaker 1: She's an HBCU grad with a psychology and chemistry degree 43 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:28,800 Speaker 1: from Spellman College right in Atlanta, Georgia. She is currently 44 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:32,839 Speaker 1: appearing on the UMC series Stuck with You Please work 45 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:38,120 Speaker 1: on the money making Conversation A J. Johnson, Hi, how 46 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 1: are you? Thank you for having me? Well? Thank you all. Well, 47 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:42,880 Speaker 1: I knew that bringing you on the show, you were 48 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:44,600 Speaker 1: gonna come with the energy you know you can't have. 49 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:47,200 Speaker 1: You can't be a fitness glue and be laid back. 50 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:50,359 Speaker 1: You know that that wouldn't work. Well, well, I'll tell 51 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:52,600 Speaker 1: you what you mean. Some people are some people have 52 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:55,400 Speaker 1: a very way back approach to fitness. I think I'm 53 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:59,359 Speaker 1: just fueled with a passionate jest, reached from my better self, 54 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:02,680 Speaker 1: and every day is another opportunity to do that. So 55 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:06,080 Speaker 1: I'm listen. I'm excited. My eyes pop open, and you 56 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 1: get me. First thing in the morning, you get me 57 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:13,560 Speaker 1: fresh good, No, no afternoon energy, no late afternoon energy. 58 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:16,160 Speaker 1: The day is beating you up. I'm getting your earl. 59 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:18,960 Speaker 1: That's that's great. Agents and let's just go back about you. 60 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:21,799 Speaker 1: Like I mentioned in your credits about being an HBCU 61 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:25,800 Speaker 1: grand and I'm always promoting HBCUs on my I do 62 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:28,800 Speaker 1: a big event in Wilmington Della called HBCU Week, and 63 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:31,760 Speaker 1: I'm gonna do a lot of more things and and 64 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:33,680 Speaker 1: twenty one and bold because I feel the brand of 65 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:37,640 Speaker 1: HBCUs are just just not recognized for the contributions that 66 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:41,360 Speaker 1: they make, incorporate. They get recognized for the athletics and 67 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:44,400 Speaker 1: they get recognized for the marching bands. Tell Us, tell us, 68 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:47,800 Speaker 1: the impact of Spellman had on you, has has had 69 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 1: on your crederiness having on your life? Oh Man, listen, 70 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:53,880 Speaker 1: and you know we've just celebrated our hundred and thirty 71 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:58,600 Speaker 1: nights UH anniversary. Founders Day was this past weekend, and I, 72 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:01,480 Speaker 1: you know, I I the interview with them as part 73 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:05,080 Speaker 1: of our virtual celebration, and I even it's funny you 74 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:07,120 Speaker 1: asked me that because the first thing I said was, 75 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:11,080 Speaker 1: you know, Spellman actually became the most valuable for me 76 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 1: once I left, because I had no you know, I 77 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:17,880 Speaker 1: had no idea that what I was embarking on was 78 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:21,160 Speaker 1: not only an amazing education, but it was a global 79 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:26,440 Speaker 1: lifelong network. Um oh yeah, yeah. I mean I've been 80 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:29,000 Speaker 1: blessed to travel the world and I have been no 81 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:34,080 Speaker 1: place where there's not been somebody affiliated, an alumni, something 82 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:38,200 Speaker 1: wanting to go a future student with Spellman. And it's 83 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:40,720 Speaker 1: a built in sisterhood. It's a sorority on its own, 84 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:44,320 Speaker 1: so you know, and it's never it's never ending. You know, 85 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:46,880 Speaker 1: We've got all the alumni from from all those years ago. 86 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:49,400 Speaker 1: But then every year, we know Spellman takes in at 87 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:54,039 Speaker 1: least another past of five dynamic women. So the sisterhood 88 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:56,760 Speaker 1: continues to grow. And you know, when you when you 89 00:04:56,800 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 1: get to Spellman freshman year literally freshman week, um in 90 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:04,400 Speaker 1: the freshman welcome, the the advisors and the staff say, 91 00:05:04,640 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 1: you know, choosing Spellman is choosing to change the world. 92 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:10,960 Speaker 1: And so for me that has been a life mantra, 93 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:13,919 Speaker 1: you know, in terms of what can I do to 94 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:18,040 Speaker 1: make a difference and and and that's that's my whole passion, 95 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:21,320 Speaker 1: it's part of my self purpose and so that comes 96 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:25,640 Speaker 1: from Spellman. Unfortunately lost my mom my, my literally the 97 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:28,360 Speaker 1: first two months of my freshman year, and so Spellman 98 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:32,200 Speaker 1: also raised me. You know, I was there the early 99 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:35,200 Speaker 1: the early part of my adulthood. So the morals and 100 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:41,120 Speaker 1: values of Spellman again, the sisterhood, the appreciation and um 101 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:44,480 Speaker 1: and uh and value of education and what it can 102 00:05:44,520 --> 00:05:46,840 Speaker 1: do for you in society. I mean all of it. 103 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:49,200 Speaker 1: I can't speak enough. And that continues to go. It's 104 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:51,480 Speaker 1: not just like I went to Spellman and I'm I'm 105 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:53,840 Speaker 1: an alumni. I mean I talked about Spellman all the time. 106 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:56,560 Speaker 1: Like I said, I may be doing a motivational speech, 107 00:05:56,720 --> 00:05:59,440 Speaker 1: or working for a corporation, or on a movie set, 108 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:03,359 Speaker 1: or gone to Africa or Philanthony, you know, every walk, 109 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:07,200 Speaker 1: every lane of my life, I constantly speak about and 110 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:11,279 Speaker 1: have a conversation about the amazingness that Spellman is. Well. 111 00:06:11,320 --> 00:06:14,320 Speaker 1: I love that the tone. That's that's the key because 112 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:17,520 Speaker 1: whenever I go through our interview, I've been fortunate on 113 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:20,080 Speaker 1: this show, the interview over five hundred people since I 114 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:25,279 Speaker 1: launched the show, and I know, and I always go 115 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:27,680 Speaker 1: through the resumes of the bios and when I see 116 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:30,320 Speaker 1: the HPCU, I pull it out because that's a nugget. 117 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:33,039 Speaker 1: I gotta let me pull that nugget out. And so 118 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:35,599 Speaker 1: so because people, because a lot of schools take credit 119 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:37,640 Speaker 1: for your success because they're all the amgatans sum that 120 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:40,800 Speaker 1: you may have went to a white institution or traditional institution, 121 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:44,440 Speaker 1: that's not HU because Hollywood is dominantd I know. I'm 122 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:47,080 Speaker 1: I'm based in Hollywood. I've been in Hollywood's is ninety two. 123 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:50,760 Speaker 1: I know the amount of executives, amount of writers, the 124 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:54,159 Speaker 1: amount of producers, the amount of actors and actresses that 125 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:57,279 Speaker 1: have really dominating the landscape, just like you and the 126 00:06:57,440 --> 00:07:01,040 Speaker 1: entertainment arena, and that goes over into music or your 127 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:04,239 Speaker 1: wrap or your music producer. It's really amazing what hbc 128 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:06,400 Speaker 1: s are doing. And I always like to point that 129 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:09,920 Speaker 1: out and let people know that that inspired and how 130 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:12,680 Speaker 1: how just you just you I just like I just 131 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:16,560 Speaker 1: turned on the waterfalls and you started talking. You know, 132 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:19,880 Speaker 1: I'm glad to I'm glad you mentioned all those different 133 00:07:19,960 --> 00:07:23,440 Speaker 1: avenues because I think not just Spellman or more House 134 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:26,280 Speaker 1: or the a U Center, but any one of the HBCU. 135 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:28,560 Speaker 1: What I think happens is because all of them are 136 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:32,880 Speaker 1: such an intimate environment. UM, I think you get another 137 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:36,960 Speaker 1: level of attention and guidance then you would at any 138 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:40,000 Speaker 1: other institutional university or even an I D League. You know, 139 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:44,920 Speaker 1: I absolutely right and got accepted to Princeton, Yale, Harvard. 140 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:48,560 Speaker 1: But I just you know, I was drawn to the 141 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:53,360 Speaker 1: intimacy and the level of special that Spellman was showing 142 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:56,480 Speaker 1: me they were and wanted to help me be You 143 00:07:56,520 --> 00:07:59,200 Speaker 1: can't beat that, you know, you can't beat that awesome. 144 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:02,720 Speaker 1: I'm talking to A J. Johnson TV producers, film star 145 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:06,240 Speaker 1: life coach, fitness guru. Uh, let's talk about that fitness 146 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:08,800 Speaker 1: guru because uh, a couple of years ago, you know, 147 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:10,600 Speaker 1: a couple of years I had Morris chest out on 148 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:14,280 Speaker 1: the show and the book of the show, and uh, 149 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:16,880 Speaker 1: and he had a fitness book out and weight lost 150 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:19,880 Speaker 1: book out, and I, you know me, I try to 151 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:22,240 Speaker 1: invest into my guests if they give a book, I'm 152 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:24,240 Speaker 1: gonna read your book. Agent when if you ever have 153 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:26,680 Speaker 1: a book come out? He sent it Rushan McDonald. Rushan 154 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:28,760 Speaker 1: will read your book before he interviews you. None of 155 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:31,600 Speaker 1: that what is about? None of that vague question stuff. 156 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:35,400 Speaker 1: So nine pounds, he said, it was the ten pounds 157 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:38,360 Speaker 1: and ten days. I lost seven days. I lost nine 158 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:44,760 Speaker 1: pounds and in seven days and and so I, um, 159 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:47,440 Speaker 1: excuse me, ten days, excuse me, I apologize. Ten days 160 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:50,520 Speaker 1: I lost nine pounds and I have lost sixteen pounds 161 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:53,360 Speaker 1: total since then, and it has changed my life and 162 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:56,640 Speaker 1: it's changed my clothes. You know, my waistline thirty three 163 00:08:56,640 --> 00:08:58,960 Speaker 1: and a half. I can brag about that now, especially 164 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:02,720 Speaker 1: when I talk to my friends. I'm bragging. I'm bragg 165 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:06,240 Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not not a j I'm just I'm 166 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:08,120 Speaker 1: not you. Now we're gonna get to you in these 167 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:10,559 Speaker 1: abs in a minute. Now, I'm not you. But your 168 00:09:10,559 --> 00:09:14,160 Speaker 1: boy can say he's thirty three and a half wasteline. 169 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:17,280 Speaker 1: So how important you know? Because we see you what 170 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:21,040 Speaker 1: the what the pandemic and how it's impacting my you know, 171 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:24,000 Speaker 1: the African American community and I die it so you 172 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:27,800 Speaker 1: know I died comes up again? How we're impacted about 173 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:31,440 Speaker 1: when when crisis and personally a medical crisis come out. 174 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:35,320 Speaker 1: How what is your role as of being a fitness 175 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:38,440 Speaker 1: gruel when it comes not only just to to everybody 176 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:43,240 Speaker 1: in general, but also for the African American community. I 177 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:46,880 Speaker 1: you know, I believe that the reason why I was 178 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:50,920 Speaker 1: given the business because I didn't pursue a business that 179 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:54,080 Speaker 1: I didn't pursue creating the AJ Zone as a business entity. 180 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:58,120 Speaker 1: At first, I believe I was called to to share 181 00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:00,440 Speaker 1: my knowledge. You know when I first came into the 182 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:04,959 Speaker 1: game as an actress, um A, a degree from an 183 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:08,600 Speaker 1: HBCU wasn't part of the qualification, but who I was 184 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:12,079 Speaker 1: as a result of my degrees and my science interest 185 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:14,920 Speaker 1: was a big part of me. And so when I 186 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:18,360 Speaker 1: spoke to going to sleep as I pursued acting, I said, 187 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:20,600 Speaker 1: you know, I've got to do something. There's no reason 188 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:23,320 Speaker 1: why I have all this knowledge. I'm now living what 189 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:26,440 Speaker 1: I've learned. It's caused a major difference in my life, 190 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:29,320 Speaker 1: my like you said, my appearance, my life, my energy, 191 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:31,520 Speaker 1: my attitude. I've got to you know, I've got to 192 00:10:31,559 --> 00:10:35,400 Speaker 1: share what I know. And so you know, again, after 193 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:39,880 Speaker 1: losing parents to one of the big diseases, I feel 194 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:43,760 Speaker 1: like it's it's it's my purpose, passion and calling to 195 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:47,760 Speaker 1: share information to save other people. You know, my dad said, literally, 196 00:10:48,040 --> 00:10:51,679 Speaker 1: my dad said before he passed, like you you've got 197 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:53,880 Speaker 1: to share what you know. He's like, you know, you 198 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:55,880 Speaker 1: may not be able to save me, but there's so 199 00:10:55,920 --> 00:10:58,640 Speaker 1: many people who will benefit from what you know and 200 00:10:58,679 --> 00:11:01,440 Speaker 1: who you are, and no that you're an example of 201 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:04,120 Speaker 1: living in if not many we have, you have to 202 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:07,440 Speaker 1: continue to be an example. And unfortunately I lost him, 203 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:09,920 Speaker 1: but after I did Baby Boy in two thousand two, 204 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:12,959 Speaker 1: but his words stuck with me and so for me, 205 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:16,440 Speaker 1: you know, it needs everything. And even now you know 206 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:19,640 Speaker 1: the fact that we are we are a quarantine because 207 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:23,480 Speaker 1: of this COVID nineteen and as an African American culture 208 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:26,440 Speaker 1: and African culture, you know, I'm very involved. We're going 209 00:11:26,480 --> 00:11:29,920 Speaker 1: to talk about that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, this whole high 210 00:11:29,960 --> 00:11:35,040 Speaker 1: blood pressure, diabetes, um asthma, obesity, you know, it's it's 211 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:37,480 Speaker 1: not anything new. You know, a lot of people are 212 00:11:37,559 --> 00:11:41,880 Speaker 1: receiving the high numbers um of African Americans suffering and 213 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:45,480 Speaker 1: dying because of our health risks. As this is some 214 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:48,640 Speaker 1: type of new thing. It's not. This was inevitable because 215 00:11:48,679 --> 00:11:52,760 Speaker 1: we have not yet taken seriously our health perspective. And 216 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:55,040 Speaker 1: that's not a fingerpoint. That just means that I have 217 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:59,160 Speaker 1: more work to do, you understand. That's why I hear 218 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:02,400 Speaker 1: those are those those news articles coming out. It's almost 219 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:05,560 Speaker 1: like false hype to me because because the reality is, 220 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:07,840 Speaker 1: we have not changed our diet. We're not making an 221 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:10,920 Speaker 1: effort we all over obeast. You know, cholestero you could 222 00:12:10,920 --> 00:12:13,880 Speaker 1: throw cholesterol in there too, along with the hybby the 223 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:18,560 Speaker 1: diabetes the poor eat fried foods, greasy foods. You know, 224 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:21,480 Speaker 1: just just just just so. When I see that pop 225 00:12:21,520 --> 00:12:24,360 Speaker 1: on the screen, it's like, Okay, if you just took 226 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:29,480 Speaker 1: away this pandemic, we still will be dying on so great. 227 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:32,280 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I'm so glad you said that, because 228 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:33,920 Speaker 1: I want to be able to say that, and I 229 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:36,560 Speaker 1: want to shout out from every mountaintop I get, take 230 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:40,000 Speaker 1: away the pandemic. The pandemic just got added on to 231 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:43,480 Speaker 1: letting us know and re renewing our understanding of the 232 00:12:43,520 --> 00:12:46,440 Speaker 1: position we're in. Like you said, take it away, we 233 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:48,880 Speaker 1: still are at a higher risk of illness and death 234 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:52,240 Speaker 1: because of all of those pre existing health conditions that, 235 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:55,319 Speaker 1: mind you, a lot of them can be reversed. Yes, 236 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:59,320 Speaker 1: doctors have told many people I consult um thirty minutes 237 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:02,679 Speaker 1: for third be dollars available at the aj dot com 238 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:06,000 Speaker 1: in our store. So I do consultations across the globe 239 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:09,439 Speaker 1: all day, every day, and all I'm hearing is, well, 240 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:11,520 Speaker 1: the doctor told me to walk a little bit more 241 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:13,120 Speaker 1: every day, and I may not need this half a 242 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:15,720 Speaker 1: pill I'm taking. Or the doctor told me to decrease 243 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:18,200 Speaker 1: my processed food, or the doctor told me to drink 244 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:20,840 Speaker 1: more water, and I probably don't even need medication. And 245 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:24,320 Speaker 1: I can't tell you, embarrassingly how many people don't even 246 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:30,640 Speaker 1: listen to those little changes. Scary. I did Pastor John 247 00:13:30,679 --> 00:13:32,680 Speaker 1: Gray on Book of John Gray, a show on own, 248 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:35,280 Speaker 1: and he was in the hospital two weeks later. He 249 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:38,040 Speaker 1: didn't even need insulin for his diabetes. And all I 250 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:40,840 Speaker 1: did was changes food. All I did was pumps of 251 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:44,480 Speaker 1: raw fruits and vegetables through protein shake smoothie. 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That's O T T 301 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:31,360 Speaker 1: E R dot Ai. Hi. Just Roshan McDonald and you 302 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:34,520 Speaker 1: are listening to money making conversations. My guest today is 303 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:39,000 Speaker 1: A J. Johnson UM. This talented UH they're passionate. She's 304 00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:41,880 Speaker 1: a TV producer, she's a life coach. You go to 305 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:45,200 Speaker 1: a j zone dot com and you can get consultation, 306 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:49,760 Speaker 1: thirty mini consultations, fitness, gurule, philanthropists, and uh. We talked 307 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:54,320 Speaker 1: very heavily about her HBCU background with Spellman College in Atlanta, Georgia. 308 00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:57,400 Speaker 1: But she can I get away from what she's been 309 00:16:57,440 --> 00:17:02,360 Speaker 1: known and has brought us international and national and domestic recognition. 310 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:06,560 Speaker 1: About your abilities acting A J. Johnson, how you know, 311 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:08,880 Speaker 1: how did you get into acting? You know, because your 312 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:17,680 Speaker 1: degree is psychology and chemistry. Well, I've always been first 313 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:22,320 Speaker 1: of all, that was a long part, well because because 314 00:17:22,320 --> 00:17:24,119 Speaker 1: there's so many different directions that I was trying to 315 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:25,480 Speaker 1: figure out which word I was going to go in, 316 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:28,520 Speaker 1: you know, and you know we're all the time things. 317 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:30,440 Speaker 1: I mean we were in general. I would tell you 318 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:33,960 Speaker 1: the whole big but but you know the quick, the 319 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:37,360 Speaker 1: quick version of it, if that Um, I've always been 320 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:39,840 Speaker 1: passionate about performing in the arts. I mean, I grew 321 00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:43,639 Speaker 1: up performing a refa Franklin songs at our our Eastern dinners, 322 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:47,479 Speaker 1: you know, Thanksgiving, and so that led to my parents 323 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:52,920 Speaker 1: putting me in UM performing classes dancing, acting, modeling, and 324 00:17:53,040 --> 00:17:54,960 Speaker 1: I loved it. And even though I grew up in 325 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:57,879 Speaker 1: an academic household. You know, my parents went to HBC. 326 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:00,200 Speaker 1: My dad was Howard my moment to Cheney. You know, 327 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:03,280 Speaker 1: our brothers went to went to higher education institutions. I 328 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:05,639 Speaker 1: knew that that was the first thing I knew I 329 00:18:05,680 --> 00:18:08,040 Speaker 1: was never gonna be able to just go into a 330 00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:10,719 Speaker 1: career of the arts. And I'm so glad my parents 331 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:14,400 Speaker 1: didn't allow it because again because of my experience of Spellman, 332 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:18,159 Speaker 1: the confidence it opened me. Um, you know that the 333 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:20,920 Speaker 1: other dynamic of my life, I wouldn't have the level 334 00:18:20,920 --> 00:18:23,440 Speaker 1: of a healthy living business like the AJ Zone had 335 00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:27,040 Speaker 1: I not gone to school. Um. Just but not not 336 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:29,199 Speaker 1: because of passion, but just because it gives me the 337 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:31,840 Speaker 1: credibility that a lot of other people in healthy living 338 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:35,240 Speaker 1: and fitness do not have. And so I just believe 339 00:18:35,320 --> 00:18:38,440 Speaker 1: that acting was something I thought I was going to try. 340 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:41,119 Speaker 1: Even my dad said, go to l A, get it 341 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:43,639 Speaker 1: out of your system, go dance in some music videos, 342 00:18:43,640 --> 00:18:46,159 Speaker 1: go do shifting, and get your butt back to med school. 343 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:49,520 Speaker 1: And literally in the first yeah, in the first thirty 344 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:53,119 Speaker 1: days of landing in Hollywood, I started working. I was 345 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:57,119 Speaker 1: doing bit roles guest starring Jamie foxx um Fresh Prince. 346 00:18:57,200 --> 00:18:59,320 Speaker 1: At the time, I ran into Team and Ivy Way, 347 00:18:59,359 --> 00:19:01,800 Speaker 1: and that run and landed me the choreography jobs for 348 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:04,239 Speaker 1: a Living Color as a fly girl, I mean, and 349 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:06,600 Speaker 1: then of course that landed me the role and even 350 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:10,080 Speaker 1: being considered for a house party. So you know, it 351 00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:13,040 Speaker 1: was something that I was exploring of. You know, don't 352 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:16,680 Speaker 1: be afraid chucks, all your options, fuel your passions. It's 353 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:18,840 Speaker 1: just something that happened to hit and I loved it. 354 00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:21,400 Speaker 1: So it's really a story. I mean, the bottom line 355 00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:24,600 Speaker 1: is for for anyone listening, I feel like the real 356 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:27,800 Speaker 1: true story is don't touch yourself out of what you love, 357 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:31,040 Speaker 1: even if it's a completely different lane than what you 358 00:19:31,119 --> 00:19:33,480 Speaker 1: feel like you've been prepared for. I was supposed to 359 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:35,720 Speaker 1: go to med school. I studied at an amazing four 360 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:38,359 Speaker 1: year institution to go to as pre may, but I 361 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:42,360 Speaker 1: had another passion and here we are, Yes, you are 362 00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:45,240 Speaker 1: what My degree is in mathematics. I work for IBM 363 00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:47,359 Speaker 1: before decide of the pursue a career as a stand 364 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:51,040 Speaker 1: up comedian, and so I I totally agree because sometimes 365 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:53,560 Speaker 1: you can always tell people you know, people will point 366 00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:55,199 Speaker 1: you in the right direction. But that doesn't mean you 367 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:58,320 Speaker 1: have to live that point, live that direction. They're pointing 368 00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:00,080 Speaker 1: you have to wake up one day and say, what 369 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:02,040 Speaker 1: is it making me happy? What is motivating me to 370 00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:04,679 Speaker 1: get out of bed? The reason you enthusia this morning 371 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:07,160 Speaker 1: and talking so strong because you you like your life. 372 00:20:07,359 --> 00:20:08,800 Speaker 1: You're doing what you want to do in your life. 373 00:20:09,359 --> 00:20:10,800 Speaker 1: A lot of people don't do a lot of people 374 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:13,639 Speaker 1: don't do that. And let me just add this, if 375 00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:16,520 Speaker 1: you think about it, you know, being an entertainment or 376 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:19,640 Speaker 1: even just loving that degree of entertainment, but also being 377 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:23,240 Speaker 1: armed with my degrees and my passion for science, it 378 00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:27,520 Speaker 1: helps me create a whole different perfect for me if 379 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:31,159 Speaker 1: I can say that um perfect for me brand of 380 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:33,840 Speaker 1: healthy living. You know, I could be a typical doctor 381 00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:37,399 Speaker 1: in a white lab coat or a researcher. But you know, 382 00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:40,000 Speaker 1: I decided that there was a way that I wanted 383 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:43,919 Speaker 1: to and possibly could do this this medicine thing. And 384 00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:46,760 Speaker 1: so my lane is just different than the way somebody 385 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:49,680 Speaker 1: else does. But but interestingly enough, I still have friends 386 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:51,880 Speaker 1: that are at CDC. I have friends that are at 387 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:54,679 Speaker 1: the World Health Organization. You know, I still have friends 388 00:20:54,920 --> 00:20:57,439 Speaker 1: in the scientists. So when something like this happens, like 389 00:20:57,480 --> 00:20:59,840 Speaker 1: this pandemic. I have friends to go to to get 390 00:20:59,840 --> 00:21:01,960 Speaker 1: the information. I'm not just sitting around watching tele me 391 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:05,399 Speaker 1: right right, like me, like me, let's get on to 392 00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:08,520 Speaker 1: and even sharing that information. It's like, you know, I've 393 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:12,200 Speaker 1: been put into this stion that I think is amazing, right, absolutely, 394 00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:14,760 Speaker 1: And I respected and I appreciate the Irban Movie Channel 395 00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:18,040 Speaker 1: the show Stuck with You, the relationship show. First of all, 396 00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:20,239 Speaker 1: the title is stuck with You. I love you know 397 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:23,200 Speaker 1: because it has you know, you know, it's because we've 398 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:26,159 Speaker 1: said that it could like lead you to believe that 399 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:29,760 Speaker 1: it's just the best I'm gonna do. Uh, do you 400 00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:32,880 Speaker 1: have any other options? You're stuck. I'm stuck with you. 401 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:35,720 Speaker 1: So that title first of all attracted me to it. 402 00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:38,560 Speaker 1: What attracted you to the series? And we'll getting into 403 00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:40,479 Speaker 1: the characters and debated, but first of all, it's all 404 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:43,239 Speaker 1: about you. A. J. Johnson. You know, nobody else, you know, 405 00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:46,560 Speaker 1: it's all about you. Stuck with You, Urban Movie Channel, 406 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:49,760 Speaker 1: It's all about you MC channel. Well I was. I 407 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:51,760 Speaker 1: was attracted to the same thing, honestly, and you know, 408 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:53,919 Speaker 1: going a little bit deeper into what the story is, 409 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:57,399 Speaker 1: it's exactly that, like what happens behind the scene and 410 00:21:57,480 --> 00:22:01,280 Speaker 1: these high profile celebrity relationships that may not be based 411 00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:04,480 Speaker 1: in foundation and love, honor and cherished to death thy 412 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:07,720 Speaker 1: part And so it may be a career move, it 413 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:11,680 Speaker 1: may be what's holding the bank account together? And if so, 414 00:22:12,119 --> 00:22:14,320 Speaker 1: what are the choices that have to be made in 415 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:17,440 Speaker 1: living that lifestyle? And so Stuff with You kind of 416 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:22,160 Speaker 1: does a nice romantic comedy perspective and view intimately into 417 00:22:22,359 --> 00:22:25,040 Speaker 1: a few relationships that are in that position. You know, 418 00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:27,960 Speaker 1: does it work? How does it work? As you continue 419 00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:31,240 Speaker 1: in a relationship that seems to be on the outside 420 00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:34,600 Speaker 1: so avazing and hashtag relationship goals as we say on 421 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:37,800 Speaker 1: social media, but when it's really not that on the inside, 422 00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:43,040 Speaker 1: what is that about? So their characters name is Stephanie, right, Yes, 423 00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:48,359 Speaker 1: I love Stephanie. I love playing Stephanie Stefanie. Stephanie is 424 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:52,359 Speaker 1: the best friend of Candice, who the lead access who's 425 00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:55,199 Speaker 1: in the relationships to best friends, as well as the 426 00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:58,600 Speaker 1: publicist for UM and it's the Protammy Townsend does an 427 00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:03,359 Speaker 1: amazing job with Candice, and uh, all the actors are amazing. 428 00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:06,080 Speaker 1: But Stephanie is the publicist and best friend of the 429 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:10,359 Speaker 1: lead couple. Um, so that that wasn't a stretch, you know, publicist, 430 00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:12,359 Speaker 1: you know you wouldn't that that was a world you 431 00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:15,040 Speaker 1: live in on a daily basis, Marketing and Brandon, so 432 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:16,920 Speaker 1: they really didn't have to think too much about being 433 00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:21,200 Speaker 1: a publicist. Well that's true, but because I've never actually 434 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:26,119 Speaker 1: played one on FELM, I actually had a great time 435 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:32,000 Speaker 1: using my marketing sense, the business savvy, yeah, you know, 436 00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:34,800 Speaker 1: and even just you know, I have a great publicist, 437 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:37,840 Speaker 1: you know, um Matris Armstrong of pr work and you know, 438 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:42,080 Speaker 1: she's amazing, And so I patterned Stephanie after a lot 439 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:45,240 Speaker 1: of of Catrisas no nonsense. She spokes it out, here's 440 00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:47,520 Speaker 1: what we're gonna do. I mean, katrisas forever telling me 441 00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:49,200 Speaker 1: when I don't want to do something, she purpose saying no, 442 00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:50,840 Speaker 1: let me tell you why we're gonna do it. And 443 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:53,600 Speaker 1: I took that from there and poured that kind of 444 00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:56,639 Speaker 1: attitude and energy and expertise in the Stephanie and we 445 00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:59,399 Speaker 1: had a blast which I which plays out in the 446 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:02,159 Speaker 1: show on the loan basis. Now, when you when you 447 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:04,359 Speaker 1: do a show like this, it's called I way tell 448 00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:06,480 Speaker 1: I always talking about living a balance life. On this 449 00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:09,040 Speaker 1: show because I feel that you can focus on your 450 00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:11,320 Speaker 1: career because right now we're talking about we talked about 451 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:14,040 Speaker 1: the fitness, we talked about we're talking about the acting, 452 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:16,920 Speaker 1: but the philanthropy side of you, which is so strong, 453 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:19,800 Speaker 1: and it's called return to Ghana. Tell us about your 454 00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:23,760 Speaker 1: involvement there. Tell us about the importance of your participation 455 00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:27,760 Speaker 1: and what is the purpose. You know, I got to 456 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:31,560 Speaker 1: tell you that I'm really excited about adding philanthropists onto 457 00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:36,080 Speaker 1: my resume. And it's coming pretty late in my life. 458 00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:38,879 Speaker 1: But it's not like I've never done scharitable work. I 459 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:42,119 Speaker 1: always have been involved and have been a service Um 460 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:45,640 Speaker 1: Spellman Preachers that I'm a member of Dulti Statement Data, 461 00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:49,879 Speaker 1: so already incorporated. Come on, this cute dog talking to you. 462 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:54,080 Speaker 1: Come on, my goodness. I mean, you know the life 463 00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:58,080 Speaker 1: of servants. Sliding that information in j you can slide 464 00:24:58,119 --> 00:25:03,879 Speaker 1: the information. I'm a member of Depths. Yeah you know. 465 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,119 Speaker 1: I mean then you know more than anything. You know, 466 00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:10,760 Speaker 1: that's a lifelong session community. So so when I went 467 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:14,000 Speaker 1: to Ghanna, I went to Ghana just because at first 468 00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:16,879 Speaker 1: I had never been to the continent. Um Full Circle 469 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:21,040 Speaker 1: Festival a group of of Hollywood personality that were Ghani 470 00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:24,040 Speaker 1: and American were going and so I said, listen, you know, 471 00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:25,960 Speaker 1: the best way for me to explore Africa is with 472 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:28,439 Speaker 1: people I know, you know, on the level of travel 473 00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:30,639 Speaker 1: that I love, and let me see what happens. I 474 00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:34,159 Speaker 1: had no idea that Ghanna was gonna embrace me, and 475 00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:36,760 Speaker 1: I would embrace Ghanna like it had like it happened 476 00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:38,760 Speaker 1: in two thousand nineteen. It was the year of Return. 477 00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:42,879 Speaker 1: And when I realized that returning to Africa in the 478 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:46,159 Speaker 1: Year of Return had to mean something special, I started 479 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:48,800 Speaker 1: praying and asking God what was the job he would 480 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:51,320 Speaker 1: have me do? Because I already lived on a on 481 00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:55,040 Speaker 1: a space of nothing's random, nothing's coincidence. And so I 482 00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:57,560 Speaker 1: started working with the Bord of Tourism. I started connecting 483 00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:02,240 Speaker 1: and doing projects with the President's office. And now excuse me, 484 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:05,439 Speaker 1: now I'm connected to and I'm doing projects with the U. 485 00:26:05,480 --> 00:26:07,520 Speaker 1: S Embassy and Ghana. A matter of fact, I was 486 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:10,600 Speaker 1: on my way to Ghana when this quarantine hit. I 487 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:13,119 Speaker 1: can't wait for my work to be to be rescheduled. 488 00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:15,679 Speaker 1: I'm sitting here staring at my Ghana suitcases right now. 489 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:23,480 Speaker 1: I never okay, p a Ghana A Ghana. I got 490 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:26,320 Speaker 1: two big old suitcases staring at me right now in 491 00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:29,359 Speaker 1: my living world, but I refused to unpack. I was 492 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:32,720 Speaker 1: literally days away from my trip, and I know that 493 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:35,680 Speaker 1: when this pandemic quarantine is over, I'm getting on a 494 00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:37,440 Speaker 1: plane that I'm out of here. But you know, I 495 00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:39,800 Speaker 1: I also just shot a pf A for Ghana because 496 00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:44,000 Speaker 1: they're they're doing an amazing job with this whole pandemic um. 497 00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:46,000 Speaker 1: But you know, but there's still a serve wall country 498 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:48,959 Speaker 1: and they need help from their brothers and sisters, you know, 499 00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:52,280 Speaker 1: across the world. But I love you know. I've got 500 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:54,840 Speaker 1: a project that I created call I and my Sister's Keeper, 501 00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:58,600 Speaker 1: where I'm connecting successful women with some of the African 502 00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:04,440 Speaker 1: female teenagers to be you know, um mentors, mentors, mentor 503 00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:06,960 Speaker 1: is very important. Isn't that a lot of people just 504 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:10,159 Speaker 1: understands that. But it's so important, and I hear it 505 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:12,800 Speaker 1: so strong because I'm I'm gonna just stop you all this. 506 00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:14,800 Speaker 1: You know, you said, Hey, Richard, I'm really I got 507 00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:18,679 Speaker 1: into being a philanthropy late in life. But your voice, 508 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:21,560 Speaker 1: and I know about your background, okay, you have in 509 00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:25,119 Speaker 1: the mentoring to me is another form of being a philanthropist, 510 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:28,560 Speaker 1: you know, helping people, reaching back, you know, health wise. 511 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:32,240 Speaker 1: See it, don't let that title stop you from being 512 00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:34,840 Speaker 1: the brand and the machine you've been all your life, 513 00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:39,640 Speaker 1: a motivator, a life changer, giving people advice on how 514 00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:42,480 Speaker 1: to live the right life, the best life, the better life. 515 00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:45,919 Speaker 1: And so Ghana has just embraced you with a bigger 516 00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:49,480 Speaker 1: country now. So but you've been You don't just walk 517 00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:52,320 Speaker 1: into being doing what you're doing in Ghana. That has 518 00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:57,040 Speaker 1: been inceded into you by your parents and then Spellman 519 00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:00,000 Speaker 1: nurtured it. And when you walked out into the real world, 520 00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:02,760 Speaker 1: all you didn't allow you didn't lose balance, and you 521 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:05,159 Speaker 1: maintain that balance and so gone it's kind of like 522 00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:08,359 Speaker 1: a part of the legacy that you've always been building on. 523 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:10,200 Speaker 1: That's all I got to say about that. I don't, 524 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:13,159 Speaker 1: I can't, I can't I bring you. One of the 525 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:15,480 Speaker 1: reasons I brought you on the show was because you 526 00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:18,000 Speaker 1: do live a three sixty life, and because you live 527 00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:20,520 Speaker 1: with three secrets and you've always lived a three sixty life. 528 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:23,760 Speaker 1: It's important people to understand how and how you've been 529 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:28,679 Speaker 1: impacting the them domestically and now the world well that 530 00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:30,359 Speaker 1: you know and I'm like I said, I feel like 531 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:34,240 Speaker 1: it's all on purpose, you know, even so so so okay, 532 00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:37,400 Speaker 1: so now we add Banna and a whole another continent 533 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:40,280 Speaker 1: and country. You know. Even the past holiday I went 534 00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:43,120 Speaker 1: to Ivory Coast. I was I planned to see Senegal 535 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:47,120 Speaker 1: before this year's over. So I'm expanding my existence on 536 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:49,720 Speaker 1: the continent and learning more and more what and what 537 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:52,040 Speaker 1: help I can be. But I just think that it's 538 00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:57,120 Speaker 1: also awesome speaking of three sixty now entrepreneurially, I'm acting 539 00:28:57,160 --> 00:29:01,080 Speaker 1: again with you stept before. But but the way that 540 00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:02,840 Speaker 1: I want to do it, you know, now it's no 541 00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:07,120 Speaker 1: longer the thing. It's a thing in my life and 542 00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:09,400 Speaker 1: that and that's what I wanted, not even knowing to 543 00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:12,040 Speaker 1: call it that. I wanted it to be less stressful. 544 00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:15,960 Speaker 1: I wanted it to be more fun. Um, Holly, would's 545 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:18,160 Speaker 1: filled with a lot of pressures. People don't People see 546 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:21,000 Speaker 1: the light camera action to finished products, products, and they 547 00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:23,600 Speaker 1: don't realize what we go through to even land the job, 548 00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:26,120 Speaker 1: do the job, you know, hopefully still you know, not 549 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:27,800 Speaker 1: get edited out of the job. I mean, it's a 550 00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:30,480 Speaker 1: lot of stress and pressures. But now it's turned into 551 00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:33,640 Speaker 1: fund for me as a travel world, doing everything else 552 00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:36,080 Speaker 1: I'm doing. So I like what you said. I've never 553 00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:38,480 Speaker 1: said that way before, like a three sixty life that 554 00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:40,920 Speaker 1: I'm gonna doing that from you and give you credit 555 00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:46,000 Speaker 1: for the title. Please please bleed this about what you're 556 00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:48,760 Speaker 1: accomplishing in life, what you have accomplished in life. You know, 557 00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:52,160 Speaker 1: always tell people look back into your team, look back 558 00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:55,320 Speaker 1: in your early twenties, that life that was being shaped 559 00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:57,480 Speaker 1: for you. There. It's the life that you will live 560 00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:00,440 Speaker 1: and make money with in your for these fifties and sixties. 561 00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:02,880 Speaker 1: And that's what you're doing. So we we get so 562 00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:06,240 Speaker 1: focused on the immediacy that the president, the current what's 563 00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:09,120 Speaker 1: happening was was putting that check in your bank account. 564 00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:12,120 Speaker 1: But life, it's about how you feel when you wake up. 565 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:15,480 Speaker 1: Your energy is a blessing for my show. It's a 566 00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:17,920 Speaker 1: blessing for my listeners, you know. And I just wanted 567 00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:20,320 Speaker 1: to share that information on the show. The aj A 568 00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:23,160 Speaker 1: J Zone dot com please go there, you know, on 569 00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:26,280 Speaker 1: the UMC channel, which is which she's starting and stuck 570 00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:29,160 Speaker 1: with you as a J. Let me just let me 571 00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:30,400 Speaker 1: just shape that out. You know, we have the A 572 00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:33,800 Speaker 1: J Zone, which is fitness. We got the acting which 573 00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:36,440 Speaker 1: is just stuck with you on the UMC channel, and 574 00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:39,840 Speaker 1: then we have the philanthropy side of returning to Ghana. 575 00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:43,640 Speaker 1: That's what I call the three sixty. My friend. I 576 00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:46,640 Speaker 1: love it and listen. Everybody can follow at the A 577 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:49,760 Speaker 1: zone on Twitter and Instagram. I'm also starting one of 578 00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:52,280 Speaker 1: one of my phoans with the efforts that's called um 579 00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:54,680 Speaker 1: the Bridge to Better Or if you're interested in going 580 00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:57,280 Speaker 1: to Ghana and working with me and some of these projects, 581 00:30:57,360 --> 00:30:59,520 Speaker 1: let's go. I trying to take you know, I was, 582 00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:01,640 Speaker 1: I was We're gonna do that in March, but now 583 00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:03,640 Speaker 1: that God has kind of delayed us, We're still going 584 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:07,360 Speaker 1: to take a trip this year. So follow along. Oh, 585 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:09,080 Speaker 1: my friend, thank you for taking the time to come 586 00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:11,480 Speaker 1: on Money Making Conversation. No, you are a friend and 587 00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:14,280 Speaker 1: you can always have fine strong support in the platform 588 00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:16,840 Speaker 1: and want to making conversation And of course Rushan McDonald, 589 00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:19,640 Speaker 1: thank you for coming on the show. Thank you. Let's 590 00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:22,080 Speaker 1: continue to change the world, brother, we will. 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