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Speaker 2: Hello, I'm Christine Hazel and this is keep it positive, sweetie,

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Speaker 2: a safe face to heal, laugh or grow and love.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of love, telling how our new season is moving along.

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Speaker 2: And I'm also loving to see the glow up of

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Speaker 2: today's guest actress, writer, producer Gail Bean. And if you

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Speaker 2: Gail Bean Grace of TV on hit shows like Snowfall

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Speaker 1: Gailban's reach is wide.

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Speaker 2: She is such a busy woman, but I'm so glad

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Speaker 1: Gil, thank you so much for pulling up on me.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Oh Man, Crystal, anything for you. We've

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Speaker 1: I've been wanting to come. I'm like, okay, we got

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Speaker 2: Before let's go back to before I even knew who

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Speaker 1: Yes, Kirsen was captain of the cheerlead. Yes, and she

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Speaker 1: off and then I was like, okay, but but God

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00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:16,359
Speaker 1: knew the way it was just even a line like

429
00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:18,680
Speaker 1: I needed a moment I needed, I needed a rest.

430
00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:20,919
Speaker 1: So to be able to go be with like people

431
00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:24,280
Speaker 1: I loved dearly was just very beautiful. And then to

432
00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:26,840
Speaker 1: be able to come do this was like, but it's

433
00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:30,639
Speaker 1: so crazy because it was literally twenty one days straight

434
00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:34,480
Speaker 1: that I've worked and then those were my two days off.

435
00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:36,879
Speaker 1: These are my two days off. Wow. And then like

436
00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:39,320
Speaker 1: I go back to work tomorrow, I'm working the whole week.

437
00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:41,240
Speaker 1: We have our market to shoot this weekend, so I'm

438
00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:44,440
Speaker 1: working the weekend. So it's like, but it was a

439
00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:48,720
Speaker 1: nice run. But at the event Saturday. The pastor was like,

440
00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:50,920
Speaker 1: h the girl came. She said, my pastor wanted to

441
00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:59,240
Speaker 1: tell you something. I said, okay, sure, and he came

442
00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:04,120
Speaker 1: to talk to me and he has like a slight

443
00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:09,639
Speaker 1: speech impediment, but it was clear. It was so clear.

444
00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:12,160
Speaker 1: It was like, don't know him from a campaign, never

445
00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:16,399
Speaker 1: met him before. He was like, the opportunity that you

446
00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:20,360
Speaker 1: think you missing out on, God got something bigger. God

447
00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:23,280
Speaker 1: got something so bigger, the opportunities you think you missing

448
00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:27,840
Speaker 1: out on. This, God got something so bigger. And told

449
00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:30,959
Speaker 1: me to tell you not to worry that it's all coming.

450
00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:33,680
Speaker 1: Everything is lining up and it's so big. It's gonna

451
00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:35,600
Speaker 1: be bigger than anything you've ever done, and bigger than

452
00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:39,520
Speaker 1: you can imagine. I was like, Then, Samuel Jackson sent

453
00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:42,679
Speaker 1: me a DM and said, I'm working on putting us

454
00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:48,520
Speaker 1: in something. See he's working on something for us. I

455
00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:52,000
Speaker 1: was like, I was just trying. I was just He said,

456
00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:53,960
Speaker 1: I know it's been hard, and that's like, I know

457
00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:58,000
Speaker 1: it's been hard. I know you're feeling restless, yes, but

458
00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:00,520
Speaker 1: it's because I got off work one morning I had

459
00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:02,160
Speaker 1: that thing. I got off work at five. I left

460
00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:05,120
Speaker 1: a lot at five thirty seven I had to beat

461
00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:08,960
Speaker 1: up at seven am to get the rest of the

462
00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:12,600
Speaker 1: stuff that we were distributing. The event was from twelve

463
00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:15,399
Speaker 1: to four that day and he don't know me from

464
00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:18,680
Speaker 1: candapign that day. Literally got off at five thirty seven,

465
00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:22,679
Speaker 1: got up at seven, went to the Burlington, had to

466
00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:24,760
Speaker 1: be there at nine to pick up the other coats. Yeah,

467
00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:26,720
Speaker 1: I was at the wrong Burlington. So my sister in

468
00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:28,399
Speaker 1: law had went the night before pulled all the stuff,

469
00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:30,840
Speaker 1: so I was just going to buy. Yeah, they wouldn't

470
00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:33,520
Speaker 1: let her use my check. So I was like, okay,

471
00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:36,280
Speaker 1: I was at the wrong Burlington. Oh no, I shoot

472
00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:39,000
Speaker 1: to the other one. I left my wallet and the

473
00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:43,680
Speaker 1: other brothers, oh don't. I said, it's okay because I

474
00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:46,200
Speaker 1: have my ID and I have the check. The check

475
00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:49,639
Speaker 1: when I authorized what I had to go to the

476
00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:52,240
Speaker 1: Wells Fargo. I got the money out, went paid for it,

477
00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:54,120
Speaker 1: then went to Sam to get the snacks and stuff

478
00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:57,320
Speaker 1: forgiven for the kids. Checks still wouldn't work. They also went,

479
00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:03,399
Speaker 1: let me use my mother's membership. Devil was working. So

480
00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:08,320
Speaker 1: then I go, okay, let's just add me to the membership.

481
00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:11,320
Speaker 1: It's like this whole thing. I was like, please, y'all listen,

482
00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:17,120
Speaker 1: you know in the inside, you breaking like you are breaking.

483
00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:21,679
Speaker 1: I'm already tired and I'm tired, sleepy, exhausted. So I

484
00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:23,399
Speaker 1: had canceled. I called Tea. I was like, you to

485
00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:26,359
Speaker 1: cancel the glam because I'm not getting up at six.

486
00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:29,080
Speaker 1: I'm going to get home at six. I need to

487
00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:31,640
Speaker 1: go to take an hour and a half hour now. Yeah.

488
00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:36,240
Speaker 1: So finally they do the membership to check one work.

489
00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:38,000
Speaker 1: So I had the cash that I got from the bank.

490
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:41,719
Speaker 1: I pay, I go outside right like pushing the bugget.

491
00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:45,480
Speaker 1: I go exactly where I parked the car. I can't

492
00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:48,640
Speaker 1: find I go. I was like, I can't find a car.

493
00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:52,359
Speaker 1: I can't. I was literally gonna have a breakdown, a

494
00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:56,520
Speaker 1: mental breakdown in the parking line, just being overwhelmed. And

495
00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:58,280
Speaker 1: I was like, it's too much. I was like, guy,

496
00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:01,800
Speaker 1: it's too much. I can't. I cannot, like I cannot. Yeah,

497
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:05,280
Speaker 1: And I had prayed the guy I asked. I was like, God,

498
00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:06,879
Speaker 1: please help me miss Brown. And I felt it was

499
00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:09,280
Speaker 1: so selfish a mean to even call on her, because

500
00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:11,800
Speaker 1: like she has children who are missing her. I was like,

501
00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:15,560
Speaker 1: please just help me, just help me, Like, please go girl.

502
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:20,920
Speaker 1: While I look up I'm literally standing behind the car. Yeah,

503
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:22,960
Speaker 1: you just yeah, you were at the moment. I didn't

504
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:26,760
Speaker 1: see it though, because I thought I was in the

505
00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:29,919
Speaker 1: truck that I normally dry, but I was in my

506
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:35,200
Speaker 1: brother in them traverse. I was right here, no parts right.

507
00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:39,679
Speaker 1: I was like, it's too much, what's happening right now?

508
00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:42,119
Speaker 1: And then I had took a breath and I prayed

509
00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:44,159
Speaker 1: and I was like, God help me. Yeah, and I

510
00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:53,080
Speaker 1: look up and I was staying there He's right here. Yeah, okay.

511
00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:53,840
Speaker 1: I love that though.

512
00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:56,520
Speaker 2: I feel like there is a symbolic of God when

513
00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:59,360
Speaker 2: we're like frustrated, like what is going on and he's

514
00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:00,000
Speaker 2: like I'm right here.

515
00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:01,119
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was in the car.

516
00:27:01,200 --> 00:27:03,000
Speaker 2: It could be like sybol like a God, like you're

517
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:04,200
Speaker 2: looking for me and I'm right here.

518
00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:06,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, even in the stress and like you got so

519
00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:11,280
Speaker 1: much going on even but the beauty was like that

520
00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:14,439
Speaker 1: is when things like that happen, I know that's the ancestors.

521
00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:18,160
Speaker 1: I know that's God. So that's the way that God

522
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:20,600
Speaker 1: and ancestors talk to me. It is it's like so

523
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:24,240
Speaker 1: many little things. So yeah, when the pastor said that

524
00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:26,560
Speaker 1: he didn't know about my day, Yeah, he didn't know

525
00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:29,000
Speaker 1: none of that. When I got that d M from

526
00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 1: Sam Jay, I was like, what Okay, Yes, yes, that

527
00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:39,680
Speaker 1: is incredible. Yeah, it's it's those things. It's those moments

528
00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:42,360
Speaker 1: when I know God answers talking to that.

529
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:46,000
Speaker 2: I love that you mentioned when you moved to LA

530
00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:50,320
Speaker 2: that you were on probation. What you do well, what

531
00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 2: she said, got a lot of good redemption story. There's

532
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:56,760
Speaker 2: something that we can maybe share to like help young women.

533
00:27:57,240 --> 00:28:01,720
Speaker 1: Amen. Honestly, at the time, this was a time I

534
00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:05,639
Speaker 1: actually didn't do nothing. Wow. I was in Georgia Southern.

535
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:08,000
Speaker 1: I was in Statesboro at Georgia Southern, visiting while I

536
00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:11,080
Speaker 1: was in college at Valdosta. And I went down there.

537
00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:17,960
Speaker 2: Y'all homecomings be proper. Georgia Southern homecoming. I've been there before.

538
00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:22,480
Speaker 1: Oh, okay, I went to Valdosta, what is it, Eagle?

539
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:25,360
Speaker 1: My mom went to Georgia Southern. Okay, y'all don't know what. Okay,

540
00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:29,560
Speaker 1: I year, but my mom went there, and I was

541
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:33,680
Speaker 1: going down for my friend's birthday. And we drove down

542
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:37,240
Speaker 1: from Valdosta. I had accidentally left my license in Valdosta,

543
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:38,800
Speaker 1: so we went out at night. I had a good time.

544
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:42,000
Speaker 1: I left my clothes at my homegirl house. She stayed

545
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:46,120
Speaker 1: in an apartment complex, and when I got there, there

546
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:48,760
Speaker 1: was a fight going on. It did not involve me.

547
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:51,960
Speaker 1: Now I'm a fighter, yeah, but normally it would have

548
00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:56,760
Speaker 1: been me, but I was not all. I was actually innocent.

549
00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:59,320
Speaker 1: Design So I'd go to try to get my stuff

550
00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:02,680
Speaker 1: from her house and the police pulled into the parking lot.

551
00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:04,720
Speaker 1: So I was like, you know what me, let's just go.

552
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:07,560
Speaker 1: Were good, So we walk into the car. I just

553
00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:10,440
Speaker 1: don't deal with police. We walk into the car. They

554
00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:14,400
Speaker 1: try to stop me, asked my name as my identification.

555
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:16,440
Speaker 1: I obviously didn't have anything, so I told him my

556
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:18,040
Speaker 1: name and I was like, I ain't got nothing to

557
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:20,720
Speaker 1: do with whatever reason y'all are here. We just came

558
00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:22,360
Speaker 1: from an event. We're trying to leave and go where

559
00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:23,800
Speaker 1: we're supposed to stay to night at because I was like,

560
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:25,720
Speaker 1: forget the closed with bars and clothes from the right.

561
00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:28,520
Speaker 1: We get in the car. I let her drive because

562
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:31,280
Speaker 1: she had her license. She I haven't been drinking too,

563
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 1: So she gets in the front seat. I get in

564
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:38,560
Speaker 1: the back seat. I shut the car door. They opened

565
00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:41,280
Speaker 1: the car door and try to pull me out. What yeah, no,

566
00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:43,280
Speaker 1: So I snatched back and I shut the car door

567
00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 1: doing that. The second time she opens the car door,

568
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:48,360
Speaker 1: she pulls my arm and she slams the car door

569
00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:50,960
Speaker 1: on my arm. I had a big ass bruce. Yeah,

570
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,040
Speaker 1: it was bad. So again, I haven't drinking and I

571
00:29:54,080 --> 00:30:00,840
Speaker 1: was a fighter. Was yeah delivered, Yeah, I'm delivered. I

572
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:05,440
Speaker 1: get out the car, and I mean a fighter. I

573
00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:08,040
Speaker 1: fought the officer, but she had to come in at

574
00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:11,880
Speaker 1: that point. She did, she did, she did, and so

575
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:15,000
Speaker 1: then her partner tried to taste me and my friend

576
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:17,520
Speaker 1: stopped it. It was like if your partner can't handle

577
00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 1: one hundred pound girl. Yeah, So then another male. It

578
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:23,120
Speaker 1: was two women officers. Then the mail officer comes and

579
00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:25,880
Speaker 1: he tries to stop it, and he's like, ma'am, get up,

580
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:27,400
Speaker 1: because at that point she was on the house on

581
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:30,640
Speaker 1: top of it was a problem, but like you literally

582
00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:34,000
Speaker 1: this is the childish thing to say, but she literally

583
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:36,840
Speaker 1: started it. Yeah. So they were like, we got to

584
00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:39,200
Speaker 1: take you to jail. Oh my god. So they took

585
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:40,680
Speaker 1: me to jail. They did not allow me a phone

586
00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:44,680
Speaker 1: call because they said I hit the officer. Yeah. Thankfully.

587
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:47,200
Speaker 1: My granddaddy was a Bell's bondsman. So when he finally

588
00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:50,320
Speaker 1: got words but it took a minute because I didn't

589
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:53,400
Speaker 1: get a call. So like my friend, she didn't know

590
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:55,240
Speaker 1: the call to my phone, so she had to try

591
00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:58,080
Speaker 1: to call around find people fail for like a week.

592
00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:02,280
Speaker 1: What yeah, oh my god, Yeah they come up there. Yeah,

593
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 1: it was it was a thing. So that's some felonies

594
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 1: and stuff from that. But we got a lawyer. They

595
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 1: let them know like, hey, she's got great grade, she said, bride,

596
00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:16,880
Speaker 1: like she's on track to graduate all these things, and

597
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:19,800
Speaker 1: they put me on the I play it down. They

598
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:23,080
Speaker 1: dropped everything to misdemeanors and I had to do five

599
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:27,080
Speaker 1: years probation. Wow. Yeah, so we're early release. We're good

600
00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 1: behavior early releases. Yeah. So that's why my early release

601
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 1: would have been October first, and I could have moved.

602
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:37,600
Speaker 1: When I went to August, and I was just so pissed.

603
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:39,760
Speaker 1: I was like, Mom, I'm not going to keep letting

604
00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:43,000
Speaker 1: these people control my life. Like God already aligned things.

605
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,640
Speaker 1: And my mom was so worried. Sometimes she didn't worry work.

606
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:49,160
Speaker 1: And I was like, no, I'm going and I'm just

607
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:52,240
Speaker 1: gonna continue to say I'm still in Georgia. I'm gonna

608
00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:54,800
Speaker 1: continue to pay they money. Because he called these folks

609
00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:58,320
Speaker 1: once some month, But I'm not not moving because of them.

610
00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:00,760
Speaker 1: I'm not allowing them control over my life. No, Like

611
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:03,640
Speaker 1: I give you enough, but then when you you moved

612
00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:05,720
Speaker 1: too much, it's like, okay, now I got to put

613
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:08,200
Speaker 1: my foot down. Yeah. Yeah, it's like I gave you

614
00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:11,720
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Yeah, that was my why I

615
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:14,200
Speaker 1: went to jail in States. Wow, and I ain't been

616
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:16,760
Speaker 1: back since. I love it, And look at you now.

617
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:19,680
Speaker 2: I love that because we all have like done things

618
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:22,440
Speaker 2: where we're like not proud of or circumstance having this.

619
00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:24,800
Speaker 2: This wasn't even your fault, you know, and a lot

620
00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:28,360
Speaker 2: of us have fallen into that, especially in our community,

621
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 2: have our in jail right now for things that they

622
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 2: didn't even they not even didn't do or wasn't even

623
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:33,640
Speaker 2: responsible for.

624
00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:36,360
Speaker 1: So for you to show your story, thank you for that.

625
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:41,160
Speaker 1: Because an officer got no no repercussions, like they said

626
00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:45,120
Speaker 1: it was not her first time, but white lady, no repercussions. Wow.

627
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:48,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's scary because that could have been completely different.

628
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:50,600
Speaker 1: It's scary because I know I'm not the first, and

629
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:52,920
Speaker 1: I knew I wouldn't last. Nope, exactly.

630
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 2: So with your because you do a lot of outreach. Now,

631
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 2: do you do anything in the justice system.

632
00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:01,400
Speaker 1: I work sometimes with reform to speak out on about

633
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:04,840
Speaker 1: speak out about it. But I haven't like went to

634
00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:07,880
Speaker 1: visit jails or talked to people who you know, you

635
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:10,000
Speaker 1: don't know who hasn't hasn't been in jail. Yeah. No,

636
00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:11,640
Speaker 1: So I just tell my story and there are people

637
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 1: who it resonates with, but I haven't, like actually actively

638
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:17,080
Speaker 1: been in jail. I do try to tell my story

639
00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:19,600
Speaker 1: because I know there are people who mess up and

640
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:22,040
Speaker 1: they do these things, and I let them know. Like, look, yeah,

641
00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 1: when I moved to LA I was on probation. Yeah,

642
00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:26,600
Speaker 1: I continue to follow the things and not get in trouble.

643
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:29,000
Speaker 1: So I did get off early. Yeah, when I moved

644
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:33,400
Speaker 1: out there, I was not off. And one mistake doesn't

645
00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:37,240
Speaker 1: determine your path. Yeah no, it doesn't, Like you can

646
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:42,480
Speaker 1: you not your one mistake? Yeah that part? Yeah, yeah,

647
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:43,719
Speaker 1: So I tell that's amazing.

648
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:45,480
Speaker 2: I love that, And I think what I also love

649
00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:48,400
Speaker 2: about the industry we work in is that we can

650
00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 2: do things no matter what our past is. Because even

651
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:55,640
Speaker 2: I know at the studio, like we have plenty of

652
00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:58,959
Speaker 2: guys who have felonies, that have done time, but they

653
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:03,160
Speaker 2: are very hard working, their integral they're amazing co workers.

654
00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:06,280
Speaker 1: We feel safe. They what y'all need, Like, yeah, they

655
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:09,120
Speaker 1: got you. They was big at like hiring people who

656
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 1: may have gotten out of jail and just giving them

657
00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:13,879
Speaker 1: the chance and the opportunity to the same thing. Their

658
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:16,280
Speaker 1: second chance is so important, so important.

659
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:19,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, And once he hears like, yo, he was liked up,

660
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 2: he'll pull him aside, like get to know him better.

661
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:21,839
Speaker 1: What you need?

662
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:25,560
Speaker 2: Is everything good? How's your work environment going for you?

663
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:28,560
Speaker 1: And I love that. Yeah, that's that's the best part.

664
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:30,520
Speaker 2: Like for me, Like that's one of the perks of

665
00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:33,760
Speaker 2: being in the entertainment industry because you can go past

666
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:36,799
Speaker 2: your pack, go beyond your past, yeah, yeah, and move on.

667
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:38,680
Speaker 1: And I think people don't talk about the perks enough.

668
00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:42,239
Speaker 1: I think our entertainment industry gets such a bad rep

669
00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:45,239
Speaker 1: of like people talking about the darkness and the downside

670
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:48,279
Speaker 1: of so much like yeah, and it discourages so many

671
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 1: good people who are pure hearted. And it's like there

672
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:54,200
Speaker 1: are a lot of great things about this industry is yeah,

673
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:56,239
Speaker 1: really is what you're making and what you choose to

674
00:34:56,719 --> 00:35:00,239
Speaker 1: focus on and put your energy into. But it's a

675
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:04,480
Speaker 1: lot of really amazing things in the entertainment industry. It is,

676
00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:05,359
Speaker 1: it really is.

677
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:10,120
Speaker 3: Yes, so come on, not a park a set, but

678
00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:18,440
Speaker 3: a park just so yeah, it'd be like, this is

679
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:20,520
Speaker 3: a drug free set, yes, in.

680
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:25,080
Speaker 1: Do right under God? That's the only drug.

681
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:31,240
Speaker 6: I like that, right under God. I like, hey bars, yes,

682
00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:34,640
Speaker 6: I love that. So with your crazy business, First, thank

683
00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:36,239
Speaker 6: you for even coming. I didn't realize you only had

684
00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:38,160
Speaker 6: two days off and you spent.

685
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:39,920
Speaker 1: One of them with me. Thank you because I know

686
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:42,759
Speaker 1: how girl, I'm tired right now. You know some things

687
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:45,600
Speaker 1: I tell people all the time, right like when it

688
00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:47,480
Speaker 1: comes to your off days, something's feeding to you and

689
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:53,040
Speaker 1: something's draining. So I knew this would be like, yeah,

690
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:55,080
Speaker 1: thank you. How are you balancing it personal?

691
00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:58,360
Speaker 2: Because I know sometimes before therapy I struggled with balancing

692
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:01,040
Speaker 2: my personal life in this career because I feel like

693
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:01,960
Speaker 2: you can pull us in so.

694
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:04,400
Speaker 1: Many different directions. We're like, oh my gosh, how do

695
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:09,640
Speaker 1: you balance it all? Really? Yeah? Like because Atlanta, Atlanta

696
00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:13,200
Speaker 1: is whenever I'm in Atlanta, it's very very hard to

697
00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:15,440
Speaker 1: balance because my family is here, my friends are here,

698
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:18,480
Speaker 1: like work is here, like there's going out is here,

699
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:20,879
Speaker 1: like there's all the things and I out like club out,

700
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:23,400
Speaker 1: but like going to the game. Yeah, so it's like

701
00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 1: but I'm still figuring it out, Like okay, well we're

702
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:33,799
Speaker 1: gonna sleep, y'all. Yes, like somebody who's want to date?

703
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:36,919
Speaker 1: You know? How's that? Like? Have you had time?

704
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:43,360
Speaker 2: Girls going?

705
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:47,840
Speaker 1: It's hard, it's just going. You know, I got my

706
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:50,240
Speaker 1: eye on somebody, Okay.

707
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:54,920
Speaker 2: Okay, when the streets got their eye on somebody for you?

708
00:36:54,040 --> 00:37:00,759
Speaker 1: Oh not your friends, not even like eyes where y'all

709
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:03,080
Speaker 1: keep them. I'm gonna keep my eyes when I keep them,

710
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:09,319
Speaker 1: I keep on y'all keeping on, keeping on.

711
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:11,080
Speaker 2: How do you feel about because I see every time

712
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:14,600
Speaker 2: you have like great platanic guy friends, do you feel

713
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:17,359
Speaker 2: like that's gonna have like some type of impact on

714
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:19,200
Speaker 2: your person relationship with your man men?

715
00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:22,080
Speaker 1: Because you have such a great relationship with you guys,

716
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 1: I feel like it just helps me weed out the

717
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:29,640
Speaker 1: bats because I have five older brothers really, so that's

718
00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:31,320
Speaker 1: my comfort.

719
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:33,880
Speaker 2: I always see, what's the guy that was at the

720
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:39,680
Speaker 2: concept contrat. He's always with you, Yeah, he's always like yeah, he's.

721
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:45,520
Speaker 1: Always gonna be there for me. Guys, my male friends

722
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:47,759
Speaker 1: that are in my life, I see so much and

723
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:50,000
Speaker 1: I learned so much from them. It's so easy for

724
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:53,040
Speaker 1: me to identify who is not a good man, because

725
00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:55,640
Speaker 1: the men in my life are great. So I can

726
00:37:55,719 --> 00:37:57,880
Speaker 1: spot a red flag and be like, is this a

727
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:01,120
Speaker 1: red flag that, yeah, we can deal with. Is this

728
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:04,200
Speaker 1: a red flag that will go down and this is

729
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:06,759
Speaker 1: just a guard red flag, or is this like a

730
00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:09,879
Speaker 1: real hard stop red flag, Like this is a red

731
00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 1: flag that's gonna be a constant later on in life.

732
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:16,560
Speaker 1: So I feel like they're not an issue. But if

733
00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:19,000
Speaker 1: they're an issue for someone that's in my life, then

734
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 1: you are problem.

735
00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:23,120
Speaker 2: Come on, people my life, they're not going anywhere.

736
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:25,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I know them and they're not in no violation.

737
00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:30,040
Speaker 1: Our relationship is strictly platonic. It's not they're not waiting

738
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:32,239
Speaker 1: on the waiting in the wings like. It ain't that.

739
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:35,319
Speaker 1: It ain't that. So if you're I get it. Some

740
00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:39,440
Speaker 1: people have insecurities. Talk to me. I will be honest

741
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:42,080
Speaker 1: and upfront. We can communicate. And then if you can't

742
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:44,040
Speaker 1: get past the communication of my truth and you want

743
00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:47,799
Speaker 1: to stick to whatever you delusion you've met in your head, sorry,

744
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:52,839
Speaker 1: well yeah, I love it. I love it.

745
00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:55,080
Speaker 2: I'm happy for you because I know for me, like

746
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:56,200
Speaker 2: I just started dating a guy.

747
00:38:57,120 --> 00:39:02,759
Speaker 7: Yeah, come on, yeah, yes, and it's fresh I think

748
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:06,480
Speaker 7: for the last year yep, unless I've been open to dating, okay,

749
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:08,680
Speaker 7: And it was really hard for me because who's here

750
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:08,960
Speaker 7: for me?

751
00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:11,440
Speaker 2: Like what do you really want? And like we had

752
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:13,680
Speaker 2: to like look at this thing through a different lens. Yeah,

753
00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:16,040
Speaker 2: you know, just being in the positions we're in, and

754
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:18,359
Speaker 2: I really feel good about this.

755
00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:22,239
Speaker 1: Okay, I do. It's difficult because it's like, like you said,

756
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:24,520
Speaker 1: are you here for me? And do you really like me?

757
00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:26,719
Speaker 1: Are you and are you going to be supportive? Or

758
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:29,759
Speaker 1: every time I have something great coming up, are you

759
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:33,120
Speaker 1: going to find some way to argue or thinking about

760
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:36,960
Speaker 1: you or like screw up my moment? Yes, it's like

761
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:37,839
Speaker 1: I don't do that to you.

762
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:40,680
Speaker 2: And then don't you like I see how you cheer

763
00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:42,919
Speaker 2: everybody on? Yeah, so I can imagine how you would

764
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:43,239
Speaker 2: be be.

765
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:48,120
Speaker 1: A man girl. Girl. You know, it's hard. It's hard,

766
00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:52,040
Speaker 1: especially finding someone who likes you for you and not

767
00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:56,520
Speaker 1: what you can the light that you can bring to them, right,

768
00:39:57,120 --> 00:39:59,680
Speaker 1: And it's hard then someone that you can take around

769
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:02,200
Speaker 1: other people, well, who's comfortable in the room where it's

770
00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:04,200
Speaker 1: like you're not going to be a jerk to other people,

771
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:06,719
Speaker 1: or you're not going to feel like you need me

772
00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:09,560
Speaker 1: to hold your hand through the crowd. Like no, I'm

773
00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:11,480
Speaker 1: not going to forget about you. But we both need

774
00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:15,040
Speaker 1: to be able to move. Yes, yes, or you it's

775
00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 1: okay if you don't come, but you can not You

776
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:20,440
Speaker 1: can't always not come because sometimes it's a moment where

777
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:22,120
Speaker 1: I need you to be there. I need to be

778
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 1: able to look out and even if it's not, you know,

779
00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:25,560
Speaker 1: we ain't got to be up under each other. I

780
00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:31,879
Speaker 1: need I need that, I need that. Yeah. Yeah, I'm

781
00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:36,640
Speaker 1: like everywhere I go, but moments where it's like I

782
00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:39,200
Speaker 1: just need you. I've had the moments where it's like

783
00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:42,719
Speaker 1: you call someone they're your peace right, So are you

784
00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:45,719
Speaker 1: going to be my piece? Can this be mutual? Are

785
00:40:45,719 --> 00:40:48,879
Speaker 1: we able to grow together? Like, because it's a sad

786
00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:50,200
Speaker 1: thing when you got to stell on the person you

787
00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:53,880
Speaker 1: both be stun with. It's safe, it's so sad, So

788
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:55,000
Speaker 1: we do this together.

789
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:58,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is so true that I pray that the

790
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:01,120
Speaker 2: one you got your eye on it is all that

791
00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:04,359
Speaker 2: you deserve it seriously, because you deserve that the way

792
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:08,040
Speaker 2: you support and like just love on everybody in your orbit.

793
00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:12,680
Speaker 1: You you deserve that back. I'm serious. Yeah, well I

794
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:14,480
Speaker 1: better get it because I ain't. If I don't get

795
00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:19,640
Speaker 1: it one day, listen, I'd be so low. I'd be too.

796
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:21,880
Speaker 2: That's why I was by myself all this time, because

797
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:25,000
Speaker 2: I was like, I can't. Yeah, and so I think

798
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:27,800
Speaker 2: now I'm set at a space where I can spot

799
00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:28,320
Speaker 2: the bullshit.

800
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:32,040
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know what, that's not for you date.

801
00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:35,319
Speaker 1: You know, you have to, like because I used to be.

802
00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:37,520
Speaker 2: In the house all the time and my friends, like

803
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:39,759
Speaker 2: christ you have to put yourself in the space of

804
00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:42,120
Speaker 2: to even attract the type of man that you want.

805
00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:43,080
Speaker 1: Where are you going?

806
00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:45,600
Speaker 2: I'm like, nowhere, so he gonna be a door THATBD,

807
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:47,919
Speaker 2: he's gonna come to your door. I don't even open

808
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:49,880
Speaker 2: the door for the door that I tell them to

809
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:51,520
Speaker 2: drop it off and go and I grab when they

810
00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:52,120
Speaker 2: out the door.

811
00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:53,160
Speaker 1: Yeah.

812
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:55,360
Speaker 2: So I was like, I don't know that, Like, you

813
00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:58,640
Speaker 2: gotta get out and be more approachable because like, I'm

814
00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 2: a type of person I want to make eye cons

815
00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:02,920
Speaker 2: with people because you know, like I feel like every

816
00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:05,759
Speaker 2: time I go out it's like trying to just be

817
00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:07,399
Speaker 2: like yeah, you know, just so I.

818
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:09,480
Speaker 1: Can just get to where I'm going, and then you

819
00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:12,359
Speaker 1: don't know who's single, who way, like I don't want

820
00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 1: don't I don't want.

821
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:14,880
Speaker 2: To, and then hear you before you know it, it's like,

822
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:16,480
Speaker 2: oh you know she talking.

823
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:20,399
Speaker 1: No, I'm not. No. We took a picture. That was it.

824
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:25,000
Speaker 1: That's it. I don't even know that man last name. Literally,

825
00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:28,520
Speaker 1: I don't even know his real name Instagram name.

826
00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:33,200
Speaker 2: Like ye know, people will ship you with somebody real quick, no,

827
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:36,080
Speaker 2: real quick, and I'm like, what they did that to

828
00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:37,040
Speaker 2: me recently with.

829
00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:39,520
Speaker 1: Someone that works in.

830
00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:41,600
Speaker 2: The industry as well that I'm really really good friends.

831
00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:43,640
Speaker 2: But we're going to work on a project next year together.

832
00:42:44,120 --> 00:42:46,799
Speaker 2: But like immediately we took a picture together and was like, oh,

833
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:49,359
Speaker 2: that's her new bab. I'm like there is no way,

834
00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:52,480
Speaker 2: like what like where I get it from?

835
00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:54,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, And like I didn't make a comment that I

836
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:56,960
Speaker 1: take all my niggs at church, but like so now

837
00:42:56,960 --> 00:42:59,160
Speaker 1: you take every nig gotta take the church. It's like that,

838
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:03,239
Speaker 1: like that's not anybody can get got, and I want

839
00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:04,040
Speaker 1: everybody to get them.

840
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:05,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I know if I bring you here, it's

841
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:09,719
Speaker 2: gonna help weed out everything because he's gonna starve that spirit. Yeah,

842
00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:12,239
Speaker 2: it's gonna come out, so you can't you can't play

843
00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:14,400
Speaker 2: with God. So eventually it's gonna come out. So I

844
00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:16,640
Speaker 2: have no problem with taking people there. But they were

845
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:18,359
Speaker 2: trying to figure it out. Gir They was like, who

846
00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:21,279
Speaker 2: she brought? Oh, that's got to be him. So then

847
00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:24,799
Speaker 2: I'm like, what, Well, y'all have no idea. That is

848
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:28,160
Speaker 2: not it.

849
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:29,319
Speaker 1: But I love it. I love it.

850
00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:31,440
Speaker 2: You just talked about your gift back, but you also

851
00:43:31,520 --> 00:43:34,279
Speaker 2: have a foundation called dream above the influence?

852
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:39,120
Speaker 1: What inspired that? You know? I really think mindset is everything.

853
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:42,200
Speaker 1: And there's so many people that may grow up in poverty,

854
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Speaker 1: I grow up in a neighborhood or an environment that

855
00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:51,400
Speaker 1: is not conducive to what they want to dream, or

856
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:55,719
Speaker 1: have influences that they're not even necessarily negative influences. Yeah

857
00:43:56,040 --> 00:43:58,279
Speaker 1: they could be around all athletes, but maybe they don't

858
00:43:58,280 --> 00:43:59,960
Speaker 1: want to be an athlete. They want to be an engineer,

859
00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:04,000
Speaker 1: you know. And I think it's important that people dream

860
00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:06,640
Speaker 1: above their influences to know what you want. You know

861
00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:09,359
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, you don't have to necessarily be and

862
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:11,719
Speaker 1: it's not just dreams, but it's personal of who you

863
00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:14,600
Speaker 1: are as a person. But just what you have in

864
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:18,560
Speaker 1: the mindset and the life and the future you want

865
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Speaker 1: for yourself, that it can be more than what your

866
00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:25,040
Speaker 1: influences are around you. And then I also thoroughly believe,

867
00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:29,080
Speaker 1: like I hate when people are like, oh, be around

868
00:44:29,239 --> 00:44:32,640
Speaker 1: like minded individuals, but maybe you don't like the way

869
00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:35,680
Speaker 1: that they treat others. Maybe they're not good people. Just

870
00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:37,600
Speaker 1: because we got to say, just because we both act,

871
00:44:38,320 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 1: don't mean we got to hang out, ma'am. Just because

872
00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:42,840
Speaker 1: we both hangings don't mean we got to be friends.

873
00:44:43,239 --> 00:44:46,520
Speaker 1: And it's like no, So I'm trying to more so

874
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:50,319
Speaker 1: encourage people to dream about the influence. Don't feel you

875
00:44:50,520 --> 00:44:55,880
Speaker 1: got to be around like your twins, you know what

876
00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:58,080
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like they ain't the people who want and

877
00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:00,799
Speaker 1: aspire the same things. You don't have to be that circle. No,

878
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:02,440
Speaker 1: me and my best friends, none of us do the

879
00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:06,719
Speaker 1: same thing. And it's not intentional and we're great friends,

880
00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:09,359
Speaker 1: but we all have our own mind. So it's really

881
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:12,640
Speaker 1: to try to encourage individuality, yes, and know that you

882
00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:15,040
Speaker 1: can still be a part of a whole and be

883
00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:19,200
Speaker 1: an individual. I love it. I love it. Yes, it's

884
00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:22,359
Speaker 1: a little hot under these that can make yourself comes.

885
00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:25,239
Speaker 1: I didn't realize that the Snowfall letter in Christ this

886
00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:27,600
Speaker 1: is our She's a six rap gift and I just

887
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:28,839
Speaker 1: love it. I love it.

888
00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:30,799
Speaker 2: That's fine, okay, So yes, So I want to know

889
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:32,960
Speaker 2: all the things I heard that you partnered with the

890
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:34,360
Speaker 2: Harris Waltz campaign.

891
00:45:34,719 --> 00:45:38,400
Speaker 1: What was that like? Oh, you know, being a black

892
00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:41,520
Speaker 1: woman seeing other things that VP Hairs is doing, just

893
00:45:41,560 --> 00:45:45,200
Speaker 1: to be able to aid in any of that, right, Like,

894
00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:48,000
Speaker 1: I'm a girl's girl, you are, so I'm all for

895
00:45:48,080 --> 00:45:51,359
Speaker 1: the support. And it was I got a shout out

896
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Speaker 1: to Congresswoman Nikima Williams because she is so like, come

897
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Speaker 1: on girl me and moved she aka yes, but that's

898
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:02,239
Speaker 1: my sister for life. So she really kind of kicked

899
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Speaker 1: things off with making sure that I'm always involved and

900
00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:06,359
Speaker 1: if there's anything I ever want to be a part

901
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:08,800
Speaker 1: of being able to have a seat at the table

902
00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:13,200
Speaker 1: that I went to Congressional Black Caucus in DC probably

903
00:46:13,239 --> 00:46:16,879
Speaker 1: about three or four years ago, first time ever, had

904
00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:19,839
Speaker 1: never heard of it at all. Yeah, it's a time

905
00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:23,080
Speaker 1: a time. Ever since then, I've just been like, what

906
00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:26,239
Speaker 1: can I do to help just people know about it

907
00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:29,200
Speaker 1: and be able to know about their reps and the

908
00:46:29,239 --> 00:46:32,000
Speaker 1: local level, and the laws and the states were said,

909
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:34,239
Speaker 1: just all of these different things that we don't know.

910
00:46:34,680 --> 00:46:37,000
Speaker 1: They don't really teach us. Don't teach us about a

911
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:40,080
Speaker 1: million presidents. That's dead. Hello, but you're not teaching us

912
00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:44,719
Speaker 1: about what's currently happening right now. True, you hide our

913
00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:48,920
Speaker 1: actual Black African American history and you fill us up

914
00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:53,560
Speaker 1: with social studies. That girl is not helping us be social.

915
00:46:53,719 --> 00:46:56,040
Speaker 2: It is not at all at all.

916
00:46:56,239 --> 00:46:59,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so true. So no, it's nice to be

917
00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:03,719
Speaker 1: a part of real history. Yes, right, like this is

918
00:47:03,719 --> 00:47:06,360
Speaker 1: the history. This is us history that they're going to

919
00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:11,080
Speaker 1: teach about in classes. So I'm just very enthusiastic. But

920
00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:15,719
Speaker 1: everybody you vote, regis vote. I did. We did the

921
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:18,680
Speaker 1: Pea Valley premiere season two. I did a premier party

922
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Speaker 1: year and I made it a whole weekend. We did

923
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:24,799
Speaker 1: an adult phild day, we registered people to vote. It

924
00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:27,120
Speaker 1: was a whole thing. So this year, really getting people

925
00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:30,960
Speaker 1: out to the polls and even early voting, yes, early voter. Yeah.

926
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Speaker 2: I definitely voted because I cannot like I feel like

927
00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:34,640
Speaker 2: a lot of people like my vote doesn't matter.

928
00:47:34,760 --> 00:47:37,319
Speaker 1: Yes it does, like it could have.

929
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Speaker 2: When you look at the first election with Hillary and

930
00:47:41,719 --> 00:47:47,719
Speaker 2: Donald Trump literally or president on b politic correct that guy.

931
00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:49,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, the other president of other president.

932
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Speaker 2: It was small margins that he won by if people

933
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Speaker 2: had if those people who really wanted to vote for

934
00:47:57,760 --> 00:48:00,640
Speaker 2: Hillary Clinton had have really gotten up their helms or

935
00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:01,640
Speaker 2: just take the time.

936
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Speaker 1: It don't take that long. And then when voter suppression

937
00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:07,600
Speaker 1: and how crazy it is, you had to vote in person,

938
00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:13,400
Speaker 1: like you if absentee is your last resort, then okay, yeah,

939
00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:16,000
Speaker 1: but I said go early vote. I say in person

940
00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:20,879
Speaker 1: because they are really committing voter. It's just a lot

941
00:48:21,120 --> 00:48:22,400
Speaker 1: going on. Yeah.

942
00:48:22,520 --> 00:48:25,080
Speaker 2: I just saw they had something on CNN where they're

943
00:48:25,160 --> 00:48:29,800
Speaker 2: like some fraudulent stuff going on, and I was like, yeah, here.

944
00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:32,239
Speaker 1: We go again, Here we go again, Here we go again. Yeah.

945
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:34,640
Speaker 2: But it's I try to tell people all the time

946
00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:37,560
Speaker 2: when I hear those conversations, like, man, it don't matter.

947
00:48:38,160 --> 00:48:40,400
Speaker 2: I haven't heard it so much this time around. I

948
00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:45,279
Speaker 2: think what happened eight years ago with the first that

949
00:48:45,280 --> 00:48:48,799
Speaker 2: that guy when he was there, it woke people up

950
00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:50,719
Speaker 2: because I even a lie to you. I went to

951
00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:52,600
Speaker 2: bed knowing I was gonna wake up to another Clinton

952
00:48:52,640 --> 00:48:53,320
Speaker 2: being in office.

953
00:48:53,840 --> 00:48:55,160
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, yeah, we're good.

954
00:48:55,520 --> 00:48:57,440
Speaker 2: I woke up at like three in the mornings bathroom

955
00:48:57,440 --> 00:48:58,480
Speaker 2: and the CNN was still on.

956
00:48:58,640 --> 00:49:03,839
Speaker 1: I was like, wait a minute, I ain't nowhere. I

957
00:49:03,880 --> 00:49:06,440
Speaker 1: was like, ain't I literally I was saying. I was like,

958
00:49:06,520 --> 00:49:09,280
Speaker 1: this did not happen. It happened.

959
00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:12,520
Speaker 2: So, Gail, I know you you did a lot on

960
00:49:12,600 --> 00:49:15,000
Speaker 2: the front lines. It didn't turn out how we wanted.

961
00:49:15,520 --> 00:49:17,879
Speaker 2: You know, we had our host high and we got

962
00:49:17,880 --> 00:49:19,480
Speaker 2: out there, but you did so much to make sure

963
00:49:19,520 --> 00:49:20,719
Speaker 2: that people got registered.

964
00:49:21,360 --> 00:49:25,160
Speaker 1: How does that sit with you? You know, you do what

965
00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:28,480
Speaker 1: you can and you hope and pray for the best,

966
00:49:28,520 --> 00:49:33,080
Speaker 1: but you can't sit in Okay, we didn't win. So

967
00:49:33,160 --> 00:49:36,239
Speaker 1: now it's like, okay, this is the result. How do

968
00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:39,920
Speaker 1: we move forward and how do we not allow ourselves

969
00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:43,560
Speaker 1: to be buried in the result? Right? Yeah, So I

970
00:49:43,600 --> 00:49:47,000
Speaker 1: think it's more like, okay, next time, you know, you

971
00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:49,439
Speaker 1: got to do more. You know, you can only reach

972
00:49:49,520 --> 00:49:55,279
Speaker 1: those that you can reach. And know that I know

973
00:49:55,440 --> 00:49:58,640
Speaker 1: I'm not enough. It takes more than just me to change.

974
00:49:58,760 --> 00:50:01,480
Speaker 1: You know, we're trying to elect the president of the

975
00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:05,520
Speaker 1: United States. We were trying to literally do the impossible

976
00:50:05,560 --> 00:50:09,840
Speaker 1: and get a black woman, the first black woman president elected.

977
00:50:11,680 --> 00:50:17,360
Speaker 1: We fail but you know, we lost the battle. We

978
00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:19,200
Speaker 1: didn't lose the war. We did not lose a war.

979
00:50:19,280 --> 00:50:21,400
Speaker 1: So there'll be there'll be more just next time. I know,

980
00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:24,520
Speaker 1: I got to come bigger and harder, heavier, when more

981
00:50:24,560 --> 00:50:28,120
Speaker 1: people on the front line, and when when you know,

982
00:50:28,239 --> 00:50:30,960
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not the end of the world. It's unfortunate,

983
00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:32,839
Speaker 1: but it's not the end of the world. And I

984
00:50:32,880 --> 00:50:35,920
Speaker 1: think right now the main thing is to encourage people

985
00:50:36,440 --> 00:50:39,439
Speaker 1: to do what's best for that mental, to encourage people

986
00:50:39,480 --> 00:50:40,920
Speaker 1: to not be out here in fear.

987
00:50:41,360 --> 00:50:43,640
Speaker 2: And know that's what I'm worried about, the fear, because yeah,

988
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:47,120
Speaker 2: I remember January sixth, when he was in the office

989
00:50:47,160 --> 00:50:50,359
Speaker 2: before the fear that I felt watching that in real

990
00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:53,200
Speaker 2: time on seeing now, I was like, what is happening?

991
00:50:53,320 --> 00:50:54,359
Speaker 1: Is this where I live?

992
00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:56,600
Speaker 2: Is this my nation, the great nation of the United

993
00:50:56,640 --> 00:50:59,160
Speaker 2: States South America? Is this where I used to pledge

994
00:50:59,160 --> 00:51:01,640
Speaker 2: of allegiance as a child, Like we used to sit

995
00:51:01,680 --> 00:51:04,000
Speaker 2: there in class every morning and pledge leads to the flag.

996
00:51:04,320 --> 00:51:05,560
Speaker 2: Is this what I pledge to?

997
00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:06,200
Speaker 1: You know?

998
00:51:06,719 --> 00:51:13,600
Speaker 2: And I will say, like I fear what this will incite,

999
00:51:13,840 --> 00:51:16,719
Speaker 2: you know, And because I saw what happened then and

1000
00:51:16,760 --> 00:51:19,080
Speaker 2: how they tried to downplay it, and I was like,

1001
00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:22,399
Speaker 2: there's nothing to downplay, you know, So it's not so.

1002
00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:26,239
Speaker 1: I think we have to get we have to familiarize

1003
00:51:26,239 --> 00:51:30,120
Speaker 1: ourselves with laws and policies so we can know our

1004
00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:36,440
Speaker 1: rights and protect ourselves. Because with Trump in office, you

1005
00:51:36,719 --> 00:51:39,080
Speaker 1: never know, you don't know, so you just have to

1006
00:51:39,160 --> 00:51:43,520
Speaker 1: prepare to You have to prepare yourself, you know, and

1007
00:51:43,920 --> 00:51:46,440
Speaker 1: move forward and find your peace and your happiness. Like

1008
00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:48,319
Speaker 1: it's not at the end of the world.

1009
00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:51,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, for sure, it's.

1010
00:51:49,960 --> 00:51:55,719
Speaker 1: Only four years. It's only four years. Four years we'll

1011
00:51:55,760 --> 00:51:57,719
Speaker 1: be we'll be ready for the next election. And it's

1012
00:51:57,760 --> 00:52:00,480
Speaker 1: like if we don't start preparing now, yes, right now,

1013
00:52:00,520 --> 00:52:04,200
Speaker 1: so twenty twenty eight, Yeah, it'll end up in the

1014
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:06,560
Speaker 1: same predicaments. So how do we how do we avoid Yeah,

1015
00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:08,200
Speaker 1: we gotta get our game playing together.

1016
00:52:08,320 --> 00:52:14,000
Speaker 2: Yep, we are right, we will see because what we do,

1017
00:52:14,400 --> 00:52:16,320
Speaker 2: we continue to rise above were black.

1018
00:52:16,560 --> 00:52:21,000
Speaker 1: We now went through way worse, a terrible ass president. Yeah,

1019
00:52:21,560 --> 00:52:23,920
Speaker 1: we don't have Trump, ain't nothing but one of them

1020
00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:26,759
Speaker 1: same other motherfuckers out of the past forty some presidents

1021
00:52:26,760 --> 00:52:35,319
Speaker 1: like right, yeah, yeah, yeah, he wanted it once. So yeah, we.

1022
00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:41,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, we are I appreciate your time, Thank you, thank you.

1023
00:52:41,760 --> 00:52:45,440
Speaker 1: Yes, and we ken't be positive. We did always did.

1024
00:52:45,440 --> 00:52:47,759
Speaker 1: That's easy. First schedule, we really do. No for when

1025
00:52:47,760 --> 00:52:53,120
Speaker 1: it's genuine. Yeah, it ain't on you, friend, It's seen

1026
00:52:53,200 --> 00:52:57,200
Speaker 1: you so much.

1027
00:52:57,360 --> 00:53:00,000
Speaker 2: So seriously, I know you've had a long twenty one day.

1028
00:53:00,320 --> 00:53:02,919
Speaker 2: This is twenty three now. Even when you wasn't working,

1029
00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:04,759
Speaker 2: you were still like busy, so it's not you didn't

1030
00:53:04,760 --> 00:53:07,520
Speaker 2: get your proper rest. So I just I really appreciate

1031
00:53:07,560 --> 00:53:09,799
Speaker 2: you making the time. No, it means the world to me.

1032
00:53:09,920 --> 00:53:14,960
Speaker 7: Seriously, Yeah, only hit my mic, but right right.

1033
00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:20,560
Speaker 4: You're weome even then well the kids were doing Yeah,

1034
00:53:20,640 --> 00:53:27,839
Speaker 4: it's like the peace and then oh yeah, I love it.

1035
00:53:32,680 --> 00:53:33,720
Speaker 1: Guys. Like always.

1036
00:53:33,719 --> 00:53:37,160
Speaker 2: There's so much to unpack from my conversation with Gail.

1037
00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:39,800
Speaker 2: One of the main things I pulled from this chat

1038
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:43,120
Speaker 2: was how to listen to God's voice. A lot of

1039
00:53:43,120 --> 00:53:45,960
Speaker 2: times we question was that guy or is he hearing

1040
00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:48,839
Speaker 2: what I'm saying? But in this conversation, I know it's

1041
00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:51,680
Speaker 2: your personal relationship with him and a lot of times

1042
00:53:51,680 --> 00:53:54,280
Speaker 2: when you ask him something, he shows you the signs,

1043
00:53:54,560 --> 00:53:56,040
Speaker 2: but are you really paying attention?

1044
00:53:57,239 --> 00:53:57,760
Speaker 1: That's it.

1045
00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:04,360
Speaker 2: Shout out to Gail ban for coming through and sharing

1046
00:54:04,400 --> 00:54:07,319
Speaker 2: her incredible story today. Be sure to follow me on

1047
00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:10,719
Speaker 2: all social media platforms at love Christa Renee, and you

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Speaker 2: can also follow us at keep It Positive.

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Speaker 1: Sweetie.

1050
00:54:13,920 --> 00:54:16,879
Speaker 2: If you want to write into our positive Outcome listener letter,

1051
00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:19,879
Speaker 2: you can send us an email at keep It positivesweety

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Speaker 2: at gmail dot com. Guys in the meantime, in between

1053
00:54:23,520 --> 00:54:26,880
Speaker 2: time you know what to do. Keep it Positive, Sweetie.

1054
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Speaker 2: I'll see you guys next time.