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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to this episode of Keep It Positive, Sweety.

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Speaker 1: Today we are talking about the entertainment industry and seasons

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Speaker 1: of uncertainty. Right now, we are in the middle of

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Speaker 1: a strike and it is affecting not just actors and

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Speaker 1: writers and directors and producers, but it's also affecting our crew.

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Speaker 2: Members and many families.

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Speaker 1: Hair stylists Chiranelle and my makeup artist Manny. These two

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Speaker 1: keep me calm, on said they work with me. I'm very,

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Speaker 1: very particular about everything. We'll get into that a little later,

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Speaker 1: but I thought it was important to get different perspectives

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Speaker 1: on what we're dealing with as it pertains to this strike.

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Speaker 2: And I met you many at Green.

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Speaker 1: Bar Studio when I was a costumer and a long

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Speaker 1: time ago. And Charanelle we knew each other when I

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Speaker 1: was costume designing and hadn't yet.

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Speaker 2: Flipped towards to the talent side.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but Coco was head of hair at that point

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Speaker 1: in time, and she said that you were the one

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Speaker 1: that I needed to work with Yah for Fatima's hair

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Speaker 1: from there on.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and that was it. She was right.

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Speaker 1: I'm so happy she's been stuck with me forever, so

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Speaker 1: she's responsible for my hairstyles for the Soul Train Awards

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Speaker 1: Sisters and Zatima and BT Awards this year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah the p grind pretty cover shoot.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, so she knows responsal.

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Speaker 2: For all those hairstyles.

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Speaker 1: And Manny is responsible for the beautiful beat that you're

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Speaker 1: always like, Oh the Teama's makeup, that's him.

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Speaker 2: I get a lot of my makeup tricks from Mannie

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Speaker 2: and my hair tricks. And can we get into the

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Speaker 2: makeup you did so good?

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 4: I was going back and forth like should I get

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Speaker 4: a makeup party? Should I have Manny coming here an

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Speaker 4: hour before? But no, I I decided to go ind

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Speaker 4: and take on the challenge. And you know, look at

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Speaker 4: everything that Manny.

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Speaker 3: That you taught me, Crystal. You taught me some things too.

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Speaker 4: Because you are really good at applying makeup. I always

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Speaker 4: want you to do like tutorials and stuff like that.

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Speaker 4: But I mean you're just you know, perfect in a

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Speaker 4: lot of different ways, so many different categories.

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Speaker 3: I tell you, oh stop, it gotta gets her. It

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Speaker 3: gets her, I mean, full package for real. So in

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Speaker 3: the soul too, And that's where.

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Speaker 4: It's more, you know, the most important is when it

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Speaker 4: exudes from within absolute and I absolutely love that the

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Speaker 4: most about you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you so much. I want a personally

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Speaker 1: thank you both for dealing with me. I know that

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Speaker 1: the way we shoot the schedule, we're all exhausted, and

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Speaker 1: I am an artist that is very particular about everything.

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Speaker 1: Many you call me a backseat makeup.

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Speaker 2: What are we doing? Man?

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Speaker 5: I mean, it's just a very demanding schedule and you

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Speaker 5: just roll with the punches and we're just you know,

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Speaker 5: making you happy.

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Speaker 2: You know, y'all do a very good job with that.

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Speaker 2: Do I get on your nerves when I'm like, you.

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Speaker 6: Know, I think I've been doing it for long enough.

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Speaker 6: It's not.

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Speaker 5: It doesn't get my nerves, So it just helps me

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Speaker 5: understand what you like.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's awesome, and I'll make sure now when

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Speaker 1: it comes to my ways, I'm very particular, but I'm like, I.

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Speaker 3: Mean, extremely particular.

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Speaker 2: Do you hear me?

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Speaker 4: But I love that, you know, because I am a

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Speaker 4: person that do like to interact with my talent and

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Speaker 4: try to satisfy.

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Speaker 3: Them in any way possible.

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Speaker 4: So with them communicating with me what they like, what

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Speaker 4: they want, what they see, that helps me as a

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Speaker 4: hairstylist to you know, advance my talent and my craft. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: so I absolutely enjoy working with you because you make

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Speaker 7: Better Oh yeah, I appreciate you both because sometimes as talent,

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Speaker 7: if there's something I'm very particular about everything, if you

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Speaker 7: feel comfortable saying, hey, can we fix this or.

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Speaker 2: Fix that, it can like be mm.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying As a woman, I don't

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Speaker 1: know how this is for men, but as women, we

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Speaker 1: want to feel like completely ourselves and like what we

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Speaker 1: see in the mirror absolutely and what the camera reflects, yam.

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Speaker 1: And if we can't tell a person here, I don't

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Speaker 2: They like, like.

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Speaker 1: Y I'm trying to tell you how to do your job.

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Speaker 1: It's like, no, I just this is I like, I'm

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Speaker 1: just I like what I like. You know, So thank

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Speaker 1: you both for letting me be myself on setps And

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Speaker 1: I just.

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Speaker 2: Love you guys.

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Speaker 1: So I wanna know, cause I know there's so many

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Speaker 1: people probably watching that would love to be a makeup

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Speaker 1: artist on set and break into the industry, that would

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Speaker 1: love to be a hairstylist and break into the industry.

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Speaker 2: Manny, just give me some.

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Speaker 1: Of your backstory where you're from, you upbringing, what brought

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Speaker 1: you to this point that made you say, Hey, this

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Speaker 1: is what I want to do.

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Speaker 6: Makeup is the thing.

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Speaker 5: Well, I never thought that film was going to be

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Speaker 5: my goal, and it wasn't a goal per se. I

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Speaker 5: started working for Macus Medics. I'm from Orlanta, Florida, but

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Speaker 5: nobody will hire me in Orlando because back then Mac

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Speaker 5: You can work anywhere, and it wouldn't hire me. I

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Speaker 5: needed to have some you know, portfolio ready and stuff,

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Speaker 5: and it wasn't something I had ready. So when I

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Speaker 5: for me to move to Atlanta. I came and applied

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Speaker 5: here to all the counters, and the job kind of

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Speaker 5: found me. That's the story for another time. But I

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Speaker 5: thought I was just going to do retail. And at

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Speaker 5: that time, there is an artist, his name is Geno Freeman.

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Speaker 5: He's also in the industry as well. He was working

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Speaker 5: lot of strip clubs, and to me at that point,

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Speaker 5: that was what I wanted to do. I was like, oh,

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Speaker 5: up working with strippers. But two years into the industry,

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Speaker 5: I met Mona Scott Young and she gave me my opening.

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Speaker 5: You know, she opened the door for me, and she

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Speaker 5: did say, and I quote to the people that hired me,

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Speaker 5: she was just make sure he never goes back.

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Speaker 6: To one nine two five. And I never went back

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Speaker 5: And I did a lot of the seasons from Love

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Speaker 5: and Hip Hop and some of her shows in New

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Speaker 5: Tyler Perry Studios, which was my first film industry job scripted.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and he was.

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Speaker 5: Really opening as well, really nice, very kind, and he

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Speaker 5: was so kind. Yeah, and my career took off from there.

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Speaker 5: And that's been almost I think now ten years.

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Speaker 6: I think.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, from me wanting to do strippers too, now working

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's amazing, amazing, very unplanned. Yes, I love it

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Speaker 1: and shut out Mona Scott. I love when people see

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Speaker 1: something that say to the people that's working with her

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Speaker 1: and that, how do you make sure he does not

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Speaker 1: in you, It's just it speaks a lot.

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Speaker 5: Yeah really, and it was so like something that she did.

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Speaker 5: I don't think she even remembers it, but it changed

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Speaker 5: my career. Admitted into your career.

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Speaker 2: What did I love that? I love that? Chanelle? Tell

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Speaker 2: us about me? About you? Where are you from?

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Speaker 1: How did you get started? And what sparked? Was it

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Speaker 1: always hair that you wanted to do.

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Speaker 4: I've always had a natural grasp for anything here m

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Speaker 4: you know, I can look at something and I can

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Speaker 4: create it naturally.

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Speaker 3: When I was like ten years old to.

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Speaker 4: Work with my barbiees Barbie, I used to do my

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Speaker 4: Barbie hair, and then my mother started aking me sewan out,

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Speaker 4: you think you could do my hair or my aunt?

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Speaker 4: So every event, you know, everybody was coming to me.

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Speaker 4: When I was younger, I didn't I did not say

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Speaker 4: I'm going to be a hairstylist. I didn't imagine that

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Speaker 4: being my career. It kind of just happened, you know.

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Speaker 4: I used to work at this bakery in New York

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Speaker 3: York life that I came from. I'm from Brooklyn, New York,

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Speaker 3: born in Guyana, South America. Near Brazil. So I came

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Speaker 4: So you know, where I was raised was Brooklyn, New York,

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Speaker 4: anything like that, and it wasn't even here because people

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Speaker 3: It was not a so called like amazing career to

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Speaker 4: Everybody wanted to say, I want to be a doctor,

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Speaker 4: go from Amy's Bread. I remember them asking me what

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna do next, and I just said, I'm gonna

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Speaker 4: move to Atlanta.

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Speaker 3: Wow, just just like that, just.

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Speaker 4: Got up, moved to Atlanta. I was a single mom.

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Speaker 4: do a little call and everything that never happened. So

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Speaker 4: I called my friend and I asked her. I was like,

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Speaker 4: do you know any hair schools that I can go to.

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Speaker 4: I went to the hair school off Candle Road. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: the hand road and got my license there and then

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Speaker 4: just pretty much continue doing what I was doing. End

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Speaker 4: up opening up a salon. Wow, very very successful business.

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Speaker 4: I worked NonStop from sun up to sundown, and I

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Speaker 4: out that so I don't have any desires to go

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Speaker 4: back to the salon. Eventually started working with I was

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Speaker 4: referred to Mila from the group seven oh two. She

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Speaker 4: came here and was looking for hairstylists when she moved here,

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Speaker 4: and I did her hair. She invited me on a

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Speaker 4: photo shoot with Derrick Blanks. Oh wow, right, that was

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Speaker 4: my first time ever doing anything in the industry. Like

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Speaker 4: I was a hairstylist, and I never thought of this

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Speaker 4: rem of things ever. I I didn't have any mentors,

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Speaker 4: anyone that I looked up to. I looked at a

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Speaker 4: I would like to be a hairstylist. I was just

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Speaker 4: a successful business owner and I did really well in

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 4: Once I had that experience, that opened up my eyes

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Speaker 4: So I did her hair for that one photo shoot

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Speaker 4: whole day, and it was.

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Speaker 3: Just like, ding, what am I doing this salon? I

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Speaker 4: You know, this is supposed to try to tear us down,

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Speaker 3: That you can be a blessing.

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Speaker 4: I feel like the way we're going to overcome this

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Speaker 1: So you kind of answer my next question. You talked

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Speaker 2: I was like, get those alerts saying we miss you,

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Speaker 5: And DUELINGO is bully if you don't do your lessons.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, I love that. Shut shut.

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Speaker 1: I love that I had had tyler on here and

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Speaker 4: Speaking to my mom about this, because there's a certain

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Speaker 4: way in how Crystal operate with people. She's so it's

445
00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:44,440
Speaker 4: like she's so passionate, but she's so precise.

446
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Speaker 3: She's very particular, but she is You can just tell

447
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Speaker 3: that you came from this time.

448
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Speaker 6: Yes, with the crew members.

449
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Speaker 1: Yes, because all that like when I see like a

450
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Speaker 1: new person who hasn't really worked in our ecosystems, cause

451
00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:05,200
Speaker 1: Tyler Perry Studios is totally different than the other studios

452
00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:05,920
Speaker 1: and sets that.

453
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Speaker 2: We work on, and I'll have to I'll love it, know,

454
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Speaker 2: hay Let tell.

455
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Speaker 1: You this because I've been in your position and I'm

456
00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:15,399
Speaker 1: not asking you to anything that I haven't done, you know,

457
00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:18,240
Speaker 1: But I need you to focus on these things. You're

458
00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:22,240
Speaker 1: gonna be okay, you know. And I know, going back

459
00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:26,640
Speaker 1: to like just how we live. Have you guys been

460
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Speaker 1: able to rise above the normal like living paycheck to

461
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Speaker 1: paycheck or is it still like a part Cause I

462
00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:33,760
Speaker 1: know for me, like when I was part of the crew.

463
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Speaker 2: It was like hard, you know, and I know, just.

464
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Speaker 1: Trun so they can kind of get a better understanding

465
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Speaker 1: of what we really deal with in this industry.

466
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Speaker 6: So at the beginning, that was one of my biggest fears.

467
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Speaker 5: I remember experiencing it during while I was doing non

468
00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:52,240
Speaker 5: union stuff like you no nonscript rather. I remember the

469
00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:56,679
Speaker 5: the first show I did, the reality show that I did.

470
00:24:56,760 --> 00:24:59,040
Speaker 5: I remember when it ended, I was like, Okay, I

471
00:24:59,119 --> 00:24:59,760
Speaker 5: quit my job.

472
00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:00,879
Speaker 6: What do I do now?

473
00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:04,280
Speaker 5: And it was that feeling of you know that like okay,

474
00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:07,640
Speaker 5: the anxiousness and you know, it's like a rat race.

475
00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:09,320
Speaker 5: I was like, okay, I need to find the next job,

476
00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:12,640
Speaker 5: and people that were more seasoned in the game were

477
00:25:12,760 --> 00:25:15,879
Speaker 5: very chill, like, oh yeah, already got this three jobs.

478
00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:18,119
Speaker 6: Lined up, and I'm like.

479
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Speaker 2: What do I do?

480
00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:19,600
Speaker 1: You know?

481
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Speaker 5: So it was really choking of a moment and I

482
00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:27,160
Speaker 5: remember then telling myself like I don't want to live

483
00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:28,800
Speaker 5: like this and this this is going to be my.

484
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Speaker 6: Career, which I already didn't even think it was a.

485
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:36,760
Speaker 5: Path for me, but once I was thrown into it,

486
00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:38,720
Speaker 5: I was like, how can I you know, what do

487
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Speaker 5: I do?

488
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Speaker 1: Do?

489
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Speaker 6: I go back to what I know, having a job

490
00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:44,800
Speaker 6: that pays me every week. Luckily I stuck.

491
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Speaker 5: By it, and you know, I was doing a lot

492
00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:53,240
Speaker 5: of freelancing work. Once you learn that work is going

493
00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:59,600
Speaker 5: to come, it doesn't matter when you wanted to come,

494
00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:02,800
Speaker 5: It's going to come. We're not meant to just always work.

495
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:06,480
Speaker 5: So I started dealing more with like go to the gym,

496
00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:09,440
Speaker 5: you know, fix my house, do things you know around that,

497
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:12,960
Speaker 5: because when the job will come at that, when I

498
00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:16,040
Speaker 5: was still not seasoned enough, I'll be like, oh my god,

499
00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:17,720
Speaker 5: why did I stress for all of this for no reason.

500
00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:19,760
Speaker 5: I could have been you know, learning a new language,

501
00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:23,560
Speaker 5: learning how to play an instrument, something for fulfilling for me,

502
00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:23,879
Speaker 5: you know.

503
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Speaker 6: So I'm no longer.

504
00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:30,000
Speaker 5: In that red race of paycheck to paycheck, thankfully. But

505
00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:34,200
Speaker 5: I mean we did go through a pandemic and then

506
00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:36,720
Speaker 5: that left us for so long, you know, with no help,

507
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:39,240
Speaker 5: no nothing, and then now we're going through this, it's like,

508
00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:41,359
Speaker 5: all right, we can only take so much, you know.

509
00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:46,200
Speaker 6: So I'm thankfully good financially, but.

510
00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:53,040
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's a you have to learn that bad

511
00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:53,840
Speaker 5: moments don't.

512
00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:56,080
Speaker 6: Last forever, Like you said, it's a season, you know. Yeah,

513
00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:57,200
Speaker 6: So that.

514
00:26:57,080 --> 00:26:59,920
Speaker 5: Helps you in getting out of that paycheck to paycheck mentality.

515
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Speaker 2: I love it. I love it.

516
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:06,040
Speaker 1: I've talked about me trying to create multiple streams. Has

517
00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:07,520
Speaker 1: this been a time where you guys like, what else

518
00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:08,760
Speaker 1: can I do to break more money in?

519
00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:09,920
Speaker 6: Baby?

520
00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 5: But I'm telling you only fans I've been milking. I'm like,

521
00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 5: you know what, I'm kidding.

522
00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:22,080
Speaker 6: Not rad no, but I'm like, if like, what what it?

523
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:24,840
Speaker 6: What can I do to listen?

524
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:30,000
Speaker 5: I don't have the best feed, but I'm like, I

525
00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 5: just said that I hate my beat.

526
00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:33,000
Speaker 2: I said, I know somebody out there like these bunnions.

527
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:35,280
Speaker 5: I said, listen, we got to break into a new

528
00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:38,119
Speaker 5: Maybe they're like the back of my knee somebody that

529
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:41,120
Speaker 5: kind of thing you never know, you.

530
00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:42,960
Speaker 6: Know, So I don't know. I'm just, you know, thinking

531
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:44,240
Speaker 6: of ways to make somebody.

532
00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:48,120
Speaker 5: Definitely not only fans, I'm joking, but yeah, I'm definitely.

533
00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:49,639
Speaker 6: Thinking like how can I make it? There's so you

534
00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:51,040
Speaker 6: can look anywhere in your house.

535
00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:54,160
Speaker 5: Let me share this quick. I just finished a show

536
00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:59,399
Speaker 5: and there was a there was roaches because the person

537
00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:03,880
Speaker 5: was ah the character was a hoarder, so they brought

538
00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 5: roaches onto set.

539
00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:07,199
Speaker 6: Right, Yes, now, mind you.

540
00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:09,920
Speaker 5: They had wranglers for the roaches and people from the

541
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Speaker 5: Humane Society for them as well. So when I was,

542
00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:14,960
Speaker 5: of course I'm looking at them like bros.

543
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:20,120
Speaker 6: Roaches. But if you're yes, who.

544
00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:21,720
Speaker 5: In the hell thought, you know, like, you know what,

545
00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:24,080
Speaker 5: I'm gonna put these roaches to work? You know.

546
00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:26,960
Speaker 6: And then not only was the yeah, now.

547
00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:32,760
Speaker 5: They're actor roaches, you know, you know, but also the wrangler.

548
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:33,520
Speaker 6: Is getting a check.

549
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:37,040
Speaker 5: The humane people is making sure the roaches are being

550
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:41,080
Speaker 5: humanely treated. That's a check. And I was like, everywhere

551
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:43,680
Speaker 5: you look in our industry, it's a job. Like when

552
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:45,360
Speaker 5: people tell me what are you doing? You know, are

553
00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:48,000
Speaker 5: you an actor? There's of course you think of the

554
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:52,600
Speaker 5: top job. But in the industry there's so much you

555
00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 5: can do. Same thing just even if you're not in

556
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 5: the industry. You look around your house from the depth

557
00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:01,400
Speaker 5: bolts in your you know, doors, like any thing you

558
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:04,360
Speaker 5: can make money anyway. So now more than ever again

559
00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 5: going through the second you know past of making money.

560
00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:09,040
Speaker 6: Yes, I'm like, I'm gonna make some money.

561
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:10,800
Speaker 2: You can be a road.

562
00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:19,920
Speaker 5: Track now, okay, gather okay, how.

563
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:20,880
Speaker 2: Much they got paid to day?

564
00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:26,640
Speaker 3: Okay, that's day, right, that's a good day, rate a road.

565
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:30,480
Speaker 1: Is there anything that you've started like tapping into to

566
00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:31,320
Speaker 1: make more money?

567
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:38,040
Speaker 4: Well, funny enough, right before the strike hit, I started

568
00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:40,520
Speaker 4: having in you know, the.

569
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:42,160
Speaker 3: Desires to do real estate.

570
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 4: Really yeah, so I wanted to start investing in property.

571
00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:49,160
Speaker 3: Do certain things like that.

572
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:54,480
Speaker 4: Now I'm quite very fresh, very new to this, but

573
00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 4: that's what I wanted to start. I still have the

574
00:29:57,120 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 4: desire to do that, but I of course have to

575
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:02,440
Speaker 4: scale back just for right now until we get back in.

576
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:07,200
Speaker 4: But yeah, I'm going to reach out to people while

577
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:11,800
Speaker 4: we have this downtime and connect as much as possible,

578
00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:18,120
Speaker 4: and then pretty much anything that I'm doing outside of this,

579
00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:21,960
Speaker 4: I needed my money to work for me. Hello, I'm

580
00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:26,560
Speaker 4: not trying to work for my money no more. I

581
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:30,520
Speaker 4: want my money to work for me. I've put enough

582
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:35,560
Speaker 4: labor and my body traveling all those type of things,

583
00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:38,560
Speaker 4: and I still enjoy I have a passion for this,

584
00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:42,960
Speaker 4: so I want to continue to be a hairstylist. But

585
00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:44,720
Speaker 4: I need my money to work for me.

586
00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:45,440
Speaker 2: I know that's right.

587
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:46,160
Speaker 1: I like that.

588
00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:49,960
Speaker 2: What did they say on Players Club? Make the money,

589
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:50,840
Speaker 2: don't let the money make it?

590
00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:57,160
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, perfect, Chanelle, you are a mother So as

591
00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:01,880
Speaker 1: a mom, how has this strike impacted you in that area?

592
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:07,080
Speaker 4: Well, it's given me the opportunity to teach my two kids,

593
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:10,800
Speaker 4: beautiful girls that I absolutely love and endure so much.

594
00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:15,160
Speaker 4: Teach them how to preserve, teach them how to get

595
00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:17,720
Speaker 4: through difficult times, because they're gonna have moments when they

596
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:22,120
Speaker 4: have you know, they have to cut back on leisure things,

597
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:27,400
Speaker 4: things that you know they don't have to do, and

598
00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:30,480
Speaker 4: but scale back, you know. And that's another thing about

599
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 4: you know, this world showcase so much of I can

600
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:38,480
Speaker 4: do this. I can have fun and not have pullbacks.

601
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:41,560
Speaker 4: My daughter, she's on social media, you know, so this

602
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:43,800
Speaker 4: gives me the opportunity to actually really show her what

603
00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:44,440
Speaker 4: real life is.

604
00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:47,000
Speaker 2: Yes, ooh that's good Manny.

605
00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:50,760
Speaker 1: You said that during COVID you dealt with depression, and

606
00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:53,480
Speaker 1: you've pretty much got that under controled in this situation.

607
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:56,960
Speaker 1: But mental health is something that's very important. How have

608
00:31:57,080 --> 00:32:00,720
Speaker 1: you during this time been able to really just kind

609
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:03,560
Speaker 1: of keep that depression down where it's not it has

610
00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:04,120
Speaker 1: encrypt in.

611
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:13,280
Speaker 5: Come on, Crystal Winfrey. You know the pandemic was I

612
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 5: like to always My friends would also attest to this,

613
00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:19,640
Speaker 5: like I like to find a silver lining two things. Yeah,

614
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:24,200
Speaker 5: my mother taught me this. She always has the looks

615
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:26,040
Speaker 5: at the brighter side of things, and I love that

616
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:28,520
Speaker 5: about her. I love that she's my north, my north

617
00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:33,280
Speaker 5: start in life. And I went really into a dark

618
00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:34,560
Speaker 5: hole during the pandemic.

619
00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:38,000
Speaker 6: I think, you know the toes.

620
00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 5: It was going to be two weeks, yep, and then

621
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:42,480
Speaker 5: after two weeks went into three, four five a month.

622
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 5: And you know, it went from us being at home

623
00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 5: learning from a recondo on Netflix, how to you know,

624
00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 5: fold stuff and get rid of stuff, you know, when

625
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:52,360
Speaker 5: we started organizing our closets and eventually we ran out

626
00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:54,160
Speaker 5: of things to do at home, and then we started

627
00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:59,000
Speaker 5: picking into our own trauma what you call scabs. Yeah,

628
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:05,800
Speaker 5: and that really affected me because not only did depression

629
00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:09,280
Speaker 5: show up, also missed anxiety showed up. And when those

630
00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:13,120
Speaker 5: two bitches hold hands, they get a hold of.

631
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 6: You and do a dance on you.

632
00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:17,400
Speaker 5: And I was not myself, Like, I literally lost myself

633
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:20,160
Speaker 5: really badly. I went back home to be near my

634
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:23,720
Speaker 5: family because things got really dark. When it made me

635
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:28,400
Speaker 5: understand that, okay, this is a mental issue because my

636
00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:31,600
Speaker 5: mind is telling me things that never in my life,

637
00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:34,400
Speaker 5: you know, I would have thought of, you know, and

638
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:37,880
Speaker 5: it got really scary. I did a lot of therapy,

639
00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:40,240
Speaker 5: still going through therapy.

640
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 6: That helps a lot.

641
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:44,200
Speaker 5: I always recommend people to do therapy, talk to someone

642
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:47,040
Speaker 5: that it actually is. It's good to talk to your friends.

643
00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:50,800
Speaker 5: It's really good to have your confidence, you know, but

644
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 5: a professional really knows how to guide you.

645
00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:56,920
Speaker 6: Through those moments. That helped me a lot.

646
00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:00,240
Speaker 5: Being near my family, people that really loved me and

647
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:02,360
Speaker 5: know me from you know, since I was a child,

648
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:05,840
Speaker 5: really really helped me. That was like a training moment

649
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:08,800
Speaker 5: for moments like this. So now I'm not like picking

650
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:11,320
Speaker 5: out a scap like I see you at the gym often,

651
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:14,160
Speaker 5: you know. I make sure that if one thing I'm

652
00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:16,480
Speaker 5: going to do for myself, even in the days in

653
00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 5: these past weeks that I don't want to get up

654
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:19,759
Speaker 5: and do nothing, I just want to stay at home,

655
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:23,360
Speaker 5: I'm like, no, don't let that anxiety depression kick in again.

656
00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:25,920
Speaker 5: Go to the gym, do something just so that, you know,

657
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:29,680
Speaker 5: the happy hormones come into your body. So I'm never

658
00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:32,360
Speaker 5: getting get a little better. I'm being kinder to myself.

659
00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:36,840
Speaker 5: I again, in my practice, we call it chanting, but

660
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:39,319
Speaker 5: praying is the best way I can say it.

661
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:42,320
Speaker 6: I pray a lot.

662
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:49,480
Speaker 5: It's keeping me healthy here, you know. So depression is

663
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:52,839
Speaker 5: a journey. You know, it's something that it can It's

664
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Speaker 5: hard to explain because everybody experiences that differently. So some

665
00:34:58,000 --> 00:34:59,840
Speaker 5: days you're up here and some days you're down, and

666
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:02,759
Speaker 5: life is the same way absolutely, so you know it's

667
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:06,439
Speaker 5: always going up and down. So yeah, it's I think

668
00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:09,360
Speaker 5: the pandemic. I get there's no silver lightning to it

669
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:12,440
Speaker 5: because a lot of people suffered through it, But it

670
00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:15,640
Speaker 5: was a training moment for today what we're doing in

671
00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:16,400
Speaker 5: our industry.

672
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, absolutely good. I'm glad you had that under control.

673
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:24,040
Speaker 1: I'm happy that you are in therapy and being kind

674
00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:26,040
Speaker 1: of yourself and I do see you taking the time

675
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:27,120
Speaker 1: to just get that many that.

676
00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:29,719
Speaker 2: Self care he needs. So I'm proud of you.

677
00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:34,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, in seasons like this where people can often become hopeless,

678
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:38,360
Speaker 1: how do you remain hopeful God?

679
00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:39,880
Speaker 3: Period?

680
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:45,680
Speaker 4: And it depends if I'm having a really emotional day

681
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:49,839
Speaker 4: or I'm struggling emotionally, even if I have to pray

682
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:52,959
Speaker 4: or say something good to myself every second of.

683
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:54,480
Speaker 3: The moment, I do it.

684
00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:57,879
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't say like I'm gonna wake up pray

685
00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:00,719
Speaker 4: in the morning and that's gonna be it for the.

686
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 3: Rest of the day. As much as I need to.

687
00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:07,440
Speaker 4: Cast down the thoughts that I'm not supposed to be

688
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:12,640
Speaker 4: thinking and encourage myself and pray to God, that's what

689
00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:13,400
Speaker 4: helps me.

690
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:15,719
Speaker 2: You've got that love that what about you.

691
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:18,960
Speaker 5: Maybe I've in the free time that I've had, I've

692
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:24,400
Speaker 5: donated my time to shelters, and it helps you realize

693
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:30,359
Speaker 5: that things could always be worse, you know. And the

694
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:33,920
Speaker 5: most beautiful thing about those experiences when you donate your

695
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:38,719
Speaker 5: time is that though you think they're going through the worst,

696
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:41,440
Speaker 5: that you imagine yourself in those in their situation and

697
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:43,719
Speaker 5: you're like, oh my god, I would hate it that

698
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:46,040
Speaker 5: was me, you know, like what would I do if

699
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:49,840
Speaker 5: that was my situation. They're the happiest, the most thankful,

700
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:53,400
Speaker 5: the most you know, lovely people you'll ever meet, and

701
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:57,719
Speaker 5: it helps you remember that, you know, your life is

702
00:36:57,760 --> 00:36:58,920
Speaker 5: not that bad you can be.

703
00:36:59,200 --> 00:36:59,759
Speaker 6: There's people in.

704
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:03,560
Speaker 5: A high little wishing they had an extra day, you know.

705
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:07,680
Speaker 5: There's people that are dealing through, you know, with death,

706
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:10,520
Speaker 5: wishing they had you know, another day, you know, with

707
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:14,160
Speaker 5: their family member they love. So that keives me hopeful

708
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:16,440
Speaker 5: to like you know, okay, you know what this is

709
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:19,400
Speaker 5: just momentarily again, we're not meant to just always be working.

710
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:23,240
Speaker 5: Working yourself, make yourself happy, make other surrounds you happy.

711
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:26,799
Speaker 6: We work so much in this industry. We're at work

712
00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:27,759
Speaker 6: more than we're at home.

713
00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:31,799
Speaker 5: And spend it with your family, you know, go be

714
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:35,080
Speaker 5: with your kids, with your you know, nephew's nieces, sisters,

715
00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:38,440
Speaker 5: you know a bit. So that's giving me hopeful that

716
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:40,799
Speaker 5: I know work is going to come back again eventually,

717
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:44,640
Speaker 5: hopefully when this corporate greed ends, you know, we can

718
00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:47,400
Speaker 5: get back to it. But until then, I'm like, just

719
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:50,760
Speaker 5: be happy, you know, make yourself.

720
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:54,680
Speaker 6: Enjoy this free time. Yeah, yeah, we have to live.

721
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 2: We do that.

722
00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:59,240
Speaker 1: Actually into my next question, how would you offer someone

723
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 1: if I maybe struggling this season, so you really just

724
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:02,400
Speaker 1: into that.

725
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:05,280
Speaker 2: What about you? How advice would you give someone?

726
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 3: I would definitely.

727
00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:13,399
Speaker 4: Say, enjoy what you enjoy doing. It doesn't matter what

728
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 4: it is, Yeah.

729
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:17,400
Speaker 3: Just do it. I enjoy cooking.

730
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 4: I cook, you know, have a glass of wine at

731
00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:25,239
Speaker 4: nine o'clock in the morning if I want to, that's right,

732
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:31,160
Speaker 4: I just do me. I try to comfort myself and

733
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:34,160
Speaker 4: what makes me happy as much as possible. I enjoy

734
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:37,839
Speaker 4: days where I'm walking my daughter to school and I'm

735
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:38,920
Speaker 4: making her lunch.

736
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:41,160
Speaker 3: When she gets home, the house is smelling a.

737
00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:46,520
Speaker 4: Certain way, you know, instilling, you know, taking care of

738
00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:51,840
Speaker 4: me mentally, like you know, we don't have when we

739
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 4: are working.

740
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:54,759
Speaker 3: We do work very.

741
00:38:54,920 --> 00:39:02,000
Speaker 4: Long, stringuous hours. So enjoying this moment and relaxing and not.

742
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:08,880
Speaker 4: The struggle with this is that once I started NonStop

743
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:15,480
Speaker 4: busy all the time, so when it does slow down mentally,

744
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:17,920
Speaker 4: you're kind of like, what's going on because your body is.

745
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:20,399
Speaker 3: Used to a certain case in life.

746
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:23,960
Speaker 4: Well, when you learn how to slow down and just

747
00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:27,680
Speaker 4: really enjoy the moment, and.

748
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:28,960
Speaker 3: That's what you're supposed to live for.

749
00:39:29,239 --> 00:39:32,280
Speaker 4: You're supposed to be living in the moment for the moment,

750
00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:36,240
Speaker 4: and then when you're blessed with more, just go ahead

751
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:38,879
Speaker 4: and God just like, okay, let me blessed with some more,

752
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:40,919
Speaker 4: and you just go with the flow.

753
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:44,040
Speaker 2: I love that. I love that. Guys. Thank you so

754
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:45,920
Speaker 2: much for coming to sit on the couchch with me.

755
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:48,879
Speaker 2: We are of course, no you guys.

756
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:51,480
Speaker 1: I feel like we definitely touch on somethings that are

757
00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:54,080
Speaker 1: going to help a lot of people, people that we

758
00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:59,799
Speaker 1: know people that we may not know. We're gonna get

759
00:39:59,840 --> 00:40:01,000
Speaker 1: to my my favorite part of the show, which is

760
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:04,600
Speaker 1: all positive outcomes where they write into us and ask

761
00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:05,280
Speaker 1: us for advice.

762
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Speaker 2: So you guys ready to give some good advice? Okay,

763
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:08,120
Speaker 2: all right?

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Speaker 1: This one says Dear Crystal. Last year was my season

765
00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:14,520
Speaker 1: of rejection. I received a lot of nose and some

766
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:16,960
Speaker 1: goals did not come to truition. During that time, I

767
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:19,680
Speaker 1: took a step back and actually felt the emotions that

768
00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:23,080
Speaker 1: came with it and actively understood the lessons. This season

769
00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:27,560
Speaker 1: was trying to teach me patience because I don't have any,

770
00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:30,239
Speaker 1: and I'm always rushing to accomplish certain goals at a

771
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:33,799
Speaker 1: certain time. Last Christmas, I received a lot of opportunities.

772
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:35,960
Speaker 1: I was given the opportunity that would change my life

773
00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:38,920
Speaker 1: if I kept focused and worked hard at it. I

774
00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:41,400
Speaker 1: had to eventually resign for my job, which paid well.

775
00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:42,480
Speaker 2: I thought if I.

776
00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:45,279
Speaker 1: Applied for a month's leave of absence, I could go

777
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:48,000
Speaker 1: see if the opportunity would pay off, and if not,

778
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:50,400
Speaker 1: I would still have my job if things go south.

779
00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:53,279
Speaker 1: But my request for leave of absence was denied and

780
00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:57,240
Speaker 1: I was asked with urgency to make a decision whether

781
00:40:57,280 --> 00:41:02,120
Speaker 1: I'm staying with the company or resigning. I felt sad,

782
00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:05,960
Speaker 1: unappreciated for my work, and replaceable by my employer based

783
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:08,840
Speaker 1: on their response to my requests. This basically forced me

784
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:11,319
Speaker 1: to make a decision in less than a day. I

785
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:15,040
Speaker 1: decided to resign, but I had a bittersweet emotion to

786
00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:18,839
Speaker 1: the whole situation. I'm afraid of taking a risk like this,

787
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:21,760
Speaker 1: but I am more afraid of not betting on myself

788
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:22,880
Speaker 1: and chasing my dreams.

789
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:25,280
Speaker 2: How do I navigate my feelings.

790
00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:28,080
Speaker 1: Of doubt and regret with a decision that made that

791
00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:30,400
Speaker 1: I with the decision that I made, and pushed forward

792
00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:32,879
Speaker 1: with the opportunity that I was presented with.

793
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:38,320
Speaker 2: M Wow, M I didn't.

794
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Speaker 1: Get her name, but first of all, thank you for

795
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:49,239
Speaker 1: writing in I. I wasn't presented with an opportunity when

796
00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:52,400
Speaker 1: I decided to leave Capitol Hill. It was more so

797
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:56,080
Speaker 1: God tugging at me, saying, hey, you know there's something

798
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:57,440
Speaker 1: bigger and something better for you.

799
00:41:58,120 --> 00:41:59,680
Speaker 2: And I did. I left my job.

800
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:02,080
Speaker 1: I did ask for do it like you didn't ask

801
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:04,680
Speaker 1: for a leave paid leave of absence. But I did

802
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:06,919
Speaker 1: take a leap of faith and it is the best

803
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:08,200
Speaker 1: decision I ever made.

804
00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:09,360
Speaker 2: But it was so hard.

805
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:15,280
Speaker 1: I had the probably the toughest year of my life

806
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:18,600
Speaker 1: when I first moved to Atlanta. So to you, I

807
00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:23,200
Speaker 1: would say, if this is something that you really believe in, always.

808
00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:26,000
Speaker 2: Bet on yourself and God will make away. What do

809
00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:26,680
Speaker 2: you guys think?

810
00:42:27,719 --> 00:42:28,960
Speaker 3: I feel the same exact way.

811
00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:34,200
Speaker 5: I believe that I listened to the universe, your angels,

812
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:37,720
Speaker 5: your ancestors, however you want to call it, whatever you want.

813
00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:38,279
Speaker 6: To tap into.

814
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:42,280
Speaker 5: Nothing happens for I mean, everything happens for a reason.

815
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:46,320
Speaker 5: If she's having those feelings, because I've had that feeling

816
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:48,200
Speaker 5: too when I had to leave my job that was

817
00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:51,560
Speaker 5: paying my check every week to go into this field.

818
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:55,520
Speaker 5: If it's happening, it's God really telling you jump.

819
00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:57,920
Speaker 6: Yes, you know, do it.

820
00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:01,480
Speaker 5: And even if you have doubt, like if it goes south,

821
00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:04,319
Speaker 5: if it goes really really bad for the first few months,

822
00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:08,840
Speaker 5: maybe years, don't give up because it was percent percentage

823
00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:09,640
Speaker 5: to you for a reason.

824
00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:11,160
Speaker 6: You know, God already has a plan.

825
00:43:11,239 --> 00:43:13,919
Speaker 5: It already has it all mapped out for you, maybe

826
00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:15,960
Speaker 5: taking you another way in the road, and that's why

827
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:17,680
Speaker 5: it goes bad, but you're going to get back in

828
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:22,480
Speaker 5: it again, you know, I say jump and do it.

829
00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:26,359
Speaker 5: Always when you do something, when you live life without regret. Yes,

830
00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:28,040
Speaker 5: I always say I don't want to be sixty seventy

831
00:43:28,040 --> 00:43:29,440
Speaker 5: and say like I don't want to do you know, like.

832
00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:31,759
Speaker 6: I wish I would have done this, I wish up.

833
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:34,760
Speaker 6: Just do it, do it and then see what happens.

834
00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:37,640
Speaker 5: The worst that can happen is what you get another

835
00:43:37,719 --> 00:43:40,960
Speaker 5: job right like you tried it, and then when you

836
00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:43,000
Speaker 5: come back at it again, you have way more experience

837
00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:43,520
Speaker 5: at it.

838
00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:45,320
Speaker 6: Exactly, you know, So just jump.

839
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Speaker 1: I love that.

840
00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:47,120
Speaker 2: I love that.

841
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:52,960
Speaker 1: So we do something on the show called what I'm

842
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:56,799
Speaker 1: going Through and what I'm growing through? And in this

843
00:43:56,880 --> 00:44:01,520
Speaker 1: season as we're changing to the strike, I am going

844
00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:06,640
Speaker 1: through making sure that I don't go into a state

845
00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:08,920
Speaker 1: of depression because I battle anxiety.

846
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:10,600
Speaker 2: I can't get low.

847
00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:12,000
Speaker 1: I do have moments where I don't want to go

848
00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:14,719
Speaker 1: to bed or I just feel like I don't feel

849
00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:17,120
Speaker 1: like it today, but I have to force myself to

850
00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:20,840
Speaker 1: get up. I'm going through that and I'm growing through

851
00:44:23,719 --> 00:44:27,120
Speaker 1: understanding that there is a season for everything and this

852
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:28,040
Speaker 1: too shall pass.

853
00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:31,440
Speaker 2: I know you guys, what are you going through? What

854
00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:32,400
Speaker 2: are you growing through?

855
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:33,480
Speaker 3: Well?

856
00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:42,640
Speaker 4: I'm going through definitely a season of understanding who I

857
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:46,799
Speaker 4: need around me, who I enjoy around me, and not

858
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:52,040
Speaker 4: feeling bad that I have to let some things go,

859
00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:54,879
Speaker 4: some people go, and.

860
00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:55,480
Speaker 3: Not let them go.

861
00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:58,640
Speaker 4: But just you know, I just am going through a

862
00:44:58,680 --> 00:45:04,960
Speaker 4: season of and join a space around me and that

863
00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:10,680
Speaker 4: surrounds me that's full of light that can allow the

864
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:12,960
Speaker 4: light that's in me to shine brighter.

865
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I love it. Yeah, I love it. What about you?

866
00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:21,960
Speaker 5: Maybe I'm going through So I've recently converted to Buddhism,

867
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 5: and it's it's interesting because growing up Catholic, it's you know,

868
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:29,839
Speaker 5: I still find myself saying like, oh, thank you God,

869
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:31,279
Speaker 5: or God this I mean I speak to I think

870
00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:33,480
Speaker 5: God is in many things, you know, God, the universe,

871
00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:35,320
Speaker 5: you know, it can be in any religion.

872
00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:39,080
Speaker 6: God is presented in different forms. So I still speak

873
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:39,759
Speaker 6: to God every day.

874
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:47,120
Speaker 5: But I'm going through a change of you know, tapping

875
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:51,239
Speaker 5: into different ways of you know, getting in line with

876
00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:54,600
Speaker 5: the universe, with God everything to align myself. And I'm

877
00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:58,839
Speaker 5: going through it because I am learning that I'm being

878
00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:02,000
Speaker 5: more kind to everything around me, like, you know, most

879
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:05,920
Speaker 5: importantly being more kind to myself, you know. So it's

880
00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:07,680
Speaker 5: a great season for me. Right now, because I just

881
00:46:07,719 --> 00:46:09,520
Speaker 5: can't wait to see what's going to happen when I

882
00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:11,759
Speaker 5: get to my forties, when I get to if I

883
00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:13,640
Speaker 5: get blessed to get to my fifties and my sixties,

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Speaker 5: and then I see how much I've grown through, then

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Speaker 5: you know I've made it all the way here to

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Speaker 5: my thirties. Now, I just want to see what's coming

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Speaker 5: for the rest of you know, my life.

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Speaker 2: Good, good, good.

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Speaker 1: So we do a thing called keep it Blank, Sweetie,

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Speaker 1: where the show is called Keep It Positive, Sweetie, but

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Speaker 1: we feel in the blanks, as it be, changes to

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Speaker 1: the episode or something that you can take away from

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Speaker 1: the episode. And from this one, I will say, keep

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Speaker 1: it hmmm, patient, sweetie, keep it patient? Yeah, what would

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Speaker 1: you guys feel in the blak with.

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Speaker 6: Keep it hopeful, Sweetie? Keep it hopeful?

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Speaker 4: I was saying, oh no, just keep it ready, get

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Speaker 4: yourself prepared for what's next.

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Speaker 2: That's right, that's right, that's right.

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Speaker 1: Thank you guys so much for tuning into this episode

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Speaker 1: of Keep It Positive, Sweetie. If you want to write

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Speaker 1: into our positive Outcomes listener letter, writ into keep It

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Speaker 1: Positive Sweetie at gmail dot com.

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Speaker 2: And that's Sweetye with an.

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Speaker 1: I e and then you can follow keep it positive

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Speaker 1: on all platforms, and you can follow me on all

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Speaker 1: platforms at love chrysorinee and that's l u V Crystal Renee.

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Speaker 2: Guys, tell them where they can find you.

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Speaker 4: Sure now, I used to be here on Instagram only

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Speaker 4: s h o r n e l L and I

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Speaker 4: had to add anohing l because dang, I just want right.

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Speaker 4: But it's s h o r n e l l L.

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Speaker 2: There we go, got it?

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Speaker 5: And many where he can find me at the Pink

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Speaker 5: And I'm kidding up, No, I'm actually taking taking a

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Speaker 5: break from social media so you can just find me.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 6: I mean when you find me booth. You're gonna come

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Speaker 6: back eventually.

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Speaker 5: But I'm changing all my social media, So Manny Devella

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Speaker 5: d A V I l A go ahead.

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Speaker 2: And tap in so when he comes back, you can

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Speaker 2: stay tapped in. All right, Thank you guys so much.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: I hope you guys are blessed, have a great week,

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Speaker 1: and in the meantime, you know what to do.

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Speaker 2: Keep it positively like