1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:02,360 Speaker 1: Calling all my sweeties to the forefront. 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:04,720 Speaker 2: I'm your host, CHRISTOPHINEE. 3 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:07,120 Speaker 1: Hazen and this is the Keep It Positive Swedish Show. 4 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:12,520 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Keep It Positive Sweetish Show, a space 5 00:00:12,520 --> 00:00:16,400 Speaker 1: where we slow down, reflect and grow through honest conversation. 6 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:22,640 Speaker 1: Today's episode features a powerhouse author, athlete, and now leading actress. 7 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:25,760 Speaker 1: I'm so excited to be sitting down with my sister, 8 00:00:26,239 --> 00:00:31,040 Speaker 1: Toonday o Yinayan Tonday is a New York Times bestselling author, 9 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:36,599 Speaker 1: peloton instructor, global Nike athlete, motivational voice, and now a 10 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:40,519 Speaker 1: series regular on Tyler Perry's Sisters. Known for leading with 11 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:44,279 Speaker 1: intention in what she calls soul care, Tunday has inspired 12 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:47,480 Speaker 1: millions through movement, and now she's bringing that same death 13 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:51,560 Speaker 1: and authenticity into storytelling on screen, stepping into the role 14 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 1: of Madison Trud, a confident entrepreneur navigating ambition, identity, and connection. 15 00:00:57,560 --> 00:01:02,120 Speaker 1: She represents a woman learning to balance with vulnerability beyond 16 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:05,040 Speaker 1: the titles and accolades. What sends out most about toun Day, 17 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:08,080 Speaker 1: it's her commitment to growth, not just as an athlete 18 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:10,800 Speaker 1: or an actress, but as a woman who continues to 19 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:15,240 Speaker 1: show with the honesty and purpose today's conversation isn't just 20 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:18,640 Speaker 1: about a new role. It's about preparation, courage, and what 21 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:22,600 Speaker 1: it feels like to be seen while still becoming kids. Family, 22 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:28,400 Speaker 1: please give a very warm welcome to my sister Tonday Tunday. 23 00:01:28,440 --> 00:01:31,000 Speaker 1: First of all, radiating, I'm just trying to keep up 24 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:31,560 Speaker 1: with you, honey. 25 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:32,880 Speaker 2: As soon as you walk through the door, I was. 26 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:34,640 Speaker 3: Like, I'm just trying to keep up with you. 27 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:36,880 Speaker 2: Look stunning. 28 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:38,640 Speaker 1: I were white because I thought you were gonna wear white. 29 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:41,200 Speaker 3: You know, because women, we have the plan and that 30 00:01:41,319 --> 00:01:43,280 Speaker 3: we deviate the plan based on how we feel. In 31 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:43,800 Speaker 3: that morning. 32 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 1: Absolutely, I was going through and I was like, should 33 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:46,959 Speaker 1: I wear this? Norman? 34 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:49,160 Speaker 2: Switch this up? I was like, just keep it how 35 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:49,560 Speaker 2: I was. 36 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:51,720 Speaker 1: So we went with what we how we scheduled it. 37 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:55,279 Speaker 1: But you look beautiful. Yes, thank you. How are you feeling? 38 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 3: I feel blessed. I'm super excited to be here. I 39 00:01:57,280 --> 00:01:58,600 Speaker 3: woke up this morning was like, I get to talk 40 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:02,680 Speaker 3: to christ our story is it's I think it's just 41 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:05,320 Speaker 3: it's crazy how we are here, and I'm sure we'll 42 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:08,120 Speaker 3: get into it, but it's just a crazy story of 43 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:09,840 Speaker 3: meeting and then now being in this moment. 44 00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:12,959 Speaker 1: For sure, now We're definitely gonna get into that because 45 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:15,240 Speaker 1: I want people to know how we met and all 46 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:17,200 Speaker 1: the good things. But before we get started, I want 47 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:19,800 Speaker 1: to do a quick, rapid fire little game with you, 48 00:02:20,639 --> 00:02:22,079 Speaker 1: you know, just a little icebreaker. 49 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 2: I love a game perfect all right. 50 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:30,000 Speaker 1: So I want to know ride playlist or silence to reset. 51 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:34,040 Speaker 3: Ride playlist or silence to reset. 52 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:34,600 Speaker 2: Yeah. 53 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:39,360 Speaker 3: Oh god, that's so difficult because it depends on what 54 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:44,000 Speaker 3: I what energy I'm trying to call it. I love silent, yeah, 55 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 3: but this more. I have a pop ride next week, 56 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:50,560 Speaker 3: and this morning I got ready listening to that pop playlist. 57 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:53,480 Speaker 3: So part of it is resetting, but then it's not 58 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:55,520 Speaker 3: truly resetting because it's also me kind of doing work 59 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:57,080 Speaker 3: because I'm like, let me make sure this flow right. 60 00:02:57,360 --> 00:02:59,640 Speaker 3: So it's kind of to. 61 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:00,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, love that. 62 00:03:00,919 --> 00:03:03,640 Speaker 1: A cardio day or strength day. We just talked about 63 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:04,480 Speaker 1: working out. 64 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:09,560 Speaker 3: I would rather lift over, yes, but I love a 65 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 3: good run saying yes. 66 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:15,800 Speaker 1: Peloton Live Ride nerves or filming a scene nerves, Oh. 67 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:17,960 Speaker 3: Pelton Live Ride nerves any day, there's not I'm not 68 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:21,839 Speaker 3: nervous when I'm when I'm teaching Peloton, I'm excited. Yeah, 69 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:24,600 Speaker 3: And when I'm filming I'm excited, but it's also a 70 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:26,840 Speaker 3: nerve of just like making sure I'm doing my due 71 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:29,919 Speaker 3: diligence and showing up for the person that the entire 72 00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:32,240 Speaker 3: production crew exactly, so it's not just me in that moment. 73 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:35,560 Speaker 1: That's yeah, big difference. Glam on set or ath leisure 74 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:36,240 Speaker 1: off camera? 75 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:43,720 Speaker 3: Glam on set or at leisure off camera? Can I 76 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:45,040 Speaker 3: do both? Can I be an athleisure? 77 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:45,440 Speaker 2: You can? 78 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:49,000 Speaker 3: My face beat period? Yeah, that's my core. 79 00:03:49,160 --> 00:03:52,760 Speaker 1: Can What is a song that instantly shifts your mood? 80 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:59,640 Speaker 3: There's a song it's by Georgia Smith and it's called 81 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:00,600 Speaker 3: Final m. 82 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:01,920 Speaker 2: I love that. 83 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:07,280 Speaker 1: That's no you this must okay, put me on you must. 84 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:08,920 Speaker 2: Because I love her? Yeah, got it? 85 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:12,160 Speaker 1: And then the last one is one affirmation you whispered 86 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 1: to yourself before a big moment. 87 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:16,159 Speaker 3: My mother used to always say a prayer over me 88 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:18,680 Speaker 3: when I was a little girl. She would always say, 89 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:20,760 Speaker 3: may whatever ya tune day say be the right thing 90 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:22,880 Speaker 3: to say. Yeah, and whatever your tune day say, be 91 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:24,800 Speaker 3: the right thing to say. And what that prayer did 92 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:26,800 Speaker 3: for me was when I would walk into a room 93 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:30,040 Speaker 3: or into a space, I would know that nothing that 94 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:32,000 Speaker 3: I was going to do was going to be wrong. 95 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:36,120 Speaker 3: Even if what I did was technically wrong, it would 96 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:39,880 Speaker 3: actually be right because in some way that wrong would 97 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:44,279 Speaker 3: prove itself right later. And so before I have, before 98 00:04:44,320 --> 00:04:47,239 Speaker 3: I go on stage, or before any really really big moment, 99 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:49,280 Speaker 3: I always say, may whatever I say be the right 100 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:49,799 Speaker 3: thing to say. 101 00:04:49,839 --> 00:04:51,680 Speaker 2: I love that. I love that. 102 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:54,200 Speaker 1: That is mains all right. So we are warmed of First, 103 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:57,239 Speaker 1: I talk about how we met. So I remember kJ 104 00:04:57,320 --> 00:04:59,279 Speaker 1: and I used to ride to you. This is which 105 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:01,440 Speaker 1: is crazy twenty twenty during COVID. 106 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:03,200 Speaker 2: kJ was living in Los Angeles. 107 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:06,240 Speaker 1: I was in Atlanta, and we would do the you 108 00:05:06,279 --> 00:05:07,880 Speaker 1: know how you can like FaceTime on the screen. 109 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:09,960 Speaker 2: Yes, so we would FaceTime each other. We lock in it. 110 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:11,760 Speaker 3: How many did y'all use that feature? Not many people 111 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:12,039 Speaker 3: use it? 112 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:14,600 Speaker 1: Yes, I love it and angibience and I would do 113 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:17,440 Speaker 1: the same thing. She's on sister's well place, Pam. She 114 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:19,239 Speaker 1: and I would do the same thing. But we would 115 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:21,880 Speaker 1: ride to you when we were trying to just stay 116 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:22,760 Speaker 1: in shape because I gainst. 117 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:24,479 Speaker 2: So I gave the COVID twenty pounds. 118 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:27,760 Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, I think mine was a COVID fifteen. Yeah, 119 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:29,560 Speaker 3: it was, you know, it was. It was a time. 120 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:31,720 Speaker 1: It was a time where I was wearing sweatpants every day, 121 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:33,479 Speaker 1: and when it actually we could actually leave the house, 122 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:35,920 Speaker 1: I was like, oh, and put some clothes on. Can't 123 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:37,520 Speaker 1: put any clothes on because I can't fit. 124 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:39,280 Speaker 3: Down Listen, didn't need to put any clothes on them. Yes, 125 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:42,680 Speaker 3: and that's why nobody knows they were included, know exactly. 126 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:44,520 Speaker 2: So I went and got me a pelow Time. 127 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:46,960 Speaker 1: Everyone's like Pelot Time was all the rave and it 128 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:49,960 Speaker 1: was you and Ali love that really just like you 129 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 1: just grabbed me and I was like, I like these 130 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:54,160 Speaker 1: two girls and you inspired me. And the way you 131 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:57,560 Speaker 1: talk to us through through the screen, I was like, man, 132 00:05:57,560 --> 00:05:58,880 Speaker 1: I just feel like I knew you and I really 133 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:02,000 Speaker 1: drew to you. But then we met through our friend 134 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:03,360 Speaker 1: Alyx Tuson, who's also on Fill. 135 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:05,360 Speaker 2: The time we were at a cookout. 136 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:08,840 Speaker 3: And that's not when we met wed a woman Eva. 137 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:13,359 Speaker 3: We met the woman in power Woman, strength of a woman. 138 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:16,440 Speaker 1: You. 139 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:18,800 Speaker 3: And it's so funny because my manager Kim is here 140 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:21,599 Speaker 3: and we were joking about this last night because you 141 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:30,119 Speaker 3: walked past me with such a regal radiance. You smelled good, 142 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:34,279 Speaker 3: your skin was beaming. The outfit was like like little 143 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:36,160 Speaker 3: did I know like that was just that was you, 144 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:39,080 Speaker 3: just like, you know, barely doing your thing right because 145 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:41,160 Speaker 3: I didn't know you at that time, but you just 146 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:43,320 Speaker 3: you were. You didn't even walk past me, you floated 147 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:46,599 Speaker 3: past me. And I grabbed your hand and you grabbed 148 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:48,920 Speaker 3: my hand back, and it was just the natural things 149 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:51,320 Speaker 3: that black women do. We just did our thing where 150 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:55,640 Speaker 3: we were boach, just praising and showering flowers over each other. 151 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:59,080 Speaker 1: And so that's where we met when it was that 152 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:00,480 Speaker 1: was the moment because that was we were just talking 153 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:01,080 Speaker 1: about the outfit. 154 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:04,120 Speaker 2: I didn't runze. That was the moment. That was the moment. 155 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:08,000 Speaker 1: And then we met again, yes at the cookout, Yes, 156 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:10,280 Speaker 1: and thatsn't really connected. And then I got a call 157 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:13,720 Speaker 1: saying we're going to do a table reading, a chemistry 158 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:16,440 Speaker 1: read with Tune Day for this character of Madison is 159 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:16,800 Speaker 1: coming on. 160 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:18,240 Speaker 2: Sisters. I was like, oh, I know. 161 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:21,160 Speaker 1: One tune Day. I was like to day tune Day 162 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:22,760 Speaker 1: and they were like yes. I was like, oh my goodness. 163 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:25,400 Speaker 1: I couldn't say anything. And then finally when I saw 164 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:26,760 Speaker 1: you on the screen, I was like, finally I can 165 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:29,600 Speaker 1: text her and say, oh my gosh. 166 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,680 Speaker 3: And I have to say this because that meant so 167 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:34,880 Speaker 3: much to me in that moment because I get the 168 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:39,520 Speaker 3: audition and then I get the callback and they tell 169 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:41,720 Speaker 3: me that it's going to be with you and Devo, 170 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:47,000 Speaker 3: and one, I was so nervous, and two I was 171 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:49,080 Speaker 3: also just so excited for the callback. But I was 172 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:50,760 Speaker 3: just nervous to be like, I was like, can I 173 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:54,040 Speaker 3: do my callback with somebody that's less intimidating than the 174 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:56,360 Speaker 3: stars of the show, like give me the you know, 175 00:07:57,480 --> 00:08:00,120 Speaker 3: the person who opens the door? I don't know, but 176 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:04,320 Speaker 3: extra And so I was nervous to go into that scene. 177 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:08,840 Speaker 3: But when I saw that beam of a smile and 178 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:12,440 Speaker 3: the support that I felt through the zoom, like I 179 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:14,240 Speaker 3: just felt wrapped in love. And I felt so safe 180 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:16,360 Speaker 3: in that audition. And I remember you text me or 181 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:19,000 Speaker 3: when you called me after, and I was like, God, 182 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:21,840 Speaker 3: it's so good. So it just felt. Yes, it was 183 00:08:21,840 --> 00:08:23,440 Speaker 3: so supportive, and I thank you so much for that moment. 184 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:26,080 Speaker 1: Absolutely, take me back to the moment you got the audition, 185 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:28,960 Speaker 1: you put it on tape, you get the callback. Was 186 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:31,560 Speaker 1: this something that you always wanted to do? Like or 187 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:33,200 Speaker 1: that she was like, I'm going to get this. How 188 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:34,480 Speaker 1: did you go into this moment? 189 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:37,360 Speaker 3: Oh, gosh. There's two parts of that question, like how 190 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:39,240 Speaker 3: did I feel with the callbacks? And then did I 191 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:42,080 Speaker 3: always see this for myself? I mean I was excited. 192 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:42,360 Speaker 2: I was. 193 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:44,840 Speaker 3: I was excited for the callback. I was nervous for 194 00:08:44,920 --> 00:08:48,720 Speaker 3: the callback. I was in disbelief for the callback, and 195 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:51,280 Speaker 3: it kind of I took myself back to my mother's 196 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:54,080 Speaker 3: prayer made whatever I say be the right thing to say, 197 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:56,280 Speaker 3: and I just reminded myself that they liked something that 198 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:58,440 Speaker 3: they saw the first time. Definitely, now I need to 199 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:00,880 Speaker 3: go in there and just claim it as mine. Do 200 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:03,520 Speaker 3: the same thing again. I kept just telling myself, do 201 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:08,120 Speaker 3: the stage, do the same thing again. I will never forget. 202 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:11,400 Speaker 3: I just left my acting coach's place. Whenever I got 203 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:13,959 Speaker 3: the call that I booked the gig, my manager called me. 204 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:16,600 Speaker 3: And anytime my manager, whenever there's an agent, she says, 205 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:20,160 Speaker 3: can I three way in s her ex agent's name, 206 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:23,880 Speaker 3: and it's always good news, good news, goodness. I'm bad. 207 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:27,480 Speaker 3: So she said, can I can I plug Fatmata in? 208 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:29,199 Speaker 3: And I was like, oh my god. I remember I 209 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:31,040 Speaker 3: was standing in the CBS, and I remember I was 210 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:33,680 Speaker 3: taking mental snapshots in that moment because I knew that 211 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:37,440 Speaker 3: what was coming next was about to change my life. 212 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:39,480 Speaker 3: So it was like snapshotting. I remember the lady that 213 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:42,600 Speaker 3: at the register. I remember everything in that moment. Is 214 00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:45,559 Speaker 3: this something that I saw for myself. I can't say 215 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:48,520 Speaker 3: that I did. But Chris, So, I don't know if 216 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:54,480 Speaker 3: there's any I don't know if there's all all the 217 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:56,319 Speaker 3: blessings that are in my life right now, everything that 218 00:09:56,400 --> 00:09:59,280 Speaker 3: is present in real time right now, I don't know 219 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:02,000 Speaker 3: if I saw any of this. I knew that I 220 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:09,160 Speaker 3: was capable of doing great things with my life, but 221 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:12,680 Speaker 3: did I know that this is how the story would unfolded. 222 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:13,920 Speaker 3: I know that these would be parts of it. 223 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:14,480 Speaker 2: No. 224 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:18,480 Speaker 3: I think that my greatest gift is that I moving trust, 225 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:27,319 Speaker 3: even when I don't believe. I Trustah, I trust. I 226 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:29,880 Speaker 3: would I do a monthly newsletter. I'm shure this with 227 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:35,600 Speaker 3: you before, but I write it monthly newsletter. And I 228 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:38,280 Speaker 3: just kind of happened to go back to old newsletters. 229 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:40,240 Speaker 3: I was trying to find something and I stumbled across 230 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:45,080 Speaker 3: my May twenty twenty three newsletter. And in that newsletter 231 00:10:45,240 --> 00:10:49,560 Speaker 3: I had talked about I had just booked a small 232 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:53,560 Speaker 3: part on a show. It was just like I shot 233 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:55,520 Speaker 3: for like two days. It was it and it was 234 00:10:55,640 --> 00:10:59,160 Speaker 3: amazing and I had the greatest experience. And in the newsletter, 235 00:10:59,160 --> 00:11:02,920 Speaker 3: I said, I'm good to start beefing up my time 236 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:05,240 Speaker 3: with my acting coach, like this is something I really 237 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:08,040 Speaker 3: want to just put my feet in and see what happened. 238 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:13,960 Speaker 3: And it was. That was May of twenty twenty three, 239 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:17,880 Speaker 3: May of twenty twenty five, So exactly two years later, 240 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:24,360 Speaker 3: I was on set shooting Season ten assistans. Wow, And 241 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:29,720 Speaker 3: so it's just like, did I see this exactly No, 242 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:33,080 Speaker 3: not maybe not for a grand amount of time, but 243 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:36,280 Speaker 3: a few years ago I said, I'm going to try 244 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:46,000 Speaker 3: and I've put in trust. I don't even know if 245 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:48,560 Speaker 3: that makes sense. I like put trust in Like I 246 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:51,720 Speaker 3: just I've put in trust into myself. This is something 247 00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:52,600 Speaker 3: that I can try to do. 248 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:55,360 Speaker 2: Yes, and you're doing it. You are doing it. 249 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:58,760 Speaker 1: You talked about ten seasons, ten seasons, coming into a 250 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:01,040 Speaker 1: show that has been on spills a legacy of it's 251 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:04,160 Speaker 1: on it. What did it feel like stepping into that 252 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:06,640 Speaker 1: and where you're like, oh my goodness, like this is 253 00:12:06,679 --> 00:12:08,959 Speaker 1: something that I'm stepping in that's huge, And how did 254 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:10,240 Speaker 1: you walk into that space? 255 00:12:10,920 --> 00:12:16,080 Speaker 3: Well, first and foremost I think you and the other 256 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:20,520 Speaker 3: for women, and all the actors on the show, the 257 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:27,200 Speaker 3: entire ensemble for creating legacy for me to easily be 258 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:30,280 Speaker 3: able to step into and walk aside alongside with you. 259 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:34,720 Speaker 3: So thank you. Yes, I think for any show to 260 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:38,160 Speaker 3: be in its tenth season is profound, any show, much 261 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:42,839 Speaker 3: less a show that is telling black stories, female stories, 262 00:12:44,520 --> 00:12:49,120 Speaker 3: and so it really is a monumental moment in time. 263 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:51,679 Speaker 3: I think kJ said this yesterday when you know, we 264 00:12:51,679 --> 00:12:54,240 Speaker 3: were sitting down, we were in an interview, and she said, like, 265 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:58,760 Speaker 3: thank you, like person interviewing us, thank you for continuing 266 00:12:58,840 --> 00:12:59,959 Speaker 3: to be interesting. 267 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:02,600 Speaker 2: Calling us to say we want to talk to you fans. 268 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:07,920 Speaker 3: Thank you for continuing to be interested. I'm just so lucky, 269 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:13,040 Speaker 3: lucky that I that I get to join the legacy 270 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:13,840 Speaker 3: that is already in motion. 271 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that. 272 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:18,360 Speaker 1: Now you have transformed bodies, millions of bodies from the 273 00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:21,800 Speaker 1: bike and from your workouts on Peloton. What did it 274 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:25,440 Speaker 1: feel like to transform into a different space publicly of 275 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:26,199 Speaker 1: your own? 276 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:31,040 Speaker 3: What did it feel like to transform into a different 277 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:37,000 Speaker 3: space publicly on my own? I think I'm in transition now, 278 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:43,640 Speaker 3: but I think that I've also become familiar with with 279 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:49,400 Speaker 3: pivoting publicly, Yeah, between the pivot, like I'm a public pivot. 280 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:53,400 Speaker 3: I started in the cosmetic world and move from Texas 281 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:56,120 Speaker 3: to LA to pursue my dream of becoming a makeup artist. Yes, 282 00:13:56,320 --> 00:13:57,920 Speaker 3: I was in that world for sixteen years. 283 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:02,440 Speaker 2: Honey, it comes. 284 00:14:02,160 --> 00:14:04,600 Speaker 3: In handy so much like not having to pay for 285 00:14:04,640 --> 00:14:12,400 Speaker 3: a glam is really Listen, I uh, yeah, So I 286 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:15,320 Speaker 3: was in the makeup world for sixteen years. I loved 287 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:17,640 Speaker 3: that world. I loved that job. I loved what I 288 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:23,400 Speaker 3: what I did until I didn't. I often say, I, 289 00:14:23,560 --> 00:14:25,480 Speaker 3: you know, I was in the cosmetic world. I was 290 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:27,280 Speaker 3: an educator, So I was a trainer. I would fly 291 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:30,160 Speaker 3: around the country trying to make up artist on everything 292 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:33,200 Speaker 3: from their artistry skills into how to teach and talk 293 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:35,440 Speaker 3: about a product and also how to sell it. And 294 00:14:35,520 --> 00:14:39,160 Speaker 3: so there were so many people that would have, you know, 295 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:42,360 Speaker 3: literally push, shoved and killed to have taken my position. 296 00:14:42,640 --> 00:14:44,840 Speaker 2: Absolutely, I fought for that. 297 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:48,440 Speaker 3: Position, and I We'll never forget the day I was 298 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:51,720 Speaker 3: on my break at work. I took a very long 299 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:54,480 Speaker 3: break in the restroom. Never go to the restroom, you 300 00:14:54,520 --> 00:14:55,520 Speaker 3: sit on the stall doing nothing. 301 00:14:55,560 --> 00:14:58,120 Speaker 1: I've done that, listen, just to escape, just to get away. 302 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:00,760 Speaker 3: That's where I was. I went to wash my hands 303 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:03,880 Speaker 3: and look at myself in the mirror. I splashed water 304 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:05,480 Speaker 3: on my face. I said, two day, do you love 305 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:09,480 Speaker 3: this job or do you love the title? Do you 306 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:10,920 Speaker 3: love the job or do you love the respect they 307 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:14,360 Speaker 3: give you when you walk into a room. Yeah, And 308 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:17,240 Speaker 3: that was just this real honest moment where also I 309 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:19,240 Speaker 3: felt guilt. It was something that was difficult for me 310 00:15:19,280 --> 00:15:21,640 Speaker 3: to admit to myself at that time because I had 311 00:15:21,880 --> 00:15:26,520 Speaker 3: prayed for this job, I had worked hard for this job, 312 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:29,800 Speaker 3: and now I was saying that I didn't want the job, 313 00:15:30,240 --> 00:15:36,320 Speaker 3: and so there was guilt in that, and it was 314 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:41,760 Speaker 3: just it took me time to acknowledge that I love 315 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:47,480 Speaker 3: sharing the story because whenever I share this next story, 316 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:51,240 Speaker 3: it puts me back in gratitude because I remember where 317 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:53,920 Speaker 3: I was, and it reminds me to be so grateful 318 00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:57,560 Speaker 3: for where I am. I was on a business trip. 319 00:15:57,560 --> 00:16:01,440 Speaker 3: I'd flown from LA to New York. I lived in 320 00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:05,080 Speaker 3: law from LA to New York for a cosmetic conference 321 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:07,840 Speaker 3: and I was like super on my was where you 322 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:09,000 Speaker 3: know the watch you have to try to close the 323 00:16:09,040 --> 00:16:11,120 Speaker 3: ring on the walk to work out, and I was 324 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:13,320 Speaker 3: like on a super kick. Okay, I remember one of 325 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:15,080 Speaker 3: my friends. I took the watch off one day because 326 00:16:15,160 --> 00:16:16,400 Speaker 3: one of my friends was getting married. She was like, 327 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:18,400 Speaker 3: you're not wearing that watch my wedding. Oh You're like, oh, 328 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:20,560 Speaker 3: you're not doing it. So I took the watch out. 329 00:16:20,560 --> 00:16:22,120 Speaker 3: I don't wear it anymore. But when I was wearing 330 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:25,080 Speaker 3: the watch, I wanted to close my rings. I'd flown 331 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:30,720 Speaker 3: seven hours, landed in New York, went downstairs to the 332 00:16:30,760 --> 00:16:34,720 Speaker 3: hotel gym to work out. Wow, treadmill was busted. Couldn't 333 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:35,840 Speaker 3: get a work out and there was like a hula 334 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:36,960 Speaker 3: hoop in the gym. I don't know what they wanted 335 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:38,760 Speaker 3: us to do with that. But so I had never 336 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:40,840 Speaker 3: taken a cycling class before, but I remembered at the 337 00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:43,320 Speaker 3: time Kelly Ripper was always talking about how she would 338 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:47,160 Speaker 3: go cycling. Sometimes Beyonce would show up, Roland would be there, 339 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:49,560 Speaker 3: and so I was like, what is this indoor cycling? 340 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:51,640 Speaker 3: You going to go try it? Maybe Beyonce will be there. 341 00:16:52,920 --> 00:16:57,600 Speaker 3: So I went to the cycling class completely judged myself 342 00:16:57,600 --> 00:17:01,520 Speaker 3: for paying forty dollars for a forty five minute experience, 343 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:04,639 Speaker 3: But three minutes into the class, I'm in this state 344 00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:08,520 Speaker 3: of U four it. Yes, where like have you ever 345 00:17:08,600 --> 00:17:11,359 Speaker 3: done something and within your first time doing the thing, 346 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:14,680 Speaker 3: or maybe even meeting a person, you feel so connected 347 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:18,399 Speaker 3: as though you've been there before. Yes, I felt like 348 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:23,080 Speaker 3: I'd been there before and I was returning to where 349 00:17:23,119 --> 00:17:24,159 Speaker 3: I was always supposed to be. 350 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:24,880 Speaker 4: Maybe. 351 00:17:25,560 --> 00:17:28,080 Speaker 3: And so I leave the cycling class and walking back 352 00:17:28,320 --> 00:17:31,520 Speaker 3: from the class to my hotel, my walk turns into 353 00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:33,440 Speaker 3: a skip. My skip turns into a hop, and within 354 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:36,080 Speaker 3: a matter of five seconds, I feel this wave of 355 00:17:36,119 --> 00:17:39,479 Speaker 3: blue energy moved from my fingertips into my toes. 356 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:40,040 Speaker 2: Chris. 357 00:17:40,080 --> 00:17:44,120 Speaker 3: So that was my very first cycling class. After that class, 358 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:47,200 Speaker 3: walking home that day, I had this blue light vision, 359 00:17:47,320 --> 00:17:51,199 Speaker 3: this divine download of information where within a matter of 360 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:53,359 Speaker 3: five seconds, I knew that I'd be cycling for the 361 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:56,440 Speaker 3: rest of my life. Not only that, but within this vision, 362 00:17:56,480 --> 00:17:58,200 Speaker 3: I see myself on a platform, so I know I'm 363 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:00,399 Speaker 3: going to be teaching it, yeah, and be on that 364 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:03,200 Speaker 3: Without even knowing what peloton was at the time, I 365 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:05,000 Speaker 3: knew I was going to be able to impact the 366 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:11,000 Speaker 3: lives of millions of people by virtue of a bike. 367 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:11,919 Speaker 2: Wow. 368 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:19,399 Speaker 3: I say that to say I was in this space 369 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:25,920 Speaker 3: where I felt guilt about no longer being in love 370 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:30,960 Speaker 3: within that relationship cosmetics. Then I have this profound vision 371 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:33,800 Speaker 3: where I know it's what I'm supposed to do. Lots 372 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:37,040 Speaker 3: of imposter syndrome came in, lots of voices of after 373 00:18:37,080 --> 00:18:39,240 Speaker 3: that vision, when I got back to LA and actually 374 00:18:39,280 --> 00:18:41,280 Speaker 3: tried to pursue what I said to myself, you don't 375 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:43,400 Speaker 3: look like walk like, talk like, move like an instructor. 376 00:18:43,760 --> 00:18:45,800 Speaker 3: I battle with my weight my entire life. And so 377 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:47,600 Speaker 3: I thought to myself, nobody's gonna look at you and 378 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:49,600 Speaker 3: be motivated, and they're gonna say, what is this girl 379 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:50,080 Speaker 3: doing up here? 380 00:18:50,119 --> 00:18:52,679 Speaker 1: Like all the things, all the. 381 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:56,439 Speaker 3: But all the things you tell yourself, right yeah, and 382 00:18:56,520 --> 00:19:01,840 Speaker 3: so insert the first pivot, going from cosmetic world into cycling. 383 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:05,639 Speaker 3: Insert Hey, I decided I wanted to tell my story, 384 00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:07,840 Speaker 3: so I wrote a book. It became a New York 385 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:10,600 Speaker 3: Times best Yes you did, thank god. That was the 386 00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:13,960 Speaker 3: second pivot. While still, you know, doing the full time job. 387 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:19,440 Speaker 3: From that pivot, I've done jobs in hosting. I am 388 00:19:19,560 --> 00:19:24,320 Speaker 3: a twenty twenty six Sports Illustrated rookie. And then now 389 00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:29,199 Speaker 3: insert like this acting you sisters, and so, yeah, I 390 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:32,920 Speaker 3: think that I've become to answer your question. Finally, I've 391 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:39,680 Speaker 3: become comfortable publicly pivoting. I think that I'm really fortunate 392 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:47,680 Speaker 3: that I have a really just beautiful, devoted base of 393 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:52,679 Speaker 3: people that no pun intended ride with me, literally, and 394 00:19:52,760 --> 00:19:54,840 Speaker 3: so I'm just fortunate and lucky. And I think that 395 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:57,119 Speaker 3: so much of what I do, like so much of 396 00:19:57,119 --> 00:20:02,600 Speaker 3: the pivots that I've found myself in, placed myself in. 397 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:05,240 Speaker 3: It's just it's due to the support, Like I feel 398 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:08,360 Speaker 3: the hands on my back oftentimes, like the number of women, 399 00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:10,960 Speaker 3: specifically black women that come up to me and they say, 400 00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:14,360 Speaker 3: we see you keep going. I'm rooting for you. I'm 401 00:20:14,359 --> 00:20:16,760 Speaker 3: proud of you. This is so much bigger than you. 402 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:18,920 Speaker 3: You're doing it for all of us. My daughter sees 403 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:21,840 Speaker 3: herself in you, my sister. You help change her, Like 404 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:25,400 Speaker 3: it's not just me, It's not just me, It's not 405 00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:28,920 Speaker 3: just me. Every single time I try on a new hat, 406 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:31,320 Speaker 3: I try on I try out a world that I 407 00:20:31,359 --> 00:20:35,160 Speaker 3: have no business being in. I remind myself to dare 408 00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:38,679 Speaker 3: to have the audacity to trust because this is bigger 409 00:20:38,720 --> 00:20:39,680 Speaker 3: than just YouTube day. 410 00:20:39,840 --> 00:20:42,280 Speaker 1: Wow, that's amazing, And that was the perfect way to 411 00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:45,560 Speaker 1: answer that question. So I love the backstory. Because we 412 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:47,560 Speaker 1: need people need to hear that they do. It comes 413 00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:49,800 Speaker 1: to a lot of people feel the guilt of like, 414 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:52,639 Speaker 1: I'm appreciative where I am, but I don't want to 415 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:55,280 Speaker 1: be here anymore, And how to move past that and 416 00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:57,919 Speaker 1: then honor the next space that you're in. Yeah, I 417 00:20:57,960 --> 00:21:02,480 Speaker 1: love that, Yes, exactly. Do not let fearsteer. Let's get 418 00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:07,280 Speaker 1: into miss Madison through it. Hello. So you came in 419 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:10,400 Speaker 1: I think it was episode four of the new season, 420 00:21:10,760 --> 00:21:13,800 Speaker 1: and just everybody's like, oh my goodness, who is this 421 00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:18,120 Speaker 1: beautiful woman? You are so poised, you're confident, you're a boss, 422 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:21,200 Speaker 1: and I think you joked about saying I am Madison. 423 00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:23,720 Speaker 1: So when you got the character break down and you 424 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:26,600 Speaker 1: started studying the scripts, how did you step into that 425 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:29,520 Speaker 1: and were how were you able to use tune day 426 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:31,399 Speaker 1: to build out Madison right? 427 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:33,960 Speaker 3: And let me let me be very specific saying I 428 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:37,679 Speaker 3: am Madison as she is written today. We don't know 429 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:38,800 Speaker 3: where she will go? 430 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:39,520 Speaker 2: Okay, thanks? 431 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:46,119 Speaker 3: Yeah, I relate to Madison in she in that she 432 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:51,119 Speaker 3: has focused the last several years, she has focused on 433 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:56,800 Speaker 3: her career. She has put business at the forefront, and 434 00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:00,760 Speaker 3: while it's paid off right, like she's now seeing the 435 00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:04,840 Speaker 3: fruit of the work. She's also in this pivot moment 436 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:10,720 Speaker 3: in her life where she's wondering, did I like miss 437 00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:13,000 Speaker 3: the other stuff? Do I have still have time for love? 438 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:16,239 Speaker 3: Do I still have time for children? And so I 439 00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:19,119 Speaker 3: relate to Madison. I'm forty years old, just celebrated my 440 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:23,120 Speaker 3: fortieth last December, and I'm in this space where I 441 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:25,399 Speaker 3: love the world that I'm in. I am blessed with 442 00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:32,400 Speaker 3: incredible friendships and opportunities. And Hella, Hella, she wants love. 443 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:36,520 Speaker 3: She does, and so yeah, I was able to pull 444 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:42,280 Speaker 3: a lot and we'll see as the season progresses, but 445 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:45,440 Speaker 3: I was able to pull a lot of what I'm 446 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:49,760 Speaker 3: going through in my own world and put it into 447 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:54,680 Speaker 3: the character. Maybe not all of her, but a lot 448 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:57,120 Speaker 3: of her I find in myself. Yeah, And I think 449 00:22:57,119 --> 00:22:59,679 Speaker 3: what's beautiful too about the way that Madison is written. 450 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:03,879 Speaker 3: We're in this space and time where women are bosses. 451 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:06,639 Speaker 3: I think I read something recently where the number of 452 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:11,480 Speaker 3: single female owners for the first time homeowners, the number 453 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:16,560 Speaker 3: of single female homeowners is greater than male owners or 454 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:19,640 Speaker 3: single for the first time in history. And so it goes. 455 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:24,240 Speaker 3: It just goes to show like women are the faces 456 00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:27,640 Speaker 3: and the head of these businesses, and so I think 457 00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:29,240 Speaker 3: that it's relatable in many ways. 458 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:30,080 Speaker 2: It's so relatable. 459 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:33,040 Speaker 1: It's so funny you gave that statistic because when I 460 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:35,600 Speaker 1: bought my latest house, I come on. 461 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:39,440 Speaker 3: The latest, latest, more than what. 462 00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:43,280 Speaker 2: More than what I had. 463 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:46,680 Speaker 1: An older woman actually a friend of mine. It was 464 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:48,919 Speaker 1: her mother who said, are you really gonna buy that 465 00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:52,520 Speaker 1: big house? Like no man's like basically telling me it's 466 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:55,639 Speaker 1: gonna be even harder to find a man. Being that, 467 00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:57,600 Speaker 1: I went ahead and bought this house, and I was like, 468 00:23:57,640 --> 00:24:00,159 Speaker 1: you know, I'm not gonna wait, you know, because what 469 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:02,880 Speaker 1: if that never happens? You know, So I don't want 470 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:05,639 Speaker 1: to be in like a holding pattern. There are things 471 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:07,840 Speaker 1: that I'll like be like I'm waiting for my husband 472 00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:10,440 Speaker 1: on that, But like where I live, that's my sanctuary, 473 00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:12,880 Speaker 1: you know. That's where I'm like my safe place where 474 00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:14,120 Speaker 1: I can let my hair down. 475 00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:15,840 Speaker 2: Like I don't want to wait on that. 476 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:17,800 Speaker 1: You know, I still got to live, and I still 477 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:19,240 Speaker 1: got to go to sleep at night, so at least 478 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:20,040 Speaker 1: go to sleep in the house. 479 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:24,000 Speaker 3: You want to come on in an comfortable bed of 480 00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:28,200 Speaker 3: us were I think When I was younger, of girlfriend 481 00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:31,399 Speaker 3: of mine told me and she was speaking to herself 482 00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:33,800 Speaker 3: at the time. She was saying that she wasn't going 483 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:36,560 Speaker 3: to buy because if she were to buy, if she 484 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:39,560 Speaker 3: were to meet a man, a man wants to he 485 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:43,480 Speaker 3: won't be able to see where he can insert himself 486 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:46,520 Speaker 3: because there's nothing else to build, because you've already done it, 487 00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:47,879 Speaker 3: and a man wants to come in and be. 488 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:48,840 Speaker 2: Able to provide. 489 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:53,080 Speaker 3: And so I held onto that thought for so long. 490 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:58,080 Speaker 3: And I remember when I bought my home. I mean 491 00:24:58,119 --> 00:24:59,879 Speaker 3: I were winding and keep it all the way, you know, 492 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:02,920 Speaker 3: real with you. When I was younger, I you know, 493 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:04,919 Speaker 3: you asked me, did you have all these these plans. 494 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:07,200 Speaker 3: I knew I was capable of greatness, but I don't 495 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:09,000 Speaker 3: know that I desired or long to do it on 496 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,320 Speaker 3: my own. I always said, I want to worked like 497 00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:15,320 Speaker 3: three days a week. I want to be a successful man. 498 00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:17,080 Speaker 3: I always thought I would be a kept woman, but 499 00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:19,920 Speaker 3: that was somewhat the plan. She never said she was 500 00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:22,800 Speaker 3: a gold digger, but I thought that the man would 501 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:24,760 Speaker 3: be you know, he would. 502 00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:26,159 Speaker 2: Think raised. 503 00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:29,960 Speaker 1: You were too, So we were kind of raised that 504 00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:33,000 Speaker 1: way to think that way, right, Yeah, And then reality 505 00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:33,960 Speaker 1: said and I was like, oh. 506 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:35,640 Speaker 3: It's not to say that I don't want a man 507 00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:38,399 Speaker 3: to step in and be a man, like please step 508 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:41,560 Speaker 3: in and be a man. But that shouldn't be at 509 00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:45,960 Speaker 3: the cost of me minimizing or downplaying who I am 510 00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:50,560 Speaker 3: and what I'm capable of. For you to do right. 511 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:51,560 Speaker 2: That is so true. 512 00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:55,119 Speaker 1: And I said in the understanding and the confidence of 513 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:58,280 Speaker 1: knowing that whoever God brains into my life will know, 514 00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:01,439 Speaker 1: he'll see where he can fit himself, and he'll see where. Okay, 515 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:04,800 Speaker 1: she's lacking in this area. Come on, let me build 516 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:05,439 Speaker 1: in this area. 517 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:05,720 Speaker 2: You know. 518 00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:07,679 Speaker 1: It may not be the house, you know, but I 519 00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:09,840 Speaker 1: see something else it's cracking over here that let me 520 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:11,000 Speaker 1: mend this and and. 521 00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:11,640 Speaker 2: Fix this up. 522 00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:13,719 Speaker 1: So I feel like the right person would do that. 523 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:15,359 Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that. 524 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:18,399 Speaker 1: But I'm so happy that Madison touches on that because 525 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:19,800 Speaker 1: so many women are dealing with that. 526 00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:21,719 Speaker 2: And that's what I love about sisters. 527 00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:24,679 Speaker 1: Sisters touched on so many stories that people are actually 528 00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:27,000 Speaker 1: living real. Have you had people walk up to you 529 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:28,480 Speaker 1: and say, oh, my goodness, I see so much of 530 00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:31,320 Speaker 1: myself and you or heard the stories of like I 531 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:32,760 Speaker 1: haven't experienced. 532 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:35,359 Speaker 3: I haven't experienced that yet with Madison, I don't know 533 00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:37,760 Speaker 3: that we've seen the evolution of her enough yet, but 534 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:40,560 Speaker 3: I see it when it happens. Yeah, with you, Chrystal, 535 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:42,720 Speaker 3: I see when it happens with men. I seen Yeah, 536 00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:48,400 Speaker 3: so many interactions when people say I see Danny and myself. Yes, yeah, 537 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:49,399 Speaker 3: I absolutely understand that. 538 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:50,840 Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that. 539 00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:55,560 Speaker 1: Shout out to our writers and directors is Courtney Claudey 540 00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:59,679 Speaker 1: and Ourmiani for helping us build out these stories something 541 00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:03,640 Speaker 1: that powerful, ambitious and self assured women. We often get 542 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:07,760 Speaker 1: labeled as those things before we're actually understood. And I 543 00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:09,919 Speaker 1: feel like we carry this persona in which we have 544 00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:13,159 Speaker 1: to because wearing a lot of hats in order to 545 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:15,440 Speaker 1: be successful. But how do you feel when sometimes you 546 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:18,280 Speaker 1: don't feel understood as a successful Black woman? 547 00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:24,120 Speaker 3: How do I feel when I don't feel understood as 548 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:27,360 Speaker 3: a successful black woman? Oh? 549 00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:37,520 Speaker 4: I feel hurt. Yeah, I feel hurt because I feel 550 00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:38,320 Speaker 4: hurt because. 551 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:44,960 Speaker 3: I know my intention. Yeah, And when anyone puts out 552 00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:49,160 Speaker 3: anything and it is not received in the way they 553 00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:53,200 Speaker 3: hope for it to be received, it's easy to feel 554 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:58,520 Speaker 3: hurt or disappointed. I feel hurt, But then also there's 555 00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:01,480 Speaker 3: reflection in that I think to my stuff, like how 556 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:03,760 Speaker 3: could I have set that differently? How could I have 557 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:08,080 Speaker 3: managed that differently? How could I have handled that differently? Differently? 558 00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:10,960 Speaker 3: And so on the same breath that I feel hurt, 559 00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:15,879 Speaker 3: I often ask myself, like real questions of what heart 560 00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:22,920 Speaker 3: did I play in the misunderstanding? And sometimes it's not right, 561 00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:30,120 Speaker 3: sometimes it's not. Sometimes people will misunderstand due to jealousy 562 00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:34,840 Speaker 3: or something else hidden in them. But it doesn't mean 563 00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:36,879 Speaker 3: that I don't Also in that moment, ask myself if 564 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:41,480 Speaker 3: there's something that I put out unintentionally mm hmm. 565 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:45,080 Speaker 1: For sure you said that Tyler's fast paced shooting sourminded 566 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:47,680 Speaker 1: you of peloton, no. 567 00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:49,920 Speaker 2: Second takes, no second chances. 568 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:54,040 Speaker 1: How did your preparation help you from writing to stepping 569 00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:56,520 Speaker 1: on to set knowing that you get one shot? 570 00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:00,640 Speaker 3: Well? I think that like in order to have a 571 00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:06,800 Speaker 3: competency in anything, like to feel in order to be 572 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:10,040 Speaker 3: confident in anything, Rather in order to feel confident in anything, 573 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:12,800 Speaker 3: there has to be competency when you put in the 574 00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:18,920 Speaker 3: time the work, like learning the craft or like studying. 575 00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:23,720 Speaker 3: For me, it was like learning those lines, feeling the character, 576 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:28,680 Speaker 3: feeling the scene at that point. Again, like I keep 577 00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:31,160 Speaker 3: going back to this word trust, Like if you're prepared 578 00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:34,280 Speaker 3: you can be confident because you trust the work that 579 00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:37,640 Speaker 3: you put in. And so while everything is fast, and 580 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:41,719 Speaker 3: while I wish I could redo things for sure and 581 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:45,440 Speaker 3: try to get and do it differently, I'm going into it. 582 00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:47,920 Speaker 3: I know that I'm also as I am as prepped 583 00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:52,360 Speaker 3: as I can given the circumstance, Like given whether it's 584 00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:56,719 Speaker 3: the time allotment or anything else outstanding, Like I am 585 00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:59,400 Speaker 3: as prepped as I can be in any time I 586 00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:03,320 Speaker 3: go into anything, whether it's on set or behind the scenes, 587 00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:05,960 Speaker 3: Like I feel more confident the same. 588 00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:12,680 Speaker 1: Absolutely, that's so important, same question you oohen for me 589 00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:15,800 Speaker 1: in the beginning, See Tyler was directing in the beginning, 590 00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:19,840 Speaker 1: so that was an added like pressure level of pressure. Yeah, 591 00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:21,800 Speaker 1: it's like I want to make them proud, like I 592 00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:24,560 Speaker 1: gotta make sure I get this right and rising to 593 00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:26,920 Speaker 1: the occasion for this man who gave me an opportunity. 594 00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:30,080 Speaker 1: So in the beginning, it was I was new to this. 595 00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:31,280 Speaker 2: It was a dream come true. 596 00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:33,560 Speaker 1: So I'm living out so many different emotions at once, 597 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:37,400 Speaker 1: you know. And I believe that once I settled into 598 00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:41,720 Speaker 1: who Fatima was, got used to the fast paced, trusted myself, 599 00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:45,880 Speaker 1: stopped second guessing, stopped judging, the character. That's when I 600 00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:48,480 Speaker 1: was able to really just live in the scene, feel 601 00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:51,720 Speaker 1: it and react, versus like, Okay, I've gotta remember these 602 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:53,720 Speaker 1: lines and I've got to make sure I get it right, 603 00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:54,800 Speaker 1: and I only got one chance. 604 00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:55,960 Speaker 2: It can be a lot of pressure. 605 00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:58,160 Speaker 1: But once you just relax, and Tyler always says that, 606 00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:01,480 Speaker 1: just relaxed, tell the story, know, And I think once 607 00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:04,400 Speaker 1: I did that, everything just started to come to life 608 00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:06,360 Speaker 1: and I was able to enjoy it, you know, versusly 609 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:10,280 Speaker 1: be like Okay, yes, yes. 610 00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:12,640 Speaker 2: There was a lot of those moments in the beginning. Yeah. 611 00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:15,400 Speaker 3: I remember at the end, the end of shooting, my 612 00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:19,560 Speaker 3: energy was very different than the beginning the beginning, just 613 00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:22,440 Speaker 3: like I feel like I felt like I started to 614 00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:29,120 Speaker 3: breathe a bit more, understand who Madison was, helped a 615 00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:29,600 Speaker 3: bit more. 616 00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:32,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, for sure, I love that. 617 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:36,200 Speaker 1: I want to know, at what point did you realize 618 00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:38,280 Speaker 1: this wasn't a role, but it was actually a part 619 00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:39,560 Speaker 1: of our cultural conversation. 620 00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:46,000 Speaker 3: At what point did I realize that this was not 621 00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:49,280 Speaker 3: a role in part of our culture? I would say, honestly, 622 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:55,480 Speaker 3: just watching season nine, like watching season nine and everything 623 00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:01,320 Speaker 3: that Karen went through, and it's just so relatable and 624 00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:06,480 Speaker 3: so real the story unfortunately that so many black women 625 00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:12,000 Speaker 3: who are going through childbirth live and she did such 626 00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:17,080 Speaker 3: a beautiful job portraying that story. And it was so 627 00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:24,000 Speaker 3: beautifully written by Courtney. Yeah, I think that that set 628 00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:25,800 Speaker 3: me up for. 629 00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:27,520 Speaker 2: What I was coming into absolutely. 630 00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:30,880 Speaker 1: And we talked about how fast paced everything is. Tell 631 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:35,040 Speaker 1: people what the environment feels like because we're all moving around, 632 00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:37,440 Speaker 1: But what does the environment feel like on set? And 633 00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:40,120 Speaker 1: when you like left set, going back to your dressing 634 00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:42,920 Speaker 1: room the first day, right, how did you feel. 635 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:48,040 Speaker 3: Everything is fast? So, like Crystal, I know how I 636 00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:50,960 Speaker 3: knew how that ended. It worked because I was a 637 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,960 Speaker 3: makeup artist, right, and so I'd worked on set like 638 00:32:54,520 --> 00:33:02,040 Speaker 3: I knew action, cut step it. Yeah, this was something else, baby. 639 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:06,600 Speaker 3: I remember like my first day on set, ARMANI director 640 00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:14,200 Speaker 3: welcomes me. Everybody cheers, welcome Madison. We did our first scene. 641 00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:19,360 Speaker 3: I think my first scene was with Devo. He yelled cut. 642 00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:23,280 Speaker 3: He came in, he gave me a note. We redid 643 00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:27,000 Speaker 3: the scene. He said, cut. Great job. That is the 644 00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:29,200 Speaker 3: first and only time you would get a second dat. 645 00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:35,120 Speaker 3: You're like, and then you know, cut to later in 646 00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:39,240 Speaker 3: that day. Manti, who plays Rich we're getting ready to 647 00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:43,120 Speaker 3: for our scene, and it's just you know, to know 648 00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:46,200 Speaker 3: what scene is coming up, and then to remember, okay, 649 00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:49,280 Speaker 3: tuneday you would have just have come from the juice bar. 650 00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:52,720 Speaker 3: You were sad when you left. Go back into this 651 00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:55,280 Speaker 3: sad space because you know, we're shooting in different different 652 00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:57,920 Speaker 3: places places. Once scen you're shooting, you're super happy and excited. 653 00:33:57,920 --> 00:33:59,480 Speaker 3: The next thing you're shooting, you're mad. The next thing 654 00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:02,000 Speaker 3: you're shooting your sad. And so to remember energetically where 655 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:04,160 Speaker 3: we were. And then we've got these curtains up where 656 00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:07,360 Speaker 3: each actor is in within their own you know, tent 657 00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:11,920 Speaker 3: of a curtain changing and he and I are playing 658 00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:15,400 Speaker 3: our lines off of each other as through a curtain 659 00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:18,839 Speaker 3: as we're changing, walking out, dapping it up, look at 660 00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:20,960 Speaker 3: each other in the ice saying you got this going 661 00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:25,359 Speaker 3: out there delivering the scene quickly changing. Somebody's touching the wig, 662 00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:30,280 Speaker 3: somebody's redoing a lip, somebody's pulling up a spanks, scams whoever, 663 00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:35,240 Speaker 3: you know. So it was just there was everything was go, go, go, 664 00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:39,520 Speaker 3: go go, and then you you're done for that moment 665 00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:41,440 Speaker 3: of the day. And then I would go back to 666 00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:44,720 Speaker 3: the dressing room or back to my little Airbnb and 667 00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:47,080 Speaker 3: prep for the next day. And then it was just 668 00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:50,080 Speaker 3: like washing off that previous day, letting it go. And 669 00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:52,360 Speaker 3: then so I honestly now that I'm saying, this is 670 00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:54,000 Speaker 3: the first time I'm actually really pressing this. So thank 671 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:58,080 Speaker 3: you for this derby session. But I I think that 672 00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:02,360 Speaker 3: that's why I was so emotion the last day, because 673 00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:11,200 Speaker 3: I went through that ten days of filming NonStop, in putting, inputting, 674 00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:13,520 Speaker 3: and putting things into my brain, asking my brain to 675 00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:16,919 Speaker 3: shuffle things and store more, store more, store more, not 676 00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:19,080 Speaker 3: dealing with the emotions of that day, whether it was 677 00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:21,200 Speaker 3: like a high or a loone, not dealing with the 678 00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:23,960 Speaker 3: emotion of the day, going into the next day being on, 679 00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:25,640 Speaker 3: not dealing with the emotion of that day. So it 680 00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:27,600 Speaker 3: was just like stacking. So then you get to the 681 00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:32,840 Speaker 3: tenth day, finally I was able to breathe. Yes, finally 682 00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:36,280 Speaker 3: I was able to say good job. Yeah. It's almost 683 00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:39,479 Speaker 3: like during the game, like if you're playing basketball. While 684 00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:42,040 Speaker 3: you're playing, you're not saying good job to yourself. You're saying, no, 685 00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:44,319 Speaker 3: focus on the game, keep going, let's focus on like, 686 00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:49,320 Speaker 3: you know, the next quarter that's ahead, right, You can't 687 00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:51,680 Speaker 3: celebrate until it's over, or else somebody else is going 688 00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:54,880 Speaker 3: to score. I couldn't celebrate, not that there was somebody 689 00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:58,239 Speaker 3: else to score in this metaphorical situation, but I wasn't 690 00:35:58,280 --> 00:35:59,799 Speaker 3: able to celebrate. I just needed to finish the game. 691 00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:02,480 Speaker 3: And then so finally when we wrapped, I was finally 692 00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:04,200 Speaker 3: able to let everything out, and I was just so 693 00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:09,440 Speaker 3: proud of myself, Crystal, because it was being hard and 694 00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:14,480 Speaker 3: I was so scared and I was it was there 695 00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:17,680 Speaker 3: was just so much unknown, and I think what was 696 00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:20,239 Speaker 3: the most beautiful gift that I was given within this 697 00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:26,000 Speaker 3: experience has been just like the support of the other castmates, 698 00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:30,000 Speaker 3: Like everyone was warm. You going into season ten, like 699 00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:32,280 Speaker 3: you don't know who's gonna be, who to be gonna be, who, 700 00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:33,719 Speaker 3: who are you not supposed to talk to, Who you're 701 00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:35,440 Speaker 3: not supposed to look in the ass? You know, like 702 00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:39,920 Speaker 3: you just don't know. And I walked into what was 703 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:42,239 Speaker 3: just like a beautiful environment. I remember I came back 704 00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:44,040 Speaker 3: and I told my Peloton teammates, I was just like 705 00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:51,799 Speaker 3: everybody was so kind and the the energetically, it started from. 706 00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:53,600 Speaker 2: The top and it trickles down. 707 00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:59,720 Speaker 3: Throughout the entire production team. No one was above any task, 708 00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:03,920 Speaker 3: and no one was unwilling to help and resolve and 709 00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:07,400 Speaker 3: and get the job done. It was just I remember 710 00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:09,759 Speaker 3: my first day. This was before my first day. This 711 00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:11,560 Speaker 3: was like during onboarding. I had to do an hr 712 00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:14,680 Speaker 3: onboarding meeting and the onboarding meeting started with the prayer. 713 00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:17,440 Speaker 3: I texted my boss at Belt and. 714 00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:20,520 Speaker 2: I said, they started with the prayer. Yeah. I was 715 00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:21,360 Speaker 2: like I like it. 716 00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:24,880 Speaker 1: This was I just was like, wow, yeah, he starts 717 00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:25,719 Speaker 1: every morning with it. 718 00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:26,280 Speaker 2: Yeah. 719 00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:28,880 Speaker 3: And I have to say this too, just like seeing 720 00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:33,080 Speaker 3: so many black people working. 721 00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:35,680 Speaker 1: Like everybody says that, they're like, I've never seen this 722 00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:36,920 Speaker 1: many black people working. 723 00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:40,239 Speaker 3: When you come to that Tyler Perry studio, girl and 724 00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:44,160 Speaker 3: you're driving in the security, the policeman they hello to 725 00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:46,799 Speaker 3: you black, the person behind them black. You get to 726 00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:48,719 Speaker 3: the gate, the guy with the dog was about to 727 00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:49,319 Speaker 3: special car. 728 00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:50,240 Speaker 2: Black. 729 00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:52,880 Speaker 3: You drive the day the gate, the person that smiles 730 00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:57,080 Speaker 3: that you black. You walk in the door, one white 731 00:37:57,120 --> 00:38:03,040 Speaker 3: guy back right, the cafeteria, the golf cart, the camera, 732 00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:06,320 Speaker 3: Like it was just beautiful to see so many people 733 00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:12,759 Speaker 3: of color working during a time when most people in 734 00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:15,719 Speaker 3: the ent entertainment world, within this business are not. 735 00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:20,359 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's steadily changing and evolving, and it's just I'm 736 00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:22,120 Speaker 1: so grateful because a lot of people, a lot of 737 00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:24,640 Speaker 1: our peers are not working, so to be there and 738 00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:27,040 Speaker 1: to see us working, and shout out to Tyler for 739 00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:31,360 Speaker 1: constantly creating new projects and keeping us employed, thank you 740 00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:34,839 Speaker 1: so much, and creating something that the fans want to see. 741 00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:38,240 Speaker 1: He has a core audience that loves everything he puts 742 00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:40,560 Speaker 1: out and I'm just grateful to be in the number. 743 00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:45,759 Speaker 1: Come on experiously, Yes, thank you Tayler. BT has created 744 00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:49,120 Speaker 1: this safe space called We Got You Sis where we 745 00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:52,680 Speaker 1: build activations and we keep the conversations going beyond the 746 00:38:52,719 --> 00:38:56,040 Speaker 1: screen into our culture and community. Have you had a 747 00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:59,239 Speaker 1: chance to sit on any of those activations next week? 748 00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:01,360 Speaker 2: Next week? Okay, so you are in for a treat. 749 00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:04,480 Speaker 1: Let me tell you it's where the fans will now 750 00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:06,840 Speaker 1: probably you'll probably this will probably the experience where you 751 00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:09,239 Speaker 1: get to sea fans that will sell you. I see 752 00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:11,560 Speaker 1: me and you, and I'm so happy that you're on 753 00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:14,120 Speaker 1: the show. But the questions that they ask when we 754 00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:18,120 Speaker 1: have these activations are so touching and lets us know 755 00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:20,600 Speaker 1: that the stories that we're telling are important. You know, 756 00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:22,279 Speaker 1: a lot of times we look on the screen and 757 00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:25,280 Speaker 1: we don't see ourselves, you know, and it can feel defeating, 758 00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:28,760 Speaker 1: It can feel like we're still climbing and uphill battle 759 00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:32,040 Speaker 1: to like make it in this industry with TV and film. 760 00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:33,279 Speaker 2: But I love what we're doing. 761 00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:36,080 Speaker 1: I love that BT has this so that we're able 762 00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:38,959 Speaker 1: to actually talk to them and hear how the show 763 00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:40,200 Speaker 1: is impacting them. 764 00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:41,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, love it. 765 00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:43,279 Speaker 1: So I'm excited for you for you to get that. 766 00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:46,759 Speaker 1: You talk a lot about soul care. When you walk 767 00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:50,760 Speaker 1: into rooms that feel collectively the energy of black women 768 00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:53,600 Speaker 1: supporting each other, what does that nourishment do for your 769 00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:54,280 Speaker 1: own soul? 770 00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:58,799 Speaker 3: What does it do for my home? So it makes 771 00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:05,799 Speaker 3: me feel Yeah, it makes me feel my soul, I 772 00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:10,799 Speaker 3: feel not alone, makes me feel seen, It makes me 773 00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:16,640 Speaker 3: feel of use, makes me feel good. 774 00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:21,200 Speaker 2: Yeah. I love that. Okay, let's we're going to close that. 775 00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:24,160 Speaker 1: But as you continue to evolve, what do you feel 776 00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:27,760 Speaker 1: in this season is most important to protect for Tunday 777 00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:31,279 Speaker 1: Because you're pushing more and more. You've been yeah, you've 778 00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:34,160 Speaker 1: been on the bike, now you're on the TV. The 779 00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:37,719 Speaker 1: expansion is expanding and you're like, oh, like, what is 780 00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:43,080 Speaker 1: Tunday protecting? You know. 781 00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:45,920 Speaker 3: It's really funny because a friend of mine. One of 782 00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:49,080 Speaker 3: my teammates, his name is Maddie. Almost like something negative 783 00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:53,320 Speaker 3: someone had said about me online. Other people chiming and 784 00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:55,160 Speaker 3: chiming and more people like it. I'm like, oh my god, 785 00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:57,359 Speaker 3: Like all these people agree, but this person's nasty thing 786 00:40:57,400 --> 00:41:02,040 Speaker 3: that they say. And he said, toun day, as your 787 00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:05,279 Speaker 3: star continues to rise, it's because you're only going to 788 00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:10,799 Speaker 3: continue to expand. Yes, he goes, more of the more 789 00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:13,880 Speaker 3: and more of this unfortunately is going to come in 790 00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:18,919 Speaker 3: only going to to expand as you expand. And he said, 791 00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:27,960 Speaker 3: you have to protect your space. Oftentimes in class, I 792 00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:30,359 Speaker 3: always say you are the gatekeeper to your own peace. 793 00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:33,640 Speaker 3: And now I'm in this moment where I'm I'm being 794 00:41:33,719 --> 00:41:38,160 Speaker 3: tested like to remind myself of the words I put 795 00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:40,880 Speaker 3: on as to remind myself of that, like I have 796 00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:42,760 Speaker 3: to be the own I have to be the gatekeeper 797 00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:46,120 Speaker 3: to my own peace. And that means like not allowing, 798 00:41:46,239 --> 00:41:49,680 Speaker 3: like not putting myself in situations where I see negative 799 00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:54,680 Speaker 3: thoughts or words about me, and then also being in 800 00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:59,040 Speaker 3: a space of not allowing myself to accept negative thoughts. 801 00:41:59,360 --> 00:41:59,960 Speaker 2: You know what I mean? 802 00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:05,879 Speaker 3: Yeah, And so wow, I trust that I know who 803 00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:12,320 Speaker 3: I am. Shame on me if I allow a stranger 804 00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:16,880 Speaker 3: to have me consider anything different. 805 00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:17,400 Speaker 2: Yes. 806 00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:22,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, and so in this season, you know, yeah, I'm 807 00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:29,160 Speaker 3: just I have to remind myself that I know exactly 808 00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:31,439 Speaker 3: who I am. 809 00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:33,520 Speaker 1: Yeah. I love that you actually answered my next question. 810 00:42:33,560 --> 00:42:36,120 Speaker 1: So my next question was, I don't keep it positive? 811 00:42:36,200 --> 00:42:39,840 Speaker 1: We often choose light and positivity even while we're still becoming. 812 00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:42,839 Speaker 1: And what does keep it positively mean to you in 813 00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:44,920 Speaker 1: this season of your life? I feel like you just 814 00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:49,120 Speaker 1: answered it. Yes today, Thank you so much. Yes, this 815 00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:52,120 Speaker 1: has been a beautiful conversation like I knew it would be. 816 00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:54,440 Speaker 1: I appreciate you taking time to talk with me, and 817 00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:56,440 Speaker 1: I know our audience is going to enjoy this. 818 00:42:57,280 --> 00:42:57,560 Speaker 2: Yes. 819 00:42:57,640 --> 00:42:59,640 Speaker 1: Is there anything else that you have coming up that 820 00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:00,560 Speaker 1: we can support? 821 00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:02,400 Speaker 2: Is your book still on the shelves? 822 00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:08,399 Speaker 3: Can we still apsolutely? Let us know the thing, bun Day, 823 00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:11,319 Speaker 3: find your voice, trust your gut, get from where you 824 00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:13,359 Speaker 3: are to where you want to be. There's something I've 825 00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:15,360 Speaker 3: been working on for the last year, a project that 826 00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:17,920 Speaker 3: is finally going to come to light. I can't share it, ye, 827 00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:24,960 Speaker 3: but it's coming. And then Sports Illustrated Swim will be 828 00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:29,359 Speaker 3: out soon. I can't share much there either. Looking out 829 00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:30,279 Speaker 3: Instagram tag. 830 00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:31,640 Speaker 1: We're going to have it on the screen. Make sure 831 00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:34,680 Speaker 1: you guys follow Tunday. We will support everything. We get 832 00:43:34,719 --> 00:43:36,359 Speaker 1: the book. Make sure you get the book now. We're 833 00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:38,840 Speaker 1: going to keep it a New York Times bestseller. That 834 00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:41,719 Speaker 1: is incredible. Thank you so much, my goodness, you are 835 00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:44,000 Speaker 1: doing all the things. I'm inspired trying to keep up 836 00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:44,160 Speaker 1: with you. 837 00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:45,759 Speaker 3: Let's go, We're trying to. 838 00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:48,600 Speaker 2: Keep up with each other about that. I love it. 839 00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:50,440 Speaker 2: Thank you so much, thank you. 840 00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:52,000 Speaker 3: Wow. 841 00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:54,839 Speaker 1: This moment was so special, and it's a reminder that 842 00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:58,200 Speaker 1: girl doesn't ask us to become someone new. It simply 843 00:43:58,239 --> 00:44:01,400 Speaker 1: asked us to trust who we are. Because coming watching 844 00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:04,440 Speaker 1: Tunday step into this chapter with discipline, purpose. 845 00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:06,480 Speaker 2: And heart its power for the witness. 846 00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:10,400 Speaker 1: You reminded us that positivity isn't about perfection. It's about 847 00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:14,319 Speaker 1: presence and choosing to grow even when the path feels unfamiliar. 848 00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:17,000 Speaker 1: Thank you, guys so much for tuning into this special 849 00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:20,200 Speaker 1: episode of the Keep It Positive Sweeties Show. It's season 850 00:44:20,239 --> 00:44:23,440 Speaker 1: ten for Kips' ancestors, so make sure you watch new 851 00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:26,840 Speaker 1: episodes every Wednesday on Beet at nine to eight Central. 852 00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:30,200 Speaker 1: Be sure to subscribe and share this episode with someone 853 00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:33,000 Speaker 1: who needs it And if you need advice, positivity, or 854 00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:35,600 Speaker 1: just want to share something with the kIPS family, please 855 00:44:35,680 --> 00:44:39,440 Speaker 1: email us at Keep It Positive Outcomes at gmail dot com. 856 00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:42,880 Speaker 1: As always, stay blessed, stay encouraged, and keep it positive. 857 00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:45,120 Speaker 2: Sweetie, See you guys next time. Love y'all,