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Speaker 1: making conversations, my man, Bob Sumner right now. Man, I'm

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Speaker 1: about the start of your career in music, not at all,

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Speaker 1: you know. I started off in music. UM. I worked

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Speaker 1: So I started managing with Ronchy with Warrengy and started

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Speaker 1: the start of my music career. I ended up working

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Speaker 1: moved over. I started working with Carl Craig and Ralph

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Speaker 1: my entry from music into TV was through comedy. With

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Speaker 1: my friend, We're going to talk soon. I love to

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Speaker 1: You know you'll be throwing out some sitcom talks, some

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Speaker 1: Absolutely thank you so much. Thank you, I appreciate you.

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Speaker 1: and I'm happy they always introduced new talented people to

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Speaker 1: the show because they bring new information. They also educate me.

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Speaker 1: I always tell people how to rule about myself. I

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Speaker 1: wake up every morning dumb. I used that in a

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Speaker 1: very positive way, so I can accept information and I

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Speaker 1: won't be challenged and I don't walk through life being

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Speaker 1: a know at all. All Right, that is very important

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Speaker 1: if you're trying to digest so much information is being

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Speaker 1: Because of the fact that we have cell phones, in

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Speaker 1: fact that we have people text you, people call you.

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Speaker 1: You can't walk away. Back in the day, when I

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Speaker 1: was growing up, you could walk away from house and

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Speaker 1: if they didn't catch you before you have you walk

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Speaker 1: rent talk to him betil you got back home, unless

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Speaker 1: you ran into them in the streets. That's not the

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Speaker 1: case anymore. My next Dance is the vice is the

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Speaker 1: vice President of Multicultural Leadership for African American Black Strategy

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Speaker 1: and Outreach at a a r P. She serves as

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Speaker 1: the national force for a RPS engagement with African American

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Speaker 1: and Black communities throughout through partnerships with multicultural organizations to

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Speaker 1: drive a RP social impact. Please welcome to Money Making Conversations,

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Speaker 1: Shaney Houston. Thank you, thank you for trying for having me,

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Speaker 1: and it is such a pleasure to join the Money

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Speaker 1: Making Conversations today. Thank you so much. Well, then let's

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Speaker 1: talk about you. I wanted to talk about it. First

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Speaker 1: of all, I am a member Omega Sci Fi Fraternity Incorporated.

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Speaker 1: And I was reading your bio and you are a

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Speaker 1: member of a k A. I am a proud member

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Speaker 1: of Alpha Capital Authority Incorporated. Well for thirty years. I

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Speaker 1: just celebrated my thirty year anniversary. Actually, well that's awesome.

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Speaker 1: It's so funny because I I I playsed in eighty

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Speaker 1: the in the fraternal world over you, which is cool.

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Speaker 1: And I got got my for the New Year's City

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Speaker 1: celebration flying uh for my like three lion brothers and

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Speaker 1: another fraternity brother. We won't spend New Year's Eve together

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Speaker 1: in Atlanta. Just a part of life. You know, these

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Speaker 1: people that you don't know, you go to college and

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Speaker 1: they become a part of your your emotional base for

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Speaker 1: the rest of your life. And that's why I wanted

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Speaker 1: to bring that up. And because I know you you

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Speaker 1: feel the same way. It's uh, you know it is.

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Speaker 1: It is really a gift Um disuthroty. I really get

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Speaker 1: emotionally even talking about it. My line sisters mean everything

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Speaker 1: to me. We have been through so much together. We

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Speaker 1: continue to have a bond after thirty years, and that's

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Speaker 1: what the beauty of it um is. We went to

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Speaker 1: a homecoming we played that I played at Hampton University,

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Speaker 1: proud member of Gamma Stata chapter, and we went back

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Speaker 1: for homecoming this year and uh last pride eate together.

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Speaker 1: Had just a great time spending time just catching up

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Speaker 1: and we picked right back up where where we you know,

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Speaker 1: where we were thirty years ago. But what we do

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Speaker 1: is really just try to be there for one another

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Speaker 1: because those those that our friendships and bonds are truly

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Speaker 1: truly priceless. It's really great when I hear you talk

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Speaker 1: like this, my executive producer of money making conversation. She's

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Speaker 1: a graduate of Hampton. So as soon as you say

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Speaker 1: to Hampton, you know she started dancing in the boom. Okay,

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Speaker 1: let you know that every time, and I'm tearing it's

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Speaker 1: your Hampton has got it going on because and if

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Speaker 1: you're a lot of successful Keptonians, Keptonians, you know she

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Speaker 1: corrected me. Hamptonians got it going on. So let's let's

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Speaker 1: move on from your pro graduate of HBCU boom, a

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Speaker 1: proud member of Africa AFA saty and cooperated from Hampton

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Speaker 1: University thirty years in fact. So let's talk about your

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Speaker 1: role as Vice President of Multicultural Leadership for African American

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Speaker 1: Black Strategy and Outreach at a ARP. What exactly is that?

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Speaker 1: So I am immensely blessed to U lead our African

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Speaker 1: American and Black strategy work at a ARP. I've have

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Speaker 1: been um uh colleague here at a PEEP about four

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Speaker 1: years now and this role is really sometimes I have

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Speaker 1: to pench myself for Sean. It really gives me the

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Speaker 1: opportunity to um really share my my strengths, my talent,

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Speaker 1: my guests that I've been given that to really share

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Speaker 1: information to have the African American audience. I remember my twenties,

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Speaker 1: he was saying, Rashan, and you needed just say fifty

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Speaker 1: I couldn't. It was a struggle for me because I

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Speaker 1: can see what fifty dollars will grow to, you know what,

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Speaker 1: what what the opportunity. And they're realizing that that it's

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Speaker 1: all about accumulation, and it's all about dollar cost averaging

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Speaker 1: is all about participating. So if you're saving a thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars a year, just say, if you say a thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars for thirty years, that's thirty thou dollars. Okay, there's

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Speaker 1: thirty dollars. That's a lot of money, okay when you

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Speaker 1: when you look at it. And so the process that

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Speaker 1: start and then you can go online and you can

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Speaker 1: see how the growth of your investment can happen if

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Speaker 1: you do it a certain way correct, right, and and

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Speaker 1: that's the beauty of it. Um And I again, I

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Speaker 1: also want to to think Kelly and the team and

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Speaker 1: enjoy collective. It was just rewarding working on the campaign

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Speaker 1: UM with UM just amazingly talented black women UM from Joy,

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Speaker 1: from the director, the production company. It was truly a

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Speaker 1: campaign created black by black women for black women that

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Speaker 1: really felt passionate about this because what we know is

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Speaker 1: that African American black women, we typically have to work

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Speaker 1: seven to eight months to earn what our white male

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Speaker 1: counterpart to make in one year. And so we know

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Speaker 1: that equity paid gap. So in addition to the information

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Speaker 1: not getting to the communities UM at the same rate

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Speaker 1: or it was the same access that other communities can get,

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Speaker 1: we also know that there's a take gap that exists.

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Speaker 1: And so if we don't start sharing this information now

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Speaker 1: and empowering black women, then will continue to have that gap.

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Speaker 1: And so that's really the design of the campaign. And

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Speaker 1: when you go online again, it's a free uh three

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Speaker 1: minutes digital coaching sessions. I'm online, I'm reading it right now,

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Speaker 1: your savings oh this is this is looking good already,

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Speaker 1: I'll she wrote, right, and we will. And we again

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Speaker 1: wanted to make sure that black women that we see

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Speaker 1: ourselves in our ads, and we do that across a RP.

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Speaker 1: As I mentioned, we have a full multicultural team, and

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Speaker 1: in in our ads and our creative materials, we want

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Speaker 1: to make sure that it's resonating and that it's culturally relevant,

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Speaker 1: that it speaks to our audiences. And that's what this

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Speaker 1: campaign tribute to, she rose does. It really honors black women.

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Speaker 1: And you'll see in the different uh, the different creative ads,

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Speaker 1: whether it's the mom cooking and taking care of her family,

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Speaker 1: whether she's the wife, or whether it's um, you know,

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Speaker 1: a woman who's coming from work and has a side

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Speaker 1: hustle and and and you know the yoga and the

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Speaker 1: and get her own uh you know yoga studio, and

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Speaker 1: that's sort of you know, her her turning her passion,

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Speaker 1: you know, into her purpose. UM. I love the campaign.

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Speaker 1: Just hearing you talk about the campaign because they're talking

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Speaker 1: about entrepreneurship. It's talking about it's talking about the fourty

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Speaker 1: hour week mom. You know what I'm saying the responsibility

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Speaker 1: of delivery and being responsible. But the thing about it

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Speaker 1: You know, I saw three different women there and one

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Speaker 1: I bring that up because it's you know, I got

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Speaker 1: and just just give her information because that information when

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Speaker 1: always in school. Guess you know why you used to

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Speaker 1: be so disciplined because you're always learning lines, you're always

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Speaker 1: doing the research. It's like college never ended, right. But

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Speaker 1: I'm happy that I had to have that discipline because

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Speaker 1: it's not it's not easy. My family and friends are

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Speaker 1: always like, I didn't even memorize this stuff, like how

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Speaker 1: are you doing this research? And like and I'm also

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Speaker 1: a writer. I wrote it. Um Um. I wrote a

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Speaker 1: musical entitled Cheetah that ran off Broadway. We traveled about

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Speaker 1: the world. We just got back from London ago. We

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Speaker 1: were there for five weeks. We did thirty nine shows.

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Speaker 1: But um, even with my process in writing that musical,

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Speaker 1: people are always like, how did you do with the

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Speaker 1: research and the And I'm like, oh, yeah, well, you know,

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Speaker 1: I feel like if you went to college, you can

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Speaker 1: you can do this stuff. It's research to take time

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Speaker 1: and take discipline, and I have all those things and

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Speaker 1: that definitely helps us my competition of Janette, you really,

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Speaker 1: you know you really because you're gifted. Let's go first

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Speaker 1: of all, say that true enough. And your discipline, let's

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Speaker 1: say that too, because I always tell people that in

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Speaker 1: order to be successful, you have to be consistent, you

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Speaker 1: have to be disciplined, and you have to be fearless.

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Speaker 1: You just casually win. You know. It started off Broadway

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Speaker 1: and then they went to London. Okay, come stop, you know. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: people just try to get off Broadway. Now you're in

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Speaker 1: London at the same time, ran five weeks over there. Congratulations, congratulations,

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Speaker 1: thank you, and it was it was it was pretty amazing.

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Speaker 1: And the reception that we got in London, and the

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Speaker 1: other is that our producers we um, we did something

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Speaker 1: that was very smart. We did well if they did

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Speaker 1: something that was very smart. Um. We actually recorded it

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Speaker 1: for film for TV and it's just amazing and it's

881
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Speaker 1: just it's it's there's nothing like it. And I were

882
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Speaker 1: really excited about it, and I'm just excited that it

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Speaker 1: was captured. What we did in London was captures and

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Speaker 1: not the world can see it and have aspects to it.

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Speaker 1: It's only be a matter of time. Your prime out

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Speaker 1: there Amazon, you know all these days. Oh yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm so excited for the future of that show. Um,

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Speaker 1: and I'm also excited about what's happened to a Girl

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Speaker 1: from the North Country. You. I got a chance to

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Speaker 1: spend forty minutes about ling and it was amazing. He

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Speaker 1: was so he was so um appreciative of the work

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Speaker 1: that we've done on stage, Um, of the work that

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Speaker 1: I did a my character and the song that I say.

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Speaker 1: He complimented the song and I was like, he's like,

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Speaker 1: you know, I think the song for True Up. He's like,

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Speaker 1: you know, true is that song is really good. And

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Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, you know, that's that's all I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: He's like, yes, I know, I know. But he's just

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Speaker 1: so wonderful. And it's sometimes you hear about these legends

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Speaker 1: and you think they're like, oh, they're not gonna be

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Speaker 1: sunnily and they're gonna be strange. He was just just

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Speaker 1: just great, amazing down the earth, and I felt like

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Speaker 1: I could talk to him all day. Well, it's really

904
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Speaker 1: interesting because he's you know, well you first of all,

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Speaker 1: you you're talking to history. That's that's that's the amazing

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Speaker 1: part of the conversation. I know when I met Elton John,

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Speaker 1: and then just just being in the presence of Muhammad

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Speaker 1: ali Uh. You know, you want to you want to

909
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Speaker 1: be able to ask so many questions because they've been

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Speaker 1: through so many different steps and the courageous steps in

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Speaker 1: their lives, you know, because you know every journey. I

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Speaker 1: always say, every decade holds a different journey for each individual,

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Speaker 1: and so they've lived so many decades and so when

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Speaker 1: wow talk about the sixties, okay, you know, and and

916
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Speaker 1: and and to go through that. Did you ask him

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Speaker 1: any question or just just experienced the moment with him

918
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Speaker 1: and accepted the compliment. How was it? It was so interesting? Um.

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Speaker 1: It was at his concert and me and Um one

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Speaker 1: of the other stars of Girlfriends in the North Country

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Speaker 1: man winning him who is amazing in the show. It

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Speaker 1: was the two of us that were with him in

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Speaker 1: his dressing room. And I have to tell you first

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Speaker 1: it was it was for real, and I was trying

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Speaker 1: to take in every moment. And it's funny because I

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Speaker 1: felt like everything that came out on my mom is

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Speaker 1: just like insignificant because I was just so like I

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Speaker 1: was trying to take in every moment. What's the room

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Speaker 1: was like what he was saying, you know, and I did.

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Speaker 1: I asked a couple of questions about Um, about the

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Speaker 1: songs that he wrote, like, um, there's a song that

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Speaker 1: I've send called um Um it's the um Gypsy. I

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Speaker 1: see they did see. Okay, I can't think of the

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Speaker 1: song right now, but well February seven, the previous starts,

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Speaker 1: so you will be on pin by that not just

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Speaker 1: tell us basically Girl from the North Country. What exactly

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Speaker 1: is that Girl from the North Country. Well, that's one

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Speaker 1: of the songs that he wrote the musical entitled Girl

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Speaker 1: from the North Country. So this this music, guest, the

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Speaker 1: music is based on Bob Dylan. Um, the music is

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Speaker 1: from Bob Dylan, but the story is not Bob Dylan's story.

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Speaker 1: It takes place in his hometown. But it was written

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Speaker 1: by one of the best play rights um e Conomic

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Speaker 1: fear Sense. And what he did was he wrote a

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Speaker 1: play and the music compliments the play. The music is

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Speaker 1: watching the movie. So the music is not driving, it's

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Speaker 1: not it's not moving before the stories forwards, but it's

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Speaker 1: given you the emotions of the character. Wow. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's different in that sense. Like most Juice Box musicals

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Speaker 1: the songs, right, they trying to make the songs part

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Speaker 1: But that's not the case here. It's like watching the

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Speaker 1: I'm talking to Jeanette by adell correct by your all right, Yes,

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Speaker 1: I'm still rolling with I'm still rocking with that name.

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Speaker 1: So she is. She's co starring and highly anticipated Broadway

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