WEBVTT - The Spirited Actor - LaJoyce Brookshire 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.280 Hello, and welcome to the Spirited Actor Podcast with me 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:06.440 Tracy Moore. I was a casting director for film and 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:10.600 TV and commercials for over thirty years. I transitioned to 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:14.200 a celebrity acting coach after I cast a film New 0:00:14.280 --> 0:00:19.400 Jersey Drive with executive producers Spike Lee and director Nick Domez. 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:24.439 I auditioned every rapper from Biggie Smalls to Tupac, and 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:28.200 I realized that rappers and musical artists they needed help 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:32.600 transitioning to acting. My clients consist of musical artists from 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:37.400 Buster Rhymes to Eve, Missy Elliott, Angela Yee from The 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:41.120 Breakfast Club, and Vanessa Simmons to name a few. I 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:45.080 also coach sports stars and host as well. I feel 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:48.720 I have the best of both worlds. As a casting director, 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:51.320 I know exactly what they're looking for, and as an 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:53.800 acting coach, I can coach you to be remembered in 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:57.080 that room. Now I know, I know actors want to 0:00:57.160 --> 0:01:00.200 get the job. I get that, but being remembered by 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:04.640 a casting director that is powerful. And now it's time 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:09.720 for meditation of the day. You can start late, look different, 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:19.960 be uncertain, and still succeed. Misty Copeland, your uniqueness is 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:23.639 your greatness. I stress this with actors all the time. 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:28.920 I remember once where this manager had called me up 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:31.840 that he wanted me to meet his new artists and 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:36.200 he said, Tracy, he's just like jay Z. Excuse me, 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:39.800 I said, we have a jay Z, though we don't 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:45.160 want another jay Z. What is his uniqueness? And so 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:50.320 many times we get consumed by the media of what 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:52.760 we should look like, what we should be like, how 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:58.720 we should act. However, in taking that information in, we 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:02.520 should make choices to be comfortable in our own skin 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:05.680 and in our own uniqueness of who we truly are. 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:10.480 Don't be afraid of your greatness. Embrace it, knowing that 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:17.160 you are worthy of abundance. You are worthy of happiness, joy, love, 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:21.840 all of this. You are worthy of this. Change your 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:28.000 life today. Just do it today. I will take baby 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:33.560 steps to create a magical life for myself. Before we 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:36.960 get started, I'd like to remind everyone to look out 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:40.480 for my new show, Inside the Black Box. I'll be 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:43.600 co hosting with the great Joe Morton. We'll be on 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:48.520 Crackle Network real soon. I'll keep you posted. Welcome to 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:53.200 the Spirited Actor Podcast with me Tracy Moore. I have 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:57.760 to inhale, and then I have to exhale from my 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:04.000 next guest. Tell you something. This business that I love 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:09.400 and that I eat, drink, sleep, breathe, live in every 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:13.720 single day of my life. You come across people that 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:17.160 you never ever want to let them go. I am 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:24.120 proud to say that I have been friends with our 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:31.000 guest sister friends, La Joyce Brookshire. I have been friends, 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:36.800 sister friends, spiritual friends with this woman for over thirty years, 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:40.480 and I'll never forget when I sat in her office. 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:48.040 She is beyond phenomenal, infectious with her energy and her 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:49.880 love and her life. And I'm gonna tell you something. 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:53.760 I don't care what anybody say about Chicago people, Philly people, 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:59.640 but Chicago they have a confidence I've never experienced in 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:01.680 my life. And when I went to Chicago, I was like, 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:04.960 oh my god, I love Chicago. The people here, they're 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:07.840 just amazing. Before I bring her on, I want to 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:11.240 read to you about the Joyce. I need you, guys 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:13.119 to sit down, and I need you to take this in. 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:17.320 I only want to bring the best of the best 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:20.479 of the best of the podcast, and you are going 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:25.240 to have that pleasure today. The Joyce Brookshire was a 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:31.400 high powered entertainment radio producer, program creator and director of 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:39.240 Publicity's Publicity and Arista Records in the nineties, handling artists 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:44.280 such as the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, Sean Puppy Combs, 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:51.520 Tony Braxton, Kelly g Kenny g Outcasts, Monica, Deborah Cox, 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:59.960 Craig mac Total, Fave Evans, Won Twelve, Usher, TLC. Whitney Hugh, 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:07.400 and the Notorious Big to name a few. Today, she 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:12.840 is a natural pathic doctor. Did I say that I did? 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:16.760 I did? Okay, all right, She's a I love calling, 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:21.560 a doctor, college professor, and a New York Times bestselling 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:25.599 author residing in Pennsylvania with her husband and her daughter. 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:28.680 Ladies and gentlemen, you need to stand up and put 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:37.240 your hands together. But doctor La Joyce Books, Hey, Tracy, welcome. 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:40.200 You want to make me cry right before we speak, 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:44.000 because you know what. I'm glad you need to, because 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:48.479 as I was reading those names, I was like, this 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:53.799 is the thing. But Joyce is that sometimes and especially 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:57.159 we were young, yes, in our career, you guys, this 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:01.960 is young. Okay. You don't take in what you bring 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:04.720 to the table as well. It's more I'm working with 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:07.159 you know this person. I'm working with that person. But 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:10.200 to reading these names right now, I said, oh no, 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:14.120 they worked with the Joyce. They worked with the Joys. 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:15.760 Yeah we did. 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:18.520 You came to my office, you said, sitting in my office. 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:21.159 Yes, I was sitting in your office. When I want 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:23.880 to say, you either just got the deal or where 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:27.040 you were in negotiation with Soul Food. That's how far 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:30.400 we go back. I started with you on soul Food. 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:33.240 You started with me before that. You started with me 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:34.839 with a book called Web of Deception. 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:40.320 Oh Web, I'm sorry, yes, well, yes. 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:42.599 Yes, I'll never forget that. 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:46.039 Oh my god, that was such a great book. You 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:51.240 got all you the Joyce. You might have to blow 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:53.880 sprinkle us on that and bring that to life right 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:57.279 now because content movies. 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:03.440 From your Lips to God's Ears still to be a movie. Yeah. 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:10.880 When when we come back outside, I'm a sidebar you 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:13.280 after the show. But I have something for you. I 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:15.600 have something that you were going to I have a gift, 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:18.800 my gift to you today, but I need your gift 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:22.080 to these people because they have no idea the fullness 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:26.080 of your character and who you are. So I want 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:31.840 to start off, ladies and gentlemen, this is the book 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:34.600 that we're talking about today. We're talking about women behind 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:40.160 the mic curators of pop culture and this is volume one. 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:44.360 Word to the wise. This here, this is the Joyce 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:48.640 Brookshire's baby, one of them. She has so many, but 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:51.840 she I remember when she was birthing this as well. 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:55.960 So I want to start with the music tell us 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:59.680 because I did a book signing in Harlem with the 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:02.160 Joyce and I can listener all day. She has the 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:04.640 best stories, you guys. 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:05.040 So do you? 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:06.280 Oh? 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:09.200 Tracy was great in that at that book signing, and 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:10.920 I can't wait for us to go back on the 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:14.840 road and things together. We're going to do DC together. 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:18.960 I'm looking forward to it. But I I am just 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:24.320 floored Tracy that audiences want to hear all about how 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:28.680 we were just grinding. And as the fiftieth anniversary of 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:32.600 hip hop is being celebrated, it is important that the 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:36.160 stories of the women are being told because one thing 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:39.720 that we noticed was that the women were glaringly absent, 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:45.439 and so instead of really getting angry, even though there 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:48.280 was a little bit of anger, Michelle, Joyce and I 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:51.920 got to work and the straw that broke the camel's 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:55.280 back was when Michelle called me and said, did you 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:56.440 see can't stop? Won't stop? 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:56.800 Us? Say? 0:08:56.880 --> 0:08:59.520 Yeah, she said it. Did Puffy call you? 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:00.440 Said no? 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:03.320 You call you? No? And he didn't call Kelly and 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:08.920 Leota and Gwynn and he did not call any of us. 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:11.920 And I said wow. I said, I'm tired. She said 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:15.360 me too. And we got the work. We got to work. 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:19.000 We told our sisters, blow the dust off those memories. 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:21.280 We are about to write a book. And the first 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:24.120 thing that we did together was in twenty seventeen at 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:28.040 the Newark International Film Festival where one of our sisters 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:31.520 was one of the coordinators of the event and they 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:33.679 needed one more big event and she said, I've got 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:37.080 one women behind the mic and the owner said, who 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:40.360 wants to hear women talk about theirs what they used 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:41.560 to do in the business? 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:42.640 Wow. 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:45.480 When they took our SVPs, they couldn't find a room 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:48.640 large enough for us and it was standing room only, 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:53.240 wasn't it. Tracy? She was there and it was the 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:58.160 second highest attended event at that film festival. And we 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:01.959 looked around and said, okay, we got something here. And 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:05.440 we've been at the African American Women Film Festival and 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:10.240 We've done a speaking engagement about getting your Dream job 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:16.160 at Rutgers University, and we've spoken at BMCC University in 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:19.959 New York City and it's just been incredible. So everyone 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:23.120 has been really perched and waiting for this book and 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:26.440 it's taken a long time to get it together and 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:29.079 get it out. So in March we did our launch 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:34.600 event at the Apollo Theater and it was extraordinary. The 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:36.640 Apollo never even expected that it was going to be 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:38.600 an album release party up in there, up and there, 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:42.520 but we know how to problem and it was a 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:46.520 sold out audience. We had twelve hundreds juniors and seniors 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:51.280 from the Department of Education to teach them about career 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:55.920 paths and the entertainment industry. Because imagine Tracy when we 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:59.720 were in high school, if we would have known anything 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:00.439 like this. 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:03.760 My Lord, I told you at your book site when 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:06.280 we were at the book sign and I honestly believe 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:10.680 in nineteen sixty nine, when I was laying on my 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:15.319 bed listening to Gladys Night and the Pits, I created 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:17.280 music videos in my head. 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:22.560 Okay, I believe it, and I dreamt up the whole 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:25.959 whole situation of me working in radio I used to 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:28.880 stare at the radio like this, and I asked, my mind, 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:31.360 are they in there? She said, well, the only time 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:33.679 they're really in there, honey, is if they're down at 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:35.960 the studio. So I heard them speaking on the radio. 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:37.960 I said that we should go down there. She said, 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:39.800 you just can't show up at a radio station. I said, 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:42.680 why not. You know, it's my little third three nine 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:45.360 year old third grade self sitting in the backseat saying, 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:47.960 they're down They're in there, they're down at the station. 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:54.319 Let's go to the station, just so created that's right. 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:56.840 And my my friends used to call me radio because 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:59.040 I never shut up. I always had a need to 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:01.959 tell somebody something. So they were like, oh, you have. 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:03.679 A great voice with Joyce. 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:05.440 Thank you, Thank you. 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:08.839 Really have like I thought you were a singer when 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:11.240 I first met you, because the thing that I really loved. 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:14.960 There's just so many things. But in being in PR, 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:18.280 and I don't know what my time was like or 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:19.960 my life was like, but I would sit in your 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:22.040 audience while I mean in your office, while you were 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:24.040 on the phone, and I remember your Deak was here, 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:26.160 and then there was another death on to my left. 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:29.680 And it was always like a nice mood in your office. 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:34.000 It was light, was never on high. It was always vibe. 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:37.800 It was it was a vibe that was a vibe. 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:43.400 But I remember listening and learning so much and loved 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:47.360 the way your articulation, Like that's what made me feel 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:49.960 like you were a singer, because your articulation was just 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:54.960 Christen on point. That's I remember so many things. But yeah, 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:55.920 you have a great voice. 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:58.240 That is so funny. That's the speech teacher. I mean, 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:03.360 you know it's so. I was each major. Oh yes, yes, 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:06.360 I wanted to do radio and television broadcasting. And the 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:11.200 first job that I was hired to do was to 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:17.079 be at station WOJO in San Juan. And I wanted 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:19.040 to do Spanish news because I met had a double 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:21.880 major speech in Spanish. Yeah, and it was three weeks 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:24.000 before graduation. I was like, I don't know about your culture, 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:26.240 but my black mom and daddy kill me if I 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:27.600 don't show up in this graduation. 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:28.280 I can't come. 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:30.800 Now, give me three weeks I can come. They were like, oh. 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:33.720 I was like, there's not for me. So then it 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:37.840 just changed the whole entire trajectory of my life. Not 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:40.559 taking that job. But that's where I would have been, 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:43.280 but I ended up on w JPC, the Amazing Am 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:48.079 ninety five doing news to New York. 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:53.640 So when you were because the time, I mean those 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:58.240 the nineties, oh my lord, Like I remember, you know, 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:01.640 meeting Biggie for New Jersey Drive or whoever you know 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:04.920 you would recommend to me. But what was it like 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:08.600 coming up because I was doing music video coming out 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:11.880 of music videos at that time. But the artists that 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:15.920 I've named, they were all huge superstars on their way 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:17.520 to where they are today. 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:20.080 Listen, And I just want to say thank you for 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:24.680 entrusting me with if I called you and said, Tracy, 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:29.280 I've got a star, that you believed me. Yeah, it's 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:31.520 my hope that you know, I never tell you wrong 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:35.680 about anything professional and I today, I'll never tell you wrong, 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:39.720 anything wrong about food and yeah, and I'll never tell 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:41.680 you anything wrong. And I just want to thank you 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:44.840 for trusting me with that because that helped to elevate me. 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:48.200 And I hope it's my hope that bringing you stellar 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:50.800 talent also elevated you. Apparently it did. 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:55.400 Yeah, that was the timing was impeccable because at that 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:59.880 time they were tapping into artists with like commercials. You know, 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:03.440 they were getting monies that they had never been introduced before. 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:06.840 So then here comes the film and TV component, and 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:09.680 let's just start is to transition as an actor. We'll 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:13.160 get that acting money, We'll get that soundtrack. You were 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:16.040 in a really oh my God, and it was a 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:21.040 sweet spot. It really was. And during that time, because 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:23.960 you talk about women in the music industry, I know 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:26.440 what it's like for women in TV and film. But 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:29.680 do you think that now, moving into twenty twenty three, 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:36.760 that there is progress, you know, changes in terms of 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:38.000 how women are. 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:44.160 I think in some ways it's definitely progressed. Michelle says no. 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:48.680 I say yes. I say yes because we don't have 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:51.280 to barter and bag as much as we used to. 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:56.960 And so especially with hip hop artists because back then, 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:00.640 you know, if I were calling about Biggie or Outcast 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:03.800 or somebody and they would say, you know, a major 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:07.360 mainstream outlet would say no, and I would literally package them. 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:09.480 We'll say, well, you know, Whitney's coming out next month, 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:13.680 Well say no, and then they go, you know, let 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:18.080 me get back to you and Georgia have to right. 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:22.520 So I think in many ways now because back when 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:26.160 they were just rap artists and it finally evolved into 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:29.800 hip hop is known today. But we put in that 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:34.800 work because pop culture as it is known today, hip 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:40.240 hop is now classified as pop culture. And wow, I'm 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:42.840 here to tell you we did that. And I'm not 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:47.760 saying that to be grandiose. No, I'm just saying we 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:52.040 put in that work for it to be known as 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:57.440 pop culture as it is today. Michelle Joyce, my wonderful, 0:16:57.480 --> 0:17:01.240 fantastic sister. We've been making good truble for thirty years. Okay, 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:06.080 we with this book. But what you don't know about 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:11.520 Michelle is that she was Bad boys first marketing director. 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:15.080 She wrote every marketing plan for every single one of 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:18.440 those bad Boy artists that has catapulted them to who 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:22.360 they are today. She also wrote the first marketing plans 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:26.080 that help Rock Aware acquire their first ten million dollars. 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:30.480 So this is, yes, this is Michelle's story. She's a 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:33.040 woman behind the mic someone you don't know. And we 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:35.520 always say you may know our work, but you may 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:37.200 not know our names. Right. 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:47.040 Well, this is a great, great, great educational tool as well, 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:52.280 because you know what the I have challenges with the 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:54.560 youth and the millennials, because you need to know the 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:59.000 shoulders on which you stand because you did not grow 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:03.119 up with the Internet and have Instagram to promote and 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:06.880 market these artists. You know, like when when our audience 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:09.159 to know, when you talk about we did the groundwork 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:15.400 we're talking about. There's a terminology called snipes, right, yes, 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:20.000 and so I remember when you had young people out 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:22.639 there sniping and what it is you guys, is putting 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:28.240 up posters of albums coming out, you know, and just 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:34.080 to see like the machine that you were in charge 0:18:34.119 --> 0:18:37.960 of in terms of getting you know, like in film. 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:40.399 In film, we're like go to see the the you know, 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:44.520 our film the first weekend, those record sales, those billboards, 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:47.920 you know. And then, like I said, the other thing 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:50.600 that I thought was brilliant during that time was how 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:57.560 women were able to get companies like Mac to do 0:18:57.760 --> 0:19:03.720 campaigns on eve you know what I mean. But like you, 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:07.160 you guys were doing things that were totally outside the box. 0:19:07.280 --> 0:19:09.399 Because we had to think of things outside of the 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:13.600 box because inside of the box it was it was 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:18.360 an unsafe environment. Inside of the box, it was confining, 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:21.440 and we were not getting the results that we knew 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:25.000 they were capable of. So we had to step outside. 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:27.880 We had to color outside of the lines in order 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:30.800 for them to garner the success. This is why I 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:35.160 have brag Wall behind me. And this is why I actually, 0:19:35.760 --> 0:19:37.520 you know, I don't have anywhere to put all these 0:19:37.520 --> 0:19:41.639 golden platinum records that I have in my home. I 0:19:42.160 --> 0:19:43.879 hate to say that some of them are in my shed, 0:19:43.960 --> 0:19:47.119 but I don't have anywhere to put them. You know, 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:48.400 I can't have a home she has. 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:50.760 At Ladies and Gelemen, if you listen to the artists 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:53.400 that I just want the list to name a few. 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:57.399 But you but you can't attain that inside of this 0:19:57.480 --> 0:19:58.080 little box. 0:19:58.359 --> 0:19:59.720 That's right, okay. 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:02.800 And then once you push the boundaries further and further 0:20:02.880 --> 0:20:06.160 and further and start stretching it, and then you start 0:20:06.200 --> 0:20:10.200 waking people up to possibility, and that's when they say, 0:20:10.359 --> 0:20:13.919 uh huh. I'll never forget. When Total said they wanted 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:16.560 to be in a fashion week show, I had taken 0:20:16.600 --> 0:20:18.400 them to Fashion Week and they said, well, we want 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:20.240 to be in a show, and I said, okay, do 0:20:20.280 --> 0:20:21.760 you know how to walk yet? And then they come 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:23.760 and do their diddybop down the thing. I said, first 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:25.119 of all, if I make this phone call, you're not 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:28.399 going to embarrass me. Come on, and we use aris 0:20:28.480 --> 0:20:32.119 the hallway as a runway. And my old, my old 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:36.160 modeling day self popped out right and I was like, okay, 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:37.720 if we gonna do runway, this is how we're doing. 0:20:37.760 --> 0:20:39.679 The girls and I was like, let's walk, let's walk. 0:20:40.000 --> 0:20:41.959 And they were thinking, oh, they thought, oh my god. 0:20:42.000 --> 0:20:43.360 First they didn't know I knew how to do such 0:20:43.400 --> 0:20:46.040 a thing. But it's like, you know, it's a reinvention 0:20:46.119 --> 0:20:48.359 of another life. You bring everything that you are into 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:51.680 the job. And what these children needed the artist, Yes 0:20:51.720 --> 0:20:56.680 they're all kids, but what they needed was mother ring, nurturing. 0:20:57.600 --> 0:20:59.960 That's what they needed. You had to make sure that 0:21:00.160 --> 0:21:03.159 ate this freaking vegetables. So its like we're going to 0:21:03.200 --> 0:21:09.320 be going o'clock tonight, eat good. You can't have another burger, okay. 0:21:09.720 --> 0:21:12.080 So even back then, when I wasn't the good doctor, 0:21:12.240 --> 0:21:15.159 I knew that if they if I let them just 0:21:15.200 --> 0:21:18.560 eat a steady diet of junk, that they won't have 0:21:18.640 --> 0:21:21.119 the energy to sustain to tonight when they need to 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:23.359 get on that stage. So I would make sure that 0:21:23.400 --> 0:21:26.480 we got to restaurants that didn't even serve the junk, 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:28.840 so they didn't even have it as a choice. So, 0:21:29.040 --> 0:21:31.440 I mean, just all of that kind of planning, and 0:21:31.480 --> 0:21:33.960 that was one of the things that angered me so much, 0:21:34.400 --> 0:21:37.440 and I was angry, I have to admit it about 0:21:37.480 --> 0:21:41.320 the New Edition biopic where they left out Renee Foster 0:21:41.680 --> 0:21:46.679 and Defense. Juanita Stephens was vice president of Black Music 0:21:47.359 --> 0:21:51.200 of Publicity excuse me, vice president of publicity at NCAA Records, 0:21:51.200 --> 0:21:55.280 and Renee was her ever ready as assistant, and they 0:21:55.280 --> 0:21:58.160 were left out of the New Edition biopic. When those 0:21:58.200 --> 0:22:02.160 women made sure those boys ate well, slept in good hotels, 0:22:02.160 --> 0:22:05.640 got their schoolwork done, turned in their schoolwork for them, 0:22:06.240 --> 0:22:09.280 and maybe sure they even had kindom skag on it. 0:22:09.640 --> 0:22:13.960 Yeah. Well, I'm gonna say, I'm not going to shout 0:22:13.960 --> 0:22:18.359 her out, but I know a mom who would would 0:22:18.400 --> 0:22:21.280 do that with the group of guys and give their 0:22:21.280 --> 0:22:27.680 care of actors and put that in. Yeah you it's important, Yeah, yeah, 0:22:27.720 --> 0:22:31.800 I mean, but that's the that's also like the nurturing 0:22:31.880 --> 0:22:34.560 side of us as women, like we're going to make 0:22:34.560 --> 0:22:38.120 sure that you're taking care of it, taking care especially 0:22:38.160 --> 0:22:41.440 you your spiritual morale. This is a good shift because 0:22:41.440 --> 0:22:43.200 I don't want to lose this, because I do want 0:22:43.200 --> 0:22:47.080 to come back for some last words of the book. However, 0:22:48.440 --> 0:22:51.719 in terms of actors today, now you know we're there 0:22:51.720 --> 0:22:54.960 on strike right now, so they have this time. I 0:22:55.040 --> 0:22:57.520 want to talk about foods. I want to talk about stamina, 0:22:57.560 --> 0:23:02.320 because I always stress this about It's not just saying 0:23:02.359 --> 0:23:06.239 some words. It's not just throwing some dialogue, like you know, 0:23:06.320 --> 0:23:09.440 games are throwne you're shooting in cold Ireland, you know. 0:23:09.840 --> 0:23:15.560 So how can actors sustain their mind, their body and 0:23:15.600 --> 0:23:20.080 their spirit through foods and what you teachom? 0:23:20.640 --> 0:23:25.040 Wow, heavy loaded question, but so unnecessary. What I will 0:23:25.080 --> 0:23:29.000 say is if they do not tap into better food, 0:23:29.840 --> 0:23:33.000 the lifestyle currently will not sustain them. That you will 0:23:33.040 --> 0:23:35.280 crash and burn. That's the first thing I want to say, 0:23:35.520 --> 0:23:39.440 because oh yes, you are what you eat. Oh yes, 0:23:39.720 --> 0:23:42.920 you are what you eat. And for you to think 0:23:42.960 --> 0:23:48.000 contrary to that is foolish because if you put junk in, 0:23:48.400 --> 0:23:51.639 you will get junk out. I just suggest that you 0:23:51.760 --> 0:23:56.320 read labels. Would you ever put bad gasoline in your car? 0:23:56.680 --> 0:23:59.639 I went to a gas station the other day and 0:23:59.680 --> 0:24:02.119 I'll had a half tank, but I like to come 0:24:02.280 --> 0:24:04.960 home with a full tank. And I filled up my 0:24:05.160 --> 0:24:09.800 car at an Exxon station and before I could get 0:24:09.800 --> 0:24:11.920 out of the driveway good. I knew that that batch 0:24:11.960 --> 0:24:14.160 of gas was bad, and so I'm never right now, 0:24:14.200 --> 0:24:16.240 I'm letting that batch of gas run out of my 0:24:16.320 --> 0:24:20.119 tank before I refeel it because it's spluttering and speaking 0:24:20.200 --> 0:24:23.480 and squeaking and spitting. And I'll never go back to 0:24:23.520 --> 0:24:27.800