Speaker 1: And I think there's a love letter to you, Amanda,
Speaker 1: that I get to do this with you, that you
Speaker 1: see me in all my parts and allow me to
Speaker 1: express myself.
Speaker 2: We say no one responded, but obviously at that time
Speaker 2: what had we done, our stamp of our work wasn't
Speaker 2: that obvious. But now it's lovely to see the podcast
Speaker 2: speak for itself. Tears Child, just like the red on
Speaker 2: this look. Yeah, we're glad.
Speaker 3: We're bleeding her pleading. We know we have left this
Speaker 3: our hearts on the table.
Speaker 1: I'm always always be careful those.
Speaker 2: Hi.
Speaker 3: I'm Amanda and I'm Rumby. Welcome to its Layered podcast.
Speaker 1: We are under the Black Past Network, powered by iHeart,
Speaker 1: and we have just complete did recording a.
Speaker 3: Studio season six. Can you believe it always come back?
Speaker 3: Can I believe it? I don't think so.
Speaker 2: This has been such a bumper season, not only having
Speaker 2: room be here in person, but also, like I distinctly
Speaker 2: remember our first season, we put out all these like okay,
Speaker 2: we wanna we want to celebrate Zimbab we're in creatives
Speaker 2: or people of color creatives, and we didn't get many
Speaker 2: responses back.
Speaker 3: And audious was our very first guest.
Speaker 1: I remember that.
Speaker 3: I remember that.
Speaker 2: So to go from one to six guests for this
Speaker 2: season especially amazing.
Speaker 1: Truly honored, honestly for like by every single guest that
Speaker 1: took their time to be here with us. I think,
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes when you're doing something and you're in
Speaker 1: the trenches, you just don't see, like you know what
Speaker 1: you are doing or how far you've come. And I
Speaker 1: think this has been a great reminder that if you
Speaker 1: put in the work and you respect what you do
Speaker 1: and respect others as you do it, you know, it
Speaker 1: can really come full circle and growth.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like I mean, we say, no one responded, but
Speaker 2: obviously at that time, what had we done, you know,
Speaker 2: our stamp of our work wasn't that obvious. But now
Speaker 2: it's lovely to see the podcast speak for itself.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, it's.
Speaker 2: Such a beautiful journey. And I'm so glad I get
Speaker 2: to deal with UR and B and look at us now.
Speaker 2: I know, so so so grateful. It was definitely not
Speaker 2: easy doing all of this. A mannequin teste their tears child,
Speaker 2: just like that red one.
Speaker 3: This look.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're we're bleeding pleading, but they're read on. This
Speaker 2: logo is also a love letter to Black Women. We
Speaker 2: had this beautiful setup done by Pink Lady Picnics, when
Speaker 2: this beautiful black owned studio, Bidtersweet Studio. All of it
Speaker 2: is just to celebrate and elevate black women. Obviously a
Speaker 2: lot of our guests were women, and then we had
Speaker 2: a black men as well, just also show that side
Speaker 2: of things and how they can also support us. But
Speaker 2: in essence, we just want to lean into our soft
Speaker 2: go era.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: We want to lean into getting out of survival mode,
Speaker 2: which I think a lot of us get stuck in
Speaker 2: a lot.
Speaker 1: And I think this is like our prayer for if
Speaker 1: you're listening, if you're watching, that you can find softness somewhere,
Speaker 1: a safe space to land. You know, this has been
Speaker 1: an incredible way. We ended off the year at the
Speaker 1: Beyond the Valley Festival, our first live podcast Amanda, Like
Speaker 1: it's insane.
Speaker 3: I think we were just pinching ourselves the whole time
Speaker 3: doing the thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like you know what they call the talent and
Speaker 1: we're like, oh right, we're the talent.
Speaker 2: I kept yeah, yeah, and like having to relax and
Speaker 2: know that we're not the ones. We have to set
Speaker 2: it all up and do everything there to support us,
Speaker 2: especially as black women.
Speaker 3: True, it was amazing.
Speaker 1: It was an amazing I wouldn't have wanted to do it,
Speaker 1: I said it. I got emotional there. I couldn't I
Speaker 1: couldn't have done it without you. I couldn't have done.
Speaker 3: All this or I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm getting emotional anyway now. But I'm so grateful for
Speaker 1: this journey we've been on. I think it was just
Speaker 1: a dream and a hope. I don't think we knew
Speaker 1: what we were doing when we kick started this podcast.
Speaker 1: I don't think we knew where it would take us.
Speaker 1: I don't think we knew truly, and we just followed that.
Speaker 1: And there have been so many times that we thought,
Speaker 1: maybe now is the time to throw in the towel,
Speaker 1: Maybe it's too much, we can't continue and go on,
Speaker 1: thank you, but we've always just looked at each other
Speaker 1: and said, like, do we have a little more fight
Speaker 1: in us? And I'm just so grateful for friendship. And
Speaker 1: I think there's a love letter to you, Amanda, that
Speaker 1: I get to do this with you, that you see
Speaker 1: me in all my parts and allow me to express myself,
Speaker 1: and we have this space where we can be ourselves,
Speaker 1: our creative selves and do what we love.
Speaker 3: So thank you for that. Thank you for all the
Speaker 3: wonderful experience.
Speaker 2: Right I think when I I was just like, what
Speaker 2: are we actually even doing? And even when you see
Speaker 2: us doing our little TikTok, so are real or please
Speaker 2: know that all of it is an intent of sharing
Speaker 2: and loving this moment in time, not only as friends,
Speaker 2: but as black women, as black creatives and Rimby could
Speaker 2: not have done this without you. So I'm so grateful
Speaker 2: for all the things we get to do and all
Speaker 2: the beautiful people we've got to meet along this journey,
Speaker 2: all the creatives who've held us together to make this
Speaker 2: all work.
Speaker 3: And shout out to the scenes.
Speaker 1: Shout out to them. We've got Maggie behind the scenes.
Speaker 1: We've got Wintana who owns a Bittersweet Studios. We've got Emma,
Speaker 1: We've got Tino, Pink Lady Picnics. We've got all our guests.
Speaker 2: We had Laura Alex our makeup, you know styling at Ebony,
Speaker 2: our makeup at BTV, Like, we've got so many now
Speaker 2: who helped us out all together for us, every.
Speaker 1: Single guest who came on here. Who are you going
Speaker 1: to get to hear from? I just thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: It takes a village, a community.
Speaker 3: We're so very grateful our own bins.
Speaker 2: Let's get them a little bit of a shout out
Speaker 2: loading down right now. We know Jerome is not having
Speaker 2: Daddy day, you know, to make this work, Thomas all
Speaker 2: alone in Prague, so we really wanted to, I guess,
Speaker 2: also show you the behind the scenes of make this work,
Speaker 2: all the work that goes into it. Whether we continue
Speaker 2: beyond now or not, we know we have left this
Speaker 2: on our hearts on the table.
Speaker 3: We gave our all.
Speaker 1: We gave our all, and I think that's all we
Speaker 1: can ever say. But yeah, thank you so much for
Speaker 1: supporting us, for listening, for the love, and.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, please still share, still review, still like, still
Speaker 2: come and still interact with us, because at the end
Speaker 2: of the day, not only us, but all these beautiful
Speaker 2: people we had on this season would love to hear
Speaker 2: from you, would love to connect with you. So if
Speaker 2: anyone resonated with you, definitely hit them up and continue
Speaker 2: on that journey, because one thing we love as well
Speaker 2: is connecting people absolutely. And I mean we had thora
Speaker 2: last year that a lot of people were not so
Speaker 2: familiar with their work, and now they are. And not
Speaker 2: to say that this is a goodbye or goodbye forever,
Speaker 2: but definitely we are going to take a poet, it's
Speaker 2: going to take a pause, and we've come to this,
Speaker 2: come this far for sure.
Speaker 3: Six seasons.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, You're Ama as always, I love
Speaker 1: you so much.
Speaker 3: Love you always, and catch you guys soon hopefully. All
Speaker 3: right bye,