Speaker 1: Welcome to Checking In with Michelle Williams, a production of
Speaker 1: My Heart Radio and The Black Effect. Hey everybody, it's
Speaker 1: Michelle Williams. Listen. We all know that the pressures from
Speaker 1: social media can really be overwhelming, but it's important to
Speaker 1: know who you are and stay true to yourself and
Speaker 1: check in with your mental health. I have someone who
Speaker 1: was known for spreading positivity through her music and tuning
Speaker 1: out the haters on social media coming up next here
Speaker 1: on Checking In with Michelle Williams, we were talking about,
Speaker 1: you know, just a healthy self image and not giving
Speaker 1: into the labels and the lies that people might say
Speaker 1: about you. And I just remember all the labels that
Speaker 1: I had accepted over the years. Not good enough, unlovable,
Speaker 1: don't belong, done with music, unworthy, not pretty enough, boring, hypocrite, unintelligent,
Speaker 1: meant to be alone, the wall, the want want want,
Speaker 1: want wants. Those are lies because they are so the
Speaker 1: opposite of what God thinks about me. God didn't make
Speaker 1: any mistakes. So whatever your belief is, I just stand
Speaker 1: in the fact that we just can't believe those labels
Speaker 1: and those lies. We cannot believe the things that people
Speaker 1: on social media say about you. Especially when they're negative,
Speaker 1: especially when they are not life giving. So I'm so
Speaker 1: glad that I have chanel On here today for us
Speaker 1: to talk about things that are going on. And I
Speaker 1: know what it's like to be cyber believed, and it's
Speaker 1: not a good feeling, especially when you are when you
Speaker 1: like to engage with people on social media, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, and so sometimes you have to sift
Speaker 1: through two or three negative comments sometimes before you get
Speaker 1: to the twelve positive common ments. You know what I mean,
Speaker 1: And so I would just say, you know, let's just
Speaker 1: just uplift one another. Let's be careful about what we say.
Speaker 1: Or if you feel like it's something constructive or something
Speaker 1: that you feel led to say to somebody, I dem them,
Speaker 1: I'd send them a private message and just leaving in
Speaker 1: God's hand, be like, hopefully they see it, and if
Speaker 1: they don't, they don't. But always make sure that we
Speaker 1: are just speaking in love to people, because we will
Speaker 1: reap what we saw, and I think that we will
Speaker 1: reap even what we type in the comments sections of
Speaker 1: what we say to people. So that's just my twenty
Speaker 1: five cents, because it's more than two cents. But any who,
Speaker 1: I thank you guys, and I hope in this episode
Speaker 1: you guys really hear some strength and some inspiration and
Speaker 1: Chanel is just a ball of sunshine. Our special guest
Speaker 1: today is a singer, songwriter, amazing, rapper, everything and co
Speaker 1: host on MTV's Ridiculousness, where she's known for her contagious
Speaker 1: laughter and positive energy. Please welcome Chanelle West Coast to
Speaker 1: the checking in podcast What's Up? How are You good?
Speaker 1: I could not wait to talk to you because I
Speaker 1: have a group text with some friends and a lot
Speaker 1: of it through the years has been stuff from Ridiculousness
Speaker 1: and the show will probably always be around because we
Speaker 1: just don't act right as humans. We we do the
Speaker 1: craziest outrageous stuff there's and there's endless content. Like That's
Speaker 1: why I'm like, the show is never gonna go away.
Speaker 1: People are gonna skate just doing dumb things when they're
Speaker 1: bored and filming it and you know, they give us
Speaker 1: a show. So shout out to all the people who
Speaker 1: are bored out there may be like you're keeping our
Speaker 1: girl working okay, which is actually a blessing. And of
Speaker 1: course your laughter is it has it always been that way.
Speaker 1: It's amazing to me. Thank you. I you know, it's
Speaker 1: so funny. Like my friends never like really told me
Speaker 1: like I had this like laugh. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: didn't know until I was on TV that like my
Speaker 1: laugh was a thing, you know. And then my friends
Speaker 1: were like, you've always had that laugh, Like we always
Speaker 1: knew your laugh was funny. And I'm like, you guys
Speaker 1: never told me before, like you know so, but I
Speaker 1: know I get it from my It's a mix of
Speaker 1: my mom and my dad. My dad is a crazy
Speaker 1: laugh and my mom has a crazy laugh, So a
Speaker 1: combination of both of them. You got to hear them
Speaker 1: both laugh. It's hilarious. So yeah, so it kind of
Speaker 1: runs in the family. I guess you could say I
Speaker 1: have a friend where especially when she gets really tickled,
Speaker 1: she can't help it. She's snorts. She's the cutest thing.
Speaker 1: Of course, we definitely had to discuss that, and um,
Speaker 1: how's everything had been going? I know things have shifted
Speaker 1: for a lot of us in the entertainment industry, um
Speaker 1: since and we have sing that you've been putting a
Speaker 1: stronger focus on your wellness and your mental health. Can
Speaker 1: you share with us a little bit? Yeah, definitely. I
Speaker 1: mean I'm for sure an extrovert. So when once the
Speaker 1: pandemic happened and it was like locked up inside, I
Speaker 1: felt like I was going a little bit crazy. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of time at home. Definitely, I used
Speaker 1: the time wisely and stayed creative and you know, made
Speaker 1: use of my time. Not much time at home can
Speaker 1: can drive you insane, and so I really got into meditation,
Speaker 1: which I think meditation is key for mental health. Like
Speaker 1: I I download all these little different meditations on iTunes
Speaker 1: and you know, Apple music or whatever, and do something
Speaker 1: on like YouTube, and meditating exchanged my life, Like I've had.
Speaker 1: I had friends that I didn't talk to for a
Speaker 1: while that I talked to during the pandemic. They're like, girl,
Speaker 1: you're like a whole new relaxed you. You know, I've
Speaker 1: always been a chill person, but I can get stressed
Speaker 1: out a little easy, like over my career and things
Speaker 1: like that. So I guess, see the sample perfectionists, that's
Speaker 1: where the stress comes in. But during the pandemic, I
Speaker 1: started meditating and that really helped me calm down. And
Speaker 1: I had a few friends like what spoke to when
Speaker 1: I'm talking to a while and they're like, you have changed.
Speaker 1: You seem like a whole new calmer you. So I
Speaker 1: know that the meditation helped me get like that. Maybe
Speaker 1: there's something too that maybe you should do a meditation
Speaker 1: I don't want to say album, but something, because you
Speaker 1: probably could open up a world of of young people
Speaker 1: that might get into it because you're doing it and
Speaker 1: they're seeing a change in you. It's like, well, I
Speaker 1: want to do what she's doing, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: So thank you so much for using your platform to
Speaker 1: promote positivity because with doing what you do, as if
Speaker 1: I'm not in the same industry, but it ain't about me.
Speaker 1: With doing what you do, you face a lot of criticism,
Speaker 1: but you've chosen to remain positive. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: you let people know you're not a doormat either. How
Speaker 1: do you balance that and when do you find that
Speaker 1: it's time to speak up and defend yourself versus you
Speaker 1: know what, y'all you better be glad I've been meditating. Well,
Speaker 1: let's say I definitely you know, um, I had a
Speaker 1: moment where I think a lot of people saw, like
Speaker 1: on ridiculousness when I kind of snapped on Charlemagne. But
Speaker 1: you know, we we made cool after that whole situation,
Speaker 1: But that was definitely a moment in my life where
Speaker 1: I felt like, you know, especially I've been on shows
Speaker 1: with all guys forever, I'm the only girl, and I
Speaker 1: was like, Yo, these guys aren't gonna stand up for
Speaker 1: me either. Like I felt like I really had to
Speaker 1: stand up for myself at that moment. And there's always
Speaker 1: little moments where you definitely should stand up for yourself.
Speaker 1: But um, I will say that learning to ignore all
Speaker 1: the haters and meditatings really hoped with that for sure,
Speaker 1: but just really like, I feel like it took me
Speaker 1: a while to realize that people who are haters are
Speaker 1: usually just you know, going through it themselves. They're probably
Speaker 1: not that happy, they're you know, they're sad for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: and they're projecting onto you. And so once I realized that,
Speaker 1: I was like, I feel kind of bad for these people,
Speaker 1: and that I learned to hold myself back even more
Speaker 1: from going off on people like when they would like
Speaker 1: you know, say mean things in my comments and stuff,
Speaker 1: just because I realized I'm like, oh, these people are
Speaker 1: going through it, you know, like I should just let
Speaker 1: them vent and get it out right and get it out.
Speaker 1: And then there's this statement I love where it says observed,
Speaker 1: don't absorb. Especially when you and I were engaging on
Speaker 1: social media. We like to respond and say thank you,
Speaker 1: especially when someone is saying something nice about what you've
Speaker 1: got going on. But sometimes you almost gotta sift through
Speaker 1: the mean stuff. So it's like it's going through my
Speaker 1: eye gates and it's I don't know if it's worth
Speaker 1: hearing it or seeing it. Yeah, I think it's just
Speaker 1: about both ways, to be honest, Like, you know, people
Speaker 1: are just mean and and sometimes I think it's when
Speaker 1: they say something that kind of maybe hits you in
Speaker 1: like that little insecure spot or something you know, like
Speaker 1: and when people say stuff like that that really hurts,
Speaker 1: I'm like, dang, like why are you so mean? You know?
Speaker 1: But yeah, like I said, meditating, that's really helped me
Speaker 1: just be like I just need to shake it off
Speaker 1: because these people got their own problems. So would you
Speaker 1: say meditation have you felt like you've dealt with any
Speaker 1: anxiety throughout the years or any depression where you're like, yo,
Speaker 1: this is really helping ease some of that. Yes, No,
Speaker 1: it helps a lot. So does yoga, like just all
Speaker 1: I love relaxing things. Sound bass I love like all
Speaker 1: those like relaxing vibes. We gotta see you on Instagram
Speaker 1: doing a sound bath and I'm gonna be here for it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know. I did one at my house before with
Speaker 1: my girls, and uh it was just like really relaxing,
Speaker 1: Like I love to do relax and stuff like that
Speaker 1: because I'm basically working all the time, like I'm always hustling,
Speaker 1: So it's good to when you have spare time, let
Speaker 1: your mind just like be free. You know, you've got
Speaker 1: to take are of yourself because sometimes you know, you
Speaker 1: can just people are coming to you with things to
Speaker 1: do in your schedule, your work, and you've got to
Speaker 1: be on set. You gotta film all these episodes. You
Speaker 1: gotta go to the studio, you gotta do this, you
Speaker 1: gotta do that. So I'm so happy that you are
Speaker 1: taking those measures to take care of yourself and putting
Speaker 1: yourself first. Was that difficult for you though in the beginning, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like I I have a tendency to over work, I
Speaker 1: guess you could say, and like I had to learn
Speaker 1: like relaxing and setting that time aside to do things
Speaker 1: for your mental health. That stuff just helps you be
Speaker 1: better at your craft and helps you be better when
Speaker 1: you go to work, you know. So now it's like
Speaker 1: it's that's part of my job too, you know, is
Speaker 1: to take the time to relax and to meditate and
Speaker 1: to do yoga and exercise and all those different things.
Speaker 1: I think that's all, especially exercising too, that all that
Speaker 1: stuff helps just release negative energy and help you stay
Speaker 1: positive and focus absolutely well. I know that you talked
Speaker 1: about how you start up meditating, and friends have noticed
Speaker 1: a difference in you right now. Sometimes as you're growing,
Speaker 1: that can be intimidating for even people in your circle,
Speaker 1: or people might say, oh, you've changed. Did you lose
Speaker 1: any people along the way when you decided to say,
Speaker 1: I'm going to practice mindfulness. And if I'm going to
Speaker 1: practice mindfulness, I gotta do the right thing too, as
Speaker 1: it relates to what I say and what I write.
Speaker 1: For sure. I grew up here in l A. So
Speaker 1: I've stayed friends with some you know, some of my
Speaker 1: best friends since second grade. They're you know, they're still here.
Speaker 1: It's so good. You know, this is my hometown. So
Speaker 1: I'm friends with my same friends from elementary school there
Speaker 1: has been friends who I've been friends with since elementary
Speaker 1: school who I've stopped being friends with as I think
Speaker 1: I've progressed in my career, Like you know, I haven't changed,
Speaker 1: I haven't done nothing different, but I think that sometimes
Speaker 1: it goes back to like the same thing is where
Speaker 1: sometimes people aren't as happy with their lives or whatever,
Speaker 1: and I start to notice just like maybe like more
Speaker 1: cattiness or like you know, girl girlfriends leaving me out
Speaker 1: of things or stuff like that. Like so, I have
Speaker 1: definitely lost some friends over the past few years. And
Speaker 1: it's not that like, you know, we're enemies or something
Speaker 1: like that, but I've I've really had to let go
Speaker 1: of like certain energies around me because it's important for
Speaker 1: me to stay calm, and I'm like, I don't got
Speaker 1: time to argue over dumb things. I'm like, we're not
Speaker 1: in high school anymore, like you know, so I've had
Speaker 1: to let go of some friends like that because I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't want that negative And you're so right, it's
Speaker 1: not that you've changed. Maybe some circumstances have changed, You've
Speaker 1: got a few more resources, but you're still the same
Speaker 1: outgoing young lady where they could probably call you today
Speaker 1: and you'd probably be there for them, Like, y'all, I
Speaker 1: never went nowhere exactly, y'all change or or you feel like.
Speaker 1: I also think it's this thing where people think when
Speaker 1: someone makes it in the industry or even in the
Speaker 1: world world of athletics, that there's this glaze of change
Speaker 1: that washes over us, and it's like, no, literally, the
Speaker 1: only thing that has changed. Maybe my zip code has changed,
Speaker 1: maybe my tax bracket has changed, but the core of
Speaker 1: who I am remains the same. I'm gonna, okay, I
Speaker 1: have a confession. I still like Olive Garden bread sticks.
Speaker 1: I don't care what folks say. I've got friends, honey,
Speaker 1: God's money, and be hating on red lobster biscuits. I
Speaker 1: still love them. I'm obsessed with red lobsters biscuits. Those
Speaker 1: are the best biscuits in the world. I don't know
Speaker 1: about all of gardens bread sticks, but I love their stuff. Mushrooms.
Speaker 1: The stuff bustrooms are so good. They're listen. My mom
Speaker 1: lives um in the Rockford, Illinois areas outside of Chicago,
Speaker 1: and her birthday was in March, and we were trying
Speaker 1: to figure out where she wants to go for her birthday,
Speaker 1: so I'm prepared. There's a few five star restaurants in
Speaker 1: that mall town. But she said rat Lobster, and I
Speaker 1: Loki was like, yes, I want to take the whole
Speaker 1: baskets go every time I go there. You're into fashion,
Speaker 1: You're into all the beauty trends, and do you feel
Speaker 1: pressure to look a certain way? Yeah, definitely you do.
Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, I definitely always tried to
Speaker 1: stay as natural as I can. But like you know,
Speaker 1: there's a little the little things here and they're like
Speaker 1: a little botox in my forehead. I'm like, I had
Speaker 1: to start doing it. I was getting a wrinkle right here.
Speaker 1: I have a small forehead and I'm very expressive, so
Speaker 1: I started to get the super bad wrinkle here, and
Speaker 1: I was like, I can't have that wrinkle. I'm on
Speaker 1: TV NonStop, you know, So I had to get the
Speaker 1: botox in the forehead. Like so like it's pressure because
Speaker 1: I'm obviously on camera NonStop and there's those moments where
Speaker 1: it's very close up or whatever. So I had I
Speaker 1: got a bad accident and I had knocked these two
Speaker 1: teeth out, like well, this one tooth got knocked out
Speaker 1: and then this one died and so I was able
Speaker 1: to keep my teeth, like they put a bond on
Speaker 1: this one, but they kept getting yellow, and I was like,
Speaker 1: I can't be on TV like this. What am I
Speaker 1: gonna do? And the dentist was like, you gotta give
Speaker 1: the ears. You have to get ears, And so I
Speaker 1: got faked teeth because I felt this pressure, like I'm
Speaker 1: smiling and laughing all the time on camera. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I can't have these two yellow teeth. They're driving me crazy.
Speaker 1: So that's why I got my teeth done. I'm so
Speaker 1: much happier with my new teeth. They definitely like I
Speaker 1: think they changed my face and made it just more
Speaker 1: like more clean looking. Um. But like you know, there
Speaker 1: was a lot of pressure for that, and see how
Speaker 1: would have just thought and maybe she just got invisit
Speaker 1: line and maybe she just got him white and that
Speaker 1: wouldn't you know? I already a pretty decent teeth. Yes,
Speaker 1: after those two teeth you know, got damaged or whatever
Speaker 1: from my accident, it was like I just had to
Speaker 1: do it. Like I'm like, I can't be on camera
Speaker 1: with two teeth a little bit yellower, Like people are like,
Speaker 1: what is she doing. Like this girl's laughing and smiling
Speaker 1: all day, like she definitely makes decent money, like she
Speaker 1: she get her teeth, you know. So I didn't want
Speaker 1: to look like I just didn't care. Um, but I
Speaker 1: feel like if I wasn't on TV, I think I
Speaker 1: probably wouldn't care as much about those things. Like I'm
Speaker 1: a very relaxed, chill person, Like I don't think that
Speaker 1: I've ever cared, So I've always been pretty confident in
Speaker 1: my skin. You know. I think that it is being
Speaker 1: on TV NonStop and knowing that there's gonna be a
Speaker 1: million reruns and people are gonna see it NonStop, that
Speaker 1: that gives me that makes me I look better than
Speaker 1: you know, the normal. Listen, we have literally come out
Speaker 1: the gates running with this interview. You are so infectious,
Speaker 1: and I'm just like getting into it, getting into it.
Speaker 1: You don't understand. I'm so happy to be doing this.
Speaker 1: Like I me and my girls, we did Destiny's Child
Speaker 1: for like three different little talent shows and we always
Speaker 1: won when we did Destiny's Trying, so like it was
Speaker 1: like it was like almost like a good luck charm
Speaker 1: for for us as kids. You know, I don't bless
Speaker 1: you right now. I even told Kelly when I met
Speaker 1: her on Ridiculousness, I was like, We've had so many people,
Speaker 1: and I think I got more nervous when Kelly came
Speaker 1: on Ridiculousness than like, you know, like I grew up
Speaker 1: performing your guy's songs in the Talent Show, so like
Speaker 1: it's crazy to be talking to you, Like, let's throw
Speaker 1: some respect on the music side of you, thank the
Speaker 1: artistic side of you. Chanel. You released your album in yeah,
Speaker 1: and as I was reading and just doing my research,
Speaker 1: it was what four or five years delayed. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was like forever delayed, so many different reasons. I was
Speaker 1: trying to like just like figure it all out, I
Speaker 1: guess you could say. And then I was just like,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm just gonna keep moving independently and
Speaker 1: just do what I wanna do. UM, So I wouldn't
Speaker 1: call it a delay. Came out when it was supposed
Speaker 1: to come out, exactly, I exactly. It's all about timing,
Speaker 1: and I feel like it was God's timing to have
Speaker 1: have you know, I feel like the pandemic happened and
Speaker 1: we all used that time for what we could and
Speaker 1: I just felt like it was the right time for me,
Speaker 1: Like I made a couple of songs that are on
Speaker 1: my album during the pandemic, like right at the beginning
Speaker 1: of it. And I feel like just being in different
Speaker 1: times inspired different energy, inspired different music, you know, and
Speaker 1: walk us through that. That was it was interesting, Like
Speaker 1: I've I've been you know, lucky to grow up in
Speaker 1: l A. So I've been recording in like pretty dope
Speaker 1: studios since I was like sixteen, and during the pandemic,
Speaker 1: I was recording in a little, tiny, uh room in
Speaker 1: my house. So it was like I took it all
Speaker 1: the way back. It was like I went in reverse,
Speaker 1: you know, and probably made some of the most incredible exactly. So, um,
Speaker 1: that's that's what it's all about. I think it's just
Speaker 1: like it's not about the big studio or any of
Speaker 1: that stuff. It's about the actual song you're making and
Speaker 1: the message behind it, you know. And I feel like
Speaker 1: I had so much, so many feelings from relationships to
Speaker 1: about things going on in the world, and and I
Speaker 1: just wanted to get more of my story out about
Speaker 1: like what I've been through in my career. So I
Speaker 1: think for for me as an artist, like I went
Speaker 1: in a lot more with the with my story and
Speaker 1: and just talking about different subject matter on this album. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't know you got some vocals, thank you. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And sometimes there are some people that talk and you
Speaker 1: can even hear in there even the way they speak, like, huh,
Speaker 1: I wonder if they sing. Do they have that cool
Speaker 1: raspy miss a little bit in their singing tone? And
Speaker 1: you do listen, Yes, you can wrap. Okay, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: just say this, continue doing both. Thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: Continue doing both. You're about meditation, so am I. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm about mindfulness. I'm also about putting it into the
Speaker 1: atmosphere what you want right Because a friend of mine
Speaker 1: we literally just worked, looked up the word future and
Speaker 1: it means the time or a period of time following
Speaker 1: the moment of speaking or writing. So I'm gonna ask
Speaker 1: you for your future. Who is someone that you'd like
Speaker 1: to work with musically? There's so many people. Oh my god, Uh,
Speaker 1: there's a lot. I really think though that um, and
Speaker 1: I've said this so many times that I was like,
Speaker 1: there's he has to get the Google alerts or something.
Speaker 1: But I really want to work with Drake. I. I
Speaker 1: still I've never put out a song with Little Wayne.
Speaker 1: But I've worked with Wayne and look up to Wayne
Speaker 1: so much, so I do still want to put out
Speaker 1: a song with Wayne, but we okay work together. But
Speaker 1: I've never even gotten the studio with Drake. And I
Speaker 1: just feel like I love that that that he raps
Speaker 1: and sings and like I do both as well. And
Speaker 1: I've had people in the past be like, oh, you
Speaker 1: kind of like Drake, like a female Drake or whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would love to work with Drake. Like I just
Speaker 1: love all his music. I feel like he can do
Speaker 1: no wrong. Every single song he clips out is a
Speaker 1: hit no matter what. So I really would love to
Speaker 1: work with him. Do you think that rapping and singing
Speaker 1: is a new standard, like you should have singing in
Speaker 1: your back pocket? Yeah, I feel like, I mean, I
Speaker 1: think it's always good to do more than one thing.
Speaker 1: You know, there's all different types of artists. Some artists
Speaker 1: just wrap, some artists just singing. Some artists, you know,
Speaker 1: are more the performing type of artists like that it's
Speaker 1: all about the dancing, you know what I mean. But
Speaker 1: I think that these days people want to see more.
Speaker 1: People are short attention spans. There's so much content on
Speaker 1: social media. So it's like, if you're not doing more
Speaker 1: than one thing, somebody else is, you know, it's better
Speaker 1: to you know, be multitalented. I feel wow. In the beginning,
Speaker 1: you know, we talked about how you are living life,
Speaker 1: but you are prioritizing your mental health, and UM, I
Speaker 1: hope you continue to talk about that on your platform
Speaker 1: so that people can be like, you know what if
Speaker 1: she's balancing herself or she's making sure she's centered and grounded,
Speaker 1: because I really feel I think it's an anti aging
Speaker 1: practice as well. We don't have to be angry and
Speaker 1: bitter for a long time, you know, although there are
Speaker 1: things that are gonna happen to us in life and
Speaker 1: anger is going to be like a natural response, but
Speaker 1: we don't have to stay angry too long. We don't
Speaker 1: have to stay bitter and sad and all that stuff
Speaker 1: too long. So I'm grateful, um that you came to
Speaker 1: talk to us. What would you say to some aspiring
Speaker 1: artists out there who feel like, you know, maybe they've
Speaker 1: been put in a box or people only see them
Speaker 1: for one thing. Because you are, you are breaking out,
Speaker 1: So give us something to the listeners who are saying,
Speaker 1: you know what, I think I can do this too.
Speaker 1: I think the best advice I can give to people
Speaker 1: is to always believe in yourself, no matter what other
Speaker 1: people say. I don't want to say believe in yourself
Speaker 1: too much, because Okay, sometimes there's you know, the people
Speaker 1: on like American Idol or whatever. You're like, you know,
Speaker 1: they can't sing or something right. So every now and
Speaker 1: then every ballot that I feel like sometimes people believe
Speaker 1: in theirselves too much and maybe somebody needs to guide
Speaker 1: them in the right direction, you know. But I believe
Speaker 1: that if you believe in yourself that no matter what,
Speaker 1: something is gonna work out for you. You know that
Speaker 1: there's always gonna be people that are gonna knock you
Speaker 1: and hate on you and be like you could do
Speaker 1: this or that better. But if you really have confidence
Speaker 1: and you just at the end of the day believe
Speaker 1: in yourself, it doesn't matter what anybody else says, You're
Speaker 1: gonna still make it no matter what. You know. I
Speaker 1: believe in attracting positive energy and so believing in yourself
Speaker 1: and believing that you can do anything that that's gonna
Speaker 1: throw so many things your way. Even if you only
Speaker 1: believe in yourself in one category, you might believe in
Speaker 1: yourself so much that God's like, you know what, that's
Speaker 1: off the thing, but this is for you, and he
Speaker 1: might just push that at you, you know. So. I
Speaker 1: just believe confidence and believing in yourself attracts more positivity
Speaker 1: to you. Listen. I am a true believer of believing,
Speaker 1: because believing does work. Chanel. We are so happy and
Speaker 1: excited that you checked in with us today. Thank you
Speaker 1: for having me. I'm so happy that you asked me
Speaker 1: to be on of course, will you come back, Yes,
Speaker 1: I will. Alright, ladies and gentlemen, America's sweetheart is out
Speaker 1: right now. It's amazing. I love it. Ridiculousness is in
Speaker 1: like season eighty four Never Show. Yeah, we're gonna be soon. Amazing.
Speaker 1: All right, Mama, We'll talk to you soon. Talk to
Speaker 1: you soon. Have a great day, you too, darling. Bye bye. Right. Wow,
Speaker 1: it was so good to have Chanel West Coast. She
Speaker 1: he is checking in with us and with you all
Speaker 1: over the world, and I was just so excited to
Speaker 1: hear her talk about her self care routine and how
Speaker 1: she implements meditation, and we both can attest to the
Speaker 1: fact that we're all still growing right, and how you
Speaker 1: can tell you are growing is how you respond to
Speaker 1: things that you normally would have went off about and listen,
Speaker 1: it's okay. And I don't want to call them clap
Speaker 1: backs anymore. A girl, you set them straight. No, Sometimes
Speaker 1: you just want to inform people because some people literally
Speaker 1: are just walking around here ignorant to certain things. So
Speaker 1: every now and them, you want to bring them into
Speaker 1: the light. And I'm so glad that Chanelle is bringing
Speaker 1: folks into the light. She's so talented and I think
Speaker 1: we'll continue to see more about her throughout the years.
Speaker 1: And I'm still a big fan of hers from Yes
Speaker 1: Ridiculous Nous. She's hilarious. So yeah, thank you all so
Speaker 1: much for checking in my book. Checking In is in
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