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While 10 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:41,720 Speaker 1: You Are Out has the best designers and carpenters from 11 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:45,559 Speaker 1: TLC and h G t V. They are joining forces. 12 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:48,200 Speaker 1: One spouse is sent away for a fun weekend while 13 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:50,840 Speaker 1: the other spouse secretly works with a team of designers 14 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:54,880 Speaker 1: to transform a room, two teams, two houses, two days 15 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:57,840 Speaker 1: and ten thousand dollars each. The pressure is on. The 16 00:00:57,880 --> 00:00:59,800 Speaker 1: host is one of my favorite people. She really is. 17 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:03,560 Speaker 1: She has reinvented herself from the former BT teen summitch 18 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:06,920 Speaker 1: star and television host to a do it yourself expert. 19 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:09,840 Speaker 1: Please welcome to money making conversation. One of my favorite 20 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:16,720 Speaker 1: people are Nanda Lewis. I'm trapping for myself and for you, well, listen, 21 00:01:17,319 --> 00:01:19,199 Speaker 1: thank you for having me. And can I just say 22 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 1: I'm so proud of you for how you've reinvented yourself. 23 00:01:22,319 --> 00:01:25,080 Speaker 1: It's such an inspiration and I'm really excited for you 24 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:27,040 Speaker 1: for this show. And I just want to say congratulations 25 00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:29,280 Speaker 1: and thank you for having the conversations we need to 26 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:31,959 Speaker 1: be having. Well, I appreciate the compliment because of the 27 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:34,040 Speaker 1: fact that I'm in a good place in my life, 28 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:36,320 Speaker 1: because of the fact that I'm I'm doing something that 29 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:38,800 Speaker 1: I want to have seen happened. There's something I actually 30 00:01:38,959 --> 00:01:41,639 Speaker 1: I always tell people when when you reach a certain age, 31 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:44,200 Speaker 1: whether your third is your fort is, and you can 32 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:45,720 Speaker 1: and you don't want to know what to do with 33 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:47,400 Speaker 1: your life just looking back, look back when you were 34 00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:49,880 Speaker 1: in your early twenties, look back in those years, because 35 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:52,720 Speaker 1: those are years with designed or driven by passion, with 36 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:55,320 Speaker 1: driven by emotion and actually driven by what you really 37 00:01:55,320 --> 00:01:58,280 Speaker 1: wanted to do. But what happens is what happens as 38 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:00,720 Speaker 1: you get older, different things started shape in your direction. 39 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 1: It could be a relationship, it could be education, it 40 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:05,840 Speaker 1: could be a job, it could be a child, it 41 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:09,320 Speaker 1: could be a children, and that will get you off course. 42 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:11,520 Speaker 1: And so you reach a point in life you goo, 43 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:14,480 Speaker 1: what do I want to do? Just go back? Don't 44 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:20,040 Speaker 1: look at that curb? What hapen? So so you let 45 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:22,839 Speaker 1: let's let's talk about you first. You know, first of all, 46 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:28,720 Speaker 1: um uh teen, BT was the face of Black America TV, 47 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 1: and you basically were the face of a younger generation, 48 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:37,440 Speaker 1: a generation of you gave a voice, a millennial voice, 49 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:42,240 Speaker 1: and use pre social media too. You know you are social. 50 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:44,400 Speaker 1: You know you might might not be talking to me 51 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:46,360 Speaker 1: if you have social media, because you might have a 52 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:57,680 Speaker 1: fifteen million followers. Because style viewers, television viewers and website 53 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:01,600 Speaker 1: yes no, not even really even have websites. Early on, 54 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:04,680 Speaker 1: I mean that that evolved. Yeah, television viewers were wherever 55 00:03:04,680 --> 00:03:06,640 Speaker 1: that phone calls like a good old fashioned phone call 56 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:08,360 Speaker 1: like we're doing now. I was like a phone call. 57 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:10,799 Speaker 1: I would love to be a phone call. I mean, 58 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:13,359 Speaker 1: it's not a text, it's not app you know, it's 59 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:16,480 Speaker 1: really nice. When you was getting that early success on 60 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:19,959 Speaker 1: BT that led you to your own talk show, What 61 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:23,080 Speaker 1: what what? What was driving you? Would producers driving you? 62 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:26,480 Speaker 1: Or did you have your own point of view? So 63 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:30,079 Speaker 1: it's funny you say, uh, you were talking before I 64 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:31,799 Speaker 1: actually came on. But I was listening to you said 65 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 1: you couldn't figure it out. You didn't have a group 66 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:36,160 Speaker 1: of people around you. You protected you. So when you 67 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:38,120 Speaker 1: were making all this money and you were kind of 68 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:39,760 Speaker 1: in the middle of everything, when you when you look back, 69 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:42,240 Speaker 1: you probably say, I could have made anything happen had 70 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:44,720 Speaker 1: I had these resources. I looked back at that time 71 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:47,040 Speaker 1: where I first went to BT and kind of that 72 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:51,280 Speaker 1: whole I could say five to seven year window around BT. 73 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:54,000 Speaker 1: I look at that in the same way I went 74 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:56,280 Speaker 1: into an industry that I didn't expect to be in 75 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:58,680 Speaker 1: and didn't really know a whole lot about and what 76 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:00,840 Speaker 1: I did. I always like to get what I did wrong, 77 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:03,280 Speaker 1: because it's not to sit and blame or guilt. That's 78 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:06,040 Speaker 1: not But what it is to do is to to 79 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:09,480 Speaker 1: have a helpful look back at what you didn't do right, 80 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:11,840 Speaker 1: so you know what to do right now, because now 81 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 1: the only time we can affect. So I look back 82 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:16,920 Speaker 1: and I go, had I known what I know now, 83 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:19,080 Speaker 1: here's what I would have done differently. And what I 84 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:22,960 Speaker 1: would have done differently was really understood my position and 85 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:27,160 Speaker 1: the business of me right. I didn't understand myself as 86 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:31,360 Speaker 1: a business. I didn't understand myself at UM as a brand, 87 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:35,479 Speaker 1: and I gained a lot of popularity from just being 88 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:37,880 Speaker 1: myself and kind of following the things that came up 89 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:40,320 Speaker 1: and listening to my intuition. Though they are all really 90 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:42,360 Speaker 1: important things to do, listen to your intuition. That's how 91 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:43,839 Speaker 1: I made it to a team someone I was doing 92 00:04:43,839 --> 00:04:47,159 Speaker 1: youth work, and those youths um led me to that 93 00:04:47,279 --> 00:04:49,279 Speaker 1: job because I told them about it and I was like, yeah, 94 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:50,920 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do that. You guys just TV. I'm 95 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:52,880 Speaker 1: not interested in TV. And they're like, what you just 96 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:55,400 Speaker 1: said here for a summer telling us how life brings 97 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:57,919 Speaker 1: you opportunities. You have to be aware, you have to 98 00:04:57,960 --> 00:04:59,600 Speaker 1: stay open, and now you're not going to be open. 99 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:01,479 Speaker 1: I was like, oh, yeah, that's a bit hypocritical, so 100 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:03,400 Speaker 1: let me go ahead and tie. And you know, it 101 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:07,200 Speaker 1: was a beautiful entry into something that was completely unexpected 102 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:10,279 Speaker 1: for my life, and yet it also did things to 103 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:12,880 Speaker 1: my life that were unexpected, and because I wasn't prepared 104 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:14,479 Speaker 1: for them and didn't have the people around me that 105 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:17,320 Speaker 1: could help me prepare for them, they ran me over 106 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:20,400 Speaker 1: like it was too much. I felt like almost blew 107 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:24,160 Speaker 1: a gasket of my soul, you know, in in those 108 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:26,080 Speaker 1: seventy five or seven years now, it was also a 109 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:28,919 Speaker 1: really exciting time in my life, my early twenties. My 110 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:31,920 Speaker 1: you know, I'm making money, I'm young, I'm cute like 111 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:36,120 Speaker 1: a lot of superstar. But I couldn't take advantage of 112 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:38,560 Speaker 1: it in the way that looking back, I realized I 113 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:41,400 Speaker 1: could have had I've been paying attention, no harm, no foul, 114 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:44,080 Speaker 1: I still got all that stuff going for me. And 115 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:46,960 Speaker 1: and I want to say that this is not a 116 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:50,000 Speaker 1: negative comment. This is about why I created this show 117 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:52,559 Speaker 1: because people need to understand it. You can get called 118 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:56,760 Speaker 1: in a whirlwind, and and for you an athlete, you 119 00:05:56,800 --> 00:05:58,760 Speaker 1: could be an athlete. A lot of times it happen. 120 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:00,839 Speaker 1: We see it happened to them all time, right, and 121 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:02,800 Speaker 1: so but a lot of times when you're when you're 122 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:05,960 Speaker 1: a talent, because you have to know the place she 123 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:07,839 Speaker 1: was at because of the fact that the b et 124 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:11,520 Speaker 1: was to network it work, you know what I'm saying. 125 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:14,120 Speaker 1: And you know, if you wanted to be a star, 126 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:16,560 Speaker 1: you want to be a videos played you turned to 127 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:20,600 Speaker 1: be et and and then here you were this beautiful, 128 00:06:20,839 --> 00:06:25,840 Speaker 1: articular young lady. You're going like wow, you know from 129 00:06:25,839 --> 00:06:29,119 Speaker 1: my standpoint, I'm going, why ain't I managing her? Because 130 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:33,400 Speaker 1: of the fact that the two I probably I probably 131 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:36,160 Speaker 1: could have done change the world right back then if 132 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:39,719 Speaker 1: I had managing But you know, but is that thank you, 133 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:41,400 Speaker 1: the thing that you did, the thing that I was 134 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:44,120 Speaker 1: just looking at you? But I always know that that 135 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 1: That's why I was asking that question. At some point 136 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:48,960 Speaker 1: along the line, people don't even know you, and they 137 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:51,640 Speaker 1: start making decisions for you, and they start telling you 138 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:54,800 Speaker 1: this is what you should do, and and Steve tell 139 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:56,839 Speaker 1: you whenever I asked any talent that I worked with, 140 00:06:56,920 --> 00:06:59,920 Speaker 1: it is Kevin hard h to Roger p Henson or 141 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:02,920 Speaker 1: the Maori Twins, always asking what they want to do. 142 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:06,760 Speaker 1: That's what you want, I said, said, it's because I 143 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:10,119 Speaker 1: gotta make it work for you long term, because short 144 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:12,440 Speaker 1: term I can, I can, I can duct tape you 145 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:14,560 Speaker 1: into situation. But one day you're gonna wake up and 146 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:17,800 Speaker 1: go on bored or why am I doing this? This 147 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:21,480 Speaker 1: is crazy? And are you start rebelling from the foremat 148 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:24,520 Speaker 1: and so so I was watching you backtly what happened 149 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:27,640 Speaker 1: to me Rashan exactly? I started rebelling from the from 150 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:30,920 Speaker 1: the same and rebelling from the unhappiness that created in 151 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:32,960 Speaker 1: my life. I felt scared a lot of the time. 152 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:36,200 Speaker 1: I had a lot of stalkers. I had people over 153 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:38,360 Speaker 1: me all the time, and I didn't know who to trust. 154 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:41,640 Speaker 1: And I asked my you know, certain family members to 155 00:07:41,640 --> 00:07:43,560 Speaker 1: come manage me, help me out, let me figure this out, 156 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 1: and they were all, you know, they're doing their own lives. 157 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:47,520 Speaker 1: That's not what they wanted to do. And I you 158 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:49,120 Speaker 1: can't force people to do what they want to do. 159 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:51,960 Speaker 1: So I felt, you know completely, I mean to a 160 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:54,840 Speaker 1: certain extent, isolated and alone. I mean, I'm from California, 161 00:07:54,840 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 1: I was living in d C. I've gone to school there, 162 00:07:56,680 --> 00:07:58,520 Speaker 1: so of course I knew people. But it's different when 163 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:02,080 Speaker 1: you have like your family around you, um and people 164 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:04,360 Speaker 1: who know what they're doing in a particular industry. So 165 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:07,080 Speaker 1: exactly what you said is what happened to me. And 166 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:09,840 Speaker 1: I I was supporting people in my family that I 167 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:11,760 Speaker 1: cared about, wanted to see you well. But I wasn't 168 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:14,240 Speaker 1: investing money right and I was, you know, I never 169 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:15,960 Speaker 1: spent a lot of money. I made a good amount 170 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:18,080 Speaker 1: of money and I and I used my money wisely 171 00:08:18,120 --> 00:08:19,800 Speaker 1: in ways that I felt were good. But I didn't 172 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:22,720 Speaker 1: have that advice that I needed, and I didn't know 173 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:25,040 Speaker 1: what I wanted. So when you say you the first 174 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:27,520 Speaker 1: thing you asked them is what do you want? I 175 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:29,920 Speaker 1: don't even know what I would have how I would 176 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:32,559 Speaker 1: have answered that question my my twenty five or twenty 177 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:34,080 Speaker 1: six year old self. I don't know how I would 178 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:36,199 Speaker 1: have answered that question. It certainly would be a different 179 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:38,640 Speaker 1: answer than it is today. And today I know it's 180 00:08:38,679 --> 00:08:41,960 Speaker 1: the truth. And so I needed the maturity that life brings. 181 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:43,880 Speaker 1: I needed to go through the things I went through. 182 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:46,520 Speaker 1: Sometimes you're not ready for the opportunities that come your 183 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:48,719 Speaker 1: way to really maximize them the way you could. I 184 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:50,920 Speaker 1: had a great time, I did beautiful work. I'm proud 185 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:53,199 Speaker 1: of my career, but I was never happy with it. 186 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:58,079 Speaker 1: And and now I finally get to understand those kind 187 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:00,960 Speaker 1: of full context of that be thing I built back 188 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:03,600 Speaker 1: then that you know, I'm so grateful that people still 189 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:06,440 Speaker 1: love and support me. They're like, where are you? Definitely 190 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:08,920 Speaker 1: definitely you know what I mean. That's a gift. And 191 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:11,720 Speaker 1: I built that with my hard work, not even knowing 192 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:13,960 Speaker 1: what I was building. Um, But now I know what 193 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:16,880 Speaker 1: I want to do, and it's a completely different feeling. 194 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:19,480 Speaker 1: I feel joyful when I go to work now, you know, 195 00:09:19,559 --> 00:09:23,120 Speaker 1: I feel happy about like even doing promotion for the one. 196 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:26,240 Speaker 1: And that's that's funny because a lot of people don't 197 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:29,319 Speaker 1: understand that money doesn't it truly does not make you happy. 198 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:32,760 Speaker 1: And it can get your things. You can get your things, 199 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:34,880 Speaker 1: and can get you places and get you indoors and 200 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:42,079 Speaker 1: get you in college. You don't playing. But the thing 201 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:44,280 Speaker 1: that that the thing that I like about where you 202 00:09:44,360 --> 00:09:47,280 Speaker 1: at now. And I've read your great your bio and 203 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:50,000 Speaker 1: that was all I talked about earlier, about going back 204 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:52,480 Speaker 1: in your past and you can find out exactly and 205 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:56,400 Speaker 1: it talks about who influenced you in this direction, about 206 00:09:56,720 --> 00:10:00,280 Speaker 1: being a taking care of yourself, fixing things yourself, talk 207 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:06,960 Speaker 1: about that relationship. So my grandma was this strong, just 208 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:11,200 Speaker 1: renaissance woman from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Originally she moved out to 209 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:13,600 Speaker 1: San Diego with my grandfather at the time they eloped 210 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:16,680 Speaker 1: and she built her life there, had two daughters, and 211 00:10:16,679 --> 00:10:19,920 Speaker 1: and uh, you know, when my mom had my sister nine, 212 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:23,240 Speaker 1: then my her marriage with my dad fell apart. She 213 00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:26,040 Speaker 1: tried to go different places and you know, like all 214 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:27,880 Speaker 1: single moms do, you try to make it work. She 215 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:30,920 Speaker 1: was so fortunate to be able to go back home 216 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:33,080 Speaker 1: and to go to my grandma's house, and she was 217 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:35,600 Speaker 1: so blessed we all were to have my grandma there 218 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:37,640 Speaker 1: with open arms saying, yeah, you can come, of course 219 00:10:37,679 --> 00:10:39,640 Speaker 1: you can come here. Of course you know, be here. 220 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:42,679 Speaker 1: And so my grandma really took us in and and 221 00:10:42,679 --> 00:10:45,839 Speaker 1: and and raised my sister and I and through that 222 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:47,880 Speaker 1: process of her raising me with the kind of woman 223 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:50,480 Speaker 1: she was. When things broke in her house, she picked 224 00:10:50,520 --> 00:10:52,960 Speaker 1: up a tool and fixed it. She didn't call somebody, 225 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:55,120 Speaker 1: She didn't wait unless it was some really major repair. 226 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:57,320 Speaker 1: But she grew up, you know, growing her own food 227 00:10:57,400 --> 00:11:00,439 Speaker 1: and having animals and doing her own fixing floors in 228 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:03,240 Speaker 1: the house. And she was little. Are our ancestors are 229 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:05,040 Speaker 1: even not even that many generations back, And then we're 230 00:11:05,040 --> 00:11:07,480 Speaker 1: talking to my grandma. So my grandmother and her parents, 231 00:11:07,679 --> 00:11:11,560 Speaker 1: they were in black law streets and tuls Oklahoma, making 232 00:11:11,640 --> 00:11:15,080 Speaker 1: their lives happen. She remembers hiding under the floor planks 233 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:18,280 Speaker 1: during the Tulsa race riots, um that a white friend 234 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:20,439 Speaker 1: of bears came and rescued them from the house and 235 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:22,719 Speaker 1: hid them under the floorboards in his house and that's 236 00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:24,640 Speaker 1: how she survived it as a five six year old. 237 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:29,120 Speaker 1: So my grandmother's history and her toughness was always real 238 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:31,320 Speaker 1: in my house. And she wasn't you know, if I 239 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:33,520 Speaker 1: broke something, she was like, you're gonna fix that. We're 240 00:11:33,559 --> 00:11:35,160 Speaker 1: not gonna go buy another one of those. We're not 241 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:37,160 Speaker 1: wasting money on on that. We're not gonna pay somebody 242 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:38,760 Speaker 1: to come fix it. You need to figure out how 243 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:40,240 Speaker 1: to fix it. Let me show you how. And so 244 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:43,280 Speaker 1: from an early age, she was putting a drill in 245 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:45,079 Speaker 1: my hand. You know, I'd break the table legs to 246 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:46,800 Speaker 1: make me go get a screw and screw it. Back 247 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:49,240 Speaker 1: in I was learning how things worked, and I was 248 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:51,560 Speaker 1: learning how to be self sufficient, and kind of with 249 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:53,280 Speaker 1: all lessons you learned as a child, you don't even 250 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:56,480 Speaker 1: know the lessons you're getting into a year and adult 251 00:11:56,720 --> 00:11:59,840 Speaker 1: my own. Yeah, we're here with my good friend Anandalures. 252 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:02,280 Speaker 1: You can catch her new show on h G TV 253 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:06,800 Speaker 1: and TLC every Saturday night, Wow, following the premiere of 254 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:09,240 Speaker 1: Trading Spaces. So they got you behind the hot slot. 255 00:12:09,320 --> 00:12:12,400 Speaker 1: We'll be right back with my friend annder Lewis, and 256 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:14,880 Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about the show breaking down and find 257 00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:17,640 Speaker 1: out what she's drilling and what she's knocking down in 258 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:24,160 Speaker 1: this new season. Okay, richand MD just Rashan McDonald. I 259 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:27,000 Speaker 1: think in between break we were broken like two deals 260 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:30,280 Speaker 1: in between breaks a nunder line. She's the host of 261 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:33,040 Speaker 1: Nanda Lewis. It's the host of While You Were Out. 262 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:35,400 Speaker 1: The hit series is back and bigger than ever h 263 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:38,920 Speaker 1: G TV, TLC every Saturday night. She's back, and she 264 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:41,760 Speaker 1: was telling us about the whole journey of learning her 265 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:45,520 Speaker 1: skill set with with her grandmother, who was a kind 266 00:12:45,559 --> 00:12:48,360 Speaker 1: of a game changer. Came out of when when she 267 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:50,640 Speaker 1: said total okahome, all I can think was cowboard boots, 268 00:12:50,640 --> 00:12:53,199 Speaker 1: you know, and rough riders and things like that. But 269 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:56,160 Speaker 1: she's part of Black Wall Street. If anybody knows their 270 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:58,720 Speaker 1: history should go back and and read about that, because 271 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:02,800 Speaker 1: you know, hatred and racism destroyed that whole community and 272 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:07,199 Speaker 1: burn it down basically and destroyed. Uh race. I have 273 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:09,120 Speaker 1: to say a race. It's kind of like to used 274 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:11,439 Speaker 1: to war genocide in the way they wiped out a 275 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:13,720 Speaker 1: whole community and kind of like removed them from history 276 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:17,120 Speaker 1: based on the intellectual and financial move they were making 277 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:20,840 Speaker 1: in little Old Tousso, Oklahoma. Now my friend, you are 278 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:24,200 Speaker 1: doing a show and this is not your first do 279 00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:26,120 Speaker 1: it yourself show that you did because I saw a 280 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:29,040 Speaker 1: pilot go out. I think like last summer or last 281 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:33,280 Speaker 1: year of you doing did change my space on HDTV, 282 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:35,560 Speaker 1: and you know, I have a passion show that I 283 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:37,640 Speaker 1: can't talk about yet, but I was trying to get 284 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:41,439 Speaker 1: that passion show done and um, it was the compromise. 285 00:13:41,559 --> 00:13:43,520 Speaker 1: It was because you know, my passion show is is 286 00:13:43,679 --> 00:13:46,520 Speaker 1: very is very specific, and they were like, ah, that's 287 00:13:46,520 --> 00:13:48,240 Speaker 1: probably not for us, so but they wanted to do 288 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:50,280 Speaker 1: something with me. They loved what I was trying to do, 289 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:53,920 Speaker 1: and so we tried it. You know, pilots don't make it. 290 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:57,440 Speaker 1: But it was a great introduction back into this world 291 00:13:57,520 --> 00:14:00,520 Speaker 1: for me, and in in terms of the first introduction 292 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:02,640 Speaker 1: to the world of construction, which I've been doing but 293 00:14:02,679 --> 00:14:05,400 Speaker 1: people didn't know. So I think, you know that I'm 294 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:09,719 Speaker 1: sure led to this. And when HDTV and TLC kind 295 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:13,320 Speaker 1: of joined joined forces and were bought by Scripts and 296 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:16,200 Speaker 1: became kind of sister channels, Uh, they were like, hey, 297 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:18,400 Speaker 1: can we use your talent and they were like yeah, 298 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:20,560 Speaker 1: And so CLC caught me about this show and it 299 00:14:20,640 --> 00:14:22,720 Speaker 1: made so much sense. To me, I used to love 300 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:24,640 Speaker 1: while you were out. In fact, I watched it with 301 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:26,960 Speaker 1: my grandma when I when I left the talk show, 302 00:14:27,160 --> 00:14:28,840 Speaker 1: I went home to San Diego to take care of 303 00:14:28,880 --> 00:14:30,400 Speaker 1: my grandmother the last two years of her life. Now 304 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:31,840 Speaker 1: we didn't know it would be the last two years 305 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:34,080 Speaker 1: of the life, but it ended up being that, and 306 00:14:34,120 --> 00:14:36,400 Speaker 1: it was the best two years ever. I got to 307 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:38,960 Speaker 1: kind of repay her for everything she poured into me 308 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:40,640 Speaker 1: as a child. I got to give it back, you 309 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:42,600 Speaker 1: know what I mean. We did a renovation on my 310 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:44,840 Speaker 1: mom's kitchen when she was eighty five years old. My 311 00:14:44,840 --> 00:14:47,320 Speaker 1: grandma was eighty five years old, lying on her back. 312 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:49,640 Speaker 1: She couldn't walk, and so but she said, I can 313 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:51,920 Speaker 1: get on the ground. He lied on her back, he 314 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:54,040 Speaker 1: lifted up the sync with her feet so I could 315 00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:57,920 Speaker 1: calk around the base. And I mean, like it was unbelievable. 316 00:14:57,960 --> 00:14:59,720 Speaker 1: I got some of that on tape to like, I know, 317 00:14:59,880 --> 00:15:01,680 Speaker 1: I have footage of that because I filmed her doing it. 318 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:04,840 Speaker 1: But anyway, um so, my love of it came from her. 319 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:08,000 Speaker 1: And this show is such a great combination of what 320 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:10,440 Speaker 1: I'm good at, which is hosting, and what I love, 321 00:15:10,520 --> 00:15:13,120 Speaker 1: which is carpentry and building, and so I'm just so 322 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:15,600 Speaker 1: grateful to be doing it. We have all star design 323 00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:18,720 Speaker 1: teams from TLC and HDTV, and like you mentioned, the 324 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:21,000 Speaker 1: show is coming back, but this time they've up the 325 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:23,600 Speaker 1: budget to ten thousand dollars from two thousands. You could 326 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:26,320 Speaker 1: do so you can do you would do a lot with. 327 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:30,360 Speaker 1: Now you can make a room look very different. Man. Yeah, 328 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:33,400 Speaker 1: for one role, we're flipping it like these rooms are 329 00:15:33,440 --> 00:15:36,480 Speaker 1: going to be awesome. And and I mean, you know, 330 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:41,080 Speaker 1: the forty eight hours is a real significant absolutely absolutely, 331 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:46,800 Speaker 1: it's not the show. Do you show the experience that 332 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:49,000 Speaker 1: the person the spouses away for the weekend? Do you 333 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:50,920 Speaker 1: show a little bit of their experience or is just 334 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:55,960 Speaker 1: we we showed so they think they're being a part 335 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:58,000 Speaker 1: of some like in some cases they think they're being 336 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:00,480 Speaker 1: a part of a documentary or they think they're, you know, 337 00:16:00,560 --> 00:16:03,600 Speaker 1: doing some advertisement for the place where they are. But yeah, 338 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:05,560 Speaker 1: we're following them the whole time. We have a secret 339 00:16:05,560 --> 00:16:08,280 Speaker 1: shooter away with them, and we're getting all the blow 340 00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:10,480 Speaker 1: by blows. Now you know what happens. I know you're married, 341 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:12,560 Speaker 1: so you know if you disappeared for a weekend, your 342 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:14,960 Speaker 1: wife is not going to be where are you at 343 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:18,240 Speaker 1: Why are you gone? What are you doing? Baine being 344 00:16:18,280 --> 00:16:20,040 Speaker 1: sent away for a weekend and you can't reach your 345 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:24,320 Speaker 1: spouse happened, and that's part of the drama too. It's like, um, 346 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:28,960 Speaker 1: that's that's cool. I like that. I like because when 347 00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:32,480 Speaker 1: that person comes back, it's a little extra, a little extra, 348 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:38,520 Speaker 1: a little extra. We'll say nothing the grit and their teeth. Okay, yeah, 349 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:43,760 Speaker 1: oh this is why you weren't answering my face time. Okay, okay, 350 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:45,600 Speaker 1: I mean I like my room at all, but don't 351 00:16:45,640 --> 00:16:49,240 Speaker 1: you ever ignore my car? Absolutely? Absolutely so. So now 352 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:52,560 Speaker 1: just do you get together all these all stars? How 353 00:16:52,560 --> 00:16:54,120 Speaker 1: do you play a roller? Do you ever pick up 354 00:16:54,120 --> 00:16:55,720 Speaker 1: a hammer? Do you ever knocked on the wall? Do 355 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:59,880 Speaker 1: you ever put that? Talk about that? Yeah? Well so 356 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:01,440 Speaker 1: we we have. Let me just tell you who the 357 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:05,680 Speaker 1: designers are sold Trading Spaces. Um, we took all their designers. 358 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:08,600 Speaker 1: We have Kahi and Doug killd and Ti Frank and Vernon, 359 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:10,800 Speaker 1: Sabrina and Carter and those are you know, the Trading 360 00:17:10,800 --> 00:17:15,080 Speaker 1: Spaces veterans. And then we have the ht HDTV stars 361 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:17,200 Speaker 1: Hillary and David from Love It or List That, Mina 362 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:19,560 Speaker 1: and Karen from Good Bones. We have Bristol in Our 363 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:22,600 Speaker 1: Aubrey from Flipper Flop Vegas and the Cole from Rehab 364 00:17:22,600 --> 00:17:25,400 Speaker 1: Addict and Robs and the Vanilla Ice projects. So all 365 00:17:25,480 --> 00:17:28,359 Speaker 1: these designers, you know, two are four on each show, 366 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:32,280 Speaker 1: two in each house, are together working trying to create 367 00:17:32,320 --> 00:17:35,240 Speaker 1: a design together, where most of them are just used 368 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:37,760 Speaker 1: to either doing their own thing or working on separate teams, 369 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:40,280 Speaker 1: like the designers from Trading Spaces. So that brings in 370 00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:43,000 Speaker 1: another dynamic because they're like, Nope, don't like it, We're 371 00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:44,680 Speaker 1: not doing that, and this one's like yet we are, 372 00:17:44,760 --> 00:17:46,359 Speaker 1: and they'll start doing something we I don't want to 373 00:17:46,359 --> 00:17:48,919 Speaker 1: tear it down. I mean, it gets it's nuts. So 374 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:51,480 Speaker 1: my job to answer your question is to be the 375 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:55,359 Speaker 1: traffic police, to kind of keep everybody on target for budget, 376 00:17:55,440 --> 00:17:58,080 Speaker 1: target for time because that clock is always ticking. And 377 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:00,520 Speaker 1: also to really I felt like a parent a lot 378 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:03,199 Speaker 1: of times, like I'm breaking up fight, but I did stop, 379 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:06,240 Speaker 1: stop arguing, let's make uh. And then to really connect 380 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:09,000 Speaker 1: with the homeowners and to understand why they want to 381 00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:12,600 Speaker 1: do this um wonderful renovation surprise for their spouse. And 382 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:16,520 Speaker 1: you know, most of those stories are tear jerkying, heartfelt 383 00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:18,520 Speaker 1: stories that you just feel good about. So we're a 384 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:20,879 Speaker 1: combination of a lot of great things, a surprise element 385 00:18:20,920 --> 00:18:23,760 Speaker 1: of the design surprise. We have a great designer to 386 00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:26,840 Speaker 1: inspire you with their creativity. We have families that you're 387 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:29,560 Speaker 1: learning um to love and you're learning the stories behind 388 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:31,560 Speaker 1: why they want to do what they're doing. And then 389 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:34,159 Speaker 1: I play the host that kind of manages all that. 390 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:36,399 Speaker 1: And yes, I also get to do a little bit 391 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:38,800 Speaker 1: of my carpentry. I get to show those skills. And 392 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:40,959 Speaker 1: my grandmother also taught me how to sew, and so 393 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:43,040 Speaker 1: I get to do some some sewing as well. So 394 00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:45,320 Speaker 1: I'm kind of bringing the Renaissance woman back in the 395 00:18:45,359 --> 00:18:49,879 Speaker 1: spirit of my grandma watching me, like do that girl 396 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:53,840 Speaker 1: obviously getting over your your grandmother hold enough to sink 397 00:18:53,880 --> 00:18:57,880 Speaker 1: with her feet, obviously. Yeah, I mean it's such a 398 00:18:58,000 --> 00:18:59,920 Speaker 1: vivid image in my mind, and it was years of 399 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:02,280 Speaker 1: over I'm like, look at you. I mean, she was 400 00:19:02,520 --> 00:19:04,200 Speaker 1: she had had open hearts, so you know, I mean, 401 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:06,879 Speaker 1: she she was just an amazing woman. She was amazing, 402 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:11,119 Speaker 1: and I come from that now, but I'm I'm like, 403 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:13,080 Speaker 1: there's nothing I can't do. Right. This is what I 404 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:15,199 Speaker 1: really like about your energy. First of all you saw 405 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:19,360 Speaker 1: very happy, very happy. You feel like you're doing. You're 406 00:19:19,359 --> 00:19:22,240 Speaker 1: around stars, and I always tell you stars need to 407 00:19:22,240 --> 00:19:26,119 Speaker 1: be around stars. And I love that fact because I 408 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:29,200 Speaker 1: thought they shoo me the trailers and I was watching you, 409 00:19:29,080 --> 00:19:31,200 Speaker 1: you know, just walking the energy that the hair was flowing. 410 00:19:31,280 --> 00:19:34,359 Speaker 1: You know, she she had a different host, y'all. She 411 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:36,760 Speaker 1: looked like Beyonce coming up going down to the side 412 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:40,000 Speaker 1: rock because that look curly hair she got. You know, 413 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:44,399 Speaker 1: it's all of our shoulders if we back, y'all bigger 414 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:48,600 Speaker 1: than that. Where's the music? Where's the music? Where's Beyonce? 415 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:56,520 Speaker 1: Come walking through the living room? Bad bad to left 416 00:19:56,520 --> 00:20:04,240 Speaker 1: and left and left, moved the table. I'm just so 417 00:20:04,359 --> 00:20:07,280 Speaker 1: happy to see that, just to year your story and 418 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:09,720 Speaker 1: to see that, you know, and the thing about it, 419 00:20:09,760 --> 00:20:12,159 Speaker 1: this is just one layer. I know that when Rashaan 420 00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:14,520 Speaker 1: is talking to you, this is just one layer because 421 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:17,200 Speaker 1: you got on my radar. One I because the person 422 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:21,280 Speaker 1: who did the pilot with UH last year as a 423 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:24,240 Speaker 1: producer friend of mine, and so she sent this, Yes, 424 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:27,239 Speaker 1: she sent it to me, and she sent it to me. 425 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:31,360 Speaker 1: She helped me promoted and so and I will promote one, 426 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:36,160 Speaker 1: she said. Nando Luis said, nothing, what you're doing, she said, 427 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:39,040 Speaker 1: she does. You know, she's a she does makeover. She 428 00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:44,840 Speaker 1: she carpentry and go Ananda Nanda, Luis b et ornand 429 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:48,240 Speaker 1: Luis pretty or no. I had to go there pretty 430 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:50,919 Speaker 1: or not getting dirt. And then she sent me the video. Go, 431 00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:58,520 Speaker 1: oh my god. You know we're like that, because that's 432 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:00,919 Speaker 1: why it's really cool, because of the fact that you 433 00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:04,040 Speaker 1: are finally doing you. And now because you're doing you, 434 00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:07,960 Speaker 1: everything else that follows is going to be you. It's 435 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:11,600 Speaker 1: gonna take you because you know exactly what you want 436 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:15,560 Speaker 1: to do. Now you're right, it's a completely different ballgame 437 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:17,639 Speaker 1: for me and I you know what's funny to me, 438 00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:20,960 Speaker 1: it makes me so much more grateful. I feel like 439 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:22,560 Speaker 1: I look back and I go, God, you had a 440 00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:24,480 Speaker 1: lot of really amazing things going for you, and you 441 00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:27,080 Speaker 1: were unhappy and you were ungrateful, and you know, it's 442 00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:29,160 Speaker 1: a chicken or the egg, I don't know, but having 443 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:30,760 Speaker 1: the things that I want to do in front of 444 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:33,119 Speaker 1: me has made me so much great more grateful, and 445 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:35,679 Speaker 1: being more grateful has brought more things than to the 446 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:38,920 Speaker 1: forefront that I want to do. So it's this beautiful cycle, 447 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:42,600 Speaker 1: you know, it's this beautiful kind of reciprocity that's happening, 448 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:44,840 Speaker 1: and I'm watching it unfold and I really, I mean, 449 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:47,560 Speaker 1: it's just I'm in the best time of my life 450 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:49,960 Speaker 1: and I'm so grateful for it. So I know you 451 00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:52,520 Speaker 1: had other projects coming up, and uh, and this is 452 00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:55,680 Speaker 1: just one. The show is taped, is already take What 453 00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:57,680 Speaker 1: did you shoot the show? Well, you're a different part 454 00:21:57,680 --> 00:22:03,000 Speaker 1: of the country in the Anna. Yeah, we were in Atlanta. 455 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:05,160 Speaker 1: We were in the suburbs. Yeah, And as a homeschooling mom, 456 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:06,760 Speaker 1: I had to figure out how to take my child 457 00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:08,520 Speaker 1: with me because there was no way I was leaving 458 00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:12,639 Speaker 1: him anywhere, because I've never left him anywhere, right, And 459 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:16,240 Speaker 1: so I rented an RV and TLC was so accommodating 460 00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:18,840 Speaker 1: and understood by the position that a lot of you know, 461 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:21,359 Speaker 1: moms are in when they want to work, but they 462 00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:23,880 Speaker 1: want to be with their kids still, and they really 463 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:26,080 Speaker 1: understood that. We're like, yeah, you can absolutely bring that 464 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:27,680 Speaker 1: r V. We'll let you park it across the street. 465 00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:29,359 Speaker 1: So I was able to hire a nanny, which was 466 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:31,679 Speaker 1: the first time I ever had in nanny, which was amazing. 467 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:35,280 Speaker 1: I'm why didn't I do this earlier? You mean I 468 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:37,480 Speaker 1: can actually leave and go do something and come back 469 00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:40,960 Speaker 1: and he's okay, yeah, okay, And um, I spent all 470 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:42,920 Speaker 1: my breaks with him. I spent my lunch breaks with him. 471 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:45,240 Speaker 1: He wasn't allowed on set because of the oceanas with 472 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:48,040 Speaker 1: you know, construction going on. He was right there and 473 00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:50,200 Speaker 1: it just it made it possible for me to take 474 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:53,000 Speaker 1: this job and really be able to do a wonderful 475 00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:55,080 Speaker 1: job and have a good time because my baby was 476 00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:56,800 Speaker 1: right there and I didn't have to worry about it. 477 00:22:56,880 --> 00:22:58,840 Speaker 1: So I'm really grateful for that too. But you know, 478 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:01,080 Speaker 1: it's like when you really want to do something, you 479 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:04,040 Speaker 1: figure out how to make it happen. Made me step 480 00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:06,159 Speaker 1: up and have to do you know, it's because she 481 00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:09,959 Speaker 1: was courageous enough to say, I can't do unless this happens. 482 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:12,240 Speaker 1: That's called a batter's life. And that's what I was 483 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:14,920 Speaker 1: talking about the beginning, learning how to be honest about 484 00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:17,240 Speaker 1: yourself and doing it your way, but doing it your 485 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:19,960 Speaker 1: way to make you happy long term and happy your 486 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:23,600 Speaker 1: priorities and starting your party well. Ms. Ms Lewis, while 487 00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:28,440 Speaker 1: you're out this Saturday, March uh following the premiere of 488 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:33,119 Speaker 1: the hit show Trading spaces Um Energy I'm so happy 489 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:35,480 Speaker 1: you did my show. I want you back on my show. 490 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:38,080 Speaker 1: Of course, you know me and you between breaks, we're 491 00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:41,439 Speaker 1: gonna talk about some other stuff. Okay, because because you 492 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:42,960 Speaker 1: need to text me, we need to have a meeting. 493 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:45,560 Speaker 1: Well we will because because of the fact that it's 494 00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:47,360 Speaker 1: just time. It's just time in my life, it's time 495 00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:49,360 Speaker 1: in your life. We're both very happy, and I say 496 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:51,040 Speaker 1: we were happy. We weren't happy in the past, but 497 00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:53,600 Speaker 1: we're doing what we want to do now and let's 498 00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:56,800 Speaker 1: keep winning together. Okay, thank you so much for having me, Rasan. 499 00:23:56,840 --> 00:23:58,399 Speaker 1: I'm so proud of you and I'm so happy to 500 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:00,480 Speaker 1: know you know sharing that's my girl. 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