1 00:00:02,759 --> 00:00:04,920 Speaker 1: Hellove Sunshine, Hey besties. 2 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:07,520 Speaker 2: Today on the bright Side, we're joined by Tony nominated 3 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:11,239 Speaker 2: Broadway actor and singer Kala Settle. She's gearing up for 4 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:13,480 Speaker 2: the release of her latest project. You might have heard 5 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:16,280 Speaker 2: of it, the movie adaptation of the Broadway musical Wicked. 6 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:19,079 Speaker 2: So she's stopping by to get real about the role 7 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:21,720 Speaker 2: that put her on the map, and sheer why fame 8 00:00:22,079 --> 00:00:25,360 Speaker 2: wasn't what she expected it to be. It's Monday, August fifth. 9 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:28,600 Speaker 3: I'm Simone Boyce, I'm Danielle Robe and this is the 10 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:32,080 Speaker 3: bright Side from Hello Sunshine, a daily show where we 11 00:00:32,120 --> 00:00:35,960 Speaker 3: come together to share women's stories, to laugh, learn and 12 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:42,800 Speaker 3: brighten your day. Simone, it's time for on My Mind Monday, 13 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:45,960 Speaker 3: and it's an opportunity for us to start the week 14 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:50,159 Speaker 3: fresh with some new ideas, new perspectives. Do you ever 15 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:52,600 Speaker 3: feel like you need to change your environment to get 16 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:53,560 Speaker 3: that new perspective? 17 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:57,600 Speaker 2: I feel like that more often than I am content 18 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:00,400 Speaker 2: with my environment. I just thought, I'm always like to 19 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:02,320 Speaker 2: switch it up. I feel like it brings new energy, 20 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:03,200 Speaker 2: new ideas. 21 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:04,120 Speaker 4: That's exactly it. 22 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:06,399 Speaker 3: It's that new energy and I have been needing to 23 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:11,000 Speaker 3: make some creative decisions, particularly to write some things lately, 24 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:14,319 Speaker 3: and I have felt so stuck, and so this weekend 25 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:17,760 Speaker 3: I rented an Airbnb for just one night to try 26 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:20,120 Speaker 3: and get the creative juices flowing. I got this house 27 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:23,600 Speaker 3: in Malibu. It was right on the beach, all windows. 28 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:27,240 Speaker 3: I fell asleep with the water crashing on the shore, 29 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:28,200 Speaker 3: and you know what happened? 30 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:29,360 Speaker 1: What happened? Tell me? 31 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:33,840 Speaker 3: I woke up with answers. Really, the ocean brought me 32 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:36,559 Speaker 3: the answers. I was writing like a mad woman. 33 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:40,280 Speaker 1: You're like Mohana. The ocean just brings everything you need 34 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:41,120 Speaker 1: get to you. 35 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:44,000 Speaker 4: I felt that way. So it was so nice. 36 00:01:44,080 --> 00:01:45,560 Speaker 1: I'm so happy for you. I love this for you. 37 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:47,760 Speaker 4: Thank you. What's on your mind this Monday? 38 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:50,840 Speaker 2: So, you know, as I've been watching Simone Biles and 39 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:53,760 Speaker 2: the Golden Girls absolutely dominate the Olympics, I've been thinking 40 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:56,720 Speaker 2: about that Malcolm Gladwell quote that we talk about all 41 00:01:56,720 --> 00:01:58,880 Speaker 2: the time that it takes ten thousand hours to master 42 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:01,600 Speaker 2: a craft. But I've been wanting to take it a 43 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:04,320 Speaker 2: bit deeper and think about, Okay, what should those ten 44 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:07,760 Speaker 2: thousand hours actually look like? If we get granular with it, 45 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 2: what do we do with those ten thousand hours? How 46 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:12,480 Speaker 2: do we make the most of them? And one theory 47 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:15,280 Speaker 2: that I came across is deliberate practice. This is according 48 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:18,160 Speaker 2: to the author James Clear who wrote Atomic Habits, and 49 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:21,560 Speaker 2: he says, deliberate practices when you drill down into learning 50 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:26,480 Speaker 2: one tiny behavior, mastering that small skill, and then repeating 51 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:29,280 Speaker 2: that process for ten thousand hours. And when I think 52 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:32,840 Speaker 2: of athletes who embody deliberate practice, I think of a 53 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:37,520 Speaker 2: new hero who's emerging from the US men's Olympic gymnastics team, 54 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:43,160 Speaker 2: the Internet's boyfriend, pommelhorse guy, Stephen Nedoschik. 55 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:48,520 Speaker 3: Pommelhorse guy pommeled harder than anyone has ever pommeled before. 56 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:51,639 Speaker 3: You know, everyone in my feet was posting about him. 57 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:55,440 Speaker 3: They're calling him gymnastics Clark Kent. He is superman. He 58 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:58,240 Speaker 3: had one job at the twenty twenty four Paris Olympics 59 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:00,200 Speaker 3: and it was to absolutely kill it. 60 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:01,360 Speaker 4: But on the pommel horse. 61 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:04,239 Speaker 2: Well, that's what I think is so interesting about him. 62 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:08,320 Speaker 2: And for context, it's been sixteen years since the US 63 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:11,840 Speaker 2: men's gymnastics team has meddled at the Olympics, but the 64 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:14,440 Speaker 2: Stars and Stripes are once again on the podium in 65 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:17,120 Speaker 2: men's gymnastics this year. And it's all thanks to him, 66 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:21,600 Speaker 2: thanks to never amain. Seriously, so here's what's different about him. 67 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:24,440 Speaker 2: In the men's all around there are six events. He 68 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 2: performs in exactly one event, Like you said, that's it, 69 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:29,480 Speaker 2: just one, and he's been building up to this moment 70 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:33,160 Speaker 2: for about twenty years. Stevens's parents put him into gymnastics 71 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:35,080 Speaker 2: when he was four years old, and as he started 72 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:37,920 Speaker 2: to advance in the sport, he decided to lean into 73 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:41,520 Speaker 2: one specialty, the pommel horse, and then ten thousand hours 74 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:43,840 Speaker 2: of deliberate practice later, here we are. 75 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:46,800 Speaker 3: First of all, I'm so excited for him. There's all 76 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:49,120 Speaker 3: these memes of him sort of like sleeping on the 77 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:51,920 Speaker 3: bench on the sideline waiting and everyone's like, he's just 78 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 3: napping waiting to pommel horse. 79 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:55,920 Speaker 2: He's either sleeping or he's doing a Rubik's cube in 80 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 2: nine seconds. 81 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:59,280 Speaker 3: And I think what he's really doing is meditating and 82 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:02,840 Speaker 3: getting into this. But your explanation and story I think 83 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:06,920 Speaker 3: brings up a larger question, which is we're obsessed with 84 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:10,520 Speaker 3: multi hyphenates, yeah, in this world, And part of me 85 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:15,160 Speaker 3: loves that because I think for so long people were 86 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:17,880 Speaker 3: thought of as only being able to do one thing. Well, 87 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 3: I actually just heard Kate Hudson talking about this. She 88 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:23,200 Speaker 3: wanted to sing her entire life and she never put 89 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:25,240 Speaker 3: out an album because she said everyone thought of her 90 00:04:25,279 --> 00:04:27,520 Speaker 3: as an actress, and when she was coming up and 91 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:30,760 Speaker 3: starting to be successful, you could only be one thing. 92 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:33,240 Speaker 1: Well, that's why I actually hate that phrase stay in 93 00:04:33,279 --> 00:04:36,000 Speaker 1: your lane. I think it's so annoying. 94 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:38,360 Speaker 2: Is particularly when it's directed at women, and I feel 95 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 2: like it's directed at us more than other people oftentimes. 96 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:44,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with you, And on the flip side 97 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 3: of the idea of being a multi hyphen it, I 98 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:51,440 Speaker 3: do think that to be great at anything you do 99 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:55,039 Speaker 3: have to be singularly focused in many ways and just 100 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:58,479 Speaker 3: repeat it over and over and over again. I have 101 00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 3: a hard time juggling this because like, the creative brain 102 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:03,960 Speaker 3: in me wants to be able to do a few things, 103 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:07,320 Speaker 3: and the interviewer in me wants to just do that. 104 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:08,920 Speaker 4: Yeah, how do you feel? 105 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:11,760 Speaker 2: I feel this tension all the time, and where I've 106 00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:15,400 Speaker 2: landed with it is I am a multi hyphen it. 107 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:18,000 Speaker 2: I don't know that I'm ever going to be able 108 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:22,320 Speaker 2: to just be a hyphen it a singular hyphen it. However, 109 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:25,599 Speaker 2: I think that one of those hyphens should be in 110 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:27,680 Speaker 2: bold and then the rest. 111 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:31,840 Speaker 1: Oh, I like that are additive to it. I really 112 00:05:31,880 --> 00:05:33,160 Speaker 1: like supplementary to it. 113 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:34,919 Speaker 4: Yep, I really really like that. 114 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:37,120 Speaker 2: So as always I can't pick. I think you should, 115 00:05:37,279 --> 00:05:39,840 Speaker 2: I think you should have it all. I'm firmly standing 116 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:40,679 Speaker 2: in the nuance here. 117 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:44,960 Speaker 3: Well, our guest today is someone who knows about that focus, 118 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:46,600 Speaker 3: that dedication to your craft. 119 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:49,080 Speaker 4: Yeah, but she's also been known to rack the stage. 120 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:52,400 Speaker 3: We have a Tony Award nominated actress here with us. 121 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:56,120 Speaker 3: Kala Settle has been in theatrical productions that have made 122 00:05:56,480 --> 00:06:02,120 Speaker 3: enormous cultural impact. I'm talking Lamez Waitress, hair Spray one 123 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:06,240 Speaker 3: of my favorites. Sister act another favorite, And there's a 124 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:09,560 Speaker 3: show that's particularly close to her heart. She played Angelique 125 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:12,840 Speaker 3: in the West End production of Anne Juliette, and it was. 126 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:15,040 Speaker 2: A role in the twenty seventeen film The Greatest Showman 127 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:18,039 Speaker 2: that launched her into the stratosphere and straight into my 128 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:21,880 Speaker 2: heart because her character, Letty's song this is Me became 129 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:27,560 Speaker 2: this gripping empowerment anthem. It almost became bigger than her, 130 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 2: bigger than the film itself, and it really thrust Kayala 131 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:33,719 Speaker 2: into the Spotlight in a way that she never imagined. 132 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:36,359 Speaker 2: And then in twenty eighteen, the song won a Golden 133 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:39,080 Speaker 2: Globe for Best Original Song, So that was huge. It 134 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:42,400 Speaker 2: was a groundbreaking moment for her career. But here's the thing. 135 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:45,560 Speaker 2: Behind the scenes, Kayolla was really struggling with the scope 136 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:49,839 Speaker 2: of her newfound fame and also being saddled with the 137 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:53,840 Speaker 2: pressure of representing all the marginalized communities who saw themselves 138 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:57,559 Speaker 2: represented in the song's lyrics. So she's actually spoken pretty 139 00:06:57,560 --> 00:07:00,599 Speaker 2: publicly about resenting the attention that she received for a 140 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:04,120 Speaker 2: song about being who you are when she felt like 141 00:07:04,200 --> 00:07:05,560 Speaker 2: she couldn't be herself at the time. 142 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:10,240 Speaker 3: And after considerable self work, self discovery, and what I 143 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:14,520 Speaker 3: really think was self love, she's now starring alongside Ariana 144 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:19,160 Speaker 3: Grande and Cynthia Rivo in the much anticipated film adaptation 145 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:22,280 Speaker 3: of Wicked coming this fall. So, Simon, let's see if 146 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:23,880 Speaker 3: she gives us a little inside. 147 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:24,360 Speaker 4: Scoop on Wicked. 148 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:27,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, we have to try, We gotta try, all right, 149 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:31,280 Speaker 3: We'll be back with Kayala Settle right after the break. 150 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:42,040 Speaker 4: Kayala, Welcome to the bright Side. 151 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:44,240 Speaker 5: Ah, thank you, thank you. 152 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:47,800 Speaker 3: Simone and I grew up as theater kids, so We 153 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:50,680 Speaker 3: are really excited to learn about you and your professional 154 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:54,920 Speaker 3: path to some of the biggest stages. Wicked is coming 155 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:57,720 Speaker 3: out in late November, and I was excited to hear 156 00:07:57,760 --> 00:08:00,400 Speaker 3: that you're originating a new role, one that did not 157 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:03,920 Speaker 3: exist in the theatrical performance. So when you're creating a 158 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:07,160 Speaker 3: character from scratch, what is the first thing that you do? 159 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:11,160 Speaker 6: In general, it just depends on the genre of what 160 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:13,760 Speaker 6: you're doing. If you're doing like a live stage production 161 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:20,760 Speaker 6: versus a television production versus a film. The one constant 162 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:24,320 Speaker 6: through all of those is what is the small bit 163 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:28,920 Speaker 6: of you as a person that connects with each of 164 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:31,600 Speaker 6: those characters, with the knowledge and the bits and pieces 165 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:33,959 Speaker 6: that you have of yourself and what you want to 166 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:35,040 Speaker 6: put into the character. 167 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:38,199 Speaker 5: As far as like creating a backstory for each character. 168 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:41,199 Speaker 5: What have they done before? What are they doing now? 169 00:08:41,280 --> 00:08:42,920 Speaker 5: What are their hopes, what are their dreams, what are 170 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:45,720 Speaker 5: their fears? You know, all of those things. Yeah, coming 171 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:50,960 Speaker 5: to play. I'm very, very grateful for the career that 172 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:52,920 Speaker 5: I've had. Are clientsate career. 173 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:55,720 Speaker 6: It sounds weird to me for the opportunities that I 174 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:59,080 Speaker 6: have that I continue to have and hope that I 175 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 6: will continue to have more of them, because. 176 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:06,200 Speaker 5: Art reflects life and it's a very important thing that 177 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:08,560 Speaker 5: we need to keep doing. So I'm very grateful for 178 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:11,160 Speaker 5: it and happy to do it, Kayla. 179 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:16,280 Speaker 2: Whenever we speak to performers, they often trace their entire 180 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:20,880 Speaker 2: career back to watching this one show that really planted 181 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:22,880 Speaker 2: the theater bug in them, and they were like, man, 182 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:25,679 Speaker 2: I could see myself on that stage in that show. 183 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:28,520 Speaker 2: Was there a show that did that for you growing up? 184 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:35,520 Speaker 6: No, No, there wasn't because I am Polynesian. My dad 185 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:39,400 Speaker 6: is from England and my mum was an indigenous Maori, 186 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:43,120 Speaker 6: so I saw no one that looked like me. And 187 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:45,760 Speaker 6: I was born in Rosen Hawai, which is as much 188 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:49,960 Speaker 6: as it is a part of the United States culturally speaking, 189 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:54,000 Speaker 6: in almost every aspect, it is not so leaving there 190 00:09:54,120 --> 00:09:54,679 Speaker 6: and then. 191 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:57,240 Speaker 5: Moving to the continental United States. 192 00:09:57,720 --> 00:09:59,880 Speaker 7: It's all magsaze in a way. 193 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:05,959 Speaker 6: Growing up, who I was in reality didn't exist. 194 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:09,199 Speaker 5: Not that I'm trying. 195 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:11,960 Speaker 7: I'm not trying to go deep. These are just facts. 196 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:14,880 Speaker 2: My question for you, then, is because I can really 197 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:18,480 Speaker 2: relate to that, I was very othered growing up, never 198 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:23,720 Speaker 2: really saw anyone, always always the other, always the only, 199 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:27,840 Speaker 2: always the first. Yeah, So when did that change for you? 200 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:30,840 Speaker 2: What was the experience or the moment that opened up 201 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:33,480 Speaker 2: your possibilities for you and made you believe that this 202 00:10:33,679 --> 00:10:36,000 Speaker 2: career that you now have was possible. 203 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:40,360 Speaker 5: Honestly, it just happened two months ago. 204 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:44,000 Speaker 1: Really, what happened? What was the moment? 205 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:50,600 Speaker 6: I had an opportunity to go and play a character 206 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:56,000 Speaker 6: called Angelique in the Australian touring production of and Juliet, 207 00:10:56,600 --> 00:11:01,240 Speaker 6: which I've had the privilege and pleasure and honor to 208 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:05,319 Speaker 6: play a couple of times. I did the original reading 209 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:09,320 Speaker 6: of it in LA in twenty seventeen when. 210 00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:12,680 Speaker 5: I was a completely different person in a completely different life, 211 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:16,280 Speaker 5: And when I really got to do it was when 212 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:19,679 Speaker 5: I moved to the UK and had the chance to 213 00:11:19,679 --> 00:11:23,040 Speaker 5: play it on the Western and then I was just 214 00:11:23,240 --> 00:11:26,280 Speaker 5: recently given the opportunity to do it again because they 215 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:30,080 Speaker 5: were closing and the lovely, incredible talent that was playing 216 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:32,920 Speaker 5: and already was moving on to another show, but she 217 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:35,440 Speaker 5: needed to go before the show was closing, so they. 218 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:39,640 Speaker 6: Had asked if I wanted to do it. And because 219 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:43,280 Speaker 6: my family on my mother's side is from New Zealand, 220 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:46,760 Speaker 6: and because I carry a valid New Zealand passport because 221 00:11:46,760 --> 00:11:50,200 Speaker 6: of my mother. I absolutely jump at the chance. Because 222 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:53,400 Speaker 6: of where I was born and raised. It's very rare 223 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:57,000 Speaker 6: that you get to go back to New Zealand as 224 00:11:57,080 --> 00:12:01,600 Speaker 6: an indigenous Maori, not physically there, and because it had 225 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:06,160 Speaker 6: been so long, and because life had happened a million 226 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:13,880 Speaker 6: times over, pre pandemic, pandemic, everything in between. There was 227 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:18,200 Speaker 6: work that I had been doing for myself that I 228 00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:23,120 Speaker 6: needed to close chapters on and I did and it 229 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:26,239 Speaker 6: was the greatest feeling ever. And in closing those chapters, 230 00:12:26,679 --> 00:12:31,720 Speaker 6: I got closer and closer to who I was before 231 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:33,680 Speaker 6: the world told me who I was. 232 00:12:35,880 --> 00:12:36,839 Speaker 5: So does that makes sense? 233 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:39,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, makes a lot of sense. 234 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:43,480 Speaker 5: I just know that who I was was revitalized. 235 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:49,760 Speaker 6: And the fear that I've had working in this industry, 236 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:57,199 Speaker 6: I'll be perfectly honest with you, dissipated because I remembered 237 00:12:58,679 --> 00:13:04,640 Speaker 6: who I am and the fear went away. 238 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:07,520 Speaker 3: I can feel it in how you're saying it more 239 00:13:07,559 --> 00:13:08,600 Speaker 3: than even your words. 240 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:10,640 Speaker 4: It sounds like you feel free. 241 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:14,800 Speaker 3: Yeah, And so how does that manifest in your personal 242 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:16,280 Speaker 3: life now that you're back in London. 243 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:19,680 Speaker 6: To be honest, when I was leaving, I was really 244 00:13:19,679 --> 00:13:23,080 Speaker 6: scared to come back here. Because in our lives as 245 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:26,960 Speaker 6: we continue, if we allow ourselves to continue to grow 246 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:31,280 Speaker 6: and evolve, I left a different person and I came 247 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:38,160 Speaker 6: back a different person. In my personal lives, there are 248 00:13:38,240 --> 00:13:43,559 Speaker 6: things that no longer mattered to me in the sense of, 249 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:49,440 Speaker 6: like every morning for decades, I worried about the way 250 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:53,480 Speaker 6: I looked and the way that, you know, my physical appearance, 251 00:13:53,520 --> 00:13:55,800 Speaker 6: and I had to do this. I had to do that, 252 00:13:56,320 --> 00:13:59,480 Speaker 6: and I thought with that my entire life, but in 253 00:13:59,559 --> 00:14:05,079 Speaker 6: particular women who again are just running this rat race. 254 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:08,160 Speaker 6: And when I realized it and remembered that it was 255 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:13,000 Speaker 6: just with myself, it just set me free. The biggest 256 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:15,680 Speaker 6: thing that I took with me when I came back was. 257 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:18,640 Speaker 7: I looked in the mirror. 258 00:14:19,840 --> 00:14:24,000 Speaker 5: And realized how much I fell in love with myself. 259 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:27,720 Speaker 4: You're getting tierry talking about that. 260 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:32,480 Speaker 6: Yeah, because it's it's you know, when you're when you're 261 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:38,040 Speaker 6: someone that is constantly for decades going out with going 262 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:42,080 Speaker 6: please love me, please love me, please love me, and 263 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:46,160 Speaker 6: all of these situations that happen and continue to recur 264 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:49,720 Speaker 6: so that you learn the lesson that you need to 265 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:52,280 Speaker 6: love yourself and you don't really want to pay attention 266 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:57,840 Speaker 6: to it and then you're given this gift of an experience, 267 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:01,680 Speaker 6: which for me it was just leaving just for six 268 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:05,360 Speaker 6: weeks and going back to where my mother's roots were 269 00:15:05,880 --> 00:15:09,120 Speaker 6: and understanding that those are actually my roots as well, 270 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:13,000 Speaker 6: no matter what anyone has ever told me or ever 271 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:18,640 Speaker 6: will tell me. And to understand that fully and to 272 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:23,400 Speaker 6: accept that for myself for no one else, is one 273 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:29,040 Speaker 6: of the most powerful things that you could ever attain. 274 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:32,520 Speaker 3: You've mentioned your mom a few times, and I want 275 00:15:32,520 --> 00:15:36,120 Speaker 3: to better understand your childhood, Kayala. You were the oldest 276 00:15:36,240 --> 00:15:38,880 Speaker 3: of five kids, and I read that your mom actually 277 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:42,680 Speaker 3: was not supportive of your path as an actor growing up. 278 00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:43,400 Speaker 4: Is that correct? 279 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:48,080 Speaker 5: Yeah, that's correct. But that's because she wanted me. She 280 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:52,040 Speaker 5: wanted all of us to live the life that she 281 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:54,960 Speaker 5: had chosen for us. And because I was the oldest 282 00:15:55,440 --> 00:15:59,880 Speaker 5: and I ended up having the skill set of whatever 283 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:05,320 Speaker 5: I had, my mother was hell bent on me being a. 284 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:08,800 Speaker 6: Recording artist, which is why a lot of the physical 285 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:11,440 Speaker 6: appearance was coming into play, because back then it was 286 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:14,960 Speaker 6: like the late seventies early eighties and it was like 287 00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:17,000 Speaker 6: Olivia Newton John. 288 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:19,440 Speaker 7: However, my parents. 289 00:16:19,080 --> 00:16:22,800 Speaker 6: Bought the American Dream b BLN and Thinker, which was 290 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:26,240 Speaker 6: great for them because of where they came from. When 291 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:26,600 Speaker 6: you're a. 292 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:30,280 Speaker 5: Child of immigrant parents, your entire life is spent going 293 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:35,960 Speaker 5: in between culture after culture, between culture, between accents, between dialects, 294 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:41,080 Speaker 5: between if you have it, the actual language, the other 295 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:45,800 Speaker 5: language that is being spoken. So for me, just personally, 296 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:48,880 Speaker 5: my entire life was spent surviving all of those things. 297 00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:53,480 Speaker 1: The code switching is exhausting, right, That's why I'm. 298 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:58,800 Speaker 6: So tired of it, Because I can be and I 299 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:02,120 Speaker 6: understand that there's going to be bits and pieces where 300 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:05,640 Speaker 6: I speak and I sound like I'mori. There are bits 301 00:17:05,640 --> 00:17:08,080 Speaker 6: and pieces of me that will still sound like ah't 302 00:17:08,080 --> 00:17:10,600 Speaker 6: for bits and pieces of England. And then there are 303 00:17:10,640 --> 00:17:13,120 Speaker 6: bits and pieces that I still sound like an American, 304 00:17:13,520 --> 00:17:17,520 Speaker 6: an American in New York, an American in Hawaii, and 305 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:20,720 Speaker 6: American in La wherever you want to pick Kayla. 306 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:24,480 Speaker 2: As I'm hearing you process all of this, it sounds 307 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:29,200 Speaker 2: like you have reached this place of liberation, but it's 308 00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:32,119 Speaker 2: taken you a lot to get there. What was the 309 00:17:32,240 --> 00:17:34,560 Speaker 2: catalyst for this period of growth? 310 00:17:35,560 --> 00:17:41,720 Speaker 5: My mother died. She died on the opened waitress in Cambridge, 311 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:44,240 Speaker 5: literally right forward Cone Core. 312 00:17:45,359 --> 00:17:50,760 Speaker 6: And because my mother was a very hard woman, but 313 00:17:50,920 --> 00:17:53,240 Speaker 6: I don't blame her for being hard. 314 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:58,920 Speaker 5: There weren't many people like her in the continental United States, 315 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:04,639 Speaker 5: and she had five children, which were basically a human 316 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:09,960 Speaker 5: fortress for her. So when my mother passed away, we 317 00:18:10,080 --> 00:18:13,720 Speaker 5: had no reason to exist. And I will not speak 318 00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:18,880 Speaker 5: for my other brothers and sisters because I'm sure they're 319 00:18:18,920 --> 00:18:22,679 Speaker 5: still going through it. I know they are, but we 320 00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:27,320 Speaker 5: all had to learn who we were almost ten years 321 00:18:27,359 --> 00:18:31,360 Speaker 5: ago and meet each other for the first time. 322 00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:33,480 Speaker 1: Go back to those inner children. 323 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:36,440 Speaker 5: Without knowing who the hell we were. 324 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:43,399 Speaker 3: Have a question for you about fame, because I've read 325 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:48,720 Speaker 3: that you sort of have a conflicting relationship with it. Obviously, 326 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:52,160 Speaker 3: you love performing, that's you. That's so easy to tell 327 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:54,679 Speaker 3: in just speaking with you do. I love it, and 328 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:57,880 Speaker 3: it's electrifying when you're someone with your talent, it's electrifying 329 00:18:57,880 --> 00:18:58,600 Speaker 3: to be on stage. 330 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:02,560 Speaker 7: You're so lovely. Say that is so much. 331 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:04,840 Speaker 5: That's the thing that makes me cry to hear that. 332 00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:06,680 Speaker 7: I'm very grateful. 333 00:19:06,880 --> 00:19:09,480 Speaker 5: Thank you. That's very You're very glind to say that. 334 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:11,720 Speaker 4: That's kind of you to say, but I mean it. 335 00:19:12,320 --> 00:19:14,960 Speaker 3: If your mother wanted you to stop and you don't 336 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:17,680 Speaker 3: like fame, what makes you keep going. 337 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:25,199 Speaker 5: That's a very good question, because humans are fascinating. The 338 00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:29,080 Speaker 5: capability that we have to change. 339 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:33,440 Speaker 6: The world with our energies. If we can all align, 340 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:38,760 Speaker 6: that's magic. That is magic, and when you feel those energies, 341 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:40,800 Speaker 6: wherever you. 342 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:43,520 Speaker 5: Are in the world, you can sense it. 343 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:45,159 Speaker 6: I've always been that person. 344 00:19:45,359 --> 00:19:47,760 Speaker 5: I've always been someone who. 345 00:19:47,520 --> 00:19:53,480 Speaker 6: Believes and has hope when all hope is gone because 346 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:56,919 Speaker 6: I've had to and I'm grateful for that, because I 347 00:19:57,040 --> 00:19:58,680 Speaker 6: never ever want to lose hope. 348 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:00,760 Speaker 5: Peb I never want to lose. 349 00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:03,720 Speaker 3: So we have to take a quick break, but we'll 350 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:06,040 Speaker 3: be right back with more from Kala Settle. 351 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:17,119 Speaker 2: Stay with us, and we're back. Kayola, You're someone who 352 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:20,359 Speaker 2: gives me so much hope whenever I see you perform, 353 00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:22,040 Speaker 2: and I know I'm not the only one who feels 354 00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:24,480 Speaker 2: that way. I mean, seriously, watching you in The Greatest 355 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:27,960 Speaker 2: Showman as Letty singing this is Me gave me goosebumps 356 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:28,640 Speaker 2: and it still does. 357 00:20:29,359 --> 00:20:30,600 Speaker 1: But I read that for you. 358 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:34,600 Speaker 2: You actually struggled in that spotlight with Wicked coming out 359 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:37,440 Speaker 2: in time for Thanksgiving? Have you thought about how you're 360 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:40,840 Speaker 2: going to handle the reception to this project and. 361 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:44,960 Speaker 1: How you made me tell no Look, here's the deal. 362 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:47,280 Speaker 7: I love doing what I do. 363 00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:50,479 Speaker 5: I absolutely love it. I love it so much that 364 00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:54,480 Speaker 5: if I can't do it on a live stage, on 365 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:55,680 Speaker 5: an acting. 366 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:58,560 Speaker 6: Platform, if I can't do it on a television show, 367 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:01,199 Speaker 6: if I haven't got the opportunity to do it on 368 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:04,080 Speaker 6: a film, I will find another way to do it. 369 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:10,159 Speaker 6: And I'm about to, ironically enough, I'm about to start 370 00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:12,680 Speaker 6: going on the music end of it. A couple of 371 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:16,760 Speaker 6: years ago, I did my first ever and I was 372 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:20,000 Speaker 6: going to say last, but that's not happening. My first 373 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:23,919 Speaker 6: ever concert that was just about my life and why 374 00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:28,639 Speaker 6: I was here and how I got here, and a 375 00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:33,399 Speaker 6: lot of it was me understanding where this is me 376 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:39,080 Speaker 6: lies in my life because it was just a song 377 00:21:39,119 --> 00:21:44,520 Speaker 6: I sang, and then all of a sudden it became like, oh, 378 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:46,120 Speaker 6: she's this, She's a. 379 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:47,440 Speaker 7: Victim for the world. 380 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:51,720 Speaker 1: That's a lot. That's a lot. Kerry. Yeah, you're the. 381 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:56,960 Speaker 6: First person in an interview that ever said that to me, 382 00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:02,680 Speaker 6: and I cannot say you I am you say that 383 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:06,200 Speaker 6: it is a lot because I I lost my mother 384 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:09,480 Speaker 6: and then all of a sudden it turned into this 385 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:14,080 Speaker 6: thing over and up literally overnight, and I was being 386 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:16,760 Speaker 6: put in the face of this and the face of that, 387 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:20,280 Speaker 6: people were expecting me to understand what it all was. 388 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:26,120 Speaker 6: And on top of it, I was allowing it all 389 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:30,159 Speaker 6: to happen because you know, for the greater good of 390 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:32,520 Speaker 6: the film, for everyone that was there, because they are 391 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:38,640 Speaker 6: all lovely. And when I did that, I absolutely suffocated 392 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:42,000 Speaker 6: any chance of me being who I was because it 393 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:46,359 Speaker 6: getting squashed because they just wanted to see the victim 394 00:22:46,359 --> 00:22:51,320 Speaker 6: of the world, which I had never been. But all 395 00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:55,879 Speaker 6: of that to say, I only started taking accountability for 396 00:22:56,040 --> 00:23:02,400 Speaker 6: my own involvement in me losing who I was like 397 00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:05,400 Speaker 6: three or four months ago, because I understood. 398 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:10,120 Speaker 3: It in hearing you sort of pushing the fame away, 399 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:13,800 Speaker 3: which makes total sense. I think of UK mass singer 400 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:16,840 Speaker 3: and now that makes total sense to me because you 401 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:20,639 Speaker 3: get to perform without anybody realizing that it's you. 402 00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:24,879 Speaker 4: This is like the perfect job for you. 403 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:32,040 Speaker 6: Ah. I absolutely loved it, and I are we allowed. 404 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:32,240 Speaker 7: To custle this? 405 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:33,000 Speaker 4: For sure? 406 00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:33,720 Speaker 1: Go for it? 407 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:34,320 Speaker 7: Oh great. 408 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:39,960 Speaker 6: I was shitting breaks wow box because I still thought 409 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:44,760 Speaker 6: that everyone could see me. So I was so afraid 410 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:48,080 Speaker 6: to sing some of these songs that I was hiding 411 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:51,960 Speaker 6: and tucking my face as far as I could thinking 412 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:53,600 Speaker 6: that I could just whisper. 413 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:55,520 Speaker 7: And no one could hear me. I have a bloody 414 00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:57,400 Speaker 7: by God, close you. 415 00:23:57,800 --> 00:23:59,600 Speaker 1: Well to catch everybody up. 416 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:02,680 Speaker 3: You were dressed up as an air fryer, that's correct, 417 00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:05,640 Speaker 3: which is hilarious when you're on that show. 418 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:07,800 Speaker 1: Do you get any say in the costume that they 419 00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:08,240 Speaker 1: put you in? 420 00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:10,240 Speaker 7: Yes, that was the. 421 00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:12,880 Speaker 6: First thing they showed me, and they couldn't even get 422 00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:15,800 Speaker 6: out the explanation for it. They had all of these 423 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:18,679 Speaker 6: sketches and the first thing they showed me was this 424 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:21,800 Speaker 6: blind out sketch of an air fryer, and I said, that's. 425 00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:24,400 Speaker 4: The one, And do you choose what song you sing? 426 00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:29,760 Speaker 6: I tried to some of them. I did, and then 427 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:35,160 Speaker 6: there were a couple that the network had asked me 428 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:39,480 Speaker 6: to do, which I did guy absolutely, because I also 429 00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:42,080 Speaker 6: knew that this was a learning experience for me. I 430 00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:46,479 Speaker 6: understand very plainly in my life when things come and 431 00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:48,760 Speaker 6: go in my life, every single thing is a lesson, 432 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:52,040 Speaker 6: whether it's a recurring lesson or a brand new lesson, 433 00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:55,120 Speaker 6: and I need to learn something from it. That very 434 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:58,960 Speaker 6: early on that I got on that, and to always 435 00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:01,920 Speaker 6: be when I'm learning now is to always be ready 436 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:05,160 Speaker 6: for it. And not in anxiety, but to just breathe 437 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:06,120 Speaker 6: and kind of go right. 438 00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:09,520 Speaker 7: You have no expectation at all. 439 00:25:10,119 --> 00:25:14,600 Speaker 6: You are here to just be as much love as 440 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:18,199 Speaker 6: you possibly can, because that's what you want, so be 441 00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:21,040 Speaker 6: that for yourself. So I try and do that every 442 00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:23,960 Speaker 6: second of every day. And sometimes I'm acceptable and sometimes 443 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:26,240 Speaker 6: I'm not. But that's the beauty of being a human. 444 00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:28,720 Speaker 6: You can always go back and try and keep doing 445 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:29,119 Speaker 6: it again. 446 00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:31,960 Speaker 3: So when you decide to take on these roles in 447 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:35,600 Speaker 3: New Zealand, in Sydney, in la it requires a ton 448 00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:37,960 Speaker 3: of travel. It's similar to the life of a comedian. 449 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:40,520 Speaker 3: Do you care about making your space a home in 450 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:43,640 Speaker 3: London or is it just a space that you pass through? 451 00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:44,639 Speaker 6: Now? 452 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:45,720 Speaker 5: Of course I do. 453 00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:48,159 Speaker 8: I mean I've just got a penny I put in 454 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:53,320 Speaker 8: right before it. But to be fair, everything is been permanent. 455 00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:55,000 Speaker 8: That's one of the one things I wish we could 456 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:59,840 Speaker 8: all understand. Nothing is set in stone. Everything is temporary. Yeah, 457 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:03,199 Speaker 8: I'm not going to be here forever, but I do 458 00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:06,639 Speaker 8: know that while I'm here, I want a patio, So 459 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:07,439 Speaker 8: I'll go a patio. 460 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:10,200 Speaker 5: While I'm here. I'm going to make sure my dog 461 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:12,160 Speaker 5: hats fresh food that I can get mailed and. 462 00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:14,680 Speaker 7: Delivered every month that I could put in a freezer. 463 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:16,520 Speaker 7: That's what I get. 464 00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:19,560 Speaker 6: When the time comes for us to leave, to go 465 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:23,400 Speaker 6: back to the States, to go to Australia, wherever to go, 466 00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:28,359 Speaker 6: to Italy to go, the possibilities are endless. 467 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:28,680 Speaker 1: Kay Ala. 468 00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:32,280 Speaker 2: I will be in theaters on opening day for Wicked. 469 00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:35,960 Speaker 2: I will be cheering you on. And now that I've 470 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:37,560 Speaker 2: spoken to you, you can bet I'm going to tell 471 00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:39,760 Speaker 2: whoever my friend is that's with me, like I know her, 472 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:42,200 Speaker 2: we had her on our podcast. 473 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:42,560 Speaker 1: That's my friend. 474 00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:45,560 Speaker 2: But this is truly this is about to be a 475 00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:48,400 Speaker 2: really big year for you, a really big season for you. 476 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:52,840 Speaker 2: It's really really exciting. What are you saying yes to 477 00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:54,360 Speaker 2: in this season? 478 00:26:56,520 --> 00:27:02,680 Speaker 6: I'm saying yes always in this season learning saying yes 479 00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:06,320 Speaker 6: to me. I will always check in with me every morning, 480 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:09,679 Speaker 6: every night. It may be like that, or it may 481 00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:13,280 Speaker 6: be a meditation, or it may be a just lying 482 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:14,680 Speaker 6: in bed going how are you doing? 483 00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:18,120 Speaker 7: Thank you for being around. What I'm also saying. 484 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:23,600 Speaker 6: Yes to is every energy that is also willing to 485 00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:30,160 Speaker 6: say yes in the hopes that the next moment will 486 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:33,080 Speaker 6: be there for all of us, not just one group 487 00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:36,880 Speaker 6: of people, not just one person for all of us. 488 00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:39,760 Speaker 2: I also think that's very Polynesian of you, Like, that's 489 00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:43,520 Speaker 2: very much the Polynesian, that's the Polynesian spirit. 490 00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:44,240 Speaker 7: You're right. 491 00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:47,200 Speaker 6: If I remember going to New Zealand when we were kids, 492 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:49,600 Speaker 6: which was very rare. I think we went like twice, 493 00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:53,159 Speaker 6: and every time we'd come back to Ha you with 494 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:55,480 Speaker 6: an empty suitcase because. 495 00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:57,440 Speaker 5: We left it all there because I didn't have it. 496 00:27:57,600 --> 00:27:58,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, they didn't have it. 497 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:02,480 Speaker 6: Our family lives, you know, everyone just knows all these 498 00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:04,000 Speaker 6: beautiful star places in. 499 00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:05,960 Speaker 7: All Middle Ast and all that. 500 00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:10,800 Speaker 6: But when you get out into the guts of New Zealand, 501 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:15,600 Speaker 6: girls like a body all, let me tell you, you don't 502 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:17,000 Speaker 6: want to go by yourself. 503 00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:18,760 Speaker 7: Don't do not by yourself. 504 00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:22,040 Speaker 2: I'm totally that tourist that went to the Shire and 505 00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:28,919 Speaker 2: just frolicked and did did did the American. 506 00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:30,760 Speaker 7: Thank you for your money, Thank you for your mon. 507 00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:33,600 Speaker 2: It is my pleasure. I will happily spend on a 508 00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:36,359 Speaker 2: Shire experience. But truly New Zealand, I think about it 509 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:38,400 Speaker 2: all the freaking time. Lives rent Free in my head 510 00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:40,960 Speaker 2: is like the most dentic, perfect place to live on 511 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:43,200 Speaker 2: this planet. And I know it's not like that in reality. 512 00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:45,840 Speaker 2: But I also just I have so much respect though 513 00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:49,360 Speaker 2: for how the New Zealand people live, how the Kiwis live, 514 00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:52,480 Speaker 2: and also how much reverence, at least from the outside 515 00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:55,440 Speaker 2: it seems there is for motory culture that we do 516 00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:57,800 Speaker 2: not have here in the States. We do not acknowledge 517 00:28:57,880 --> 00:28:59,840 Speaker 2: or honor our indigenous people in the same way that 518 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:00,760 Speaker 2: Zealanders do. 519 00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:03,560 Speaker 6: It's also a thing that in order to do that, 520 00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:06,080 Speaker 6: you've got to dig deep. I mean, I was afraid 521 00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:10,760 Speaker 6: to do that because it was so intense that it 522 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:14,280 Speaker 6: scared the living daylights out of me. Until I went 523 00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:18,640 Speaker 6: home this last time and dealt with almost everything that 524 00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:21,720 Speaker 6: I needed to deal with, and seeing my aunties and 525 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:25,160 Speaker 6: uncles and hearing them talk about how hard my mother 526 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:28,360 Speaker 6: was and how difficult she was and how they loved her. 527 00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:32,200 Speaker 6: It was the reality of all that, and also just 528 00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:35,960 Speaker 6: accepting that the reason why I am who I am 529 00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:39,480 Speaker 6: is because of this, also because of my father and 530 00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:42,760 Speaker 6: the working class he came from from up north in Manchester. 531 00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:46,280 Speaker 6: All of those bits and pieces and the hope that 532 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:48,720 Speaker 6: exists in me comes. 533 00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:50,400 Speaker 7: From the United States of America. 534 00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:53,720 Speaker 6: It's that thing that you can go I can make 535 00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:56,480 Speaker 6: a dream happen. If I can dream it, I can 536 00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:56,960 Speaker 6: do it. 537 00:29:57,680 --> 00:29:58,720 Speaker 7: All of those things like. 538 00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:02,280 Speaker 6: That, who I am for the fast time in old 539 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:04,040 Speaker 6: man's fifty years. 540 00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:07,480 Speaker 5: I couldn't be more in. 541 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:08,480 Speaker 7: Love with myself. 542 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:14,280 Speaker 2: It's really freeing once you realize you don't have to choose. Yeah, yeah, 543 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:18,840 Speaker 2: that you can embrace all of it. Yes, Cala, thank 544 00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:20,600 Speaker 2: you so much for coming on the bright side. 545 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:22,960 Speaker 7: You guys are so lovely. Thank you for having me. 546 00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:24,720 Speaker 4: Thank you for your time. 547 00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:30,040 Speaker 3: Kayala Settle is a Tony nominated Broadway actress and singer. 548 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:34,080 Speaker 3: She'll appear in the upcoming movie adaptation of Wicked, coming 549 00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:35,560 Speaker 3: to theaters this fall. 550 00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:41,520 Speaker 4: That's it for today's show. 551 00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:46,320 Speaker 3: Tomorrow, cookbook author and celebrity private chef Gobby Dalkin is 552 00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:50,000 Speaker 3: here to talk about her fertility journey, grilling, and even 553 00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:51,120 Speaker 3: slutty brownies. 554 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:53,400 Speaker 4: Yes I just said slutty brownies. 555 00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:56,400 Speaker 1: You don't want to miss this thanks to our partners 556 00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:57,040 Speaker 1: at Airbnb. 557 00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:01,120 Speaker 3: Listen and follow the bright Side on on the iHeartRadio app, 558 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:03,880 Speaker 3: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 559 00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:05,000 Speaker 1: I'm Simone Voice. 560 00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:08,480 Speaker 2: You can find me at simone Voice, on Instagram and TikTok. 561 00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:12,400 Speaker 3: I'm Danielle Robe on Instagram and TikTok that's r o 562 00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:12,920 Speaker 3: b A. 563 00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:16,880 Speaker 1: Y see you tomorrow, folks. 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