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Case closed 18 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 1: right James eyl Ray Let's upon for the official story. 19 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:05,840 Speaker 1: Some of the evidence, as far as I was concerned, 20 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:09,880 Speaker 1: did not match the circumstances. This is the MLK Tapes. 21 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:13,520 Speaker 1: The first episodes are available now. Listen on the Heart 22 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:17,280 Speaker 1: radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 23 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:20,640 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Money Making Conversation. I am your host, 24 00:01:20,720 --> 00:01:23,960 Speaker 1: R Sean McDonald. It's important to understand that everybody travels 25 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:26,880 Speaker 1: a different path to success. That is because your brand 26 00:01:26,959 --> 00:01:29,479 Speaker 1: is different. The challenges you face in your life are different. 27 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:33,000 Speaker 1: So stop reading other people's success stories and start writing 28 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:36,280 Speaker 1: your own. My Money Making Conversation interviews will encourage you 29 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:39,000 Speaker 1: to lead with your gifts and never use age as 30 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 1: an excuse when you're planning your goals. My next guest 31 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:47,040 Speaker 1: is Melody Thomas Scott. She's best known for Amy nominated 32 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:49,840 Speaker 1: work and the iconic role of Nicky Read, a character 33 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:52,880 Speaker 1: she's played for forty years and counting on America's the 34 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:56,720 Speaker 1: number one daytime television drama The Young and the Restless. 35 00:01:56,720 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 1: How memoir Always Young and Restless. It's a very motivational 36 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 1: I read it. It's very very recommended. It's a compelling 37 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 1: book about her life. We'll be discussing her life, her career, 38 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:10,520 Speaker 1: and overcoming the odds. Please, Welcome to Money Making Conversations. 39 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 1: Melody Thomas Scott. Well, hello, Sean. Well. Uh well, first 40 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:17,919 Speaker 1: of all, thank you for coming on the show. Thank 41 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:20,360 Speaker 1: you for having your people send a book to me. 42 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:23,920 Speaker 1: You know, I read a lot of books, Melody, and uh. 43 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:26,920 Speaker 1: One thing that jumped out of this book was Overcoming 44 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:31,200 Speaker 1: the Arts was one. Uh. And motivation. You you constantly 45 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:34,639 Speaker 1: self motivated? Uh? Can you talk about that a little 46 00:02:34,639 --> 00:02:36,760 Speaker 1: bit before we were getting dealt about different things and 47 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:38,480 Speaker 1: that I read about the book and some of the 48 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:41,160 Speaker 1: questions that your your team asked me to enquire about 49 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:45,000 Speaker 1: when we were doing the interview. It's so funny that 50 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:49,160 Speaker 1: you consider me to be a self motivator. I don't 51 00:02:49,200 --> 00:02:52,440 Speaker 1: believe that about myself at all, but I'll take the compliment. 52 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:55,320 Speaker 1: We are because because you know the thing about it. 53 00:02:55,360 --> 00:02:57,720 Speaker 1: I I look at my life, you know, and people 54 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:00,639 Speaker 1: laugh at me because I can remember are things when 55 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:03,320 Speaker 1: I was two, three and five very clearly. I can 56 00:03:03,639 --> 00:03:05,480 Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna tell you something I can. I 57 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:08,400 Speaker 1: can remember when my sisters, you know, back in the 58 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:10,600 Speaker 1: day before they had the little pampers where you could 59 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 1: just have a little when it had safety. I can 60 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:18,400 Speaker 1: remember my sister's actually sticking me intentionally because because because 61 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:20,120 Speaker 1: I was the middle child. I was the middle child. 62 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:22,320 Speaker 1: I can remember and I tell people, they go, you're 63 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:24,680 Speaker 1: not telling you, how could you remember that? And then 64 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:28,240 Speaker 1: I read your book and I go, I finally met somebody, 65 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:32,680 Speaker 1: isn't it wonderful? And I only know before now learning 66 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:35,560 Speaker 1: about you, there's only one other person and that I've 67 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:38,280 Speaker 1: found that has the same memory that we do. So 68 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:41,960 Speaker 1: there's three of us anyway, And it's really interesting because 69 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:45,920 Speaker 1: you know it is so. As I'm talking to starting 70 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:47,880 Speaker 1: your book and you you mentioned that, I go, okay, 71 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:50,000 Speaker 1: you know you started, you said, okay, I can relate 72 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 1: to her. Now, you know, we we have a kinship 73 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:57,440 Speaker 1: here because how many people have told me in fact 74 00:03:57,320 --> 00:03:59,560 Speaker 1: and first in fact, when I tell people that they 75 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:01,920 Speaker 1: said this, they told me I've not been telling truth 76 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:04,440 Speaker 1: so many times I don't even tell people anymore. They 77 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:08,600 Speaker 1: don't believe you. I I totally understand. And so it's so. 78 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:11,800 Speaker 1: But but it's tied to it's tied to it's not 79 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 1: tied to trauma. It's not. It's just that somehow in 80 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:17,880 Speaker 1: my life I am very you know, there are points 81 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:19,599 Speaker 1: in my life where you know, I'm not as clear. 82 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:23,760 Speaker 1: But for some reason, for some reason under five. I 83 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:26,479 Speaker 1: am very clear about what happened in my life between 84 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:33,360 Speaker 1: first grade from from under five. I'm very clear melody is, 85 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:36,520 Speaker 1: isn't it strange? I mean, I remember being in my crib, 86 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:39,880 Speaker 1: I remember all these I remember events that happened when 87 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:43,520 Speaker 1: I was one that have been verified by family members. 88 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:50,880 Speaker 1: So it is a freakish umber, yes, but you know 89 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:53,480 Speaker 1: it's a blessing and occurs. I mean you probably don't 90 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:56,680 Speaker 1: remember some of those things, right, But let's talk about 91 00:04:56,720 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 1: your career. Why did you write the book? Okay, for 92 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:01,520 Speaker 1: like I said, when I it, it became a very 93 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:05,480 Speaker 1: motivating memoir to me. Why did you write the book? Well, 94 00:05:05,560 --> 00:05:09,120 Speaker 1: thank you, Um, I wrote the book. I've I've always 95 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:11,480 Speaker 1: known for many years that there was a book in 96 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:14,960 Speaker 1: me that needed to be out there in the world. 97 00:05:15,279 --> 00:05:18,080 Speaker 1: And it took a very long time, I think, um 98 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:23,240 Speaker 1: getting over the the emotional blocks that one might have 99 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:29,120 Speaker 1: in writing about adversities in childhood, and mine were particularly unique, 100 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:33,200 Speaker 1: I would say, But I mean I was never going 101 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:35,680 Speaker 1: to write about write a book simply about the young 102 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:38,640 Speaker 1: and the restless. I mean that that just would not 103 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:41,839 Speaker 1: do it for me. I mean, yes, it's interesting to 104 00:05:41,839 --> 00:05:45,239 Speaker 1: the fans. But my real motivation was to write about 105 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:50,040 Speaker 1: my personal life and yes, things that I have overcome. Um, 106 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:53,360 Speaker 1: but when I said to you earlier, I don't view 107 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:58,440 Speaker 1: myself as self motivating. Uh. It just happened to be 108 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:03,080 Speaker 1: that I was able somehow guardian angels or who knows what, 109 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:07,200 Speaker 1: to uh break out of what could have been a 110 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:11,200 Speaker 1: very bad road. Uh it was not. It was never 111 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:15,440 Speaker 1: my uh intant at the moments of thinking, all right, 112 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:18,559 Speaker 1: I'm going to overcome this. No, it was almost something 113 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:22,680 Speaker 1: otherworldly that guided me to a different path, uh for 114 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:27,159 Speaker 1: my government. And I'm so grateful for that whatever forces 115 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:29,880 Speaker 1: or powers allowed me to do that and showed me 116 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:33,000 Speaker 1: those roads. It's really interesting. Let me I'm gonna repeat. 117 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:35,080 Speaker 1: I don't know if you heard my intro before I 118 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:38,279 Speaker 1: introduced you. And that is why, and then is why 119 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:42,440 Speaker 1: this book is such a natural to my storytelling about 120 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:45,560 Speaker 1: what you're bringing you on the show. I say it 121 00:06:45,640 --> 00:06:48,480 Speaker 1: is important to understand that everybody travels a different path 122 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:51,520 Speaker 1: to success. This is her, but when you read her book, 123 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:54,920 Speaker 1: this is her book. That is because your brand is different. 124 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:57,760 Speaker 1: Brand is just a life, and that's her life. The 125 00:06:57,839 --> 00:07:01,040 Speaker 1: challenge you're facing your life are different that her. And 126 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:03,800 Speaker 1: then what she did was she stopped reading other people's 127 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:06,839 Speaker 1: success story and started writing her own. I could not 128 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:10,200 Speaker 1: have written I said that. I said that every time 129 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:13,760 Speaker 1: I opened my show, Melody, I could have not written 130 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:19,040 Speaker 1: a more classic intro that that mirrors your book. It's amazing, 131 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:22,360 Speaker 1: and I like to believe that what I'm trying to 132 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:23,960 Speaker 1: do on my show and what you've written in that 133 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:27,720 Speaker 1: book trying to accomplish the same thing. You're telling your story, 134 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:30,280 Speaker 1: but I'm also inviting on the show to let people 135 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:35,560 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying is the truth. Yes, And that 136 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:38,040 Speaker 1: is why I wrote the book. I had to be 137 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:41,840 Speaker 1: truthful about everything. I had to include the dark with 138 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:45,239 Speaker 1: the light. You can't write a whole book all about 139 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:51,160 Speaker 1: the light. That that meaningless some way. So um, I 140 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:54,760 Speaker 1: just needed to let it out there. And since the 141 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:58,680 Speaker 1: release on August eighteens, I've heard from so many people 142 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:06,360 Speaker 1: already that are thanking me for delving into particularly sensitive areas. 143 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:10,360 Speaker 1: That hearing from so many people, Oh my gosh, Melody. 144 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:13,560 Speaker 1: You know, I had similar things when I was a kid, 145 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:18,160 Speaker 1: and they're still carrying them around, you know, as an adult, 146 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:21,560 Speaker 1: and it's so wonderful to be able to release that 147 00:08:21,840 --> 00:08:24,640 Speaker 1: and move forward and lead the past in the past. 148 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:27,040 Speaker 1: And it really is important. I know, I'm working on 149 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:30,520 Speaker 1: a book myself, a motivating book, melody. And the thing 150 00:08:30,640 --> 00:08:35,040 Speaker 1: that I found and rightened it you you start remembering 151 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:38,800 Speaker 1: things that you kind of like yet you buried. Yes, 152 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:41,400 Speaker 1: I mean there were many times where I'm sitting at 153 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:46,839 Speaker 1: my computer writing a particularly grueling chapter and I am there, 154 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:51,480 Speaker 1: perhaps due to our early childhood memory abilities when writing 155 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:54,200 Speaker 1: at I am there in the room where things were 156 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:59,200 Speaker 1: happening when I was four. And it's total recall and 157 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:01,360 Speaker 1: it has to be in order for it to be honest. 158 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:04,200 Speaker 1: And that's what makes the book compelling. And now now 159 00:09:04,240 --> 00:09:06,440 Speaker 1: remember you stay every shot. I don't really see myself 160 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:08,800 Speaker 1: as a self starter. Well, I'm gonna point out some 161 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:11,800 Speaker 1: examples of what I thought with a self start if 162 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:14,560 Speaker 1: you don't mind when you intend to it, when you 163 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:19,400 Speaker 1: intentionally gained weight for that role, nobody, nobody told you 164 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:25,000 Speaker 1: to do that, but you saw an opportunity. Okay, even that, 165 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:28,400 Speaker 1: you're giving me too much credit? Why Why am I 166 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:30,199 Speaker 1: giving you too much credit? Speach speak speak to me, 167 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:37,680 Speaker 1: because I still can't tell you to this day. Why 168 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:41,720 Speaker 1: when I was thirteen and reading Variety and learned about 169 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:44,360 Speaker 1: this part in this new Clint Eastern movie. I still 170 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:48,240 Speaker 1: cannot tell you what inside is. Me said, that's my part, 171 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:51,400 Speaker 1: and the part is of a chubby girl. Why I'm 172 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:55,040 Speaker 1: not chubby, but I can be very soon, and just 173 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:58,680 Speaker 1: started eating with no promise of an interview. My agent 174 00:09:58,760 --> 00:10:02,360 Speaker 1: had not ever uttered the words of system uh. And 175 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:07,520 Speaker 1: it was just something in me that And it wasn't like, oh, 176 00:10:07,559 --> 00:10:09,360 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go get it. I'm gonna go get that, 177 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:13,280 Speaker 1: get a moment. We're gonna argue positively on this show, 178 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:18,600 Speaker 1: ms go because because you are fantastic, and I think 179 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:21,319 Speaker 1: i'd like to say you kind of underseil yourself a 180 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:23,520 Speaker 1: little bit, but I can't say that because you're so successful. 181 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:26,719 Speaker 1: But what I see is a person that let's just 182 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:30,439 Speaker 1: point out another example, to shoot this, to shoot this. 183 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:34,840 Speaker 1: The director he worked, he worked with him twice. Right, 184 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:38,680 Speaker 1: you saw an opportunity you called his lovely assistance. I 185 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:40,719 Speaker 1: feel a bit that that was a bit of a 186 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:44,079 Speaker 1: devious movement my part. All right, you know some people, 187 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:46,360 Speaker 1: we're getting that. What you would tell everybody if you 188 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:49,280 Speaker 1: don't mind that genius move there, that actually the role 189 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:52,439 Speaker 1: could have went to another blonde starlet. I won't reveal 190 00:10:52,559 --> 00:10:56,240 Speaker 1: that little aha moment, but you did a genius move. 191 00:10:57,360 --> 00:10:59,839 Speaker 1: Until long after we shot the film, I did not 192 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:02,640 Speaker 1: know who was supposed to play that part. But it 193 00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:06,280 Speaker 1: was just kind of a strategic move on my part 194 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:10,560 Speaker 1: because I really did feel like, you know, my career over, 195 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:14,600 Speaker 1: should I go back and focus on my piano. I 196 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:17,560 Speaker 1: was a bit at a crossroads, but I felt that 197 00:11:17,679 --> 00:11:20,679 Speaker 1: taking a meeting with Don Seagal because I had worked 198 00:11:20,679 --> 00:11:23,480 Speaker 1: with him twice before and I did know he was 199 00:11:23,559 --> 00:11:26,360 Speaker 1: going to be doing the shoot this, but I didn't 200 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:31,480 Speaker 1: let on to that in the meeting, and that it 201 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:34,240 Speaker 1: was just again one of those why you did when 202 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:36,240 Speaker 1: you talked to his assistant. You didn't let on then 203 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:42,880 Speaker 1: either strategic, strategic, strategic. Then when you made it with him, 204 00:11:42,679 --> 00:11:44,680 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, then you made it with him, So you 205 00:11:44,679 --> 00:11:47,440 Speaker 1: did it twice. I'm just saying, you're very smart, and 206 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:49,520 Speaker 1: that's why I'm just letting you know that these are 207 00:11:49,559 --> 00:11:51,559 Speaker 1: the tools that I took away from the book, that 208 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:54,280 Speaker 1: sometimes you have to make your opportunity, sometimes you have 209 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:56,640 Speaker 1: to be a self starter. And these are the motivated 210 00:11:56,679 --> 00:11:58,760 Speaker 1: moments that I took away from the book, and I'm 211 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:02,240 Speaker 1: encouraging people to read because here's a person. Sometimes you 212 00:12:02,280 --> 00:12:05,720 Speaker 1: don't Sometimes an opportunity is not presented to you. Sometimes 213 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:07,880 Speaker 1: it may be so far away you might say, I 214 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:09,720 Speaker 1: can't achieve that. That's what happened. When you was eight 215 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:12,000 Speaker 1: years old. You was you were skinny. The road was 216 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:15,480 Speaker 1: for a chubby kid, and your mind, your agent didn't 217 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:17,240 Speaker 1: say anything about it, but you read it said I'm 218 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:19,040 Speaker 1: gonna get this, and you went and got it. But 219 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:23,480 Speaker 1: through effort, through effort, though well, through a lot of eating. 220 00:12:23,559 --> 00:12:27,480 Speaker 1: I gained twenty pounds in two weeks. And I still 221 00:12:27,520 --> 00:12:29,520 Speaker 1: don't know how you did that. I still don't know 222 00:12:29,559 --> 00:12:35,920 Speaker 1: how you did that. You'll grubbing big time. I was determined. 223 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:39,560 Speaker 1: Without a solid opportunity at the end of that road, 224 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:43,000 Speaker 1: I didn't know. It was just something that made that thought, well, 225 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:46,920 Speaker 1: I'm going to do this and then and uh and 226 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:48,920 Speaker 1: then then you achieved it. And so when you achieved 227 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:52,079 Speaker 1: these things, you know, I'll never take it for an 228 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:57,319 Speaker 1: example myself. M Scott is there sometimes I I've accomplished 229 00:12:57,360 --> 00:12:59,520 Speaker 1: things in life and then I kind of like, I 230 00:12:59,559 --> 00:13:02,079 Speaker 1: think it's no big deal, and I'm understand that but 231 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:04,120 Speaker 1: I'm just in my person out and I see a 232 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:07,760 Speaker 1: lot of things that that you you've accomplished in your 233 00:13:07,760 --> 00:13:11,120 Speaker 1: life and that you're doing your life sometimes obviously like saying, Okay, 234 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:13,240 Speaker 1: it happened because guess what was supposed to happen was 235 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:15,360 Speaker 1: the right place at the right time. And I tend 236 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:18,200 Speaker 1: to kill those statements in my life because I realized 237 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:20,120 Speaker 1: that it happened because I made the effort. Like that 238 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:23,040 Speaker 1: happened because guess what, when somebody will give twenty three 239 00:13:23,040 --> 00:13:25,160 Speaker 1: hours in the day, I gave twenty four hours. And 240 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:27,200 Speaker 1: I got that from your personality, Like when you went 241 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:29,840 Speaker 1: back to the Broadway store to work, you don't have 242 00:13:29,880 --> 00:13:31,600 Speaker 1: to go back to that story work. And when you 243 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:34,080 Speaker 1: went back to that store, that led to another opportunity. 244 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:37,240 Speaker 1: I'm just saying, it's just your your your ability to 245 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:41,280 Speaker 1: see opportunities and make opportunities is what shines in this 246 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:45,880 Speaker 1: book when I read it. Well, you're starting to convince 247 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:48,920 Speaker 1: me now that perhaps there is a bit of that 248 00:13:49,160 --> 00:13:53,319 Speaker 1: in me all the goodness outside, because there's so much 249 00:13:53,320 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 1: activity in my house right now. Sorry for that, um goodness, 250 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:06,079 Speaker 1: Um I am, I'm starting to agree with you. Um. 251 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:09,080 Speaker 1: I mean, you know what you could, you could convince 252 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:11,720 Speaker 1: the snowman to buy ice. I'm telling you, I think 253 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:14,439 Speaker 1: you first of all, when when the reality is that 254 00:14:14,440 --> 00:14:16,160 Speaker 1: That's why I was so excited when I got the book. 255 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:17,360 Speaker 1: You know, they sent it to me, a book, and 256 00:14:17,360 --> 00:14:20,560 Speaker 1: he said, you know, and I vary familiar with your talents. 257 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:22,880 Speaker 1: You know, A big fan of the show. Uh. I 258 00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:25,320 Speaker 1: grew up you know, my mom was a soap opera fan, 259 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:28,280 Speaker 1: and so so that's over the sixties. I was, you know, seventies. 260 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:30,840 Speaker 1: I was watching before I went off to college, and 261 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:34,080 Speaker 1: my life took a whole new direction and I thought 262 00:14:34,120 --> 00:14:36,360 Speaker 1: I was a man of men and things like that 263 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:39,040 Speaker 1: and became the person I am today. But along the way, 264 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:41,880 Speaker 1: it was like even when you even when you had 265 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:45,920 Speaker 1: the opportunity to audition for the iconic role that you 266 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:49,800 Speaker 1: have right now, you know, you had a sitcom opportunity, 267 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:52,520 Speaker 1: a pilot up to time you was on the Waltons. 268 00:14:53,440 --> 00:14:57,720 Speaker 1: But yeah, still but yeah, and still well but I, 269 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:01,400 Speaker 1: as you read in the book, I didn't I really 270 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:04,160 Speaker 1: wasn't interested in the role on The Young and the Restless, because, 271 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:07,680 Speaker 1: as you say, I had that other opportunity that I 272 00:15:07,840 --> 00:15:09,880 Speaker 1: very much wanted to do. It's only because my agent 273 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:13,240 Speaker 1: convinced me to take wine, aren't And goodness gracious, the 274 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:15,520 Speaker 1: moral of that is always listened to your agent, because 275 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:18,520 Speaker 1: we see were shot so right. Forty one years later, 276 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:24,560 Speaker 1: I'm still on that show, which is incredible. Wow. I 277 00:15:24,680 --> 00:15:28,440 Speaker 1: just love talking to you because you are the incredible one, 278 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:33,520 Speaker 1: young lady. But you see, I have always felt, even 279 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:35,640 Speaker 1: as a child, and to this day, I feel that 280 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:40,360 Speaker 1: I'm very much the statalist, and that you know, things 281 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:43,440 Speaker 1: that come to me come to me from other forces, 282 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:46,880 Speaker 1: because wherever I'm at is where I'm supposed to be. 283 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:50,800 Speaker 1: And if another opportunity opens up, I don't feel that 284 00:15:50,880 --> 00:15:57,160 Speaker 1: I gunned for it until you started talking to Rashaan McDonald. Now, 285 00:15:57,400 --> 00:16:00,320 Speaker 1: Roshan mcdowe got you thinking about your sail a little 286 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:04,480 Speaker 1: bit different. Here you should have may be right, I 287 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:06,920 Speaker 1: will give him full credit. But you can just onto 288 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:10,080 Speaker 1: something here because because you can give your agent credit 289 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:13,680 Speaker 1: if you want to, rushaw won't, Okay, rush won't because 290 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:17,880 Speaker 1: you still have to give one effort. And when you're 291 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:21,239 Speaker 1: writing this book, you may have had those two opportunities, 292 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:24,160 Speaker 1: but you wanted this opportunity. Then you when you went 293 00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:29,240 Speaker 1: in read you you naturally matching the screen test. You 294 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:32,760 Speaker 1: you the effort, and then the fact that you got it. 295 00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:35,360 Speaker 1: And then she she gives you, your agent gives you 296 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:43,120 Speaker 1: this half compliment where the other girl was prettier. You 297 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:46,120 Speaker 1: could you could have told me everything. Okay, but you 298 00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:48,240 Speaker 1: know they turned out other girl because she was actually 299 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:52,640 Speaker 1: prettier than you, So thank good. But they said that. 300 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:55,880 Speaker 1: She said, well, the other girl was prettier than you, 301 00:16:55,960 --> 00:16:58,160 Speaker 1: but you were the better actor. There you go, there 302 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:01,760 Speaker 1: you go, there you go. 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That's O T 337 00:18:58,320 --> 00:19:01,280 Speaker 1: T E R dot Ai. I am. I think I've 338 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:03,920 Speaker 1: gotten you. I think I've gotten the spirit of melody 339 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:07,119 Speaker 1: on my side. Now let's talk about this brilliant career. 340 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:10,560 Speaker 1: NICKI read come on now, I had to. I had to. 341 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:12,560 Speaker 1: I had to dig deep on this. And because I said, 342 00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:15,440 Speaker 1: you know some I'm reading this book and this book 343 00:19:15,480 --> 00:19:18,520 Speaker 1: is so you know, it starts with a dark side, 344 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:21,640 Speaker 1: this childhood. And she's like me, she's remembering a lot 345 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:24,000 Speaker 1: of things that most people say you're foolish to be 346 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:26,280 Speaker 1: able to you're just lying. You're not telling the two years. 347 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:29,000 Speaker 1: You're just acting right now. But that's part of what 348 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:31,880 Speaker 1: the other magic of who you are. And then then 349 00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:34,520 Speaker 1: you take all these stories but they don't affect your 350 00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:37,320 Speaker 1: everyday life, and you know, it doesn't slow you down, 351 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:40,200 Speaker 1: you know, and you just all like you said, all 352 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:42,879 Speaker 1: you wanted was a sense of normalcy in your life. 353 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:45,760 Speaker 1: That's what you're said in the book. And and and 354 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:51,000 Speaker 1: ironically that normal to me was being an actor and 355 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:53,560 Speaker 1: getting I knew that I was not living the life 356 00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:56,560 Speaker 1: as a normal little girl at all. But I knew 357 00:19:56,640 --> 00:19:59,679 Speaker 1: that if I got a job, I could go to 358 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:02,520 Speaker 1: a video and play the part of a normal little girl. 359 00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:05,440 Speaker 1: And that was everything to me. And that is probably 360 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:09,040 Speaker 1: but what was the very beginnings of my deep desire 361 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:11,440 Speaker 1: to be an actor. It was like, Hey, I'm living 362 00:20:11,520 --> 00:20:14,639 Speaker 1: the craziest world ever at home with this nutty family. 363 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:21,480 Speaker 1: But I can feel successful and at peace with my 364 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:26,000 Speaker 1: own self by being an active by jumping into another 365 00:20:26,119 --> 00:20:29,480 Speaker 1: character's mind. That and I still feel that way. That 366 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:32,560 Speaker 1: is the joy of acting for me is to take 367 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:36,200 Speaker 1: a character that doesn't exist in reality, but making her real. 368 00:20:37,119 --> 00:20:41,200 Speaker 1: I'm speaking to Emmy nominated actress who plays the iconic 369 00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:45,080 Speaker 1: role on The Young and the Restless NICKI Read forty 370 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:49,440 Speaker 1: years in County. We're discussing her book Always Young and Restless, 371 00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:53,600 Speaker 1: is very motivational book as a memoir, it's about her life. 372 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:57,360 Speaker 1: You know, is um you call her NICKI Read? And yes, 373 00:20:57,400 --> 00:21:01,119 Speaker 1: indeed she was NICKI Read. But every today they all 374 00:21:01,119 --> 00:21:03,440 Speaker 1: want to say NICKI Newman, NICKI Newman? Is that whole 375 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:07,440 Speaker 1: Newman thing? You know? Of course, she has been married 376 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:10,720 Speaker 1: twelve times, so I'm not going to fall. So so 377 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:13,520 Speaker 1: what what do you want me to do now? Ms? 378 00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:16,960 Speaker 1: Scott Nicky Read or Nicki Newman. You've been married toll time. 379 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:20,000 Speaker 1: See see. I love talking to you. I love you. 380 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:23,840 Speaker 1: You're probably one of my most interesting guests because like 381 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:26,840 Speaker 1: like this book can there's a couple of things in 382 00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:29,479 Speaker 1: the book. I want to say that that I agree 383 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:31,760 Speaker 1: with you when you said right place at the right time, 384 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:35,880 Speaker 1: like when you went in and Kirk Douglas braided your hair. 385 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:41,840 Speaker 1: M h okay, that's that's that's all. Now here explained 386 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:45,159 Speaker 1: this to me, if you will, okay, cool, thank you. 387 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:47,560 Speaker 1: When I was in that stock room at the Broadway 388 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:50,439 Speaker 1: selling shoes, and I had been told do not answer 389 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:52,960 Speaker 1: the phone in the stock room and I never do 390 00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:57,080 Speaker 1: so that one day and again I don't know what 391 00:21:57,080 --> 00:22:00,200 Speaker 1: what made me go pick up that receiver and say, 392 00:22:00,359 --> 00:22:03,879 Speaker 1: you know, well, ladies shops, how can I help you? Uh? 393 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:06,359 Speaker 1: And it turns out to be my childhood agent, which 394 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:08,760 Speaker 1: led to an I mean as if no time had 395 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:10,840 Speaker 1: passed and it has been years since I had spoken 396 00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:13,600 Speaker 1: to her. Uh. And then I go to the address 397 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:16,639 Speaker 1: she gives me, I walk in and there's Kirk Ductles 398 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:19,120 Speaker 1: behind the desk, and that led to me getting possive, 399 00:22:19,119 --> 00:22:21,200 Speaker 1: which really led to me getting back into the business 400 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:26,240 Speaker 1: as an adult. Uh to to work continuously, but explain 401 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:29,359 Speaker 1: that to me? What made me answer that song that 402 00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:32,000 Speaker 1: that same quality that I keep saying about you, the 403 00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:36,680 Speaker 1: overriding desire to win and to you know, some we're 404 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:38,720 Speaker 1: not winning. What I talked to a lot of successful people, 405 00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:41,800 Speaker 1: and you truly are a successful person. And in the 406 00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:45,200 Speaker 1: end they wind up being successful because they trust themselves. 407 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:48,040 Speaker 1: People tell them what not to do, they do it 408 00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:50,800 Speaker 1: anyway because they trust themselves. They don't do They don't 409 00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:52,800 Speaker 1: do it because of the fact that they're trying to 410 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:55,760 Speaker 1: break a rule. If it doesn't make sense to them, 411 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:58,719 Speaker 1: then they're going to break the rule because it goes, 412 00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:01,359 Speaker 1: why can't I ask this phone? And and and and 413 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:03,120 Speaker 1: and that. When I was read that part of the book, 414 00:23:03,119 --> 00:23:05,400 Speaker 1: I go, she's been an incredible actress all these years. 415 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:08,080 Speaker 1: Where they were what answer the phone? And when I 416 00:23:08,119 --> 00:23:09,480 Speaker 1: when they got to that part, and then when you 417 00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:12,199 Speaker 1: answered the phone, it all made sense because that's the 418 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:14,760 Speaker 1: natural if you if you read yours of course of 419 00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:17,560 Speaker 1: course you're read story. You wrote it. You were rebellious 420 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:21,359 Speaker 1: all the way up to that point. Okay, very rebell 421 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:24,639 Speaker 1: You're very rebellious. So so when you when somebody telling 422 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:28,760 Speaker 1: a very rebellious personality, Look, don't answer the phone. What 423 00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:32,240 Speaker 1: do you think it's gonna happen? You answered the phone, 424 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:35,000 Speaker 1: and you answered the phone, and guess what it was 425 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:39,800 Speaker 1: somebody that Wow, this is so crazy. I'm gonna share 426 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:43,040 Speaker 1: a story with you. I'm gonna tell you we're so interesting, 427 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:45,520 Speaker 1: how our lives intertwined. And I'm saying, you're me, and 428 00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:48,760 Speaker 1: I'm you're I'm you. When I was in the hospital, 429 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:52,280 Speaker 1: I was my lung collapsed, okay, and I was I 430 00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:54,720 Speaker 1: was in I c U that came out and I 431 00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:57,720 Speaker 1: was in hospital, and it was just I was a 432 00:23:57,720 --> 00:23:59,680 Speaker 1: stand up comic, you should be a very popular stand 433 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:03,840 Speaker 1: up and a comedy competition was going on. I knew 434 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:05,200 Speaker 1: nothing about it because I was in the hospital. But 435 00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:11,159 Speaker 1: lungers collapsed and the phone wrong in my hospital room, melody, 436 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:14,960 Speaker 1: I picked it up. It was this guy asking me, 437 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:19,520 Speaker 1: did I want to compete in a comedy competition? Now, 438 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:21,879 Speaker 1: you see, that was the same kind of moment. You know, 439 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:25,240 Speaker 1: we are very much alike, you understand, And so that 440 00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:28,840 Speaker 1: moment right there, lip got me. I was I was 441 00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:31,600 Speaker 1: released from the hospital. Three days later, I was on 442 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:34,280 Speaker 1: stage and I made the finals. It was a national 443 00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:36,920 Speaker 1: TV show. It got me back into the stand up 444 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:39,920 Speaker 1: comedy grew because I had fallen off because I was 445 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:43,320 Speaker 1: in the hospital. But it's the same scenario. So when 446 00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:45,880 Speaker 1: I'm reading your book, I'm like, there are too many 447 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:49,600 Speaker 1: aha moment aha moments with you and I because we're 448 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:55,439 Speaker 1: we're we're self starters, okay, and you know, in life, 449 00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:58,000 Speaker 1: people have told us what we cannot do, and we've 450 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:04,000 Speaker 1: accomplished things that as people have considered the extraordinary. And 451 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:09,000 Speaker 1: yet we're nice people because you are a nice person. Well, fak, well, 452 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,080 Speaker 1: you've just met me. Now give me a little time. 453 00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:15,919 Speaker 1: You might change mind that I read all two seventy pages. Okay, 454 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:22,200 Speaker 1: I could read between the lines. Now, oh you're wonderful. 455 00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:24,640 Speaker 1: Let let's talk about the story. We're a little bit 456 00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:26,920 Speaker 1: that just being a star on the show that long 457 00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:30,480 Speaker 1: and the responsibilities of being a star on the show 458 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:32,000 Speaker 1: that long. Can you talk about that a little bit? 459 00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:37,000 Speaker 1: See kind of thinking doesn't even answer my mind. It's 460 00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:39,800 Speaker 1: hard for me to even say I am a star. 461 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:43,520 Speaker 1: That makes me so uncomfortable to say that, Um, you know, 462 00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:46,920 Speaker 1: we're a company, We're a repertoire company, and I feel 463 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:49,479 Speaker 1: that we are all stars in our own right. You know. 464 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:52,560 Speaker 1: The The interesting thing about when I when I meet 465 00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:55,399 Speaker 1: a person like you, because we've never met before, and 466 00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:58,560 Speaker 1: you know, we look and uh, you know what, But 467 00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:00,520 Speaker 1: I take you after the found this and I do 468 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:05,840 Speaker 1: want to you're amazing. But when I when and then 469 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:07,919 Speaker 1: thank you for wanting to meet with me because of 470 00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:10,880 Speaker 1: the fact that my whole thing and doing this interview 471 00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:12,800 Speaker 1: was first of all to meet you and also to 472 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:15,560 Speaker 1: share what I view, what my takeaway is from a 473 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:18,040 Speaker 1: bookcause we all have reasons why we write a book. 474 00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:21,000 Speaker 1: But I just want to let you know that some 475 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:24,119 Speaker 1: people who read the book, they are inspired. And you 476 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:26,720 Speaker 1: have to have to realize that's a blessing in my eyes, 477 00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:30,600 Speaker 1: the fact that that you that you were honest enough 478 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:33,040 Speaker 1: to say, look, because I'm just telling you, when you 479 00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:35,400 Speaker 1: when you hang up the phone or during this interview, 480 00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:37,679 Speaker 1: if you really look at what you're talking about in 481 00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:42,119 Speaker 1: your book, you overcame so many high odds, so many 482 00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:46,520 Speaker 1: levels of different types of abuse, so many emotionally challenging 483 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:51,000 Speaker 1: physical moments and you survived it. And you survived it, 484 00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:53,959 Speaker 1: uh and and and it didn't affect you. And so 485 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:57,960 Speaker 1: many people allow things to to take them off their success, 486 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:01,120 Speaker 1: that their path of opportunity, and you didn't. And that's 487 00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:03,840 Speaker 1: why I had to say that you are a self starter. 488 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:07,639 Speaker 1: But when a moment presents itself melody, you take advantage 489 00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:10,080 Speaker 1: of it. You do not. You know, when you have 490 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:12,760 Speaker 1: to take the larber called dog. You took the dog. Okay, 491 00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:16,600 Speaker 1: you know you took the dog, and so you did 492 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:19,400 Speaker 1: said dog, I don't like dogs. He said, okay, we'll 493 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:22,800 Speaker 1: bring the dog on here. Because you understood relationships, you know, 494 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:25,320 Speaker 1: and all these things have when you look back in 495 00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:27,960 Speaker 1: your life, you relize because you have such a great 496 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:29,959 Speaker 1: memory you could. I think you get to appreciate your 497 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,200 Speaker 1: life a lot more because you can't remember so many 498 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:35,880 Speaker 1: things I can. And I think that was very helpful 499 00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:39,919 Speaker 1: in uh for the readers out there who think that 500 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,320 Speaker 1: I am NICKI Neil and a lot of people, you know, 501 00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:44,680 Speaker 1: it's a fine line. They really think that that is me. 502 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:48,520 Speaker 1: And if they read everything I've been through and everything 503 00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:51,120 Speaker 1: that I have come out of the other end, it 504 00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:53,720 Speaker 1: it gives them hope. And if I can give an 505 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:58,880 Speaker 1: encouragement to you know, stick with it, and and there 506 00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:02,159 Speaker 1: is light the end of the tunnel, then that writing 507 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:04,239 Speaker 1: the book is all worth it. If I can just 508 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:06,919 Speaker 1: help those who might be going through similar things or 509 00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:10,040 Speaker 1: did as a child and are now adults still carrying 510 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:12,800 Speaker 1: it around with them. They don't need to, they don't 511 00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:15,480 Speaker 1: need to dump it and move on, but move on, 512 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:17,920 Speaker 1: move on, or share it with somebody so you can 513 00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:20,959 Speaker 1: dump it. And that's important too, because sometimes you need 514 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:23,560 Speaker 1: to be speaking and get it out of your system 515 00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:26,040 Speaker 1: and and see how some people who care about you 516 00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:28,280 Speaker 1: react to it, and you realize it's no big deal. 517 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:32,920 Speaker 1: And that's the blessing of communication. That and it tells 518 00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:36,800 Speaker 1: it's been very healing for me to to have put 519 00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:38,920 Speaker 1: it all out there. Hey here it is works and all. 520 00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:46,200 Speaker 1: And uh, you know, I'm I'm encouraging others to follow 521 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:49,280 Speaker 1: my lead. I guess you know, Nicki Newman. You know 522 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:53,080 Speaker 1: I'm talking to NICKI Newman here. Okay, the iconic Nikki 523 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:57,280 Speaker 1: no more. Now, I love talking to you. Well in 524 00:28:57,320 --> 00:28:59,600 Speaker 1: your book, you met a lot of famous people, Nikki, 525 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:07,800 Speaker 1: A lot of famers Franklin huh Ahmad Ali, Oh my goodness, Yes, 526 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:10,920 Speaker 1: that was great, great day. And so when you meet 527 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:13,120 Speaker 1: these famous people you know and tell you when you 528 00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:15,760 Speaker 1: said you met I'm just tell you something, John Wayne, 529 00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:18,480 Speaker 1: I'm a Western nutt so John Wayne was I grew 530 00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:21,920 Speaker 1: up in loving John Wayne. Kirk Douglas, a man's man, 531 00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:24,760 Speaker 1: one of my sparticus, one of my all time favorite actors. 532 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:26,920 Speaker 1: So you come you started writing off names. It's like 533 00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:28,480 Speaker 1: I was jealous of you. I would say, I hope 534 00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:30,880 Speaker 1: she took pictures. I hope she took pictures. And Lorn recall, 535 00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:33,840 Speaker 1: Oh that that that I can just see her silhouette. 536 00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:42,480 Speaker 1: You know, I'm going, Oh, my goodness, Carl Reiner, Aretha Franklin, Okay, 537 00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:45,320 Speaker 1: I'm telling something. And you want to meet Rashaan McDonald, 538 00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:53,120 Speaker 1: I feel even better. He was festival. But you got 539 00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:55,560 Speaker 1: a book out, and uh. I First of all, I 540 00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:57,360 Speaker 1: want to thank you for coming on Money Making Conversation. 541 00:29:57,800 --> 00:29:59,360 Speaker 1: I want to thank you for writing a book that 542 00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:02,120 Speaker 1: in inspired me to realize that I'm living the right life. 543 00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:04,720 Speaker 1: All the things that I'm doing in my life I 544 00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:08,280 Speaker 1: should keep doing. And age has never been an issue 545 00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:11,000 Speaker 1: with you. You've been motivated by hard work and success 546 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:14,040 Speaker 1: and the fact that when and I just wanted to 547 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:16,960 Speaker 1: respond to this before we leave, because in the entertainment 548 00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:21,440 Speaker 1: business it's always feels with so much uncertainty. You work, 549 00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:24,000 Speaker 1: you work, and when you got that three year contract 550 00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:27,520 Speaker 1: h for young and the restless, how did that make 551 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:30,000 Speaker 1: you feel? At that point, You're like, because you know 552 00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:34,120 Speaker 1: what your your life had been, the experience with your grandmother, Uh, 553 00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:38,000 Speaker 1: certain situations that that that people should have been been 554 00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:40,480 Speaker 1: put in jail by the way they treated you physically, 555 00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:45,080 Speaker 1: it didn't happen. But at that point you have offered 556 00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:47,120 Speaker 1: a three year contract. What did that? What did that 557 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:49,640 Speaker 1: do for you emotionally and mentally? And uh, we know 558 00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:52,800 Speaker 1: what he did for you financially. I think I was 559 00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:58,320 Speaker 1: too young and immature to really appreciate what that meant, 560 00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:03,760 Speaker 1: but slowly really um it. Of course, you know it 561 00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:06,800 Speaker 1: does affect your life. All of a sudden, you're making 562 00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:10,320 Speaker 1: regular money every week, which for you know, free lance 563 00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:15,560 Speaker 1: that or that never happened, and you start making new 564 00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:19,000 Speaker 1: friends life long friends on the show. You start maybe 565 00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:22,200 Speaker 1: wearing nicer clothes and driving a nicer car, and it 566 00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:26,880 Speaker 1: just kind of slowly creeps up on you without you realizing, Hey, 567 00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:29,920 Speaker 1: I've kind of jumped into a different bracket here of living. 568 00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:34,000 Speaker 1: You're living in a house and these things just occur 569 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:38,720 Speaker 1: without you giving them that much credence. But certainly as 570 00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:42,040 Speaker 1: time goes on. Uh And and I mean not only 571 00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:44,840 Speaker 1: did it affect my life financially, but I met my 572 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,840 Speaker 1: husband because of young and wrestless. I have my children 573 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:51,960 Speaker 1: because of younger Russels. So it really impacted my life tremendously, 574 00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:55,200 Speaker 1: more so than most actors, I think, because of the 575 00:31:55,320 --> 00:32:00,680 Speaker 1: personal rewards it gave me. Show that has been such 576 00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:04,600 Speaker 1: a blessing and still is that. I mean, how many 577 00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:07,800 Speaker 1: shows are even on forty one years and I've been 578 00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:11,640 Speaker 1: on it for forty one years. It's truly truly and 579 00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:14,080 Speaker 1: as they say, still looking good and still fine, that's 580 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:16,040 Speaker 1: you know, that's what they say in the street spot 581 00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:18,760 Speaker 1: you now you know, still looking good, She's still fine. 582 00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:24,520 Speaker 1: How memoir Always Restless, it's a very motivational book. Nicki 583 00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:28,240 Speaker 1: Newman's on my show A k. A. Melody Thomas Scott, 584 00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:30,120 Speaker 1: thank you for coming on Money Making Conversation. I really 585 00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:33,440 Speaker 1: appreciate you so much for having me. 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