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Speaker 1: then it's just and it's crazy because if I get

427
00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:32,920
Speaker 1: on social media and if I say anything about black

428
00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:35,800
Speaker 1: people are praising black people, then my Asian followers come

429
00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:38,800
Speaker 1: you don't say anything about your Asian come here today.

430
00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:41,879
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god, yes I do. Then if

431
00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:46,160
Speaker 1: I say something about you know, Asians and embracing my culture,

432
00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:48,960
Speaker 1: and then black people, oh my god, see that's why

433
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:52,000
Speaker 1: you're not really black. You can't even say that in words. No,

434
00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:55,480
Speaker 1: I'm just like, oh my god. Yeah, I'm already confused. Please.

435
00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:58,920
Speaker 1: Like it's hard, it's tough, and it's like one of

436
00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:01,040
Speaker 1: those things where I can't be like, oh my god, guys,

437
00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:02,840
Speaker 1: it's so hard because like I'm bi racial and I

438
00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:05,440
Speaker 1: don't know. It's like one of those like I don't know,

439
00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:07,359
Speaker 1: it's like a weird topic and you know what I'm saying,

440
00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:10,560
Speaker 1: Like I don't know, it's I get really, I want

441
00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:13,000
Speaker 1: to get really nervous talking about race because it's like

442
00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:15,720
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm just like walking on eggshells. I

443
00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:18,280
Speaker 1: don't want to say the wrong thing. I don't want

444
00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:21,680
Speaker 1: to offend anybody. That's the last thing I want to do. Mainly,

445
00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:24,000
Speaker 1: I speak from my experiences and what I've known and

446
00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:25,840
Speaker 1: what I know and when I've gone through. But then,

447
00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:29,440
Speaker 1: you know, people always got something to say, and sometimes

448
00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:31,240
Speaker 1: you just have to kind of like drown out that

449
00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:34,960
Speaker 1: noise and realize people just don't understand you or they

450
00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:38,720
Speaker 1: don't understand the situation. But again, I just because I've

451
00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:41,680
Speaker 1: been scrutinized so much and judge and everything, I just

452
00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:45,400
Speaker 1: get like, oh I get I get scared sometimes too,

453
00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:48,560
Speaker 1: to be honest, it's just and to and to speak

454
00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:51,000
Speaker 1: about it, you know. But I do know that there

455
00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:55,960
Speaker 1: are so many biracial people out there who can also

456
00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:57,879
Speaker 1: understand as well. And I do get a lot of

457
00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:01,440
Speaker 1: messages from from people like who are Blazian or you know,

458
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:03,280
Speaker 1: black and Asian are just mixed, and they're like, I

459
00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:05,400
Speaker 1: understand where you're coming from, and like it's so hard

460
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:08,239
Speaker 1: because like I don't know where identify and and who

461
00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:12,959
Speaker 1: I where I belong to, so So of course, unless

462
00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:15,640
Speaker 1: you have been hiding under a rock, you are very

463
00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:21,080
Speaker 1: well aware of our summer, the COVID summer, the pandemic summer, um,

464
00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:25,359
Speaker 1: the frustrating summer, the painful summer. And it wasn't just summer,

465
00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:28,080
Speaker 1: it was all year around. But I specifically say summer

466
00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:31,280
Speaker 1: because I felt as if with Brianna Taylor, Mott, Aubrey,

467
00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:35,960
Speaker 1: George Floyd had all started spring summer and we're still

468
00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:38,320
Speaker 1: in it. We're some of the thick of things. And

469
00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:43,760
Speaker 1: the racial tension is so so clear, and the disrespect

470
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:47,400
Speaker 1: is blatant and it is not hidden, and the racism

471
00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:52,360
Speaker 1: is bold um and the rejection of minorities is embraced

472
00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:57,800
Speaker 1: by a former majority that fills themselves losing power. So

473
00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:02,560
Speaker 1: that's why you'll see ran of attacks on Asian people. Um.

474
00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:05,680
Speaker 1: Remember what happened in Atlanta. Oh my god, they killed

475
00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:08,760
Speaker 1: like this guy killed like eight Asian women. UM, all

476
00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:12,720
Speaker 1: at different the massage therapy, um locations, which is crazy,

477
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:16,920
Speaker 1: I mean just crazy. We thought what happened January six,

478
00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:20,320
Speaker 1: you know, your uncle's and your cousins and cowboys got

479
00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:22,639
Speaker 1: up there and try took over the capital. I mean

480
00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:25,080
Speaker 1: just it's insane. The world that we are living in.

481
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:28,119
Speaker 1: And so I asked her she as a black woman,

482
00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:33,600
Speaker 1: as an Asian and black woman, how do you handle

483
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:40,440
Speaker 1: the clearly painful um breakdown of humanity? It's a really

484
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:43,080
Speaker 1: I've been asked this question, and I can never think

485
00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:48,920
Speaker 1: of the right word to explain that feeling of being

486
00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:53,840
Speaker 1: from being a part of two cultures and two communities

487
00:28:54,640 --> 00:29:08,280
Speaker 1: that have gone through the worst UM and hardest situations UM,

488
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:13,200
Speaker 1: um and and and and who are what's the word

489
00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:17,440
Speaker 1: I'm looking for? You know, Like at the beginning of

490
00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:23,320
Speaker 1: the pandemic, when the Black Lives Matter UM movement was

491
00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:27,560
Speaker 1: going on, and I felt so I felt so emotional

492
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:32,400
Speaker 1: about it with every amount Aubrey Um, Brianna Taylor, George

493
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:40,360
Speaker 1: Floyd UM. And I felt very um e exhausted and

494
00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:44,400
Speaker 1: drained emotionally, just like because I was at home and

495
00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:48,840
Speaker 1: I was just I felt I felt it in my body,

496
00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:52,400
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, like the pain. And then

497
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 1: then I turned around and then now we have the

498
00:29:57,120 --> 00:30:02,320
Speaker 1: Asian community, who you know, who were kind of dealing, um,

499
00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:05,520
Speaker 1: not with the same thing, but just dealing with so

500
00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:12,520
Speaker 1: many struggles with UM, you know, racist people. And I'm

501
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:17,920
Speaker 1: like both of who I am, half of who I am,

502
00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:22,360
Speaker 1: both of my my my communities, my people like they're

503
00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:26,880
Speaker 1: going through the worst of the worst right now, and

504
00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:33,200
Speaker 1: it's like I don't know the word, but it's it's

505
00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:37,000
Speaker 1: almost like I don't know. I felt like numb at

506
00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:39,600
Speaker 1: a point where it was just like I don't know

507
00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:44,440
Speaker 1: how to feel. I can't watch another video of a

508
00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:49,720
Speaker 1: black person getting killed or harassed, and then I can't

509
00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:53,440
Speaker 1: watch another video of an Asian and older Asian man

510
00:30:53,600 --> 00:31:00,080
Speaker 1: getting beat up. It's like, oh, it crushes my soul. O.

511
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:02,880
Speaker 1: Last time I talked about this, I was like I

512
00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:08,120
Speaker 1: started crying. UM, and I won't say it's so it's

513
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:12,480
Speaker 1: so sad and so painful and just like I feel,

514
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:14,600
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. I feel all the emotions

515
00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:21,000
Speaker 1: and I can't. I can't. There's no word, you know.

516
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 1: I think I'm still trying to figure it out, but

517
00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:32,400
Speaker 1: also trying to stay UM as vocal as possible UM

518
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:42,120
Speaker 1: and using my platform as much as I can UM. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

519
00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:44,880
Speaker 1: I definitely want to be more you know, vocal about

520
00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:48,680
Speaker 1: it because I have an audience out there and and

521
00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:54,640
Speaker 1: you know, if I can spread a message or or anything,

522
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:57,440
Speaker 1: you know, I want to be able to do that

523
00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:00,880
Speaker 1: in the most efficient and best way. So on a

524
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:03,280
Speaker 1: lighter note, because you know I love a lighter note. Um,

525
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:07,480
Speaker 1: I'm sitting her all of my my love because I

526
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:10,280
Speaker 1: understand what she's trying to say. She's an empathizer and

527
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:14,400
Speaker 1: she feels and she absorbs. Um. But then I tried

528
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 1: to kick it up and make it a little lighter,

529
00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:19,800
Speaker 1: and I'm like, hey, so I know you're single. Put

530
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:22,360
Speaker 1: them DM is looking like I mean, I mean, come on,

531
00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:24,560
Speaker 1: I know when I look at her, like day she cute.

532
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:28,600
Speaker 1: Hey girl, I know them d ms popping. You know,

533
00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:30,680
Speaker 1: I got two or three d ms every other day.

534
00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:33,080
Speaker 1: I know hers is like at a thousand on a

535
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:38,160
Speaker 1: trillion on a trillion million. And she explains and she

536
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:41,040
Speaker 1: she has some fun with me. Girl, I can't even lie.

537
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:49,360
Speaker 1: My dm are popping, like I was like, damn, like oh,

538
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:52,120
Speaker 1: this is the most poppings I've ever been. And I'm

539
00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:57,320
Speaker 1: talking about like yeah, yeah, yeah, you mean a lot

540
00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:00,400
Speaker 1: of it's a lot of all kind of everything is

541
00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:03,560
Speaker 1: I get the regular boys, I get the blue checks,

542
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:07,960
Speaker 1: I get this rapper athlete actor. It's a whole bunch.

543
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:11,960
Speaker 1: It's a whole bunch but like I'm and the reason

544
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:15,360
Speaker 1: why I'm single right now is because I'm in this um,

545
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:20,440
Speaker 1: as my therapist calls it, stepping into my power. So

546
00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:24,120
Speaker 1: I'm really just like invested in me right now and

547
00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 1: just focus on me and like, um at a point

548
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:31,200
Speaker 1: where I just want to like give my all to myself,

549
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:34,520
Speaker 1: you know, and just continue to work hard and to

550
00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 1: become better, a better actor, m a better person, a

551
00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 1: better friend, a better sister, a better daughter. Um. And

552
00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:48,240
Speaker 1: and so yeah that's why I just, you know, you know,

553
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:51,320
Speaker 1: that's why I am single now. But yeah, the d

554
00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:53,440
Speaker 1: you know, the d M s are popping and it's fun.

555
00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:56,040
Speaker 1: But I'm not I'm not. I'm not. I said this

556
00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:58,760
Speaker 1: before too, before I started dinny Vic. But I'm not

557
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:01,440
Speaker 1: trying to be in a relay at all right now.

558
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:05,560
Speaker 1: Dating is fun, you know, hanging out with somebody, going

559
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 1: on a date, but anything serious right now, I just

560
00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:12,359
Speaker 1: I am not not really focused on I'm just really

561
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:16,840
Speaker 1: I'm in a relationship with myself. She deserves all the attention,

562
00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:22,000
Speaker 1: all of the love, all that she desires. I try

563
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:24,800
Speaker 1: not to get into anyone's ex or what's going on,

564
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:26,640
Speaker 1: especially if I know of them. But I'm like girl,

565
00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:28,920
Speaker 1: get it, get it, get it. And speaking of on

566
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:33,560
Speaker 1: that and that same vein, she's making her money when

567
00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:35,319
Speaker 1: I tell you she has her hands in a little

568
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:39,080
Speaker 1: bit of everything. Yes, she is an actress, but y'all

569
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:41,799
Speaker 1: saw the line of jewelry with her que self. Kay

570
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:45,040
Speaker 1: my career. She that's k A. I'm pulling out my notes,

571
00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:47,040
Speaker 1: you know, I got it because I want to know

572
00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:48,960
Speaker 1: if she can send me some free jewelry. She says

573
00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:52,440
Speaker 1: she would if you're listening, I'm ready for it. K

574
00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:54,680
Speaker 1: pop and make a blind where she was doing it

575
00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:56,759
Speaker 1: was a limit edition makeup blind when she was, you know,

576
00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:59,560
Speaker 1: collaborating with color Pop Cosmetics. I'm with all of that.

577
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:03,120
Speaker 1: And and here's the other thing. She has a really

578
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:09,000
Speaker 1: really adorable athletisure ware with pretty little fang appropriate. It's

579
00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:13,919
Speaker 1: really thing. So hey, Caruci, how are you making money?

580
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:20,759
Speaker 1: So the jewelry line came by caruci Um. I never

581
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:23,319
Speaker 1: thought that I'd have a jewelry line, and I never

582
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:28,759
Speaker 1: thought to design jewelry, but I absolutely love it. It's

583
00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:32,400
Speaker 1: so much fun. The company I work with, it's like

584
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:34,400
Speaker 1: a team effort. So I tell them things that I

585
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 1: like and they come back to me with certain things

586
00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:39,520
Speaker 1: that we go back and forth, and it's just been

587
00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:43,680
Speaker 1: like so much fun to create um like art and

588
00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:46,200
Speaker 1: beauty and pieces and just like have fun and like,

589
00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:50,360
Speaker 1: I mean, girls, what girl doesn't love jewelry? You know.

590
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:54,320
Speaker 1: It's like the accessories are like the best thing, hoops

591
00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:58,399
Speaker 1: and layering necklaces and everything. So so yeah, that's been

592
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:02,560
Speaker 1: so much fun and it's been doing really really well thankfully.

593
00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:05,839
Speaker 1: Um and we're still creating more and more pieces. Oh,

594
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:09,600
Speaker 1: the collection with Gialty so it's my first collection was

595
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:13,080
Speaker 1: a a fitness inspired collection, a lot of like yoga

596
00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:16,560
Speaker 1: wear and lounge ware, and I'm working on a second

597
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:20,840
Speaker 1: collection now what anything. Anytime that I create something, I

598
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:26,000
Speaker 1: wanted to come from a genuine and authentic place. So

599
00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:30,279
Speaker 1: instead of just creating a clothing line and just like

600
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:33,680
Speaker 1: having random pieces, I'm like, what do I really like?

601
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:41,400
Speaker 1: And enjoy y'all listen. As I am wrapping up this podcast,

602
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:43,719
Speaker 1: I have to tell you I am smiling from ear

603
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:49,520
Speaker 1: to ear because I really do love Caruci, Like I

604
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:51,400
Speaker 1: say that about everybody, and I've been lucky to have

605
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:52,960
Speaker 1: great guests. I'm not gonna get up here and say

606
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:55,799
Speaker 1: I don't like nobody, but she I'm really rooting for her.

607
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:59,440
Speaker 1: And there is the rooting of yes, she's already succeeding

608
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:02,400
Speaker 1: because she's beautiful, she's smart, she's working, she's providing for

609
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:05,880
Speaker 1: her family, she is setting her family up for generations

610
00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 1: to come. But the rooting part is is that when

611
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:11,520
Speaker 1: you meet someone who just is a good person, who

612
00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:16,040
Speaker 1: stumbles upon um a situation that hardly anybody would want

613
00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:20,000
Speaker 1: to actually entertain in real life or on TV, and

614
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:22,920
Speaker 1: you take that situation and you turn it into something

615
00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:28,200
Speaker 1: that that makes you your own person. Right. I can

616
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:30,319
Speaker 1: think of so many incidents where and I think more

617
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:34,000
Speaker 1: often than not, the challenges really change us, and the

618
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:37,320
Speaker 1: change usually is for the better. And that is what

619
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:40,680
Speaker 1: I think of when I think of Carucci, a challenge

620
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:43,680
Speaker 1: that changed her and look at her now, flourishing and

621
00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:46,400
Speaker 1: all her glory. I don't want to be in no relationship.

622
00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 1: She just is in her own mode. She wanna she

623
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:51,759
Speaker 1: wanna play tennis, She want to plant her flowers or

624
00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:54,360
Speaker 1: do flower arrangements, You want to cook, she want to

625
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 1: do her thing, and just find peace in that. I mean,

626
00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:00,480
Speaker 1: how wow when I think about that, because like, I'm

627
00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:04,239
Speaker 1: not worried about anything but just being me working on me,

628
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:08,960
Speaker 1: finding what makes me happy. I salute you, my friend.

629
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:13,600
Speaker 1: I see you evolving and I think it's a beautiful thing.

630
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:19,399
Speaker 1: So as I leave you all getting ready for next week,

631
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:21,520
Speaker 1: I'm excited about our guests. I won't tell you yet.

632
00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:23,440
Speaker 1: Maybe I will if you follow me on. I g

633
00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:27,920
Speaker 1: at Carrie Champion, follow me at Carrie Champion. Um, but

634
00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:31,080
Speaker 1: I do want to say this, wear your mask. I'm

635
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:33,560
Speaker 1: not saying I always wear my mask, but I'm saying

636
00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 1: I'll wear my mask outside being reckless. I hope Trouble

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