Speaker 1: I'm a homegrow that knows a little bit about everything
Speaker 1: and everybody.
Speaker 2: You don't know if you don't lie about that, right,
Speaker 2: Lauren came in. Hey, y'all, what's up.
Speaker 1: It's Lauren de Rosa and this is the latest with
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Speaker 1: things pop culture, entertainment, news and all of the conversations
Speaker 1: that shake the room.
Speaker 2: Baby.
Speaker 1: Now, speaking of rooms, we just got back from La
Speaker 1: While it was an amazing time. I told you guys
Speaker 1: that I was headed there for the Ebony Power one
Speaker 1: hundred Gala. I was honored to be amongst so many
Speaker 1: amazing entertainers and creators and philanthropists and entrepreneurs and just
Speaker 1: all of the things. It was an amazing night, an
Speaker 1: amazing last couple of days in la as we prepared, celebrated,
Speaker 1: and then actually attended the Ebony Power one hundred Gala.
Speaker 2: So I wanted to take you guys into the room
Speaker 2: with me.
Speaker 1: Speaking of rooms, wanted to take you guys into the
Speaker 1: room with me at the Power one hundred Gala.
Speaker 2: We're going to start on the red carpet.
Speaker 1: So I arrived at the gala and I was slated
Speaker 1: to walk the red carpet and doing so y'all know me,
Speaker 1: it's hard to not keep up with the latest.
Speaker 2: Bring you guys the latest.
Speaker 1: So as I am walking the carpet, I, you know,
Speaker 1: just noticed opportunity to speak to some people in the
Speaker 1: carpet get some interviews.
Speaker 2: The theme of.
Speaker 1: This year's Ebony Power one hundred gala. They were celebrating
Speaker 1: the fact that Ebanie has been honoring heroes and legacy
Speaker 1: for eighty years.
Speaker 2: And when I tell y'all, the room was amazing.
Speaker 1: I mean Emon, you know, supermodel Emon received an Icon Award,
Speaker 1: and she's.
Speaker 2: Always been an inspiration to me.
Speaker 1: I started out in modeling, so to hear her speak
Speaker 1: on her journey and just some of the barriers and
Speaker 1: different things she had to breakthrough, that was amazing. The
Speaker 1: cast of girlfriends, I ran into them on the carpet
Speaker 1: and had a moment with them.
Speaker 2: Y'all.
Speaker 1: I was standing in literally the girlfriend's cast united around me,
Speaker 1: not because of me or anything like that, but literally physically,
Speaker 1: like I'm standing there and it just happened. I felt
Speaker 1: I felt like I've never felt like I was minus
Speaker 1: people's business any worse.
Speaker 2: Than this moment. But it was such an amazing moment.
Speaker 2: Let's take a listen to the cast of girlfriends.
Speaker 1: Alrighty guys, so you gotta introduce yourselves.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna do it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let y'll do it, y'allselves and say hello
Speaker 1: to the Breakfast Club listeners live from Ebony Power one
Speaker 1: hundred tomorrow morning. I'm gonna be live and they don't
Speaker 1: want to know how my experience was, and I want
Speaker 1: you got to tell them what you guys.
Speaker 2: Have seen, saw and heard thus far.
Speaker 3: Hey, I'm going' brugs and you're here. I'm here with
Speaker 3: Ebony one hundred and so far. Well, I'm gonna let
Speaker 3: my girlfriends on each side of me tell you first.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm Jill Marie Jones.
Speaker 4: I'm so excited to be here in ebone. I mean,
Speaker 4: we were talking about it earlier, Golden and myself about
Speaker 4: just how just impactful the Ebney magazine was growing up,
Speaker 4: seeing the beautiful melanated beauties on the covers as we
Speaker 4: were growing up, and we're just so excited to be
Speaker 4: here also too, to celebrate Tracy Ellis Ross, our sister.
Speaker 2: So we're just having a great.
Speaker 3: Time we are and for us to come together as girlfriends,
Speaker 3: it's always a treat and we just feel like we're
Speaker 3: continuing to empower and I've left just like Ebany.
Speaker 5: It's absolutely stunning here look at all these gorgeous people.
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm pretty white from girlfriend's aka Lia and
Speaker 5: you know how respirited I am, so I am just
Speaker 5: feeling all the love. I'm feeling too much love.
Speaker 1: Can you guys talk to me about the impact of
Speaker 1: black magazines and like black media for the time when
Speaker 1: you guys were the girlfriends, Like how they empowered you
Speaker 1: guys and.
Speaker 2: Kind of uplifted what you guys were doing.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, during the time of girlfriends, they're ah,
Speaker 3: my girlfriend, Yeah, I want you, I want to do it,
Speaker 3: holds you, I need a mob.
Speaker 2: I'm all of y'all business. I'm being an audio for
Speaker 2: my love.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, okay, I gon be only y'all business.
Speaker 2: But that's as say, okay, all right, I'm gon let
Speaker 2: yall go say yeah, got got moment then y'all yeah.
Speaker 1: And as you hear the audio get a little crazy
Speaker 1: and all the screams and the laughter, that's because Miss
Speaker 1: Tracy Ellis Ross joined the other three ladies on the carpet.
Speaker 2: It was their first time seeing each other. For the evening.
Speaker 1: They were there to honor and to present Tracy Ellis
Speaker 1: Ross with the path Breaker Award. She gave an amazing
Speaker 1: acceptance speech. Let's take a listen to the full speech.
Speaker 1: I know I talked about this a bit today on
Speaker 1: the Breakfast Club, but they didn't have the full speech.
Speaker 1: You guys do, because this is the ladies who learna
Speaker 1: Rosa the podcast.
Speaker 2: I say a listen.
Speaker 7: So at first, I just want to say I'm prefaced
Speaker 7: by saying that I wish this is such a great room.
Speaker 6: It is so lovely to be in here with all
Speaker 6: of you guys.
Speaker 7: I have to run when I get off stage to
Speaker 7: take a red eye, which I should say should be
Speaker 7: illegal for anyone over twenty two.
Speaker 6: I'm begrudgingly leaving.
Speaker 7: But okay, Golden, Jill and Persia, thank you, sir. Thank
Speaker 7: you for your hilarity, your brilliance, for what we built together,
Speaker 7: who we have been together, how we.
Speaker 6: Show up for each other after all these years, and
Speaker 6: I just love you so much. Also, could they be
Speaker 6: any hotter? Okay?
Speaker 7: So all right. This year marks the twenty fifth anniversary
Speaker 7: of Girlfriends by the way one hundred and seventy two
Speaker 7: episodes of television that I am so proud of, proud
Speaker 7: of what we did.
Speaker 6: I won't be made together and that has still had
Speaker 6: an impact. Thank you, Ebany. It's so crazy with all
Speaker 6: the dishes planking, isn't it. Are you guys with me though?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 6: Okay?
Speaker 7: So thank you Ebany for celebrating our stories and for
Speaker 7: naming me as Halthbreaker.
Speaker 6: Halthbreaker huh okay.
Speaker 7: Well, it started with Girlfriends. Joan and Carol Clayton put
Speaker 7: me on the map. Then I did some stuff, but
Speaker 7: mostly I've feared that maybe I had already peaked because
Speaker 7: the pearly gates of Hollywood did not open after Girlfriends
Speaker 7: the way.
Speaker 6: That I had hoped.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and then King Blackish, And after eight years of
Speaker 8: playing a single lawyer.
Speaker 6: Obsessed with being chosen.
Speaker 7: And having children as Joan, I spent another eight years
Speaker 7: playing a married doctor who literally would not stop having
Speaker 7: kids as Bou. What I loved about Bo was that
Speaker 7: her value was anchored in the fullness of her life,
Speaker 7: as opposed to just being a prop in her husband's world.
Speaker 6: Sixteen years of being a lead actress.
Speaker 7: On primetime TV archived within Girlfriends and Blackish kind of
Speaker 7: takes my breath away, especially because I'm only twenty two
Speaker 7: and while all this was happening, I spent a decade
Speaker 7: building Pattern Beauty.
Speaker 6: As founder, CEO.
Speaker 7: And owner, I have intentionally built a company which in
Speaker 7: which all decisions celebrate the joy.
Speaker 6: And the diversity of black beauty. We are a company
Speaker 6: run by incredible.
Speaker 7: Black women, and after six years on shelves, we have
Speaker 7: grown into a global, multi hundred million dollar premium beauty
Speaker 7: dram forty seven employees, eleven retail partners, over sixty products
Speaker 7: in hair and now body. Earlier this year, I launched
Speaker 7: solo Traveling with Racy Ellis Ross on the Roku channel,
Speaker 7: and I was I need to find how deeply it
Speaker 7: resonated with people like Pattern. This show was my way
Speaker 7: of filling a gap in how we see ourselves in
Speaker 7: the world.
Speaker 6: The show is an.
Speaker 7: Invitation to experience your life fully on your own terms,
Speaker 7: and to choose yourself.
Speaker 6: Again and again and again.
Speaker 7: I tell you all of this to say that don't
Speaker 7: I tell you all of this to say, please, do not.
Speaker 6: Wait for something or someone in order to experience all
Speaker 6: that's possible for your life. Dream big and intentionally and
Speaker 6: work hard to make those dreams come true.
Speaker 7: And even when they don't go as you had planned
Speaker 7: or hoped or wished or as the world had prescribed
Speaker 7: to you, choose to live joyfully.
Speaker 1: This is my life philosophy another you know, great of
Speaker 1: the evening. I love watching Tiana Taylor and everything that
Speaker 1: she's been able to evolve into and do on her own.
Speaker 1: Her story is amazing. I feel like we've grown up
Speaker 1: with her. We've watched her fight silent loud battles and
Speaker 1: man how she come out on top. There is oscar
Speaker 1: conversation around Tianna Taylor for her role in one battle
Speaker 1: in another that is amazing. Think about you know a
Speaker 1: few years ago when Tiana Taylor said, look, I am
Speaker 1: under so much pressure, I am not appreciated. Things are
Speaker 1: just not what they need to be. I'm taking a
Speaker 1: break from this industry. And she went and she created
Speaker 1: the Aunties, which is her production company, and you know,
Speaker 1: just really got into her bag. And look where she
Speaker 1: is now. She's been running around doing a bunch of
Speaker 1: different press with her cast from All Things Fair, Kim
Speaker 1: Kardashi and Nisi Nash An amazing stellar cast, but took
Speaker 1: the time, and she said on the stage, y'all, I
Speaker 1: gotta go to class after this.
Speaker 2: You know she's acted.
Speaker 1: She's doing so many different things, so she is working
Speaker 1: her ass off and it's paying off. Let's take a
Speaker 1: listen to Tiana except her Entertainer of the Year award.
Speaker 9: I have to do it for my phone because I
Speaker 9: can't see the telecopters too far, so I'm gonna do
Speaker 9: it for my phone.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry. I have class after this, you guys, so
Speaker 6: I have to go. I gotta be queer Taraji.
Speaker 9: I love you system, thank you so much.
Speaker 6: I appreciate you.
Speaker 10: And thank you for over being interviewed and build with solvers,
Speaker 10: brothers and.
Speaker 6: First Thatsalonians five eighteen scenes.
Speaker 10: Give things in all circumstances, for this is God's will
Speaker 10: for you.
Speaker 6: And christ Users. And that one has different for me.
Speaker 10: Tonight because God, he is the author and he is
Speaker 10: the mediator, the one who wrote my story before I
Speaker 10: even knew i'd be standing here tonight.
Speaker 9: Father God, that name of Jesus, you gave me the
Speaker 9: strength when I was tired.
Speaker 6: You gave me the strength when I was scared.
Speaker 10: You gave me the ability to check myself when I
Speaker 10: dial with myself and through all.
Speaker 6: You gave me victorious more than a conqueror.
Speaker 9: Thank you for consistently showing me that your love don't
Speaker 9: come with conditions. Thank you for covering me and every
Speaker 9: form that I've come to you. And thank you for
Speaker 9: placing the right people around me, the perfect energy, the
Speaker 9: perfect village, my babies, my parents, my man, my ages
Speaker 9: at w and me, my reps that leave my labeled
Speaker 9: death jam and all my family and friends that I
Speaker 9: love and respect so much.
Speaker 6: Thank you for loving me the way you do. Thank
Speaker 6: you for holding me down. I don't take it like
Speaker 6: me and I don't take it for.
Speaker 2: God in the.
Speaker 9: Name of Jesus, gets all the glory and y'all tonight,
Speaker 9: get all my love.
Speaker 6: Thank you Ebony for the amazing honor. I'm so honored
Speaker 6: to be here. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Man. Just an amazing night.
Speaker 1: Okay, Like I I've never attended an award show where
Speaker 1: I didn't feel like I'm just so blessed to be
Speaker 1: amongst this company. Ebony Power one hundred was no less
Speaker 1: than that. You look to your left, you look to
Speaker 1: your right. Some of the biggest names in entertainment just
Speaker 1: black people looking good feeling good everywhere you turned. I'm
Speaker 1: just honored to be amongst you know, everyone who made
Speaker 1: the list. Shout out to everybody who made the list.
Speaker 1: I had also a chance to sit with us Scott Evans,
Speaker 1: who does House Guests, which is a show that I
Speaker 1: love to watch.
Speaker 2: It's an interview series.
Speaker 1: It's a feel good interview series, like he gets into
Speaker 1: the things with the guests, but it just makes you
Speaker 1: feel good watching. It's very fun to watch as well.
Speaker 1: He was actually see it at my table, so me
Speaker 1: and him got to do a little cheers and a
Speaker 1: toast because both of us were uh listed on the
Speaker 1: Ebony Power one hundred list as media mavens. So that
Speaker 1: was amazing as well too, and I got some carpet
Speaker 1: time in as well. Thank you guys for tuning in
Speaker 1: as always, you guys could be anywhere with anybody talking
Speaker 1: about all these things. I'm seeing so many different outlets
Speaker 1: cover the Ebity Power one hundred. Make sure you guys
Speaker 1: check out any of all covers that you can. I
Speaker 1: also have exclusive videos that I'll be posting to my
Speaker 1: social media as well, including some of the moments that
Speaker 1: you guys just heard about here, So check me out
Speaker 1: I'm Lauren the Rosa Everywhere or brown Girl. Grinding is
Speaker 1: the platform. I'll see you guys in my next episode.