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Speaker 1: My guest is Kelly Jenrette. She's an Emmy nominated actress

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Speaker 1: currently starting the seed up your hit series All American Homecoming.

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Speaker 1: In twenty eight teams, she and her husband became the

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Speaker 1: first African American married couple to be nominated for Emmies.

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Speaker 1: In the same year, as we know how, Emmy was

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Speaker 1: on the hit series Handmad's Tale, which I another one

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Speaker 1: of my great series that I love as well. She's

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Speaker 1: based in Atlanta, so she took time to come on

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Speaker 1: when I showed the talk about to spend off and

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Speaker 1: her character she's the president. We have a president on

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Speaker 1: the show. Please welcome money making Conversations master class, Kelly Jinnrette.

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Speaker 1: How are you doing, Kelly? I don't do well. How

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Speaker 1: are you you know? Um uh some own character. She

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Speaker 1: was on the show when it was show premiered, so

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Speaker 1: I got to watch the first season as well as that,

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Speaker 1: so I really am immersed into the series. So so

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Speaker 1: he said, this guy really knows the series. So because

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Speaker 1: so I, you know, I tried to do my prep work, Kelly,

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Speaker 1: and I was trying to jump on the show and

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Speaker 1: like and me even asked Eason every question because when

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Speaker 1: you have a series as a complex. I want to

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Speaker 1: say that complimentary character complex is yours. How do you

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Speaker 1: how do you slide in and out of this whole

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Speaker 1: process in the script development? Well, uh, I think the

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Speaker 1: thing that I focused on is just telling the truth

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Speaker 1: of the character of the story. It's just so well

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Speaker 1: written it's easy to kind of slide into it. And

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Speaker 1: I feel like the character of Mara is very close

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Speaker 1: to me Kelly as an individual, and so that makes

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Speaker 1: it easy as well. We know we said that the

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Speaker 1: fictitious HBCU school. Um, you know, here's my oholy thing.

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Speaker 1: Like I said, I watching Netflix a lot and the

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Speaker 1: All American series. It trends on Netflix as a TV

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Speaker 1: series and so and so it's it's to the top

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Speaker 1: shows on c W. What is encompassing the popularity of

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Speaker 1: this show. I'm not trying to put you on the spot,

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Speaker 1: but obviously you're starting in the series so that I'm

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Speaker 1: sure people on the street stop you. I'm sure they

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Speaker 1: make comments of why they watch the show. Well in

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Speaker 1: your character as well, what is the driving force to

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Speaker 1: the fan viewership? I think because it's something that is relatable.

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Speaker 1: I think that people see themselves, especially black people, they

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Speaker 1: can see themselves on the TV screen and not just

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Speaker 1: see themselves, but see their lives, see the complex aspects

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Speaker 1: of their lives, the successes, the trials, and the community.

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Speaker 1: You know, seeing a group of people come together to

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Speaker 1: support one another. Even if that's something that people don't

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Speaker 1: have in their lives, it's something that they aspire to have.

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Speaker 1: It's something that they desire to have. And so I

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Speaker 1: feel like the family aspect of the show, the relatability

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Speaker 1: resonates with people, um and not just black people. You know,

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Speaker 1: we've we've had people of all races talk to us

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Speaker 1: something that's humbling and exciting. We know, Kelly jen right,

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm speaking to. She's one of the stars

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Speaker 1: of the c W hits. There's all American homecoming. I

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Speaker 1: know I'm older than you, Kelly, and that's a good

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Speaker 1: thing because I feel that everybody lives their life and

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Speaker 1: their paths. But we grew up on a Different World,

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Speaker 1: and Different World was a sitcom and so but it

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Speaker 1: inspired a lot of traffic to HBC. Use. Some people

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Speaker 1: say that watching that series change their lives and so

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Speaker 1: but that was that was a sitcom. This is a drama,

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Speaker 1: so it lends itself for a lot more serious and

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Speaker 1: I think socially conscious storylines. One of the one of

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Speaker 1: the storylines is mental health, and I think that's important

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Speaker 1: because in the Africa, in the American community, we are

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Speaker 1: have gay in the community. Gave people in the community

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Speaker 1: one of the lists we have mental health issues in

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Speaker 1: the community, we don't make. We have high blood pressure,

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Speaker 1: all the things that that they may deem as negative.

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Speaker 1: It's about learning the truth and then being able to

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Speaker 1: live with it. Those diverse story lines, I think really

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Speaker 1: the conversation. But you live in it. You live in

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Speaker 1: the script. You're living with these actors who have to

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Speaker 1: you and and and the mass decision making. So let's

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Speaker 1: talk about that. And I also want to talk to

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Speaker 1: other other characters. But I wanted to get that holistic

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Speaker 1: statement out about your show, which is really positive, but

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Speaker 1: You know, I think it is important for us to

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Speaker 1: the guilt that comes with not having it all together, um,

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Speaker 1: You know. It's it's a beautiful thing to be a

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Speaker 1: I really like the way that storyline is working itself

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Speaker 1: out for the for the head coach. But also when

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Speaker 1: I look at the series, the fact that the two

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Speaker 1: sports that we're talking about at HBCU that don't get

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Speaker 1: We're always talking about the football teams we're all talking about.

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Speaker 1: So I'm very fond of that storyline and then seeing

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Speaker 1: baseball being a very interesting and engaging storyline. It's really

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Speaker 1: a testament to not say anything else football because we

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Speaker 1: it's a good thing for the series. Oh absolutely. So

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Speaker 1: growing up, I have four brothers, they all played baseball.

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Speaker 1: My mom tried to get me and my sister into tennis.

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Speaker 1: So we always joke about how we could have been

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Speaker 1: Venus and Arena. But my mom, my mom still plays

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Speaker 1: something else that is very unique to our show that

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Speaker 1: HBCU Tennis, HBC baseball, you know, and and it just

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Speaker 1: opens up our eyes to the diversity that we can

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Speaker 1: more Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald. Now, let's

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Speaker 1: return to Money Making Conversations Masterclass with Rushan McDonald. Well,

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Speaker 1: I was happy to see that because it broke stereotypes

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Speaker 1: for a story storylines. You know, this is not about

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Speaker 1: and halftime that side of the story I think everybody knows.

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Speaker 1: But HBCUs do have golf teams. You know, species have

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Speaker 1: started gymnastic teams. A species have always had baseball teams

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Speaker 1: you know, we're supposed to be Serena and Venus before

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Speaker 1: Serena and Venus. Now, why did you your mom play tennis? Now?

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Speaker 1: How did you get around a mom who plays tennis

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Speaker 1: it's hot, and I think we were just a little

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Speaker 1: boy here to understand why that was prissy and Handmade's

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Speaker 1: Tail wasn't prissy. Well, see, I think you have real

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Speaker 1: Those things are are a little easy to do. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I love it. I love it because because your resume

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Speaker 1: if you get a little history of me, you know,

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Speaker 1: it is often that I sit back and I'm like, wow, God,

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Speaker 1: important for your fans to hear you say that, because

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Speaker 1: your conversation you said, despite your resume that you have

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Speaker 1: acting classes, you're still going to acting classes. Oh absolutely,

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Speaker 1: corked in a number of the projects, and here in

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Speaker 1: twit twent two you're still going to acting classes. Please

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Speaker 1: let my fan base understand why that's important. So there

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Speaker 1: there's a proverb that I love. It's it says it

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Speaker 1: is not good to have zeal without knowledge, or to

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Speaker 1: be hasty and miss the way. You can be passionate

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Speaker 1: But thank you were coming on money making conversation Master,

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Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. Laugh right there. Keep their spirits high,

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Speaker 1: and we're talking soon, okay, because I keep my I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna keep a little monitor on you. I keep my

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Speaker 1: little monitoring you. And if I see you directed anything,

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Speaker 1: you know, your first phone call gonna be your ball.

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Speaker 1: Not to say that I told you so, just to

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Speaker 1: say what prompted the jump though? What prompt jump? Be safe?

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Speaker 1: Now we talked soon, Love you, Love you to