1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,320 Speaker 1: My next guest. She's on the phone. I'm very happy. 2 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:04,360 Speaker 1: We joked around a little bit before we got on 3 00:00:04,360 --> 00:00:08,119 Speaker 1: the air. She's from the Bronx to Broadway beyond. She's 4 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:15,040 Speaker 1: traveled to over fifty countries throughout Africa, Asia, Europe, North 5 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:18,680 Speaker 1: America and the Caribbean, sharing her amazing singing gift. Now, 6 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:20,280 Speaker 1: I'm gona tell you right now, I can't sing, so 7 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:22,160 Speaker 1: you know right there, you know we won't be sharing 8 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:24,520 Speaker 1: any duets on this show. I can tell you right now. 9 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:27,640 Speaker 1: Her success has landed her in the national media by 10 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:30,639 Speaker 1: a lot, with television appearances on Oprah, TBN and anymore. 11 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:34,640 Speaker 1: She would co star and highly anticipated Broadway musical Girl 12 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:37,839 Speaker 1: from the North Country, which is inspired by and features 13 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:41,320 Speaker 1: the music of my man Bob Dylan. The play begins 14 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:45,120 Speaker 1: previews on February seven at the Belasco Theater in New 15 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:51,239 Speaker 1: York City. Please welcome to Money Making Conversation, Jeannette Byrdal. Hello, 16 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:54,080 Speaker 1: how will you thank you so much for happening me today? 17 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 1: First of all, did my intro hit your status? Did? 18 00:00:57,200 --> 00:00:59,040 Speaker 1: Did I get you there? Jeanette? Did I hit? Did 19 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:03,160 Speaker 1: I lay you out right? Why? I need to make right? 20 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:06,080 Speaker 1: Thank you? I appreciate this well, you know, because first 21 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:08,039 Speaker 1: of all, you know I'm going through your bio, and 22 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:10,399 Speaker 1: first of all, you know all my guests, uh, I 23 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:12,920 Speaker 1: consider you a neglected guest because of the fact that 24 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:14,920 Speaker 1: your world like you know, you know, you know, I 25 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:18,559 Speaker 1: can't pigeonhold you. You know, you your singer. You travel 26 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:23,039 Speaker 1: around the world. You performed for dignitaries like the Obama's 27 00:01:23,080 --> 00:01:26,520 Speaker 1: you know, ministers like Bishop T. D. Jake's and so 28 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:30,520 Speaker 1: you know, you know, interviewed and performed in front of Oprah. 29 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:34,679 Speaker 1: This is a high level of of a entertainment and 30 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:37,600 Speaker 1: performance level. What drives you? That would be my first 31 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:41,360 Speaker 1: question just start off interviews. What drives you at this 32 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:43,319 Speaker 1: point in your lives. It's two level, it's two level. 33 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:45,399 Speaker 1: Let me let me, let me step back because I've 34 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:48,520 Speaker 1: never asked that question before. What drove you too in 35 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:52,840 Speaker 1: the beginning? And what drives you now? Okay? UM, what 36 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:54,520 Speaker 1: you old me in the beginning is I had a 37 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:58,480 Speaker 1: passion um, a passion for singing, and UM a passion 38 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:02,840 Speaker 1: to the entertain So at a young age I started singing. 39 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:05,320 Speaker 1: I grew up in the Bronx, and UM I went 40 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:09,280 Speaker 1: to high school performing arts. Now ironically. You know, I 41 00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:11,840 Speaker 1: could sing, I could always sing, but when I was 42 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:15,400 Speaker 1: coming up, I wanted to like wrap. I wanted to 43 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:19,120 Speaker 1: be a rapper. That was my thing. The first of all. 44 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:22,160 Speaker 1: I can you wrap though, maybe rap? Maybe because you 45 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:25,320 Speaker 1: could wrap put you back to singing. No, I could 46 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:28,560 Speaker 1: definitely wrap. Definitely. I thought I was gonna be like 47 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:32,640 Speaker 1: the next empty light, you know, the next clean light 48 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:34,760 Speaker 1: to you for away to me. I might be aging myself. 49 00:02:34,880 --> 00:02:36,639 Speaker 1: But you know, because I was young when I was 50 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:39,880 Speaker 1: listening to them, and I felt like, you know, that's 51 00:02:39,919 --> 00:02:41,720 Speaker 1: that's what I wanted to do. So through in high 52 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:43,480 Speaker 1: school I was rapping. And when I got to the 53 00:02:43,520 --> 00:02:46,480 Speaker 1: mcguarity has to the Performing Arts, I was still wrapping. 54 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:48,800 Speaker 1: But then I was surrounded by a bunch of people 55 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:52,480 Speaker 1: who were just really talented. They could sing, they could dance, 56 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:55,239 Speaker 1: they can act. And it's there that I caught the 57 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:59,720 Speaker 1: Broadway bugs because Broadway wasn't even in my mind at all. 58 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:02,680 Speaker 1: It's not something that I grew up with or anything 59 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:07,720 Speaker 1: but class audition crap at the body. It was an 60 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:10,639 Speaker 1: the left of Um spoke night. Once I took that class, 61 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:12,520 Speaker 1: they showed us how to get chars and we had 62 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:14,280 Speaker 1: to like one of our assignments was to go on 63 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:17,000 Speaker 1: the audition. We they say, showed us how to use 64 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:19,120 Speaker 1: this magazine. It was Backstage magazine. It was like the 65 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:21,520 Speaker 1: Hall copy at the time, and they were like, you know, 66 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 1: find an audition going on it and I did it, 67 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:26,240 Speaker 1: and I actually booked what I went on, and after 68 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:29,280 Speaker 1: that it was like, oh goad, I just loved theater, right, 69 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:32,080 Speaker 1: So that's how I started. Then I just I stayed 70 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:35,320 Speaker 1: um passionate and I just pursued it. I mean, well, 71 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:39,080 Speaker 1: there's a story in between that fence. I said, the 72 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:41,200 Speaker 1: backlists and health science because it was like that was 73 00:03:41,240 --> 00:03:43,360 Speaker 1: my backup plan, just in case things didn't work out. 74 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:46,160 Speaker 1: And thank god, I never needed my backup plan because 75 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:48,600 Speaker 1: after I graduated, I worked in corporate America for like 76 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:52,800 Speaker 1: six months and then I ended up thing and singing 77 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:55,720 Speaker 1: full time, you know, because you know, my backup plan 78 00:03:55,880 --> 00:03:58,200 Speaker 1: was I got a degree in mathematics, worked for IBM, 79 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:01,560 Speaker 1: and no, you know, so I don't even think it's 80 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 1: a backup player. I think that that's you know, people 81 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:05,720 Speaker 1: in life till they kind of like push you in 82 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:08,800 Speaker 1: the direction where they understand, you know, so you don't 83 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:12,960 Speaker 1: understand singers then't understand actors, they understand comedians, they understand Hey, 84 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:15,760 Speaker 1: you know, go eight to five for the hours a week, 85 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:18,080 Speaker 1: you go to college, you get a job, and that's 86 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:20,280 Speaker 1: what you did. That's what I like, But that wasn't 87 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:23,279 Speaker 1: your passion, that wasn't what you excited you that. You know, 88 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:25,080 Speaker 1: you go to work and you see people really kind 89 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:27,400 Speaker 1: of like going through the motions and most of them 90 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:30,400 Speaker 1: complaining about where they're at and not really excited about 91 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:32,880 Speaker 1: the next step. And I always felt that if I 92 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:36,320 Speaker 1: could see what's gonna happen tomorrow in my life, then 93 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:39,760 Speaker 1: that's not the job I wanted to do. And so 94 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:41,880 Speaker 1: when I would go to work and there's nothing negative 95 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:44,039 Speaker 1: where I work, great people, but I knew what I 96 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:45,800 Speaker 1: was gonna do tomorrow, I knew what I was gonna 97 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:48,240 Speaker 1: do next week. That was not the future for me. 98 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:51,080 Speaker 1: I needed that. I needed to work in an environment 99 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:54,680 Speaker 1: career where I didn't know. I didn't I knew there 100 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:57,240 Speaker 1: was a great opportunity to that, but I didn't know 101 00:04:57,520 --> 00:04:59,560 Speaker 1: to the mean I had to work real hard. And 102 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:04,600 Speaker 1: I think the same drive that's inside you as well. Yeah, 103 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:08,039 Speaker 1: It's it's funny because one thing I'm happy about. I 104 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:11,159 Speaker 1: feel like my college experience definitely prepared me for the 105 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:14,719 Speaker 1: industry because I would tell you, as an actress, you're 106 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:16,719 Speaker 1: always in school. Guess you know why you have to 107 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:19,840 Speaker 1: be so disciplined because you're always learning lines, you're always 108 00:05:19,839 --> 00:05:24,320 Speaker 1: doing the research. It's like college never ended. But I'm 109 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:26,720 Speaker 1: happy that I had to. I have that discipline because 110 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:29,599 Speaker 1: it's not it's not easy. My family and friends are 111 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:32,080 Speaker 1: always like, how do you even metalize this stuff? Like 112 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:34,120 Speaker 1: how are you doing this research? And like, and I'm 113 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:37,400 Speaker 1: also a writer. I wrote a um um, I wrote 114 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:40,440 Speaker 1: a musical in Tide with Sheetah that ran off Broadway. 115 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:42,040 Speaker 1: We traveled about the world. We just got back on 116 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:45,040 Speaker 1: London a month ago. We were there for five weeks. 117 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:49,479 Speaker 1: We did thirty nine shows. But um, even with my 118 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:51,960 Speaker 1: process in writing that musical, people are always like, how 119 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:55,040 Speaker 1: did you do with the research and the And I'm like, oh, yeah, well, 120 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:57,000 Speaker 1: you know, I feel like if you went to college, 121 00:05:57,120 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 1: you can you can do this stuff. It's research, take time, 122 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:03,120 Speaker 1: and take discipline, and I have all those things and 123 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:06,520 Speaker 1: that definitely helps us my competitions. Janette, you really, you know, 124 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:10,240 Speaker 1: you really because you're gifted. Let's go first, of all, 125 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:13,360 Speaker 1: say that true enough, and do your discipline. Let's say 126 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:15,400 Speaker 1: that too, because I always tell people that in order 127 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:18,200 Speaker 1: to be successful, you have to be consistent, you have 128 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:20,400 Speaker 1: to be disciplined, and you have to be fearless. You 129 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:23,080 Speaker 1: just casually win. You know. It started off Broadway and 130 00:06:23,160 --> 00:06:29,520 Speaker 1: then they went to London. Okay, come stop, you know, yeah, 131 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:31,839 Speaker 1: people just try to get off Broadway. Now you're in 132 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:35,960 Speaker 1: London at the same time, ran five weeks over there. Congratulations, congratulations, 133 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 1: thank you, And it was it was it was pretty amazing. 134 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:42,720 Speaker 1: And the reception that we got in London. And the 135 00:06:42,839 --> 00:06:48,680 Speaker 1: other thing is that our producers the um we did 136 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:51,040 Speaker 1: something that was very smart. We did well, they did 137 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:55,200 Speaker 1: something that was very smart. Um. We actually recorded it 138 00:06:55,240 --> 00:07:00,159 Speaker 1: for film for TV and it's amazing and it's just 139 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:04,560 Speaker 1: it's it's there's nothing like it. And I were really 140 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:07,760 Speaker 1: excited about it. And I'm just excited that it was captured. 141 00:07:07,839 --> 00:07:09,640 Speaker 1: What we did in London was captives and not the 142 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:13,040 Speaker 1: world can see it and have aspects to it. It's 143 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:15,840 Speaker 1: only be a matter of time. You have Prime out there, Amazon, 144 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:19,760 Speaker 1: you know all these days. Oh yeah, yeah, I'm so 145 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:22,560 Speaker 1: excited for the future of that show. Um, and I'm 146 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:24,640 Speaker 1: also excited about what's happening to with Girl from the 147 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:31,160 Speaker 1: North Country. You. I got a chance to spend forty 148 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:35,000 Speaker 1: minutes with I'm Dealing and it was amazing. He was 149 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:40,400 Speaker 1: so he was so um appreciative of the work that 150 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:42,840 Speaker 1: we've done on stage, um of the work that I 151 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:44,560 Speaker 1: did in my character. In the song that I saying, 152 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:47,360 Speaker 1: he complimented the song and I was like, he's like, 153 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:49,600 Speaker 1: you know, I think the song for true Love. He's like, 154 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:51,960 Speaker 1: you know, true Love is that song is really good. 155 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:53,640 Speaker 1: And I'm like, yeah, you know, that's the song I'm saying. 156 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:56,800 Speaker 1: He's like, yes, I know, I know. But he's just 157 00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:00,840 Speaker 1: so wonderful. And it's sometimes you hear about these legends 158 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:02,600 Speaker 1: and you think that like, oh, they're not gonna be 159 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:06,000 Speaker 1: sunnily if they're gonna be strange. He was just just 160 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:08,960 Speaker 1: just great, amazing down the earth, and I felt like 161 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:11,080 Speaker 1: I could talk to him all day. Well, it's really 162 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:13,160 Speaker 1: interesting because it's you know, well you first of all, 163 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:16,400 Speaker 1: you you're talking to history. That's that's that's the amazing 164 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:18,400 Speaker 1: part of the conversation. I know when I met Elton 165 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:21,400 Speaker 1: John and then just just being in the presence of 166 00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:26,520 Speaker 1: Muhammad ali Uh. You know you want to you want 167 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:29,640 Speaker 1: to be able to ask so many questions because they've 168 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:32,520 Speaker 1: been through so many different steps and the courageous steps 169 00:08:32,920 --> 00:08:35,720 Speaker 1: in their lives, you know, because you know every journey, 170 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:38,200 Speaker 1: I would say, every decade holds a different journey for 171 00:08:38,280 --> 00:08:41,360 Speaker 1: each individual. And so they've lived so many decades. And 172 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:44,120 Speaker 1: so when you meet the person like Bob Dylan, you know, 173 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:48,280 Speaker 1: you know, wow talking about the sixties, Okay, come you know, 174 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:50,840 Speaker 1: and and and and go through that. Did you ask 175 00:08:50,880 --> 00:08:53,480 Speaker 1: him any question or just just experienced the moment with 176 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:57,040 Speaker 1: him and accepted the compliment? How was it? It was 177 00:08:57,120 --> 00:09:01,199 Speaker 1: so interesting. It was at his concert and and Um 178 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:02,880 Speaker 1: one of the other stars of Girl from the North 179 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:06,360 Speaker 1: Country man winning him, who is amazing in the show. 180 00:09:07,160 --> 00:09:08,920 Speaker 1: It was the two of us that were with him 181 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:12,080 Speaker 1: in his dressing room. And I have to tell you 182 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:14,400 Speaker 1: first it was it was for real, and I was 183 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:17,360 Speaker 1: trying to take in every moment. And it's funny because 184 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:19,240 Speaker 1: I felt like everything that came out of my mom 185 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:24,960 Speaker 1: is just like insignificant, because I was just so like 186 00:09:25,040 --> 00:09:27,400 Speaker 1: I was trying to take in every moment. What's the moment? 187 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:30,120 Speaker 1: Like what he was saying, you know, and I did. 188 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:34,080 Speaker 1: I asked a couple of questions about um, about the 189 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:36,280 Speaker 1: songs that he wrote, like, um, there's a song that 190 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:43,040 Speaker 1: I've seen called um um um Gypsy. I mean asked 191 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:45,240 Speaker 1: to see the Gypsy. Okay, I can't think of the 192 00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:50,400 Speaker 1: song right now, but February seven the previous start, so 193 00:09:50,480 --> 00:09:52,559 Speaker 1: you will be on phorm by that not just tell 194 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:55,800 Speaker 1: us basically girl from the North Country. What exactly is 195 00:09:55,840 --> 00:09:59,160 Speaker 1: that Girl from the North Country. Well, that's one of 196 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:02,120 Speaker 1: the songs that he wrote the musicals and titled Girl 197 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:04,920 Speaker 1: from the Norther Country. So this me this music, guest, 198 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:08,160 Speaker 1: the music is based on Bob Dylan. Um, the music 199 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:10,920 Speaker 1: is from Bob Dylan, but the story is not Bob 200 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:14,040 Speaker 1: Dylan's story. It takes place in his hometown. But it 201 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:16,719 Speaker 1: was written by one of the best play rights, um 202 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:20,319 Speaker 1: e Conomic Fearsen. And what he did was he wrote 203 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:24,560 Speaker 1: a play and the music compliments the play. The music 204 00:10:24,679 --> 00:10:28,200 Speaker 1: is like a soundtrack to the play. So it's almost 205 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:31,560 Speaker 1: like watching the movie. So the music is not driving, 206 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:35,320 Speaker 1: it's not it's not moving before the stories forwards, but 207 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:39,679 Speaker 1: it's given you the emotions of the character. You know. 208 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:42,480 Speaker 1: It's different in that sense, like most Juice Box musicals 209 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:45,720 Speaker 1: the songs. They try to make the songs part of 210 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:48,320 Speaker 1: the story and have the songs tell the story. But 211 00:10:48,400 --> 00:10:52,040 Speaker 1: that's not the case here. It's it's it's like watching 212 00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:53,920 Speaker 1: the movie and then you hear the songs that come 213 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:57,840 Speaker 1: on that compliment the scenes and the um emotions of 214 00:10:57,880 --> 00:11:02,400 Speaker 1: the character. Amazing. I'm talking to Jeannette by a dell correct, 215 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:06,560 Speaker 1: by your dell right, I'm still rolling with I'm still 216 00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:09,679 Speaker 1: rocking with that name. So she is. She's co starring 217 00:11:09,679 --> 00:11:12,840 Speaker 1: in highly anticipated Broadway musical Girl from the North Country, 218 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:16,040 Speaker 1: which is inspired by and features the music of Bob Dylan. 219 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:20,120 Speaker 1: To play begins previews February seventh. February is my birthday. 220 00:11:20,160 --> 00:11:23,760 Speaker 1: Months or you may see me Jette and not not 221 00:11:23,880 --> 00:11:27,560 Speaker 1: made you know, be at the Bilasco Theater in New 222 00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:31,400 Speaker 1: York City. It's amazing, Uh, continuous interview because guess what 223 00:11:31,880 --> 00:11:35,360 Speaker 1: your your story? You have a relatable I guess a 224 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:37,920 Speaker 1: physical tragedy that you were able to have come. I 225 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:39,840 Speaker 1: have one that happened in my life. It kind of 226 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:42,040 Speaker 1: like changed my whole perspective. Happened to me in nineteen 227 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:44,679 Speaker 1: ninety with my long collapse and I wanna talk about 228 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:46,880 Speaker 1: your experience that you had in two thousand and eight, 229 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:50,360 Speaker 1: because I know it calls me to set the date 230 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:54,400 Speaker 1: in my life October nine, nineteen one. Decided I was 231 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:56,320 Speaker 1: gonna take advantage of all the talents that God gave 232 00:11:56,360 --> 00:11:59,640 Speaker 1: me and pursue it. And it's not failed me that mandate. 233 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:02,960 Speaker 1: We when will be back with more from Jeanette, the 234 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:06,160 Speaker 1: star of the new series a new Broadway musical, Girl 235 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:09,000 Speaker 1: from the North Country. Yes, this with Sean McDonald speaking 236 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:12,360 Speaker 1: to Jeanette. By your doul by your del uh. She's 237 00:12:12,559 --> 00:12:15,920 Speaker 1: co starring in the Broadway musical Girl from the North Country. 238 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:18,160 Speaker 1: It's a musical that she told us it's not so 239 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:20,160 Speaker 1: much tied to the life of Bob Dealer, but the 240 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:22,320 Speaker 1: music of Bob Dealer, which I think is important. So 241 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:25,199 Speaker 1: you know what you're walking into. Um, Jeanette, thank you 242 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:27,600 Speaker 1: for coming on my show, Money Making Conversation. How are 243 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:30,200 Speaker 1: you doing? I'm doing good. Thank you so much for 244 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:32,920 Speaker 1: having me. This has been wonderful. Well. First of all, 245 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:36,319 Speaker 1: your your double ACP Image Award winning. Whenever you're an award, 246 00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:39,880 Speaker 1: it really is as a as a testament to be 247 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:44,480 Speaker 1: recognized by your peers. How does that does it impact you? 248 00:12:44,640 --> 00:12:46,559 Speaker 1: How did you do? Do you do? You do? You 249 00:12:46,679 --> 00:12:48,560 Speaker 1: take that moment? So here I got it, put it 250 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:50,520 Speaker 1: on the shelf. Now I need more? Or how does 251 00:12:50,520 --> 00:12:52,920 Speaker 1: that know? How do you as? First of all, it 252 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:54,480 Speaker 1: was an honor for me to play the role of 253 00:12:54,559 --> 00:12:58,080 Speaker 1: Steely on Broadway. I got the CP Theater Award for that. 254 00:12:58,760 --> 00:13:01,040 Speaker 1: Um well, I did Brawway and then I did the 255 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:04,079 Speaker 1: tour that was a color purple right, the color purple. Yes. 256 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:06,640 Speaker 1: First of all, playing a role like that, it's just 257 00:13:06,840 --> 00:13:09,080 Speaker 1: it's just an honor and it's so iconic, and I'm 258 00:13:09,160 --> 00:13:13,199 Speaker 1: just happy to follow the Whoopie Goldberg and just thick 259 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:15,120 Speaker 1: the fingers out that just thick the fingers out there, 260 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:18,080 Speaker 1: you know, do you know what you can do for me? 261 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:23,120 Speaker 1: You know? We just like it was one of you know, 262 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:25,720 Speaker 1: it was one of my favorite movies. So to the 263 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:28,520 Speaker 1: honor and to be recognized for the work that I've done, 264 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:32,800 Speaker 1: it's just and by my people, it's very special to me. 265 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:35,880 Speaker 1: It's a very special because you're when I'm looking at 266 00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:40,080 Speaker 1: these these Broadway shows are very the very general market 267 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:43,680 Speaker 1: and not not urban in tone. So to go do 268 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:47,520 Speaker 1: the color purple get recognized that really really hits home 269 00:13:47,559 --> 00:13:50,120 Speaker 1: to you because you do want everybody wants that you. 270 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:52,959 Speaker 1: You don't want to be pigeonholed that you only do urban. 271 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:55,559 Speaker 1: You know, you only do this pop or R and B. 272 00:13:56,400 --> 00:13:59,079 Speaker 1: That you have the ability and you've shown reading your 273 00:13:59,120 --> 00:14:01,520 Speaker 1: bio that you have the ability to perform at so 274 00:14:01,559 --> 00:14:04,160 Speaker 1: many of different levels. Plus the fact you've traveled all 275 00:14:04,160 --> 00:14:08,880 Speaker 1: over this world singing. Yes, it's an honor. And I'll 276 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:11,400 Speaker 1: tell you it's interesting because because I do a lot 277 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:17,240 Speaker 1: of like Broadway shows, theatrical productions, it's really not the 278 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:23,120 Speaker 1: demographic is not. It has a specific demographic, let's just sex. 279 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:26,400 Speaker 1: So to be able to be recognized and to be 280 00:14:26,520 --> 00:14:31,760 Speaker 1: seen in front of my people, it's as honor because 281 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:35,680 Speaker 1: that's my dream, is just to bring more theater and 282 00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:40,280 Speaker 1: and and talk about subjects that that are relatable, you 283 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:41,960 Speaker 1: know what I mean, because a lot of times these 284 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:45,720 Speaker 1: subjects are just like we can't necessarily relate to them, 285 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:48,080 Speaker 1: and it's not it's just not our face. And you 286 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:51,160 Speaker 1: know the thought of us buying the ticket mawenty times 287 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:53,200 Speaker 1: to see something that we've seen already, we're like, that's 288 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:55,760 Speaker 1: a third. But that's kind of how Broadway goes. You know, 289 00:14:55,880 --> 00:14:57,720 Speaker 1: people come from all around the world and they see 290 00:14:57,760 --> 00:14:59,560 Speaker 1: these shows over and over and over and over again. 291 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:01,840 Speaker 1: But we're like I saw that one time. I don't 292 00:15:01,840 --> 00:15:04,320 Speaker 1: need to see that again because they're not our stories. 293 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 1: Let me ask you this because we're talking about we 294 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:09,920 Speaker 1: talked about scripts a little bit earlier, talking about memorizing. 295 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:14,440 Speaker 1: You know, I see people like Samuel Jackson, this guy's 296 00:15:14,480 --> 00:15:17,960 Speaker 1: on the movies. You know, one year coming, you know, 297 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:20,520 Speaker 1: so no, in each in, each character is different and 298 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:23,160 Speaker 1: just the this is an original question to me in 299 00:15:23,280 --> 00:15:26,200 Speaker 1: hearing you and you you travel the world, so you 300 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:28,160 Speaker 1: you know, your articulation has to be at a certain level, 301 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:30,960 Speaker 1: so it can be so it could be communicated to 302 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:33,960 Speaker 1: so many different people and understanding and being able to 303 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:37,280 Speaker 1: how do you go about memorizing the scripts that that 304 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:40,240 Speaker 1: you are auditioning for and also the roles that you 305 00:15:40,360 --> 00:15:45,760 Speaker 1: have secured. Okay, so memorizing memorizing seems hard, but when 306 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:50,720 Speaker 1: you have a system that can be easy. Um, there's 307 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:55,360 Speaker 1: always a When you learn that system, you on the role. Now, 308 00:15:57,760 --> 00:16:02,800 Speaker 1: Represition is important and and also writing stuff down. So 309 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:05,280 Speaker 1: like if you write something down, like I say, say, 310 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:08,680 Speaker 1: I have to memorize like six pages. I'm gonna write 311 00:16:08,680 --> 00:16:12,680 Speaker 1: out those six pages three times. Don't don't remember, right, 312 00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:14,960 Speaker 1: We'll read through the script. And then I started writing 313 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:17,800 Speaker 1: out my lines like a once, a little just three times. 314 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:20,360 Speaker 1: And then once I do that, for whatever reason, it 315 00:16:20,440 --> 00:16:22,960 Speaker 1: kind of gets inside of you and then it makes 316 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:27,360 Speaker 1: trying to memorize it easier. But it's all about repetition 317 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:29,840 Speaker 1: and just do and it has to be concentrated work. 318 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:32,200 Speaker 1: Like literally, when it's when I'm really like getting down 319 00:16:32,280 --> 00:16:34,680 Speaker 1: to memorize in I'm like, okay, let me give my 320 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:37,680 Speaker 1: stuff at least one hour of concentrated work, which means 321 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:43,600 Speaker 1: no phone, no distractions, and you just focus on That 322 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:46,480 Speaker 1: Definitely happens because your boy be struggling, you know. I 323 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:49,560 Speaker 1: get I get copy to do a commercial. I feel like, man, 324 00:16:49,560 --> 00:16:51,560 Speaker 1: I don't feel like memorizing this. How do you remember? 325 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:53,760 Speaker 1: I watched the technique? So really I need to just 326 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:56,480 Speaker 1: go and just hand write everything down, hand write it 327 00:16:56,520 --> 00:16:59,400 Speaker 1: down three times, hand writing lines down three times, three times, 328 00:16:59,600 --> 00:17:03,400 Speaker 1: and then start to memorize or start you know, just 329 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:06,000 Speaker 1: started it, started the process and start taking over and 330 00:17:06,119 --> 00:17:09,160 Speaker 1: meask you this, how about how about reading it to somebody? 331 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:11,639 Speaker 1: You know, you know, going through the scene line by 332 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:15,199 Speaker 1: line and does that help too. You can definitely do that, 333 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:17,040 Speaker 1: but there's some there's some work that you need to 334 00:17:17,040 --> 00:17:26,000 Speaker 1: do on your own. You stop, start with stop work 335 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:29,040 Speaker 1: on your own first and then invite others that. Okay 336 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:32,159 Speaker 1: before I just make that bang with my my laziness. 337 00:17:32,240 --> 00:17:35,240 Speaker 1: So that's really really really like you. It's gonna be 338 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:38,320 Speaker 1: honest because you know, to be as successful as you 339 00:17:38,359 --> 00:17:40,760 Speaker 1: are that has you have the album back you said, 340 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:43,120 Speaker 1: once you get a system of Sean you lay into 341 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:44,959 Speaker 1: and you do it and you build on it. But 342 00:17:45,119 --> 00:17:47,560 Speaker 1: somebody comes over, don't have a system. Don't let them 343 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:49,920 Speaker 1: mess up your day trying to trying to memorize some 344 00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:52,479 Speaker 1: stuff they don't even know how to, how to get started, 345 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:56,080 Speaker 1: just walking in the room, walking in the room cold. Now, 346 00:17:56,160 --> 00:17:59,880 Speaker 1: before we finish this interview, definitely remind everybody. February seven, 347 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:03,800 Speaker 1: at the Blasco Theater, Belaska's would it be E l A. 348 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:07,280 Speaker 1: S c O Theater in New York City, the previews 349 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:10,320 Speaker 1: for A Girl from the North Country will start and 350 00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:13,720 Speaker 1: I'm talking to Janet Jeannette excuse me. She's an inn 351 00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:16,080 Speaker 1: w C Image Award winner and in two thousand and eight. 352 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:19,200 Speaker 1: I'm telling in eighteen by lung collapse collapse when I 353 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:21,760 Speaker 1: was watching the basketball game, and I stayed in hospital 354 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:26,199 Speaker 1: for thirty days. Thirty days, and uh, you know it 355 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:27,959 Speaker 1: wasn't I didn't plan to stand there. I checked out. 356 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:30,960 Speaker 1: I checked. I was so weird because I attempted to 357 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:33,520 Speaker 1: check out the hospital three times, and every time I 358 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:37,399 Speaker 1: checked out, I could tell if something wasn't right, and 359 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:41,359 Speaker 1: I went back in there the long recollapsed. And so 360 00:18:41,359 --> 00:18:43,359 Speaker 1: so when you're staying there for thirty days, it really 361 00:18:43,840 --> 00:18:47,840 Speaker 1: I was at the time, I was thirty two, so 362 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:50,840 Speaker 1: I was still, you know, invincible. I still wasn't mortal. 363 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:53,159 Speaker 1: I feel that, you know, you could, I could do 364 00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:55,119 Speaker 1: no wrong. And so and I was one of those 365 00:18:55,160 --> 00:18:57,760 Speaker 1: guys that you know at that age, you know, you know, 366 00:18:57,800 --> 00:18:59,640 Speaker 1: if if I got the cold, I just go play 367 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:01,560 Speaker 1: basket ball, sweat it out of me. And so this 368 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:04,080 Speaker 1: was the first time in my life where I couldn't 369 00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:06,159 Speaker 1: do that. I couldn't just go play basketball, you know, 370 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:09,320 Speaker 1: I couldn't just just I just couldn't just run a 371 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:11,560 Speaker 1: jog or whatever just to just to just to be 372 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:14,920 Speaker 1: healthy again. I couldn't wheel myself back and it really 373 00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:20,679 Speaker 1: calls me to uh pause about death, about you know, 374 00:19:20,920 --> 00:19:23,240 Speaker 1: uh that window that we're giving and what are you 375 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:25,720 Speaker 1: gonna do in that window? And it really calls me 376 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:28,320 Speaker 1: the focus because of ninteen ainty one a year later 377 00:19:28,520 --> 00:19:30,520 Speaker 1: because after you know, after I got out of the hospital, 378 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:32,399 Speaker 1: you know, I still have this long scar because they 379 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:35,400 Speaker 1: take my long out, fixed the sins and then put 380 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:37,120 Speaker 1: it back in, and so I had to I had 381 00:19:37,119 --> 00:19:39,160 Speaker 1: this big fear that you know, when I would do weights, 382 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:42,679 Speaker 1: that I would tear the scar tissue and so the 383 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:45,680 Speaker 1: scars and so so it was a real about a year. 384 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:47,879 Speaker 1: I was just really pairing up physically about what I 385 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:51,040 Speaker 1: could do. And so in ninteen ainty one, it was 386 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:54,000 Speaker 1: August ninth, Octal ninth, ninteen anyone. And I made a 387 00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:56,280 Speaker 1: conscious effort that I was I wasn't gonna be afraid 388 00:19:56,280 --> 00:19:58,439 Speaker 1: of my life. I wasn't gonna be afraid of failure, 389 00:19:58,440 --> 00:20:00,760 Speaker 1: I was gonna be afraid of death. I wasn't gonna 390 00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:03,200 Speaker 1: be afraid period. But I was going to see opportunity 391 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:05,600 Speaker 1: and I would can pursue any opportunity that I was 392 00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:08,800 Speaker 1: given to me. Max effort, max effort, And I've never 393 00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:11,960 Speaker 1: changed that those values in my life since. And in 394 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:19,840 Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, you had a pulmonary pulmonary imbalance. Okay, 395 00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:21,800 Speaker 1: explain to us what that is, and then explained the 396 00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:25,639 Speaker 1: impact that had in your life. Basically, I had blood 397 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:29,760 Speaker 1: slots in both of my lungs. So I was flying 398 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:33,159 Speaker 1: on the plane and it was a long flight. I 399 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:35,360 Speaker 1: had been I was on tour with the color problet time, 400 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:38,040 Speaker 1: and I had been taking long flights. And my thing 401 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:41,040 Speaker 1: was don't sleep at night and sleep all sleep the 402 00:20:41,160 --> 00:20:44,600 Speaker 1: entire time on the plane. Right. But I'm not thinking, like, no, 403 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:46,639 Speaker 1: you have to get up and walk around. That's not 404 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:50,440 Speaker 1: in my head. Um, I'm on this slight. My legs 405 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:52,680 Speaker 1: and hurting me extremely bad, and I don't know why, 406 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:55,560 Speaker 1: and I'm so tired. I'm like, man, I'm so so tired. 407 00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:57,800 Speaker 1: I get off the plane. I stand up to when 408 00:20:57,800 --> 00:20:59,879 Speaker 1: we were to do both the plan, I stand up, 409 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:02,960 Speaker 1: and I just I couldn't really breathe all of a sudden, 410 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:07,040 Speaker 1: It's like I could not breathe, and then I then 411 00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:09,480 Speaker 1: I could breathe again, and then my leg when I 412 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:12,720 Speaker 1: couldn't breathe, my legs stopped hurting me. And so when 413 00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:15,280 Speaker 1: I got off the plant. I just felt I felt 414 00:21:15,320 --> 00:21:18,000 Speaker 1: off and dizzy, and so I was like, you know, 415 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:19,879 Speaker 1: I need to get help. So I just went to 416 00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:21,520 Speaker 1: like a security guard and I was like, you know, 417 00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:25,520 Speaker 1: I don't feel good, and so they had to um um, 418 00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:28,840 Speaker 1: they called the ambulance and they came and checked me 419 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:31,399 Speaker 1: out and they were like, wow, all my levels were elevated. 420 00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:34,080 Speaker 1: They ended up taking me to the hospital. And when 421 00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:35,880 Speaker 1: I went to the hospital, they did a cash skin 422 00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:38,119 Speaker 1: and they did everything they needed to do and they're like, listen, 423 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:43,200 Speaker 1: you have stuff at a severe pulmonary embolism um and 424 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:45,440 Speaker 1: and you have it if you have crossed them both 425 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:47,080 Speaker 1: of your lungs, and we gotta punch on IC to you. 426 00:21:47,359 --> 00:21:50,240 Speaker 1: And at this point I felt fine, like what And 427 00:21:50,359 --> 00:21:52,159 Speaker 1: the long story short, I ended up standing in the 428 00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:55,040 Speaker 1: hospital for about five days. My family had to flywers 429 00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:56,879 Speaker 1: in Portland, so they had to come out of Portland 430 00:21:56,920 --> 00:21:59,879 Speaker 1: me get me and and I had to and I 431 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:02,640 Speaker 1: had to stop working for like nine months. Well they 432 00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:05,679 Speaker 1: told me I could return back to work sooner, but um, 433 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:09,600 Speaker 1: I had to be on bluffiness for nine months and 434 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:12,440 Speaker 1: that and people, I mean the doctors and the nurses, 435 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:14,560 Speaker 1: they were just like, we're so happy you came because 436 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:18,040 Speaker 1: they understood the severity of it. I didn't. I was like, okay, 437 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:20,119 Speaker 1: but I'm feel fine right now. They're like like, you don't. 438 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:26,000 Speaker 1: You're a miracle right now, right right right right, you know. 439 00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:29,480 Speaker 1: And so really I'm just so relatable to me because 440 00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:31,280 Speaker 1: when I arrived at the hospital, they went, you know, 441 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:34,000 Speaker 1: some you're about to die. You know, if we don't 442 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:36,800 Speaker 1: operate immediately, you're about to die. So this story is 443 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:39,159 Speaker 1: just so cool. So matches some of the some of 444 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:41,760 Speaker 1: the instincts that I felt. I thought I was fine. 445 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:46,800 Speaker 1: I drove myself to the hospital with a collapsed long Okay, 446 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:49,480 Speaker 1: that's how I thought everything was cool. Let me just 447 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:51,560 Speaker 1: go over here and just check it out. So how 448 00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:55,199 Speaker 1: did that? How did that change your life? Man? I 449 00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:58,639 Speaker 1: tell you if I wasn't dreaming before, when you go 450 00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:00,560 Speaker 1: through as you know, when you go through a situation 451 00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:03,879 Speaker 1: like that, you understand light is so precious and you 452 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:06,159 Speaker 1: could be here fine one day and just go on 453 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:09,080 Speaker 1: the next. So I felt like, listen, I need to 454 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:11,680 Speaker 1: accomplish everything. I need to I need to I need 455 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:15,720 Speaker 1: to die. I need to die empty, meaning that the 456 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:18,679 Speaker 1: world has received everything that God has put inside of me, 457 00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:22,280 Speaker 1: and I have nothing left to give, then I'm ready 458 00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:24,640 Speaker 1: to go, but I don't want to. I don't want 459 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:27,720 Speaker 1: to die with all my talents and ideas and dreams 460 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:31,120 Speaker 1: and purpose inside of me, Like I need to fulfill 461 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:34,800 Speaker 1: those things so that the next generation can benefit from 462 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:36,679 Speaker 1: the things that were given to me. So when you 463 00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:39,800 Speaker 1: have that attitude, man, you're feel this and you're you're 464 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:43,000 Speaker 1: motivated and you understand that you you're you're walking in purpose. 465 00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:45,639 Speaker 1: So when you meet people is purposeful, when you speak 466 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:48,760 Speaker 1: is purposeful. Everything that you do there's a purpose. You're 467 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:51,280 Speaker 1: not doing it just to do it. But you're like, listen, 468 00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:53,399 Speaker 1: I have to set time on this earth. I was 469 00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:56,080 Speaker 1: just I was just my time was just extended. So 470 00:23:56,200 --> 00:24:00,480 Speaker 1: I'm going to um, I'm gonna use that time wisely. Wow, 471 00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:03,920 Speaker 1: Definitely the focus changes. You know. Let's say if I 472 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:07,159 Speaker 1: who was on a peloton bike, I'll be looking at 473 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:09,240 Speaker 1: you and ask me. Right there, she's saying everything that 474 00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:12,160 Speaker 1: I believe in. That's my girl right there. Let's keep peeling, 475 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:14,840 Speaker 1: let's keep pelling success. Let's let everybody know it's just 476 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:16,680 Speaker 1: twenty four hours in the day. Let's take advantage of 477 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:18,720 Speaker 1: every hour. Let's do it. Let's don't stop. Let's not 478 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:21,000 Speaker 1: be afraid. The success will come your way if you 479 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:24,920 Speaker 1: work hard for understand and and and it was important 480 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:30,040 Speaker 1: to me to UM to live that, but also UM 481 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:32,600 Speaker 1: encourage others to live that way as well who have 482 00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:35,600 Speaker 1: not experienced that. Appreciate you, you know, and just let 483 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:38,280 Speaker 1: people know. Listen, you have one life. Let's go. Let's 484 00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:40,399 Speaker 1: do it. You have ideas, Let's go. I'll help you. 485 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:43,440 Speaker 1: Let's go. You know, I'm telling you, I'm talking to you. 486 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:47,360 Speaker 1: By your devil, by your dead, by your she will 487 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:49,840 Speaker 1: be your starring. I tell you, I'm interviewing, so I'm 488 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:51,679 Speaker 1: gonna say starring. I know they have co starring, but 489 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:54,240 Speaker 1: be an interviewed on money Making Conversation by Rashad McDonald. 490 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:57,760 Speaker 1: You'll be starring in the highly anticipated Broadway musical Girl 491 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:00,800 Speaker 1: from the North Country, which is far cannot wait for 492 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:02,600 Speaker 1: people to come and see it. And when you come, 493 00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:06,439 Speaker 1: just realize that this is art. 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