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Speaker 1: the light, that's on the good, the bad, and then different.
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Speaker 1: up right now, I am going to share a conversation
Speaker 1: with you with the the gentleman name Trey Cheney. He
Speaker 1: starts in abouts TV hit series Saints and Centers. It
Speaker 1: airs Sunday's nights, nine eight Central. Now, the show is phenomenal.
Speaker 1: It's so much drama, it's rivening. And in this conversation,
Speaker 1: I am breaking down his character, Kendrick Murphy. It's a
Speaker 1: character that you love to hate, a character that you
Speaker 1: can understand that in life has trials and tribulations. But
Speaker 1: trying to start with some new isn't that something with life?
Speaker 1: How you can sometimes allow your past to dictate where
Speaker 1: you are. But you know, years ago, when I lived
Speaker 1: in New York, I was talking to this gentleman, a
Speaker 1: Raphael Gordon, and he's sure a quote with me. He said,
Speaker 1: your location, it's not your destination. Let me say it again.
Speaker 1: Your location is not your destination. Where you are right
Speaker 1: now doesn't dictate where you're going. But the key is
Speaker 1: you have to move and that's the entire thing this
Speaker 1: conversation about is with Track about the movement. You know,
Speaker 1: one thing that he spotlights that I just want to
Speaker 1: highlight in this entire episode is that he said, the
Speaker 1: blessing is in a journey. Can you catch it? The
Speaker 1: blessings in the process to keep moving forward? And that's
Speaker 1: what this conversation is about. When it's talking about facing
Speaker 1: your fears, when it's talking about taking the jump, when
Speaker 1: it's talking about rewriting your future. Yeah, we're dickens e
Speaker 1: and it feels good. So I want to make sure
Speaker 1: that you understand the complexities of who you are. So
Speaker 1: let me stop yeapping and let's go straight through it.
Speaker 1: All right, So get excited because I too, So without
Speaker 1: further ado, it's time for your dose of vitamin D.
Speaker 1: Right with me and get excited. Hello done? How Mr Train?
Speaker 1: What's up? How are you doing? I'm good? But the
Speaker 1: question is I'm looking at you. You look fine, But
Speaker 1: are you okay? I saw in your social media you
Speaker 1: got in an accident. Yeah, it was crazy. Done. I
Speaker 1: was on my weight to one audition UM Tuesday and
Speaker 1: I'm going through a green light and out of nowhere
Speaker 1: a car runs the red light and he was a
Speaker 1: drunk driver. So the impact of the car, you know,
Speaker 1: hit my car. DI did three sixty in a very
Speaker 1: very busy intersection of Atlanta. And you know, I wasn't
Speaker 1: I wasn't panicking. I just was like, Okay, God, if
Speaker 1: this is how this is gonna go, then okay. But
Speaker 1: at the same time, I'm fine. I am on big rest.
Speaker 1: After I do this, I get back in the bid,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So then my body, my
Speaker 1: body been aching. But at the same time, I'm just, oh, really,
Speaker 1: did you go to the doctor. Oh yeah, I'm in
Speaker 1: thirty Yeah, the car is replaceable. But I'm just glad that,
Speaker 1: you know, God spared my life. And you know, my insurance.
Speaker 1: I got great insurance. My uh my people were taking
Speaker 1: care of everything. I probably have a brand new car
Speaker 1: in a couple of days. I'm not really you know,
Speaker 1: God is good. You know what I'm saying that, I'm
Speaker 1: like and I'm like, yo, if this was everything is
Speaker 1: going so great right now. It's almost like that that
Speaker 1: Yan Yang effect, you know, And it's like when that
Speaker 1: when it's life, prepare for the darkness, but get through
Speaker 1: it at the same time. So I'm fine. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying today? What what are you trying to
Speaker 1: do today? What do we what do we listen? Because
Speaker 1: I got chills all over my body. That's love. Yeah, um,
Speaker 1: so well, I guess let me just tell you because
Speaker 1: we're walking in the same vein right now. This is
Speaker 1: what vitamin D is all about. Vitamin DID is all
Speaker 1: about shedding light, and the light is gonna cut on
Speaker 1: the good and the bad. And it's designed so that
Speaker 1: you can live life on purpose and for a purpose,
Speaker 1: so that you can get excited about your life. That's
Speaker 1: what's up. Welcome, Mr Tray and I did the research
Speaker 1: on with vitamin dse things for with Dawn Day And
Speaker 1: I said, you know what, I can't wait to talk
Speaker 1: to This's just you know what I'm saying, so we
Speaker 1: can really come. Yeah. Well, I'm excited to have you on,
Speaker 1: Mr Trey Cheney. We're gonna be talking about your show
Speaker 1: Saints and Centers. It's on Bounce TV. Yeah, amazing, the
Speaker 1: episode just premiered last night. There's a lot we need
Speaker 1: to talk about. But first, you know, tell me about you.
Speaker 1: Now you from the DMV. Now I'm from Detroit, but
Speaker 1: I did go to Howard. So I was, I was
Speaker 1: over there in a little cluster moment. Tell me about
Speaker 1: who you are? You well, yeah, I, um, I'm Trade Cheney.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I'm from Forestville, Merlin, represent Washington,
Speaker 1: d C. Started in this business at a very early age,
Speaker 1: eight years old as a hip hop artist, as a dancer,
Speaker 1: you know, um, being affiliated with O G s like
Speaker 1: Big Daddy, Kane, Rock Kim. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: like some of those those guys that I still I'm
Speaker 1: connected with, d Nice, you know. And um, I want
Speaker 1: to say that continue the hip hop, you know, dancing
Speaker 1: and wrapping continued all over d n V and and
Speaker 1: in different cities. And then I want to say, at seventeen,
Speaker 1: lady by the name of Linda Townsend, UM, who was
Speaker 1: a talent agent out d C. She was like, yo,
Speaker 1: I could tell that you're not stage right, you know,
Speaker 1: because you're getting up on stage, you're performing. You should
Speaker 1: think about becoming an actor. And my thing was, I
Speaker 1: always wanted to make the transition from hip hop artists
Speaker 1: to actor anywhere. So I said, I was already kind
Speaker 1: of like preparing. I was, you know, walking in that purpose.
Speaker 1: I was fulfilling my dreams on stage, which I knew
Speaker 1: would eventually turn into acting. So I told her that
Speaker 1: was something that I definitely wanted to do. I was
Speaker 1: interested in it, and I got my head shots done,
Speaker 1: I got resumes. I started, you know, remembering monologues because
Speaker 1: as a writer, you know, I always look at scripts
Speaker 1: like songs because it has to flow, you know. So
Speaker 1: I'm like, Yo, this is what I'm gonna do. Um,
Speaker 1: anything that you sent me on, whatever I need, I
Speaker 1: can remember it like that. And she said, the first
Speaker 1: audition that I'm going to submit you for is the Wire.
Speaker 1: She said, The Wire is a it's an HBO pilot.
Speaker 1: If anybody else that is listening that, I don't understand
Speaker 1: what the pilot is. It's not necessarily picked up yet,
Speaker 1: but it's on the verge of being picked up, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So I remember going in. That
Speaker 1: was my first audition, first job I ever booked as
Speaker 1: an actor. I went in the paper associates, I read
Speaker 1: for the character we bay got a call back David Simon,
Speaker 1: Nina Noble, Robert Colesbury wrestling piece to him who actually
Speaker 1: created my character poop Um. I go in, I read
Speaker 1: the monologue. Three weeks later they were saying, you didn't
Speaker 1: get casted for we Day, but we cast at you
Speaker 1: for this character named Malik Kukar. So The Wire premier
Speaker 1: in two thousand two. That was the first time I
Speaker 1: had ever you know, the whole celebrity lifestyle, getting paid
Speaker 1: to show up at events. Um, I mean it was
Speaker 1: it was so fresh, and Newton was yeah. So so
Speaker 1: with The Wire, you know, I lasted on the show
Speaker 1: for all five seasons, um two thousand to the two
Speaker 1: thousand and eight. And you know, from there, that was
Speaker 1: when I said, you know what, I'm already taking this serious.
Speaker 1: Then I took, you know to Tor Smith Acting Workshop,
Speaker 1: the Tesaw class, and I really you know, and and
Speaker 1: and it's funny because some of the students in there,
Speaker 1: they were like, what are you doing in here? Like
Speaker 1: you're on the Wire, And I'm like, in order to
Speaker 1: be the best, you know, I never could stop training.
Speaker 1: I can't stop training. So I want to train as
Speaker 1: much as possible, because, like I said, in order to
Speaker 1: be the best, you gotta study, you gotta work hard,
Speaker 1: you gotta be dedicated, and you gotta have consistency. So,
Speaker 1: you know, after The Wire, then Streets with Meet Mill
Speaker 1: you know that premiere on BT. This was at the
Speaker 1: beginning of Meek's career when you know, before he became
Speaker 1: the superstarter he is now. Um did that with Jamal Hill,
Speaker 1: then James E. Boy with James Woods being Rains, Murray,
Speaker 1: Louise Parker, Um, and then you know, just getting into
Speaker 1: the creative side of what I wanted to do as
Speaker 1: a director and as a producer, started putting out my
Speaker 1: own content. You know, during the time what people would
Speaker 1: consider these shows and these movies that I was on mainstream,
Speaker 1: it was a time where they wasn't coming quick. So
Speaker 1: I said, you know what, I'm gonna create my own
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get out in the streets or Washington d C.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna shoot my own films. I'm gonna sell them
Speaker 1: off the trunk of my car. That buzz created the
Speaker 1: call from George Pierre, who cast me for Saints and Centers.
Speaker 1: So it was just you know, with me, it was
Speaker 1: always about being attached to the process because a lot
Speaker 1: of people don't understand the blessing is in the journey.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You sound like my barber,
Speaker 1: do you know? Louis t Pal. The name sound familiar.
Speaker 1: He's a barber. He's from the DMV he you know,
Speaker 1: and not like everybody's gonna know everybody, but he has
Speaker 1: his family come from a line of barber's. But what
Speaker 1: he says, he always says. He says, the journey is
Speaker 1: the experience, and the experience is the journey exactly, because
Speaker 1: that's what it is. You know, a lot of actors
Speaker 1: and a lot of artists, sometimes they get so caught
Speaker 1: up on the outcome, you know, and we have to
Speaker 1: eliminate the outcome and just do the work because I
Speaker 1: don't care how long it texts. As much as you
Speaker 1: do the work, the reward will eventually come, and it
Speaker 1: comes in different forms. It comes in different ways. For
Speaker 1: me as an actor, when I read for almost every
Speaker 1: show that you might see on television, then if I
Speaker 1: don't get it, I'm not discouraged because something else, greater
Speaker 1: come come on. And it's so interesting. You're talking about
Speaker 1: the first project with the wire, and it's just how life,
Speaker 1: how you can come into one door, but God can
Speaker 1: lead you through the back door. And it just even
Speaker 1: reminds me of when I applied to go to Howard.
Speaker 1: I did not even get accepted. But see, it's that
Speaker 1: go get her attitude that you know, picked you up
Speaker 1: to say, let me produce and do my own project.
Speaker 1: I want ahead and I wrote the school and because
Speaker 1: I'm a great student, whatever, the testing didn't happen. But
Speaker 1: it's that go to attitude that you talk about with
Speaker 1: your dream because I guess if you had a mindset
Speaker 1: that you're going to already arrive, then you don't have
Speaker 1: to keep going. Hence we don't arrive until we die, right,
Speaker 1: and then it just echoes the whole sentiments of Michelle
Speaker 1: and Bond. We're consistently becoming. And that's why every moment,
Speaker 1: every day is the gift, because that's why we have
Speaker 1: to be so present. Wow, it's not ever presented. The
Speaker 1: energy is is trading off through this, through this, through
Speaker 1: this interview. You know, thank you for receiving me. I
Speaker 1: don't even look at this as an interview. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, we're just chopping it up. Is King
Speaker 1: and Queen reference. You know what I'm saying, right, Supreme, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you came and I was like, but it's
Speaker 1: so interesting because sometimes it is that way when you
Speaker 1: gotta go through the back door, because sometimes you gotta
Speaker 1: see something that maybe everybody else can see, or that
Speaker 1: moment that you said, let me produce. You have to
Speaker 1: get this whole view so that you can actually see,
Speaker 1: encompassing with the vision that you have for your life.
Speaker 1: I had to pick up the experience because you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of times it's a lot of people around
Speaker 1: us in our circles and even people outside of our
Speaker 1: circles who might not see like you said, we see,
Speaker 1: but we have to prove them wrong. We have to
Speaker 1: jump out here, even if we fall on our face.
Speaker 1: It's not necessarily falling on your face. Every experience is
Speaker 1: a lesson. You didn't fail, You just learned a lesson,
Speaker 1: and now you know what to do going forward and
Speaker 1: moving forward. So for me, it's it's more like like
Speaker 1: I said, getting attached to the process and never getting
Speaker 1: emotionally attached to the end result. This business is full
Speaker 1: of emotions. People get mad over any little thing. If
Speaker 1: if you don't call an industry person back, they might
Speaker 1: feel some type of way. You can't you don't know
Speaker 1: what another person is going through in their life, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. That's like the day we've been
Speaker 1: on here. I'm still upbeat, even though with the cards
Speaker 1: and then with everything that went on, it was a
Speaker 1: reason why it happened because something else, greater is getting
Speaker 1: ready to happen. And I and I truly believe that.
Speaker 1: Even being on here with you, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's amazing to connect with somebody who I
Speaker 1: feel like I've known for for years, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, And and we trade energy and we're talking
Speaker 1: and we you know, chopping it up. Anybody's watching, they're
Speaker 1: feeling that, you know what I'm saying. So we ain't
Speaker 1: doing nothing but inspiring and motivate because I mean, actually
Speaker 1: it's actually that's what we're designed to do. Just be
Speaker 1: a light and addify each other. If you think about it,
Speaker 1: if I addif you addify me, yo, we can all
Speaker 1: be done. But here's the thing. You got to realize
Speaker 1: that you gotta uncover some things. That's the light. And
Speaker 1: it coincidnes of what you were saying when you first
Speaker 1: came up and is joining you said, Hey, sometimes it
Speaker 1: is the ending in Yang. It's the understanding that you
Speaker 1: gotta be deserted in order to get to the dessert.
Speaker 1: You gotta know how sweet it is when you get there.
Speaker 1: So after watching season premiere, I don't know why this
Speaker 1: word is on my spirit. I want to say that dichotomy.
Speaker 1: I want to just use it. And I don't even
Speaker 1: think he's gonna think economy of the situation. Right. The
Speaker 1: thing that's so interesting on what I love about your character, Um,
Speaker 1: Saints and Centers. This is season five and your characters
Speaker 1: like Kendreck, Kendreck, Kendrick, I feel Kendrick and Kendrick I feel, well,
Speaker 1: let me let me back up. Okay, you are such
Speaker 1: a man who walks in authority of self, UM, and
Speaker 1: just checking out some of your pictures and videos on
Speaker 1: social media and just following you understanding the importance of family.
Speaker 1: There are some things that I can reflect in your
Speaker 1: life that I see in your character. So I wanted
Speaker 1: you to tell us a little bit about Kendrick. Well, Kendrick.
Speaker 1: Kendrick is basically, Kendrick is broken. Now, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: He's a He's a broken guy, broken character that wants
Speaker 1: to build and have a relationship with his long lost
Speaker 1: family that did not want to have nothing to do
Speaker 1: with him. As you can see from season one, all
Speaker 1: the way up to now, which is people are going
Speaker 1: to see a lot in season five. The ease is
Speaker 1: up a little bit. But at the same time, this
Speaker 1: man wants to have a relationship, like I said, with
Speaker 1: his family. And every time you think something is going
Speaker 1: right in Kendrick's life, it just takes the term for
Speaker 1: the worst. But at the same time, it's the lesson
Speaker 1: and the experience that Kendrick learns which still makes him
Speaker 1: a main to just keep going. Now, for me, I've
Speaker 1: really got a shout out Nigel Campbell, the show runner,
Speaker 1: and the writer, and and and Courtney Miller because these guys,
Speaker 1: you know, Courtney is the director and the writer, and
Speaker 1: they capture elements of who Trade Cheney really is as
Speaker 1: far as family goes. Because of course, you know Patrice
Speaker 1: Fisher who plays Stay Shakunting Game, she plays my love
Speaker 1: interest on the show. And we we got a baby, right,
Speaker 1: we all gotta baby. Yeah, But at the same time
Speaker 1: she's pregnant. You know, I'm thinking, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: this my child. As you can see with the movie,
Speaker 1: he's seeing some of the stuff that was revealed. But
Speaker 1: my real life trade change. I've been married going on
Speaker 1: seventeen years to my wife on two amazing kids, my
Speaker 1: son Milec, my daughter Martine, and my granddaughter who's the
Speaker 1: new addition to the family, morocc. So with thank you.
Speaker 1: So with that, it sort of helped me to understand
Speaker 1: Kendrick a little more in this season of you know,
Speaker 1: his development and him wanting to become a father and
Speaker 1: his happiness for his lady and and just I told him,
Speaker 1: I said, this was this, this this fifth season and
Speaker 1: some of my best work because y'all actually wrote who
Speaker 1: I am and I was able to put that in
Speaker 1: kindred despite all of the craziness that you still want
Speaker 1: to see with this character. So you know, I'm just
Speaker 1: I'm honored. You know, it's something about the term season
Speaker 1: five because hold on before you reach and don't be
Speaker 1: trying to skip over Kendrick like that. Hola, hola, hola.
Speaker 1: So the part that I feel that, at least for me,
Speaker 1: that resonated really well. Um, what I received is that
Speaker 1: Kendrick is this loving guy at the core, and it
Speaker 1: was something that you know, I was talking to Jasmine about,
Speaker 1: you know, Christine, and you know, it reminds me of
Speaker 1: a song. You know, A saint is nothing but a
Speaker 1: center who fell down and got up. That's the fact.
Speaker 1: And I can see it now as I'm looking at
Speaker 1: all the characters, because nobody is necessarily evil per se.
Speaker 1: But as you know, as Jasmine like to put it,
Speaker 1: you know, we are all here to be a lamp
Speaker 1: to alight, to edify God's life. So we're just encased
Speaker 1: in this and understanding that these things transmit through us
Speaker 1: in different ways. And it's like, I can see this
Speaker 1: with this brother who is trying to do right God, dog,
Speaker 1: but he failed. What's going on? It's it's the cards
Speaker 1: that he was dealt, you know. And and sometimes in life,
Speaker 1: with a lot of times in life, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: say sometimes, because we all are dealt certain cards on
Speaker 1: a daily basis that we have to, like you said
Speaker 1: in the beginning, understanding, we have to be able to
Speaker 1: steal every single emotion that comes with it. We have
Speaker 1: to be able to accept it and digest it and
Speaker 1: then figure out how we can move on. So with Kendrick,
Speaker 1: you know, always thinking, you know that that he's on
Speaker 1: this right track and something just comes up and just
Speaker 1: hit him, you know, I mean, Kendrick has been buried alive,
Speaker 1: you know, by his own grandmother, He's been sad, he's
Speaker 1: been shot, you know. So, so going through all of
Speaker 1: these emotions to see what we're actually going to see
Speaker 1: this season is going to be, I want to say
Speaker 1: the turning point. I mean, because you know, Niage and
Speaker 1: Cortney had me doing things on this season that I've
Speaker 1: that I've never done on screen, and I'm like, oh no,
Speaker 1: they challenged me this season like I got challenged. But
Speaker 1: at the same time, I stepped up to the plate
Speaker 1: and I stepped up to the challenge gym. I think
Speaker 1: we talked about earlier when I said, in order to
Speaker 1: be the best and get it my own, you know,
Speaker 1: this is this is what you're gonna see what Kendrick
Speaker 1: Murphy is season. I'm giving him my own, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So, and that's and that, and that
Speaker 1: goes along with the different characters that I'm playing in
Speaker 1: scenes with me and Jacks, Jasmine Burke, Christie plays my sister.
Speaker 1: So the substitution for that is how much I really
Speaker 1: loved my sister changes changing, and how much I really
Speaker 1: love Jasmine Burke off screen, you know, with Clifton Pile
Speaker 1: playing my dad, you know how much how much you Rex, Rex,
Speaker 1: get out of Rex, Get out of my face. You
Speaker 1: you know. And Vanessa Bell callaway, she come on, she's alleged.
Speaker 1: She just caught. She trying to be right, She trying
Speaker 1: to be right, she try and her mother gonna throw
Speaker 1: hard with the left hook like that. Secrets what Black
Speaker 1: families got? So many secrets? You know what? That's it.
Speaker 1: That's a real strong part of black familis like you said,
Speaker 1: we do, we do got we do got some secrets.
Speaker 1: But at the same time us coming together as black
Speaker 1: families and and really understanding each other. It just keeps
Speaker 1: boiling down to how we understand things, how we handle things,
Speaker 1: and how we move forward with things. But see, let
Speaker 1: me come in and challenge you're here because I mean
Speaker 1: the things like there's gonna be that if you haven't
Speaker 1: watched to what are going to be revealed? As far
Speaker 1: as the secrets are things that secrets that I feel
Speaker 1: like a lot of families have. But it's this whole
Speaker 1: idea of a protection. Now it isn't to say that
Speaker 1: you know, the intentions were to be negative, but it's
Speaker 1: like the results and while we do come together as families,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if we have the kind of conversations
Speaker 1: that we need. And because we are used to having
Speaker 1: an exercise in that versations, a lot of things can
Speaker 1: be misinterpreted. And therefore, which I feel often had was
Speaker 1: happening in this uh the show, is that a lot
Speaker 1: of people are held to unimaginable standards. Yeah, they held
Speaker 1: to unimaginable responsibility standards, and and and going off of wood,
Speaker 1: another character or somebody else, another individual expects from them.
Speaker 1: And and that's what that's what's going on today, you know,
Speaker 1: not just in families, but just in general. A lot
Speaker 1: of people sometimes they don't they don't walk in their
Speaker 1: own purpose. They're walking in somebody else's purpose. They're looking
Speaker 1: at you know, Joe Blow over here, or this young
Speaker 1: lady or this young man over here, and they're saying, okay,
Speaker 1: since they're telling me to be a certain way, this
Speaker 1: is the way I'm gonna I'm gonna be a lot
Speaker 1: of people don't identify with themselves yet, and that's the problem,
Speaker 1: you know. But at the same time, you have people
Speaker 1: like Dawn Day, you had people like Trade Training. We
Speaker 1: identify with who we are, and we're the ones who
Speaker 1: set in the tone for other people. To say, it's
Speaker 1: nothing wrong with yourself. Just be yourself, you know. Okay,
Speaker 1: So question go ahead, who who is want to see
Speaker 1: to his core? Who is this man? Kendrick. Kendrick is
Speaker 1: a loving man. Kendrick is a loving man who who
Speaker 1: was dealt a bad hang but at the same time
Speaker 1: still trying to turn his life around, which a lot
Speaker 1: of brothers in today's society face. You know, he's he's
Speaker 1: this loving guy who who wants to turn his life around,
Speaker 1: and he walks in those steps of doing better, you know,
Speaker 1: even from getting a regular job, because you know his background,
Speaker 1: coming from the streets, you only end up did or
Speaker 1: locked up, you know, And that's just that's just the
Speaker 1: reality of these things. And one of those came true
Speaker 1: in season two when he was locked up. So it's
Speaker 1: you know, now being out and saying, Okay, I'm ready
Speaker 1: to turn my life around. If I want to change,
Speaker 1: you know, if if if I want things to change
Speaker 1: around me, I have to change. Because at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, it starts with gentry. He has to
Speaker 1: change and that and that's who he is. He's on
Speaker 1: that that that fine line. It's a narrow pass on.
Speaker 1: I have to change regardless of my circumstances, my past.
Speaker 1: I know I was dealt this, this deck of cards.
Speaker 1: But you know what, I'm getting ready to slip this
Speaker 1: whole thing. And I'm getting ready to get serious about
Speaker 1: my my girl. And I'm get ready get serious about
Speaker 1: my baby just on the way and I'm and and
Speaker 1: I'm a I'm I'm gonna pull through. But I see
Speaker 1: when you say that, but if you're just negating everything
Speaker 1: that you just said, because without without giving it away. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: things just come up, you know that. But it's whatever
Speaker 1: the weather exactly, it's life. Things come up. You never
Speaker 1: know what direction this person is going, that person is going.
Speaker 1: And then but you know what, you know what's so funny,
Speaker 1: don Things things come up two sometimes throw us off
Speaker 1: courts and God is he wants to see how we
Speaker 1: deal with it. Like I could have been anything could
Speaker 1: have happened two days ago with that accident. I mean,
Speaker 1: it puts you in the slump, But at the same time,
Speaker 1: it's like, Okay, it happened. I felt every motion, I
Speaker 1: feel it all over my body. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: I know I'm coming on here today to be a light,
Speaker 1: to shine light with you, to to inspire people. So
Speaker 1: whatever whatever happens, you know, and and I keep relating
Speaker 1: this back to Kendrick because Satan Center season five best season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: best season out of all of them. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: just that's just what it is. You know. Every you
Speaker 1: better check it out about TV centers, shout out the Belch,
Speaker 1: shout out This World, film tol most definitely check out
Speaker 1: every say we're back on TV every week. We bought
Speaker 1: the rent Vision. So it's all love. But no, it's interesting.
Speaker 1: You know. One of the things I study improv at
Speaker 1: the ground links and a lot of the things that
Speaker 1: you're saying right now, I think is what I got
Speaker 1: from improv, and it's the whole yes, and and it's
Speaker 1: just like one thing that you you've consistently said, is
Speaker 1: that despite anything and everything that can be happened, even
Speaker 1: just a couple of days ago, you got into this accident.
Speaker 1: And there's a thing in life you gotta keep moving
Speaker 1: forward because until you've arrived, until you're your end date,
Speaker 1: you gotta keep moving. And it's like, in order to
Speaker 1: do that, which I felt like, well, encompass no matter
Speaker 1: whatever situation it is. It's the same thing as saying
Speaker 1: of knowing who you are and saying true to you.
Speaker 1: And that's why I said, well, who is Kendrick? You know?
Speaker 1: And my next question is gonna be who is Trade? Well,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna keep it whanding with you. Trade Chinee
Speaker 1: is a is a father. Trade Chinee is a husband.
Speaker 1: Trade Chinee is a grandfather. In trade Chinese contribution is love,
Speaker 1: peace and happiness, motivation and inspiration to every single person
Speaker 1: I come in contact with. It doesn't matter if I
Speaker 1: have a personal relationship with the person. It doesn't matter
Speaker 1: if the person is what we consider like an enemy
Speaker 1: or somebody that they really don't get down with. You
Speaker 1: know how positive I am, But that's who trade Chinee is.
Speaker 1: I'm an inspirational, motivational brother. This I'll get. Trying to
Speaker 1: uplive our people is much Hold on, wait, let me
Speaker 1: come and this amendment real quick. You know I have
Speaker 1: I have life tattooed on my mouth, so I'm very
Speaker 1: keen on my words. Try. We we don't try. Do
Speaker 1: you want to say it? Let me see wow? But
Speaker 1: we can't try to do something you know what and
Speaker 1: do it? Are? We don't try? We're pushing, We're pushing,
Speaker 1: and you know what, it's forwards and and and and
Speaker 1: I think I was quote at the moment just now
Speaker 1: when I use try, but I don't use try, bad, can't,
Speaker 1: or need. Those are four words that I don't use.
Speaker 1: It's try, maybe even have to get to is try, bad, can't,
Speaker 1: or need because everything is about us doing it. If
Speaker 1: we're gonna do what we're gonna do it, I don't
Speaker 1: need anything because I have everything already. Come on, you've
Speaker 1: already equipped. You are on four what and nothing is bad?
Speaker 1: Everything is good as long as we're above brand. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Because it's a lot of people
Speaker 1: that didn't wake up today, they're not gonna get a
Speaker 1: change to see this. There's a lot of people that
Speaker 1: didn't wake up today. And then, like I said, try, bad,
Speaker 1: can't or need. Can't is another word that I never
Speaker 1: use because I'm gonna make it happen. If it doesn't
Speaker 1: happen right there or in that moment, it's going to happen.
Speaker 1: It's not like I can't do anything. I could do anything.
Speaker 1: I can do anything you truly want. But why don't
Speaker 1: people realize that? What do you think it's in the
Speaker 1: way of why some people are successful, why some people aren't,
Speaker 1: why some people just simply doing, why some people don't, well,
Speaker 1: you know, it comes from um. For me, I'm somebody
Speaker 1: that always did so, you know, and even at a
Speaker 1: young age. But I think for some people, a lot
Speaker 1: of people not fortunate enough to have a lot of
Speaker 1: motivation and inspiration around them, that could be one thing.
Speaker 1: Another thing is self doubt and self hey, like I said,
Speaker 1: dealing with whatever the circumstances that they might have ever
Speaker 1: went through. They always look back when the pass and
Speaker 1: I used to be somebody that did that years ago,
Speaker 1: you know. But you can't let certain things that happen
Speaker 1: to you dictate where you're going or where you're heading
Speaker 1: in your future. You know. So a lot of people
Speaker 1: don't take that time to get to know self. They
Speaker 1: don't they like I said, they they're following somebody else's lead,
Speaker 1: you know, and they don't really take the time to
Speaker 1: really get to know who they truly are and how
Speaker 1: they can you know, elevate you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: and make things happen not just for themselves but for
Speaker 1: other people. Because this is this is what all of
Speaker 1: this is about. For me, Like I said, my contribution
Speaker 1: is love, peace, happiness to to other people. I'm already set.
Speaker 1: God got me good. I'm already straight now and I
Speaker 1: and I truly believe that. But if I'm able to
Speaker 1: go and I'm able to you know, really inspire somebody
Speaker 1: who may feel like we're speaking about, they may have
Speaker 1: self doubt, they may paint themselves for stuff that they
Speaker 1: did in the past. You know that that's what it is,
Speaker 1: That's what it's about. So you know, it's almost like
Speaker 1: being a mentor to to those type of people is
Speaker 1: being somebody who, like I said, not necessarily having to
Speaker 1: have a relationship all the way with them, but at
Speaker 1: the same time letting them know this is this is
Speaker 1: the past that you should be on, this is how
Speaker 1: you should walk, this is how you should do it.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, yeah, And I think it's just dedicating to
Speaker 1: just being true to self, like you said, um, and
Speaker 1: that goes along like what I talk about. One of
Speaker 1: the main things on the Vitamin D podcast and I
Speaker 1: and every episode with us, and it's always reminding people
Speaker 1: how you are your greatest asset, because everything in life
Speaker 1: becomes an extension of who you are. And while it's
Speaker 1: so easy for us to understand finances, right, you know,
Speaker 1: what you put in, what you take out, what you
Speaker 1: got left. The same as life. If you value yourself
Speaker 1: that much, everything in the extension of you will either
Speaker 1: prosper or won't. And it's based on you having that balance,
Speaker 1: because what are you putting in and what are you
Speaker 1: taking out? And here's the thing, unused accounts is just
Speaker 1: as bad as our as as what important as an
Speaker 1: unused account or a dead person, do you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So things are constantly going in and out.
Speaker 1: It's just about where does the balance come in. But
Speaker 1: I think oftentimes if we find ourselves in one spectrum
Speaker 1: leaning on the other, we just forgot to check the balance. Wow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's real. That's that's that's definitely an amazing point. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we just forgot to check in. We forgot to check
Speaker 1: the balance, and we forgot to check in with self
Speaker 1: to understand where we could possibly go where we're heavy.
Speaker 1: I feel you on that. So let me ask you this.
Speaker 1: So with Kendrick Um, do you feel this with all
Speaker 1: his backstory, all of his baggage, you know, some baggage
Speaker 1: and which we need to let go. Does he know
Speaker 1: where he's going, does he have you know what's up?
Speaker 1: Does he know what's up? Because it's like part of me.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, but I'm like, you just need to
Speaker 1: get popped a couple of times. But just think, though,
Speaker 1: don You've just seen the first episode of five, so
Speaker 1: you you're gonna see you're gonna see a lot from Kinder.
Speaker 1: You're gonna say it's at the end of this when
Speaker 1: we come back and we talk again and we do
Speaker 1: another you know, great conversation like we have because this
Speaker 1: ain't no interview. This is this is references the King
Speaker 1: and Queen chopping it up, just fun. And but when
Speaker 1: you see this season, I'm telling you you're gonna understand
Speaker 1: Kendrick's journey and where he's going. And I gonna like him.
Speaker 1: You're gonna love him. You ain't just gonna like him,
Speaker 1: You're gonna love him every the whole world gonna level. Now,
Speaker 1: are you saying that because you try and you playing
Speaker 1: Kindred or for real? Oh? No, I'm saying it for
Speaker 1: real because I didn't like it. I didn't like him
Speaker 1: for real in season two and season three and somebody
Speaker 1: because I'm like, listen, some of the stuff that he
Speaker 1: was doing, and I had to portray that. But this season,
Speaker 1: like I said, he's more he's more level headed, that's
Speaker 1: for sure, and he wasn't level headed and all the
Speaker 1: other seasons, he's more level headed. He got a baby
Speaker 1: on the way, he got a halt, y'all. He gotta listen,
Speaker 1: just okay, let me style because they need to they
Speaker 1: need to hurt, they need they got the babies on
Speaker 1: the way. Yeah, that's crazy. And it's like, here's the thing,
Speaker 1: because you can tell at his core, and I think
Speaker 1: that's all of us, at our core, what our values are,
Speaker 1: what our attentions are. But it's something about these circumstances
Speaker 1: and if we're in a situation that we cannot see beyond.
Speaker 1: And I think that's why the whole notion and the
Speaker 1: importance of having the vision. And it didn't say like
Speaker 1: can't you see because listen, what I see is right
Speaker 1: in front of me. But the vision is so much
Speaker 1: great and this injured. Please don't forget the vision. And
Speaker 1: that's why I tell people all the time, like, don't
Speaker 1: forget the vision, because that's when you realize that your
Speaker 1: location is not your destination. You know what. And I'll
Speaker 1: make myself what I am. That's that's real. Don't forget
Speaker 1: the vision and like you said, don't don't look at
Speaker 1: your location as the final destination. I understand that because,
Speaker 1: like I said, that goes back to a lot of
Speaker 1: your current situation. Like whatever you're currently going through right now,
Speaker 1: this doesn't dictate what might happen tomorrow. You're life to
Speaker 1: change tomorrow. I ain't even talking about in a month
Speaker 1: or year. We're talking about what if tomorrow is the
Speaker 1: life changing day for the positive, for the better for you.
Speaker 1: It's always positive, right as long as you ain't staying
Speaker 1: the same, as long as you ain't staying the same,
Speaker 1: as long as you're evolving, as long as you're creating
Speaker 1: and creating the circumstances that we got going on now,
Speaker 1: Like I mean, come on Vitamin D with on day.
Speaker 1: I mean you you whatever you d whatever you created
Speaker 1: to lead up to this point, you did it. Whatever
Speaker 1: I did to lead up to being a five season
Speaker 1: regular one boun CB Stral Center, I did he whatever
Speaker 1: wit Did you move down to Atlanta because of this show?
Speaker 1: Or were you taking a chance when you went because
Speaker 1: that was you know he listen, I love somebody like
Speaker 1: to jump and you know, just checking out the social
Speaker 1: media said something like this is amazing that now I
Speaker 1: can bring my family down to Atlanta and how it
Speaker 1: started out as a dream, Like I don't know if
Speaker 1: people realize that if you dream of how you gotta
Speaker 1: take flight. Growing up in Washington, d C, Forsville, Merland,
Speaker 1: my wife the same. Growing up in d C, I
Speaker 1: was content with staying there and traveling to l A,
Speaker 1: to New York to Atlanta. When Satan Centers decided that
Speaker 1: Kendrick was gonna be a character in the first season,
Speaker 1: they flew me out, they put me up. I was
Speaker 1: put up for two to three months at a nice,
Speaker 1: nice place while I was filming. Then after we would rat,
Speaker 1: I would go back home to d C, where a
Speaker 1: lot wasn't really happening too much in our field, you know,
Speaker 1: and entertainment, it's it's more politics, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So with with that, I have to give the credit
Speaker 1: to my queen, my wife. I used to because what
Speaker 1: happened was I'm sorry, How do you want to get
Speaker 1: content with saying, Okay, I'm getting ay leave for another
Speaker 1: four months for second season, for thirs season, for fourth season,
Speaker 1: and come back to d C. That means I'm leaving
Speaker 1: my family for certain months at a time. Yeah, they're
Speaker 1: flying back and forth. But it was my wife sit
Speaker 1: me down, and this was around the second thirsty and
Speaker 1: she said, so what do we what are we doing?
Speaker 1: You're you're you're content with staying here because my whole
Speaker 1: families in DC, my mom, my dad, my sister, aunt's auncles.
Speaker 1: I gotta a big family. The change so and you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes it's men, we think we got it all figured out.
Speaker 1: And then that woman, that queen, that that feminine energy,
Speaker 1: she could say something and then you could you realize, Wow,
Speaker 1: So I am content with staying here. She said, I
Speaker 1: see the potential in you. I've been married to on
Speaker 1: seventeen years. I know when you get around people, I
Speaker 1: know when you're getting casting directing meetings, and I know
Speaker 1: how you are. I have so much confidence and potential
Speaker 1: in you. We need to jump. And that's how it happened.
Speaker 1: Seventeen July we moved to Atlanta. When we moved, it
Speaker 1: was that I tell people, I don't I'm not afraid
Speaker 1: of anything. I don't fear anything. That was the first
Speaker 1: time I ever felt fear driving into U hole ten
Speaker 1: hours from DC to Atlantic first time I wanted to
Speaker 1: turn around and go come and was it the best
Speaker 1: of the worst decision. It was the best decision that
Speaker 1: we ever made. Just for the new house two months
Speaker 1: from the ground up, homeowners, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Watched it be built, hustle through the pandemic, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So so now every the decisions, the
Speaker 1: steps that we took from seventeen in July when we
Speaker 1: moved here, all the way up into today April, it
Speaker 1: was well worthing me even having this conversation with you
Speaker 1: about we jumped and then we I'm sitting in the
Speaker 1: crib and I'm like three months ago during the pain,
Speaker 1: not just a crib, your crib, Oh yeah, my crib.
Speaker 1: My wife's freed my son to be able to show
Speaker 1: my fourteen year old son. You know, men and your mother, Man,
Speaker 1: your mother jumped out there. We we we worked hard,
Speaker 1: you know what, you know what, We've worked smart. I'll
Speaker 1: say that as a culture, we can say we've been
Speaker 1: working hard all our life, and we have. But when
Speaker 1: you work smart, and when you again, when you're committed
Speaker 1: to achieving a certain goal, that is reachable. You know
Speaker 1: how everything goes with the homeownership. They take you through
Speaker 1: a whole bunch you know, they take you through a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of stuff, and you don't even be understanding
Speaker 1: what they're taking you through. Like they want to see
Speaker 1: bank staments, they want to see this, they want to
Speaker 1: see that, they want to know with a deposit came.
Speaker 1: We had to go through a lot with the process.
Speaker 1: But when we sat at that closing table and we
Speaker 1: signed the papers and we got some keys, this was
Speaker 1: well worth And I think that's what a lot of people.
Speaker 1: You just gotta make the decision. Like people often sounds like,
Speaker 1: well how do you become successful? How do you take
Speaker 1: a chance on your dreams? Well, you gotta make a
Speaker 1: decision to say that you're worth it. And I think
Speaker 1: that's why. You have to know who you are, nor
Speaker 1: what you stand for and what you don't And you
Speaker 1: only know that by experience, You only know that by
Speaker 1: allowing yourself to be flexible. You only know that to
Speaker 1: say that, dang it, I'm worth it because the way
Speaker 1: my accounts sat up, I'm the most valuable thing in it.
Speaker 1: So what you saying you're not worth your dreams You're
Speaker 1: not worth whatever piece you have, You're not worth abundance.
Speaker 1: Exactly what do you want? Go give it? Go go
Speaker 1: one to So then I gotta ask what does Kendrick
Speaker 1: Grant want in Saints and Sanis? What does he want?
Speaker 1: Kendrick wants to Kendrick wants to have a happy family
Speaker 1: atmosphere with his with his lady and his new baby
Speaker 1: on the way Ken? How is it? Isn't it terest
Speaker 1: How is he gonna be able to get a family together?
Speaker 1: And this whole back story his family has been checked up.
Speaker 1: Well again, that doesn't dictate. Come on, you better postpit
Speaker 1: it back out its circumstances whereafter he comes from his background.
Speaker 1: That's like when you hear people say I don't have
Speaker 1: no millionaires in my family, but guess where I'm gonna
Speaker 1: become a millionaire of my coming you know. So, my
Speaker 1: my nephew l J. He said he's gonna be a
Speaker 1: million I sent him the video of the four instance.
Speaker 1: I said, you need to know who the top five
Speaker 1: people are. I said, and you need to know who
Speaker 1: the top like and uh black female and male are
Speaker 1: because you gotta know what you wanna be. Wow, amazing
Speaker 1: you gotta open your mind set. No, no, no, you're good,
Speaker 1: but that that dictating where he's at now to where
Speaker 1: he's going and what he wants to be. And oh,
Speaker 1: you know what he wants, Peach because because you know,
Speaker 1: the the turmoil and and everything that he's been through
Speaker 1: his back his bagas his background, he definitely wants peace
Speaker 1: and happiness and he wants to be accepted. He wants
Speaker 1: to be accepted by his parents. You know it is
Speaker 1: his sister loves. Jasmine Burke, who plays Dr Christie John,
Speaker 1: she loved, but grandmother changed standon well she currently because
Speaker 1: she got so much stuff. She had so much stuff
Speaker 1: in her closet. I'm surprised nobody has smelled anything just
Speaker 1: yet because it's more than skeletons in there. But you're
Speaker 1: gonna see some skeletons this either you're gonna you're gonna
Speaker 1: see some stuff come out that closet. You it's gonna
Speaker 1: shock you. You're gonna call me to be like my
Speaker 1: mouth was dropped. Once the episode ended, I was just like,
Speaker 1: that was it. That was it, the whole thing. And
Speaker 1: you know what, I like what you said too, because
Speaker 1: even and I think it's in life too and that's
Speaker 1: why you cannot um allow somebody's perspective, their viewpoint, to
Speaker 1: dictate who you are, because even in myself and I
Speaker 1: think it happens and we all forget that we're all human.
Speaker 1: I came on his podcast and I'm like, yo, a
Speaker 1: part of me, you know, wants to love Kendrick, and
Speaker 1: I think everything is possible for the future. Then fast
Speaker 1: forward thirty minutes later. Now I'm up here telling you like, oh,
Speaker 1: if he hasn't had it, how was he going to
Speaker 1: acquire it? Even? And I think, oh, I just hope
Speaker 1: that people show grace. And it's so interesting. Even the
Speaker 1: title of this project, Saints and Centaers the bridge is grace,
Speaker 1: and I think we forget that it's the grace that
Speaker 1: strings them together because they're always connected. I don't think
Speaker 1: you're not gonna get one without the other. And I
Speaker 1: just hope that's a reminder of somebody else, whoever has it,
Speaker 1: whoever doesn't. Whatever happened to you, you still got the
Speaker 1: pen to write your life. Of course, you still got
Speaker 1: the pin to write your life. You still and and
Speaker 1: it's no age limit, it's no it's no age limit
Speaker 1: on when, and it's nothing wrong with starting over. You
Speaker 1: could start over every single day. We do start over
Speaker 1: every day. You know, when we get rest, we get
Speaker 1: up and we gotta start all the way over. And
Speaker 1: and happiness is you know, happiness is not something that's
Speaker 1: always happiness joy. It's not something that always comes when
Speaker 1: we wake up. We gotta fight for you know. So
Speaker 1: I put up with post over the day I said,
Speaker 1: anybody there, it's in the bid this morning. It is
Speaker 1: fighting with not waking up. But you woke up anyway.
Speaker 1: You you, you shower, you brush your teeth, you put
Speaker 1: your clothes on, you major day, and then you went
Speaker 1: out there to provide for your family, male or female.
Speaker 1: I commit you because that's that's happy at You know,
Speaker 1: a lot of people don't even want to get up
Speaker 1: out of big don't even want to get up, and
Speaker 1: it's it's you know, and I want to say on
Speaker 1: one part is unfortunate, but it's just the whole idea
Speaker 1: of it's just life, and it's just about knowing that
Speaker 1: that sometimes to get down, it's for the get up
Speaker 1: because it just makes it that much sweeter. You know.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like the same thing as you said,
Speaker 1: why you have to save with the journey. You gotta
Speaker 1: understand why the up is up because sometimes I think
Speaker 1: we're just functioning. I think I think that's the difference.
Speaker 1: You know, when people are just functioning in life. You
Speaker 1: know you don't have anything to lose, nor do you
Speaker 1: feel like you have anything in the game. So what
Speaker 1: are you moving for? Yeah? What are you going towards?
Speaker 1: But see, if you've been a situation, you've been down
Speaker 1: and had to taste up, you know how sweet or
Speaker 1: how that other side looks. And then now rather than
Speaker 1: being mad on society, being mad on what could have
Speaker 1: genetically been in your system and your body, you have
Speaker 1: the decision. You make the decision of what you want
Speaker 1: and how you want to create the narrative exactly exactly.
Speaker 1: So what's the rest of the narrative for you? What's
Speaker 1: coming up? From Mr trade Cheney? What we need to know? Well,
Speaker 1: Secret Society. I'm in a film called Secret Society. They
Speaker 1: just dropped on Amazon Prime and Miyasha Kobe Royalty. She's
Speaker 1: a brilliant writer. Rich Coleman is the executive producer and
Speaker 1: Jamal Hill, who I work within Streets, is the director.
Speaker 1: Biblica Fox is in it. Erica pinkett Is in it.
Speaker 1: Rain of Love is in the journey, meeks Um in this, Yeah,
Speaker 1: journeys in that's the home. Yeah, and look at you
Speaker 1: throw that much. Yeah, in this film. He works in
Speaker 1: mysterious ways. Okay, I'm done. This film is uh, it's
Speaker 1: totally different. I had to step out of my comfort
Speaker 1: zone as an actor to level up as far as
Speaker 1: an actor and really challenge myself again. But the Rave
Speaker 1: reviews from the movie dropping not even a week ago,
Speaker 1: like April second, they dropped April second. We charted at
Speaker 1: number eighty seven, then we charted at number thirty, and
Speaker 1: today we're number twenty. So this thing has headed to
Speaker 1: number one. You know, so just to be a part
Speaker 1: of some independent black owned production company um our own soundtrack,
Speaker 1: you know, like like we didn't go to majors for anything,
Speaker 1: and we're showing the major's look at what a self
Speaker 1: funded black owned production company Nyasha coman Rich Coleman. Look
Speaker 1: at what they did without anybody and that were charging.
Speaker 1: You know, So when you started charting and you know,
Speaker 1: these major started looking at you, and then you got
Speaker 1: Biblica fox Like I said, Germany meets Raining Love Erica
Speaker 1: Pinkett Trade Chain. You know this is this is getting heavy,
Speaker 1: you know. And then I had Truthless, which is my
Speaker 1: directorial debut on Amazon Prime right now. It's a short
Speaker 1: film and I got inscribed by New Jack City. I
Speaker 1: got inspired by Nino Brain when I got inscribed by
Speaker 1: Boys in the Hood, and I said, you know what,
Speaker 1: and it's twenty minutes. I just wanna create this balance
Speaker 1: and I want to act crazy through the whole film,
Speaker 1: and I would be gangster. I'm gonna go hard because
Speaker 1: I wanted to just creative balance and I wanted to
Speaker 1: do it, and I did it, and it's on Prime
Speaker 1: right now, doing very well. And I was just happy
Speaker 1: to direct it and starting and I said, you know what,
Speaker 1: this is what it is? Yes, yes, I love that well.
Speaker 1: I want to definitely keep pushing all that great energy
Speaker 1: in your way to keep succeeding, to keep pushing, to
Speaker 1: keep doing all that that is. That is amazing. And
Speaker 1: I guess for those who've been listening and watching, who've
Speaker 1: had a chance to absorb some of your amazing energy
Speaker 1: and as well as your story, um, could you leave
Speaker 1: us with a dose of Vitamin D, words of inspiration
Speaker 1: and maybe a quote A thought or anything. Something to
Speaker 1: inspire someone, well, something to inspire someone from from shape,
Speaker 1: from Trade Chain. When when we're gonna here with my
Speaker 1: sister Dawn day is never give up. Never give up.
Speaker 1: Um this business and just in life in general, it's
Speaker 1: gonna throw you curve balls, you know, it's gonna throw
Speaker 1: you certain things that you got to jump over, but
Speaker 1: never giving up an understanding that putting God first is
Speaker 1: the key. And then just if you have a dream,
Speaker 1: sometimes a lot of times it's great to detach yourself
Speaker 1: from the dream and throw it out into the universe
Speaker 1: so the universe can work. It's magic and everything could
Speaker 1: come back to you full circle. So that that's my
Speaker 1: that's my message, you know on viteing d you know
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Speaker 1: I'm saying. My fans, my supporters, they always hit me
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Speaker 1: Every day is going to be a great word shared,
Speaker 1: you know because a lot of people they follow and
Speaker 1: they watch and and they want to they want to
Speaker 1: be inspired. And I just feel like, like I said,
Speaker 1: that's my purpose. I'm here to motivate and inspire and
Speaker 1: encourage as much as I can. Well, thank you so much,
Speaker 1: thank you. Wow. I know that right there. That's trade training, inspiration, motivational.
Speaker 1: I mean a brother that is truly walking in dominion.
Speaker 1: And then also the star of the show, Satsan Center.
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Speaker 1: sure you check it out and remember the key nuggets here.
Speaker 1: Remember how important it is to take the jump, Remember
Speaker 1: how important it is. It's just to keep moving forward
Speaker 1: and understanding that every day above ground is a blessing.
Speaker 1: So are you ready to be blessed? Are you ready
Speaker 1: to move into the life of your dreams? Because I'm
Speaker 1: telling you you're worthy and you're gonna have to take
Speaker 1: a chance. And just like Tray said, you gotta get
Speaker 1: out there and put yourself out there. Understand that everything
Speaker 1: is a slow bill. So whether it's his situation that
Speaker 1: he gets in a car accident as he us on
Speaker 1: his promo wrong for a season five of his show,
Speaker 1: what was your head? What was ya? Get down that dictator?
Speaker 1: You'll get up, you know, as Les Brown says, if
Speaker 1: you can lick up, you can get up. So what
Speaker 1: do you say? Did you cut on the lights? Welcome
Speaker 1: to Vitamin To. I want you to remember this if
Speaker 1: you are fearful or having some hesitation of anything in
Speaker 1: your life, understand that fear is not meant for you
Speaker 1: to run away, but it's something that's meant for you
Speaker 1: to run towards. If the blessing is in the journey,
Speaker 1: the question, because what are you willing to discover? Hey,
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Speaker 1: The brother is full of inspiration and motivation. If you
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Speaker 1: it's time to get out of here, and until next time,
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