WEBVTT - Brilliant Black Woman (w/ Deja Vu) 0:00:01.440 --> 0:00:06.240 Hey, Hi, Hi, good morning, good afternoon, good evening. You 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:09.120 are listening to the Vitamin D Podcast with your host 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:14.200 Mama doing day, all day, every day, um, and I'm 0:00:14.240 --> 0:00:16.480 here to help you understand how to best use your 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:20.400 best asset. Or you don't know what that is, well, 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:23.880 you need to listen and then see what is that 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:26.799 thing that if you improve it, you will improve every 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:31.040 aspect of your life. What in life shows up with 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:35.680 you everywhere you So I'm here to show you the 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:41.520 different ways to utilize yourself through inspirational conversations with inspirational people. 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:46.840 As we move into Women's History Month, I'm constantly thinking 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:50.239 about what it means to be a woman in We 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:55.160 have a long history of ancestors and mentors, mothers, grandmother's, 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:58.520 matriarchs who we need to celebrate and remember as much 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:01.000 as we also have to look at women of today 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:03.520 who are doing it for themselves as well as those 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:06.280 who are doing it for the days to come. I'm 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:09.199 talking about the women making history right now with their 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:12.880 lives going against the expectations of this world. So with 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:15.559 that in mind, I knew who I had to reach 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:19.360 out to and bring on the show today. I decided 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:21.640 to bring on a woman who has been instrumental in 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:25.319 my development, who I see as a mentor. Hey, you 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:29.240 might even call this a mentor. Monday Deja Vu is 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:33.319 a media personality and broadcaster known for her hilarious personality 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:36.640 and sharp with on her own show w b LS 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:39.920 is Deja Vu in the Afternoons, which airs in New York, 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:44.319 and the syndicated beat Deja vusham Um. We sat down 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:46.720 and she shared with me to talk about knowing when 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:50.280 it's personal and when it's business, when to let go, 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:53.960 the importance of balance, and what it means to go 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:59.200 full out for your dream and that includes igniting the hustle. Okay, 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:04.240 that fool knowing how brilliant you are. So I know 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:06.360 that you're going to enjoy because I know I did. 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:10.400 So without further ado, it's time for your dose a 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:15.120 Vitamin D. Get your Vitamin D right with me and 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:28.200 get excited about hi Ja v day all day, every day. 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:32.639 And how are you doing? Are going? Oh? Good? Good? 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:37.680 How are you? I'm excellent, no complaints at all, living 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:40.680 life girl. I'm so happy you're here. I just want 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:42.760 to let you know that we're live on it's recording. 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:50.920 So um, but you said, how am I doing? I'm grateful. 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:54.280 I love your voice done. I was telling my sister, 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:55.960 I was trying to describe it, and I said, she 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:59.280 had such a full, rich, how am I doing? It 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:01.920 was just so pretty? Do you know how much that 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:05.519 means coming from you? Girl? Please, it's beautiful. But you've 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:07.480 had this voice. I was telling her. I said, you 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:10.480 had maybe recently graduated college of your years, and you 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:15.360 still had that full, warm, that sound, and I'm glad 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:17.680 to see you using it. Thank you, And I want 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:20.799 to say that I'm grateful for you for believing in me. 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:24.440 You you you always made the time for me. And 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:26.760 I was just thinking, like, you know, being a Women's 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:28.440 History month, I had to think about, like who are 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:32.480 the women that I admired, People that helped paved the way, 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:36.640 you know, shed light on the way, just spend time 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:42.720 as I was on my way, and I'm like, deja day, 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:45.640 I mean taking it back like you were talking about 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:48.160 a few years after college, deja I had a dream 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:51.680 of being a worldwide At first, I used to say motivation, 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:54.080 but as I talked to a mentor, he said, you know, 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:56.720 you get motivated to get started, but you gotta get 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:59.720 inspired to change your life. And I said, okay, inspirational speaker, 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:03.280 but da it was you. They gave you the official 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:08.840 moment to speak at a high school. We were in Jersey. 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:11.880 I remember that you took it on me days. That 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:15.480 means so much. That's crazy that you remember that way 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:19.080 back then. And yes, but you rocked it. You rocked it. 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:24.880 So you're getting emotional now because I don't think people 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:30.359 realize that. People don't realize how important it is to 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:35.559 have mentors in your life. Absolutely, and I guess even 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:38.039 having you today, I want to talk about that with 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:39.920 you because you know, you look at you and it's 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:43.000 like you're in a number one market at WBLS. You're 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:46.240 syndicated on ABC Radio with the Deja Busha. I mean, 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:49.720 you're you're doing live announcements for Ryan and Kelly like 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:53.080 or Kelly and Ryan like, oh my gosh voice over. 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:57.320 It's like, and here's the thing. People get on this 0:04:57.400 --> 0:05:01.480 journey for this dream, right right, and you know you're 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:03.320 thinking like, oh, I'm a run and I'm gonna arrive 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:06.880 and it's just like I guess Michelle Obama's book and 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:10.240 she's always she's talks about becoming because we're always becoming. 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:13.799 And like you said, you talked a little woll Dawn 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:17.359 fresh out of college. Here we are looking like almost 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:20.839 ten years later, girl, and I'm still twenty nine in 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:23.440 holding the thing. I was thinking back, I said, how 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:27.560 does stage is still look the same? Listen, girl, But no, 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:30.800 you know what, it's a grateful thing to be on 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:35.880 this journey. We're steadily evolving, right, and the fact that 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:39.280 we are now in this moment of our lives in 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:43.080 the world, that we have time for us to be 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:45.480 able to take our time. Remember back in the day, 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:47.279 it seemed like by the time you were thirty, life 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:48.839 is over. You were sitting down, they were putting you 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:50.800 out the pasture and all that stuff you would see 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:53.280 if you see the older movies, you're like, thet was 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:56.400 only thirty five, and why would she mean put back? 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:59.840 Now you see women doing things in I mean all 0:05:59.880 --> 0:06:02.280 the me up until whenever they want to stop. Seriously, 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:04.760 So I just think it's amazing, and not just women, 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:07.240 but men too. We've been afforded this opportunity to be 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:10.159 able to continue to grow in our passions and be 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:12.960 able to still live out those dreams. That's the blessing 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:16.159 of being where we are right now at this present time. Yes, 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:19.400 And when you said present time, it's about the gift 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:22.240 of now and living out your dreams and how that 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:25.360 takes courage, how it's going to take you to stretch 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:28.800 and so looking at you and how you come like 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:32.479 I got so many questions as to how I want 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:36.520 to start, because I'm approaching. I feel as though the 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:41.000 women that I worked with starting it's ubls like now 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:44.279 I'm taking a chance and I'm seeing the viewpoint I'm seeing, 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:46.880 you know, whether or not you know, whether you're hiring personnel, 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:49.920 how you're focusing your dreams, how you're starting to think about, 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:53.360 you know, relationship, how you're thinking about, you know, standing 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:57.200 up to a family, also dignifying your worth. You know. 0:06:57.200 --> 0:06:59.320 It's so then dealing with the fact that you are 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:03.159 getting old or more exactly although twenty nine and holding 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:06.960 serious the grateful part and the gracious and grateful part 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:09.200 of it is again like I said that we're still working. 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:12.200 I did an interview recently with Biblica and she was 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:14.720 mentioning that same kind of thing. She's like, the baby 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:17.040 woman are killing it out here. I didn't realize that 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:20.200 she had just got finished doing her twenty five lifetime 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:23.720 movie producing. Right, we don't see that because sometimes she's 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:25.520 not in front of the camera. But she just got 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:28.120 finished producing these movies. Then you see to Roggie, all 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:30.880 these women are fifty and over now who are still 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:33.680 living their best lives and looking sexy. That ever did 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:36.520 you see Holly Berry hanging upside now doing her SUPs 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:40.360 on a fighting on a punching bag. Says it's old, 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:43.320 says says school me. So then I will know when 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:47.160 I approach consis why not I see you twenty nine 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:52.000 and holdings right? Brilliant black Woman's dad is let me 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:54.640 see that shirt? What is actually like it? We'll see 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:57.440 you one. It's my new thing, brilliant black woman? What 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:00.360 is that? Okay? Women's History Month, brilliant black What is 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:02.679 this about? Well? You know, I have all these different 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:05.160 phases of what I do. So I have my hustle, 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:07.160 hers have your night, your hustle. But I just was 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:10.800 looking at something and I saw something and someone said, 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:12.800 and I still have. I have my Black Woman series, 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:15.760 so I have the proud black woman, the strong black woman. 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:17.240 And somebody said, why do we always have to be 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:20.200 proud and strong? Why can't we just be brilliant. And 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:23.320 I said, boom, there is black woman. So behold the 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:27.040 brilliant black woman T shirt. And I am going to 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:30.400 be gifting you one and set amounts of different people 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:32.760 and I sell them as well. So yeah, we gotta 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:35.040 we have to own who we are, right. We've seen 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:37.760 so many of these message tease this and not saying 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:39.880 this and whatever, But I say, own who we are 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:41.320 and what we are. This is the time for us 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:43.559 to be proud. People are saying black girl magic. Yet 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:46.160 we are magical as well as brilliant, and let's go 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:49.080 ahead and step in and live in that. Why not 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:51.840 let us sink in and be proud about it. I 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:54.280 was looking at something from I forgot what it was. 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:56.240 I think it was something on PBS, and they had 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:58.920 a thing where they were transitioning out of the sixties 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:01.839 civil rights to the seventies when people were like, I'm 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:03.199 saying loud, I'm black and I'm proud and they have 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:07.760 the afros and they were finally living that and sinking 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:11.720 into and being proud of their blackness their brilliance. And 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:14.360 it was amazing to see it after having come look 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:16.040 at that where we're on the second end of it. 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:18.760 But they were coming from the civil rights movement, who 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:21.480 slavery and all that, and they were enjoying it. And 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:24.480 right now we're seeing everything that's happened in the past 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:28.360 few years. Let us sit and enjoy our blackness and 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:30.880 be brilliant in the midst of it. So what does 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:33.400 it mean to be brilliance and black completely? As far 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:37.720 as Stasia it's concerned Florida, Jacksonville, Florida. For me, it 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:40.960 means that you are living your purpose. It means that 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:43.200 you are walking in that divine purpose. That you are 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:47.560 spiritually fit, you are professionally fit, and you are financially fit. 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:50.280 You're working on your way. We're steadily evolving in our brilliance, 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:53.880 but it's a continual thing. We're always growing and always learning. Right, 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:56.920 But while we're here, we're experiencing this brilliantness. I am 0:09:57.000 --> 0:10:00.640 I did something. I am somebody in words of Jesse, 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:04.560 Reverend Jesse, I am somebody. But no, we're letting our 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:08.720 lights shine, no matter vitamin A, matter the circumstances. You know, 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:11.160 that's what vitamin D is all about. Shedding night right, 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:14.319 come on, come on, so vitamin D. You know it's 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:17.400 upon off my name. You know vitamin D from the sun. 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:19.680 So this podcast is all about shedding light and believe 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:21.600 it or not, day Ja. I started vitamin D back 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:25.000 in twenty and right when I was in I was 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:27.560 working at VLS, I was working at Music Choice, and 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:31.080 it came back from my love of music. I remember. 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:33.920 I remember because you were using lyrics, I remember, and 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:37.040 you would send out the emails and everything. I remember 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:40.000 and look at you now, this is the brilliance of it. 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:41.440 Before I was talking to Joy and I was talking 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:44.440 to my sister, and then we were talking about you, 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:46.960 and I said, Dawn has been doing our thing because 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:48.760 we talked started talking about your voice. But I was 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:50.439 telling her what you did, and I said, I don't 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:52.920 know if you remember this. You were the one when 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:54.920 I first got to w b l S to actually 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:56.959 train me on the w BLS board in the sound 0:10:57.000 --> 0:10:59.160 system and everything how it went down. I had no clue. 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:00.959 And that's how you and I got to build out 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:05.680 report and I'm friend you told me and taught me 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:07.760 how to do that. I didn't know I was coming 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:09.760 from another station, so you filled me in on how 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:14.160 everything was going on over at w BLS. Wow. Right now, 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:15.920 that you put it back. Yeah, that because that was 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:20.240 our moment. Yes, and now look at this, look at you, 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:22.240 I said, Now she's doing all this stuff. She's got 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:25.000 her I already a podcast. He's doing stuff with Steve Harvey. 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:27.560 I said, you were on reality shows and John you're 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:29.640 are you? You're doing a lot of acting and everything. Now, 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:31.439 so's try to about that. Look at me, I'm interviewing 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:35.120 you improve I'm doing improv at the groundlings. I think 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:37.800 it's so amazing. So where does this go? Where do 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:40.200 you go from the improv? What is what's the next 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:45.280 evolution for you and your brilliance? Well? Hello as uh yeah, 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:48.040 I'm gonna be big in an old rotation. And so 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:53.600 remember when you had your opera moment? Which one or 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:57.440 the article? Yes? Amen, thank you, hallelujah, thank you God. 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:01.720 I want to have a yes and cons what you say? 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:04.920 Which one? Okay? I wasn't sure you were talking about 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:07.560 my article in the New York Times, but the time 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:10.400 about when I was because the article said a voice 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:14.040 for radio with Oprah's ambition, right, And weren't you on 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:18.080 the show just on the show I was talking about? Yes, 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:24.080 I remember, Oh I was on the show. For Queen 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:26.439 Sugar and so what it was. I had an opportunity 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:28.880 to ask one of the questions to the cast, and 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:31.240 you know, you had Oprah and you had Ava de 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:36.600 Renee and then she said Dawnte, Dawnte, and I asked 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:39.800 my question and then uh Ava said she said, Dawn, 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:42.120 we ought to get you on the writer's wrong. So 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:44.160 I didn't wait a minute. And then one of the 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:47.640 actors I ran into him, uh Timan. I can't think 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:51.560 of his last name, but he is the husband to 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:55.360 the actress with my same name. I think it's Dawn Dawn. Yes. 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:58.640 He I ran Intohim on the red carpet at the 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:01.559 Bounce Awards and he from with me. He was like, 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:03.480 I've met you. I said, Amy, I'm gonna get theim 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:07.760 with my pack is yeah, walking into it because I'm 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:10.000 still going on days and I'm still figuring it out. 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:11.959 I'm so proud of you just letting me know what 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:14.440 I am. Thank you, and just I keep saying, but 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:16.520 thank you for seeing me, because you know people be 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:19.800 talking about this journey and you know you say proud, 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:22.080 you stay strong. But even in the part of the brilliance, 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:25.840 like is there a moment to be weak. Absolutely, that's 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:28.640 all encompassing. That's a part of it because even in 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:30.520 our brilliance, we do have those weak moments when we're 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:32.080 feeling like, Oh God, how am I gonna do this? 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:35.040 What's happening now? Why is this happening to me? Why? God? Why? 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:37.839 When God went, did you forget about me? Hello? I'm 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:41.080 still down here grinding. But then there's a little uh something, 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:42.800 a phrase. It's phrase. I didn't coin this, but it's 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:44.360 called a god wink God to do a little something 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:46.680 like look at you. Come on, And if it's not 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:50.160 God for you, maybe it's universe, the universal or matterfests 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:51.760 something for you to be like, look at this. They 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:55.280 haven't been forgotten. I have not been forgotten. And even 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:58.160 in my career, I've been in it since I was five, 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:01.280 since I'll you know, holding I've been in this career 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:04.320 thing for a minute, right, and even certain things that 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:11.400 happened now to this day. Uh, you know, here's the thing. 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:13.640 I'll say it because regardless of the center age, the 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:17.120 thing that's amazing that people is not a spread. This 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:20.600 is a marathon and people need to know that's the 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:23.600 thing that is. But that's the beauty and where we 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:26.560 are now, dawn, because back in the day, my eyes 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:29.040 will waking. I got a little bit of love your work. 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:34.160 I love your work. I study every day. But but listen, 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:38.440 there wasn't time. And I keep saying this because it 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:40.760 was when people would try and shut you out. And 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:44.440 even still in our entertainment industry, they want to aid 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:48.920 you out of certain things. But because technology is evolving, 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:51.560 we're able to be here front and center in your face. 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:53.440 We can do this. We can extend our rands in 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:56.960 many different directions. So even after I've been in it 0:14:57.160 --> 0:15:01.480 as a seasoned professional for a minute now, things will 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:03.320 just happen. Certain things will just pop up and people 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:05.640 will say stuff, or you know, you'll get somebody to 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:07.320 call and say, hey, I was thinking about using you 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:09.960 for such and such. Really, okay, thank you. I have 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:13.000 not been forgotten. I am still on this journey. And 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:15.080 so that lets me know even in my weak moments, 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:18.760 in those value moments, I know that God is still 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:20.960 with me because my steps have already been ordered. It's 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:22.920 already ordained. And I don't know how you all believe, 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:25.160 but this, this is how believes, and this is what 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:28.240 I go through. Hey, I know that everything is already 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:31.080 pre played and predestined, and we're just walking in it, 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:33.880 you know what I mean. So I'm just excited right now. 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:37.000 I'm excited, get excited about your lot. I tell people 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:38.720 that all the time. And it's everything that you've been 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:41.080 embarkeding on. Talking about the whole thing of standing a 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:44.120 moment and being present, understanding your values and your goals, 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:47.440 but then also understanding the value of yourself. And that's 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:49.720 what I talk about being your greatest asset, And it's 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:52.200 that thing, having the connection of knowing who you are. 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:54.960 Once you lose the identification of who you are, then 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:57.080 therefore you have nothing to stand on. And if you 0:15:57.120 --> 0:15:59.320 have nothing to stand on, what are your roots holding on? 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:03.840 As you grow tall? Because guess what, the seasons will change. 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:06.280 And to that point, I was in the change of 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:08.880 seasons when I met you, because if you remember, I 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:12.040 had just recently been let go from a company that 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:14.400 I built my career with. I had been with him 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:16.400 for a while and then I gotten let go. But 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:19.640 but within like thirty days I was still with another company, 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:24.120 which is a blessing for you. That was a hard 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:28.960 heard I mean, because it happened so suddenly and thankfully 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:30.920 I had saved you know, a little nest egg or whatever, 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:33.440 and had and I got. You know, they compensated me, 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:40.240 but professionally, but emotionally, but egotistically. What you can't fire 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:42.680 me off? What I do? So on? So o for 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:45.560 the station I'm on, pl I'm on ten other stations 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:47.960 for you guys? How can you let me go? I 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:50.600 didn't do anything? And that's what we remember. It's not 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:53.400 about you. It's business, right. So this is where I learned. 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:56.800 This is what I learned. Number one, it's not always 0:16:56.840 --> 0:16:59.160 about what you've done. This is their company. If you 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:01.840 don't own your own thing, you're always at the hands 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:04.040 of someone else because, you know what, They can run 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:06.440 their companies the way they want to, because why it's 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:10.040 their business. If they feel that putting down here and 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:13.600 deja here is the best for their business and their 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:16.159 bottom line, that's what they're gonna do. Yes, it hurts, 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:19.280 but guess what, we don't own it. That's why I 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:23.240 tell everyone, please make sure you own something. DVS Media 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:28.520 that's mine, the Deja Bus show, that's mine. You cannot 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:33.159 take that from me. So I had to learn that, 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:35.520 though it took me a while it took me getting 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:38.960 knocked down and getting fired to learn that you mentioned 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:42.480 the DBS studio. I didn't know about that. That's MYEKS Media, 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:45.880 that's mine, and that's that's what we're doing. We're branching 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:47.800 out and doing some things. But that's where all of 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:50.560 my things are falling under. So my dejab show falls 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:54.040 under that, my ignite, your hustle falls under that. But 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:57.119 I started. I learned that I had to hustle and 0:17:57.400 --> 0:17:59.480 that will benefit me, not just these businesses. So you 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:01.359 know what I you. I come in, I do my 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:04.879 show for the corporation, and then I work on my corporation, 0:18:04.960 --> 0:18:07.479 building my brand and my business to make sure I 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:09.800 have something to fall back on. Now, trying to get 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:12.720 that to be leverage to where I am, it's been. 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:16.359 It's been a journey, but I'm working there and it's mine. 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:19.160 So you can't even if they fire me tomorrow from 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:21.919 where I am, God forbid, I still have mine, you 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:23.520 know what I'm saying. I still have my ventures and 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:26.520 I have my other hustles. They say the average millionaire 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:29.320 has what seven different streams of income, So if you 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:31.480 don't have all that stuff lined up, if one just 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:33.960 pulls out. Like we saw during the pandemic, people lost jobs. 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:36.240 It wasn't their fault, it was just what happened. It 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:39.160 was life. But if you didn't have anything else coming in, 0:18:39.600 --> 0:18:41.720 you might have been left out there kind of hanging. 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:45.359 So I have multiple things going on. I learned that 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:47.160 from getting fired. That's when I was in my valley 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:49.119 and I'm like, okay, am I gonna lose my house. 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:51.240 As soon as I made up my mind, I said, 0:18:51.240 --> 0:18:54.879 all right, well here's my strategy. Yes, but this is 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:57.399 what happens. I said, okay, well here's the strategy. If 0:18:57.400 --> 0:19:00.520 I have to, I can storage everything up, I can 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:03.159 shrink down my husband. I will go down into whatever 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:05.280 apartment or maybe we'll go back into our rental property. 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:07.960 Those people out and go into that little space and 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:10.360 we'll just make it work. As soon as I did 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:13.320 that and let it all go, when I tell you, 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:16.280 Skip was like, hey, we're thinking about doing some other things. 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:22.719 Skipp was my boss at w b LS forever and 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:25.239 I will for always be appreciative of him, as well 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:28.320 as Barbara dey Lalu. But you know Barbara was just 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:32.600 here last week. Okay, go ahead, sorry, but uh but yeah, 0:19:32.600 --> 0:19:35.280 because she's the one who introduced me the skip. We'll 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:37.640 talk about that later too, But at any rate, all 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:39.840 of that, when I was in that process of trying 0:19:39.840 --> 0:19:43.359 to figure out what was going to come next, God 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:45.080 just took it all out out of my hands. When 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:46.840 I said, all right, I surrendered to you. Here's what 0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:49.080 we're gonna do. I'm gonna do this, and I'll be 0:19:49.119 --> 0:19:52.080 patient and I will wait in this. In this sometimes 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:54.040 you have to sit in those hard moments, right and 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:56.520 it's uncomfortable, it's prickly, and you're like, I don't know 0:19:56.520 --> 0:19:58.000 what to do, but I'm gonna sit here. I'm gonna 0:19:58.119 --> 0:20:00.959 endure this, this cramp, this pain, this this headache right here, 0:20:00.960 --> 0:20:03.520 I'm gonna endure it, and I'm gonna find peace in it, 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:05.480 and God's gonna teach me the lesson in it. And 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:07.119 when as soon as I was doing all that, girl, 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:08.720 they were like, well, we want to make some chains. 0:20:08.760 --> 0:20:10.040 You want to do so and so and so, and 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:13.080 the next thing, you know, rolling And because I got 0:20:13.119 --> 0:20:16.000 fired from that one particular company, I was at a 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:19.040 certain rate over the years that that has happened. That 0:20:19.080 --> 0:20:22.359 was ten years ago. Now it's been ten years. Um, 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:25.280 I have made more money in my career now than 0:20:25.280 --> 0:20:27.560 I did in those whole ten years. Shut the front door. 0:20:28.160 --> 0:20:31.560 I'm so serious in the calendar years I've made because 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:34.080 I've had so many other opportunities flow from that. I 0:20:34.119 --> 0:20:37.280