Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. You are tuned into
Speaker 1: the Vitamin D Podcast and I wa I'm Dawn Day
Speaker 1: and I'm the host. Um. Now, if this is your
Speaker 1: first time tuning in, welcome, Thank you for deciding to
Speaker 1: live your life on purpose and for purpose. And also
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you now, Vitamin D is a pun
Speaker 1: off of my name. You know how you get vitamin
Speaker 1: D from the sun, right, Well, my name is Dawn.
Speaker 1: So I'm here to shed light into your life. You know,
Speaker 1: one of the principles that you know I talk about
Speaker 1: on each episode on Vitamin D It's all about how
Speaker 1: you are your greatest asset. Catch it. You are your
Speaker 1: greatest asset. So all that means is just like a
Speaker 1: checking or any type of account that you have. You
Speaker 1: put things in, you take things out, you take allocation
Speaker 1: of your life, and you see what you have, uh
Speaker 1: and the value of it. Well, I'm here to tell
Speaker 1: you that your life is your greatest asset. You are
Speaker 1: your greatest asset because everything is an extension of you.
Speaker 1: So with Vitamin D, that's what it's about and understanding
Speaker 1: how you are your greatest asset. It's all about shedding
Speaker 1: light and and this is the thing we think of life.
Speaker 1: We give joy and happiness. Yes, it is all that
Speaker 1: and more. But the key to realize and what we
Speaker 1: talk about shedding lights is that it's going to unveil
Speaker 1: the good and the not so good. I usually say
Speaker 1: the bad, but I should just say that not so
Speaker 1: good or the other side. Because when you talk about
Speaker 1: living your best life on purpose and for a purpose,
Speaker 1: you need to see a three sixty of you angle.
Speaker 1: I mean, think about it. Could you imagine moving through
Speaker 1: life and only be able to see what's in front
Speaker 1: of you while that's the vision in the direction you're going,
Speaker 1: There's a definitely a benefit having peripheral vision. There's definitely
Speaker 1: a benefit to do a pivot, to do a turnaround.
Speaker 1: And that's what we gotta do. We gotta make sure
Speaker 1: we see our lives through all angles. So this is
Speaker 1: your first time, Thank you, welcome. This is what it's
Speaker 1: about because I want you to be great and I
Speaker 1: want you to to to live every day your life excited.
Speaker 1: Huh So if you can't tell, I'm so excited, I
Speaker 1: am uber excited, especially about this episode. Um, I have
Speaker 1: the one and the only Mrs Vanessa Bell Callaway and
Speaker 1: she's joining on this episode to talk about her role
Speaker 1: as Lady Ella and bounced TV's hit series Saints and Sentators.
Speaker 1: It's on season five, and we delve into a few things.
Speaker 1: If you can't tell already this this series has to
Speaker 1: be sucked in. You know, I talked to both of
Speaker 1: her kids on the show that was Jasmine Berg. You know,
Speaker 1: she portrays the character of doctor um Christie Johnson, and
Speaker 1: then I had talked to Trade Cheney, who portrays the
Speaker 1: role as Kendrack. Okay, it's so much. Okay, I'd like
Speaker 1: to refer to Saints and Senators as um or as
Speaker 1: they have referred to it as Jasinburg as a black
Speaker 1: soap opera. So that's just a soap opera with a
Speaker 1: little bit more f life. You're gonna be sick none
Speaker 1: as your seats. You're gonna be sucking on your fingers.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I talked to Vanessa Belle Callaway about her
Speaker 1: character as Lady Ella, and one of the things that
Speaker 1: I found was interesting because you're on the fence as
Speaker 1: to whether or not she's a good or bad person,
Speaker 1: and what she stood out and what's something that she
Speaker 1: said is that hurt people hurt people, and we unpack
Speaker 1: on who Lady Ella is, what we can really see
Speaker 1: and what we can expect to see, what's going to
Speaker 1: happen in season five. And then also, you know Mrs Callaway,
Speaker 1: she's been married for over thirty plus years and the
Speaker 1: thing that's so amazing is that she unveils and unpacks
Speaker 1: a few things when it comes down to maintaining a
Speaker 1: happy and healthy marriage. Okay, how you can miss out
Speaker 1: on your potential life partner if you get caught up
Speaker 1: sweating the small stuff? Right, always gets real. But when
Speaker 1: I walked away, more than anything that stood up to me,
Speaker 1: it's just the importance of love. It's what we all want.
Speaker 1: And um, there's nothing but loving inspiration that's coming from
Speaker 1: this woman. So let me hush my mouth buckle up,
Speaker 1: because now it's time to dive in for your dose
Speaker 1: a vitamin day, right with me and get excited Midwestern house. Hello,
Speaker 1: Hello there, Mrs Callaway. How are you? I'm well? Thank you?
Speaker 1: How are you? I'm doing amazing? I'm talking to you,
Speaker 1: aren't you sweet? So? How are you doing today? I
Speaker 1: am doing great, the beautiful day here in Atlanta. I'm
Speaker 1: so excited to have you now I talked to two
Speaker 1: of your kids on the show. I've talked to uh
Speaker 1: Dr Christie A K A. Jasmine and Kendrick A K. Trey. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and um, I'm trying to figure do I feel about
Speaker 1: Lady Ella. So we're gonna the Saints and Sinners is
Speaker 1: definitely like a drama that has me wound up from
Speaker 1: left to right, front to back. But first, before I
Speaker 1: make my judgment and before I dive in, tell me
Speaker 1: about your character Lady Ella. Well, you know, she's involved
Speaker 1: a great deal over the years. When he first met
Speaker 1: Lady Ella, she was married to Master Johnson and he died,
Speaker 1: so she became a widow and kind of took over
Speaker 1: the church. You know, the church has always been a
Speaker 1: soft spot for her because it was, you know, her
Speaker 1: husband's church. She has a soft spot. Yeah, she got
Speaker 1: she got a couple, couple and her father was a pastor.
Speaker 1: And then of course when her mother was introduced in
Speaker 1: season two, that was a whole dynamic where you saw her.
Speaker 1: You know, her mother was the only person who kind
Speaker 1: of can make her feel like a little girl, make
Speaker 1: her feel in sufficient and insignificant, you know, and un unaccomplished.
Speaker 1: You know, her mother could just look at her and
Speaker 1: it just melts her. So you know, of course, what
Speaker 1: we see Lenel in the world, her world around citeer,
Speaker 1: she's she bullies people. Basically, she's a bully. Um. She's mean.
Speaker 1: She's a very self centered, self serving. She's hurt, sharts people,
Speaker 1: and she doesn't care. So her mother and her you know, now,
Speaker 1: they're kinda divide it and they fight a lot. So
Speaker 1: she takes a lot, but she's very protecting her children.
Speaker 1: Now when it comes when it comes to her babies,
Speaker 1: don't mess with her baby, she will cut you. So
Speaker 1: she's evolved a lot, you know. But she's you know,
Speaker 1: hurt people, hurt people, you know. Um, and this season
Speaker 1: you're gonna really see, uh, she gotta meets her match.
Speaker 1: She kind of gets she gets hurt, hurt, she puts
Speaker 1: out to other people. You're like, you know, don't put
Speaker 1: off with same date, right, Hello, you keep messing with
Speaker 1: that fire, You're gonna get burned, right And she gets burned.
Speaker 1: But you you learned a lot about a lady bird
Speaker 1: and her in the relationship, and you understand more about them.
Speaker 1: I'll just leave it at that. Can't spoiler Lerner can't
Speaker 1: take you what happens. And that's what I saw because
Speaker 1: you know, a minute there, you know, you want to
Speaker 1: look at Lady Ellen. It's like, well, where are your heart?
Speaker 1: Where's your heart? But it's the very same thing. And
Speaker 1: you know, and that's what I like to talk about
Speaker 1: on the Vitamin D podcast because you know it's a
Speaker 1: pun off of my name. You get vitamin D from
Speaker 1: the sun. So I'm here to shed light into your life.
Speaker 1: And so not only are we shud a light what's
Speaker 1: going on with saints and centators, but also what's going
Speaker 1: on with Lady Ella. And you made something that was
Speaker 1: so poignant. You said, hurt people, hurt people. And what
Speaker 1: I've realized and what I saw with this bridge and
Speaker 1: you know I had to tap into a Donnie mcclarkin
Speaker 1: for this one. You know, a saint ain't nothing but
Speaker 1: a center who fell down and got back up. And
Speaker 1: so just the I supposed of just saints and sent us.
Speaker 1: I don't see these as bad people, no, No, I
Speaker 1: mean they're just regular people trying, you know, trying to
Speaker 1: make it. And what I love about the show is
Speaker 1: the church is a backdrop because you know, so often
Speaker 1: we want to do church shows, and you want to
Speaker 1: everybody to be church eat well. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: just as you go church, don't mean that you what
Speaker 1: you said or the person. It just means that you
Speaker 1: person striving. You are person striving to do the best
Speaker 1: you can and and we need the guidance of the
Speaker 1: Lord to help us find those things in ourselves to
Speaker 1: make us the better person. So these are just regular
Speaker 1: people who are attached to a church like so many
Speaker 1: of us, but in their everyday walk some of them
Speaker 1: are trying to really find a better way to do
Speaker 1: their walks, and some are just trying to survive, and
Speaker 1: some really don't give it an you know. So we're
Speaker 1: just regular peoples, yeah, just trying to you know, I
Speaker 1: tell people all the time, we are just these spiritual
Speaker 1: beings having this human experience. And there's this communication of
Speaker 1: you know, I don't really I don't subscribe to religion,
Speaker 1: but my faith and God, in my relationship with God
Speaker 1: is there. But the foundation of coming up in Detroit,
Speaker 1: you know, I grew up in a Baptist church. That's
Speaker 1: the family. But to really elevating the sense to say hey,
Speaker 1: can you see me? And I'm not gonna spoil it,
Speaker 1: but honey, I was touching my pearls at the end
Speaker 1: of the season one premiere. I'm not season one season
Speaker 1: five premiere because it's like, while Lady Ella, I see
Speaker 1: how she's pulling the strings with Dr Christie, her daughter Christie,
Speaker 1: just the manipulation. She gets out of prison and you
Speaker 1: already and then it's like, we're going season five premiere
Speaker 1: and it's like, look what your mama has done to you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she's a manipulated now that that on that So let
Speaker 1: me ask you this one thing that you said about
Speaker 1: what your character, Lady Alex. You said she loves her babies.
Speaker 1: How was she able to understand or even to grasp
Speaker 1: the idea of love when you look at her relationship
Speaker 1: with her mother. Well, sometimes you want to be everything
Speaker 1: that you didn't have to when you were a mother,
Speaker 1: you know, so when you you can step into what
Speaker 1: you feel you were missing, you sometimes overcomplsate to give it,
Speaker 1: to give it to other people. So Lady Ella knows
Speaker 1: what she was missing. And and also you know, you
Speaker 1: gotta remember Kendrick got here. That was her love chob
Speaker 1: with with rats and I can't is that a HOMEI
Speaker 1: lover frand or fall all of them. That's the thing
Speaker 1: about Rex and Lady Ella. They you know, it's like
Speaker 1: they know they hate they love each other, and they
Speaker 1: hate each other, and they they're the only ones who
Speaker 1: can do that dance. They do the same Dan and
Speaker 1: sometime he leaves, sometime I leave, and it's like you
Speaker 1: can't live with him and you can't live without him,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna see that. You'll see them again this season.
Speaker 1: They get they do this. But in the end, they came.
Speaker 1: They just came out. They just came out. He got
Speaker 1: that mound and he just be sitting in the ear. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know, like mine, think alike. They have like mine,
Speaker 1: birds of a feather flock together. It was an episode
Speaker 1: four or episode was in season three or season four.
Speaker 1: I was season three and he told Lady Ellen, he said,
Speaker 1: you're evil matches mine, he's and he was trying to
Speaker 1: let him know, you just you just like me. Ellen.
Speaker 1: You try to act like you're not like me. But
Speaker 1: Juke and I directed that episode, and I didn't know
Speaker 1: that scene now. I directed that episode and I it
Speaker 1: was a scene when we were having dinner and because
Speaker 1: he we were kind of starting to date a little
Speaker 1: bit then, and he was trying to seduce me and
Speaker 1: he let me know he thought, he said, you're evil
Speaker 1: matches mind. So is she scared of him? Oh? No,
Speaker 1: He's the only one that you know, in a strange
Speaker 1: way that she really knows and she trusts him because
Speaker 1: she knows who he really is. Come on, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: I felt that. Yeah. No, so she knows him, you know,
Speaker 1: and she knows what he's capable of, and she knows
Speaker 1: that he's always gonna come to her rescue and he
Speaker 1: always does, even when he said when he swears he's
Speaker 1: through with her, that's the first person she calls to
Speaker 1: save her is Rex, and he always does. So she's
Speaker 1: scared of him. I had to jump up on a
Speaker 1: couple of reasons because, uh Rex, just like how when
Speaker 1: you can be blended in so many categories. It's the flexibility.
Speaker 1: It's like you never know what you're gonna get with
Speaker 1: him on a different day. Right. But the thing that
Speaker 1: you said was keen to me is that, yeah, she
Speaker 1: doesn't fear him because she sees him. And it makes
Speaker 1: me think of when you think about fear over all,
Speaker 1: it's false evidence appearing real. And I tell people all
Speaker 1: the time even when you talk about being your best
Speaker 1: self and stepping into something. If I see you, what
Speaker 1: can you do to me? I know which angle that
Speaker 1: you're coming to me. When I lived in New York,
Speaker 1: that was one thing that I felt like I really
Speaker 1: got my gangster card up, because just walking around New
Speaker 1: York taught me a sense to see. I'm walking down
Speaker 1: the street one I see you, how you doing? And
Speaker 1: I think in life and we're come in that disposition
Speaker 1: and just to have something head on. Fear ain't got
Speaker 1: nothing on me because I see you bull yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: So my thing is this, why does she have to
Speaker 1: keep Rex around? Because he knows where all her body
Speaker 1: is buried. He got most stuff on her, just like
Speaker 1: you know him. He know her. And now they say
Speaker 1: you keep your in your friends close, with your enemies closer,
Speaker 1: you know. And then there's a sickness with them. They
Speaker 1: can't they have to have each other. They don't. They
Speaker 1: don't want each other the you know, the way other
Speaker 1: people want to each other. And Lady Ella plays with him,
Speaker 1: She messes with them all the time. She just streams
Speaker 1: them along for a little thing. Honey, I said, Mrs Kyla,
Speaker 1: Way is holding where you came in there with your money,
Speaker 1: you thought off REXI to forgot what's going on. And
Speaker 1: it's just so interesting that they say, like a man
Speaker 1: away to a woman's heart is through her ears, and
Speaker 1: a way to a man's heart is through their eyes.
Speaker 1: And I see how you guys are doing this dance
Speaker 1: that you're you're you're saying with one another. So when
Speaker 1: we talk about Lady Ella and what I'll give it
Speaker 1: too much, where is this going? And ultimately what does
Speaker 1: she want? You know the it really wants to be loved.
Speaker 1: That's really her biggest problem. She keep pushing everybody away.
Speaker 1: He really wants to be loved, and she she wants
Speaker 1: that love of a father, and you know that kind
Speaker 1: of love, the love of a mother. You know, when
Speaker 1: you see the dynamics between her and her mother, you know,
Speaker 1: she just wants to be loved. And like we said,
Speaker 1: her people hurt people, so she is pushing people away
Speaker 1: because she's hurt. But she gets she kind of gets her.
Speaker 1: She meets her match this season and she's hurt. So
Speaker 1: the hurt that she's inflicted on other people she gets
Speaker 1: one't even better and it crushes her because of the
Speaker 1: person that the hurts coming from that inflicted the pain.
Speaker 1: Say that mus just say that the person inflicted the pain.
Speaker 1: It hurts even more because of who it is and
Speaker 1: what she thought it was going to bring to her life.
Speaker 1: On that expectation, she thought that this person was going
Speaker 1: to help change her life and just like if things
Speaker 1: she gets played. So wait a minute, Okay, you can't
Speaker 1: tell us what. I can't tell you what. I can't
Speaker 1: think what. Keep watching because those episodes are coming up
Speaker 1: and the other episodes that you're gonna really need to see.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, I can't remember the episode it is.
Speaker 1: Is this scene with a Lady Bird and Lady Ella
Speaker 1: and it's Donald Frisco, who plays my mother. Does a
Speaker 1: beautiful job in the scene. It's a beautiful scene, and
Speaker 1: you really will find out a lot about Lady Bird
Speaker 1: and Lady Ella and why they are the way they are.
Speaker 1: It's gonna all reveal. It's it's gonna reveal a whole
Speaker 1: new side of things, and it's gonna give you a
Speaker 1: whole different understanding of these characters. That's all I can say.
Speaker 1: I came at the premiere of season five and I
Speaker 1: thought I got something because I'm looking at Lady Bird,
Speaker 1: And I'm like, it's just people in the church, this
Speaker 1: whole having to put on, you know, trying to hold
Speaker 1: up to a sudden standard whether and it's just like,
Speaker 1: let God do that work, and why don't you just
Speaker 1: do you and just be human exactly exactly. So it's
Speaker 1: so interesting that And I'm just wondering how you pull
Speaker 1: this in with your character. You've been married for over
Speaker 1: thirty years, understanding and no one would love looks like,
Speaker 1: knowing the ups and downs, the roller coasters, the twists
Speaker 1: and turns. How did you use I guess what you
Speaker 1: knew to either put or to take away from Lady Allen,
Speaker 1: because she's kind of like the opposite of what you
Speaker 1: would say who you are in your marriage. Yeah, she
Speaker 1: doesn't like me, not like me. That's why I'm playing her.
Speaker 1: But I wouldn't want to be her. No, No, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't want to be that lady from the all the
Speaker 1: tea in China. That's a that's probably a lonely place.
Speaker 1: She ain't got little friends on the show. That's my show.
Speaker 1: I ain't, I know for no girl friends. Come on,
Speaker 1: I don't go out to dinner with nobody. I don't
Speaker 1: go to hear no music. Uh Keith his character sings,
Speaker 1: you know myles, he's a singer. He's singing at the
Speaker 1: little club. I don't never go hear him saying I
Speaker 1: don't do nothing. So she's lonely. But there's a price
Speaker 1: to pay for when you are not not a nice
Speaker 1: person to people and you don't you know, did bring
Speaker 1: people into York environment and share and loving and kinds.
Speaker 1: It's a price to pay. So I wouldn't want to
Speaker 1: be hurt. But yes, I've been married for thirty three
Speaker 1: years to September, thank you. And and there's a lot
Speaker 1: of work, you know, you gotta put the work in.
Speaker 1: So what advice would you give lady Ella about finding
Speaker 1: love and marriage and just finding a good man. You
Speaker 1: can't be a self selfish person. That's a lady selfish.
Speaker 1: She's self serving, And you can't expect somebody to uh
Speaker 1: want to come into that environment unless they are some
Speaker 1: type of crooking person too who is self serving and
Speaker 1: selfish and they gotta plan because they're trying to get
Speaker 1: some money. Then it loves not real because they're using
Speaker 1: you and you're using them, right, so that you first
Speaker 1: of all, you gotta you gotta love yourself and you
Speaker 1: gotta stop hurting yourself because the way you treat yourself
Speaker 1: is how you're gonna treat somebody else. What you're saying.
Speaker 1: Hold on. One thing I talked about on the Vitamin
Speaker 1: D podcast is how you are your greatest asset. And
Speaker 1: that's just realizing when we talk about money, you know
Speaker 1: what you put into your account and what you take
Speaker 1: out of your account. And let's face it, life is
Speaker 1: ups and downs. But it's about finding that balance so
Speaker 1: that you can adjust. Because then everything that's an extension
Speaker 1: of you, Like you said, your relationship, how your hygiene, is,
Speaker 1: your career, your faith is all of a temperature check
Speaker 1: as to where you are. So interesting. N d r
Speaker 1: Re has said it in a song. She said love
Speaker 1: is not about how much you can take, but how
Speaker 1: much you can get. Stat's a Sewan. Folks ain't getting
Speaker 1: married how they used to. Now I'm a millennia, I'm
Speaker 1: in my thirties. I think to myself, well, what is it?
Speaker 1: You know people said that marriage people stepped in into
Speaker 1: it for love, But is it unfair to say that
Speaker 1: probably then, or you know, years prior, it was a
Speaker 1: business exchange. Because I may have stayed through your BS
Speaker 1: because I don't have a job. I have to think
Speaker 1: about the livelihood of my family. But when you talk
Speaker 1: about millennials nowadays, we are ambition. We're going after our dreams.
Speaker 1: So if I'm not here for the b S, I
Speaker 1: can survive without you. What are your thoughts? Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, everybody has the right to feel and do
Speaker 1: what they needed their lives. But I'll say this was
Speaker 1: there's no relationship that's not gonna have a challenging moment
Speaker 1: or two or compromise. So if if you said, oh,
Speaker 1: I don't need you because I got my home on that,
Speaker 1: and that's cool, But is that what you want? Do
Speaker 1: you want to be by yourself? Do you want not
Speaker 1: to have children? You want not to have a family.
Speaker 1: A lot of people want that. So that's what you want,
Speaker 1: that's good. But if you want a union, that's mean something,
Speaker 1: especially down the road, if you wanted to use this
Speaker 1: to produce children, Yeah, that's gonna b s you gonna
Speaker 1: put up with, you know, But guess what, there's a
Speaker 1: being se gonna put up with about you too. That's right.
Speaker 1: You know, you gotta bring more to the table than
Speaker 1: just an appetite. You know, how are you building? Are
Speaker 1: you guys trying to build together? Because yeah, there's gonna
Speaker 1: be some stuff that goes down and not what level
Speaker 1: of degree of being you know, I can't speak on that.
Speaker 1: Every about every spirit is different. But if you think
Speaker 1: every day it's gonna be lovey dovey and you you
Speaker 1: you know, rubbing feet together every night, No, and any't
Speaker 1: like that. Love changes and you've got to know be
Speaker 1: able to change with the love. And that doesn't mean
Speaker 1: that's a bad thing. Love changes doesn't mean it's a
Speaker 1: bad thing. It just means that as you grow, love
Speaker 1: needs different things to you. It provides different things, It
Speaker 1: feels a different way, and you grow with that and
Speaker 1: if you don't sometimes and that's what breaks people up.
Speaker 1: People change doesn't mean that it's a bad change. But
Speaker 1: the person that you met at thirty or whatever and
Speaker 1: you get married, this is gonna be the person you're
Speaker 1: gonna be with twenty years from that and you won't either.
Speaker 1: And if you are, then something that's not right, something
Speaker 1: that happened. If you're that same person he married, you know,
Speaker 1: then there was some growth that you missed, you know,
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be changed and that's okay. And so
Speaker 1: when people say, oh, I don't need I don't need
Speaker 1: to devolved. And I got myself and I got my
Speaker 1: whole money and I got my own money too, and
Speaker 1: I'm married to like, I'll make my own money. I
Speaker 1: make my whole living. But it's better to share it.
Speaker 1: And it's more fun to a plan together, you know.
Speaker 1: It's more fun to uh be with you know, the
Speaker 1: the love of my life for me then not. So
Speaker 1: when other things occur, you deal with it. You just
Speaker 1: kind of chalking up is what it is and keep
Speaker 1: it moving. So if I well, and I'm like, I
Speaker 1: had to put up any bs in my marriage and
Speaker 1: it would be pretty cut and dry. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't like him sometime to get on my nerves, and
Speaker 1: sometimes you probably don't like me, you know, and sometimes
Speaker 1: I get on his nerves. But we love each other
Speaker 1: all the time. So how did you or when did
Speaker 1: you know that about your whose the moment I looked
Speaker 1: at him, I knew we went on one day that
Speaker 1: we've never been apart the moment, I just knew, especially
Speaker 1: after that first day, what happened. It just it was
Speaker 1: just a feeling. It was the conversation. It was just
Speaker 1: and the we went on one day. We never broke up,
Speaker 1: We never almost broke up. And a year and eight
Speaker 1: months later we were married. It just was going that way,
Speaker 1: and it just it was obvious to him, it was
Speaker 1: obvious to me. So we didn't fight it. And yeah,
Speaker 1: I was twenty nine and he was twenty six when
Speaker 1: we met. Yes, and by the time we got married,
Speaker 1: I was thirty one and he was twenty eight. We
Speaker 1: didn't fight it. See, that's the thing. We didn't fight it.
Speaker 1: You know. He wasn't like, oh, but if I get married,
Speaker 1: I came running to no more tail, you know. And
Speaker 1: I wasn't like, oh, is there somebody better out here
Speaker 1: for me? Uh, because see, guy, I'll send you your
Speaker 1: husband and you let him go, or you get him
Speaker 1: rindy and give them to another woman. I've seen that
Speaker 1: happen a lot. What you mean, because because we didn't
Speaker 1: take enough time with him, or or he wasn't tall enough,
Speaker 1: or he had a one one kirk you didn't like,
Speaker 1: or something that was probably when you look back years later,
Speaker 1: was really irrelevant, and you don't you know, Yeah, he's nice,
Speaker 1: He's a really nice guy. Let's focus on that. He's
Speaker 1: a really nice guy. Yeah, he's got a good job,
Speaker 1: and let's focus on that. But he just think I
Speaker 1: like him taller, or he's his skin tell ain't my
Speaker 1: favorite color, or you know, I don't know he's he's
Speaker 1: a little heavier than I normally like my man to be,
Speaker 1: or what little pie cool things like that women get
Speaker 1: real picky about. Now he's mean and he beat you
Speaker 1: and he's has no ambitions. Was the reason is, shoot,
Speaker 1: you leave somebody, you know. But when it's some little
Speaker 1: things and it's like I don't like twee dresses, Okay,
Speaker 1: well we work on that, you know, little things like that,
Speaker 1: it's like you when I'm at my husband, I made
Speaker 1: a list of one to ten before you met him, No,
Speaker 1: after I met him, when I was taking him and
Speaker 1: I put his qualities out and it was one to
Speaker 1: ten and there was my three things that I was like,
Speaker 1: he does this, he does that. And when I looked
Speaker 1: at that list, I said, is this a deal breaker
Speaker 1: for us? It was like, no, it's not. You'll be
Speaker 1: You'll be fine. So because I didn't ask him, what
Speaker 1: if he did a list for me, I didn't want
Speaker 1: to know because I didn't want to know if this
Speaker 1: three things might have been one thing that I appreciate
Speaker 1: that you said, and it's something that really set out
Speaker 1: to me. I studied improv over at the Groundings Theater
Speaker 1: and we you know, step into the whole notion of
Speaker 1: a yes and and it's about receiving what's coming that
Speaker 1: way and then that and is the addition for me
Speaker 1: and that whole moving forward. And one of the key
Speaker 1: things that you kept saying with yourself is that even
Speaker 1: in your relationship and heck, if somebody has just studied
Speaker 1: your background of the work, is that you have consistently
Speaker 1: to keep moving forward. And I feel like oftentimes in
Speaker 1: life that's where we get stuck at because when as
Speaker 1: you say, oh you got on my nerves, Oh I
Speaker 1: don't like the way you said this, and what you're
Speaker 1: wearing or how your hair looked this way, and just
Speaker 1: whatever reason to dismiss somebody. But rather than using those
Speaker 1: additive qualities and just moving forward. So I gotta ask you,
Speaker 1: what's the next for you, Mrs Kyla Warren. Well, um,
Speaker 1: there's a lot going on. For me. It's I've been
Speaker 1: very blessed. So thank you Jesus first for that. Um.
Speaker 1: Right now, I'm directing a TV movie for TV one,
Speaker 1: a Christmas movie. UM. It's a lovely stories, it's a
Speaker 1: love story. It's called Someday at Christmas. It's gonna come
Speaker 1: on Christmas two. So I'm literally in Atlanta directing that.
Speaker 1: I have one week left, a wrap on next week.
Speaker 1: And I'm also recurring on b ET Games People Play,
Speaker 1: And I'm recurring on b She sacrificed their new show
Speaker 1: that's starring Paula Patton, so I'm starring on that. I
Speaker 1: was just fitting wrapped up seasons before Shameless, the show
Speaker 1: time that the eleven season, the last season I was
Speaker 1: on since season one, So just wrapped that and it
Speaker 1: finished just airing. And I also just played um keenan
Speaker 1: uh mother on the on his new show you know
Speaker 1: from Tops and from night Life. I just played his mother.
Speaker 1: I just aired last week. Um, and um in a
Speaker 1: couple of movies out now. I mean, it's I'm busy.
Speaker 1: It's really great. You've got a couple of things then
Speaker 1: I'm waiting to hear about. But right now, just trying
Speaker 1: to finish this movie up so that you guys can
Speaker 1: enjoy this beautiful love story Christmas love story and um,
Speaker 1: finishing up sacrifice. So I gotta go back to New
Speaker 1: Orleans and do that, and then we're gonna wait and
Speaker 1: see if we get picked the first season six or
Speaker 1: Seaton Centers. Hey, I'll live in the speaking how you
Speaker 1: own a kind of lifestyle, So I'm speaking life. It's
Speaker 1: already common, I hope. So I wouldn't mind doing the
Speaker 1: season six. Well, I'm telling you now, you know, I
Speaker 1: just posted up on Steve HARVFM about the season five premiere,
Speaker 1: and everybody was going up talking about all the drama,
Speaker 1: all the pros. Haul. I'm sitting on the edge of
Speaker 1: my seat front and let me just say thank you
Speaker 1: for sharing your body of work. Thank you for being
Speaker 1: bold and unapologetic with your dreams. Thank you for being
Speaker 1: an inspiration to show that you can be a boss
Speaker 1: in your career and still have a relationship and a
Speaker 1: beautiful family. And you are just the sweetest little like
Speaker 1: just adorable because I just love you. Your energy is
Speaker 1: infectious and you're just shining so bright and so positive. Um,
Speaker 1: what we need to hear, what your millennial crew needs
Speaker 1: to hear. I have daughters your age. I'm sure you're
Speaker 1: here in that group. But this beautiful meeting you and
Speaker 1: you're such a light, such a bright light to this
Speaker 1: world into what you're contributing. So thank you, thank you serious, seriously,
Speaker 1: thank you well, thank you. Um this is my dream,
Speaker 1: so thank you for being a part of it, and
Speaker 1: thank you for unapologetically going after your dreams. Hi know,
Speaker 1: before you get out of here, this is one thing
Speaker 1: that I asked for people to do. Like I said,
Speaker 1: vitamin D is a multi vitamin for your mind. So
Speaker 1: just a dose of inspiration and that you can leave,
Speaker 1: whether about love, relationship, life, something that you live by,
Speaker 1: a quote, a song, whatever, however, just to make the
Speaker 1: people feel good. Well, this is something I I live
Speaker 1: by and I tell people all the time. Stay ready,
Speaker 1: to be ready. And what that means is whatever you
Speaker 1: need to fix, fix it. If you don't like your attitude,
Speaker 1: you don't throw your hair looks, your teethneed fixed, you
Speaker 1: want to lose that ten pounds, do whatever it is
Speaker 1: you need to do. Because when that moment comes, you
Speaker 1: don't have time to get ready. So however you look
Speaker 1: on Friday, you're gonna look that way on Monday. It's
Speaker 1: not gonna matter. Magically change over the weekend and whatever
Speaker 1: energy you are, it's gonna that's the energy you're giving.
Speaker 1: So stay ready to be ready because when that door opens,
Speaker 1: you gotta kick it down. Whatever your dream is, whatever
Speaker 1: you're doing, but you gotta be ready. Catch it. You
Speaker 1: heard it right here in the industry from the one
Speaker 1: and only Mrs Vanessa Bell. Callaway, Thank you, queen, Thank
Speaker 1: you up. Stay ready? Did you catch it? You know,
Speaker 1: I've heard folks say often times that if you stay ready,
Speaker 1: you ain't gotta get ready. That's the truth. And catch this.
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to stay ready because you're gonna consistently
Speaker 1: keep going. And you know you're gonna keep going because
Speaker 1: every day that you have breath in your lungs and
Speaker 1: you don't stop until that breath is gone. So I
Speaker 1: don't care what you're going through. Understand you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to keep on keeping harm. But I hope you enjoyed
Speaker 1: that conversation because I sure did. If you haven't checked
Speaker 1: out Saints and Centers, that you were probably on the
Speaker 1: edge of your seats about to check it out. Because
Speaker 1: this are real people. These are real folk that's just
Speaker 1: trying to make it through life. And that's each and
Speaker 1: every one of us. It doesn't matter what's your background.
Speaker 1: I mean, look at them. They come from a line
Speaker 1: of folks in the church, and you see what's going on.
Speaker 1: So I hope we am coming to this and stopping
Speaker 1: the whole notion of trying to judge people, trying to
Speaker 1: hold people that are at a different standards, and stop
Speaker 1: putting so much pressures on people to do because at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, it's all about loving who
Speaker 1: you are and walking authentically in who you are, and
Speaker 1: also understanding that even though with Lady Ella right, she
Speaker 1: comes with the circumstances of all her disadvantages that she
Speaker 1: looks at, and she still is able to be a
Speaker 1: mother to her children because sometimes we operate and what
Speaker 1: we don't have so that we can get to what
Speaker 1: we do want. And I want you to keep in mind.
Speaker 1: Let that I've said that before and I'll say it again.
Speaker 1: Your location is not your destination. But also keep in
Speaker 1: mind that how you do anything, it's how you'll do everything.
Speaker 1: You have the power to create the new narrative on
Speaker 1: your line. Okay, And and just like Vanessa Belle Callaway said,
Speaker 1: there is a narrative that's going to unfold with Lady Ella,
Speaker 1: her boat is about to get roped, buckle up. And
Speaker 1: then also she talks about all of her countless other projects.
Speaker 1: So I'm sure you'll want to dive in and you
Speaker 1: want to check that out. Okay, I hope you enjoyed
Speaker 1: this episode. I am so excited about this journey that
Speaker 1: um I'm on. So make sure that you check out
Speaker 1: Saints and Centers on Bounce TV Sunday Nights Central. Okay,
Speaker 1: don't say I didn't tell you. All right, Well, I
Speaker 1: want to say thank you for joining me on this
Speaker 1: journey of my dreams. This is Vitamin D. This is
Speaker 1: what it is about. Come on, somebody, we'll set a
Speaker 1: light on things because we gotta live life on purpose
Speaker 1: and for a purpose. Huh. We gotta live while we're
Speaker 1: still alive. Huh. So check out these other episodes, and
Speaker 1: if you feel compelled that perhaps you'd like to be
Speaker 1: a guest, or if you'd like to submit a letter
Speaker 1: because you need some advice, email me Vitamin D at
Speaker 1: dawn day Speaks dot com. My assistant Jeremiah, he's gonna
Speaker 1: dive in there and he's gonna pull it out and
Speaker 1: then we're gonna read them on there and then we're
Speaker 1: gonna have a verbal relation, just simple of conversation. Also,
Speaker 1: have you checked out my YouTube channel. Yes, Vitamin D
Speaker 1: is on YouTube search at dawn Day Speaks and you
Speaker 1: can see now a live representation of the conversations that
Speaker 1: we have going on. And then also in the meantime,
Speaker 1: if you need some extra Vitamin D in your life,
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Speaker 1: Dawn Day Speaks. Okay, Greater is coming you hear me,
Speaker 1: I said, Greater is coming. See I expect exceedingly and
Speaker 1: abundantly because I live a yes and type of lifestyle.
Speaker 1: All Right, I'm getting out of here. Um, thank you
Speaker 1: for choosing you, thank you for loving on you, and
Speaker 1: I want you to always remember you are your greatest
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