Speaker 1: Hi there, Welcome to Love Someone with Delilah. That the
Speaker 1: title of my podcast is going to tie in so
Speaker 1: perfectly with what we're going to talk about today and
Speaker 1: who we're going to talk with today. Today, we are
Speaker 1: going to have the pleasure of talking with an amazingly
Speaker 1: multi talented, beautiful, strong woman. Some of you may know
Speaker 1: her name, some of you may recognize her work, and
Speaker 1: if you're some of the ones that don't, I promise
Speaker 1: you will be looking her up after you listen to this.
Speaker 1: She's the daughter of a celebrity songstress heard often on
Speaker 1: my radio show, but she is so much more than
Speaker 1: just a famous singer's daughter. You're probably familiar or with
Speaker 1: her starring role as Dr Rainbow bo Johnson on the
Speaker 1: ABC comedy Blackish now in its sixth season. Before that,
Speaker 1: she hosted Lifetimes the Dish and played Joan Clayton in
Speaker 1: the up n c W comedy Girlfriends. And that's only
Speaker 1: a couple of the items on her very very impressive,
Speaker 1: very long resume. Today, we have Tracy Ellis Ross with
Speaker 1: us to talk about her new movie Out the High Note,
Speaker 1: and more specifically her single And I said, it's going
Speaker 1: to tale in perfectly with the title of this podcast,
Speaker 1: Love Someone. The single is called Love Myself and that
Speaker 1: is the lead off the soundtrack. The lead song off
Speaker 1: the soundtrack Welcome to Love Someone with Delilah Tracy Ellis Ross.
Speaker 1: Do you know how how excited I am when Jenny
Speaker 1: told me that I got to talk to you. Thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you for agreeing to view with us. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I'm so excited. The name of your show is It's
Speaker 1: so perfect, isn't it Given the name of the single
Speaker 1: that we're going to be talking about, you know, that's
Speaker 1: like perfect kissmith there. So before we get started and
Speaker 1: start talking about the movie, do you have ever have
Speaker 1: this weird thing happened where you're like looking for sandals
Speaker 1: or a pedicure stay at home pedicure kit and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden ads start popping up on your cell phone?
Speaker 1: Does that happen to you? Yeah, because it's an actual thing, Delilah.
Speaker 1: There is a service that people can corporations can pay
Speaker 1: for where they can hear and there's like different tiers.
Speaker 1: I can't remember what it's called, but there's different tiers
Speaker 1: like if you, for example, our Breakfast Cereal, you can
Speaker 1: pay to just put an ad in if somebody talks
Speaker 1: about food, or you could be even more specific, if
Speaker 1: someone talks about breakfast, or even more specific, if someone
Speaker 1: mentioned cereal, then your ad will go into their feed.
Speaker 1: But I'm not googling breakfast cereal? Are they literally they
Speaker 1: can hear you? Okay? How do they know that that
Speaker 1: I love sappy love songs and sappy movies Because I'm
Speaker 1: not kidding you. Your movie it comes up in every
Speaker 1: feed I'm on and I'm already like, I can't wait
Speaker 1: to see it, I'm dying to see it. But every
Speaker 1: five minutes I'm seeing new clips from your movie? Is
Speaker 1: it reading my mind? It's because the name of your
Speaker 1: show is Love and the World, and the energy and
Speaker 1: frequency of the world is connected to your heart, specifically Delilah.
Speaker 1: And they know that you're gonna love the movie, so
Speaker 1: they just keep inundating you with it because they don't
Speaker 1: want you to forget. It's crazy because I started seeing
Speaker 1: ads for your movie that we're going to talk about
Speaker 1: the High Note probably I don't know, a month ago,
Speaker 1: and I was saying to young we're in quarantine. How
Speaker 1: am I going to see this thing? And we're in
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, it's like it's gonna
Speaker 1: be on pay per view, you can watch it. I'm like,
Speaker 1: how did you know? I was thinking that it's crazy.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Somebody in your head, somebody's in my head.
Speaker 1: Somebody is in my head. It's it is weird. Now,
Speaker 1: let's talk about this movie that I'm seeing all the
Speaker 1: ads for. Did they just like take out the best
Speaker 1: clips to put in the ad? Uh? You star in
Speaker 1: it with Dakota Johnson, who looks like she plays the
Speaker 1: part beautifully? What what is this movie about? And what
Speaker 1: about the story resonated in your heart? I am so
Speaker 1: I cannot. I cannot tell you the patients that I
Speaker 1: and then when this pandemic hit, I'm like, what's um? So,
Speaker 1: I'm so thrilled that people are finally going to be
Speaker 1: able to see it. I'm I'm so proud to what
Speaker 1: we did. And when I went to see it, when
Speaker 1: I went to see the screening, I was like, this
Speaker 1: is a feel good movie. Man. When was the last
Speaker 1: time I went to the movie theater or like saw
Speaker 1: a movie that was just like Major Heart feel all
Speaker 1: warm and fuzzy, And that's this movie. See. I'm watching
Speaker 1: the little clips that have been released, and it looks
Speaker 1: like a feel good movie, but it also looks like
Speaker 1: such an empowering movie. Like I'm sitting there cheering you
Speaker 1: on and cheering on your character. And there's one line
Speaker 1: that's in the clip that keeps coming up in my
Speaker 1: feed when you say only five women over fifty had
Speaker 1: a number one hit and and only one of them
Speaker 1: was black. And I'm like, prencient sister, Yeah, I you know, Um,
Speaker 1: it's so crazy that, at first of all, I love
Speaker 1: that you say that it's like an empowering movie. That
Speaker 1: was really one of the things that drew me to
Speaker 1: the role is the idea, the story of this woman
Speaker 1: who was at a place in her life where he
Speaker 1: didn't want to keep playing it's safe and didn't want
Speaker 1: to keep being who he thinks the world wants her
Speaker 1: to be, but instead the who he is and let
Speaker 1: her think her her dream out, you know, the kind
Speaker 1: of voice that she wants to have. The trailers look wonderful,
Speaker 1: and and I was so empowered when I heard you
Speaker 1: saying that, because a couple of years ago, I was inducted.
Speaker 1: And I'm not trying to make this all about me,
Speaker 1: because it's not, but I was inducted into the Radio
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. Okay, I was inducted into the Radio
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. And I found out I was the
Speaker 1: first woman inducted in the Radio Hall of Fame since
Speaker 1: Kate Smith for singing the national anthem No No. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, wait a minute, I've been I've been on
Speaker 1: the air for you know, a very long time. And
Speaker 1: I hear a lot of other women on the air,
Speaker 1: really good talented women on the air. Why has am
Speaker 1: I the first one inducted in twenty seven years or
Speaker 1: thirty seven years or whatever the crazy number was. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know the the old adage a woman has to
Speaker 1: work twice as hard to get half the recognition as
Speaker 1: her male counterpart. Fortunately for us, that's easy. We're used
Speaker 1: to works are being, choice is efficient, well multitasking. We
Speaker 1: need to pause here, Tracy for a brief moment so
Speaker 1: that we can share a message that helps to make
Speaker 1: this podcast possible. Hold on, when we come back, we'll
Speaker 1: talk about what it means to change the world one
Speaker 1: heart at a time. I told you I'm sheltering in
Speaker 1: place with five of my kids. Um, my husband and
Speaker 1: I are the only two, uh that are Caucasian. Everybody
Speaker 1: else in our household is a person of color. My
Speaker 1: in laws are Costa Rican. We just adopted a young
Speaker 1: woman who is Hispanic, and then my other children are
Speaker 1: are all um African and African American. And because you're
Speaker 1: such a strong role model and such a beautiful woman,
Speaker 1: and my four teenage girls, UH need that need that
Speaker 1: kind of UM positivity. M hm. You know, I think, UM,
Speaker 1: your household sounds like our world. You know, UM, we
Speaker 1: we all UM, there's such an inclusivity and how we
Speaker 1: love each other and the reality of that human connection.
Speaker 1: And UM, a moment like this in a pandemic UM,
Speaker 1: we get to see a glaring light on the inequity
Speaker 1: that exists in our world. UM. And I do think
Speaker 1: that stories like this, UM that allow us to see
Speaker 1: see different um representations of what it is to be
Speaker 1: a woman, UM, and to be a black woman, and
Speaker 1: those different kinds of journeys. Told you the face and
Speaker 1: being usum of different kinds of people is so important.
Speaker 1: You know. I know that inclusivity and diversity have become
Speaker 1: such buzzwords, but they are there because of the need
Speaker 1: and the desire for all of us to see ourselves
Speaker 1: mirrored back to ourselves in a way that we see possibility.
Speaker 1: We understand ourselves a little better, and we understand each
Speaker 1: other a little bit better, both in our uniqueness that
Speaker 1: each of us have, that our cultures and our identities
Speaker 1: and um, and you know, the legacies that we all
Speaker 1: come from and how beautiful they are and how they
Speaker 1: actually add something to our world and make our world
Speaker 1: a more interesting and wonderful place. But also how we
Speaker 1: are the same. You know, both things are true, and
Speaker 1: one doesn't discount the other. You know. I always say,
Speaker 1: it's not like to me, it's not about a color
Speaker 1: blind world, but a colorful world. That's where all of
Speaker 1: the humanity and the robustness of life comes in as
Speaker 1: we get to really see all of um, what our
Speaker 1: world has to offer, different cultures and traditions and all
Speaker 1: of that that makes our world a better place. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I do. I think it's wonderful that you have a
Speaker 1: family that looks like our world. Um, and that you
Speaker 1: guys will get to show up and see a movie
Speaker 1: and I love it. Um. How old are your teenagers? Uh? Well,
Speaker 1: baby d and my youngest is eleven going on fifteen. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then I have a fifteen year old, sixteen year old,
Speaker 1: and twenty one year old all with me right now. Amazing. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know what kind of hair they have today,
Speaker 1: have curly coil hair? Oh, we have every kind of
Speaker 1: hair in the world. Girlfriend. I have a line of
Speaker 1: hair product for curly coile anti textures called Powdered Beauty
Speaker 1: that they should look up. The farm we're at is
Speaker 1: ten miles out in the Sticks, but there's a little
Speaker 1: town like twenty miles away in southern Oregon. And I
Speaker 1: was driving through the town the other day because I
Speaker 1: just dropped my mother in law off at the hospital
Speaker 1: to have a procedure done. And she's Hispanic, and although
Speaker 1: she's been here a long time, she doesn't speak English well.
Speaker 1: And they wouldn't let me go in to translate for her,
Speaker 1: and they don't have a translator there. So what what
Speaker 1: they said is, we will call you on her cell
Speaker 1: phone and then we will talk with you, you know,
Speaker 1: so you'll be able to tell us everything. Okay, So
Speaker 1: we do that. It takes about an hour, and then
Speaker 1: they said it's going to be about two hours. So
Speaker 1: I took my father in law and we're driving down
Speaker 1: a side street and I see a backyard that looks
Speaker 1: like a little paradise. It's like this fabulous little garden
Speaker 1: of beauty and wonderment. And I am passionate about gardening
Speaker 1: and and I'm trying to encourage everybody to plant a
Speaker 1: garden because it's good for your soul. And I had
Speaker 1: to pull over. My father in law was like, you know,
Speaker 1: ask me in Spanish what are you doing? And I
Speaker 1: have to pull over. I have to I have to
Speaker 1: see this beauty and if they're there, I have to
Speaker 1: tell them how much I love it. So I pull
Speaker 1: over and there's two men in the backyard working in
Speaker 1: this beautiful little um shangar law. It was like a
Speaker 1: shangar law. And I just said, I need to tell
Speaker 1: you how beautiful this little, this little heaven is. And
Speaker 1: they responded to me and they had a very strong
Speaker 1: African accent. And I said, oh, my gosh, are you
Speaker 1: from West Africa? And they're like, yes, how did you
Speaker 1: know that? And I said, well, I've been there thirty
Speaker 1: two times and I have six children who are also
Speaker 1: from there. So we start talking. When we get back
Speaker 1: in the car, my father in law looks at me, says, Delilah,
Speaker 1: there's probably only two people from West Africa for a
Speaker 1: thousand miles and you find them. But we we just
Speaker 1: had this connection instantly over gardening and over my kids.
Speaker 1: So I went back. I've got a flock of chickens
Speaker 1: and I took them two dozen eggs. A couple of
Speaker 1: days later and the mom came out and she's and
Speaker 1: I had my daughters in the car, and she says,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, who does their hair? I need someone
Speaker 1: to do my hair. And I said, I do their hair.
Speaker 1: She's like, no, you don't. I said, yeah I do.
Speaker 1: She's like that, that is impossible. Your fingers are white.
Speaker 1: Your fingers are white, was her comment. Like, yeah they are,
Speaker 1: but they've been they've been doing hair for a long time.
Speaker 1: So what's the name of your product, because I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get her some too. It is called um Pattern Beauty
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Speaker 1: R N beauty and um pattern Beauty dot com is
Speaker 1: the website and you should go check it out. The
Speaker 1: mission of my brand is both to meet the unmet
Speaker 1: needs of the curly coilant texture community and also to
Speaker 1: create a paradigm shift and offer another space for us
Speaker 1: to see ourselves in our true beauty UM and and power,
Speaker 1: and so it's a combination of both. The website reflects
Speaker 1: that there's a glossary of terms that kind of redefines
Speaker 1: UM a lot of the terms that are you used
Speaker 1: and and shares them in a more celebratory way, imagery
Speaker 1: that allows us to really embrace who we are in
Speaker 1: our in our authentic beauty and products that UM you know,
Speaker 1: support hydrate, moisturize, create, UM popping and juicy girls. You
Speaker 1: do it all. You know. When Janey came to me
Speaker 1: and said, I got to talk to you, she said, Talila,
Speaker 1: here's the thing. This woman is smart enough, like she's
Speaker 1: brain surgeon smart. She's like rocket scientist smart. She's like
Speaker 1: wicked wicked smart. She's business smart. And she's also incredibly talented.
Speaker 1: And we started laughing, going if we weren't in radio,
Speaker 1: what what would we do? Because we're not that smart.
Speaker 1: You're good, But the the world is filled with incredibly
Speaker 1: smart and extraordinary people UM, and many UM women and
Speaker 1: black and brown full don't always get the space UM
Speaker 1: for their power and intelligence and contributions to be celebrated
Speaker 1: and look that and so thank you so much for
Speaker 1: sharing your time with us, your love with us, your
Speaker 1: music with us, on Love Someone with Delilah, Tracy, lovely
Speaker 1: to talk to you. I'm glad that you are safe
Speaker 1: out in the middle of nowhere. When I'm no longer
Speaker 1: in the middle of nowhere and you're somewhere, I'd love
Speaker 1: to bring my girls to come and meet you. But
Speaker 1: until then, I think you'll be amazing and I'm so
Speaker 1: excited for you to see the high Note. I can't
Speaker 1: wait to hear what you think. Then I can't wait
Speaker 1: for you to hear all the music um and I
Speaker 1: hope that it makes you feel good and that you
Speaker 1: can have it, create a little event with your family
Speaker 1: and get dressed up and watching. Thank you, Tracy, God
Speaker 1: bless you, and I'll talk to you soon.