WEBVTT - Dreams Do Come True: Loren Recaps the Black Effect Festival 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:04.720 I'm a homegirl that knows a little bit about everything 0:00:04.800 --> 0:00:05.640 and everybody. 0:00:06.519 --> 0:00:10.200 You know, if you don't lie about that, right, Hey, 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:10.799 what's up, y'all. 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:13.040 It's Laura La Rosa, your homegirl who knows a bit 0:00:13.080 --> 0:00:16.400 about everything and everybody. This is the Latest with Laura 0:00:16.440 --> 0:00:18.919 La Rosa, where you guys know, we give you your daily 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:22.480 breakdown and everything pop culture and all of the conversations 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:24.000 that are currently shaking the room. 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:24.960 Now. 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:28.920 I just got back from the Black Effect Podcast Festival, 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:31.360 and baby, let me tell you. I left the podcast festival, 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:35.440 which just so inspired. And y'all know, we start off 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:38.440 this episode always asking how are you doing? 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:40.480 And I mean, like, really, how are you doing? 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:46.360 I'm right now I'm feeling I mean like I'm actually 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:50.760 exhausted from the weekend and just you know, I had 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:53.800 family there with me in Atlanta. But at the same time, 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:58.040 I am so inspired, yo, Like, I don't think people 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:01.840 talk enough about being able to build out in business. 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:04.040 Like there's a couple of reasons why I'm inspired. I 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:06.880 was at the festival and I did a panel that 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:09.440 we're gonna talk about here. But when I was backstage 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:11.399 for the panel, I was talking to one of the 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:13.679 production guys because I was so nervous because I'm like, 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:18.840 they're literally Mandy and Weezy from Decision Decisions formally Horrible 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:22.959 Decisions podcasts here on the Black Effect podcast Network in iHeartMedia. 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:26.119 They introduced me because they were hosting the podcast festival, right, 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:29.679 So I'm backstage and they're getting closer and closer. They're 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:31.440 just calling my name, they reading a bio, they're doing 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:33.240 all of the crowd get hype, all of that, and 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:35.720 I'm like, I'm telling the production guy, like the stage people, 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:38.200 and I'm like, hey, I don't have a microphone. Y'all 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:39.760 told me that there was gonna be no microphone in 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:42.480 my seat, just in the panel of seats, and I 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:44.240 don't got no microphone. Am I supposed to grab it 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:46.080 from them? Like that exchange is gonna be kind of 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:49.680 weird because they're gonna be actively talking as I come out. 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:51.520 So the guy is like, Yo, you're in good hands. 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:53.600 You're in good hands. So I'm like okay. Then they 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:55.360 literally say my name and I'm like, hey, I still 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:57.240 to have a microphone. And I turn around. He's like, 0:01:57.320 --> 0:01:58.920 I got you, and he grabs it and gives it 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:01.080 to me and He's like, yo, I got you. I 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:02.760 know what I'm doing. And he was like, I know 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:05.680 what I'm doing, Lauren. I just then another guy came 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:07.800 in and said, yeah, he just came off of working 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:10.600 and producing the super Bowl. And I turned to charlat 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:14.360 Mane and was like, you got money. Now he just 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:16.880 was working and producing the super Bowl and now he's 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:22.440 here producing the Live BLA Black Effects Podcast Festival. And 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:24.239 Charlotte made was like, I don't got money. I got 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:26.200 got And I was like, you know, heard you. But 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:28.799 that moment, I was like yo. And just being there 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:30.880 and seeing the build out in a different stages and 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:33.880 all the people that come to be entertained, but also 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:36.600 the celebrity talent and the podcast talent and all of 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:39.160 the production crews and just it is. 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:41.360 A very well oiled machine. 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:45.560 And I don't think people understand how how much goes 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:48.840 into putting on events, live events, but just sustaining business 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:51.639 to the point where you can have that many different 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:54.960 tiers of business and people working for you, and it 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:57.520 like go well, and it looked good, and it looked elevated, 0:02:57.520 --> 0:03:00.360 and it's current and it's with ease, and all of 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:04.400 this came from Charlemagne deciding to chase his dream, get 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:07.800 on the radio, get on people's nerves, smell a couple 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:09.840 of seats. You know what I'm saying, Like I just 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:13.359 was in real time, Like, yo, this is inspiring, like 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:16.079 all of this. Tank and Jay Valentine for the R 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:19.160 and B Money podcast, sat down with Jack Queeze. Sarah 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:22.560 Jakes Roberts for her Woman Involved podcasts, sat down with 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:27.280 Regene's mom Toya Mental Wellderness Conversations. 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:30.520 I did a creator's panel. There was just so much. 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:30.919 Who else? 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:34.720 Cam Newton did his Funky Friday podcast with and he 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:36.720 sat down in the conversation with Porsche Williams for Real 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:40.480 Housewives of Atlanta. There was so much going on, y'all, 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:45.320 and just so many It was like quality everything. I'm like, bro, 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:49.200 the budget was budgeting, but you could have big name 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:51.880 productions in the budget be budgeting and it still looked 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:54.240 a mess from the outside. Time and is off all 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:57.600 of that. Things flowed. There was food trucks, The food 0:03:57.680 --> 0:04:01.720 was good. The bar was popping, Like then we got 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:05.640 to give it up, we have to, Like, I was 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:08.960 like all of this because of a dream. So I'm 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:12.720 feeling inspired. Patrick, how you feeling that's amazing. 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:16.120 I'm inspired because you inspired. That sounds like an amazing time. 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:19.839 So I'm feeling great. I'm feeding off your energy. You know, 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:21.719 we're back at it for this week, So. 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:23.479 How would your weekend? Would you do? This weekend? It 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:23.839 was smooth. 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:27.240 I can't even recall. Probably just working shooting. It's one 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:30.080 of those week things was just moving so fast year 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:30.720 but it's all good. 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:31.320 We here with it. 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:36.720 Well, yeah, so podcast festival next year. I'm taking you 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:39.440 with me. At one point because when I got to 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:40.919 the festival, I was like, yo, I just want to 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:42.640 go out in the festival. I've never been, it's my 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:45.040 first year coming. I want to just see what it's like, 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:47.080 what the activations are with the food trucks are, like 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:51.080 all of that. People are like like in real time, 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:54.040 like like noticing me. I'm like, and I'm still getting 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:56.160 used to all of that stuff. So I'm just like, 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:58.080 o hey, And then we started taking pictures. We took 0:04:58.080 --> 0:04:59.920 a couple of pictures. Next thing I know, I look 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:02.240 up my managers having to like orchestrate a line. Like 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:05.800 I sat for three hours during the festival. I missed 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:08.200 the whole R and B Money podcast. I missed the 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:11.320 first panel. I missed the majority of the first half 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:13.679 of the festival because once I got in the crowd, 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:15.480 I was like, I'm not going to tell these people know. 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:19.160 And I actually like love engaging with people because y'all 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:21.400 are listening and watching the show. So I met a 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:25.479 lot of people, don't Everybody had podcasts. Everybody had great energy. 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:28.400 We was in there praying together, laughing together. I was 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:29.719 learning about people's shows. 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:31.000 It was just fire. 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:36.120 It felt like a creator's family reunion. That's exactly how 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:39.719 it felt. Music wise, energy, love, like all the energy, 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:42.080 like all of that stuff. So the panel that I'm 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:47.279 moderated was called Creatives, Creators and Curators. It was presented 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:49.560 by AT and T and on the panel with me, 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:52.359 we had Aaron Howard, a King who was a producer. 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:55.000 He works with the Black Effects podcast Network, but he 0:05:55.040 --> 0:06:00.120 worked with and helped create and you know the Combat 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:02.800 Jack Show, which you know when you talk about podcasts 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:05.000 and podcasts and a hip hop space and a culture 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:06.080 space like that show. 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:08.640 It's like that show gets pointed to so much. 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:10.679 Because it was the first of its condin it led 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:13.960 and drove like it started a lot of people's podcast 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:16.239 career seeing what Combat Jack did on that show. 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:21.080 Then we had Christa Renette Hazlet, actress. 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:24.840 She also has a podcast as well called keep It 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:25.960 Positive Sweetie. 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:28.159 She's also a producer too. 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:29.920 She's done a lot of different things, so we talked 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:32.120 a bit about that, like just navigating through different things 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:35.600 as you go. R Carlo Handy who is a TV 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:40.400 creator and executive and a CEO of Someoni's Media, Shante Lundy. 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:43.840 She is the owner of black Girl Sunscreen. Black Girl 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:46.960 Sunscreen is currently in twenty thousand stores, y'all. And this 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:50.039 girl started this with her own savings from her corporate job. 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:52.599 So it was a conversation for real, for real, just 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:56.160 about figuring her all out as a dreamer and really 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:56.760 making it work. 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:03.160 Contry Listen, I know dreams really do come true. 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:05.840 Creators on this pandel we'll share with you guys their 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:08.880 story of trying them from having an idea that they 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:10.520 ultimately walk to life. 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:13.280 There's no perfect way of doing anything, but this panel 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:14.080 is here to tell. 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:16.120 Y'all all the good things that y'all need to know about. 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:17.160 How to get it done. 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:19.600 Now for me being here at the Black of Back 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:22.520 Podcast Festival and everything that you guys have been watching 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:25.120 in my life over the last six months has literally 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:27.200 been a dream come true as a creator. 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:28.960 H thank you guys. 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:31.800 As a creator, y'all, I want to get your story 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:33.080 out there, you know what I mean, And you want 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:35.280 to do good work and if you want to build audience, 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:38.160 but you also want to make some money. It's hard 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:39.800 as a creator. It's a lot of work but not 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:42.920 a lot of return sometimes. So I'm excited to be 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:44.520 here because that has been my journey. 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:46.880 And I'm excited to talk to these creators. We've also probably. 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:50.280 Had a lot of the similar things happening in their 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:51.400 life that I have happen. 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:55.040 Now, I'm gonna start with once upon a Dream to. 0:07:55.120 --> 0:08:00.360 Y'allity So, Crystal, you started as a stylist, it worked 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:02.080 your way into acting and producing. 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:04.600 What helps you believe that you could take that lead. 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:06.559 First? 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:07.480 Thank you so much. 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:08.200 I'm proud of me. 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:11.120 Thank you so much for allowing us to a space, Heavie. 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:14.520 But for me, it was I knew when I came 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:15.280 to one of what. 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:18.000 I was trying to do, and there was nothing that 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:20.400 was going to stop me. I had television, and what 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:23.120 I had to understand was that sometimes. 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:25.800 The route would be different to them what you expect. 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:28.040 Yes, we think that it's one way to get into 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:31.040 a destination. And for me it was not the first 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:32.760 thing I did. I call bah Bahm and I said, hey, 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:34.960 I'm moving to Atlanta, and she said, well, pray about it. 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:36.959 I had already done that because I don't think any 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:37.880 moves without. 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:38.560 Talking about darkness. 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:41.960 That Like, I tell people all the time that the 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:43.760 best thing that was ever told to me is is 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:47.240 that you can be dreaming and not be in your 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:50.280 current reality because you're dreaming and you're manifesting, but you 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:53.120 gotta be able to still take care of your reality. 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:55.480 So you gotta put bills, You got to keep your 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:57.559 head clear so you be able to even think and create, 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:00.560 which you mean, like it's hard to think, create, feel 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:03.080 the energy and inspiration when you're worried about how you 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:04.560 gonna eat, how you're gonna pay your bills. 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:07.120 You know those type of things. So you sometimes you 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:08.160 know what I mean, the route. 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:10.800 To get to where you going is, it's twisting, it's 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:12.640 up and down. But I think when you go to 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:16.040 festivals like this, or you go to conferences or whatever 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:17.680 the case may be, like when you're moving thought your 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:19.800 day to day as a creator, and you're hungry. You're 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:21.160 just trying to get on you know what I mean. 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:24.080 You want things to work out. You're trying to network up, 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:25.760 so that means, you know, you feel like you should 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:28.400 only be in conversation with people who can do more 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:30.800 for you than you can do for them, whether it's 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:33.920 financially or you know, walking you into rooms or things 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:37.640 of that nature. But it has been there has been 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:40.560 so many times where like people that like were interning 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:44.640 after I went through an internship have ended up in 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:46.679 positions and called me about jobs. 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:49.120 And you know what I mean, or like you just 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:50.400 never know who people are gonna turn out. 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:52.200 The bet I was raised that way, Like my mom 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:55.240 always taught me, like you never know who a person 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:57.440 is gonna end up being, so treat the person like 0:09:57.440 --> 0:09:59.719 a person and not like what they can do or 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:00.640 can do for you. 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:02.160 And that is so true. 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:06.240 Is like my career has literally been almost like made 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:10.040 at certain points in the certain opportunities I've had because 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:13.679 people remembered how I treated them and doubled back and 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:15.880 threw things my way. So there's a point that a 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:19.600 king made Aaron Howard made and he has this saying 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:22.640 that he says where he's like, you know, relationships are currency, right, 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:24.760 Like who you know is money? 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:25.200 Its goal? 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:28.160 And I asked him about how you know when to 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:30.319 cash in on that goal? How do you know when 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:31.480 to cash in on that currency? 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:34.240 Well, you have to have value. 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:37.040 Team, that's part of the currency. You just can't be 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:39.959 asking people to do you aside. You know, you have 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:42.600 to provide some type of value to whatever it is 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:46.880 that you're trying to execute, and that takes time because 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:48.800 we're all doing things, we're all working on I know 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:51.840 right now there's like five people in this crowd that 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:54.480 you know reached out to me. I'm probably telling too much, 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:57.440 but we're trying to figure out how to do some 0:10:57.600 --> 0:11:01.600 GOP content. But these are five. 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:02.760 Ten year relationships. 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:05.520 You know, a lot of times what I find is 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:07.800 when I talk to people, they get upset, They get 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:11.400 frustrated because they might meet somebody that may not be 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:13.000 able to reach out to them, or they reach out 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:15.400 to them, theyble they didn't get a call bat or 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:19.080 follow them, and they get frustrated, like, ah, sometimes you 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:22.600 just got to relax and do the work, continue. 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:22.880 On your journey. 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:26.640 See them again, follow up and present yourself in a 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:28.480 banner that shows value. 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:29.920 And I think it's a two way. 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:32.839 Street, baby, when I tell you this right here. 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:36.760 Okay, the podcast could have ended right there at that conversation. 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:39.200 I mean it technically kind of did because our time 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:43.920 was winding down. But that was such a major point, 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:48.880 one of the biggest things that I've learned because my life, 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:52.480 my lifeline are my relationships are the people I can 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:54.480 pick up the phone and call. Whether I need to 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:57.600 confirm a story, I need to you know, book talent. 0:11:57.760 --> 0:12:01.400 I need to find who I need to be calling 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:03.640 to confirm the story. So I got to call a friend, 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:05.920 like yo, who's the publicist, who's the manager, who's this, 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:09.320 who's the that. You gotta know when it's time to 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:11.240 lean in and time that, you know what I mean, 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:14.040 like to just not you're not catching on that currency. 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:16.800 But the biggest thing that he said outside of just knowing. 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:19.800 When, is you got to be able to add value 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:23.240 in these conversations as well. And I was talking to 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:25.280 a girl, there was a group of students there and 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:27.280 shout out to y'all, y'all are watching or listening. 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:28.800 There was a group of students. 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:32.800 There from Morehouse, and then there was from another college 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:35.160 as well. It was like a whole group. And one 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:37.840 of the students, she's a girl that is from New York. 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:42.080 She asked me, what is my advice to a college 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:45.160 student right now about like how to get to where 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:47.000 I'm at from where you know? Like she was, like, 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:50.040 you did the whole college thing. You're a marketing major. 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:53.280 I'm a marketing major, like you know, black girl working 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:56.000 in you know, mainstream media and like doing these different 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:57.679 things and you in rooms with people that don't look 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:00.199 like you, Like, what have you learned that you you 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:02.520 would tell us right now that we should be focused 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:04.360 on it and working on I was like, you need 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:06.600 to learn the artists staying ready so you don't gotta 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:12.880 get ready. Like everything about pop culture, entertainment moves quick, 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:16.679 moves so quick. I'm snapping my fingers because as I'm snapping, 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:19.959 something else is happening, another story is breaking. You gotta 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:21.600 stay ready so you don't get ready. I mean, so 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:23.760 you don't got to get ready. Really being able to 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:26.520 show what you can do and how you can do 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:30.320 it in a way that people are wild that they 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:33.000 want to bring you back to that table, and also too, 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:35.160 I just said, you gotta always think about as well, 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:36.040 like people be busy. 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:37.480 Y'all, people be busy. 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:39.679 So I like to think like with certain people when 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:42.439 I'm asking certain favors or you know, certain things as 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:44.120 I'm in the building phase, and you know, sometimes you 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:47.319 need to stamp on certain things to make people, you know, 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:50.160 just really feel it. I always think about, like, Okay, 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:52.840 these people are this person is busy. So it's what 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:55.360 I'm calling them about worth them stopping everything that I 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:57.760 know what they're doing because they're going to stop because 0:13:57.800 --> 0:13:58.640 of our relationship. 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:00.000 Is it worth themselves? 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:03.040 And if it's not, I don't call and maybe I'll 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:05.600 wait a little bit until it is worth it. But yeah, 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:07.199 So that was just some of the conversations I wanted 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:08.880 to make sure that y'all got a chance to take 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:13.199 a listen to. But I also ran into because Sarah 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:15.280 Jack Roberts was there during her Woman in All podcast. 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:18.480 All of the black creatives in La or creatives in 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:21.480 general in LA, if you have lived there for over 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:24.200 a year, you have been to one church LA, which 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:26.800 is a potter House church. I don't know nobody that 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:28.840 has lived in LA that is you know, wanting to 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:30.440 go to church that is a creative that has not 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:32.320 at least walked through the doors of that church one time. 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:34.720 So y'all know how attached they are to a lot 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:36.760 of creators' journeys that have lived in la I know, 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:39.160 for me, that's the church I was going to. I 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:42.040 was watching that church up until I got more into 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:45.440 my church in Delaware. But yeah, seeing them in person, 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:47.040 I was like, oh shoot. 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:48.800 Like it was also like. 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:52.360 It was kind of like a full circle moment because 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:55.040 when I was involved in that church, I even involved 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:56.320 that I just used to go. I wasn't like an 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:58.080 involved member where they would have known me then, but 0:14:58.840 --> 0:14:59.760 I was in. 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:02.320 Such I remember, like man I was. 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:04.160 I was in such a building phase of my life 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:05.920 and career at that time. It would be some days 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:07.640 but I wouldn't even have money to go to church. 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:09.480 I couldn't afford to put guests in my car to 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:11.880 go there. We would carpooled to church because we were 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:13.800 just so broke and just trying to figure it out. 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:16.040 Me and my homegirls, sleeping on each other's couches and 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:20.360 you know what I mean, sharing apartments and religion and faith. 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:21.800 Even at that time. 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:25.040 It was all we had for real, like just figuring 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:27.000 it out, going to church, trying to figure it out, 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:29.640 and using church on Sunday as a motivation to get 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:33.400 through the week that following week of scraping together money 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:36.080 to just like make things shake for real. So to 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:39.320 be in that space as a creator, in a new 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:42.920 resident of La La to then run into them backstage. 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:46.280 I'm at the Black Effect Podcast Festival. I'm about to 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:49.080 go on stage to host a panel. You know, all 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:51.320 of this big life and these things have happened for me, 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:54.480 and I'm also a lot more rooted in my spiritual 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:58.040 journey now with God, y'all, Like it was, I don't know, 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:00.480 It's such a full circle moment. And I actually got 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:01.920 a chance to tell them, I got a chance to 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:04.800 meet them and almost cried just hugging her because I'm like, 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:07.000 she don't even know how much hurt and her husband 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:09.680 and their church got me to where I'm at right 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:12.360 now to be standing in front of her, because if 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:16.200 not but God, I wouldn't have made it through those years, 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:19.920 my first two years in La Man. We shout out 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:22.440 to my sister Mariah. She's currently on tour with Sizza 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:26.160 and Kendrick Lamar. She's a dancer and a choreographer. I 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:28.920 remember we would literally meet up to sit in the 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:31.840 car and just talk and cry because we were struggling 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:33.880 so bad and we couldn't figure out why it had 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:35.760 to be so tough. And both were from Delaware, so 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:38.440 we got really really close. But to go through that 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:40.200 and then to be back there, it's like Patrick, I 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:41.040 see you shaking your head. 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:44.200 You like this identified with the. 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:47.360 Right like it's crazy, It's just kind of it was 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:49.960 a very full circle moment. I don't even know how 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:51.440 us to put it in the words, but to say 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:54.560 it like that. So the festival was a great time. 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:58.320 My favorite part about the festival was meeting you guys, 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:03.800 like I I'm like being so you know, honest about 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:05.520 the fact of like we took probably two to three 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:08.800 hours to just like touch the people, like hug people, 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:11.720 take pictures. I probably met over three to four hundred 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:13.720 of y'all literally within that time. 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:15.520 Yeah. 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:18.480 So the podcast Wressel was fire and talking about Sarah 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:22.199 Jakes Roberts and Pastor Terray TD. Jake's Actually, as I 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:25.520 was coming in to film the podcast, there was a 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:29.320 video and reports beginning the surface from his online service 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:33.600 today that he is stepping down from so In November, 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:37.280 November twenty twenty four, Tdjkes had this scare on stage 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:40.000 while preaching where he like paused and he was shaking, 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:42.560 and then he went out and then it was revealed 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:44.560 that it was later revealed that he had a massive 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:49.480