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INTERVIEW: Meagan Good Majors Talks Nebula9 Vodka, Reasonable Doubt, Directing, Protecting Your Peace + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Every day up the Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I'm finish for y'all.
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  Speaker 2: Done morning.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody's DJ envy, just hilarious, chelamage, the god we are
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  Speaker 4: the Breakfast Club, Lawnla Roses here as well.
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  Speaker 2: We got a special guest in the ballance.
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  Speaker 3: Do Meggan good?
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back? How are you feeling?
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  Speaker 1: I'm feeling good?
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  Speaker 2: Good to think about that, well.
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  Speaker 1: Because I was like, am I going to say I'm
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  Speaker 1: feeling major? A'm I feeling good?
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  Speaker 2: Or congratulations?
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  Speaker 4: You recently celebrated what one year of marriage?
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  Speaker 2: How has that been? How has that one year been?
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  Speaker 1: It's been so good. It's been so much fun.
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  Speaker 5: Just it's a crazy thing because I feel like we're
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  Speaker 5: just such partner's journeying in life and just enjoy each
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  Speaker 5: other and just have fun together.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, it's just been really nice.
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  Speaker 4: How is it different from your other relationships, like that
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  Speaker 4: first year feeling? Because you've been through that first year
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  Speaker 4: feeling before, So how is this one different?
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  Speaker 5: I think it's just about you know where I am
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  Speaker 5: in life, and I think just the fact that we're
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  Speaker 5: truly best friends and and I feel truly seen and
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  Speaker 5: I feel that this person helps me become a better person,
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  Speaker 5: and it's someone that I just really really respect, And yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I don't compare it like that.
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  Speaker 1: It's just different and it's amazing.
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  Speaker 4: And you everyone who gives everybody the middle finger that
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  Speaker 4: thought it was just a ploy at one time, now
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  Speaker 4: they're just doing this just for the internet, just to
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  Speaker 4: help them out. You might ever want to just give
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  Speaker 4: it stick out your tongue one good time.
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  Speaker 2: One time.
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  Speaker 5: Probably earlier on I did, but I think at this point,
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  Speaker 5: you know, when you go through the journey and there's
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  Speaker 5: so many people preconceived notions and people who think that
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  Speaker 5: they know things, and you kind of just have to
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  Speaker 5: get to a point where you're just completely free and
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  Speaker 5: you're just like, you know what those who know you
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  Speaker 5: and know your track record and know you know the
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  Speaker 5: goodwill that you have earned just by being authentic and
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  Speaker 5: being kind and all those things. Those people will will
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  Speaker 5: give you the benefit of the doubt and they'll be open.
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  Speaker 5: Other people not so much, And it's not really about me.
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  Speaker 5: It's more about their own things and things that they've
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  Speaker 5: experienced and things that they may feel.
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  Speaker 1: And so you know, not only are you.
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  Speaker 6: Aught together and married and and love and all the things.
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  Speaker 6: Y'all have businesses, So yeah, y'all both are still busy.
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  Speaker 6: How does that how's that balance with you know, personal business,
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  Speaker 6: How do y'all still find time to spend times with
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  Speaker 6: each other?
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  Speaker 5: Well?
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  Speaker 1: That helps it, the fact that we work together, you know.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, it's been it's been really interesting to build
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  Speaker 5: on our culture because it came out of, you know,
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  Speaker 5: being in a season where you know, you're just trying
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  Speaker 5: to navigate life and the work that we started doing
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  Speaker 5: with our bodies. Physically, it's something that he was already doing,
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  Speaker 5: but because I had been training off and on all
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  Speaker 5: my life, I never trained this particular way, and when
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  Speaker 5: I saw my body begin to transform as quickly as
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  Speaker 5: it did, but then more importantly, it was the emotional
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  Speaker 5: things that were on me that were able to come
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  Speaker 5: off physically that I realized, is no amount of therapy
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  Speaker 5: know this, No that it's going to get something sometimes
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  Speaker 5: off of you that has to physically come out of you.
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  Speaker 5: And then you know, my brother Eric Bellinger, he just
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  Speaker 5: lost his mom and I'm sorry, yeah, miss Simon, and
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  Speaker 5: so he was in that season. You know, I just
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  Speaker 5: thought my godfather, Jim, and there's just everybody was kind
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  Speaker 5: of going through a season next thing. You know, there's
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  Speaker 5: twenty of us doing this workout, and it really became
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  Speaker 5: about honoring each other and honoring our bodies and being
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  Speaker 5: really intentional, and that's how it was born. And so
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  Speaker 5: because it's such a way of life for us, it's
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  Speaker 5: kind of like we're just doing life and walking in
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  Speaker 5: purpose and doing the things that we really care about
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  Speaker 5: and sharing that with people.
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  Speaker 3: So this is a movement. How often is this every
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  Speaker 3: day that y'all do this?
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  Speaker 1: He does every day?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: But you know what's crazy is as I started getting
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  Speaker 5: up with the five am crew.
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  Speaker 1: Now, so I'm up at like four thirty am.
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  Speaker 7: What are the things?
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  Speaker 8: What are the things that you emotionally realized you weren't
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  Speaker 8: you weren't fully healed to face that you didn't know
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  Speaker 8: until you got there.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I think there was so many things from childhood,
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  Speaker 5: from growing up in the business, from things that had
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  Speaker 5: happened in the past few years to things that had
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  Speaker 5: been things that had been going on in my life
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  Speaker 5: for you know, just I had never thought of it
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  Speaker 5: that way or really dealt with.
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  Speaker 1: It that way.
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  Speaker 5: And so for me, I actually just discovered a lot
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  Speaker 5: in that process, you know, discover things I may have
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  Speaker 5: felt about my dad, discovered things I may have felt,
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  Speaker 5: you know, in my early twenties or whatever it was.
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  Speaker 5: And so it kind of just opened Pandora's box in
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  Speaker 5: a good way because it allowed me to really assess
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  Speaker 5: those things and decide what I want from myself and decide,
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  Speaker 5: you know, to be intentional about the future that I'm want.
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  Speaker 7: So how's all that helped you?
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  Speaker 4: Now?
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  Speaker 8: Because I heard you say, like you're ready to move
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  Speaker 8: into motherhood and you know, unlocking those things relationships with
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  Speaker 8: your dad, how does that help you get mentally ready
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  Speaker 8: for when you step into motherhoods?
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  Speaker 5: You know, well, I've never been a mom before yet,
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  Speaker 5: so I just know that I think there were things
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  Speaker 5: in the past that I was I still had built
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  Speaker 5: up from childhood that I think once I started really
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  Speaker 5: evaluating those things.
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  Speaker 1: And then also I think.
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  Speaker 5: It's a lot of it's Jonathan too, Like the way
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  Speaker 5: I want to do life and the person I want
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  Speaker 5: to do life with. It makes me excited to be,
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  Speaker 5: you know, the mother of his children, makes me excited
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  Speaker 5: to parent with him. It makes me excited to like
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  Speaker 5: go on that journey with him.
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  Speaker 1: All while you.
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  Speaker 5: Know, We're always learning and growing and unpacking as we
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  Speaker 5: go along, but it's wonderful to have someone to do
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  Speaker 5: it with that helps me be better in the process.
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  Speaker 4: Do you ever get nervous about that phase, you know,
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  Speaker 4: because it's you're just you know, your booking more and
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  Speaker 4: more shows, you have the lick a lot, and you have.
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  Speaker 2: All this thing going on, but being a mom.
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  Speaker 4: Is difficult too. Do you ever have any reservation being like,
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  Speaker 4: you know what, not now, or you're like, no right now.
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  Speaker 5: I think I did have reservations in the past because
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  Speaker 5: it was always like, there's never going to be a
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  Speaker 5: good time, But I think that my mind is kind
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  Speaker 5: of changed with that because I'm like, no, actually, right
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  Speaker 5: now is a good time.
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  Speaker 1: I'm in a peaceful place. I've done everything that I
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  Speaker 1: want to do. I've lived a hell of a lot of.
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  Speaker 5: Life and everything else I want to do. I know
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  Speaker 5: that I'll do it better because of being a parent,
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  Speaker 5: because of being a mom. I know that it'll be hard,
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  Speaker 5: and I know that, you know, I'll be juggling a lot,
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  Speaker 5: but you know, again, I have someone to juggle with,
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  Speaker 5: and I think that that's what I want to put
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  Speaker 5: my time and my energy and my heart into and yeah,
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  Speaker 5: and I don't. I think that's the only last thing
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  Speaker 5: that I'm like, Well, what is it that I want
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  Speaker 5: to do that I haven't done since mother?
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  Speaker 7: Is he ready?
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  Speaker 1: He's ready being ready?
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  Speaker 6: And I remember the last time he came here, well, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: last time he came here and I was pregnant.
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  Speaker 3: You were saying, like, I want. All of the energy
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  Speaker 3: is because I want, you know, I want.
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  Speaker 6: And I love that because you've been working since a child,
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  Speaker 6: like a little girl, and I love to hear you
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  Speaker 6: say there's nothing. I mean, I've already done everything that
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  Speaker 6: I wanted to. Now when you do step in some motherhood,
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  Speaker 6: is it more so like all right, everything else I'm
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  Speaker 6: done with acting. I'm already done, you know, not really
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  Speaker 6: like retiring, like officially retiring, but like you're gonna be
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  Speaker 6: focused on It's gonna be a tunnel vision for mommyhood, right,
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  Speaker 6: Like do you think about it.
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  Speaker 1: As you're talking about it?
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  Speaker 5: I'm like, yes, you know, I don't think i'll ever
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  Speaker 5: really retire from acting. I think that I probably won't
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  Speaker 5: do as much in front of the camera, but that's
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  Speaker 5: not so much because.
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  Speaker 1: Of motherhood in my mind. I mean, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see what happens when it all happens.
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  Speaker 5: But it's more so because I've become a lot more
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  Speaker 5: selective about what i want to do, and I've really
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  Speaker 5: fallen in love with directing.
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  Speaker 1: I love directing, like.
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  Speaker 5: You know, you ask yourself, like, what are the things
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  Speaker 5: that you love that you would do for free?
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  Speaker 1: I direct any day of the week. I just love
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  Speaker 1: it that way.
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  Speaker 5: But acting has always been my first love, so I'll
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  Speaker 5: never not do it. And I'm excited to see what
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  Speaker 5: comes out of me as an actress from being a mother.
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  Speaker 5: I'm excited to see what comes out of me as
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  Speaker 5: an actress from getting into my fifties. I'm excited to
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  Speaker 5: see all those phases. And I think all these things
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  Speaker 5: will make me better and more equipped and actually change
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  Speaker 5: with that experience.
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  Speaker 3: Is so, what.
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  Speaker 6: About what about directing do you love the most? Is
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  Speaker 6: it that you get to tell your you know, tell
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  Speaker 6: the stories and put the actors in place?
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  Speaker 8: Like?
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  Speaker 3: What about it do you love so much?
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  Speaker 1: I love that it's not about me.
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  Speaker 5: I love that you skip hair and makeup, you come
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  Speaker 5: in in your sweatpants. Yeah, and you serve the project.
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  Speaker 5: You know, you don't always have to wear the crown.
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  Speaker 5: Sometimes you can carry it, you know. And I love
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  Speaker 5: serving actors. I love sharing what I've flirted along the way.
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  Speaker 5: I love making it easier for the little black girl
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  Speaker 5: behind me. And when people decide like, oh, this is
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  Speaker 5: who this person is, this is what they can do.
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  Speaker 5: You knowing that if you're a real artist, you can
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  Speaker 5: do so many things, and just wanting to be a
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  Speaker 5: part of making sure people have lots of opportunities to
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  Speaker 5: shine and to feel safe.
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  Speaker 1: And to do the best work that they can do.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm going to say this is Listen, I'm not playing.
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  Speaker 3: This is really good.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not even big one vodka, you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 6: But this is good as hell. And after my weekend
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  Speaker 6: I needed it. What made what made you want to,
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  Speaker 6: you know.
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  Speaker 3: Go into the partnership with Nebula nine.
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  Speaker 1: It's such this is so exciting for me.
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  Speaker 5: I literally met this one right here at a celebrity
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  Speaker 5: softball game and he was like, you should try this,
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  Speaker 5: and I was like, no, I think I'm okay. Animally
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  Speaker 5: like drinks in the Canada, you know, some of them
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  Speaker 5: my thing.
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  Speaker 1: And he said, just try it, just give it a shot.
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  Speaker 1: I drank it. I was like, this is so good.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, what is in this?
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  Speaker 5: And he was like, well, it's got appleside, vinegar, it's
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  Speaker 5: got probiotics. It helps it come through your system. You know,
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  Speaker 5: your liver doesn't have to work as hard. It's all
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  Speaker 5: natural flavors. It's you know, it's a potato vodka that's
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  Speaker 5: been distilled. But there's nothing extra in it. There's no
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  Speaker 5: extra sugar, no extra garbage.
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  Speaker 1: All of that.
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  Speaker 5: And so I finished two and then that day and
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  Speaker 5: then he sent me a case and I was like,
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  Speaker 5: you know what, I'm just going to see because I
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  Speaker 5: know I have to be at the gym if I
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  Speaker 5: but I'm gonna have one of these. I wanna have
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  Speaker 5: one and a half of these while I'm sitting watching Netflix.
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  Speaker 1: Before I go to bed.
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  Speaker 5: And when I got up at four point thirty the
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  Speaker 5: next morning, I still was like super energized, no hangover whatsoever.
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  Speaker 5: It didn't feel like dry or dehydrated or anything.
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  Speaker 1: And I was just shocked.
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  Speaker 5: So I kind of started testing it out in different scenarios.
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  Speaker 5: I was like, Okay, if I do this, I gotta
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  Speaker 5: leave in like an hour. You know, what does it
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  Speaker 5: look like to drive?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 5: And it was like, no, I was completely sober like
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  Speaker 5: that because my liver had it had gone through my
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  Speaker 5: liver because of the apple side of vinegar and so.
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  Speaker 5: And then also, you know, I'm in my forties. I'm
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  Speaker 5: not trying to drink no extra sugar. Yeah, I'm not
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  Speaker 5: trying to drink.
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  Speaker 7: Anything last weeks at this point.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 8: Sugars and all that. It's so and people don't understand
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  Speaker 8: what they be drinking. Yet it'll hold you down for
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  Speaker 8: like a good week or so, especially you working a
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  Speaker 8: lot and you talking about getting into mom life. I'm
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  Speaker 8: not a parent yet, but all my friends that with
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  Speaker 8: kids they love and they don't have the kids the
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  Speaker 8: next day, but it takes them some time to recover,
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  Speaker 8: like they schedule the weekends.
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  Speaker 3: It makes you feel eavery, like it gives you headaches
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  Speaker 3: and everything.
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  Speaker 6: And that's why I love that you're behind it, because
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  Speaker 6: even before you told me all the ingredients, I popped
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  Speaker 6: it open and I just I drunk it because I'm
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  Speaker 6: like trust making good.
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  Speaker 3: I know you don't play about.
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  Speaker 6: You know, health, fitness, nutrition and all of that. So
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  Speaker 6: this is you're the perfect person for the partnership. They
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  Speaker 6: get behind something like this, because you don't play about
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  Speaker 6: what you put in your body.
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  Speaker 1: So I know.
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  Speaker 5: And it's also like, because I'm in the health and
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  Speaker 5: wellness space, It's like I'm like, yes, it's still liquor
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  Speaker 5: at the end of the day, but I want to
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  Speaker 5: have the best possible choice. I want to make sure
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  Speaker 5: that I don't feel like crap. I want to make
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  Speaker 5: sure that what I'm drinking is not making me gain weight,
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  Speaker 5: you know, and all.
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  Speaker 1: Of that stuff. And so yeah, I'm really really proud
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  Speaker 1: of it.
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  Speaker 5: And we have this to nine percent and we have
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  Speaker 5: a five point four the mom.
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  Speaker 8: I have a question for you. You mentioned your age, if
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  Speaker 8: you don't mind me talking about it. So I've been
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  Speaker 8: one of the things that I was excited to hear
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  Speaker 8: you talk about motherhood, or one of the reasons why
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  Speaker 8: I was excited to hear you talk about it, it's
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  Speaker 8: because one of the things I've been trying to figure
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  Speaker 8: out is like, like, at what point do I have kids? Right, Like,
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  Speaker 8: I'm thirty four. I just got here, Like I'm gonna
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  Speaker 8: need a couple of years establish myself. But then age
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  Speaker 8: kicks in and you hear all these stories about like
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  Speaker 8: the black maternal like you know, death orate with women
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  Speaker 8: and black women, and like having.
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  Speaker 7: Babies at at older age.
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  Speaker 8: That was one of the things that made me very
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  Speaker 8: nervous about it and trying to balance careers. So like personally,
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  Speaker 8: like are there things that you were nervous about at
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  Speaker 8: this phase and like how are you who were you
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  Speaker 8: consulting in?
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  Speaker 7: Like what advice do we go getting from where?
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  Speaker 5: Well, for one thing, I would say, thirty four is
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  Speaker 5: very young, even though they try to make you feel
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  Speaker 5: that all pregnancy is after thirty five are geriatric, I
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  Speaker 5: would always say, and I really encourage this freez your
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  Speaker 5: eggs so that you can choose when you're ready and
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  Speaker 5: the time is right for you and you don't feel
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  Speaker 5: any of that pressure. Okay, beyond that, you know, there's
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  Speaker 5: definitely always a lot of talk about if having babies
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  Speaker 5: later in life.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but then there's also a lot.
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  Speaker 5: Of beautiful stories where people it's been, you know, their
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  Speaker 5: first kid at forty four, forty five, forty six, whatever
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  Speaker 5: it may be, and they don't have those issues and
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  Speaker 5: don't have those concerns, And so I think that we
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  Speaker 5: tend to focus on, you know, the things to be
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  Speaker 5: where that's all you concern.
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  Speaker 7: Here so it's scares the heck out of you.
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  Speaker 8: But you also don't want to rush until it's too early,
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  Speaker 8: Like you don't want to move too fast either. So
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  Speaker 8: I'm like, all right, I wonder how she's thinking about that,
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  Speaker 8: because you you're I mean, you're making good like you
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  Speaker 8: like it work ain't gonna stop.
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  Speaker 7: Right, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: I think I just you know, it's kind of for me.
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  Speaker 5: It's this is the point, the place that I'm at now,
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  Speaker 5: this is the place where I got to where I'm like, Okay,
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  Speaker 5: I'm excited to be a mom. There definitely was a
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  Speaker 5: lot of pressure, like you know, from when I was
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  Speaker 5: married before, everyone's like when you gonn have a baby,
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  Speaker 5: when you got have a baby, maybe she's not doing
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  Speaker 5: because of this, Maybe she's not doing because that.
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  Speaker 1: And it just wasn't the timing, you know.
• 13:44
  Speaker 5: And when I got to this place, I got to
• 13:46
  Speaker 5: this place and I just trust that God's going to
• 13:49
  Speaker 5: work it out, you know, and whatever's meant to be
• 13:52
  Speaker 5: will be. I'm not concerned about like mortality rates or
• 13:56
  Speaker 5: any of that stuff, you know.
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: And also even in that what's gonna be, it's gonna be,
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: you know.
• 14:00
  Speaker 5: But I believe that everything that we truly want in
• 14:05
  Speaker 5: our time and God's timing what happened.
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: And I think for me, I just ran out the noise.
• 14:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, this precautions and stuff that they make you do
• 14:12
  Speaker 4: it once you're over thirty five, Like, yeah, we had
• 14:14
  Speaker 4: two kids after the age of thirty five, one at
• 14:16
  Speaker 4: thirty nine and one at forty three. So yeah, Peyton,
• 14:20
  Speaker 4: you know, you gotta think Peyton's four years old, You're okay, Yeah,
• 14:22
  Speaker 4: you had a forty three so there's certain precautions and
• 14:25
  Speaker 4: tests that they make you have.
• 14:26
  Speaker 3: But that was that pandemic baby.
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but we had going to do We don't watch.
• 14:31
  Speaker 3: Everything on Netflix do what it was?
• 14:35
  Speaker 8: What about I'm getting all this advice for myself, but
• 14:38
  Speaker 8: I think it'll help people when I hear you talk
• 14:40
  Speaker 8: about Jonathan Majors, right, and just kind of where you
• 14:43
  Speaker 8: were before. I remember this like video on Instagram there
• 14:46
  Speaker 8: was a girl who was talking about how no one
• 14:47
  Speaker 8: prepares you to meet the man that makes you feel
• 14:49
  Speaker 8: so safe to do something like that, like you're so
• 14:53
  Speaker 8: it's like we're always dating for like Okay, if this
• 14:55
  Speaker 8: don't go well, then this and I still got this,
• 14:57
  Speaker 8: But you don't talk about what about you meet so
• 15:00
  Speaker 8: who's doing everything right making you feel safe, wanting you
• 15:02
  Speaker 8: to create that family, and how you just should know
• 15:04
  Speaker 8: how to handle that so you don't kind of self sabotage.
• 15:07
  Speaker 7: Yeah, did you go through that battle as well?
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 15:11
  Speaker 5: But I also think that everything I experience kind of
• 15:15
  Speaker 5: also prepared me for it. It kind of prepared me
• 15:18
  Speaker 5: to be in a place of, like, you know what,
• 15:21
  Speaker 5: you can't control what happens. You can't control if things
• 15:24
  Speaker 5: are going to work out or not. You don't know
• 15:25
  Speaker 5: what the future holds, and you can try to control
• 15:29
  Speaker 5: everything and be upset or be miserable or whatever it is,
• 15:32
  Speaker 5: or you can just release and let come what's supposed
• 15:35
  Speaker 5: to come, and then when it comes, not be afraid
• 15:39
  Speaker 5: of if it's going to work out, or if it's
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: going to be this, or if it's going to be that,
• 15:42
  Speaker 5: if it's right for you. Being present instead of you know,
• 15:45
  Speaker 5: tripping on what's behind you and instead of focusing on
• 15:47
  Speaker 5: what's in front of you, just be present with the
• 15:50
  Speaker 5: moment and then everything else I feel like happens in
• 15:52
  Speaker 5: is due time, and being this present has been one
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: of the greatest gifts that I've experience. You know, and
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: so I'm like, look, I don't know what the future holes,
• 16:05
  Speaker 5: but I'm really enjoying life.
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: Are you excited about reasonable out?
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: I am ye girl.
• 16:12
  Speaker 6: I saw that you were being added as a new
• 16:14
  Speaker 6: audition and like, what how did that come about?
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: I mean, I know you macing Goohood and all that,
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: but how did that? How did that happen?
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: It's so funny because my manager, Jeff, he also represents me,
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: and he was like, I just want you to go
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: do this show and I was like, I love her,
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: you know, and the show is fantastic, and he was like,
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: I just feel like you would love it there and
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: that it had done. It's such a great set and
• 16:35
  Speaker 5: everyone's so lovely to work with, and you know, certain
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: I go up. I can't tell certain things, but yeah,
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: like certain folks want to even like come back because
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: like I just want.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: To work on the show again.
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: And I was like okay, And so I sat down
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: and I met with Ramola, you created the show, and
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: she's just absolutely wonderful, like just genuine. You don't to me,
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: I don't meet a lot of really super genuine people
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: like within the industry, Like I meet a lot of
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: nice people whatever, but like people who's just like, oh
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: my god, I'm the RPT and so definitely connected with her.
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: And then when I got the call to come do it,
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: I was like, Okay, this is gonna be fun.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: Yes, I was like, what do we get to.
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: Do to have what's gonna happen?
• 17:13
  Speaker 6: Because I could totally see you on there, so I'm like, oh,
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: what you about to add?
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: My girl?
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: I was exciting, so congratulations, but always working, you know.
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: I was gonna say, how do you protect your piece?
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: When you talk about all the different things that you do?
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: How how do you you shut down? Do you not
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: go on social media? Do you put two middle things
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: up in the a and say f the world?
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: Like, so, how do you protect your piece?
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: These days? You know when it comes to everything because
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: everybody's talking middle.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: Fingers up in the air so much. You said that
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: five times time?
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: Do you know what it's I've been through so many
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: different spaces of like you know, when there was like
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: the media takeouts and all that kind of stuff, and
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: then after that it was like social media, and then
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: it was like the church folks, and then it was
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: people thinking that I bleached my skin, and then it
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: was this it is that it was this and all
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: of these things created what I was saying, that release
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: where I went from constantly being concerned and constantly getting
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: my feelings hurt and constantly you know, it's like one
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: thing about me and anyone who knows me. I'm still
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: gonna do what I'm gonna do, but it's still not
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: a good feeling to know that every time you step
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: out the house, you're walking out to the firing squad.
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: And realizing for me that even though I was proud
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: of myself for still stepping out and always being authentic
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: and true to who I am.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, you get shot up like you
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: getting shot up, shot up like it has a been shot.
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: And sitting down and unpacking all of those things and
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: asking myself, why do I care that much about this?
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: And why does this affect me this way? And what
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: is you know, and what's stuff that's good to take
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: and stuff that needs to just be put aside, And
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: in the process of doing all that, it just it
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: has gotten to a place where it's like I wrote
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: this poem that talked about that I always felt like
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: I was on the edge of a cliff and that
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: people were constantly poking and prodding and poking and prodding,
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: and I was just trying so hard not to fall off.
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: And then I jumped, and when I jumped, I started flying.
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: And that's the experience.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: It's like I'm just in a place now where I'm like,
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: things are gonna come, people going to say, and the
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: peace is knowing that it's really about what God thinks
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: about me and what I think about me, and people
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: that love me the most and truly know me think
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: about me so and that I just kind of, you know,
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: I disconnect. It depends if you get me on the
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: right day, you might get the middle fingers, but for
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: the most part, I kind of don't really care anymore.
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: Now, if you're listening and you're in a cliff, if
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: you jump, you will not fly.
• 19:45
  Speaker 8: If you jump at the edge, you will I was
• 19:49
  Speaker 8: gonna say, you just be so well composed through everything.
• 19:52
  Speaker 8: Even year you talk about people poking and poking, it
• 19:54
  Speaker 8: always feels like you come from that class of Hollywood
• 19:57
  Speaker 8: that like it's just so like you.
• 19:59
  Speaker 7: Don't even see or feel the pokes.
• 20:01
  Speaker 8: You just kind of like move gracefully throughout to like
• 20:02
  Speaker 8: I know you're human, but your composure throughout things are
• 20:06
  Speaker 8: always very well.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, well, thank you.
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: The biggest thing to me is I don't want anybody
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: else to control the integrity who I want to be
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: just because someone's poking and poking and poking you want
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: a certain reaction out of me, you want me to
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: respond a certain way.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: First of all, I'll never give it to you.
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: Second of all, it's more about you not being able
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: to have control over me based on the fact that
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: you're just walking this journey out too. You're just trying
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: to figure it out, just like I'm trying to.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Figure it out. Why would I listen to you?
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: You know, we're all in this and we're all experiencing it.
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: So to each his own on his journey. But I
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: think the biggest thing is I'm just like, can't let
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: other people control you.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: You've got to be who you're meant to be.
• 20:45
  Speaker 8: And I think you have a lot of like us,
• 20:47
  Speaker 8: like not us here, but just like people that are
• 20:50
  Speaker 8: fans of you or supporters that kind of rally for.
• 20:52
  Speaker 7: You as well.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: And I can feel that too.
• 20:54
  Speaker 7: Yeah, they be going hard.
• 20:55
  Speaker 8: Like when the Nli Choppa Jonathan Major's whatever that was
• 20:58
  Speaker 8: was happening, people was like, let them be in there,
• 21:01
  Speaker 8: you know, in their marriage and be happy and do
• 21:03
  Speaker 8: their thing.
• 21:04
  Speaker 7: Like why are we even talking about this?
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, period.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: When did you get to that place when you could
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: let things bounce off your back? When did you get there?
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: And how did you get there?
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: It was a skin bleaching thing.
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: It was because this woman had messed me up so bad,
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: and I realized. I was like, people think I saw them,
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: It's okay, but no, actually I was in a place
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: where I quiet sorry.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: I was like.
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: I looked at it and I was like, I actually
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: have to laugh because it's not like dead, this is
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: actually true.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: You know, I don't say I'm stupid.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: I have no idea what you're talking about skin bleaching
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: and I don't know what the hell are you talking about.
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: So the short version is I went to this esthetician
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: in La who was helping me with like anti aging things,
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: and then and she'd like, you know these so far
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: and all this kind of stuff, and the anti aging
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: was like beautiful. So then she was like, well, I
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: just want to fix like some of the dark spots
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: that you.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Have, and I'm like, no, it's kind of like natural contour.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: And she was like no, but your skin will be
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: so clear. D da da da da.
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: I start using the product, I instantly see that I'm
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: getting lighter, and she's like, don't.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Worry, just give it a few weeks. All your color
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: will come back that da da da.
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: I give it a few weeks and I look like
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: so pale and so crazy. And then I go to
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: shoot this show here in New York and I'm at
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: a premiere and a picture was taken a where it
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: was dark around me, but I was blown out, so
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: I just looked white.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: I just look crazy. And I went back to La.
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: I flew home over the weekend and I was like,
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: you need to fix this right now. And she was like, well,
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: you know, it's a process. I was like, I don't
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: care about no process. I was like, fix it. So
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: she gives me this serum. I put the serm on.
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: She said stay in the sun for like fifteen minutes.
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: Something in myself like, m I'm like, thirty nine, I
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: don't really like lay inles sunlight. But I was so desperate.
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: I went and lay in the sun for thirty minutes.
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: I came back in the house, tried to wash it off.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Would not come off.
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: With Scott, I had to wash my face over and
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: over and over again, to the point of where I
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: actually flesh was coming off my face from scrubbing because it.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Was like latched onto my skin.
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: And so it was like really traumatic and like really
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: kind of embarrassing because I was like, as a black woman,
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: I would.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Never do that to myself. Yeah, And it just broke
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: my heart.
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: To think that like young black girls would think that
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: I did that, or like I don't like myself.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, would I do that all of
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: a sudden, a thirty nine years old. That's crazy.
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: But what it was is the backlash that I was seeing,
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: and I actually don't even know if it was as
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: big as I thought it was, but because it was
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: so humiliating, and because in the past, when something is wrong,
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: I would be able to go, oh, well here's what
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: this is or this is not true. Now if you
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: don't like it, I don't really care, but at least
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: you know the truth. I couldn't do anything. I was like,
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: I look crazy, Like I literally have to just sit
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: in this and accept that people are going to think
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: that I did this to myself, and there's no way
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: to defend myself. There's no way to say it isn't true.
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: It's not like I can go on social media and
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: be like it's not true. Oh look at me other
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: crazy so and then the realization of like, what if
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: it never corrects itself?
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: What if I'm stuck like this?
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: What if this is like that's it, that's my lot,
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: that's what's going to happen in life moving forward.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: I'm just stuck.
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: And in that time, I was just like praying and
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: praying and praying crying. I was like, Lord, why would
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: you let this happen to me? And then I realized
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: I was like, this is an answer prayer. The answer
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: to the prayer is you're so concerned. You kept saying, Lord,
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: help me not care what people think. Lord helped me
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: not to be so concerned with this. Lord released me
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: from these feelings. Well, now you don't have a choice,
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: and you have to still live your life. You still
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: have to be happy if you're stuck this way, you
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: still have to have quality of life. You still have
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: to figure out how you go and work instead of
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: figure all these things out. And if that's what it is,
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: are you going to be miserable and sad and on
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: the floor, or are you going to move forward and
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: have the most joy that you can have in life.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: So I made the decision to move forward.
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: The moment that I made the decision to move forward,
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: my colors started coming back, and just I'm.
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: Sorry, Like Michael Jackson, you think it's funny. I do
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: want to genuinely apologize to you. You know, sometimes this
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: ship don't be funny all the time.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: You know, it was funny. I'm not gonna lie, it
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: was kind.
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: Of but now to hear you know what, just you
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: just never know. That's the biggest thing about being a comedian.
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: Shut up, and that's the biggest thing about being a comedian.
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: You just never know what people are going through, you know.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: And and I love you. I've always loved you.
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: And I'm very sorry about that because because to hear you,
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: even in.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: Your testimony about the process that you were going.
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: You know, what the fuck was going on with your face,
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: you know, and you're like, look, fix this ship, you know.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: So I'm sorry.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: Crazy thing is, Megan has been up here a bunch
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: of times and she ain't like you. One day I
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: forgot I didn't know because.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: I would have spoke to you.
• 25:52
  Speaker 8: That's why you be so blessed though, because you're posturing
• 25:54
  Speaker 8: about things would have out Yeah, yeah, like hound.
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: The fuck with you?
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: But I mean because you because you are a comedian,
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: though I know that it wasn't personal.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: And even if in the moment and I'm.
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: Not gonna lie, I did dead ass did laugh because
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: it was funny to me and it felt good to
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: be able to.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Laugh at myself in that moment.
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: But I mean, I think that the message is still
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: the message was is that you never really know what
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: someone's going through.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: You buy something appears the.
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: Way that it is, absolutely but in the same breath,
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: you know, It's like, for what we do for a living,
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: we're out in the public eye.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: People are gonna say things.
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: And if you take everything personal, and if you get
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: mad at everybody who thinks something or says something, you're
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: gonna be angry all the time.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: You gotta be you gotta be freeing that, you know.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, thank you, damn Jess, so foul.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Stop when I ask anything else now, No, I don't
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: want to anywhere else with this now ything else.
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: You just shout forgive this one is crazy. I'm glad
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: chard I.
• 27:00
  Speaker 8: Know you said just your color. I mean, I see
• 27:02
  Speaker 8: your color right, But are there treatments that you have
• 27:04
  Speaker 8: to do? Where is it just like naturally just kind
• 27:06
  Speaker 8: of like replenishing itself.
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: I was going to doctor Pearl Grimes, who I had
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: to get like in it kind of like this weird incubation,
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: like some block thing, and I would cover up the
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: rest of my body because the rest of my body
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: was the right color. But I would just go in
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: there and they would just constantly like let this kind
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: of sun effect like hit my skin, and then I
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: would do stuff to protect my skin. And it really
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: was my fortieth birthday. I went to the Dominican Republic
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: and that sun was.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: So harsh and so crazy, but I was like.
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: That skin just started flipping over and I was like,
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: praise the Lord who knew.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna go lay out on the sun. Choose
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: between it making me age and not half of my color.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: I would rather have my color as a black woman.
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, Jesus, well, definitely go pick up Nebula non vodka.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: Please, I'm almost done. The first came.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: You better do a good commercial. You better do a
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: good commercial right now?
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: Here?
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Can we cheers? Yes?
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Early in the morning, y'all want to drink this.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Early in the morning somewhere I'm drinking aside of vinegar.
• 28:09
  Speaker 7: So you got to do the cheers since Nebula nine
• 28:11
  Speaker 7: is yours.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Okay, let me see.
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: Cheers to the weekend, the week and all the beautiful
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: things ahead and enjoying life and different business ventures and quality.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Of life for everybody, and God being amazing.
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: If you don't want to chance Jess, I understand, I said,
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: if you don't want to chair with Jess, understand, Cheers
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: to God, ladies and gentlemen.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: It's Megan Good.
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: We wish you the best with everything. It's the Breakfast Club.
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: It's Megan Good.
• 28:47
  Speaker 8: Every day.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: Click up the Breakfast club'