1 00:00:02,279 --> 00:00:04,720 Speaker 1: I'm a homegirl that knows a little bit about everything 2 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:05,640 Speaker 1: and everybody. 3 00:00:06,559 --> 00:00:08,640 Speaker 2: You know, if you don't lie about that, right, Lauren came. 4 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:14,200 Speaker 1: Hey, y'all, what's up. It's Lauren l Rosa and this 5 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:17,400 Speaker 1: is the latest with Lauren le Rosa. This is your 6 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:21,000 Speaker 1: Delli dig on all things pop culture, entertainment, news and 7 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:24,200 Speaker 1: all of the conversations that shake the room. 8 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:24,640 Speaker 3: Baby. 9 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:28,920 Speaker 1: So today I am bringing you guys, live and direct 10 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:32,199 Speaker 1: into a conversation that I'm pretty sure will shake the 11 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:35,960 Speaker 1: room in a very positive, motivational way. I got to 12 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:40,600 Speaker 1: sit down with marse Martin at Howard University during the 13 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:45,320 Speaker 1: HBCU First Look Film Festival. I was honored to be 14 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:49,280 Speaker 1: in conversation with her and also literally got honored as 15 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:53,200 Speaker 1: one of their like you know, nominated Innovators in the 16 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:57,320 Speaker 1: Content Creator Space, which was an award that's voted on 17 00:00:57,360 --> 00:01:00,680 Speaker 1: by the students that are involved in the program. So 18 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:03,320 Speaker 1: that meant a lot to me. But it also just 19 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:06,160 Speaker 1: meant a lot to me to be in conversation with 20 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:10,959 Speaker 1: Marseille because I feel like, even though Marseille Martin is 21 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:15,120 Speaker 1: so much younger than me, watching her career has literally 22 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:19,640 Speaker 1: shown me what happened like what happens when you're a 23 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:22,880 Speaker 1: multi hyphen it who is you know, very secure and 24 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:24,360 Speaker 1: what it is that you do it. Maybe some days 25 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:26,800 Speaker 1: you're not, but you're secure in the fact that you 26 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:31,399 Speaker 1: do good work. And we had a very in depth 27 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:34,440 Speaker 1: conversation just about what her journey has been like just 28 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:36,080 Speaker 1: trying to make sure she get all her props and 29 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:39,000 Speaker 1: all her just do, but doing really good work in 30 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:44,520 Speaker 1: the film space, creating you know, hits, blockbuster hits like Little, 31 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:52,040 Speaker 1: the movie Little which starts Regina King and herself, Marseille Martin. Yeah, 32 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:54,280 Speaker 1: and just what that looks like and doing it with family. 33 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:56,800 Speaker 1: Y'all know how I feel about stuff like that. So 34 00:01:56,960 --> 00:01:59,520 Speaker 1: I want to, you know, kick off the conversation right here. 35 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 1: Little background. The HBCU First Look Film Festival is an innovative, 36 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:08,799 Speaker 1: annual HBCU initiative that focuses on diversity and inclusion and opportunities. 37 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:10,520 Speaker 2: And they bring together. 38 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:14,359 Speaker 1: HBCU students with HBCU graduates who are creators and leaders 39 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:19,320 Speaker 1: in film, television, and various broadcast industries. So this, you know, 40 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:22,000 Speaker 1: Film Festival is a part of a larger organization that 41 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:25,639 Speaker 1: is making sure HBCU students have all of the opportunities 42 00:02:25,639 --> 00:02:28,360 Speaker 1: that they deserve the outlets to you know, put their 43 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:30,959 Speaker 1: represent and do them, but also the people in the 44 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:33,959 Speaker 1: real conversations to understand what they're walking into. 45 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:37,280 Speaker 2: So let's take a listen to the conversation right now. 46 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:39,280 Speaker 4: All right, So we're gonna get ready to have this 47 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:44,400 Speaker 4: amazing fireside chat. And I'm excited because the moderator of 48 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:47,520 Speaker 4: the fire side chat is somebody who I like in 49 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:49,840 Speaker 4: real life because she's just a dope human being. 50 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:51,720 Speaker 2: We got to know during her. 51 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:54,720 Speaker 4: Time on TMZ, but now she is a bona fide 52 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 4: household name in her own right with a podcast and 53 00:02:57,560 --> 00:03:00,960 Speaker 4: she is the heartbeat of the breakfast club. 54 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 3: Can y'all show some love to my girl laurd. 55 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:09,880 Speaker 5: Louilsa and she stay fly and she went to Delaware 56 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:12,840 Speaker 5: State russ up, you got your Mary J. 57 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:14,040 Speaker 4: Blige bouto on today. 58 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:17,000 Speaker 5: I see I see you, come on, y'all, sir Lawn 59 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:17,840 Speaker 5: and said well love. 60 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:24,359 Speaker 4: And joining her is our ambassador for the HBCU First 61 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:28,079 Speaker 4: Look Film Festival this year. She is a multi hyphened creative, 62 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:31,360 Speaker 4: Hollywood's youngest executive producer. Y'all fell in love with her 63 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:34,000 Speaker 4: own Blackish and you liked her in Little and G 64 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:35,400 Speaker 4: twenty and she's just. 65 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:39,360 Speaker 5: Doing the thing, a ball of happiness. She is a 66 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:46,360 Speaker 5: wonderful person. Come on, shows her love from us, say Martin, Hey. 67 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:50,480 Speaker 3: Lord, it's all yours baby. You got it from here, 68 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:51,360 Speaker 3: I said. 69 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 6: The lifetime navigating worlds that are well beyond her age. 70 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:58,280 Speaker 6: We met her in the Milestone TV series Blackish. This Plano, 71 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:01,120 Speaker 6: Texas native held her own as the whip smart elementary 72 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:05,440 Speaker 6: school age Diane Johnson in a TV family opposite Season 73 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 6: Masters Anthony Anderson, Tracy Ellis Ross, Jennifer Lewis and Lawrence Fishburn. 74 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:14,120 Speaker 6: At only fourteen. In twenty nineteen, she set the Guinness 75 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:17,839 Speaker 6: World Record as the youngest Hollywood executive producer for the 76 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:21,480 Speaker 6: MeV Little signed a first look deal with Universal Pictures 77 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:24,640 Speaker 6: and became the youngest person to achieved this with any 78 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:28,640 Speaker 6: studio still in her teens. Forbes thirty for thirty named 79 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:31,559 Speaker 6: her to the list. She's been celebrated with Time one hundred, 80 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:36,039 Speaker 6: Next A, Refinery twenty nine's twenty nine Powerhouse Honors. She 81 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:39,640 Speaker 6: is an eleven time and DOUBACP Image Award winner who 82 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:44,640 Speaker 6: executive produced via her Genius Productions, the skating themed Saturdays, 83 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:46,320 Speaker 6: a TV series for Disney. 84 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:50,320 Speaker 7: As an actress, she portrayed first daughter to Viola Davis's 85 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:54,120 Speaker 7: black female potus in the Action Pact G twenty and 86 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:59,200 Speaker 7: has voiced multiple projects, including the popular Paul Patrol for 87 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:02,880 Speaker 7: Paving the way for the next generation of storytellers, producers 88 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 7: and entrepreneurs and leading with Purpose is why Marseille Martin 89 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:12,320 Speaker 7: is Cafe Moca's twenty twenty five Salute Them Awards Bridging 90 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 7: the Gap, Honoree. 91 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:19,840 Speaker 2: I know that's right, Marseille. When do you sleep? 92 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:22,599 Speaker 1: I'm sorry that was like thirty things, and I know 93 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:24,400 Speaker 1: you got like a thousand more accomplishments. 94 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:25,159 Speaker 2: When do you sleep? 95 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:27,800 Speaker 3: And when do I sleep? Yes, when I'm done with this, 96 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:32,839 Speaker 3: you know, a quick little thirty minute power app gotcha. 97 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:35,680 Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I'm honored to be here in conversation 98 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 1: with you. We met some time ago at the Breakfast 99 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:41,160 Speaker 1: Club and even before that, we've always been a fan 100 00:05:41,279 --> 00:05:43,680 Speaker 1: of your work ethic. But just how you understood the 101 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:46,520 Speaker 1: business so early, so young, and I know that you 102 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:48,320 Speaker 1: know I met Mom backstage. I know that has a 103 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:50,240 Speaker 1: lot to do with you have great people around you, 104 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:53,440 Speaker 1: So let's get right on into it, right, So you 105 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:57,200 Speaker 1: embarked on your career at a really young age. And 106 00:05:57,279 --> 00:05:59,120 Speaker 1: we talk about you know, in the business and being 107 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:00,600 Speaker 1: able to do all these things, but what were some 108 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:04,919 Speaker 1: of the opportunities or challenges that came with the opportunities 109 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 1: of being in the spotlight so young? 110 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:07,480 Speaker 3: Oh my goodness. 111 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:10,680 Speaker 8: I mean, I will put it in perspective that I 112 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:11,960 Speaker 8: started when I was five. 113 00:06:12,640 --> 00:06:13,760 Speaker 3: So the. 114 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:20,039 Speaker 8: Complications that we had going from I mean Dallas to 115 00:06:20,279 --> 00:06:24,880 Speaker 8: la and then going from Huntington Beach to like Burbank, 116 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:26,880 Speaker 8: which is a two hour drive going back and forth 117 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:29,200 Speaker 8: from the studio. I mean, it was just a lot 118 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:31,880 Speaker 8: of sacrifice that came here to it, as it is 119 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:35,960 Speaker 8: for anybody who has a passion, and I believe. I mean, 120 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:39,000 Speaker 8: there's things in the little details that like a lot 121 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:41,080 Speaker 8: of people don't even think of, such as like you know, 122 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:42,440 Speaker 8: who's doing your hair? 123 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:44,760 Speaker 3: You know, how's your hair going? Look, a lot of 124 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:46,600 Speaker 3: people don't know how to do black people's hair. 125 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:49,320 Speaker 8: And then when you know, we're able to fix that 126 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:51,719 Speaker 8: with the amazing Roxy Lindsay, who. 127 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:54,200 Speaker 3: Is such a like like. 128 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:57,200 Speaker 8: A perfectionist when it comes to black women here of course, 129 00:06:57,279 --> 00:06:59,719 Speaker 8: but I mean there's just there's so many things that 130 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:03,600 Speaker 8: you can talk about and you know, relate to when 131 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:05,880 Speaker 8: it comes to just what it was like growing up 132 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:08,800 Speaker 8: in that space. But I feel like, just as a whole, 133 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:10,800 Speaker 8: the things that you don't even think about, such as 134 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:15,920 Speaker 8: just your childhood just switching, you know, just shifting from 135 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:19,880 Speaker 8: with me being a little girl from Dallas, Texas, going 136 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:22,760 Speaker 8: from a public school that I was at for many 137 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:26,560 Speaker 8: years and then going to homeschool, you know, such as that, 138 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:29,200 Speaker 8: and just like the different shifts that puts on a 139 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:32,480 Speaker 8: perfect person and what it takes on. So I feel 140 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:35,280 Speaker 8: like it was a lot of changes that happened. But 141 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:39,120 Speaker 8: I think with me being an old soul and always 142 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:42,760 Speaker 8: around I'm not going to say, oh, grown people all 143 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:45,600 Speaker 8: the time. I used to be around my aunties and 144 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:47,680 Speaker 8: I was like eight years old and they were telling 145 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:51,200 Speaker 8: me about they divorced stories and stuff, and I'm like, exactly, girl, 146 00:07:51,320 --> 00:07:54,360 Speaker 8: like this is what you have to do. So going 147 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:58,120 Speaker 8: from that to then going on a set that you know, 148 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:02,240 Speaker 8: it's legend that I also saw as like my aunties, 149 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:04,240 Speaker 8: like Jennifer Luiz, like, it was basically. 150 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:04,520 Speaker 3: The same thing. 151 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:07,720 Speaker 8: So I think it's just being able to kind of 152 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:10,960 Speaker 8: change my mindset at such a young age and not 153 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:15,240 Speaker 8: really thinking about how crazy the shift is from someone 154 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:18,560 Speaker 8: else who meets the I, but just you know, having fun, 155 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:20,680 Speaker 8: trying to find the fun and everything that I do. 156 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:22,360 Speaker 3: That I think that was the most important thing. 157 00:08:22,360 --> 00:08:25,000 Speaker 1: You talk about the shift. I can't imagine at such 158 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:27,040 Speaker 1: a young age what that feeling was like. But do 159 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:30,240 Speaker 1: you remember when you were like, oh, things are different 160 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:31,920 Speaker 1: for me than the kids that I started going to 161 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:33,880 Speaker 1: school with, Like when you kind of realize like, okay, 162 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:36,640 Speaker 1: I'm a celebrity, these things are happening. 163 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:37,600 Speaker 3: Okay. 164 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:42,360 Speaker 8: I will say when I went from my public school 165 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:45,360 Speaker 8: in Dallas, Texas, where I was with the same people 166 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:50,040 Speaker 8: for many, many years, and then moved to Huntington Beach 167 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:52,319 Speaker 8: where it was just a bunch of white kids. 168 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:56,440 Speaker 3: I went to like a YMCA, and I. 169 00:08:56,400 --> 00:09:04,200 Speaker 8: Had like it's like white, very like out there, jolly yes, 170 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:09,960 Speaker 8: and most of and sometimes sometimes I would be you know, 171 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:13,720 Speaker 8: absent because I would have to work. So when I 172 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:16,560 Speaker 8: come back, I was like I was working, and you know, 173 00:09:16,679 --> 00:09:18,640 Speaker 8: I was a middle school kid talking about I had 174 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:21,280 Speaker 8: to work, like you know, I was at work. So 175 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:24,040 Speaker 8: that's when I kind of realized the shift in how 176 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:29,520 Speaker 8: different I was from just other kids. And you know, 177 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:32,600 Speaker 8: it was it was different at the time, but I 178 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:34,959 Speaker 8: was there was something in me that was very vocal 179 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:37,599 Speaker 8: about being like talking to my parents and me and 180 00:09:37,679 --> 00:09:40,200 Speaker 8: like listen, y'all, this this ain't gonna work. I was like, 181 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:43,120 Speaker 8: this is not gonna work. I need to find something else. 182 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:45,840 Speaker 8: And that's when I moved into homeschool, and then my 183 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:49,320 Speaker 8: mom became my teacher, and then we had some amazing, 184 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:52,080 Speaker 8: amazing tutors on the Blackish set that helped me out 185 00:09:52,120 --> 00:09:55,120 Speaker 8: so much, and I then eventually I had the same 186 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:59,240 Speaker 8: tutor up until I was finished with school. So at 187 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:01,680 Speaker 8: the end it was very helpful, you know, but that 188 00:10:01,840 --> 00:10:04,880 Speaker 8: was definitely the shift of like, wow, this is different. 189 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:07,760 Speaker 1: So growing up in the industry and growing up around 190 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:09,839 Speaker 1: the arts, you said something important, Like you said you 191 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:11,439 Speaker 1: were able to go to your parents and say this 192 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:13,600 Speaker 1: is not working for me, like I need to change 193 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:15,920 Speaker 1: schools because whatever just wasn't. 194 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:17,200 Speaker 2: On point for you to do what you need to do. 195 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:17,480 Speaker 3: Right. 196 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:19,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, as a creative and a lot of you know, 197 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:22,559 Speaker 1: the students and the people here are probably creators of businesses, 198 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:25,600 Speaker 1: and they're young and they're figuring things out. What would 199 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:29,160 Speaker 1: be your message to them about being able to say, hey, 200 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:31,080 Speaker 1: this is not working for me, so that they're their 201 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:33,280 Speaker 1: best selves when they're showing up and trying to create 202 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:35,880 Speaker 1: their projects and do different things because you did at 203 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:36,720 Speaker 1: a very young age. 204 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:38,839 Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it starts with. 205 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:45,280 Speaker 8: Understanding the question behind the question of like, Okay, this 206 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:45,920 Speaker 8: isn't working. 207 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:48,079 Speaker 3: Why isn't it working? What are you feeling? 208 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:48,440 Speaker 4: Like? 209 00:10:48,640 --> 00:10:52,080 Speaker 3: Tell me what the perfect scenario is? How do we 210 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:52,959 Speaker 3: get to that point? 211 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:55,760 Speaker 8: And I think even at that age, it was trying 212 00:10:55,800 --> 00:11:00,400 Speaker 8: to understand myself before saying what I had to say 213 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:02,000 Speaker 8: to everybody else outside of. 214 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:05,440 Speaker 3: That, which I definitely had to learn. 215 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:07,959 Speaker 8: You know, just growing up, because I was a person 216 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:10,080 Speaker 8: that would say something and then someone would ask me 217 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:10,719 Speaker 8: why and I was. 218 00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:14,200 Speaker 3: Like, hmmm, I don't know. So I think to be 219 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:14,839 Speaker 3: able to. 220 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:20,200 Speaker 8: Understand where it's coming from the feelings that are rooted 221 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:24,520 Speaker 8: into it, it's helped me so much, whether I'm learning 222 00:11:24,679 --> 00:11:27,720 Speaker 8: with journaling or even like I'll do these voice memo 223 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:31,280 Speaker 8: diaries of just me talking just it can be like 224 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:34,040 Speaker 8: the most crazy ramble or whatever. 225 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:35,920 Speaker 2: Is there like a diary or like what talk us 226 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:36,600 Speaker 2: through that it's. 227 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:37,360 Speaker 3: Like a voice memo. 228 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:38,960 Speaker 8: I would I mean, I guess you can call it 229 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:41,640 Speaker 8: a diary, but it's just a brain dump of things 230 00:11:41,679 --> 00:11:43,280 Speaker 8: that I have on my mind because I mean it 231 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:46,720 Speaker 8: could be very overwhelming at times. So and then you'll 232 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:48,760 Speaker 8: have all these questions and I'm like, Okay, how do 233 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:51,839 Speaker 8: we how do we come to the solution? Yes, and 234 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:55,720 Speaker 8: just go from layer to layer to later to layer, 235 00:11:56,040 --> 00:11:58,320 Speaker 8: because it's truly like an onion, you know, just trying 236 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:01,560 Speaker 8: to figure out what is the core, the core situation 237 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:04,439 Speaker 8: which has helped me, which has helped me so much. 238 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:08,280 Speaker 8: So I think that would be my advice to people 239 00:12:08,520 --> 00:12:14,160 Speaker 8: is to learn yourself. Constantly, learn yourself, don't rush your process, 240 00:12:14,280 --> 00:12:17,440 Speaker 8: don't rush into making a decision. I think it just 241 00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:21,160 Speaker 8: it definitely helps in the long run and just your 242 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:22,319 Speaker 8: growth as a whole. 243 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:34,720 Speaker 1: Deciding to get behind the camera for you and you know, 244 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:38,160 Speaker 1: creating projects and producing. Was that something that you were 245 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:40,400 Speaker 1: always doing or was that something that you know one 246 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:41,680 Speaker 1: day you were like, rememb what is this? 247 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:42,360 Speaker 2: I want to try it? 248 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:42,480 Speaker 1: Like? 249 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:43,680 Speaker 2: How did that come about? 250 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:49,440 Speaker 8: When I created little with my family? That was that 251 00:12:49,559 --> 00:12:53,480 Speaker 8: was honestly the peak of everything was being able to 252 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:57,800 Speaker 8: actually see something that me and my parents created in 253 00:12:57,960 --> 00:13:00,800 Speaker 8: our living room turn into something that we go to 254 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:04,480 Speaker 8: Atlanta and we're filming for three months, saying you are 255 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:07,960 Speaker 8: just really seeing your dreams come to reality, which was 256 00:13:08,679 --> 00:13:12,200 Speaker 8: very surreal for me. And if you've watched a little before, 257 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:16,520 Speaker 8: there's one scene in particular where it's literally when Jordan 258 00:13:16,679 --> 00:13:19,800 Speaker 8: wakes up and she has these big old clothes on, 259 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:23,480 Speaker 8: she got this huge hair, and she's just now waking up. 260 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:25,240 Speaker 8: She's trying to look for her glasses and then she 261 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:28,680 Speaker 8: tries to see herself in the mirror and she just shook. 262 00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:30,880 Speaker 8: And even I think that was one of the first 263 00:13:30,880 --> 00:13:33,080 Speaker 8: scenes that we shot, and I was like, wow, I 264 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:37,720 Speaker 8: cannot believe. I just remember me and my mom going 265 00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:40,120 Speaker 8: band for band on, like what she was gonna wear, 266 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:42,480 Speaker 8: what she's looking like, what is she saying? And then 267 00:13:42,559 --> 00:13:47,400 Speaker 8: me actually doing that with a whole production everybody's saying 268 00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:49,520 Speaker 8: like doing it for takes on takes and. 269 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:52,199 Speaker 3: It just was so special. 270 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:57,439 Speaker 8: And then to have that and then to realize like, oh, 271 00:13:57,520 --> 00:13:58,400 Speaker 8: I could do this. 272 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:00,839 Speaker 3: Over and over and over again, like this is fun. 273 00:14:01,520 --> 00:14:04,400 Speaker 8: That's how Genius Productions came about. And I could do 274 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:06,960 Speaker 8: it for other people, not just for me to feel this, 275 00:14:07,480 --> 00:14:10,640 Speaker 8: but for other young black girls who want to be 276 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:13,679 Speaker 8: in front and behind the camera other black boys who 277 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:17,720 Speaker 8: want to pursue anything, anything that they want. It's like 278 00:14:17,880 --> 00:14:22,040 Speaker 8: I understood what that energy was, yes, and how much 279 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:23,480 Speaker 8: I want to share that with other people. 280 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:26,800 Speaker 1: What are things that you so when you're doing Little 281 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:29,560 Speaker 1: you mom, your family, your home, you're figuring it out 282 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:32,080 Speaker 1: and then you're on set, right What were some things 283 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:35,000 Speaker 1: that you were realizing that you had been learning all 284 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:37,120 Speaker 1: along the way that helped you a lot at that 285 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:39,880 Speaker 1: time that somebody right here right now could be like 286 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:42,000 Speaker 1: hyper focusing on because it'll get them to a point 287 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:43,360 Speaker 1: where they could go out and do a production with 288 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:45,600 Speaker 1: friends next month, the next week. What are some of 289 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:47,840 Speaker 1: those like core things that you were like, let me 290 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:49,280 Speaker 1: see what she did there. God, I didn't even know 291 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:50,120 Speaker 1: that this was preparing me. 292 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:53,600 Speaker 3: Ooh oh, that's a tough one. 293 00:14:55,880 --> 00:14:57,320 Speaker 2: Mom said use your resources. 294 00:14:57,600 --> 00:14:58,880 Speaker 3: Oh look my mom is right here. 295 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:00,400 Speaker 2: She's like, yeah, right here. 296 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:04,240 Speaker 1: To front, y'all, Mom is right hand to front. 297 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:07,960 Speaker 3: The fad is skill of me? Absolutely? Yeah. 298 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:11,960 Speaker 8: I mean, like my mom was saying, definitely using your resources. 299 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:15,640 Speaker 8: I think connection is everything. The reason even why a 300 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:18,920 Speaker 8: Little came about is because of Kenya Bears and Will 301 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:23,400 Speaker 8: Packard and of course Kenya created Blackish. Yes, so we 302 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:27,600 Speaker 8: had the idea, but it wouldn't have been able to 303 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:30,360 Speaker 8: come to fruition the way it did without the team 304 00:15:30,640 --> 00:15:33,600 Speaker 8: behind it. And it's genuine people who want to see 305 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:36,320 Speaker 8: you win, you know, it's not just there were in 306 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:38,000 Speaker 8: it for the money, or they were in it because 307 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:41,520 Speaker 8: I'm a prodigy or you know, or whatever the whatever. 308 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:46,080 Speaker 3: Story you make in your head. Yes, but it's I 309 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:49,480 Speaker 3: mean I was nine, I was nine when that that 310 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:52,080 Speaker 3: conversation started, you know, so. 311 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:56,440 Speaker 8: A lot of people can see that in different ways. 312 00:15:56,560 --> 00:15:59,360 Speaker 8: You know, they can see it and you know, go 313 00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:02,240 Speaker 8: with some kind of story that it's not true or 314 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:05,000 Speaker 8: I'm just the phase or whatever. But they saw a 315 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:09,920 Speaker 8: girl with a passion, with an idea and wanted to 316 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:12,680 Speaker 8: follow suit with it, you know. And I think that 317 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:16,000 Speaker 8: is the most important thing, is just following your heart 318 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:20,240 Speaker 8: with people who want to protect it, you know, because 319 00:16:20,280 --> 00:16:23,080 Speaker 8: that's not I mean, that's not around a lot you know, 320 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:28,600 Speaker 8: we were that. Yeah, people absolutely, just genuine good people 321 00:16:28,680 --> 00:16:30,880 Speaker 8: who you just want to be around, you know, you 322 00:16:31,160 --> 00:16:32,840 Speaker 8: never want to be around no fake people, of course, 323 00:16:32,920 --> 00:16:36,600 Speaker 8: but I think it's just important to just curate your team, 324 00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:39,400 Speaker 8: find your team, find your energy that you want to 325 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:42,960 Speaker 8: be around, and just create your plans and go from there. 326 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:45,200 Speaker 8: We had a plan, yes, and I think that was 327 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:48,000 Speaker 8: that was important. So I think that was one thing 328 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:50,800 Speaker 8: is using your resources. Another thing my mom says a 329 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:52,560 Speaker 8: lot is what's for you, what's for you, and what's 330 00:16:52,560 --> 00:16:53,440 Speaker 8: for you won't miss you. 331 00:16:53,560 --> 00:16:55,040 Speaker 3: I read every time. 332 00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:58,920 Speaker 8: And I say it here because there was a minute 333 00:16:58,920 --> 00:17:01,360 Speaker 8: where I, I mean, I was just on Blackish for 334 00:17:01,640 --> 00:17:03,920 Speaker 8: like it was what nine. 335 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:05,320 Speaker 3: Years of my life almost said. 336 00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:09,840 Speaker 8: And I feel like I was starting to as an 337 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:13,439 Speaker 8: actor become stagnant or like, you know, as a whole, 338 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:16,400 Speaker 8: I'm growing up in front of everybody's eyes as Diane, 339 00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:19,960 Speaker 8: not as Marseille, you know. So I think as a whole, 340 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:23,560 Speaker 8: I had to sit back and it was more of 341 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:26,920 Speaker 8: a complicated experience to find myself because of it, and 342 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:31,760 Speaker 8: little in creating my production company and also turning into 343 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:35,640 Speaker 8: the person I truly want to be, which is an 344 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:38,600 Speaker 8: overall creator. I'm just a creator at heart. I just 345 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:41,480 Speaker 8: like having fun, building businesses and stuff. That's just really 346 00:17:41,520 --> 00:17:43,760 Speaker 8: just what I want to do, you know. And I 347 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:45,800 Speaker 8: just I think as a whole, that's what I wanted 348 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:47,960 Speaker 8: to be and what I was destined to be. And 349 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:53,399 Speaker 8: I realized, like, you know, as long as I follow 350 00:17:53,440 --> 00:17:55,959 Speaker 8: my path, as long as I trust in God, as 351 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:58,480 Speaker 8: long as I don't stress about it, no pressure, just 352 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:02,840 Speaker 8: do what is at hand. And then if I know 353 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:04,720 Speaker 8: that God is not going to put anything in my 354 00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:08,479 Speaker 8: heart and my mind and my gut that it's not 355 00:18:08,520 --> 00:18:10,800 Speaker 8: supposed to be, it's not supposed to be there. You know, 356 00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:13,359 Speaker 8: it's everything that I think, everything that I feel. It's like, Okay, 357 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:15,399 Speaker 8: this is this is here for a reason. I'm feeling 358 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:16,320 Speaker 8: this way for a reason. 359 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:19,080 Speaker 3: So when everything came about, I was just like, wow, 360 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:21,479 Speaker 3: this is just really God's journey. 361 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:27,120 Speaker 8: And even though I created Little at nine, I didn't 362 00:18:27,119 --> 00:18:29,320 Speaker 8: film me until I was thirteen. I didn't get the 363 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:32,200 Speaker 8: record until I was fourteen. You know, I didn't create 364 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:34,679 Speaker 8: my production company until I was fourteen fifteen. I didn't 365 00:18:34,880 --> 00:18:39,879 Speaker 8: start actually selling stuff until I was sixteen seventeen. You know, 366 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:42,439 Speaker 8: I didn't start getting the recognition for it until I 367 00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:43,480 Speaker 8: was eighteen nineteen. 368 00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:44,159 Speaker 4: You know. 369 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:49,880 Speaker 8: So I think to be able to trust the plan, yeah, 370 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:54,919 Speaker 8: trust the process, find joy in the process is what's 371 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:57,560 Speaker 8: the most important thing, because then you realize, like, wow, 372 00:18:57,600 --> 00:19:00,520 Speaker 8: this is perfect timing and what's the rush? 373 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:04,240 Speaker 1: You know, I think that when you say it, it's 374 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:07,399 Speaker 1: sometimes it's easier to say it than to live it 375 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:08,080 Speaker 1: or feel it. 376 00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:08,840 Speaker 2: When you're in it. 377 00:19:09,320 --> 00:19:10,679 Speaker 1: And I know, like, how many of you guys are 378 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:14,120 Speaker 1: creators here? Raise your hand, creators college everybody? Right, yeah, 379 00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:15,520 Speaker 1: thank you for raising your hands, everybody. 380 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:18,159 Speaker 2: Yes. So I think a lot of times, especially when you're. 381 00:19:18,080 --> 00:19:21,119 Speaker 1: Creative and you live with what you love so much, right, Like, 382 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:24,080 Speaker 1: it's like your passion, the journey, it has its twists 383 00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:25,800 Speaker 1: and turns, and it may feel like, oh when does 384 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:28,359 Speaker 1: the light hit? But what she is talking about is 385 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:31,040 Speaker 1: kind of being so committed to like what you're experiencing 386 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:33,359 Speaker 1: that you're not worried about the end. And I know 387 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:35,159 Speaker 1: that's hard for us. But there's a message in what 388 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:37,159 Speaker 1: she just says. So I hope you guys felt that 389 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:39,359 Speaker 1: message as well too. End in the resources thing, a 390 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:41,560 Speaker 1: lot of you guys are here, your creators are in college. 391 00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:44,160 Speaker 1: This is the best place for you to find your director, 392 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:48,320 Speaker 1: your head of photography, your publicists, your social media person 393 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:50,520 Speaker 1: like link up with your people, not just from home 394 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:52,160 Speaker 1: coming all the fun things, but link up with them 395 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:53,600 Speaker 1: for real. And I know Howard is the home with that, 396 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:56,000 Speaker 1: so I know y'all doing that, but yeah, she dropping 397 00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:58,640 Speaker 1: some gems up here. You talked about Blackish, right, yeah, 398 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:00,960 Speaker 1: and having to find yourself out of your character because 399 00:20:00,960 --> 00:20:04,120 Speaker 1: that show was so impactful. Did you know going into 400 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:05,919 Speaker 1: and people probably ask you this all the time, the 401 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:08,479 Speaker 1: impact that it would have culturally, and did you understand 402 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:09,399 Speaker 1: it while it was happening. 403 00:20:09,560 --> 00:20:11,720 Speaker 3: Absolutely not. I didn't know what was going on. 404 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:14,480 Speaker 8: I was just having fun. I was being Diane. It 405 00:20:14,119 --> 00:20:17,359 Speaker 8: was it was just fun and ad libing. Even the 406 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:20,119 Speaker 8: June teenth episode where we were talking about we built 407 00:20:20,119 --> 00:20:20,879 Speaker 8: this and all this stuff. 408 00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:23,280 Speaker 3: I just liked the music. I didn't really I didn't know. 409 00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:24,440 Speaker 3: I really didn't know. 410 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:28,480 Speaker 8: I was learning what Juneteenth meant and the story behind 411 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:30,720 Speaker 8: it while we were filming, and I think that was 412 00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:33,960 Speaker 8: such a special moment as a whole, for not even 413 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:36,120 Speaker 8: just the audience, but as us. I mean, we grew 414 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:40,239 Speaker 8: up on the show and there's so many stories and 415 00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:43,240 Speaker 8: concepts that even at home we would just talk about. 416 00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:45,720 Speaker 8: We would look at the script before the table read 417 00:20:45,760 --> 00:20:48,320 Speaker 8: and be like, what does this mean? Like, you know, 418 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:50,840 Speaker 8: how does this reflect you know, my family? Is it 419 00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:53,439 Speaker 8: something that we're gonna go through eventually, and it was 420 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:58,160 Speaker 8: just so important and it felt like it felt like school. 421 00:20:58,280 --> 00:20:59,960 Speaker 3: It felt like school as a whole you were learning 422 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:00,760 Speaker 3: something new. 423 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:04,280 Speaker 8: I think that, Yeah, I think Blackish was just such 424 00:21:04,280 --> 00:21:08,200 Speaker 8: a pivotal moment for us as as just young adults 425 00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:09,200 Speaker 8: just trying to figure. 426 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:09,440 Speaker 3: Out our way. 427 00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:13,080 Speaker 8: Even when Diane had so many things happened to her 428 00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:15,639 Speaker 8: during these seasons, I was doing. 429 00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:15,919 Speaker 3: The same thing. 430 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:19,080 Speaker 8: When Diane got her cycle, it was like a month 431 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:20,960 Speaker 8: or two I got my first, when I was telling 432 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:28,520 Speaker 8: everybody Gods, it was like true, true family dynamics on 433 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:32,080 Speaker 8: that show. Yes, And it was just so important, so special. 434 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:34,840 Speaker 8: Even the hair episode. I would talk to Tracy about 435 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:37,399 Speaker 8: it in the trailer before getting into it. It was 436 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:41,800 Speaker 8: truly like an educational experience for me and something that 437 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:43,600 Speaker 8: I just truly will never forget. 438 00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:47,280 Speaker 1: Do you feel like as a creator the responsibility that 439 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:49,879 Speaker 1: has put on black creators right? So like with that show, 440 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:52,359 Speaker 1: for every young person, you guys saw them something. But 441 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:55,320 Speaker 1: to see a young black woman going through getting her cycle, 442 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:59,119 Speaker 1: learning about Juneteenth, there's another black girl here that watched 443 00:21:59,119 --> 00:22:00,280 Speaker 1: that and she learned with you? 444 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:02,920 Speaker 2: Is she felt seen right? That responsibility? 445 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:05,480 Speaker 1: Do you take that into everything you do because of 446 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:07,359 Speaker 1: black Ish or was that something that you were doing 447 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:10,120 Speaker 1: head on, like you knew early on, Like I want 448 00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:11,720 Speaker 1: to make sure that like the girls who see me 449 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:13,360 Speaker 1: understand this at a young age. 450 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:18,600 Speaker 3: Absolutely, I think now it's deeper. It's deeper than that, 451 00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:18,919 Speaker 3: you know. 452 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:22,119 Speaker 8: I think now being behind the camera, I want people 453 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:25,600 Speaker 8: to not just as an actress like there might be 454 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:29,240 Speaker 8: you know, an amazing actress that happens to be like 455 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:33,680 Speaker 8: an amazing black women that see that and are excited 456 00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:35,439 Speaker 8: about it. But now I'm like, Okay, where are the 457 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:38,199 Speaker 8: black writers, Where are the black dps? Where are the 458 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:41,680 Speaker 8: black I mean anything black wardrobe? 459 00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:42,920 Speaker 3: You know, where are the props? 460 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:43,199 Speaker 9: You know? 461 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:46,960 Speaker 8: So anything that I do at this point forward, I 462 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:50,520 Speaker 8: want every detail to reflect who we are, right you know. 463 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:54,480 Speaker 8: So anybody who from any position, any role, you can 464 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:58,040 Speaker 8: see that and be like, that's what I want to do, 465 00:22:58,080 --> 00:22:58,960 Speaker 8: That's where I want to be. 466 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:02,080 Speaker 3: That's the caliber that I want to hit, you know. 467 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:04,800 Speaker 8: And I think that is the most important thing is 468 00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:08,479 Speaker 8: paying attention to the little details, and not just with acting, 469 00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:11,080 Speaker 8: but even with the festival work that I do with 470 00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:14,600 Speaker 8: say Summer Cookout or the other businesses that we're trying 471 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:15,040 Speaker 8: to build. 472 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:18,160 Speaker 3: It's always it's always learning. 473 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:20,880 Speaker 8: I'm constantly learning, and I want to learn with other 474 00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:24,080 Speaker 8: people who are genuine, like we said, just good people 475 00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:27,560 Speaker 8: who just want to make good content, like good real 476 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:29,920 Speaker 8: stuff that we want to put out there. I think 477 00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:32,159 Speaker 8: that's just the most important thing. Me and me and 478 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:34,399 Speaker 8: my family will go still band for a band about 479 00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:36,000 Speaker 8: like this is what needs to be out there. 480 00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:36,879 Speaker 3: How do we make it? 481 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:38,600 Speaker 8: How do we build it? How do we start it? 482 00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:41,080 Speaker 8: And I think that's just the start of It's that's 483 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:42,920 Speaker 8: step one. We got any people here that want to 484 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:47,480 Speaker 8: make some good content, Yes, out I will say something 485 00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:50,080 Speaker 8: about I will say something about the resources part. This 486 00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:53,520 Speaker 8: is the best place truly to connect, not just with 487 00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:54,600 Speaker 8: your fellow students. 488 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:57,560 Speaker 3: But we just had Ryan Coogo last night. You know 489 00:23:57,600 --> 00:23:58,119 Speaker 3: what I'm saying. 490 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:03,120 Speaker 8: You have your legions here that are willing to talk 491 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:04,919 Speaker 8: to you, willing to have the conversation. 492 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:08,280 Speaker 3: Don't be afraid to have the conversation. We do not bite. 493 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:10,320 Speaker 3: We can have the conversation as well. 494 00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:13,960 Speaker 8: Like the team that is that we want to cure 495 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:15,640 Speaker 8: and want to build, it starts here. 496 00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:19,680 Speaker 3: That's what it is. It starts here. And I want 497 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:20,760 Speaker 3: to see you guys' work. 498 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:22,640 Speaker 8: I want like, I want to see it out there, 499 00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:25,960 Speaker 8: any part of social media, any like in real life, 500 00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:30,600 Speaker 8: like promote your stuff, yes, don't don't promote your stuff, 501 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:34,840 Speaker 8: you know, don't be embarrased. Yes, sometimes it does come 502 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:36,560 Speaker 8: with embarrassment to get your stuff done. 503 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:39,040 Speaker 3: You know what I mean. You can't be you. 504 00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:41,760 Speaker 8: You gotta be comfortable with being uncomfortable and that and 505 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:44,800 Speaker 8: that's just it. You know, don't be afraid because it's 506 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:46,359 Speaker 8: already going to be a no if you don't. If 507 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:49,159 Speaker 8: you don't do it, it's a it's already a O. 508 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:53,600 Speaker 8: So go for it. Strive to be your best. And 509 00:24:53,640 --> 00:25:09,320 Speaker 8: now i'll see you want to say, hopefully that's your meetings. 510 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:07,800 Speaker 1: Where we want to take some questions from the audience. 511 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:10,840 Speaker 1: So yes, hands in there, any questions? First hand I 512 00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:13,440 Speaker 1: saw was over here. So when you ask your question, 513 00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:16,120 Speaker 1: you got to introduce yourself, your major, what you do, 514 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:19,000 Speaker 1: and then your question. I'll be but I'm gonna go 515 00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:22,000 Speaker 1: to this side in the white with the headphones right here. 516 00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:23,440 Speaker 8: Hi. 517 00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:25,879 Speaker 10: My name is Timia Anderson. I'm a sophomore film a 518 00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:30,119 Speaker 10: TV major, cheminology minor from Mephicinness. I attend Howard, And 519 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:33,680 Speaker 10: my question for you would be, what do you say 520 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:36,600 Speaker 10: to keep yourself going when you're not getting the results 521 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:39,480 Speaker 10: you want? Like maybe, like you know, work is moving slow, 522 00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:42,080 Speaker 10: you just start getting what you want, or you feel 523 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:44,600 Speaker 10: like you're not doing enough. For example, I do photography 524 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:47,920 Speaker 10: around campus and I have I do it every so often, 525 00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:50,640 Speaker 10: but I also feel like I could be doing more 526 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:52,960 Speaker 10: than I am. And I'm not really sure if it's 527 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:55,680 Speaker 10: just like me or if it's just like just myself, 528 00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:57,159 Speaker 10: or if it's something more I could be doing. So 529 00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:59,520 Speaker 10: what would you say you say to yourself, like to 530 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:00,880 Speaker 10: keep yourself like stable? 531 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:09,280 Speaker 8: Yeah, I would say, I say trust the timing A 532 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:11,720 Speaker 8: lot of the time. That goes for what I was 533 00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:15,000 Speaker 8: saying in the beginning of what's the question behind the question, 534 00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:17,480 Speaker 8: Like why are you feeling this way? Why do you 535 00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:20,560 Speaker 8: feel like you should be doing more if you already 536 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:24,280 Speaker 8: given your one hundred percent? Like is it comparing? Is 537 00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:29,080 Speaker 8: it you know, overthinking? Is it stress? Is it pressure? 538 00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:32,000 Speaker 8: Is it the pressure of school but also wanting to 539 00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:35,560 Speaker 8: do something different? It's it's those questions that you only 540 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:39,680 Speaker 8: yourself can ask, you know, and then you go from there. 541 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:44,640 Speaker 3: But I think that you know emotions are emotions. Sometimes 542 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:48,919 Speaker 3: I be crying, It's true, I cry and be like damn, 543 00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:52,840 Speaker 3: you know. Sometimes it just be like that, but not 544 00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:55,640 Speaker 3: for long. I don't let it do that. I don't. 545 00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:59,080 Speaker 8: I don't sit in no sadness for long, no sadness. 546 00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:01,639 Speaker 8: I'm like, all right, I feel this way when we go, 547 00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:04,840 Speaker 8: get my ass back up and do what I have 548 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:07,600 Speaker 8: to do. And that's just it. 549 00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:11,480 Speaker 3: You know. Sometimes you just have to find a new plan. 550 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:13,399 Speaker 3: Sometimes you have to pivot. 551 00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:15,960 Speaker 8: Sometimes you have to lean on your connections and being 552 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:17,080 Speaker 8: like this is how I feel. 553 00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:19,000 Speaker 3: How do we figure this out together? 554 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:22,520 Speaker 8: Because nine times out of ten, you're never alone in 555 00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:25,200 Speaker 8: how you're feeling, you know, like how do I get 556 00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:27,760 Speaker 8: out of this funk? You know, most of the time 557 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:29,720 Speaker 8: it's just the person on your left that you're like like, 558 00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:32,520 Speaker 8: this is what I need help with, or hey, help 559 00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:34,639 Speaker 8: me find this person so I can learn how to 560 00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:39,520 Speaker 8: be a better whatever, a better photographer, a better whatever, 561 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:44,320 Speaker 8: like as like, knowledge is key, you know. So I say, 562 00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:47,240 Speaker 8: it's so many different things. But what do I tell myself? 563 00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:49,960 Speaker 8: I let myself feel what I have to feel in 564 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:54,119 Speaker 8: the moment, whatever that is. If it's anger, I'll go 565 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:58,399 Speaker 8: on my voicemail and be like this stop it, be like, 566 00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:00,840 Speaker 8: all right, we're cool. You know what I got to write? 567 00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:02,880 Speaker 8: What's the plan? What's the vibes? How do I get 568 00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:06,320 Speaker 8: out of this? Let you feel what you have to feel. 569 00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:11,239 Speaker 8: That's step one, and then you go from there. Then 570 00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:16,560 Speaker 8: then you find what that next thing is, you know, because. 571 00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:19,800 Speaker 3: The good comes with the bad. That's just that's just 572 00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:20,159 Speaker 3: what it is. 573 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:23,240 Speaker 8: You're gonna have those stagnant moments and that's okay, but 574 00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:24,120 Speaker 8: trust the timing. 575 00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:28,760 Speaker 1: Absolutely. Yeah, We're gonna take some more questions. I'll go 576 00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:31,159 Speaker 1: straight to the back with the green and the white. 577 00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:34,680 Speaker 3: With the yes. She like, do I know green and white? Yeah? 578 00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:36,160 Speaker 2: Girl, you put that outfit on the day. 579 00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:37,440 Speaker 3: Hi. 580 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:39,600 Speaker 2: My name is Brishet. 581 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,600 Speaker 3: I am a junior. I'm a film major at Buois 582 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:43,520 Speaker 3: State University. 583 00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:47,080 Speaker 7: Yep, oh my good. 584 00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:50,440 Speaker 11: Okay, And my question to you is when you think 585 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:53,239 Speaker 11: about your legacy, do you see yourself as part of 586 00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:56,120 Speaker 11: a movement of young black creatives or as someone building 587 00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:57,560 Speaker 11: her own land entirely? 588 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:02,240 Speaker 2: Girl, she came with the outfit the question. 589 00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:05,600 Speaker 3: Right, she said, this is what I gotta say it. 590 00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:08,200 Speaker 3: I feel. 591 00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:10,840 Speaker 4: Let them lead. 592 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:11,719 Speaker 2: You won't do it? 593 00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:14,720 Speaker 3: The one did you do it. I know I have 594 00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:17,760 Speaker 3: my peers, I know I have my people around me. 595 00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:21,040 Speaker 8: But ever since I was little, I knew that I 596 00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:25,760 Speaker 8: was creating a lane for myself that is just outside of. 597 00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:29,720 Speaker 3: What other people are doing, and that's okay. 598 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,440 Speaker 8: When I learned that was when I realized there was 599 00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:35,800 Speaker 8: nobody next to me that I can that I can 600 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:41,120 Speaker 8: completely relate to because I was doing things are still 601 00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:45,120 Speaker 8: doing things at an age where nobody could even fathom 602 00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:47,400 Speaker 8: where to start. 603 00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:54,720 Speaker 3: So I see my legacy being my own path and 604 00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:57,040 Speaker 3: I take that head on like. 605 00:29:57,600 --> 00:29:59,640 Speaker 8: And I think this comes from me being I don't 606 00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:03,040 Speaker 8: know who into astrology, but I'm a triple LEO. I 607 00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:07,240 Speaker 8: stand on like you know I stand on business. I 608 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:10,680 Speaker 8: put my all into myself. I'm confident in myself. I 609 00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:15,880 Speaker 8: know what I have to do as well as I 610 00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:18,840 Speaker 8: know it's only me that can get myself there, and 611 00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:21,640 Speaker 8: I know what I'm capable of that is. 612 00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:23,640 Speaker 3: Different from all these other people out here. 613 00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:26,040 Speaker 8: You can see it in my resume, you can see 614 00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:27,680 Speaker 8: it in my work, you can see it in the 615 00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:29,720 Speaker 8: conversations I have with people. You can see me in 616 00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:33,880 Speaker 8: business because I don't play about that. I come from 617 00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:37,320 Speaker 8: a family that doesn't play about that, and that's just 618 00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:40,760 Speaker 8: that I get. I stay out the way and I 619 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:46,560 Speaker 8: do my work, which is different, and that's it. So 620 00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:50,640 Speaker 8: I think as a whole, I'm just I'm just in 621 00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:53,040 Speaker 8: a path of my own and that comes from with 622 00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:56,640 Speaker 8: a whole different responsibility than anything else that I've seen. 623 00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:59,680 Speaker 3: But I take it head on and that's just that's 624 00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:02,320 Speaker 3: just the Yes, go. 625 00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:06,000 Speaker 2: Well, last one? Okay, last one? 626 00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:07,280 Speaker 3: Oh? 627 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:09,000 Speaker 2: I want to say, you got to pick the last one? 628 00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:10,280 Speaker 3: I feel so much pressure. 629 00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:11,920 Speaker 2: It's like I got the auks right now or y'all 630 00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:14,560 Speaker 2: wasn't really feeling my music? So giving it to you? 631 00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:14,720 Speaker 9: What? 632 00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:15,600 Speaker 4: Yeah? 633 00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:19,240 Speaker 3: Stressful? Ait it? Oh? No? Do we got? 634 00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:20,800 Speaker 9: Oh? 635 00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:23,560 Speaker 2: What if this is the last question? 636 00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:30,160 Speaker 8: What if we just go? Okay, let's do Miss girl 637 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:30,800 Speaker 8: in the White. 638 00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:36,080 Speaker 3: I'm sorry, y'all, I hold it for your queen. I 639 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:37,160 Speaker 3: was gonna be like better dance. 640 00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:40,120 Speaker 2: See how did that boom? Everybody? Handshake? 641 00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:42,360 Speaker 10: Hi? 642 00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:45,360 Speaker 9: First of all, thank y'all both for being here. Thank 643 00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:47,640 Speaker 9: you for picking me to a question. My name is 644 00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:51,960 Speaker 9: Selma So I'm a fourth year computer science major theater 645 00:31:52,080 --> 00:31:53,719 Speaker 9: arts minor from Oakland, California. 646 00:31:53,880 --> 00:32:00,480 Speaker 8: Yes, yes, I felt, yes, Yes, it's West Coast Baby 647 00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:01,480 Speaker 8: contend you. 648 00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:04,680 Speaker 9: Yes, And my question is kind of about being like 649 00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:11,040 Speaker 9: a multi hyphenated creative. I'm an actress, dancer, model, singer, creative, director, 650 00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:14,760 Speaker 9: et cetera, et cetera, and I find it hard sometimes 651 00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:18,880 Speaker 9: to market myself when it's like there's so many different 652 00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:21,720 Speaker 9: things I'm interested in, so many different things I do, 653 00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:24,480 Speaker 9: so many different just lanes I want to go to. 654 00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:27,960 Speaker 2: So my question is for the multi hyphenic creatives, how 655 00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:28,840 Speaker 2: can we. 656 00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:32,479 Speaker 9: Figure out ways to put it together as like a 657 00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:36,080 Speaker 9: full package that can be like presented and marketed. 658 00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:41,840 Speaker 8: Hmmm, well, I mean it starts with you. I mean 659 00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:45,720 Speaker 8: you're the only person who can market yourself truthfully. 660 00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:48,480 Speaker 3: You know your brand? What is your brand? That is 661 00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:49,240 Speaker 3: something that. 662 00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:51,840 Speaker 8: Is a full day of just sitting with yourself and 663 00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:55,440 Speaker 8: thinking about you know. That's that's where the little details 664 00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:57,480 Speaker 8: come in, Like when are you gonna pull out your 665 00:32:57,560 --> 00:32:58,520 Speaker 8: dancing skills. 666 00:32:58,200 --> 00:32:59,680 Speaker 3: When you're gonna pull out your singing? When are you 667 00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:02,560 Speaker 3: gonna do that? Is all you? No one can actually 668 00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:05,680 Speaker 3: do that for you, you. 669 00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:07,760 Speaker 8: Know, that is something that every person that you see 670 00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:11,920 Speaker 8: has kind of curated that for themselves. I think one 671 00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:17,800 Speaker 8: of my favorite multi hyphen stars is Tianna Taylor, you know, 672 00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:23,840 Speaker 8: which is someone who styles herself, creates her own content, 673 00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:28,520 Speaker 8: has her own production company, the conversations that she has 674 00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:32,920 Speaker 8: with people, conversations that she has on her own, you know. 675 00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:35,000 Speaker 8: So those are things that you have to do to 676 00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:38,160 Speaker 8: just market yourself. You're the only person who can do that, 677 00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:39,520 Speaker 8: and that is. 678 00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:43,680 Speaker 3: A beautiful thing to do, all of it. So my 679 00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:48,720 Speaker 3: my advice would be to have fun. 680 00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:52,200 Speaker 8: Don't think too hard on it, just have fun with it, 681 00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:54,479 Speaker 8: because that's one of the best things to do is 682 00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:57,840 Speaker 8: just put yourself out there and have fun. I mean, 683 00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:00,440 Speaker 8: Halloween just passed, Like, what's a un neat thing that 684 00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:01,400 Speaker 8: you could do for Halloween? 685 00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:03,480 Speaker 3: I mean Thanksgiving it is coming up. What's a unique 686 00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:04,040 Speaker 3: thing you can do. 687 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:07,160 Speaker 8: With your family, like who are the fan of the friends, 688 00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:08,200 Speaker 8: the connections that you have. 689 00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:09,959 Speaker 3: They can go on campus. 690 00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:12,280 Speaker 8: And start your own series or start your own whatever, 691 00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:15,440 Speaker 8: like as a creative director to where you're able to. 692 00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:19,560 Speaker 3: Sprout all of that. But have fun with it. 693 00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:21,719 Speaker 8: That's one of the best things I could say is 694 00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:24,320 Speaker 8: don't think too hard on it. It might be something 695 00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:26,880 Speaker 8: to even have fun with just for a day, you know, 696 00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:29,799 Speaker 8: And that's what I would say. You know, just find 697 00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:32,200 Speaker 8: ways to mark yourself and start and start there. You know, 698 00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:34,440 Speaker 8: I can't tell you how to market yourself because. 699 00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:36,000 Speaker 3: Only you know you. 700 00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:40,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, there's only one you show us why. There's only 701 00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:43,759 Speaker 1: one you, period. That's your asset in the room. Girl, 702 00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:46,919 Speaker 1: You're welcome, And I tell you to real quick before 703 00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:49,120 Speaker 1: you go. Sometimes too, like when you can do a 704 00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:51,080 Speaker 1: bunch of things, there's like one thing that is like 705 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:54,480 Speaker 1: super prevalent that people just like run to you naturally about. 706 00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:57,560 Speaker 1: Don't fight that either, lean into that and then allow 707 00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:00,920 Speaker 1: yourself to like bring everything else into yeah, as it 708 00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:03,400 Speaker 1: makes sense. Like think about your favorite like story that 709 00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:05,960 Speaker 1: you go to for I don't know, your favorite makeup product. 710 00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:08,000 Speaker 1: Once you go get that product, you just happen to 711 00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:10,200 Speaker 1: find everything else. So if you are strong there and 712 00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:12,239 Speaker 1: that's out there, the people gonna find the rest of 713 00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:12,640 Speaker 1: the stuff. 714 00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:15,160 Speaker 2: Just be ready, have it all together, have your looks 715 00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:15,800 Speaker 2: all the things. 716 00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:18,040 Speaker 8: And I will say this for everybody in the room, 717 00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:21,440 Speaker 8: even with the questions that I got, you don't need 718 00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:22,839 Speaker 8: to have it all figured out right now. 719 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:24,239 Speaker 3: No, I know. 720 00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:26,799 Speaker 8: Sometimes people will look at tiktoks of us in our 721 00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:30,239 Speaker 8: twenty somethings thrive and strive and whatever and being like, 722 00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:30,600 Speaker 8: oh my. 723 00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:33,160 Speaker 3: Gosh, I need to be like them. We don't have 724 00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:37,840 Speaker 3: it all figured out either, we don't. This is just 725 00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:41,319 Speaker 3: our job, just like you have your job, girl. That's it. 726 00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:44,440 Speaker 3: That's just it. So you don't need to have it 727 00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:46,120 Speaker 3: figured out out right now. 728 00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:49,680 Speaker 8: Just create your path, create the story you want to tell, 729 00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:53,480 Speaker 8: and take it day by day because your twenties is 730 00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:55,839 Speaker 8: where you can actually make the most mistakes and come 731 00:35:55,880 --> 00:36:00,440 Speaker 8: back from it, you know. And that's just it, you know, 732 00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:05,320 Speaker 8: Just like, keep going, keep pushing, keep thriving the best 733 00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:07,760 Speaker 8: that you can do. Not put any pressure on yourself 734 00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:10,800 Speaker 8: at all. Y'all are still in school, y'all are still 735 00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:14,920 Speaker 8: focusing on other things and other problems. Just take it 736 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,560 Speaker 8: day by day and it'll all fall in the place later. 737 00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:19,680 Speaker 2: Yeah, and ladies, before we brend it up. 738 00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:22,319 Speaker 4: I got a question from mom Carol, because a bunch 739 00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:24,360 Speaker 4: of the students keep asking me, come on, stand up, 740 00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:27,320 Speaker 4: Mama cairol I put it on the spot. 741 00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:32,680 Speaker 3: A bunch of the students keep asking me and say 742 00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:36,960 Speaker 3: what ut, Mom, Carol. Bnch of the students have asked 743 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:37,440 Speaker 3: me this. 744 00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:40,959 Speaker 12: And you know, I have parents who don't see arts 745 00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:44,440 Speaker 12: and entertainment as a viable career, and they want me 746 00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:46,920 Speaker 12: to become a doctor or a lawyer, one of these things. 747 00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:50,360 Speaker 12: How did you have the unction to support your daughter 748 00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:52,839 Speaker 12: through this career path? And what advice would you give 749 00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:55,840 Speaker 12: the students about talking to their parents about them taking 750 00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:57,320 Speaker 12: the journey in arts and entertainment? 751 00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:00,360 Speaker 3: Hello, everybody. 752 00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:03,759 Speaker 13: I come from a family of artists, so it was 753 00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:07,719 Speaker 13: really easy for me to spot early that that would 754 00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:10,399 Speaker 13: probably be what her journey was. But if I did 755 00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:13,000 Speaker 13: have parents that didn't get it, or if I was 756 00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:15,560 Speaker 13: a parent that didn't get it, you got to understand 757 00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:20,240 Speaker 13: that the choices that I make for me are my choices, 758 00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:24,600 Speaker 13: and this is not a carbon copy of myself. And 759 00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:27,520 Speaker 13: God didn't give me a baby to just pour into 760 00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:31,279 Speaker 13: what I what I want her to be. I can 761 00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:33,759 Speaker 13: desire her to do all sorts of things, but she's 762 00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:36,120 Speaker 13: a blank piece of paper and all I can do 763 00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:38,359 Speaker 13: is try to make sure that I give her all 764 00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:40,880 Speaker 13: the tools that are necessary. I make sure she's fed 765 00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:45,520 Speaker 13: and clothed and saying, and God does the rest. I 766 00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:48,000 Speaker 13: knew from a baby that this is the kid that 767 00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:51,160 Speaker 13: I had, so I just it was funny trying to 768 00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:55,360 Speaker 13: get people to see what I saw because everybody they're like, 769 00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:58,239 Speaker 13: everybody thinks their baby is you know, everybody's baby can 770 00:37:58,239 --> 00:38:00,000 Speaker 13: do I was like, nah, everybody's baby can't do it. 771 00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:00,920 Speaker 3: This baby could do. 772 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,360 Speaker 13: But you know, and then they saw what came to fruition, 773 00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:04,040 Speaker 13: and then they're. 774 00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:04,520 Speaker 3: Like, oh I knew. 775 00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:08,400 Speaker 13: Remember when I told you no, girl, I'm like, yeah, okay, 776 00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:15,000 Speaker 13: but I mean, just tried your best to give your 777 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,759 Speaker 13: parents grace because that's what was put under them, you know, 778 00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:21,120 Speaker 13: like that that seems like that they want stability. You 779 00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:24,520 Speaker 13: have to hear what's behind that push. They may not 780 00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:28,680 Speaker 13: get it because they were told that same thing. You know, 781 00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:31,279 Speaker 13: like the only viable way to do anything is are 782 00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:34,799 Speaker 13: these four careers, you know, and there's the artist, the 783 00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:38,160 Speaker 13: starving artists. That's the actual title. So yeah, most artists 784 00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:41,319 Speaker 13: are starving, you know. So they it's coming from a 785 00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:43,960 Speaker 13: place of concern and love and if you give them 786 00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:46,799 Speaker 13: that grace, they may never understand it. But you gotta 787 00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:49,800 Speaker 13: do what you got to do for you and try 788 00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:53,040 Speaker 13: to stay in that mindset and know that there's the 789 00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:55,719 Speaker 13: community of people that support you even if they don't 790 00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:56,120 Speaker 13: get it. 791 00:38:56,239 --> 00:38:58,120 Speaker 2: Do You just got to find your folks that do 792 00:38:58,440 --> 00:38:59,160 Speaker 2: that'll hold. 793 00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:02,280 Speaker 8: You up and I will I will say that also 794 00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:06,200 Speaker 8: comes with time. They sometimes they just need to see it. 795 00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:09,399 Speaker 8: Sometimes they just need to see it because I mean 796 00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:14,120 Speaker 8: it is people just be like that sometimes. But also too, 797 00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:18,120 Speaker 8: even this past year, I've the conversations I have with 798 00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:20,920 Speaker 8: my parents are very different. They look different now because 799 00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:23,879 Speaker 8: I realize that they're humans too. They don't, like mom said, 800 00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:25,800 Speaker 8: they don't have it all figured out. This is the 801 00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:27,960 Speaker 8: first time that they have a twenty one year old 802 00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:30,799 Speaker 8: or a twenty something year old. So, like my mom said, 803 00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:33,480 Speaker 8: to be able to give your parents that grace, but 804 00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:35,279 Speaker 8: also too, they might be a part of the group 805 00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:37,200 Speaker 8: that just needs to see it to believe it. 806 00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:40,200 Speaker 3: And that's okay. So keep moving forward. 807 00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:43,840 Speaker 8: And it's not saying that you can't do this or whatever, 808 00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:46,680 Speaker 8: because that can feel like projection at times. But just 809 00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:49,160 Speaker 8: follow your path and switch your mindset about it. It's 810 00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:50,400 Speaker 8: all about mindset. 811 00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:53,560 Speaker 3: Now, we see where you get it from though, right, yes, yep, 812 00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:54,080 Speaker 3: full of love? 813 00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:56,160 Speaker 5: Can y'all give Lord and mant say a round of o'clock, 814 00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:58,120 Speaker 5: Come on, get up on your feet and show them 815 00:39:58,160 --> 00:39:58,839 Speaker 5: somewhere love. 816 00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:03,759 Speaker 1: I told y'all, I told you guys, at this conversation 817 00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:04,960 Speaker 1: with Marseille Martin. 818 00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:07,319 Speaker 2: I mean, come on, let's think about it. 819 00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:12,200 Speaker 1: Like Marseille Martin is, you know, Blackish little She is 820 00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:18,200 Speaker 1: literally the girl. She's so good at what she does 821 00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:21,200 Speaker 1: and as you guys were able to hear today, there 822 00:40:21,239 --> 00:40:23,320 Speaker 1: is intention and purpose. 823 00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:26,120 Speaker 2: And hard work and effort behind. 824 00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:29,440 Speaker 1: Everything she does. As always, I'm Laurena Rosa. This is 825 00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:31,360 Speaker 1: the latest with Laura Rosa, and y'all could be anywhere 826 00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:35,319 Speaker 1: with anybody, having these conversations and hearing from some of 827 00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:36,840 Speaker 1: your favorite celebrities firsthand. 828 00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:39,920 Speaker 2: But y'all choose to be with me every single episode, and. 829 00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:43,279 Speaker 1: Men do I appreciate y'all for that, My Lowriders. I 830 00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:45,520 Speaker 1: will see you guys in my next episode.