Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning, The Breakfast Club Morning,
Speaker 1: Everybody's dj n V. Just hilarious, Charlamage, the guy we
Speaker 1: are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest in
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Speaker 2: Hey.
Speaker 1: No book, The Pretty Victory one hundred Day Guide to
Speaker 1: resent to yourself and find your purposes out right now,
Speaker 1: how you feeling?
Speaker 3: I feel so good, I feel blessed, black and just
Speaker 3: you know, obsessed with this book now, you know, I'm
Speaker 3: just excited for this journey, like it came from a
Speaker 3: text message via social media posting and now just having
Speaker 3: my own book, like it's just it's amazing feeling.
Speaker 4: For it makes sense for you to have a devotional
Speaker 4: book for affirmations because all you do is send us
Speaker 4: devotionals and affirmations every day.
Speaker 5: Yes, it makes sense.
Speaker 2: So it's clearly on brand for your brand.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and you know what I love about it because
Speaker 6: you're just gonna jump straight into it because myself got
Speaker 6: other press.
Speaker 2: Hello.
Speaker 6: So you know what I love about it is you
Speaker 6: had said in your and it's not really a chapter,
Speaker 6: but it's a segment how to use this book. You
Speaker 6: said it took you one hundred days right to start
Speaker 6: thinking new and doing new.
Speaker 7: Things.
Speaker 6: What are some of the things that you felt like
Speaker 6: you had to work on in those hundred days. What
Speaker 6: were that the hardest things that you had to overcome.
Speaker 3: Well, just not entertaining social media was one of it.
Speaker 3: I was like fast, Yeah, I was like literally in
Speaker 3: my closet writing this. Like I literally was just like
Speaker 3: I was giving snippets on social media. I was like,
Speaker 3: I watched TDJ, So when I seen TDJ sermon, He's like,
Speaker 3: stand on what you know. And for me, I'm a
Speaker 3: mind person, you know me, I'll be all in my
Speaker 3: head overthinking things. But it was more of like, Okay,
Speaker 3: let's separate from what I know that I'm familiar with,
Speaker 3: doing the skits on the table, entertaining, checking the social media,
Speaker 3: checking the DMS engagements to like, girl, you could just
Speaker 3: have this book deal and you need to get to it.
Speaker 2: Like so I was really in my closet.
Speaker 3: I had to separate, just sacrifice the social media, take
Speaker 3: that away for a little bit, and get locked in
Speaker 3: in my closet and just start writing. And I was
Speaker 3: just throwing little snippets on social media to see how
Speaker 3: people was going to react. And it just became a book.
Speaker 2: And I just had to literally.
Speaker 3: Write, write, write each day, you know, shout out to Nikki,
Speaker 3: shout out to Franky, like just for helping me, because
Speaker 3: I still wanted to add like the comedic side, and
Speaker 3: you know, wanted to shot you know, Charlemagne like yourself,
Speaker 3: asking quotes like what makes you guys tour, trying to
Speaker 3: put it all together and not just be your typical
Speaker 3: devotional because everyone is not religious and everyone does understand,
Speaker 3: you know, yeah so, and I believe in Jesus Christ,
Speaker 3: so you know, I didn't want to dumb that down neither.
Speaker 2: I needed to throw him in there. But it's for everyone.
Speaker 3: It's unisex book, it's for the it's for the women
Speaker 3: as well, and I just wanted to really.
Speaker 2: Like tap into the other side outside of being funny
Speaker 2: for sure, so much.
Speaker 4: Did you ever get frustrated while you was, you know,
Speaker 4: doing your hundred days and like flip that table you'll
Speaker 4: be dancing on, like Jesus.
Speaker 2: Come on, flippy and tippy. Yeah No, I didn't really,
Speaker 2: I didn't get frustrated.
Speaker 3: I just said, like I got a mission to complete,
Speaker 3: Like I was, like I wanted to shut this book
Speaker 3: down and like let's get on the table and like
Speaker 3: let's do what I got to do with my friends
Speaker 3: go out.
Speaker 2: But I was like they on me.
Speaker 3: I know that the ministries in me when it comes
Speaker 3: down to speaking life. I gotta get this done. I
Speaker 3: remember I told you about it at Charlotte's thing, Like,
Speaker 3: why need your quote?
Speaker 2: Can I put it in there? Because like I said,
Speaker 2: we have our group.
Speaker 3: Chat where we send in the devotions and constantly every
Speaker 3: day every day. Yeah, yeah, and and and then sometimes
Speaker 3: you'll even explain, You'll go further into it and even
Speaker 3: explain exactly why this is, why this is the one
Speaker 3: that you picked to send us today. You know, God
Speaker 3: will lay it on your heart and me and be sometimes.
Speaker 6: Will feel like you know where we going you know
Speaker 6: what I'm saying, you know what we're going through.
Speaker 2: But that's the that's the best part about you. Why
Speaker 2: this for your first book? Though?
Speaker 6: Because Divanna is a person that wears many hats. You
Speaker 6: you are not just funny, you do so many other things.
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: Is for the first book? Get a memoir? Like you said,
Speaker 2: why why book?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, not not even all right, well not
Speaker 2: even like who you are?
Speaker 6: Who you are because a lot of people don't know
Speaker 6: you are Divana XL. Who you say who you are
Speaker 6: in a book. I ain't trying to spoil it, you do,
Speaker 6: but you do say in the book I'm gonna save
Speaker 6: who I am for the next book.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, why is that not the first one?
Speaker 3: I just for me, I just feel like I just
Speaker 3: have so much work to do, like that's not even
Speaker 3: there yet. Like I just need to like do so
Speaker 3: so much more. I'm just not there yet, and I
Speaker 3: feel like, let's put something out whether people could appreciate,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 2: And I was like this devotion.
Speaker 3: If someone told me I had an interview, they were like, okay,
Speaker 3: well we just be like the funny bee, like this
Speaker 3: is just the book is so serious. I was like, girl,
Speaker 3: you haven't even got the book, but not even not yet, right,
Speaker 3: you know, Like I want to give you guys a
Speaker 3: part of me. And if this is what I have
Speaker 3: to do, I'm gonna be still. I remember when I
Speaker 3: had uh we had COVID and I reached out to Charlotte.
Speaker 3: When they I was like, oh, Charlotte, I'm overthinking. We
Speaker 3: ain't gotta work the Charlotte said to be still. I
Speaker 3: hated when Charlotte told me that I was like be still.
Speaker 3: I hate the word still because I get to think,
Speaker 3: I get to be in my head. But that's one
Speaker 3: of the things that to answer your question at the beginning,
Speaker 3: like I had to be still, and I hated it
Speaker 3: because I was like, this has to be written and
Speaker 3: the only person that's gonna write it is me, and
Speaker 3: whoever else will we hire to help me put it
Speaker 3: all together. So, I mean, I just wanted to put
Speaker 3: a devotional out because I was like, it's just necessary,
Speaker 3: like you said, it's on brand, and I just want
Speaker 3: people to hear my story everything that I've been through,
Speaker 3: you know, delay has ever denial, I talk, you know,
Speaker 3: I talk about Hollywood in here. Just don't change, ye know,
Speaker 3: and just keep going and you know, don't be afraid
Speaker 3: to walk alone. The relationships I have friendships and people
Speaker 3: I've you know, dated, like how you just don't have
Speaker 3: to walk alone in your pain. You need God will
Speaker 3: send help people and angels. I talked about it in
Speaker 3: the beginning when I was so hungry in college, I
Speaker 3: had no money, I had no food in Miss Danian
Speaker 3: shout out to you know, Saint Augustine University, Hello North Carolina.
Speaker 3: He helped me, gave me fifty dollars and laid on
Speaker 3: his heart. God said you didn't eat, and here's here's money.
Speaker 3: I just talk about all the propheticness. Yeah, that's in
Speaker 3: here that brought me to this day.
Speaker 2: So I just hope it. I know it's gonna help us,
Speaker 2: So you feel me. The mission is.
Speaker 3: I don't look at the numbers. I look at like,
Speaker 3: who am I touching in this season? And if that's
Speaker 3: what it is, we gonna rock out.
Speaker 5: And when I say be still, I'm quoting the Bible
Speaker 5: verse song forty six. Yeah, yeah, be still, and now
Speaker 5: as I am God, Yeah, all.
Speaker 4: Right, which means that you should trust in God and
Speaker 4: recognize that God is the control of all circums come
Speaker 4: on around things.
Speaker 2: I just hate it at the time because I was like,
Speaker 2: let me work. I was like coach, because like it's.
Speaker 5: Hard to up here still. I love speaking tongue. I close.
Speaker 6: Because you're a Clowan, I cannot take you seriously at all.
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you, now, your mother's a pastor Crest,
Speaker 1: she is still into you, so to talk about growing
Speaker 1: up with your mother being the pastor and you're still
Speaker 1: doing the funny skits and the outland and skits and
Speaker 1: but you still are so close to your faith.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my mom, Like again, her mission is to do
Speaker 3: what she has to do, but the ministry. But this
Speaker 3: is the thing we're doing ministry. Okay, We're healing, like
Speaker 3: laughter is healing, you know, outside of what we do
Speaker 3: is a gift. You know what Jess does on stage.
Speaker 3: I can't do what she do that's up there fifteen.
Speaker 2: Minutes, twenty minutes for the five, I'm gonna be here, Like,
Speaker 2: can we do some magic tree? But that's what you're yo,
Speaker 2: I want to do some magic tricks y'all. Ya want
Speaker 2: to see it? Like that's me, you know, like Kevin,
Speaker 2: come on now, like let me put the pink roll
Speaker 2: back on.
Speaker 3: Like that's just like I commend them for being in
Speaker 3: their purpose and walking in their purpose and being the
Speaker 3: legend that she is. Me on the other hand, I'm like,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna jump on some tables. I'm gonna be be
Speaker 3: a personality these characters that I have and there's no judging,
Speaker 3: Like just walking your gift and when God steers you
Speaker 3: some other way, go do that too.
Speaker 2: But right now in this season, I'm just doing both.
Speaker 2: I'm balancing it all.
Speaker 3: I mean people may take it serious, may not, you know,
Speaker 3: and some people you know may not take it serious, Like, okay,
Speaker 3: should we trust in this character that has been doing
Speaker 3: this stuff for years now, she's writing a book.
Speaker 2: I don't believe it.
Speaker 3: So that's why everybody face I'm posting every day about it.
Speaker 3: I ain't on the table right now. I'm gonna just
Speaker 3: let y'all see what's going on, because respect this avenue.
Speaker 3: You know we're doing a lot, but respect this calling.
Speaker 3: Until I decided to say, all right, it's been five months. Now,
Speaker 3: let me get back to what I'm doing and still
Speaker 3: carry with it because my brand, you know. But my mom,
Speaker 3: she loves me. She doesn't judge. She's like, this is
Speaker 3: what you're doing. Just don't do nothing that's gonna take
Speaker 3: you away from God.
Speaker 2: Yes it, that's all. She not that type of mother
Speaker 2: for sure.
Speaker 5: And you saw out your first show last year when
Speaker 5: you did in Atlanta at the what was you wasn't
Speaker 5: able to stage?
Speaker 2: Yeah, we was there.
Speaker 5: You sold that out period, y'all.
Speaker 3: Yes, we're gonna And that's the thing that we putting
Speaker 3: her on the road to you, like, you know, we
Speaker 3: we addam more characters.
Speaker 2: I was actually.
Speaker 3: We're gonna put Sharon on the road, you know, this year.
Speaker 3: So I'm excited about that. I was just trying to
Speaker 3: just make get this book going. But Sharon deserves a stage,
Speaker 3: like more people to see her in New York for sure.
Speaker 3: This is the pit of Geologymican people, so I want
Speaker 3: to bring her out here.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I wasn't afraid. My mom came up.
Speaker 3: She seen me winding, she seen me talk about people,
Speaker 3: She seen me up there, Karen On. So yeah, we
Speaker 3: just want to walk into that.
Speaker 4: You know that you talked about Jeff and her gift
Speaker 4: of being able to do standing up like you know,
Speaker 4: stage plays have been around forever, you know what I mean.
Speaker 5: There's people that have made multi.
Speaker 4: Millions of dollars off stage place. Of course, you know
Speaker 4: the Tyler Perry's the uh uh that's the other brother name.
Speaker 5: Dang. You know what I'm talking about. The play, Yeah,
Speaker 5: the black stage place put your mom.
Speaker 4: David Talbert, I think, yes, David Talbert, I think, but
Speaker 4: but but that's a lane that a lot of people,
Speaker 4: especially your generation, aren't in.
Speaker 5: You could easily be producing stage.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, And everyone tells me that they're like,
Speaker 3: I just got a text, I think that Tory Lanes,
Speaker 3: I know you feel me out free.
Speaker 2: Like he d m me the other day. It was
Speaker 2: just like, yo, you could be producing plays like you're like,
Speaker 2: you know, but yo you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the Stallion just n followed you to man.
Speaker 7: Well, she wasn't following me from the she wasn't following me.
Speaker 3: But I love Meg and you know that. But I'm
Speaker 3: just telling you what he told me, you know, shout
Speaker 3: out to him like hey, like I think you should
Speaker 3: do that. And of course Charlotte told me too. I
Speaker 3: brought the idea to him like, yo, I want to
Speaker 3: do this. I want to do these plays, you know,
Speaker 3: I want to get my characters involved. But my thing
Speaker 3: is is, like I sent him out the devotion, I said, look,
Speaker 3: thank you so much for that advice. But we're gonna
Speaker 3: we act on it. We're gonna act on it. But
Speaker 3: I just I just want to make sure everything is right.
Speaker 3: And someone told me just do it. I think I'd
Speaker 3: just be scared of people, just like, are y'all gonna show?
Speaker 3: Like y'all gonna come out and yeah me, that's how
Speaker 3: it was a Searon. I was like, y'all gonna buy
Speaker 3: a ticket, like you know what it is, and I
Speaker 3: was so nervous that day, but you know, faith, I know,
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 2: So that's why I just I went at it and
Speaker 2: just did it.
Speaker 5: Davidy Tal that's his name, w J.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah he roll now right even joint. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: excited about it.
Speaker 6: Now with all of the long list of everything that
Speaker 6: you've been doing, you also received your honorary doctor.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Humanitarianism. I say that word right, humanitarianism.
Speaker 2: Last year I just said it should be a certificate,
Speaker 2: yard just a certificate. I knew it was coming. I
Speaker 2: know it, I know it a certificate. He now did that. Now,
Speaker 2: I know you're proud of that.
Speaker 6: I'm extremely proud of you because you went to college
Speaker 6: in real life anyway, you got real life, you know
Speaker 6: what I mean. But not taking anything away from your
Speaker 6: honorary doctor again, but did that moment when people were
Speaker 6: coming for you or you know, the back liss that
Speaker 6: you received from it, did that take away from like
Speaker 6: the enjoyment? Did that take away from you know the
Speaker 6: fact that it was a victory for you, that was
Speaker 6: still a victory that you received.
Speaker 3: It did, But it didn't right because like I said,
Speaker 3: I wasn't the only one who received it. My mother
Speaker 3: received it that day, my brother received it that day.
Speaker 3: And I feel like there was there's a process. It
Speaker 3: wasn't like, Yo, what up can we honor You're gonna
Speaker 3: get your doctors. No, I had to, like for the
Speaker 3: whole moment out. I had to get in this class
Speaker 3: and do works, put work. I just just do the
Speaker 3: whole thing before I got it. So I think it
Speaker 3: was that that moment dragged out for the longest. I
Speaker 3: was like, why are we still talking about the doctor is?
Speaker 3: I didn't ever tell y'all, niggas I was getting a
Speaker 3: white coat. But I didn't say, Charlotte comes to the graduation.
Speaker 2: And just be here at five and be bring your
Speaker 2: wife and kids. Like I didn't say that. I said,
Speaker 2: and I said I was getting a white coat.
Speaker 3: I got something that the community respect and honored, and
Speaker 3: I was like feeling great about it, Like all these
Speaker 3: great people got it usher miss Michael Jackson. I guess
Speaker 3: because I'm not in that caliber, it doesn't matter. And
Speaker 3: she's on the girl, she's doing the skits and like
Speaker 3: we're not taking it serious, Like, oh, they're just giving.
Speaker 2: Out this title to everybody. Whatever. I was like, whatever
Speaker 2: I got it.
Speaker 3: They see me, they acknowledged me, they gave my flowers.
Speaker 3: They shouldn't change the name. It shouldn't be a certificate dress.
Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, it is what
Speaker 3: it is.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 2: I got it and I stood on it, and I
Speaker 2: know my friends were happy.
Speaker 3: I definitely I was just like, let's get it, let's go,
Speaker 3: you know. So it's just for the next person, you know,
Speaker 3: like they may call you and say just we want
Speaker 3: you to be in.
Speaker 2: The honorary delta. I'm like, I'm all four. I love
Speaker 2: that a doctor's she might be akay, yeah, ak car
Speaker 2: and we like jazz. Do you not know I did
Speaker 2: a whole video for you when you got this position
Speaker 2: for Breakfast Club.
Speaker 3: The whole video was represented around just Hilaire's because this
Speaker 3: is awesome where you're sitting like this.
Speaker 2: It was no other person. I was. I hit Sean.
Speaker 2: I said, oh you, that's Jesse, Like she deserves that seat.
Speaker 3: So even when you went gone with missing for the baby,
Speaker 3: I'm like, okay, we're just at you know, but again
Speaker 3: things have to come in and feel in for you.
Speaker 2: But this is your seat.
Speaker 3: So as a person, as a pretty v A B simone,
Speaker 3: a just as a Drew Ski a Marco. These are
Speaker 3: accolades that we're like, well, we're getting like and I'm
Speaker 3: just happy that I got it, and I'm happy that
Speaker 3: it's all my house stood it up and I'm like,
Speaker 3: I'm happy, amazing.
Speaker 5: I got one from South Carolina State. Just getting one
Speaker 5: from Baltimore City Community College.
Speaker 2: First of all, Oh my god, you know I'm not
Speaker 2: getting community college.
Speaker 6: No, they didn't send nothing's the community college.
Speaker 5: Don't do them like that.
Speaker 2: Damn got no, damn Twitter.
Speaker 5: Said, said they want to give you honorary doctor. You
Speaker 5: know that, shut up community college and just.
Speaker 2: Get that from the community college. We let like we
Speaker 2: had to look at such a clan.
Speaker 6: Anyway, you're talking about me about you said earlier that
Speaker 6: you know you're talking about people you've dated in the
Speaker 6: book and stuff too. Yeah, I ain't say no names
Speaker 6: understand ant names in the book. She called to make
Speaker 6: sure I could throw a little.
Speaker 2: But where's the love life now? Since you're don't working
Speaker 2: on yourself and you had a hundred days to change
Speaker 2: and to thank newly, where's the dating status?
Speaker 5: And not ready to mingle?
Speaker 2: We is focused? We is getting to it.
Speaker 3: I mean we I'm on a mission right now to
Speaker 3: just focus on a pretty victory, focus on all the
Speaker 3: great things whatever I put down picking back up in
Speaker 3: the season, I feel like like I'm just growing spiritually
Speaker 3: more like I'm asking God to cover my heart. Be
Speaker 3: open to new collection connections, but cover my heart, cover
Speaker 3: my borderlines of my ear gates. Like I'm just really intrigued,
Speaker 3: just having fun, like the skits, the comedic side, and
Speaker 3: I'm running with Charlotte told me it's like, Yo, you're
Speaker 3: all purpose entertainer. I'm running with that, doing everything I
Speaker 3: could possibly do whatever I put down on picking back up.
Speaker 2: So right now I'm single.
Speaker 3: You know, I hear whoever like you hear me, like
Speaker 3: like Miami Dolphins, Eagles what they do, like.
Speaker 5: You know, dances.
Speaker 2: Entrepreneurs where y'all ask.
Speaker 3: What what?
Speaker 5: Whatever?
Speaker 2: I hear you know, were working single?
Speaker 4: I'm I want to ask both of y'all, some of
Speaker 4: you in just right because in Day nineteen you talk
Speaker 4: about following God's instructions, right, so I want to ask you,
Speaker 4: how do you know what instructions of God's instructions and whatnot?
Speaker 5: And I wonder about that in regards the relationships.
Speaker 4: Like just God, say you know what, that's who you
Speaker 4: should be dating or that's who you should be dealing with.
Speaker 3: M R.
Speaker 2: They just God to me, don't let me. You said
Speaker 2: that God tell.
Speaker 5: Me, Yeah, that God said the person you should be with.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, I feel like God sent me a man after
Speaker 6: his own heart, you know me chers we pray together,
Speaker 6: that's my partner. Just the first time I've been in
Speaker 6: a relationship where I actually feel like we're doing the
Speaker 6: spiritual growing together, you know what I mean, Like in
Speaker 6: other relationships. They I'm not saying that I was dating atheists,
Speaker 6: you know, but I would initiate the praying. I would initiate,
Speaker 6: you know, let's let's read together. Let's you know when
Speaker 6: you know you sent me to it?
Speaker 5: Ease right.
Speaker 6: He took one and he's like, yo, I didn't know
Speaker 6: she was doing the Daily Divorce. I said, yeah, well
Speaker 6: she sends me. He said, I know she was turning
Speaker 6: into a book, and you know, we started reading it.
Speaker 6: Like he he's very very spiritual, He's a Christian godfair man.
Speaker 6: And yeah, I do feel like God has spoken to
Speaker 6: to me and told me this is this is the
Speaker 6: last person that she won't be with. This is the
Speaker 6: last and final relationship and this is the one.
Speaker 2: This is what I was preparing you for. I do.
Speaker 2: I do believe that wholeheartedly.
Speaker 5: Yes, what about you have?
Speaker 2: God?
Speaker 5: Is God told you? Look, I don't want you dealing
Speaker 5: with nobody right now.
Speaker 2: See God is the author of confusion. So whenever it
Speaker 2: gets a little rocky for me, I know that's not him.
Speaker 3: I've been in spaces where it's been confused, confusion, manipulat tip.
Speaker 3: I talk about that, conniving, just controlling, and that is
Speaker 3: not of God. Now, God will put you in a
Speaker 3: situation for you to learn. It's a lesson like warning
Speaker 3: does come in for destruction. Crevill understand what that means,
Speaker 3: like it comes for destructure. So I think in this
Speaker 3: season God is saying be still and be patient because
Speaker 3: you have tapped into different relationships, whether it wasn't good
Speaker 3: for you, you have tapped into different friendships that held
Speaker 3: you back. So I think in this season he is
Speaker 3: telling me to be still and wait on him. See
Speaker 3: key first, the Kingdom of God. I keep hearing that
Speaker 3: every time somebody called me to the're.
Speaker 2: Like, oh you were in my spirit and this dropped
Speaker 2: in it Matthew, you to read it.
Speaker 3: So I'm like, Okay, what am I doing that is
Speaker 3: moving too quick and not bringing God along so and
Speaker 3: waiting on his answer. So that's why I said in
Speaker 3: the beginning, I'm just waiting on that soft whisper to move.
Speaker 3: So in this space that I'm in, I'm like, if
Speaker 3: it ain't of him, and if I ain't, if we
Speaker 3: ain't doing what we need to do, I don't want you.
Speaker 2: I don't care how much money you got. I don't
Speaker 2: care if you got the U and the chain on.
Speaker 3: I don't care if the diebols is to the ground,
Speaker 3: I don't care if the tims is flapping.
Speaker 2: I don't want it.
Speaker 5: So what's the most important chapter?
Speaker 1: Of course, each chapter leads you to the person that
Speaker 1: you feel that people should be here that you are.
Speaker 1: What's the most important chapter to you?
Speaker 2: The most?
Speaker 1: If you wanted one person to say, I wanted you
Speaker 1: to read this one chapter because I think this chapter
Speaker 1: is whatever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love you, I love you, And because we
Speaker 3: don't hear that enough. Yeah the household I grew up in,
Speaker 3: my mother said it, but my dad was very slim
Speaker 3: to none, you know, Caribbean man, very hard, very like straightforward.
Speaker 2: You don't hear it as much, and then when you do,
Speaker 2: it's like I have to say it, all right, Dad,
Speaker 2: did you hear me? I said I love you. I
Speaker 2: love you too. My father showed he loved us for sure,
Speaker 2: but it wasn't like I want you.
Speaker 3: I want you to tell me that because the trips
Speaker 3: and the gifts and the Christmas stuff and the back
Speaker 3: to school clothes, that's school.
Speaker 2: But I need to tell you who I fell in
Speaker 2: love with and they broke my heart. You know, I
Speaker 2: need you to understand like that.
Speaker 3: I'm hurting right now and I don't need to call
Speaker 3: my mentors in the industry to ask for advice. I
Speaker 3: want to call you first. So I love You is
Speaker 3: my favorite day of the book. I don't know what
Speaker 3: day that is, but that's one of them. More because
Speaker 3: we don't hear it.
Speaker 2: I didn't hear it.
Speaker 1: How was that change you as a person? Do you
Speaker 1: say I love you to everybody now? Because you missed that.
Speaker 1: You didn't get that like you wanted.
Speaker 3: I do say I love you to a lot of people,
Speaker 3: but I also I think my heart is warm to people.
Speaker 3: It's like more open because my father was very closed. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Like again, it was just all about making sure you're
Speaker 3: dependent your this. You become a lawyer, you become a realist.
Speaker 3: He didn't care about the comedy. He was just like
Speaker 3: that ain't gonna be like whatever until I showed him
Speaker 3: that I could turn funey into money. And so I
Speaker 3: showed him that I could do these things about my
Speaker 3: first home and help the family, you know, as much
Speaker 3: as I can. But I love you was not he
Speaker 3: didn't say that as much.
Speaker 2: Is the relationship with your dad. Now we're good.
Speaker 3: We locked in, like that's my daddy, like you know,
Speaker 3: but it's just like being a Caribbean. He's everything's hard.
Speaker 3: Like it's just like all right, books, make sure you're
Speaker 3: in there, make sure you become who you're supposed to be.
Speaker 2: Don't do this, don't do that. But like me, my desk,
Speaker 2: like my best friend had those talks. I did him.
Speaker 2: We had a moment one.
Speaker 3: Day in Miami and we was back and forth and
Speaker 3: like I was like in his space and like you
Speaker 3: need to respect da da da.
Speaker 2: So he texts me and my dad and my dad
Speaker 2: don't even know. I don't even know how you know
Speaker 2: how to text. I was like, is my little brother
Speaker 2: doing this for you? Or this is from your heart
Speaker 2: and he was like, we just have to work on communication.
Speaker 3: That's the first time he understood my side and I
Speaker 3: understood his side, you know.
Speaker 5: So, yeah, how did you pick who you wanted to
Speaker 5: do your help with devotionals?
Speaker 4: Talk to me like it says you know, it's you
Speaker 4: have friends and mentors in the book like Shaq, Easter,
Speaker 4: Ray Doll, Tiffany just myself, Like how did you pick
Speaker 4: who you wanted to.
Speaker 2: I'm the impact that you guys put on my life.
Speaker 3: I mean before like I knew a rap shit was,
Speaker 3: Charlotte was just like, yoh, this show would be great
Speaker 3: for you. You know, the advice that I've gotten over
Speaker 3: the years from him, like keep going. You know, I
Speaker 3: textrall around like you love you, keep going, you two
Speaker 3: v keep striving. It's just the impact Jess. I watched
Speaker 3: her growth. I'm inspired by her walk again, Like I said,
Speaker 3: I can't do what she does. I think is inspiring
Speaker 3: to me. Issa, you know, taking a chance on me
Speaker 3: to be a part of her show and still speaking
Speaker 3: to me after the fact, like checking up on me,
Speaker 3: and you know she was gonna be one of my monerators,
Speaker 3: you know, for the book too.
Speaker 2: But her schedulings for people feel what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: People who to come out, they way to do things
Speaker 3: like this is a pinch me moment for me. You know,
Speaker 3: I don't take this for granted. Like everything to me
Speaker 3: is like pure and genuine.
Speaker 2: I love it. And Shack forgive me the best advice.
Speaker 3: Every time I will respond in the blogs, Shack will
Speaker 3: hit me like literally two minutes after, you know, I
Speaker 3: how to call you, like yo, tell Shan to walk
Speaker 3: me up.
Speaker 2: So I think for me, it's more of like him,
Speaker 2: give me the best advice. Don't respond. You're a queen.
Speaker 3: You don't come off your throne for them people. And
Speaker 3: I didn't understand because I want to explain so much
Speaker 3: and he's like, na, we're not doing that, and do
Speaker 3: vall like that's just my dog. Kiara's Share helped me
Speaker 3: when I was in you know, in my head during COVID.
Speaker 3: She her she gave me her aunt's counselor you know, therapist,
Speaker 3: so I could talk to her. So shout out to
Speaker 3: Kiya's Share, like I was really in a bad place
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty, and she was just like, you know,
Speaker 3: look at the Bible. Everybody in there had committed suicide
Speaker 3: overthinking you had this in the Bible like this, You're
Speaker 3: not the only one walking through this space. V like,
Speaker 3: keep your head up and I'm gonna give you my
Speaker 3: auntie's counselor so you could talk to him because I
Speaker 3: was afraid of it, Like I was like, I'm a
Speaker 3: church girl, like all you gotta do is pray and dad,
Speaker 3: you'll be all right.
Speaker 2: But no, you actually need somebody. I'm talking about you.
Speaker 5: We'll put you in that space.
Speaker 2: In twenty twenty, just the COVID.
Speaker 3: You know, and I had COVID, and COVID hit me mentally,
Speaker 3: it didn't hit me physically. I was just in my
Speaker 3: head a lot the brain fog, overthinking stuff like just
Speaker 3: doing the most. And I kept calling mom, I think
Speaker 3: I need to go talk to somebody, and she was
Speaker 3: like it's COVID.
Speaker 2: Like it was bad.
Speaker 3: Twenty twenty was bad. Everyone was passing or at that time,
Speaker 3: and I just didn't know how. I didn't know how
Speaker 3: to center myself.
Speaker 2: And I think in that season is like getting your word,
Speaker 2: like God's pulling on you with some things. He wants
Speaker 2: to talk to you spiritually.
Speaker 3: And that's when I reached out to Kiki, and she
Speaker 3: was just like, you know, I'm gonna tell you right
Speaker 3: now to keep going, but you know this is gonna happen,
Speaker 3: but get in your word and I'm gonna give you
Speaker 3: my my auntie, you know, counsel so you could talk
Speaker 3: to her. So everyone plays a part of my life,
Speaker 3: even the Victoria t she you know, Tech Campbell, like
Speaker 3: just everybody in here, so be small like everyone's in
Speaker 3: this book.
Speaker 5: Were you sad got canceled?
Speaker 2: I was. I was like, yo, so you good. You
Speaker 2: got something else I could be a part of. Like
Speaker 2: like I'm sorry to hear that, but what's going on? Yo?
Speaker 3: He's say, like you know, it was one of those moments,
Speaker 3: but you know I respected she just you know, I
Speaker 3: got the email.
Speaker 2: I spoke to her and you know, on to the
Speaker 2: next thing. She's a genius.
Speaker 5: She didn't come up with how did that call? She
Speaker 5: called you personally to let you know what it was
Speaker 5: a text.
Speaker 2: You know, it was a text.
Speaker 3: And I was like, thank you so much, you know,
Speaker 3: for you know, allowing me to be Dasia and you
Speaker 3: know all that good stuff. And she was like, for sure,
Speaker 3: keep going and like, you know, it was very intimate
Speaker 3: and then you know, I seen it doing the emails
Speaker 3: and stuff, so yeah, but.
Speaker 2: He's always coming up with yeah. But I was like, yo, sorry,
Speaker 2: that was going on. What's the next joint? You know next?
Speaker 3: Because she probably too like sorry, we got to keep moving.
Speaker 3: She probably in her mind like we don't insecure, we're
Speaker 3: done with this. Now to the next, and now she
Speaker 3: has a movie.
Speaker 5: Movie can keep popping amazing, like forty million dollars what
Speaker 5: I'm saying.
Speaker 6: We were supposed to have a show, remember me, You
Speaker 6: and b were supposed to do a show and nign.
Speaker 2: My god, I know it was. It was Excuse me,
Speaker 2: I did not mess it out with Nick. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2: It was fired. Man, it was through with that. It
Speaker 2: was gonna be we even shot. You know, it's so crazy.
Speaker 3: You was in a season where this was happening. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so we were trying to figure out how you was
Speaker 3: even gonna.
Speaker 2: Make that work. I would have figured it out and
Speaker 2: we moved on. We would have figured it out because
Speaker 2: I could those four four episodes yeap out like we
Speaker 2: would like that's late. It's not too late.
Speaker 3: I mean it's just like nig like ten shows and
Speaker 3: it got going on.
Speaker 6: It shows the show I don't know it got it's
Speaker 6: just never just never took off, like it even got
Speaker 6: close to I know, it even got close to like
Speaker 6: like contracts, like we we had shot the what we
Speaker 6: said pilot.
Speaker 2: We had shot the pilot, had a couple of episodes
Speaker 2: in the can like good, good energy, me B and
Speaker 2: V like it was. It was great. Then we just
Speaker 2: couldn't figure out in your corner over there that production
Speaker 2: that can do it. Yeah, turned some stuff.
Speaker 5: I'm sure Nick probably on the rights to it.
Speaker 2: No, we don't have to do the name. It was hilarious. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's what.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the name of it was pretty hilarious. It was
Speaker 6: a clip shoulder right, it was a clip show. But
Speaker 6: we can change we could change the concept.
Speaker 5: I mean, we're doing movies. We're doing movies.
Speaker 2: Who's we? What you mean who's we? I'm saying, no,
Speaker 2: you're doing movies.
Speaker 5: Okay, Jesus.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so shout out to man. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I actually auditioned for that movie too, I said, Yo,
Speaker 3: with the part that you auditioned.
Speaker 2: For days Okay, yeah I did.
Speaker 3: I didn't know that was that you know that we
Speaker 3: were telling you. Yeah, but I definitely audition for that,
Speaker 3: which was good.
Speaker 2: You know, I try to, you know, slip and slip,
Speaker 2: and they're like, nah with the talent that you know,
Speaker 2: Like yo, let me ask you this.
Speaker 6: When you audition for roles and you don't get it,
Speaker 6: do you do you still watch it when it come out?
Speaker 6: I did.
Speaker 2: I don't know. It took me so long to watch
Speaker 2: Queen and Slim because I was supposed to be Queen.
Speaker 2: And then my brother was like, why are you an
Speaker 2: audition for Slim?
Speaker 6: First of all, don't ever play with me.
Speaker 2: I mean I could play both, you know, but don't
Speaker 2: ever play with me.
Speaker 6: But I be mad when I get stuff so that
Speaker 6: I feel like I hate watch it or whatever, y'all.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: I actually watched it and it was fire you of
Speaker 2: course you know.
Speaker 3: But I didn't do I wasn't I didn't go in
Speaker 3: doing scissors Kiki's roll. It was somebody another role. You know.
Speaker 3: Sometimes they add in and take it out and fix
Speaker 3: up some things. But DESI was in there that I
Speaker 3: was great to see. And the people in the buildings again,
Speaker 3: like I said, that's I chose because she's just so supportive.
Speaker 3: So thank you for setting that up in that connection, Charlotte,
Speaker 3: because like Issa is like, she's just a sweetheart and
Speaker 3: I just respect her in the business. And I'm sad
Speaker 3: rap shit gone though because I was fired.
Speaker 5: There'll be plenty more. Yeah, what you're doing now, Yeah,
Speaker 5: pretty victory.
Speaker 4: And what's so funny about this book is it may
Speaker 4: not make sense to people now, but as you continue
Speaker 4: to grow in this business and people get to really
Speaker 4: know you, they don't understand.
Speaker 5: Oh, this makes all the sense of the work because
Speaker 5: for us, we know this like this would we do
Speaker 5: all day and every day.
Speaker 3: And that's what Nick said when we was in l A.
Speaker 3: Nicholas is like, we you know, we're promoting the wild
Speaker 3: out that stuff, and he was like, the ticket sales
Speaker 3: may not be good, but one thing we gonna known.
Speaker 2: Read that no matter no matter what. But I'm extremely
Speaker 2: proud of you, said even you show cured.
Speaker 3: Look at that little fat It's just so yeah, I'm
Speaker 3: so excited about it, I really am. And again it's
Speaker 3: it's for the men as well, you know, so I
Speaker 3: speak about you know, who are you king? You know
Speaker 3: I speak about you know, I love you King. Everything's
Speaker 3: in here just for this my brothers as well, so
Speaker 3: y'all could tap into It's not just for the women.
Speaker 3: People just think like, you know, oh she's talking about No,
Speaker 3: I'm actually giving y all your flowers as well too,
Speaker 3: because y'all deserve it.
Speaker 5: Let's end on this. You say, if you're starving, you'll
Speaker 5: eat anything.
Speaker 3: Oh Lord, if you're starving, you will eat anything. It's
Speaker 3: just it's just plain and simple.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 2: Again, you gotta wait and be patient.
Speaker 3: Like like I just said, if the opportunity come for
Speaker 3: me to do something that's off brand and I want it,
Speaker 3: and I feel like I'm not doing anything at the moment,
Speaker 3: and I feel like I need the money, or if
Speaker 3: I feel like I want to be at a a
Speaker 3: place just to show the people I'm working, I'll do anything.
Speaker 3: Down the line, it starts tending things and tending to
Speaker 3: brand and making you look crazy when you should just wait,
Speaker 3: be patient in the scenes and just wait.
Speaker 2: That's the thing.
Speaker 3: Like, opportunities have come to me to do certain things
Speaker 3: and I've said no, no, no, But if and I
Speaker 3: know I needed the money, I know I needed to
Speaker 3: do certain things. I know I wanted to put it
Speaker 3: towards a share on show or just my craft. But
Speaker 3: if I would have said yes, I'm just doing anything,
Speaker 3: just to do it. I'm not waiting on the process.
Speaker 2: That's what I just said. And I think day two
Speaker 2: there's a process before the promise. And the thing about
Speaker 2: it is we'll just go through. Try to go straight
Speaker 2: through that promise. And it ain't doing nothing.
Speaker 3: It's just you just did it just because to seem
Speaker 3: to show your fans and your followers that you moving
Speaker 3: and you working.
Speaker 2: I'm out here, but they got you doing all these roles.
Speaker 3: I remember a producer hit me out there and say, yo,
Speaker 3: I want you to be a stud and be like
Speaker 3: a lesbian stud in one of my movies.
Speaker 2: And and I was like you straight, like I don't
Speaker 2: want to do that, bigger.
Speaker 3: Than that, like you know, like no shade, like I
Speaker 3: don't want to put like give them out like y'all straight, like.
Speaker 2: I'm good, Like I don't want to do that. Did
Speaker 2: you tell them I would do that? You want to
Speaker 2: do this? I want to be a you study on
Speaker 2: the like lesbian, she a little a little let she.
Speaker 5: Like wife beat on.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I don't want to do but I didn't.
Speaker 2: But I didn't want to.
Speaker 5: I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't see them picking their hair with the afro.
Speaker 3: I don't see the wife beat on, you know, with
Speaker 3: the stomach, and I'm a lesbian.
Speaker 4: I didn't want to do that.
Speaker 2: No, I didn't want to do that.
Speaker 3: And that's just not me that that don't match, you know,
Speaker 3: but that doesn't match where I'm just trying to go
Speaker 3: there no shade, you know. But at the end of
Speaker 3: the day, if I would have said yes and then
Speaker 3: down the line, if somebody was trying to see my
Speaker 3: my reels and see certain things and whatever the case
Speaker 3: would be, if it was raunchy or whatever.
Speaker 2: I don't know who the people was. It was just like,
Speaker 2: it's a note for me. So if you know, if
Speaker 2: you're starving anything, you're not waiting on your process. You're
Speaker 2: not you.
Speaker 5: Know, sixty.
Speaker 2: Anything.
Speaker 3: I didn't just wait to basically just wait, just wait
Speaker 3: for when it's the right time, when God say.
Speaker 2: Movie, I ain't trying to eat another girl.
Speaker 5: I don't want to do that, you know.
Speaker 2: I don't want to have a pick in my hair.
Speaker 2: Find me something else.
Speaker 3: Get down in the rolls, you know, like get down
Speaker 3: in the rolls, get get shovel up some things.
Speaker 1: Well, the book is out now, the Pretty Victory, and
Speaker 1: I think it's only right we leave with a prayer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a pretty prayer. That's cool. What a pretty prayer?
Speaker 2: Is it like a long prayer? Are we getting got pressed?
Speaker 2: So it's something you go period or the other presses.
Speaker 3: So, Father God, we just thank you so much for today, LogD.
Speaker 3: We think you that you are so worthy. We just
Speaker 3: think you that you are so massive. We thank you
Speaker 3: that you are so powerful. Lottle God, Other God.
Speaker 2: I want to say, thank you so much for what
Speaker 2: you're doing and what you're about to do. Little God.
Speaker 3: In these last and evil days, Lo God. They're seeing
Speaker 3: in the unseen, the hurd and the unheard. Little God, God,
Speaker 3: we thank you for all the doors that you're opening,
Speaker 3: but all the doors that you are closing. Lot God,
Speaker 3: I thank you for every soul who's around this table.
Speaker 3: Loot God, jes Lo God, keep her in perfect peace,
Speaker 3: log God. Let us know that she's seen, Lo God.
Speaker 3: Let us know that she's heard, Lo God, every crid
Speaker 3: that she's cried. Lo God, I ask that you hear
Speaker 3: her touchdown on her heart, Lo God, purge her into
Speaker 3: her greatness.
Speaker 2: Lo God.
Speaker 3: Is so much things that she wants to do, Lo
Speaker 3: God in this season, Lo God, so give it to her.
Speaker 3: Lot God, give her the witty inventions.
Speaker 2: Lo God to do it.
Speaker 3: Lo God.
Speaker 2: Let's h envy Lortle God. Keep him going, Lo God,
Speaker 2: allow to be the best father he knows how to be.
Speaker 2: Log God.
Speaker 3: Let him quite the noise, Lo God. Whatever he may
Speaker 3: be dealing with that we may not know in his
Speaker 3: secret place, Lo God. We just ask that you cover
Speaker 3: him under the blood Lo God, his kids, Lo God,
Speaker 3: Father God, do around a protection over his kids. Look
Speaker 3: got even his wife, Lo God, many opportunities, Lo God
Speaker 3: will fall with his family. Lott God, bless Arloah, Loo God.
Speaker 3: Keep him in perfect peace, O God. Anxiety, anything that
Speaker 3: he may be thinking about, overthinking, Lo God, anything that
Speaker 3: he may be feeling like on the days that he
Speaker 3: may not express, Lo God.
Speaker 2: Other God.
Speaker 3: We just want to say thank you, Lor God. Keep
Speaker 3: him Lo God, Other God. We just asked that you
Speaker 3: cattleput Charlemagne's career Lo God to higher heights. Tho God,
Speaker 3: It's never too late, Lo God, to do it, Lo God,
Speaker 3: Father God. Whatever he's writing down in his journal, Lo God,
Speaker 3: whatever he's thinking about, Lo God, him and his wife
Speaker 3: shall do Lo God.
Speaker 2: Even his kids will eat off of those benefits.
Speaker 3: Lo God and Father got the generations to come and
Speaker 3: to come, and every soul that's a part of Breakfast
Speaker 3: Club's team. Lot God bless them now and forevermore in
Speaker 3: Jesus Mighty name.
Speaker 2: Amen, Amen, Amen, How intentional she is when she prayed,
Speaker 2: Yes right.
Speaker 5: It's pretty right.
Speaker 2: They're pretty pretty victory.
Speaker 5: It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning, Wake that ass up
Speaker 5: Earth in the morning. The Breakfast Club